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[mate888]

Oh God.
The universe wants me to think only of Doomforests, doesn't it?

[TheFlame52]

...What is that?

[Max™]

Well it's two chief weapons are fear, drunkenness, and magma.

Err, I mean it's three chief weapons are fear, drunkenness, and magma.

((And axes!))

Yes, the three chief weapons are fear, drunkenness, magma, and axes.

[Taupe]

Well it's two chief weapons are fear, drunkenness, and magma.
Err, I mean it's three chief weapons are fear, drunkenness, and magma.
((And axes!))
Yes, the three chief weapons are fear, drunkenness, magma, and axes.

Drunkenness is awesome, it's like a free weapon.

[Dark One]

The kobold priest moved slowly through the darkness, holding the termite skull in his hands. He walked past the great cavern lakes, through the dread passage to the altar. He placed the skull on the rock slab, in between the candles. Then he made a short prayer:

- ISTHUT ATHOTAT ETHELUR

And waited for response, to no avail. Something was not right. The undead kobold focused, sending a stream of red energy into the realms, but the seeking thunder haven't found anything of interest. He sat down close to the altar and waited, but after a while of silence he decided to use the termite skull. He came closer and cast the seeking thunder again, this time sending it through a magical bridge cast into the skull. The thunder flewn into the palace of Dark One, and came back to the kobold, giving him vision of the palace.

The place was dark and empty. Cracked walls barely hold the weight of construction. There was only Dark One's throne present there. As the kobold watched, the throne started to burn, leaving only a pile of ash. Suddenly the whole palace started to tremble, and it has been destroyed by the powers of void.

The kobold priest shuddered, but the powers that brought him undead were still present. Without anything more to do, he just walked until he entered the MechaTechno territory. Afraid cultists called for their comrades, so they could defeat the undead threat quickly. They readied the weapons and crundles, but the master engineer have stopped them.

- Who are you? You must be a slave of that fiend, Dark One! What do you want!?

- We are doomed! Our master have abandoned us!

- What!?

Suddenly the kobold shudders as powers that brought him undead have disappeared, leaving only a pile of bones.

[Salmeuk]

I . . . have returned. This glorious tale yet continues!

Updated OP and caught up with the story.

-Goblin invaders are harassing the local wildlife more than they are us. It's like all they came here for was to put forth a motion for Langur genocide.

Perhaps Doomforests was named after the plight of the Langurs.

-The Crundle who was fighting an Elk Bird died. Looks like it needed more training.

I seem to have missed the implementation of our Crundle Training program, haha.

Spoiler: Lonely Solon (click to show/hide)

Is our dining room really that clean? Amazing.

Spoiler: Mason's Corner (click to show/hide)

I remember carving out those rooms, many years previous. Before my death.

[Taupe]

Hey, that dinning room looks actually nice and friendly, now that it isn't used as a werewolf containment facility/murderroom, or as a lair for a lone dirty insane doctor!

[Iamblichos]

Yay, it lives! 

Also, Taupe, I am honored that I was considered sig-worthy 

[Taupe]

Yay, it lives! 

Also, Taupe, I am honored that I was considered sig-worthy 

It's perfect. Incredubly specific, yet hilariously universal...

[mate888]

Likot runs into the Chief Inquisitor's office.
-Your Holiness!
-Call me Mate, Likot, I know you from before we came into this fort.
-Mate, there's some foul stench coming from Mecha Techno territory. Maybe the undead are back.
-The undead? Dark One is dead, there can't be!
-Then what is it?
-Maybe dead crundles and... Oh, no.
-What?
-If those crazy crundle-lovers are leaving their dead crundles to rot so that other crundles eat them, the crundles eating their rotten brothers may get sick and die, expanding sickness throught the fort!
-What should we do, then?
-Send some of our guys into their territory. Well armed. Kill as many crundles as you are able to and burn them. We can't risk the fort.
-What if we are spotted by someone?
-Don't kill dwarves. Knock them unconcious if necessary, but if they sound the alarm, you escape from their territory.
-As you command.

[TechnoXan]

                                         The Codex of TechnoXan, Master Mecha Engineer
                    Entry Eight:   
Well. Security seems tight, but first a crazy overseer, and now a shambling Kobold long dead walking right through our pens and training quarters and into my counsel meeting with the scholars. Scared the living crap out of Zurek. Well then the aberration said something about being abandoned! Is Dark One, that eternal thorn in my side, finally dead? Oh why would that stop him! That thing brought a horrible stench too! Well anyway, I have arranged the four acolyte handlers with fourteen Alpha Crundles in our attack force. We will strike -wait! The pressure plates on mine shaft theta are activated?! Sound the alarm! Everyone back to your assigned pens and living quarters. This is not a drill! Send down the strike team and I want backup squads in the counsel room! Form on me, whoever this is, otherworldly dead or zealots. We will not yield! These are our caverns and this is our base, the Mechatechno sect will prevail! Oh lord here they come, the inquisition will fall today!

So sorry about the absents, SOLS just ended! Aaaaand now math finals. Well in a week or so. Anyway, so do you want to pm through the fight Mate? well, the RP is looking awesome! 

[Dark One]

[OOC] I made a slow adventurer run from DateTattoed to Doomforests. [/OOC]

Vampires, heretics and night creatures terrorize the world on a daily basis. In these dark times, Shorast Strangerways, soon to be known as The Craterous Comet of Fields, decides to stop this with violent force!

For months I was tracking a fiend by the name Dark One. By corresponding with one of the cultists, I managed to locate his lair - Doomforests. On the way to DateTattoed, in one of the hamlets I met a swordsman seeking the demon too. I told him where he should go. I never met that swordsman again, he probably died on the way, got killed by cultists or the fiend itself.

The journey starts in DateTattoed, once glorious capital of mankind, now ruins full of lurking vampires and crazed cultists.

Spoiler: The Beautifull Cathedral (click to show/hide)

Standing in front of The Beautifull Cathedral, one of the many cursed chapels Shorast feels no fear. He walks down to the bottom of a pit in the middle of the chapel. Once there was a pond of holy water in the bottom, but the curse changed it into ice.



Shorast goes through the silent passages with torch lighting his way. The place gives a sinister feeling, the air is filled with stench of death and evil. Moving between corpse filled corridors, halls full of coffins and statuaries, taking any usefull items left by the dead, he realises how to remove the curse.





He searches the crypts, looking for ingredients necessary for a ritual and finds them - a human bone from one of the coffins and a troll skull. Then he visits a statuary, and performs the ritual. The ground shakes and wall tremble, beams of light shot out of the skull, and after a while the air clears. Shorast walks back to the entrance, and looks at the pond. Ice melted, freeing the holy water. The curse was lifted.







Next he leaves the cathedral, to look for someone who can give him directions to Doomforests.

Spoiler: Cultist Slaughterfest (click to show/hide)

Walking through the empty, silent streets of DateTattoed Shorast feels as if he was watched by something or someone. Suddenly he hears sounds of a battle.



Shorast decides to see what is going on in the keep. He goes through the gates, listening to screams and clinging of metal. Then he finally reach the throne room, full of corpses, robed men with knives and king watching it ofr entertainment. Opening the door, everyone stopped and watched him for a while, and then came back to their business.





After a while of watching the spectacle, Shorast notices a hatch to royal crypts. There may be some items useful on his journey, like tomes of knowledge giving information about Dark One.



As Shorast descended the stairway, he had the same feeling as in The Beautifull Cathedral. He searched the empty halls for some time, but he found nothing of interest except for an old, rusted iron spear. Shorast felt rest of the energy contained within the object. Maybe he'll find a way to load it with energy again, or someone who can identify it.



Next he moves out of the crypts. Cultists continuing the massacre. Shorast wondered for a while what are they doing with the bodies, and then he found huge corpse stockpiles as an offering to their dark gods.



He turns back and goes away.

Spoiler: Vampire Hunt (click to show/hide)

Walking through the abandoned streets of DateTattoed, Shorast thinks about the spear. Who was it's owner, and what powers were contained in it? It was nearing evening, and Shorast had to find a shelter for the night. Suddenly a dark figure jumps from the nearby roof and lands in front of him. "Vampire!" Shorast shouted and drawn his silver battle axe nad iron shield.



The battle starts. Vampire tries to bite Shorast, but with a quick hack of his axe, he strikes the vampire in the right foot. Bloodsucker is knocked over, but still tries to kill Shorast. After dodging some of it's attacks and a few strikes, the vampire finally dies due to blood loss.



Next Shorast looks for suitable container and takes some vampire blood. Drinking it would move on the curse on him, but that isn't his plan. Vampire blood can have high price in alchemical market. Price varies, depending on how dangerous was the beast and of which race. Shorast goes to the closest abandoned house, taking the body with him. He makes a fireplace inside, to not lure another deadly night creature. When the fire is high enough, he throws the corpse into the fireplace and watches as it turns to dust. Then he falls asleep.

After a few hours a long, horrifying scream wakes shorast up. He walks out of the house and notices dark figure running towards him.



"Another bloodsucker!" Shouted tired of this place Shorast. He deals with the beast rather quickly, takes blood, and throws the body into the fire.





Then he falls asleep, and wakes up full of energy the next day. Shorast decided to look for some food and water for a travel to Doomforests, and searching the fields he is attacked by another vampire!



Annoyed by this Shorast takes his weaponry and rushes into battle. He hacks the beast in the throar, cloving it asunder, and after a few more strikes the bloodsucker dies due to blood loss. Shorast throws it over the campfire and goes away, heading to nearby farmer houses. When coming closer, a serpent man vampire runs out of one of the houses.

"Again? Just how many vampires live in this cursed place?!" Shorast said to himself. He rushed into the battle, hacking the beast and dodging it's attacks. But the beast managed to bite shorast in his right hand, injecting the poison and inflicting strong pain. However, Shorast unmoved with this increased the ferocity of his attacks, slain the beast, and thrown the body over the fire.



"Let's get out of this hole!" Said angered Shorast. He spent only one day and night here, and the city already shown it's true nature to him. Cultists, vampires and curses. As he was just about to leave the farmer houses, another vampire jumped out of it's lair.



"What now?!" A gobling axe lord vampire ran from the fields towards Shorast. It tried to kill him with it's bare hands. Shorast knew that if the bloodsucker had a weapon, he wouldn't stand a chance against such opponent. With a few well placed strikes, the vampire dies. This time, Shorast threwn the body into the river. He's sure that he'll meet with him again, and make a fair fight in the future if someone uses good formulae to bring him back alive.

Shorast moves on, and almost leaving the city, he gets attacked by another bloodsucker. Reptile man spearman charges towards Shorast, but he dispatches it quickly with his silver battle axe, and burns the body.



Then Shorast moves on in his adventure.

Spoiler: The way to Doomforests (click to show/hide)

Travelling through forests Shorast hunts for food, and moves through local hamlets and dwarven hillocks. Somehow, everyone knows about his battles with vampires. People started to call him "The Craterous Comet of Fields". After a few nights spent within other humans and dwarves, he stumbled upon abandoned hamlet.

Shorast couldn't just leave it. Abandoned villages are a great lure for beasts. When he comes closer ot the houses, a two marksmen jump out of bushes, axeman following them. They demand Shorast to yield, but the vampire hunter refuses to do so. He attacks the axeman first. Hacking him in the leg, he knocks him over. Then he strikes for the head, and the severed part sails off in an arc!

Then he runs towards marksmen while dodging and blocking flying bolts. They meet the same fate as axeman. Shorast goes close to the biggest house in the hamlet. Suddenly a huge group of marksmen, axemen and swordsman accompanied by dwarves appear. They told Shorast to enter the house and talk with the warlord. After a short greeting the warlord said:

- I've heard of your deeds for the people of DateTattoed, and heard about your battle with our soldiers.

- What do you want?

- I want to offer you a position of my lieutenant.

- There are matters more important than banditry. I'm tracking a fiend.

- So, let's say that if you'll look for a job, you can always come here.

- I'll remember this. Excuse me now, I must be going.

Shorast leaves the base of bandits, and after following a huge river for some time, he finally reaches Doomforests. He stands in front of a huge wall of thick vegetation. There was something wrong about this forest... something frightening yet charming. As if the whole place called you, so it could take last drop of blood from your veins, and last breathe from your lungs.



Entering the forest Shorast felt overwhelmed by it. He felt both horriffied and fascinated. He knew that he'll never be the same after this journey. Wandering through the forest, Shorast stumbled upon a dwarven child. It was vomiting, probably due to cave adaptation. In the distance Shorast spotted another dwarf. It looked like mystical powers wanted to show him way to the fortress.

He followed the trail of dwarves, all of them looking distant, and not responding to him. Finally he saw a tower and fortifications in the distance. He climbed down the fortifications and entered main hallway, leaving past huge stockpile of corpses. His jounrey finally ended, but his mission just started. Shorast has reached Doomforests.

[PsychoAngel]

Sorry about being so late. To be honest, I wasn't feeling the itch, and because of the framerate I'm getting in Doomforests, that's pretty much a deciding factor. I've also been sick this week, but am feeling much better now.

However, I'm kinda feeling the itch now, so I might get an update out by the end of the day. If not, expect something tomorrow.

Apologies for not letting you guys know.

[PsychoAngel]

Sorry I wasn't able to get to it yesterday. But without farther ado, I will now begin a large session.

Prepare for the triple-postening.

[PsychoAngel]

Journal of Psycho II: Third Entry

It is the eighteenth of Slate, and as time roves on, more and more odd occurrences happen within the walls of Doomforests.

So far we've had a crundle pit with no crundles, goblins attempting to murder all langurs, and a corpse that people just refuse to bury.

What in the name of Armok will happen next?


Accomplishments:
-Built a few magma forges in the depths of Doomforests near the dorm rooms.
-Had a fisherman who was trapped in the caverns break a wall and open the cavern. Will install a door.
-Now we have a close-by source of fish
-Found loads of gold inside the cavern.
-I have given birth to a son! He will be a strong worker and will know the value of family tradition.
-Traded with humans. Gave them some high-value crafts for drinks, animals, splints, crutches, metal bars, equipment, and berries

Happenings:
-Oddom Matstukos has changed profession to Mason.
-A metalcrafter has been possessed!
-Summer has arrived.
-Human traders have arrived!
-Moody dwarf seizes gold, marble, cloth, leather, and wood for the construction.
-Pencil Art has been reelected.
-Migrants have arrived
-Artifact Complete! It was a gold earring.

Oddities:
-When did the fisherman get in the cave? Who sealed it?!
-Saw a guy sleeping in the wood stockpile. Don't they know that there's a perfectly good dorm room?
-Supplies tell me we can forge several different metals, but the workers say otherwise.
-Found a 1x1 Cinnabar bridge where there doesn't need to be a bridge.

Scenes:

Spoiler: New Forges (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Today's HOT new artifact (click to show/hide)

That'll be all from me for now. I would have taken a screenie of the sleeping man, but I forgot. I'll do some more either later today or tomorrow.
Man, since I started this format for the journal, I have to keep with it. I kinda miss writing a narrative.