Glenin Boomsprocket 

Background

 Glenin sat under the ribs of a large Kodo skeleton in the Desolace, looking at some snap-o-graphs he had just taken. Glenin had thrown a large peice of cloth over the ribcage and was using it as a tent, protecting himself from the sudden dustorm that had just begun.

 Glenin was tinkering with a new invention of his, a small robot he had made with some spare parts, a couple of snapped bones and a small kodo skull. He glanced at a peice of dynamite next to him and thought what would happen if he attached it to his creation. Deciding not to he put the Kodo-bot down and opened up a small book he was writing, entitled Desolace Exploration. He opened it to a page which contained a short list, under the heading "Uses for Kodo Skeletons", he took his quill and wrote down "#19: Robots".

 Glenin put down his engineering and placed the book on top of his  Explorer's League Letters which had begun to flutter a little in the wind. Glenin looked out at the bleak storm-weathered landscape of the Desolace and began to eat some his beloved frog leg stew, thinking about the less-than positive reaction it had gotten from the Weary Boots, letting himself chuckle a bit. Glenin looked beside at a picture of his mother, which he always carried with him, holding her greatest invention, the Boomsprocket X5000 Gyro-Loaded Duo-Barrel Ridged Khorium Dynamite Assault Shotgun, MK.2. He laughed again, remembering what happened in Gnomeregan, then abruptly stopped, realising the non-amusing parts of it all.

 The duststorm died down after a while and Glenin packed up his things, took off his bright green goggles and replaced them with a leather hard hat and scanned the horizon, setting off into the barren wilderness, his Weary Boots making light footprints in the dust, not knowing where he was going or what he was going to do when he got there...