megamania
Hero
UNDER A DARKSUN
SEGMENT 011
“Blue Bones”
Mania sits under a rock overhang in the deep shadows. Deep in thought he figgits with a stone between his fingers, rolling it from one side to another.
Okay, maybe this guy isn’t so bad. He’s big, bad and silent…maybe a bit creepy even. But he knows his stuff. That was useful stuff he said about throwing rocks at cactus if they have purple quills. The idiot. And I already knew cacti contain water. I guess he just needs to feel good about himself. Hmm?
“Are you ready Mania? It’ll be dark soon and Dutch wants to move out then.”
“Sure Dogg, anything he says. Say Dogg….what do you know of him? Is he worth all the fuss I see Greene and his people give him? Worth the fuss Jocosta gives him?”
“And then some.” Dirty Dogg silently turns on his toe tips and creeps away silently leaving Mania to brood further.
Damn him thinks Mania and he tosses the stone towards a cacti he saw. It sits and makes a wet thunking sound.
The three move quietly over the desert. Ral and Guthay have just become fully visible when Dutch freezes up suddenly. Mania also heard it with his keen ears. Dogg looks straight ahead. It came from that hole. Each of them stare ahead into a black creasant shaped hole in the darkening ground. Something is there…either very big or a lot of them adds Mania pulling out his gladiatorial clubbing stick also known as a Singing Stick due to the whistling sound it can make when swung. Dogg pulls out his rapier silently. Dutch already had his twin short swords out.
“No Dogg….use your club….it’s undead,” silently answers Dutch. “And they know we are here. They sense us just as I sense them.”
No one, not even Mania, notices the faint bluish-green glow that now envelops him. Suddenly the skeletons seemily burst out of the archers pit dug by Nibenese templars. “Too many of them !” screams Dogg. Dutch charges forward thinking to himself- “skeletons…only skeletons”. As he reaches the frontline he begins to sweep and swing his swords. Three skeletons seemily burst apart as they are cut up by the blades. Dogg, not wanting to do this in truth, moves to the side of the charge. He swings a quickly grabbed club breaking a few clawed fingers from the skeleton facing him.
Mania reaches the frontline and swings in a downward swing breaking it about from the lower jaw through it’s sternum. He notices blue painted runes on the bones. He yells out as he misses striking the skeleton next to the first one. “They have blue paint on them like the bones on the Gith!” Suddenly he finds himself surrounded and unable to avoid the attacks and takes several minor hits from their ruined weapons. They surround the others and find Dutch a hard target. Dogg is easier and also takes a few hits. Dutch begins to make wide sweeping attacks with both blades clearing several feet around him of blue painted skeletons. Six total are shattered by the Nature’s Defender whom dislikes undead. Dogg trys to get his back to a rock outcropping for cover as the skeletons further converge onto him. He smashes the handless skeleton. “Dutch! I can’t do this! There’s to many!”
Distracted by the cry for help, Mania wildly misses a skeleton nearly losing his footing in the process. One skeleton strikes him while he is off balance. Dutch takes a hard hit that pierces his armor. Another strike, even harder than the first, strikes Dutch from behind. He is completely surrounded and hard pressed as the skeletons surround him further leaving no route to escape by. Dogg looks to roll out from the mass of chattering blue washed bones but is stopped by a strike to the arm wounding him badly. “This is it…the Dogg is done” thinks Dirty Dogg as his vision begins to blur.
“Hold on Dogg! Just hold on!”, screams out Mania as he trys to smash his way through them but finds resistance the whole way. The skeletons pound on Dogg further sensing his defeat. Dutch knocks one down and crushes it plowing through the wall on his way to Dogg. “I will NOT allow this event to come to pass!”, hollers Dutch as he grimly shakes off broken limbs that still cling to his own limbs and equipment. A total of nine are destroyed as Dutch swings cleaving through the obstructing wall. Dogg falls. “NO!” yells a now mono-toned Dutch using a voice that should intimidate the dead even.
Createing room to move about, the still glowing Mania begins his own enraged attacks that destroy the skeletons readily. With Dogg down, the skeletons move onto Dutch with the goal of destroying him as he has their brothern undead. He seems to welcome it, if only so they leave the rogue alone. He takes out 5 before they completely reach him. Doggs vision is going out. He stares at the stars and wonders if the elements welcome him today or if he will go to the Gray.
Mania and Dutch finish off the last of the skeletons. Dogg closes his eyes and weakly smiles to himself. His last thoughts his own.
SEGMENT 011
“Blue Bones”
Mania sits under a rock overhang in the deep shadows. Deep in thought he figgits with a stone between his fingers, rolling it from one side to another.
Okay, maybe this guy isn’t so bad. He’s big, bad and silent…maybe a bit creepy even. But he knows his stuff. That was useful stuff he said about throwing rocks at cactus if they have purple quills. The idiot. And I already knew cacti contain water. I guess he just needs to feel good about himself. Hmm?
“Are you ready Mania? It’ll be dark soon and Dutch wants to move out then.”
“Sure Dogg, anything he says. Say Dogg….what do you know of him? Is he worth all the fuss I see Greene and his people give him? Worth the fuss Jocosta gives him?”
“And then some.” Dirty Dogg silently turns on his toe tips and creeps away silently leaving Mania to brood further.
Damn him thinks Mania and he tosses the stone towards a cacti he saw. It sits and makes a wet thunking sound.
The three move quietly over the desert. Ral and Guthay have just become fully visible when Dutch freezes up suddenly. Mania also heard it with his keen ears. Dogg looks straight ahead. It came from that hole. Each of them stare ahead into a black creasant shaped hole in the darkening ground. Something is there…either very big or a lot of them adds Mania pulling out his gladiatorial clubbing stick also known as a Singing Stick due to the whistling sound it can make when swung. Dogg pulls out his rapier silently. Dutch already had his twin short swords out.
“No Dogg….use your club….it’s undead,” silently answers Dutch. “And they know we are here. They sense us just as I sense them.”
No one, not even Mania, notices the faint bluish-green glow that now envelops him. Suddenly the skeletons seemily burst out of the archers pit dug by Nibenese templars. “Too many of them !” screams Dogg. Dutch charges forward thinking to himself- “skeletons…only skeletons”. As he reaches the frontline he begins to sweep and swing his swords. Three skeletons seemily burst apart as they are cut up by the blades. Dogg, not wanting to do this in truth, moves to the side of the charge. He swings a quickly grabbed club breaking a few clawed fingers from the skeleton facing him.
Mania reaches the frontline and swings in a downward swing breaking it about from the lower jaw through it’s sternum. He notices blue painted runes on the bones. He yells out as he misses striking the skeleton next to the first one. “They have blue paint on them like the bones on the Gith!” Suddenly he finds himself surrounded and unable to avoid the attacks and takes several minor hits from their ruined weapons. They surround the others and find Dutch a hard target. Dogg is easier and also takes a few hits. Dutch begins to make wide sweeping attacks with both blades clearing several feet around him of blue painted skeletons. Six total are shattered by the Nature’s Defender whom dislikes undead. Dogg trys to get his back to a rock outcropping for cover as the skeletons further converge onto him. He smashes the handless skeleton. “Dutch! I can’t do this! There’s to many!”
Distracted by the cry for help, Mania wildly misses a skeleton nearly losing his footing in the process. One skeleton strikes him while he is off balance. Dutch takes a hard hit that pierces his armor. Another strike, even harder than the first, strikes Dutch from behind. He is completely surrounded and hard pressed as the skeletons surround him further leaving no route to escape by. Dogg looks to roll out from the mass of chattering blue washed bones but is stopped by a strike to the arm wounding him badly. “This is it…the Dogg is done” thinks Dirty Dogg as his vision begins to blur.
“Hold on Dogg! Just hold on!”, screams out Mania as he trys to smash his way through them but finds resistance the whole way. The skeletons pound on Dogg further sensing his defeat. Dutch knocks one down and crushes it plowing through the wall on his way to Dogg. “I will NOT allow this event to come to pass!”, hollers Dutch as he grimly shakes off broken limbs that still cling to his own limbs and equipment. A total of nine are destroyed as Dutch swings cleaving through the obstructing wall. Dogg falls. “NO!” yells a now mono-toned Dutch using a voice that should intimidate the dead even.
Createing room to move about, the still glowing Mania begins his own enraged attacks that destroy the skeletons readily. With Dogg down, the skeletons move onto Dutch with the goal of destroying him as he has their brothern undead. He seems to welcome it, if only so they leave the rogue alone. He takes out 5 before they completely reach him. Doggs vision is going out. He stares at the stars and wonders if the elements welcome him today or if he will go to the Gray.
Mania and Dutch finish off the last of the skeletons. Dogg closes his eyes and weakly smiles to himself. His last thoughts his own.
