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Cataclysm: Dwarf Days Ahead
« on: February 09, 2016, 08:01:33 pm »

It was a dark night in the continent of Zûza Snûn. A young human named Nemo Athasemabe slowly approached the giant black bear Nonulitho. Sneaking up from behind, he attempted to grab the throat of the beast. The beast roared and turned to face him. Failing to choke the bear, Nemo let go and drew his weapons, an iron shield and a bronze longsword. Nemo was an adept swordsman, and the fight was easy. Multiple deep stab wounds to the bear's upper and lower body caused it to bleed out from its heart, pierced in two places. Unable to take any more, the helpless bear merely closed its eyes and let out a depressed sigh, knowing its fate was soon to be ahead. Standing over the massive corpse of his adversary, Nemo started blankly for a moment.

Then, suddenly, he raised his arms, chanting something under his breath. He began performing a strange gesture with his hands, while moving his arms in perfect sync. Nonulitho's corpse, still bleeding heavily, began to shake, and its eyes opened, completely black. The bear's middle spine was broken during the fight, but the corpse nonetheless began to stand on all four legs, as though it were never hurt. Having fought for its very life mere minutes earlier, the bear was now completely passive towards his former enemy.

Nemo grinned. The Zombie Army had risen.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dwarf Days Ahead
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2016, 08:04:50 pm »

One giant black bear is powerful, but not invincible. To conquer the world, Nemo would need more. He would travel the world, killing man and beast alike, and raising their corpses to fight for an army of death.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dwarf Days Ahead
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2016, 08:16:30 pm »

Travelling southwards, Nemo found another beast fit for his army. Unnosnarig Vukrig Ezar, a sasquatch recruit. An incredibly muscular female sasquatch, her left eyelid was ripped out during a fight and she was ready for battles ahead. However, she hadn't noticed him yet. He quietly ran behind the creature, drew his weapons, and slit her throat from behind with his longsword. The sasquatch, angered and gouting blood from her throat, snapped around to try and punch Nemo, but he had jumped backwards immediately after his attack. She chased after him, but even after mere moments she was beginning to turn pale from severe blood loss. It was only a matter of time, thought Nemo.

And it indeed was. The sasquatch had chased him not even ten meters before collapsing from blood loss. Nemo raised his arms and performed the same gesture, and the sasquatch stood up as quickly as it fell, blood still gouting from her throat.

The Zombie Army now consists of one giant black bear with no serious damage, and one sasquatch with no serious damage.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dwarf Days Ahead
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2016, 08:33:18 pm »

Just west of the Elven forest retreat of Canyonobeyed, Nemo and his army stumbled across the lair of a beast. Naturally, he would investigate. Climbing into the small hole in the ground, Nemo discovered that it was a bust- there was no beast here. He decided to wait, hoping it would return

Six hours passed, and nothing arrived. Nemo decided to stop wasting his time and leave in pursuit of other "recruits"

Leaving the empty lair, Nemo stumbled upon a second sasquatch! Tistashen Natrispuho, while significantly smaller than the first one, would nonetheless make a powerful addition to his army. But Tistashen had already spotted them, and, seeing one of his species dead and walking terrified him into running.

Nemo sprinted after it, and, charging with his longsword, knocked into the beast and fell down himself. While on the ground, however, he quickly stabbed the beast three times in the lower body, causing it to collapse from pain. Standing up, Nemo slit the sasquatch's throat and waited for it to bleed out. After the beast stopped moving, Nemo performed his necromancy and the sasquatch rose, with three stab wounds and a slit throat.

The Zombie Army now consists of one giant black bear and two sasquatches, none of which have any serious damage.
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« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2016, 10:17:01 pm »

Continuing further south, Nemo and his forces encountered a third sasquatch. However, before Nemo was able to find it, his army had reached it first. It was only through the sound of the fight that he was able to find his two undead sasquatches pummeling a still living one with their fists. He watched as its lower front teeth were punched out by his first sasquatch, while the second one landed continuous punches and kicks. The living sasquatch finally collapsed from pain, and by this point, the undead Nonulitho had reached him and clamped his massive jaws around the sasquatch's head.

Nemo rushed towards the fallen sasquatch, hoping to slit its throat and raise its corpse, but unfortunately, repeated punches from the sasquatches had caused its head to be crushed, making the body incapable of necromancy.

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Re: Cataclysm: Dwarf Days Ahead
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2016, 10:42:14 pm »

Nemo and his army continued to travel to the southeast, when suddenly, something felt off to him. Before he could realize what had happened, a giant black bear and a sasquatch combined were attacking him. Nemo drew his weapons for the sake of personal defence, but at the same time, this was to be an experiment. Nemo wanted to see how well his soldiers fought against their own living counterparts.

The giant black bear had charged the corpse of Tistashen, knocking him over, while at the same time sinking its massive teeth into his chest. But this proved to be useless- he felt no pain and could not bleed out a second time. Tistashen merely responded with a punch to the bear's lower body, which, unfortunately, was not powerful enough to do any real damage.

The bear bit Tistashen a second time, this time in the head, and tearing a tendon in the skull. Tistashen's corpse was unlikely to last much longer if the bear kept this up. Fortunately, the corpse of Nemo's second aswuatcn arrived, and threw a strong punch into the bear's guts, causing it to look suddenly nauseous.

The bear then bit Tistashen's corpse in his left foot, tearing through a ligament and a tendon. Unfortunately, Tistashen was not very strong in his lifetime, and likewise, his corpse was not muscular enough for his punches to do any real damage to a giant black bear.

The bear had bit Tistashen's body in the head again, ripping another tendon in the skull. But by this time, Nonulitho's corpse had arrived, and sank his teeth into the living bear's paw, latching on firmly.

Tistashen's corpse punched the bear in a different paw, and managed to find enough strength to bruise the muscle. The bear merely responded by biting into Tistashen's arm, severing a sensory nerve, a ligament, and a tendon.

Nemo's second sasquatch charged into the bear, only to get knocked backwards itself by the sheer bulk of the beast. Nonulitho scratched the bear's head with its claws and bit into the bear's upper body, shredding through muscle and even bruising it's liver, while the second sasquatch punched the bear's right front leg. The bear, stunned and bloody, responded with another bite, this time to Tistashen's left arm. The bear's ally, a living sasquatch, had already run away by this point, but Nemo had failed to notice, for he was too busy watching the battle unfold.

Nonulitho sank his teeth into the bear's leg, and this was finally enough pain for the beast to pass out. The punches of the sasquatches were now more powerful, even managing to fracture bone.

Watching his undead beasts pummel the unconscious body of the black bear, Nemo decided to end it quickly and slit the beast's throat.

Finally, the bear had bled to death. Nemo performed his necromancy and the bruised, bloodied body of Casenalanisi the giant black hear had stood up.

However, there was still a problem. The damage dealt to Tistashen's body, specifically his foot, meant that it was no longer capable of standing. Nemo was concerned over the damage dealt to Tistashen's arms as well. It seemed to still be capable of punching, as he had seen during the fight, however, he wasn't sure how much more damage they could take.

The Zombie Army now consists of two giant black bears with no major damage, one sasquatch with no major damage, and one sasquatch that has lost the ability to stand
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Re: Cataclysm: Dwarf Days Ahead
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2016, 10:43:43 pm »

I did intervene at the end of the fight to simply make the bear's death faster, however, actually knocking the bear unconscious was entirely the work of my undead army.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dwarf Days Ahead
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2016, 10:54:05 pm »

Travelling on, Nemo's army was ambushed by another sasquatch. Nemo's two giant black bears rushed forward, and one of them got a powerful bite into the sasquatch's right foot, ripping through a sensory nerve, ligament, and tendon. The sasquatch fell over, and was only able to punch at the bear's paw. This may have hurt it in life, but in death, Casenalanisi felt nothing. The sasquatch then scratched at the bear's leg, tearing through muscle, to which the bear responded by biting into the sasquatch's chest, its jaws managing to touch the sasquatch's heart.

Meanwhile, Nonulitho's corpse bit the sasquatch in the lower right leg, cutting through a motor nerve. The sasquatch was only able to respond with a feeble punch, after which one of Nemo's bears bit into its right hand, ripping through muscle, nerves, ligaments, and tendons. At last, the sasquatch collapsed from pain.

However, it had already had its leg badly damaged, and was likely unable to stand even when revived, so Nemo chose to let his beasts kill it. His beasts clawed and scratched away at the unconscious sasquatch's head, until finally, the injured part had been completely torn away from the rest of its head.

The Zombie Army still consist of two giant black bears, an undamaged sasquatch, and a sasquatch no longer able to stand
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Re: Cataclysm: Dwarf Days Ahead
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2016, 10:04:32 pm »

It was time to hunt.

With his forces, Eric went out in search of easy prey to kill and reanimate. He had found a travelling dwarf musician, whose throat he had easily slit.

But there was also larger and more dangerous prey. While travelling near a dwarven hillocks, he had discovered Yilomaltha, a giant wolf recruit. While he had broken the beast's upper spine in the ensuing duel, the corpse nonetheless rose without trouble.

He then encountered a pack of wild boars, travelling across the land. Eric had successfully bled out four of them, while his army had damaged several other corpses to the point of where they could not be raised.

After the fight, he had decided to kill and reanimate a random eagle, for no particular reason.

The Zombie Army consists of two sasquatches, one of whom cannot stand, four boars, an eagle, a dwarf, two giant black bears, and a giant wolf
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Re: Cataclysm: Dwarf Days Ahead
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2016, 10:42:45 pm »

It was time for the Zombie Army's first village raid.

Eric and his forces approached the town of Scrapewinters, preparing to sack the town. He had begun his attack by the town well, where he encountered a mason and a bookbinder, both human. It was just his luck that a group of goblin bandits had also been passing through the area. Nonulitho's corpse immediately bit into a goblin maceman's left lower arm, ripping through a ligament and tendon and rendering that arm useless. A second bite from Nonulitho completely severed the goblin's right hand. The goblin scratched Nonulitho's leg, but did nothing more than tear the muscle, to which Nonulitho's corpse responded with another powerful bite, this time rendering the goblin's left leg useless. But Nonulitho was not yet done mauling the goblin. He bit it again in the head, tearing a tendon, while the giant wolf's corpse bit the goblin's shoulder, completely tearing apart the injured section.

As this went on, some of his other forces began to attack the village residents. His boars and a saswuatch began attacking a hammerman, while causing little damage. After continued fighting, the goblin maceman was struck down after a sasquatch's punch caved its head in. The other goblin bandits soon fell, one after another.

While his army skaughtered the outdoor villagers, Eric went through houses to open doors and make sure his army killed as many as possible. Using his copper dagger, he quickly slit a farmer's throat from behind. The shocked farmer stumbled out the door, only to be attacked by the full zombie army. Bleeding to death relatively quickly, his corpse was reanimated for use in the zombie army. He then chased down, killed, and reanimated a retreating goblin bandit.

As he progressed throughout the town, he had his army strike down any villager he saw, and eventually, all of Scrapewinters fell to the horde.
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