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| ======Whispers of the Wilds====== | ======Whispers of the Wilds====== | ||
| //Campaign 10 - Ida/ Sam J// \\ | //Campaign 10 - Ida/ Sam J// \\ | ||
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| By far the most capable looking among the group, A [[culture: | By far the most capable looking among the group, A [[culture: | ||
| - | Lastly in the march was a woman larger than life. Standing easily twice as tall as even the Loxodon and built like a one woman army. The markings of a [[culture:giant|Goliath]] but the horns and tail of a [[culture:Tiefling]], A Rare monstrous race known as an //Oni// yet not the savage nature of one, or at least it was well hidden. Though mistaken as one her true nature would not be revealed to much later in this adventure. Her dull red skin draped with a sea of wild ash black hair. Wearing very little as most barbarians would and a meanacing weapon sheathed. Its easy to imagine a swing of it could topple castle walls. | + | Lastly in the march was a woman larger than life. Standing easily twice as tall as even the Loxodon and built like a one woman army. The markings of a [[culture:jotun|Goliath]] but the horns and tail of a [[culture:hell_spawn]], A Rare monstrous race known as an //Oni// yet not the savage nature of one, or at least it was well hidden. Though mistaken as one her true nature would not be revealed to much later in this adventure. Her dull red skin draped with a sea of wild ash black hair. Wearing very little as most barbarians would and a meanacing weapon sheathed. Its easy to imagine a swing of it could topple castle walls. |
| On the horizon, just before noon comes a change. more defined shapes of buildings and evidence of saturated travel on the roads signaled they had almost reached their destination. The town of [[town: | On the horizon, just before noon comes a change. more defined shapes of buildings and evidence of saturated travel on the roads signaled they had almost reached their destination. The town of [[town: | ||
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| //Raishin// ordered a jug of //Shasta// as well as the day's roast. //Razar// ordered desert twice. while the others got rather ordinary meals. over the meal the party give formal introductions. \\ | //Raishin// ordered a jug of //Shasta// as well as the day's roast. //Razar// ordered desert twice. while the others got rather ordinary meals. over the meal the party give formal introductions. \\ | ||
| - | //Raishin// introduces herself as a [[culture:Giant|Half-Giant]]. She was a mercenary for a well established army but after she learned her missing family may be in the land of the //Fey//, The [[planes: | + | //Raishin// introduces herself as a [[culture:jotun|Half-Giant]]. She was a mercenary for a well established army but after she learned her missing family may be in the land of the //Fey//, The [[planes: |
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| //Razar// The Loxodon explained with his mouth full half the time. That he had recived an ill Omen of a coming disaster that will shake //Felwind// his dreams trace the root cause to the //Feywild// where he says his destiny is leading him. suddenly putting a few more steaks upon this journey. \\ | //Razar// The Loxodon explained with his mouth full half the time. That he had recived an ill Omen of a coming disaster that will shake //Felwind// his dreams trace the root cause to the //Feywild// where he says his destiny is leading him. suddenly putting a few more steaks upon this journey. \\ | ||
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| Smoker ran over. his bow, though he had just come back from death he was confident his arrow would find its mark. | Smoker ran over. his bow, though he had just come back from death he was confident his arrow would find its mark. | ||
| - | The party quickly tied the dart to Smoker' | + | The party quickly tied the dart to Smoker' |
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| The petal dragon started to wilt rapidly seconds later. The plants and flowers along her body wilting and turning grey in a matter of seconds. Her body loosing form and shrivelling as she wailed in pain and shock. \\ | The petal dragon started to wilt rapidly seconds later. The plants and flowers along her body wilting and turning grey in a matter of seconds. Her body loosing form and shrivelling as she wailed in pain and shock. \\ | ||
| - | Raishin’s barrage of attacks finally shattering the weakened barrier and as she pulled back for a final blow towords | + | Raishin’s barrage of attacks finally shattering the weakened barrier and as she pulled back for a final blow towards |
| - | With seconds to react the party, would not stand in the way. However Anaise caught a glimpse of Seyeto preparing a spell to escape, She would not let that happen as she conjured a force cage around him to prevent his escape just before Raishin’s Red Rend cleaved through. \\ | + | With seconds to react the party chose not to interfear, They could all see that the Petal Draon would be caught in the attack but none chose to act to stop Raishin' |
| - | Raishin’s molten claws cleaved through // | + | Raishin’s molten claws cleaved through // |
| Raishin in her fury would breath a torrent of blue flames upon the force cage trying to get through it, The flames enveloped the stage and theatre setting fire to everything around, The party all manage to doge out of the way of the divine flames. \\ | Raishin in her fury would breath a torrent of blue flames upon the force cage trying to get through it, The flames enveloped the stage and theatre setting fire to everything around, The party all manage to doge out of the way of the divine flames. \\ | ||
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| - | Spitting flames in fury Raishin turned to | + | Spitting flames in fury Raishin turned to //Anaise// and demanded she lower to force cage, Her explanation fell on deaf ears as Raishin told Anaise to silence herself and drop the dammed spell. |
| - | //Anaise// and demanded she lower to force cage, Her explanation fell on deaf ears as Raishin told Anaise to silence herself and drop the dammed spell. | + | Anaise did. as it happened //Caligos// used a hold person spell scroll to paralyze //Seyeto//, and in the few seconds of casting the spell Raishin had let loose another inferno of divine blue flames. Engulfing the leader of //Black Albertross// |
| + | the screams of divine flame, the pained cries of a man burning alive. it was hard to watch, hard to hear, but it did not stop. Raishin stepped forward and pinned down the figure of //Seyeto// still flailing and screaming as his flesh and soul is burned. Raishin unleashed her fire directly upon him, soaking him in flames until every inch of his being, every inch of his soul was wreathed by Raishin' | ||
| + | And //Seyeto// did not stop screaming, he did not die. \\ | ||
| + | As the party looked around at each other in horror, realising he would not die, This was no normal fire. This was some sort of divine punishment, Rasihin using the power of the late Goddess Auril to soak // | ||
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| + | for //Seyeto// would burn \\ | ||
| + | He would burn for eternity \\ | ||
| + | with no way to extinguish the fire. \\ | ||
| + | The the fire would not kill him. It would keep him alive through anything. \\ | ||
| + | it will only ever deliver pain. \\ | ||
| + | His screams of Agony forever herd \\ | ||
| + | Plea of mercy forever ignored. \\ | ||
| + | This is Raishin' | ||
| - | **Still In Progress | + | By the time Raishin finally stopped her torrent |
| + | For blade will not slice, poison will not take, water will not suffocate and age will not claim, Death has forsaken those under divine punishment for it is a soul claimed for punishment where Death would be a mercy. | ||
| + | Raishin would let the burning thing known as //Seyeto// up from her claws as it staggered and screamed trying to find relief from the pain, it threw its body into water barrels, tried to impaled himself on a blade yet noting would ever stop this raging fire. The blaze did not spread off his body, the wooden walls and floor remained unchanged by the raging blue flames. \\ | ||
| + | //Seyeto// would make is hobbled way outside and Raishin would follow, as if still not satisfied. se wanted to watch him longer, wanted to hear his agony just a bit longer. \\ | ||
| + | The rest of the party watched on in horror, not willing to stop her or even say a word. they simply turned to each other in silent agreement that it was to be left alone. | ||
| + | The Blue flames burned continuously around the theatre but they did not spread. easy enough to avoid. With things becoming quite //Smoker// rushed backstage to the statue of his father Trigger. \\ | ||
| + | The party got a moment to breath and look around, things were dark and quiet. It was sure that the entire city of not the entire nation of Folklora fell with the death of // | ||
| + | //Rudy// would take the opportunity to try and harvest some parts from an Arch-Fey but much to his disappointment the body of // | ||
| + | //Tami// was speechless, weather out of the acts the party had just committed or her own in-action to prevent it from happening. | ||
| + | Smoker would find the life life statue of Trigger backstage, What it was doing here? what // | ||
| + | Trigger was hunched over, on one Knee in this statue form. Smoker had already assumed correctly as he had seen it many times before that this was trigger in some sort of petrified state. \\ | ||
| + | Looking closer Triger resembled the pose of being stabbed and sure enough there was a small blade slightly impaled into his chest, A Blade belonging to a dagger or knife of some sort. \\ | ||
| + | Right away he knew, Pulling out the Bladeless hilt of the //Fang of Thomas// he had obtained from the Hag Skabatha' | ||
| + | As he did the stone began to rumble and crack, falling away to reveal Trigger as he was, A Large well built Leoin Tiger man. | ||
| - | ==== Epilogue: Whisper' | + | Trigger embraced Smoker with little hesitation, //"My Boy!, You did it Smoker! you did it!"// \\ |
| + | Smoker had so many questions, so much pent up emotion however when it came down to the moment all he could do was embrace his father and savour the moment together. \\ | ||
| + | Trigger would hold Smoker close as he told him of what happened. //" | ||
| + | The words began to rasped towards the end, as they leaned back to see Triger had begun to rapidly age. \\ | ||
| + | //"Ah it seems the years are catching up to me all at once."// | ||
| - | **Still In Progress | + | The two of them shared some small words, it seemed just the act that they had found each other was all the closure Smoker needed. Watching as Trigger quickly aged, he would soon be dust. a few more words and questions before Trigger clasp Smoker' |
| + | //"Oh, Smoker..happy birthday by boy."// | ||
| + | As Smoker returned to the rest of the party they stood, looking around at the corpse of nations, for their actions today however small or grand have doomed the naïve nations of the Thorn Throne and Jardins to death. Restoring these parts of the Feywild to what it once was, chaos. | ||
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| + | There was nothing left to do now, It was time to take the deal with Evelyn and go home. | ||
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| + | ==== Epilogue: Whisper' | ||
| //It ends as it began, with a deal.// | //It ends as it began, with a deal.// | ||
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| + | The party return to Evelyn' | ||
| + | The Adventure had put the adventures to the test, both Physically and mentally, and not everyone passed, Thundering Horns would be leaving behind six (6) comrades in death or departure. But even as the end was in sight not all were satisfied with the outcome. | ||
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| + | Evelyn would congratulate the party on the final performance, | ||
| + | //" | ||
| + | The party had a few clauses to add. \\ | ||
| + | Caligos demanded that Arno be freed from his deal, Evelyn shook her head, it was not her deal but Arno's own deal he made with her. If Caligos wanted him to back out of his own deal then he would have to ask him directly. \\ | ||
| + | Anaise made sure Evelyn would not return to the Feywild to try her plan again. \\ | ||
| + | But aside form that none of the other party members had anything to add. She hold out one of her clawed hands for a shake. | ||
| You catch Evelyn' | You catch Evelyn' | ||
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| //"You did it! you did it! ahhh have I never ever been more overjoyed than this moment, finally rid of that hag coven I am in full bloom once again, my power returned, I can sing and dance to my hearts desire."// | //"You did it! you did it! ahhh have I never ever been more overjoyed than this moment, finally rid of that hag coven I am in full bloom once again, my power returned, I can sing and dance to my hearts desire."// | ||
| He goes around to the party members shaking their hands, give out hugs and kisses as he lets loose his full gratitude. | He goes around to the party members shaking their hands, give out hugs and kisses as he lets loose his full gratitude. | ||
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| + | Celebration quickly turns to rewards. As Promised the Prince is to fulfil the desires for the party, Including the others that were not part of the original deal. He Calls upon a small stage to appear within the main hall and steps up asking for the first one to join him in a dance to fulfil their desires. \\ | ||
| + | at the end of their journey faced with almost anything they could ask for most of the party get cold feet, unable to let their desires be heard, which puts a bi damper on the Prince. \\ | ||
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| The air grows tense. \\ | The air grows tense. \\ | ||
| //" Or give in, throw your sword and shield down before me, renounce the oath and be branded a heretic. I offer this mercy only for your loyalty to me up until now!"// | //" Or give in, throw your sword and shield down before me, renounce the oath and be branded a heretic. I offer this mercy only for your loyalty to me up until now!"// | ||
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| + | Tami will wait a moment, silently considering everything that has happened through her life up until this point. One could argue that up until this point, she never truly had any choice in her life. \\ | ||
| + | Being born into the Thorn Throne and fighting in the army, then being plucked from the //Feywild// and being pressed into // | ||
| + | But what does wait for her outside of being a cleric? Does Tami have the strength to leave her life's work and define her own path? Or perhaps she never needed to leave this path, and merely needed to set aside her doubts and keep walking this one. \\ | ||
| + | Tami keeps her head bowed, but it shifts from shame to determination as she unsheathes her sword and stabs it into the grass, bending her knee. \\ | ||
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| - | **Dependent on Tami's Epilogue choices** \\ | + | Tami would continue her service to her Goddess in the years to come, her resolve no longer questioned and her faith in the Twilight absolute. |
| - | Tami with or without // | + | She would continue to aid others, returning |
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| It would be at least a year or two before Tami's thoughts would wander and wonder what ever became of the others. Anaise would sparingly return her letters due to the busy life of a performer and mother AND princess and Tami had not been eager to keep in contact with the others after the events on their final day in the Feywild. what where her thoughts on them after these past few years? | It would be at least a year or two before Tami's thoughts would wander and wonder what ever became of the others. Anaise would sparingly return her letters due to the busy life of a performer and mother AND princess and Tami had not been eager to keep in contact with the others after the events on their final day in the Feywild. what where her thoughts on them after these past few years? | ||
| - | Where is Caligos now? \\ | + | As time passed, Tami would reach out to the other members in an attempt to reconnect, visiting whenever circumstances allowed |
| - | Did Raishin ever succeed with er monastery? \\ | + | |
| - | How is SMoker' | + | |
| - | and just how far has Gimbelhorn gone down his dark path? | + | |
| one thing that was for sure, // | one thing that was for sure, // | ||
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| **Valour' | **Valour' | ||
| - | Cookhorn and Lady D, otherwise known as [[character: | + | Cookhorn and Lady D, otherwise known as [[character: |
| **Swamp Land of the Bullywogs** \\ | **Swamp Land of the Bullywogs** \\ | ||
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| **A new Goddess of the Tempest Domain** \\ | **A new Goddess of the Tempest Domain** \\ | ||
| + | Soon after the realms began to right themselves, [[character: | ||
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| + | **Blob of Annihilation** \\ | ||
| + | the Oblex known as [[character: | ||
| + | Leaving uncontested she reached to corpse of //Auril// and used it to become a //Blob of Annihilation// | ||
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| + | However getting back to te mortal plane she was distracted by a cool mine full of strange creatures and has been fascinated by an ever increasing line of random findings since getting back. Most likely forgetting of her original plan. | ||
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| + | **Elisia and her Library** \\ | ||
| + | the serpent librarian [[character: | ||
| + | She set up a new anchor point for her Demi-plane in the region of [[region: | ||
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| + | After meeting with the various party members who had borrowed books from her and getting them returned she noticed towards the end of her clean up that a number of her rare and powerful books were missing from her collection! | ||
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| + | **Garry Gore-Drop** \\ | ||
| + | The Pit-Fiend Garry returned to the Hells to continue his position as head chef, Though he would take up a catering job here and there for a Hag by the name of **HagHorn** in the mortal plane. | ||
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| + | **Wicked' | ||
| + | With Planer travel corrected, Wicked, Known as [[character: | ||
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| + | **Sharphina' | ||
| + | With Planner Travel restored [[character: | ||
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| + | **Ray Never again** \\ | ||
| + | Ray returns home to her farm, [[location: | ||
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| + | **What Happened to Arno?** \\ | ||
| + | The party only knew that Arno had made a deal on his own volition with //Evelyn//. To deal was rather simple. He and his mother would return home safety, in exchange Arno would fight as Evelyn' | ||
| + | Until that time. Its unknown what happened to him. Perhaps he is just waiting in a cell for the time he is called upon, perhaps he did actually just go home and try to forget everything. | ||
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| + | Whatever his fate, he left behind many comrades without so much as a goodbye. | ||
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