Jade is about to protest "Ah-but I..." ...
she looks at the mermaid uncomfortably. "why???... [he had to have... ...some inkling of dragons and mermaids not getting along... right?"
[RPG] Sword & Sorcery 2
[MENTION=40954]King Aquamentus[/MENTION]
Veto
Part of above post being vetoed
"why???... he had to have... ...some inkling of dragons and mermaids not getting along... right?"
Reason "Dragons do not exist in this dimension and they never have. So this isn't impossible. No one knows what you are actually. Since you should of been killed as soon as you we're hatched. This flows into the previous sword and sorcery game and CJC isn't around so oh well. "I started it actually to give depth to my dragonkin that both me and CJC totally done goofed and destroyed her background story." I'll do my best to manage your aquamentus wanna be."
And you are not a true form dragon, fun fact those dragons would kill you on sight. Good thing we don't have those in this campaign. So stop confusing the two.
Dragons hate dragonkin, and vice versa. At least that's the norm. Dragonkin are dragons born outside of there home dimension. "Dragons have a hatred for the unlike. It runs through there veins"
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[MENTION=60919]TheDarkOne[/MENTION]
You and la croix find yourself at the druids door step. La Croix doesn't even bother to knock, she just opens the door.
D "Enter, I've been expecting you Shirome."
S "Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. How interesting, rumor is it you've been having bad dreams."
D "Not dreams, visions of the future. Of the outer god that resides inside the stone hidden in the forest of the fey."
S "Outer god?"
D "The creature from the dreams is his true appearance. Outside of his own dimension he can only take the form of a black, shapeless, malevolent mist."
You recall the black swirling mist you and the rest of the party saw at the Mermaid Kingdom
S "And this thing is sealed away in this stone? So his power is seeping through."
D "No... It only one of 5 parts of his seal. His true body is sealed away in Gaea's Navel at the center of our world."
Shirome turns towards you. and takes off her mask. For a moment.
S "Time to go Skie, we've got a god trying to break his way into our world. Time to track down Merlina, we need her help best place to start is the Pub."
D "Wait, I know you are to go into the forest of the fey. When the time comes. I shall be your guide."
What do you do? "if you have any questions for the druid, now is a good time."
[MENTION=40954]King Aquamentus[/MENTION]
After getting lost you run into Merlina you wind up back at the end, fortunately for you the elder's son is there.
"You must be the ones the Innkeeper told me about, that girl having the nightmares too. We should stare a fan club with the druid. I've been digging up records on the forest turns out they date back pretty far. And the forest of the fey was originally located elsewhere, before it was destroyed by a Manaburst. Fortunately the stone survived, but it was moved you see. Too the new forest of the fey. But the seal is still in the original location in the a place most people call the dead woods about 20 miles in the opposite direction of the other forest. If you really want to know what is going on with these dreams. I would go there, not to the forest of the fey. That is we're the seal is. The roc is just a preface. It has no value what so ever."
The elder's son wave's goodbye and leaves.
What do you do?
[MENTION=38704]mrz84[/MENTION]
You begin wandering the streets heading deeper in the village, and you find yourself right snack dab in front of an execution. It appears to be an eladrin mage.
"I WILL ASK YOU AGAIN ELADRIN SKUM! ARE YOU ONE OF THE THREE WITCHES!"
"She simply spits on him in discuss."
A shrine maiden all of sudden steps out of the crowd.
"I saw her! She was speaking with the Demon Queen last night!"
All of sudden her face smirks as the eladrins face goes pristine white.
Your emblem begins shining. You then notice it, she too has the same emblem only on her chest.
"Yes she's one of the witches, and one of mine as you are. And I'm not about to let her blood be split. She's too valuable of an asset. Get going you've got a job to do rookie."
What do you do?
<Rookie...I haven't been called that in a while...> "Teh. Guess I gotta kick someone's face in." Alty pushes his way to the front of the crowd, drawing his twin greatswords. He hefts one of the blades over his right shoulder while pointing with the left at the spectacle in front of him. "I honestly don't give a damn about what she did to you losers, but I can't let ya kill her. She's with me and anyone who has a problem with that is gonna have a bad time." His one good eye glows a malevolent crimson red while a big grin is on his face, all the while emitting an intimidating aura around him that would make weaker beings cower. <Even if I'm not at top form, I don't back down when the chips are down.>
Jade turns to Merlina. "I guess we're headed to the other forest... what all lies between the two?
[MENTION=38704]mrz84[/MENTION]
The people run in horror leaving the guards and executioner. Wait the shrine maiden is standing in the open laughing hysterically.
"Oh my, how brave. Standing up to me without knowing who I am. And your a demon servant just like her how fitting!"
She outstreteches her hand towards the executioner and he begins upheave.
Then all of a suddden a katana bursts out of his mouth followed by blood and entrails.
"This should be fun. Let's play boy!"
P.S. Goodluck, your gonna need lots of it in this fight.
[MENTION=40954]King Aquamentus[/MENTION]
Actually merlina is still missing remember.
/me turns and looks to nerinae. "I guess we're headed to the other forest... what all lies between the two?
[MENTION=40954]King Aquamentus[/MENTION]
N: That would be the town obviously, he did say the other direction. So I assume if we head in the opposite direction of the forest of the fey we would reach this other forest. I've heard of this place though. It's crawling with undead. Let's go find Mer...
All of sudden you hear screams coming from the town square and people begin rushing past you. What do you do?
P.S. you could of just edited your post. 😛
Alty "Oh, so ya got some fight in ya? Better make it worth my time then. And I don't give a donkey's taint who you are. Just give me a challenge is all I ask."
Alty throws his left blade at the maiden then jumps at her with the other ready to bring down an overhead slash. His robotic arm changes in size to a canine head that opens its mouth and begins to charge an attack.
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Combat: ReACTion
To further smooth out the kinks that combat pose in a delayed response environment, I am introducing a new type of ACT MEDIAS RES block, the ReACTion block. These gaps will be presented in cyan and function exactly the same way as an Act Medias Res with one exception: any ReACTion block that is unused before the next update will CLOSE, meaning you can insert actions between updates but once an update comes the opportunity has passed.
CHANGE! Enemies can now reACT as well! Be careful!
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ReACTion [MENTION=38704]mrz84[/MENTION]
The shrine maiden slashes her katana against your huge sword and sends it flying upwards into the sky. "What the hell! How strong is she shouts one of the guards let's get out of here!"
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She then charges straight at you but stops at at the sound of a gunshot. You can't believe your ears. A gunshot in this era?
You both look at the source of the sound. A woman who is all to familiar stands there he. In fact she's from your world, and her arm has been replaced with a cyberlimb with a hole in the palm with smoke trailing out of it. But it's entirely different from your own and you cannot source it's origin. She notices you and she smiles then comes the guards and her smile turns to a face of malice. 100s of elves and eladrin. Armed with swords, bows and staves. "You two come to my town murder an executioner, set free my prisoner, and then get into a fight? Explain yourselves!"
You look over to the stake and find it empty. "He released her, I tried to stop him..."
"SILENCE! That is enough of your lies, we have several witnesses telling me you killed the executioner."
"So Alty, what is your story. I'm all ears."
"I'm looking for someone who matches the girl (points to the girl he needs to rescue) and found her being accussed of...what was it again? Being a witch or something? Either way, I'm on the job to bring her back to her employer...preferably alive." <If I gotta book it, I could always use the Solar Flare to blind 'em and grab the girl...but that's only a last resort if things go south.> Plus she did kill the guy. Pulled a sword (points to the shrine maiden's blade) outta him.
[MENTION=38704]mrz84[/MENTION] the girl has vanished
((OOC: I thought the LaCroix character was male? When did that change))
With my finely tuned rogue senses I can hear the commotion in the center of town. I turn to LaCroix or Shirome or whatever her name is.
"I hear something from the square. We should check it out."
I head in that direction without bothering to look behind me to see if she's following..
<Shit. The girl is gone.> "Well in the confusion my target seems to have vanished. This crazy bitch *points at the shrine maiden* still was trying to have her executed and killed a guy."
[MENTION=60919]TheDarkOne[/MENTION]
Post #60 is when all was revealed about La Croix and you did absolutely nothing. WHICH WAS THE BEST OPTION! 😃
http://armageddongames.net/showthread.php?97454-RPG-Sword-amp-Sorcery-2&p=910622&viewfull=1#post910622
And now our update!
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-Mrz-
All of sudden her arm mutates into a massive black barrel and blasts it at the shrine maiden but she evades it and then turns into a vermilion peacock spews fire at her and flies west.
"Damn it, how irritating, she won't get far. Follow her! All of you I'll take care of him myself..." she says with a smile.
What do you do?
-Everyone else-
Both of your parties meet in the town square, you find helena and a strange man and a bunch of soldiers.
You quickly duck behind the wall and take cover.
Act-Medias-Ras
Try to make an attack of opportunity or reach the pub unseen?
I WILL POINT OUT THAT SHE HAS TWO ACTIONS PER TURN! BUT DOES NOT USE THE REACTION SYSTEM!
<Ok. Not at full strength AND she MIGHT want me dead...though she would have done so already if that were the case. Maybe I can reason with her? Or maybe the Solar Flare? Either way this isn't looking good>
"Ya know, If I wasn't sure about it...I'd say that you seem a little too happy to see me...Care to explain that?" <If she attacks I'm just gonna Solar Flare her and make my way to the pub. Assuming that one of my weakest of non-damaging skills isn't sealed of course....There is also that crystal but I think its too early to use that...YET.>
[MENTION=60919]TheDarkOne[/MENTION] [MENTION=40954]King Aquamentus[/MENTION] [MENTION=38704]mrz84[/MENTION]
I think I need to explain what is going on here with the main plot.
In this world there are 5 seals (technically 6, the 5 around the world act as a keys and the 6th inside the navel is the actual lock itself). These keys hold back the outergod Xenovia. Which is in fact female and desires nothing more then to enslave all life. So what is Xenovia? She is the Queen of Madness. ENough said, although in this dimension she can only hold a mist form. If the 5 seals are broken and the gate opened then god help you all cause you just might have to fight a god. Be warned that she is immortal and cannot be destroyed by any means hence why she was sealed in the first place. Note she is not the antagonist of the plot. Someone else is. And he or she might be closer then you think. 😉
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@mrz
She pulls a photo out of armor bust and tosses it at your feet. You can't believe your eyes. It's you in the photo in the 8th grade next to a girl. The same one in front of you right now. "I'll let you continue this story. You can even name her!"
<This girl?! What was her name? DAMMIT! Time traveling and agelessness don't mix well! I've been traveling for literally centuries worth of time by now and I can't remember it!>
Alty has a slight nervous look on his face. He is trying to avoid making the situation worse but the combined effects of no longer aging and traveling through time over the course of centuries of time have made what should be a simple matter into a possible landmine.
<Still considering that Solar Flare escape plan...>
Alty picks up the photo and examines the picture to try and remember.
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[MENTION=38704]mrz84[/MENTION]
She let's out a sigh. Can't remember my name huh?. At least you seem to remember my face. It'll come to you in time. Come the Magician is waiting. Note Merlina is NOT one of three witches. She heads over to the pub and unlocks the door and motions you inside. "Well come on! You two are joining us as well." You look over your solder and notice a dragonkin and human staring at each other.
[MENTION=60919]TheDarkOne[/MENTION] [MENTION=40954]King Aquamentus[/MENTION].
You find merlina sitting at a table alone. The pub is empty. She walks up to alty and bitch slaps him. It hurts like a massive wasp sting. And then waves the comb in his face. "Do you realize what you've done! I've spent two reincarnations, looking for this!" She snaps the comb in half and it vanishes. "That is all we can do. If one breaks. They all do, and regenerate elsewhere in 100 years. We have bigger problems now. Someone is trying to revive Xenovia. She exists in an entire different dimension then our own. We need to kill her in that dimension. Otherwise she will just regenerate and return. Unfortunately an astral barrier prevents passage into this dimension so we don't even know what it looks like. However, i know of a way to shatter it. But first...
All of sudden Merlina takes a step away from you and bursts into flames. Nerinae screams bloody murder, La Croix grabs a sheet, and the woman with the armcannon just stands there. The flames die off and for a moment before she is wrapped in a sheet by La Croix you get a glimpse at her. What you see startles you. She has changed. What was once an eladrin is now an elven woman. With long silver hair and purple eyes. "Let's go get you dressed in some clothes honey." says La Croix. She escorts her to a room in the back she soon emerges in a elegant purple vest and battle lacy skirt and stockings with two swords.
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"WHO ARE YOU!" Nerinae shouts falling to the floor. And crawling away in fear.
"I'm an Ymbrane, and the last of my kind. We reinicarnate every 100 years. Unfortunately do to our low birth rate and high gestation period not to mention a civil war my people we're lead to their own extinction. All that remains is there city floating above Gaea's Navel. And that is exactly where we will eventually go. But first we'll go to the seals and see if we can figure out who is responsible for this mess. I want to make him dig his own hole and make him fill it."
"The seal should be in the forest of the fey I believe. But so is Queen Alraune, she hates me cause I sort of accidently burned down a sacred tree once. But she doesn't know I reincarnated yet. So my alias is Alyndra. Remember that. Any questions? Or can we leave?"
THERE IS A SPECIFIC QUESTION YOU CAN ASK HERE FOLKS! It's cause nerinae is speechless rightnow. Yes it involves her story. So center around that.
Yes I just pulled a Doctor Who.
"Nerinae...why are you so afraid? Do you fear elves for some reason? An elven man saved my life once, I have nothin but respect for them." To Merlina/Ymbrane: "I am ready to go whenever you are."
"I've got questions. What was with that shrine maiden back at the square earlier? Also, who the hell is Queen Alraune? I don't need to know too much, just to why I should give a damn about them."
Jade watches Merlina snap the comb in half, and is about to call her an unpleasant word for a woman, when the flames appear and she covers her mouth at the sight of the transformation. She's not startled or bothered by nudity at all, but the sudden occurance is jarring.
"...this world is weird."
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Merlina: "The shrine maiden's name is Helena is a bitch, as for Queen ALraune. SHe's the ruler of the forest of the fey. She's quite the charmer too. I don't give damn about either one, and you shouldn't either. If she picks a fight with you. You have my permission to turn her into a salad. I should go have Shirome get some dressing."
All of sudden you black out. When your eyes open you find your self in a chamber, the demon queen is standing next to you but her body is transparent There's a huge stone cover in sealing magic on a scale you've never seen before. It''s pulsing with an evil presence. Whatever is sealed in that thing. It was done for a reason./
DQ: "That one is quite the liar. That stone there is the Artifact of Absolute Power. Watch what is about to happen. And no, they can't hear us. We're perceiving the past."
All of the sudden the doors open and a elf woman enters the room with a staff. Followed by a human and a eladrin on each side.
"This is it, the stone that will help us win this war."
"I'm not so sure about this Merlina. What if something's worst then a demon is seal inside this thing."
Merlina: "Relax I'll bind it to my will and we'll crush the Empire once and for all. The resistance will see victory today."
She raises a staff and begins dissolving the seals one by one.
DQ: "Fools, if only they would of known that was a god not a demon."
As the last seal disappears the stone explodes in a blast of dark mist and takes the shape of a monstrous entity. A Six armed figure with a fnag maw and red eyes and horns. With a white skirt. Merlina looks at it in horror.
M: "My god, What have we done."
"I'M FREE AT LAST! FOR 10000 YEARS I WAS SEALED BUT NOW I WILL ENSLAVE THIS WORLD!"
"Run Merlina! Tell the resistance what happened here, no tell the empeor! TELL EVERYONE."
The vision fades. And another appears this time a city in ruins with abberations covering it. And at it's center stands the creature. It destroyed the entire city single handly. All of sudden a wyrm hole appears and the demon queen flies through. With it come 100s of balls of light.
"YOU! YOU SEALED ME AWAY!"
She doesn't hesistate, the balls of light form a huge circle and begin spinning round and round and fire a massive laser at the creature forcing it back into the stone. Then she fires 5 more beams of light one in each cardinal direction. and one into the sea.
DQ: "That is the power of my artifacts. If I still had the one you destroyed I could fix this myself in a jiffy. But now we're in a jam."
The other demon queen looks down at the wreckage and finds the elf girl and lands. "You from this day cursed, you will reincarnate every 100 years from this day forward for unleashing that evil into this world. Painful flames will ravage your body, and your face will change continuously until the end of time."
DQ: "Sorry to enter your mind, but I needed you to know the truth. Now go and keep this a secret for now. And don't hesistate to call me."
The vision fades, and you find yourself back in reality. You feel something has changed in you. You have your wings back.
this is important information [COLOR="#FF0000"]mrz not filler material write down who is responsible, why they did it, what happened, and that only she survived. That is if you can't remember[/color]
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[MENTION=38704]mrz84[/MENTION] [MENTION=40954]King Aquamentus[/MENTION] [MENTION=60919]TheDarkOne[/MENTION]
M: If that's the only questions you have for me we'll leave right now. We should probably look around for a guide though. Any ideas where to look?
You all notice that Nerinae has stolen a large bottle of booze and is chugging it. She has apparently seen some serious shit since she left home.
"For my first time tasting alcohol this is pretty good."
La Croix grabs the bottle and takes a swig.
"My god, this is vodka! She'll be out cold by the time she finishes that entire bottle. Can you keep an eye on her Captain." He gives the battle back to her.
"You got it."
What do you do?
"I doubt we'll find anyone here who would be willing to take is into the Forest of the Fae, if indeed any of them would know the way through. If we're going to find a guide, we'll have to look elsewhere."
I turn to Jade.
"Could I possibly have one of those magical ropes you have with you? You really wouldn't need more than one. I can't pay you very much, but I'll give you what I can for it." My coin pouch is still very light, but any money I gain has to be earned--I made myself the promise to never steal again after what happened to Artanis.
<At least I've got my wings back now...From the looks of things my other artifacts are sealed too...Guess I'll just have to earn 'em back>
"If any of you need me, I'll be here for a bit." *walks over to the window and stretches out his hand. The greatsword the maiden knocked into the air earlier lands in it as if perfectly timed...or even summoned from wherever it was prior* "I'm gonna get a bite to eat while you work out the petty details"
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You find yourself at the entrance to the forest of the fey. The druid that La Croix and Skye met earlier is waiting for you.
Druid: "Let's go. we need to be back before dark. Evil Insects roam this forest aswell so be on guard. And if you see a sleeping trent, DO NOT wake him up. He's a cranky old bastard and hates outsiders."
Merlina: "I've burnt a tree before."
Druid: "You burn anything in this forest. We'll have an army of fey on are asses in seconds. I please ask you refrain from such wrecklessness."
*later*
You come to a thorny bramble wall with strange red flowers.
Druid: "Witches' Thorn, careful. Poisoness and hard as hell to treat. I've got some antidote back at my house. But we can either cut through it or try to find another way around."
DISCUSS YOUR SOLUTION!
((OOC: Is the Druid locked? You didn't specify that she was, so I will proceed here as if she is not. If she is in fact locked, say so in the update and then my action here can be disregarded)
I look at the Teras (the Druid). "What do you suggest? My weapons aren't exactly suitable for landscaping. But I don't to to waste time trying to find another way around."
Teras: "Witch's Thorn is usually only grown in small patches. It shouldn't take long to go around. But Witch's Thorn in this forest worries me....if this is the work of my fel--I mean, if this is the work of Shadow Druids, we might be in more trouble than we think."
Skie notices what she almost said but keeps it to herself for the time being.
Nope
"Need to cut a path, then lemme have at it. *draws his twin greatswords and then slams them together, fusing them into an even larger greatsword that he is showing little effort in wielding* Just lemme know where you wanna path and I'll cut it."
<I'm actually surprised I can still do that...Meh. Probably just dumb luck that it wasn't sealed.>
OOC: the fused greatsword is about 10 feet from tip of the blade to the hilt for reference.
Okay so I've changed my mind and allowed teras into the plot. This will change the way things happen in the Forest of the Fey. But will also fit in well. Shadow Druids would use evil methods for good intentions. Burning a village to make space for a forest to grow for example. You'll understand why I did this soon enough. Also [MENTION=60919]TheDarkOne[/MENTION] you have passive control over Teras for now. Like your previous post.
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Merlina speaks up, "This plant was one of the Grand Witches favorites. If it's here, there might be more of it. We should watch our step."
You come to a tree. You can almost see a face start to emerge from the tree.
[MENTION=40954]King Aquamentus[/MENTION] [MENTION=38704]mrz84[/MENTION] What do you do?
[MENTION=60919]TheDarkOne[/MENTION] What does Teras do?