Actions you guys are doing unfortunately have to wait until morning, due to the interrupt.
Julio
You sit by the campfire, finishing your dinner. You get ready for bed, taking off your armor. Elise is already asleep. You take off your helmet when the fire starts to dim. You toss a log on it, thinking that it's dying. It then goes from bright orange to a deep red, like blood. You're taken aback. That color... is the same color as the eyes of a Shadow Wraith. You call Elise awake, and the two of you look around. Nothing presents itself. No Shadow Wraiths, no possessed, nothing. You turn around, but there's nothing.
"Julio, look out!"
You instinctively duck when Elise shouts. Just as you do so, a huge black shadow passes over you. You look up, and see a huge bat-like Shadow Wraith circling your camp, screeching. You load your crossbow, but hesitate to fire - the moment you fire the bolt, you're left nigh defenseless. You draw your flammable bone blade, and beckon for Elise to follow you. It isn't safe here.
You can go to
Han Yu's camp in the rocky field
Fu Qyu's camp in the forest
Somewhere else (specify)
You can also stay and fight if you want (although I advise against it, you'd have to roll pretty high to survive with all your bits intact)
Han Yu
You shove the last of the spikes into the earth with a grunt. Dáelen is asleep, having already shoved in a great deal of the spikes. You kneel down, panting from effort. When you stand up, red eyes are everywhere, and your fire has died without warning.
"Lieutenant!" you shout.
Dáelen awakens, and sees the red eyes. He readies his longswords and growls.
"This doesn't seem good."
Fu Qyu
You're exhausted from bow training, and go to sleep the moment that you empty your quiver for the 23rd time.
"I'm gonna need more than two arrows..." you mumble.
You crash out, exhausted.
~
You awaken to the sound of something moving in the brush. You ready your hunting knife. Sure enough, three possessed goblins stumble out of the woods, wielding quite a few javelins between them. Your fire has turned blood red, and seems to have little effect on them.
You can
Stand and fight
Run to Julio's camp
Run to Han Yu's camp
Run elsewhere (specify)
Caleb
You're moving around with your new leather vestments, finding them to be rather comfortable, when you see a red dot in the distance. One quickly becomes two, then four, then at least twenty. They don't close in, but they don't go away either.
You can
Investigate
Stay put
Make a run for it (specify which direction, the eyes are to the southeast)
Feu D'artifice
You cackle with glee as your fire burns. You aren't so gleeful when it turns blood red, dimming quite a bit. You think you hear shuffling outside the fort, and you peek over your wall. A horde of about fifteen elves with blood red eyes has amassed about your fort. They simply stand there and stare. You're distraught, but you think your wall will hold. Maybe. Hopefully.
You can
Make a break for it (specify which direction, the possessed surround you though)
Wait it out
Dy Lin
The darkness... it's dark. Veeeery dark. You're starting to regret not lighting a fire. You try to sleep, but you can't shake the feeling that something is watching you. You fitfully sleep, but you're experiencing unfounded terror. You finally jolt awake, but what you see only intensifies your terror. A huge creature, about the size of a horse, is watching you with a number of glowing red eyes. It's made of living shadow, just like the ones that murdered everyone you knew. You let out a cry and run, but it easily catches up to you. In a desperate gambit for safety, you duck into a cave.
Hundreds of red eyes light up inside the cave, all watching you. You keep running, going past the unending rows of red eyes. Finally, you think you start to see moonlight coming from around a corner!
An exit!
You redouble your efforts to escape, and round the corner.
What greets you isn't moonlight.
It ripples, almost as if alive. It's so beautiful...
You reach out to touch it. Your hand goes into it, and you feel a calm spreading through your body. You take your hand out, and poke your head inside. It's indescribable. It's both light and dark, lustrous and invisible. A great nothingness filled with millions of twinkling stars stretches for as far as you can see in any direction. You pull your head back out, completely calm.
Ah, so you have found the Rift, mortal... beautiful, is it not?
You feel no panic at this strange voice - all your fear dissipated the moment you saw the thing. You nod as an answer to the question.
LET US HAVE HIM, MASTER!
Very well. Do what you wish.
Dy Lin Wond Ay has entered a trance, possessed by The Collective...
NOTE: You aren't dead, but feel free to create another character. Think of this not as a loss, but rather as a chance to do everything differently. When and if your original character comes out of possession, you may choose which one you want to play.
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Topic: Survival of the Meanest (Read 37844 times)