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Author Topic: Life Begins At Death - Epilogue: We Live And Live Again  (Read 562000 times)

Harry Baldman

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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10485 on: March 25, 2015, 02:55:48 pm »

Kevin considered his options. On one hand, he'd preferably just ride a boat and do errands all day. Get out, meet people. Sure, it's a little strange, but it beats hunting down mages in the name of some dubious authority. On the OTHER hand, he doesn't really have a choice but to hunt down mages in the name of some dubious authority.
"What Mantra? What do you MEAN? Is this one of those "sell-your-soul-for-unlimited-power" deals?"

"Ah!"

She starts to clear her throat, but settles for coughing up a lung.

"The Mantra! In an ancient dialect, written by hands unknown, cryptic beyond measure! Copies abound, but this is the original! Pure, untainted, unconstrained! Take a look, it is no potential hazard in its current form! But to develop it further, I do need something of yours - the axe? The dress? Your choice! Both, if you are feeling generous!"
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10486 on: March 25, 2015, 03:19:09 pm »

"Yeah, but what does it DO? Do you know?"
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they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the raving confessions of a mass murdering cannibal from a recipe to bake a pie.
Knowing Belgium, everyone will vote for themselves out of mistrust for anyone else, and some kind of weird direct democracy coalition will need to be formed from 11 million or so individuals.

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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10487 on: March 25, 2015, 03:26:49 pm »

"Yeah, but what does it DO? Do you know?"

"The Mantra does anything! It depends on what you ask, and what you read, and what you speak! Do you see?"
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10488 on: March 26, 2015, 09:28:07 am »

"Man, they made magical artifacts out of EVERYTHING back in the day, eh?"
Take a closer look at the scroll.
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they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the raving confessions of a mass murdering cannibal from a recipe to bake a pie.
Knowing Belgium, everyone will vote for themselves out of mistrust for anyone else, and some kind of weird direct democracy coalition will need to be formed from 11 million or so individuals.

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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10489 on: March 26, 2015, 11:23:33 am »

Look for a mage like person to inform of great herioc deed and ask if such a thing would interest them.
Or at least someone resembling a party member to buddy along with. Preferably Morton, since he could prolly do with a tablecloth.
« Last Edit: March 26, 2015, 12:06:15 pm by Innsmothe »
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10490 on: March 26, 2015, 09:19:50 pm »

Random idea: Sigmund and Scott return to the Gub. They get put into one body together. They return to the pink. They then use Sigmund's meta-sight and Scott's pyrokinetics to set the knots of the pink on fire.
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*slow clap* Well ATHATH congratulations. You managed to give the MC a mental breakdown before we even finished the first arc.
I didn't even read it first, I just saw it was ATHATH and noped it. Now that I read it x3 to noping

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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10491 on: March 27, 2015, 05:19:47 am »

Random idea: Sigmund and Scott return to the Gub. They get put into one body together. They return to the pink. They then use Sigmund's meta-sight and Scott's pyrokinetics to set the knots of the pink on fire.
Excuse me you seem to be trying to set the building blocks of souls on fire, want some help?
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10492 on: March 28, 2015, 07:27:00 pm »

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

"Ohdearohdearohdearohdearohdearohdear--Good mage Wilma, assistance is required!" The desk got back to the others as quick as he could, frantic the whole way. "This is not as it appears, not as it presents itself, a play, an act I do believe! The ends go on and on and the buildings are fake, the windows are merely painted the further above I went. There is nothing around us except for below, which has something rising to meet us!" The desk hurriedly--and most likely poorly--attempted to explain the situation to the mage about their beleaguered predicament.

Well, so much for his calm and collected attitude from before. "We must hurry and leave soon before what's down there rises to meet us, there must be some path out of here. Continuing might get us out, but from above I saw no end to either side. Hm... The windows, perhaps? Oh, but the buildings aren't real..."

Inform Wilma of the issue, gesture for Mark to return to the group. Ponder situation with others and investigate the immediate area for clues, see if any of the boarded windows can be peered through.

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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10493 on: March 28, 2015, 08:07:41 pm »

Hearing Morton losing his cool for the first time ever made Mark shudder, something was fundamentally wrong, not just because physics was out to lunch that happened every tuesday. Mark rushed back to the group to see what had rattled Morton so badly.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10494 on: April 03, 2015, 01:35:50 am »

Can-Can the gods not see me if I hide?

BRILLIANT. This I like. Self sacrifice, commitment to the betterment of man, those are things for men, or ghosts, greater than I. Hiding? That's my thing. Though... I suppose that if I hide here, he can send "adventurers" like me. So I'll run. Even better. But first...


Go ahead and go back in to the underground to bid the fair femmes a fond farewell.
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« Reply #10495 on: April 03, 2015, 04:11:49 am »

In the foreboding, empty woods...

Kevin accepts the kind offer of getting to take a look at this Mantra thing, taking the scroll and unfurling it in a businesslike fashion, making his smartest face as he examines the writing on it. It doesn't seem to be in any language he's familiar in, or even that any human being would be familiar with. In addition, it also appears to display the perfectly commonplace magical effect of shifting about as Kevin looks at it, seemingly trying to escape his gaze.

"Man, they made magical artifacts out of EVERYTHING back in the day, eh?" he says.

"They did! Apparently! But yes, the Mantra will grant you powers, and raise you high above the rest, if you would only let me attune it to you with one or two of your personal effects! It works - I myself have used it, and I now know things no girl was ever meant to know!" the woman tells him quickly, poking the Mantra with her finger indicatively.


Outside the ruins of Eckledun...

Scott freely scorns the excitable badger in front of him and goes off to seek more enlightened company within Eckledun, floating up high above the town to watch for wizards, desks or anything else that is likely to lead him to yet another strange conversation about what's been happening here.

From this height, Scott is vaguely aware of a suspiciously large amount of splattered remains littering Eckledun, especially the roofs of the sturdy buildings. Smashed, crushed, twisted and otherwise destroyed human beings appear to be quite the common sight, and among them sometimes walk things that... appear somewhat human, and that is as far as he's about to go with his assessment. Mages, cunning sorts that they are, seem to be nowhere in sight, aside from one fellow who appears to have been inadvertently impaled on a giant pink spike. Scott floats up to him and relates his subterranean heroics, and so amazed is the mage that his mouth slowly opens up.

"<##$!!$%%!!>" an alien voice issues from its mouth in a tone of slightly varying, hissing noise. Doesn't seem like a right helpful person, really. Maybe it's the impalement that's the problem?


In an endless alley...

Most alarmed, Morton descends over to good mage Wilma, hoping to figure out some way out of this utterly inescapable deathtrap.

"Ohdearohdearohdearohdearohdearohdear--Good mage Wilma, assistance is required!"

"Oh dear," Wilma echoes worriedly. "Impending doom, is it?"

"This is not as it appears, not as it presents itself, a play, an act I do believe! The ends go on and on and the buildings are fake, the windows are merely painted the further above I went. There is nothing around us except for below, which has something rising to meet us!" Morton frantically explains, gesturing at Mark to get over here post-haste!

"Something?" Wilma parrots, capturing the ominous tone almost perfectly to the point of shivering at the mention again.

"We must hurry and leave soon before what's down there rises to meet us, there must be some path out of here. Continuing might get us out, but from above I saw no end to either side. Hm... The windows, perhaps? Oh, but the buildings aren't real..." Morton thinks aloud, floating up to a window to see if there's anything that can be seen through the boards. The answer, as it turns out, is yes - Morton can't quite say what, but he does believe he sees something on the other side, just beyond the boards. Though this something, ineffable as it is, appears to be slowly moving away.

Mark, meanwhile, has sprinted on back, an inquiring look on his face. Wilma, who seems to be scratching and knocking at the walls to check for... who knows what, looks at him and starts to explain.

"The alley is fake and infinite! And we're about to be flooded with something!" she says with urgency, then resumes her checking of the wall. Mark notices, oddly enough, that her scratching appears to be dislodging significant chips of what he would have previously thought to be solid brick. "This wall seems... crumbly?" she notes, looking at her two companions, then pokes the wall with two fingers, only for her hand to go right through. "Uh... well?" she starts to say, and suddenly yelps as she is pulled toward the wall, sucked into it up to her armpit, and quickly sinking deeper. "Help!" she screams.


In the plains of the surface...

Relieved at the lack of smiting that has happened, Darren decides to bid the fair femmes of the underground a fond farewell, heading back into town and going down the hatch and the tunnel to find himself in the home of Karina, who greets him fondly.

"Hey, you're back. Have you found what you were looking for?" she asks with a gentle smile, then becomes a little serious. "You... seem different, somehow. You are who you were, right? Please be who you were, okay?"

She appears to become uneasy looking at you.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10496 on: April 03, 2015, 08:09:48 am »

Save Wilma by trieing to pull her out and if that doesnt work try walking through the wall

((I'm really out of ideas))
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« Reply #10497 on: April 03, 2015, 08:28:35 am »

Sigund will try to use move the anti-magic peeble towards the city, with the help of his stone-manipulating abilities. Obviously, he will try to do so from a distance, so that the anti-magic peeble doesn't try to remove the soul from his badger body

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« Reply #10498 on: April 03, 2015, 12:14:36 pm »

Scot, underwelmed will set the mage on fire.
''I hope you enkoy Shashlik, my friend. Pray we do not meet again.''
He will then move and float over the city again to find his tea-table.
Something seems off about the city. Has the Gub grown impatient and launched an assault?
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 6: Enjoying the Gub Life?
« Reply #10499 on: April 03, 2015, 02:46:28 pm »

Save Wilma by trieing to pull her out and if that doesnt work try walking through the wall

((I'm really out of ideas))

[Best one I got is to walk backwards, because we hit 2/3rds of the way walking this way, you went further on and hit 1/2nd of the way, which means forward isn't helpful. Another idea I got is to summon a portal we can escape through though, if all else fails. Although... A third might be escaping through a window. The something is moving away from the window, so we might be able to find more information on the other side.]

The desk pondered on the new sight, more of the something but this time moving away from the windows? Most curious. Hearing a cry for help from below, the desk took a look to see Wilma looking like she was stuck or being eaten by the wall.

"Good mage Wilma!" The desk aided good surgeon Mark in the mage extraction process with his many arms.
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