Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
Playing the Game
Play by Post
(IR) The 1st IC-thread of the 1st Turn of the 5th IR
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Creamsteak" data-source="post: 1966462" data-attributes="member: 552"><p>Yug'Thul'Gon, now only a bit insane, set out to establish dominance over his cracked and broken civilization. He sought out the lair of the Staff of Ancient Penumbra. He searched for the staff that was stolen by an army of worshippers of Zuoken and hidden away in the Astral Plane. Despite his immense psionic abilities, he lacked the necessary power to discern the objects precise location, and so set out to lure his enemies away from his goal.</p><p></p><p>Yug'Thul'Gon sought out the illithid slayers of the Githyanki, Githzerai, and other races which were still on the astral and material planes. With each kill, he made his prey more observant of his actions. They organized, lifetime enemies and racial foes set out to conquer the "greater evil" of the illithid monster Yug had become. With each newly devoured mind, Yug'Thul'Gon would become more aware of the location of the hidden fortress that housed <strong>his</strong> weapon.</p><p></p><p>Slowly enraged by these actions, many of the greater masters of the Githzerai joined to attempt to stop this fiend before he devoured more of their students, or worse, came after their temples. Seven Githzerai masters formed a raiding party against the illithid, sworn to slay him or never return. They set a trap, using their foes hunger as bait. Yug'Thul'Gon could not, would not, did not resist the temptations. The Psionic auras the seven masters generated would have drawn out astral abominations the likes of which are to be avoided at all costs by those unprepared. They did not let their strength appear for very long, for fear of such a beast coming, though perhaps such a creature would have at least provided their prey with enough of a distraction to give them an opportunity to win. Perhaps it was an error in wisdom.</p><p></p><p>Yug'Thul'Gon did not expect to be attacked. He had no longer the concept of fear or of comprehension of a threat. Caught unaware, he was struck suddenly from six sides by an anti-psionic barrier of immense power. He was contained in a single small globe no more than a a dozen meters in diameter. The seventh githzerai, a monk who was without any dependance on psionic power for his personal might, was set out to destroy the illithid in close quarters. Such a plan, simple and elegant, should have been enough to prevent an illithid from using any of their potent psionic powers to present a threat. While the monk engaged the illithid, the others would maintain the barrier and heal the monk in turn, protecting him and preventing him from being injured. They would strengthen him with their own strength and bring great power to their chosen warrior for this purpose.</p><p></p><p>Yug'Thul'Gon was stronger. Yug'Thul'Gon was vastly stronger. The might brought on by Yug'Rig'Noth's lengthy metamorphosis was not something the githzerai monks would have predicted. The monk was grappled, dragged in closer to the illithid. The monk reacted quickly, he must avoid being held close by the fiend for fear of 'losing his mind'. Where his strength was inferior, his agility would have to provide. He attempt to escape with a stealthy and quick movement that should have been impossible for a githzerai body to perform. The monk bent and twisted his body in truly unusual ways. The monk freed himself.</p><p></p><p>Nevertheless, his freedom was only partial. While he had indeed freed himself from these tentacles, he also let his eyes look away from the monster for a split second. The illithid reared back one of his six open arms and reached for the monk’s face. The single hand split open into four separate tentacles and a newly formed set of teeth buried within. Yug’Thul’Gon’s tentacles held the monk’s head still while the monster’s hand went about feeding on the monk’s softest and ‘sweetest’ organ. While the head was held still, the body became limp.</p><p></p><p>Enraged, two of the Githzerai stopped maintaining the barrier. These two were brother and sister, destined children of the Githzerai who brought new techniques into their order. These two were individually very powerful, but together nearly unchallenged. Their power, to fuse into a single creature via a powerful psionic metamorphosis technique, was once thought to be lost for ages. Therefore, the twins became one greater creature that would combat the illithid monster and destroy it.</p><p></p><p>The two were focused, but they could not fight while the barrier was raised. Their very existence was partially dependant upon psionics when they fought like this. The remaining four githzerai reluctantly relinquished the imprisonment and prepared to join the battle with the menace. Yug’Thul’Gon, as the barrier dropped, used the powers of Istigon to view the minds of all the creatures, including the symbiote. Three illithids as one creature, two githzerai as another, Yug’Thul’Gon charged the joined twins.</p><p></p><p>The twin has focused one-half of their power on projecting a protective field. The other half of their power was sent in a wave of elemental energies. Yug’Thul’Gon was decimated by the attack, losing half his body to the energy as it burned through his resistances and into his body. The barrier deflected his physical attack.</p><p></p><p>The other four Githzerai fired off separate bursts of similar magic, causing less but still further damage to the illithid. They seemed confident that they could take victory with brute force of psionics now. Thul’hur’mca took presence then. The mind of the shaper could seal itself from attacks for but a moment, repair the body, and then trap his enemies. Thul would use his power to stump time, if only for a split second. He unraveled enough of the cosmic ‘time’ as one could in the astral, providing himself with almost half a minute with which to do his job. Thul would create four barriers first, to seal away the four weaker warriors. Then he would repair the body in a single instant and bring Yug’Thul’Gon back to its full illithid power. Last, Thul’hur’mca released Istigon’s mind to fulfill the next act of aggression.</p><p></p><p>To the Githzerai, it appeared as if the creature had both totally healed itself and sealed each of the four warriors away into a barrier. Soon it would appear to them that this barrier was closing in around them. Eventually, eternally, it would slowly crush them into infinitely small pearls of what once were great warriors who sought only to protect the innocent. For now though, they would simply watch as their enemy attacked their champion.</p><p></p><p>The Githzerai twins voiced their descent, “Abomination, monster, fiend: you have shown the very worst traits of your kind. You are perhaps even worse, killing only to eat. You are a monster that has never been seen before, and will not ever be seen again. Prepare to die like so many others.”</p><p></p><p>Istigon, inside of Yug’Thul’Gon, laughed an illithid laugh. His four tentacles of the twelve on the hybrid illithid gibbered a bit in delight. Istigon transmitted his thoughts to the fighter in front of himself, “You <em>two</em> are very strong for such lesser creatures. Perhaps you are even stronger than one or two of the lesser illithids. Perhaps you are even stronger than an entire army of our slaves. However, you are nothing compared to me. Your strength, however, and your knowledge, will serve me well. Consider yourself honored. You will be the first thrall of Yug’Thul’Gon.”</p><p></p><p>Hense, Yug’Thul’Gon, with little trouble, made his words come true.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Creamsteak, post: 1966462, member: 552"] Yug'Thul'Gon, now only a bit insane, set out to establish dominance over his cracked and broken civilization. He sought out the lair of the Staff of Ancient Penumbra. He searched for the staff that was stolen by an army of worshippers of Zuoken and hidden away in the Astral Plane. Despite his immense psionic abilities, he lacked the necessary power to discern the objects precise location, and so set out to lure his enemies away from his goal. Yug'Thul'Gon sought out the illithid slayers of the Githyanki, Githzerai, and other races which were still on the astral and material planes. With each kill, he made his prey more observant of his actions. They organized, lifetime enemies and racial foes set out to conquer the "greater evil" of the illithid monster Yug had become. With each newly devoured mind, Yug'Thul'Gon would become more aware of the location of the hidden fortress that housed [b]his[/b] weapon. Slowly enraged by these actions, many of the greater masters of the Githzerai joined to attempt to stop this fiend before he devoured more of their students, or worse, came after their temples. Seven Githzerai masters formed a raiding party against the illithid, sworn to slay him or never return. They set a trap, using their foes hunger as bait. Yug'Thul'Gon could not, would not, did not resist the temptations. The Psionic auras the seven masters generated would have drawn out astral abominations the likes of which are to be avoided at all costs by those unprepared. They did not let their strength appear for very long, for fear of such a beast coming, though perhaps such a creature would have at least provided their prey with enough of a distraction to give them an opportunity to win. Perhaps it was an error in wisdom. Yug'Thul'Gon did not expect to be attacked. He had no longer the concept of fear or of comprehension of a threat. Caught unaware, he was struck suddenly from six sides by an anti-psionic barrier of immense power. He was contained in a single small globe no more than a a dozen meters in diameter. The seventh githzerai, a monk who was without any dependance on psionic power for his personal might, was set out to destroy the illithid in close quarters. Such a plan, simple and elegant, should have been enough to prevent an illithid from using any of their potent psionic powers to present a threat. While the monk engaged the illithid, the others would maintain the barrier and heal the monk in turn, protecting him and preventing him from being injured. They would strengthen him with their own strength and bring great power to their chosen warrior for this purpose. Yug'Thul'Gon was stronger. Yug'Thul'Gon was vastly stronger. The might brought on by Yug'Rig'Noth's lengthy metamorphosis was not something the githzerai monks would have predicted. The monk was grappled, dragged in closer to the illithid. The monk reacted quickly, he must avoid being held close by the fiend for fear of 'losing his mind'. Where his strength was inferior, his agility would have to provide. He attempt to escape with a stealthy and quick movement that should have been impossible for a githzerai body to perform. The monk bent and twisted his body in truly unusual ways. The monk freed himself. Nevertheless, his freedom was only partial. While he had indeed freed himself from these tentacles, he also let his eyes look away from the monster for a split second. The illithid reared back one of his six open arms and reached for the monk’s face. The single hand split open into four separate tentacles and a newly formed set of teeth buried within. Yug’Thul’Gon’s tentacles held the monk’s head still while the monster’s hand went about feeding on the monk’s softest and ‘sweetest’ organ. While the head was held still, the body became limp. Enraged, two of the Githzerai stopped maintaining the barrier. These two were brother and sister, destined children of the Githzerai who brought new techniques into their order. These two were individually very powerful, but together nearly unchallenged. Their power, to fuse into a single creature via a powerful psionic metamorphosis technique, was once thought to be lost for ages. Therefore, the twins became one greater creature that would combat the illithid monster and destroy it. The two were focused, but they could not fight while the barrier was raised. Their very existence was partially dependant upon psionics when they fought like this. The remaining four githzerai reluctantly relinquished the imprisonment and prepared to join the battle with the menace. Yug’Thul’Gon, as the barrier dropped, used the powers of Istigon to view the minds of all the creatures, including the symbiote. Three illithids as one creature, two githzerai as another, Yug’Thul’Gon charged the joined twins. The twin has focused one-half of their power on projecting a protective field. The other half of their power was sent in a wave of elemental energies. Yug’Thul’Gon was decimated by the attack, losing half his body to the energy as it burned through his resistances and into his body. The barrier deflected his physical attack. The other four Githzerai fired off separate bursts of similar magic, causing less but still further damage to the illithid. They seemed confident that they could take victory with brute force of psionics now. Thul’hur’mca took presence then. The mind of the shaper could seal itself from attacks for but a moment, repair the body, and then trap his enemies. Thul would use his power to stump time, if only for a split second. He unraveled enough of the cosmic ‘time’ as one could in the astral, providing himself with almost half a minute with which to do his job. Thul would create four barriers first, to seal away the four weaker warriors. Then he would repair the body in a single instant and bring Yug’Thul’Gon back to its full illithid power. Last, Thul’hur’mca released Istigon’s mind to fulfill the next act of aggression. To the Githzerai, it appeared as if the creature had both totally healed itself and sealed each of the four warriors away into a barrier. Soon it would appear to them that this barrier was closing in around them. Eventually, eternally, it would slowly crush them into infinitely small pearls of what once were great warriors who sought only to protect the innocent. For now though, they would simply watch as their enemy attacked their champion. The Githzerai twins voiced their descent, “Abomination, monster, fiend: you have shown the very worst traits of your kind. You are perhaps even worse, killing only to eat. You are a monster that has never been seen before, and will not ever be seen again. Prepare to die like so many others.” Istigon, inside of Yug’Thul’Gon, laughed an illithid laugh. His four tentacles of the twelve on the hybrid illithid gibbered a bit in delight. Istigon transmitted his thoughts to the fighter in front of himself, “You [i]two[/i] are very strong for such lesser creatures. Perhaps you are even stronger than one or two of the lesser illithids. Perhaps you are even stronger than an entire army of our slaves. However, you are nothing compared to me. Your strength, however, and your knowledge, will serve me well. Consider yourself honored. You will be the first thrall of Yug’Thul’Gon.” Hense, Yug’Thul’Gon, with little trouble, made his words come true. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
Playing the Game
Play by Post
(IR) The 1st IC-thread of the 1st Turn of the 5th IR
Top