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Author Topic: Life Begins At Death - Epilogue: We Live And Live Again  (Read 562933 times)

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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3240 on: February 23, 2013, 10:30:26 pm »

Timothy groaned, then decided to change tactics. This was like one of those frustrating dreams where nothing went as you intended.
"Usually I enjoys da fireworks, but not right now. Right now I not enjoys nuffin'. In fact I dun' even feels particularly Wonderful. Mebbe youse can help me? Tell me how I's gettin' outta here, back to da real world, an' den maybe I be feelin' Wonderful."

>Appeal to the skeletal hippo's goodwill to help me return to the land of the... well. I was going to say living, but you know.
How about we just call it the material plane. Yes. Ask the hippo to help me get back there!

>If he/she/it refuses to comply, try again to blast its legs off.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3241 on: February 24, 2013, 03:16:15 am »

Inside a mysteriously magical cul-de-sac...

Luke decides that now would be a good point to start rage-magicking everything up! Step One: humanoid body!

[Pink magic roll: 1-1]

He explodes into a pink mist! A pink mist that begins to rapidly disperse!

[Luke will roll: 3]

Hm. That's definitely not a good feeling, there. Oh well. Step Two: screw the voice over!

[Pink magic roll: 3-1]

Absolutely nothing happens! How amazing!

You shouldn't do that. If I actually get a body, I still won't be able to help you in any way.

[Luke will roll: 1]

Not that it's likely to matter with the way you're dispersing.

[Luke will roll: 2-1]

Oh dear. It seems like your use of the Pink is really catching up to you. Reminds me of myself when I finally bit the dust.

[Luke will roll: 5-2]

You see, I mentioned most people ending up completely exploded and dead not because it's what immediately happens. In fact, it mostly happens in the next hours following the transformation. It's what happened to me eventually and it's what happened to the rest of the people here much sooner. It's just that pyramid people are quicker to realize exactly how bad they are with their abilities. Funny, that.

The pink seems to have reached the house now, and is intensifying as they speak.


In the streets of Emlocke...

Mark tries to quickly fix his leg before Tom can manage to get away!

[Mark medicine roll: 1]

He just rips the leg right off, breaking the limb in several pieces for the crime of showing such weakness, and hops over to Tom! Tom, meanwhile, tries to get into a fire making mood!

[Mark vs. Tom: 5+2 vs. 5-1]

Mark handily chops the only arm Tom possesses right off, which kind of hurts the guy's attempts to set him on fire. They kind of stare awkwardly at one another afterwards.

Suddenly, Yorinnsud rushes over! She is disappointed to find that things look to be under control for now.


Somewhere beyond...

Timothy, upon realizing that violence, for once, is getting him nowhere, tries the talky thing instead.

"Usually I enjoys da fireworks, but not right now. Right now I not enjoys nuffin'. In fact I dun' even feels particularly Wonderful. Mebbe youse can help me? Tell me how I's gettin' outta here, back to da real world, an' den maybe I be feelin' Wonderful."

[Hippo informativeness roll: 5]

"Ah! Confused, are we? It's perfectly natural. You are in Undefined Space, after all. The place that never got sorted out by the countless creators, managers and divinities of the universe, to make a long story short. It's a wonderful place."

Timothy looks at the hippo impatiently.

"Now, if you want to get out, the good news are that you can at any moment, it's all a matter of focus! Amazing, no? The bad news are that you might end up anywhere, depending on how lucky you are. Anywhere at all. Also amazing, but not for you. You could chance it anyway, yes, but you could also stay here a while. Learn about this place. Study its workings. It's why I came here at first, you see - to learn to control this place, utilize it to my advantage. To go anywhere in the blink of an eye. But eventually I figured that this place beat the defined world by a significant margin, so I stayed. You might, too. Or you might just leave. The choice is yours, I suppose. But you could also take a third option - pretty fireworks! Yay! I like pretty fireworks, you know."
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3242 on: February 24, 2013, 06:29:47 am »

"Two things mate, Fuck and you."
Heroic sacrifice, fly into the pink epicentre!
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3243 on: February 24, 2013, 07:44:58 am »

Inside Building Three...

Luke, in what he intends to be his final act on this land, expressively mind-flips the voice off and heads off to heroically sacrifice himself!

[Pink magic roll: 3-1]

He doesn't manage to sufficiently collect himself to achieve any movement, however!

No need to rush. It should all be good.

[Luke will roll: 5-2]

Luke manages to stay alive for long enough to try again!

[Pink magic roll: 2-1]

Regrettably, this still does not work one bit. If anything, it only gets worse for his continual existence!

[Luke will roll: 3-2]

And with that, Luke has lost all of his previous composition, the mist making up his body having dispersed to a point where it very well may never have existed at all. Luke's pinkish soul floats away from the increasingly pinker area, speeding off into the ether at a velocity only extremely overdue souls can achieve!

That is, until the metaphysical concept representing his life smashes into the wall of the dome and bounces back. Huh.
« Last Edit: February 24, 2013, 08:12:13 am by Harry Baldman »
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3244 on: February 24, 2013, 07:54:32 am »

Wait what? What? AHAHAHA WONT BE DIEING TODAY!
Hahahahaha, do some gloating! [/]
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3245 on: February 24, 2013, 07:57:39 am »

"Well, that was fun, wasn't it? You horribly maimed yourself and then me. Jolly good, I'll be on my way then. Nothing against you, but I like being undead. I also like having limbs."
Roll away after attaching my arm back on.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3246 on: February 24, 2013, 08:11:38 am »

In a mysteriously magical dome...

Luke hangs in the air for a bit, enjoying his deathless position while he can! Oh yeah! He doesn't have a body, cannot physically influence the world in any conventional way and the only avenue of magic available to him is dangerously unreliable! Oh yeah, suck on that, voices in the exact same position!

As he gloats, he witnesses the very air get permeated by pink as the dome restricts its horizontal spread. The air gets less transparent and closer to hot pink with every passing second.


In the streets of Emlocke...

Tom isn't fazed in the slightest by the loss of his arm, and immediately tries to bounce right back from this trauma.

[Tom medicine roll: 2]

Sadly, he lacks the necessary needle and thread to attach his arm back on, not to mention any more sophisticated tools. He shakes his head, grabs his arm in his teeth and rolls off.

[Will roll: 6+1]

The intersections, fortunately, do not confuse him this time. How fortunate.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3247 on: February 24, 2013, 09:19:46 am »

drag the pryo back to benie and if anything gets in my way throw the pyro at it then kill it
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3248 on: February 24, 2013, 09:44:06 am »

Continue on my jolly way to another border settlement.

((I really need to find some replacement limbs.))
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3249 on: February 24, 2013, 01:02:38 pm »

Ghost on in. Hide in the furniture, try and find them.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3250 on: February 24, 2013, 02:27:57 pm »

"Fuck you reality!"
Become the pink apocalypse!
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« Reply #3251 on: February 24, 2013, 03:01:21 pm »

In the streets of Emlocke...

As Tom rolls away into the darkness, Mark gives chase, immediately followed by Yorinnsud!

[Tom rolling escape roll: 1-1]
[Mark pursuit roll: 5+1-1]
[Yorinnsud pursuit roll: 1]

Mark, moving at a brisk run, quickly catches up to Tom and grabs him! Yorinnsud, meanwhile, strolls in Tom's general direction, stopping to look at particularly interesting walls at inopportune intervals.

[Mark strength roll: 4]

Mark carefully lifts Tom, though the weight of the body is clearly giving his remaining leg a fair bit of trouble! As he hops back carefully, Yorinnsud eventually catches up in her sightseeing trip and offers help!

[Yorinnsud strength roll: 4+1]

She picks up Tom in her many arms and the three undead start to walk back toward the necromancer that started this whole mess.


Next to a highly secure house...

Darren, once more in a position of helpfulness, goes inside the house, marveling at the fact that the walls, oddly enough, are also steel! And at least a foot thick, too! He looks inside the house and finds it to look pretty normal, other than the reinforced furniture, locked steel cabinets and utilitarian magical lighting around. So, not very normal at all. He looks around for a possible owner, all the while attempting to remain utterly stealthy.

[Search roll: 1]
[Stealth roll: 6]

He gets into a steel-covered living room chair and shuffles forth with his telekinesis, looking for any occupants! He eventually finds an odd sort of room - a room filled with odd devices of all kinds. One in particular catches his eye - it looks like a backpack, but a metallic one! And there is an odd thing, like a crossbow but without the bow part and made of pipes and metal, attached to it.

For some reason, this artifact makes him feel nervous somehow. And this is no small part due to the incredibly loud metallic screeching sounds made by the chair as it was dragged along the floor, which has probably alerted the people in the building that something might be up.


In the middle of something resembling a very pink version of the apocalypse...

Luke attempts to possess the pink, hoping to become a world-shattering apocalyptic event!

[Intelligence roll: ?]

He has no idea how to do this, mind you, but by the gods he is going to try his damnedest!

[Possession roll: 6-2]

Letting instinct take care of all the hard, actually challenging parts of possessing things, he lets his soul move on toward the ensuing pink, becoming one with it in a slow, deliberate process! No longer a mere pink tetrahedron, Luke is now a pink cloud of immense proportions!

That is, until what he perceives to be critical pink build-up in a limited space occurs. At that point, Luke feels like he has been torn into a billion little pieces, scattered to the winds and reassembled in a violent event that reenacts the creation of the stars themselves, only about a trillion times faster and infinitely more painful!

[Luke will roll: 4]

He manages to keep hold of himself through the event, albeit barely! He feels the wall of the dome implode suddenly, flying into him and seemingly disappear.

It's pretty odd being a miniature Pink Vortex!
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« Reply #3252 on: February 24, 2013, 03:06:26 pm »

Do the ghost scream, then hide in the wall.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3253 on: February 24, 2013, 03:22:52 pm »

"Oh. Isn't this nice. A helping hand for a cripple. If only I could tell them they were going in the completely wrong direction. Oh, 'tis but the downside to having no limbs. I still need to fix that."

Be carried along. Hopefully finding something rigid on the way.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 4: In With The Right Crowd
« Reply #3254 on: February 24, 2013, 03:50:53 pm »

"I am no longer Luke I am the entity, I am pink, I shall be called Spectrum."
I am the spectrum, increase my movement speed, all shall know the glory of the spectrum.
((Time to destroy the world, advanced sorry if i destroy the game.))
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