Once upon a time a travelling bard came to a bar with a sign saying: 'No overpowered adventurer-parties allowed'.
"Overpowered? I am a bard! Haha!" the bard said happily and went in.
This night, the bard drank and drank loads of expensive drinks. He promised to pay later, time after time, while he enjoyed his drinks and the show on stage.
At the end of the night, the barkeeper was cleaning the tables and asked people to leave.
"Have you had a good night?" he asked the bard.
"Wonderful" the bard replied.
"Fine. Here's the bill," the barkeeper said.
While he handed the bill, he started to wonder how the bard was going to pay. There was no sign of anything where he could keep money. The bard seemed alarmed for one second at the price, and then he smiled to the barkeeper.
"What's your name?" he asked.
"Limbar" the barkeeper replied.
"Let me tell you a story, Limbar"
Limbar decided to listen to the whole story.
"Once upon a time there was a bard... like me. He was on a great adventure, single-handed and VERY heroically chasing an evil dragon ALL ALONE! He was so very brave everyone was astonished at how very, very brave he was. So brave, so very, very brave..."
"I get it" Limbar said.
"Well, this BRAVE bard was heroically chasing this DANGEROUS AND EVIL dragon around the corner, when they suddenly saw a big house... very big... so big even the dragon could enter through the door.. just like that!"
"Go figure"
"I'll do that later, I'm telling a story now. Anyhow, the dragon got in. Anyone would have gone back right then and there, but no, our bard was way too brave. He went in right after and stood right there, eye in eye with the whole evil dragon family. He was chasing just the very dangerous BABY-DRAGON! There were way more evil ones there, much, much bigger. Anyone would have fainted and ran away, but not our hero. This bard immediately saw the danger too all and he did not get help, no, he started defeating all of them. The dragons had never seen such a brave fighting machine. At the end, when all the dragons were defeated, the very brave bard fell down, exhausted. The sun was shining upon him, rewarding his actions, and the birds were singing as to praise him as well. This gave him strength to open an eye, at a moment all others would not have been able to. But this bard was very great. When he opened this eye, he looked at a dragon's eye, ten times his size. A grandfather dragon had come, greater than any dragon anyone could ever defeat. The giant dragon picked up the brave bard."
Limbar now listened very excited.
The giant grandfather dragon said to the bard: "I will go and kill all people in this village. But first of all I will destroy Limbar's Inn completely, leaving no one in there alive. No one can stop me. There is only one thing that could change my mind." Of course the brave bard immediately asked what this could be. "You must go into Limbar's Inn, eat and drink all night and have a very good time. At the end of it, this is very important, he must charge you with nothing. Nothing at all. If that happens, I will keep all alive and his Inn in one piece. Do you get it?" The bard got it. The dragon was serious and too big to stop for anyone, even overpowered adventurer parties. And the bard kept his part of the deal."
Now the bard stopped talking and looked at Limbar. He had told his entire story in a very dramatic voice, very serious and excited, as a lot was at stake her.
"Do you get the meaning of this story, Limbar?" the bard asked very excited.
Yes, I do" Limbar said, looking at the bard and taking the bill the bard handed to him.
"The meaning of this story is: if you want to get out of paying your bill, don't drink too much alcohol before."
Limbar passed the bill back to the bard. The bard looked very disappointed.
We faint out.

THE END

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