The Sereni-Tree, the Immortals, the Octagonal Order, and the Harbringer of Darkness, Part 2
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Thursday, December 21, 2006 13:42
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Quote:Yes! I knew just saying the word custard enough would eventually yield amusing results!)
Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
"Oh darling I'm going to die here with the taste of your custard on my tongue."
Seryn tinsel hung, tree decorated, the popcorn machine rumbling ominously in the background, sit and peruses the recipies for egg-nogg.
"So what is this stuff, and how is it possible that at the same time it manages to sound both absolutely repulsive and very intriguing?
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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On the planet Zanzibar at the keep of the Octagonal Order:
With a roar, a massive figure leaps onto the castle wall from below. He is at least eight feet tall, with a physique so heavily muscled that he appears deformed. Cuts and severe burns all over his naked body are slowly healing. It is the Immortal Karg the Bloody after abandoning the impressive plate armor that Jazaf ruined. Weaponless, with empty-handed punches and kicks, he casually smacks defenders from the wall with his unmatched strength. All blades seem to slip off his bare skin.
The petite Sir Elaine runs along the wall to face him, spinning her two-handed greatsword above her head. Her attacks against him are as quick as lightning. Four blows hit before Karg can react in any way. Only one of those draws blood, however, and then only just. It begins to heal.
Karg’s cruel laughter echoes off the castle walls. “Fool! You cannot harm me past my protective spells!”
“True,” Elaine agrees. “Everyone knows that you only wore that armor to spare us the sight of your body.” She smirks at him and shakes her head. “Speaking of which, I’d really expect such a big man to be… bigger…”
Karg roars in anger and charges toward her. With an inhuman leap, the small woman soars high above his head. As she falls, he makes ready to catch her, eyes intent upon her massive sword.
With Karg distracted by her sword, Elaine reaches into a belt pouch as she falls and throws an object at Karg’s great chest. An inky black goo splatters against him, sticking tightly. At a gesture from Elaine, the black goo comes alive, swarming up to Karg’s face to block his eyes. Karg bellows as he struggles in vain to uncover his eyes, but the strange substance continues to move as if alive.
Still falling, Elaine mutters a piercing spell and her greatsword crackles with magic. When it impacts Karg’s shoulder, it has magic and the entire weight of Elaine’s small body behind it. About a third of the length of that blade impales Karg’s body, and he bellows again, this time in pain. Elaine leaves the sword in Karg, and mutters another spell as she drops to her feet. A Dannic rune inscribed on the sword sparks and the blade glows red-hot, then white-hot, as it burns into the blinded giant.
Elaine throws herself to the stone slabs atop the castle wall and lashes out with her feet. Even a monster like Karg has nerve pressure points. His knees begin to give way. Then she spins while prone, and topples her foe off the wall down onto his troops far below. Karg curses as he falls, while Elaine’s greatsword melts its way into his chest cavity.
The weary woman performs a back-flip to regain her feet. “That should slow him down, but I’ll surely miss that sword!” She draws a pair of daggers from her belt and continues fighting against lesser opponents.
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*20 buckets of popcorn later...
Perfect! That should be just enough to decorate the tree.
Now what shall we put on the top?
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On the planet Zanzibar at the keep of the Octagonal Order:
SR observes carefully the fight between Karg and Sir Elaine. He is particularly interested if the amulet Jazaf gave him will reveal where Karg hides his soul.
OOC: All right now somebody who feels they know Karg better than I do tell me what SR saw.
Scorpion Regent
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((i know i'd mentioned i had plans for the soul jars, but i'm so swamped at work lately with the move that i don't really have time to write it out...so go crazy with it ;D))
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Quote:
Originally posted by mai:
*20 buckets of popcorn later...
Perfect! That should be just enough to decorate the tree.
Now what shall we put on the top?
*Ath sits on the couch, licking his fingers, surrounded by 20 empty buckets.*
"Coulda used some more butter."
"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"
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"Magnus! Do you remember what my name was before I became bored with immortality? Before the Knights rose to end our tryannical reign? Before Karg dubbed me 'The Fool'?" Jazaf shouts. Not caring if Magnus heard or answered, Jazaf leaps off the wall to join Wisp on the battlefield. During the descent his eyes go gray as he taps into his full array of skills, enemy weapons bent and impaled or cut into their wielders. Jazaf hit the ground swinging slaying the wounded orcs below. He picked up a fallen sword and altered it to cover his left arm. Then he gathered all the metal objects near him into a pile and stood on top.
'Jazaf, the Metal Beast' Jazaf thinks to himself.
The metal he stood on covered Jazaf in an instant, quickly becoming a second skin. He soon became a featurless metal humanoid. Razor edges appeared on the length of his forearms and shins, his feet and the fingers on his hands became pointed. His face changed last, the form it took resembled a wolf. With the changes made Jazaf entered the battle to begin the slaying anew.
Deuce whistled in awe. "Neat trick." She quickly went back into action, laying waste to any orc that managed to breach the castle walls. She stopped and looked at her medallion, "Time to follow suit!" She leaps off the wall, knowing full well that if her plan didn't work it would be the end of her. Deuce closes her eyes and wills the medallion to work as she did when she first got it. She opens her eyes to find herself soaring over the battlefield.
"Sweet and without the water from that other world!"
She flies back to the wall and cuts apart any ladder that wasn't torched by S.R.'s Greek Fire.
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Mystery Man on the Sereni-Tree 
Navigator on Destiny 
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Quote:
*Ath sits on the couch, licking his fingers, surrounded by 20 empty buckets.*
How did you do that?! I just made all of that 2 minutes ago...
Just for that you get to make the new batches with the crazy, tempremental popcorn popper and string them all by hand! Get busy you've got a 10 foot tree to decorate.
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*watches Ath approach the popcorn maker through her fingers*
"Oh i can't watch!"
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt
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Quote:
Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
SR observes carefully the fight between Karg and Sir Elaine. He is particularly interested if the amulet Jazaf gave him will reveal where Karg hides his soul.
OOC: All right now somebody who feels they know Karg better than I do tell me what SR saw.
OOC: I think that Karg would hide his soul in a sword, helmet, or piece of armor somewhere. Zorander the Storm Caller would hide his in the wind on some mountaintop. Adelle the Burner in the heart of a volcano. That sort of thing.
But none would be particularly easy to get to. Otherwise the benefits of being Immortal would be too easy to cancel. Karg's sword, for example, would never be something he would take into battle. It might be a well-guarded ceremonial blade on the altar of a temple to some war god. Or a simple-seeming blade buried with some knight. And there is no reason that the keepers of the blade would know of its importance.
Or, the soul jar might have a fierce guardian, or be hidden in some other dimension or on another world.
So, was Jazaf a Knight of the Octagonal Order who was made Immortal, or an Immortal who became a Knight? Or were all the Immortals once Knights of the Order? If he was an Immortal, then what was his color? Jazaf the Grey?
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