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Post by Nimrod on Sept 27, 2023 11:07:42 GMT -5
A bleak winter morning. The slowest decay. I feel every second of it. The man who sat here before me had been watching the coastline crumble for the first century or so of our cursed existence. One day, he watched the skeletal corpse of his drake companion topple into the sea. I've always expected to follow it.
On this day, by the twisted nature of the mercy of the gods, I was spared that fate.
I hear something. Not just something. My ears focus for the first time in countless years. A voice. I remember hearing voices. Sitting around fires, The Man Who Is Not Me spoke with one and heard many. Why must I hear one now? Perhaps this is a new phase of my torment. Perhaps this is a step towards madness. Oh, how I'd welcome that oblivion. Anything but this monotony.
Unless its a person. All the way out here? Unlikely. But if. If they remove this cursed dagger from my heart, I could enact my revenge. I'll drag the infernal Sorcerer from the depths of hell to kill him myself if I have to.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 27, 2023 17:46:56 GMT -5
Javal had made it to The World’s Crown in Frost Gale after taking on a hefty job, he and his crew were tasked with taking down a large undead Owlbear that was causing the local people a lot of distress. He and his company managed to track down the World’s Crown but lost it as it ran deeper into the mountains covered by white snow that camouflaged its white fur looking invisible. Eventually, his crew save for Nadia decides to head back to the Pale City where their ship was docked and rest, wanting to try another day.
Javal was a little disappointed in himself, that he had been only a couple of feet behind it, hot in pursuit before losing it.
He sat on a large rock alongside his retainer looking over the skyline. The day was bright and sunny, a surprising but beautiful sight.
“Hey Nadia, do you think we’ll catch the bear? I would hate to have to leave this job unfinished. We should stay here until we catch it and bring evidence of its defeat back to our employer”.
The moon elf woman sighs, “No, we’d just be wasting our time, let’s just stay here three days and give up. It doesn't make sense for us to spend a long time on a single job”.
The two continue speaking before Javal says something nearby that piques his interest, spotting a glint of an old dagger. Always one to study and look at weapons no matter the quality the foolish fellblood pulled the dagger from its place. He glanced at where it was a strange site, the dead corpse of a warrior below it; he quickly felt bad as he realized he may have desecrated the noble’s body.
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Post by Nimrod on Sept 27, 2023 20:29:12 GMT -5
The voices came into focus. "It doesn't make sense for us to spend a long time on a single job”. Nimrod forced his glassy eyes to see.
They might be real, after all. Why can't I focus?
Why is this one so interested in me?
The cursed dagger was plucked from the Hunter's chest. For the first time in centuries, the revenant blinked, and the world came into focus. Through patches of ancient white hair still clinging to his desiccated corpse, the fool who freed him came into view.
Black horns. Crimson eyes. Not the Sorcerer. Still, magic. Dangerous. Fight back. Move.
Nimrod's body didn't remember how to move, but he could distantly remember how to shout. It came out as a growl, emanating from the corpse's chest. Slowly, he stirred. As he shuddered, his rotting clothes and armor tore off like a cocoon, releasing the revenant.
For the first time in centuries, his body began to right itself.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 28, 2023 1:36:33 GMT -5
Javal jumped back quickly, dropping the strange rusted dagger to the snowy floor in front of him, a little thrown off guard as suddenly he heard a growl come from the undead next to him. He turned his head curiously, a small part of him excited to see as the corpse rose, even tearing itself from its armor and stirring.
Nadia quickly reached into her backpack and took out her ray bow holding its silver string ready to shoot at a given moment.
“Stop”, Javal exclaimed seriously in tone making Nadia lower her bow in curiosity, “Why my liege this seems to be some sort of undead. What if you awakened some sort of demonic evil from picking up that dagger. We do not need to be dealing with the undead right now”, part of her was nervous she had a slight fear of the undead from all of the spooky stories she used to be told as a kid.
“Hold on Nadia, why don't you even know this fellow wants to hurt us? For all we know this could be a nice undead fellow and we can all be friends”, the fellblood said excitedly, his hands raised in anticipation.
“So hello there Mr. Undead are you a friendly fellow or an evil fellow?”, my contemplation of our friendship depends on your answer.
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Post by Nimrod on Sept 28, 2023 2:56:14 GMT -5
The Hunter struggled to his feet. He had no weapons. His body had long forgotten how to move; fighting was only a distant memory. His eyes remained dim.
They've stopped. Weakness.
With a lurch, the undead pitched forward, reaching vaguely for whoever is closest before pitifully collapsing in the snow, his feeble strength spent.
His eyes remained dim; his thoughts, distant. The cold was biting. The hunter, struggling to his feet, dimly uttered a phrase to no one in particular:
I will have vengeance, Sorcerer.
As the Hunter righted himself, he noticed the longbow. His growl returned with renewed ferocity. Finding some success moving his stiff limbs, he took several lurching steps at Nadia, one arm outstretched. He had no thoughts and felt no emotion; merely, the Revenant was acting on instinct.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 28, 2023 3:11:11 GMT -5
“Oh by the gods, it’s alive, it’s alive”, Nadia screams as Nimrod lurches forth at her arm outstretched and quickly raises her bow once more and fires an arrow of light directly into the undead’s shoulder and then fires another one at its abdomen.
“My liege kill it, kill it now, with fire or something”, she shrieks quickly running towards her liege hiding behind Javal holding her bow still over his shoulder ready to fire another one this time at the fellow’s head.
Javal holds his hands up, “Hey, hey everything’s okay, okay? This little guy doesn’t even look like he could hurt even a single fly let alone another person so let’s just calm down okay Nadia?”.
Javal lowers his hands and says, “Hey buddy calm down okay”, he then points to himself and Nadia and says, “We’re friends, no hurt you okay?”.
“We’re just here to hunt bad bear guys, okay? You look like you are scared buddy, Are you hungry? Looks like you’ve been here for a long long time huh? Would you like some food? I always like eating whenever I’ve just woken up or I’m scared”, the fellblood reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small loaf of bread motioning it at the undead.
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Post by Nimrod on Sept 30, 2023 0:56:45 GMT -5
Nimrod looked down in surprise at the arrows protruding from his person. He looked to his assailant, impossibly far away. He looked back to the arrow in his shoulder. It ached dimly. He looked at the Fellblood addressing him.
"I want.. the Necromancer." The Hunter's face was still twisted with rage. He offers me bread? Bread will not sate my appetite; will not quench the fire that burns in me. "Show me his head or take me to his domain." Still snarling, he tried and failed to pull out the arrow in his shoulder.
Distantly, Nimrod wondered why he wasn't howling in pain or ravenous with hunger. Hadn't he been, just a few decades ago? Ah, maybe it has been longer. How long, truly, have I been watching this keep fall into the ocean. Giving up on the arrow, he remained motionless for a moment and thought.
Suddenly animate, the revenant walked towards the cliff's edge and stared down into the frigid ocean. No, the thing that brought about the end of his world wouldn't have been weak enough to fall here. He had failed, after all, to end his reign on the day of the death of the Man Who Is Not Him. It would have taken more by far. Power unknown to the world. He would find that power, and have his revenge.
Nimrod looks back to the pair of adventurers. "I said I waNT THE NECROMANCER'S HE-" He coughs for a moment; dust was expelled from his lungs and frozen clumps of snow were shaken from his hair. "His.. his head. If the one who ended my kingdom has not fallen, I will end him myself." He stared at the perplexed pair for a beat. "Unless one of you is with him." In anger, the Hunter grabs a rock near the cliffside and promptly doubles over, falling towards the cliff edge.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 30, 2023 2:35:59 GMT -5
Javal’s eyes grew wide with confusion, “Necromancer? You want a necromancer? How come friend? Was it a necromancer that revived you my friend?”, the fellblood questions the fellow with genuine curiosity.
“If bread cannot cure your hunger and you feel fire inside your body would you prefer a cup of water instead?” he then moves into his backpack to take out a drinking cup from it and holding his hand over it magically filling it up with water (1).
Nadia then explains to her liege with a bit of heistance, “My liege it appears that this fellow was killed by a necromancer and wants to hunt whoever it is down”.
The pair of adventurers then step aside as the undead moves to face the cliffs and edge.
Javal says with a confused tone, “I am not a necromancer friend, nor do I know one. I'm sorry to hear about your kingdoms demise but can assure you we know not of this fellow”.
“Wait”, he shouts as he sees the undead figure falls over the cliff side quickly tapping his red cuirass to summon a pair of red wings and jumping off the cliff himself barreling towards the undead figure.
He quickly catches up to it and grabs the fellow by the arm and pulling him up flying in mid-air now holding the fellow in his arms quickly flying back up to the area they were sitting on before gently letting go of the fellow above the place where he first saw him.
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Post by Nimrod on Sept 30, 2023 22:10:46 GMT -5
Where he was placed, the Hunter collapsed. His body did not right itself. He did not react to falling.
He doesn't know a necromancer? How could that even be possible? Nimrod struggled to explain. It was baffling to him that this person, strong as they are, was unaware of such a powerful entity. Perhaps he is not well-read, and the world banded together to end his life shortly after my death. I have been asleep a long time.
"The Wizard," the Revenant starts. "It is simple. Bring me to him or get out of my way."
Painfully, his body righted itself. He took a few shaky steps away from the cliff and towards whatever looks like a path through his blurred vision. What little light inhabited his eyes had fled. They were the eyes of a dead man, unseeing and uncaring. Unconsciously, the Revenant dragged himself towards what the Hunter hoped was forward. He had lost all care for the pair. Clearly, they were not servant of Evil.
"I'll kill him.. That bastard.. I want the Necromancer's head." The Revenant muttered to himself as he passed by Javal, intent on an unknown target.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 1, 2023 0:50:10 GMT -5
Javal flapped his wings floating in the air for a second before he slowly floated down to solid ground where he was standing before.
He quickly goes up to the figure with a genuine worried tone and places his hand on his shoulder, “My friend are you okay? What were you even thinking back there? If it wasn’t for my father’s cuirass here”, he taps the brightly red piece of armor on his chest, “Then both of us would’ve been goners for sure, now let’s be a little more careful around here, okay?”.
Nadia crosses her arms a little less scared of the undead but still standing behind her liege in case the undead fellow tries something again, “You’re lucky my liege here is a kind and gentle soul, I would’ve let you fall honestly”.
Javal then sat down on the rock where he sat where everything started and held his hand on his chin as he thought about the undeads ominous words, “I don’t know a single necromancer to be honest Mister Undead, I know an umbrancer but he manipulates the darkness not the undead. Is this necromancer fellow even alive at this point my friend? How long ago were three trapped here and died? It must’ve been a long time ago because I don’t remember hearing about any necromancers that destroyed an ancient kingdom".
Javal then gets up and blocks the fellow’s path as he steps away from the cliff, “Hey friend please try to calm down here, I can understand you wanting to get vengeance on this necromancer fellow but you have to focus on yourself now. Let’s just focus on your recovery and then we can talk about looking for his necromancer fellow later”, he then holds his hand out to the skeleton, “What do you say, friend?”.
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Post by Nimrod on Oct 16, 2023 17:27:42 GMT -5
He talks.. a lot.. But he knows nothing of our quarry. Useless to us. For now. The Hunter heard an animal yap, obscured by a light snow falling from the bright morning sky. He felt no dark presence here. The Hunter stood and thought, eyes dark. Long way to walk.. Should check on my Beast.. We need to find people, as well. Its possible we aren't the only survivor, Nimrod concluded.
Looking back to the small, powerful thing that blocked his path. "You talk.. a lot.." Should have let me fall if you care so much. Surviving so long only to trip into the ocean- a fitting end for this corpse.
The Hunter made to shove his way past Javal. Words poured from the creature's mouth, bright and helpful sounding. He would walk until he was no longer followed- Barking again.. Better than this yapping.. Veering suddenly, the Hunter walked into the woods towards the source of the barking.
The Hunter crouched down and brushed some leaves off a ragged mess, black and bruised; starved and scared. "Hello, beast. Have you business with me?" Nimrod intended- and failed- to speak these words aloud. Instead, the Hunter wheezed between ragged breaths: "You're not.. much less annoying.. up close.." A nose poked up from below the snow, followed by a suddenly savage, snarling snout. A barghest was waiting in ambush and now had its teeth through the Hunter's forearm!
"Ah.. Thats uh.." The Hunter pondered this. "It's.. eating me." Its hungry. I'm sure those people over there have food. "People.. Yeah, food.." The Hunter looks at the dog, front legs in the air, whole body snapping back and forth in an attempt to kill its prey. "Hey.. stop it now.." The hunter stood, bit forearm held out at an awkward angle, and returned to Javal. "Here.. Eat him.. Then.. stop barking. We need to think."
Carefully, he held out his arm. Attached firmly was a small Barghest: a goblin war dog. It must have been a runt; lacking much power behind its bite or claws, it was hardly any hope for an ambush hunter. Abandoned, then.. perhaps.. A familiar feeling. Partially cradling the dog, the Hunter was having no luck coxing the Barghest off of him. "You can't.. eat bones. Dumb dog.."
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 17, 2023 0:19:23 GMT -5
Javal’s eyes sharpen as he hears a slight yap. He turns his head frantically trying to look for the source, “Is that some sort of animal around here? It didn’t sound very menacing from the sound of it”, he thinks to himself.
He looks forward to Nimrod and responds with a wide bright smile, “Nay my friend, you have been given another chance at life, such an early death due to an accident isn’t fair you should have an honest second chance to live your second life".
The fellblood felt the brunt of the undead’s hunter’s elbow as he pushed him to get through to the creature in front of them.
Nadia sighed and nodded her head, “My liege may we just leave this dead here to suffer in solitude. He’s already shown you great disrespect and honestly I find him rude, let’s just leave and trek up the mountain tomorrow”.
Javal shakes his head, “No Nadia this is a new friend we can’t just let him on his own let’s follow”, he jogs to catch up to the undead.
He catches up to Nimrod in the forest and stands behind him with a curious look on his face wondering what had gotten into the deadman. His gaze softened and another smile crept on his face as he glanced over to see the skeleton man speaking to an animal.
He held his hands up and said, “Woah there little friend do not eat me or my friend here, we are friends here who mean you no harm. The fellow here is no food but friend”, he takes out the last of his Ashlands Jerky and throws it to Nimrod to catch.
He whispers, “Try feeding him friend” and holds his two thumbs up hoping this would go well for the man.
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Post by Nimrod on Oct 18, 2023 16:05:15 GMT -5
Try feeding them.. I'll show them feeding.. Having spotted the jerky, the runt dropped to the ground and started hopping at the Hunter's feet. He tucked the jerky between the bones of his forearm and sat, deliberately ignoring the dog. As the Barghest sniffed the spot she had previously been clamped to, the Hunter muttered "I'll feed you, ya Runt." The dog leapt at the Hunter with all the practice of a pup, freeing the jerky from its resting place and scampering a short distance off to consume her hard-earned food.
"Are you satisfied?" asked Nimrod, resting in the snow by the road. "The Runt is fed. No doubt now it'll follow me across Charon and back for more food." The Hunter's voice was gruff, but something in the lights of his eyes belied a smile. Awkwardly, he reached out to pat the dog's back. "Maybe now, we'll get enough quiet to think. I'm still not quite sure where to look for the Necromancer." We need to find someone else to ask. Neither of them know a think about the Sorcerer. We should.. have started walking.. already.. So much noise.. The Runt chewed happily as Nimrod failed to explain precisely which Necromancer he was after. Finally, he asked: "Is there anywhere I can find a proper historian? Somewhere, preferably, to the East of here? I need to.. figure out what.. to do next.." Nimrod looked a little unfocused, his hand resting idly on the Runt's back.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 19, 2023 1:37:46 GMT -5
Javal squats down a couple of feet away from Nimrod wanting to give the undead fellow some space to feed the new canine companion. The fellblood figure smiles widely as he watches the dog devour the jerky from its place. He then stands back up and offers his biggest thumbs up as his elf retainer rolls her eyes at the whole situation, annoyed that they had even given this undead the time of day.
Javal smiles widely and shoots Nimrod a very approving look, “I am completely satisfied and am very proud of you for attempting my friend” with his hands on his hips.
“That puppy fellow has most likely imprinted on you now my friend so be prepared to be followed by it all around Charon, it’d be better if you just take the little guy with you now on your journey. I don’t know any necromancers or where to look but I promise you that I will help you look. As for historians, I don’t exactly know any off the top of my head. Perhaps some good places to start looking would be any libraries around Charon, I know that the Grand Library in Sol City has a very reputable and trustworthy librarian, that could be a good start?”.
He then stands tall with a wide grin on his face with the faint sunlight behind him as he speaks next, “Whatever it is that you decide to do my friend just know that you have my full support and help, I know it may be strange considering we just met only less than an hour but I cannot just ignore your problem. I’ll take your burdens unto myself and swear to help you find out what happened to you”.
Nadia can’t help but be moved by her liege’s speech and her cold nature melts at his speech couldn’t help but be moved by his words now having a faint smile on her face as she glances towards the rude undead and his pup.
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