Heroica RPG - Quest #20: Missing Minerals!

[Tanma]

IC: As De'kra dreamed to himself, hissing began to sound from his clothes. It was a reptilian hiss, slippery and cold. De'kra stirred at the sound, and felt at a patch of his clothes. After he had identified the source of the sound the shade returned to dream. His experission didn't change, since he lacked a mouth and his eyes couldn't blink, but there was an air of pleasure about him.

Edited February 11, 2012 by Tanma

[UsernameMDM]

Tarn gives the Scroll of Sleep to Aberforth.

The heroes stir after a few hours and break their makeshift camp. They venture around and find they have explored all of the tunnels on this level. With that they turn left and head down to another section of the mines. The party comes to another intersection.

Right or Left?

[Tanma]

IC: Since they have some time, De'kra decides to write Arthur once more.

Greetings, this is De'kra. How are things going at the battlefield? Was that concept I had useful in that Karzahni of a war? ...I apologize for that hostile remark, I am still in a rage at the Shadeaux and myself. I did lead our group to that decision, if it was not for me we might have thought more about it, and noticed that our "guide"was pushing us towards violence. But instead I fired the trigger, and then wasted a ton of time sulking about it. Still, at least someone is cleaning up my mess.

I would have contacted you sooner, but some events have distracted me from replying. We were attacked by three bandits, which we defeated not too long ago. I didn't get wounded once in the fight, it was...ascending. Like I could see the body movements of my foes, and knew exactly how to dodge and attack them. I felt...awake. However afterwards one of the other heroes became afflicted with amnesia. If you return to Heroica Hall before we do, see if you can find information on him.

Upon writing this De'kra clicked, "New heroes and I head to left? I hear once that left usually lead to goal. I not sure why though."

Edited February 11, 2012 by Tanma

[Scubacarrot]

"Don't think it matters, since we haven't got any clues about which ways to go... I say Valco just chooses a direction and we follow."

[Bioniclover]

"Knifk thinks left as good as any, unless someone have magic compass."

[Dwellington]

Swindle holds the torch high over head, looking down both corridors.

"Left is fine with me, if that's where everyone else wants to go."

[Rumble Strike]

"Left is is!" Tarn heads left, gripping Kyrferath tightly. Team Bait is on the move once again!

[Darth Nihilus]

Dak moves forward, walking with the Barbarian, the Knight, and the Cleric. Seeing the Barbarian shoot a strange look at him, he says, "What?" The look of complete confusion on his face is almost comical.

[Tanma]

IC: De'kra slinks back into the shadows, watching the group from a distance. But even as he shadowed them from the safety of darkness, De'kra felt better than he had in a while. The figure felt stronger now, his mind less clouded. De'kra wasn't sure if it was thanks to his ally's growth or another factor, but there was a difference. But as De'kra moved on he failed to notice the ripples in the air that trailed him.

Edit: IC: De'kra noticed a reply from Arthur, and after some thought wrote;

Arthur, I dare not think that way. It would be...catastrophic.

When I encountered you in Heroica, I believe it was the second time, you noticed my depressed state. I informed you about my mistakes of Quest 4, and how it was my fault. But I also told you that I myself was an amnesic, and I had been for the last year of my existence. When I woke up I didn't even know how to speak or read the languages of Uland, all I knew was a circular form of writing and two dialects of a language made of chirps and clicks. I didn't know my species or my name, and I still don't. De'kra is just a name I created based off my first tongue's words for Sound and Darkness, while I call myself a shade because that is what I am. A shadow of a person, an echo.

I tell you this because I am remembering more and more, and I do not like all that I see. True I can remember ships that can sail through the air and a marvelous city surrounded by a liquid metal sea, but there are horrible memories as well.

I remember a war, a war that I did nothing to prevent. A war fought over an entire planet, not just some island like Uland. I did nothing to stop it, perhaps I thought that no one would listen. Perhaps I didn't care about the nations of the world. I don't recall. But I do remember what happened next.

The war was fought over a powerful substance, that could destroy anything, save those people or thinfs with special destinies. Those people would be transformed by the liquid, given strange new forms. But as the nations of my world fought over the liquid, the fluid tore the planet apart. It won't have done so usually, but the violence of the fighting and efforts to mine it sped up the process. I knew this, and I did nothing. Perhaps I couldn't have stopped the liquid, maybe I couldn't have stopped the war. But I should have at least warned more people. Because one day the planet was ripped apart, and civilization of that planet ended.

I should have done something, anything, but I didn't. And one can say that it wasn't my fault till their mouth bleeds from pain. But I did nothing about it, and I felt no regrets. It doesn't matter if the world would have died anyway, what matters is that I contributed to its destruction. I may not have caused the Elf-Lion War, but I played a part. And I have to remember that, because it still makes me guilty. And I dare not forget that.

But I will also not let to overwhelm me. I do remember another memory, one that gives me strength. It is of six villages on another planet, made of villagers who had lost their memories. Only seven of them knew their past, six elders and a translator. The villagers were assulted every day for 999 years by a great evil, one who bent the beasts of their island to his will. For ages they faced him, fighting back with only tridents and disks. They made many mistakes, confused ally with foe, and never in that time did the villages remember their past. But they kept fighting, fighting to survive. They never gave up, so I can't either. No matter the mistakes I make, I will not give in.

On the matter of the other amnesic on the quest, his name is Dak. He was a member of Quest 13, and I believe he has Mopag ancestery. At the moment he is a little violent prone, but one of the other people here was suggesting bludgeoning him with a shovel to make him remember. I will keep your words in mind however

Edited February 12, 2012 by Tanma

[Bioniclover]

Knifk slowly walks down the seemingly endless hallway, the only sound the soft clinking of metal caused by Tfel bumping against his armor. The sword was rusted and knocked all over from it's time underground. He'd have to get a smith to look at it sometime soon. He sighed, imagining that such a piece of work would make his coin purse considerably lighter, and continued trudging.

[UsernameMDM]

Klinking softly down the tunnels to the sways of their torch lit shadows, the heroes come to another intersection.

Straight or Right?

[Tanma]

IC: De'kra quickly memorized the paths, knowing that more might be ahead. "New Heroes and I go straight?" he clicked softly, "New heroes and I have no need to change course now."

[Dwellington]

"I think we should just keep going forward, but majority rules, I suppose."

Edited February 14, 2012 by Dwellington

[Bioniclover]

"Knifk is fine with straight. Knifk hopes he gets to whack things soon. Knifk was disappoint when he didn't get to whack weird friend with mind problems. Whacking makes Knifk happy.

[Rumble Strike]

As Party Leader, Tarn leads his felow adventurers straight along the tunnel.

[Scubacarrot]

Guts stretched his neck, the hallways were long in this place, it certainly was a much larger mine than the one he had spent time in in the last Quest, funny how that works. In front of him were the mage, Tarn, Dak and the orc, Knifk. They were mockingly called 'team Bait' by Dak, before his amnesia, and Dak was now walking between them. Around ten paces behind him was the other rogue, Dek'ra, who tried furiously to stay in the shadows, cast on the walls because of the light of the torch. Pointless, something that would see them in these tunnels would surely see the shade as well, Guts thought to himself.

"How big is this bloody place, that moustached coward that calls himself steward did not mention this!"

Edited February 14, 2012 by Scubacarrot

[UsernameMDM]

The heroes choose to remain on the current path. Downward the tunnel winds around a lone corner. The heroes enter a large room and are greeted with a chitinous hiss as a large form scuttles down the side of the rock face.

The Enemy:

Giant Spider - Level 10 Vermin

HP: 100/100

Special: Poison spray - 3 Damage (avoids SP) and party poisoned

Spiderling A - Level 2 Vermin

HP: 5/5

Special: Poison

Spiderling B - Level 2 Vermin

HP: 5/5

Special: Poison

Spiderling C - Level 2 Vermin

HP: 5/5

Special: Poison

Spiderling D - Level 2 Vermin

HP: 5/5

Special: Poison

Spiderling E - Level 2 Vermin

HP: 5/5

Special: Poison

Drops: Venom x3

The Party:

Tarn Valco, Level 11 Barbarian, 21 year old human male ***PARTY LEADER***

Power: 21 Health: 18/18 Gold: 50

Inventory: Kyrferath, a Battle Axe (WP: 10, Water Elemental, Hollow Blade (Mead equipped), Pole-axe (WP: 3), Mead x 2, Lightning Bomb, Potion, Venom, Smelling salts, Grand Potion, Shovel

Dak Shadeaux, Level 9 Rogue, 35 yeal old half-elf Mopag

Power: 16 Health: 15/15 Gold: 124

Inventory: Mockthril Knife (Equipped)(WP:7), Thgir Blade (WP:5), Twin Longswords (WP:3), Mockthril Whip (WP:4), 2 Venoms, 2 Potions, Bedroll, Shovel

Guts Holla, Level 9 Rogue, 42 year old male human

Power: 16 Health: 15/15 Gold: 133

Inventory: Lifestealer (WP:7 attacks restore 3 health), Bedroll, Shovel

Knifk, Level 9 Knight, 30 year old male Orc

Power: 16 Health: 13/18 Gold: 75

Inventory: Tfel Blade (WP:7), Mockthril Shield (SP:5), Potion

De'kra, Level 11 Rogue, 11 year old Male Shade

Power: 16 Health: 17/17 Gold: 88

Inventory: Pongcanis Dagger(WP:5, Electricity), Shadeaux Dagger(WP:5), Fang Dagger(WP:4), Cloak of the Blue Assassin(SP: 1), Cloak of the Elven Spy(loaned to Atramor), Bedroll, Venom (1), Potions (3), Pickaxe

Aberforth Swindle, Level 3 Mage, 62 year old human

Power:5 Health: 7/7 Ether 4/7 Gold: 20

Inventory: Torch (2 WP, fire) Simple Staff (3 WP), Tonic, Potion, Amethyst Gemstone, Spell of Sleep, Musty Bedroll

Party Leader state order of actions. Party Members state action and target. Good luck!

[Bioniclover]

"Finally! Knifk smash Giant Spider front row!"

[Rumble Strike]

"Everyone pile on the giant spider, I'll sort the spiderlings out with my bomb!"

Tarn will throw his Lightning Bomb.

Battle order:

Tarn

Knifk

De'kra

Guts

Dak

Aberforth

[Tanma]

OOC: We didn't complain that much...

IC: De'kra jumps back at the sight of the spider, though he calms when he notices that it has six legs. "Leader; what you suggest?" he asked, "If you have no attack plan ready, I guess I attack Spiderling A from back row. I able to kill it in one blow, so I not need risk close attack. I will use Prongcanis Dagger in attack."

IC: De'kra paused as time rewound itself. Carefully he stated, "If barbarian think it best, new heroes and I enact that. I then attack Giant Spider of back row with Prongcanis Dagger." The shade was glad that this spider had eight legs though, half that number and it would have been horrifying. Though he had no clue as to why...

Edited February 15, 2012 by Tanma

[UsernameMDM]

two less and it would have been horrifying. Though he had no clue as to why...

OOC - Nope, he has eight. He is standing on the back two, ready to pounce!

[Scubacarrot]

"Finally, some action! As long as its not another tunnel, ANYTHING is a good sight!"

Guts charged at the Giant Spider from the front row.

[Scubacarrot]

Ooc: I think we can assume Dak attacks from the front row, and Aberforth from the back row with darkness?

[Rumble Strike]

Ooc: I think we can assume Dak attacks from the front row, and Aberforth from the back row with darkness?

OOC: as Party Leader I am certainly happy with those actions being taken against the Giant Spider

[Darth Nihilus]

Ooc: I think we can assume Dak attacks from the front row, and Aberforth from the back row with darkness?

OOC: Whoah, sorry, I didn't even notice that there was another battle!

IC: Dak jumps forward and attacks Giant Spider with his Knife from the front row.