And so the fun begins

Walking through the streets of the city of Zyniii i could not help but look in awe at the wonders of this amazing city. Everywhere i turned the sights and sounds engulfed my senses and peaked my curiosity. A sign for the Crystalline Fortress grabbed my attention and as i stepped through the doors i was blown away by the decor of the place, from the beautiful stained glass ceiling features to the multiple braziers filled with overflowing crystals.
 
I proceeded to the bar and and asked the bartender for the most exotic drink they had. The bartender called out to someone called Mura who then proceeded to make me a Firewhiskey. I gulped down the drink only to have flames coming out of my mouth a minute later. I tried to hide my embarassement whilst the bartender and a group of what looked like blue skinned elves laughed. As i stood there coughing on the smoke from the flames i overhead the bartender denying someone a drink. The bartender was pointing to a sign on the wall behind the bar saying the person was under the drinking age for a Leishu. Having never met anyone of Leishu descent before i was intrigued by their appearance. Their body was covered in fur like me, however their coat was a vibrant pink and black colour. They were slightly shorter then me and i got the vibe that they could hold their own in a fight if the occasion called for it.
 
I introduced myself and she told me her name was Ko Rava. I then offered to buy her a drink, i figured since she was old enough to go to a tavern there would be no harm in getting her a drink. The bartender would not let me get a drink for her so i ordered myself two drinks instead, thinking i could slip the second one to Ko Rava. My attempt utterly failed and the glass fell out of my hand as the contents poured all over Ko Rava. I felt so bad and aplogized to Ko Rava who luckily was not mad at me. The bartender looking at us with annoyance then took our photo and placed the photo onto the wall of shame, next to a photo of a dwarf who looked like he had been through some stuff. I had hoped that my first time in a city tavern would have started off better. After a brief chat Ko Rava excused herself to talk to someone at the end of the bar about getting into a famous academy for wizards.
 
 
I sat by the bar for a bit and then an elf with golden skin walked through the door, her golden skin appeared to be glowing brightly. When she entered i thought i could hear soft ethereal music playing. The only elves I had seen back home were green elves. Curiosity getting the better of me i went and sat at her table asking her how she made her skin glow, thinking it might be some sort of spell. She responded condescendingly asking me how i had fur and became me. Worried that i upset her i explained that elves with glowing golden skin were not common in my homeland and this was the first time venturing away from my tribe. She explained that she had always been able to make her skin glow naturally and told me her name was Zyanya. After telling her of my experience at the bar, including my failed attempt at sneaking a drink to Ko Rava , she then offered to buy us drinks including one for Ko Rava. It turns out she knew Mura and had formed a close bond with her in the past.
 
Gazing around the room i noticed the same dwarf from the picture on the wall in conversation with what appeared to be a large humanoid lizard with blue scales. As eyes continued to scan the room they fell upon a green feathered Solen at the bar ordering food. Suddenly all those stories that I had heard from my childhood of the evil Solen came into my head. However as i continued to gaze at the Solen mixed emotions ran through me, I knew based on what I had been told that I should not trust them but looking at Solen now i did not feel threatened. The war with the Solen had happened a while back, maybe they were not as bad any more.
 
Then Ko Rava and Zyanya came back to the table accompanied by a green elf. He introduced himself to me and told me his name was Lucidius. After a brief chat with Lucidius the four us then made our way over to a table where there were a group of green elves. Their names were Ozgar, Ailil and Ogrin. After chatting for some time i discovered that Ozgar had spent some time in my homeland of Tal'ahm and had even ventured in the lands near the Tire woods. It was a nice surprise to find someone in this big city who had travelled in my homeland.
 
Suddenly the air in the middle of the room seemed to ripple and out of nowhere a green portal opened up. Two ugly looking giant green skinned creatures with jutting teeth ran out of of the portal. One of the creatures had a beard and a small bird of some sorts sat on it shoulders , the other was bald with a large burn scar on one side of its face. We all stared at these two creatures not knowing what to make of them and then a monkey with short green hair walked up to the creature with the face scar, demanding to know what they were doing here. Next minute the creature swung his axe and beheaded the monkey without hesitation. The bar stuff, the blue skinned elves and the group that were with the monkey ran out of the tavern in a panic. All that remained was Ozgar, Ailil, Ogrin, the dwarf, the large blue scaled lizard, the Solen, Ko Rava, Lucidius, Zyanya and myself.
 
I stood there in shock taking in what had just happened, but it was not long before my rage started to build and i wanted to make these creatures pay for what they did. I shot an arrow at them but unfortunately my arrow only grazed the side of the face of the creature with the burn scar. In that moment i regretted my decision to drink since it had affected my aim. The others also attacked the creatures causing them a lot of harm and the large blue lizard was able to grapple the axe off one of the creatures. Ailil then screamed out that we needed to push the creatures back into the green portal. All of us then helped Ailil to push the creatures back into the portal. A monkey similar in appearance to the monkey from before then appeared and spoke a spell of some sorts which closed the portal. I found out this monkey's name is Nakah and that he is a Mokuna.
 
After we caught our breath Nakah then gathered us together and told us the portal and the creatures we had just faced were from outside our realm and that what had just happened had something to do with Leylines. He then jumped into a brief explanation of what Leylines were, from what i could gather of his explanation the Leylines of another realm had been corrupted and because of this it was affecting our world. He then mentioned something about his counterpart trying to master travel through different realms although he lost me at this point.
 
The green elf Ozgar then told us that himself along with Ogrin and Ailil had come to Zyniii at the behest of Ozgar's father to obtain more information about the portals and the Leylines. They had found a portal on their travels which they had thought lead to a fairy real but then discovered that was not the case and had also come to the conclusion there was something up with the Leylines of Mayhos. They asked the rest of us gathered there if we would help them with the corrupted Leyline phenomenon in Mayhos, their next stop taking them to Tal'ahm. Nakah then suggested that we should visit the Sideways inn in Tal'ahm and could portal us all there with his magic.
 
After making this suggestion Nakah then asked us, including Mura who had walked back into the tavern, if we wanted to join the green elves on this noble quest. He believed it was in all of our destinies to be a part of this quest and solve the problem of the corrupted Mayhos Leylines.
The others all agreed to join the quest and so did i, ready to embrace my destiny with my new group of travellers, thinking to myself it was funny how the first part of this quest led back to where i had started.