The night of Scarecrow in Duskwood, Crazy gave me a ride back to Stormwind. Or a ride, she made such a nice shiny portal, I had to step through it! Really... magic is really.. magical!
Just when we got down the Mage Tower, a couple of dark and masked figures came to us and Duck got a lasso around him and was pulled away! I was too stunned to react at first. But Crazy! She was really self-composed and grabbed a device from her backpack telling me she had a locking device on Duck for fun. Now, normally I would say that is crazy, why would anyone do that, but.. after all, this was Crazy! After a bit of following the tracking device, Crazy and I ended up back at the office. We did not see anyone at first so we went upstairs. Suddenly we heard a couple of noises, we went downstairs. All of a sudden a strange ball was splattered against us and there was water inside! Three strange looking fellas in gnome-height were standing before us, waving around with balloons and then ran outside!
When we turned round the corner, we first saw nothing but a box. We heard some muffled voices so we thought the gnommers had clearly sought refugee inside the box! I mean, we are small enough to fit in there, really! They just make those boxes so big these days.
Anyhow Crazy knocked on the box and told them to release the hostage. We were certain Duckular was their hostage! The voices of the gnommers sounded strange though, almost as if they tried to make them sound different from normal. Crazy told them to come out or that if they were not in there that they would not mind if she burned down the box. Crazy is amazing! She put some fire in a whole while yelling: FIRE INTHEHOLE!. After a bit of knocking on the box we finally figured out they were not inside the box but outside, behind it! One of the gnommers immediately began to mutter that it was the fault of 'Dice', the other muttered it was the fault of 'Slice'! But none of them seemed to know who was who themselves. Clearly some fake gnommers, some wannabes. Must be.
Crazy started some mage magic and told them she would freeze one of them. One of the blue gnommers got frozen for a second! We tried talking them into revealing their identities now so we would not have to hurt them too bad. Or ehm Crazy of course. In turn they tried to sweet talk us and tell us how wonderful we were. Of course that would not work! So they tried coming up with some other strategies, discussing it amongst themselves. Crazy and I discussed if we should get a cup of tea meanwhile. We pretended to go away, but I got a hot cup of water and when they thought they were save, yelling victoriously how they were Slice, Thrice and Dice, I ran towards them and heroically threw the water over them. One of the gnommers was hit and went down. One of them got away, he fled! Crazy and I separated and tried to get the other two to talk, but somehow that did not work. But... after all the confusion, suddenly Duck returned to the office, slightly limping but safe! I was so relieved. The gnommers got away but not after telling us they were the League of Extraodinary Gnommers and we would hear more of them in the future.
