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<blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 159873" data-attributes="member: 2020"><p><strong>IMPORTANT - READ IT AND BELIEVE IT</strong></p><p></p><p>Melkor</p><p></p><p> William, you missed some posts, I calmed down.</p><p></p><p> Melkor looks at Hazen with hatred and despise:</p><p></p><p> -Better to serve myself than those weaklings, those vermins, like you do, Angel! They listen to your message of peace and love out of fear, they listen to you only because they want your protection. But I, unlike you, don`t deny the truth, when I return from my journey I will posess power and wisdom beyond your understandind! Than he disappears in Darkness. </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p> </p><p> Edena_of_Neith</p><p></p><p> Melkor sits, as Hazen did. Melkor, knowing from his studies where to search, dives into himself, abandoning the outer world for the inner one.</p><p> It is a long fall into himself.</p><p></p><p> Indeed, Melkor - just like Hazen did - falls much farther than even he expected, and certainly farther than any mortal would have expected.</p><p></p><p> He plummets on downward into his own heart, deeper and deeper.</p><p> The Prime Material Plane gives way to the Astral Plane, as Melkor drops farther and farther.</p><p> The Astral Plane, gives way to the Abyss.</p><p> Then the Abyss, gives way to the Plane of Shadow.</p><p> And still Melkor falls.</p><p></p><p> Finally, Melkor falls into a region of mist; not the Mists of Ravenloft, but a different kind of mist. </p><p> This mist glows a faint dusky color, giving some illumination to the darkness.</p><p> There is a smell of rot, and a sense of long and ancient decay here.</p><p></p><p> Melkor finds himself standing in a labyrinth of corridors.</p><p> The rocks are crumbling, dust covers the floor, the smell of mold is very powerful, and water - from where even Melkor does not know - drips down through the webwork of cracks in the stone.</p><p> The floor is so decayed that it cracks and crumbles under Melkor's feet as he walks along.</p><p> He comes into a room. A very large room of octagonal shape, with a arched ceiling over 40 high in the center.</p><p> A statue of Melkor himself adorns the center of the room, arms lifted in triumph, body strong and muscular, with a mighty hammer held in his clenched hands.</p><p></p><p> Yet the statue, like everything else here, is in an advanced state of decay.</p><p> It is crumbling, the flesh losing definition as flakes of stone break off, and a pattern of small, broken rock lies on the floor all around it.</p><p></p><p> On the other side of the room from where Melkor entered is a mirror.</p><p> The mirror, is not decayed at all.</p><p> It is perfectly smooth, made of an unknown substance - it is most certainly not glass, and the mirror is not reflecting anything except for Melkor himself. His reflection looks back at him from it.</p><p></p><p> Walking up to the mirror, Melkor perceives a light growing within the mirror, and this light is coming from a path of glowing rock that leads out over nothing.</p><p> It is some sort of vision. For the mirror itself is no Gate, and there is nothing behind it except the crumbling wall.</p><p></p><p> The path brightens, and Melkor - looking in - can see it travels 20 feet forward, then splits, with one path leading forward and left, and the other leading forward and right.</p><p></p><p> The path that leads forward and left leads up to a brilliantly lit area.</p><p> In that area are 11th level spellbars, an 11th level prison. The ghosts of mages and clerics appear, their wands and staves aimed at the prison.</p><p> Then the ghost of Melkor himself appears inside the prison.</p><p> It is a perfect replica of the Torilian prison that Melkor was encaged in, back on Turn 5, except for one difference - it is Erika Lesage who is standing amidst those Torilians, not Forrester.</p><p></p><p> The path that leads forward and to the right leads up to a mighty throne.</p><p> This throne is carved of one great piece of adamantite, and tremendously powerful Shade magic emanates from it.</p><p> The ghosts of beautiful women appear, kneeling before the throne, chained and scarred.</p><p> The ghosts of powerful warriors of Shade, and Shadow Dragons, and hideous monsters from the deepest part of the Plane of Shadow, all appear, and all bow in obesiance to the Throne.</p><p> Then the ghost of Melkor appears in that throne. A crown is upon his head, a scepter in his hand. Power springs from his hand, authority is in his pose, dauntless strength lies within his body.</p><p></p><p> From behind Melkor comes a voice:</p><p></p><p> Welcome, Melkor.</p><p> Do you understand what you see?</p><p></p><p> Melkor, upon turning, sees a tall figure, completely robed in red, looking at him.</p><p> There are no visible hands coming from the arms of the robe, and no face is visible within the cowl.</p><p> Magic, if used, detects nothing within the robe ... but detect evil shows very powerful evil. Evil so potent that perhaps it's strength alone is enough to fill the robe.</p><p> Evil so great it has it's own consciousness, it's own unholy life.</p><p></p><p> The figure speaks:</p><p></p><p> We knew you would come here, eventually.</p><p> We wish to instruct you.</p><p> Instruct you as to what you face in your own future.</p><p></p><p> The figure points at the mirror:</p><p></p><p> One of those two is your future. </p><p> One, and only one.</p><p> As for you, so the future is decreed for all who follow you.</p><p> As your fate is decreed, so is the Fate of the Shade.</p><p></p><p> The figure then laughs, a mocking, jeering laughter, and it is directed right at Melkor.</p><p></p><p> You fool.</p><p> You have led yourself and the Shade into a deathtrap.</p><p> You know very well of what I speak.</p><p></p><p> The figure gestures dramatically:</p><p></p><p> As I speak, Iuz and Anabstercorian are allying to destroy you.</p><p> As I speak, Phibrizzo prepares to assail you.</p><p> As I speak, Kas, the God Emperor, and Mina prepare to attack you.</p><p> Acererak has turned his back on you, Melkor, Lord of the Shade.</p><p></p><p> The figure laughs again.</p><p></p><p> The Alliance of Oerth alone has the 11th level strength to grind you into the dust.</p><p> The Alliance of Oerth, alone has that strength.</p><p> Hazen could put his foot on your neck, and crush you under heel.</p><p> He is moving, Melkor, to do just that.</p><p></p><p> The Torilians have enough power to destroy all the other Spheres, much less your pitiful, weak power that you dare to call the Shade Empire.</p><p> The Torilians ... are united with the Alliance of Oerth, my dear Lord Melkor.</p><p> Erika Lesage will put forth her strength. She is far more formidable than Forrester.</p><p></p><p> You are alone, Lord Melkor. Alone.</p><p> You consider Rajaat an ally? Rajaat is a buffoon. Rajaat is a loser. A pathetic weakling who could not even protect himself from Athian magic, much less the incredible might of 11th level magic.</p><p></p><p> You face Iuz, Anabstercorian, Phibrizzo, Kas, the God Emperor, the entire Alliance of Oerth, and ALL the powers of Realmspace, and Mina stands against you, and the Immortals of Mystara, and even the Dragon-Kings would stand against you if they dared - and they will dare in the end.</p><p></p><p> And you hope to endure? You hope to win? You actually think you are going to win?</p><p></p><p> Hahahahahahahahahahaha! </p><p></p><p> </p><p> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!</p><p></p><p> </p><p> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!</p><p></p><p> </p><p> HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!</p><p></p><p> Do you think mercy will be according to you, when they take you?</p><p> Do you think mercy will be accorded to your Shade when they are taken, Lord Melkor?</p><p></p><p> The figure, Melkor realizes, is actually smiling ... somehow he realizes that.</p><p></p><p> When your Shade are hunted down and destroyed, you will have no worshippers in this quadrant of reality, Lord Melkor.</p><p> You will be banished - forever - from this reality.</p><p></p><p> In other words, my dear friend, you will be DEAD.</p><p> Your dead body will float in the Astral Plane, among the bodies of all the other Dead Gods.</p><p></p><p> Until the Torilians find it - which they will - and utterly destroy it for once and all.</p><p></p><p> Or perhaps the Torilians will put you on display. </p><p> You might make a fitting wall ornament. Or perhaps a soveneir in one of their historical museums. </p><p> Kender and children will stroll by where you are imprisoned for all eternity, and laugh at the monstrously silly figure they see in there.</p><p> They will all laugh, Melkor. Elves, dwarves, humanoids, illithid ... they will all laugh at the former Lord of Shade, whose aspirations were bigger than his will to carry out.</p><p></p><p> The figure points at the mirror again, at the RIGHT-HAND way, at the throne at it's end.</p><p> The figure speaks:</p><p></p><p> There is another way, Lord Melkor.</p><p> There is a way for you and yours to have a Realm that will last for all eternity.</p><p> You will be absolute ruler there, and nobody - not even the Torilians even if they came in force - could daunt you there, or hope to win against you.</p><p> For you would be master of that Realm so totally that nothing could enter or leave except by your will ((that is literally true. The figure is telling the truth.))</p><p> You would be the master of all in the Realm, in body, mind, and soul.</p><p> Your Shade would be your absolute servants - those that attempted revolt, as those Shade in the Plane of Shadow did - you could instantly crush.</p><p></p><p> You know of where I speak. Ravenloft.</p><p></p><p> It is called a prison by those who understand it not.</p><p> It is called a place of horror by the ignorant.</p><p></p><p> What they do not understand - or perhaps they understand all too well - is that Ravenloft, is growing.</p><p> Growing, my dear Melkor.</p><p> With each new Realm, with each new Darklord, Ravenloft grows.</p><p> It will continue to grow, as the power of evil grows, and it will suck the whole of the multiverse in, and the Darklords will rule all the lives of man and beast who walk upon any planet in any Sphere in the whole of reality.</p><p></p><p> You see it happening now, Melkor.</p><p> You see Ravenloft taking Realmspace, Greyspace, and Krynnspace.</p><p> Ravenloft will take them, and make them it's own.</p><p></p><p> When that happens, Lord Melkor could be waiting for them.</p><p> Waiting for them, Lord Melkor!</p><p> And YOU would be the Darklord, when their Crystal Spheres were pulled in.</p><p></p><p> The figure laughs, a grim, horrible laugh:</p><p></p><p> Some of them dare to think a Good Domain will be established if Realmspace is pulled in.</p><p> They are idiots. There ARE NO Good Domains in Ravenloft.</p><p> There will NEVER BE any Good Domains in Ravenloft.</p><p></p><p> But there could be the Domain of Lord Melkor.</p><p> Ruler of Realmspace, Greyspace, and Krynnspace, and Athas too.</p><p></p><p> The figure looks intently at Melkor:</p><p></p><p> As Darklord, you would have supreme power over them all.</p><p> They could not touch you.</p><p> Their 11th level magic would fail in your Realm.</p><p> Their science would fail in your Realm.</p><p> The Shadow Weave would be the SUPREME magic in your Realm, and it would whelm ALL OTHER magic, and those who did not practice the Shadow Magic would be all but helpless against those who did.</p><p></p><p> Then you could have a revenge upon them all.</p><p> Erika Lesage ... she would be brought before you in chains, and soon enough you could break her and make her more truly yours than ever the elven girl was.</p><p> Forrester would be trapped, unable to escape ... and you could hunt him down, and take him to your dungeons. He would never die, so long as you willed it, and your torturers could practice their arts day and night.</p><p> Hazen, who dared to defy you, would find his angelic strength useless against you in Ravenloft, and his altruism would not avail him against the iron chains of your might.</p><p></p><p> The Alliance of Oerth would be crushed and the Shadow Throne reestablished.</p><p> The Union of the Worlds would bow and scrape before Lord Melkor, the God Emperor casting down his crown and kneeling before you.</p><p> Kas the Imbecile you could make into your Court Jester.</p><p> And Anabstercorian could be dissected by your Shade scientists - even we acknowledge there is much to be found in that swollen head of his.</p><p></p><p> All that could be yours, Lord Melkor.</p><p> All of it.</p><p></p><p> All that is required is that you step through this mirror, and will that your Shade step through with you.</p><p> That is all you have to do.</p><p></p><p> The figure gestures to the left-hand way, to the Torilian prison, where Erika Lesage is sternly and sadly looking at an imprisoned Melkor.</p><p></p><p> Or perhaps you would prefer THAT fate instead?</p><p></p><p> You are an intelligent being, Lord Melkor.</p><p> Would you not prefer her at your feet, kneeling, in chains, the marks of your whip on her back?</p><p> Or would you prefer to be made into the Torilian Zoo's latest exhibit, for kender and children to laugh at?</p><p></p><p> The choice, is yours.</p><p></p><p> ((If Lord Melkor steps through that Mirror, he and all the Shade immediately travel to Ravenloft. A new Domain appears, gigantic in scope, and Melkor is the Darklord of this Domain. In this Domain, he effectively is the supreme power ... overcoming him by magic or force would be almost literally impossible by any means.</p><p> If Realmspace, Greyspace, Krynnspace, and Athas, ARE pulled into Ravenloft, they BECOME A PART of this Domain ... the Domain where Melkor is the Darklord. Where Melkor is the supreme power.</p><p> For Domains in the Demiplane of Dread, Ravenloft, appear as the Dark Powers will them to appear.</p><p> If Realmspace and the other Crystal Spheres become a part of the Domain of Melkor, I do not think it too difficult to guess what will happen to all of you then.))</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p> </p><p> Anabstercorian</p><p></p><p> OOC:</p><p></p><p> Whoa... </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Edena_of_Neith</p><p></p><p> LOL. I had hoped for an: Oh (deleted) !!</p><p></p><p> I don't know what Melkor will do, of course.</p><p></p><p> I am guessing I just put a capital P on that Peace Conference of yours ... </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p> </p><p> Melkor</p><p></p><p> Melkor looks with delight at the vision that the figure shows him:</p><p></p><p> -Fool, you think you can manipulate me! Ha, I accept but know that I myself am a Dark Power, greatest of all, and you will soon bow before me! I shall rule entire Ravenloft, and Plane Of Dread shall swallow ALL of the multiverse, and there will no light left, no hope, no mercy, Dread will rule supreme! And I will rule upon it unchallenged, wielding Power Of Darkness, Of Red Scourge, Eternal Night!</p><p></p><p> Then he steps through The Mirror.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Kalanyr</p><p></p><p> Oh well. </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> William</p><p> </p><p> Edena:</p><p> You are getting an OH (deleted) from me.</p><p></p><p> Melkor, good roleplaying on your part.</p><p></p><p> I am waiting to see the rest of this, but I will have to leave for a few hours. </p><p> </p><p> William</p><p></p><p> Re: Anabstercorian</p><p></p><p> Melkor, everything in this post is completely out of character. Everything here is stuff your character would likely have learned upon hearing about Ravenloft.</p><p></p><p> Any power that enters there as a Dark Lord is a prisoner. They suffer eternally. They can never escape. They can not influence other worlds to any appreciable degree. Going into Ravenloft is rather like jumping into a black hole. You can't get out and you will be crushed. You will be in a prison worse than the one Forrester put your character in earlier in the IR.</p><p></p><p> You always have choices. Ravenloft is worse than you can imagine. Your character essentially becomes a prisoner. I suggest you do a web search on Ravenloft if you doubt me.</p><p></p><p> I am trying to be helpful to another player in this. Edena and everyone, can you explain the consequences of Melkor becoming a Dark Lord of Ravenloft. Indeed, most of what the Dark Lords in Ravenloft do is meant to free them from the Domain of Dread. They are trapped, and so would you if you seek to enter.</p><p></p><p> You could decide to try to return to the peace conference. You are being presented with only two options by the Dark Powers.</p><p> You can always make your own way. Also, saying that they will bow to you may make them VERY ANGRY.</p><p></p><p> You may wonder why I am doing this. Someone in the IR asked people to do this. Out of respect for you as a player.</p><p></p><p> Melkor, you have little idea what you are doing. Can some of the other players let Melkor what they know about Ravenloft. </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Tokiwong</p><p> </p><p> Frustrated</p><p></p><p> OOC: I know there are problems with EnWorld just frustrated posted some decent stuff and it gets overlooked cause of the problems with the board... hey Edena if it is okay with you I might save some of the stuff from the game and place it on my boards just in case... My Boards </p><p></p><p> Edena_of_Neith</p><p></p><p> Sure thing, Tokiwong. Go ahead and do that, and I'll take a look in.</p><p></p><p> Melkor, you may change your mind, if you wish.</p><p> If you wish to talk with William OOC about this, please go ahead.</p><p></p><p> However, whatever your decision is, 24 hours from now it is final.</p><p></p><p> William, you underestimate the danger. Think about this:</p><p></p><p> If Melkor becomes a Darklord, and the rest of you are pulled into Ravenloft and his Domain, well ... you know what happens next.</p><p> If Melkor becomes a Darklord, and the rest of you manage to avoid being pulled into Ravenloft, they still have Melkor.</p><p> If Melkor refuses to go to Ravenloft, he stays and fights the rest of you, which hastens the process of you all being pulled into Ravenloft.</p><p></p><p> Any way you cut it, the Dark Powers win.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Edena_of_Neith, post: 159873, member: 2020"] [b]IMPORTANT - READ IT AND BELIEVE IT[/b] Melkor William, you missed some posts, I calmed down. Melkor looks at Hazen with hatred and despise: -Better to serve myself than those weaklings, those vermins, like you do, Angel! They listen to your message of peace and love out of fear, they listen to you only because they want your protection. But I, unlike you, don`t deny the truth, when I return from my journey I will posess power and wisdom beyond your understandind! Than he disappears in Darkness. - - - Edena_of_Neith Melkor sits, as Hazen did. Melkor, knowing from his studies where to search, dives into himself, abandoning the outer world for the inner one. It is a long fall into himself. Indeed, Melkor - just like Hazen did - falls much farther than even he expected, and certainly farther than any mortal would have expected. He plummets on downward into his own heart, deeper and deeper. The Prime Material Plane gives way to the Astral Plane, as Melkor drops farther and farther. The Astral Plane, gives way to the Abyss. Then the Abyss, gives way to the Plane of Shadow. And still Melkor falls. Finally, Melkor falls into a region of mist; not the Mists of Ravenloft, but a different kind of mist. This mist glows a faint dusky color, giving some illumination to the darkness. There is a smell of rot, and a sense of long and ancient decay here. Melkor finds himself standing in a labyrinth of corridors. The rocks are crumbling, dust covers the floor, the smell of mold is very powerful, and water - from where even Melkor does not know - drips down through the webwork of cracks in the stone. The floor is so decayed that it cracks and crumbles under Melkor's feet as he walks along. He comes into a room. A very large room of octagonal shape, with a arched ceiling over 40 high in the center. A statue of Melkor himself adorns the center of the room, arms lifted in triumph, body strong and muscular, with a mighty hammer held in his clenched hands. Yet the statue, like everything else here, is in an advanced state of decay. It is crumbling, the flesh losing definition as flakes of stone break off, and a pattern of small, broken rock lies on the floor all around it. On the other side of the room from where Melkor entered is a mirror. The mirror, is not decayed at all. It is perfectly smooth, made of an unknown substance - it is most certainly not glass, and the mirror is not reflecting anything except for Melkor himself. His reflection looks back at him from it. Walking up to the mirror, Melkor perceives a light growing within the mirror, and this light is coming from a path of glowing rock that leads out over nothing. It is some sort of vision. For the mirror itself is no Gate, and there is nothing behind it except the crumbling wall. The path brightens, and Melkor - looking in - can see it travels 20 feet forward, then splits, with one path leading forward and left, and the other leading forward and right. The path that leads forward and left leads up to a brilliantly lit area. In that area are 11th level spellbars, an 11th level prison. The ghosts of mages and clerics appear, their wands and staves aimed at the prison. Then the ghost of Melkor himself appears inside the prison. It is a perfect replica of the Torilian prison that Melkor was encaged in, back on Turn 5, except for one difference - it is Erika Lesage who is standing amidst those Torilians, not Forrester. The path that leads forward and to the right leads up to a mighty throne. This throne is carved of one great piece of adamantite, and tremendously powerful Shade magic emanates from it. The ghosts of beautiful women appear, kneeling before the throne, chained and scarred. The ghosts of powerful warriors of Shade, and Shadow Dragons, and hideous monsters from the deepest part of the Plane of Shadow, all appear, and all bow in obesiance to the Throne. Then the ghost of Melkor appears in that throne. A crown is upon his head, a scepter in his hand. Power springs from his hand, authority is in his pose, dauntless strength lies within his body. From behind Melkor comes a voice: Welcome, Melkor. Do you understand what you see? Melkor, upon turning, sees a tall figure, completely robed in red, looking at him. There are no visible hands coming from the arms of the robe, and no face is visible within the cowl. Magic, if used, detects nothing within the robe ... but detect evil shows very powerful evil. Evil so potent that perhaps it's strength alone is enough to fill the robe. Evil so great it has it's own consciousness, it's own unholy life. The figure speaks: We knew you would come here, eventually. We wish to instruct you. Instruct you as to what you face in your own future. The figure points at the mirror: One of those two is your future. One, and only one. As for you, so the future is decreed for all who follow you. As your fate is decreed, so is the Fate of the Shade. The figure then laughs, a mocking, jeering laughter, and it is directed right at Melkor. You fool. You have led yourself and the Shade into a deathtrap. You know very well of what I speak. The figure gestures dramatically: As I speak, Iuz and Anabstercorian are allying to destroy you. As I speak, Phibrizzo prepares to assail you. As I speak, Kas, the God Emperor, and Mina prepare to attack you. Acererak has turned his back on you, Melkor, Lord of the Shade. The figure laughs again. The Alliance of Oerth alone has the 11th level strength to grind you into the dust. The Alliance of Oerth, alone has that strength. Hazen could put his foot on your neck, and crush you under heel. He is moving, Melkor, to do just that. The Torilians have enough power to destroy all the other Spheres, much less your pitiful, weak power that you dare to call the Shade Empire. The Torilians ... are united with the Alliance of Oerth, my dear Lord Melkor. Erika Lesage will put forth her strength. She is far more formidable than Forrester. You are alone, Lord Melkor. Alone. You consider Rajaat an ally? Rajaat is a buffoon. Rajaat is a loser. A pathetic weakling who could not even protect himself from Athian magic, much less the incredible might of 11th level magic. You face Iuz, Anabstercorian, Phibrizzo, Kas, the God Emperor, the entire Alliance of Oerth, and ALL the powers of Realmspace, and Mina stands against you, and the Immortals of Mystara, and even the Dragon-Kings would stand against you if they dared - and they will dare in the end. And you hope to endure? You hope to win? You actually think you are going to win? Hahahahahahahahahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Do you think mercy will be according to you, when they take you? Do you think mercy will be accorded to your Shade when they are taken, Lord Melkor? The figure, Melkor realizes, is actually smiling ... somehow he realizes that. When your Shade are hunted down and destroyed, you will have no worshippers in this quadrant of reality, Lord Melkor. You will be banished - forever - from this reality. In other words, my dear friend, you will be DEAD. Your dead body will float in the Astral Plane, among the bodies of all the other Dead Gods. Until the Torilians find it - which they will - and utterly destroy it for once and all. Or perhaps the Torilians will put you on display. You might make a fitting wall ornament. Or perhaps a soveneir in one of their historical museums. Kender and children will stroll by where you are imprisoned for all eternity, and laugh at the monstrously silly figure they see in there. They will all laugh, Melkor. Elves, dwarves, humanoids, illithid ... they will all laugh at the former Lord of Shade, whose aspirations were bigger than his will to carry out. The figure points at the mirror again, at the RIGHT-HAND way, at the throne at it's end. The figure speaks: There is another way, Lord Melkor. There is a way for you and yours to have a Realm that will last for all eternity. You will be absolute ruler there, and nobody - not even the Torilians even if they came in force - could daunt you there, or hope to win against you. For you would be master of that Realm so totally that nothing could enter or leave except by your will ((that is literally true. The figure is telling the truth.)) You would be the master of all in the Realm, in body, mind, and soul. Your Shade would be your absolute servants - those that attempted revolt, as those Shade in the Plane of Shadow did - you could instantly crush. You know of where I speak. Ravenloft. It is called a prison by those who understand it not. It is called a place of horror by the ignorant. What they do not understand - or perhaps they understand all too well - is that Ravenloft, is growing. Growing, my dear Melkor. With each new Realm, with each new Darklord, Ravenloft grows. It will continue to grow, as the power of evil grows, and it will suck the whole of the multiverse in, and the Darklords will rule all the lives of man and beast who walk upon any planet in any Sphere in the whole of reality. You see it happening now, Melkor. You see Ravenloft taking Realmspace, Greyspace, and Krynnspace. Ravenloft will take them, and make them it's own. When that happens, Lord Melkor could be waiting for them. Waiting for them, Lord Melkor! And YOU would be the Darklord, when their Crystal Spheres were pulled in. The figure laughs, a grim, horrible laugh: Some of them dare to think a Good Domain will be established if Realmspace is pulled in. They are idiots. There ARE NO Good Domains in Ravenloft. There will NEVER BE any Good Domains in Ravenloft. But there could be the Domain of Lord Melkor. Ruler of Realmspace, Greyspace, and Krynnspace, and Athas too. The figure looks intently at Melkor: As Darklord, you would have supreme power over them all. They could not touch you. Their 11th level magic would fail in your Realm. Their science would fail in your Realm. The Shadow Weave would be the SUPREME magic in your Realm, and it would whelm ALL OTHER magic, and those who did not practice the Shadow Magic would be all but helpless against those who did. Then you could have a revenge upon them all. Erika Lesage ... she would be brought before you in chains, and soon enough you could break her and make her more truly yours than ever the elven girl was. Forrester would be trapped, unable to escape ... and you could hunt him down, and take him to your dungeons. He would never die, so long as you willed it, and your torturers could practice their arts day and night. Hazen, who dared to defy you, would find his angelic strength useless against you in Ravenloft, and his altruism would not avail him against the iron chains of your might. The Alliance of Oerth would be crushed and the Shadow Throne reestablished. The Union of the Worlds would bow and scrape before Lord Melkor, the God Emperor casting down his crown and kneeling before you. Kas the Imbecile you could make into your Court Jester. And Anabstercorian could be dissected by your Shade scientists - even we acknowledge there is much to be found in that swollen head of his. All that could be yours, Lord Melkor. All of it. All that is required is that you step through this mirror, and will that your Shade step through with you. That is all you have to do. The figure gestures to the left-hand way, to the Torilian prison, where Erika Lesage is sternly and sadly looking at an imprisoned Melkor. Or perhaps you would prefer THAT fate instead? You are an intelligent being, Lord Melkor. Would you not prefer her at your feet, kneeling, in chains, the marks of your whip on her back? Or would you prefer to be made into the Torilian Zoo's latest exhibit, for kender and children to laugh at? The choice, is yours. ((If Lord Melkor steps through that Mirror, he and all the Shade immediately travel to Ravenloft. A new Domain appears, gigantic in scope, and Melkor is the Darklord of this Domain. In this Domain, he effectively is the supreme power ... overcoming him by magic or force would be almost literally impossible by any means. If Realmspace, Greyspace, Krynnspace, and Athas, ARE pulled into Ravenloft, they BECOME A PART of this Domain ... the Domain where Melkor is the Darklord. Where Melkor is the supreme power. For Domains in the Demiplane of Dread, Ravenloft, appear as the Dark Powers will them to appear. If Realmspace and the other Crystal Spheres become a part of the Domain of Melkor, I do not think it too difficult to guess what will happen to all of you then.)) - - - Anabstercorian OOC: Whoa... - - - Edena_of_Neith LOL. I had hoped for an: Oh (deleted) !! I don't know what Melkor will do, of course. I am guessing I just put a capital P on that Peace Conference of yours ... - - - Melkor Melkor looks with delight at the vision that the figure shows him: -Fool, you think you can manipulate me! Ha, I accept but know that I myself am a Dark Power, greatest of all, and you will soon bow before me! I shall rule entire Ravenloft, and Plane Of Dread shall swallow ALL of the multiverse, and there will no light left, no hope, no mercy, Dread will rule supreme! And I will rule upon it unchallenged, wielding Power Of Darkness, Of Red Scourge, Eternal Night! Then he steps through The Mirror. - - - Kalanyr Oh well. - - - William Edena: You are getting an OH (deleted) from me. Melkor, good roleplaying on your part. I am waiting to see the rest of this, but I will have to leave for a few hours. William Re: Anabstercorian Melkor, everything in this post is completely out of character. Everything here is stuff your character would likely have learned upon hearing about Ravenloft. Any power that enters there as a Dark Lord is a prisoner. They suffer eternally. They can never escape. They can not influence other worlds to any appreciable degree. Going into Ravenloft is rather like jumping into a black hole. You can't get out and you will be crushed. You will be in a prison worse than the one Forrester put your character in earlier in the IR. You always have choices. Ravenloft is worse than you can imagine. Your character essentially becomes a prisoner. I suggest you do a web search on Ravenloft if you doubt me. I am trying to be helpful to another player in this. Edena and everyone, can you explain the consequences of Melkor becoming a Dark Lord of Ravenloft. Indeed, most of what the Dark Lords in Ravenloft do is meant to free them from the Domain of Dread. They are trapped, and so would you if you seek to enter. You could decide to try to return to the peace conference. You are being presented with only two options by the Dark Powers. You can always make your own way. Also, saying that they will bow to you may make them VERY ANGRY. You may wonder why I am doing this. Someone in the IR asked people to do this. Out of respect for you as a player. Melkor, you have little idea what you are doing. Can some of the other players let Melkor what they know about Ravenloft. - - - Tokiwong Frustrated OOC: I know there are problems with EnWorld just frustrated posted some decent stuff and it gets overlooked cause of the problems with the board... hey Edena if it is okay with you I might save some of the stuff from the game and place it on my boards just in case... My Boards Edena_of_Neith Sure thing, Tokiwong. Go ahead and do that, and I'll take a look in. Melkor, you may change your mind, if you wish. If you wish to talk with William OOC about this, please go ahead. However, whatever your decision is, 24 hours from now it is final. William, you underestimate the danger. Think about this: If Melkor becomes a Darklord, and the rest of you are pulled into Ravenloft and his Domain, well ... you know what happens next. If Melkor becomes a Darklord, and the rest of you manage to avoid being pulled into Ravenloft, they still have Melkor. If Melkor refuses to go to Ravenloft, he stays and fights the rest of you, which hastens the process of you all being pulled into Ravenloft. Any way you cut it, the Dark Powers win. [/QUOTE]
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