Past Tales: "The Pan"

  My DM had guided us to this little man sitting at a table with a deck of cards and a town behind him. After a short exchange he invited us into the town.

 The surrounding buildings were in need of repair but the people there seemed happy. Everyone we talked to said they had been in this city for awhile and always seemed to have food to eat and water to drink. However, there were no wells or any crops or any live stock, nothing. Also, oddly enough there seemed to be piles of magic items, just laying around in the streets and along the sidewalks. In addition, the town's people didn't really bother with them and put them in piles so they would be out of the way. 

 A little concerned about this and slightly creeped out we tried to leave.  And it was quickly brought to our attention, and surprise, that the entire town was surrounded by an invisible, very powerful magic barrier. 

So needless to say, we couldn't leave. We tried confronting the man, and found him.  He was walking around near the entrance and we asked how we could leave.  He said he was waiting for something. 

 My character, to give you some background, didn't understand magic and more over  refused to use it. (unless of course it was necessary for a life or death situation.)  I was playing a human fighter, who had never really dealt with magic. So now that magic was holding her hostage, it didn't sit too well with her. She searched for hours trying to find a weak point in the barrier or something that would give her a clue as to how to make her escape. 

 The only thing she observed was the fact that all the town's people always had food but none was delivered or grown. When she asked the people would just say when they were hungry food would just seem to appear in the pan.

  In a desperate move, my character borrowed one of the town's people's pans and watched it to see where the food appeared from. For 3 days that was all she would do. I failed my rolls to stay awake and would wake up to find the pan gone and someone using it to cook bacon. 

 The other player that was with me spent her time talking to the man that let us in and figured out what he was "waiting on" for us to say "Thank you and goodbye." 

As a reward we got to chose one of the magic items in the town. And out of all the magic items I could have chosen, I took the pan.