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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 4700656" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Session 66 - Walking Briskly Toward Danger</strong></p><p></p><p>Session 66</p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 03/03/08</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Walking Briskly Toward Danger</strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: A-dom Fists the City</strong></p><p><strong><em>-By Ao the Overkitty</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Gareth seriously considered just getting on his boat and sailing away. It was very tempting, but he didn’t do it. He sighed as he reentered the bar.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: If you’re done instilling panic and fear in the populace, can we get started fixing the problem?</p><p></p><p>A-dom explained how he had instilled fear and panic by mentioning the Necromancer Yew.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Necromancer Yew! Oogity Boogity!</p><p></p><p>Pretty much all of the other patrons left the bar. A-dom marveled at how cool Yew must have been and wanted to know just what she did to earn such fear and respect. He spoke of her for a while like a teenage girl talks about her dreamy boyfriend.</p><p></p><p>Gareth told A-dom that the Sealord was going to want to talk with him after they were done. An apology was likely in order.</p><p></p><p>The group</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck:So, are we just going to pull up a random sewer grate and jump in?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Okay. (pulls up sewer grate and jumps down) WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck continued to try and discuss how to track Wyld essence flows back to their source. A-dom responded by non-bracer yelling ‘what?’ , ‘I can’t here you. I’m in the sewer already!’ and ‘Guys, I’m lonely.’</p><p></p><p>Gareth climbed down into the sewers and waited for the other two to follow.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Hey Gareth. I went a whole day without saying Sarah.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Well, you screwed that up.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: What do you mean? I didn’t say Sarah.</p><p></p><p>Gareth took several steps away from A-dom. Jade’s Luck and Tiger saw a lightening bolt strike the ground very close to her (right above where A-dom was standing). They told him what happened and to not say that word. A-dom thought it was cool and commented on how he just needed to stand below the right person.</p><p></p><p>Tiger and Jade’s Luck hopped down into the sewers to take a look around. Tiger could see which direction had more Wyld energies than the other and also noticed that the sewage wasn’t so much sewage and digestion fluids and digestion spirits. He commented that it looked like they were inside a Wyld beast. Gareth brought out his armor and his scythe. A-dom shrugged. Jade’s Luck put up Chaos-Repelling Pattern.</p><p></p><p>As the group walked towards the more concentrated Wyld they came upon a little wooden doll walking the other way. It waved at the group all nervous like. The doll then fell over as it got into range of Jade’s Luck’s Creation. Once the group had passed, it got back up and swore.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: That was mean!</p><p></p><p>Gareth went over and disassembled it.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Now <strong>THAT</strong> was mean!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: It’s a Wyld creature.</p><p></p><p>A-dom tried to put it back together. It walked away with a serious limp.</p><p></p><p>Tiger had a lot harder time tracking the Wyld in the pocket of Creation so he scouted ahead. Plus it got him out of the stinky poo part of the sewer and back into the digestive tract. Eventually they came to a stairwell made out of weird bones (giant ant bones). The Wyld was more concentrated down there, so A-dom started down. Jade’s Luck waited for the others to get down the stairs before approaching. When she did the wall reformed, making the stairway disappear. She turned off her charm and waited ten minutes for the staircase to reappear. When she got down to the bottom, she asked if the group was okay. Gareth declared Gin and plunked down his cards. A-dom didn’t realize they were playing gin. Tiger thought they were playing poker. The deck of cards declared it thought they were playing solitaire and wandered off. A-dom chucked something at the cards. Most of them scattered, but the King took it right on the head.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Maybe we shouldn’t play cards with a deck of cards we found in the Wyld.</p><p></p><p>This corridor’s walls was much more bone themed. Every so often the walls were made of marshmallows, but mostly it was bones. Everyone but Gareth saw a ghost up ahead rearranging bones in the wall. The bones then moved around some more as if they were stacked in jello. They woman was trying to tell the bones to stop moving. They weren’t listening.</p><p></p><p>The group talked with the female ghost for a bit. She was the proprietor of the tunnel, which had been sealed off for a while. It had been sealed off by the mistress while she still ruled the island, to protect it. A-dom asked if the mistress was Sarah. The ghost winced.</p><p></p><p>Alex: Some poor puppy just got zorched.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: We’re all here, who cares?</p><p></p><p>A whole bunch of bones came shooting out of the wall at A-dom, piercing him a lot. They found out it was only normal during Calibration. It was due to certain people cursing the mistress. The ghost asked him to put the bones back exactly where they belonged? A-dom did so and put his dress on.</p><p></p><p>The ghost told them the mistress had sealed off the tunnel to protect the legacy of Yew. It was very happy to learn Jade’s Luck had been Yew. The mistress had been Yew’s apprentice.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I think Sarah was Tiger.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck moved away from both Gareth and A-dom. Bones shot out at Gareth, piercing his armor but failed to pierce his skin due to the Twilight anima power.</p><p></p><p>They found out the mistress was the quite, secretive type. They got more information on Yew and her demise. Yew was assassinated in her own city by Wejin the Hideous, Lotus the Witch and Cindy. Markus the Mad died in battle and exalted as Rosewind the Compassionate. Rosewind attacked the great necromancer’s acolyte, Sarah, who then exalted.</p><p></p><p>The ghost then exploded for saying Sarah. A few minutes later it reformed.</p><p></p><p>Ghost: (looking at A-dom) I blame you.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: I also blame Yew.</p><p></p><p>A-dom got whacked. The group discussed needing signs.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck explained what had happened in Creation to the ghost.</p><p></p><p>Eventually Tiger got bored and wandered off to find the source of the Wyld. When he found a big, wobbly ball of Wyld, he called Jade’s Luck over to look at it. After a little bit, it spit out an armored hamster. A-dom felt it needed a knife duct-taped to its back.</p><p></p><p>The hamster walked past the group.</p><p></p><p>Armored Hamster: Excuse me, I have to get back to work.</p><p></p><p>A-dom picked him up and hugged him, saying he was so cute. He put the hamster down and it wandered up the staircase. An eyeball popped out of the Wyld ball and rolled to the staircase. Once it got their, bat wings popped out and it fluttered up.</p><p></p><p>Gareth asked Jade’s Luck if she had enough Willpower to smack the Wyld. She asked him how to make iron weapons. With his instruction and five hours, she turned the patch of Wyld into cold iron weapons. With the source of the Wyld energy gone, Tiger was pretty sure that a simple walkthrough with Chaos-Repelling Pattern would destroy the remaining Wyld.</p><p></p><p>As they headed back towards the stairway, Jade’s Luck commented about getting Gareth to build a tunnel to get out. The ghost said she wouldn’t advice that, commenting that they were in the mistress’s secret storage area and the death traps were likely all active now that the Wyld was gone. Luckily, she said this corridor was safe.</p><p></p><p>The group discussed where they wanted to go now, since they had three directions to try now that the area had been righted. A-dom asked the ghost which way the death traps were. She said yes. He asked her which way the good <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> was. She said yes. He asked which way the Manse was. She said she couldn’t tell him that.</p><p></p><p>Watching the bickering, the ghost commented about how she saw how the war had started.</p><p></p><p>The group decided to go left, so Jade’s Luck turned on the Chaos-Repelling Pattern and they went. The ghost was happy that the bones were staying in place now. Eventually they came to an archway with large, glowing runes on it. It reminded A-dom of an archway underneath Skullstone. He thought it was similar, but he thought it might just burn the soul out of the body. He and Tiger got closer to investigate how to deactivate it.</p><p></p><p>Disembodied Female Voice: If you want to come through this doorway, you must prove you are a practitioner of Necromancy.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck tried to question the voice, but failed. A-dom and Tiger noticed that there were a few corpses around the doorway, possibly people who had tried and failed.</p><p></p><p>A couple of minutes after the group started discussing if it was a good idea to find out what happened when you cast Necromancy during Calibration Tiger noticed a curtain of green flame coming down the corridor from the direction they had come. Tiger pointed out. Jade’s Luck told A-dom to animate a corpse.</p><p></p><p>Paul: Intelligence+Occult.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Wait a minute. I have to find my intelligence. I don’t normally know where that is.</p><p></p><p>A-dom started casting his spell and he got a lot more power than he was expecting. He managed to channel it properly. Black, necromantic energy formed around three of the skeletons, making them reform and glow. They looked like improved zombies.</p><p></p><p>Skeleton: Yes, sir. What would you like?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Nothing at the moment.</p><p></p><p>Skeleton: You may wish to step this way, sir. There seems to be green flame coming towards you.</p><p></p><p>A-dom said the skeleton could call him the Necromancer Mii. The Skeletons ended up being named Yes and What. Yes was clearly incompetent, since he couldn’t speak yet. What kept calling A-dom sir.</p><p></p><p>Everyone, including the new creations, stepped through the deactivated archway. The runes powered back up once everyone was through and the green flame died out just before it reached the archway. Jade’s Luck asked if they’d need to prove again to get back through. What noted there weren’t any skeletons on this side of the archway. A-dom noted they’d have to make one. What asked whom he was volunteering for the task.</p><p></p><p>They were now in a rather large room with assorted necromantic tools. A-dom was pretty sure it had lots of burial rights tools, including mummification. On the other side of the room was another of the magical archways. Jade’s Luck noticed some writing on the wall.</p><p></p><p>In Old Realm <strong><em>After the death of the Great Necromancer Yew, her knowledge was oppressed by the evil tyrant overlords. This location was designed to test people to see if they appropriately aligned to accept the teachings of Yew.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>She couldn’t read any further. It looked like it was written in Old Realm, but it was all gobbley-gook to her.</p><p></p><p>Gareth took a look at it and managed to get farther.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>It went on to talk about how you would be tested for knowledge of basic occult, necromancy, proper motivation, proper use of occult, proper reverence for the Great Necromancer Yew</em></strong>.</p><p></p><p>Gareth couldn’t read any further for the same reason.</p><p></p><p>A-dom could read it all just fine.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>It then went on about how great Necromancy was and what a great tool it was to help Creation. It said some great things about how the City of Yew was a utopia because of the undead workers. </em></strong></p><p></p><p>Then it ended. Jade’s Luck only heard gobbley gook from A-dom, while everyone else heard him just fine. They figured this had something to do with the mind block on her about Yew and left it at that. Jade’s Luck got closer to the archway to investigate.</p><p></p><p>Disembodied Female Voice: You must now demonstrate a basic knowledge of sorcery.</p><p></p><p>Everyone looked at each other, looking a little worried. Everyone but Gareth noticed black, necromantic energy over by the far doorway, slowly moving towards the group.</p><p></p><p>What: In think we can survive that, sir! You may be screwed.</p><p></p><p>Tiger decided to try the thaumaturgy way of seeing spirits. A-dom asked when they put the blood in their eyes. Tiger finished the ritual and had to deal with a lot more power than he was used to. Tiger dematerialized. The archway deactivated. Jade’s Luck up sorcerer’s sight and saw Tiger. Everyone moved through the archway. Tiger went through the wall to see what it was like. Jade’s Luck told him he might materialize inside the wall if he did that. Tiger ignored her.</p><p></p><p>They walked down a long corridor full of bones.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Bad A-dom</p><p></p><p>Only Jade’s Luck heard him.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Just as a suggestion, don’t go near any archways until we’re ready for them to activate.</p><p></p><p>What complimented him on the suggestion. When asked, he said he didn’t have sense of sarcasm.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: If I gave you free will for an hour, what would you do?</p><p></p><p>What: I already have free will, sir. Thank you for that.</p><p></p><p>After a while, Tiger started to fade in. It actually took him a few minutes to fade in completely. Eventually they approached another archway.</p><p></p><p>Disembodied Female Voice: Please explain in as much detail as you can how you plan to use Necromancy. How you will better the world with it. (pause) No. You. A-dom.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Well, I plan to reinstate the idea of undead as servants and potentially create a few armies and take over some islands and potentially make an island of undead people, but that would probably end up in the Underworld. I would experiment and see how I could make the world better with the undead, including Creation things so Creation doesn’t turn into the Underworld. Cause that’s bad. But then use the Underworld holes to my advantage.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck (whispers): For the glory of the Unconquered Sun.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Oh yeah, and I’d probably give the Unconquered Sun credit and say some nifty stuff about Yew as soon as I learn about her and, you know, take over the world for the Unconquered Sun. Oh, and the Circle.</p><p></p><p>Disembodied Female Voice: So, in summery. The high points are you plan on expanded Necromantic experimentation. Creation of undead armies to conquer lands uncontrolled by Solars. Reinstating undead servants. To expand the teachings of Yew once you learn them?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: I think so. I’m a little wishy-washy on that last one, since I don’t know what they bare yet. Pretty much, Necromancy Yeah!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck pointed out that he didn’t have the temperament for teaching. The voice asked her if she too was planning on expanding the teachings of necromancy. She said no, but she planned on expanding the teaching of teaching.</p><p></p><p>Disembodied Female Voice: And you plan to give all credit to the Unconquered Sun? Some credit? A little credit?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Some credit to him, some to me. Cause it all comes from him anyway. After all, even though I give credit to Yew and me, it’s still Him.</p><p></p><p>Him the zombie looked very excited.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Not you, Him. The Unconquered Sun.</p><p></p><p>Disembodied Female Voice: So, does anyone here object to A-dom’s goals or plan to work against him in the completion of these goals.</p><p></p><p>Another wall of fire could be seen down the corridor. The voice made them choose one or the other. Jade’s Luck tried to put provisos in her response. The voice wouldn’t accept them. A-dom added the goal that he would attempt to use udead for the betterment of Creation.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck tried to put provisos in her response. The voice wouldn’t accept them. The flames were warming their asses by the time she chose for. Gareth chose for quickly. Tiger was against more undead running around, so decided against. There was a flash and everyone’s pact was sealed. The arch deactivated and the group tumbled through, a little more burnt than before.</p><p></p><p>On the other side, it was pitch dark. They moved a little way in and the lights turned on. They saw a huge zombie abomination with eight heads and twelve arms. A-dom thought it was cool and started asking it if it knew Rappy, Spiny, or the Katamari ball. Al of the arms pulled out swords. A-dom asked if he was a test. The zombie asked what he thought. Gareth whipped out his scythe and asked how he was going. The zombie said he’d seen it before. It then introduced itself as the Guardian and asked which one passed the test. A-dom said he passed most of them. Lots of confusion of Yew, you, Mii, Mii, Him. When a manse was brought up, A-dom said he was taking it. He said A-dom could go past, but the others had to stay. He’d only fight them if they tried to go past.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck brought up that he had been claiming a lot lately and Gareth brought up that Tiger was supposed to get the next Manse. A-dom deattuned the dress, but it didn’t drop his armor. He said he’d gladly give Jade’s Luck the dress once he found new armor.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: <strong>I will not take another artifact or Manse until one of the three of you tells me I can.</strong> After this one.</p><p></p><p>A-dom stuck him hand in Pursey, looking for an Eclipse. Pursey said she fell out the hole.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: We don’t have an Eclipse, but <strong>I swear on the shard in my head and the Unconquered Sun…</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>What: Sir, why don’t you make a magic ritual that’ll do the same thing?</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>A-dom: Why don’t we bind this pact after Calibration?</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>A-dom walked on down his dark path, I mean corridor. After a little bit he came to a Gargoyle. After saying he was A-dm, he was let right in.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Everyone else was bored outside for several hours. A-dom wandered around for a while, finding most things you’d find in one. Eventually he found a ghostly servant who reported he wasn’t allowed to divulge the secrets of the Manse. He stated that he wasn’t able to offer tea, since they had run out several hundred years ago and could use some restocking. Eventually found the Hearthstone room. The Hearthstone was black and death motifs occasionally skittered across the surface.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Once he had attuned to the manse, he found a control panel in the Hearthstone room. On it was an up/down lever all the way in the down position. A-dom immediately flipped it all the way up.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Everyone heard an earthy, grinding noise. The rest of the Circle was pretty sure a massive earthquake was happening several hundred feet in the direction A-dom went. It and the grinding stopped after two minutes.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>In the control room, A-dom had a nice panoramic view of the city. Part of the city was flopped over on another part of it. He was pretty sure he came up under mostly farmland. He destroyed no more than 10% of the city. He could see people scurrying out from underneath the flopped over land.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>The Abomination let the others exit through a spiral bone staircase. The staircase was only twenty feet tall, but it corkscrewed its way up through the ground to reach the surface. They ended up right beside a big Skeleton Fist Manse jutting up from the ground. There was a palisade of bones around the building.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck was delighted at the havoc that had been brought upon this city and its lord and giggled at how the Sealord was going to react when he found out what had been hiding beneath his city. She sent Tiger out to see if troops were mobilizing yet (they weren’t).</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Gareth and Jade’s Luck ran out to help people. At this time, A-dom lowered the lever again. The Manse corkscrewed back down into the ground, dragging the land that had been flipped over back over it (still flipped over). Screams were heard from people dragged down with it.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Tiger noticed an armored gerbil riding on top of a flying eyeball float past. Jade’s Luck dropped all of the iron weapons she had made on the ground at Tiger’s feet and ran out to find wounded people for Gareth to heal.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>A-dom reattuned his dress and put it away before making his way towards a skeletator staircase.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>What: Uh, sir? Sir! Do we follow you around? Kill people and wear their flesh?</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>A-dom giggled at this thought, then ordered What, Him and Yes to wait in the manse and keep an eye on the place. He added that What was in charge of Yes and Him. Then he left.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Random Mortal: Oh my god! The earth is exploding! This is worse than that freaking bar!</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Tiger stopped the man and asked him about the bar.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Random Mortal: The freaky bar with all the weird thingys! Gods! Twenty miles down the road!</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck got directions and told him chamber pots were a safe option this Calibration. She got him a beer and a chamber pot. She then told Gareth about the bar. They set out cleaning up the mess there.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>A-dom showed up.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>A-dom: I didn’t do anything!</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck asked A-dom how his pulling people out from under rubble without hurting them abilities were. He wasn’t too sure about them.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Two city guards walked briskly over.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>A-dom: Completely Accidental!</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>City Guard: What happened here, exactly?</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>A-dom: I found a manse, attuned it, and uh, broke the top layer of the soil?</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>The guards asked him several more questions, including his name. He answered truthfully. One of the guards then ran away.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>A-dom: That’s potentially dangerous that way!</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>The other guard rallied people.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>A-dom then started digging people out of the rubble ‘that he had nothing to do with’. Dig person out, brush them off, ‘I had nothing to do with this,’ move on.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 4700656, member: 9758"] [b]Session 66 - Walking Briskly Toward Danger[/b] Session 66 [i]Synopsis of 03/03/08[/i] [b]Walking Briskly Toward Danger Subtitle: A-dom Fists the City [i]-By Ao the Overkitty[/i][/b] Gareth seriously considered just getting on his boat and sailing away. It was very tempting, but he didn’t do it. He sighed as he reentered the bar. Gareth: If you’re done instilling panic and fear in the populace, can we get started fixing the problem? A-dom explained how he had instilled fear and panic by mentioning the Necromancer Yew. A-dom: Necromancer Yew! Oogity Boogity! Pretty much all of the other patrons left the bar. A-dom marveled at how cool Yew must have been and wanted to know just what she did to earn such fear and respect. He spoke of her for a while like a teenage girl talks about her dreamy boyfriend. Gareth told A-dom that the Sealord was going to want to talk with him after they were done. An apology was likely in order. The group Jade’s Luck:So, are we just going to pull up a random sewer grate and jump in? A-dom: Okay. (pulls up sewer grate and jumps down) WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! Jade’s Luck continued to try and discuss how to track Wyld essence flows back to their source. A-dom responded by non-bracer yelling ‘what?’ , ‘I can’t here you. I’m in the sewer already!’ and ‘Guys, I’m lonely.’ Gareth climbed down into the sewers and waited for the other two to follow. A-dom: Hey Gareth. I went a whole day without saying Sarah. Tiger: Well, you screwed that up. A-dom: What do you mean? I didn’t say Sarah. Gareth took several steps away from A-dom. Jade’s Luck and Tiger saw a lightening bolt strike the ground very close to her (right above where A-dom was standing). They told him what happened and to not say that word. A-dom thought it was cool and commented on how he just needed to stand below the right person. Tiger and Jade’s Luck hopped down into the sewers to take a look around. Tiger could see which direction had more Wyld energies than the other and also noticed that the sewage wasn’t so much sewage and digestion fluids and digestion spirits. He commented that it looked like they were inside a Wyld beast. Gareth brought out his armor and his scythe. A-dom shrugged. Jade’s Luck put up Chaos-Repelling Pattern. As the group walked towards the more concentrated Wyld they came upon a little wooden doll walking the other way. It waved at the group all nervous like. The doll then fell over as it got into range of Jade’s Luck’s Creation. Once the group had passed, it got back up and swore. A-dom: That was mean! Gareth went over and disassembled it. Tiger: Now [b]THAT[/b] was mean! Gareth: It’s a Wyld creature. A-dom tried to put it back together. It walked away with a serious limp. Tiger had a lot harder time tracking the Wyld in the pocket of Creation so he scouted ahead. Plus it got him out of the stinky poo part of the sewer and back into the digestive tract. Eventually they came to a stairwell made out of weird bones (giant ant bones). The Wyld was more concentrated down there, so A-dom started down. Jade’s Luck waited for the others to get down the stairs before approaching. When she did the wall reformed, making the stairway disappear. She turned off her charm and waited ten minutes for the staircase to reappear. When she got down to the bottom, she asked if the group was okay. Gareth declared Gin and plunked down his cards. A-dom didn’t realize they were playing gin. Tiger thought they were playing poker. The deck of cards declared it thought they were playing solitaire and wandered off. A-dom chucked something at the cards. Most of them scattered, but the King took it right on the head. A-dom: Maybe we shouldn’t play cards with a deck of cards we found in the Wyld. This corridor’s walls was much more bone themed. Every so often the walls were made of marshmallows, but mostly it was bones. Everyone but Gareth saw a ghost up ahead rearranging bones in the wall. The bones then moved around some more as if they were stacked in jello. They woman was trying to tell the bones to stop moving. They weren’t listening. The group talked with the female ghost for a bit. She was the proprietor of the tunnel, which had been sealed off for a while. It had been sealed off by the mistress while she still ruled the island, to protect it. A-dom asked if the mistress was Sarah. The ghost winced. Alex: Some poor puppy just got zorched. A-dom: We’re all here, who cares? A whole bunch of bones came shooting out of the wall at A-dom, piercing him a lot. They found out it was only normal during Calibration. It was due to certain people cursing the mistress. The ghost asked him to put the bones back exactly where they belonged? A-dom did so and put his dress on. The ghost told them the mistress had sealed off the tunnel to protect the legacy of Yew. It was very happy to learn Jade’s Luck had been Yew. The mistress had been Yew’s apprentice. Gareth: I think Sarah was Tiger. Jade’s Luck moved away from both Gareth and A-dom. Bones shot out at Gareth, piercing his armor but failed to pierce his skin due to the Twilight anima power. They found out the mistress was the quite, secretive type. They got more information on Yew and her demise. Yew was assassinated in her own city by Wejin the Hideous, Lotus the Witch and Cindy. Markus the Mad died in battle and exalted as Rosewind the Compassionate. Rosewind attacked the great necromancer’s acolyte, Sarah, who then exalted. The ghost then exploded for saying Sarah. A few minutes later it reformed. Ghost: (looking at A-dom) I blame you. A-dom: I also blame Yew. A-dom got whacked. The group discussed needing signs. Jade’s Luck explained what had happened in Creation to the ghost. Eventually Tiger got bored and wandered off to find the source of the Wyld. When he found a big, wobbly ball of Wyld, he called Jade’s Luck over to look at it. After a little bit, it spit out an armored hamster. A-dom felt it needed a knife duct-taped to its back. The hamster walked past the group. Armored Hamster: Excuse me, I have to get back to work. A-dom picked him up and hugged him, saying he was so cute. He put the hamster down and it wandered up the staircase. An eyeball popped out of the Wyld ball and rolled to the staircase. Once it got their, bat wings popped out and it fluttered up. Gareth asked Jade’s Luck if she had enough Willpower to smack the Wyld. She asked him how to make iron weapons. With his instruction and five hours, she turned the patch of Wyld into cold iron weapons. With the source of the Wyld energy gone, Tiger was pretty sure that a simple walkthrough with Chaos-Repelling Pattern would destroy the remaining Wyld. As they headed back towards the stairway, Jade’s Luck commented about getting Gareth to build a tunnel to get out. The ghost said she wouldn’t advice that, commenting that they were in the mistress’s secret storage area and the death traps were likely all active now that the Wyld was gone. Luckily, she said this corridor was safe. The group discussed where they wanted to go now, since they had three directions to try now that the area had been righted. A-dom asked the ghost which way the death traps were. She said yes. He asked her which way the good :):):):) was. She said yes. He asked which way the Manse was. She said she couldn’t tell him that. Watching the bickering, the ghost commented about how she saw how the war had started. The group decided to go left, so Jade’s Luck turned on the Chaos-Repelling Pattern and they went. The ghost was happy that the bones were staying in place now. Eventually they came to an archway with large, glowing runes on it. It reminded A-dom of an archway underneath Skullstone. He thought it was similar, but he thought it might just burn the soul out of the body. He and Tiger got closer to investigate how to deactivate it. Disembodied Female Voice: If you want to come through this doorway, you must prove you are a practitioner of Necromancy. Jade’s Luck tried to question the voice, but failed. A-dom and Tiger noticed that there were a few corpses around the doorway, possibly people who had tried and failed. A couple of minutes after the group started discussing if it was a good idea to find out what happened when you cast Necromancy during Calibration Tiger noticed a curtain of green flame coming down the corridor from the direction they had come. Tiger pointed out. Jade’s Luck told A-dom to animate a corpse. Paul: Intelligence+Occult. Ryan: Wait a minute. I have to find my intelligence. I don’t normally know where that is. A-dom started casting his spell and he got a lot more power than he was expecting. He managed to channel it properly. Black, necromantic energy formed around three of the skeletons, making them reform and glow. They looked like improved zombies. Skeleton: Yes, sir. What would you like? A-dom: Nothing at the moment. Skeleton: You may wish to step this way, sir. There seems to be green flame coming towards you. A-dom said the skeleton could call him the Necromancer Mii. The Skeletons ended up being named Yes and What. Yes was clearly incompetent, since he couldn’t speak yet. What kept calling A-dom sir. Everyone, including the new creations, stepped through the deactivated archway. The runes powered back up once everyone was through and the green flame died out just before it reached the archway. Jade’s Luck asked if they’d need to prove again to get back through. What noted there weren’t any skeletons on this side of the archway. A-dom noted they’d have to make one. What asked whom he was volunteering for the task. They were now in a rather large room with assorted necromantic tools. A-dom was pretty sure it had lots of burial rights tools, including mummification. On the other side of the room was another of the magical archways. Jade’s Luck noticed some writing on the wall. In Old Realm [b][i]After the death of the Great Necromancer Yew, her knowledge was oppressed by the evil tyrant overlords. This location was designed to test people to see if they appropriately aligned to accept the teachings of Yew.[/i][/b][i][/i] She couldn’t read any further. It looked like it was written in Old Realm, but it was all gobbley-gook to her. Gareth took a look at it and managed to get farther. [b][i]It went on to talk about how you would be tested for knowledge of basic occult, necromancy, proper motivation, proper use of occult, proper reverence for the Great Necromancer Yew[/i][/b][i][/i]. Gareth couldn’t read any further for the same reason. A-dom could read it all just fine. [b][i]It then went on about how great Necromancy was and what a great tool it was to help Creation. It said some great things about how the City of Yew was a utopia because of the undead workers. [/i][/b][i][/i] Then it ended. Jade’s Luck only heard gobbley gook from A-dom, while everyone else heard him just fine. They figured this had something to do with the mind block on her about Yew and left it at that. Jade’s Luck got closer to the archway to investigate. Disembodied Female Voice: You must now demonstrate a basic knowledge of sorcery. Everyone looked at each other, looking a little worried. Everyone but Gareth noticed black, necromantic energy over by the far doorway, slowly moving towards the group. What: In think we can survive that, sir! You may be screwed. Tiger decided to try the thaumaturgy way of seeing spirits. A-dom asked when they put the blood in their eyes. Tiger finished the ritual and had to deal with a lot more power than he was used to. Tiger dematerialized. The archway deactivated. Jade’s Luck up sorcerer’s sight and saw Tiger. Everyone moved through the archway. Tiger went through the wall to see what it was like. Jade’s Luck told him he might materialize inside the wall if he did that. Tiger ignored her. They walked down a long corridor full of bones. Tiger: Bad A-dom Only Jade’s Luck heard him. A-dom: Just as a suggestion, don’t go near any archways until we’re ready for them to activate. What complimented him on the suggestion. When asked, he said he didn’t have sense of sarcasm. A-dom: If I gave you free will for an hour, what would you do? What: I already have free will, sir. Thank you for that. After a while, Tiger started to fade in. It actually took him a few minutes to fade in completely. Eventually they approached another archway. Disembodied Female Voice: Please explain in as much detail as you can how you plan to use Necromancy. How you will better the world with it. (pause) No. You. A-dom. A-dom: Well, I plan to reinstate the idea of undead as servants and potentially create a few armies and take over some islands and potentially make an island of undead people, but that would probably end up in the Underworld. I would experiment and see how I could make the world better with the undead, including Creation things so Creation doesn’t turn into the Underworld. Cause that’s bad. But then use the Underworld holes to my advantage. Jade’s Luck (whispers): For the glory of the Unconquered Sun. A-dom: Oh yeah, and I’d probably give the Unconquered Sun credit and say some nifty stuff about Yew as soon as I learn about her and, you know, take over the world for the Unconquered Sun. Oh, and the Circle. Disembodied Female Voice: So, in summery. The high points are you plan on expanded Necromantic experimentation. Creation of undead armies to conquer lands uncontrolled by Solars. Reinstating undead servants. To expand the teachings of Yew once you learn them? A-dom: I think so. I’m a little wishy-washy on that last one, since I don’t know what they bare yet. Pretty much, Necromancy Yeah! Jade’s Luck pointed out that he didn’t have the temperament for teaching. The voice asked her if she too was planning on expanding the teachings of necromancy. She said no, but she planned on expanding the teaching of teaching. Disembodied Female Voice: And you plan to give all credit to the Unconquered Sun? Some credit? A little credit? A-dom: Some credit to him, some to me. Cause it all comes from him anyway. After all, even though I give credit to Yew and me, it’s still Him. Him the zombie looked very excited. A-dom: Not you, Him. The Unconquered Sun. Disembodied Female Voice: So, does anyone here object to A-dom’s goals or plan to work against him in the completion of these goals. Another wall of fire could be seen down the corridor. The voice made them choose one or the other. Jade’s Luck tried to put provisos in her response. The voice wouldn’t accept them. A-dom added the goal that he would attempt to use udead for the betterment of Creation. Jade’s Luck tried to put provisos in her response. The voice wouldn’t accept them. The flames were warming their asses by the time she chose for. Gareth chose for quickly. Tiger was against more undead running around, so decided against. There was a flash and everyone’s pact was sealed. The arch deactivated and the group tumbled through, a little more burnt than before. On the other side, it was pitch dark. They moved a little way in and the lights turned on. They saw a huge zombie abomination with eight heads and twelve arms. A-dom thought it was cool and started asking it if it knew Rappy, Spiny, or the Katamari ball. Al of the arms pulled out swords. A-dom asked if he was a test. The zombie asked what he thought. Gareth whipped out his scythe and asked how he was going. The zombie said he’d seen it before. It then introduced itself as the Guardian and asked which one passed the test. A-dom said he passed most of them. Lots of confusion of Yew, you, Mii, Mii, Him. When a manse was brought up, A-dom said he was taking it. He said A-dom could go past, but the others had to stay. He’d only fight them if they tried to go past. Jade’s Luck brought up that he had been claiming a lot lately and Gareth brought up that Tiger was supposed to get the next Manse. A-dom deattuned the dress, but it didn’t drop his armor. He said he’d gladly give Jade’s Luck the dress once he found new armor. A-dom: [b]I will not take another artifact or Manse until one of the three of you tells me I can.[/b] After this one. A-dom stuck him hand in Pursey, looking for an Eclipse. Pursey said she fell out the hole. A-dom: We don’t have an Eclipse, but [b]I swear on the shard in my head and the Unconquered Sun… What: Sir, why don’t you make a magic ritual that’ll do the same thing? A-dom: Why don’t we bind this pact after Calibration? A-dom walked on down his dark path, I mean corridor. After a little bit he came to a Gargoyle. After saying he was A-dm, he was let right in. Everyone else was bored outside for several hours. A-dom wandered around for a while, finding most things you’d find in one. Eventually he found a ghostly servant who reported he wasn’t allowed to divulge the secrets of the Manse. He stated that he wasn’t able to offer tea, since they had run out several hundred years ago and could use some restocking. Eventually found the Hearthstone room. The Hearthstone was black and death motifs occasionally skittered across the surface. Once he had attuned to the manse, he found a control panel in the Hearthstone room. On it was an up/down lever all the way in the down position. A-dom immediately flipped it all the way up. Everyone heard an earthy, grinding noise. The rest of the Circle was pretty sure a massive earthquake was happening several hundred feet in the direction A-dom went. It and the grinding stopped after two minutes. In the control room, A-dom had a nice panoramic view of the city. Part of the city was flopped over on another part of it. He was pretty sure he came up under mostly farmland. He destroyed no more than 10% of the city. He could see people scurrying out from underneath the flopped over land. The Abomination let the others exit through a spiral bone staircase. The staircase was only twenty feet tall, but it corkscrewed its way up through the ground to reach the surface. They ended up right beside a big Skeleton Fist Manse jutting up from the ground. There was a palisade of bones around the building. Jade’s Luck was delighted at the havoc that had been brought upon this city and its lord and giggled at how the Sealord was going to react when he found out what had been hiding beneath his city. She sent Tiger out to see if troops were mobilizing yet (they weren’t). Gareth and Jade’s Luck ran out to help people. At this time, A-dom lowered the lever again. The Manse corkscrewed back down into the ground, dragging the land that had been flipped over back over it (still flipped over). Screams were heard from people dragged down with it. Tiger noticed an armored gerbil riding on top of a flying eyeball float past. Jade’s Luck dropped all of the iron weapons she had made on the ground at Tiger’s feet and ran out to find wounded people for Gareth to heal. A-dom reattuned his dress and put it away before making his way towards a skeletator staircase. What: Uh, sir? Sir! Do we follow you around? Kill people and wear their flesh? A-dom giggled at this thought, then ordered What, Him and Yes to wait in the manse and keep an eye on the place. He added that What was in charge of Yes and Him. Then he left. Random Mortal: Oh my god! The earth is exploding! This is worse than that freaking bar! Tiger stopped the man and asked him about the bar. Random Mortal: The freaky bar with all the weird thingys! Gods! Twenty miles down the road! Jade’s Luck got directions and told him chamber pots were a safe option this Calibration. She got him a beer and a chamber pot. She then told Gareth about the bar. They set out cleaning up the mess there. A-dom showed up. A-dom: I didn’t do anything! Jade’s Luck asked A-dom how his pulling people out from under rubble without hurting them abilities were. He wasn’t too sure about them. Two city guards walked briskly over. A-dom: Completely Accidental! City Guard: What happened here, exactly? A-dom: I found a manse, attuned it, and uh, broke the top layer of the soil? The guards asked him several more questions, including his name. He answered truthfully. One of the guards then ran away. A-dom: That’s potentially dangerous that way! The other guard rallied people. A-dom then started digging people out of the rubble ‘that he had nothing to do with’. Dig person out, brush them off, ‘I had nothing to do with this,’ move on.[/b] [/QUOTE]
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