[OOC] First off, I'd like to thank Dark One for his help writing this. This post will be mostly similar to his, but from 3's perspective, with some more added after where he stopped. Also, sorry to hear that you'll be skipping Taupe. your first turn was one of the fort's most epic moments.
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After some time waiting in the old hall, the doors on the opposite end open, and a shadowy figure enters. He closes the door behind him then turns to 3. His face is extremely pale, with an unnatural sheen, giving the appearance of corpse starting to decay.
"I have come."
"Ah, I was wondering when you would arrive. You don't look well, then again you are a necromancer, so I guess looking like a corpse fits with the job."
"It's just the beginning of the transformational processes. I have brought something with me. Maybe it belonged to someone you know?"
He reaches into his cloak and pulls out a book, bound in leather, and tosses it onto the table near me. It lands open, pages covered in the family's runes. The runes emit a dull red glow.
"Ah, yes. I've been looking for that. When I arrived, I went to claim the property of my deceased predecessor. When I looked in the journal he left, most of the pages had been ripped out. I figured he had tried to destroy them to prevent your people from acquiring it. It seems he failed. Thanks for returning it though. "
3 closes the book and put's away in his pocket. After that he takes another drink from his bottle, noticing that it was nearly empty. He then asks the Dark One about his group, and their goals here. Once he is satisfied, he decides to find out how well informed his guest is about his own goals.
"Tell me, what do you know of my family?"
At this point he puts the bottle away, making a mental note to refill it later.
"Our history books mentioned only that they were present here. The only other information I had were that they both died here, slain either by forgotten beasts or by other horrible means. I can raise their spirits so you could speak with them, but the ward is blocking my powers over their bodies."
At those last words 3 begins to tremble with rage. "The ward is mine! If you want my assistance, you are going to have to follow certain rules. The first is this, Do not defile the graves of my family. Understand?" At this Dark One drops the idea and says he is willing to serve, for now at least. 3 decides to further test his knowledge. " Good. Now, before we discuss my plans to help you, tell me, what do you know of the MechaTechno sect?"
"The sect has appeared with last migrant wave. I haven't read the report that disciples gave me yet, as our meeting was much more important than some notes."
Smiling to himself, 3 replies" I see. I'll tell you this much now. They don't pose a threat to either of us. In fact, some of their plans happen to fit nicely into my own." Comforted that the Dark One doesn't know to much about things he thinks for a moment about how best to proceed. He gives the Dark One an order about the Sect, to which he says he already intended to do it anyway. They then discuss the vampire cult briefly. At that point, a look of worry quickly crosses the Dark One's face and he asks, "Do your wards on tombs work on ghouls?"
Surprised by his sudden question, and concerned about it's implications, 3 says "I put something in each tomb to protect it in a more physical manner. However, I don't think it will work on ghouls. I can help send a message to your people so they can stop it though." 3 pulls out paper and a pen and hands them to the Dark One. "Just write your message and I will deal with delivery."
Dark One quickly writes some mystical words on the paper and says them aloud. He then offer 3 other mystical things, which 3 rejects. Sitting back down in his chair, he asks the Dark One "What do you know about hell?"
"The hell?" the Dark One says with surprise. He then gets that distant look people tend to get right before fainting. After a moment he recovers and says "I was there before, yet I can't recall what happened there."
"Most interesting. I take it you aren't speaking metaphorically." After containing his surprise at the Dark One's statement, 3 then tell the Dark One about the source of his family's magical power, and how hell relates to it. He then outlines an idea for harvesting energy from hell. After the Dark One has heard the idea, he offers some improvements and agrees to the plan. ""Good to see that you approve. I'll work on the design and send it to you for any changes that might need to be made. I think that between your person and myself we should be able to get the MechaTechno to assist in building it. However, nothing will get built if we do not have the political power needed to convince the rest of the fort to help provide the supplies and man power. While the current overseer is a good dwarf, I don't think it likely that we'll be able to convince him to help us. I'll try speaking to him just in case, but I think the soundest route would to make certain that his replacement is someone who will listen to us." 3 pauses and thinks for a moment. "Perhaps we will use one of your people, as they are most likely to be obedient. Any ideas?"
The Dark One thinks for a moment, then replies with "I have thought about it. That's what operation G.O.D was meant. I can spoil some details about it, but i think it won't be necessary. I have a disciple called Urist, he is the most loyal and hard working disciple I have.... even though he's still a lazy bastard!"
"That might work, though if you think him lazy than perhaps there is someone else we could use."
After some more consideration, the Dark One replies, "There's also someone. Iamblichos! A spirit contained within body of ranger! It's the best candidate, as he has no free will, and we will have true power over him!"
"That sounds more useful. Very well then, I think we're done here, unless there's anything else you think we need to discuss."
The Dark One brings up a minor problem, however it is one that could grow more serious later. After they've made plans to deal with it, the Dark One leaves. 3 waits a moment after he is gone, then quickly gathers the tools he placed under the tables earlier. Once he finished picking them up, he then leaves the hall and returns to New DoomForests, headed toward the MechaTechno meeting place to bring TechnoXan up to speed on what was discussed.
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