The blade you call Desecrator, for how it was made and what you shall do, and the debate over what to call it stops nagging you. Your power has grown, and with it the mastery you have over undeath. Zombies, skeletons, and other such creatures are slightly smarter and more effective when under your command, and the dead stir and grow restless in your presence, making it easier for you to raise them.
You look down on the town, and you are determined to push them towards the breaking point. Every night you dream with them, twisting and corrupting their dreamscapes. Its difficult work, and you must spread your attention over many every night. Still, the soldiers have grown a little tenser, and the refugees begin staying up a little later to drink and gamble.
But as the week goes on and your efforts grow more refined, you find yourself having much more of an impact. The townsfolk spend hours every day in taverns and gambling houses, even as the zealot rails to his followers and the other priests try to help their flock. The soldiers begin refusing to leave their barracks unless assurances are made for their protection, and so the militia is armed and new weapons begin being forged.
Soon enough, everything comes to a head on what is supposed to be a holy day of rest and prayer. Instead, near half the town spends it watching a bloody bare-knuckle tournament, and the zealot has had enough. He leads his followers to “burn out the nest of sin” and you watch with glee as a riot starts.
Two priests are killed, and a dozen fires are lit. Smoke hangs over the town like a pall, and nearly a quarter of the town, including a section of wall and some of the housing built up outside it, is burnt to ash before the fire is gotten under control. A few hundred people die burning or bleeding, and you drink in the agony of their deaths.
And looking down from the broken palisade, seething with contempt and fear, five soldiers swear to you, whispering the name they have heard in their dreams, offering them protection from the storm they know is coming.
Having accomplished what you set out to do, you return to Dresick to see what progress has been made. A wide dry moat has been dug, but only around half the palisade, and the earth piled up inside to reinforce it. Your cultists have finished their training and drilling, and begin working to equip themselves. It has proven difficult though, as they have few smiths and little steel. Only thirty men have been properly equipped, with the remainder using pitchforks and clubs for weapons and layers of leather for armor.
They have thrown dark feasts in your name, and decorated your temple with what is left of the sacrifices they made in your name, which consist mostly of skulls are arms tied together. An aura of cruelty and malevolent pleasure suffuses the whole town. You drink it in deeply. Ahh…there is no place like home.
Now you take your forces for a test run, marching out to find some more villages to destroy. Unfortunately, most have been abandoned, and you only find a couple small hamlets. They are destroyed, their people – thirty-two in total – taken captive, and then they are looted for supplies to make new weapons.
Once more you find your power swelling beyond what your form can contain, as evil leaks out in a corrupting wave. You suspect you could use this power as a well to draw from for summoning or other foul magic.
Current status
Current Status
Name: Klx-Dryklfx
Time: 2.5 months
Physical Might: 31+5(+4 slaughter, +3 worship)
Mental Might: 31+5(+4 slaughter, +3 worship)
Followers
13 Boneys, 30 armed and trained cultists, 177 poorly armed and trained cultists, 5 soldiers in Canord
Servants
15 wisp wights, 2 brutes
Cults
The Broken
Members: 13 Boneys, 177 poorly armed and trained cultists, 30 armed and trained cultists
Resources: 1
Power: 15 (1 spent worshipping you, 7 spent digging a moat, 8 spent making weapons)
Fortresses
Dresick
Wooden palisade(20), Moat(5), Aura of domination
Artifacts
Desecrator
+5 physical, +5 mental
Bringer of unholy rot, other traits likely
Magic Cloak
Unknown properties
How do you like the new way of doing status? Also, I am planning on doing a glossary update. Does anyone have requests for entires?