Alright, so this game is still in progress, and i'm about to do something unheard of (at least to my knowledge) tomorrow, when I continue the epic saga.
(I started out with a demigod-level Human, and started her out on an island with max Strength, Agility and Toughness, and very high dodge and some complimentary combat skills, plus swimming (because fucking rivers). Gathered some armor and gear from a keep along the way, and was fully-armoured for almost every encounter I met with. Went around towns, killed a couple animals and a few bandits with a little troupe of people that even included the younger sister of a paltry lord! She had a bone carving knife, and would routinely gank people with brutal efficiency.)
Now, this island has a volcano on it, and apparently some strange phenomena to boot. I did not know this. So while crossing a river near the volcano, in a barren waste of a place, my group and I befell a most tragic fate: a cloud of gas. Not your ordinary choke-you-out gas, or even boil-your-blood gas; we were all turned into fiendish vapor zombies. Strangely, this didn't impede our ability to speak, or fight with weapons. So we went on our merry way, still intent to clear our island from evil.
We decided to trek out to the volcano, and see what that was like. Sadly, it had a sheer edge all around, and we couldn't get up it. After travelling for a while, I stopped to do the cursory eating and drinking, then sleeping that being alive required, only to find that I was still a zombie, and these things were unimportant to me. Also, only the sister of the lord had remained, the other two staying behind at the volcano, Armok knows why. So I decided we would carry on, just us, and set out to the next camp of bandits. When we got there, I was fully prepared to be slain like the monster I was, but to give them a good fight, as well.
Turns out being a zombie means I can't die unless my head is severed, and even a mortal wound doesn't slow my efforts to de-limb my foes, then kick them to death. And my zombified cohort delighted in rushing enemies, punching them, then jamming her bone carving knife into their skulls. They were good times. But alas, someone had to know of the good deeds we apparently-foul monsters had been doing. So off to town it was.
It was there that I realized just how far down we'd fallen. We could not speak to any of them, and when we approached a group of sleeping villagers closely, my wonderful friend simply stabbed one in the head. I followed suit by caving in another's head with my boot, and then I heard my dear friend scream her name, and tell me of the elf we had slain the night previous, and how he was rejected in death. She then tried to kill me.
After removing her limbs, I proceeded to knock out her teeth, bruise her jaw, cut out her guts, and finally decapitate her. I then took her mutilated corpse and threw it on the road outside, and placed a bag of coins next to it as recompense for the villagers we had slaughtered (I forgot to mention, i'd been taking All the money from everyone i'd killed, so I was the richest zombie around).
I found a cave later on, and went in, only to find it devoid of anything more than a few Giant Bats, whose teeth I took. The character is currently carrying at least 100 lbs of money, a number of trophies including teeth from numerous humanoids, tails from some animals, a few skulls, and at one point, a human hand. I dispatched a stingray and alligator with it. I also raided an Elven capital, and after slaying the lord and underlings, went to the catacombs and loaded up on jewelry and finery, as well as a nice pike attached to my head.
Now I stand by the shore of the island I knew as home naught but a month ago. The waves crash upon my body, but I do not feel them like I should. My body has continued to stay in stable condition, save for some bruising and the occasional wound that will not heal. Even a pike in my head cannot stop me now. Even these waves cannot stop me.
I am Queen Mab, Fiendish Vapor Zombie. I have slain countless enemies and innocents. The Dread Zombie shall take her fight to the mainland, and battle across this world until a jagged scar threatens to tear the world asunder. Let they who slay me have the bounty that I possess, countless riches taken from countless foes. Let my body decay as it should.
(She's a Legendary Fighter, and routinely kicks people to death by pushing her foot through their heads. The Greataxe and Shield are just for ease of use. She's going to be the biggest person in the history of this world if I have to play for 10 years in-game.)
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