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 Message 1 of 39 in Discussion 
From: Loki  (Original Message)Sent: 7/17/2003 4:03 AM
Jen-kin knows ahe hasn't practiced enough as of late. The master would be displeased with her
As usual. She had been told many times that she was the worst student they had seen in their long careers
 
The thought made her wince internally as she approach the massive field. She walked to it's edge
With an after thought she stepped ou tof her wooden sandles
 
Her waist long black hair blows in the morning breeze. Her pajamas rap a bit in the cool breeze.
 
She like the feel of her feet in the cool sand.
 
She bowed her respect to the four winds ties her hair into a long braid and begins her stretching
 
She grabs her foot and slowly pulls it to side shoulder high and then rotates it in front of her to come to a rest straight up over her head where she holds it for a time before going into her next stance
 
 
((Jenki 5th level))


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 Message 25 of 39 in Discussion 
From: MSN NicknameKaze_DeatharcherSent: 7/23/2003 6:43 AM
Frost calls his swords to his belt."what did you do to her?...i will warn you only once. leave and never come back, or i will make sure you arn't even identifyable by smell." he threatens as he stands in a stance with his swords in there shieths on his belt. his usual kind face contorts into a battle ready face. glairing at all who are there watching all sides. his hair reforms in a ponytail on its own as everything starts to get gradually colder.

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 Message 26 of 39 in Discussion 
From: LokiSent: 7/23/2003 7:52 PM
She curls a lip at him and a eye narrows.
((1. You underestimate me or overestimate yourself. Probably both, lol
2. your cold quits. and your hair goes limp.
3.Jen-Ki can't be rezzed normally. Youo don't quite know everything bud
4.I'm sure your good. But your about to get your butt kicked and these guys are my middle class. After that maybe you'll have respect for the other players. ))
 
The group moves on Frost as soon as he utters the threat
The female turns her head just a bit and they all relax.
The female chuckles abit. "No need to hide your fear behind threats pale boy"
"Let me explain the dark of the omniverse. There are powers and then there is everything else. Only knowledge has the ability to liberate. But I'll illuminate you. I am a power"
"We are all warriors of life. We have just returned from securing the championships of the Cage and the brass citadels on the planes of Hell. I suggest you think harder before you speak.
As far as her.........."
Frost hears a voice in his head that speaks "she may be a fine warrior in time. What you need to do is respect the fact that if you set up shop our kind will come. the words flow but the blood is what resolves the issue.
 
For one who has the look of wisdom your speech is that of a fool. Why taunt those that could have been your ally?
 
We have heard the challenge from afar and yet you invite us to leave.
No elf we will remain. You,  nor a thousand of your kind, can remove us.
 
In a outloud voice she speak to the others "Prepare my things"
 
The tall man with the spirit catcher reaches to a amulet and pulls it to him. Smoke issues forth consuming him turning into a massive cloud of 50'high. A moment later it solidifies into a 25' tall man with smoke from the waist down. the creature is bald, blue skinned, with black nailbeds and long pointed beard. Runes cover 1/2 it's face and chest. One is the Black tribal skeltal stamp of this tribe of Wanderers.
"I live to only to obey the Weremacht" As it bows to the ground ignoring Frost and the small girl.
ChyTung speaks from beneath his conealing rice hat "Argos, our things"
"As I am commanded"
 
It produces and levitates a small ball gold ball to the ground about 500' away.
 
It whirs and spins in place. Then it starts to grow. It masses to the size of anelephant, and grows again tripling in size.
Then six 300' spikes jut out of it towards the sky. The ends splay open like mechanical seige engines and start back to the ground like mallets. They drive into the field.
Pole rise at over 200'. Th middle one is 500'+
Tarps and multicolored cloth start to rise up the poles and it starts to the shape of several attached gigantic tents.
 
Cloth pulls tight. Ropes bind themselves. Banners unfold. it's a collosall structure larger than many villages and taller than a few god spires of kings.
 
The red haired female doesn't even pay attention to any of it. She does sit back and before she can fall the ground sends a stool of rock to be beneath her. It grows into a monstrous highback throne of wrought stone and gem from the earth. 20' high and 15' across it dwarfs the female. As she looks on she tears the last of the flesh from her food and throws the scrap to the thri-kreen.
 
Frost sees it's a humanoid hand before the insect grinds it into paste.
 
In a voice that all can hear "Let the games begin"
 
((lunch over. What's up Storm?))

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 Message 27 of 39 in Discussion 
From: MSN NicknameKaze_DeatharcherSent: 7/23/2003 8:22 PM
((you also underestimate me lol. believe me i have alot of respect for other players ut if you wish to do this let the slaying begin...if its me or them it dosn't matter to me.))

"if you would have entered in here peacfully and not have slain my student. then we could hav talked about my shop that i have set up. and perhaps i could have smithed you something if that is what you seek. but if you actually wish to go threw with his then so be it but yet i urge you to reconsider. you talk about my threat. that was cause you slayed her. but if you want to actually see my shop then call off your beast and let us exit." he says matter of factly with a practiced tounge. his hand never has gone to his weapon yet but he waits for a reply.

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 Message 28 of 39 in Discussion 
From: StormcrowSent: 7/23/2003 11:54 PM
((MODERATOR: Well first of all its not my duty to pick who the players can fight in here. Its up to the players to choose which and how many characters they want to play. If the opponent thinks the stakes are too high, they can always back out. However Loki did post a level on his original post, and anyone taking up the challenge should bring in a pC around the posted level. Perhaps it should be a rule Loki, after all were still working the bugs out on this board.
I can try to moderate this mess, but Id rather not. I think you should both start over with more sensible PC's.
I just thought of another rule, no gods, demons, Immortals, or Demi-Gods.
Kaze, you REALLY need to tone it down on your characters. Maybe make some normal ones for a change. Loki only brought in these brutes because you brought in a God. C mon dude.
Loki, dont incourage him. Instead maybe help him come up with a normal PC.))
 

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 Message 29 of 39 in Discussion 
From: MSN NicknameKaze_DeatharcherSent: 7/24/2003 5:19 AM
((i agree entirly storm. we should start this over and i have toned down my characters i just wanted to introduce him in somewhere so i picked this board. but if i have to i will fight in this mess but as my standing saying goes, "what dosn't kill you gives you a reason to run faster" and i think we should restart this.

later
joe

Ps. you whould be surprised what a gods ressurection can cure ;) lol later))

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 Message 30 of 39 in Discussion 
From: LokiSent: 7/24/2003 5:50 AM
((Fine. Your right of course. Lol, Raven you DO have to approve all chars at this site I thought. So it IS your place to pick the fighters a little bit. Maybe I am assuming too much? Doesn't sound like Frost here has any real business being at Es after some of your other posts. Sorry bout my stuff, you know what I meant, good enough. Ok then,  the way I saw it yes I posted 5th level so I expected to lose to something close to that. Frost sounds as stupid as Weremacht being here. Except I played her from scratch with Raven and Ari when we were younger. he won't let me pull any crap. And all I can claim is I made up zero and none of her stuff. I played Weremacht for over 10years. my first char and all. The others are now professional gladiators I've played in extended campaighns. I was going to kill you with one of them. And trust me any one of them is tuff enough to do it maybe unless I roll really bad. I figured you could chose one of them to battle. I never woulda jumped you with them all. But then again I don't need to. They are pretty freakin tuff. Stay away from that kreen dude. I've seen how you think Kaze and I'm better at makin legal power chars at the moment. I happen to know more right now is the biggest part of it. But if your as high as He says you need to fight Weremacht, but you will lose. I know things you don't. Like right now nothing magic of yours will work until I say so. And it will not be fun for either of us which defeats the purpose. So this is kinda dumb. joe is my favorite player here pretty much so I don't want that. See Weremacht is a god hunter and is geared for that type of thing. Raven your absolutely right that there should be a rule requiring level to match at least close. I'm sorry guys. I assumed it was. To make up for this confusion I will make an evolving rule page for here. In fact i will run these fights when I can. Ok, I'll back down. Kaze email me the beginnings of your chars and I'll make games for them after we put them together. Cool? ))
 
The glowing green eyed female looks down to the white elf. "Dead? She's not in the deadbook yet son" She glances at Jen-Ki "Return to your ally little flower"
Jen-Ki opens her eyes and rolls into a handstand and crouches near Frosts back hid behind him. Looking around wildly at the kreen, 25' effreet, 1/2giant, 7'elves, and tents and thrones of stone and gem. "Sensai!!" she clutches at his side "what is this that happens here?" (( I just stunned her in the first place,lol. You shoulda checked her pulse or something?))
 
The female holds out a hand and the giant blue effreet waves a finger. Another piece of smoking meat appears in her empty hand. And then a table grinds and rises from the ground as it is formed the same as the throne. It is spotted with gold and gem from the cores of the earth. An instant later the 30'table is covered in a feast of spiced food, drink, and fruit.
 
The thrikreen slinks behind the others and leaps to the top of the throne. Easily spanning the 50' without any aid. It's antennae waver up and down. It's inhuman eyes never leaving the elf. It's round tooth filled maw drips scalding acidic posion. It clings to the stone by it's serrated feet only.
 
"Smith? I spoke of this tiny arena before me. You have a shop dead skin? Hmm. I am something of an artisian in my world" She bites the meat in 1/2 and swallows it whole. " I am a few worlds away from my forge truth be known. Perhaps you could assist me then."
She turns to the monstrousity of the tent village.
"TETANIUS!! " a single eye can be seen thru the slit of fabric. A monster cat or maybe lizard eye. Gold and glowing red. A hiss and steam and smoke blows out.
moments later from that door emerges the beautiful blonde elven man. Blue piercing eyes, long flowing hair, chestnut skin, manchurian silk ankle length long shirt breeches and the finest boots. No items or weapons, he comes out walking slowly and looking bored. "yes milady. I trust you do not have anything for me to do this day and I am free to explore these delicous looking realms" He looks at Jenki for a long while as he speaks.
 
"No Tet. Take the mythril items and see this brave smithy to his quarters. I will need to prize to the winners of the games."
"Argos"
The effreet claps twice and a massive vault door materializes. 100'tall x 50'across. Made of what appears to be pure electrium. They are embossed with the same Tribal undead Dragon as the others. Runes of several different lanuages are burnt into it. It has no seams.
Weremacht answers "Elf smith do you have the means to have some items arranged as prize? Your compensation will be much more profitable then your likely death this day" She speaks matter of factly not arrogant at all.
 
A seam appears magically and the doors swings out slowly and the interior is a endless hall filled with weapons, armor, and items of all temper. Top to bottom they hang. The light is blinding for a moment. the clangin of tools can be heard. It is occupied by several short overly powerful bald dwarves and mutant men with no hair, dark tanned skin, almost no clothes, and muscles so large they look as if they grew up on physical labor. The smell of sweat and leather issues from the place.
The blue eyed elf enters the hall and emerges with 2 giant blocks of silver floating on a disk of rainbow light. It moves slowly but easily
 
To the 7' man with the rice hat and katanas "Chy Tung alert the local populace as to our intention to run my games. Run to anything within 10days of here. Inns, keeps, prisions, the lot. pay those that don't listen" with his silver voice he replies " yes milady, I hear and obey"
 
At the huge 1/2giant. " Monjaro, You tend to the beasts. Arrange it" He salutes her in a clanging of metal and paraphinelia.
 
"Gillette secure the area. Use the plannars" The 7' albino elf bows in silence and backs away silently. grey pajamas making no sound. feet wrapped in cloth
 
The red haired female looks straight at Frost with her unblinking green eyes. From her shoulder a black strand of soft looking tendril rises like a cobra to the flute. It shoots to the thrikreens head and engulfs it entirely. As quick as a snake strike the kreen is torn from the throne and raised into the air. Pieces of stone are still stuck to it's clawed feet as it is flipped head over heel as if gripped by a giants hand. She slams it to the ground. It flails wildy as it's head smokes. She pushes it into the hard ground another 6"
 
"If you assist me I allow you to pass uncontested. What say you smithy?" She cracks a smile from the corner of her mouth. Frost swears he sees steel in there.
 
Tet slides the blocks of mythril closer "here ya go brother. ....So where do you keep the females ?"
 
((Ok, Frost can run off with this stuff or whatever. Lets keep him away from Es for now. Send your new char back as his helper. Weremacht is here to moderate. She has gladiators and critters with her, not to mention atmosphere. And she can rezz chars for a price or free. We will all work on some rules. She may hire someone to go capture beasts and slaves also. Who knows))

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 Message 31 of 39 in Discussion 
From: LokiSent: 7/24/2003 5:58 AM
Hey Kaze you posted whie I was typin!
Cool enough. Looks as if we all agree. thats good.
 
God? In what freakin book do you get to play a god knuckle head? I have to borrow Ravens Immortal stuff to do that.
 
Man your gonna win the munchy award yet Bro, lol
 
And ps gods CANNOT come down here and slap around regular ppl. That's why they have avataars. It sez so!! So there  You have much to learn grasshopper
 
Oh, and Jenki has a different set of oriental gods so that coulda been anyones guess, but magic doesn't really work on her. good or bad. I hope I never have to find ouy either way

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 Message 32 of 39 in Discussion 
From: MSN NicknameKaze_DeatharcherSent: 7/24/2003 6:58 PM
" you wish me to make prises with this mithril. how many items and of what sort (daggers, swords, esc.) he looks at the blocs of mithril and pics one up.
"Mithril to Adimantum." he says as the metal changes. (fabricate lv 5 magic user. unearthed arcana) he dose that to each block. "mistress would it be alright if i returned to my home plane to work on these cause i left my hammers, ingraves all my equiptment is there and i trust my own shop and tools more than i trust astranged ones. no offence intended."

(what do you mean send my character?? i'm lost :S)

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 Message 33 of 39 in Discussion 
From: LokiSent: 7/24/2003 11:32 PM
((Sorry, . I was taking Raven's advice and offering to make "regular" chars with you and then fighting them here against my servants and beasts for xp and stuff. Plus I want to take you and maybe another player or 2 and run you thru a boxed set, or game, or something. What do you say to that? Maybe have your new chars be part of Frost's followers or whatever you like. You know, as far as story and all
 
I'll post tomorrow. I Dm at home tonight))

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 Message 34 of 39 in Discussion 
From: LokiSent: 7/28/2003 9:50 PM
She turns her attention to Frosts transmutations. As the metals slip from one form to another the woman sits back in the gem laden throne of stone and chews on the food laid out near her.
 
"Curious............Normally the metals I offered were worth much more in their previous compositions."
 
"Take them to whatever ends of the universe you please." She continues to hold the insane thrashing thri-kreen down with the odd black ink colord tendril that extends from the top of her shoulder.
She leans forward into Frost's vicinity and inhales deeply "I can always come calling on you. No matter what the distance"
 
"Yes, of course. I forget at times that craftsman still require tools to shape their works. I have evolved beyond this. But at a great cost to my humanity. This area doesn't possess the resources to work the metal to it's fullest potential, I understand"
 
The twin 10 foot square blocks are now an ugly dull steelen color of raw adamantium.
 
"In any case it is of no matter. I razed that speciman from a city far from here. It was their entire treasury.......Or so they claimed. Their mines contained more, unbeknownst to them. After I enslaved all 300 of the resident Dark elves I found an abundant supply. It was a simple matter of engineering that kept the metal bound in the rock. Granted the dark ones are not adept at mining. They are a shallow weak race in all. Only a few of them rise to greatness in the scheme of the omniverse. Strange how the men re surpressed by the females. We call them the race of the widows. Not at all fit for my games really. They do much better during the night solstace matches of the lunar equinox, but they have learned to operate my new mines well enough"
 
This brings chuckles from her enterage.
 
"I would have you craft the materials to your own design. The more artistic the more impressive I would find them. Works of a true artisian as I woul decpect from you, not the drivel of  a common armorer or blacksmith. Any one of my slaves can accomplish that without aid"
 
She pauses for a moment and throws her look across the different members assembled around her. "We shall spend at least the next moon phase here."
 
"Monjaro!"
The 12' monster of a man strides forward again. His weapons clatter against his deeply tanned iron like skin. "Yes my master"
 
"Hire some locals into the surrounding area and bring back some of the surrounding floral and fauna that will entertain me as it rends the contestants flesh from their bone. Something large and wicked if it exists. Hire a guide if needed. Spare no expense.I have heard of some ruins nearby. Be sure your hunting party passes thru there also. Drag the water and do not neglect the high peaks. Go"
 
"By our bidding Weremacht" He bows slightly in a clutter of items. From iron skillets to fine armor to huge serrated barbed weapons"
 
She levels her overly green eyes at Jen-Ki and Frost. A shimmer of glowing light can be seen in their centers "The winners of this arena shall be invited to accompany me to the lower planes to fight at the blood pits of the tannari and Baatezu for the prizes of the Fiends. I am allowed to return after all these years of banishment and I will claim the prize. I will need the best warriors to lay the path for me. The rules demand it. This who do not perish will be thanked in many different forms. I have things in other places to attend to. Come to me when you are ready pale one. Go and work your arts"
 
She lessens her grip on the kreen which immediately jumps up as much as she allows. It's face is pitted and burning. On eye is destroyed and many teeth are shattered. She moves the tendril down as a leash.It's eye begins to puff back into shape and new teeth grow in.
 
 
 
"Tetanius, you will limit your movements from the villages. And no fraternizing until I release you."
 
The blue eyed elf looks smoking pissed. He starts to object as he approaches quickly. Eyes wide, his blonde locks swaying behind him. "What?! That village was huge. They'll never.............."
She turns her attention to him and he abruptly rises into the air 10' off the ground.
 
To his side the smoking kreen tries to dig straight into the rocky soil.
 
"yes, milady." He answers softly with the hint of a hiss.
 
"So it is settled. New lands for our traveling spectacle. " She laughs with a long deep unearthly tone.
 
 
 
 

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 Message 35 of 39 in Discussion 
From: LokiSent: 9/15/2003 9:03 PM
Months later.
 
 
Deep in the bowels of the tent city she was in a foul mood. Not even the heaps of prepared fare set out from the surrounding wood seemed to help her mind set.
 
Back on Athas, Urik, the one sorcer king who knew her secrets, had razed her Roc riders with those damned high Drik cavalry. She had stolen the process to make them but her prophets had been unsucessful as to date to replicate them properly.
 
Maintaining the link was wearing thin. The artifact would scar her and try to take her mind again if she kept it up much longer. It wanted to feed and was growing aggressive again.  
 
The war for the verdant valley was going aginst her since the Pyreen had issued thier warning to her.
 
She was here wasting her time recruiting when she should be there leading her troops and removing Urik-Ki heads to adorn her wheeled towers.
 
She would've left sooner but Tetanius had reported some very unusual energy signatures from those hidden ruins. Even now, as she gazed into the crystals, she witnessed some death knight wage a small battle against some of the locals.
 
What they wanted she didn't know. She didn't really care until that dias had focused the soul of the sacrifice.
 
Now the knight was shrouded in some sort of protection. An odd mix of negative energy and elemental force.
 
Interesting to say the least. She had lost 10 spies to the area. She might have to hire out some of these locals.
 
What was she thinking? The locals had proved cowardly or content for the most part. The lack of participation proved that.
 
Thousands of pounds of prize went to her own slaves who were allowed to fight if no other takers made themsleves present.
 
And many of the captured creatures had to be released as they had bested thier opponents. So was the way of the games.
 
Her magical forges ran constantly on Athas pumping out the unique items.
 
This town had proved undeserving of her attention. There was nothing of any real interest. Farmers and a gathering house of practicioners of some skills. The local magistrate and a holy structure laid quiet on the surface of this worlds crust. Same as so many more they had seen.
 
The first reports showed a huge wave in the matrix. The few simple towers held it all she now knew.
 
She didn't have the time or the patience to take them on. She had other issues to resolve.
 
Most of these folk wouldn't last a hearts beat in the pits of the blood wars down in the Gray Waste.
 
She disliked the thought of going back to Limbo or Pandemonium to gather participants. The Lords did not like her at all these days. She ruled the 67th layer but that was just a strategic position. The never ending Blood Wars were just a resource for her.
 
She needed thier knowledge.
 
She gazed about at the multitude of servants. They were averting their eyes from her.
 
Smart.
 
Her slow gaze looked inside their bodies and their trappings. Seeing the stolen platnium table knife in the legging of a dwarf she grinned and with a wink disentagrated the captured slave for fun. It erupted into a mist of red color.
 
If no truly great fighters came soon she would maybe go into the town herself and see what it was that kept them all at  home. 
 
Gillette, her favorite elf, was returning from the far north with new acquistions and information.
 
His image spoke of man-bulls and dark elf. only a few dozen tho.
 
They would be here in a forth night.
 
Maybe Kitara would have the flyers trained up in time for an aerial spectacle for the upcoming harvests?
 
She had just secretly recieved the glorius prize from the pale elf from earlier. Winter he called himself. She had wanted to add his blood to the pool, but it wasn't meant to be. Perhaps his creation is what she should offer to the ones who brought back the secrets of the ruins?
 
She would have to check on her own city before the seasons changed.
 
Soon, she would do that. But first.....
 
 
 
 
 

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 Message 36 of 39 in Discussion 
From: LokiSent: 10/4/2003 10:14 AM

She called them together for a report of the state of affairs.

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They gathered in the monstrous war room.

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Beneath it’s towering arched ceilings they settle about a solid stone cast table of granite and inlaid oaks.

 

The bald blue dijinn looking efreeti hovers on a whirlwind of fiery air. <o:p></o:p>

Thin hands clasped as in mock prayer "My liege, perhaps we should abandon this hovelled land and move our efforts back to the astral oceans? The Githyanki frigates have ventured into the white void again. Their arrogance cannot go unchallenged! It is an insult to you milady!... The rebel Illithidae have contacted our telepaths again. They want to ally with us. They await you response. "

 

The 333rd full day of what was now being called the "Mutant wars" had come to pass. Her actions had not gone un-noticed and many had risen to challenge her forces.

Just as many more had joined her bottomless throngs of army voluntarily.

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The slim male with the spiked black hair and eye patch argues with his patented roguish smile "This town is ripe! They have more than they let on I tell ya!! I've made a considerable amount rolling bones and they haven't begun to even detect what's goin on yet." He runs a leather gauntlet en-cased hand thru his jetting hair and 2 cards slide from within the glove's cuff.

 

She was in an especially foul mood.

 

"Shut-up Elad." The boyish blonde snaps from his odd position of hanging backwards off the chair in an over acted display of boredom. His knees clapping together rhythmically. "There is nothing to do around here. I hate it here and say we go back to Sigil. I'm sure everything has blown over by now?" He snaps upright. Ice blue eyes pierce thru the platinum bangs. "We still have a few portal keys left to the beastlands." The smile is mischievous and beautiful. 

 

Tobacco weed smoke, incense, fresh cooked meat, bread, and the smell of alcohol mingle into a mixed scent of a gathering.

 

" I can't believe you men" Kithara sips from her stein. "We need to return to our own  city-state and lead our hordes to victory. Your personal air cavalry is almost trained up completely now, milady. 50 strong and more hatchlings due in a week" Her annoyance with the others undisguised.

 

The twin fireplaces roar with flame. The fiery elementals within dance and slam about throwing themselves at the mantel’s rune walls that bind them.

 

When it had become quite Chy-Tung spoke from under the brim of the rice hat. His cool smooth paced voice flows "They have a different focus of their life’s energy here. Much as my clans once had done before the continental conflicts. The common goals of their society resist the machines of war. We will not market any of our wares unless presented as tools of peace"

 

Looking to him she sat in her throne tearing chunks of stone and electrum off of the armrest, brooding about the dim future here and the truth of his words.

 


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 Message 37 of 39 in Discussion 
From: LokiSent: 10/4/2003 10:16 AM
((stupid msn is reading my word doc format.))
 

 

Her head pounded from the thoughts that ran across her minds eye.

 

Her Storm legions were trapped in the Valley of kings. Ebory's, that insane creature, had been spotted near the conflict. The swarms of building sized undead war beetles and those damned, even larger,  mammoth drik siege towers had overcame her western front. The sand -worm riders pounded the eastern shores of the silt sea.

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A war pact between the age old enemies was unforeseen. They could overpower both fronts if she and her advisors where there to command and lend their personal power.

 

She would have to unleash her hidden Mock-tai battalions to regain control of the field. It was premature. With her and most of her inner cabinet here, it ran the risk of exposing her own assets for a time.

 

She didn’t know if the rulers would unite against her or if their pride and own paranoid fear would prevent it.

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Gillette stood behind her as always. Silent and watchful. The ash elf knew her moods.

 

She drained a pitcher of ale without a breath. And here? Here was an enigma. She had detected the hollowness below the ruins. She knew the layout from their probings without even trying to fathom it. It came to her naturally.

 

367rods down at an angle of 32chains was to be the main room. Perhaps she should just set up a dig. The slaves would go weak with no work. She would be deep into the boundaries then. Maybe she send Gillette to speak with the local baron or magistrates?

 

The power waves under there where tremendous, but no form of transportation could penetrate the crust to the catacombs just below the thin 200' surface.

 

Someone or something smart had placed wards that prevented that type of entrance from occurring. Just as she could also prevent that style of travel for a time.

 

That Shadow knight had given off energy waves that matched the signatures perfectly. He had something to do with it. She had probed the mind of the dark female. Her defenses lasted only a moment.

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The knight’s mind revealed that it was a protector. But it was insane and garbled full of ramblings of little interest. It apparently didn’t remember, or know, what was under bricked rune floors

 

The hunted dark female knew nothing. If she lived she may court her skills though. She was strong willed.

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And there were others….

 

The thick dinosaur reptilian head of Soldron peers thru a door into the room "How's the food all?" <o:p></o:p>

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The blonde young man leans backwards over the back of the chair "Hey Soldron, wanna wrestle?"<o:p></o:p>

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"No, Tetanius. You cheat." <o:p></o:p>

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The dark clad one eyed man smirks at the cook "I'll take ya on fatso."<o:p></o:p>

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He looks at his perfectly heavily muscled greecian reptile bi-ped form. "No Elad. You steal."<o:p></o:p>

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The black curly haired rider rolls her eyes. "Imbeciles..." Looking to the giant shadow black yeth hound that lays next to the thrones base she tosses a half eaten bone, "It's fine Soldron. -Here you go Soloman. Good boy." The sound of splintering bone doesn't last long.<o:p></o:p>

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Kithara doesn’t look away from the hulking lupus. "Where's Ty-Syn? She never shows for these meetings. I'm surprised she's still alive really. Who's ever heard of a Drow alchemist anyway. I still think she’s lying. Probably a spy of the house of Lolth "<o:p></o:p>

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With little patience the red haired ranger leans back into the tall backrest of the throne and one by one looks to them all in the eye. "She lives for the same reason you all live. Because you have worth to me. DO NOT overappraise yourselves."<o:p></o:p>

 

The thought of her real need brought the annoying throb on again. She needed an edge at the Gat-jang and her forces were spread too thin. If the sorcer kings proved too powerful she would look elsewhere to gain enough leverage to rule the gathering.

 

Jink was getting tight. The reserves they had brought were draining faster than she had anticipated.  They were going to have to do something. Something that didn’t include forging a wormhole back their home world.


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From: LokiSent: 10/9/2003 3:21 AM
Circumstances were beginnning to anger her.
 
Maybe those ruins held the answer.
 
The power signatures were powerful enough to be sure.
 
Anything that could be detected by the Tear at that depth had to be a thing of immense interest.
 
The anger boiled within her at the impotenance of her recent efforts.
 
She squeezed more of the thrones armrest into a twisted ball of granite and metal.
 
Then,,,
 
Her mind heard the familiar rap of Gillette.
 
There are arrivials at the table of enrollment my lord.
 
Sign them, kill them, feed them, slave them . I care not at this hour, elf.
 
Maybe she would assemble another match for herself. This always made her feel better. They did have a new rack of small dark elves.
 
Again, the interruption by the advising elf,,,
 
Milady. The female claims title of High Priestess and is accompanied by a guardian of the lands.
 
Really? That would play out well.
 
They also speak of the coming of the Trinity.
 
That on the other hand could prove complicated.
 
Treat them as you would any other regality.
 
Bring them to me at their leisure.
 
And be wary my old servant.
 
 

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From: LokiSent: 10/9/2003 3:28 AM
After a moment of silent contemplation.
 
"Very good. Bring them to me immediately. Under NO circumstance is anyone to lift so much as an ill thought against the ones that claim allegiance with the spirits of the lands. I want them unspoiled and unmolested Gillette"
 
As you will my leige

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