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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1371772" data-attributes="member: 9255">STRIKEFORCE: MORITURISEGMENT 035“Reader Update”It has been five days now since arriving on Ravenloft.  The Dread Realms were successfully playing with the minds and insecurities of the survivors of the shipwreck.  The horror and destruction of the Jaws of Sorrow was only a prelude.  The monstrously large mutated undead creature hunted and destroyed ships for months now.  Sailors feared it nearly as much as the Pirates (even the undead ones) that plagued the waters of the Sea of Sorrows.  Despite not seeing it again, Vander and Jean both knew it yet survived and hunted.  Survivors washed up on shore of a small and uncharted island.The island had a human tribe of barbarians that survived on it until an undead witch discovered them and the resident elemental- Batuu.  She twisted them in cannibalism and hunted out nearly all life on the island.  At this time, several new survivalists arrived.  People experimented on by a mad butcher turned scientist. They could survive on the fruit and roots of the island that the cannibals didn’t eat.  Then the cannibals turned on them.  This was months ago.One of the experimented on individuals was this Ravenloft’s mother to Christina.  Christina, a high cleric of Infiniti, the Goddess of the Realities (and the balance there of) had a curse placed on her long ago.  This curse made her face her mother in each alternate reality of Ravenloft she ever visited.  Something terrible always happened to her mother.  In this case, she was turned into an insectiod creature.  Not bad considering some fates had by her “mothers” in the past.  This confrontation tore at the psyche of Christina and brought about the revelation that three of her “mothers” traveled with her.  One as a cat familiar to a powerful mage, one as a spirit and the other was an intelligent weapon.  This revelation was hard on the party members- especially Jim Addards.Jim Addards heralds from a medium tech world very similar to earths.  He strongly denies the existence of magic and the supernatural.  This revelation snapped his mind and the resulting breakdown forced the team leader, The Captain, to lay him low.   To further these problems, it appears he is somehow immune to magic.  Several “Fly” spells have failed when caste onto him and most recently- a point-blank magical lightning bolt seemed to do nothing to him. The unnaturally evil essence of Ravenloft has affected the others also.  Vander is becoming more obsessed with his abnormally gruesome adulthood.  He hails from Athas (Darksun) from before the days of the Cleansing Wars.  He distrusts magic but has grown used to it as a requirement for survival.  He was snatched from a moment where 100,000+ people died when psionics and magics mixed and conflicted on an epic scale that unknown to him turned millions of acres of land into undead glass.  Dispatched for an unknown reason to the Prime Plane of Alion, he ventured for a short time there before being on the losing end of a draw from a Deck of Wondrous Things.  He became imprisoned by an infernal creature where he was tortured and played with until traded to a female warlord on the plane of Chaos- Acheron.  Here he was a warrior and a boy-toy to the warlord.  The experience has left many mental scars on him that has yet to heal.Jean, a weather specialist, has become less happy and joyful.  Once she was revolted by needless deaths of anything living.  Now, she herself has shot lightning bolts into foes with the very persons she is trying to protect dangerously close to being hit themselves.  It is uncertain if this is a mere phase, a direct effect of the Dread Plane or a change in her personality.  Only time will tell.The Captain, the team’s leader, has become harsher and yet jaded himself.  He always kept his emotions neutral but now they can erupt in short bursts of explosive outbursts.  The most recent of which was when Megamania (Jim Addards) prompted an outburst that ended by the Captain punching him out at the campfire.  This distraction has recently lead to his guard being down while in the tunnels.  He was nearly killed by a witch when she pushed him into a deep pit.  He now is beginning to second guess himself which he knows can weaken his leadership.  Now, the crew and passengers that survived are stranded on the island with the planar travelers.  They are staying with Christina’s “mother” and her people.  Many options are being plotted out and explored.  They need to get off the island to reach their destination to collect the Ring of Darqueness.  This Ring is an artifact created and once worn by the Devourer of Worlds.  He is the opposite of Infiniti.  He wants to destroy all of the “none-core” alternate realities.  In the meantime, Darqueness’ agents are beginning to mass and have recently has learned of the existence of Strikeforce: Morituri.  It is unclear what is happening at this point, but it appears a plan is being brought about to contend with the heroes.  The five heroes are thus far unaware of their possible counterparts.</blockquote>

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