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Post by vinnytheelf on Dec 26, 2007 8:34:24 GMT -8
Ashlynn the Lightbringer Paladin turns defensively to face Agathon as he rushes up to catch up with her calling out to her to wait. Her blade held high over her shoulder poised and ready to strike, through the downpour from above he see's her readiness to battle him and his companions if they make one wrong move. He pleads for her to hear him out and explains he is removed completely from the evils that were wrought at the Mayor's home and listen though she may, her answer is not as welcome as he would have hoped.
"You and your friends have commited some grave deeds this day. I will not tolerate such acts of violence against the weak and infirm. You have earned my enmity, for now I will abate my vengeful desire for you were truly not directly involved but there is responsibility among the bladesworn and unless you and your allies atone, if 'all that is Good and of the Light' wills it you shall reap my wrath one day."
She relaxes her stance and sheaths her blade and then whistles loudly over the Storm and a shining White Warhorse heavily armored in Silvered Platemail Barding gallops down the road to greet her. She mounts up, gives you all one last reprimanding look and demands of Agathon in particular. "Prove your worth, Knight, gain trust and standing amongst those of the Light and one day perhaps we shall meet again our blades sheathed, our words gentler." With those last curt words she reigns her mount around, it rears and whinnies a challenge, its forehooves clapping together, clearly her mount is upset with the party also, and then she is off up the road galloping towards the castle riding through the storm as if the Devil were on her tail.
Above, you hear the galloping of fiery hooves and see what looks like the familiar form of Grim hellbent on reaching the Castle before the Lady Paladin... and then he is gone as he races above into the storm clouds..
A huge dark dragonlike form rises out above the castle and is backlit by a massive crash of Thunder and Lightning, it races towards the lighter eye of the Storm... and as it passes through, moments later a tiny glow of red fire is momentarily seen passing behind it and thne there is an almighty explosion and theclouds all across the sky over Barovia erupt into a million shards of tiny stars... the rain stops and as the stars begin to fall they are found to be tiny crystal shards... they fall like snowflakes and cover the land everywhere.
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Post by vinnytheelf on Dec 26, 2007 8:47:50 GMT -8
Then the snow begins to fall and cover the shards and the land itself and quiet hush creeps quickly over the 'natural' noises of the outdoors and then...
A soft rhythmic jingling of bells is heard above in the sky somewhere... and a hearty laughter is heard echoing lowly across the skies.. "Ho ho ho..." You hear a deep voice laughing and see a sleigh flying through the heavens that is being drawn by a dozen reindeer, with stardust in its trail and small box like objects being thrown off to either side by the large rotund white bearded fellow who looks like he could be a Dwarf of some sort. The packages float down on snowflake like canopies(parachutes) towards you... and you hear the man calling down to you in common.. "Winter blessings upon you all each and everyone!"
Agathon is the first to pick up a box, it is covered in a highly decorative and stylized thin parchment wrapping and oddly enough has a small tablet-like card with a greeting to Agathon. The 'canopy' melts as the boxes touch the ground and is deemed to be water albeit snow. Definitely magic of some sort going on here..
"Winters Blessings to you one and all, Merryness abounds to us each and everyone, and in this time of cheer we give thanks to those who are deemed worthy of the gift of Life." The cards on each package and there is one for each person and only one, are all adressed to whoever picks one up and signed myseriously by;
Father Winter.
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Post by agroson1 on Dec 26, 2007 14:41:27 GMT -8
Les shall open the strange box that bears his name.
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Post by vinnytheelf on Dec 27, 2007 8:36:39 GMT -8
Les opens the package and finds within a lump of black coal.
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Post by earthwizard on Dec 27, 2007 10:11:10 GMT -8
Agathon will first examine the strange box with his mirror. He is interested in the nature of this thing, and curiosity is getting the better of him. Then he will open it.
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Post by agroson1 on Dec 27, 2007 13:24:57 GMT -8
I shall find a use for said coal...perhaps a lighting of th DM's ass. WANKER!!!!! Seriously, Les takes the coal and wraps it in fine cloth, for he intends to cauterize (sp?) a certain Giants special wound. Yes, Les intends to let the Bastard live wuth his shame.
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Post by vinnytheelf on Dec 27, 2007 17:51:06 GMT -8
Agathon's examination of the box reveals only what is normally perceived though there is a feint glow of magic on the card.
Upon opening the box he finds a knitted wooly scarf of many colors...
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Post by earthwizard on Dec 28, 2007 23:49:36 GMT -8
sweet! does it come with a bag of jelly babies?
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Post by vinnytheelf on Dec 29, 2007 13:01:37 GMT -8
hehe funny you should say that...
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Post by vinnytheelf on Dec 29, 2007 16:55:03 GMT -8
((to be edited later))
Standing outside on the steps of the Church of Barovia, Sherwood uses the power of prayer and raises his blackened prayer beads aloft. His hand seemingly guiding and pulling himself aloft he directs his grasped beads up and over the rooftops of the town and out along the castle road. He hears the sleigh-bells and see's Father Winter and grasps at the present that falls by him as he speeds out over the treetops towards the castle.
He slows briefly and wonders what is inside the box he has a hold of, for something is bouncing around inside the package...
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Post by vinnytheelf on Dec 29, 2007 17:13:23 GMT -8
The party on the road see Sherwood's dark form above them, his cloak flapping manically in the wind behind him as he speeds off, flying over the tree's... and everyone wonders how such things are possible...
Then All at once there is a sound of breaking glass so loud it reverberates through the fiber of everyone's being. It is earsplitting and looking all around all that can be seen are shards of glass rending the world asunder, it is as if everything is made of glass and is splitting and fracturing, the roads, the skies the trees... each other...
Everyone screams in pain, a pain so acute a pain so unimaginable that it is 'hard to believe' that any mortal could bear such suffering.
Then there is the dark, the dreaming dark and a falling sensation... a terrible falling sensation down down into the dark down down into the blackness so deep and dark...it appears as Endless Night.
Choking, you cannot breathe, something clogs your airway, then it is ripped from your throat with little care or gentleness and then the pain of hitting something hard and slick and wet from your fall, dizzyness takes over and your blurry eyes feel the sharp dagger-like sting of light on newly woken eyes, a different kind of light to what you recall, it is diffuse and all around in points, many green glowing points of light.
You are breathing, you are cold you are wet and you are naked lain weak and half dead upon a cold stone floor you know not where. Your know little of your past, your vaguely recall a name.. you feel as if your life has been drained from you to the last drop.
Then the floor drops open and you are unceremoniously falling down a chute of some sort at break-neck speed and then all of a sudden a dark red walled chamber opens up and you hit some sort of mushy pile with hard bits...(hehe)
Looking about in the dimness you see a Human skull atop a a clump of debris and then you notice the debris is made up of more bones and carcasses, the whole chamber is full of rotting dead bodies, some fully decayed some only half.
Then another body comes hurtling down a chute and is dropped into the garbage chamber, and another and another...
It would appear you are not alone and as you look about you see bloodied skeletal Humanoids who look more dead than alive gazing up at one another in states of bewilderment shock and horror at the predicament they have found themselves in.
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Post by Joseph Barros on Dec 29, 2007 20:48:37 GMT -8
Prior to what appears to be one helluva acid trip : Sherwood hovers momentarily puzzled at this quite bizarre appearance of a seemingly mad dwarf wizard in strangely bright clothing. "But I haven't been good this year..." he mutters to himself as he opens his package. After the end of the universe and laying naked among all the bodies: Screams, "AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
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Post by earthwizard on Dec 30, 2007 21:18:36 GMT -8
Hey Vince: oh I mean er . . . ;D Yeah. that's the one I was looking for . . . Seriously though, I like Finnegan.
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Post by earthwizard on Dec 30, 2007 21:19:47 GMT -8
OK now out of curiosity I am wondering about all the behind the screen stuff going on in Barovia and Hluneru. There was a lot left unanswered, Vince.
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Post by agroson1 on Dec 30, 2007 21:51:34 GMT -8
I can answer some of that, actually...Vince had asked me to allow him to live out his fantasies about Foreskin's and Penis's. He just liked talking and hearing about them. Oral and Aural fixations, some might say. And the fact that he demanded I name my character Les might say alot also.
Make of that what you all will...and make sure Vince can read about it HERE!!!!!
heh.
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