The Town of Grundy: A Tale of Meteors, Metal, and Men (Inactive)

Game Master Spacefighters

That is what would happen in a less interesting world.

Instead, her prostitute mother was a courtesan for hire, a quite intelligent and shrewd woman well aware of her paramours lineage and quite delighted to find herself bearing his child. Her father, though far from a kind creature did have a soft spot for the numerous bastards he left through the multiverse and did the best thing such a creature could do for his child; handed the mother a large sum of money and politely left without any fuss while her mother made a few good investments and retired comfortably to a life of luxury and title in everything but name.

Rather than a hideous creature of infernal power and evil that Tieflings are known to be born as Berry was born with a stubby white tail with downy white fur and a pair of rabbit ears as soft as velvet (traits her mother will say are most definitely her fathers). With huge red eyes and pale skin she was treated as a precious little treasure rather than a hideous monster.

In truth Berry wanted for nothing while growing up, she received all the love and attention one can ask for, anything she wanted could be hers, and the best education available was given to her. And though she never took to book lessons and even less to etiquette she excelled in physical pursuits and fencing most of all.

But it was when her half brothers turned 7 (sensible young lads with which nothing ill can really be spoken of) that she realized that they were treated more respectfully and more seriously than she was being treated at age 14. She started paying attention to the things people said to her as compared to others and to her horror she came to the terrible realization that she was beautiful, cute, graceful and just dumb enough that no one could take her seriously. In the mind of a person just turning 15 this was a tragedy.

And thus began the years of squeaky torments, as she imagined them, attempts at terrorizing servants, beating on lessers (And to a lesser extent equals) and otherwise being a terrible human being overall. Yet no matter how bad she was, how vile, how utterly fearful she tried to be the servants would shrug call it the "ides of growing up" and let it pass with a smile and a pat on the back.

When she turned 18 her rage had simmered to an adult form of silent outrage and with the blessings of her mother, the relief of her brothers and the sincere goodbyes of the servants, she left her home to make her way in the world.

Unfortunately there are few outlets where a woman with a perfectly shaped figure and tall bunny ears can make her way without a certain amount of visual groping by males of every race. After a few fruitless months of taking odd jobs in various positions (mostly where she stood around holding things, or handing things to people, all with the mental stimulation of peeling paint) which invariably ended in pinched bottoms and broken noses she found a job working for a necromancer as a "dark mistress".

She believed the job would be more exciting as it seemed to entail mystic rituals, wrestling with demons, and epic battles with knights and adventurers. Mostly she stood around holding dead things or handing things to dead people. While she kind of liked the job required black nail polish and hair dye her short dark mistress career ended abruptly when she heard Ted* the necromancer refer to her as a mind broken sex slave.

The clerics say Ted will recover though he will lose the use of right hand.

After this was a year or two in adventuring seeing that as the only way she might gain some modicrum of respect. She mostly spent her time walking around holding things, handing things to other people and occasionally stabbing things. These brief times with adventuring groups usually ended with pinched bottoms and broken noses. Though one time she was kicked out after the groups paladin broke his code and lost his abilities after seeing her bathing naked.

When BErry later arrived in Grundy she fully expected much of the town to be pretty much another wash. Instead she found a poster for work in the townguard. With few options available to her she decided to apply.

In a sense joining the town guard is yet another effort in a seemingly never ending quest to gain respect for something other than the bouncy round things popping out of her chest and making armor very hard to wear.

To her surprise she got the job** and before long found very quickly that while people held little respect for her as a guard, there was at least soem respect for how hard she can make people's lives for the crime of not taking her seriously.

Within a couple of years she worked her way up to seargeant, had purchased a rather nice home and furnishings with leftover cash from ehr adventuring days and was more or less regarded as a respectable member of the community. Everything she asked for.

Unfortunately, adventure happens, and the great meteor brought all sorts of adventurers who find orders from the town guard to just be polite suggestions, and attractive women just faceless hourglass figures with globes in the front meant only for their pleasure. More than a few have ended up being bailed out of jail by their paladin compatriots with stern lectures about respect for the law.

For now Berry is overworked, overstressed, and perpetually annoyed Berry finds herself wishing the horrible monsters that occasionally prowl outside of town would just move on if nothing else just to keep the damn adventurers away.

To make things worse she recently received a letter. Her mother is coming to visit to see how her daughter is getting on.

*Ted actually referred to himself as Teldon the Bloodgorger as it's customary for necromancers to change their names to something more intimidating once they receive their skull staff. Tar-Baphon for example once went by the name Simon and liked long soothing walks in the flowering meadows of his families estate.

**It helped that the captain of the guard was half blind and highly impressed by her ability to drag a three hundred man out into the street and pound ten kinds of crap out of him for suggesting lewd things to do with her ears.