The first rays of dawn are breaking through the sky, turning the azure into a fiery golden.
This is dawn, a new day begins.
Turn 49 : Everyone
ZoomochScoomtarto the Three-Eyed BeholderWhelp, I'd best See How it tastes! Or in simpler terms: Go for the Throat!!
[1] Blinded by your insatiable hunger, you lunge toward the green creature whose back is still turned. But the sudden change in air pressure is felt by the sensible hairs of the monster. The creature exhibit an sudden burst in speed, and jumps behind you, dodging your attack.
It stands on its back legs to intimidate you, blocking the way out. Its fur is so thick that the body under it can't be distinguished, you see no eyes, no specific features. Only a large gaping mouth opening, revealing three rows of sharp teeth.
There is no exit, you are now in the chamber with the monster blocking the way out.
Caedan the Nosferatu"Taking the risk to get that essence was completely worth it. NO LONGER WILL I BE LOST IN A FOREST! Truly, a joyous occasion."
Let's fly up and take a look around the area. If there's something nearby that looks interesting (like a bone demon and a hot demoness invading a village, for example), check it out. Otherwise look for prey.
((Also, looks like you didn't notice that I changed Caedan's appearance. It's a small change here and there, so I'm not overly surprised that you missed it.))
[6] You rise up into the skies, enjoying your new powers to the fullest. You can't help but let out a maniacal laugh, like some villain at the windows of an obscure manor.
You begin to look around the area, flying high into the cloudless sky. The fresh morning wind on your skin is refreshing, and the mild moistness of the night is making you feel great. As you are flying your eyes closed to better appreciate these new sensations, you hear shouting down there, disturbing your reveries.
It's a whole battalion of marching soldiers, heading toward the forest. Looking further ahead, you notice three more battalion behind this one. They have not yet spotted you, but it shouldn't take much seconds before they do.
Snehk the Stalker Follow these tracks and find that monster.
[6] The three of you decide to track down the creature behind those tracks. Barak and Bargar don't know what species this monster is, they never saw such footprints. Thrice larger than Bargar footprints, the creature seems to have three toes and probably claws. It is also quadrupedal.
You follow them for a moment, easily circulating through the mildly dense woods. Slowly, you feel the dawn approaching, you searched for a moment.
Then you begin to smell a strong odor, you are not far anymore. Barak and Bargar nod silently to you : no more noise, the prey is close.
As you approach carefully, a coincidental ray of light shines down upon the lone creature standing atop a large rock in the middle of the forest. It's a quadrupedal hairless creature, with a rough skin with an appearance closer to rock than flesh. There are many vent-like holes on its back, and some kind of solid lump of black matter resembling obsidian. Its tail is large and wide at the tip, kind of like a mace.
"This guy...seems really strong." mutters Bargar.
Durst the Rock SeerAdvance more cautiously, taking care to attune myself to the sounds of mana. If I see any danger, go prone and appear to be a rock.
((I know the mana isn't gone totally. However, my character harbors the belief that instead of it willingly being silent, someone or something is causing it to be mute. Thus, there is little difference between it being silent, and missing.))
[3] There shouldn't be any dangerous creature living in the crater of Coridem, but you are never careful enough. Advancing with utmost caution, you progress toward the barrier. The whispers are getting stronger, but you still can't fully understand them.
You eventually reach the barrier. Placing your head on the reddish rock, you focus on listening. The whispers are coming from behind the barrier. You can feel them.
Dahak the Uncanny Unreasonably Spooky Scary Skeleton((:v oh))
Dahak is a bit disappointed. Looking at Nihil now, he doesn't seem to have the inherent aura of pure awesome that would come from absorbing something like a world guardian. Still, he was sturdy enough to go up against Delinde and even fight back.
Too bad he seems to have the personality of an agnsty teenager elf.
AWWW LOOK AT THE CHILDREN TRYING TO BE ALL SERIOUS LIKE, YOU TINY WIDDLE ABOMINATION YOU
Dahak paternaly pats Nihil's head with his large bony hands. Like a dad, a skeledad. The best skeledad.
As much as I'd like to hear your monologues on loneliness and despair, I got stuff to do.
Dahak gather the remaining materials from the ritual and puts them into the backpack, along with a few bones for the trip.
Morvad confirmed my suspicions. I got corrupted by the other world as well, and things are worse then I thought. There's an slow but ongoing invasion going on and I'm serving as a sort of smokescreen for it, like makeup on an ugly woman or something. I eed to get rid of this corruption, and the only way is getting enough essence.
Dahak stands up, dusts his cloak, adjusts his sunglasses and stretches his bony limbs. Dahak finds odd that stretching still feels confortable, given he has no muscles or tendons to stretch. This and many other skeleton facts will forever haunt his beautifuly shaped skull.
He then turns to Delinde, who has put her mask back on. He pokes her mask with a bony finger.
You really oughta tell me whats with the mask one of these days. You don't seem like the sort to have that much social anxiety.
Dahak ponders on the mystery of the mask. Maybe Delinde is hiding something? Maybe she wears a mask because she's a criminal! Maybe she goes around the cemetary touching poor undead butts! She may be a terrible undead butt molester for all you know!
Dahak is thankful he doesn't have a butt anymore.
...Anyway, just before we set out again, here's a note of advice, DON'T STARTLE ME AGAIN! I'm a walking extra-dimensional time bomb in my current condition. If I mess up I can end up tearing a new asshole in reality and bringing about another cthulhu impersonator, so watch you fog jerk summoning, please.
Set out in whatever direction seems appropriate (and hopefuly devoid of human hunters). Keep an eyesocket on Nihil, just in case.
Delinde seems all better now, as she quickly reacts when you speak of her mask and hypothetical issues.
"The mask ? To be fair, I just wear it out of fashion and tradition. Death fairies usually wear a mask you see. And no, before you ask it I don't know who or what established this "Death Fairy uniform". But it doesn't mean the mask isn't actually useless. You see, Death Fairies see the world differently from the average monster : we see glimpse of the Spirit World, and other strange phenomenons. The mask inhibits this special vision."
And when you begin yelling at her, she takes it as a personal offense.
"Well sorry, it's not like I nearly died many times before because some people I knew got corrupted and actually couldn't be believed anymore ! I would like to see you reacting if I suddenly showed up with an eldritch aura shouting "DANGEROUS"."
"But I'm still to blame, so sorry, I guess. I will try to be more careful next time, and I hope there won't be a next. Sigh. I propose keeping Nihil in the sarcophagus, I will carry it."
[2] You both leave the graveyard, with you planning to absorb more essence, Delinde keeping an eye on you and Nihil, and the last one actually having nothing better to do.
A good direction where to head ? You don't really know, so you decide to follow your instinct.
So you head toward the South. Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.
Past the trees enclosing the graveyard, there is a wide open space, giving you a better idea of the surroundings. A forest to the East, what seems to be a plain to the South, and more plain and patch of small forests to the West.
Gray the Metaldee and Glint the Elemental Arcanivore"Hi. I'm Gray, this is Brown. We're going North. You're welcome to come with us."
Let the others rest if they need to, then continue along the shortcut to the North.
"Hi. I'm Gray, this is Brown. We're going North. You're welcome to come with us."
Let the others rest if they need to, then continue along the shortcut to the North.
"I'm Glint. The monster on my back is Tirim, and the one next to me is Vagush. We would be happy to travel with you."
If Vagush thinks he could use some more rest, stick around for a little while and let him do so. Either way, follow Gray and Brown North.
[5] Vagush flexes his arms in a macho way, and says : "I'm all better now, walking a bit helped me recuperate."
He indeed seems healed, he must have some incredible regenerative body.
So you both continue northward, this time closely following the shortcut. The first rays of the sun accompany your depart, painting a beautiful scenery : on the left the sand is still silvery, while on the right the sand is taking a golden hue.
Your trek is free of danger, this shortcut is indeed really safe. Then Vagush stops everyone and says :
"The sand here is changing. We are on the human territory now."
((The 5 will affect next turn))
The Ashen the Charred Wraith Last ditch effort possession GO!
[4] Taking advantage of the situation, you wrap hastily around the creature's limb, and the white porcelain arm crackles with black fissures. You are moving further along its body, slowly trying to cover it whole.
You lose 3MP
Masked creature : [5]
The creature notices his arm is not his own anymore, and reacts accordingly to it. A blinding flash of light illuminates the place for a brief moment, and its whole body dissociates.
The main body is floating independently, and the maskless arms are joining the arms holding a mask. Every masks separated from the main body turns toward you, like if they were looking at you.
You have full control of the arm.
Ulkas the Lesser OsyluthStop illusions. Try backstabbing with my corrosive tail!
((I'm starting to feel inadequate fighting alongside Astrosa against God Chosen...))
[5] This enough you think, if illusions don't work, stabbing it will probably. If even this doesn't, then this opponent may represent a bigger threat than expected.
You break off your own illusions with ease, after all, they were yours to begin with. Jumping into the fray, you throw your barbed tail toward the back of the Chosen. Taking advantage of the Chosen vulnerability, you strike in an opening !
Your tail lodges firmly in the woman's back, piercing through the armor ! The poison begins to kick in, and the pain breaks the focus of the Chosen who is still augmenting herself.
Astrosa roll : [6]
"Good job Ulkas !" shouts Astrosa.
She follows your lead and thrusts again the large blade toward the human's torso. The blade pierces the armor, but stop suddenly before going further into the flesh. The new armor is blocking the blade.
Chosen roll : [4]
Despite the pain of her flesh melting in her back, the woman regains her focus and finishes her augmentation. A new set of purple armor of unknown material is covering her, encircling your tail and Astrosa's blade.
T946 the Security Bot PrototypeName: T946
Species: Security Bot Prototype
Appearance: Has 2 robotic arms (1 for manipulating objects and 1 for using a built in taser) and a rectangular shaped body (with the height being the longest side) that is white and Tracks at the bottom side of it.
Attributes: increase two stats by 1 and decrease two other stats by 1 (apart from HP or MP)
HP 10
MP 10
STR -1
CON 1
RES -1
INT 1
IND 0
Traits : Robotic body: Cannot be poisoned
Skills : Low powered taser: Does minor damage and may stun the target
You awaken in the still cool desert, at loss as why you are here. Your memory is terribly hazy, you vaguely remember having been created by humans using a copy of an ancient golem creating method. Your body is made of bronze, and is held together by magic.
Name : The Ashen
Species : Charred Wraith
Appearance : A blackened and ashy being, with small fissures of embers lining all along the vines. They can possess others, and those possessed have slightly glowing, fiery eyes.
Attributes :
HP 3/17
MP 7/17
ESSENCE 0/10
STR 2 -Strength : increase physical damage-
CON -1 -Constitution : increase physical resilience-
POW 1 -Power : increase special/magical damage-
RES -1 -Resistance : increase special/magical resilience-
INT 1 -Intelligence : increase your ability to submit others to your will-
IND 0 -Individuality : increase your ability to resist to others will-
Traits :
Possess- Attach yourself upon a victim, and take control of his functions. Currently imperfect, making one shamble, as he attempts to resist.
Flare- The embers flare, burning those nearby with scorching heat.
Smoky- The Wraith is always exuding smoke, obscuring where it is.
Skills :
Black Ink- Exude a viscous black fluid, that make one hard to grab. Can throw the stuff in the eyes, blinding an opponent.
Pilot Bones- Can now pilot the dead, allowing for a constant, if inferior host, due to dead weight and no assistance in running the body.
Twin Host- Can now possess two people, and combine them into one double host, if necessary.
Name: Durst
Species: Rock Seer
Appearance: Durst is a humanoid rock creature, about as large as a goblin. Due to him being a rock, he has lived for hundreds of years, many of which were spent dormant absorbing the natural mana waves in the air.
Attributes:
HP 10/10
MP 10/10
STR 0
CON 1
POW 1
RES 0
INT -1
IND -1
Traits : Lingual: Durst, having lived centuries, understands several basic languages. He can communicate with many sentient races (Not that that usually helps, sentient creatures tend to fear monsters, and what they fear they kill).
Skills : Read Mana: Durst can "read" the mana waves encircling the world, obtaining information about his area, and can sometimes gleam information of the future.
Name: Ulkas
Species: Lesser Osyluth -Stage 3-
Appearance: A medium-sized humanoid demon with sharp claws and a barbed tail. He has a withered, skeletal body with insectile features and a long, bony tail ending in a wicked barb. His wings are vestigial, but he can fly regardless through magical levitation.
Attributes:
PV 18/18
MP 8/28
ESSENCE 16/20
STR 0 -Strength : increase physical damage-
CON 0 -Constitution : increase physical resilience-
POW -1 -Power : increase special/magical damage-
RES -1 -Resistance : increase special/magical resilience-
INT +4 -Intelligence : increase your ability to submit others to your will-
IND +2 -Individuality : increase your ability to resist to others will-
Traits :
-Evil Soul
-Poisoned Claws -mild paralysis-
-Levitation
-Aura of Fear : no creature can gaze upon bone devil without feeling a bone-chilling terror
-Poisoned Stinger : strong corrosive acid
-Expansive Mind : It is easier for osyluth to understand concepts far from his usual usual field of experience
Skills :
- Taunt
- Mental Control
- Lesser magic (Illusions)
Name: Astrosa
Species: Unknown
Appearance: A humanoid demon taller than most humans with a feminine figure and crimson skin with black markings. She has ruby eyes and beautiful ebon hair. A blood red substance is constantly flying around her, part of it wrapping her like some sort of exquisite cloth.
Attributes: ??
Known Traits :
-Crazy ?
-Evil Wings
-Eyes of the Mighty - Allow to sense the power of other beings
Known Skills :
-Blood Red Substance ?
Name: Caedan
Species: Nosferatu -stage 2-
Appearance: A tall, pale man. His black hair reaches his shoulders and is rather lazily tied into a ponytail. His reddish-grey eyes feel as if they can pierce right through you. His fangs are elongated and seem extremely sharp. He wears black clothes fit for a nobleman, with some purple accents here and there. An arming sword hangs at his side. You could swear that his eyes are glowing red, sometimes.
Attributes:
HP 17/17
MP 17/17
ESSENCE 0/10
STR -1
CON 0
POW 2
RES 0
INT 1
IND 0
Traits:
Vampire - Caedan is a vampire, and gains all advantages and disadvantages that come from being such a creature.
Night Vision - Caedan, as a vampire, sees perfectly well in the darkness. (unless all vampires come with this included, in which case replace this with Mesmerizing Eyes - Anyone staring too long into Caedan's eyes will sooner or later find themselves unable to resist his commands.)
Creature of the Night - Caedan becomes much stronger during the night, in addition to being harder to see.
Levitation - Caedan gains the ability to levitate and fly. Rather early for a vampire. Is it a sign of greatness? Or is it a mark of damnation?
Skills:
Blood Metabolism - Drinking blood rejuvenates vampires.
Blood Boil - A spell that increases the victim's blood temperature to extremely high levels, effectively boiling/melting them alive.
Mist Form - Caedan can change into mist, allowing him to pass through things like barred windows and other such things. Changing into mist also lets him hide his presence in the right area, unless whoever he's hiding away from can detect him by magic or a different ability. He can also use it to nearly completely evade physical attacks.
Name: Glint
Species: Elemental Arcanivore -stage 2-
Appearance: An oversized lizard made of glass. It shimmers with mesmerizing white light. Its body seems to inhabit both ice and electricity in an harmonious equilibrium. Its glass scales are cyan and yellow, and shine beautifully. A golden core can be seen on its torso.
HP 17/17
MP 17/17
ESSENCE 3/10
STR 0
CON 0
POW 2
RES 0
INT 1
IND -1
Traits :
Mesmerizing: Those who look too directly might find themselves entranced.
Elemental Duality -Ice and Electricity-
Homeostasis: Glint's body naturally works to neutralize dangerous magic. While this effect generally focuses on keeping the two elements inside him from violently exploding, it can also protect against magical attacks in a pinch.
Regenerative Core: you can regenerate your lost body parts and your recovery is greatly increased.
Skills :
Calcifying Venom: Bites will gradually turn the victim into a pearly statue.
Elemental Breath -Ice and Electricity-
Overload: Glint can now boost the power and capabilities of his natural traits by expending MP. This often causes the trait to exceed its usual limitations- for instance, mesmerizing might become mind control.
Name: Tirim
Species: Quartzen
Appearance: A small, child-sized yellow humanoid made of crystals. He has a golden core on his chest.
Attributes : ??
Known Traits :
Regenerative Core
Known Skills :
?
Name: Vagush
Species: Armored Scarablade
Appearance: An enormous armored insectoid-like creature standing like some kind of centaur. It has six-legs on its abdomen for mobility, and its upper body arms end with deadly scythes. Its carapace is black and shiny, and its five eyes are red.
Attributes : ??
Known Traits :
?
Known Skills :
?
Name: Dahak
Species: Uncanny Unreasonably Spooky Scary Skeleton -stage 2-
Appearance: Dahak now sports a slightly elongated upper skull, with a second pair of baleful eye sockets above his other ones. His shoulders, arm and hand bones have grown thicker and elongated. He seems a bit taller overall, and his entire self seems surrounded in a smoky aura of sorts. His teeth are now both longer and sharper, for whatever reason. He's certainly spookier then before. He also seems to have gained new memories.
He has a badass worn out cape and a scabbard with a holy dagger.
Attributes:
PV 17/17
MP 17/17
ESSENCE 0/10
STR 0 -Strength : increase physical damage-
CON 0 -Constitution : increase physical resilience-
POW 1 -Power : increase special/magical damage-
RES -1 -Resistance : increase special/magical resilience-
INT 1 -Intelligence : increase your ability to submit others to your will-
IND 1 -Individuality : increase your ability to resist to others will-
note : attributes are just some kind of "indicative" property, their are no specific formulas or calculation behind them. (yet?)
Traits :
>Skeletal: Receive more damage from blunt weapons, but slashing weapons do slightly less damage and piercing weapons deal significantly less damage and may be dodged altogheder.
>Undead: Not affected by poisons and other things that would harm living creatures. Weak to holy magic, and can be exorcised by priests.
>Fear aura : You naturally generate a fear aura, generating fear in the beings around you. You can turn it off, or expand mana to strengthen it.
>Abnormality from Another Plane : because of its connection with the "Corruptor World", Dahak's very presence can and will cause strange phenomenons. If Dahak rolls a [1] or a [6], rolls from anything close to Dahak will get reduced or increased by 1.
-If a [1] is decreased by 1, it will become a [6], if a [6] is increased by 1, it will become a [1].
-another unaffected roll will be done by the GM, to determine what will appear or happen because of Dahak connection...
>Corruptor Core -small- : a black core of unknown origin. Is it a parasite or is it part of you ? You can feel any being possessing essence as a secondary effect.
Skills :
>Spook: Causes fear, may paralyze enemies. Doesn't work on mindless creatures.
>Feel the Fear : you can convert the fear of your victims into physical pain. Extreme fear will probably cause cardiac arrest.
>Feral Otherworldly Aura : When activated, Dahak's aura will twists into a random shape and performs an attack to a single or multiple enemies depending on what form it assumes. Activating this ability will cost MP and HP, and will drain HP and MP. Killing an enemy with this ability will recover some HP and MP.
Name: Delinde
Species: Death Fairy
Appearance: Delinde has the appearance of a medium-sized girl wearing a white coat with a black hood. She wears a white mask, and has some kind of robe under her coat. Behind her mask is hidden a surprisingly human face with a skin as pure as snow. Only her eyes are strange, as hey eyeballs are white and her irises black. Her hairs are silvery and silky, tied in a neat ponytail.
Attributes:
Known Traits :
Spirit World Connection
Known Skills :
Call Fog Reaper
Servant of Thanatos
Name: Snehk
Species: Stalker -stage 1-
Appearance: The Stalker are lesser demons the size of a man that use infravision to detect their prey. They are gray skinned humanoids with sunken eyes and long claws. It's eyes have an eerie red glow.
Attributes:
HP 15/15
MP 12/12
ESSENCE 2/5
STR 1 -Strength : increase physical damage-
CON 0 -Constitution : increase physical resilience-
POW 0 -Power : increase special/magical damage-
RES 1 -Resistance : increase special/magical resilience-
INT -1 -Intelligence : increase your ability to submit others to your will-
IND 0 -Individuality : increase your ability to resist to others will-
note : attributes are just some kind of "indicative" property, their are no specific formulas or calculation behind them. (yet?)
Traits :
Infravision: Allows for detecting prey. Works only on short distance.
Mark and recall: Target becomes marked one, and during two days stalker can recall it's position.
Skills :
Disappearance: This innate skill allows the Hidden to become invisible, move noise-lessly and without leaving any traces, as if the demon just disappeared.
Whispers of damned: Target hears horrifying whispers coming from all directions. This easily disorientates and scares it.
Name: Bargar
Species: Black Tattooed Ursid
Appearance: A huge black bear-like monster with strange rune-like white marking on its body.
Attributes:
Known Traits : ?
Known Skills : ?
Name: Barak
Species: Black Tattooed Ursid
Appearance: A huge black bear-like monster with strange rune-like white marking on its body.
Attributes:
Known Traits : ?
Known Skills : ?
Name: ZoomochScoomtarto
Species : Three-Eyed Beholder
Appearance : A Large Somewhat Spherical Creature with A pair of eyes on a pair of Tentacles, it also has a much larger Eye above it's Large Mouth.
Attributes: increase two stats by 1 and decrease two other stats by 1 (apart from HP or MP)
HP 12/12
MP 15/15
ESSENCE 3/5
STR 0
CON 0
POW +3
RES 0
INT -1
IND -1
Traits :
-Levitation, can fly without any "Normal" means Naturally.
-Thick Skinned: Take less physical Damage.
Skills :
-[Eye#1:Telekinesis]
-[Eye#2:Slow]
Name: Gray
Species: Metaldee
Appearance: A shiny gray blob that appears to be made of liquid metal, like mercury, with two oblong arms and feet. In short, a shiny metal Kirby. With a hat.
Attributes:
HP 15/15
MP 12/12
ESSENCE 1/5
STR 0
CON 2
POW -1
RES 1
INT -1
IND 0
Traits :
Morphous- Gray can now take on and hold forms, even though his body retains its liquid-like appearance and consistency.
Skills :
Harden- Solidifies the body in whatever shape it is currently in, increasing durability.
Engulf- Engulfs all or a portion of the target, restricting it's movements and quickly digesting it
Name: Brown
Species : Large Dirt Blob
Appearance : A large brown and dirty blob.
Attributes :
Traits :
Amorphous
Fast Digest
Skill :
Expand
Engulf
Name: T946
Species: Security Bot Prototype
Appearance: Has 2 robotic arms (1 for manipulating objects and 1 for using a built in taser) and a rectangular shaped body (with the height being the longest side) that is white and Tracks at the bottom side of it.
Attributes: increase two stats by 1 and decrease two other stats by 1 (apart from HP or MP)
HP 10
MP 10
STR -1
CON 1
RES -1
INT 1
IND 0
Traits : Robotic body: Cannot be poisoned
Skills : Low powered taser: Does minor damage and may stun the target
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