Ok then i want you to take the defences. I will meet you there. I will go to her now. Oh and proto when the demons are gone we will talk. I go to her.

(noccy) Shes sitting on the cot when you come in, she looks up and smiles, you realise its the first time youve seen her face, shes pretty in a pointy sort of way. You hear her talking and you concentrate, "Its good to see you, i thought you would never get out of that fortress, listen, the daemons following me, they arnt normal, i mean no daemons are, but these ones have got brands on them, brands of our guild, i think someone from the guild sent them to hunt me, and they may be after you as well."

been a couple of hours

it has indeed

The group move back into the base and begin to fortify it, eckeon and the militia get terady to defend the inner courts and you and your brethren defend the walls

okay, keep an eye out for deamons

Mmmmm... money. Well time to go extor- protect you Mr. Moneyman!!!!
!

(yarnek) You keep vigil with your brethren (including shifts) for about a week with no sign of trouble

(Rab) The man waddles forwards and clasps both of his hands around one of yours shaking it warmly, "Thankyou mr ah... mr Goblin yes i think that will do, I expect your services are quite reliable?"

he takes his hands away and you feel the weight of a bag of coins left in yours

Well thats a problem but this is the solution. I let see the sword pf secrets

her jaw drops, "you actually found it???"

well this is not an illusion i laugh. so yes i found it and with this we can destroy every single demon.

"we need its twin, they work best when weilded as a pair"
she looks at you, "You do realise what youve found right?"

Yes and i know where its twin brother is but now he must give it to me as i am an more experienced assasin so i could handle them a little better.

We continue to fight the Dragorans:

Darath and I raise our staffs in unison, and a bright light emits from both of them, we cast Lashing Vines, but also combining blaze with it. I cast spell after spell at the warriors, trying to destroy the last of them.

Meanwhile, I look to Orac and Rarora, ordering them to keep firing. They loose arrows and bolts into thelast of the dragorans continue to knock them down...

(noccy) "you probably are Kozak, but you should ask him anyway, we dont need infighting in the guild"

(Tallon) alright i can see this taking a while, after a long and protracted battle you eventually overpower the dragorans, out of it you procure several of the enchanted weapons and about 18 of the ordainary ones

After searching the corpses of the Dragorans, we devide the loot between us. We each take one of the enchanted swords and we also divide any other loot, such as armour, talismans or other pieces (Marta please say what) between us.

After this, we return to our horses and continue on our quest...

of course. hes my brother and so i will treat him

(noccy) she gets up taking your hand, "welllets go find him then" shesmiles warmly at you

Theyre body is theyre armour, but a small amount of food is found

and strange wooden medallions which have strange blue cores made of an exotic rare stone

Then lets go but if you feel anything weird say so then we return.

She nods and the two of you go to find him

if this is over we go to the city cause i have a little surprise for you. I see proto (dunno its name XD) preparing for the battle.
"Hello brother i hope you can talk to me now. As you see i have the sword of secrets and there is an demon incursion on the way. Thats why i ask of you to give me the sword of truths so the swords will be more potential then apart.

(im taking control here, this is getting rediculous) (proto) gives you the weapon slowly, "I trust you brother, dont loose it aye?"

Of course not. I laugh a little. I see that the aura over the swords flame up when they became connected by my body.

And thank you. I think it is best for you to return back to your bed. I dont want it that something happens to you. I also let to servant acompany you. (I think i can say this because when ure a higher rank you also gain some privileges)

(mhm) The sister next to you looks reverentially at the weapons, "They suit you Kozak"

Thank you. I laugh. But now we have something to take care of. As i said before. I dont want you to get hurt so i will bring you back to your room. I guide her to her room

She lays back on the cot, and smiles at you, "My name's Aurella by the way"

Mine is kozac. And now rest i will protect you. I will come back when its over. I will also do a protective ward over the door so noone except for me can enter. This is just a precaution because we are fighting demons. I can learn it to you if you want to because this one is one of the most powerful ones an notmage can make

she laughs, "I already knew your name silly. Thankyou though, I dont think I would be well enough to cope with those daemons.. You're right i do need protection." She takes your hand warmly, "Thankyou Kozac"

Your welcome aurella now sleep i will make sure your not disturbed. I lay her down softly. Now sleep you need it. i walk to the door and bite in my hand making it blood. I make an sign on the door and it turns into an coiled up snake."this should protect you. Now sleep i will return as fast as possible." I walk out of the door and close it behind me after she thanked me and i said it was ok."now i want revenge on those who try to defile my familys land and who hurt my "sister". I will make sure they drown in their own blood." And with that the darker side of kozac returned ready to spill blood.

"god damn it, we can't afford to loose time here"

I look at the medalions with my witch sight, they don't seem to be magical.
As I look at them for longer, I remember a text I once read on Dragoran culture. It seems these medalions are nothing but money. But will still make fine loot.

We each take a medalion, and the spares are put into the treasure bag.

We return to our horses and continue on our way northwards, hoping we wouldn't run into anyone as unfreindly as the Dragorans...

... ok mate you really need to stop doing that, the medallions are dragoran cash, MONEY, nothing magical

OOC: Sorry, A rare exotic stone seemed magical to me, i'll change the post.

good man, the only reason its a rare exotic stone is becaus ethe Dragorans live thousands of leauges away on an island, to them the stones are quite normal and othersare exotic

we shal see big guy, ok time to roll...

nope your good for the rest of the day

Me marta?

We continue riding along the road. The rest of the day turns out to be quite uneventful, the most exciting thing really was sighting a wild cat in the bushes.

I spend my day talking to Darath, and sharing our knowledge of magic and healing...

whoops sorry nocturne your post slipped under the radar, i was wondering why you wernt posting

the blades quiver in your hands as you draw them, the blades balance themselfs perfectly in your hands, a magical property activated when both are together

Im sorry guys i have been very busy

marta can you controll me for a while

I walk to the quartermaster."lord when do they come. Cause im ready. I will destroy every single one of them."

ooc sry holiday weekend.

Great guard duty again, haven't done this in a few hundred years and it still sucks...
Who wants to start weightlifting contest? I promise to start at only 3 cows in the cart...

(eckeon all good man) The ataani laugh, "Only three? You insult us my friend, let us start at five" (your both joking btw there is absolutely no way you can lift that much)

(proto sure thing man) Proto is moved back to his room by the brothers around him. Fuming silently he begins to carry out his usual rituals and exercises

(noccy) "Theyre not gonna be here for a while yet, but when they do come itll be silent, theyll hit us where we dont expect it, and nothing will stop em, not magic not doors not walls not blades. only death, and those swords of yours look good for it"

(The party) After about midday the next day you hear the sound of light rumbling

Then we need to enchant every single one of the. And we need to gaurd not only the walls but also the inside i will also send a plea for help.

Then we need to enchant every single one of the. And we need to gaurd not only the walls but also the inside i will also send a plea for help.

(noccy) "already done lad, weve been ready for their attack for a few days now"

And how do we know it hasnt started yet maybe some of us are deamons in disguise. I look for some reactions

the man looks interested, maybe your right, but hell mate we can all vouch for each other, and these daemons are proud, they like to take the form of large ethereal dogs, red scales covering them

They are proud but not stupid. Can we have an magical scan on anyone? For then we know for if its to powerful its a demon

he nods, "of course", he casts a ball of what looks liek fire at you but when it hits you it just seems to warm you slightly, infront of you is the shadow of a clock, fixed firmly at the "2" with the hour hand and the minute hand at the "8"

"well i guess its not you then"

Can you teach me that quick so i can use it?

the mental chant is Noctum Infernus Chrono

I usec it on everyone in the chamber. And then i return to aurella.beforei enter i use it and i throw it though the door at her

none of them are imposters

Then i walk inside and sit down next to her.

(noccy) shes sleeping on her side, one hand under her pillow one at her side, the one at her side is closed over a throwing knife, you can see its point emerging out the bottom of her fist, and youa ssume the one under the pillow is also holding some sufficiently lethal weapon as well

I smile and just keep looking at her waiting for something to happen(not w here XD)

I also try to take the weapons from her as she doesnt have to be on gaurd when i am gauring her.

you touch her hand and shes instantly awake, ready to attack you but she sees who you are and stops

Ranun turns to his comrades and says, "Let's go see what that may be" - with a smile on his face - taking out his mace as he does so.

(Btw marta, what kind of "magical weapons" did we take off the Dragorans?)

they are magical handswords
they have defensive enchantments that when wielded to the exclusion of all else almost completely protect the wielder from magic

the rumbling gets louder as the day wears on, you notice strange differences about the area, the animals usually abundant have fled and many of the trees seem to be shying back from the roadside

We will press on, and see what foul things await us.

You come to literally a wall of stone, it streaches up into the horizon in stepped layers and terminates about 150 metres up in a cupola the stone is mossy and old and strange pictograms can be seen on its surfacce, directly ahead is a gaping stone door set into the rock about 3 layers up, the stairs leading to it look old but servicable

Morning sunshine. I smile you can give those to me for i am gaurding you now. I take the weapons. You can now sleep a little better. And i think that will be a little comfortable.

I lead the party towards the wall, raising my staff as I do. It seems strange that the animals have left, and the air seems colder than usual.

I walk up to the wall, and brush some of the green moss off the surface. I begin to study the pictograms, seeing if they mean anything to me. After a while, I call Darath over to see what he makes of them...

(noccy) She smiles at you, "will you stay for a while?"

(Tallon) the pictograms are fairly plain, they look like warriors fighting with aancient beasts and monsters

I wonder what they could mean and if they warn of what is inside/on the other side (I don't know if it is enclosed) of the wall. I look over the wall with my witch sight to see if I can find any clues...

the witch sight reveals that the pictograms were scoured on with magic but other than that reveal nothing

Made by magic, I think to myself. It must have been someone quite powerful that did this.

I look over the wall a while longer before leading the group up to the door. What ever is behind this wall, it must be powerful and powerful things often guard treasure. I try to open the door...

If openable: I lead by group through the door, raising my staff and dagger.

If un-openable: I motion to Rarun to batter the door down.

*the door is already open*

I lead my party throught the door way and investigate what is inside...

Before you is a long stone corridor, along each side are plinths set into the wall, atop each stand a stone statue depicting one of the warriors from the wall, the end of the corridor can be seen flickering lights

The group go to draw their weapons, but I signal for them to put them away. I raise my staff and cast weak form of blaze, causing my staff to act much like a torch.

I walk along the corridor, using my witch sight to check for magical presence...

none appears to exist

I walk further along the corridor, continualy checking for traps, and eventualy reach the door. I walk inside to investigate the lights I had seen...

You walk out into a brightly lit room, huge and circular, the outer wall has more plinths in its resscesses and then there is a chasm which you cant see to the bottom of, the short walkway that is directly infront of the door leads to a platform suspended above the chasm, the platform is huge and round, and a hexagon is inscribed in it and at each of the points there is a rectangular groove. at the end of the platform there is a massive statue of a dog headed daemon with six arms each arm holds a sword. the swords are held out to the sides in a classic pose.

in the center of the platform and set into the ground is a flat transulcent pane of glass, which after a quick scan you can tell is invulnerable, inside the glass a pair of greygold gauntlets can be seen on a plinth. the roof of the chamber is high above and at its peak is anouther glass panel which has a golden sphere of light suspended above it, which flickers as if on fire. this is the source of the considerable light in the room.

I extinguish my torch and use witch sight to check for traps and artifacts

I examine the Dog Statue, searching for a meaning or representation.

I also examine the center of the room, and the rectangular groves. I assume that inserting some sort of key into the groves would allow access to the gloves.

I begin thinking about how I would retrive them...

the dog statue has two powerful legs that are crossed beneath it, its head is bowed and two ruby eyes wink out from overhanging brows. The entire thing is very well wrought and about 25 metres high the swords however are all held at a height where even you could touch the hilts, not that you would bother considering the stone blades would probably weigh more than you could ever hope to lift.

as far as you know there are no traps or magical areas in the room.

The grooves have images around them, more pictograms, they appear to be drops of blood which flow from the top of the grooves to the bottom, upon furthur inspection the entire floor of the platform is slanted slightly towards the glass panel itself, but not enough for it to hinder movement, the inclination is extremely slight but it is indeed still there.

around the panel there are the images of crossed swords in six places around the rim and set directly into the center of the panel is a startling representation of the golden orb above.

I assume that this room is some sort of temple, and that a blood scarifice is required to open the shield.

I ask Darath if he has any blood, and he looks into his potions bag.

While he is doing this, I search for other ways of opening the shield. (I assume it isn't magical) This must have been wrought by a powerful being I think...

(its a pane of glass magically shielded)

he comes up with the blood and you drip a few spots on each groove, the grooze glow red and massive clanking sounds can be heard above, you look up and the massive fiery glode has descended through the gap where the pane of glass had been a moment ago, where it is now you hae no idea, but whats more worrying is the hundreds of statues surrounding the walls are shuffling their shoulders and drawing massive stone swords the height of a grown man

We quickly arm ourselves, and make sure we all have our enchanted dragoran swords on us, even if we aren't using them, for magical protection.

I raise my staff and activate my protective jewle. We wait for the statues to make the first move, they may still be oblivious to us, or even freindly!

However, we are ready for a fight if they were to attack...

the statues are far from fiendly, as they become fully mobile they begin to rush towards the walkway to the platform, massive strides on thier long legs eating up the distance, you look back at the dog statue and mecifully its still in its place, however you notice that its swords have been turned in its hands so that they are facing downwards

I wonder what this change of postion in the statue means, but have little time to think about it.

I turn to the advancing warriors and begin casting. I cast blaze and ice flare, trying to stop them. Bright lights burst forth from my staff and fly towards the statues. My staff spins and whirls around me as I trun to face, and cast on, each of the advancing warriors.

Darath casts Rapid Growth, surrounding the foes in thick, thorny vines. His staff glows green, as he casts a healing aura around the party. He continues to cast and heal as they advance.

Orac loads arrows into his bow, hoping to be able to do something to these stone monstrocities.

(I hope this is OK)
I signal to Rarun to smash the statues. He brings his mace down with force that only a saytar could supply. It thunders through the air and smashes into the side of one of the warriors.

Raora loads enchanted bolts into his cross bow and fires on the warriors. I signal to him to throw explosives down the entrance corridor, where several of the warriors are advancing from.

During the fight, I always keep my eye out for anything that has been revealed during combat. I use my witch sight to try and find the source of the power, animating the statues...

I suddenly think, what if this change of the swords postion is a sign, what if we have to use the swords to prove ourselves worthey of the treasure. As I cast, I move closer to the dog statue and attempt to take one of the swords from it's grip...

ok first things first its blindingly obvious what is animating the statues the massive fiery orb is emanating massive arcs of amgical energy which you soon tap into to augment your powers,

the fight however is a different story

almost everything you throw at the statues bounces off, the exceptions to the rule are your magic and ranuns mace, you quickly get Darath to tap into the energies of the shpere as well which allows him to damamge the statues but the archer and the marine qquickly find themselfs redundant without magical aid

I continue to fight, boosted by the power of the orb. Now, as well as my normal spells, I am able to channle some of the orbs power into the weapons of my freinds.

I feel the sword to heavy to pick up and decide to ignore it. We continue to fight against the statues and, one by one, we manage to knock them down.

Stone dust fills the room, and shards of broken rock fly around, our armour and enchantments protect us from these small pieces though.

I try to use my new magical might to sever the links between the orb and the statues...

BTW: What did the explosives do?

the weapon comes away easily in your grasp, and is far lighter than you would have expected, however once out of its grip the statue snaps its hand closed and folds it across its chest

otherwise after a massive battle you own the statues

After we have finished off the last of the statues, I call the group over the the dog statue.

We each take a sword, and I give the extra sword to Rarun, knowing he was our master of melee.

After taking the swords, we wait to see what would happen...

the hands of the statue all snap closed and slid across the statues chest.

the swords stay light in your hands,

Seeing that we hadn't triggerd any more traps, I decide to focus on the true treasure the, obviouly powerful, gloves. Me and Darath channle the energy of the orb, and attempt to breakthrough the magical barrier...

still nothing has any affect on the pane of glass
however your eyes stray to the grooves again

We work on the problem of the groves, and think we may have found the solution. We lay the swords, along with the blood, in the groves, and wait to see what happens...

the swords slide into upright positions and slide into the grooves up to the hilt the pane of glass slides back and the plinth wth the gloves on top is raised to waist level

I reach out to take the gloves and study them, searching for a sign of there purpose...

the moment your hands touch the gloves the dog statue wakes up and the doors to the room slam closed, the dog head gets up swiftly and wrenches the swords out of the gooves, you hastily snatch the gloves before they sink back into the platform,

the dog head eyes you with those cold red eyes

I quickly slip the gloves on, hoping that it will somehow calm the dog. I wait for it to make the first move, somehow hoping it will be freindler that the statues...

no such luck, your party scrambles out of the way except for ranun who manages to catch the swords of the right side of the statues body on his mace before having to duck the others

Me and Darath quickly re-establish our power link with the orb and begin to cast on the statue. I search for the power source for animating the dog.

We assume the same fighting style as with the statues. Me and Darath engage magical, while boosting the missile weapons of our freinds, and Rarun just generaly smashes things with his mace.

Once I have found the source of the dogs power, I attempt to sever it with my own might...

the statue is completely impervious to everything you throw at it, there is absolutely no way for you to harm it

I quickly decide to change tactics.

I order my party to stop attacking the dog and try to calm it.

Me and Darath try some of the calming spells I had found in my dragon books...

Of course i will stay. So you can sleep with a safe heart.

OK!! So who wants to run down the road and see if we run into that shorty with the ugly beard and nasty pets?

ooc hey uh never got any skills from ya im still basin my thoughts off the bio i gave. so in my mind i do have unatural strength do to years of weight training and such. Tell me the plan and ill adjust accordingly.

(wow, lot's happened in one night)

Ranun yells to Edon, "The gloves have to have some part in this, give them to me!" He puts them on and takes a deep breath...

Ranun then charges at the beast, trying to dodge any blows that come to him, and swings his mace with all his power at one of the mighty swords near the hilt.

(Yes, A lot can happen)

I quickly take off the gloves, and throw them to Ranun.
I raise my staff, and channle the energy of the orb into my freind...

even with the additional power of the gloves and the orb you still arnt even close to damaging the dog head, you hear a titanic crunch as Ranun rolls out of the way of a sword as it is plunged into the walkway

(Eckeon) The men all laugh wearily, "Were not really cut out for that friend, and whats to say hes expecting it and will flank the town with daemons while you are gone? (yarnek eckeon) ive rolled for when he turns up and he does, its just a matter of time.

(noccy) She drifts of to sleep with a warm smile on her face, you wonder idlyhow she could have ever been an assassin and then you remember the knifes still held in your lap

Ranun seizes the moment and swings his mace at the sword to try and hit it away from the beast.

I attempt to do Inquisition while doing this.

the inquisition spell fails however imbued with the power of the gloves and the massive orb your mace *shatters* the sword, shards of stone explode forcibly outwards. the giant statue rears back and lands a foot down infront of you, knocking you of your feet, but the spiderweb cracks in the walkway grow larger. the statue is still very much invulnerable but if you can remove it from the equation anouther way?

Hmm... I don't want to kill my mace, but here goes nothing.

Ranun swings his mace at the ground near the statue as hard as he can.

I begin to meditate silently while i play reflex games with myself and the knives

the mace hits the ground and the reinforced magical star iron smashes through the first layer of marble and into thye granite beneath, al of a sudden the spiderweb cracks become gaping fissures and then =the doghead statue is tumbling backwards into the chasm, you only just have time to sprint of the last feet of walkway before thy follow the statue and the platform into the chasm

behind you you hear the door open explosivly and the sound of more warrior statues, he ones from the corridor

Please tell me they are smaller

Me?

(sorry nocturne just getting to you now had to be afk for a bit) The meditation excersises help you to relax and get control of your emotions, you are sure that they will call you when the trouble starts

(ranun) yes they are smaller

Hallelujah!


Ranun rolls his neck and readies his mace, and then charges into the group of statues.

(Btw, what has happened to the thundering noise we heard?)

(you will see soon my good man)

Ranuns power augmented by the gloves allows him to almost sweep through the statues.

ok Ranun you are level three, tallon you are level 2
will Pm the improvements soon

the group gets a pair of Golems touch Artifact Gloves

This means you have the first in the artifact set Golems Justice

The gloves have the propety to increase the pure stat (the most important one) to the wearer, by 50%

once you discover more of these temples and recover the rest of the set the benifits from each individual piece will increase

you are still looking for Golems Heart, Golems Sight And the Shoulders of Atlas

(I really love these gloves XD )

Is there any way out of the temple other than the way we came in?

nope but remember the doors opened

I Look at aurella to see if everything is alright. Then i ask to an bywalking page if he can bring some food and water. (I also checked him if he wasnt a demon. Cant be sure enough XD)

hes a daemon



jks

hes clean, and he runs of to grab what you asked for, he comes back a couple of minutes later with some food and a pitcher of scented water

I turn to the statues and cast a boosted Disintergratiion Lacnce into the statues.
I continue to cast untill they are defeated...

the lance shears through several of them cutting them down, after a while the entire room is filled with stone dust and paintchips

BTW: I asked Raora to throw some explosives into the corridor a few pages ago, what happened to that?

After casting Disintergration Lance a few more times, untill the corridor is clear of statues.

the corridor is indeed clear, and becaus ei missed it it has done nothing, and anyway, the statues are invulnerable while dormant

I make one last check around the room, both with my eyes and my witch sight, searching for any treasure me and my party may have missed.

After this, I lead the group back down the corridor and towards the entrance, intent on discoveiring the source of the strange rubbling sound we heared earlier...

XD Rubbling XD

(no more loot sorry)

As you exit the temple you feel the warm glow of the firey orb on the party and you look up to the cupola atop the pyramid to see the orb hanging there glowing out across the dark forest.

its late at night and you are surprised to have spent at least 4 hours in there

around you you can see strange shapes moving int eh darkness, large wagons seemingly walking on legs but cealry made of wood and steel.

you try to view them with witchsight but they dissapear so fast as to not even have been if you hadnt seen them.
the rumbling from earlier is clear as these carriages made the same esoteric noises.

I am confused to what these strange carriages are, as I have never read about them in any of the many texts I have studied. I cast blaze, again using my staff as a torch, and move towards where I thought I saw the carriages. Always checking the area around me with witch sight, I warn my party to be on there guard...

theres nothing there

ooc sorry i havent been posting recently, ive been abit tired.

Checking the load in my crossbow and that the magical sword is still at my hip, i follow close to my leader, troubled by these, things.

We set off.

I take the food and give him a gold coin for its hard work. But he needs to be silent about it

We start searching the area, looking for any trace of these 'things'...

Will post today, sorry about being absent, I'm involved in a score of other RPs, and finding time for all of them is a task in itself.

"I think its time we set up camp. We can find out what those are in the daylight - and I for one am tired and worn from a long day."

(the group), Ranuns point hits home, after a quick search without success you all make camp for the night

(noccy) the boy nods and runs off

(rab) Over the wourse of a week you travel deep into the continent, then as your nearing the halfway point in your trip you begin to start seeing strange shapes moving at the edge of the campfire one night

(all good mordo, good to see you back)

"I'll take first watch," Ranun says to the group.
He sheds his armor and sits in close to the fire, and keeps his mace close at hand for anything that may be lurking close by.

(if night is uneventful, I'll wake Rarora after 4 hours)

I elect to take the midnight watch, my natural low light vision should help.

I get back and take a seat also taking a little water and one of the breads. I eat them silently and i play a game with the glas of water trying to darken the clear water with a little bit of magic

(the group), the whole night is uneventful but you soon realise that this part of the forest will never truly be dark again with the magical orb atop the temple

(noccy) you amuse yourself for a while but all of a sudden the char leg is ripped out from under you and you hear a terrifying growl

I take the morning watch and, shortly after sunrise, I begin to cook breakfast for the group. I have no need to wake the group, the smell of the food does that for me.
We eat or breakfast and then kit up, ready to begin our search.
We don our armour, and begin to search the forest and surronding area for any sign of the things we saw...

no matter how hard you look you cant find them, at one stage you climb the pyramid to get a better view and you notice several others all about 3 leagues from each other

I take my weapons in less than a second and i search in the room for the deamon using the magical antidemon fireball

As I look out across the sprawling lanscape of our land, I see the three other temples Ranun had seen. To the north, I can see the towering peaks of the northen mountains, our eventual destination, and to the south, I can see the outer parts of the city of Phobos. All around me, I can see forest and scrub land.

The nearest of the three temples, seems to be the one to the east of our current postion. We gather our equipment and set off for this temple, hoping to discover more treaseure, and prehaps more infomation about the things we had seen...

I choose to scout ahead of the group, leavig my armour and weapons, save a axe, to be carried by the group, quickly reaching the temple without ay extra weight. Surveying the area i find...

(noccy) You quickly realise you dont need to as it springs at your face

(The group) Eagle scouts ahead and finds more of the pictograms, and anouther doorway into this temple, atop the temple is the same style of cupola that the other had.

I return to the group to tell them whati have found, and equip my armor ad weapons, in preperatio, incase the temple is anything like the last.

As the rest of the group gets to the temple and Tallon examines the Pictographs he makes an excalmation of startlement, he calls you all over insisting that even an orc could read these.

You all see the image of a massive round room with a strange amophorus shape in the center, however in a spiral going up are hundreds of angels flying in circles

i use my blades to slice it in half.

the artifact weapons sheer straight through the massive beast and it dissapears into smoke before hitting you

I check if it is gone with the flame orb

tis indeed gone, but you hear growling and screams outside the door

I throw it through the wall and let it grow bigger and let the ball multiply

your spell registers about two dozen daemons

Then lets go. I wake aurella and say i will protect her. I rush outside attacking th first demon on sight. Always watching for aurella

she sticks behind you and casts lightbend over herself aiding in the escape. and escape it is, the guild is completely overrun, (proto) moves into your line of vision firing rapidly into the face of one of the daemons with his wrist crossbows, after a few shots the thing slumps down and smokes. he repeats the process twice more before you get to him.

Well thank you. I nod to proto. And i keep hacking in some demons. "Aurella we need to escape."

you feel her squeeze your shoulder, and you know she nodded.

(proto) looks at you, "you mind if i come too? im not gonna last five minutes here, and i know somewhere where we can hide"

Ranun looks at the party and says, "It can't be worse than the statues..." - even though he believed that it could be, and he started walking into the temple.

I wonder what this temple could contain, seeing these pictograms makes me worried though, as they told us of the dangers in the last temple and, I for one didn't want to fight angels.

I reach for my staff and make sure my party's archers have a plentyful supply of enchanted arrows. I ask Rarun to put the gloves on again, thinking they may help us again.

I begin to walk towards the door, and lead the party inside...

Well show us. But i will take the lead just say directioms. I slash at another demon.

(The group) Nothing can prepare you for what you find, the temples long corridor is empty of plinths this time, however when you get to the main room you realise how the drawings could be mistaken for angels.

Hundreds upon hundreds of Harpies rise in spirals around the walls, crafted out of pure white marble with ebony wings.

The centeral platform of the room has a pair winding spiral staircases that link in a double spiral which lead up into the air for about 100 metres where there is a platform at the end of each staircase upon which is each is a brass lever set into the floor. Above the levers is the massive firey orb of the temple, again contained behind a glass pane.

at the bottom of the staicases situated directly between them is anouther pane of glass, beneath which is a plinth upon which rests a chestpiece of black gold

(nocturne) he nods and motions to leave the building for a start

I begin to walk into the room, and up the spiral stairs. All the while focusing on the harpies around me. Something tells me that they aren't freindly.
I have my staff raised above my head, ready to cast disintergration lance at the slightest provocation...

and yet nothing happens, you reach the roof without so much as a shiver from one of the collosal birdbeasts

I turn and walk on to the platform at the top of the stairs, atill ready to cast.

I pull the lever and wait to see what happens...

Ok and now? I fire my wristcrosbows in a demon. And finish him. I then attack another one finishing him with an jab in the heart. Aurella are you still here?

Seeing edon pull the lever, i loosen the straps on my crossbow and equip it, checjing formy other weapons, i ratchet a rack of blaze enchanted arrows, hoping that the harpies, like birds, have a fear of fire. I motion for he rest of the party to not move, and look slowly for any movement.

you find the lever is able to be shifted slightly but not all the way, then you look at the other lever while pulling yours and you see it shudder, clearly they need to be pulled simoultaneously

I call Rarun over, to help me shift the levers...

(noccy) she squeezes ur shoulder again just as you get out of the building, somehow the daemons arnt following you and you use this to your advantage. The three of you begin to run under cover of darkness and sleep during the day, all light bended and moving as fast as possible at night. After three days you reach (Proto's) safe house. He leads you in and you see a dark elf woman in the kitchen making a sandwitch for herself, she turns to see who is entering and sees (Proto), rushes over and hugs him.

I wander over, incase my help is also needed with the levers.

ok so heres the sitch

you and (tallon) are at the top of the platforms ready to pull the levers and the rest of the group are at the bottom?

Hello miss. We are from the guilt but i guess you know. We are maybe the sole survivors as the guilt is or was under siege.

okay, are we pulling the levers, or should we wait for tallon?

Both me and Tallon are pulling the levers, and I guess the rest of the group is at the bottom...
the fact that you're making sure of this can't be good... :O

ok ok who is pulliing the levers, Tallon and one other, you or Eagle, whos it gonna be

Me?

hmmm? whoops my bad

(noccy) The womans gaze snaps to you and you find yourself pinned to the wall, "Dont call me missy, mister"

She lets the magical force binding you go and you touch lightly back to the floor, more to your skill than her gentleness.

How shall i call you then. I just wanted to be polite. I can be an assasin but we from the clan still have manners

Ill pull the lever, mine and edons vantage point could help with our attacks.

(noccy) she smiles
"just call me Lilith"

(eagle) As you pull the levers several things happen simoultaneously

the orb is lowered into the room and below the artifact is raise out of its resting place


unfortunatley two other things happen, the first was obvious and all of you expected it, the harpies woke up and begun dive bombing the two on the platforms and the rest at the base of the stairs,

also the platforms at the top of the stairs began tobecome flush with the stairs, each slowly rotating until the stair beneath it was flush with the side of the platform, then the next stair and the next, soon the platforms would be atop a vertical wall each.

both of you begin to sprint down the stairs with harpies dive bombing you and the stairs behind you slowly merging into a solid wall

You mean THE lilith? The doombringer lilith? Im sorry but this kind of confuses me.

Amid the confusion, Ranun yells up to Edon and Rarora, "Ride the harpies down!" - and upon seeing the obvious worry in Rarora's eyes "Unless you would rather jump dwarf?!"

Ranun then turns to more pressing matters, he grabs the chest-piece and and swings his mace to meet any harpies coming in on him.

(noccy)erm no, its just her name

sorry first thing that came to mind

to clear up any worries lets call her...
Lotus



(Ranun) (really ride the harpies? lawls)

Your premptive mace strike was astute wiping out a Harpy as it screams towards you.

These birds arnt nearly as resilient as the warrior statues and your mace pulverises them with ease

I see Raruns point instantly. Even the fastest of elves couldn't out run this.

I leap across and onto one of the last harpies, and make a magical connection with the orb. I start casting disintergration lance, and Flay at the harpies.

Mean while, Darath connects with the orb and begins to cast a boosted form of healing aura, protecting us from injuries. After this, he casts Lashing Vines, the jewel in his staff glows green as vines leap forth, beating off harpies with their thorns and venom.

My harpie continues to decend as I cast, blowing harpies out of the sky...

(your harpy? pfft)

The harpy twists around and you suddenly realise you have a problem, the thing has you in its talons

Ok lotus. But may i ask why proto brought us to you?

I signal to Darath, who casts rapid growth, and blow the harpy appart with flay.

The vines created by Rapid growth then are manipulated to form a net inwhich me and Raora could be caught. I also cast flay on Raoras harpy, who is also attacking him...

Haha, if only some of us had rope (Maybe the way down was to take the chest-piece, and then put back the levers?)

I turn to Rarun. I don't have rope, I say, but Darath could use Rapid Growth to make some vines which we could use...

Muttering under my breath about some young uns, and other such nonsense, i fire a stack of icey arrows at the harpies.

I see EagleArk fireing, and channel some of the orbs power to his weapon, making it much more deadly. I continue to cast, trying to bring down the harpies. I cast both Freeze Lightning, and Inferus Umbra, as well as Disintergration Lance, blowing appart harpies left right and center...

To late to join?

TheWildHost wrote:To late to join?

I don't think so, we usualy welcome new players.
You will have to ask Tyranic Marta though, as he is the Games Master.

Post your character sheet and see what he says.

Name: Markith Dexin
Age: Unknown Possibly 28
Class: Archer
Race: Ataani
Weapons: Obsidean bow, obsidean arrows. Steel utility hachet, and two obsidean daggers
Armour Obsidean Chain mail with leather underarmor.
Appearance/Bio: Tall with black fur. He was born into a family of "Fighters for Hire" And grew up fighting in entertainment( Arena Death battles) matches. Little is known about him besides the fact he is an accomplished fighter.

Sounds good wild, ill post you in soon, (you want to join with bullet beaters timeline ofr start a new one? or join with anouther chars timeline?)

Ranun is frantically killing the harpies but there are to many even for him, one of them picks Orac up and anouther snatches Durath


the vines supporting Rarora and (Tallon) stay in place and it gives them enough support to kill a few harpies

(Noccy) "This place is safe. If your running from someone, im sure you will be safe here"

(Ranun) (Actually the Chestpiece is only available once the levers are pulled. No this is just a dick of a contraption)

Turning to see a harpie come towards my i slice at it with my axe, before turning towards the harpies carrying the memebrs of my team.

the harpies are trying to lift them over the chasm and you can see what they are planning next, one simple flick and your friends will be lost to the void

Ranun acts quickly, before the harpies bring his companions over the edge, he casts Inquisition on the Harpy holding Orac, and rushes to crush the holding Durath, ignoring all else.

(If inquisition fails, I throw my knife at it... it may just kill the harpy, or stun it enough for Orac to break free)

inquisition wont work, they are magical constructs

your knife digs into the chest of the harpy and the thing shatters, Orac drops to the platform and skids, you see that he is going to fall off the lip and you dive forwards winding yourself on the ground as you grab his wrist just as he slips off

We are not running for someone were running for demona

I kill dem shapes dead.

I cast and slash at the harpies, intent on beating them back.

(I think the idea of resetting the levers was to take the chestplate, and then pull back the levers to stop the harpies)

I cast Ice Lightning on as many harpies as possible, hoping to freeze their wings and send them pluminting out of the sky...

As the harpies fall i wait for them to be on the ground, and vunerable. Whenever one bounced off the floor, i would fire a flurry of bolts at them, hopefully killinga few.

(btw how many harpies are left?)

Ronan strains to pull up Orac at the odd angle. He grips the floor as best he could with one arm, and with his other heaved to get Orac up. He managed to get him high enough for Orac to do the rest of the work. "Get out of here! I can't save you again." Ranun tells him.

Ranun turns, to his horror, to see Durath is almost completely off the edge of the walkway. "Edon! Save him!" Ranun says, hoping that the elf knew of some spell that would be of any use.

Um, I think to my self, I don't know any transportation/flying spells. (I make a note to look for some)
Suddenly, I have a thought. I cast Ice Flare below my falling comrade, attempting to block his fall...

The wall of ice catches the twining who scarmbles back to land before any more harm can be done to him

the harpies are almost too neumerous to count, but you notice that tyhe doors to the temple havnt closed. if you can get out maybe they will either leave you alone or at least be easier to kill out on the slopes of the temple

(nocturne) She looks at (proto) "Why did you bring them here? this will put us all in danger?"

He looks back at her. "They are the only things in danger, Kozac has the swords of truth and secrets and with your magic they should be simple to defeat"

She nods, "the swords make a big difference."

(me? and when do you update the fall of the field of tears?)

just posted for you noccy
and im getting to it, patience i have alot of RP's to post to

Eh ho wowow i only fight with my own reflexes i havent mastered it yet i dont even know ANY special abilities ( i know marta but was just asking XD)

While the rest of my party move towards the door, me and the archer (forgot his name) Cover our retreat.

Slowly you manage to get the entire party out, the last to get there is Edon who has to leap through the doorway avoiding a swooping Harpy.

(noccy) "It is not you that will make the difference although im sure you are a competent fighter, it is the swords themselfs, they are anathema to Daemons."

her arrogant air is beggining to annoy you but you see her point

I know but if someone cant fight with them they are just as useless ass sticks

"You are effective with knifes yes? same principle, hack and stab, now if you dont mind I have to go and get some food for you and.. Whats your name dear?"

Kozac and this is aurella. I point to her. She's a sister. And im protecting her because she isnt fully healthy yet. (I use speartongue next to lotus her ear. And if you ever lay a finger on her which turns out badly for her...... you will be on my to do list)

(noccy) lotus smiles and nods, "Im glad to meet you Aurella"

"Likewise"

"Well i must be off, now, ill return later. She pecks (Proto) on the cheek and leaves

Proto for real who is that woman she is really weird

XD

"Shes someone who i met on my last mission...

anyway, you two may as well make yourselfs at home"

When shes gonna do weird stuff at me i leave let that be clear. I put aurella on a chair and i set some tea

(proto) nods, "ill let her know"

i givesome tea to everybodyand sit down "why did you bring us here?

(Did we get the Chest Plate?)

I turn towards Darath, who sees my wounds and casts Healing Aura on me, and the rest of the party.
I clean the blood of the harpies from my dagger, and return it to it's scabard...

How is it pissible that statues bleed?

I present the Black Chest-Piece and gloves to Edon.

Well done, I say to my team, but does anyone know what this chest plate does?

(Yeah, it buffs youu!!! - I believe marta said +50% to main stat for all these artifacts.)

"Put it on and find out."

I put on the gloves, as they restrict my movement least, and hand the chest plate to Rarun, to improve his skills as well...

"I will wear the armor given to me by Marta - I will have a use for it later however - but for now I think it best that Orac uses it to keep him farther from harms way."

"Now I suggest we use the little daylight left to continue marching, unless you would rather rest earlier?"

I decide to lead my party onwards, marching northwards to the third of the four temples, the forth of which is west from there.
We keep an eye out for any of the strange things we had seen while we ride.
Me and Darath use our staffs as torches...


Just to recap:
Edon: Gloves
Orac: Breastplate

ok all of the artifacts give the same base bonus, a 1/2 (50%) increase to the pure stat of the cahracter wearing them, but if both of them are eqquipped on the same character then they increase the pure stat by 75% and increase the White Stat by 50% (the stat in harmony with the pure stat, ie a warrior would have his strength increased by 50% and his health increased by 75%)

(GM) The party continues to the temple, now the shades of the carriages appear regularly at dusk each night but when you try to approach they dissapear

(Rab) The shadows retreat hastily when you try to attack them and you find yourself having to recover ammunition as they dissapear when attacked

(Noccy) "I brought you here because i knew you could help me, and i knew she could help her" He points at Aurella, "shes not going to last long if the daemons come for her."

The Golden Army marched forth, taking lives and drinking fear as more and more rose to join their unliving ranks. Nations were left empty husks in their wake, the dead having risen to join their killers. Iliad felt no pride or satisfaction in the deed, only a feeling of emptiness resounded hollowly in his chest. He was a tool, nothing more. The breeze caressed his golden plate, yet his unliving flesh felt nothing, he was beyond matters of mortality. Yet, the hold that the Golden Man used to choke Iliad was slipping ever so slightly, and the former elf now conquered not only for his master, but for himself. No more would he be Iliad the Golden, he would become Iliad, King of Dust. He would throw off his master's shackles and use his own army to send him from the multiverse. Then, Iliad would die, the oblivion denied him for eons would finally be his.

I could help you with what brother say it. And of course she will last long. For i will protect her until my dying breath. I look at aurella. And that is a promise.

(Iliad) Good to see you back mate, its been a bit lonely without the Golden man

The armies march into territories not held by the empire, huge tracts of land populated by the roaming orc tribes. slowly your army grows and it gets to a stage where you can no longer maintain all of your warrioirs. A good 10,000 undead stand at your back as you reach the eastern coast. No one had crossed that ocean in 3000 years, not before the fall.

(noccy) She smiles at you fondly and (proto) nods, "I need your help, someone is corrupting the assassin guilds. all of them.

Then we will do what we are best. But first i want aurella to become at full strength. So we have to wait. Someone some more tea? I nod to the tea pot

(noccy) Aurella nods and (Proto) does too

"Were gonna need reinforcements, the four of us wont be enough

I give them their tea. "As i hate to admit it. You are right." I sit down next to aurella and look at her. "But she is my priority." I cut myself in the finger with one knife. And begin to draw an dragon on my whole left arm and is stops with its fangs around my heart. "Aurella i need only one drop of blood from you." I give her the knife. Just place a drop of blood on to the place where my heart is."

nawwwwwwwww

She pricks her finger and waits a second then dabs your chest

The Golden Army continues it's march, spilling upon the banks of the Empire, ready to do battle.

The URMC (United Races Mercanary Confederate) Has a massive defense force of orcs humans and elfs, which is drawn from all ends of the Empire, this confederate force quickly moves to oppose you.

The fist real battle is just after you have sacked the town of Northstream. Your army is marching towards its next goal when you hear whoops and catcalls, then a shower of fire tipped arrows begins to fall amognst your ranks, the arrows seem to have come from nowhere, and then you are feeling the full force of the assault. Warhorses with men on their backs are riding parrallel to your force well out of bowshot but they are firing crossbows with explosive tipped bolts into your ranks.

(Wow, so if we had all 4 pieces of armor on one man, he'd be BLELBLEBLWELBLBELEHHH amazing!!!! Chuck Norris in mortal form.)

*to party*

"The more I see these carriages the more I lose my sleep. Let us lay a trap for them, and solve the mystery of their origin and purpose."

Raising their shields high, the Golden archers fire their bows down upon the horsemen. The Liche Priests and Necrolytes begin to cast spells of ensnaring and entrapment upon the more mobile groups of enemy units.

(does well out of bowshot not mean anything to you?? jks its ok)

The arrows from your cohirts fall well short of the retreating horsemen and your spells do little to the nimble horses who flee ouside the range of your casters

the quarrels fired by the horsemen have a powerful affect even against the raised shields of your cohorts, many of them are wrecked by explosions.

(remember you have infanty heavy medium and light, archers, chariots and siege weapons, as well as your liche priests and your guard)

Orac looks to Ranun, "how would you suggest we lay a trap for something that seems to dissapear the moment we are close?"

The dragon begins to move and ends fully covered over my arm and heart turning into a tattoo. "This is one of the magicks from my former family. Because now i am bonded to you. When you die i die. I also have the power to find you when you are lost. And now i only need to do one more thing. Aurella may i finish the ritual because now also you need a tattoo. This one will not kill you when i die.

"Where are you putting it?"

On your hand. And it will not hurt i promise

"OK"

I Start drawing an lotus on her hand with in the middel an open place. Now you must put your hand on the dragon and then put some from your blood in the middel of the lotus.

XD this is so cute XD

sorry i couldnt help it

im professional again

She hesitantly touches her hand to your chest

I gently take her hand and put it on my breast on the place of my heart. I then take her other hand and put a drop of blood on the lotus.

she gasps slightly feeling a strage tingling in her palm and chst but other than that she doesnt move

(proto) is looking faintly amused

It is ok nothing is gonna huurt you. Because everything done to you will be transfered to me

She smiles and hugs you, she whispers in your ear, "thankyou Kozac"

Thank you aurella. And i stand up (barely). But now i think it is best for us to go to bed because this magic will become intens the following hour. But i know you can handle it i smile to aurella. But now. Proto can you please show us the bedroom.

"Sure"

He takes you up a flight of stairs to a guest room which has two double beds.

after i put aurella in one bed i take a chair. aurella i want you to know that when you wake up i will not look the same as now. my hair will probably turn snowwhite and so will my skin. my eyes and tattoo will turn blood red. that is how i will look after the transormation. but for the transformation to succeed i must stay as close to you as possible. this is because i will now be bonded to your blood not my own. you dont have to be scared because i will just be myself but just my appaerance changes. this is also the spell my ancestors used to make their bodygaurds. and i need to stay to you as close as possible or i will be dead because my heart will stop pumping. i sit down and look at aurella. oh and proto the other bed is yours. i put my chair directly against aurrella's bed.

(looks like this: http://zetakizzy.deviantart.com/art/Shiro-from-Deadman-Wonderland-174697948)

I repeat Oracs word, How can we trap somthing we can't touch?
I begin to think about this, drawing on all the knowlege I have gathered through the years.
Then I remember something I read, from a scroll which was locked in a chest, deep in an underground tomb...

(when you say disappear, do they simply vanish or just back away and are no longer seen?)

(raptors - it is totally the recipe for chicken noodle soup )

(Raptor why did you always remember something you read. Why dont you just do it instead just doing it XD

nocturne's wrath wrote:(Raptor why did you always remember something you read. Why dont you just do it instead just doing it XD

Because I want to leave it up to the GM to decide wether or not we can do something, for example, if I posted:

I see the shapes moving through the dark. I remember that if I cast Infernus Umbra on a ghostly shape, I stops it from dissapearing, allowing us to investigate.
I cast on one of the shapes, and run towards it. I start searching it for clues to what it is I find that it is a Temple Ship, legendary guardian of the four temples of power. I walk onto the ship, and search around. I come to a locked door, seemingly to a treasure vault. Iknow how to open it. I chant a few words in a long dead language, which means nothing to the rest of the group. The door the treasure vault opens, and we go inside, taking all the treasure that we find.

You would call it godding. So I let the GM decide what we have to do.

Plus, I think it adds depth to the story line, rather than just I do this, I do this, I do this. My Character Bio says that he has spent over 400 years searching for knowledge and reading scrolls, therefore I assume that I know quite a lot about the magical things we encounter.

That is why I always remember things instead of just doing them.

(P.S This is not what I intend to do, unless it is what we are supposed to do)

Tsal good, I see that you were trying to avoid it while trying to progress the plot.

No but you can for example do something like:
I use ............ on ........... because ............. and then it is up to marta to decide. If he thinks its OP then he changes it.

And of course you can use it for ones in a while but in EVERY friggin encounter XD

Oh and maybe you can first search for it in a book because you cant remember everthing right XD (just saying XD oh and it was nothing personal

Ok, I see your point, I will try to make it less repetetive.

I think a spellbook is really fun. (Especially the ones without discription XD)

U Read my posts marta?

He's been gone... he's prolly just been busy as of late.

If you wish aurella i can explain the history from this magicks. Well actually it isnt magic. Do you wish for me to continue? I look at her. She nods. The ritual i did to you is called the nalagare. Or in this language the blood marriage. This is not an actual marriage but some use it in this way. It is called a marriage because two persons become one. Through blood. O bonded myself to your blood to protect you. And for my body to be rally bonded is the transformation needed and i will now tell you the history of the nalagare.

My ancestors came to this land as rivals. Fighting diplomatically over the land which was to be rightfully mine. But that is another story. And these partys fighting against each other were the queldorai and the aznore. The aznore were long had snow white hair and skin and have blood red eyes. The queldorai were like me as i am now. On one day an queldorai named keldor fell in love with the handmaiden of the aznore named nocta. Keldor fell in desperate love. And was attracted to nocta as a bee to honey. And she felt the same for him. But there was only one problem and that where their clans and the elderlings. For the elderlings would never accept it. And so nocta prayed to the great goddes for help. And so help came in the form of an dragon. The dragon was the sign of the goddes and nocta learned from the dragon a ritual. A blood ritual. She took some blood from the dragon and went to the place where nocta and keldor met often. When keldor came she explained everything to him and so keldor agreed with the ritual knowing that he could alwys be with nocta. Nocta took the blood and put her own blood in it as well. After the ritual keldor began to change into an aznore. But he had side effects. Whenever he walked to far from nocta he immediatly gained pain in his heart and he heard a voice that said: you must be with her forever. And so keldor did. But the war was still raging on. Now military. And eventually nocta was killed. Keldor couldnt stand his loss and went to the queldorai. And pryed to the everqueen for revenge. She warned him that the price would be much to pay. But he accepted. And so the lord of the queldorai was killed by the everqueen. But at a high price. Because now he cursed the future generations to feel the same pain as he did. But the queen was mercifull and made only the beginning of the ritual the same. Not the ending. And so it will be that every generation on decandent of the queldorai falls desperatly in love with an aznore. And this time it was me. And yes you are not an immediat trancendant of the aznore. But you have aznore blood in your veins. And you must know that it is not because of the "curse" that i love you it is because i chose it myself. I take her hand and kiss it gently.

(he has his own room lol)
she smiles a sleepy smile and holds your hand as she falls asleep

as soon as she does so you begin to fel a pain in your chest, a rippling pain that you identify as pure fear. Its not something you feel often, but when it does you ignore it... Or at least you used to, but this fear isnt for you anymore, its for her. Its irrational because of what you have done. But you worry about her notheless.

Soon a more earthly pain rips through you, starting at your heart and pulsing out in short bursts that curl you up in your chair. you keep from crying out from fear of waking Aurella. You grit your teeth against the pain. It overwhlelms you and you blackout.

When you wake its in the black of night. Aurella is still holding your hand, which you notice is a pale white.

(You saw the pic?)
So it has been done. Now i am eternally bonded with her. I look at aurella and i take with my other hand her hand. And try to get into her mind a little to look where she is afraid of. I also look where my weapons are and i see that they are next to me. " i will not let anthing happen to you" i wishper so silently it looks like it was whispered by a ghost.

nah this puter doesnt cope with the pics that get loaded to this site, ill see it whn i get home.

lyou look into her mind and see innocent dreams, then you realise that the fear was your own, the fear that something would happen to her

i know that i fear that something will happen to you but i have a little restplace because when somwthing happens to you everything will only happen to me. I think by myself. I rub her hand gently making sure i wont wake her.

she turns over in her sleep so that she is facing you, you look at her for a second and smile. And then you Yawn, its abig impressive yawn that makes you rock backwards on your chair. "I need some sleep"

I fall asleep with sword on myy lap and her hand in my hand.

When you wake its early morning as usual and you have a crik in your neck, you look around and see Aurella waking up at the same time, no doubt (proto) is as well, the guilds training regimin does that to a member

Morning sunshine i say a little teasing to aurella. I will make you some breakfast. I take my swords and bind them on my back. I ask proto if lotus brought food

He nods, "Along with other things.. you should come and see"

I follow him and then i feel a pain in my heart. I fall to the ground in a little shock and then i realise whats haooening because im not close enough to aurella i get injured. I try to pull myself up and struggle to get to the "safe distance" for then i will stay with aurella.

He looks concerned. "Bring her with you if you must but you ened to see this"

Ok i walk to aurella and nock on the door.aurella if you are ready can you come with me? We need to see something

Shes out the door and waking down the corridor with you before you notice whats happened. Proto leads you to his room and he opens the door and shows you what she has gotten. In the center of the room is a strange contraption with several rotating metal tubes and a three legged base

do you know what that thing is?

No but i think it is dangerous. And that is just because lotus brought it here. What do you think i look at aurella.

she shrugs, "Ive never, seen anything like it before"

WEll then we have no idea