Memos and Monsters

It was a normal Monday: terrible, as usual. 

You got off the elevator with your officemates and you headed to your desk, and then you said them-- the seven words that would change your life (as you knew it): 

"Who stuck this sword in my desk?" 

You said them because someone had stuck a sword in your desk. "Oh yeah," said Dave, from accounting, passing by. "Weird, huh? I tried to pull it out, but it's stuck there." 

You decided to give it a try yourself.  You climbed up on the desk, grabbed it by the hilt, and pulled. 

You thought it'd be hard. 

But it was easy.  Came right out. 

And that's when you remembered. 

You didn't work in this office last week at all. This was the first time you'd ever been there. 

You  and your friends had been trying to defeat Tharvod the Devourer before he used the Worldwish spell to transform the world to his liking. 

At your side had been Janni, the wizard... who was now standing by your desk (and named Jenny), looking at you funny. "Why are you standing on your desk holding a sword?" she asked. 

You jumped down and handed her the sword-- and then she remembered. "OH MY GODS," she said. "I remember. Tharvod and I cast the Worldwish spell at the same time. Thanks to us, he was out of time-- he just wished for a world where he had more power over us, plain and simple." 

"What did you wish for?" 

"That... this could be a world where... where Tharvod would forget all about the Worldwish spell... and that-- well he had all those minions-- I wished... that we could all just... be on the same side." 

You and Janni (now Jenny) find Tharvod the Devourer-- not in person, but on the wall: His picture is hanging on the wall in one of the conference rooms-- he's the CEO of the Kingdom Corporation.

Dealing with him would require access to the Executive Elevator... and he comes and goes with a helicopter from the roof every day. Looks like you're going to need to find ways to get promoted.

You do, though, find your Priest (named Chad now, from Marketing), and you remind him who he was/is...  and your Thief (Kris from Sales), and your bard (now Vanessa from the Public Relations department)...

Together, you will work together to keep the kingdom office a safe place for everyone to live work... 

Goblins and zombies, wizards and knights, dragons and elves-- they all look the same as they used to, except that now they're all wearing business casual and working for the Kingdom Corporation. (KNGD on the stock index.) 

Your tried and true weapons are still swords, crossbows, and spells... but someone could get really hurt that way, and that could really affect productivity this quarter. Better to try threatening the hill giants with a bad performance review first, or maybe reminding them that the crunch is on to get that software debugged before deadline...

 

TL;DR: You and your fellow heroes lived in a fantasy world, but an evil tyrant and your own good wizard tried to cast competing Worldwish spells at the same time, and now you live in an office comedy. Goblins, trolls, zombies, and other monsters and NPCs are still around... you just all work for the Kingdom Corporation now.