The Creation Schema:THE FINAL BATTLE FOR POSSESSION OF THE SCHEMA

[Solarious]

This is a compliment ...correct?

You can take that however you want to take it.

I'll leave it at that.

As for the latest update, nice to hear some more dialogue (and characterization) at last. I missed having people being called dysfunctional and having problems that needed help in the gravest way possible. Right before taking a bathroom break, of course.

 

[megamania]

You can take that however you want to take it.

I'll leave it at that.

As for the latest update, nice to hear some more dialogue (and characterization) at last. I missed having people being called dysfunctional and having problems that needed help in the gravest way possible. Right before taking a bathroom break, of course.

Yes. I am so far behind on my Storyhour that it bugs me so I started to short cuts. I don't like it and will adjust. I am also trying to work on getting the group back on target while keeping it to my play style.

I am going SCI-FI vs PULP very soon. If you have ever read my Strikeforce: Morituri Storyhour you will get the idea of where I am going. See what the chaotic halfling does with a dose of that.

 

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THE CREATION SCHEMA
SEGMENT 284
10/15/06
“Summoned Undead by Deadtusk the Dawncrusher”

The group goes straight and spots a large stone statue. Behind it is a doorway where several figures and standing and chanting. Even as the group charges this party the statue moves to intercept them.

“Stone Golem!” calls out Cedious. “No problem!”

The creature attacks at the halfling whom is rolling between its mammoth legs. Once past him Cedious stops and finds himself surrounded by a dozen cultists and a bugbear cleric wearing a jeweled helmet. He is chanting and rising his arms to complete his spell.

“Oh No you don’t you ****ing cult bastard.” (Cedious’ player was still recovering from a hang over and feeling a bit rowdy at the moment)

The cultist step up and block his way between the bugbear follower of the Vol and himself. Behind him he hears the Golem and Talon going at it with Pebbles and Wall also attacking. Zen is yelling something unclear over the noise. Pelor is very quiet.

“I don’t have time for this…” and Cedious uses his adamantine rapier to slice through the Vol Cultist and finds the Bugbear giving him the finger and telling away. “I am Deadtusk the Dawnbreaker. I suspect we will never see each other again.” And he teleports away.

Cedious cuts down two more cultists as an undead form in armor begins to rise from a summoning circle. The Sword wraith looks at him and draws its weapons. “Later!” says Cedious whom rolls past the Golem again.

He stops and discovers Zen and Pelor are dealing with their own trouble now. Two Orc Barbarians are attacking them. Sighing, he goes to help them.

Unknown to anyone there, an invisible figure watches and backtracks silently laughing to himself.

 

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THE CREATION SCHEMA
SEGMENT 285
10/15/06
“Golems, Cultists, Orcs, Dire Bears and Something Unexpected”

The Stone Golem breathes out a green mist to stop Talon. At this point both the dwarves strike it hard and break the legs. It tumbles and breaks on the floor nearly crushing Talon whom is still holding his breath to avoid the Breath Attack. The Sword Wraith leaps over the rubble and begins to attack them now.

One Barbarian goes down as the archer shots it repeatedly. Pelor steps back. He is a healer and diplomat. This is not his kind of battle. Then spots the Wraith and reaches for his emblem once more.

Cedious attacks the charging Orc and takes out its legs while three glowing arrows stick out of its chest and neck just as quickly.

The cultists are nearly stopped as they try to climb over the golem’s remains. Pebbles easily takes many of these down. Wall strikes the wraith once before the power of Pelor strikes it. It stumbles back by his power. Wall and Pebbles finish it off then continue into the cultists again.

Soon there is no one remaining.

A few deep bruises are mended before they continue on to the hallway on the opposite end of the summoning room. They circle around and find the Orc’s sleeping area and continue to follow the hallway back to the area where the Golem was.

“Now what?”

“Lets try one of these two doors or the hallway we skipped.”

“I vote the skipped hallway. We don’t need a repeat of this situation where we were surrounded and attacked from three different sides.”

“Okay with me. Besides- Maybe Garrow is hiding there.” Follows up the halfling Rogue.

The door is made from thick wood and is very sturdy. Cedious picks it easily with the help of his co-adventurers and they find… An Angry Dire Bear!

It charges him but Zen takes it down along with Talon. The door shows signs of being clawed and battered for a while now. Looking around the corner, there is another heavy wooden door in like condition.

“Let’s go.”

They pick at it but this lock is better constructed. “Break it down.” Cedious says as he levitates away from the lock.

Pebbles and Talon take it down find…. Another Dire Bear … and it’s family! In the center of the room is an open gateway to somewhere underground.

The Dire Bears attack and through raw savage nature, survive several rounds against them. “Do you think Garrow went here?” asks Cedious to Pelor whom is studying the Portal.

“Maybe.”

“Okay.” And with that Cedious hopes through.

Dismayed, Pelor stammers as Talon and Pebbles (used to this kind of behavior) also step in. “Who have we agreed to travel with?”

“Bold. Very Bold. I like bold.” And Wall goes in.

Zen shrugs his shoulders, draws an arrow, and steps in.

Alone, Pelor looks around and looks at the bears. He gives a gentle prayer then steps in.

He steps out on the other side into a large bear cave somewhere. The portal quickly closes.

“NO!” yells Pelor and he attempts to reach it in time but can not.

“Where are we?” the Cleric of Light and Health asks.

“Not in Stormreach.” Answers Pebbles.

Outside the cave is a thick pine forest. Stars shine in the night sky. A hunting bird of prey floats on the wind currents above.

“Opps.” Is all Cedious says as the other turn to look at him.

“I can try to get us back tomorrow. This place is as good as any to rest and restore spells and energy.”

“You know where we are?”

“Yes. I believe we are in…..”

 

[Solarious]

Lammania, the Twilight Forest.

It is time, Igor. The opportunity is within our grasp! Unleash the Robotic My Little Ponies!

 

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Lammania, the Twilight Forest.

It is time, Igor. The opportunity is within our grasp! Unleash the Robotic My Little Ponies!

You know your Eberron

 

[megamania]

THE CREATION SCHEMA
SEGMENT 286
10/15/06
“Even Better than Planned”

“LAMANNIA!” Cries out the victorious Changeling. “The fool jumped right in using my own portal to escape through if required and instead he went through!”

Garrow invisibly drops from the ceiling onto the floor and continues to smile from ear to ear. He is very happy with himself.

The Eternal Forest has many wild and dangerous creatures within it. These include the were-creatures that went here to escape the Silver Flame years ago. There are few portals out.

Garrow walks to the entrance and carefully climbs out in the form of a general human member of the claw. He finds it is early mourning and the air is already hot and the humidity is rising. He goes to the safe house where the Claw has set up home until this has blown over.

He stops as he sees the guard is missing. He morphs into the appearance of a sailor and wills his Glamored armor to fit that of a sailors typical outfit. Just as he is about to walk forward the front wall crumbles apart. The image of a very large dragon is seen through the dust. The Gargantuan Blue Dragon takes to the sky and flies away. Garrow rushes over and finds twenty men killed or destroyed.

“Why?!?”


Not far away, Dangerous Dice Dan watches. He lights his smoke stick and exhales the smoke. He nods a silent “it’s done” then walks away into the early mourning shadows.

 

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Lammania, the Twilight Forest.

It is time, Igor. The opportunity is within our grasp! Unleash the Robotic My Little Ponies!

were you at the recent Albany Gameday? There was a spoof game based on parania that used gimiced Little Pony figures. My understanding is it went very well. It ran while I was running a game so I only saw a bit when we took a short break.

 

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THE CREATION SCHEMA
SEGMENT 287
10/29/06
“The Return”

“Let us decide then… by vote.”

“Whatever…” says Cedious to Pelor.

“I want to hunt in the land of wild animals.” Says Talon.

“Home.” Says Pebbles. “Maybe we can still catch up with Garrow.”

“Back to Eberron.” Says Xen.

“Yeah. We can return to here if need be. Besides… planar travel .. bothers me. I don’t remember why but it does.” Says Wall.

“The same for myself.” Repeats Pelor. “It is done. We heal and rest then Pebbles with her Plane Shift will try to return us to Stormreach.”

“Try” asks Talon whom is now a little bit concerned about the trip and still disappointed he is not hunting.

“Plane Shifting is not a perfected spell.” Answers Pebbles. “We will be on Xen’drik but where remains uncertain. I have not ever used the power before but I understand it is not perfected. We may land in Stormreach or may appear within the jungles.”

“Or worse- the water ways filled with predators of all types.”

“Then we to pray and study for spells that can aid us in either case.”

The night goes by then they form a circle after healing up. Pebbles completes the divine spell and together the six of them disappear from the plane of the Twilight Forest.

“AH CRAP!” Screams out Wall as he sinks into the salty water. Sinking quickly in his heavy reinforced armor he calls on his psionic power to float and rises. Pebbles calls up her power to Water Walk and rises to her feet between waves. It is very unsteady as the new “ground” is always moving on her.
Cedious levitates out of the water sputtering and spitting more than just salt water. He hands out several of his collected magical feathers he “borrowed” from an airship and Talon and Xen find themselves not having to fight so much to stay on the surface.

“I need to get at my stuff but can’t in this water.” Says Pebbles and Cedious agrees though he merely wills himself to levitate higher and swings his Haversack to the front of himself to look for more magical aid. Surprising everyone, Wall psionically wills himself to a HUGE size and has all climb onto his floating body. He, out of the water and with “ground” they go through their equipment and discuss what to do. Within minutes Wall is forced to reduce himself back to his regular size. Cedious levitates up again and this time can see something on the horizon. It is either very small or very far away…or both.

They swim and float along. Eventually the float power wears off and the dwarf finds treading on the water is harder than he thought. Many, including Pebbles, thinks this idea was a poor one. Hunting creatures known to be nature’s perfect hunters suddenly sounds very appealing.

“What is that?” wonders out loud the halfling.

In the distance are three …towers? These rise out of the waters.

Given new hope, the six of them swim to the towers.

 

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THE CREATION SCHEMA
SEGMENT 288
10/29/06
“Making a Bad First Impression”

“What is this place?” spits out Talon as he swims to a tower. He passed over a stone wall that was submerged by over ten feet. The water here is at least 40-50ft deep. It looks like a submerged small towered village. There are about a dozen towers here. The tops are anywhere from water level to half way.

“Looks deserted.” Says Wall whose arms are burning and he needs rest. He is still swimming at the wall perimeter even as Cedious is crawling onto a windowsill on a large tower.

“Nope. It’s not.” Says Pebbles.

“Why? See a person? I hear the sea devils run rampant here.” Huffs the armored dwarf using Float and any other spell or psionic power available to him.

“Cedious, look over head.” And Pebbles reaches the window.

Overhead is a rope attached from one tower that reaches another tower nearby.

Cedious draws his adamantine magic rapier and looks for a way up.

Xen climbs the sill and begins to climb the wall to the rooftop. The roofs here are made of stone and are perfectly flat slabs that mirror the look of the towers. Between Cedious and the Arcane Archer, they climb up and set their own ropes for the others to use. As the others reach for the ropes, they check out there surroundings.

To one side are several smaller towers. Some look heavily damaged and even partially collapsed. The other towers are all very large and are about 35 feet around. Seagulls float on the winds and call. One in particular lands and while turning its head sideways calls at the halfling and elf. Cedious makes a rude comment to it and tries to determine the size of the place.

It looks to be about 120ft wide and several hundred long. The water is roughly 40ft deep and perfectly clear. The walls surround the towers and stops waves from doing much damage. It is almost tranquil.

Except for that damned bird.

Wall climbs up and rolls onto the ledge of the window. “I hate…. water.”

“Tired from the swim?” asks Talon with a smile.

“Aye. An’ it ruins a stiff n’ good drink.” The dwarven defender replies himself.

Pelor, the groups healer and diplomatic looks around a bit within the tower. There are signs of someone living here under very sparse conditions. There are several mats made from seaweed within. Holes cut into the floor lead down into a flooded room. Wishing to be there if the group finds the local first, he climbs the rope.

“This could make a nice place…. In a vacationing kinda way.” Says Pebbles as she looks over the edge into the water. A school of colorful fish swims lazily among a few loose stones on the ground.

“I don’t like it. Pebbles- we need your magical tower.” Demands Cedious as he looks for the locals to start trouble.

The tower is placed and grown on top of the other towers but then they notice several cracks form on the roof. The sheer weight is threatening to crush these existing towers. “No good- recall it or lose it!” calls out the halfling rogue.

Talon and Zen point to a reinforced area of the wall that is submerged. Would that hold it up?” asks Talon. The entrance door would be at water level but I think its okay.

Thinking it over they decide to do it. The seagulls lift and land quickly as this is done. The call out angrily at the intrusion. One especially as it lands on the rooftop the group is using. Zen pulls out an arrow and goes to shot it. The seagull lifts and begins to float away. He fires an arrow but it MISSES!?!?!?

“My arrows must have become water logged!” worries the elf as he unslings his quiver to inspect for any further damage.

Uh…. guys- we have company.” Says Wall as he looks across the rope and sees a slim lizardfolk standing there