Dark Age Legends

[Burton_projects]

Nick Felt the blast as he got up. He charged towards Durruti and trusted his sword into this stomach area, he was hiddin in the flash of the explosion.. The bullet in Nicks back made him move more slowly.
" I'll get you this time!" He yelled when his sword was mere inches from Durruti.

[Haraldur]

//Actually, he would not be hidden, he would be silloueted(sp?) against the flash and so would be very visible indeed. Also, the flash would not last very long either, so not long enough for Nik to charge.//

Before Nick was anywhere near him, Durruti could see him. He put the rifle to his shoulder again, and shot at Nick's stomach, and then at his head. He then jumped up into the air, and hovered a few metres up.

In the hide, Makhno had finished assembling the rifle. He placed its tripod on the platform and turned it towards where Darak was. He shot at Darak twice, at head and then chest.

The bullets which came out were larger than normal, and consisted of a coating of brass, and within that a detonator at the front of it, which would go off when the front was crushed by impact, and explosive behind the detonator. The ullets would explode on impact with enough force to destroy small buildings.

[Burton_projects]

Nick dodged Durruti's bullet and climbed a tree near by. He jumped from the top landing on Durruti's back about to strangle him.

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Calavous started to get tired of climbing the stairs, so he sat down a rested. He revealed his wing which were hiddin under a cape he had put on. And flew up to the top of the towers seeing a man. "Hello."

"Hello Calavous." said the old robe wearing man.

"How.... How did you know my name?"

"I am Le the great Seer I know all."


"Then why did I come here?"

"To seek a place to train."

"So you must really now all."

"No only the present not the past nor future."

[Dude Man]

//Killing ALL of the soldiers? No.\\

Some of the troops were killed in the explosion, but do to them to have kept their distance away from them, many of them also lived. Two mages emerged and started shooting powerful dark lightning blasts at Durruti and Makhno.

Darak noticed the large projectiles coming towards him. He ran backwards back into the fortress, falling over, but able to get out of the way before the projectiles hit him. The exploded but the explosion oddly, did not reach him.

He rubbed his face and then got back up on his feet.

"Close the god damn doors!" He shouted.

The large drawbridge door (Or whatever the hell the fortress has as doors) closed up. //So now Darak is not involved in the battle.\\

"Damnit, there is only two of them and they are giving us a pounding." Darak groaned. He looked a soldier, inside the building. "Have you informed any of our superiors? What about that huge demon dude?"

"No I haven't High General. Do you want me to sir-erm High General?" He asked

Darak gave him a look as if saying 'what the hell do you think?'.

"Err, right away High General!" The soldier then ran towards the hallways, he opened up one of the doors, only to bump into Abodahon himself.

The soldier fell to the ground as if hitting a stonewall. He then crawled backwards, frightened by the large demon.

"What is going on here?" Abodahon asked

"Were, under attack by the Aspyes. I know it's them, I recognized them from the Battle of Gief." Darak replied. He then noticed Duilin, almost hidden behind Abodahon. "Duilin!?"

Abodahon, looked at Duilin. "You know him?"

"Yeah." Duilin replied. "We've met a couple times."

"Right." Abodahon said. "Well, Duilin why don't you stay here. You need to save your energy. I'm going to deal with these Aspyes myself. I assume Haraldur may be on his way."

"You mean Ragnar?" Darak asked.

"No!" Abodahon snapped. "Welcome to the Grey Empire old man. Now I?m going out there.?

"But, um sir. They?ve got some sort of explosion gun, and well, a lot of explosive stuff." Darak warned.

"Oh dear!" Abodahon sarcastically replied. "Their boom-booms will give me boo-boos!"

Duilin gave out a quick laugh; he was surprised to hear his father say that.

Abodahon pointed to a few mages. "Is the energy protection field up?"

"Yes my lord." One mage replied.

"Ah, so that's why the explosions didn't reach me..." Darak mumbled.

"Excellent." Abodahon grinned, and looked at Duilin. "I'm going out there. See you in a little bit."

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He then ghosted right through the door. Appearing outside, seeing explosions, dead soldiers, and a few spread out, advancing towards Durruti's and Makhno's position.

"Such idiots." Abodahon sighed. He noticed Nick fighting Durruti, and Makhno using some sort of tripod gun. "I have to admit I admire Haraldur's creativity in weapons."

Abodahon then decided to just walk towards Makhno's position, just to cut him some slack and find out what his little toy did.

[Haraldur]

//Durruti and Makhno are nowhere near eachother, and Makhno's position is hidden.//

Durruti moved to the side, letting Nick fall towards the ground. He shot at the two mages. They both put up shields, but they were not strong enough to stop the bullets taking their heads off. Durruti then copied Haraldur's tactic of flying above the target, as he flew towards Bandervil.

Makhno saw Abodahon moving towards him. He flipped a switch on the gun, setting it from semi-automatic to automatic. He then pointed it towards Abodahon, and sprayed hundreds of explosive bullets at him, in a vague cone. As a result, some did miss and exploded off the shield around Bandervi, and so were likely to slightly burn the other side of Abodahon.

Now that the ammunition was used up, and so the weapon was useless, Makhno left the hide by its door, and moved to the side through the forest so that he could more easily see the entrance to the fortress.

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They were now very near Bandervil. The wolf Haraldur now increased in shape, to the amazement of the other wolves, to be 2 metres at the shoulder, a massive dire wolf, its fur as black as jet, and mud around its four feet.

Haraldur now smelt a very familiar smell, of a familiar demon, and the familiar smell of his own handiwork. And also the smell of a friend, who was nearer at hand.

Within moments he was past Makhno, who now had been sprayed with mud by the passing massive wolf.

Haraldur was still in the forest though, running, unseen, towards Abodahon, as Abodahon was still walking towards the hide where Makhno had been //I am assuming this.// Abodahon was close to the forest, and Haraldur jumped out of the forest to Abodahon's side, trying to grab Abodahon's neck with his teeth, regardless of how injured the demon might be.

Assuming that he does grab Abodahon's neck:

Due to his velocity, Haraldur the wolf twisted around in a semi-circular motion, ripping Abodahon's neck, unless the neck breaks due to the force on it.

//By the way, remember that this wolf is 2 metres high, which makes him heavier than a polar bear.//

A bit away from that, some other wolves jumped out and attacked the falling Nick. However, most of them waited in the forest for now.

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Both Quintus and Melkoth heard the explosions outside, and rose up to be above the fortress, and looked to see what was happening.

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The disc landed at Gief. Tesla said to a passerby: "Comrade, if you are doing nothing else, please show these men, and the giant moth, around Gief. I must go."

He turned to the other three. "Comrades, the attack on Bandervil has begun, and I am going to assist Haraldur, Benny and Nestor. Come with me if you wish.

He jumped up and flew as fast as he could towards Bandervil.

[Burton_projects]

//im guessing the following wolves are npcs?\\

While Cyan was in the market she looked at all of the jewels and such."Ohhh! I want this.....not wait this.....no this is so cute."

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"Sir what is going on now with my brother?"

"He is in danger from men named Durruti, Makhno, and....... Haraldur. But he has help from people....there names are......Abodahon and two other men but the vision is blury."

"Thats a releif i thought he would be dead without me." Calavous said sarcasticaly.

"This is no laughing matter. Ill show you where the best place is to train. There is a bunker at the edge of town. Bring those men to Bandervil in a few days. You can train twice as fast if you train there. And one last thing...watch out for the girl your with shes not what she seems..." The man said as he disapeared.

[Haraldur]

//Yes, they are NPCs. What else would they be?//

[Burton_projects]

//I thought you might be the only one controling them.
Btw am i aloud to post at 12pm would that be considered tomorrow?\\

[Haraldur]

//Well, I am so far. It is a convention that you usually allow the creator of the NPC to have most of the control, but it is not a rule. Just remember that these are savage wolves who could probably as a group quite easily kill an average human.

But of course, player characters are not average humans...//

[Xorlak]

(Remember in the upcoming battle that Bandervil is atop a plateau, with steep drop offs on all sides.  <a href='http://www.darkagegames.net/dalpedia/index.php/Bandervil' target='_blank'>Reference here.</a>)

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There were two loud thumps.  The doors to the throne room burst open, and Draven strode in, stepping over the two unconcious guards.

Normaly, there would be members of the governing court sitting around the large central table, but today Henri happened to be meeting with a division of foot soldiers.  There were ten knight captains spread around King Henri, and another fifty will armed men lined on either side.  The conversing stopped as soon as the shrouded Draven walked in.

Henri stood up.

"What is the meaning of this?"

All of the soldiers drew their weapons.

Ven ran in from the open doorway, another seven knights following due to the comotion.

Draven removed his hood and folded his arms, a slight smirk spanning his chin as he met the king's eyes.  Henri's tone became dark.

"Leave us, all of you."

"My lord?"

"Now."

The small army slowly filed out of the room, walking around the mysterious man in black.  A servant shut the door from the outside leaving the two rulers alone, and the slamming echoed throughout the empty room.  Henri sat back down.  Draven casually took the seat on the opposite side.  Henri spoke first.

"I thought we had an agreement."

"Now come now, I've just come... to chat..."

[Burton_projects]

//Just so you now im not posting over the limit in my timezone its the next day.\\

Nick landed with his left hand and did a flip thing dodging the wolves bites and stabing towards one killing it. He pulled his sword out of the ribcage and moved back with one push of his leg. He was now standing 60 meters from Abodahon.

[Haraldur]

//Nick: Durruti and Makhno were hundreds of metres away from eachother, and hence Abodahon is now hundreds of metres away from Nick.//

[Dude Man]

//Well remember Haraldur, Abodahon is 8 feet 1 inch (and I do believe that is more then 2 meters, if my memory is correct) and probably weighs a bit more then a polar bear. Heheh.\\

As the explosions blew next to him, Abodahon was barely affected by them, only suffering minor burns, which rapidly healed. As the rest of shells flew towards him, he lifted up his left hand. The gem on his gauntlet changed to a light blue colour, and the rest of the shells flew away from him, in random directions (some of them close enough to Nestor to effect him). The gem then went back to its normal orange colour.

He then shifted his eyes and noticed a larger then average wolf diving towards him. He ghosted a few feet away from the wolf as it neared towards his neck, and swung his right fist at the front of wolf's mouth.

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"That...demon." Darak asked. "Is that your father?"

"Yes. His name is Abodahon." Duilin replied.

"Talonscar?"

"Yes, how did you know?"

"Well, he's the head of the Talonscar cult, and well, I remember seeing him about fifteen years ago, I believe."

"You did?"

"Umm..." Darak tried to remember what happened. He then thought for a few moments.

"Well?"

"Oh um...never mind. I think I may be thinking of something else!"

[Haraldur]

//Yes, 8 feet is taller than 2 metres, but remember that a wolf is also quite long. Its body mass would be many times that of Abodahon. It is a four fotted animal after all.//

Melkoth spotted Haraldur, and so did Quintus. They flew down towards Haraldur and Abodahon.

Quintus started charging a fireball, but was interrupted when Makhno jumped up out of the forest and flew towards him, slashing his sword at him, and catching the Prophet by surprise. Quintus' right arm fell down to the ground, where it was grabbed by some wolves and devoured, the fireball dissipating into nothing.

Quintus was now left with just a bloody stump for a right arm, utterly useless. //Quintus can now only do one attack per round, as I interpret the two action per round guideline as being one for each hand.// He threw a fireball at the passing Makhno, but it missed and struck the shield around Bandervil //and does whatever Dude Man wants it to do.//.

Melkoth turned around to see Makhno passing by him, and was about to strike him with his poison ring on his hand when he felt someone grabbing his neck. He threw Durruti off of him, and said, "What the hell do you think you are doing?"

"Doing? Dios, I am avenging the people of Alterna for your oppressive religion. You are also an earthly tyrant Melkoth, and we will destroy you."

//Bet none of you guessed that the deity, Dios, that is worshipped in Alterna as well as in most of Terian at some time, was Melkoth? That is why all the priests in Alterna and Ugran were shot!//

Durruti shot at Melkoth once, but the bullet deflected off a shield and thudded into the ground. Likewise he blocked Melkoth's fire stream attack, like a flamethrower.

Abodahon's punch missed, and Haraldur landed on the ground and turned, increasing size to 3 metres at the shoulder, with his head now about a metre wide. He opened his mouth and bit at Abodahon, trying to get the demon into his mouth.

If that succeeds, Haraldur starts to chew.

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Tesla continued to fly towards Bandervil.

[Zeros']

Zeros' had continued on towards the Grey Empire, rapidly approaching it, with Rink help in his hand and his allies behind or next to him all the way.

After a while, he could barely see the main structure of the Grey Empire. He could also sense several other signatures around, inlcuding Duilin and Haraldur's and several others.

Zeros' frowned. It looked like everyone was here...

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Allen shook his head at the foolishness of the knight and stopped, as the door closed behind Draven and into the kings chambers.

He sighed and set himself up as a vigil near the door, not knowing what else to do.