[Epic] Scions of the Endless Falls

[Kelleris]

By Boccob's hymnal, you couldn't scan that with a lens of detection and the world's smallest pair of orthographic tweezers...

In a stage whisper:

"There’s a young prince of Undelland
Whose poetry never will scan.

When asked why this was,
He said 'It's because​

I always try to get as many helpful syllables in as I possibly can.' "*

*Altered from a limerick found at Wikipedia.

 

[TheOneAboveAll]

"The sacrifice of Devom cannot be eased, for the death of a world is not easily appeased. Yet that his name will carry on, a boon will be given, a cloak of knowledge to don.

"The greatest of gods regarded your power with fear, god of power, god of death, god of life, they drew near. Long in council they debated you fate, and none of the smaller gods their wrath could abate.

"With a great rush of power they unraveled your world, scattering the threads wide so that they could never fully be unfurled. To restore the shelter of the Endless Falls, you must reweave the threads with the power of the gods!"

The world was unraveled, not destroyed it still exists but torn apart and put to the far reaches of reality? Because some of the gods feared the power we hold? Why not attack us directly? It sounds like the world can be restored but we need to gain the power of gods. A great artifact perhaps.

*Solarion thinks aloud, trying to make sense of the rhyme. He listens to Rahveon's reply and realizes they are on the same course of questions. For now he will defer to Rahveon's questioning of this being.*

 

[Kelleris]

OOC: Actually, Solarion might want to take over. He does have the highest Diplomacy check here...

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Rahveon listens to Arions words and mentally sighs, I am no poet, ah well, let us hope he is not a critic either.

"In your council we will wisely heed
Given hope by Devom's deed

Life, Death and Power now need worry
Their Acts unforgiven, they will taste our fury.

But still a question remains in my mind
Where a gods power that we must find?

Is there an ally whose power to weave
will bring back our would without need to reave

Or must we take it from Death or from Life
Or steal it from Power with terrible strife"

"To steal the power from the Greater Gods, would bring great grief to no greater cause. But a hundred small gods with our world did die, and in their scattered bodies the power does lie.

"A dozen bodies, I know, escaped destruction, gather their blood and bones to aid in your construction. Devom gives his power for the good of our land, now go and seek the other eleven with your own hand.

"They lie in their homes, their own particular planes, guarded by the Greater Gods with their own pains. Defeat their guardians, and take the power, and our world can be rewoven in less than an hour.

"Caution, I council, is the word I give you, for the Greater Gods do not yet know what you do. Keep them in ignorance, leave no guardian alive, for to know we still live will give them cause to strive."

 

[Kelleris]

More doggerel is required for this instance...

"A name, description, epithet?
I'll accept whatever I get.

On what planes do your small gods lie?
To whose spirit first should we hie?

Just say; then death knows a god's pet."

That's ample rhyming (there comes a grimace),
blank verse t'would be far less meretricious.

{Phew. Poet and I didn't know it, even. That's an abbccbaa rhyme scheme, in case you were wondering. Ouch. Horrible. And the obligatory bardic knowledge check for whatever these questions elicit: 66 Woot! Natural 20!}

 

[Zack2216]

Eyeing the woman at the pool angrily for not answering her,"Grrrr...", Suryuu will proceed to investigate the light at the mountain that she had seen earlier, using dimension door to quickly move to the mountain, and then move quickly through the cave until she finds something or someone.

 

[Wrahn]

(OOC: Assuming a 21 is enough to allow me to identify the new comer)

Waiting for the Hollyphants reply, Rahveon senses something behind them, turning he sees the dragon woman entering the cave.

Su'ryuu, ruler of Draxan. She is dangerous an army in and of herself. She has murdered tens of thousands in her insane crusade, I bet she isn't going to like playing with others. Who knows though, so far Arion, other than being a poetry critic, is proving at least moderately useful.

She arrived later than the rest of us, perhaps we were just lucky. I wonder how many more survived and if we should look for them.

*Moving away from the others as not to interupt the Hollyphant, Rahveon moves over to Su'ryuu.*

"Welcome, I am Rahveon. I am sure you have many questions, give us a moment and perhaps we shall have some."

 

[Kelleris]

{OOC: Su'ryuu, have you been in the market for ninja assassins any time within the last 1100 years? Akumunaga might know you if you have, and that could be entertaining.}

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Who is this? Su'ryuu approaches the female by the pool with her great cat companion. With an air of anger in her voice, "What matter of place is this, what happened to my kingdom, and who are you?"

(OOC - Sorry for the delay Zack.)

*The woman looks at Su'ryuu with weary, tear-stained eyes.*

"This is what remains of the Endless Falls, destroyed by the gods in fear of the power we possessed. I am the druid Fairweather, and the death of my family and the sacrifice of a god are the only reason this scrap of land remains," she says listlessly.

~~~

More doggerel is required for this instance...

"A name, description, epithet?
I'll accept whatever I get.

On what planes do your small gods lie?
To whose spirit first should we hie?

Just say; then death knows a god's pet."

That's ample rhyming (there comes a grimace),
blank verse t'would be far less meretricious.

"The eleven were gods of love and earth, the ones that most dearly saw our world's worth. Here I shall name them for you to find, their planes are located easily for one with half a mind.

"One is Sava, goddess of bounty of the land, two is Illion, god of fertility, always in great demand. Three is Wiqu, god of plants that walk, four is Predara, goddess of beasts that talk.

"Five is Topan, god of children and toys, sixth is Virgo, god of virility, prayed to by boys. Seventh is Muthor, goddess of birth and marriage, eight is Ekuna, goddess of horses and beasts that often pull a carriage.

"Ninth is Xelcule, strange god of kind thought, tenth is Orphaldo, god those who learn to rise above their lot. Eleventh is Brath, god of the hearth fire, and twelvth is Devom, cavern god who sacrificed himself and risked great ire.

"All stand ready, the body and blood given, and those who take them cruelly will find themselves riven. Seek them all out with heart ready to create, and you find them easy to relate."

 

[Ferrix]

Sigrún listens happily to the trill of rhyme and rhythm coming from his companions and the hollyphant. He seems completely immersed in the poetics, barely noting the appearance of Su'ryuu in his conscious mind.