Dark Age Legends

[Dippy]

The two orcs, Shaak and Kraig were in the newly finished fort inspecting the facilities.

They entered the armoury and saw a large variety of swords and spears. They weapons looked like they were recycled with bolts and chain links seen within the metal as if they didn?t quite melt in the smithy.

"Where is my Trident?" Shaak asked one of the weapons specialists.

"And my axe?" Kraig added.

"Well they are being upgrades at the labs."

"We have labs?" Kraig asked, he was surprised at how many things were in the newly finished base.

"Yes, you may want to stop by there and see what they are doing. But in the meantime, check out this!" The orc points to a rather strange weapon. It had three barrels attached by triangular spokes and had two wheels on the sides.

"This sir, is the Orc Mercenary Group Transportable 3-Barreled Heavy Gatlling gun. Or the OMG T3H Gatlling gun."

"that, that is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!" Kraig looks at the machine with almost a tear in his eye.

"It uses any piece of scrap metal as ammo. You see you put the metal in the grinder at the top and it smashes it into little bits and then blasts them at the enemy. The only down side is that it is horribly inaccurate so it is mostly useful for large crowds."

they leave the armoury to head to see the rest of the base when they see somthing on the horizon. It was the albatrorc rider they sent out to get a Cyclops egg. So they waited a little wile until he landed in the fort.

"Sir! I have the Cyclops egg you requested." The rider said, as if he had been waiting days to say it.

"Did you get the super uhh? growth... stuff." Kraig asked

"Yes."

The orcs looked at the giant egg. It was about 5 feet wide and 6 tall.

"Well. Take it to the stables and keep it warm." Shaak ordered.

"Yes sir!"

"Now what do we do?" Kraig asks

"Wait for Kronoses orders." Shaak replied.

"I'm gonna see the gun again!" Kraig runs back to the armoury.

[Burton_projects]

Nick heard a portal being opened as a new soul came into hell a figure of a girl one that looked like she practiced magical arts. He jumped through the portal landing a little south of Bandervil. He got up and looked around. seeing some beast with a jackel-like head a few 20 feet infront of him.

[Trent]

"This sir, is the Orc Mercenary Group Transportable 3-Barreled Heavy Gatlling gun. Or the OMG T3H Gatlling gun."

// Dippy wins forever. I'm waiting for Zeros' to post so I can do something useful. Razz

From Dude Man: Stop making comment only posts, remember the new rule. Wink

T's rebuttal: If Zeros' did anything, I wouldn't have to. Razz

[D. Ein]

//Ah, DM already close to abusing his powers. That's the DM I know\\

"I had arrived back home, just to catch sight of that excuse for a fighter zipping away into the distance. //Tesla is going to some place that starts with "A", right?\\

Even from a distance I could see Kandarinian coasts, fully prepped for assault. Looks like they were trying to fend off an army or something. Ah well, it is better to be over-prepared than under-prepared.

Now, since my army was already mobilized, it's best if I do something with it. It would be best to clean up the small garbage calling itself "villages" scattered all over the Continent, perhaps attracting some pathetic do-gooder to "bring an end to Kronos' evil reign". Meanwhile, the fallen defenders of the villages will simply add to my army. Talk about killing thousands of birds with one stone, and then bringing them back to life! Hmm, undead birds. My genius often surprises me myself.

Deep in my thoughts, I did not notice that I reached Kandarin. I slowly lowered myself onto the ground and phase-shifted back to reality. Through my summons, Arlin, the Elder and Roland were already waiting for me.

-"Hello, gentlemen. Do tell me of the state of my military."

Arlin, who was busy unsuccessfully trying to hide his embarassment, spoke first.

-"It seems that the incoming enemy... uh... feared our mighty defences and fled... my Lord."

I pierced him with a cold stare.

-"I think he left because he was about to shit himself laughing with the level of preparation you ordered! It was one man! Eurgh..."

Arlin's head sank.

-"Yes, my Lord."

-"Anyway, to other matters. Roland and Mr. Elder, how are things on our little pet group coming along?"

The Elder and Roland exchanged a cryptic look from each other, and turned their attention back to me.

-"The one called "Ein" is coming to Kandarin. He should not be much of a problem. Roland has it figured out."

-"I'm sure he does. Roland, what is the plan?"

Roland's expressionless face... er... stayed expressionless.

-"Ein, despite being a common human, is able to turn himself into a giant moth. Me and the Elder thought up of a solution to our little upcoming moth problem... Perhaps some open flame, from a certain type of lizard...?"

I grinned.

-"Can you do that?"

-"I believe I can. We retained our summoning powers even after the descention."

Hmm, Roland seems to be genuinely with me.

-"Very well. You know, you may be looking to a full independence from me soon enough.

Now it was Roland's turn to grin.

-"Thank you, my Lord."

With that, I left the group and entered the nearest building. The family residing inside the small pyramidic home dropped down to their knees and bowed.

-"Lord! To what do we owe such a blessing?"

I was somewhat annoyed.

-"I need to use your M-Grid device. Oh, and while you're at it, please, get off the floor!"

The couple sprang to their feet as if the floor had burnt them.

-"Yes, master!"

Forgetting about the family for the time being, I approached the transparent orb. I reached out for it, and put my had on it. At that exact moment, I shifted phases, effectively merging into the stream, and exiting in the lab where Kraig was admiring his new cannon. I slowly drifted out of the orb.

-"Hello, Kraig."

I turned away from him for a second, towards the exit from the lab.

-"SHAAK?! GET OVER HERE!"

My attention was back with Kraig.

-"Anyway. Due to a slight... mistake... of one of my high-ranking officers, I have an army deployed. I want you two to get them over the ocean to the Continent and begin raiding all smaller towns and villages you can find."

I paused, closing my eyes, and sending orders to my undead operatives in Qim's factories. Re-opening my eyes, I found another technician in the room, eyeing me carefully. I ignored him.

-"A number of transports were arranged for you and the army at the Kandarinian Industrial sector of Qim. You will also find Clockwork Scorpions there. Quite useful toys on the battlefield."

Still expecting Shaak, I moved my head closer to Kraig. My eyes thinned.

-"Now, here's the real part of the deal. No mercy. Kill children, abuse maids, torture men. Absolutely no mercy. Make it known that there is a new power. Splatter everything with blood, burn houses down, whatever. That's your art right there. Am I making myself clear?"

[Dippy]

"Yes, Sir... er, Kronos."

Kraig waits until Kronos leaves.

"That?s the first time I?ve seen you kiss ass to anyone." an orc technician said modestly.

"Get back to work!" Kraig shouted, not to be made a coward.

"Was that Kronos I heard?" Shaak said as he ran into the building.

"Yes, and he gave us a mission."

"What is it?"

"We go to the shores of Kandarinian, pick up some clock bugs, cross the ocean and kill shit."

"Is that what he said?"

"Umm... yes."

"Whatever."

The two go outside and head toward the briefing room to inform the troops.

"Please report to the briefing room for briefing... Please report to the briefing room for briefing..." The nasal voice of the orc on the loudspeaker repeats.

"Shut up"

"AARRGGG!"

"That is really annoying!" The orcs cry on their way to the briefing room.

"All the more reason to hurry up!" Shaak explains to the troops.

"Thats why you do that eh? It's still annoying as hell though." Kraig grumbled.

"Sir, come quick!"

"What?" Shaak and Kraig respond.

"The egg! It's hatching!"

The three run to the stables to see the colossal egg rolling around cracking. The after a little wile the egg split revealing what looked like a giant foul smelling baby.

"Wow, look at those big strong arms and those powerful legs and those evil piercing eyes. Wait, eyes?!?" Kraig notes in shock.

"Are you sure it was a cyclops?" Shaak asked, also in shock.

"I'm sure." The orc said.

"But the cyclops' got two eyes!" Shaak exclaims.

"It's not a cyclops! It's a... Byclops." Kraig said

"Should we return it?" The orc asks.

"Screw that, everyone has a cyclops but we are the only ones in the world who have a Byclops." Kraig said proudly

"Well, you take good care of the uhh... Byclops. We need to breif the troops now." Shaak reminds Kraig and they head off.

"I'll use that growth potion, it says it should make it mature in about ten hours. Okay? Shaak? Kraig? Man I need a smoke."

[Burton_projects]

Nick left the seen in a hurry to leave the destroied scene of Bandervil. He didn't want to run into the Aspyes again. He assumed the Grey Empire was completely gone maybe a few patches of armies and such. But little did he now that he was right. By the time he finished thinking of this theory he was lost in an unfimilar place.

[D. Ein]

Horus stopped. Not too distant, he saw the towering Bandervil... and a LOT of live auras inside. Dinner time.

He dropped down to his fours, deploying his cannon. A low hum around it began to build up... smaller lightnings fried some trees around him. The cannon was aimed at the fortress' high walls.

[Burton_projects]

Nick continued going northwards passing by Bandervil. He went into the shadow of the walls. He looked at the Souls Bane. He felt the power course through his demonic blood. He disapeared into the shadows. //soz i fixed\\

[Trent]

//Sorry about that comment only post. I just can't do anything until Zeros' tells my characters what needs to be done. Dippy still wins forever, though.//

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"...Think maybe we should go look for him?" piped up Xenai with an idea.
Zion took a short break from reading a newspaper to glance at his vulgar friend. "Maybe. Don't think those two are up to it, though." He canted his head toward Tsu and Aura, who'd fallen asleep, heads on the table.
"Oh, great. Should we leave 'em behind?"
"We're staying."
"Dammit, Zion!"

[D. Ein]

//Arg, burton, not yet! Horus didn't open fire on the walls. That was supposed to be a charged attack.\\

The black energy continued to build up inside the coils. The hum was also taking a higher pitch.

[Dude Man]

"Duilin do you hear something?" Rink asked.

"Yeah, sounds like some high pitched humming noise." Duilin replied.

"Hey, where?s Zeros'?" Rink questioned looking around.

"You know, he was hear a second ago..." Duilin answered.

"Guess I'll just go check it out myself, like seriously, how bad could it be?" Rink shrugged. He then fluttered off towards the direction of the sound.

Meanwhile Duilin leaned against the tree, Rink was resting on. He slowly looked around, seeing if he could spot Zeros' anywhere. Suddenly he sensed an aura.

"Hmm..." Duilin thought out loud. "Now...this seems like of familiar." Duilin however, was still not quite as sensing auras as Zeros', and maybe not even Zion and the bunch. But Duilin somewhat recognized the aura, from not to long before.

Duilin stepped forward and looked around. He could sense somebody was hiding behind some of the broken walls...or maybe 'in the shadows'. He remembered he sensed a demonic aura from earlier...

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Rink fluttered to wear he heard the sound, only to see a giant machine charging up a huge blast. "Sweet mother Gaia!" Rink snapped in a startle.

He quickly dived behind a rock. Now, what the hell was that? Some sort of machine-like thing? He then peeked from under the rock, to get a better look at it.

Holy smokes, it is a machine! It seems to be charging up a whole blast of dark energy. I wonder what it wants? Obviously he can tell by the energy it's charging that it's not around to talk about the weather.

Rink then flapped his wings back towards Duilin, as quickly as possible.

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"Yeah, I seriously don't know enough about how this things works in order for me to know what's wrong." Marshal grumbled. "I'd be nice if Tesla told me how these things worked..."

He then arrived on the second floor, this floor had several more hallways, and several more rooms, and several more guards.

There was a man, wearing a beige and red coloured uniform (or whatever those Kandie-Sov guys wear). He had a large belly, a full thick beard, and a baldhead. He was sitting on a wooden stool, staring at the wall, when he spots Marshall coming down the stairs.

"Now what in the great name of Kronos, are you doing here!" The man exclaimed.

Suddenly a man wearing a similar uniform, but with a cleaner build, and short blond hair runs in and points at the man, who questioned Marshall. "How dare you use our great ruler's name in vain!"

"Well, hey wait a darn minute, I did say 'good' name, didn't I?" The bearded man said in defence.

"It does not matter! Do you have any idea what Kronos has done for us? You think you can go about using his name in any way you wish!?" The blond haired man said back.

Suddenly another man, shorter then the blonde, with red hair, shouted and pointed at the blond haired man. "You have just said his name in vain as well!"

"What do you mean?" The blonde hair man said trying to defend himself. "All I said was: 'Do you have any idea what Kronos has done for us?' I was just mentioning his name."

"Well, still. You can't just say 'Kronos' freely, he is our great ruler!" The red haired man said.

"Ah ha!" The bearded man shouted, pointing at the red haired one. "Now, YOU have just said his name! How about that?"

"W-Well..." The red haired man said trying to defend himself now. "I had my reasons to...you see..."

Meanwhile Marshall unlocked all the prison doors on the floor while to two different coloured haired people began to argue. The prisoners then snatched some things they could use as weapons and began to run through the floors of the tower, releasing the prisoners (Not that when I'm finished the post, they will not be done yet.)

[D. Ein]

"I was walking peacefully through my city back to the citadel that is my palace, when I finally began to notice a spirit leaving my city. Odd. No one is due death today... Someone must've killed one of my men!

By the looks of it, the death came from somewhere in Undecimus. That's where most of the barracks and prisons are. Ah! There we go, some escapees. I sent a small jolt of my energy to the particular prison, and continued walking."

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As Marshal was releasing the prisoners, a loud groan could be heard from the stairwell. A horrid-looking undead was crawling up the stairs! There was a bullet hole in his head, as well as the bird-shaped Kandarin symbol branded on his back, still smoking. The zombie had a freakish smile on his face.

-"You know, I was going to be nice and let you escape... but."

A number of live guards armed with brutal-looking crossbows showed up the same way, from up the stairs. Some more undeads were following.

-"If you know what's good for you, surrender. Maybe we'll kill you quickly that way. On the other hand..."

The guards chuckled, exchanging menacing grins.

-"Personally, we'd actually like it more if you resisted capture."

[Dude Man]

//Hey what about the big guy who got his brains sucked out by the gel?\\

Marshall looked at the guards and the zombies surrounding him. He then grinned. "Well, personally I'd actually like it more if you all consumed your own fecal matter!"

Marshall then held out his left hand, his right hand still holding his gun, and then his amulet began to glow, and a large blue spectre flew from the amulet and into his hand, and the spectre balled up in his hands, then faster then you could blink, the spectre exploded into a swarm of blood sucking bats. They began to swarm around biting (yet not killing) the guards and zombies. They flew in the guards' faces, to able Marshall's escape.

Marshall then waved them goodbye in a mocking way, as he slid down the railing of the stairway.

"Viva la Revolution, you fascist scumbags!" He laughed as he slid down...

[Dippy]

Shaak and Kraig enter the briefing room stage and see the full ten thousand orcs and 120 ogre shock troops. It looked like an ocean with all of the swords and spears waving around. The noise of the crowd was immense, you could barley hear your own voice so you had to speak louder causing an eternal cycle of yelling.

"Now i'm sure you're all wondering why you were sent here." Shaak starts, the crowd is not paying attention at all. "Our client Kronos has given us a mission." The crowd still carries on in their conversations.

"Could you please listen!" Skaak barks, but still not one of them turns their head.

"LISTEN UP YOU LITTLE SHITS OR I'M GONNA RIP UP EVERY ONE OF YOU UP LIKE A DWARF AT A BARBIQUE!" Kraig yells out the loudest bellow he could muster working like a tsunami of shut-up across the crowd.

" *Chough* Well um... now that I have your attention, Kronos has sent us on a very important mission. We are to go to the Kandarinian Industrial sector of Qim and rendezvous with the Kandarion army. We with load up onto the transports and sail across the ocean to our destination. Now, here's the fun part: we are released onto thousands of acres of villages, civilians, and unburned crops. We are sent to make it a wasteland, needless to say, it's an open buffet of the juiciest smoothskins you've ever tasted, but remember orcs: no racism, they all deserve to die equally!" Shaak is met by a wave of cheers by the thousands of orcs.

"That was a great speech, but... Do we get to bring T3H Gattling guns?" Kraig ask like a child wanting his toy.

"Of coarse Kraig, now to business. What do you say we bring all but about a hundred orcs for guards, all of our shock troops, the fleet of a hundred albatrorcs, and I think we can get the smithies to make about a hundred of those OMG T3H Gatlling Guns." Shaak lists.

"Me likes!" Kraig grins.

"Sir, Sir, Your weapons are ready!" An orc R&D worker pants, the sweaty nerd looks like this is the first time he has seen daylight in months.

"Lets go Kraig."

They walk into the musty innards of the labs a few more nerds are tampering with little odds and ends.

"Greetings Shaak, Kraig."

"Why did you say his name first?" Kraig asks, not liking to be upstaged by Shaak.

"Uhh... I don't know, I guess it just sounds better." The scientist stutters.

"Anyways, where's my trident?" Shaak changes the topic.

"Ohh, yes hear it is, as you can see I fixed it up with a little something."

"What something?"

"A Lighting Orb Launcher! You see it shoots a little ball of electricity out of the end that may cause paralysis or death." The scientist explains.

"Cool, but what the hell is electricity?" Shaak ponders.

"And for you Kraig we have the Sonic Terrainian Fissure Upgrade. It emits a sonic blast into the ground that opens up a fissure and engulfs the target." The scientist explains.

"Umm... so it makes a... uhh... what?s a fizzer?"

"It's called a fissure, and basically what I mean is you hit the ground and it makes a crack in it that can swallow the enemy." The scientist tries to reach Kraigs dense mind.

"Okay... Would it make a crack in the skull of some smoothskin at a bar trying to bum a smoke offa? me?"

"Uhh? I guess."

"Cool" Kraig grins and takes his new weapon.

[Burton_projects]

//Dippy always adds comedy to this rp. Very Happy \\

Nick continued north completly passing Bandervil. "So where to go?" He asked himself. "Maybe where ever the wind takes me." he thought.