Post by: Tyberix on April 14, 2011, 05:19:28 pm
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Moon was rising above Highwar as the three hooded figures entered the graveyard on the outskirts of the town. They knew that nobody will interrupt them, old cemetery guard would kill his own mother for the few gold coins - nevertheless they moved quickly as if expecting trouble. This time it was not some petty ritual, this time they will open the gates of the netherworld itself! Preparations for tonight started nearly immediately as their leader get his hands on the mysterious grimoire. Ingredients alone cost them fortune, but if everything would go with the plan it won't matter anyway. They headed for the big granite structure in the farthest corner of the necropolis. Overcoming the old Droevigger Tomb door was bit tricky,stubborn old fools carved the door in one stone block with mechanism inside, getting the key was a messy work - at least it's owner was a good training before tonight trial. Crypt was ideal place to perform the ritual, lots of perfectly preserved corpses both family and their servants as well as few house friends, many buried with their weapons and armor. Of course there were rumors about the Droeviggers cursed ancestors that stalked the underground crypt but they never found anything down there. That should change soon, though. They lit the blacked candles in the tomb main chamber and began drawing as soon as their entered.First the circles on the floor with silver dust, followed by the lines draw in blood around the stand standing in the middle of the room. As midnight closed in tallest man opened the old stained tome and started chanting the long forgotten words...
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 14, 2011, 05:37:44 pm
Bio: A captain of the 8492nd battalion in elf-human wars, Edgar led a troop of elite cavalry in several flanking attacks on elven forces. He was eventually killed in an ambush laid by the elves, mutilated, partially eaten, and left suspended in the air on his own pike as an insult to the humans.
Race: Corporeal Undead
Inventory: Steel Pike "Fersuena" - This is Edgar's personal pike. When he was killed his body was impaled upon it and left to rot - until he was recovered and laid to rest.
Specialty: Polearms - Edgar's trained to use pikes, spears, halberds, and similar his entire life.
Would it be possible to request being a skeleton? If not, no problem, I just thought I'd ask.
Post by: Trollan on April 14, 2011, 05:40:50 pm
Bio: A very old gypsy from 1750, Nal saved a man who was high in power. When that man "mysteriously" died, Nal took over. Nal was killed by poisoned croutons.
Race: Incorporeal Undead
Inventory: Sacrificial Dagger
Skill: Terrifying laugh (+1 to creeping people out with a cackle)
Post by: jakeread1 on April 14, 2011, 05:56:12 pm
Name: Ivan "Hard" Stones
Bio: A rebellious dwarf who wanted to see the world. At the age of 16 he left for a city now destroyed by human raiders. He made many friends but a few days before the attack he was mugged then promptly stabbed stabbed in the "stones" but the attack didn't pierce so he was then got his neck slit...
Race: Corporal Dead
Item: Rusty Spoon
Skill: Thick Hide (+1 to all rolls on whether a enemy attack did any damage)
Post by: Tarran on April 14, 2011, 07:13:24 pm
Name: Tarran Etran.
Bio: Tarran was a commander of a group of cavalrymen in a long forgotten war many years ago between the dwarves and humans. He died while bravely charging singlehandedly into a squad of dwarves after a battle was lost and his troops killed down to the last man. His body was burnt to a crisp in a volcano after the battle, so his grave was put up with his sword instead. He never got any medals for his bravery, so he's pretty vengeful.
Race: Incorporeal Undead.
Inventory: Tungsten Carbide Longsword.
Specialty: Swordsman: +1 to using swords.
Post by: ggamer on April 14, 2011, 07:54:30 pm
Bio: A crossbowman from the 1790's who died in the heat of battle.
Race: Corporeal Undead (Skeletons,Zombies,Mummies and more)
Inventory: 1 crossbow
Specialty: Chivalry: +1 crossbow accuracy
Post by: Krath on April 14, 2011, 08:38:48 pm
Bio: After the humans stole knowledge of magic from the Elven libraries, Albas dedicated to his life's work to studying it. He chose the hard path of non-ritual related magic. However, his knowledge of magic did not prevent him from dying at the age of 83.
Race: Incorpreal Undead
Inventory:Magic Staff
Specialty: I'm a Wizard - +1 to using magic.
Post by: Tyberix on April 15, 2011, 02:25:39 am
Question: If you're Incorporeal, can you possess people?Depends on type, 2 out of 7 could do it :P
Name: Albas DumbledoorJust to be precise: undead magic is other than living so it's not guaranteed that you could cast anything right away. That would probably make it easier to learn it though. Of course if you end up as inherently casting type that's not the problem.
Bio: After the humans stole knowledge of magic from the Elven libraries, Albas dedicated to his life's work to studying it. He chose the hard path of non-ritual related magic. However, his knowledge of magic did not prevent him from dying at the age of 83.
Race: Incorpreal Undead
Inventory:Magic Staff
Specialty: I'm a Wizard - +1 to using magic.
Post by: Krath on April 15, 2011, 02:31:24 am
Post by: Tyberix on April 15, 2011, 04:02:21 am
Spoiler: Trollan: (click to show/hide)
You suddenly feel again. How ?... You're not sure.
Last thing you remember is that awful soup that was served on saturday supper.But you don't feel pain in your stomach anymore that's for sure, and you feel like you lost a lot of weight.What's weirdest you see your own body lying beside you in this .. what's this place anyway ? There is something weird going on. ... You suddenly hear some voice ordering you to move towards him. What's strange it sounds like an order but not very convincing.You try to push the slab above you back but you pass trough it. Well, moving trough the solid stone isn't something normal. What's going on in here ?
Spoiler: SeriousConcentrate: (click to show/hide)
You burn. As your body is reconstructed you feel again the strikes of the enemy, weapons going trough your flesh. But what's happening ? ... You're as confused as before, but the pain lessens for a while.
You're sure it was all just a nightmare. How else you could not feel the wound in your chest that pike left? .. Suddenly the voice sounds in your ears telling you to get to him. That's silly. Why he thinks he can order you around ?
Anyway it's no point lying in this thight box. You push the stone above your head and get out your temporarty prison. Were you always that strong ?
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You feel chilly. So cold that you want to be back where you have been. But.. you were dying! How is this possible ? You feel there's something strange in the air, and what's weirder you feel something in the shadows. They feel real. Suddenly you realize that the bedtime stories your parents told you were true. You become one of the shadows, brought back to haunt the living. You feel sudden urge to cry out loud,but you know what will happen afterwards.[/abbr=6]..[/abbr]You feel alien voice commanding you to come to him. Why he thinks he could command you!
You don't even try to open the coffin you just pass trough it.
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You suddenly wake up. How it's possible ? You remember your fatal wounds ! .. Well, lack of flesh on the hand is certainly disturbing. You heard of soldiers that lived with skin and muscle torn from them but this is not looking bright. How can you feel your hand without them anyway ? Ah,yes..you are dead. That thought hit you as soon as you look on your chest , there is no way you could live without heart. .. You suddenly hear booming voice ordering you to come to its owner. You feel you must do it. You push back slab of your grave and get out of it.
Spoiler: Krath: (click to show/hide)
That was some good sleep. You don't even remember when you gone to sleep. You were very tired and.. NO. It's impossible! You cannot be dead! But if you're not dead that would mean.. There were theories of forbidden knowledge coursing among the elves. It must be it, how else could you sense so much magic around ? It's other than you remember though, filled with screams and whispers of .. well whoever they are they were less lucky than you... You hear voice ordering you to get to him. You feel like you should obey it ,you pass trough the wall of your resting place.
After leaving your own tombs you find yourself in the big chamber, filled with gloom purple light. Three hooded figures look at you from their sliver circles as you enter the room. But your eyes are focused on something else: The book in the room center. You can clearly hear the call of the netherworld coming from it's pages, it was that book that brought you back. You can almost feel the sea of souls that the tome is opened to. One of the men turn toward you and speak: "You are now under our control, we brought you back and we can send you there again if you fail. Your first task is to secure the entrance to the crypt while we finish the ritual. Go now!"
Somehow you don't feel obliged to do it. Purple light in the chamber is getting brighter, and you can hear distant screams of agony coming from the book. You all suddenly remember your own stay in netherworld, and know that the gate opened by the book will collapse if they will try to force more souls back into this world.But you don't know what will be the effect of it.
Post by: Krath on April 15, 2011, 04:08:24 am
Attempt to cast a spell on the nearest hooded figure. If that doesn't work, thwack them over the head with my staff and hope it doesn't just pass through.
Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 15, 2011, 04:20:32 am
Post by: Tarran on April 15, 2011, 12:55:39 pm
Banshee Scream at the necromancers. How dare they tell me what to do!
Post by: TolyK on April 15, 2011, 01:18:19 pm
"Dammit I'm too late be revive :'("
Post by: Trollan on April 15, 2011, 01:39:18 pm
Post by: Tyberix on April 15, 2011, 01:50:50 pm
TolyK, the ghost, says,Added to waiting list, just post your character sheet.
"Dammit I'm too late be revive :'("
Post by: JacenHanLovesLegos on April 15, 2011, 02:05:02 pm
Bio: Roman soldier buried in an old mass grave. He is unhappy.
Race: Corporeal Skeleton
Inventory: Rusty Iron Short Sword
Specialty: Swordsman (+1 to using a sword)
Post by: jakeread1 on April 15, 2011, 02:32:42 pm
Dance to a strange tune called thriller! (:
Post by: ggamer on April 15, 2011, 04:24:12 pm
Welp, better get him off his high horse.
Raise my crossbow and fire a bolt at one necromancer's face. If there are no bolts, bash him in the face.
Post by: Tyberix on April 15, 2011, 05:33:15 pm
Turn 1 - Undead:Living 1:0
Krath:
Attempt to cast a spell on the nearest hooded figure. If that doesn't work, thwack them over the head with my staff and hope it doesn't just pass through...You focus your will same way as you would done before but this time you don't feel familiar link to the ether - your mind is filled with darkness. Apparentely you can't use the powers you wielded as a living - though you can feel you changed something. Shadows start moving wildly on the walls and detach from them after a while! They pounce on the closest man... They stop suddenly as the silver circle on the floor flashes with bright light. You can hear scream of suprise from the man inside but you can't see him trough the shadow dome that surrounded him. Two other look at this with astonishment on their faces. One of them start chanting something ..but you can't recongnise the spell or even language. You feel alien trying to force itself into your mind.
SeriousConcentrate:
Edgar growled in low, menacing tones. He hungered for the flesh of the living... and it looked like one of the others they had summoned wanted to kill them too. He spoke a low grunt that sounded of acquiescence, then raised Fersuena and stabbed it towards the closest necromancer. He was through taking orders the moment the general had ordered him into a suicide situation and abandoned his unit to die.
..You throw yourself at the suprised man. You feel some invisible power pushing you back!.. Silver on the floor shines brightly. Your target seems to snap out of his daze,and looks at you with anger on his face. "You will pay for this transgression" he shouts. He takes something you can't clearly see out of his robe pocket and throw it at you!.. You're hit by pouch that rips leaving you covered in some kind of red dust. It start itching, and you can smell burining flesh a moment later.
Tarran:
"How disrespectful! EVERYONE IS DISRESPECTFUL TO ME! DO YOU EVEN KNOW THE SHIT I WENT THROUGH?! AND WHAT DO I GET?!"You got enough of this cruel joke. This will end here! You let out cold terryfing wail! All three circles burn with blinding silver ... Only the one cricle resist, other are now just a layer of molten metal on the floor. You can see humans ears bleeding,..their faces twisted with pain. Krath's shadows throw themselves on their unguarded victim and soon his eyes start to bleed - looks like the shadows are not as deadly as they look. He unsheathes a dagger and starts to slice blindly around him.
Banshee Scream at the necromancers. How dare they tell me what to do!
Trollan:
try to ask what is going on, then poke somebody and make them tired if they do not answer
You try to ask something but Tarran's scream is too loud to be heared trough,anyway looks like the peacful resolution isn't going to happen. Well maybe you can at least incapacitate one of them. You try to drain the strengths from the man attacking SeriousConcentrate .. but you can't to hold in contact with him for long enough.
Jakeread1:
Dance to a strange tune called thriller! (:
You're clearly not used to this new body, you try to get some kind of exercise by trying some fancy moves .. You feel as stiff as before. .. You can see that the grimoire that brought you back here is starting to spew out black smoke - it doesn't bode well...
Ggamer:
Raise my crossbow and fire a bolt at one necromancer's face. If there are no bolts, bash him in the face.
Looks like someone who buried you could look into future. The crossbow is already loaded with an iron bolt! You aim for the man blinded by shadows and pull the trigger .. Bolt hit him straigt in the head,comes from the other side , hit the wall and .. bounces back at you! It flews directly trough your ribcage! Good thing you have nothing useful there.
As soon as the necromancer body falled on the floor, you can hear the sound of millions souls pushing from the netherworld into this world trough the book. With nobody to open the gates, looks like it's not gonna hold for long. Black thick smoke fills the chamber from it. Necromancer chanting inside the circle looks on it with terror in his eyes, looks like they have not prepared for something like that.Second living engaged in fight with Trollan and SeriousConcentrate take another pouch from the pocket.You notice that something weird is happening with the fallen one corpse - it twist and convulses like something were trying to rip his soul out of the body.
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Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 15, 2011, 05:48:14 pm
Post by: Tarran on April 15, 2011, 06:00:14 pm
Walk up to the necromancer in the circle, try to scare him.
Post by: Krath on April 15, 2011, 06:14:03 pm
Post by: ggamer on April 15, 2011, 06:17:38 pm
I walk over to the guard.
I raise my crossbow to his temple and say...
"Fix that book. If you break it, I'll break you."
Post by: Trollan on April 15, 2011, 09:13:02 pm
Post by: jakeread1 on April 15, 2011, 09:27:55 pm
Post by: Tyberix on April 16, 2011, 03:25:17 pm
Well this thing with the book can't be good.By guard you mean the one that's dead (:P), one fighting with SeriousConcentrate and Trollan or the one in the circle ?
I walk over to the guard.
I raise my crossbow to his temple and say...
"Fix that book. If you break it, I'll break you."
Post by: ggamer on April 16, 2011, 04:19:25 pm
Well this thing with the book can't be good.By guard you mean the one that's dead (:P), one fighting with SeriousConcentrate and Trollan or the one in the circle ?
I walk over to the guard.
I raise my crossbow to his temple and say...
"Fix that book. If you break it, I'll break you."
The one in the circle.
Post by: JacenHanLovesLegos on April 16, 2011, 04:40:02 pm
Name: JohnIn case you missed it.
Bio: Roman soldier buried in an old mass grave. He is unhappy.
Race: Corporeal Skeleton
Inventory: Rusty Iron Short Sword
Specialty: Swordsman (+1 to using a sword)
Post by: TolyK on April 17, 2011, 05:41:19 am
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Post by: Zako on April 17, 2011, 11:15:14 am
Name: randel sylvan
Bio: an assassinated human noble. he was feared for his heartless treatment of his lessers. now he walks again, to prey on the living.
Race: vampire!!!
Inventory: steel breastplate
Specialty: cunning (+1 to stealth actions)
Just to mix it up.
Post by: Tyberix on April 17, 2011, 12:03:03 pm
Turn 2 - Time is running out
SeriousConcentrate:
Edgar growled at the man attacking him, at the powder, and at everything in general. With a snort of derision he abandoned his attack and moved to feast on the necromancer one of his fellow undead had helpfully killed for him... You try to ignore the pain the powder causes but it gets worse, you feel that your skin is completely burned and your muscles feel sore . Well looks like the others are doing well,little snack won't hurt anyone. You move towards the falllen necromancer and bite into his flesh. After swallowing few chunks you feel a bit strange..,but it passes. Looks like the netherworld magic in the air done something with the corpse but you can't tell what happened.
Tarran:
"Well, I say, you three should've been more careful playing with the dead you know."You get as close to the circle as you can and let out your most terryfing non-magical shriek... Necromancer ingores you completely and you can hear his chant grow louder.
Walk up to the necromancer in the circle, try to scare him.
Krath:
Manipulate more shadows to ATTACK!.. Suddenly you mind is filled with one voice,your will is suppresed by outside force : it's the man in the circle, he's your master now. His orders are clear, you must protect him with ant means possible. You can see Tarran close to your master, he must be stopped. You unleash the shadows on the banshee,.., hovewer his own powers over them allows dodge the attack unscathed.
Ggamer:
Well this thing with the book can't be good.You point the crossbow at the man in the circle to make your demand more convincing .. When he takes a quick glance on the book you can clearly see the terror in his eyes. "What ? No... Too fast..." He rambles incoherently.
I walk over to the guard.
I raise my crossbow to his temple and say...
"Fix that book. If you break it, I'll break you."
Trollan:
Cast whatever foul spell i may know.. You focus your will on the man your fighting with...but nothing happens.Looks like your connection with the netherworld is too weak to cast direct magic... Hovewer the man tumbles back terrified. Looks like he has lost the will to fight.
Jakeread1:
Disband the final circle thingie by dancing and singing! ITS THE ONLY WAYYou fling yourself on the circle skipping like a madman(or madzombie). .. You hit the barrier with full force,but it stands strong. Man inside shouts to Krath "Stop this thing!" and starts searching his robe nervously while looking at the fuming book.
The moaning of the souls locked in the netherworld becomes even louder, you can hardly tell if it's only in your mind or it's a real sound though. .. You can see that pages of the book start to slowly burn with faint purple flames. It won't hold much longer. Necromancer in the circle looks at it with a grave face,he seems reconciled with his fate. " May it be.. But you're coming with me! You'll never leave this crypt!" he says and start chanting again... You suddenly feel that air teems with magic, both of the living and the dead. The other man looks at his partner with madness and rambles something about running away.
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Post by: Tyberix on April 17, 2011, 12:09:29 pm
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Unless you're time traveler, it would be hard to fit this into semi-medieval fantasy :PSpoiler: waiting list (click to show/hide)
Post by: Trollan on April 17, 2011, 12:11:40 pm
Post by: kilakan on April 17, 2011, 12:22:39 pm
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Post by: SeriousConcentrate on April 17, 2011, 01:33:22 pm
Post by: Tarran on April 17, 2011, 01:38:11 pm
Run (Float?) to the exit as fast as I can.