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[WillowLuman]

The macabre place was filled with gruesome things aplenty, but also interesting things stolen and taken from victims over the years. There was a beautiful loincloth, encrusted with spikes of satinspar, and another one with spikes of bone. The most impressive treasure, however, was a tunic covered with round polished phyllite stones and adorned with cave-bear teeth forming the image of two sweet-pods. Deebus also found some bones, from what creature he dared not think, which he whittled some arrows from. If they were kobold bones, then he supposed that it was not dishonorable for them to become arrows; now the dead could help make the world better for the living, in a small but vital way.

There's the justification. That's how he got out of the catch 22; needs bones to make arrows, and arrows to hunt, but can't get bones without hunting. Then he found a big stack of bones. The fate of the world justifies the cost!

Deebus is some sort of angel of death... And that second to last pic is a pretty damn creepy rendition of him, too. Good drawing nonetheless.

Thanks, I guess. I really ought to do better with the drawings, and do more of them, though.

[Thecard]

Cubone never looked so badass.

[WillowLuman]

After killing the wolves, Deebus adjusted his course for the Cunning Depths, home of the troll Ileda Omifepa, since it was closer than Brandsewers and in basically the same direction. Creeping into the fire clay tunnel, he was a little concerned; the encounter with the wolves had left him with just 29 arrows, which was fairly few in an open fight. He would need to be efficient. As it happened, he soon came upon Ileda and quickly fired two shots, piercing her stomach and knee. This brought her to the ground but not to unconsciousness, so he closed in to do more serious damage with his spear. As he got near, though, he saw around the pillar of clay in the center of the den.

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He thought to himself that in the future he should just expect beasts to have mates. Fortunately, this other troll, who Deebus would later learn was called Saviny, had not detected anything yet, despite the floor spattered with his mate's blood. He was probably asleep. Thus assured, Deebus proceeded to stab Ileda until she succumbed to the pain. He made sure to strike in a way that she would not roar to wake her mate. After taking lightning-fast stabs to the face, hand, and chest, the troll passed into unconsciousness and never woke. Her throat was slit.

Ileda bled out as Deebus impaled the left leg of her mate, and with another strike to the foot, ensured Saviny could not rise to defend himself. The troll bellowed in pain, but was cut short by a sharp pain entering deep into his chest. Before Deebus could twist the spear in further, though, Saviny blindly pulled the weapon from his chest and cast it -and the wielder- backwards. He could not see who wounded him so, but he could detect the corpse of Ileda drenched in blood. Saviny roared again in anguish and whipped his head about, searching and sniffing for his new hated foe. Only shadows greeted his senses. Until the sharp pain flashed suddenly in his right arm, that is. Saviny whipped about again, pummeling at where the pain came from, his paws meeting only air. From the opposite direction, his good right foot took a deep wound that made him scream again.

Deebus stepped back and waited. After a few seconds, the thrashing troll on the floor went limp, the pain being too great, and Deebus swooped silently back over to relieve him of his pain. Forever.

The sun was still high in the eastern sky when Deebus continued on his way. Stopping only to drink from a stream, he arrived at Brandsewers in the late afternoon. The place was deep in the sacred country. Any beast there must be fearsome indeed. When he descended into the den, he noted the smashed skeleton of one of his brethren lying in the antechamber. It looked not to be more than a few months old, the bones chewed open and drained of marrow. This poor soul needed to be avenged, whoever he was. At the end of the burrow Deebus came upon the troglodyte pair and opened fire. Freedome, the male, was first to die, taking two arrows to the belly and leg, then a spear through the forehead. Before Kegeth could react, Deebus had stabbed her belly as well and smashed her foot, bringing her to the floor. She would not succumb easily, though. She survived his next strike to her face, as well as the two that punctured her lungs and heart. Stabbing faster and faster, Deebus caught her in the hand she threw up to shield herself, severing it at the wrist. With the shock of this injury, Kegeth at last passed out. It took three powerful strikes, but at long last Deebus caved in her skull.

Two mated pairs of monsters, troglodytes and trolls, he had killed that day.

[WillowLuman]

These troglodytes, unlike any that he had seen before, actually had things in their burrow. There was a wonderful kobold tunic, with stripes made of round Gabbro stones wrapped around it and spikes of copper and marble. This he took, but he left behind the nickel cage, wondering how the beasts kept getting those things. A cage was certainly too heavy for a kobold to haul, even one as mighty as he.

As it was getting late, Deebus decided to stay the night in the burrow. Lighting a fire near the entrance made it quite comfortable, and so through the entrance he watched the sun go down, falling asleep when the stars came out. When morning came, he finished the last of his grizzly bear meat and with a full belly journeyed on. He had decided to go far to the northern shores of the world next, to kill the troglodyte Lecit. Afterwards he could circle down from North to West to South, killing as he went.

The journey took him back through the sacred country, and he was still within it when he came upon the lair early in the morning. The hole was just under a clump of the strange feathery trees. Lecit was a small troglodyte, though still easily twice Deebus's size, and had angular, cruel features in her face. She was pale and nearly red-eyed, like many troglodytes, but strikingly she was covered in scraggly, bright orange hair, not the usual black or brown. A truly hideous beast.

Deebus came up right behind her, and nearly killed her instantly, if she had not stooped to scratch at something on the dirt floor. Unable to get a killing blow in from there, Deebus opted to drive the spear into her back. Lecit howled with pain as the spear shattered her ribs. He did not give her time to react, though, yanking the spear from within her torso and bringing it around again into her head.

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The next target was the polar bear Emär, near the Western coast. Deebus began to head Southwest, towards the sea, when he came across something very strange. The land suddenly sloped down into a vast expanse of perfectly flat ice. He had heard the sea was full of water, like a great river encompassing the whole world, but no one had told him the water was frozen. This would be convenient, though, since now he could cut across southwest instead of weaving around the bay. Shortly he arrived in some of the strange, dry country, this place full of yellow sand. Continuing south, he came across something very strange indeed.

There in the desert, was a flat place, smooth and made of perfect blocks of quartzite. Some of the blocks rested on top, forming pillars. And in the middle of it all, sitting cross-legged, was the strangest thing Deebus had ever seen.

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A titanic figure of glass.

[Corai]

TURN IT INTO A WINDOW!

[WillowLuman]

The titan, sitting still, did not notice Deebus as he crept up. It would be madness to try to spear such a thing like this, so instead he took the copper cleaver from his pack. He hurled it as hard as he could, chipping the shoulder of the titan. It snapped out of it's motionless trance, uncrossing it's legs and standing up. The great crystal glass figure lumbered over to where the projectile had come from, but could find nothing. It could not have expected the flying iron dagger that shattered it's thigh, causing it to crash to the ground. Deebus ran up behind it, proceeding to smash at it's legs and arms, but despite smashing off large shards, seemed to do little damage. Suddenly, the titan noticed him and with it's eyes glowed.

Giant thick ropes appeared from thin air, flying out and whipping through the air to form a huge net; webs. Deebus found one of the huge sticky strands stick to his leg, knocking him to the ground. The titan began to crawl towards him, raking the sand with it's massive sharp fingers. Deebus managed to cut himself loose just in time, though, and scurried behind some pillars. From there, he crept out again and ran around to the side of the titan again. Leaping about the massive glass form, he smashed and smashed at it with his spear, crippling the legs, the arms. He struck at the head, chipping off glass, but not making any serious impression.

The titan's eyes glowed again, brighter than before, and suddenly Deebus was covered in many thick, ropey strands. Being almost unable to move, the titan only kept burying him under more and more webbing. More and more webs flew through the air, sticking Deebus more and more, entangling him until he could hardly breathe. The webs started falling on his helm, blocking off the holes, suffocating him...

No. Not like this.

Calling on some native reserve of strength he never knew he had, Deebus pulled apart the strands from his face, rose, and met the enormous figure inching its way towards him, meaning to crush him. He stuggled, wading through the piles of webbing, but at last he was free. One, two, three, four times he struck at the head of the titan, spearing it with all his might.

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[Corai]

Deebus, Deebus is simply to good.


/SARCASM/ Hugoluman is using savescums, I know he is. /SARCASM/No kobold can be this badass. And thats coming from ME.

[WillowLuman]

I must admit, that was a close one. I need more preparation to fight inorganic monsters, the only reason I managed to kill this one is because it was made of glass. Oddly enough, it seems like if you sufficiently cripple a webber so they can't use any other attack, they just keep constantly spraying webs.

[Eric Blank]

I've noticed that behavior with uninjured dragons of varying sorts. They'll just stand there and fling fire at an opponent, even if it's another dragon or otherwise immune to the flames.

[Slayerhero90]

I don't want this thread to die. :c

[WillowLuman]

Don't worry, I've just been preoccupied.

[Hanslanda]

bump

[Nerjin]

I am simply amazed that such a small creature could have all these wonderful adventures. Even my Human demigods never get past a week. I'm simply... Bravo good sir, bravo. Keep up the good work.

[Eric Blank]

Now watch him get eaten by an alligator

[Hanslanda]

Bogeymen. Dozens of them.