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(SG) Hordes of Darkness
« on: May 10, 2016, 07:44:45 am »

In a dark, distant future, the world died in agony. Missiles rained from the heavens, like the talons of a vengeful god. The seas became flame, and they flooded the four corners of the Earth. The ground shook, and with ravenous maws it swallowed the ancient kingdoms of the old world.

The world died in agony, and it took all things with it.

Save for a few. In a future, darker and more distant still, are the survivors of the Final War. They are the maggots upon the rotting carcass of the world. They are the carrion crows. They are the scavenging beasts.

They are all that remain of humanity.

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Among the maggots, you are mightiest. Among the crows, you are a conqueror. You are greatest among the beasts known as men, and the carcass of the world is yours and yours alone.

This is your tale.

You are:

A. Human. Untouched by taint in some eyes, deemed unworthy in the eyes of others.
B. Manbeast. You are one of the few honored by the bite of the beast, and one of the fewer who can control their gifts.
C. Immortal. Blood is the price of eternal life.
D. Machine. The flesh is weak. Iron is not. You are not.

Your men call you:

A. Warlord. You lead from the forefront, first to fight your foes. Action is the language understood by all.
B. Commander. With words both delicate and savage, you are as much an inspiration as you are a leader.
C. Warlock. The air of the world is suffused with the fumes of dead technology. You are one of the blessed, or cursed, who can control the mysterious winds.

And finally, you hail from:

A. The North. The frozen wastes are home to the warring cyberbarian tribes, where only the strong survive. The arcane laboratories of the past stood in the cold North, and there they still stand.

B. The South. It was here that mankind tried vainly to flee their fate, by building the great ship Babylon to sail the stars. It never launched, but still it pierces the clouds to this day. Here the King in the Sky rules, and holds his court of a thousand warriors from a thousand worlds.

C. The East. The islands are shrouded in mists and jungles, and deep in the heart of the isles, beneath the waves, is a thing older than sin. The East was the only place the War had not touched, for something darker touched it first.

D. The West. In the dead lands of the Setting Kingdom, all know the face of death clearer than their faces in a mirror. The West was the final battle in the Final War, and billions of dead slept there. Until the Sunset King woke them.
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Re: (SG) Hordes of Darkness
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2016, 12:19:05 pm »

A, C, B
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Re: (SG) Hordes of Darkness
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2016, 01:02:21 pm »

... B, B, B?

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Re: (SG) Hordes of Darkness
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2016, 01:32:14 pm »

D, C, and A.
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Re: (SG) Hordes of Darkness
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2016, 01:35:27 pm »

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Agree, plus that's about the LAST thing *I* want to see from this kind of game - author spending valuable development time on useless graphics.

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Re: (SG) Hordes of Darkness
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2016, 04:02:47 pm »

A, B and A.
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Re: (SG) Hordes of Darkness
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2016, 04:42:31 pm »

C, A, A, LET'S CONQUER THE WORLD, Or at least what's left of it...
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Re: (SG) Hordes of Darkness
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2016, 09:45:39 pm »

Chapter I: Rust and Rot

You are the technomancer, the prophesied cyborg, the Great Machine. Vast are your weapon arrays, and vaster is your mind and the computing engines grafted within. Yet most of it is deactivated.

Near-infinite power writhes within your body, yet it is locked. This is the reason you will unite the tribes of the technorth, and scour the world for the keys to your body.

But that requires an army, and for now you only control your own tribe. Mighty warriors all, but you require more than mere mechanical marauders. The technorth is a harsh land, where only snow and junk abound. The only source of sustenance are the Synthesisers - ancient machines, relics of a dead history, and the mystical makers of meat and mead.

For your tribe to survive even the shortest trek in the technorth, you must acquire one. Your neighboring tribe shared theirs with your people, until they cut off abruptly. There has been no word of them since, and none have visited in many moons. A short trip may find answers, and perhaps even their Synthesiser.

Otherwise, many caravans travel the technorth, ploughing through the white snow on the backs of whiter bears. They have plenty of stores of synthesised meat and barrels galore of mead. You may trade with them, or raid them.

What do you do?

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Re: (SG) Hordes of Darkness
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2016, 06:18:28 am »

Vote: Visit the neighbors with 10 men to investigate what happened to them.
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Re: (SG) Hordes of Darkness
« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2016, 07:02:36 am »

This is some pretty fine writing meng, just saying.

Vote: Visit the neighbors with 10 men to investigate what happened to them.
Make that 100 men. They had a Synthesizer, which means they were a pretty powerful tribe. There are two options: either a foe has destroyed them, in which case we will have to battle that foe, or they have decided to dick us over, in which case we'll have to battle them.

But first, send two scouts.
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Re: (SG) Hordes of Darkness
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2016, 07:11:12 am »

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