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[Xorlak]

Welcome to Dark Age Legends, chapter 9 sign ups! Chapter 9 will pick up where chapter 8 left off, but due to the break in the action, this is an excellent point to jump in if you haven?t already. If you haven?t been following the story the entire way through, don?t worry. You are not expected to read the entire RP-- just the summary and guidelines below. However, if you never played in a forum RP before (particularly this one) you may want to read a random page or two in the middle to get a sense of how everything works.  

Current players: No changes to the rule set since chapter 8, so you can skip to the end.

Theme

A fantasy medieval type deal. Magic is encouraged. Technology should be low (but a few weird inventions are okay). Guns are permitted if you really want them, but they shouldn't be too effective.

Archives

The automatically updated <a href='http://darkagegames.net/dal/viewer.php?id=472' target='_blank'>DAL Archives</a> might be easier to read than the topic on this forum if you want look back at the story (it?s just a script that reads from the forum database and strips off all the signature, avatar clutter, etc.) This is useful if you want to save some pages to your harddrive.

Also, there's the <a href='http://darkagegames.net/dal/viewer2.php?mode=1&id=472&page=0' target='_blank'>big page</a>, which is the entire RP on one huge page (Caution, modem users! It's over 4 MB at this point.)

Background Story (Chapter 6 prelude)

It has been five years since the chaos has subsided and the near end of the world.  The planet (Gaian) thrives in fertility once more.  The Dark Empire has disappeared, replaced by a much smaller yet no less fearsome Crimson Empire based on the Terius content (a.k.a. The Dark Continent).  New kingdoms have sprouted across the world, replacing formerly subdued lands.  It is a time of peace and rebuilding...

Of course, not for long...

Dark Age Legends Rules v1.6

There are two types of people in the RP: characters and NPCs.

You can now have any number of active characters, just don't go overboard (or I'll do more amending!). These are your characters and your characters alone. No one can control them but you.

Creating Characters

The level restriction is gone.  Just post your characters and be fair (see last section).  You can create new characters at any time during the RP, not just during the "sign up" period.

NPCs

NPCs are more flexible. Often you?ll see some soldiers, villagers, monsters, or other non important characters. Generally, anyone can create and use these characters. But if someone is using a NPC in a character like fashion, it?s probably best not to control it for them. Generally NPCs die off or leave the story in some way after a few posts, so posting them on the sign-up isn?t necessary.

Actions

Each character is limited to two "actions" per post.  An action is something your character does. Some examples:

- Attacking another character
- Defending an attack
- Preparing an attack (i.e. for bigger than normal spells)
- Starting to walk/run/fly from one place to another
- Arriving on the scene
- Picking up an item

... etc. Basically use your own judgment. Conversation with other characters doesn't count (so you can talk as much as you want).

Note that both starting to travel to one location and arriving at a location are each considered one action, but it is a bad practice to have your character leave one area and arrive in another in the same post.  See the 'travel' section below.

Charging Techniques

This section made more sense when there were character levels, but for now, if a character takes more than one post to perform an attack, honor that attack as more powerful than normal.  This is furthered generalized by the following rule.

Rule of Proportional Effects / Proportional Posts

This is more of a guideline than a steadfast rule.  Think about what your character is doing and how many people (other characters and NPCs) his/her action is going to affect (cause them to take an action, or make them do something completely different than what they currently are, etc.).  The number of posts describing your character taking that action should be proportional to the number of people that are being affected by it.

In other words, a simple fireball attack might effect 1-3 people-- just one post for that.  Some sort of shockwave might blow apart a large section of a town-- better take two or three posts, the first an elaborate description describing your character preparing the spell, the last for the character executing it.  Need to rescue your friend from 30 armed NPCs?  There's no way that can be done in one post.  Probably should go for three or more.  What your character actually does during those posts doesn't matter.  He could fight through all the guards, sneak around them, prepare some elaborate plan, etc.  Some sort of event that involves an entire city, say, should be detailed through probably ten or more.  Some event that involves the entire planet?  Probably an entire chapter.

Story events and nature of actions

As far as the story goes, anything can happen as long as it's in good taste and doesn't disrupt the flow of the RP. The only restriction is that you don't control other players' characters. i.e. If you throw a fireball at someone, you let them decide whether they get hit by it or not.

Travel

Try and be realistic in the amount of time it takes to get to one place from another. You should never leave one area and arrive in the next in the same post. Places that are farther away should take more posts to get to. I'm not going to spell out the distances between each place we've been to so far, so use your own judgment.

Be descriptive! Especially when you're entering a place of your own design. Try and build off of other posters' descriptions as well. This is important, as it?s easier to tell what?s going on if you know where you?re at.

Posting

There is a limit of two ?updates? per day.  An update is a post that contains any actions for any of your characters.  The only exception is a post that contains only dialogue,  i.e. if your character is just talking to another character.

On the other hand, try and stop in to update at least once a day!

No one-liners

No more lame one line "Character A followed Character B" posts...  I mean come on. (Heh...)  Let us know what they're thinking, what scenery they're looking at, or something.

Three day rule

If you are fighting someone and your opponent doesn?t post for three days, assume they were hit by your attack and knocked unconscious (heh?)

Limitations

No unbounded instant teleportation.  If they have the ability, characters can only teleport for short distances, and even that should be used sparingly.  No instant transmission from one place to a totally different one.  And traveling at the speed of light is the same thing... so don't!

Comments

Comments not part of the flow of the RP should be made obvious by placing them in between parentheses or slashes, etc.  Try and keep commenting to a minimum.  Major questions should be asked on this topic, rather than in the middle of the RP.

Try and refrain from quoting other posts unless absolutely necessary, since they just look bad and disrupt the flow of the RP.

Story Integrity Guidelines

The following amendments are added to keep the basic story and RP world on track.  These are mainly laws and limitations placed on the DAL universe to keep things from getting too out of hand.

Dimensions

A "dimension" is defined as any place that cannot be reached on Gaian through normal means of travel (e.g. walking, flying, etc.).  Gaian itself is a dimension.

Characters cannot "control" dimensions.  Dimensions cannot be destroyed, time flow cannot be changed,  the fate of a dimension cannot be linked with character's life, etc.

DAL does not operate on the "infinite number of possible dimensions" idea.  You know, where there's a multitude of dimensions in which random key events occurred differently in their individual timelines, so each world is slightly different from the others, but have mostly the same people in them.  I just hate those kind of stories... (Heh...)  There can be multiple dimensions in DAL, but each one is unique.

The "real world" doesn't exist in DAL.  There's no "real world dimension", no dimension that (largely) resembles it, and no way to reference it.  (Past references to the real world can simply be forgotten.  I don't expect anyone to go back and change anything.)

Dimensional Travel

Each player may have his/her characters cross into another dimension only once per chapter.  There can only be one crossing, and the number of characters involved does not matter.  Once the crossing occurs, none of that player's characters can change dimensions until the next chapter, even if they didn't take part in the crossing.  (Exceptions can be set up if need be.)

Reading

It is important to read every post of the RP since your last post, and perhaps a page or two before the current  point if you're just signing up.  In order to create a coherent world, we all need to know what is going on with everyone else, even if what other characters are doing on the other side of the world don?t immediately affect your own.

If you get totally lost, just ask in this topic and one of us will be happy to give you a short summary of what's going on.

Though the rules are long, they are probably not as long as the collective posts the RP receives on a good day.  <span style='color:red'>Chances are if you?ve just skimmed though the above rules and  jumped to this line you are not cut out for this RP.</span>

(Heh?)

Character signup

To start, post your characters in this thread. Continuing chapter 8 players should repost their characters as well.  Include the following information:

Name:
Gender:
Race: Can be pretty much anything
Age:
Job:
Weapon(s): plus a description, if necessary
Alliance: Could be a kingdom, tribe, cult, etc. (or no one at all!)
Description: Physical appearance
Bio: A short background. Perhaps just his/her immediate past, but can be more in depth if you want.
Chapter 1, 2, ... , 7, 8 Bio: If your character was in any previous chapters, give a short description of what he/she did in each.  You can also describe what your character did during the interludes between chapters 3-4 and 5-6 if you want.

Here're mine:

Name: High General Vincent Elridge
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 31
Job: High General of the Grey Empire, Alchemist
Weapon: Auto Shotgun, Flamethrower (more...?)
Alliance: Grey Empire (And the remnants of the Crimson Empire, but only for propaganda purposes)
Description:

About average height, Vincent does wear any armor, but rather something resembling more of a black trench coat with a few military adornments on his chest.  His long black hair is tied in a ponytail behind his back and his calm, almost brooding eyes shine behind his small square rimmed glasses.  He has just a hint of a beard and a square chin.

Bio:

Vincent Elridge was an alchemist and inventor since his youth, growing up in the central regions of the Dark Continent.  Finding his talents applicable to the military, he was offered an officer position (read drafted) and eventually became a colonel in the Dark Empire, a position he held for several years.  However, his talents often went unappreciated, as more destructive magic based officers were preferred, causing him to slowly become resentful... He was finally promoted to a general upon Draven's reformation of the Dark Empire, but it only seems he was promoted due to a lack of generals at the time.

At the time of his debut, he secretly dreamt of nothing more than becoming a High General, and leading large scale military campaigns... or maybe becoming something more... however, he was repeatedly stuck with less important supervisor or management positions, and is rarely given the chance to prove himself.  Until the rise of the Grey Empire and certain new opportunities in chapter 8...

In chapter 7:

As a general of the Crimson Empire, Vincent defended the fortress Redvik against Haraldur's attack, which included an erupting volcano that separated Laus from the mainland, buried the city surrounding Redvik, and nearly decimated the fortress itself.  Vincent took an interest in Haraldur's power and insisted on viewing him up close, but Haraldur escaped into another dimension, leaving the only contact between the two a very brief exchange of words.

Vincent correctly assumed Melkoth's attack was independent of Haraldur's and, his number calling him to the new front line, raced to the area where Melkoth's Grey Empire was attempting to dig its way into the Crimson Empire's in his alchemically improved airship.  Having been shot down by their new fortress, Vincent snuck his way into the quickly assembled new Grey fortress, where he has a face to face encounter with the great prophet Quintus, who proves himself a deadly foe as well...

In chapter 8:

Quintus offered Vincent a position as a High General in the rising Grey Empire-- an offer of power an prestige he could not refuse.  Still under the guise of his Crimson Empire position, he infiltrated and sabotaged the fortress Sigmund, an otherwise impenetrable land base of the Crimson Empire, allowing an army lead by Quintus to raze the fortress with minimal difficulty.

Taking an army of his own, Vincent set his sights on the fortress Bandervil in the center of the Dark Continent, thinking the apparent "defeat" of Crimson Emperor Draven would cause its occupants to surrender.  This was an ill assumption, and the occupants fought back, exposing Vincent's lack of experience and judgement on the battlefield.  However, reinforcements from Melkoth and a reformed alliance with Zion, Xenai, and Tsu changed the tide in his favor, the fortress falling to the Greys.

[Zeros']

Name: Zeros'

Gender: Male

Race: Half-Demon, Half-God

Age: Unknown

Job: Protecter of Gaian, his mother's planent.

Weapon: A specially imbued katana with two different forms ? demon and god. The demon form is black and rotted, and glows with a faint black aura, more suited to power, while, the god or holy form, his sleeker, and more suited towards speed.

Alliance: Himself.

Description

He stands at an average 5"4, with sleek, long, platinum hair, emerald green eyes and two, dark, angel wings that are usually found folded in. He wears a long trench coat, the sleeves reaching down to his wrists. He prefers it open, and when it is, he wears a white muscle shirt and loose black pants tied off by a white martial arts belt.

He wears the trench coat to hide his horrendious scars, which, cover every inch of his body. Some reach only a few centimeters, while others are up to a foot long. His most noticable scar is the one that starts at the top right of his forehead, across the eyebrow, the eye, the upper part of his nose, and continues on to the bottom of his right cheek.

Bio

Zeros' is the only known heir to an un-named school that was created by one of the greatest martial artists ? Master Genma.

A training incident, more then five years ago, left his master dead, and Zeros' set out on a quest to find the last of the weapons.

He had failed in his job, by letting Haraldur reach the weapons, and not realizing Haraldur's true intentions.

Chapter 1

A mysterious warrior who appeared when the Dark Empire started its invasion on Romme. He disappeared, and reappeared in chapter 2.

Chapter 2

Reappears when Haraldur destroys a village. He started a long fight agianst the two Dark Empire generals, Nex and Draven. He slain his own kind, later Nex was buried by Duilin.

Chapter 3

He returns to the struggling island of Romme to seek out his enemy he made in Chapter 2, Draven. He finds Draven, only to find him accompined by the mysterious man Jayce. A long battle brings his old master Genma into the mix as he confronts Draven. Genma fights off Draven to a standstill and proceeds to kidnap the hero Iduran to bring him to the emperor for questioning.

Zeros' proceeds to fight Nex once again, only to find him zombified. Nex is faught to a stand-still and effectively disappears. Zeros' then wants to seek out Draven to finish there battle, only to find the Zero Weapon. He proceeds to fight the Zero Weapon to another standstill, it becoming incapacitated for a time. He sends the revealed forms of Qeni and Zev back to heaven.

Zeros' finds Jayce near the area where the three Arstian warriors once werem smirking his smirk. Zeros' proceeds into another fight with the heir to the Dark Empries heir to the throne Jayce. Jayce's first attack fell Zeros' sister Qeni, releasing his swords true power. Jayce reveals his true form of a shadow draken to his opponent. With the help of Tsu, Zeros' fights with Jayce until the emperor shows.

The fight with the emperor was long and tedious. Neptra dies in the confrontation with Genma and Retan proceeds to destroy the island, only a few heros living.

Chapter 4

Zeros' appears a few hundred miles near Laus and into a mysterious cave where presumably one of the weapons of legends are. He explores the cave, finding the weapon and returns to Laus, only to run into a yeti and the Ice Bros.

After a brief skirmish, Zeros', along with Haraldur, Duilin, Cheetah and Kami-ryu all head to the sunken island on Artian, hoping to find the next weapon, wherever it may be.

After plunging into the waterl and finding the Destiny Temple (Just a name) where it depitcs the last battle form Romme as well as the Dark Empire and Romme emperor, they find the legendary staff, but not without the hardships of fighting off one of the Balrogs from hell. Zeros' and his teams soon find a plaque telling the direction of the legendary weapons.

Now, after the Destiny Temple, Zeros' and his team head towards the remains of Duilin's village in hopes of finding another one of the weapons, but they meet with the remains of the Dark Empire. After another brief encounter, two of the remaining soldiers lead the party down into a hanger where Duilin receives the legendary mace after a tussle with the undead.

Now, having four of the weapons in possession, the team heads back towards Laus, where they all head in different directions. Zeros' goes towards the direction the Zero Weapon is coming in, menace that was once thought long destroyed.

After a battle with that, and the help from Tsu, Xenai and Zion, they manage to seal it away, removing the evil taint and allowing Xenai to reprogram it. They all fly towards the position of the air ship, where no other then his old nemesis, Draven, has revealed himself.

Armic, a priesy for Qor, manages to fuse with the ancient god that Genma and himself sealed long ago, returns for vengence and ends up summoning demons from the underworld. Zeros' and the others fight these off, but not without knocking Nevina unconcious from the dark tain and Kami-Ryu for injures.

Draven and his party leave as Zeros' carries Ryu back to Laus, where they meet with Duilin and proceeded to fight a quick battle with Scumfreeze after Haraldur find them.

Now exhausted, he puts Ryu on a bed to rest and rest himself.

Chapter 5

As Zeros' awakes, Rink shows himself, an outcast of Qor. Zeros' briefly explains his existance as he, Duilin, Rink and Haraldur. As they fly towards the Crimson Empires capital, Zion and his group meet with Zeros' and join forces.

(skip a couple pages)

...as Zeros' and his group concentrate their power, the planet began to fluxiuate wildly. As soon as they were out, seals were formed an the Goddessof the Planet was summon, healing the wounds, returning Gaia (or Gaian) to its former glory.

Gaia, grateful for hering the planet's plea, banishes the island and the whole group near Haraldur and Draven's location, recharging their reserves in the process.

After Haraldur's fusion was done, Haraldur disappeared, never to be seen again. Zeros' followed him into Limbo, but soon made it back to Midgard. As Draven left, Zeros' promise him a last battle and soon laid his head down to sleep, his anticipation running high.

Chapter 6

Five years had gone between Chapter 5 and now, the Crimson Empire had been established by the former High General of the Dark Empire, and Zeros' nemesis, Draven. Zeros' disappeared that day, when the planent Gaian was restored, for five years.

Zeros' reappears, just as Duilin is getting yelled at by his land lord. Zeros' came back to Gaian, because of the distant, dark powers he felt. He joins with Duilin and Rink once again, as the Great Prophet approaches the River Town. He, Duilin, Rink and the Prophet go towards the origin of the dark power they feel, coincidently heading towards Ven and the other warrior.

They meet up with Tesla, an agent for Haraldur, though, they do not know that, and they join together and head towards the dark power. But, when Tesla asked of Haraldur, the two, once defenders of Romme became weary of him. He felt the rage build up and looked back, to make sure everyone was still with him. He flew faster towards the energy, unsure of exactly HOW strong it was.

He stops by the point with the most power fluctuation, and notices Zion fighting, along with Aminaga's pure rage, and the similiarities between Mavas and Ven's aura's. Where this would lead him, he had no idea...

(Skip a few pages...)

After many harsh hours of negotiations, arguing, fighting and rebellion, Zeros' is finally allowed to have some form of rest, and disappears to somewhere...

Chapter 7

Assigned by an Alliance he doesn't want, Zeros' flies from the Crimson Empire capital, and towards Laus, where, Haraldur was stationed. There, they meet Marshal, a once friend, who was kicked out of his organization. After Zeros' senses his lies, the man flees.

With the help of Duilin, and slight help from Rink, he distracts Haraldur, and the newly joined Eon for a small period of time. This time gives Valos the time he needs to gather forces, and plan.

They pursue Haraldur, as he flies away. Laus also seems to flee, in the form of a floating island. Duilin breaks off from him, and goes to help Valos. Zeros' also tries to damage the city in many forms of attacks (At the point of one of his attacks, a tornado, a valcano erupts, and causes deadly steam to form in the air. Because the tornado was deflected by the barrier, it roars, and absorbs the steam from the air, causing it to grow huge, but, this also causes the tornado to float away, and take the steam with it), his last attack, not even going off, before the island shifts into another dimension.

It was at that time he sensed Melkoth. He flies there, avoiding and blasted away the invisible rock barriers formed by Haraldur. When they arrive there, though, he sees Draven already engaged with Melkoth in combat. Knowing Draven's extreme pride, he instead helps the others fight off the giant demon, causing him to flee after a small while of fighting.

After the battle, he listens to Rink and Valos argument, and follows Rink, and reassures him about Duilin. After that, he settles down, and closes his eyes as night falls.

Chapter 8

Zeros' awakes to the strange darkness. He finds Rink easy enough through the darkness. He uses his sword as a beaken, making a light spread out a few feet away from him. Althought he could hear fighting in the darkness, he couldn't tell where it was coming from.

Soon enough, Zeros' and Rink find the king or the king finds them. They find out that this is the King of Trej, the place Ven was from. They accept his offer to come and soon are on an airship towards Trej ( or whatever it's called... heh. ).

Rink and Duilin wander off towards the casino, while Zeros' follows Ven and the king to the deck. He silently spies on them, as Haraldur comes in. As Ven tries to defend the king from Haraldur, Zeros' holds him back, knowing it would be useless to fight Haraldur.

Haraldur leaves soon after, after a small chat with the King, Zeros' and Ven. They arrive at the port without much incident after.

There, the outsiders - Zeros', Rink Duilin - find out the kingdom is under a plague. Thousands had fallen ill. Ven had been sent out to try and find a cure, while also looking for his brother. The king leads them to the castle, where they find the floors filled with sick people.

As the walk over them, Ven walks outside and Zeros' decides to follow him. Soon after, the sick follow Ven and start to chant and generally freak him out. Zeros' raises Ven up in the air high enough to get out of the reach of all the sick and delusional people.

Rink and Duilin had since joined Zeros' and Ven, when Mavas revealed himself and threatened to kill all the villagers. Zeros' puts Ven down on command and then holds the villagers in place, as Ven fights Mavas.

After a few moments, Mavas transforms into his Draven form. As Darven-Mavas fights them, he finds out he doesn't have near the control of Draven. Zeros' stops Ven from attacking Mavas, which prevents him from absorbing his aura signature and transforming Mavas into Ven.

But, that's when Mavas transforms into Zeros'. An exact replica... But all the scars and control. Mavas-Zeros' soon looses leeway when Zeros' holds him off his attack with an aura wall, allowing Ven, Rink and Duilin to defeat Mavas once and for all.

In celebration, the king has a large feast for everyone and honors Zeros', Duilin and Rink by giving them a ship, which Zeros' hands ownership over to Duilin.

Soon after, the three are in the airship and flying away, until they reach their destination. It's there they are confronted by Valos/Nex. After speaking for a little while, the chapter cuts off.

Name: Allen
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 63
Job: Alchemist
Weapon: A small, curved dagger, and his alchemy
Alliance: Crimson Empire

Description

He's a man of average height, standing near 67 inches (5 feet, 7 inches). He wears a pair of half-moon glasses, with blue eyes hidden behind them, shining with intelligence, evident to his long age. His face is free of any scars, but, he face seems to be starting to develop some wrinkles. He has a beard covering his lower chin, and his upper lip (moustache/beard combo). His hair reaches down to his shoulders, tied back into a messy ponytail. All his hair is whitened with age.

While being old, he was still lean, and fit. He wears a long white trench-coat (Think what a doctor wears. Similar to that.), with a white shirt underneath, and a loose pair of black pants hanging around his waist. His most common posture is to have his hands stuffed into his pockets, and standing around idly, almost looking bored.

Allen wasn't near as powerful as any others, but, his alchemy was almost unmatched. He could make anything, even out of the smallest grain of sand.

Bio

He grew up in a small village, with his mother, father and his older brother, who, was training in alchemy, planing on pledging his services to the Dark Empire. Allen had always looked up to his brother in admiration, so, it was no surprise he also trained to be an alchemist at 12, when his mother and father let him.

When he was 20, he joined the Dark Empire's ranks, and continued his alchemic training. He never actually went into battle, but, he had always provided the Dark Empire with valuable information about materials and elements he discovered. He soon became renowned as a man of great knowledge, causing people to seek him out for information, and bring him research projects they couldn't figure out.

He was always training, and learning, so it was no surprise he left the Dark Empire, promising to return, to continue his alchemic training. There was only so much he could learn, without going out into the feild. He was 24.

When he returned, 34 years later, he found the Dark Empire going to war with Romme. He had also found out his mother, and father had passed away. He was saddened to hear the news, but, he continued the work he had left all those years back, while his brother went into war.

When the war escalated, Retan called on his services to weapons he had in his possession. While Retan knew they were powerful, he didn't know what they did. Sadly, Allen never finished his research, before Retan was destroyed, and then Haraldur merged with the weapons. His brother was killed in the gaint explosion.

He came back, 5 years later, and heard the former General of the Dark Empire, Draven, has reformed into the Crimson Empire. He joined with them once again, and continued his previous work.

But, with Haraldur on the loose, the Crimson Empire needed all the firepower they could get, causing Allen to be put on the front line. He's now stationed at the same camp Valos was at, and had seen the destruction Haraldur wraught.

Chapter 7

Allen stepped out of a tent in Valos' camp, and immedaitely engages in battle with the formed Blue Minatour summoner, Marshal. After successfully defeating the man with his alchemy, and also saving Aura, Allen swipes a vial in the air, capturing a part of Haraldur's aura.

He forms a flying disc, and with Aura on it, they speed towards the now floating Crimson Empire, reaching up there by form of a beam teleport. After being informed of neither Valos or Vincents presense, he leads Aura down to his lab.

It was there Valos appeared, and Allen told them of his plan. Thought both were greatly confused at the mechnics, they both vowed to help. As he starts the process of forming a new 'weapon', it's violently interrupted by Haraldur, as it seems he's still connected to even the smallest part of his essence. Luckily, even though the lab was destroyed, Valos managed to shield the three from the eruption of power that destroyed the lab.

Valos and Aura both leave - Aura with one of Allen's flying discs - as Allen scouts the remains of his lab, scavging what he can. It was also at this time Haraldur attacked the capital directly, and brought down the power shields. Allen sets out, and fixes all four, only being able to recharge the major orb, with the help of the blue Elite. He promises himself to fix the major orb fully later.

He went back to the remains of his old lab, and slid down, closing his eyes, promising himself he would just rest...

Chapter 8

After waking up in the remains of his old lab, Allen figured he needed to start work on the defensive orbs... And soon. He gathered up some loose materials and walked out of his lab, seeking a partner.

It took him a little while to find one, but finally, Aura came with him. He set out with Aura to an island he had found once before that held the materails to repair the orbs. As they left, the Crimson Empire's castle was attacked, but Allen couldn't stray from his task.

When they reached the island, they walked through the dense forest and to a cave. They walked to the end of the cave and found a glowing line hovering in mid-air. When looked at from the top, though, there was a large pool of shimmering, glowing water.

This was Paradox. Allen and Aura jumped in. Aura faced her own fears, while Allen faced Fear.

After successfully getting out of the pool, it was discovered Allen had gotten the strange ore he needed to repair the orbs. They walked back to the beginning of the cave, Aura supporting Allen and took off.

While in flight, though, Allen recieved mysterious visions of a place on the long lsot island of Romme. Allen relayed these to Aura and she followed them, wondering why the old alchemist was guiding them there.

[D. Ein]

I might not be able to play for some period of time... AGAIN. I'm figuring things out with my dad, he says i'm too "heartless" to use the computer. Hopefully i'll get it back soon, and I'll sign up then. Thanks.

[Trent]

(Obviously just copied from previous signup. Razz)

へ～～～！！！　私は居る！　やった！！！
Heeeee!!! Watashi wa iru! Yatta!!!
(Heeeey!!! I'm here! w00t!!!)

Name: Zion Ultima
Gender: Male
Race: Assumed to be human
Age: 33
Job: Wanderer
Weapon(s): Eternity Weapon, a thin yet long sword that glows golden.
Alliance: None yet
Description: Light skin, teal hair resembling that of Yusuke Urameshi, blue eyes, a slender body.
Bio: After Chapter 5 of DAL, Zion decided to become a wander. He travels the world, looking for stuff to do. Because of his good-hearted nature, he takes care of trouble that springs up where he is. He is very good friends with...

Name: Xenai Omega
Gender: Male
Race: Assumed to be human
Age: 33
Job: Mercenary
Weapon(s): Zero Weapon, a huge sword that radiates darkness.
Alliance: None yet
Description: Light skin, blue hair resembling that of Sanosuke Sagara, red eyes, a muscular body.
Bio: After Chapter 5 of DAL, Xenai decided to become a mercenary. He wanders around, looking for jobs to do, and he has never, ever failed a job. He has a perfect track record. He and Zion, during Chapter 3, met...

Name: Tsu Nami
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 23
Job: Pro Swordsman
Weapon(s): Shin Kuon Yaiba, A katana with a white scabbard, a white hilt, and a golden blade. It can change from being sharp to being flat, though it is normally flat on both sides.
Alliance: None yet
Description: See avatar. Done.
Bio: After Chapter 5 of DAL, Tsu set out to find a new sword, after reading about a legendary blacksmith that could create any kind of weapon. After finding the blacksmith and getting his sword created, he became a pro swordsman. He has repeatedly fought against the love of his life...

Name: Aura Hikari
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Age: 23
Job: Crimson Empire Lieutenant
Weapon(s): Two scimitars
Alliance: Crimson Empire
Description: Light skin, shoulder-length black hair, blue eyes. Quite attractive.
Bio: She is Tsu's love interest... But has no interest in him. She would rather not even talk to him. Both being pro swordsmen, it would seem as if they would have fought each other much, but they have only fought once in that venue. It was obvious that Tsu was better, but he would not defeat her. He ended up winning by inflicting the most damage after time ran out. Outside that venue, they've clashed a few more times recently. Now she's a lieutenant of the Crimson Empire, and intends to go up through the ranks, and increase her power. She is currently afflicted by an evil light force... But she loves every bit of it! Now that she's in the Crimson Empire, her life is repeatedly threatened. That's why Tsu has enlisted the help of...

Name: Mugen Seijin (by Japanese name order; traditional english name order would be Seijin Mugen)
Gender: Male
Race: God
Age: Lost count
Job: Guardian (In the sense that DBZ's Kami is a guardian. He doesn't do much of anything, and also in the sense of Kenshin's Hiko Seijuro being a guardian... He shows up once, owns the enemy completely (at least I hope Razz), and doesn't do anything else ever.)
Weapon(s): Transcender, a glowing blue sword that can cut through space and time.
Alliance: None.
Description: A blue-haired, golden-eyed Hiko Seijuro. Wears all white. White pants, white shirt, white cape, white boots.
Bio: Not much. He sits in his sword-shaped cloud most of the time, waiting for someone to enter wishing to transcend their normal abilities. He waits also for the world's imminent destruction, so that he may descend and stop it, not in the sense of kicking the antagonists' ass, but stopping the world from getting pwned. He owes a debt now to Zion, Xenai, and Tsu, because....
Chapter 4(?) Bio: ...the three of them used the New Forever technique to give Gaia the power she needed to heal the planet. As an NPC, he granted Tsu the ability of flight, and came down to meet Gaia when she healed the planet. He also taught my trio the aforementioned New Forever technique.
Chapter 7 Bio: He has been charging energy into Transcender so that he can do his one-shot save of Aura. That is Tsu's request to him. If Aura should almost die, Seijin is to protect her, but he can do it only once.

[Dude Man]

Xorlak I stole your quote thing. Don't like it? Sue me. Wink

Name: Duilin Talonscar
Gender: Male
Race: Half Demon
Age: 36
Job: Traveler
Weapon: A mace and many elemental, black and demonic magic
Alliance: Romme Avengers
Description: Duilin has neck length dark hair. He wears a thick black shirt, with the symbol of Romme on the back, and black pants. He has a holster for his mace, strapped around his leg. He is of an average height, and build. Him being part demon, he has large dragon like wings, yet the skin is slightly lighter since he has only had them for 5 years.
Bio: He was raised in a small-unnamed village. Eventually the Dark Empire raided it. He was to be left alive if he was to join the Empire.

Chapter 1:

?I'm evil...Or am I...?

He was a Lieutenant in the Dark Empire. He was forced to join against his will, but he never had the courage to turn against them until his Commander Darion framed him of betrayal. He joined Romme and helped out an old Solider Iduran, and told him about the Dark Empire and Draven. He also met Scorch, an ex-dark empire commando, who he was never quite fond of, and a shape shifting Gepardi, named Cheetah.

Chapter 2:

?You just don't care about anything do you, except winning the war. You just think you're so though and can say whatever and have it be true.?

When he went with Iduran and Cheetah to a Romme outpost. That's when he was initiated as a Romme solider; he changed his armour, and weapons. However he still had bits of his old Dark Empire armour on him. He joined up with Seth and he went to go take Iduran's sword to the Dragons Den, but he later gave it Zeros', who later defeated Nex.

Chapter 3:

?Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever...?

Duilin grew very tired and upset and spent most time inside the cave outpost; until wile standing on guard his old rivals, Pophin and Veronika, kidnapped him. Eventually he bull shited himself to join the Dark Empire, but just used it to escape. Later he learned that Iduran was captured and taken to Retan's Vessel, he went there with Cheetah and Seth, but was stopped by one of Retan's elite guard Genma. Veronika was also there. He fought her until he KOed her. He later discovered that Retan killed Iduran, and he was stuck with grief. Then a spell that Retan caused the ship became invisible. Later Nex was revived but was weakened by Zeros' again, but he had new powers, he revived Darion. Nevina defeated Nex but he revived again in the body of Pophin gaining new powers but loosing fire immunity. Nex told Duilin he was demon, and proved it. He was able to defeat Nex by counter attacking a huge Fire Ball of Death. He then saved Nevina before Retan destroyed the island with the MDAA.

Chapter 4:

?I'm somebody, who could melt your frozen ass out of existence, Ice Boy!?

A strange person, who claimed to be the apprentice of Zeros?, confronted Duilin. He was asked to join him, in search of the weapons. He then met some old friends, Cheetah, Haraldur and Zeros', as well as making a new friend Kami-Ryu. He went with them, to Haraldurs home place as obtained the staff. That is was he found a strange tablet, with the location of the next weapon, which was in his hometown. After going there, he obtained the mace. He met some former Dark Empire grunts, there to; he then got a change of close. After heading back to his hometown, he was confronted by Draven, Armic, and the Ice Bros' piloting a ship. After a large battle and the rescue of Nevina, he went back home, but was ambushed by a spy. But he was made short work of.

Chapter 5:

?I think I can successfully balance my human and demonic side now.?

A small imp confronted Duilin by the name of Rink who claimed that he was the one who killed his former master, and following a code; he was to be his partner. Later, him and the rest of the team ventured off to get the final weapons from the Dark Empire castle. After a large battle fighting off an army, lead by the brother of his old rival Darion, named Maxwell, and two towering golems, Armic opened up the gates of hell. Eventually a Necrodragon emerge, yet he was able to defeat it after merging his demon flame and his new demon energy. Him and the others went back to Laus, and Haraldur opened up a gate using the weapons right in his house. After a small adventure in there, a small child confronted Duilin and Kami-Ryu. Draven [who had joined them] and Zeros' were chasing Haraldur who apparently went berserk. After they returned the child grew and multiplied, he was known as the entity. Maxwell was killed and Duilin was able to defeat one of the clones, by powering up his blood rage [and that made him more demon]. After Haraldur and the Entity merged. They went off to find the Dragon, which Duilin told Haraldur about. His old friend Iduran told Duilin of the dragon. Haraldur dived down into the water to see the Dragon, and Duilin and Zeros' followed. After a chat with the Dragon, the entire team went to an icy wasteland to defeat Alpha Retan. He was a huge Black Dragon. Duilin aided Haraldur, Zeros' and Zion in the defeat of him.
Eventually Haraldur went off to fight his father Melkoth, and the entire world was falling apart, Zeros' summoned the goddess of earth and everyone donated energy to repair the world, Duilin drained almost his entire blood rage, and it helped a lot. They went to defeat Haraldur, however he killed himself. Duilin was very angry with Draven, however he left.

Chapter 6:

?Oh, yeah they were pretty weird at first, and it was kinda hard to get used to, but now I don't know what I'd do without them.?

Duilin's nightmares became worse, more real and made more sense. After a small problem with his landlord, Zeros' visits Duilin and Rink and tells them that he senses a strong power that they must seek. They then join up with him to seek it out, but the Prophet arrives and warns them of a group called the Aspyes. Once they locate were the power was coming from, and meet a few new people, they find out that Haraldur was returned. They follow him to the Crimson Palace, and find out he has followers that were locked up there. Eventually they get spotted and a battle begins. Duilin, finds himself face to face, with a man who knew almost everything about him, yet he has never seen him ever. His name was Valos, he was a General of the Crimson Empire, former apprentice to Nex. After a battle, causing Duilin's demonic side to grow, Zeros' and Draven have made an alliance, and send a mental message to them, telling them to stop fighting. They then plan to attack Haraldur and his army of the Aspyes. Valos, being loyal to the Empire, still wishes to proceed with his mission, yet, he wants to convince Duilin, to do what his father wishes, and let his demonic side take control and gain the throne of the king of hell. Duilin, wishes no part in it, yet the more demonic he gets, the stronger, would it be for the best? After a failed battle on the Aspyes, they head home. Draven believes it to be a victory so the have a banquette. Haraldur arrives and interferes; yet they were able to cause him to flee. Duilin, meets a female servant, and gains quite a friendship with her.

Chapter 7:

?Well I guess all you soldier boys are into turning men into demons.?

Duilin has yet another nightmare, he doesn't give much detail to Belle, the female servant, whom he had spend the night with. After a short walk and a talk with Darak about Valos' strange acting, he then flies to Laus along with Zeros'. They talk about the visions he has been having, and eventually bump into Marshal, who tells them that Haraldur has gone to Rivertown. Zeros' senses that Marshal is lying and the man then fleas. As they arrive at Laus, Haraldur and a hooded man approached them. The hooded man was named Ein, he seemed to have newly gained the knowledge of magic, so Duilin was able to defeat him, yet let him live, but the demon Ein summoned was not so luckily. Duilin then helped Zeros' fight Haraldur and even got a hit in. As they chase Haraldur to the Crimson Empire base camp, and back to Laus. Valos is chasseing the city that seems to be floating away. Duilin the aids Valos in a powerful attack, that however fails to do anything. Duilin then senses a strong aura, and then him, Rink and Zeros' goes after it. It seems that Melkoth (Haraldur's father) has formed a Grey Empire and is attacking two towns. Duilin then goes down to fight of the army yet is greatly out numbered, yet with the help of Tsu, he was able to survive. After Zeros' and a few others defeat a terribly powerful demon lord. Valos and Rink have a strong disagreement, and Duilin takes Valos' side. He seems to regret getting his friend mad.

Chapter 8:

?Back in the Empire, Darion got really into gambling. It took him years to earn back his money, but he could only afford some pretty rusty armour. He was even thinking of selling me for gambling money.?

He couldn?t sleep all night, but he didn?t even know it. The area was so dark. Eventually he finds Ven and makes a torch and the two of them find a strange group of people. It turned out they were part of the Kingdom of Tjed. Zeros? and Rink arrive at the scene and Duilin apologizes to Rink about earlier. The people of Tjed needed Ven?s help to try and cure a pelage that has hit the Kingdom. The five of them go to Tjed to find out how to stop the pelage. They are shown people who look dead, nobody knows why they are like this. Suddenly all the sick people start swarming towards Ven. It turns out that Mavas was causing this. He was never really driven insane, and wanted to control Tjed the entire time. Duilin, Ven and Zeros? fight Mavas and eventually bringing him to his end. A victory feast is then set up as they rejoice the great victory. The king of Tjed then gives Rink, Zeros? and Duilin a ship to go back to mainland. Duilin captains the ship back and as they arrive they are attacked by Hell Crawlers. After him and Zeros? vaporized them all Valos appears, and reveals he his body is controlled by the same dark spirit who controlled Nex. Valos claims he is invisible and then offers them to join him in the Grey Empire.


Name: Valos Talonscar (last name of all Talonscar cult members)
Gender: Male
Race: Possessed Human
Age: Unknown
Job: Warrior
Weapon: A large black sword, and black and demonic magic.
Alliance: Grey Empire (Talonscar Cult)
Description: Long white hair, muscular build. He has spikes on his shoulders, and wears a grey muscle shirt with a symbol of a bird talon making a cut, and black pants. He has solid red eyes, small horns on his forehead and a demonic pentagram between them.
 
Bio: A demonic ghost, summoned by Abodahon many years ago, for quite some time, possessed Valos. It is believed that most of his powers came from it. However, it remained dormant until Abodahon triggered it. Valos was confronted by Abodahon, and was told that he would be given a chance to prove his loyalty by attacking Draven. You can guess what happened next.

Chapter 2:

?Not that I wasn't going to kill you in the first place, but you just gave me a better reason to kill you!?

The spirit demon?s first victim was a man only know as Nex. He was a member of the Talonscar cult, however he was not trusted by Abodahon so he possessed, just to make sure he wouldn?t forget his place. Nex didn?t seem to mind it so much, so he just lived with it. Nex was assigned to scout the Romme island and find the rumoured hidden outpost. As a wyvern rider he was quickly able to find the location of it. He informed Draven and the two of them went to seek it out, however they were attacked by a warrior and a half demon. Draven fought the warrior who seemed to be very skilled and Nex fought the half demon, whom he later knew as Zeros?. However he was struck by a shirukun covered in Zeros? blood. Yet it was not clear, this was when he began to die, and the spirit took over. He then began to gain demonic powers and demon like features. He then lead an attack on the hidden outpost, and one of the soldiers found a child who Zeros? greatly valued. Nex knew that Zeros? had the sword so he used the child as bait. However, when Zeros? went to save the child, Nex was killed.

Chapter 3:

?Sheesh, it's DAMN hot down there!?

He rose up from his grave. Zeros? didn?t kill him just yet. He wanted revenge; he didn?t care about finding the weapon anymore. Zeros? sensed this happening, as did Duilin. Zeros? then confronted him and they fought once more. However Nex was defeated once again. After a long wile after he chose to try again. He then gave artificial life to the dead body of Darion. Quickly, Nevina killed him, this was starting to get annoying. He then chose Pophin as his next victim, because Nex?s body was too damaged. Pophin and the Darion Zombie then got a hold of Duilin and began beating on him. Pophin told Duilin that he was half demon. Eventually Duilin made his first big step in his demonic powers and burnt the two of them to a crisp. The spirit demon had actually done its job; Duilin will now start his process into to become a full demon.

Chapter 6:

?Your magic is weak compared to mine. Yet you should try and use your demonic powers.?

He found him! He has found the last member of the Talonscar. He must convince him to follow with his master?s plan, but how? Two 'people' were on to him, a half demon named Zeros' and a heretic imp named Rink. Also, a group know as the Aspyes has declared war on the Crimson Empire, and he must also do his duty to serve the Empire. They head to declare war on them, and wipe them out. After a large battle with the aid of the Blue Minotaur, and their new allies, Draven is lead to believe that Zeros' wiped out all of the Aspyes solders. Draven offers Zeros' the position of High General. Valos was furious about this, Valos has served with the Empire for years, and Zeros' wasn't even an official member of the Empire. He questions Draven on this, and is punished by getting put on the front lines of battle in the next attack on the Aspyes.

Chapter 7:

?Don't you dare talk to me like that, you ungrateful little shit! I know exactly what I'm doing!?

As he is shipped off to the fortress Redvik, he meets a woman named Aura and General Vincent. He goes with Aura, Rink and Xenai to one of the base camps. Valos then explains to the soldiers his plan of attack. Wile he waits he just rests at Redvik. Yet after awhile it is attacked, and the entire place seems to be falling apart. Draven makes contact with him, and Valos tells him the situation. Valos then goes off with his army to take out Laus, yet a volcanic eruption made by Ragnar, takes out his entire ground force. Yet he continues towards the city that is floating away. Valos, protected by two mages, charges up a large dark blast. Duilin arrives and then aids Valos in the attack, yet it still fails. Valos is struck with great rage. After awhile of groaning, he goes back to Redvik and talks with Vincent. He then senses Haraldur's aura, is at the Capital so he goes towards there to defend. He challenges Haraldur to fight; yet he refuses, he simply tells him that Abodahon has returned, and he should go to him, then leaves. Valos seems to know what he is talking about, so he does so. He begins to question if he should aid his former master Abodahon, because he is aiding Melkoth who is against The Crimson Empire. Abodahon warns Valos, and tells him to keep an eye on his son, Duilin.

Chapter 8:

?We're sorry Valos isn't here right now, please call again!?

Valos gets very worried and confused. He has served the Empire for so long, yet now he is confronted by his old master, and it turns out his plans aren?t as he thought they were. If he joins with Abodahon, then he?ll have the leave the Crimson Empire. Eventually, he meets Abodahon after a brawl with some Grey Empire warriors. He goes with him to one of the cities (Alphagrad or Retangrad, I forget). He is then told to attack Draven. He then approaches Draven, but hesitates and then refuses to do so. The spirit demon inside him that he was possessed with kills him and controls his body. Abodahon however chooses to fight Draven. Valos then fights Zion and Xenai. He wounds Xenai and he is left out of the fight, and then he has a mighty duel with Zion. Many of his new powers are shown. But due to the spirit not having total control for so many years, he has his head brutally lobbed off his neck by Zion. However, that doesn?t kill him, after Zion and the others leave he repairs himself and then goes back to Abodahon, he then tells him to find Duilin and his friends.


Name: Rink
Gender: Male
Race: Imp
Age: Unknown even to himself
Job: None
Weapon: Fire based magic
Alliance: Romme Avengers
Description: A small red imp, with strange light red markings all over his body. He has a chubby looking face, but a muscular body. He has small wings, and can fly with them, yet not as fast as others can. He uses magic to fly faster.
Bio: When Armic opened the gate and the demon warriors charged out. Rink decided to check and see what was going on. So he flue out and examined around. Oddly he was able to stay in the world, because of his lack of need in Hell.

Chapter 5:

?My name is Rink, I rhyme with pink. I?m so small I fit in a sink!?

So far he was learned that the 6 weapons are lost in this world, and two teams are waging war over them. He joined Duilin and helps him find them and stop the crisis. He has been Duilin's partner ever since.

Chapter 6:

?We don't have anytime for chasing, let's get a move on?

Zeros' visits Duilin and Rink and tells them that he senses a strong power, which they must seek. They then join up with him to seek it out, but the Prophet arrives and warns them of a group called the Aspyes. Once they locate were the power was coming from, and meet a few new people, they find out that Haraldur was returned. They then have to ally with Draven again, and they also meet a General of the Crimson Empire, named Valos, who was an apprentice of Nex. Valos, wanted Duilin to let his demonic side, and do what his father intended him for and take the throne as the king of hell. Rink of course knows the dangers of this, since he knew Duilin's father, and how Nex convinced him to do the same. Rink became a bit unsure if Valos was telling the truth of his plan, so he watched him and listened to his conversations with Duilin.

Chapter 7:

"I'm getting worried..."

He was assigned by the Crimson Empire to go spy on Haraldur at Laus. He gains information about the technology and the how the area was defended. Afterwards, he joined back up with Duilin and Zeros' and slightly helped fight Haraldur. As they chased Haraldur back to Laus, only to have the city disappear, they sensed several powerful auras. They then flue off to the location, however Marshal and his friend Ein were following closely behind. Rink was able to distract them so Duilin and Zeros' could continue. After an amusing battle, Valos and Rink begin to row, and Duilin takes the side of Valos causing Rink to storm off in rage.

Chapter 8:

?Those blackjack games are usually rigged.?

The area was total darkness, however Rink has far better perception then most people, even Zeros?. The two of them meet up with Duilin and Ven. Duilin says that he is sorry for what he said earlier, and the two are friends once again. They are confronted by a group of people. It turned out they were part of the Kingdom of Tjed. Zeros? and Rink arrive at the scene and Duilin apologizes to Rink about earlier. The people of Tjed needed Ven?s help to try and cure a pelage that has hit the Kingdom. The five of them go to Tjed to find out how to stop the pelage. They are shown people who look dead; nobody knows why they are like this. Suddenly all the sick people start swarming towards Ven. It turns out that Mavas was causing this. He was never really driven insane, and wanted to control Tjed the entire time. Duilin, Ven and Zeros? fight Mavas and eventually bringing him to his end. A victory feast is then set up as they rejoice the great victory. The king of Tjed then gives Rink, Zeros? and Duilin a ship to go back to mainland. Duilin captains the ship back and as they arrive they are attacked by Hell Crawlers. After him and Zeros? vaporized them all Valos appears, and reveals he his body is controlled by the same dark spirit who controlled Nex. Valos claims he is invisible and then offers them to join him in the Grey Empire.


Name: Marshall Royle
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 21
Job: Summoning Mage
Weapon: A sapphire amulet, used for summoning, and an automatic riffle.
Alliance: Aspyes
Description: He wears blue pants, and a blue muscle shirt he wears re coloured Crimson Empire armour over it.
Bio: His parents who served the Temple Of The Blue Minotaur raised him. It was basically a cult that believed in summoning the gods? creatures. Currently his skill in summoning is low. He lived a very peaceful life, and his only adventure was aiding in the defeat of a rival cult known as the Red Cyclops.

Chapter 6:

?I suppose this will aid in my studies.?

Marshall meets the people of one of the latest legends. They were the ones who were in nearly every battle in the episode that happened five years ago. And they were about to go on another one; they were to have a war against a group planning world domination, the Aspyes. The Blue Minotaurs being collectors of legends, Marshall wants to join them, and be a part of it. However he learns that the Aspyes are in fact not a group of war mongering men, craving world domination, but a collective of people wanting to start a revolution to bring the world to peace. Marshal realising he put his clan in danger, and getting banished, he joins the Aspyes.

Chapter 7:

?Hah, you are the one who is disgusting. Aiding a force bent on world domination. We Aspyes plan to bring peace. Using any means necessary!?

Marshall meets a person named Duke Ein, who seemed to have teleported to Laus. Haraldur assigns Marshal on a mission to delay Duilin and Zeros' from attacking. He goes to a cliff and waits for them. Once they come by, he gains there attention and makes up a story about Haraldur going crazy, and going to destroy Rivertown, yet Zeros' disbelieves him so he flees. Marshal then defends the city of Laus and eventually goes off to attack the base camp. He fights a woman named Aura, and summons a Minotaur. After the battle he flees back to Laus, and then teams up with Ein, the two of them go off following Duilin, with Ein in a moth form. After the two of them fight of Rink, and some Grey Empire soldiers, Ein returns to his human form, and two of them make rest.

Chapter 8:

?EAT LEAD!?

Him and Ein travel off to the woods and Marshal helps Ein in the construction of a great war machine which Ein called ?The Leviathan?. The two of them, as well as the creatures Marshall summoned head towards the Crimson Capital to test the machine out. Haraldur and the other Aspyes arrive the scene and Marshall flies upon Wyvern back to go help them. Eventually a black hole destroys the palace and Haraldur teleports them all to the moon. The group makes some plans, and Marshall samples the aura of one of the moon creatures. They return to Gaian and begin to revolutionize villages in the Crimson Continent. They group finally rests at a near by city.


Name: Abodahon Talonscar
Gender: Male
Race: Demon
Age: Unknown
Job: Lord Of The Demons wannabe
Weapon: Two large black gauntlets that triple his arms size, with orange diamonds on the top of the hands. He is also skilled in demonic magic.
Alliance: Himself
Description: Very tall. Has orange skin, and demonic symbols branded on him. He has long white hair, and four wings on his back. His chest is bare, and he wears dark black pants.
Bio: ?It's quite an interesting story.?

Melkoth hired Abodahon, because of his demonic heritage. He would grant him with some special powers, if Abodahon were to try and overthrow the dark god Qor, and gain control of the demons. Melkoth himself asked Qor if he would help him in his conquest, but he refused. He then spotted the potential in Abodahon, and then offered him the deal, and he excepted.

With his new powers, and his old ones, he believed he could take over Qor. However, that was quite a big mistake. He defeated Abodahon in battle, due to his powers taking a bit to long to charge, but he let him live, but as a punishment he severally damaged his upper arms, making them quite useless.

Haraldur, being with Melkoth at the time, then made Abodahon his gauntlets, they practically would serve as new arms, he would be able to lift them up as if they were his own arms and swing them around as normal, they were also equip with the orange diamonds to increase his magic charging speed.

Abodahon is the father of Duilin, the rest of his history has yet to be revealed.


Chapter 7:

?Make sure you keep a good eye on my son...Duilin?

He arrives at Gaian, with the help of his friend Melkoth. Melkoth is forming an Empire known as the Grey Empire. Abodahon also sees his old friend Quintus. Melkoth and Abodahon then go off to the town of Alphagrad to take it over. Abodahon simply slaughters tons of people, without even using magic. After the army is taken out, he then sees that some people have arrived. He then confronts a half god half demon, a knight and two swordsmen, he fights them off for quite awhile yet, because of him being out numbered his is forced to retreat. He then appears again, and talks to Valos. He warns him that he would loose his ?freedom? if he did not help them, and aided the Crimson Empire. He also tells Valos to keep a close watch on his son Duilin.

Chapter 8:

?I really don't see why you continue to trust people; you obviously don't have the correct people skills. Oh, it just upsets me to think how heart breaking your love life must be.?

Abodahon begins to make plans on the capture of Duilin, but the plans are soon put on delay due to a heavy attack on one of the cities. He goes to Valos and tells him to follow. He orders Valos to attack Draven, but eventually refuses. Abodahon then triggers the spirit demon to take over Valos? body. After a battle with Draven, Melkoth shows up, causing Draven to run. They both follow him back to the Crimson Palace, only to find the place to be sucked into a black hole. Him and Melkoth then return to Sigmund. Abodahon meets Vincent, whom recently switched away from the Crimson Empire. After a brief chat, he then orders Valos to find Duilin.



Name: Smith Darak
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 49
Job: Commander
Weapon: Double Edged Axe
Alliance: Crimson Empire
Description: He stands nearly seven feet tall; he has a scar along his eye, brown skin, and long dark hair. He speaks in a deep voice. He wears the standard Crimson Empire armour, and badges showing he is a captain. He is getting old, but that does not slow him down.
Bio: He fought along side with Darion when they invaded Duilin's old village. He stood at the hidden city with several soldiers, and they live there for ten years. Suddenly one of the legendary weapons falls down to the village so they hide it in the caves. They were attacked by monsters, which may be hiding in the caves, under the town. Yet a group of people come to the town and tell them they are looking for a weapon. They are convinced to help them find it, after a battle with zombies in the cave the group then finds the weapon and leaves. After a month or so. Draven begins to from the Crimson Empire. Darak then joins the new Empire. After five years, he then sees somebody familiar. It was Duilin he was a person in the group he saw five years ago. He then talks with him for a little while and then goes back to work. The next day the word is given that two towns are under attack, so he is sent off to defend them. Darak is waiting for the next battle at Alphagrad and Retangrad.

Chapter 8:

?Well, thank you. Now die.?

Darak was travelling with a large attack group, when suddenly; Grey Empire warriors ambushed them. Darak then meets Steorra, a woman with strong magic abilities. She joins with him, and the two head into the inner city, only to find them ambushed by Talonscar Elites. After a fight with them, the two of them arrive just in time to find Zion defeat the possessed Valos. They then join with them, to head back towards the Crimson Capital, but were flagged down by a group of people, whom included General Vincent. They were informed that Draven has fallen and a new Emporer Melkoth has taken his place. Having has gone through the same with Retan falling and Draven taking his place, he didn?t have any problems joining with the new Empire. One colour is as good as another. He then assist Vincent in the attack on a fortress, that have disagreed to join them.

[D. Ein]

Name: D. Ein
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 22
Job: Going around and randomly attacking people
Weapon(s): A crossbow with a steel handle, some bolts to it.
Alliance: Aspyes
Description: Tall, white shirt, necklength white hair covering his left eye, black hood & cape, and black pants
Bio: Ein got to the crimson continent by accident. In fact, he did not have a particular destination in mind.
Chapter 7 bio: After allying with the Aspyes, Ein took a shot at slaying some of the more powerful entities, failing each time.
Chapter 8 bio: Travelling with Marshal the summoner, Ein learns more about the surrounding world.


Name: Steorra
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Age: 26
Job: A powerful mage
Weapon: A tall staff, that looks like an ordinary branch with the exception of a bright shining gem in the middle.
Alliance: Grey Empire
Description: Long blonde hair tied into dreadlocks, black pants and black shirt. Has a tatoo of a rising sun on her shoulder.
Bio: Steorra, unlike most powerful mages, started out small. She only posessed rudimentary magic abilities, which were limited to not immediately blowing herself up when attempting to cast a spell. After a few years of hard training, she became aquitted with basic spells. She then worked as a mercenary for a short while but quit soon as there were too many mercenaries out there already (heh...). In her brief career she however further advanced in her skill, and got some pocket money to start looking for her next goal. Now a powerful mage concentrating mainly on heat and light (NOT fire!), she roams the Crimson Continent in search of a more steady life.
Chapter 8 bio: Steorra has planned on joining the Crimson Empire, but as her acting commanding officer joined the Greys, she joined alongside with him.


Name: The Iron Wing

Gender: Male, all four

Race: Magically empowered humans

Age: 30, 32, 34, 28 Respectively

Job: Runing "errands" for the Nightshade.

Weapon(s): Described below

Alliance: Nightshade cult

Descriptions:

Leto the Meteor: An incredibly strong large man, measuring 6 ft tall. He wields a giant double battleaxe, supposedly which only he can lift and use effectively. He calls it the "Greataxe". Leto doesn't have standard armour, rather very large pieces of metal strapped to different parts of his body. His tactics are chop, chop again, chop some more, ask questions later.

Celer the Gale: A shorter guy with a hood and cloak that covers most of his body. Although he appears slow, it is actually the exact opposite. He is quicker than a vast majority of people, but what he gains in speed, he loses in strength. He uses two small double-edged daggers. His words of wisdom are: If it moves, kill it. If it moves again, run and don't look back.

Ogen the Worm: A medium-built man. He has no armour, just a couple of leather pads on his chest, back and knees. If he is hurt, he regenerates much faster than any living creature. Once he was struck in the chest with a sword, and pierced right through. His wounds regenerated after about four minutes, and he was able to fight again in another minute. He uses an odd-looking mace which looks more like a staff gone horribly wrong.

Baron Felix Leaven: A really tall dude with pale skin. He has has purple eyes and pitch black hair tied in a short ponytail. He wears a long black cloak with a tall collar. The black cloak has a cyan nightshade symbol on it's back. He uses a long slightly wavy sword with a human skull in the place where the blade meets the handle. The skull has two iron spikes coming out if it's sides. Leaven has an interesting ability - whenever he injures his enemy enough to draw blood, the blood flows up the sword's blade into the skull. When that happens, all of his previous battle injuries are healed. He is smarter than the rest of the group and appears to be their leader.

Bio: The Iron Wing's members knew each other from early childhood. They all had unique traits: Leto always played with big rocks and large sticks pretending them to be cannonballs and swords. Celer was a coward; he'd run at the first sight of danger. Ogen always seeked a source of thrill. He did not seem to fear any conventional fights. Felix, however, was different. A curse running deep in the family caused him to become albino. Only his face could be exposed to sun without danger, and even that was a miracle. Most albino members of the Leaven family died shortly after they learned to walk, due to horrible skin cancers they were getting from the sun.
One day they all decided to go to a mountain range near their town. They heard that there is a magical fairy that would grant them all one wish (trust me, keep reading), living in one of the caves in that range. However, not many people made it there. In fact, all of them gave up when they reached a certain cliff in the range: it was incredibly tall, with no way around it.
Eventually, the four friends came to the cliff. They decided to get Leto to smash it up a bit, which didn't do much. Ogen tried climbing it... and failed, painfully falling off and hitting his head on the icy cover that clothed the mountain. Celer seeked a way around it, eventually giving up. Leaven just watched them try, but not really contributing to the effort. He paced around a bit. However, when he came closer to the left edge of the cliff, he heard cracking below him. He called his friends.
-"I think I found something, come take a look at thi--", and suddenly the ice beneath him broke. The other three followed him into the newfound tunnel. It went below the cliff, reaching the surface above it. They climbed out of it, and saw it: a cave. They went in.
Well, it wasn't exactly a fairy they found. It was a cult, lead by an enigmatic figure known only as "Iban" (Dudeman, shut up. I know you know.), that was known to have incredible amounts of magic ability. The cultists called themselves the Nightshade. Essentially, they were formed by Iban who had some sort of "history" with Abodahon (the bad kind of history). After a few questions, the cultists took them to Iban.
He agreed to fulfill their wishes on one contition. They had to stay within the cave and become part of the cult. They agreed... and he enhanced their natural abilities by as far as he could. For three of them, anyway. When he tried to do the same to Felix, he found that his greatest quality was his mind. Making people smarter was beyond his power, so he simply gave him a life-draining ability, and immediately gave him an advanced status inside the cult, namely "Baron".
Chapter 8 bio: After an unsuccessful attempt to storm the Crimson Capital, the Iron Wing retreats to the planning table to make an organised attack on the Grey Empire.

ZOMG GUESS WHO'S BACK!!!

Name: Gerard
Gender: Male
Race:
Age: 32
Job: Seeking his past killer
Weapon: Claws. And hands. Big ones.
Description: Tall, with a somewhat shredded, wide cavalier hat casting a shadow on his face. The rest of his body is covered in a tattered trenchcoat. He also has a pair of large black leathery wings.
Chapter 7 bio: Having been shot and then revived, Gerard is somewhat at a loss of what to do next. Eventually he found an island full of strange materials and plants. He spent a fair amount of time there, without as much as letting anyone know that he even exists.

[Xorlak]

Xorlak I stole your quote thing. Don't like it? Sue me. Wink

I did that hoping people would start doing it in the first place, anyway.  (Heh...)  Didn't get around to doing Vincent's this time though.

[Haraldur]

Name: Haraldur/The Aspyes Revolutionary
Gender: Male
Race: Human... shaped. Race unknown.
Age: Just (re)created by Nikola Tesla
Job: Revolutionary
Weapon(s): Himself.
Alliance: The Aspyes Revolution
Description: Long blond hair which is almost white. A beard and moustache of same colour. Northern European like skin. Blue eyes, in which a stange fire seems to burn in rage. Dressed in the skins of black bears. A swirling, dark black and red aura surrounds him.
Bio: He has been brought back by Tesla, for the Aspyes Revolution.

Chapter 6 bio (this is for both Tesla and Haraldur): He is brought back by Tesla, and they go to free some prisoners, blowing up half of the Crimson Capital in the process. The go back to the former home of Víkingagarđ and go to a settlement, releasing the prisoners. Soon after, the bulk of the Crimson Armed Forces attack, with the help of the Blue Minotaur and of Zeros' and Duilin. This attack is repulsed, and ended, to some extent, after Marshall from the Blue Minotaur negotiates with Tesla and Haraldur.

Haraldur and Tesla attack the Crimson capital, but find afterwards that they had attacked an illusion. After a battle with Zeros', which caused great damage (though temporary) to Haraldur, and as a result the laws of physics (for that universe) started to warp and break down, but only momentarily, as Haraldur quckly healed himself.

Haraldur and Tesla move south, and liberate the city of Laus and fortify it, while remaking it on more egalitarian lines. Haraldur leaves south to meet the ghost of the prophet, and Tesla organises resistance to the inevitable attack.

Chapter 7 bio: Before and during the attack on Laus, Haraldur pays a visit to Redvik, chased by Zeros', and fights Zeros' and Duilin there, causing great damage to the city, as he had intended. Later Redvik would be annihilated and the castle in it almost destroyed by Laus seperating fron the Dark Continent, as waves of lava smother the area. Laus then "swims" away and along the coast, turning North as it reaches the Eastern point of the South coast of the continent. It is travelling very fast, devastating several sparsely populated areas, including some Crimson Empire naval harbours.

Laus is then transported to a similar universe to the normal one, and Haraldur then returns to this one. He attacks a few places in the Crimson Empire before attacking the capital again, causing some damage to the Crimson Palace and other buildings before leaving towards where Salazar is, in Wahhabia.

Tesla remained in Laus in the parallel dimension, as a giant building project was commenced in the dimension with accelerated time to see whether the society they were advocating would be workable. The results are encouraging so far.

Chapter 8 bio: Haraldur killed Salazar. He chats with the king of Tjed. He frees Buenaventura Durruti from capitivity during the Alternan part of the Aspyes Revolution, meeting up with Tesla soon after. They travel to the Dark Continent.

They reach the Dark Continent. Tesla, Durruti, Marshall and Ein start a reolution in the area, while Haraldur goes to Alterna. He flies around it, surounding it with something looking like a shield, and storm clouds gather...

Name: Nikola Tesla
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age:28 years
Job: Inventor, Aspyes Revolutionary
Weapons: A prototype raygun, which is not totally reliable. A portable tesla coil. The ray gun and tesla coil, both of his invention, are powered by his magical powers, which can also be used for direct attack.
Alliance: The Aspyes Revolution
Description: Short black hair, black moustache. He is usually wearing some sort of suit, which is usually scruffy, and has been more and more unkempt as of late. See <a href='http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5...ikola_Tesla.jpg' target='_blank'>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5...ikola_Tesla.jpg</a> In addition, on his arm he has a tatoo. The tatoo depicts ten identical men with blond hair and black garments standing in a circle, and in the middle is an identical man, but much larger. From that man sparks of lightning or plasma leave and swirl their way to each of the ten smaller versions.
Bio: He was born in a small village in the mountains. When he was young, how young he knows not, some mysterious men (members of the Aspyes) visited the shack in which he and his parents lived. The men had chanced to spot him in one of their infrequent but regular sweeps of the area, noticing his patterns of behaviour. It appears some agreement was made, although it looked as if the parents were terrified. The two men picked up Tesla, and flew away to a remote cave and mountain complex. He has now left, on a mission of some sort.

Name: Buenaventura Durruti (real name of a very famous Anarchist revolutionary in Spain, who died in 1936)
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 22
Job: Revolutionary
Weapon: Himself, his magic, and anything else he can lay his hands on. He is also a demolitions expert.
Alliance: The Aspyes Revolution
Description: He is shorter than average, and stocky. He wears poor but hardwearing clothing, and belts of grenades and bullets. He wears a red and black neckerchief and a red and black forage cap.
Bio: He was born in the Alternan capital to a blacksmith and his wife. When he was 10 his father was dragged away, tortured and killed for revolutionary activities. As a result of this, he refused to join the army at 18, and so spent a year in prison before escaping, with the help of a mysterious stranger with a black and red aura wearing a black bearskin cloak. He was taken to a cave, where Tesla was and where the stranger revealed himself to be Haraldur, the "father" of Anarchism on Gaian. This was three years ago.

Since, he has been a leading revolutionary in Alterna, and has just been released from prison by Tesla, to the sound of revolution outside. He had been put in prison for blowing up the council building in the capital of Alterna.

Name: Melkoth
Gender: Male
Race: God
Age: 17 million years... at last count. Why bother counting if you cannot die of natural causes?
Job: Was ruler of many Empires, at different times, usually, but not always, on the Dark Continent (nicknamed so due to the events that took place there, usually under Melkoth's rule), but sometimes on other landmasses. Now he is back.
Weapon: Himself, mostly. He does wear a sword, usually, and he always wears a ring called the Poison Ring.
Alliance: Himself, Grey Empire.
Description: Tall and broad shouldered, he has long blond hair and a beard, blue eyes. Like his son, he wears black (although Haraldur now wears aneckerchief around his neck as well: a red and black one), in the form of long flowing robes, a tunic and trousers. This is not his only form, as he is a shapeshifter.
Bio: Appearing in the universe some tens of millions of years ago, he has been involved in many things on this planet over the past hundreds of thousands of years, it all starting with the Gaian Empire, and Empire that lasted a full 33,000 years before eventually falling apart in bloody war and destruction. He led many Empires since, of varying lengths of existance, but usually in the thousands, and some in the tens of thousands. One, the Jet Empire (in case any of you do not know, Jet is a mineraloid derived from decaying wood under extreme pressure, and is black, "jet-black", in fact) lasted in excess of 145,000 years.

What is known about him is that he was a very autocratic and cruel Emporer, every time. Sometimes, he forced Zeros''s mother to be part of his harem, causing her to get claw marks on her back from when he shapeshifted in anger when she had defied him.

Five years ago, he was fought against and defeated by Haraldur, his own son (well, it is more complex than that), and the two have a mortal hatred. In the meantime, he has been preserved in several lockets, which are hidden in many places, so he can be brought back. He has only "died" twice, both times killed by Haraldur, who had discovered the location of a locket the second time, and killed him again, and thought that there had only been one (indeed, still thinks that, for the moment). The intervening period lasted 20,000 years.

Chapter 7 bio: He was recreated by Quintus. He then organised an insurgency in which Alphagrad and Retangrad were taken. He then left for some thought and has come to the conclusion that the world has changed dramatically: there are now many more individuals of high power, rendering large armies of little utility.

Chapter 8 bio: Working in the background, he has surveyed the Dark Continent, and is prepared to hypothetically divide it up. He did help his new High General, Vincent, a little in a battle, however.

Name: Quintus/"The Great Prophet"
Gender: Male
Race: Unknown
Age: 2 million years
Job: Deputy to Melkoth, Chancellor of the Grey Empire.
Weapon: None except his magery.
Alliance: Melkoth, Grey Empire
Description: Withered, grey hair, blue eyes, a wild look. Wears tattered grey robes out of preference. These have now been replaced with new grey robes. All this time hinting at the Empire of the same colour.
Bio: Many ages this man has seen, including those of the future, or at least, the possibilities of the future. It was he that made the prophecy concerning Haraldur and Ellenna, a prophecy that only he and his "students" are aware of.

Chapter 5 bio: Attempted to guide Zeros' party to an end where Haraldur would be peacefully "fulfilled", but had unexpected difficulty.

He remains worried for the future. Things had not worked out absolutely as they had supposed to, but he supposes it was close enough, or so he hopes.

Chapter 6 bio: He travels to warn Zeros', but shot by Tesla soon after.

Chapter 7bio: He is released from another Plane by Haraldur, for reasons he knows not. Whatever his reasons, Haraldur would be pleased that plenty of trouble was caused by this action.

Chapter 8: bio: He got Vincent to defect and with his help went about the business of setting up the Grey Empire. As a result of their efforts, the Grey Empire now controls the western part of the Dark Continent.

[TK Game Boy]

I decided to join this RP but I have yet to start reading, which I will soon enough. But that will take a while so can someone give me a summery of what is going on.

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Name: Quadricentennial
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 35
Job: Forest Loner (He lives on the forest alone)
Weapon: Brass claws (a pair of gloves with claws on them), Sword Soles (shoes with a knife jacked in it)
Alliance: None. Lives in a dark forest by himself.
Description: Black hair that stands up. Scarf masks his mouth. Eyes blue like the sky. Red scarf that goes down to his shoes. Red cape and vest. Black pants. Iron shoes with knives. Pretty much a Vincent Valentine look.

Bio: Former name was Talmund D. Varantino. His life was terrible. As a child, he was abondoned by his parents in the middle of nowhere. He was founded by a clergy man and taken in. Months later, the clergy man was shot to death and the church burned down. He was sent to another orphange by 10. He was bullied on by many of the children and a maniac who only worked there because he was the son of the owner. Talmund told that the maniac would constatly do stuff to him like burn him with an iron spike but he was not taken seriously. He one day ran away from the orphange. He would then enter a dark and dingy forest where he would live for the rest of his life. He then saw a warriors body next to a witch. The witch asked him why he was crying and the young Talmund responded that he wanted to die. The witch, named Silver, took him in and taught him the art of Sbox. Sbox is an ability to "cut the air", which is managing to use the air to make blades cut even more cleaner. So clean that it literarly cuts the air. He took the dead warriors Brass Claws and Sword Soles and began training for 12 years. He finally mastered it which Silver was very impressed because it usually took 27 years to finally learn it and sometimes the warriors get cut and die (that is how the warrior died). Silver gave Talmund a new name: Quadricentennial. One day, Silver mysteriously vanished. Quadricentennial decided that the world is a vain place and decided to live in the dark forest until the world is peaceful and acceptable.

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I hope this character is acceptable.

[D. Ein]

[insert reference to darkElite's post "death of originality"]

But yeah. Welcome to DAL. Smile

[Dude Man]

Yes, yes. Indeed. Welcome to DAL. I recall you trying to join a wile ago, but never ps0ted (posted) after your sign up.

[TK Game Boy]

You remembered that?

Ya. I made 3 female chars and never joined. That was two years ago.

[Xorlak]

Yep, that was way back in chapter 1.

[insert reference to darkElite's post "death of originality"]

Eh, originality is overated.  (Heh...)  Great bio!

We'll pick things up again Saturday or Sunday.

[D. Ein]

Alright, i'm sorry, i'm sorry, kill me now...

[Dude Man]

* Runs a large steel blade through D.Ein's torso. * That would likely kill you.

Oh and Ein, are you going to ps0t your new character, that I have heard of, anytime soon?