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Forgotten Heroes IC

Amazing Triangle said:
"Your first bit of news is disturbing to say the least," Alexander begins to answer your list of questions. "The second thing we don't have anything on Xiphid, but there is a tribe in the swamp that has the ancient volumes that would be able to help you."

"A tribe of what? Lizardmen? Humans? Or other?"

"Well Mass was not your average wizard, top of his class all 12 years he was here. His power vered more towards necromancy and the dark arts. He searched the world when he became a Blue Wizard, to find a tome to increase his powers. He must have found it. When he came back there was a dark aura about him. We don't know what dark transformation he underwent but it tripled his casting strenght. He became able to control hundreds of skeletonal minions, and have two or three much stronger undead minions. After this he destroyed a hamlet, the name escapes me, just to raise their corpses as zombie minions for his new world army. We captured him and imprisioned him. But even without his spells he was deceitful enough to make his way out of our prision and escaped. We have been looking for him ever since." Alexander look more serious than you have seen him since you came in, with his jaw clenched.

Voadam nods. "Do we know what types of undead his stronger minions were? Mohrgs, wights, something more unique of his own creation?"


"On the fourth question of memory restoration, I may have an answer,"
Alexander turns around and pulls a wodden vial holder with 9 vials. "I have worked something a little more arcane up, different than what you got from Brother Markus. He and I chatted about you. We decided that what he used was too weak so I concocted this from materials we had here."

"So who wants to give this one a try?"

Voadam smiles. "I'm up for another kick to the head. Markus' potions worked like an adversarial magic, is this similiar where it would be beneficial to consciously accept the foreign magic and suppress our normal resistances?"
 

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Lily taps her foot impatiently. "Come on, let's make with the potion already. Before I change my mind."

She holds out a hand for the vial.
 


Moonstone Spider said:
"You need patience Lily. It's just like good wine, if you don't let it sit and age, it'll turn into vinegar."

"Isn't that what happens when it sits too long past its prime undrunk?" Voadam smiles. "In any case unless the potions reveal something new and immediately relevant I think a trip to the swamps is needed next to obtain these tomes. Zzerki, you haven't spoken much of what memories you have or not. Are your people from the swamps here?"
 

Eglath Goliath Fighter

As he waits for the potion's effects, Eglath turns to Zzerki, curious to restore some memories about his odd companion.
 


"The tribe in the swamp is made up of lizardmen. They hold the tome of Xiphid. I have never seen it nor anyone in this building for they test those looking to read the book. They are looking for the Ungotu, what ever that is."

"Sorry for the delay this is a percision science this potion is. Here."
Alexander hands each of you a potion and motions for each of you to have a seat first.

Each of you gets the distinct feeling that the drink tastes like pine needles. As your world begins to fade you hear a dark voice. "So the Ungotu are the only thing that stand between and my world domination? Then I will take care of them."

[sblock=Seifer]You appear in a field with wavy wheat grains. It must be mid-august because the wheat reaches up to your shoulders. In front of you 500ft. sits a large mansion of a house with a beautiful blonde-haired women with a small boy at her hip. As everything moves in slow motion the boy runs towards you yelling father. You look down to see yourself dressed in a full suit of armor with a helmet under your arm with a bright blue plume. Your armor has the same symbol as your shield does. This seems to be a home coming from some war which you are not currently sure of but this feels safe to you.[/sblock]

[sblock=Others] You remember a dark cold cell being shared by you and your other friends. You each seem to be stripped of your belongins. You then as a group conspire to break out of the prision, get your things, and escape from the complex. Within a half hour you have evaded the guards and are running through a very dark forest. The vision fades and the field that your new lives started in appears.[/sblock]
 

"As much as i am a lizardman, i feel no affinity to any swamp. if i had to hazard a guess i would say i grew up in a more... rural area. where though i do not remember." Zzerki replies while still fending off those handing him the potion
 

Lily coughs and doubles over for a moment, then manages to straighten back up, leaning against a nearby wall. "And that's how we escaped...got away into the field," she manages. She wipes her mouth on her sleeve. "And he called us 'the Ungotu.' Just like that 'aspect' or whatever it was did."
 

Eglath

Wiping a cold sweat from his brow, Eglath sighs. That wasn't so bad. "I too remember the escape now. I don't remember much about a swamp though."
 

Into the Woods

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