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"Over the millennia, countless battles where waged at the site of the future cursed woods. Competing armies, ruthless brigands, bloodthirsty hordes of orcs and goblins, all fought and died. Over time the bitter, and vengeful, dead souls lurked to ambush the unwary and feast on the warmth of their souls. Foul beasts and terrible abominations hunted there and only fools would enter the blood-soaked and haunted fields. Then, a great necromancer forged an army of dead servants and cowed the snarling and quarreling orc tribes. He embarked on a campaign of genocide, slaughtering all the villages near the fields. Before he could march on the larger cities an army of outraged druids and other heroes ambushed them. They barely managed to defeat the necromancer and his army. When it was over the druids joined and cast a mighty enchantment, turning all the wandering undead and the bodies of the slain into living trees, making a large forest. The necromancer had his revenge though, with his last breaths he cursed the earth and forest so that forever on the dead would not rest easy, that dark monsters and demons would flock there, and the dark magics would overshadow all other spells cast. Thus the Cursed Woods were spawned."
Here you can post your adventures in the Cursed Woods, if you are brave or foolish enough to tread there. It is filled with undead, foul beasts, demons, and bitter spirits.

*He trudges up to the edge of the woods and stops for a moment to catch his breath. He uses a clawed finger to scratch 'Goken was here' on a tree.* "Enough rest now, time to see if that rumor about one of the demons who killed my mother being here is true or not." *He enters the woods and starts leaping from tree branch to tree branch.*

As he jumps from branch to branch in the woods a whistling hum sounds out and the branch he just landing on explodes and he falls painfully to the ground in a heap. "Oww, what the...?" "Aww, did little baby go boom?" a sinister voice calls out. A spike covered demon with sickly green skin, wings, claws, and horns walks up, his hands glowing with dark red energy. "These dark woods are too tough for the likes of you, kid. Get lost, before I get hungry." "Hmph, you don't scare me punk! But while you're here, let me ask you something. Ever hear of a demoness named Myrtonee? I'm looking for the one that killed her." "Yeah I heard of her, you half-pint halfbreed. I'll tell you, but only if you can best me in battle!" The demon puts both hands together and shoots a blast of dark red lightning at Goken, but he mentally lifts a large rock into the path of it, the rock blocks the lightning and explodes. Goken charges all of his energy into a large ball of blue flame using his Pyrokinesis and hurls it at the demon. The demon is caught by surprise and the ball explodes, burning trees and grass to cinders. A gritty black smoke obscures sight for a moment, when it clears the demon still stands, though hurt. "An impressive display of power, but now you are out of energy!" The demon snarls in fury and shoots a gigantic orb of dark red and green lightning at Goken. He's too slow to dodge it and gets blasted by it. The last thing he sees before blacking out is the demon walking up to him.