Repost of the story nuggets so far.  Who's next?<br/><br/>Anni, the daughter of Count Roogan ,was the fairest maid in all the land.  As her seventeenth birthday approached, suitors came from far and wide to court her.  Minstrels sang under her roof day and night.  A band of swords women was hired to guard her, for Roogan feared for his daughter’s purity and didn't even trust his own guardsmen...<br/><br/>Before the girls Roogan hired arrived, a minstrels song was cut off, leaving a gurgle, then nothing.  A band of ogres smashed into Roogan's estates and carried the hapless maiden off into the swamps.<br/>Any idiot could traipse after a kidnapped princess... but what sticks had found out about hte castle was worth more than any ransom! years and years ago, the swamp castle had been the lair of a black dragon. Rumor says he's long dead, or at least hasn't been seen in so long he might as well be. Where there's dragons, there's treasure. And where there's dragon treasure, there are<del>hobbit burglars</del>halfling thieves!<br/><br/>There was some stuff about feuding noble houses, and Sticks had just provoked some irritation by pointing out how stupid it had been to explain the plot within ear-shot of the princess they were "rescuing..."<br/><br/><em>When suddenly lizardfolk dragon-worshippers decided to deal with tresspassers, ogre and man alike!</em>