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Bay 12 Skalds and Bards (Collaborative Mythos Building)
« on: August 05, 2013, 10:10:43 pm »

Okay, so what I was thinking is that we write short stories, sort of like old tales and legends like Norse and Greek Myths. Also old children's tales like the ones written by the Brother's Grimm. Then they all slowly build up. Anyone interested?

You can write anything; a long epic like the Odyssey or short poems or child rhymes. You can also write about stuff in Bay 12, like something heroic (or dumb) that a dwarf did in your fortress, or the epic battle your adventurer had with a megabeast. Maybe something that happened in an RtD you were in. Or anything.

Skalds:
Dansmithers

Cheesecake

Gamerlord

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Stories and Poems:
Dansmither's Poem

Cheesecake's Swords

Gamerlord's Poem

Barbarossa's Limericks
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Re: Bay 12 Skalds and Bards (Collaborative Mythos Building)
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2013, 11:13:09 pm »

There once was a Manin named Sam
Who thought to steal his neighbor's ram
But to prison he went
And his cell bars were bent
So now Mr Sam's on the lam
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Re: Bay 12 Skalds and Bards (Collaborative Mythos Building)
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2013, 11:58:28 pm »

Swords

Ravaging masses,
Pitchforks and swords,
Mad lads and lasses,
A rioting horde
Did come from the lands beyond the fjord.

Shambling shuffling
Hustling huffing
Barking screaming
Never dreaming
Playing the tune of Death's Chord

Obsessed with death
Laid across their breadth
The work of bored
Ladies and Lords. -Litany of DeathI
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Re: Bay 12 Skalds and Bards (Collaborative Mythos Building)
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2013, 12:20:20 am »

Hear the little ones running past
Don't look up or you'll be last
They'll take you away from kith and kin
Take you back home and stick you with pins
Then when you cry and run away
You'll never find your way home again.

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Re: Bay 12 Skalds and Bards (Collaborative Mythos Building)
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2013, 01:34:47 am »

Limericks!

There once was a man from Bavaria
who had a case of Malaria.
He began to see an illusion;
it was no optical occlusion,
It was a real (or unreal) phantasmagoria.
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Re: Bay 12 Skalds and Bards (Collaborative Mythos Building)
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2013, 05:00:23 am »

Ragnov III

Old Ragnov the Hero,
Locks so fiery and red!
And he raises his blade,
Filling mortals with dread.

Slashing and stabbing,
Crushing men with foot,
Howling so maddening!
Cutting the life thread.

One day, his match met,
His brow covered in sweat,
Lunging with sword,
Bones broke blood shed!

The beast, three headed.
Body of lion, wing of dragon,
Face of Man, tail of scorpion,
Lying dead!

Ragnov victorious!
Victory glorious!
Glory went to his head,
Till his death on his bed.Tales of Mantlebane
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Re: Bay 12 Skalds and Bards (Collaborative Mythos Building)
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2013, 09:36:00 am »

The gods covened, and gazed upon the world. They saw that the world was filled with the unjust souls who sought to use the good for selfish purposes. So, they forged a new god from the Holy Iron, a diety of  magic and spirit. He granted unto the mortals that were just the power of Magic, who could use great power with but a word. The evil gave way to the good in the world, and the mages ruled supreme as total leaders, ruling both the spiritual and day-to-day life of the people.
One man, however, decided to extract all the possible power out of magic, and keep it for himself. He began to work with magic, twisting it and melding it, changing both the fabric of the world and the nature of the magic god. The new, twisted magic left the man drained and twisted, with his skin stretched tight across his bones and his eyes soulless globes. The power, however, could breathe unlife into anything, and raise it as a corpse warrior. This is how Magic,  Necromancy, and Liches were created.
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Re: Bay 12 Skalds and Bards (Collaborative Mythos Building)
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2013, 04:08:21 pm »

You're really good at this Cheesecake.
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Re: Bay 12 Skalds and Bards (Collaborative Mythos Building)
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2013, 05:19:17 pm »

D'aww, thanks!
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« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2013, 05:34:48 pm »

D'aww, thanks!
Anything for you, guy! Anything! *hugs*
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Re: Bay 12 Skalds and Bards (Collaborative Mythos Building)
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2013, 04:17:02 am »

Unnamed attempt

T’was a dark and icy winter,
When the winds came marching in.
In the darkness things were stirring,
And the fires were hid ‘hind kin.

One night the hearth grew dimmer still,
And tides rose on higher shores.
From the waves trod legions sleepless,
Shades of men who life abhor.

They took the weak and young and old,
Sent them back to break the strong.
The embers faded into ash,
The warriors sang saddest songs.

Next morn I stood ‘fore them again,
Skin flat and dead as cold ice.
My father’s blade pierced mine own heart,
And still I struck him back thrice.

We returned back deep together,
United in hate of heat.
Our fires will burn no longer,
Far below the tossing sea.

So beware of the ocean deep,
Where even light fears to tread.
For in the darkness lies there,
The ever present hungry dead.
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Re: Bay 12 Skalds and Bards (Collaborative Mythos Building)
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2013, 12:51:46 pm »

Where this statue stands
The entire history bends
Like a book of making
Minds that see it are breaking
Planepacked! Planepacked!
Deliver unto us
Teach us
The secrets of Armok
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