Sagiro's Story Hour: The FINAL Adventures of Abernathy's Company (FINISHED 7/3/14)

[carborundum]

I am LOVING all these updates - thank you Sagiro, sir!

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[KidCthulhu]

Now that's true Rat Bastardy. Sagiro shows us one of our least favorite NPCs getting killed in a fashion caused by or at least aided by by her own ego and paranoia, and we can't even gloat and say "We told you so" because of the nature of what killed her. There was a whole lot of cursing around the table that night. I'm kind of surprised Sagiro escaped with his life.

 

[Siuis]

Oh man that was fun. Thanks for the read, Sagiro!

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Prophecy: spike to push through? Did no one think that they would heal the world by pushing the spike of Essence farther into the earth and removing it from the other side?

Fantastic, as always. Man. I am so excited for this, only like, forty more updates!
I basically remember my Enworld log in information for you, Sagiro. XD

 

[Everett]

Prophecy: spike to push through? Did no one think that they would heal the world by pushing the spike of Essence farther into the earth and removing it from the other side?

What "essence"? Essence of the Adversary, you mean? And how would such a thing be made possible?

 

[Piratecat]

What "essence"? Essence of the Adversary, you mean? And how would such a thing be made possible?

Damned if we knew. We were making this up as we went along. My goal, at least, was to taunt things until they wanted to hit me, then hit them harder and earlier.

Note to self: that's sometimes a really stupid goal.

 

[Everett]

...Piratecat's need to mock things and then hit them aside, I guess that, since the Adversary is after all hundreds of feet tall, the company might "drive the spike through" him, and through the world itself. But the Watcher's Kiss is just an ordinary-sized weapon (in fact it's a dagger, IIRC?), so I'm not sure where this theory can lead.


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One at last, but not yet known.
One forever dead as stone.
One to drive the spike clean through.
One to die, and hope renew.

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Heres my speculation, currently: this verse refers to two people. One in the first two lines, one in the last 2 lines. One of the party, the one who "drives the spike" will indeed die, and renew hope. The spike will be driven through the Adversary; as before, it will wound him, not kill him, and the campaign will end with him in a similar position to where he's always been; imprisoned or incapacitated for another age. "But in another time, in another place, his evil may rise again, and another band of heroes be called to meet him..." Ozilinsh intoned, somberly... cue credits and endgame music.

The "one forever dead as stone" is not one of the party; it is not someone the party has ever met. It's someone they'll learn of down here in the core, someone who perhaps once challenged the Adversary or Emperor Skewn, was killed and made a gruesome example of. Somehow this being imparts information to the company (a book in its tomb, perhaps, or speaking with its shade, what have you) that proves crucial in the final confrontation.

 

[Anxe]

If it's someone down in the Underdark, that doesn't sound like someone the Adversary made an example of. No one can get down to the Underdark and leave! It sounds more like someone the Adversary is scared of, imprisoned under the Earth so that the Adversary could return without interference. Have there been any other hints about such a person?

EDIT: I've also gotta say that doesn't really jive with what the Emperor's done in the past. He was digging all over the place to try and reach something in the Underdark. Now he's sent his dream team down to do or get whatever he was looking for. I think they're looking for his hand that fell through. It plummeted down into the Underdark, leaving that bloody evil mess on top.

 

[Chronikoce]

Well then, my email alerts from Enworld appear to be failing me. I checked back into find 3 updates and was quite surprised. Clicked your link Sagiro and enjoyed the read, can't wait to read what happens next!

 

[Everett]

If it's someone down in the Underdark, that doesn't sound like someone the Adversary made an example of. No one can get down to the Underdark and leave! It sounds more like someone the Adversary is scared of, imprisoned under the Earth so that the Adversary could return without interference. Have there been any other hints about such a person?

Maybe, but if they're only imprisoned, they're not "as dead as stone." Hmmm.

"Dead as stone" can obviously be read two ways: literally or figuratively. Someone who is actually dead, or someone who only seems to be dead, or is dead in a sense, permanently imprisoned within a time stop, something like that. It could be the latter and if so, there haven't been any hints that I recall about such a person, but I don't think that discounts the theory, since until the descent into the Underdark nothing in the entire campaign had much if anything at all to do with the place.

EDIT: I've also gotta say that doesn't really jive with what the Emperor's done in the past. He was digging all over the place to try and reach something in the Underdark. Now he's sent his dream team down to do or get whatever he was looking for. I think they're looking for his hand that fell through. It plummeted down into the Underdark, leaving that bloody evil mess on top.

Again, maybe. The next update will probably tell us something about the Adversary, so we'll see what we'll see.

 

[Anxe]

Didn't Kibi have a way to talk to stones at some point. Maybe dead as stone isn't as dead as we think!