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Author Topic: Castle: Foxhound Chronicles (Choking your Bad Dragon in the Void)  (Read 396145 times)

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« Reply #1770 on: January 19, 2016, 01:23:27 am »

We are now entering Week 2/4


It seems that one half of the Squad is relaxing and generally unwinding while the other half is practicing dark arts.
Pages of Enchantments were found, such as making an Eldritch vial that would literally suck off one's wound as well as some of their blood meanwhile and a rock that absorbs heat.

There are of course bigger, grander rituals that required more than one person performing. Including blood sacrifices.

Jon found in one of the footnotes on his copy that not only more participants on a ritual increases it's power and successful chance if they performed it right, wearing fitting ritualistic clothings and armed with ritual knives engraved with the words of horror also helped.


Some poor, unlucky live interns have been selected from the flock to test out the 'corrupting blood' attack spell thing for whoever wanted to try performing it to perform it.

The Instruction is clear and simple. Make a cut on your own palm with the iron knife that's got the sigils and runes etched on it, then throw hatred, angst and general unpleasantness at a target.


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With Zachery using an Intern to run around holding a target for him too, the rumors that Foxhounds are batshit insane only spread further and faster. Some interns are starting to be scared of Foxhound and try to not be around them whenever possible.

Though so far no one have told them to cut the Dark eldritch arts out yet.
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« Reply #1771 on: January 19, 2016, 01:37:30 am »

"Anyone think we should introduce magic to the other gate teams?"
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« Reply #1772 on: January 19, 2016, 02:59:00 am »

I'm still working out every day taking only a one day break, that day should be used to make enough salves for the team. Also what does it take to make the heat absorbing stone??

I wouldn't be opposed to doing that Tal sharing this with other teams, however I do have to protest on how we are treating the interns. We can test this blood corruption on some animals if we have too, but the interns are scared shitless as is and performing dark magics on them will not help.
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« Reply #1773 on: January 19, 2016, 03:00:26 am »

"Fiiiiine. Borrow a monkey from R&D."
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« Reply #1774 on: January 19, 2016, 03:05:08 am »

The heat-absorbing stone seems to require an elaborate circles of sigils and runes as well as earthly materials like coal, sulfur and other base alchemy reagents. And a live sacrifice of a small critter to 'unleash the unending hunger of the stone.' And a stone itself of course.


A monkey have been requisitioned from R&D, though they're pretty certain that you're going to make some sort of a blood sacrifice or something with it. Because shit, man. Foxhound's cray.


Zander have finished producing a small jar's worth of the salve, it should be enough to keep in a vial per each member of the squad. Feels smooth, like face foam. Cool to the touch, too.

And Tea could probably be made by preserving the leaves and brew them later, though how effective is it still going to be isn't tested yet.
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« Reply #1775 on: January 19, 2016, 03:08:56 am »

What does the stone do specifically? Also what's needed for the vial?
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« Reply #1776 on: January 19, 2016, 03:26:17 am »

"Well, an intern could tell us what exactly he's feeling. A monkey is fine too, though."

Test out blood corruption on the monkey.
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« Reply #1777 on: January 19, 2016, 03:37:14 am »

When the intern becomes exhausted from carrying the wooden target around, Zachary thanks the intern and leaves it wondering what exactly to do with the wooden target. Zachary also takes the intern's name for next time he wants practice.


Zachary is getting very bored. While throwing knives at interns is fun, he really only loves a few things, two of which being flying and hacking. He gets an intern to bring him a disc copy of HL3 and a laptop computer capable of running it. Zachary then attempts to reverse-engineer the source code (copyright shouldn't be an issue as I'm pretty sure that only lasts for 75 years after the maker's death) and release a series of hacks for HL3 and hidden previews for HL4 that were reverse-engineered. If possible, charge money for them. If found, release the demo version of HL4, charging as appropriate..
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« Reply #1778 on: January 19, 2016, 03:45:49 am »

The stone 'shall hold in the wrath of flame for all of time until it is required again.' according to the translated book.

And the Vial needs, besides an even more elaborate sigil drawing than the heat stone, an ordinary vial. 'Flesh of the living', 'Bones of the damned', 'life-bearing spark' and a sacrifice of blood of a virgin. Candles will be needed, of course. As well as chanting to 'draw into the vial the one that consumes flesh of imperfection' or something like that. Something might've been lost in translation, or maybe not. Imperfection could've meant wounded too maybe!

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Jon attempts to attack the caged monkey with corrupting blood!
You drag the tip of your pure iron ritualistic blade across your palm, drawing blood as you recall back the horrible, awful times in life. Pulling upon your anger, your hatred and sadness. For a moment there you might even feel silly, since you've grown way past the age of 14 already and the Emo phase was already gone. But you could recall it, and for the sake of !!SCIENCE!! you managed to pretend like the world doesn't understand you again.

It hurts, it felt like your blood was boiling and bubbling in your palm. Remembering the instruction, you throw it as hardest as you can as if throwing a baseball at the monkey, tossing a hissing, bubbling trail of smoky darkening blob of blood that splatters onto the cage and monkey.

The metal bars that was hit hisses violently as rust and imperfection began to eat into it, corroding the affected area while the monkey that was hit went batshit.

It screamed and jumped all over it's cage to escape as it's flesh that got splattered on by blood boiled and bubbled, sick, putrid pockets begin popping up on the affected area while the worst of it rot rapidly and fell off of it in chunks, causing vomit-enduing scent that exploded violently outwards from the critically injured monkey. It's going to need some immediate and modern medical care if it has any chance of surviving, and the chance probably doesn't look good. The rot ate it's way to the bones, effectively making the affected area that of a corpse.


From the smell and the shriek of terror from the monkey, every immediate intern lost their lunch, puking onto the floor, the table and their co-interns as they lost their con-checks before screaming away immediately as they too lost their will-check. Frightened from witnessing Eldritch magic and it's effect.

Jon fails the con roll again and you feel bitter bile coming up your throat.. you could try puking onto one of the other researchers here.. Frazz's just within reach.
Not only does he lost a con roll, he is also at a level 2 fright. shaken from it all, Magic is fucking real! and it's fucked up! AND it's on HIS HAND! though he could've been a lot more fucked if his roll went any worse.

Zander fought back the bile and won, though he's now at a level 1 fright from witnessing Eldritch dark magic and a little shaken, creeped out but is mostly fine.

Tal tries ignoring the smell, and succeed. Forcing the bile back down. His will steeled and didn't get any fright levels.

Frazz lost his Con check, the surprise smell catching him off-guard and the bile is coming up faster than he had anticipated, though it's merely an annoyance since he succeed his will check and isn't all that bothered by the eldritch stuff.
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« Reply #1779 on: January 19, 2016, 03:53:03 am »

"That is extremely neat." Tal continues flipping through the book. Does it explain what Bones of the Damned and Flesh of the Living are? Also does the book hint at the speed of heat absorbed?
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« Reply #1780 on: January 19, 2016, 03:56:44 am »

"That is extremely neat." Tal continues flipping through the book. Does it explain what Bones of the Damned and Flesh of the Living are? Also does the book hint at the speed of heat absorbed?

The book doesn't say how fast the stone absorbs heat. But with your combined intellect, you can guess that Bones of the Damned may be bones of creatures within the gate. And flesh of the living are simply flesh cut from a living thing, it probably meant human flesh. Fresh, human flesh.
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« Reply #1781 on: January 19, 2016, 03:58:04 am »

Well good thing we can clone human flesh! Also have an intern fetch Rusher Variant A Bones. And a vial.
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« Reply #1782 on: January 19, 2016, 04:02:05 am »

[Just going to wait here for the others to catch up and react on the Corrupting blood experiment, then we'll move on. :P]
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« Reply #1783 on: January 19, 2016, 04:12:48 am »

((You didn't GM Zach's action vKiNm))
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« Reply #1784 on: January 19, 2016, 04:47:57 am »

((You didn't GM Zach's action vKiNm))

[Whoops! sorry. Been a long day. :P]

With his skills, Zach was able to manufacture a few hacks for HL3 after snooping around the source code a bit. Releasing it to the public, he began to gather an online reputation. It's not much at first, but it might grow into something. People are saying that his hacks are the best around!

Though unfortunately, anything regarding HL4 itself does not seems to exist. So there's only so much he could reverse engineer. You could try to start charging people for using your hacks, of course. If you think they'll pay you for it and not settle for other hacks.

Doing all that was surprisingly fast, and Zachery is left being bored again.

Zachery gained a little online presence and reputation.
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