Helo, and Be welcome.
This is a resume format of the Adventure #00, Stolen Dreams.
You can follow the final version on this post:
About the Story
I lost track of time, because the adventure runned a year ago. This
isn't a problem. A major question, in here, is that the format used in
here is a resume format. I'm working hard into giving it a final
version, and it will be online as soon as I get the storyline of places.
I like very much the main characters on this adventure, and they'll
feature as part of the world major characters in future adaptation, the
setting and characters are part of Creative Commons, non commercial, no
derivs, to make sure you will be able to use them into your table. There
is no copyright issues when you're playing RPG, and use an author's
idea. It's used in honour to that author. But if you're going to
publish, the same way I'm publishing here at the blog, you'll need
original characters, setting and, should say, to take much care with
naming things.
Hope you like.
Priatel's under Attack
Torièn listened to the Ring of Intelligence's voice, and it says Mai
needs to gain a lot of experience on life. She just can't ignore she's a
powerful goddess.
He agrees, and called her to a chess match, to start talking.
Mai says she had a dream.
She was a bit older, about fifteen, and she changed her name to Maika.
That remembers her of Magic.
Then, Torièn senses a visitor waiting for him at the entrance, the base
of the mountain. He'll need to make this sanctuary him home, and move
things a bit inside of it, until he can fina an ice elemental to stay at
the place the old ancient elemental lived.
It's Aksias, his master.
- Hadesh and Tacke were attacked, by dark elves. We could arrest three of 'em.
- How are them? They've been harmed?
- The two are fine, and we must go interrogate those alves.
- I'll send Mai to the sanctuary castle, first. I think it's time for
her to mix with her kind, and Ayasta needs to start training her.
- And I'll need to come to the Family Council, to explain what's happening.
- Oke. We meet as soon as possible.
(Resume of the Adventure)
Tacke had a strong feeling the images he saw were made to make him
believe everything's oke, nothing's needed and this will all end a happy
ending. They're not. After the attack, he and Hadesh were saved by
Aksias, with a few soldiers of Priatel, down the small valley in which
Aethas councillor's house is located, west from Torièn's family castle,
the way after the prison south from Hadesh'es valley, previouslly the
Troll's valley.
Aksias had sent Tacke to the
village that moves around Torièn's castle, but Hadesh needed to get back
to his valley, considering what Aksias said, that they're under attack,
noble families and population.
Then, Tacke enters the captain of the guard's house with death among his emotions.
- Ohe, Mal-ec - says the captain - The bodies are at the backyard, and
the three dark alves alive were taken to the prison by lord Aksias.
- As soon as lord Torièn comes, say I need him, captain.
- Of course. I'll be at the square here in front, organizing the soldiers. I have orders to do that.
- Thank you, captain - concludes Tacke.
Professor Prýmmus look at what he wants to do, before doing it.
Then, he listens to a large "pop", and see Flausin.
- I'm here to help, Tlack - says him.
- I don't need any help, Flausin. So, you please let me do it.
- Fine. I'll be by the Nine Realms shore, 'f you nee'me.
And another large "pop" marked the madling going away, so Tacke went to the backyard. He want's to investigate the bodies.
- Tacke. Tell me what happened - asked Torièn as soon as he got there.
- Hadesh is oke, back his valley. I need your help, because we need to
investigate the bodies. I know there are things we need to know about
these black elves.
- I'll help you.
Investigating the bodies, the two discovered the bodies are astral
matter, and react with many alchemical elements and the major elementals
of nature. Aksias sent a message, saying Hadesh was going to be used as
to create some kind of book. Tacke was to be a major part on a ritual,
and be sacrificed to something they believe is the No-Time, none of 'em
know what it is.
Most important than everything, the dead black alves react to water.
They form a poison, when put into water. This way, during a war, all
water in a region they're attacking would no more be fresh water to it's
population. Tacke assumed they're imune to the poison, and Torièn
tested all elemental energies on them, to discover their flesh becomes a
poisonous gas whem they're desintegrated with Nothing, the most
dangerous element, a no-element.
Torièn went to the family meeting on the council.
Aethas calls all young members of the five families, alies on Priatel
territory. They're all going to gather on Rudyn's mansion the next
morning. After discussing much, the council decides to send a message to
the most important nobles of Abbas, saying the black alves can teleport
even with the invasion anchor on the empire, what means the Royal
Tachiza's in a really vulnerable situation with these alve's attacks.
The Priatels, one of the five realms the invasion didn't attacked
directly, because they're allies to Abbas, then asked the nobles of
Abbas to end the anchor on Tachiza empire, to get prepared to any attack
by these strange race. A magic message came from Sama, the empire's
capital, saying they know about the black alve's attack, and asking for
information. The Dukes had already asked Abbas to suspend the anchor.
On the following day, the village by Aethas Mannor was attacked. They
were killed, and there was no sign of what they're doing in here.
Wanderers becabe feared this would affect 'em, as Priatel's the route of
pilgrims, the only safe route from east blacklands of stonecasters and
the central of the great continent. Rudyn made all families of the low
nobility armed and formed groups of keepers, the Guard. They stay in the
wanderer's route, and some policies were necessary to keep roads free
of danger. The next day, a family of populars were killed, but neighbors
fought the black elves and killed them.
Tklahonomára, with permissions given to traders, was the only there able
to teleport. The family Council of the Priatel asked him to send a
message to the Academy.
All black elves had, in
their boots, a moisture of a salty and sandy earth. Torièn didn't know
where this come from, even being a sand master.
Then, by the end of this week, the Abbas empire's anchor was undone.
One problem at a time, Torièn decides to ask the Ring of Intelligence
how he could subjugate the Ring of Magic, and it explained the three
lesser rings had the power of a Major one. Torièn explained it to Tacke,
and he had the idea of creating a language to send messages to the
future. An absurd, but Tacke liked the idea. That night, affar fom his
city and family, Tack thought better about it, and this was a very good
idea. On the following day, Torièn has completely forgotten the point.
Tacke decides to use this, but in another way. Hadesh, now a guardian,
had to welcome various pilgrims on the valley territory, and they were
amazed by his advices, and this way he started to be accepted as the new
guardian of a Strangeland, a place pilgrims travel to see.
By the next day, guards were shouting everywhere.
- We're under attack of Black Elves! Every single man in the Priatel
territory's now under the order of killing black elves on sight! Tell
this your father! Tell this your brother!
Rudyn and Ardalan, an older mage, were in charge of the spies.
Torièn finally found a new ice elemental, and started to reconstruct
the ice sanctuary on the Frozenlant mountain, the northeast point of
Royal Tachiza.
Back into Hadesh territory, the
group finally gathers again, this time with the presence of
Tklahonomára, now an important contact with the Guild of Commerce.
They talk about many things, and the Enemy seems to be a creature from
the future. A creature unbornt, and no one, not even the black elves
know who He is. At this meeting, Hadesh sensed the presence of Bogbog,
the god his cavallier, and he let Hadesh know he had manned to convince
the race of the desert Templeship to hand the Rings still inside the Two
Orbs of Past and Future. Then, during the meeting, by midday, a huge
numbers of birds simply came flying over the valley, and Hadesh made a
very fast move and runned inside the Cave.
- Mooonstersss! Take 'em awaaaaay! Take 'em awaaaaaaaay!
After the birds go away, Tacke just says to him when he was back
"You're affraid of birds", but the group didn't commented about it so
long.
The next day, Bogbog handed the two Rings of Magic, the true and the fake to them.
- I'll have it to you, but things are far from safe up there. Bog. You
need to put timeflox back to normal, as soon as this is possible. I
don't have time to talk. Bog. Take care.
There were so many things they wanted to ask the old forgotten god, but he simply vanished.
So, they decided the Ring of Life was to be used by the djine Báech,
because he needs it to understand better his new race, and guide the new
djines. Their bodies were transformed, into the universal components,
and this is probably the most powerful race now on Toj. Without a
master. Báech accepted to be their leader, and they with no other
options would like him. He's the most djine amongst the djines. He had
always respected the taboos, and he could breack 'em easily, but didn't.
The meeting goes, and they united precious news about the other
empires, now the anchor has ended.
The Ring of
Magic didn't accepted Hadesh as a start, but the takkar puts the Ring
the same way, wayting to lose his hand to the Ring, but nothing
happened.
They have now all the original Major Rings of Ambar, and the fake of Magic.
Suddenly, the Priatel ruledom was immersed into strange and fearsome
magic clouds on the horizon, the family started to send quick messages
every family member, but something was happening.
Torièn looked the horizon, and saw a huge number of creatures made by
the clouds, like monsters, and the Ring of Time says it's a time attack.
Torièn, Ayasta and Tacke simply say at the same time "Put all the Rings together".
By the power of the Rings of Ambar, they started to fight the
creatures, and keep away the strange time attack, and this took more
than one hour.
- Dissipère! (they cried, after the very long casting time).
Then, the attack ceases and they take a rest, before continuing the
meeting later, to see the Rings get eshausted and could not be used now
again. Tacke thought of asking for the power of his Ring, but it was
sleeping. He knows his Ring's wise, maybe more than the Ring of
intelligence.
Ayasta became a statue.
The Rings of Ambar stay, in order. Time, with Ayasta. Magic, with
Hadesh. Life, with Báech. Intelligence, with Torièn. Death, with Tacke.
So, they decide the fake rings would be used by Lena the rogue princess to reconstruct Báech islands.
Torièn takes Ayasta to the sanctuary, and ask to talk with Dylan the
Sacerdot. "He's an artificer, and he'll probably know what to do", he
thinks.
But he doesn't, and he so went to the vault to get his precious Tome of Wisdom.
- I need to know who can cast magic of time - he asks the book.
- There's very rare one who can. It's called a Bender. He bends time by
his wishes, in any direction, but if this was a bending attack he took
serious damage by now - the tome answered.
- Thank you, Tome.
He closed the Tome and put it back into the vault.
The next week, four villages were attacked by black elves, and water
suplies were being shortened. A huge number of pilgrims and wanderers
says no other villages are being attacked. "The east is safe, lord",
said a wanderer to Rudyn at the northeast way near his mansion. Aethas
asks Torièn to explain the family what they did, and he explains his
group is one of the most powerful group in the trikumai, now. The elder
concludes this is the reason for the attacks. Rudyn went to the Astral
to ask for information, and came back in two days with Spike, saying the
black elves don't go the Astral planes.
Aksias, with Tacke's help, concludes the black elves are in fact five races.
This way, it make no sense their attacks. They even don't speak the
same language, and most of the elves are weak, much weaker than a sidha.
They start to think they're being sent to die, and to poison the water
to a future attack on the ruledom.
Tacke asks the Ring of Death to pass all his knowledge to him.
During a day, he entered a trance, in his home back in Ryklant, and
time and magic didn't made any sense anymore, now he's in the deathmatch
of dealing with this knowledge. He discovers during this he cannot take
the Ring off his finger anymore, but decides not to tell anyone. Well,
anyone outside his selected group, which includes his family, and his
wife says it was a dangerous choice, but she's proud of him. His
daughter Delanda, she says he's to become the most known necromancer of
all times, and she'll be on his side.
Tacke is
different, but the only one who noticed this when he was back to Priatel
was Torièn's master, Aksias, the son heir of Naraleiva, the Copper
Dragon.
He, unspite the danger of this, decides to keep it secret.
(At The Academy fo Ryklant)
Since the new magic has bornt, Ayasta asked Tacke to write the new
Books of Magic, throught which students would neart it. As the goddess
of magic, Ambar, is dead, the Academy accepted the new godess advices,
together with the Avatar of Drakmai's advices.
Tacke, now with power and knowledge enough to do it, writes the books.
It took a two weeks effort, revisions, talking with Ayasta many times,
he also asked some important questions to the Senhor dos Sonhos, and
Drahmai.
The attacks on Priatel simply ended, without notice.
So, at the Academy, Tacke takes the Five Books of Magic to the Council
who rule the world organization, and with him he takes Ayasta.
When they entered the frontyards, every student know now she's the new Goddess.
One came in her direction, and she stoped to listen.
- I believe in you, Ayasta. My dreams say you have the way to the future of Magic.
She just took his magic off, and put it again. She knows now, that what
she did with Tacke is indeed the way to find new ways to magic.
No one knows or notice anything, only Tacke.
Tacke waited during a five hour long meeting, outside the Doors of
Mistery. The Council accepted the new ways, and now every student will
have a monk training added to the skills of magic, to empower the
individual power which the new magic can operates, and so the mages will
need only their control over themselves to control the new way, and
Ayasta would be free to take care of everything else at the same time.
Part of the magic will be restored, says the Avatar of Drahmai, a
children same way every Avatar. Ayasta explained Tack she says she knows
the old magic will come back, but time has changed, and the old way
will need to adapt to the new way.
He smiled softly, by that explanation.
(Back to Priatel's)
Since the attacks ceased, they started to reconstruct to new attacks.
Tacke concludes in talking with Hadesh that the goal of those attacks
was to steal some item from the pilgrims, as most of what the black
elves did was steal from them. That being said to the Priatel Council,
Aethas says Torièn needs now to change his castle officially into a
Sanctuary, and a new guard would be created. "I'll live at the
Frozenlant Mountain, Aethas. The Castle is a Sanctuary now, officially",
he answered. He remembered his time with Dudin and Tayala, by the lake,
"Good times" he misses. Hadesh stoped being so visited and could help
with injured workers by the new Sanctuary constructions, as he's known
as a medic, and a good one.
Tklahonomára makes
finally the deals with Nine Realms, Royal Tachiza and Abbas, to form a
new route of commerce for wood suplies during wartime.
He went to Nine Realms to order ships to commerce the wood into the empire.
There, he asks for fifteen ships. Ten from the deal, five for himself.
He asks the officials to keep this amongst them, as the ships could be
needed into the years to come. They'd be easily transformed into
warships, and he also negociated and fixed a number of new taxes, as the
problem with Báech Islands had not yet ended. He says to the Nine
Realms the question will find it's solution soon.
Even so, the Nine Realms didn't took away their armada from araound the Island.
(News from the World)
The monotheist empire of Trappke, with the notice the black elves
stoped attacking is moving a huge number of people to it's frontiers.
Back at Prilsýppea, the land of djines, the Regent was contolling th enew djines with food.
They need fungus to survive.
Barbarians sent messages to Royal Tachiza, the Norlands, land of the
sun changs, small but ferocious, and to the black stonecasters of the
east.
They're prepared to war, if someone attacks them.
And the far south continent was a mystery.
Not to say no one knows much of what happens by the east continent, so huge as half of the great continent.
(News from Sama, the City of Temples)
After all this time, the whole world's waiting for a war.
Not that this is prophecyzed. No. It's much worse than that. The
attacks of black elves had put all empires into a warfare state of
defense.
New soldiers are being armed, and trained.
Sama, the capital of Royal Tachiza, asked the Priatel and a small
number of ruledoms which were attacked, to send a noble to the capital
to explain it all. After a week or so, they talked, and gathered all the
news from every corner of the world of Toj.
The only good news, the tow twin worlds, Kalagoktoe and Treiyka.
They're not at war, and messenger say they won't enter any side, not to
mention the oggres have a long time shivalry amongst two factions, and
no one should interfere.
Dragons are all waiting
for a moment to deal with fake dragons, like the Silver fake dragon from
Nine Realms, says the Copper and Saphire dragons to the Sama messengers
who have been sent.
The Castlelands of the west, everyone knowns are peacefull.
A weaker empire amongst all, and the first conflict would probably be in there.
(End of Session)
Some Questions necessary
Is this the main reason the black elves went past to die for?
Hope you're enjoying your reading, and,...
,... Stay Plugged.
Saturday, 15 October 2011
The Thomb of Ddud #00
Helo, and Be welcome to the Blog.
This is a resume version of the Story, Stolen Dreams.
To follow the final version, go to this post.
About the Story
I did lost track of time, again, because the real play was one year ago. I have the notes, but I did not included the date on the notes.
The Tomb of Ddud
Torièn received a message from Mai, and he invites her to his sanctuary.
His sanctuary's inside the eternal icy mountains, Fronzenlant. An enormous number of chambers lay inside, with most unknown rooms, and secrets.
Torièn's the only one the dangerous ice ancient elemental lets enter the chambers of that place, or those who he invites to enter, so everyone must wait for the alchemist to let them enter first.
So, Torièn waited for his group to come to the meeting.
Báech and Kristalla were the first, and so Tacke, and Hadesh, then they prepared to enter the chamber with the inscription down there.
----- The Tomb of Ddud -----
Hadesh and Kristalla come at the front. She disarmed the traps, and Hadesh was aware to enter her front in case any trap was activated. The entrance's a number of rooms, to make someone get lost, so there's a staircase, which goes zigzag, with numerous traps, basically all magical. All the structure's made of a strange rock, non native to this place, a rock like marble, polished and beautiful, but they all sense this is dangerous, because it may be part of a magic enchantment to control their minds.
Several minutes later, Hadesh stoped.
- Kristalla vanished - he resumed to the others.
- She's fine (says Torièn). Believe me. She's the best rogue I've ever seen.
- We know it (considers Báech), Torièn, but don't you think,...
- This,... - the mage pointed to the opening wall.
The wall started to open, to let a passage on it, and they finally came to the inner chamber.
Kristalla's on the side of a staircase, disabling a mechanic trap. As they were able to enter, they saw the marvel of a cube made of a strange material, obviously magical. The cube's dark blue, with many many slots and things that look like lines, all connected to each other.
All of a sudden, they can't see Kristalla and Torièn senses danger.
- Teleport Kristalla back, Báech - says Torièn - This is my turn.
Of course, Torièn activated a number of traps while coming to the cube. Blood started to stain his clothes, but a small problem, considered where they are.
Torièn came closer, and he started to see the lines, with a very old version of the sun chang script. Old runes, with inscriptions in line. He started to read 'em. It says "And so He created the Illusion. The illusion of matter. Saw by the eyes of those who want to see. Pleasure, pleasure which cures even the Enemy", and Torièn senses corruption, but corruption in raw state. He keeps reading, and started to ask the Ring of intelligence to help. The sense of corruption's so strong it even pushes Torièn backwards. He reads words he never saw, as "Doxa", in the lines which say "Death is reserved to them. The Doxa of Choice", and he ignores the cuts on his flesh to ask the Ring what was that, after all.
- Doxa is the universal law of free choice. To not chose's still chose - says the ring.
Suddenly, the cube changed.
- What's happening, ring?
- Well, I assume the cube will open, if you read it all - suggests the ring.
- He's still alive, inside this prison. It's even worse than,... damn, I forgot his name,... Saint Krunk's brother. What do you think, Ring?
- I think you're right.
To know finally what the Fronzenlant mountain hold down there's enough. Torièn goes back, and is hitted again, into another trap. It near misses him. He freezed the blade, and hits it to break with his staff of power, at the time it passes trying to cut his head off. Together, they start to go back, and notice all traps come back to it's armed position, while they backwards.
Off the tomb, Lena was waiting for them.
- I think I saw inside the tomb, Torièn. (says her) It looks as a sun chang baby. And it's, like,... sleeping.
- To know what is in there is enough for me, princess. We need to be careful, because this chamber cannot ever be opened, I'm pretty sure of it.
- What's written in the lines, Torièn?
- Well, Hadesh. I prefere not to talk about that.
- Why?
- Oke. It's a huge collection of sayings about Free Choice, but that doesn't make sense.
- That doesn't make sense to You - says the takkar.
- What are you saying? I know what is free choice, and you're not the one to tell me that.
- Why? Are you saying my choice of protecting you all during all the time, risking my head everysense, is not a sure demonstration of free choice? No, no,.. I'm doing it just because you're nobles. And of course, this is my destiny, to serve the royalty of the ejik race. This is nonsense, Torièn.
- Watch your mouth, Hadesh - says the mage.
- YOu wanna know what? I'm TIRED of it! I'm always risking my LIFE! MY life. And you give not the credit for that, no no, you're the biggest of us, you go on the front. TIRED! You're a bunch of INGRATES!
- HOLD YOUR MOUTH, TAKKAR! YOU DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!
- EXACTLY! TAKKAR! I'M NOT YOUR EJIK SERVANT, SIR!
Tacke immediately casts the No Physical Attack spell, waiting for the problem.
Hadesh and Torièn kept shouting each other, until Torièn teleport him outside the temple, from inside the mountain to the outside frost.
Torièn went to a corner and got that "No talking" face.
(The Enemy's waiting)
Hadesh immediately saw where he was.
At the place the elemental Ice lives, the most aggressive elemental ever. He says "Shit" in takkar race language, but there was no time to run.
An imense mass of ice urged from beneath the ground, and attacked.
- I challenge you, ancient elemental of ice! - he shouted.
But the elemental really wants to kill him, and that doesn't made him stop.
Hadesh got his Book off the Bag, because he knows he's not enough to confront a tremendous beast of nature, and he was lifted by a mass of ice. He took so much damage he believed he'd die in some next moment. No hope, no chance.
Up there, he was thrown at the ground, and lifted up again.
He assumed takkar beast form, to start regenerate, and opened the Book, trying to focus the most powerful spell the Dark Grimoire could ever let him cast.
(At the Sanctuary)
- Torièn! Hadesh's being attacked! - cried Tacke.
- What do I have to do with this? I don't care what happens with him.
- It's the ice elemental, only you can do something.
- Ahh! Why do I have to help him? Oke. Let go outside, and see what's happening.
They all got off the sanctuary, by teleport lightning, except Mai.
(The Death of a beloved Friend)
- Hellfire! - Hadesh shouted, at the same time the group gets there by teleport.
A huge ball, of fire and icy storm, that's what they see.
- That's black magic! - cries Torièn.
- Now, you're concerned about black magic, Torièn? - asked Tacke.
- He killed the ice elemental! HADESH! - shouted the mage.
- You teleported him (says Tacke). It's your fault.
Most of the icy mountain simply melted, and the mage's angry with his fellow, but they see him.
When Hadesh assumed snakedragon form, the elemental broke his left wing.
Hadesh was in pain. Real pain. So, he senses something. He senses there is someone in there, wainting, in the woods down there. He can't see anything, and the pain is terrible. It didn't helps much. He focus his special abilites, every and each one, on finding what's wrong.
Then, he sees, a man completely melted with the trees by the base of the icy mountain.
He can't do anything, and he's just focusing on the little life in himself.
So, the man moves and starts to come near, up there. He's using strange clothes, like those of Haratchi, the witch of the planes.
- You,... - the man says to the group - must know this book must be destroyed.
- I don't care if you do that - Torièn's angry, and he can't believe Hadesh had killed the elemental, so furious he's not even trying to cure his fellow.
- What do you want, stranger? - says Tacke.
- You don't have the power to destroy this Dark Book, but I do.
They all stay in silence, waiting.
- So be it - says the man, and he destroys Hadesh'es book, the Dark Grimoire's dead.
The group could not believe, nor Hadesh.
Hadesh fainted, and Tacke levitated him back inside the sanctuary.
(At The frequecy of Light, again)
- I know, Tacke. But he desearved that. The book was dangerous, anyway, even if I can agree with you that the book was his.
- You keep saying there's a relation between the Mummy King and the basyliskes, but I can't see what - says the professor, and he sees Lena's on a corner with Mai, explained what happened.
- I don't know. I need to meditate, Tacke.
- Go for it.
Daytel, who he's known outside his territory, entered the frequency of Light.
The last time was when the Mummy King was created.
And there is someone in there. A lone mind. He focused that presence, saying helo in the form of energy, in the form of a mind looking for answers.
- Helo - he says.
The presence says nothing.
This way, he starts to say all his worries. Not any information that could be a secret. He's not an idiot. Just what happens, his group, fellows, family. He hates politics. They all make things too complicated, all the time, and he's tired of saying this and that, and nothing works. He's sure of these things, and nobody listen. Not even the Council of Light, in here, this mind metaplane. No one's doing a thing to solve what's wrong. Why people just want to do things their way, and not listen to any sense, to his solutions?
He's tired of trying to keep the balance between the group.
Good times were those with Dudin and Tayala.
They all needed to solve a mystery, of why the magic faul was happening. Why? Because they wanted to do what was right. They did found a solution, and he has passed the tests from the greater god of Shadeza, to be able to get the bumppers, and put them in the needed place.
Those were two people who listen, even if they're not much friendly most of the time.
Why does he needs this group?
Why does he needs to stay into unending labyrinths, with no action. They don't agree, when he's pretty sure of everything he says.
Why?
- Helo - says a voice of a man, ejik - I notice you're angry, and if you can enter this attune state metaplane, you're not a bad person, for sure. I have not understood what you said about the Council of Light, but I,... I mean, do you want to talk?
- I just can't see the actions being taken, by the Council.
- That doesn't mean the Council's doing nothing. I pretty think you know there's an Enemy,... I mean,... an Enemy no one knows who he really is. That needs much more actions from the Council of Light, who usually gathers using this metaplane, than mortals could imagine.
- I just,... think,... (says Torièn),... that doing things to entities, without questioning, is to become a fanatic, and there is no good in this.
- I'm here,... for the same question as you, by the way it looks.
- What's your problem, then?
- I'm Don Kaowe, the leader of monks. This invasion to Royal Tachiza, and the holding of the Duke heirs, this,.. is,... my fault. I'm the one responsible for training monks, and we should be able to predict any attack, but this time the royal vampires were better than us.
- What is the real problem?
- The real problem, well,... who are you?
- Daytel, the alchemist - says Torièn, trying to keep this safe.
- I see - says Kaowe - An alchemist with so much knowledge, enough to enter the frequency of light, you must be the most powerful alchemist on Toj.
- I know a lot, specially about the elements.
- Good. Well, the real problem is that if you're occupying the place of enemy of yourself, the war is over since the beginning. We monks protected people for the last five hundred years, we tought people, we fought wars, we studied nature, and medicine, we repaired the population clothes. And now that the goddess of Magic died, now, we noticed how magic is important, how stones of power, which stores magic the non arcanist can use, or the items of power which can perform some magic, how this all is important.
- I can accept the challenge of not being my own enemy.
- Huh-hng - he laughed - You've already done it, Daytel. Those who pass at Shadd'z tests are worthy, that's what that tests are for. To define, in a divine way, who are the ones the gods can rely on, to make a better world, and to keep the world safe from the enemy or enemies we're facing now.
Torièn stays in silence, because that make sense.
He remember the tests were not to make any more sense, if this were not true.
So, this must be true.
- Once, a mantis looked to a centipede, and he asked "How can you walk with so many legs", "Ohe, I don't know. Let me think about it", she answered, and she could not walk anymore.
- I,... don't understand, Kaowe.
- But you will - says him - Well, you helped me. To think about those tests was a real thing, something I had almost forgot, and there are people, yes, like you, who we can rely on. Some time ago, I thought I've lost my most prominent student, Torièn. But he's done the tests. Not from Shadd'z, but from the monasteries. He's still working, and now, I understand I can wait him to understand what he's doing, at Abbas. We're facing the same enemy, Daytel, and my old best student just beat me in a challenge of courage, invading Royal Tachiza.
- And you made me to remember I've passed the tests.
- So, good luck, Daytel the alchemist. We must honour those tests, and remember we have an Enemy to defeat, because we were tested, and we passed all the tests.
- Honoured talking to you, Kaowe.
- Do never forget, Daytel, that what's good on this life is that ours are some coices for we to make.
- I won't forget that, Kaowe. Thank you.
Torièn came back from the trance state, and he saw Hadesh being cured by Mai.
He doesn't want to talk, but he had to admit.
There's no way someone could defeat an ancient elemental of ice, and stay alive to tell the story, so this was, even if Hadesh had cheated using black magic, this was his test.
(That night, at the Priatel ruledom,...)
Torièn listened to the Ring of Intelligence's voice, and it says Mai needs to gain a lot of experience on life. She just can't ignore she's a powerful goddess.
He agrees, and called her to a chess match, to start talking.
Mai says she had a dream.
She was a bit older, about fifteen, and she changed her name to Maika.
That remembers her of Magic.
Then, Torièn senses a visitor waiting for him at the entrance, the base of the mountain. He'll need to make this sanctuary him home, and move things a bit inside of it, until he can fina an ice elemental to stay at the place the old ancient elemental lived.
It's Aksias, his master.
- Hadesh and Tacke were attacked, by dark elves. We could arrest three of 'em.
- How are them? They've been harmed?
- The two are fine, and we must go interrogate those alves.
- I'll send Mai to the sanctuary castle, first. I think it's time for her to mix with her kind, and Ayasta needs to start training her.
- And I'll need to come to the Family Council, to explain what's happening.
- Oke. We meet as soon as possible.
(End of Session)
Some Considerations necessary
Now the Dark Grimoire's dead, how Hadesh is going to keep his Magic studies up to date?
Hope you're enjoying the reading, thank you, and,...
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This is a resume version of the Story, Stolen Dreams.
To follow the final version, go to this post.
About the Story
I did lost track of time, again, because the real play was one year ago. I have the notes, but I did not included the date on the notes.
The Tomb of Ddud
Torièn received a message from Mai, and he invites her to his sanctuary.
His sanctuary's inside the eternal icy mountains, Fronzenlant. An enormous number of chambers lay inside, with most unknown rooms, and secrets.
Torièn's the only one the dangerous ice ancient elemental lets enter the chambers of that place, or those who he invites to enter, so everyone must wait for the alchemist to let them enter first.
So, Torièn waited for his group to come to the meeting.
Báech and Kristalla were the first, and so Tacke, and Hadesh, then they prepared to enter the chamber with the inscription down there.
----- The Tomb of Ddud -----
Hadesh and Kristalla come at the front. She disarmed the traps, and Hadesh was aware to enter her front in case any trap was activated. The entrance's a number of rooms, to make someone get lost, so there's a staircase, which goes zigzag, with numerous traps, basically all magical. All the structure's made of a strange rock, non native to this place, a rock like marble, polished and beautiful, but they all sense this is dangerous, because it may be part of a magic enchantment to control their minds.
Several minutes later, Hadesh stoped.
- Kristalla vanished - he resumed to the others.
- She's fine (says Torièn). Believe me. She's the best rogue I've ever seen.
- We know it (considers Báech), Torièn, but don't you think,...
- This,... - the mage pointed to the opening wall.
The wall started to open, to let a passage on it, and they finally came to the inner chamber.
Kristalla's on the side of a staircase, disabling a mechanic trap. As they were able to enter, they saw the marvel of a cube made of a strange material, obviously magical. The cube's dark blue, with many many slots and things that look like lines, all connected to each other.
All of a sudden, they can't see Kristalla and Torièn senses danger.
- Teleport Kristalla back, Báech - says Torièn - This is my turn.
Of course, Torièn activated a number of traps while coming to the cube. Blood started to stain his clothes, but a small problem, considered where they are.
Torièn came closer, and he started to see the lines, with a very old version of the sun chang script. Old runes, with inscriptions in line. He started to read 'em. It says "And so He created the Illusion. The illusion of matter. Saw by the eyes of those who want to see. Pleasure, pleasure which cures even the Enemy", and Torièn senses corruption, but corruption in raw state. He keeps reading, and started to ask the Ring of intelligence to help. The sense of corruption's so strong it even pushes Torièn backwards. He reads words he never saw, as "Doxa", in the lines which say "Death is reserved to them. The Doxa of Choice", and he ignores the cuts on his flesh to ask the Ring what was that, after all.
- Doxa is the universal law of free choice. To not chose's still chose - says the ring.
Suddenly, the cube changed.
- What's happening, ring?
- Well, I assume the cube will open, if you read it all - suggests the ring.
- He's still alive, inside this prison. It's even worse than,... damn, I forgot his name,... Saint Krunk's brother. What do you think, Ring?
- I think you're right.
To know finally what the Fronzenlant mountain hold down there's enough. Torièn goes back, and is hitted again, into another trap. It near misses him. He freezed the blade, and hits it to break with his staff of power, at the time it passes trying to cut his head off. Together, they start to go back, and notice all traps come back to it's armed position, while they backwards.
Off the tomb, Lena was waiting for them.
- I think I saw inside the tomb, Torièn. (says her) It looks as a sun chang baby. And it's, like,... sleeping.
- To know what is in there is enough for me, princess. We need to be careful, because this chamber cannot ever be opened, I'm pretty sure of it.
- What's written in the lines, Torièn?
- Well, Hadesh. I prefere not to talk about that.
- Why?
- Oke. It's a huge collection of sayings about Free Choice, but that doesn't make sense.
- That doesn't make sense to You - says the takkar.
- What are you saying? I know what is free choice, and you're not the one to tell me that.
- Why? Are you saying my choice of protecting you all during all the time, risking my head everysense, is not a sure demonstration of free choice? No, no,.. I'm doing it just because you're nobles. And of course, this is my destiny, to serve the royalty of the ejik race. This is nonsense, Torièn.
- Watch your mouth, Hadesh - says the mage.
- YOu wanna know what? I'm TIRED of it! I'm always risking my LIFE! MY life. And you give not the credit for that, no no, you're the biggest of us, you go on the front. TIRED! You're a bunch of INGRATES!
- HOLD YOUR MOUTH, TAKKAR! YOU DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!
- EXACTLY! TAKKAR! I'M NOT YOUR EJIK SERVANT, SIR!
Tacke immediately casts the No Physical Attack spell, waiting for the problem.
Hadesh and Torièn kept shouting each other, until Torièn teleport him outside the temple, from inside the mountain to the outside frost.
Torièn went to a corner and got that "No talking" face.
(The Enemy's waiting)
Hadesh immediately saw where he was.
At the place the elemental Ice lives, the most aggressive elemental ever. He says "Shit" in takkar race language, but there was no time to run.
An imense mass of ice urged from beneath the ground, and attacked.
- I challenge you, ancient elemental of ice! - he shouted.
But the elemental really wants to kill him, and that doesn't made him stop.
Hadesh got his Book off the Bag, because he knows he's not enough to confront a tremendous beast of nature, and he was lifted by a mass of ice. He took so much damage he believed he'd die in some next moment. No hope, no chance.
Up there, he was thrown at the ground, and lifted up again.
He assumed takkar beast form, to start regenerate, and opened the Book, trying to focus the most powerful spell the Dark Grimoire could ever let him cast.
(At the Sanctuary)
- Torièn! Hadesh's being attacked! - cried Tacke.
- What do I have to do with this? I don't care what happens with him.
- It's the ice elemental, only you can do something.
- Ahh! Why do I have to help him? Oke. Let go outside, and see what's happening.
They all got off the sanctuary, by teleport lightning, except Mai.
(The Death of a beloved Friend)
- Hellfire! - Hadesh shouted, at the same time the group gets there by teleport.
A huge ball, of fire and icy storm, that's what they see.
- That's black magic! - cries Torièn.
- Now, you're concerned about black magic, Torièn? - asked Tacke.
- He killed the ice elemental! HADESH! - shouted the mage.
- You teleported him (says Tacke). It's your fault.
Most of the icy mountain simply melted, and the mage's angry with his fellow, but they see him.
When Hadesh assumed snakedragon form, the elemental broke his left wing.
Hadesh was in pain. Real pain. So, he senses something. He senses there is someone in there, wainting, in the woods down there. He can't see anything, and the pain is terrible. It didn't helps much. He focus his special abilites, every and each one, on finding what's wrong.
Then, he sees, a man completely melted with the trees by the base of the icy mountain.
He can't do anything, and he's just focusing on the little life in himself.
So, the man moves and starts to come near, up there. He's using strange clothes, like those of Haratchi, the witch of the planes.
- You,... - the man says to the group - must know this book must be destroyed.
- I don't care if you do that - Torièn's angry, and he can't believe Hadesh had killed the elemental, so furious he's not even trying to cure his fellow.
- What do you want, stranger? - says Tacke.
- You don't have the power to destroy this Dark Book, but I do.
They all stay in silence, waiting.
- So be it - says the man, and he destroys Hadesh'es book, the Dark Grimoire's dead.
The group could not believe, nor Hadesh.
Hadesh fainted, and Tacke levitated him back inside the sanctuary.
(At The frequecy of Light, again)
- I know, Tacke. But he desearved that. The book was dangerous, anyway, even if I can agree with you that the book was his.
- You keep saying there's a relation between the Mummy King and the basyliskes, but I can't see what - says the professor, and he sees Lena's on a corner with Mai, explained what happened.
- I don't know. I need to meditate, Tacke.
- Go for it.
Daytel, who he's known outside his territory, entered the frequency of Light.
The last time was when the Mummy King was created.
And there is someone in there. A lone mind. He focused that presence, saying helo in the form of energy, in the form of a mind looking for answers.
- Helo - he says.
The presence says nothing.
This way, he starts to say all his worries. Not any information that could be a secret. He's not an idiot. Just what happens, his group, fellows, family. He hates politics. They all make things too complicated, all the time, and he's tired of saying this and that, and nothing works. He's sure of these things, and nobody listen. Not even the Council of Light, in here, this mind metaplane. No one's doing a thing to solve what's wrong. Why people just want to do things their way, and not listen to any sense, to his solutions?
He's tired of trying to keep the balance between the group.
Good times were those with Dudin and Tayala.
They all needed to solve a mystery, of why the magic faul was happening. Why? Because they wanted to do what was right. They did found a solution, and he has passed the tests from the greater god of Shadeza, to be able to get the bumppers, and put them in the needed place.
Those were two people who listen, even if they're not much friendly most of the time.
Why does he needs this group?
Why does he needs to stay into unending labyrinths, with no action. They don't agree, when he's pretty sure of everything he says.
Why?
- Helo - says a voice of a man, ejik - I notice you're angry, and if you can enter this attune state metaplane, you're not a bad person, for sure. I have not understood what you said about the Council of Light, but I,... I mean, do you want to talk?
- I just can't see the actions being taken, by the Council.
- That doesn't mean the Council's doing nothing. I pretty think you know there's an Enemy,... I mean,... an Enemy no one knows who he really is. That needs much more actions from the Council of Light, who usually gathers using this metaplane, than mortals could imagine.
- I just,... think,... (says Torièn),... that doing things to entities, without questioning, is to become a fanatic, and there is no good in this.
- I'm here,... for the same question as you, by the way it looks.
- What's your problem, then?
- I'm Don Kaowe, the leader of monks. This invasion to Royal Tachiza, and the holding of the Duke heirs, this,.. is,... my fault. I'm the one responsible for training monks, and we should be able to predict any attack, but this time the royal vampires were better than us.
- What is the real problem?
- The real problem, well,... who are you?
- Daytel, the alchemist - says Torièn, trying to keep this safe.
- I see - says Kaowe - An alchemist with so much knowledge, enough to enter the frequency of light, you must be the most powerful alchemist on Toj.
- I know a lot, specially about the elements.
- Good. Well, the real problem is that if you're occupying the place of enemy of yourself, the war is over since the beginning. We monks protected people for the last five hundred years, we tought people, we fought wars, we studied nature, and medicine, we repaired the population clothes. And now that the goddess of Magic died, now, we noticed how magic is important, how stones of power, which stores magic the non arcanist can use, or the items of power which can perform some magic, how this all is important.
- I can accept the challenge of not being my own enemy.
- Huh-hng - he laughed - You've already done it, Daytel. Those who pass at Shadd'z tests are worthy, that's what that tests are for. To define, in a divine way, who are the ones the gods can rely on, to make a better world, and to keep the world safe from the enemy or enemies we're facing now.
Torièn stays in silence, because that make sense.
He remember the tests were not to make any more sense, if this were not true.
So, this must be true.
- Once, a mantis looked to a centipede, and he asked "How can you walk with so many legs", "Ohe, I don't know. Let me think about it", she answered, and she could not walk anymore.
- I,... don't understand, Kaowe.
- But you will - says him - Well, you helped me. To think about those tests was a real thing, something I had almost forgot, and there are people, yes, like you, who we can rely on. Some time ago, I thought I've lost my most prominent student, Torièn. But he's done the tests. Not from Shadd'z, but from the monasteries. He's still working, and now, I understand I can wait him to understand what he's doing, at Abbas. We're facing the same enemy, Daytel, and my old best student just beat me in a challenge of courage, invading Royal Tachiza.
- And you made me to remember I've passed the tests.
- So, good luck, Daytel the alchemist. We must honour those tests, and remember we have an Enemy to defeat, because we were tested, and we passed all the tests.
- Honoured talking to you, Kaowe.
- Do never forget, Daytel, that what's good on this life is that ours are some coices for we to make.
- I won't forget that, Kaowe. Thank you.
Torièn came back from the trance state, and he saw Hadesh being cured by Mai.
He doesn't want to talk, but he had to admit.
There's no way someone could defeat an ancient elemental of ice, and stay alive to tell the story, so this was, even if Hadesh had cheated using black magic, this was his test.
(That night, at the Priatel ruledom,...)
Torièn listened to the Ring of Intelligence's voice, and it says Mai needs to gain a lot of experience on life. She just can't ignore she's a powerful goddess.
He agrees, and called her to a chess match, to start talking.
Mai says she had a dream.
She was a bit older, about fifteen, and she changed her name to Maika.
That remembers her of Magic.
Then, Torièn senses a visitor waiting for him at the entrance, the base of the mountain. He'll need to make this sanctuary him home, and move things a bit inside of it, until he can fina an ice elemental to stay at the place the old ancient elemental lived.
It's Aksias, his master.
- Hadesh and Tacke were attacked, by dark elves. We could arrest three of 'em.
- How are them? They've been harmed?
- The two are fine, and we must go interrogate those alves.
- I'll send Mai to the sanctuary castle, first. I think it's time for her to mix with her kind, and Ayasta needs to start training her.
- And I'll need to come to the Family Council, to explain what's happening.
- Oke. We meet as soon as possible.
(End of Session)
Some Considerations necessary
Now the Dark Grimoire's dead, how Hadesh is going to keep his Magic studies up to date?
Hope you're enjoying the reading, thank you, and,...
... Stay Plugged.
Saturday, 17 September 2011
Echoes of the Past #00
Halloi (Helo), and Be welcome.
Follow this post to read the final version:
About the Story
Thank you.
I've lost track of the time, because one year have passed since we played the parts which I'll write now, but I want to thank you, everyone, for your pacience and your support.
Echoes of the Past
After the deal done, Trahmasse, also called Hadesh, is getting use to his new abilities. His mind is much different from before. He can sense things. He can see through things. Yet he can't grant the deal done will protect him from everything he thought it would. He knows. The infernalists could take for granted his participation on the event, and he's probably doing something they could predict, even if now time make sense, matter make sense, and he knows he shows now a strong connection with the spirit, the conduit, and the beyond.
He's now at the valley sanctuary.
There's a man waiting down at the entrance, and he's huge. He sit by the fire, and let it be fired to make the visitor able to enter the territory.
When he comes, Trahmasse knows who he is.
It's Saint Krunneka.
By the saint request, they made an orgy. The saint called all noble ejik in the area, who are thirsty for sex, well, he teleported them from their rooms, and the saint also conjured a feast out of nothing. Hadesh can't say no, because he understand this is a barbarian, after all.
A day passed.
The next day, Hadesh sees the noble ejik on the entrance of the territory. He's thankful for the orgy only take a day, but he's worried now.
The woman's pregnant, and it's Trahmasse's.
He, as a medic, analyzed the ejik woman, and discovered the new liveform may kill her, but she's probably give birth during the nest one week.
(At the Salt Port, Nine Realms)
There are minor races in Toj, Kalacoktoa and Treiyka. Kaelast is one of 'em. They're not much more than a thousands of people. They live at the corals, by the cold Hammer peninsula, on the north the great continent, and they're not like the other races. There, they learned to keep their culture appart from the rest of the world, but sometimes one can get to the world and make pure profit.
Tklahonomára is a kaelast, and he's a negociator working for the Guild of Commerce.
One day, he listens to a magic message, from a deep voice saying he's the Troll Pylosopher, and Tklá needs to go creationg new and safe trade routes. The Troll says the war is coming. There's no way the war can be stoped coming, but commerce's needed to keep the empires together. He accepts the mission, and talked to his teller and to his most strong servant, and goes to take the ship.
Four days later, he enters Priatel's territory, and is welcomed by Rudyn, a noble priatel with a face terrible, a face which shows a person who suffered a lot, and ready for anything.
Some hours later, he comes to Torièn's castle.
(Hadesh and the Troll talking)
- Master. Can you hear me? I'm sure you can.
- Of course I can, Hadesh. Do you really think I'd abandon you?
- No, master. I have a problem.
- Yes, Hadesh - says the Troll - You'll have a family, now.
- I'm sure she'll die. What can I do?
- You're a takkar beast, Hadesh, and you know the only God who would help you.
- I,... (he sighed),... thank you, master.
- I'll be watching, but I have loads of things to do, here at Abbas. I can't help you in everything you need, but be sure I didn't abandoned you.
- Thank you, Troll.
(Taklá, Torièn and the sacerdot)
- Be welcome to the Sanctuary, Tkláhonomára - says the sacerdot.
- I need a room, sacerdot - he says.
- You're welcome. Our lord, the noble Torièn, explained it all to me, and you'll be able to speak with the family Council as soon as possible. This way, please. I'll take you to your rooms.
The next day, Tklá talks with the family council, and he managed to have a deal with the nobles. They'll help in convincing the region territories to negociate wood with the Nine Realms. They all look as mages, and he had to say he's a shammant.
Actually, the Priatel family council was happy to kown he's a shammant.
When back to the sanctuary, something happened.
He saw a great war, in visions. Immobile, he saw it all in visions. He doesn't know how much time passed, but he's sure the war is coming.
As he came back from the visions, he remembered the sacerdot saying this is a five gods and godesses' sanctuary, and Disdaemona, the goddess of commerce, is one of them. This is granted to be a true vision, he thinks, but then he looks to where he is. He's surrounded by a rope, and there are four people around him, praying, and in the hope Tklá can say revelations to them. They're four men, ejik.
- I have seen,... (he says),... the Truth. We must be prepared to a difficult time to come.
He got their spirit signature, to remember who they are later.
(One Week later)
Hadesh has spoken to Bogbog, four times, this week.
His rider has not spoken, but the takkar could sense his rider's thought and presence. So, he made a request, for Bog is the old god of magic beasts and creatures. "Don't let her die, Bog. Please", he repeated a number of times, the whole week.
As a medic, he's doing the child-birth right now.
Yesterday, a woman came and stoped by the entrance of the valley.
- Who're you? (he asked her)
- I'm Bynke, and I've been sent here by the Troll Phylosopher to help you.
Bynke's doing her best to help him with the child-birth. She hotted water, got all the cloth cleaned, made him food, took the mother's pulse every hour.
It took two hours to do that all, and so they're born.
His children are six snakes, five dark and one orange, and they immediately climbed their father. He assumed his beast form, and the children started to drink his saliva as it was water. He was imensely worried, until an hour later Bynke says his woman will live.
- Her blood became acid, master, but I'm sure she'll live.
- Thank you, Bynke. I'll never be able to equal what you already have done only in a day. But I'll try. I'll try to do whatever be possible to help you, in need.
- I'm here to help you, master - and she got back to clean the cloth and boil wather.
Then, the old man came.
Bynke told there's a man stoped by the entrance.
- Who're you? - asks Hadesh, by the fire, after the ritual of fire got done and the man came.
- Yoah, you're big - says the old ejik - 'm hear to halp yoah. Troll sent us.
- Why did he sent you, and what's your name?
- Meh? 'm Boake. I hasv the best ejik vison in nature, 'desh. Dat's why I been sent, Oke.
- Good - concludes Hadesh - Ask Bynke for food, and be welcome, Boake.
- 'll do the best yoah'll ever ask, mastaa - says the old man.
Hadesh passed the rest of the day with his children.
He decided his race name, Snakedragon.
(The strange visitor)
It was near midnight, when he appeared by the entrance.
Hadesh lighted the fire, but the person didn't entered the territory, so he went to talk with him. He immediatel sees what is a dragon, in a person form.
And only by a glimpse, he can see it's the new obsidian dragon.
The man didn't talked to him, and he not to the man.
- You're a strange race - says the dragon - I need to talk with Daytel, the alchemist.
- I'll call him here, if you say what you want, please.
- I'm not here to harm anyone, beast. And I'm sure you know how to call him, because the Wèneg prelate bogling village's turned the most important caravan centre because of you.
Hadesh concluded he's talking the truth, and called Torièn with beast powers.
A powerful lightning came, and Torièn meets the obsidian dragon.
- Helo, Daytel. I'm the obsidian dragon. My father's will, who died in the teeth of a basylisk, is mine now. And I've decided to come and tell you what you need to know.
- Helo, Draka, and welcome. What do you need to say?
- There's a new dragon, indigo pearly, we don't know where he came from. He has just adopted the monotheist empire of Trappke as his protectorate.
- So,... what's special or unexpected about this unknown draka?
- He has just declared war, against all dragons.
- And,... why are you telling me that? What do you want?
- You'll unveil for youself. Consider this as a sign of peace between us and your patron, alchemist.
- Ohe,... that's new, for me. I'll,... need to think about that, but I think it's good. Thank you, but I need to ask. Are you telling this to everyone?
- I've told already to five families, all dragon protected lineages.
- I understand, now. You're making future allies. Wise.
- I think the indigo pearl wants to create a war, a real war, amongst dragons.
- And I think he'll be in trouble, if he tries; believe me. What you think, obsidian, if we throw the Mummy King on the monotheist empire?
- He,... (the dragon smiled, and looked Hadesh),... needs you help, alchemist. I need to go. There's something going terribly wrong with the world, mage. Be careful.
- Thank you - answered Torièn.
Then, the obsidian dragon vanished in mid air.
Hadesh called Torièn to come and meet his family.
(Two Days later)
- You can come to my sanctuary, at the mountains, Tklá - says Torièn.
- Thank you, noble Priatel - resumes the trader.
"He'll subvert soon, Ayasta", she listen to the Dreammaker's voice during her meditation in her rooms.
"I can sense that, Dreammaker", she says, "Are you sure Efemmera's idea's gonna work?", her voice was full of dubious sensations.
"Well, goddess. It's the only way to prevent her death, I agree", he says.
They talk no more, only watch in silence.
Hadesh sees his woman waking up, breathing, and Bynke helps to take care of her.
They talked for a long hour and decide they'll get married.
"Hadesh" - he listen to Ayasta's voice - "She will manifest power. I can't predict which kind of power, but I can sense it's magic power. Take care of her, for she's alive for a Bogbog's miracle. Gods can do this once in a while, and you're responsible for asking him to do that".
- Thanks - he murmured, in low tone.
(Priatel Council meeting)
Torièn gathers with his family.
They're analyzing maps, and preparing for the war.
After a two hours meeting, they decide to compare old maps. A hundred years ago, the Feudal Federation has not swamps. The monotheist invasion on Castlelands, and following retreat is suspicious, and they were probably looking for something, and they got it. Barbarians are not ahead of anything. Saint Krunneka's their saint too, a leader, and he's probably folowing their action close. The obsidian dragon's message's important. It looks the new dragon, indigo pearly, will take the monotheist empire to the war.
Rudyn explained Torièn, after the meeting, he's got a treasure, a Book. This will be used in the war, but he asks his cousin not to tell anyone.
(The Group gathering at Hadesh territory)
- Yes, Torièn - says Tacke - The new dragon's the head of the problem, I agree.
- That's an ambush. Can't you see? - says Hadesh, angry.
- My family says the obsidian dragon really spoke with the other dragon protected families. He's told the truth, Hadesh.
- I,... (he sighed),.. oke.
- What about the new djines, Torièn?
- Good question, Tacke. They need a new leader. Báech is the best one.
- I'll do thaet - prompted the djine.
- Good. Now, I'll have to tell you a new dream I had. I dream the Dreammaker granted me it's true, and this is probably a world secret.
Tacke was falling, deep into the ocean.
Soon, he started to see creature, so deep they had to appear as monsters to him. No way to describe any of 'em, but this is best.
There's a magic seal, down Nine Realms, deep, deep there.
I had the sensation another entity, we can call it The Deep Lord, who was telling me this.
The Dreammaker says it's a true revelation, from him.
- There's nothing we can do - says Hadesh.
- And you're not doing anything, Hadesh, only taking part on orgies with Saint Krunk.
- What do you wanted me to do? He's probably the most powerful man on this world, and he wanted an orgy, so I just agreed.
- Tacke, this won't help - says Torièn.
- Right (he stoped).
- If we interfere, the monotheists will become the strongest fanatics on this world.
- Why are you telling this, Hadesh?
- I've seen it happening, Torièn, back on Treiyka. I was called a miracle man, and they were following me as I was a real, dunno, lord, or religious leader. Then, I runned off.
- (Tacke sighed) You're right, Hadesh. We could create a bigger problem, under control, and we could resume the war, and Ayasta agree with that.
- I don't like the idea, Tacke - says Hadesh.
- This all looks planned. We assume the enemy from the furute's doing this, but,...
- But? - questions Lena, all in silence during the meeting.
- If it's wrong, what can we do?
- Tack's right. (says Hadesh) There's on thing we can do. We must know what the rings do together. And I think we must do it now.
- Does everyone agree with that? Yes? Oke. Let's do it.
Torièn's voice was followed by them all puting ring hands ahead, and they gathered the power of their Rings, even if they don't have the true ring of Magic.
A small mist appeared, and it becomes a spark, then a small ball of light.
Immediately, Hadesh saw a person by the entrance.
They all decided to be in silence, and the person came in a very ordered move. When close, they could see, she's the Avatar of Order.
- You, again? - she looked to them - give me the child. Immediately.
They let her take the small ball of light, and go. She says "You're so small", looking to the spark, while walking orderedly away.
- That's it. I know, now. There are five true Ambar Rings of Power, and we need the real ones. The two major rings are Magic and Time, her attributions. The other three are the components, fungus, conduit and telluron, which are also something else. Life.
They all listened to the takkar's explanation, and it makes sense.
- We need to talk with Efemmera (says Hadesh).
And he asks Ayasta to talk with the goddess of Death, in secret. Their friend godess reveals to him, in no words, the answer she knows about Death, he listens, and tell.
- Efemmera doesn't permits reincarnations now to impede the great spider to come back, and only the clirics of Shadd'z can ressurrect.
The takkar's voice suddenly was interrupted.
They listen to an enormous number of birds passing in the midday sky.
- Taaaaakkke them awaaaaay!!!! Aaaaahhhhh!! Those mooonnnsteers!!!!! Take 'em awaaaay!
Hadesh assumes beast form, and scream to the flock of birds.
Sometime later, he stoped screaming, crying, and came silently back, looking in fear to the sky.
- You're afraid of birds, now - concluded Tack.
They start to talk about what to do. Torièn suggests they get the feather to Addria, so she can finally get back everything to normal. Time's still a strange thing. Nothing's going to happen, unless she can turn everything back to normal, but they must be careful. The Avatar of Secret can hide everything. And there's a tomb into the vaults of Frozenlands. It says "Tomb of Ddud", says Torièn. They decide to hold this all until investigate the tomb, but they all agreed they'd need all the five Rings of Ambar before time come back, and they'll need the Feather to get it to their old fellow Addria to fix the whole problem.
Hadesh meditates, and he focused Addria to talk with her.
- She agrees. This will take everything back normal - says the takkar.
(End of Session)
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I've lost track of the time, because one year have passed since we played the parts which I'll write now, but I want to thank you, everyone, for your pacience and your support.
Echoes of the Past
After the deal done, Trahmasse, also called Hadesh, is getting use to his new abilities. His mind is much different from before. He can sense things. He can see through things. Yet he can't grant the deal done will protect him from everything he thought it would. He knows. The infernalists could take for granted his participation on the event, and he's probably doing something they could predict, even if now time make sense, matter make sense, and he knows he shows now a strong connection with the spirit, the conduit, and the beyond.
He's now at the valley sanctuary.
There's a man waiting down at the entrance, and he's huge. He sit by the fire, and let it be fired to make the visitor able to enter the territory.
When he comes, Trahmasse knows who he is.
It's Saint Krunneka.
By the saint request, they made an orgy. The saint called all noble ejik in the area, who are thirsty for sex, well, he teleported them from their rooms, and the saint also conjured a feast out of nothing. Hadesh can't say no, because he understand this is a barbarian, after all.
A day passed.
The next day, Hadesh sees the noble ejik on the entrance of the territory. He's thankful for the orgy only take a day, but he's worried now.
The woman's pregnant, and it's Trahmasse's.
He, as a medic, analyzed the ejik woman, and discovered the new liveform may kill her, but she's probably give birth during the nest one week.
(At the Salt Port, Nine Realms)
There are minor races in Toj, Kalacoktoa and Treiyka. Kaelast is one of 'em. They're not much more than a thousands of people. They live at the corals, by the cold Hammer peninsula, on the north the great continent, and they're not like the other races. There, they learned to keep their culture appart from the rest of the world, but sometimes one can get to the world and make pure profit.
Tklahonomára is a kaelast, and he's a negociator working for the Guild of Commerce.
One day, he listens to a magic message, from a deep voice saying he's the Troll Pylosopher, and Tklá needs to go creationg new and safe trade routes. The Troll says the war is coming. There's no way the war can be stoped coming, but commerce's needed to keep the empires together. He accepts the mission, and talked to his teller and to his most strong servant, and goes to take the ship.
Four days later, he enters Priatel's territory, and is welcomed by Rudyn, a noble priatel with a face terrible, a face which shows a person who suffered a lot, and ready for anything.
Some hours later, he comes to Torièn's castle.
(Hadesh and the Troll talking)
- Master. Can you hear me? I'm sure you can.
- Of course I can, Hadesh. Do you really think I'd abandon you?
- No, master. I have a problem.
- Yes, Hadesh - says the Troll - You'll have a family, now.
- I'm sure she'll die. What can I do?
- You're a takkar beast, Hadesh, and you know the only God who would help you.
- I,... (he sighed),... thank you, master.
- I'll be watching, but I have loads of things to do, here at Abbas. I can't help you in everything you need, but be sure I didn't abandoned you.
- Thank you, Troll.
(Taklá, Torièn and the sacerdot)
- Be welcome to the Sanctuary, Tkláhonomára - says the sacerdot.
- I need a room, sacerdot - he says.
- You're welcome. Our lord, the noble Torièn, explained it all to me, and you'll be able to speak with the family Council as soon as possible. This way, please. I'll take you to your rooms.
The next day, Tklá talks with the family council, and he managed to have a deal with the nobles. They'll help in convincing the region territories to negociate wood with the Nine Realms. They all look as mages, and he had to say he's a shammant.
Actually, the Priatel family council was happy to kown he's a shammant.
When back to the sanctuary, something happened.
He saw a great war, in visions. Immobile, he saw it all in visions. He doesn't know how much time passed, but he's sure the war is coming.
As he came back from the visions, he remembered the sacerdot saying this is a five gods and godesses' sanctuary, and Disdaemona, the goddess of commerce, is one of them. This is granted to be a true vision, he thinks, but then he looks to where he is. He's surrounded by a rope, and there are four people around him, praying, and in the hope Tklá can say revelations to them. They're four men, ejik.
- I have seen,... (he says),... the Truth. We must be prepared to a difficult time to come.
He got their spirit signature, to remember who they are later.
(One Week later)
Hadesh has spoken to Bogbog, four times, this week.
His rider has not spoken, but the takkar could sense his rider's thought and presence. So, he made a request, for Bog is the old god of magic beasts and creatures. "Don't let her die, Bog. Please", he repeated a number of times, the whole week.
As a medic, he's doing the child-birth right now.
Yesterday, a woman came and stoped by the entrance of the valley.
- Who're you? (he asked her)
- I'm Bynke, and I've been sent here by the Troll Phylosopher to help you.
Bynke's doing her best to help him with the child-birth. She hotted water, got all the cloth cleaned, made him food, took the mother's pulse every hour.
It took two hours to do that all, and so they're born.
His children are six snakes, five dark and one orange, and they immediately climbed their father. He assumed his beast form, and the children started to drink his saliva as it was water. He was imensely worried, until an hour later Bynke says his woman will live.
- Her blood became acid, master, but I'm sure she'll live.
- Thank you, Bynke. I'll never be able to equal what you already have done only in a day. But I'll try. I'll try to do whatever be possible to help you, in need.
- I'm here to help you, master - and she got back to clean the cloth and boil wather.
Then, the old man came.
Bynke told there's a man stoped by the entrance.
- Who're you? - asks Hadesh, by the fire, after the ritual of fire got done and the man came.
- Yoah, you're big - says the old ejik - 'm hear to halp yoah. Troll sent us.
- Why did he sent you, and what's your name?
- Meh? 'm Boake. I hasv the best ejik vison in nature, 'desh. Dat's why I been sent, Oke.
- Good - concludes Hadesh - Ask Bynke for food, and be welcome, Boake.
- 'll do the best yoah'll ever ask, mastaa - says the old man.
Hadesh passed the rest of the day with his children.
He decided his race name, Snakedragon.
(The strange visitor)
It was near midnight, when he appeared by the entrance.
Hadesh lighted the fire, but the person didn't entered the territory, so he went to talk with him. He immediatel sees what is a dragon, in a person form.
And only by a glimpse, he can see it's the new obsidian dragon.
The man didn't talked to him, and he not to the man.
- You're a strange race - says the dragon - I need to talk with Daytel, the alchemist.
- I'll call him here, if you say what you want, please.
- I'm not here to harm anyone, beast. And I'm sure you know how to call him, because the Wèneg prelate bogling village's turned the most important caravan centre because of you.
Hadesh concluded he's talking the truth, and called Torièn with beast powers.
A powerful lightning came, and Torièn meets the obsidian dragon.
- Helo, Daytel. I'm the obsidian dragon. My father's will, who died in the teeth of a basylisk, is mine now. And I've decided to come and tell you what you need to know.
- Helo, Draka, and welcome. What do you need to say?
- There's a new dragon, indigo pearly, we don't know where he came from. He has just adopted the monotheist empire of Trappke as his protectorate.
- So,... what's special or unexpected about this unknown draka?
- He has just declared war, against all dragons.
- And,... why are you telling me that? What do you want?
- You'll unveil for youself. Consider this as a sign of peace between us and your patron, alchemist.
- Ohe,... that's new, for me. I'll,... need to think about that, but I think it's good. Thank you, but I need to ask. Are you telling this to everyone?
- I've told already to five families, all dragon protected lineages.
- I understand, now. You're making future allies. Wise.
- I think the indigo pearl wants to create a war, a real war, amongst dragons.
- And I think he'll be in trouble, if he tries; believe me. What you think, obsidian, if we throw the Mummy King on the monotheist empire?
- He,... (the dragon smiled, and looked Hadesh),... needs you help, alchemist. I need to go. There's something going terribly wrong with the world, mage. Be careful.
- Thank you - answered Torièn.
Then, the obsidian dragon vanished in mid air.
Hadesh called Torièn to come and meet his family.
(Two Days later)
- You can come to my sanctuary, at the mountains, Tklá - says Torièn.
- Thank you, noble Priatel - resumes the trader.
"He'll subvert soon, Ayasta", she listen to the Dreammaker's voice during her meditation in her rooms.
"I can sense that, Dreammaker", she says, "Are you sure Efemmera's idea's gonna work?", her voice was full of dubious sensations.
"Well, goddess. It's the only way to prevent her death, I agree", he says.
They talk no more, only watch in silence.
Hadesh sees his woman waking up, breathing, and Bynke helps to take care of her.
They talked for a long hour and decide they'll get married.
"Hadesh" - he listen to Ayasta's voice - "She will manifest power. I can't predict which kind of power, but I can sense it's magic power. Take care of her, for she's alive for a Bogbog's miracle. Gods can do this once in a while, and you're responsible for asking him to do that".
- Thanks - he murmured, in low tone.
(Priatel Council meeting)
Torièn gathers with his family.
They're analyzing maps, and preparing for the war.
After a two hours meeting, they decide to compare old maps. A hundred years ago, the Feudal Federation has not swamps. The monotheist invasion on Castlelands, and following retreat is suspicious, and they were probably looking for something, and they got it. Barbarians are not ahead of anything. Saint Krunneka's their saint too, a leader, and he's probably folowing their action close. The obsidian dragon's message's important. It looks the new dragon, indigo pearly, will take the monotheist empire to the war.
Rudyn explained Torièn, after the meeting, he's got a treasure, a Book. This will be used in the war, but he asks his cousin not to tell anyone.
(The Group gathering at Hadesh territory)
- Yes, Torièn - says Tacke - The new dragon's the head of the problem, I agree.
- That's an ambush. Can't you see? - says Hadesh, angry.
- My family says the obsidian dragon really spoke with the other dragon protected families. He's told the truth, Hadesh.
- I,... (he sighed),.. oke.
- What about the new djines, Torièn?
- Good question, Tacke. They need a new leader. Báech is the best one.
- I'll do thaet - prompted the djine.
- Good. Now, I'll have to tell you a new dream I had. I dream the Dreammaker granted me it's true, and this is probably a world secret.
Tacke was falling, deep into the ocean.
Soon, he started to see creature, so deep they had to appear as monsters to him. No way to describe any of 'em, but this is best.
There's a magic seal, down Nine Realms, deep, deep there.
I had the sensation another entity, we can call it The Deep Lord, who was telling me this.
The Dreammaker says it's a true revelation, from him.
- There's nothing we can do - says Hadesh.
- And you're not doing anything, Hadesh, only taking part on orgies with Saint Krunk.
- What do you wanted me to do? He's probably the most powerful man on this world, and he wanted an orgy, so I just agreed.
- Tacke, this won't help - says Torièn.
- Right (he stoped).
- If we interfere, the monotheists will become the strongest fanatics on this world.
- Why are you telling this, Hadesh?
- I've seen it happening, Torièn, back on Treiyka. I was called a miracle man, and they were following me as I was a real, dunno, lord, or religious leader. Then, I runned off.
- (Tacke sighed) You're right, Hadesh. We could create a bigger problem, under control, and we could resume the war, and Ayasta agree with that.
- I don't like the idea, Tacke - says Hadesh.
- This all looks planned. We assume the enemy from the furute's doing this, but,...
- But? - questions Lena, all in silence during the meeting.
- If it's wrong, what can we do?
- Tack's right. (says Hadesh) There's on thing we can do. We must know what the rings do together. And I think we must do it now.
- Does everyone agree with that? Yes? Oke. Let's do it.
Torièn's voice was followed by them all puting ring hands ahead, and they gathered the power of their Rings, even if they don't have the true ring of Magic.
A small mist appeared, and it becomes a spark, then a small ball of light.
Immediately, Hadesh saw a person by the entrance.
They all decided to be in silence, and the person came in a very ordered move. When close, they could see, she's the Avatar of Order.
- You, again? - she looked to them - give me the child. Immediately.
They let her take the small ball of light, and go. She says "You're so small", looking to the spark, while walking orderedly away.
- That's it. I know, now. There are five true Ambar Rings of Power, and we need the real ones. The two major rings are Magic and Time, her attributions. The other three are the components, fungus, conduit and telluron, which are also something else. Life.
They all listened to the takkar's explanation, and it makes sense.
- We need to talk with Efemmera (says Hadesh).
And he asks Ayasta to talk with the goddess of Death, in secret. Their friend godess reveals to him, in no words, the answer she knows about Death, he listens, and tell.
- Efemmera doesn't permits reincarnations now to impede the great spider to come back, and only the clirics of Shadd'z can ressurrect.
The takkar's voice suddenly was interrupted.
They listen to an enormous number of birds passing in the midday sky.
- Taaaaakkke them awaaaaay!!!! Aaaaahhhhh!! Those mooonnnsteers!!!!! Take 'em awaaaay!
Hadesh assumes beast form, and scream to the flock of birds.
Sometime later, he stoped screaming, crying, and came silently back, looking in fear to the sky.
- You're afraid of birds, now - concluded Tack.
They start to talk about what to do. Torièn suggests they get the feather to Addria, so she can finally get back everything to normal. Time's still a strange thing. Nothing's going to happen, unless she can turn everything back to normal, but they must be careful. The Avatar of Secret can hide everything. And there's a tomb into the vaults of Frozenlands. It says "Tomb of Ddud", says Torièn. They decide to hold this all until investigate the tomb, but they all agreed they'd need all the five Rings of Ambar before time come back, and they'll need the Feather to get it to their old fellow Addria to fix the whole problem.
Hadesh meditates, and he focused Addria to talk with her.
- She agrees. This will take everything back normal - says the takkar.
(End of Session)
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Sunday, 11 September 2011
About the Story
Helo, and Be welcome.
I'm doing revision on older posts, to find them a New Edition.
About the Story :
This is a main campaign, at the Trikumai worlds of Toj, /toi/, Kalagoktwa and Treiyka, in which the ejik race, a human superrace, finds it's Mythology.
All posts will endure strong revision.
Thank you.
The already revised Story posts are :
Be Welcome
A Brief Log
Races and Cultural familiarities
Some Considerations (1)
The Stolen Dreams (#00-0)
The Sudden Interest Plox (#00-1)
Báech Islands (#00-2)
The Oka language (1)
The Bogling Village (#00-3)
The Grey Character
The Oka language (2)
Soul Water (Poetry)
Escape the Aim of the Dark (#00-4)
Meditation One
The Akkia language (1)
Royal Tachiza
About the Blog (1)
The Dreammaker
Old Legends (1)
Time Forward of Peace (#00-5)
I'm working on the other posts.
Hope with all my heart you enjoy your reading, and,...
... Stay Plugged.
I'm doing revision on older posts, to find them a New Edition.
About the Story :
This is a main campaign, at the Trikumai worlds of Toj, /toi/, Kalagoktwa and Treiyka, in which the ejik race, a human superrace, finds it's Mythology.
All posts will endure strong revision.
Thank you.
The already revised Story posts are :
Be Welcome
A Brief Log
Races and Cultural familiarities
Some Considerations (1)
The Stolen Dreams (#00-0)
The Sudden Interest Plox (#00-1)
Báech Islands (#00-2)
The Oka language (1)
The Bogling Village (#00-3)
The Grey Character
The Oka language (2)
Soul Water (Poetry)
Escape the Aim of the Dark (#00-4)
Meditation One
The Akkia language (1)
Royal Tachiza
About the Blog (1)
The Dreammaker
Old Legends (1)
Time Forward of Peace (#00-5)
I'm working on the other posts.
Hope with all my heart you enjoy your reading, and,...
... Stay Plugged.
Thursday, 1 September 2011
The Phylosopher Bug - #00
Helo, and Welcome to my Adventure Blog.
Action Tale is a storytelling style, in which I create a fuctional universe from scratch, but leaving clear the setting influences I use. This way, and in future posts I'll write about the processes you can create a living universe using whatever the players want to use, which includes other author's characters, including names, or even a social environment, which includes earth kind or totally alienist. I'm very proud of my players, who let me play a story in which they don't even know they're heroes, antiheroes or vilains, or even antivilains, a character that may happen to become a legend, because my House in here is called The House of Epic Destiny.
So, Be welcome to The House of Epic Destiny.
Briefing
Hadesh is a takkar. He's name is not Hadesh. He comes from Treiyka, from the Spot Tribe, whose rangers watch every hole into the desert world of Treiyka. He lived a life of worship, in which he didn't had a life, so many people were there to serve him, to wash his feet, while people lived in a total harsh world, he always had food, while people had almost nothing to eat.
One day he comes to Hadesh, a drug dealer with many contacts, and influence in takkar society.
Having the only oportunity to get off that superior being life, he fled.
The twin world of Toj is the world of the ejik race, a race a bit weaker than takkar, which needs more water, and needs to sleep every day.
It's right oka, thinks the takkar, for he's a beast and that would help him to have a life, anyway.
Now, more than three years passed, and Hadesh, who adopted his saviour's name, comes back from the Astral plane to enter a new era of his own lifetime. He immediately recognized the sense of danger in the voice of his friend and fellow group member, the noble priatel Torian, when he explained the meeting with the family Council, an hour ago, and he said simply this.
"The invading Abbas took total control of our empire, Royal Tachiza, but my family's territories, because we're allies to Abbas long ago, but the situation is bad. Hadesh, (Torian stared at him), they're looking for a beast. The description of the beast is someone with a bag", and that was clear.
This is the Story told about the fundamental bases of Akkoya's Mythology, which starts with a single Story and ends in an infinite labyrinth.
Hope, despair and very difficult choices are what defines it.
So, Be welcome to the Epic Destiny.
(February 28, 603 AGC, Priatel territory, Royal Tachiza empire)
Hadesh walks in a corner, and it starts annoying everyone.
He murmurs "They know. I know they know", all the time, and the group try not to think about what he means with that. Of course they know. They'd almost had the revelation of their life, while three godesses were present to stop what their friend asked that strange woman, called Witch of the Planes. But no, he's even more stressed, and nothing they say take him from that terrible thoughts.
- Hadesh, I've said to you, already. They say they didn't invaded Priatel territory because they think the Troll Phylosopher can be an exchange for the beast they're looking for.
- He's my Master, Torian.
- We know that, Hadesh, (tried Tack), but you can't solve every mystery on the world.
- They're looking for me. I know it.
- Right oka, (said princess Lena), and you're going to fall into the trap? You teaches me better.
- I know, Karistalla. I'm trying to think.
- Entering despair as you're doing right now, right?
- I'm trying to think, but they'd know what I think, and they'd grapple me on sight.
- They, lizardee?
- You all don't understand what we discovered at that city, on the Astral plane. Now, I know there's a huge, a massive order in the world. And they want me, now.
- Oka, pawn. I guess we can only go to talk with the Troll, (resumed Tack), and see what he has to say about what's going on. What you think?
- Shit. (Hadesh stoped, thinking). There's no other way.
- I'll get the guard ready, and I'm going with you. (concluded Torian). This way I know how can I influence the invasion, and I have an idea.
- Very well, lord. (approved the princess).
Three hour later, they stoped at the entrance for the Troll valley. They have to wait, until the fire's set up there, or otherwise the territory will take action against them. The walking til there was fast, or at least was what Lena thought, because they've walked day and days at the Astral, she always in the front, watching for traps, for secret entrances on the very ground, for natural constructs, and the like.
On the front of the Troll's cave, there he was.
- Come. Why did you took so long?
- Well, Troll. My family urged my presence, but we so decided to come to you.
- Very well, lord Drazci. Let's talk, because you need to know a long story. You, my apprentice, you sit on my side, and pay much attention to my words. Here.
- You know everything, already?
- I have ears on every place on this empire, Hadesh.
The enormous Troll arranged a barbecue for eating, his most loved food. The Kree, the giant mantis his mount, hunted two cows tonight, and it's still night.
So, about four in the morning, they settled the important talking.
- First, I'd like to ask you, Torian, to hand this letter to your family Council, with the most important notes your family will need in near future.
- Thanks, Troll - the mage got the tube, with a divine rune on it.
- You know, master?
- I only know, Hadesh, (he started), that my time here seems to have ended. I know they're looking for a beast, and even if I was a bit stupid, I'd know who they're looking for.
- You're going - Hadesh didn't asked, but affirmed that.
- Well,... yes.
- Why? - Hadesh just didn't understood, why doing that.
- They're not this enemy. The Abbas want an advantage into the war, and they already know you carry the very solution for the future.
- It's mine.
- Not to use, Hadesh? You really think this shouldn't be used? They want to grant Magic will be stable, and a proper power, I agree, Ayasta's idea of magic is really great. I'd better use a power based on my only knowledge of myself, of my own selfcontrol, than praying to a god. But understand, my apprentice, that everything passes. Event the most powerful immortals, they'll vanish one day and so, what's left? Their work. Their memory. That's our real contribution to society, the very memory of our lives after we passaed away.
- I,... (Hadesh didn't found the words)
- Let's talk about an important thing, a thing we can't wait. (pause). This place. I'm a guardian of a place, a very dangerous place of power. You all know the rocks, down the valley. This place can't be unguarded, and I decided to pass the responsability to you, Hadesh.
- Me?
- Yes, you. This place must be forever secure. The rocks down there, they guard a prison. There's an Antigod buried in here.
No one said a word, for they all know what that is and how dangerous it is, for sure.
- You'll be the next guardian, Hadesh. I have all my stuff ready, and as soon as you agree, I'll be heading to the Abbas empire, to serve as a magic scholar at the war. You may have passed unnoticed to this, but the monotheist empire, Trappke, is gathering forces, strong forces, and they're coming. This is the first step into open warfare, which is exactly what the monotheist empire wants.
- Fanatics.
- Yes, Tack. Precisely.
- It's an enormous power, and no one can stop that.
- Precisely again, professor.
- I don't see.
- But you will, princess. Until this all ended, you'll have the most difficult choices of us all, and you'll remember my words, that you're the one who'll grant us all a chance. And I mean the living, us all. You'll have to chose, in a number of dangerous ways, but we're here. Don't forget that. We're here to remember you of who you are, and where the world needs you, needs us, or life will end, passing through a dead end, and all we know will mean absolutly nothing afterwards.
- Lena has a curse.
- Well, my apprentice, you carrie a small man on your back, all the time, because you're a mount, and Tack will probably remember, and you're complaining about she to have difficult choices? I think Saint Balder's told you, that everyone needs to win over their own destiny.
- So, this doesn't ends my problem.
- You have the choice. This is all about choice, remember the gods and godesses you've already meet, some in person, and remember they all let the coices to the mortals. This, my apprentice, is exactly what will let you with the choices to make.
- Right oka. Then, I'll be your successor. I accept.
- Very in time. I'll let the Abbas immortals to know this, at this very moment. Wait. (pause). Right. The invasion's ended, and the heirs of the five Dukes will be resealed as soon as I get there.
- This is it? All this? You're simply going? Abdicating from everything?
- Oh, no, Hadesh. I'm not abdicating anything. They promised to treat me well, and the Royal Tachiza will need a treaty to unite the empires at future war. This is all we needed, after all. I have my guardian powers passed to you, at this very moment. Please, let me go.
- You can go, Master. I'll see you, when it comes possible.
- Thank you, Hadesh the guardian. (he took his backpack, and stand). I'll need to go. Think you doesn't care, but the nightlings need to be freed from the Mummy's ties. There's no one with power enough to do that, if not me, so this is the time we say goodbye.
Everyone said goodbye, farwell and the Troll's gone.
- Now, Hadesh. You're the guardian, and we'll help you to keep this place of power safe.
- Thank you, Torian.
Then, he took his decision in silence.
At first, he didn't know, but in some minutes of talking, he noticed he already made his decidion, and he only needed to say her name to make everything complete.
After a feast, the group let the takkar beast, now guardian, alone.
The Troll's territory is a valley. There's a strong grey mountain, where's the cave. A living place, made that by the Troll all this time. On the other side, there's a deep but narrow cave, in which the salamanders live in a place full of fire and heat.
An only passage way, from the south, and at a distance, the frozen lands, a very high mountain, in which Torian usually train elementalist skills.
The prison, and so the road to the north frontier's back the salamander's cave mountain. A number of giant mushroom forest will be found going north, but only away from the roads.
Hadesh meditated in silence.
He knows what to do, and there's no more waiting.
This way, he breath again and again, knowing every bird can be a spy, that soon everyone will know there's a new hermit at the Troll's valley.
At the end, it's all about a man and his choices.
Then, he said her name.
- Midoroshi.
(End of Session)
Some Considerations necessary
What more Hadesh could do, to protect his fellow friends?
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Action Tale is a storytelling style, in which I create a fuctional universe from scratch, but leaving clear the setting influences I use. This way, and in future posts I'll write about the processes you can create a living universe using whatever the players want to use, which includes other author's characters, including names, or even a social environment, which includes earth kind or totally alienist. I'm very proud of my players, who let me play a story in which they don't even know they're heroes, antiheroes or vilains, or even antivilains, a character that may happen to become a legend, because my House in here is called The House of Epic Destiny.
So, Be welcome to The House of Epic Destiny.
Briefing
Hadesh is a takkar. He's name is not Hadesh. He comes from Treiyka, from the Spot Tribe, whose rangers watch every hole into the desert world of Treiyka. He lived a life of worship, in which he didn't had a life, so many people were there to serve him, to wash his feet, while people lived in a total harsh world, he always had food, while people had almost nothing to eat.
One day he comes to Hadesh, a drug dealer with many contacts, and influence in takkar society.
Having the only oportunity to get off that superior being life, he fled.
The twin world of Toj is the world of the ejik race, a race a bit weaker than takkar, which needs more water, and needs to sleep every day.
It's right oka, thinks the takkar, for he's a beast and that would help him to have a life, anyway.
Now, more than three years passed, and Hadesh, who adopted his saviour's name, comes back from the Astral plane to enter a new era of his own lifetime. He immediately recognized the sense of danger in the voice of his friend and fellow group member, the noble priatel Torian, when he explained the meeting with the family Council, an hour ago, and he said simply this.
"The invading Abbas took total control of our empire, Royal Tachiza, but my family's territories, because we're allies to Abbas long ago, but the situation is bad. Hadesh, (Torian stared at him), they're looking for a beast. The description of the beast is someone with a bag", and that was clear.
This is the Story told about the fundamental bases of Akkoya's Mythology, which starts with a single Story and ends in an infinite labyrinth.
Hope, despair and very difficult choices are what defines it.
So, Be welcome to the Epic Destiny.
(February 28, 603 AGC, Priatel territory, Royal Tachiza empire)
Hadesh walks in a corner, and it starts annoying everyone.
He murmurs "They know. I know they know", all the time, and the group try not to think about what he means with that. Of course they know. They'd almost had the revelation of their life, while three godesses were present to stop what their friend asked that strange woman, called Witch of the Planes. But no, he's even more stressed, and nothing they say take him from that terrible thoughts.
- Hadesh, I've said to you, already. They say they didn't invaded Priatel territory because they think the Troll Phylosopher can be an exchange for the beast they're looking for.
- He's my Master, Torian.
- We know that, Hadesh, (tried Tack), but you can't solve every mystery on the world.
- They're looking for me. I know it.
- Right oka, (said princess Lena), and you're going to fall into the trap? You teaches me better.
- I know, Karistalla. I'm trying to think.
- Entering despair as you're doing right now, right?
- I'm trying to think, but they'd know what I think, and they'd grapple me on sight.
- They, lizardee?
- You all don't understand what we discovered at that city, on the Astral plane. Now, I know there's a huge, a massive order in the world. And they want me, now.
- Oka, pawn. I guess we can only go to talk with the Troll, (resumed Tack), and see what he has to say about what's going on. What you think?
- Shit. (Hadesh stoped, thinking). There's no other way.
- I'll get the guard ready, and I'm going with you. (concluded Torian). This way I know how can I influence the invasion, and I have an idea.
- Very well, lord. (approved the princess).
Three hour later, they stoped at the entrance for the Troll valley. They have to wait, until the fire's set up there, or otherwise the territory will take action against them. The walking til there was fast, or at least was what Lena thought, because they've walked day and days at the Astral, she always in the front, watching for traps, for secret entrances on the very ground, for natural constructs, and the like.
On the front of the Troll's cave, there he was.
- Come. Why did you took so long?
- Well, Troll. My family urged my presence, but we so decided to come to you.
- Very well, lord Drazci. Let's talk, because you need to know a long story. You, my apprentice, you sit on my side, and pay much attention to my words. Here.
- You know everything, already?
- I have ears on every place on this empire, Hadesh.
The enormous Troll arranged a barbecue for eating, his most loved food. The Kree, the giant mantis his mount, hunted two cows tonight, and it's still night.
So, about four in the morning, they settled the important talking.
- First, I'd like to ask you, Torian, to hand this letter to your family Council, with the most important notes your family will need in near future.
- Thanks, Troll - the mage got the tube, with a divine rune on it.
- You know, master?
- I only know, Hadesh, (he started), that my time here seems to have ended. I know they're looking for a beast, and even if I was a bit stupid, I'd know who they're looking for.
- You're going - Hadesh didn't asked, but affirmed that.
- Well,... yes.
- Why? - Hadesh just didn't understood, why doing that.
- They're not this enemy. The Abbas want an advantage into the war, and they already know you carry the very solution for the future.
- It's mine.
- Not to use, Hadesh? You really think this shouldn't be used? They want to grant Magic will be stable, and a proper power, I agree, Ayasta's idea of magic is really great. I'd better use a power based on my only knowledge of myself, of my own selfcontrol, than praying to a god. But understand, my apprentice, that everything passes. Event the most powerful immortals, they'll vanish one day and so, what's left? Their work. Their memory. That's our real contribution to society, the very memory of our lives after we passaed away.
- I,... (Hadesh didn't found the words)
- Let's talk about an important thing, a thing we can't wait. (pause). This place. I'm a guardian of a place, a very dangerous place of power. You all know the rocks, down the valley. This place can't be unguarded, and I decided to pass the responsability to you, Hadesh.
- Me?
- Yes, you. This place must be forever secure. The rocks down there, they guard a prison. There's an Antigod buried in here.
No one said a word, for they all know what that is and how dangerous it is, for sure.
- You'll be the next guardian, Hadesh. I have all my stuff ready, and as soon as you agree, I'll be heading to the Abbas empire, to serve as a magic scholar at the war. You may have passed unnoticed to this, but the monotheist empire, Trappke, is gathering forces, strong forces, and they're coming. This is the first step into open warfare, which is exactly what the monotheist empire wants.
- Fanatics.
- Yes, Tack. Precisely.
- It's an enormous power, and no one can stop that.
- Precisely again, professor.
- I don't see.
- But you will, princess. Until this all ended, you'll have the most difficult choices of us all, and you'll remember my words, that you're the one who'll grant us all a chance. And I mean the living, us all. You'll have to chose, in a number of dangerous ways, but we're here. Don't forget that. We're here to remember you of who you are, and where the world needs you, needs us, or life will end, passing through a dead end, and all we know will mean absolutly nothing afterwards.
- Lena has a curse.
- Well, my apprentice, you carrie a small man on your back, all the time, because you're a mount, and Tack will probably remember, and you're complaining about she to have difficult choices? I think Saint Balder's told you, that everyone needs to win over their own destiny.
- So, this doesn't ends my problem.
- You have the choice. This is all about choice, remember the gods and godesses you've already meet, some in person, and remember they all let the coices to the mortals. This, my apprentice, is exactly what will let you with the choices to make.
- Right oka. Then, I'll be your successor. I accept.
- Very in time. I'll let the Abbas immortals to know this, at this very moment. Wait. (pause). Right. The invasion's ended, and the heirs of the five Dukes will be resealed as soon as I get there.
- This is it? All this? You're simply going? Abdicating from everything?
- Oh, no, Hadesh. I'm not abdicating anything. They promised to treat me well, and the Royal Tachiza will need a treaty to unite the empires at future war. This is all we needed, after all. I have my guardian powers passed to you, at this very moment. Please, let me go.
- You can go, Master. I'll see you, when it comes possible.
- Thank you, Hadesh the guardian. (he took his backpack, and stand). I'll need to go. Think you doesn't care, but the nightlings need to be freed from the Mummy's ties. There's no one with power enough to do that, if not me, so this is the time we say goodbye.
Everyone said goodbye, farwell and the Troll's gone.
- Now, Hadesh. You're the guardian, and we'll help you to keep this place of power safe.
- Thank you, Torian.
Then, he took his decision in silence.
At first, he didn't know, but in some minutes of talking, he noticed he already made his decidion, and he only needed to say her name to make everything complete.
After a feast, the group let the takkar beast, now guardian, alone.
The Troll's territory is a valley. There's a strong grey mountain, where's the cave. A living place, made that by the Troll all this time. On the other side, there's a deep but narrow cave, in which the salamanders live in a place full of fire and heat.
An only passage way, from the south, and at a distance, the frozen lands, a very high mountain, in which Torian usually train elementalist skills.
The prison, and so the road to the north frontier's back the salamander's cave mountain. A number of giant mushroom forest will be found going north, but only away from the roads.
Hadesh meditated in silence.
He knows what to do, and there's no more waiting.
This way, he breath again and again, knowing every bird can be a spy, that soon everyone will know there's a new hermit at the Troll's valley.
At the end, it's all about a man and his choices.
Then, he said her name.
- Midoroshi.
(End of Session)
Some Considerations necessary
What more Hadesh could do, to protect his fellow friends?
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Oka - #00 - Swamp til Desert Temple
This is the analysis of the Adventure #00 :: Stolen Dreams. To use to generate words to the oka language, that is based on akkoya's mythology.
Oka - #00 - Swamp til Desert Temple
trisebus, lord of hell : trisppe, hell
sidhari, an elfic language : sidhare, sidha's forest speech
rudyn drazci, rude : rydèe, to desapear, positive, somewhat like to teleport, positive
adria : addra, time and illusion of time, based on individual perception
spike, the warknight :
realms of ayanima : nimèe, to be noble as a princess, heir, or prince, positive
ayasta rai : astra, the new magic
ebus, the lich : ebbes, the one who's waiting for ever, negative
the rings of ambar :
raja, the girl descendant from tweet :
megalich :
108 normeasures : the distance between gods and mortals
master nothing : the skeptical's destiny
bogbog : bogling, a goblin but which is a poltergeist in material form
haratchi koyuu, the witch of the planes : harakèe, to serve, dubious
duke katha, northeast former ruler : katha, spiritual bound
tass, hadesh fake name : tasse, fake
sookei, kei greeting : let it be, neutral
midoroshi, the witch hadesh given name : midooshwe, a helper, dubious
dudin and tayala : dudèe, to be strong, positive, tayala, to wait for you, positive
bake, the bakemono hunter : baka, stalker mage
latva, nature invoker : vlatve, nature
Words to be added to the Oka language.
Oka - #00 - Swamp til Desert Temple
trisebus, lord of hell : trisppe, hell
sidhari, an elfic language : sidhare, sidha's forest speech
rudyn drazci, rude : rydèe, to desapear, positive, somewhat like to teleport, positive
adria : addra, time and illusion of time, based on individual perception
spike, the warknight :
realms of ayanima : nimèe, to be noble as a princess, heir, or prince, positive
ayasta rai : astra, the new magic
ebus, the lich : ebbes, the one who's waiting for ever, negative
the rings of ambar :
raja, the girl descendant from tweet :
megalich :
108 normeasures : the distance between gods and mortals
master nothing : the skeptical's destiny
bogbog : bogling, a goblin but which is a poltergeist in material form
haratchi koyuu, the witch of the planes : harakèe, to serve, dubious
duke katha, northeast former ruler : katha, spiritual bound
tass, hadesh fake name : tasse, fake
sookei, kei greeting : let it be, neutral
midoroshi, the witch hadesh given name : midooshwe, a helper, dubious
dudin and tayala : dudèe, to be strong, positive, tayala, to wait for you, positive
bake, the bakemono hunter : baka, stalker mage
latva, nature invoker : vlatve, nature
Words to be added to the Oka language.
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Infernalist Triggers - #00
Helo, and Be welcome.
This is my Adventure Blog, where I show the Stories of Epic Destiny, and you're reading the first in a series of many, the Adventure #00 Action Tale - The Akkoya's Mythology. The Legends are also known as The Lost Tales of Ayya, and this is the continuing campaign that gives birth the Legends. The title of this adventure is The Stolen Dreams, but this was just the begining. I want to thank my friends who play the Story, and everyone who's enjoying the reading and come back to see what's new.
Briefing
Welcome to the trigemei worlds of Toj, Kalacoktoa and Treiyka. This is homeworld to the ejik race, together with their astral sister races, takkar, boglings, oggres, draka, fae or sidha, stone elves, bronze faeries, shadow people, the legends, Gods, extradimensionals, djines, the icchi planars, and many others.
The story is centered in Toj, where ejik is the major race.
In the year 602, April, a special group was chosen by the Dreammaker, the lord of the dream planes, to investigate who's stealing dreams from the future world leaders, why, and to a number of recovery missions, in which the group manage to save the princess Lena's brother's future, Anduène, but the Nine Realms were still in danger. There was a secret society in control of their land.
This way, Anduène's able to find exile in Treiyka, to handle with that.
Princess Lena, also a rogue, secrectly, was never to left the world unless her brother gives her permission, because the succession to the Báech Kingdom is magical.
During the year, they recover a number of Urns, but some are still missing.
So, a new God kills the godess Ambar, then killing Time and Magic, and during this day, which didn't existed, 18th of December, 602 AGC (after the great change), only those in possession of powerful items of power could move and take action, but it soon proved Nature's the most wise amongst the Ancients.
The Godess of Nature was infiltrated into the sister group, and came to two girls who were becoming godesses at that moment.
She said to abdicate from choice to save the three worlds, and then Nature gave attribution to the two new godesses, and they became Time and Magic. Time did abdicates from choice, so they let the power to chose to Magic, who lost her body mortal form to exist as an Avatar child, with the same appearance as her grandmother the stone sidha princess queen Ayya.
Hyenas look like her animal companion, and Ayasta, the new godess of Magic, also has a symbol on the forehead, which is a diamond, her magic collour is orange.
At this time, and so, the group became one of the most powerful group which has ever existed in the world of Toj.
Tack, who was mastering some important issues into new magic, was also the founder of a secret society, which name is still unknown, and he helped Ayasta to restore Magic and he made the first books into the new way Magic would be learned.
This magic, as Ayasta was a monk, same as princess queen Ayya, would need sports and meditation, what for a moment almost draw the mages from the Academy of Magic, Politics and Power off the way, but they understood Ayasta's intentions.
Magic must depends on will, focus and body control, or in other words, much training, and after that, every wizard, mage and sorcerer would do Magic without praying to any divine source no more.
Then, Tack gets access to the Forbidden Library, at the Academy of Ryklanta, and discovers predictions about the very Event.
The Event duration is two years, until the set free of the Antigods. The book tells ritual experimentalism with death, life, and new forms of reincarnation, ressurrection, and the curse of the mummy, with examples to everything. It tells to "get together the major number of Portals, and decide the new rules of reincarnation", dated with the exactly today present day.
He could also see, dated five hundred and twenty one years ago, a set of planar coordinates, with supposed positions to eight locations, marked "Portal", and used a magic trick to remember those numbers with exactitude as he wishes.
This is how the group came to the Astral plane to find the Portals.
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(On the last Session)
Now, they waited for the abyssal, and Torian energyzed the dumpper with all energy he could without fainting, as a start, so it would use the abyssal's energy for the rest of the millennia to come.
It got locked into the trap, and they teleported with the faery's help.
The faery, looking for an abyssal locked in a paradigma there, in a timeless prison on the southwest side of the Bronze Labyrinth (they don't know how it happened, but the princess looked to Ayasta, thankful), and graces the group for saving her race, for the Mage of Bronze to have really came to save the Bronze Faeries, and the group prepared to go away.
- It's with you, right?
- Yeah, Torian. I've got the Portal with a wish.
They came to the surface, again, and the djine had the Portal, for their relief.
A small christaline sphere, with something like Fog inside.
(End of Session)
The Astral's a beautiful place.
Once you get used to the collours, as everything shows it's aura, and flux of energy comes and goes, you notice the other two worlds, Kalacoktoa and Treiyka are repeatedly five to eight times in the sky. The two moons, too. And this is amazing, together with the fog that's everywhere.
If these were days of peace, the group would pay more attention to it.
They travelled during a week or so, 'cause sensation of time doesn't matters much in here, to find traces of a probably medium size city in a day of travel distance.
Soon, they find a road.
- Where's Hadesh?
- Huh,... dunno, p´fessor (answered the djine).
- Don't worry, Tack. - said Ayasta.
It's of much importance to notice a creature's always a creature, be it good or the most vilest. And this way, the takkar beast Hadesh was following a trace, back there. He watches for long moments, hiding in the rocks, that are perfect for his camouflage.
Then, he simply jumps over a bush.
- Nooo! Reliese meeeah! Let me go! Let me go!
- Who are you? - said him, holding the small man with his strong hands.
- I just followed you, from the Labyrinth. That was my house, but I was never able to leave. Let me go! Please. I'm just trying to help you. And to thank you.
- Key. (he released the small man). I feel truth in your voice. Who are you?
- Look at me - and Hadesh did.
- You're a daemon.
- Yeah. You freed me from the curse. I was forever locked at that labyrinth, and now I can see the world with my own eyes, but I don't know where to go, then I followed you.
- How comes I sense truth in a daemon's voice?
- I'm not a liar.
- You'll help me into the city, and I'll let you go if you wish.
- You trust me?
- Why not? I'm a beast.
- Huh,... what do you need me to do?
- Nothing. Just stay with me, and stay out of trouble. I don't like the Astral. It makes me sick. I'll buy some suff, and you carry them for me. Deal?
- Is it really that simple?
- Come with me.
Hadesh walked some time, never coming near the group, then he stoped.
- Ok. Let's do it. What's your name, boy?
- I don't know. Well, I didn't need a name at the labyrinth.
- I'll call you Tatooi, then.
- I like it. What does it means?
- Doesn't care. Look at the group? What can you say?
- Huh,... (he stared at the group, now at the doors of an astral city),... don't know. I feel nothing coming from the girl with the hood, but I sense danger from the Bronze M-,...
- Stop! Don't say that again. Never. Don't say this name again, right?
- Huh,... right.
- Let's get into the city, and stay away from the group.
- Right.
The road was full of people. Well, not exactly people. Monsters, daemons, deatheaters, spectres, probably dark mages with those cloacks, madnactors, mindbreakers, all those we call enemies all the time, together with a number of black birds on the sidewalks.
Hadesh and Tatooi entered the city of Pokudaemon mixed with them.
It took an hour or so to the group chose a tavern to stay, and then Hadesh entered and ordered a room, side by side with the group.
The boniface asked for it now, two silver pieces each person, and daemons count as two.
It was on the upper corridor that Hadesh could speak with Torian.
- I'll be watching. Say Tack we need books. It's the only place we'll find them.
- Right. Take care - responded Daytel.
Four hours later, Hadesh entered a very dark place, and even Tatooi was feeling uncomfortable. A dark place, with a dim light, and a torch on the westside. He asked for a book. The mindbreaker shown him the common books, and after some negociation, he showed the good books.
It says Infernalist Triggers, on the cover.
Then, the man explains it's the basic intruction to infernalist Revelations, but the price is high, about twenty telluron pieces. Hadesh says he'll come back, and went to the tavern. There, he called his Bag and counted the money, only enough to buy the book.
Tack was passing, and he gently made a move with the head, showing the darklight streets.
An hour later, Hadesh payed for the book, and Tack noticed where was the right place, so he got back and called the others to go there.
Night was coming, and it was going to be a bad idea to stay, so Karistalla manned to passa a message to the takkar on the tavern corridor.
"We can't stay. We've been followed. We leave town in one hour", it was written.
Two hours later, they were at the road off Pokudaemon city. They saw Hadesh back there, about five minutes following them, and so they left the road. Some time passed, and he got together with them followed by his new colleague, a daemon.
- He's a daemon - immediately said Tack.
- He's with me - was the answer from Hadesh.
- He's your reponsability. You know.
- Hey, you two! (called Daytel). We need to get to those rocks, before night.
- I see, Daytel. Let's go - Hadesh was mostly factual.
Tack, Lena and Flausin were apprehensive with the presence of a daemon with them. He noticed. During the way, he came to Hadesh.
- What's the problem with me?
- I don't see any problem, Tatooi, but this is because I'm a beast. They don't understand. I see good in you, even if you're a daemon.
- I prefere believe in you, than believe in them.
- Good.
Plaepoku is an Astral region full of great rocks and mountains, some red and some dark grey. The night is a time to watch, the same time the night watches. They took turns, as always. Double. Two person watch, to grant them a safe night after all.
By the morning, Lena started to read her new book.
Hadesh woke up and looked everyone, as Tack made caoffee with no fire, food was good (at least something good that dangerous city would have, huh - thought happily the djine Báech). Soon, Flausin and Báech were taking the turn to watch, even during the day.
This way, safe, Hadesh opened the new book.
"First of all, I welcome you that reads this to notice I'll be looking for you soon. This is how it all works, and you'll notice how it works, now.
The world is evil, and also the heores are evil, together.
We are the only source of real power, the power that will, the power that controls everything. The book, as we already know you're reading, yes, yes, you're not a mage,... This changes a bit the reading, but it didn't changes the event of you reading", was written.
Hadesh stoped, "How it can knows I'm not a mage?", he thought.
"The world's ruled by means no mortal can understand, but yes, we know you're not a mage because when you start to look for us, we started to look for you".
Hadesh stoped, again, "What an absurd! (he thoughts)", but keeps up the reading.
"This is no absurd.", it was written.
- Hoh, shit! - the djine looked to Hadesh, and he to the surroundings. Then, back to the reading, again.
"The powers conjured to the Infernalist Triggers grant us the power over the world. We are never the people in control, well, not obviously.
This would call much attention to us, so we prefere to be a totally normal and common person.
A common person doesn't dry the attention, and so we can rule forever".
Hadesh stoped, thinking "Shit! They could be anyone, this way".
"Yes, we could be anyone, this way. And we're going to see you, as soon as possible", and he closed the infernalist book immediately.
He didn't know what to do, and started to enter despair.
Opened again, only to know it already knew he would close and open, his toughts, emotions, and it did mention clearly the infernalists are coming for him. The despair started to wake Ayasta's attention, but she was only meditating on a rock, very calm.
Then, opening again, and closing it again made Hadesh enter total despair.
Infernalists, he knows now.
They are the people in control, of everything. Vilains? Never. They're too smart to get into any trouble, and as a common person, they're in control forever. That's the real truth, he desired never know. But the book also knew he would desire to not know. He watched a flight of black birds, on the south, and they were the most sinister birds Hadesh ever seen, because he knew now, they're spies, spies to the Infernalists.
No one will ever fall from their hands, they control everthing.
Then, Hadesh got up and started to walk in circles, murmuring, lost.
- Hey, lizardee,... I'm sensing a strong desire - said Báech.
- It's over. They know.
- What are you talking about, lizardee?
- No, Báech. It's the end. We need to get off here, right now. But,... it doesn't matters. They'll find us, and it's forever lost.
- What are you talking about, Hadesh?
- Torian. They know. They know everything. I'm telling. I'm telling you. They know everything. How can Lena be sleeping, after reading this book? They'll get her too! I don't know what to do.
- Hey! Calm down.
- No, Torian. Ayasta knows what I'm talking about. Don't you? - and he looked the godess, as to look for any help, any relief.
- He's right, Torian. He just understood how the world works, and why the Gods are needed.
- Shit! - said the takkar in response.
- Stay calm, Hadesh. Ayasta didn't mean to say this.
- I did - said the Godess.
- That birds, Torian. That birds. They're spies! I know it, now.
- What are you talking about, lizardee?
- No, Báech. No. I know! There's only one way. That's the only thing I can do, to protect us all from them.
- From them who, Hadesh? - asked Torian.
- Midoroshi - asked Hadesh.
Immediately, the witch of the planes, Haratchi, appeared, dressed in black.
- I have nothing to do with this, Haratchi. Don't know why he's called you, right now. He's confused. But, well, Hadesh, now you called her. It's out of my business, now.
The takkar looked her, in despair.
She looked back, with eyes that seem to look throught the starts.
- You know what I want. Do it. I'll pay the price.
- What you're trying to ask me to do is the most difficult thing in the world, takkar.
- Do it.
- I'd do it, if the Gods wouldn't interfere, but I know they will.
- Do it.
- Well, (she passed her right hand on her head, very softlly), if you assume the danger, it will be done.
- You don't understand. I'm in complete despair. I need it. I need to be imune to them, not possibly affected by their vilest wishes. That's all a plan! And you know it.
- Yes. I know it. I have do deal with this every day, in my life. It's terrible, I agree with you.
- Do it.
- It's done.
Immediately, five portals opened, two in the air.
Then, from the first portal came Drahmai, the little girl of no race known, and she stoped looking. A vultus in total darkness came from the second one. A knight in a dread horse from the third. In the air, a small ball of light, appeared from portal four. And up, some fifty normeasures high, came a great ball of metal, about twenty normeasures in diameter.
Then, the shadow vultus became the Avatar of Death, usually called Essence of Death, an immaterial person in a hook, and she imediately started to speak.
- You, - she said, pointing the knight, and the balls, small and bigger - doesn't need to be here. I demand you leave, right now.
So, they all went back right away, through the portals, and their portals closed.
- You. - Death pointed Haratchi.
- I've said to you, Tass, that the Gods would interfere, and here it is.
- We,... - stepped forward Drahmai - are not angry with you, Witch of the Planes. It's only that, he needed to discover himself by himself.
- But,... my Godess,... you know my problem. They'll come to me.
- I know what you wanted, and I know what was supposed to happen, but what you asked the Witch was a thing that would put you away from me.
- But,... what can I do, now?
- I'm here. You'll have time to think, while I'm here. I advise you, that I won't intefere again. If you chose again, I can do nothing.
Hadesh silenced, in the face of the very presence of his Godess.
- Ayasta, - said Drahmai - we need to talk.
Then, Ayasta, who were watching all the time, got up and she and Drahmai, together with Death, went to the east side of that laager to talk. Hadesh noted Flausin was completelly unaware of everything. Lena was still sleeping, the vilest book on her arms. Torian and Báech were eating, cause Torian made toasted meat with fire element breath, so the smell was good.
He just sited at the side of the middle camping, and ignored everything else.
The Witch of the Planes mouthed "With your excuses, High Godesses. I need to go", and just vanished.
(Two Hours later)
Tack noticed the presence of the three godesses of Magic at the place were creating life, modifying life, giving the stones strange properties, and other things.
- We need to go - he said, promptly.
- We need to wait for what the Godesses need, Tack.
- We just need to go, Torian.
Agreed, Torian started to decamp, and dispelled his elemental protection from up, something as an invisible net to hold anything from up the mountain. This place needs a name, he thought. It will be Melleg Hills, just to remember seen three Godesses at the same time, in here. So, he noticed too that a small race of squirrel was aquiring wings, and trying to fly as never did.
- We need to go, Tack. Now, I agree.
At this very time, the Godesses ended their talking. The first to notice was Tack, because he doesn't like Gods, anyway, but soon, everyone noticed. Hadesh was in complete silence. The flying squirrels were everywhere, now, and some were already flying.
The Essence of Death just vanished, without talking.
Hadesh sensed his Godess calling for him, and went to talk to her.
- I'll be always with you, but I have to go now. I need to remember you, that I can't interfere again, if you chose something so unexpected.
He just umidified his lizarding lips, and waited for his Godess to go, and so, she vanished.
- Ok. Go - resumed Tack.
(Three Days later)
They came to a passage which would take them home, in two days, Rude explained. The warknight agreed, and said they'd better go home, what Lena's agreed too. Rude stops, analyzing the Horizon, to say something was strange, and they'd better go now. After Tack asking "Why?", Rudyn explained the Horizon's not only an effect on the Astral plane, but it reflects happenings and events on the standard plane, so something very strange has happened and it urges they come back right now.
Hadesh didn't talked anymore, but before they go he lifts his hand asking to wait.
So, he asks, calling with a hand, Tatooi, to come with him. They didn't went too far from the passage, but the takkar looked into the eyes of the daemon.
- You can't go with us, Tatooi.
- Why? - he was like totally missed and didn't understood.
- You belong to the Astral, and the Standard plane's too dangerous for you. (pause). You need to take care of yourself, and be very careful not to get into trouble. Our travel together, this travel, ends here, and the most I can do for you is to say I see good in you, even if you're a daemon. Do you understand?
- I,... think so. Well, what can I say.
- Farewell.
- Farewell.
Having said that, the daemon walked back, and steped into the woods of christal, an usual treelike fungus you can watch in the Astral plane.
Soon, Hadesh could not see him, anymore.
- Good luck, Tatooi.
The travel back was followed by earthquakes. On the right place, two days later, Rude and Spike arranged a strange ritual of passage, in which they'd have to close their eyes and not think in anything from the Astral plane for at least some minutes, and after that, they opened a passage.
They did it.
(Back to Royal Tachiza)
Silence, was the only thing that could describe that night, on the road of Priatel territory, marked with some vultus and shadows flying up the sky. Even the stars were listening, as if some very secret had been spoken, as if the elements were all watching, waiting to see what could happen, as if a monster from the Deep were watching, in every corner of every woods.
Three hours later, they got to the entrance doors of Torian's property, and they said goodbye to Rude and his fellow Spike, the warnight.
- My lord - said the guard, happy, but soon his face darkened - We have been waiting for you. That's hands of the Gods you're back safe.
- What is it, guard? What happened?
- I think the family Council must be wainting to explain everything.
- Tell what you know.
- Yes, if you want, my lord.
- What is it?
- Abbas, my lord, invaded Royal Tachiza.
They all listened, and exchanged glances, for they all know now. This is what was strange. Another empire had just invaded Royal Tachiza.
Abbas hold in their hands the five heirs to the royal Dukes.
The invaders are after a beast, with a bag. Torièn knows who he is. His family gathers, and the Council says their lands won't be invaded. Their ally on Abbas, the same family who rules the nightlings of the empire, Kokkiladon, won't let their followers to invade an ally, and after sometime, after the family Council exchange some messages with the invaders, they say the beast can be exchanged by another person. The Troll. They're not so sure, and need to wait, but Torièn knows what the Troll protects, and now he needed to ask his family leader, Antonidias, to talk, but he reveals he knows what's on that valley.
A thought occurred Torièn, and this may be a true interference from infernalists. It's impossible to know, and he can't do anything yet.
They can do nothing, but wait.
He came back to the Sancturary, and the sacerdot, his once majordomo, butler, a forgotten craftsman, introduce him to Mai. She came here by intuition, says her.
She looks only an eleven year old ejik girl.
- Why are you here, Mai? And why did you came and ask to talk with me? - questions Torièn in a serious tone.
- I think, Mal-ec, that,... I'm a goddess.
(End of Session)
Some Considerations necessary
Who are the Infernalists? Hadesh was right or wrong, in calling the Witch of the Planes? What was her trying to do it was so strong it called so much attention promptly?
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This is my Adventure Blog, where I show the Stories of Epic Destiny, and you're reading the first in a series of many, the Adventure #00 Action Tale - The Akkoya's Mythology. The Legends are also known as The Lost Tales of Ayya, and this is the continuing campaign that gives birth the Legends. The title of this adventure is The Stolen Dreams, but this was just the begining. I want to thank my friends who play the Story, and everyone who's enjoying the reading and come back to see what's new.
Briefing
Welcome to the trigemei worlds of Toj, Kalacoktoa and Treiyka. This is homeworld to the ejik race, together with their astral sister races, takkar, boglings, oggres, draka, fae or sidha, stone elves, bronze faeries, shadow people, the legends, Gods, extradimensionals, djines, the icchi planars, and many others.
The story is centered in Toj, where ejik is the major race.
In the year 602, April, a special group was chosen by the Dreammaker, the lord of the dream planes, to investigate who's stealing dreams from the future world leaders, why, and to a number of recovery missions, in which the group manage to save the princess Lena's brother's future, Anduène, but the Nine Realms were still in danger. There was a secret society in control of their land.
This way, Anduène's able to find exile in Treiyka, to handle with that.
Princess Lena, also a rogue, secrectly, was never to left the world unless her brother gives her permission, because the succession to the Báech Kingdom is magical.
During the year, they recover a number of Urns, but some are still missing.
So, a new God kills the godess Ambar, then killing Time and Magic, and during this day, which didn't existed, 18th of December, 602 AGC (after the great change), only those in possession of powerful items of power could move and take action, but it soon proved Nature's the most wise amongst the Ancients.
The Godess of Nature was infiltrated into the sister group, and came to two girls who were becoming godesses at that moment.
She said to abdicate from choice to save the three worlds, and then Nature gave attribution to the two new godesses, and they became Time and Magic. Time did abdicates from choice, so they let the power to chose to Magic, who lost her body mortal form to exist as an Avatar child, with the same appearance as her grandmother the stone sidha princess queen Ayya.
Hyenas look like her animal companion, and Ayasta, the new godess of Magic, also has a symbol on the forehead, which is a diamond, her magic collour is orange.
At this time, and so, the group became one of the most powerful group which has ever existed in the world of Toj.
Tack, who was mastering some important issues into new magic, was also the founder of a secret society, which name is still unknown, and he helped Ayasta to restore Magic and he made the first books into the new way Magic would be learned.
This magic, as Ayasta was a monk, same as princess queen Ayya, would need sports and meditation, what for a moment almost draw the mages from the Academy of Magic, Politics and Power off the way, but they understood Ayasta's intentions.
Magic must depends on will, focus and body control, or in other words, much training, and after that, every wizard, mage and sorcerer would do Magic without praying to any divine source no more.
Then, Tack gets access to the Forbidden Library, at the Academy of Ryklanta, and discovers predictions about the very Event.
The Event duration is two years, until the set free of the Antigods. The book tells ritual experimentalism with death, life, and new forms of reincarnation, ressurrection, and the curse of the mummy, with examples to everything. It tells to "get together the major number of Portals, and decide the new rules of reincarnation", dated with the exactly today present day.
He could also see, dated five hundred and twenty one years ago, a set of planar coordinates, with supposed positions to eight locations, marked "Portal", and used a magic trick to remember those numbers with exactitude as he wishes.
This is how the group came to the Astral plane to find the Portals.
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(On the last Session)
Now, they waited for the abyssal, and Torian energyzed the dumpper with all energy he could without fainting, as a start, so it would use the abyssal's energy for the rest of the millennia to come.
It got locked into the trap, and they teleported with the faery's help.
The faery, looking for an abyssal locked in a paradigma there, in a timeless prison on the southwest side of the Bronze Labyrinth (they don't know how it happened, but the princess looked to Ayasta, thankful), and graces the group for saving her race, for the Mage of Bronze to have really came to save the Bronze Faeries, and the group prepared to go away.
- It's with you, right?
- Yeah, Torian. I've got the Portal with a wish.
They came to the surface, again, and the djine had the Portal, for their relief.
A small christaline sphere, with something like Fog inside.
(End of Session)
The Astral's a beautiful place.
Once you get used to the collours, as everything shows it's aura, and flux of energy comes and goes, you notice the other two worlds, Kalacoktoa and Treiyka are repeatedly five to eight times in the sky. The two moons, too. And this is amazing, together with the fog that's everywhere.
If these were days of peace, the group would pay more attention to it.
They travelled during a week or so, 'cause sensation of time doesn't matters much in here, to find traces of a probably medium size city in a day of travel distance.
Soon, they find a road.
- Where's Hadesh?
- Huh,... dunno, p´fessor (answered the djine).
- Don't worry, Tack. - said Ayasta.
It's of much importance to notice a creature's always a creature, be it good or the most vilest. And this way, the takkar beast Hadesh was following a trace, back there. He watches for long moments, hiding in the rocks, that are perfect for his camouflage.
Then, he simply jumps over a bush.
- Nooo! Reliese meeeah! Let me go! Let me go!
- Who are you? - said him, holding the small man with his strong hands.
- I just followed you, from the Labyrinth. That was my house, but I was never able to leave. Let me go! Please. I'm just trying to help you. And to thank you.
- Key. (he released the small man). I feel truth in your voice. Who are you?
- Look at me - and Hadesh did.
- You're a daemon.
- Yeah. You freed me from the curse. I was forever locked at that labyrinth, and now I can see the world with my own eyes, but I don't know where to go, then I followed you.
- How comes I sense truth in a daemon's voice?
- I'm not a liar.
- You'll help me into the city, and I'll let you go if you wish.
- You trust me?
- Why not? I'm a beast.
- Huh,... what do you need me to do?
- Nothing. Just stay with me, and stay out of trouble. I don't like the Astral. It makes me sick. I'll buy some suff, and you carry them for me. Deal?
- Is it really that simple?
- Come with me.
Hadesh walked some time, never coming near the group, then he stoped.
- Ok. Let's do it. What's your name, boy?
- I don't know. Well, I didn't need a name at the labyrinth.
- I'll call you Tatooi, then.
- I like it. What does it means?
- Doesn't care. Look at the group? What can you say?
- Huh,... (he stared at the group, now at the doors of an astral city),... don't know. I feel nothing coming from the girl with the hood, but I sense danger from the Bronze M-,...
- Stop! Don't say that again. Never. Don't say this name again, right?
- Huh,... right.
- Let's get into the city, and stay away from the group.
- Right.
The road was full of people. Well, not exactly people. Monsters, daemons, deatheaters, spectres, probably dark mages with those cloacks, madnactors, mindbreakers, all those we call enemies all the time, together with a number of black birds on the sidewalks.
Hadesh and Tatooi entered the city of Pokudaemon mixed with them.
It took an hour or so to the group chose a tavern to stay, and then Hadesh entered and ordered a room, side by side with the group.
The boniface asked for it now, two silver pieces each person, and daemons count as two.
It was on the upper corridor that Hadesh could speak with Torian.
- I'll be watching. Say Tack we need books. It's the only place we'll find them.
- Right. Take care - responded Daytel.
Four hours later, Hadesh entered a very dark place, and even Tatooi was feeling uncomfortable. A dark place, with a dim light, and a torch on the westside. He asked for a book. The mindbreaker shown him the common books, and after some negociation, he showed the good books.
It says Infernalist Triggers, on the cover.
Then, the man explains it's the basic intruction to infernalist Revelations, but the price is high, about twenty telluron pieces. Hadesh says he'll come back, and went to the tavern. There, he called his Bag and counted the money, only enough to buy the book.
Tack was passing, and he gently made a move with the head, showing the darklight streets.
An hour later, Hadesh payed for the book, and Tack noticed where was the right place, so he got back and called the others to go there.
Night was coming, and it was going to be a bad idea to stay, so Karistalla manned to passa a message to the takkar on the tavern corridor.
"We can't stay. We've been followed. We leave town in one hour", it was written.
Two hours later, they were at the road off Pokudaemon city. They saw Hadesh back there, about five minutes following them, and so they left the road. Some time passed, and he got together with them followed by his new colleague, a daemon.
- He's a daemon - immediately said Tack.
- He's with me - was the answer from Hadesh.
- He's your reponsability. You know.
- Hey, you two! (called Daytel). We need to get to those rocks, before night.
- I see, Daytel. Let's go - Hadesh was mostly factual.
Tack, Lena and Flausin were apprehensive with the presence of a daemon with them. He noticed. During the way, he came to Hadesh.
- What's the problem with me?
- I don't see any problem, Tatooi, but this is because I'm a beast. They don't understand. I see good in you, even if you're a daemon.
- I prefere believe in you, than believe in them.
- Good.
Plaepoku is an Astral region full of great rocks and mountains, some red and some dark grey. The night is a time to watch, the same time the night watches. They took turns, as always. Double. Two person watch, to grant them a safe night after all.
By the morning, Lena started to read her new book.
Hadesh woke up and looked everyone, as Tack made caoffee with no fire, food was good (at least something good that dangerous city would have, huh - thought happily the djine Báech). Soon, Flausin and Báech were taking the turn to watch, even during the day.
This way, safe, Hadesh opened the new book.
"First of all, I welcome you that reads this to notice I'll be looking for you soon. This is how it all works, and you'll notice how it works, now.
The world is evil, and also the heores are evil, together.
We are the only source of real power, the power that will, the power that controls everything. The book, as we already know you're reading, yes, yes, you're not a mage,... This changes a bit the reading, but it didn't changes the event of you reading", was written.
Hadesh stoped, "How it can knows I'm not a mage?", he thought.
"The world's ruled by means no mortal can understand, but yes, we know you're not a mage because when you start to look for us, we started to look for you".
Hadesh stoped, again, "What an absurd! (he thoughts)", but keeps up the reading.
"This is no absurd.", it was written.
- Hoh, shit! - the djine looked to Hadesh, and he to the surroundings. Then, back to the reading, again.
"The powers conjured to the Infernalist Triggers grant us the power over the world. We are never the people in control, well, not obviously.
This would call much attention to us, so we prefere to be a totally normal and common person.
A common person doesn't dry the attention, and so we can rule forever".
Hadesh stoped, thinking "Shit! They could be anyone, this way".
"Yes, we could be anyone, this way. And we're going to see you, as soon as possible", and he closed the infernalist book immediately.
He didn't know what to do, and started to enter despair.
Opened again, only to know it already knew he would close and open, his toughts, emotions, and it did mention clearly the infernalists are coming for him. The despair started to wake Ayasta's attention, but she was only meditating on a rock, very calm.
Then, opening again, and closing it again made Hadesh enter total despair.
Infernalists, he knows now.
They are the people in control, of everything. Vilains? Never. They're too smart to get into any trouble, and as a common person, they're in control forever. That's the real truth, he desired never know. But the book also knew he would desire to not know. He watched a flight of black birds, on the south, and they were the most sinister birds Hadesh ever seen, because he knew now, they're spies, spies to the Infernalists.
No one will ever fall from their hands, they control everthing.
Then, Hadesh got up and started to walk in circles, murmuring, lost.
- Hey, lizardee,... I'm sensing a strong desire - said Báech.
- It's over. They know.
- What are you talking about, lizardee?
- No, Báech. It's the end. We need to get off here, right now. But,... it doesn't matters. They'll find us, and it's forever lost.
- What are you talking about, Hadesh?
- Torian. They know. They know everything. I'm telling. I'm telling you. They know everything. How can Lena be sleeping, after reading this book? They'll get her too! I don't know what to do.
- Hey! Calm down.
- No, Torian. Ayasta knows what I'm talking about. Don't you? - and he looked the godess, as to look for any help, any relief.
- He's right, Torian. He just understood how the world works, and why the Gods are needed.
- Shit! - said the takkar in response.
- Stay calm, Hadesh. Ayasta didn't mean to say this.
- I did - said the Godess.
- That birds, Torian. That birds. They're spies! I know it, now.
- What are you talking about, lizardee?
- No, Báech. No. I know! There's only one way. That's the only thing I can do, to protect us all from them.
- From them who, Hadesh? - asked Torian.
- Midoroshi - asked Hadesh.
Immediately, the witch of the planes, Haratchi, appeared, dressed in black.
- I have nothing to do with this, Haratchi. Don't know why he's called you, right now. He's confused. But, well, Hadesh, now you called her. It's out of my business, now.
The takkar looked her, in despair.
She looked back, with eyes that seem to look throught the starts.
- You know what I want. Do it. I'll pay the price.
- What you're trying to ask me to do is the most difficult thing in the world, takkar.
- Do it.
- I'd do it, if the Gods wouldn't interfere, but I know they will.
- Do it.
- Well, (she passed her right hand on her head, very softlly), if you assume the danger, it will be done.
- You don't understand. I'm in complete despair. I need it. I need to be imune to them, not possibly affected by their vilest wishes. That's all a plan! And you know it.
- Yes. I know it. I have do deal with this every day, in my life. It's terrible, I agree with you.
- Do it.
- It's done.
Immediately, five portals opened, two in the air.
Then, from the first portal came Drahmai, the little girl of no race known, and she stoped looking. A vultus in total darkness came from the second one. A knight in a dread horse from the third. In the air, a small ball of light, appeared from portal four. And up, some fifty normeasures high, came a great ball of metal, about twenty normeasures in diameter.
Then, the shadow vultus became the Avatar of Death, usually called Essence of Death, an immaterial person in a hook, and she imediately started to speak.
- You, - she said, pointing the knight, and the balls, small and bigger - doesn't need to be here. I demand you leave, right now.
So, they all went back right away, through the portals, and their portals closed.
- You. - Death pointed Haratchi.
- I've said to you, Tass, that the Gods would interfere, and here it is.
- We,... - stepped forward Drahmai - are not angry with you, Witch of the Planes. It's only that, he needed to discover himself by himself.
- But,... my Godess,... you know my problem. They'll come to me.
- I know what you wanted, and I know what was supposed to happen, but what you asked the Witch was a thing that would put you away from me.
- But,... what can I do, now?
- I'm here. You'll have time to think, while I'm here. I advise you, that I won't intefere again. If you chose again, I can do nothing.
Hadesh silenced, in the face of the very presence of his Godess.
- Ayasta, - said Drahmai - we need to talk.
Then, Ayasta, who were watching all the time, got up and she and Drahmai, together with Death, went to the east side of that laager to talk. Hadesh noted Flausin was completelly unaware of everything. Lena was still sleeping, the vilest book on her arms. Torian and Báech were eating, cause Torian made toasted meat with fire element breath, so the smell was good.
He just sited at the side of the middle camping, and ignored everything else.
The Witch of the Planes mouthed "With your excuses, High Godesses. I need to go", and just vanished.
(Two Hours later)
Tack noticed the presence of the three godesses of Magic at the place were creating life, modifying life, giving the stones strange properties, and other things.
- We need to go - he said, promptly.
- We need to wait for what the Godesses need, Tack.
- We just need to go, Torian.
Agreed, Torian started to decamp, and dispelled his elemental protection from up, something as an invisible net to hold anything from up the mountain. This place needs a name, he thought. It will be Melleg Hills, just to remember seen three Godesses at the same time, in here. So, he noticed too that a small race of squirrel was aquiring wings, and trying to fly as never did.
- We need to go, Tack. Now, I agree.
At this very time, the Godesses ended their talking. The first to notice was Tack, because he doesn't like Gods, anyway, but soon, everyone noticed. Hadesh was in complete silence. The flying squirrels were everywhere, now, and some were already flying.
The Essence of Death just vanished, without talking.
Hadesh sensed his Godess calling for him, and went to talk to her.
- I'll be always with you, but I have to go now. I need to remember you, that I can't interfere again, if you chose something so unexpected.
He just umidified his lizarding lips, and waited for his Godess to go, and so, she vanished.
- Ok. Go - resumed Tack.
(Three Days later)
They came to a passage which would take them home, in two days, Rude explained. The warknight agreed, and said they'd better go home, what Lena's agreed too. Rude stops, analyzing the Horizon, to say something was strange, and they'd better go now. After Tack asking "Why?", Rudyn explained the Horizon's not only an effect on the Astral plane, but it reflects happenings and events on the standard plane, so something very strange has happened and it urges they come back right now.
Hadesh didn't talked anymore, but before they go he lifts his hand asking to wait.
So, he asks, calling with a hand, Tatooi, to come with him. They didn't went too far from the passage, but the takkar looked into the eyes of the daemon.
- You can't go with us, Tatooi.
- Why? - he was like totally missed and didn't understood.
- You belong to the Astral, and the Standard plane's too dangerous for you. (pause). You need to take care of yourself, and be very careful not to get into trouble. Our travel together, this travel, ends here, and the most I can do for you is to say I see good in you, even if you're a daemon. Do you understand?
- I,... think so. Well, what can I say.
- Farewell.
- Farewell.
Having said that, the daemon walked back, and steped into the woods of christal, an usual treelike fungus you can watch in the Astral plane.
Soon, Hadesh could not see him, anymore.
- Good luck, Tatooi.
The travel back was followed by earthquakes. On the right place, two days later, Rude and Spike arranged a strange ritual of passage, in which they'd have to close their eyes and not think in anything from the Astral plane for at least some minutes, and after that, they opened a passage.
They did it.
(Back to Royal Tachiza)
Silence, was the only thing that could describe that night, on the road of Priatel territory, marked with some vultus and shadows flying up the sky. Even the stars were listening, as if some very secret had been spoken, as if the elements were all watching, waiting to see what could happen, as if a monster from the Deep were watching, in every corner of every woods.
Three hours later, they got to the entrance doors of Torian's property, and they said goodbye to Rude and his fellow Spike, the warnight.
- My lord - said the guard, happy, but soon his face darkened - We have been waiting for you. That's hands of the Gods you're back safe.
- What is it, guard? What happened?
- I think the family Council must be wainting to explain everything.
- Tell what you know.
- Yes, if you want, my lord.
- What is it?
- Abbas, my lord, invaded Royal Tachiza.
They all listened, and exchanged glances, for they all know now. This is what was strange. Another empire had just invaded Royal Tachiza.
Abbas hold in their hands the five heirs to the royal Dukes.
The invaders are after a beast, with a bag. Torièn knows who he is. His family gathers, and the Council says their lands won't be invaded. Their ally on Abbas, the same family who rules the nightlings of the empire, Kokkiladon, won't let their followers to invade an ally, and after sometime, after the family Council exchange some messages with the invaders, they say the beast can be exchanged by another person. The Troll. They're not so sure, and need to wait, but Torièn knows what the Troll protects, and now he needed to ask his family leader, Antonidias, to talk, but he reveals he knows what's on that valley.
A thought occurred Torièn, and this may be a true interference from infernalists. It's impossible to know, and he can't do anything yet.
They can do nothing, but wait.
He came back to the Sancturary, and the sacerdot, his once majordomo, butler, a forgotten craftsman, introduce him to Mai. She came here by intuition, says her.
She looks only an eleven year old ejik girl.
- Why are you here, Mai? And why did you came and ask to talk with me? - questions Torièn in a serious tone.
- I think, Mal-ec, that,... I'm a goddess.
(End of Session)
Some Considerations necessary
Who are the Infernalists? Hadesh was right or wrong, in calling the Witch of the Planes? What was her trying to do it was so strong it called so much attention promptly?
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