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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 1, 2008 21:59:38 GMT -5
A new tournament called the God of War tournament was announced by a literal pantheon of gods. It appears that they're looking to create a new pantheon of many types of gods, one of which is a pantheon of gods of valor, combat, war and heroic causes. As with the Dark Tournament, the Old Guard wants Crashing Heavens to win it.
In the travel to the tournament, Mauler Airlines ran into a bit of a problem: Astarion the First, the Totema of Minotaurs. A massive battle began!
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 16, 2008 19:54:57 GMT -5
In the World Tournament, Denios, Nekia, Evan and Mac advanced through the rounds. Denios and Evan managed to get a 6-0 record, while Nekia was defeated by a Sumo Sennin and Evan was defeated by an apparent member of Itek's clique!
Seraphina advanced in her investigation of Jurgen Umbala.
The Cactus People's caravan continued onwards. After defeating both a sandworm and Juicer bandits, the group met with other caravans. They were crossing the mountain when Cory disappeared for a moment, then returned with an odd glow about him.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on May 14, 2008 14:25:22 GMT -5
As the battle against Astarion continued, Fracas called out a challenge the Spirit of Minotauros could not refuse: A headbutt battle. The maze receded back into the endless roof of the crystal chamber, and the games began! Though Fracas struck repeatedly for every one of Astarion's blows, and though his training under Firebrand gave him the skill to target key points in the head and skull to emerge victorious, every one of Astarion's blows was devastating enough to make even Fracas cringe. But with the aid of his allies, Fracas emerged victorious, showing what a Battle Flame God can do. Astarion then shattered, and the team gained his powers! All Minotaur or bull/cow-humanoids (Dengar being the primary one) gain the following benefits:
30 Class Points 30 Rank Boosts 4000% Skill Points 20 Merits including Unique Merits 400 Affinity Points Grants a unique racial Affinity (the Minotaur's is Astarion, representing the solar nature of the deity but also granting monstrous powers for being the lord of a labyrinth and an effective final boss) Opens unique Classes for that race and opens some of those classes to people not of that race: The Classes available are Pigi Seismos (Source of the Quake or Source of the Tremors), Master of the Labryinth, Beast of Burden and Astarion (a star-based class) at the moment. Summon when one gets enough Judge Points equivalents
Everyone else, aside from access to Pigi Seismos and Master of the Labryinth as Classes, also gets the benefit:
*Immunity to maze spells and effects that induce being lost or interfere with navigation *One power or element of the Minotaur
Those who fought the Minotaur directly get the following:
*10 CP *10 RB *50 Affinity Points *10 million GP *Axe of Astarion (one copy for each player) *Starbreaker (one copy for each player) *Theseus' Sword (one copy for each player) *Theseus' Sandals *An additional element or power derived from the Minotaur
With that out of the way, the group proceeded to the God of War Tournament itself, held on Theonus. The massive planet is arranged in layers, different cities and places held at different altitudes. Those highest up are deities and the powerful and rich, while those below can be very poor indeed. Athena herself announced the intent of the Tournament: Enough deific energy has built to anoint new pantheons, and she is looking for a pantheon of war! Kumo declared Crashing Heaven's intent to emerge victorious for good, justice, partying and asskicking. The Yautja called for the good of the hunt, Skull Company are simply trying to be the best soldiers possible, The Imperium's representatives are defending the "honor" of the Imperium, and so forth. But it was Zanzibar Land who stole the show.
Their representative, a Phoenixi Samurai, simply stated, "It is the position of Zanzibar Land that it is war that brings out the best in the cosmos. War and conflict are the natural state of things, producing energy and combatting entropy. War produces innovation and happiness. And so we seek to make the Endless Battleground, consuming all of reality in a war without boundaries or rules. No one will be safe."
Clearly, Zanzibar Land need to be stopped. Unfortunately, the preliminaries come first! Moving down to a low-lying arena, the group met Freya May, a beautiful young woman with apparently great skill in engineering, gunmanship, summoning, adventuring and combat. She leads Theonus, a group of representatives from this planet. Despite being severely outmatched, her and her ally, Mummu Masterson (a mutant with the power to manipulate variables in the equations that govern reality), proved no small challenge to Dengar and Ash. Unfortunately, Dengar and Ash's initial tactic of creating an impenetrable maze wore down Mummu and Freya, and they were defeated.
Meanwhile, Sera managed to acquire some help in dealing with Jurgen Umbala. After breaking into the quarry and sneaking a ride on a truck, the group (composed of The Bringer, Thalos, Cory, Sera, Rum, Akiko and the blaxploitation detective) discovered Jurgen's true plan: To rebuild the Tower of Babel. After an embarassing routing of Jurgen's forces involving, among others, seeds of fire grown by werewolves and hurled telekinetically by the Bringer (I kid you not), The Bringer Dimension Doored the team into the bottom of the tower. Climbing it, they battled an array of mercenaries and acolytes of Jurgen. But when they reached the top, they were too late. Jurgen had Touched The Heavens and had transformed his tower into a warship. After a disastrous battle, Cory managed to use his telemechanics to evacuate them from the ship, explosively decompressing them into space.
Now a maniac who has become a human god and a warship that can hide from and resist even the Old Guard has been created. The Bringer and Thalos are certainly motivated to bring him to justice. Cory and Sera see a financial incentive, not to mention the chance to pummel a douchebag. And Rum, Akiko and the detective are motivated by the desire to do good and to represent CH admirably.
Also, the caravan completed! Those who were involved will get their rewards.
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