Dark Age Legends

[Kahn]

Hyperion came to a stop after a while and surveyed the area. He sensed that the prophet must be close by.

"Where is he?"

He decided go a little further.

[Xorlak]

Ven prepared to do another crazy leap for his life when a ball of energy exploded into the one armed zombie-beast from the side, causing it to lose its balance and fall over.  The necromancer fell off of his ride and into some nearby bushes.

"Arrrghh!!"

Ven brought his right hand behind his head.

"Uh, well yeah, I guess so..."

The ground tremored as the beast hit the ground.  Seeing the opportune moment to strike, Ven lept some fifteen feet into the air, holding out both hands and charging them with the fire element.

"The sword!  Toss it here!!"

[Dude Man]

Marshal returned to Laus. He saw, Tesla. "Tesla...I am sorry, but I have failed. Zeros' and Duilin are probably going to attack soon."

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Rink arrived at Laus, nobody seemed to notice the small imp fly into town. He sat on top of a building, next to the smoke stack, making it harder for people to notice him.

'Hmmm, he certainly likes things to be even.' Rink thought. 'God, this way of living really won't work.

He then scanned the area, he sees a few people walking around, some high-tech and magical things all around. It all looked crazy. He was more used to firey caves and everything terrible uneven.

[D. Ein]

D. Ein continued chanting. Eventually, the circular diagram in the sand started glowing eerily, and soft breeze could be felt in the general area. Then the pentagram above Ein suddenly flashed brightly. For a split second, everything was covered in bright yellow-orange light, and... He was gone. The diagram in the sand was still visible, but it was twisted, and nearly unrecognizable.

As the light faded, Ein looked around. There were square-shaped buildings around him... All the same. He saw two people talking a few feet away. He came over to them.

-"Hello, gentlemen. How are you today?"

//By gentlemen, i mean Marshal and Tesla Razz

[Haraldur]

Tesla felt a familiar presence, enter Laus, and smiled grimly to himself: they are spying already. Oh, well, if we are not bad judges of character, it seems unlikely that they will attempt murderous sabotage, so no problem.

He turned when he heard Marshall. "Indeed, it was anticipated that might happen. Haraldur is just to the North, waiting for you to accompany him to Redvik, to agitate the enemy. He will want you to attack the North of the base as he attacks the South, understand?"

A look of intense concentration returned to his face as he turned back towards the city.

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Haraldur waited.
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The Prophet looked at Ein, and said, "I deamnd that you answer me, are you on the side of Haradur?"

//What Laus used to look like is irrelevant, here is what it looks like now:

Around Laus are very tall and towered gleaming stone and galvanised steel walls, on top of which are a number of plasma firing big guns (think of the larger plasma weapons on Star Wars, or the Lasguns of Dune). In the middle of the city is a large city square, on which is deposited, in a corner, a settlement from the North, Haraldur's original followers, who have been released from stasis into Laus. To the east of the square, is a large series of pipes and cylinders and liquid tanks, covered in symbols. The rest of the city is made up mostly of housing, storehouses and workshops. All the housing is of good quality (steel, stone and brick) and equally sized, and initially aesthetically identical (although doubtless the inhabitants have made some personal modifications). Everywhere is covered with revolutionary slogans, red and red and black flags, the flags with the Aspyes symbol on them.

The people, long oppressed first by the ruling merchant guilds and by pirates, and then by the much worse Crimson Empire, are almost universally enthusiastic about the revolution, which they agree with making a world revolution. Many of them, who had worked in magical and mundane workshops before, have found themselves very busy with new objects and machines they are having to learn about to help their training, and are working on a strange substance Haraldur informed them about called "electricity", whatever that is. Expect some interesting (explosive) results as they try to work it out, without guidance from Haraldur or Tesla due to their current preoccupations.//

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Salazar sat, and said,"I am sure the Crimson Emporer likes to jo... wait, you do not know what is going on? Have you purged your intelligence forces recently?//Hehehehehe...// How much do you know of what is happening?"

He looked very concerned.

[Haraldur]

//Grrr... that is what happens when you spend time on a post...

Anyway, I will assume you are not in the streets, but on the wall, as that is where Tesla and Marshall are.//

The prophet swore and cursed as Ein disappeared from view, and decided to carry on west, to visit his acolytes. He flew west.

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Tesla turned quickly, his plasma gun pointing straight into Ein's chest, as several revolutionaries stood up, surrounding the suddenly arriving intruder pointing various bullet weapons at him. Tesla said, "Who are you!? Speak quickly, lest I get impatient."

[Zeros']

Zeros' shook his head and chuckled ruefully.

"Yes... Dropping fireballs WOULD be quite hard to ignore, but, I was thinking something else," he said. He unsheathed his sword, but, this time, it transformed into it's demonic state. Unlike the sleekness of the god blade, the demon blade was made for power.

It doubled in length (The original sword was already about 7 feet long) and grew much wider (As in, thicker. It's now about a foot across, horiziontally). The silver sheen disappeared, being replaced with black and reds... The colors of rotting flesh. Spikes, some as small as a few inches, while others reached up to two feet, were randomly placed on the blade. Dark tendrils of energy leaked out out of sword.

Zeros' walked over, and looked down off the cliff. He saw the town below, and many of the technological improvements Haraldur had made.

"Now this, is what I was thinking of," he stated. He looked around, and found the tallest building in the area: A watch tower. It towered over the rest of the town. It was one of the best sentry outposts, almost level with the cliffs, but not quite.

Zeros' hoisted the sword, and rested it across his right shoulder (As, he had pulled out the sword in his right hand). He seemed to be contimplating  something.

Hm... No... That wouldn't work. Hm... Not the Rising Dragon either... he pondered for a few more moments, before the perfect attack came to him. Faster then almost anyone could see (Well... Haraldur and Draven could probably see it), his sword blurred from his shoulder. There was a clap like thunder, as his sword ripped through the sound barrier. Now, the sword was in a downwards diagonal slash, but, that wasn't the main point of the slash.

From where his sword had slashed, a crescent blade of pure black ki flew from the point where his sword has slashed. If one looked directly at the ki blade, the person would see a distortion around the crescent blade, as, it seemed the ki blade was sucking the light from the surrounding area and taking it into itself... Or was it?

The target of the attack became clear after a moment. The blade blade of ki rocketed towards the tower. The two men manning the tower didn't have time to scream, before the blade of ki hit the watch tower. Nothing happened at first, but, after a few moments, there was a large RIPPP!.

From where the ki blade hit, it expanded outwards, until it reached the size of the tower. From there, the black aura from the attack enveloped the tower, until it was covered and completely obscured from view. There was another large RIPPP!, and the tower simply disappeared.

All around from where the tower stood, around a 5 foot radius, and sign of  plant or animal life was simply... Dead.

[Haraldur]

Haraldur, from above, saw the light absobing ki blade fly and hit the tower and saw the results. Anger seethed within him: Zeros' assertions to him being the moral one of us has now been proved to be hypocritical insult. Oh, I do not harm innocents, ha!

He saw the 30 plasma guns (shielded by Haraldur's power as of this moment) start firing towards Zeros'. The idiots! Why are they attacking one they should know is beyond their power to kill?

His face impassive, he moved his left hand towards the gap in the wall: a new tower rose up, but with the dead patch now on top, with two flags on one pole stuck into it, and seven black and red ribbons attached to the pole, each to announce a martyr to the cause. As the people saw this, he heard an increasingly loud roar of anger from the populace, now newly motivated by attack.

He dropped downwards in his flight, a large wooden shoe (sabot), about ten feet wide, in his right hand. He threw it down with great force, and it smashed against the rocks, with a small fireball following it.

The sabot dropped right onto the foot wide sword, attempting to smash it to pieces, meanwhile the rest of it broke up into large dagger sized splinters, which were ignited by the fireball, sending burning splinters at Zeros' and Duilin.

"You hypocritical bastard, Zeros'! You are moral, are you? You harm no innocents, do you? The sun, my sun, shines out of your arse does it? You have finally proven yourself just as much filth as the Crimson Emporer himself!"

Grrrr... why must I now be border control? Damn, I suppose Marshall will have to handle Redvik on his own... damn it!

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Tesla remained still as, behind Ein, a tower was destroyed and replaced with a new one, and the martyrdom signs. He heard the rising sound of anger from the crowds, and the firing of the plasma guns. He saw the agitated looks of suspicion of the revolutionaries around him towards the intruder.

"I say again, speak quickly, or, considering the circumstances, we will automatically assume you an enemy. Speak your name, damn you!"

[D. Ein]

//Curses be upon Dudeman for telling me tesla & marshal were on the streets >.<\\

Ein glanced at the gun pointed at him.
-"Well, hello to you too. This seems like quite the place for warm welcomes! I'm Duke Ein. I understand you are in some way related to Haraldur? Might you know whether or not he needs any assistance? I am quite adept at ranged combat, and I can crush bones in melee combat as well."
Since it looked like Tesla wasn't going to be lowering his gun anytime soon, Ein started explaining:
-"Once upon my wanderings, I have met a dying man. He kept begging me to touch his staff, and I, being the fool I was, touched it. Seems he already charged a memory-altering spell, and was just waiting for the right moment to use it. Anyway, it... changed my points of view upon the world. To make a long story short, I think he was a follower of Haraldur. He also gave me the gift of magic, as you might probably see."

[Haraldur]

"In that case," Tesla said, "Please demonstrate this by going out there and killing those fighting Haraldur. Any follower knows Haraldur by sight, as would have your magically gifted friend, so I trust you will be able to tell which one he is, before you see him fighting one to two."

He lowered his weapon, nodded to Ein in recognition, handed him a half red and half red and black cravat, like that which the revolutionaries wore, and then pointed his plasma gun towards the image of Zeros' in the distance and shot.

[D. Ein]

-"All right. I will try my best."
Ein jumped off the wall, and hurried to the two figures in the distance. However, suddenly he stopped, and sat down on the ground. He looked around. "Stick, stick, stick... Oh, there we go." He picked up the stick, and drew a basic circle on the ground, with three lines meeting at the centre of the circle. Then, he drew a few symbols around the circle. After that, he quickly muttered a short chant, and the lines in the middle seemed to shift a bit. Then he took out a bolt and put it on the circle. The bolt suddenly got covered in ice. Ein carefully put the enchanted bolt in his quiver, and continued running swiftly towards the two people.

[Dude Man]

Duilin, flew back and shielded himself with his wings, and briefly surrounded himself in a fiery shield, to protect himself from the burning shards. He then stood up and dusted himself off.

"Oh, I'm sorry Haraldur, you will have to excuse my friend Zeros' here." Duilin called out. "Of course, soldiers devoting themselves to guard a war mongering city by killing anyone by blasting them to hell with a witchcraft cannon HAS to be an innocent!" Duilin, flapped his wings but still stood on the ground. "Funny because, according to your logic, anyone who has anything to do with a certain group with a violent cause such as the Crimson Empire or the Aspyes, isn't innocent. And don't tell me the Aspyes are not violent, because you people have enough weapons to kill a freaking god."

He then narrowed his eyes, and spotted a caped man, coming toward them. "I'll take capie, over there." He then upholstered his mace and then soared over towards, the newcomer...

[Haraldur]

"Zeros' definition seems to include such people!" shouted Haraldur. "I was using his definition is my communication with him!"

[Trent]

Tsu looked to the sword on the ground. He dove for it, grabbed it, and flung it Ven-ward while Zion watched with a "Holy crap, you're gonna cut an appendage off" look.

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"Rock... Paper... Scissors!" Rock beats Scissors, and Aura wins.

"Lieutenant, why are we playing Rock Paper Scissors?"

"I was wondering when you'd ask that." ^_^ She grinned at the soldier she was playing against. "First of all, we have nothing to do until they give us the word to attack. Second of all, I'm trying to get you to learn how to predict me. If you know what your opponent's gonna do before he or she does it, you have an advantage over them... Many, actually."

"Oh... I get it...  I'm still kinda nervous, sir... ma'am?"

Aura snickered. "Don't worry, you guys'll do fine. I'll make sure of it."

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Xenai walked on into a pub, taking a seat at the bar. What better way to be natural then to drink beer? He made sure to drill it into his head that he 's passing through and wants beer, so that he doesn't blab his assignment if he gets really drunk. "I want a Jack Daniels."

"Ah, always a good decision," says the barkeep. And before long, Xenai's gulping down that beer. Hah... Glad I decided to do this! Passing through, of course! HAR HAR HAR!

[D. Ein]

Ein continued running towards the two figures, as he saw one of them rise up. A second later, he noticed that the figure had... wings. That stopped him in his tracks. "What the hell...? Is that a bird or something? Hmm... odd. But, in the end, it truly matters not. After all, they have to be defeated, be it a bird or otherwise." He continued running.

As Ein was right below the winged person, he jumped landing on his back, ripped out his crossbow from behind his cape, and hastily fired several bolts at the "bird", aiming for it's head.