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Author Topic: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!  (Read 7664 times)

Niccolo

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Re: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!
« Reply #30 on: February 26, 2013, 10:05:16 pm »

I'm going to be honest with you folks, I only really care about the combat report itself. xD You can give me extraneous details if you want, but that doesn't mean I'll use them...



C'mon, you offer comedy gold like that and don't expect me to take advantage?

You hear a knock at your door. A tingle races up your spine; you peek out of the window and see him standing there, covered in purple paint and wearing nothing but a ragged loincloth. Your mouth is dry. You timidly unlock the door and open it and give him a sunny smile. He seems uncomfortable. "So, yeah... I, uh, well..." He gestures down at the paint covering his hairless, finely-muscled chest. "I think I look kinda like a bogeyman, huh?" You nod. You don't have any words. It's finally happening, you've finally found someone crazy enough to help you live out your fantasy. You've waited so long for this moment! You grab his hand and pull him inside, slamming the door eagerly.

With a gentle shove, you press him up against the door and lean against him. His skin is faintly clammy; he's understandably nervous. You try to reassure him and run one pale, soft hand down his chest. "It's okay. You don't have to hurt me," you murmur as you try and nudge him into playing his role properly. After all, he agreed to this for your birthday. The least he could do is follow the script.

He seems to get into the swing of things, now. His fingers, so long and fine, grip your shoulders a little harder than is comfortable. His eyes bore into yours and you wonder what he's thinking. As much as you want this, you want him to be having fun too. Gingerly, timidly, he leans down and kisses your forehead and it's like a fire is ignited all through you. Your hands clutch at his shoulders and yyou let out a sigh as you feel his tongue trace down the side of your face.

The velvety softness of his tongue tracks down to your jaw and begins to wander back upwards; you turn and bite his tongue. You give him a wicked glance and tug playfully on his tongue, only for him to scream in pain. He lets go of you and you fall over in shock, vaguely realising that his tongue is still in your teeth. You spit it out. "What the fuck, Bruce? What the absolute fuck?" He's too busy clutching at his mouth to answer you, so you look down at the tongue again. Was it a fake? You prod it with one toe. No, it's definitely a real tongue. But... He doesn't seem to be bleeding much. "What's going on?" you ask him again. "What the hell is going on?" He glares at you angrily. "Bruce... Are... Are you actually a bogeyman?"

His glare softens, fades. His hands drop away from his mouth to reveal a nearly bloodless injury. He looks around uncertainly before giving you one quick nod. "Oh... Oh my God. You're really... you're actually..." He takes a step back and half turns to go, but you leap for him and slam him against the wall. "That is so hot." You have time to see the surprise in his eyes before your lips press against his. Hands run down your back again and you shudder against him. This is so much better than you had hoped, so much more than those dirty books you had stolen from a necromancer's tower suggested.

You leave a trail of kisses down his purple skin, marvelling at the dry flakiness. It tastes strange, but so so good. His muscled arms are so inviting, so you trace your lips down his left shoulder; his other hand slides up your back to stroke your hair. You kiss your way down his arm to his wrist before biting it gently, lovingly. His wrist is spongy, not what you expected. You bite a little harder and for the second time that night, you feel his flesh give way. His hand tears off in your mouth; all you can taste is the rough, fibrous muscles and tendons of his body.

He howls at you in pain and tries to push you away, but you don't care. There's a fire in your belly that isn't going out until he damn well puts it out; you're not going to let him escape. Hell no. He's a bogeyman, a creature of the night and he's all yours. You're going to push him down onto your bed, you're going to tear that stupid loincloth off and you're going to ravish him until the sun rises. Then, to stop him vanishing, you're going to tie him down and have your way with him all day. You've waited so very long for this moment that you're not going to let some stupid injury wreck it for you!

He seems to realise this. Or maybe his hand is not actually hurting him all that much. Do bogeymen even have pain nerves? Who knows. You feel his right hand run down your back again, harder this time. He's getting rougher now, he's no longer acting like a human. Fine hands grip at your waistband; you invite him in by kissing his neck hungrily. Fingers slide down inside your skirt; your skin feels like it's going to burst into flames where he's touching you. Your legs feel all shivery and you're no longer thinking straight; you bite down hard on his shoulder, trying to keep the pleasured scream from ripping our of your mouth.

His shoulder gives way. You stumble in surprise and fall to the ground and the remains of his arm fall next to you. The hard, cold floor shocks some sense into you and you look up at the bogeyman of your dreams, now missing his entire left arm. He seems angry. Your stomach twists. "Bruce, I'm sorry... I'm really sorry, I don't know what happened... What came over me, I... uh..." The voiceless bogeyman just grunts at you unintelligibly. He bends, picks up his arm and turns for the door. "No, Bruce, don't go! Please! Please, I can be good... Just... don't leave me..." He halts for a second before straightening his back and walking resolutely for the door.

"Will... Will I ever see you again?"

The look he gives you tells it all. Don't go out alone at night.



So, yeah, I'm off to purge my brain now.
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Re: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!
« Reply #31 on: February 27, 2013, 11:50:44 am »

Bleach. I need bleach.

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Re: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!
« Reply #32 on: February 27, 2013, 02:51:17 pm »

I have seen goblin mutilation, mermaid harvesting, and baby slaughtering, but this is too far. CREATURES IN DWARF FORTRESS REPRODUCE WITH SPORES!!!

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Re: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!
« Reply #33 on: February 27, 2013, 05:42:30 pm »

Now you will know why you fear the partay in the night.

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Re: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!
« Reply #34 on: February 27, 2013, 06:35:55 pm »

Hey. I get given weird crap in an attempt to confuse the hell out of me?

I give you even weirder in revenge.
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« Reply #35 on: February 27, 2013, 10:32:47 pm »

Are you a writer or something? How do you come up with these things?
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« Reply #36 on: February 28, 2013, 01:07:55 am »

Are you a writer or something? How do you come up with these things?

I'm not an author, no. I just see the descriptions and something pops into my head.

Now you will know why you fear the partay in the night.

And this is now my new sig. Thankyou, Loudwhispers.
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« Reply #37 on: February 28, 2013, 08:57:23 am »

I'm not an author, no. I just see the descriptions and something pops into my head.
That's, like, the definition of a good writer. ;)
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So to recap, one minute everything was going just great, and the next we have caverns collapsing, firebreathing cave beasts, underground brush fires, a screaming swarm of poltergheists back for revenge, zombies in the corridors, drunken brawls in the dining halls, magma pouring into the caverns, rotting miasma everywhere, insanity, madness, and a flying crocodile heading right towards us!

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Re: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!
« Reply #38 on: February 28, 2013, 11:15:05 am »

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Re: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!
« Reply #39 on: February 28, 2013, 07:03:54 pm »

I'm not an author, no. I just see the descriptions and something pops into my head.
That's, like, the definition of a good writer. ;)
A terrifying, good writer :P

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Re: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!
« Reply #40 on: February 28, 2013, 09:23:58 pm »

Bah, a good writer would have had ideas for the guy wailing on a wooden elf, the battle with the alien insect, the grasshopper man and the goblin murderising the lamb.

Hang on...
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Re: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!
« Reply #41 on: February 28, 2013, 10:44:01 pm »


I'm going to be honest, I really don't know what to make of this one. I mean, is that it? Is there any more to the combat log, or do paralysing vapours kill instantly? The combat log doesn't really go anywhere. It's, like, the axedwarf acts like a little kid and pushes the forgotten beast and gets breathed on a lot.'

I can't tell the difference between axedwarves, too. That's one annoying thing about the DF combat logs - they're all just "The Axedwarf".

Anyway, I'll see what I can do.

The beast was much bigger than any dwarf. It looked human and certainly looked female, but had a fundamental aura of wrongness around it. Whatever this creature was, it certainly wasn't a human. It had wandered up out of the deepest caverns, preceded only by an eery howling that made the Dwarves' bones vibrate. And so the Axedwarves had been sent down to investigate what the source of the noise was - and to stop it with their wickedly sharp axes.

She... It... had climbed the stairs in front of them. Six feet tall if an inch, the last six inches of which was an elaborate beehive hairdo that... writhed. The Axedwarves took a collective step backward as they realised that the beast's hair was made out of snakes. "Ye Gods," one of the axedwarves muttered. "Just what has the earth birthed now?" The beast screeched again and the dwarves brought their axes to the bear, ten gleaming steel battleaxes promising death to any who opposed them.

The beast-person-thing didn't back down. The hairsnakes eyed the dwarves, assessed them, and found them wanting. Worse still, the hairsnakes spoke. "You will make terrible ssssstatuesssss", they hissed. One of the person-thing's hands reached up and petted  the snakes quietly, before speaking with a voice that reverberated with bell-sounds and set the dwarves' teeth to rattling. "Hush, dear ones. Yes, they're short and ugly. But I have a new wing to decorate. Beggars cannot be choosers."

One young dwarf, only newly drafted, growled and smacked his axe against his shield. The two metals crashed with a loud ringing. "Begone!" He took a step towards the thing, and another. "Begone from our halls! You are not welcome within this fortress!" He stepped forwards again, leaving the safety of his squad. "Begone, wretched beast!"

The thing's form blurred and she moved like lightning; it was only luck that the young axedwarf's shield blocked her vicious swipe. As it was, her shoulder caught his forehead and he tipped over backwards, landing in a clatter of steel armour. The beast crouched over him, her snakes slowly reaching down towards him, hissing faintly. "I am no beast," her terribly musical voice whispered into his ear. Her face moved until the dwarf could see her eyes, which were screwed shut. "I. Am. Medusa." With that, one eye opened and her yellow eye blazed with light as it bored into his.

The dwarf screamed and shoved against her; she stood up and stepped back, letting the young axedwarf stand and step back into the midst of his squad. There was a sudden dull thud, followed by the bell-chime of steel hitting rock. Medusa smiled. One axedwarf glanced back at the young, foolhardy dwarf. "Pick up ye weapons, durned fool!"

Medusa coughed politely. "He cannot. My left eye numbs all who look into it. Your youngling's arms will never work again." Her left eye, still open, roved across the squad. They all carefully looked away and backed up a few steps with the clinking of armour. Her snakes hissed, reared and struck ten feet short of any dwarf - before opening their mouths and spitting out a cloud of white vapour that engulfed four dwarves. The four fell to their knees as though in adulation of the snake-woman and she smiled again. Her teeth were green. "Look at me, my pets." As their eyes roved upwards, she opened her right eye and ran both over the kneeling dwarves. There was a tearing sound,followed by the popping of rivets. Pieces of armour shot off in all directions from the four statues which knelt where the dwarves had been but a moment before. "Of course... my right eye turns you to stone. Now, come. A moment of pain and you shall be immortalised as beautiful statues."

Six dwarves remained. "Her snakes... those clouds... They hypontise you?" One dwarf muttered, his hands shaking. "How do we beat someone like her?" Another dwarf smacked his axe against his shield. "Quickly!" he roared and charged. With a similarly loud - if shaky - roar, the other five followed him, axes held high. Medusa moved like the wind through their strikes, untouchable and ghostly. In the blink of an eye she was surrounded by the six, who looked mightily surprised that they had simply not managed to even graze her.

Snakes hissed, and struck.

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"Now, my dears. Hurry up and carry these statues for me," she ordered. "The faster you move, the sooner I can change you too."

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Re: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!
« Reply #42 on: February 28, 2013, 11:01:41 pm »

The Flying silver bolt strikes the Kobold thief in the leg chiping the bone.
a ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn
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« Reply #43 on: March 01, 2013, 01:19:56 am »

I'm tempted put some on here
Expect mostly troglodyte combat
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Re: Come, give me your combat reports so I may narrate them!
« Reply #44 on: March 01, 2013, 08:32:22 pm »

Glorious!

And damn it.

Being myself a writer I had this exact idea for a thread. Searched for such a thread (write your adventures/battles) to make sure people weren't already doing it themselves, and turns out someone is doing it for everyone which was my intent. D=

Oh well, I'm digging the writing styles shown here. Keep it up!
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