capheind
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Post by capheind on Nov 28, 2012 22:43:23 GMT -6
After most of the bodies are buried in makeshift graves, and the fires most likely to attract unwanted attention are put out its clear, Octavia has broken.
Though the three remaining heros sought to make of these people friends and family, Octavias goal was to make of friends and family peers, something that can never happen now. She has setup house in one of the remaining homes, the former hut of her neighbors Boron and his wife Hilda, who's now missing daughter was her dearest friend growing up, and who was just one year from seeking the medlar herself.
The medlar, bruised and beaten, and smelling of cider and rot adorns her newly claimed kitchen table, almost forgotten in the carnage.
Our three remaining hero's still have a purpose, to make the creature pay for ruining their one chance at being part of something. The hole awaits as they gather and prepare.
So what are your pc's doing to prepare? what items do you want to take into the crater where the sacred hut used to be? I'm still hunting for some new players but they can drop in later.
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Post by thorswulf on Dec 3, 2012 12:25:51 GMT -6
poke is looking through the settlement for foodstuffs, backpacks, suitable weapons and the like.
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Baron
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Post by Baron on Dec 16, 2012 19:05:19 GMT -6
Roger looks for a carry-sack, rope, food, light-source, fire-starter, bandages, a knife -- the supplies of a well-equipped traveller.
He keeps up an undertone of quiet growling as he prepares, surveying the remains of the village.
OOC: Sorry for delayed post, the new thread caught me by surprise.
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rleduc
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Post by rleduc on Dec 17, 2012 14:25:43 GMT -6
Meat looks for the same things as Roger, although his blade from the metal man may suffice for the knife.
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Post by thorswulf on Dec 17, 2012 16:12:17 GMT -6
Depending on what is left standing, Poke will investigate the villages shrine, and meeting hall to see if anything is missing or has been taken.
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capheind
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Post by capheind on Dec 21, 2012 0:30:08 GMT -6
Roger is likely to find something he can use as a sack, fabric for bandages, and something he can use as a knife, the other characters likely so.
So meat has a chunk of a metal man that is ruffly knifelike, the other two have wedges of metal sharp enough to suffice as knives. You all have a couple of injuries worth of bandages, and something you can use as as a torch. The food is that which the village would have kept as staples, stale bread and gathered grains.
Ready to venture into the depths of the sublevel?
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Baron
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Post by Baron on Dec 21, 2012 12:40:58 GMT -6
"Let us take vengeance," growls Roger, eyes glowing, extra hands moving aimlessly. "I am ready."
He looks over the ruins of the village one last time, then turns away.
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Post by thorswulf on Dec 24, 2012 20:13:31 GMT -6
"Aye, Vengance!" Poke checks around with his telepathy to see if he can sense any surface thoughts before entering.
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capheind
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Post by capheind on Dec 25, 2012 21:25:57 GMT -6
poke doesn't sense anything below, simply the pain of the last dying thoughts of those they have all lost. The three of you venture down into the dark. The chamber immediately beneath the sacred hut is fairly large and circular, illuminated by dim flickering lights embedded in the cealing. The circular chamber walls are dusty but visibly glass, broken in places, and punctuated by doors here and there.
In the center of the chamber is a large planter, damaged on one side, and filled with palms like those you see from the villiage in the adjascent grasslands. Though dented the fixture just above the unusually pale plants still glows gently with the light of sunlight. Radiating out from the center are four troughs filled with water that flows down several steps ending in a small pool, the one near the opening in the center is damaged and gently pouring water all over the flooring.
You see small carp, like those in the river but pale and eyeless, in the other pools, feeding on the scattered material left from the destruction.
In the many windows hang signs in tongues you do not know, with depictions of men and women in many sorts of garb (or in cases almost no garb at all). Beyond the window you see rows of something you can't quite make out, and the occasional figure standing still as the grave.
THere is a trail of blood running to the edge of the circle and down a small hallway.
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Baron
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Post by Baron on Dec 25, 2012 21:28:18 GMT -6
Roger looks around, eyes goggling. When he notices the fish, he gurgles and pounces!
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rleduc
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Post by rleduc on Dec 28, 2012 14:47:37 GMT -6
Meat follows the trail of blood to the edge of the hallway to see what he can see in that direction. He is also interested in the still figures and will note any further details concerning them as he moves.
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Post by thorswulf on Dec 28, 2012 15:45:31 GMT -6
Poke will shadow meat and keep him covered as I too follow the blood trail. "I hope those aren't sacred fish...."
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Baron
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Post by Baron on Jan 3, 2013 17:00:50 GMT -6
Roger sits up in the pool, fish in his mouth, staring at Poke. He mumbles something, then swallows the fish and says, "If sacred fish, then I am blessed." He begins lumbering out of the pool, dripping water everywhere.
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capheind
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Post by capheind on Jan 4, 2013 1:42:49 GMT -6
The dimly lit corridor runs for 25 ft and dead-ends into a T-junction. The wall facing toward the corridor has a single large panel that alternates between a static pattern and words in the old tongue with arrows pointing down the two hallways. None of you are literate in the old tongue, only a select few of the villagers were. The blood trail continues to the left, although the lights are out in that corridor.
You can hear rustling sounds back near the pond and the entrance, the sound of stumbling footfalls.
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Baron
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Post by Baron on Jan 4, 2013 11:53:18 GMT -6
"Hm," grumbles Roger. "We should see who comes after us, before going into danger. No?" He looks ahead, then behind, as if weighing the choices.
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Post by thorswulf on Jan 4, 2013 18:04:33 GMT -6
Poke tries to mentally detect whatever is coming toward us. He readies his weapon and tries to grab as much cover as he can.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2013 21:13:39 GMT -6
Rage so intense that it makes the hair stand up on Poke's neck.
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Baron
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Post by Baron on Jan 5, 2013 21:22:41 GMT -6
Roger, getting worried, readies his weapon but attempts to throw up an illusory wall between the party and whatever is coming behind them (from the village?!). "Be still and it won't see us," he mutters quietly to his comrades, putting his back against a wall.
OOC: If it's not clear what his intention is, please let me know? Thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2013 12:57:57 GMT -6
It is not clear.
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capheind
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Post by capheind on Jan 7, 2013 2:31:32 GMT -6
Currently you cannot tell intentions, just that something is walking towards the hallway, and poke seems a bit stunned.
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Baron
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Post by Baron on Jan 7, 2013 12:29:29 GMT -6
Roger, getting worried, readies his weapon but attempts to throw up an illusory wall between the party and whatever is coming behind them (from the village?!). "Be still and it won't see us," he mutters quietly to his comrades, putting his back against a wall. OOC: If it's not clear what his intention is, please let me know? Thanks!I meant that if it's not clear to the GM and players what I mean by my post above, explaining where the illusion is placed, please let me know. My intentions for the illusion. It conceals the existence of the corridor we're in, if you're in the main room looking around. I tried making an ascii map but it didn't lay out correctly, so I deleted it.
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capheind
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Post by capheind on Jan 8, 2013 23:39:06 GMT -6
oh no problem.
Robert walks from the fountain below the sacred hut and finds the trail of blood, presumably left by the monster that destroyed his village, ends at a wall at the perimeter of the circular space.
Poke and Meat are slightly stunned to see a wall appear at the end of the hall, enclosing them.
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Baron
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Post by Baron on Jan 9, 2013 9:57:26 GMT -6
Roger waits tensely to find out what the newcomer will do. Should violence and monstrous behavior not immediately ensue, it is likely that Roger will drop the illusion after a bit for interaction.
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rleduc
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Post by rleduc on Jan 9, 2013 12:25:02 GMT -6
Meat uses 'mental transparency' to render himself essentially invisible and takes up a position against a wall; if he's smart enough to know where the entry door was [covered by Roger's illusion], he'll be on the wall next to that. If not, he goes to a spot that is not in line with any door (to avoid being hit by a missile weapon through a door way).
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capheind
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Post by capheind on Jan 19, 2013 0:04:06 GMT -6
Its not really a door just a corridore that opens to the area you first entered. Meat moves as close to the new wall as possible without permeating Rodgers illusion. Sirravd is the green dot, you guys are the magenta dot.
For those posting in the PC generation thread you will be introduced as the adventure plays out. My new work schedule will hopefully be conductive to more reliable posting on my part.
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capheind
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Post by capheind on Mar 5, 2013 23:24:43 GMT -6
Poke slowly begins to sense something beneath the rage, loss, sadness, the same shattered mind that he sensed in Octavia above, but those shards have been reworked into something direct, angry, and hostile... but not at Poke, the feelings are directed at the trail, and whatever lay at its end.
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Post by thorswulf on Mar 6, 2013 9:00:28 GMT -6
"Hold it." Poke lowers his weapons, and indicates the others should do the same. "Whatever it is, it belongs to the village, or is a friend of the village."
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rleduc
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Post by rleduc on Mar 6, 2013 14:23:16 GMT -6
Meat lets out a breath and lowers his blade. "Who's out there?" he calls out, "We're friends to this ground."
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Baron
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Post by Baron on Mar 6, 2013 15:43:12 GMT -6
Roger, sighing deeply, allows his illusion to drop. He looks eagerly to see what has followed them down here.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 21:01:00 GMT -6
A disheveled man, covered in dried blood. He shouts incoherently, and raises his hands.
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