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[Egan_BW]

He's a man who can destroy an entire city, and he says he's a crack shot. Under the circumstances, I'm inclined to believe whatever he says, because we don't have time to question it.

Though if we could make it more reliable by poking a lightning rod in it, why not?

[Liquefied Spleens]

I... Fuck it, he said he was a crack shot. Would lightning work? Maybe we can make a lightning rod?
You realize that only works on lightning coming from above, yes? Magic lightning goes where you point it before taking the path of least resistance.
Can you do it or not?
Easily. Ah, perfect. She turns around and grabs a relatively thin but long rod out of the many goodies Francine is bringing out. It sure looks expensive. Sucy follows it up by grabbing a small tube of... something. She smears it on the bomb with care, and then places the rod against it for a few seconds. She sticks out a finger to indicate you have to wait, and then lets go. Glue? All right, I guess there's glue. Then she carries it over to you and places it on your back. She hooks it up, and gives you a simple system to loosen it up. A simple clicker in the front to drop all the ropes. It's a hefty bomb, but nothing you can't handle. Now it's just a matter of getting to close to Jack. The place to be is likely going to be the gate, the one chokepoint you know.
But now you need to get back to the gate, this time with a bomb strapped to your back. If it goes off, you are going to be destroyed in every way possible and some ways that are, essentially, impossible.
So let's not trip.

The trip back is about as eventful as the way there, obviously. Until you see the gate ahead. To your horror, Jack is nearly at the gate already! Seeing that mutilated carcass stomp along, blood covering the spindly yet deadly legs as it begins to stomp towards the gate. You can't climb the walls, you need some way to get the bomb close to her, preferably without dying!
And then you need to get the wizard involved?
How the hell are you going to this!?



Basic Stats

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Level: 14
Health: 30/80
Poison stings: 0/1
Restraint 2/3
Mana: 40/45

Items and equipment

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Items:
Gun schematics.
410 gold coins
Magic Cookbook.
Book On Far Eastern Royalty
Equipment:
Enhanced Sword
Bag of randomized bone charms (3 more throws remain)
10 Bolas
Sling (40 "bullets") (4 improvised firebombs)
D-VA armor

Skills and spells

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Magic:
Summon Tome: You can take out your piece of the Tome of Eternal Darkness from seemingly nowhere. Others cannot see the book unless you want them to, and it's still headache-inducing to do so.
Resurrect vermin: Allows you to resurrect very small creatures such as rats(invests 2 of your max mana) (no mana cost)
Resurrect average beast: Allows you to resurrect creatures such as dogs, cats and other similar-sized creatures.(invests 7 mana) (no mana cost)
Resurrect Humanoid: Allows you to resurrect humanoid creatures. (Invests 10 mana) (Costs 14 mana)
Reshape minion plus!: Allows you to majorly change the appearance of your resurrected minions.
Control Undead: Allows you to attempt to control an undead that doesn't belong to you. (mana cost of 2 per second, unmastered)
Minion Vision: Allows you to see what a minion sees. The minion must have eyes.
Disintegrate undead: Delete a corpse you currently control.
Animate Piece: Allows you to animate just a piece of dead tissue. It requires your constant attention, and cannot act independently. (Drains 0 mana)
Graft: Allows you to use dead tissue as a replacement limb. Requires a lot of mana. (1 per second) (average limb takes around 20 seconds to properly graft)
Gather Soul: Allows you to make a soul visible. You could try putting it in a flame of some sort to keep it around. (9 mana)
Soul battery: Allows you to use a soul-infused flame as a small mana-boost. This snuffs it out, however
Undead flashbang: Allows you to blow up a minion for a flash-bang effect. (9 mana)
Stitch: allows you to close a wound and stop bleeding as fast as you can stitch. Costs zero mana, but requires something to stitch with.
Siphoning Cloud: Breathe out a cloud that drains the life from victims and gives it to you. Adds a LOT to intimidation (4 mana)
Smoke Cloud: Breathe out harmless but thick smoke. (1 mana)
Deathbolt: A bolt that hurts the body's connection with it's soul. Causes minor wounds to appear over the body as it attempts to compensate (1 mana)
Doombolt: A more powerful version of the above (4 Mana)
Pinworks: You can apply spells into a bone spike, relative to the size of the victim. You can also make traps if you use an offensive spell. Allows creation of free zombies.

Cantrip
Spark: Allows you to set something on fire, provided it is flammable to start with.

Skills:
Broodmother: Once per day, you can sting something to create spiderlings, which are large, clever spiders that adore you by default. Your instincts cause you to be VERY protective of them.
Crossbow usage: Novice
Adaptation: You regenerate mana faster than most
Gun usage: Novice
Oral Fixation: Can cast spells spells from the mouth.
Draining: Can drain blood using fangs.
Incredible experience in blocking and swordplay.
Climber
Crafty: Bolas
Cooking skill: Excellent 
Corpse Cutting: Quite Decent. 
Animal handling: inexperienced.
Necromantic knowledge
Soul Sniffer
Just a bit more real: Gives a bonus to toughness and strength

Spiders

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Lieutenant Brainpower (Really large spider. Can use magic and is really smart for a spider) (slightly injured)
4 (they came out of the lizard. Who knows where or what they are?)
3 Breedlings (White spider, slightly larger than average. Their stings spawn spiderites) (three are getting help, despite the flailing..)
2 spiderites (small, weaker spider that is still highly loyal to you. Expendable and toxic.)

Carrying BOMB!

[Egan_BW]

Just be quick. You'll be incentivized to be as quick as possible because if you're not you'll die.

Also, nice HL2 reference.

[Liquefied Spleens]

But... It's so.. You can't stop the tears anymore. How the hell did it just end like this!? It's so... You had so many things to do! So many things you wanted to know, to experience!
Your corpse lies just in front of you, dissected in a single strike from Jack. When she saw you, she sped up. You couldn't outpace her, not when wounded, not with the other mutants, and especially when
I'm sorry. I had hoped for more, as well, but I suppose some things are not meant to be.
I... I don't... Shouldn't I get a second chance!?
This would have been your fourth. Or more. To be honest, Sydney, you should have died many times over. You just temped fate one too many times this time.
But I! Please! Let me do one more thing, at least? O-one more!
...What would you like to even try? It's carrying your body back to its master.
Exactly. One last spell. A spark. I want to... Let me please try one last thing.
Were it not for the mark... Fine. One last try. When?
Before the god. I want to see what Sucy's bomb does.
...Very well.
You follow your body as Jack disappears, back to its vile master, carrying both you and the bomb.

The realm is... madness. If you were more than just a wisp, the sight of it would have driven you mad. Impossible geometries, changing evermore, there is no horizon, only an infinite continuation of flesh and bone, pulsating, growing, rotting and glistening at an impossible rate. Then, standing there, pulsing, beating you see it.
Behold the heart of the world! Progenitor of life, father and mother, alpha and omega! Our creator... and our destroyer. Death yells, his voice reverbing even here, in the world beyond worlds. In this seething madness, your two broken halves are brought before the heart. Mantorok looked sick. Wrong. Beyond comprehension.
You will have but a split second of life, and less before madness will take you in this wretches realm. Still, you know your task. Your body is brought close, your clothing begins to rot as it looks you over, your flesh turning purple as the carapace falls off. In that moment, you take your chance.
You enter your body one last time, feel your flame engorge a final time. With little more than a small pulse of activity in your brain, you cast Spark upon the bomb.
There is no pain when you leave once more. If anything, it almost feels nice. Death stands besides you once more as the bomb goes off, an explosion of heat and magic. Above all, however, it brings something new to this realm. The simple chemistry of man comes from a place of logic. science. Understanding. Mantorok and its creations scream and burn from more than paltry heat and shockwaves. It is the defiance of man. Man placed in an uncaring, incomprehensible universe, and they will do everything they can to not only care, but to thrive. In this eternal struggle, they will strive to comprehend. To know. To use the unknowable against itself. While you doubt you killed the gestating god, you certainly hurt it. Maybe enough for the people of the hamlet to stand a chance.
Sadly. You will not discover what became of your world. You have a new world to attend to.
Come. Maybe some Sci-Fi will suit you?
Will I be a main character?
No. But you'll be a recurring character in many stories to follow.

Game over

[Liquefied Spleens]

No seriously, it's over. No surprise twist or anything, no. This story is actually over. You've escaped what should have been death a lot of times already, and to be honest, I was getting burnt out after doing this for so long.
I'll place a warning at the beginning to give a warning about the bad end.
And another thing I fear you will not like to hear: my next quest will not be on Bay12 forums. I am going to change style to a more chat-interactive quest over on Fiction.live. I use the name Spinejuice over there, if you're interested to follow me there, but it will be a while before I start.
You don't need an account to participate there, by the way. Anonymous posting is perfectly possible.

It's been one hell of a ride, fellas. I hope you enjoyed it.

[Naturegirl1999]

During the short time I've participates, I found this fun. Also I just created an account of fiction.live. My username is still naturegirl1999

[Dustan Hache]

to add convenience to those who want to find him, here is a link to what i believe is his profile.

[Naturegirl1999]

Thank.you. I sent a post, but I can’t see the post I sent on his page

[omada]

A suitable ending to a suicidal brave character

a graverobber's amulet shake

an bounty hunter awakes in the middle of the night

a little kobolt cries not knowing why

Press F viciously

Couldn't give my voice on the last posts because I am having a bad time irl, but will certainly look foward for your next games, this one sparked a lot of creativity on my mind

Will you post the link here?, anyway, I am saving the link that Dustan said just to make sure, if I create an account there I will probably use this same name

[Egan_BW]

ha, i killed an sg

[Olith McHuman]

It's been fun. GG

[Liquefied Spleens]

to add convenience to those who want to find him, here is a link to what i believe is his profile.

Correct account, thank you.

Thank.you. I sent a post, but I can’t see the post I sent on his page

I didn't receive anything of note on fiction.live. Mind you, I was not fully aware one could even send a PM to people on that site.

Press F viciously
Couldn't give my voice on the last posts because I am having a bad time irl, but will certainly look foward for your next games, this one sparked a lot of creativity on my mind
Will you post the link here?, anyway, I am saving the link that Dustan said just to make sure, if I create an account there I will probably use this same name

I will place the link here when it starts, though it will be at least a week before it starts, and likely a bit longer than that.
Hope things are improving on your end, Omada



I'll also give a little sneak peek at what the next quest will involve. I'm essentially smashing together most apocalypse fiction that I enjoy into one horrific mess. Things are still subject to change,this is just what I have for now.
Lore dump:

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So the entirety of the North America has been invaded by interdimensional beings, with little regard for what makes sense. These beings came here due to the remaining artefacts of the "Picknick Event", where a mysterious event happened in Yellowstone National Park that turned it into The Zone. Gravitational, electrical and many other anomalies came about, and the animal life of Yellowstone mutated to be more dangerous, and some even developed what could only be described as telepathic powers. Humans were affected the worst, but fortunately there were not many present during the Event.
Once the scientific community started to work, technology accelerated faster than culture could keep up. Laser and plasma weaponry came about, incredible energy from small batteries, hovering cars and the first steps to transhumanism.
The beings mentioned earlier came during the "Convergence". These lay waste to America, and where they went, the Zone expanded. They had covered nearly all of America when the dirty bombs came, far more intent on bathing the country in radiation than vaporizing them. The creatures, for all their terrible strength, proved vulnerable to radiation. Nearly all of them were killed, and the Zone's expansion was stopped in its tracks. But if you think the rest of world will let that technology lie dormant, you'd be wrong.

Many independent scavengers went to America, despite the guards put in place. When more artefacts began showing up in Eurasia, despite the grand recall, governments were quick to get their grubby fingers in that special Picknick pie. They quickly claimed that they were the ones who sent the scavengers, calling it the STALKER program, and sent their government-sanctioned men pretty fast. What many did not expect is that there were many people left in America. Despite the heavy casualties from the Convergence and from the dirty bombs, humanity survived and in some special cases, even thrived. Not all mutants turn into mindless killing machines, some became larger, tougher, beyond what could be called human. Those are the Bruisers. Some took on a seemingly rotten appearance, but became very long-lived, according to tests, on top of being immune to radiation. As you can probably guess, these are Ghouls.

So when you are sent there to give Europe a stronger foothold and Artefacts, it's clear you have your work cut out for you. You have to fight mutants, other stalkers, natives, and if you're very unlucky, a surviving Convergence monster.
Good luck.

tl;dr: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but it's in America and has creatures from other post-apocalypse fiction. Expect many references/ripoffs.

[Naturegirl1999]

to add convenience to those who want to find him, here is a link to what i believe is his profile.

Correct account, thank you.

Thank.you. I sent a post, but I can’t see the post I sent on his page

I didn't receive anything of note on fiction.live. Mind you, I was not fully aware one could even send a PM to people on that site.

Press F viciously
Couldn't give my voice on the last posts because I am having a bad time irl, but will certainly look foward for your next games, this one sparked a lot of creativity on my mind
Will you post the link here?, anyway, I am saving the link that Dustan said just to make sure, if I create an account there I will probably use this same name

I will place the link here when it starts, though it will be at least a week before it starts, and likely a bit longer than that.
Hope things are improving on your end, Omada



I'll also give a little sneak peek at what the next quest will involve. I'm essentially smashing together most apocalypse fiction that I enjoy into one horrific mess. Things are still subject to change,this is just what I have for now.
Lore dump:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So the entirety of the North America has been invaded by interdimensional beings, with little regard for what makes sense. These beings came here due to the remaining artefacts of the "Picknick Event", where a mysterious event happened in Yellowstone National Park that turned it into The Zone. Gravitational, electrical and many other anomalies came about, and the animal life of Yellowstone mutated to be more dangerous, and some even developed what could only be described as telepathic powers. Humans were affected the worst, but fortunately there were not many present during the Event.
Once the scientific community started to work, technology accelerated faster than culture could keep up. Laser and plasma weaponry came about, incredible energy from small batteries, hovering cars and the first steps to transhumanism.
The beings mentioned earlier came during the "Convergence". These lay waste to America, and where they went, the Zone expanded. They had covered nearly all of America when the dirty bombs came, far more intent on bathing the country in radiation than vaporizing them. The creatures, for all their terrible strength, proved vulnerable to radiation. Nearly all of them were killed, and the Zone's expansion was stopped in its tracks. But if you think the rest of world will let that technology lie dormant, you'd be wrong.

Many independent scavengers went to America, despite the guards put in place. When more artefacts began showing up in Eurasia, despite the grand recall, governments were quick to get their grubby fingers in that special Picknick pie. They quickly claimed that they were the ones who sent the scavengers, calling it the STALKER program, and sent their government-sanctioned men pretty fast. What many did not expect is that there were many people left in America. Despite the heavy casualties from the Convergence and from the dirty bombs, humanity survived and in some special cases, even thrived. Not all mutants turn into mindless killing machines, some became larger, tougher, beyond what could be called human. Those are the Bruisers. Some took on a seemingly rotten appearance, but became very long-lived, according to tests, on top of being immune to radiation. As you can probably guess, these are Ghouls.

So when you are sent there to give Europe a stronger foothold and Artefacts, it's clear you have your work cut out for you. You have to fight mutants, other stalkers, natives, and if you're very unlucky, a surviving Convergence monster.
Good luck.

tl;dr: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but it's in America and has creatures from other post-apocalypse fiction. Expect many references/ripoffs.

It’s not a PM. On your profile above your picture there is an add post text field. There is also a followers number below your picture. You are following 1 person. But there is nothing to click to follow you. I use the same avatar there as here. Also the story sounds cool

[Liquefied Spleens]

It’s not a PM. On your profile above your picture there is an add post text field. There is also a followers number below your picture. You are following 1 person. But there is nothing to click to follow you. I use the same avatar there as here. Also the story sounds cool
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The add post text field is just for me, I'm afraid. Despite not being me, you still see that version of my profile. Also of note: you can't follow people, but you can follow quests.
While it's a great design, the actual coding of that place makes it a bit of a hellsite. Still, it has people, a chat, picture support, voting support, open suggestion filling, and what have you, so I'm still sticking around despite the coding gaffs. Also because I would like to take on the live approach, rather than a by-day update schedule.

[Naturegirl1999]

It’s not a PM. On your profile above your picture there is an add post text field. There is also a followers number below your picture. You are following 1 person. But there is nothing to click to follow you. I use the same avatar there as here. Also the story sounds cool

The add post text field is just for me, I'm afraid. Despite not being me, you still see that version of my profile. Also of note: you can't follow people, but you can follow quests.
While it's a great design, the actual coding of that place makes it a bit of a hellsite. Still, it has people, a chat, picture support, voting support, open suggestion filling, and what have you, so I'm still sticking around despite the coding gaffs. Also because I would like to take on the live approach, rather than a by-day update schedule.
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Thanks for clarifying