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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 8, 2006 18:57:58 GMT -5
OOC: Why are you a douchebag?
Stormaxe says, "This is a great, drizzling dumpe of a lande!" He looks around suspiciously and keeps an explosive potion very close to him at all time. When they finally arrive at the structure, he says, "I hope they have some mead and byeer!"
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Post by halfhero on Mar 11, 2006 17:35:35 GMT -5
Dismount, get my sword at ready and head up to the structure.
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Post by KRoZ on Mar 12, 2006 0:50:46 GMT -5
(Cause it's been like a month)
Abrams nods at Guts. "It's about time we let the horses have a propper rest." He dismounts as well and grab the reins to keep his steed accounted for.
David follows suit with one hand on the reins and another on the hilt of his great-though not so great given present company-sword.
The fogs patches float about, showing the front gates and walls of the town made from smaller logs. One of two large wooden doors sits anchored in place, the other slowly swaying ajar.
What you glimpse of the streets and houses within is not particularly promising. Dilapidated, weather beaten, and empty. There are no signs of any sort of occupancy yet.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 12, 2006 1:27:19 GMT -5
OOC: Yeah, but I thought you set this to your IE home, ergo you must have been too busy or had other obligations.
Stormaxe says, "Do we have any cohntacts here? And what are we going to use for a stagin' grhound?"
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Post by johndamnit on Mar 12, 2006 4:26:39 GMT -5
Chip'll dismount as well, "I think a better question is whether anyone is left to contact.... I think we should start with that."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 12, 2006 5:31:51 GMT -5
"Lad, we can't be searching the shtreets of a city willy-nilly! We need a stagin' ground, a good idea of where each of us will be so we are immune to foul trickery, and I think we all need rest to be... safe from phantasms. Yea, that's the ticket."
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Post by Ainsophaur on Mar 12, 2006 22:35:17 GMT -5
Grove nods in agreement with Stormaxe. "I think he's right....somethings very amiss here." Grove looks around using his spirit sight. "Do we know if this town had a church or a hollow grave yard? As much as I hate to say it, I think those would be the best places to rest. Otherwise Father Tully is going to be spending a good amount of time doing warding spells." Grove smiles "On top of it, if I can find a talker, we might be able to get to the bottom of things much faster."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 12, 2006 22:43:49 GMT -5
"A church would seem to be a good place, lad, but a graveyard may make up in danger from the undead legions what it loses in protectin' ye."
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Post by johndamnit on Mar 13, 2006 3:20:06 GMT -5
"Zombies.... they might not hurt your brain much... untill they bite into it at least, I think finding a church would be a good idea too, if the people here are pious, then it might be likely that they're there saying their 'last words' and what not, by the look of this place."
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Post by halfhero on Mar 15, 2006 1:07:13 GMT -5
Guts will chip in "Dont worry guys, an NPC is gonna show up real soon and he will get us situated, but there will be no rest had in this place." *COUGH* sorry had to get that out.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 15, 2006 1:12:40 GMT -5
"Aye, lad, but the NPC is likely to be Habashi and... Breaking the fourth wall isn't punishable by death, is it?"
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Post by halfhero on Mar 15, 2006 19:34:15 GMT -5
no, the NPC is the old sheriff of the town i believe, remember, i did this mission in its entirety already, but as ashitaka so i killed things faster
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 15, 2006 20:02:29 GMT -5
Ah.
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Post by KRoZ on Mar 18, 2006 14:53:35 GMT -5
(*Explodes all of you* You leave that fourth wall alone!)
Abrams denotes that if given time, they would indeed hold up in either a place of religious importance, or structural integrity.
Grove your senses will be PM'ed to you as usual.
David says that because of the wall construction and the terrain, there's bound to only be so many permanent structures in the town. Whether they would have invested in a place of collective worship or smaller personal places of piety in their homes should be able to be found if you search enough homes. Something you may not have time to do. However most frontier towns like this start around a few patches of permanent buildings built around a central hub structure, whether that be a church, town hall, or the like. After that, they expand in more temporary huts, hovels, and the occasional cottage or house.
Tully has taken on a particularly reserved and quiet contenance.
With collective pooling of knowlege, nobody has been to this particular town before, so the layout can only be guessed. David has been to a lot of frontier towns, so his knowlege is a bit more learned in this situation.
Just inside the gate are about four visible buildings until the fog finds someother place to rest. Two to the left side of the road are the temporary sort of huts, one with the door swinging ajar in a lightbreeze, the other with its shoddy stick door laying in the road.
To the right side is what looks like a guard hut, the kind of building that would house the gate watchman on the inside, while another would sit outside or in a wall watchpost. Just past that is one permanent wooden structure. A home with the front door smashed in and the doorway itself crunched and splintered on both sides with a gooey muddy substance dried to it.
The road extends out of sight into the fog, possibly to the center of town.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 18, 2006 15:26:18 GMT -5
Stormaxe decides to check out the watchhouse, telling the team this and making sure that at least three people actually hear him. He says, "David, shall ye accompany me into this warchman's center?" He reasons that such a place may have records, clues, weapons, or a hiding guardsman.
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Post by johndamnit on Mar 18, 2006 19:16:57 GMT -5
Chip will equip his arm blades, and keep a lookout for anything that might be sneakin up on us in the fog.
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Post by KRoZ on Mar 19, 2006 1:47:53 GMT -5
There's no sound of activity at all, inside or outside the little guards hut.
David steps over with Stormaxe, finding little inside the little building. An empty weapon rack, two overturned stools, and a table. It seems more like a break room than anything else.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 19, 2006 2:07:43 GMT -5
Stormaxe will say, "Ah. Were I a townsman... where would I be?" He comes back out and looks around the other four locations.
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Post by Ainsophaur on Mar 19, 2006 2:19:27 GMT -5
Grove follows Stormaxe and speaks very softly rubbing his arms as if she were freezing "Anywhere but here." He looks around briefly and says "This place is full of spiritual unrest. Either many people died here in some massive slaughter, or there souls have been enslaved..." He walks back outside to Tully "Father, would you see it unfit of me to summon the dead for aid?"
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Post by KRoZ on Mar 20, 2006 11:17:37 GMT -5
"Summon the dead?" Tully says, both confused and alarmed, but not alltogether hostile.
Abrams notes: "Grove, as you know, is an adept psychic medium. No doubt he's developed a means of calling a lost soul to him... for some reason or another."
Tully rubs his chin. "I feel whatever is held here has suffered greatly, but being called to our aid to end this affront would be prefferable to leaving them to suffer alone." He nods to Grove. "Do as you must."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 20, 2006 11:37:53 GMT -5
"Aye, I think it's noble to give the dead an opportunity to redress their ghrievances."
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Post by Ainsophaur on Mar 22, 2006 3:06:57 GMT -5
Grove nods and says "Father, if something goes wrong, and it'll become very obvious that things have gone wrong, please help me." Grove will attempt to summon a spirit, with the help of his spirit beacon trait.
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Post by johndamnit on Apr 24, 2006 23:14:53 GMT -5
and that is when the world ended...
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Post by KRoZ on May 10, 2006 14:07:50 GMT -5
{{Yeah, I'm a useless lump. I know.}}
The air takes on an unsettling cold as Grove quietly whispers to himself... or whispers to something else.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on May 10, 2006 15:51:31 GMT -5
Stormaxe watches with bated breath.
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Post by Ainsophaur on May 11, 2006 2:10:48 GMT -5
Grove looks to Stormaxe and shakes his head "The spirits here have been set into bondage. A necromancer has most likely taken the entire town into a form of a legion of undead slaves." Grove continues "These spirits do tasks they do not understand, and only feel a twisted form of hunger."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on May 11, 2006 10:54:35 GMT -5
"What vicious evil. Do they know if there are any human habitations?"
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Post by Ainsophaur on May 16, 2006 11:23:41 GMT -5
"Its very...confused....its like...the soul was ripped from its body....like a snail from its shell...its in pain, confused...it doesn't know what or who has done this to it." Grove will shift his weight, scratch his chin. "I wonder...these bodies were probably turned into a shambling army of zombies...if instead of killing the zombies, if we some how dispelled the magic, if the souls would naturally return to the body, and would the people return to normal..."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on May 16, 2006 21:42:13 GMT -5
"To dispel that much magic would require a lot of skill, lad. None of my cohncoctions can do it." Stormaxe begins to think, calculating all the various ways he might be able to even attempt such a monumental task, beginning to lose himself in the chemistry codex of his mind...
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Post by KRoZ on May 17, 2006 4:41:22 GMT -5
Abrams shakes his head sadly. "I'm afraid that's unlikely son. Habashi isn't known for her remorse. She wouldn't have taken the bodies under her control while there was still any mortal breath still in them. ...they've likely all been killed long before we got here."
Tully says a short prayer as David lets out a sigh.
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