Kintobor Posted September 26, 2015 Posted September 26, 2015 Annienal makes her way steadily down the building, trying not to fall. She seems to be the last to make it to the ground. "Um, I actually have a question. Not all of us were present when Dr. U'Reeka apparently died, and now I'm hearing of this woman named Selenrae. Can some of us get a brief overview of what happened? I got the Moon Elves, and magic, and Nu Mercution, but it seems like I'm missing something..."
Emjajoas Posted September 26, 2015 Posted September 26, 2015 Mortimer nods, thinking to himself for a moment. "A while back there was an underground village-- Zylstra, if I'm remembering right. Residents started going missing. Turns out shades were kidnapping them, possessing them. U'Reeka let them loose accidentally after finding some sort of machine in some sort of Forge... Experiments went wrong or something. I didn't understand it, I don't remember the details." He shakes his head, sighing. "Selerae was... One of the shades. The biggest one. Claimed she was some sort of spawn of the Moon Elves. I saw her mind, or... I think I did. She wanted vengeance. It was... messy. The Crimson Crown showed up and we ended up killing Selenrae and U'Reeka. I saw Hybros slit U'Reeka's throat with my own two eyes--" He pauses for a moment, sighing again and thumbing underneath both eyes. "I'm not sure what else to say. It's been a while. Perhaps Avina can explain better than I."
Mencot Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 (edited) Ooc: Busy weekend. He shakes his head, sighing. "Selerae was... One of the shades. The biggest one. Claimed she was some sort of spawn of the Moon Elves. I saw her mind, or... I think I did. She wanted vengeance. It was... messy. The Crimson Crown showed up and we ended up killing Selenrae and U'Reeka. I saw Hybros slit U'Reeka's throat with my own two eyes--" He pauses for a moment, sighing again and thumbing underneath both eyes. "I'm not sure what else to say. It's been a while. Perhaps Avina can explain better than I." Keliim could feel the darkness creeping over his body just of listening to Mortimers story of the shadows, thinking about it made him reconsider would it be wise, in his condition to visit a place that was once possessed by darkness or something. "But maybe it was time to face his demons!" the big man kept thinking. "One wouldst think someone ist pretty much dead if gets his throat slit and blown up!" keliim comments, turning to speak to Avina "thou knowst if someone, somebody else hast been down there after thy, this encounter?" Edited September 27, 2015 by Mencot
Scubacarrot Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 "Necromancy, copycats, clones, this Hybros is exceptionally bad at slitting throats. All possibilities, but nothing that will help us much, heh."
Mencot Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 Hmm, aye true. But whoever it ist, it took th' wron' group to mess with. The big man looks at all the rest in the party. Lets think 'bout this, we donts habt much to go on, right. Our leads brough' us to Chalvo, he ist gone, was not much of help any way. Only that he hast past experience with heroes an' inventing automatons an' other high tech stuff. We knowst, or presume that th' robots art after heroes, Heroica. Someone hast a grudge! Buhuu! We couldst go to this "Nu" place were this U'reeka wast kill'd or find on' of th' automaton squads an' follow them to see were they go! They gotta return "home" sometime. The big man says, shruggs and makes a gesture with his hand.
Scubacarrot Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 "Yeah right, Keliim. Like you are sneaky enough to follow a group of automatons without being detected."
Kintobor Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 Mortimer nods, thinking to himself for a moment. "A while back there was an underground village-- Zylstra, if I'm remembering right. Residents started going missing. Turns out shades were kidnapping them, possessing them. U'Reeka let them loose accidentally after finding some sort of machine in some sort of Forge... Experiments went wrong or something. I didn't understand it, I don't remember the details." He shakes his head, sighing. "Selerae was... One of the shades. The biggest one. Claimed she was some sort of spawn of the Moon Elves. I saw her mind, or... I think I did. She wanted vengeance. It was... messy. The Crimson Crown showed up and we ended up killing Selenrae and U'Reeka. I saw Hybros slit U'Reeka's throat with my own two eyes--" He pauses for a moment, sighing again and thumbing underneath both eyes. "I'm not sure what else to say. It's been a while. Perhaps Avina can explain better than I." "Okay, yeah, um... are we sure returning to this place is a good idea? I'm hoping we have rope or something to climb down at least? I, um... don't really like the idea of being possessed... at all." Annienal whimpers. We couldst go to this "Nu" place were this U'reeka wast kill'd or find on' of th' automaton squads an' follow them to see were they go! They gotta return "home" sometime. The big man says, shruggs and makes a gesture with his hand. "Considering they apparently disappear very quickly and no one knows where they come from, I doubt that's going to be easy. That and I doubt myself, Mortimer, or you, Kellim could keep up with them in the armour we use."
CMP Posted September 27, 2015 Author Posted September 27, 2015 His voice trails off as he opens his eye, hooking his thumbs on his belt as he strode forward, mouth pinched into a thin line. "If U'Reeka survived, I can only fear Selenrae did the same." "We killed those things for a reason. It looks like we may have the chance to do it again." "Um, I actually have a question. Not all of us were present when Dr. U'Reeka apparently died, and now I'm hearing of this woman named Selenrae. Can some of us get a brief overview of what happened? I got the Moon Elves, and magic, and Nu Mercution, but it seems like I'm missing something..." "A while back there was an underground village-- Zylstra, if I'm remembering right. Residents started going missing. Turns out shades were kidnapping them, possessing them. U'Reeka let them loose accidentally after finding some sort of machine in some sort of Forge... Experiments went wrong or something. I didn't understand it, I don't remember the details." He shakes his head, sighing. "Selerae was... One of the shades. The biggest one. Claimed she was some sort of spawn of the Moon Elves. I saw her mind, or... I think I did. She wanted vengeance. It was... messy. The Crimson Crown showed up and we ended up killing Selenrae and U'Reeka. I saw Hybros slit U'Reeka's throat with my own two eyes--" He pauses for a moment, sighing again and thumbing underneath both eyes. "I'm not sure what else to say. It's been a while. Perhaps Avina can explain better than I." "Those are all the parts you need to know. U'Reeka was messing about trying to fuse his technology with Moon Elf magic. The result was a race of abominations. We wiped them out...or so I thought. We made sure of it." Avina's typical zeal was mingled with worry for once. "The machine, U'Reeka, those monsters - we destroyed everything that was down there. What could he have possibly....damn all of it..." The alchemist rubbed her temple through her mask, and finally managed to dig U'Reeka's file out of her cloak. "One wouldst think someone ist pretty much dead if gets his throat slit and blown up!" keliim comments, turning to speak to Avina "thou knowst if someone, somebody else hast been down there after thy, this encounter?" "The part of Nu Mercution where this all took place was inside a tower...the Iron Spire. When the heroes went inside, the shades sabotaged the tower, and it broke off its foundations, sinking deep underground...very deep. The entrance they originally used doesn't even exist anymore, our agents had to blow open a new entrance that we sealed as soon as we got out." Lets think 'bout this, we donts habt much to go on, right. Our leads brough' us to Chalvo, he ist gone, was not much of help any way. Only that he hast past experience with heroes an' inventing automatons an' other high tech stuff. We knowst, or presume that th' robots art after heroes, Heroica. Someone hast a grudge! Buhuu! We couldst go to this "Nu" place were this U'reeka wast kill'd or find on' of th' automaton squads an' follow them to see were they go! They gotta return "home" sometime. The big man says, shruggs and makes a gesture with his hand. "Maybe....Nu Mercution is an extensive network of ruins, spreading all underneath Uland....the Iron Spire is broken, but...perhaps that's how they've getting around." "Yeah right, Keliim. Like you are sneaky enough to follow a group of automatons without being detected." "If they're in the Spire, we're walking right into them. But there aren't any other entrances." "Okay, yeah, um... are we sure returning to this place is a good idea? I'm hoping we have rope or something to climb down at least? I, um... don't really like the idea of being possessed... at all." Annienal whimpers. "Yes, I typically prefer to have the tactical advantage in these sorts of situations....I suppose a group of heroes is a reasonable substitute for that." The heroes followed Avina (and Mortimer, for the path was reasonably familiar to him as well) out of the city and up the northmost road. After a short distance, they went off the path and into a small thicket of trees. The Crimson Crown agent pulled back a peculiar pile of underbrush against a large hill, revealing.... A sealed metal doorway, with a flickering, observant light filtering in through some sort of lens embedded at head-level. "This....isn't....this isn't what it looked like at all last time. What the hell is this thing?"
Emjajoas Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 Mortimer's brow creases with worry. "What is that?" he echoes. He inspects the door without getting too close, hand straying towards his handcannon. "I'd hazard to say we're on the right track, but..."
Kintobor Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 Annienal, nervous being out in the dark with a mob of robots after them, turns around and keeps watch for anything suspicious.
Mencot Posted September 28, 2015 Posted September 28, 2015 "Yeah right, Keliim. Like you are sneaky enough to follow a group of automatons without being detected." Keliim laughs a bit at calamitys remark "Aye, it be no alwayst too easy to hide all this." He makes a gesture from top to toe. The heroes followed Avina (and Mortimer, for the path was reasonably familiar to him as well) out of the city and up the northmost road. After a short distance, they went off the path and into a small thicket of trees. The Crimson Crown agent pulled back a peculiar pile of underbrush against a large hill, revealing.... A sealed metal doorway, with a flickering, observant light filtering in through some sort of lens embedded at head-level. Keliim grabs is axe and also takes a defensive postition when he sees the doorway with the strange light, guessing something could be going down soon. He try to keep his distance to the light and lets Avina and Mortimer search the doorway. "Be carefult not tae get in th' light an' 'at lens thin'."
Mencot Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 While Mortimer was inspecting the door, Keliim moved silently closer to Avina and whispered, "So what happen'd to th' body of t'is U'Kin, did thy just leave it down there or what?"
CMP Posted September 29, 2015 Author Posted September 29, 2015 Mortimer's brow creases with worry. "What is that?" he echoes. He inspects the door without getting too close, hand straying towards his handcannon. "I'd hazard to say we're on the right track, but..." The door looks to be very securely sealed. Breaking their way in doesn't seem like a possibility. The light flickers, a narrow beam of light sliding back and for across Mortimer, but it doesn't seem to do anything. "Seems like it's looking for something." Annienal, nervous being out in the dark with a mob of robots after them, turns around and keeps watch for anything suspicious. Nothing suspicious seemed to be waiting for the heroes. It was quite disturbingly quiet in the thicket of trees as the moon slowly rose over Uland. While Mortimer was inspecting the door, Keliim moved silently closer to Avina and whispered, "So what happen'd to th' body of t'is U'Kin, did thy just leave it down there or what?" "I believe it got buried by the people of Zylstra. We should've burned it..."
Emjajoas Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 The door looks to be very securely sealed. Breaking their way in doesn't seem like a possibility. The light flickers, a narrow beam of light sliding back and for across Mortimer, but it doesn't seem to do anything. "What about one of those Depleted Ether Cores?" Mortimer asks, glancing at the party. "You wanna see if it recognizes those?"
CMP Posted September 29, 2015 Author Posted September 29, 2015 "What about one of those Depleted Ether Cores?" Mortimer asks, glancing at the party. "You wanna see if it recognizes those?" "Hm. That'd make sense. If may be looking for an automaton...hopefully part of one will suffice." Party Mortimer "Em" Mahzan (Emjajoas) Unknown age human male Warden *Immune to Electricity, Fire, Water, and Ice* *Half damage from elemental attacks* *Party Leader* Level 26 Power Bonus: 6 Defense: 29 Health: 47/47 Gold: 339 Equipment: Tritech Handcannon (WP:16, permanent poisoned 17, cursed), Vigilant (SP 12, halved damage from elemental attacks, immune to Electricity, Fire, and Water; shield), Iron Knuckle Armour (Body, foot, and hand wear. Counts as one artefact. Usable by knights and dragoons. SP: 10. Cannot be removed by enemies), Anniversary Medal (Artefact/Accessory, Power +4, SP +4, Max. Health +4, Max. Ether +4. The values will increase by 1 with each passing year), Frost Helm (SP: 3, immune to ice, suitable for anyone, headwear) Inventory: Weapons: Blazing Bow (WP: 14, Fire-elemental), Doppelganger (WP:10, Retribution: The user inflicts any negative effects he or she has on the target enemy on successful hits; longsword), Balanced Main-Gauce (WP: 10, Riposte has a 1/6 chance of instantly killing the/each target, dagger, suitable only for marauders), Crescent Shield (SP: 5, halved damage from elemental attacks, shield), Carpenter's Gloves (Enhancement is automatically successful, traps deal double damage, handwear, suitable for artisans), Flash Cannon (WP: 10, has a 1/2 chance of dealing the blinded-effect, light-elemental handcannon) Consumables: Health Core x3, Remedy, Mead, Venom, Phoenix Essence, Ambrosia (4), Mulled Wine (2), Feather of Flight (Allows the user to flee from the battle when used.), Nostrum, Smelling Salts, Elixir, Bone, Smoke Bomb (5), Floral Bomb (2), Ice Bomb (2), Lightning Bomb, Fire Bomb, Water Bomb (2), Holy Bomb (2), Dirt Bomb (2), Air Bomb (2), Chaotic Bomb (100 random elemental damage to all opponents) Misc: Bedroll (2), Shovel, Pickaxe, Telescope, Reaper's Heart, Mythril Shard (1), Amethyst, 5 Silver Ore (Worth 60 gold), Oath of Renewal (When the targeted enemy is killed, the Vindicator regains full health. Oath, suitable for vindicators), Lover's Lyrics (Minstrel's Battle Song; deal the enamored-effect to all enemies at the cost of 1 ether per affected enemy.) Annienal Anavir (Kintobor) "19" year old elven female Mystic Knight *Bonaparte Reputation* *Immunity to Earth and Fragile* *Takes half damage from elemental attacks* Level 17.5 Power Bonus: 0 Defense: 13 Health: 32/32 Ether: 6/21 Gold: 40 Equipment: Bonaparte Cutlass (WP:9, doubled if the user has reputation among the Bonapartes; longsword), Crescent Shield (SP: 8, Halved Damage from elemental attacks; shield), Heavy Armour (SP: 5, immunity to fragile, body wear, suitable for barbarians, knights, dragoons, skirmishers, regulators, and vindicators), Locustoid Greaves (Max Ether +4, immune to Earth, suitable to ether users, footwear) Inventory: Ammit (WP: 6; greatsword, user gains 5 ether for every kill), Anointed Gladius (WP: 8, deals damage undead; great sword), Sanctified Rito Longsword (WP: 4, Hits doubled against flying enemies, longsword), Training Sword (WP:4), Shark’s Tooth (Power increased by 5 against Aquatics, Accessory), Tridentian Cape (Max Ether +3; protects from Blinded effect; suitable for mages, clerics, necromancers and scholars; backwear), Lethauros Fellwings (SP: 3, wearer is immune to Sudden Death, backwear), Tobacco Pouch (1/2 Chance of Blinding with attacks, accessory), Helmet (Max Health +1, headwear), Pauldrons (SP: 2, suitable for knights, dragoons, and skirmishers; accessory), Plain Shield (SP: 5), Lethauros Mask (SP: 2, wearer deals double damage to Beasts and Vermin, headwear, suitable to everyone) Emerald (Wood), Sapphire (Wind), Aquamarine (Water), Amethyst (Darkness), Topaz (Lightning), Mythril Shard Consumables: 2x Potions, Grand Potion, Phoenix Essence, 4x Remedies, Mead, Venom, Smoke Bomb, Fire Bomb, Bedroll, Shovel, Telescope, Pickaxe, Grand Tonic, 4 Depleted Ether Cores (Restores half the user's max ether) Scrolls: Scroll of Fire Warding (1/2 chance to make the target immune to fire for the duration of one battle at the cost of 1 ether), Scroll of Ice Warding (1/2 chance to make the target immune to ice for the duration of one battle at the cost of 1 ether), Scroll of Water Warding (1/2 chance to make the target immune to water for the duration of one battle at the cost of 1 ether), Scroll of Wood Warding (1/2 chance to make the target immune to wood for the duration of one battle at the cost of 1 ether), Lapis Lamp of Summoning (Summons the djinn Mayrene to conjure an Ethereal Barrier around the target at the cost of 5 ether, giving them a 50/50 chance to avoid Damage, Free Hits, and Special Damage. The barrier dissipates when the target takes damage from any source.) Calamity (Scubacarrot) 24 year old human Mage Level 9 Power bonus: 2 (spell) Health: 13/13 Ether: 8/13 Gold: 116 Equipment: Renegade’s Crook (WP: 10, successful healing also poisons the target’s weapon by 3, staff), Gold skin Gloves (Spell power +2, Usable by mages, Handwear) Inventory: Bedroll, 6x Potion, 2x Tonic,4x Remedy, Scroll of Blindness (Enables casting the Blinded-effect to the target, making it unable to use a physical attack for the next three rounds. Each casting has a 50/50 chance of success and costs 1 ether.), Amethyst, Skull-Topped Staff (WP: 3, staff) Keliim (Mencot) 35 years old male human Barbarian *Encouraged* Level 11.5 Power Bonus: 0 Health: 18/18 Defense: 2 (doubled against free hits) Gold: 42 Equipment: Dwarven Orichalcum Axe (WP: 5), Heroic Helm (Headwear, SP:2, Helm's SP doubles on free hits) Inventory: Order Imperial Longsword (WP: 5),Really Hard Helmet (SP: 2, Immunity to Rock), Королева's Blessing (When equipped the player gains the ability to Animal Speak to Spiders only, and all spiders are Enamored with him for the first three rounds of battle, accessory), Scarab Shield (SP3 Shield, bearer takes half damage from vermin), Wolfish Fedora (+5 WP for each standing hero with Wolfgang reputation and Wolfgang NPC in the party, headwear, suitable for heroes with Wolfgang reputation) Consumables: x9 Potion, Grand Potion, Mead, 1X Smelling salt, 2X Smoke Bomb, 1X Poison, 1X Dirt Bomb, Demeter Bomb (Deals 100 wood-elemental damage to all opponents when used.), 5 Holy Bombs, Double Rainbow (Gives the user the encouraged, lucky, poisoned by 1, and confused effects.) Misc: Shovel, 2X Obsidian Shard: may be affixed to a blunt weapon to give the Bleeding 2 effect for one battle. 2X Charion beetle horn. 1 X Crystal Shard(treasure item, worth 20 gold) Avina Truenal, Crimson Crown Alchemaster 36 years old female human Alchemist (NPC, controlled by Emjajoas) *Immune to Cursed, Jinxed, Hexed, Transcended, and Blessed* Level 16 Power Bonus: 0 Health: 30/35 Gold: 40 Equipment: Zeta and Sigma (WP: 13, dual strike, daggers), Leather Gloves (For Mixture, the die is rolled three times instead of twice, and the highest two results determine the created item; suitable to alchemists; handwear), Masque (Immune to cursed, jinxed, hexed, transcended and blessed, accessory, suitable to members of the Order of the Crimson Crown) Inventory: Hyper Arc Tonic, 2 Gold Bars, Diluted Arc Tonic, 3 Depleted Ether Cores (Restores half the user's max ether), 6 Holy Bombs
Emjajoas Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 Mortimer knocks back an Ambrosia and hands Calamity a Mulled Wine. "That should help keep you from going down," he nods. "If the rest of you think you need some consumables, let me know. We've no idea what's behind that door. When you're all ready, let's go."
Kintobor Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 "Hm. That'd make sense. If may be looking for an automaton...hopefully part of one will suffice." "I hope so too, I don't really want to looking for those things at this hour of night." Annienal hands Mortimer a Depleted Ether Core before using her Grand Tonic and a Mead, still anything but thrilled to be going into the old ruins. Poking around her bag, Annienal managed to find something in it that wasn't there before. Henry Award - (Can be sold for 200 Gold or to give +1 HP or +1 Power to a character, Consumable, Soul-bound) Annienal immediately shoves the award back into her bag, keeping the 200 gold for herself. "I'm, um... ready... I guess."
Mencot Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 Keliim changes the Hard Helm to the Wolfish Fedora as he prepares for what await on the otherside of the door. "Aye, try th't."
CMP Posted September 30, 2015 Author Posted September 30, 2015 Fully prepared, the party waves one of their many Ether Cores before the sealed door of the tunnel. The light flickers and turns blue, and the metal doors clink and clunk as they slide open, revealing an intense darkness. With no way to go but forward, they ventured into the deep, meandering tunnel.... Minutes passed with no visible movement, nor sound before eachother's on-edge breathing as the seemingly endless tunnel just went on and on. Slowly, the churning hum of what sounded like a Vibrataphone - a proper one, assumedly - became apparent to them, mimicking the slow, but heightening tune of a violin. Finally, a dim red light ahead beckoned them onward, silhouetting a tall figure sharply against the light, working tirelessly on some sort of workbench. The air was stale and very cold. Before the party could get their act together, Avina quickly took the initiative, though even she didn't sound very pleased by the decidedly unfriendly atmosphere. "Eubric Knight, your machinations are at an end. Quite literally if I say so myself. Surrender yourself and your execution will be as swift as it was before, U'Reeka." A few spare moments passed, and then the figure tapped two more buttons. First the at this point frantic and dramatic violin tune ceased. Second, an immense, unearthly light shone down just in front of the workbench, highlighting a few key details of the room as the figure turned - and then stepped off of a small footstool. The gnomish child regarded the heroes quietly. "You look like you were expecting a ghost." Party Mortimer "Em" Mahzan (Emjajoas) Unknown age human male Warden *Immune to Electricity, Fire, Water, and Ice* *Half damage from elemental attacks* *Party Leader* *Reinforced* Level 26 Power Bonus: 6 Defense: 29 56 Health: 47/47 Gold: 339 Equipment: Tritech Handcannon (WP:16, permanent poisoned 17, cursed), Vigilant (SP 12, halved damage from elemental attacks, immune to Electricity, Fire, and Water; shield), Iron Knuckle Armour (Body, foot, and hand wear. Counts as one artefact. Usable by knights and dragoons. SP: 10. Cannot be removed by enemies), Anniversary Medal (Artefact/Accessory, Power +4, SP +4, Max. Health +4, Max. Ether +4. The values will increase by 1 with each passing year), Frost Helm (SP: 3, immune to ice, suitable for anyone, headwear) Inventory: Weapons: Blazing Bow (WP: 14, Fire-elemental), Doppelganger (WP:10, Retribution: The user inflicts any negative effects he or she has on the target enemy on successful hits; longsword), Balanced Main-Gauce (WP: 10, Riposte has a 1/6 chance of instantly killing the/each target, dagger, suitable only for marauders), Crescent Shield (SP: 5, halved damage from elemental attacks, shield), Carpenter's Gloves (Enhancement is automatically successful, traps deal double damage, handwear, suitable for artisans), Flash Cannon (WP: 10, has a 1/2 chance of dealing the blinded-effect, light-elemental handcannon) Consumables: Health Core x3, Remedy, Mead, Venom, Phoenix Essence, Ambrosia (3), Mulled Wine, Feather of Flight (Allows the user to flee from the battle when used.), Nostrum, Smelling Salts, Elixir, Bone, Smoke Bomb (5), Floral Bomb (2), Ice Bomb (2), Lightning Bomb, Fire Bomb, Water Bomb (2), Holy Bomb (2), Dirt Bomb (2), Air Bomb (2), Chaotic Bomb (100 random elemental damage to all opponents) Misc: Bedroll (2), Shovel, Pickaxe, Telescope, Reaper's Heart, Mythril Shard (1), Amethyst, 5 Silver Ore (Worth 60 gold), Oath of Renewal (When the targeted enemy is killed, the Vindicator regains full health. Oath, suitable for vindicators), Lover's Lyrics (Minstrel's Battle Song; deal the enamored-effect to all enemies at the cost of 1 ether per affected enemy.) Annienal Anavir (Kintobor) "19" year old elven female Mystic Knight *Bonaparte Reputation* *Immunity to Earth and Fragile* *Takes half damage from elemental attacks* *Encouraged* Level 17.5 Power Bonus: 0 Defense: 13 Health: 32/32 Ether: 21/21 Gold: 240 Equipment: Bonaparte Cutlass (WP:9, doubled if the user has reputation among the Bonapartes; longsword), Crescent Shield (SP: 8, Halved Damage from elemental attacks; shield), Heavy Armour (SP: 5, immunity to fragile, body wear, suitable for barbarians, knights, dragoons, skirmishers, regulators, and vindicators), Locustoid Greaves (Max Ether +4, immune to Earth, suitable to ether users, footwear) Inventory: Ammit (WP: 6; greatsword, user gains 5 ether for every kill), Anointed Gladius (WP: 8, deals damage undead; great sword), Sanctified Rito Longsword (WP: 4, Hits doubled against flying enemies, longsword), Training Sword (WP:4), Shark’s Tooth (Power increased by 5 against Aquatics, Accessory), Tridentian Cape (Max Ether +3; protects from Blinded effect; suitable for mages, clerics, necromancers and scholars; backwear), Lethauros Fellwings (SP: 3, wearer is immune to Sudden Death, backwear), Tobacco Pouch (1/2 Chance of Blinding with attacks, accessory), Helmet (Max Health +1, headwear), Pauldrons (SP: 2, suitable for knights, dragoons, and skirmishers; accessory), Plain Shield (SP: 5), Lethauros Mask (SP: 2, wearer deals double damage to Beasts and Vermin, headwear, suitable to everyone) Emerald (Wood), Sapphire (Wind), Aquamarine (Water), Amethyst (Darkness), Topaz (Lightning), Mythril Shard Consumables: 2x Potions, Grand Potion, Phoenix Essence, 4x Remedies, Venom, Smoke Bomb, Fire Bomb, Bedroll, Shovel, Telescope, Pickaxe, 4 Depleted Ether Cores (Restores half the user's max ether) Scrolls: Scroll of Fire Warding (1/2 chance to make the target immune to fire for the duration of one battle at the cost of 1 ether), Scroll of Ice Warding (1/2 chance to make the target immune to ice for the duration of one battle at the cost of 1 ether), Scroll of Water Warding (1/2 chance to make the target immune to water for the duration of one battle at the cost of 1 ether), Scroll of Wood Warding (1/2 chance to make the target immune to wood for the duration of one battle at the cost of 1 ether), Lapis Lamp of Summoning (Summons the djinn Mayrene to conjure an Ethereal Barrier around the target at the cost of 5 ether, giving them a 50/50 chance to avoid Damage, Free Hits, and Special Damage. The barrier dissipates when the target takes damage from any source.) Calamity (Scubacarrot) *Inspired* 24 year old human Mage Level 9 Power bonus: 2 (spell) Health: 13/13 26/26 Ether: 8/13 Gold: 116 Equipment: Renegade’s Crook (WP: 10, successful healing also poisons the target’s weapon by 3, staff), Gold skin Gloves (Spell power +2, Usable by mages, Handwear) Inventory: Bedroll, 6x Potion, 2x Tonic,4x Remedy, Scroll of Blindness (Enables casting the Blinded-effect to the target, making it unable to use a physical attack for the next three rounds. Each casting has a 50/50 chance of success and costs 1 ether.), Amethyst, Skull-Topped Staff (WP: 3, staff) Keliim (Mencot) 35 years old male human Barbarian *Encouraged* Level 11.5 Power Bonus: (+5 WP for each hero with Wolfgang rep: x4) Health: 18/18 Defense: 0 Gold: 42 Equipment: Dwarven Orichalcum Axe (WP: 5), Wolfish Fedora (+5 WP for each standing hero with Wolfgang reputation and Wolfgang NPC in the party, headwear, suitable for heroes with Wolfgang reputation) Inventory: Order Imperial Longsword (WP: 5),Really Hard Helmet (SP: 2, Immunity to Rock), Королева's Blessing (When equipped the player gains the ability to Animal Speak to Spiders only, and all spiders are Enamored with him for the first three rounds of battle, accessory), Scarab Shield (SP3 Shield, bearer takes half damage from vermin), Heroic Helm (Headwear, SP:2, Helm's SP doubles on free hits) Consumables: x9 Potion, Grand Potion, Mead, 1X Smelling salt, 2X Smoke Bomb, 1X Poison, 1X Dirt Bomb, Demeter Bomb (Deals 100 wood-elemental damage to all opponents when used.), 5 Holy Bombs, Double Rainbow (Gives the user the encouraged, lucky, poisoned by 1, and confused effects.) Misc: Shovel, 2X Obsidian Shard: may be affixed to a blunt weapon to give the Bleeding 2 effect for one battle. 2X Charion beetle horn. 1 X Crystal Shard(treasure item, worth 20 gold) Avina Truenal, Crimson Crown Alchemaster 36 years old female human Alchemist (NPC, controlled by Emjajoas) *Immune to Cursed, Jinxed, Hexed, Transcended, and Blessed* Level 16 Power Bonus: 0 Health: 30/35 Gold: 40 Equipment: Zeta and Sigma (WP: 13, dual strike, daggers), Leather Gloves (For Mixture, the die is rolled three times instead of twice, and the highest two results determine the created item; suitable to alchemists; handwear), Masque (Immune to cursed, jinxed, hexed, transcended and blessed, accessory, suitable to members of the Order of the Crimson Crown) Inventory: Hyper Arc Tonic, 2 Gold Bars, Diluted Arc Tonic, 3 Depleted Ether Cores (Restores half the user's max ether), 6 Holy Bombs
Mencot Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 (edited) The big man try to look at the person standing in front of them but the powerful light blended his eyes. When his eyes got use to it, he could see it was a really, really small person standing in front of them, "th's person, ist what hast been causin' all th's trouble." He thought to himself but then he figured something, he turned and asked Avina and Mortimer. "Th's be one of the villagers whom burried U'reeka?" He uses the smelling Salt, he has. Edited September 30, 2015 by Mencot
Emjajoas Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 (edited) "As I feared..." Mortimer sighs, the pain in his voice clear. He closes his eyes, rubbing them, shoulders sagging. He looks away from the 'Eubric Knight,' unable to meet his gaze. "I really haven't changed, have I?" he mutters, shuffling his feet, mouth pulled into a thin, angry line. "You didn't know, did you, Avina?" For a long, silent moment he stands there, hands balling into fists, shoulders tensing and rising. Finally he raises his eye, cold-steel gaze boring straight into the gnome child-- "I'm sorry, Wally. I really am. Sorry for what I did, sorry for what I'm going to do." Edited September 30, 2015 by Emjajoas
Scubacarrot Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 "Surely you do not expect to us to fight a child. What exactly is going on here?!" Calamity demanded.
Mencot Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 Keliim stops when he hears Mortimer say "Child", he turns to Em and says, "A child, whats art thou talki' 'bout?" He try to focus on the figure in the distence but the bright lights hurt his eyes too much to get a clear image of him. But he could see that he looked young. "Whit ist thes shit, I am not gonst to fight a child! Who ist that? Ist he one of U´reekas followers?" The big man shakes his head, almost losing grip of his axe.
Kintobor Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 Noticing Mortimer begin to lose it, Annienal lowers her sword and shield. It seemed the two had a history, one that was probably going to end in sorrow. She felt a nasty wave of unease wash over her, unsure of what lay in the darkness. "Wally, was it? I'm unfamiliar with the situation at hand, so it'd be helpful if you could explain why you're, um, here, and what it is you're doing." Annienal asks Wally in a diplomatic tone.
CMP Posted September 30, 2015 Author Posted September 30, 2015 The big man try to look at the person standing in front of them but the powerful light blended his eyes. When his eyes got use to it, he could see it was a really, really small person standing in front of them, "th's person, ist what hast been causin' all th's trouble." He thought to himself but then he figured something, he turned and asked Avina and Mortimer. "Th's be one of the villagers whom burried U'reeka?" "I'm not quite...wait..." "I came from Zylsta, yes. I was U'Reeka's apprentice." "I really haven't changed, have I?" he mutters, shuffling his feet, mouth pulled into a thin, angry line. "You didn't know, did you, Avina?" For a long, silent moment he stands there, hands balling into fists, shoulders tensing and rising. Finally he raises his eye, cold-steel gaze boring straight into the gnome child-- "I'm sorry, Wally. I really am. Sorry for what I did, sorry for what I'm going to do." "What?! No! Of course not! How was I to- we don't even have a file on this kid!" Mortimer's gaze only reflected and distorted on Wally's goggles. "And I'm sorry it's come to this. But somebody needed to step up. Somebody needed to offer a better solution, to see the corruption in your ranks. Somebody needed to destroy Heroica, and if no others can, then I will." "Surely you do not expect to us to fight a child. What exactly is going on here?!" Calamity demanded. "You have no issue executing the innocent. Don't pretend you have morals beyond 'doing what is necessary'." "Whit ist thes shit, I am not gonst to fight a child! Who ist that? Ist he one of U´reekas followers?" The big man shakes his head, almost losing grip of his axe. "There was a time when I was a child like any other growing up in Zylstra. Always eager to see more. Always hearing of the mythical surface world. Tinkering with whatever came down from above was a reprieve from an isolated life." "And then...Heroica arrived." Wally crossed his arms. "I thought you really were heroes, that you were some sign that everything we knew about the surface was wrong. The others believed it was a hostile world of monsters and murderers. How right they were! There was a retired assassin hiding down in the city. The Baron of our town refused to let the heroes see him, until they got the bottom of some money problem. Three dead Wolfgangers later they returned with answers. They got their information and hunted down and killed their target up on the surface." "I left the town to see the surface. I was nearly attacked in an alley almost as soon as I arrived, were it not for the timely intervention of a man who got me a job as an apprentice to U'Reeka. He was a brilliant inventor. Never given into politics. Everything he made improved life. He sent me with one of his inventions and a few heroes to record a public spectacle that was bound to have trouble." An edge crept into the gnome's voice. "It turned out all the trouble ended up Heroica. Over a dozen people died...and only ever at the hands of heroes." "I continued helping U'Reeka with his experiments, until one day we got sloppy with it and-" "Spawned a race of abominations." "They were no more human than I am. They sought answers about their existence, their own mortality." "By abducting your entire town-" "They were mistaken, and none of us were harmed. You and Heroica, on the other hand? GENOCIDE. MURDER. You wiped out the ENTIRE RACE and KILLED U'Reeka!" His gloved hands clenched into fists. "What right do you have to determine who lives or dies? ANYONE who crosses your path is fair game, isn't it? You get to flippantly kill ever last one of your problems, hoping more death will fix EVERYTHING? And then...whenever it comes down it..." his hand tightened around the hilt of his sword. "I've seen heroes survive blows that should've killed them. I've seen your kind walk away from battles where ordinary people would have surely died. I had to test a theory of mine. An experiment. After that last clash with my automatons...now I know for certain." "You don't value life because none of you can die." "It's not a problem that I can fix....yet. When I do, your blight of an organization is getting removed. Permanently." "Wally, was it? I'm unfamiliar with the situation at hand, so it'd be helpful if you could explain why you're, um, here, and what it is you're doing." Annienal asks Wally in a diplomatic tone. "Heroica is corrupted and with time my machines will destroy it. They haven't killed a single thing in their quest for justice."
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