War of the Magi: The Tale of Lezard Valeth, Part I

[GnomeWorks]

Lorenta is dead. That knowledge finally sinks in, as Lezard sits at his desk in his room.

Lorenta is dead. He repeats that to himself, over and over, in the dark, silently and to himself.

But in the depths of the darkness, a plan begins to form...

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I didn't post much here, mainly because there is only one character involved, and his background and starting points are both pretty well defined.

I'll admit, cs, that this probably won't start off too well. I've never done a one-player game before, so this will probably be a little shaky. Sorry for any inconvenience - if there's anything you see that I can improve on, be sure to point it out.

 

[Creamsteak]

OOC: Then just allow me to kick it off. I've got an assignment to finish tonight, but I'll try and 'lead the DM into it' so that we are both on the same flow.

 

[Creamsteak]

Lezard occupies his cellar, contemplating his latest alchemical mixture, a device that 'carbonates water' by pressurizing air and liquid together.

"At last, finally, I have done the impossible, combined liquid and air! Who knows the potential of this, my mind is so incredible! I'm so incredible! People should worship me! People should worship my mind! Oh, the exstacy of invention!"

Lezard pauses, and considers the events, "Oh Mystina, when will you come to me? You sit right there, right there, behind me, ever staring at me, but you then reject every attempt I make, you push me away, why? You know you love me, and my mind, you love everything about me, and I love you back, but you don't show it! Your rejection is as if a bladeful wrath upon me! Why do you taunt and tease me, following me around as if to stalk, then hating me when I confront you! What is the problem, lady Mystina, admit your love to me! We shall rule this world, with my mind, together for all immortality! Mystina! Mystina! Mystina!"

(Lezard exclaims to himself a lot, in case you didn't notice.)

Lezard stares out of his peering pool, to examine his mentor's demise, "Oh, my poor poor teacher? Who would do such a thing! hehehe, oh, but it is so horrible, a debaucherous villain! A vain, egotistical, narcisistic necromancer like me, of course! But no, alas, I only murdered your husband. Someone else has interfered with the events I have set forth, but whom? Could my lovely Mystina have stepped up for me? Is she already aiding my conquest, because of her love for me! Of course! That is the only option! Her love for me has driven her to finish my work! Ha! Mystina, my love, now I must congradulate your victory and take you to be mine!"

Lezard, who does not know that the murder was commited by some drop out from years past, believes that the beutiful mystina is responsible for this murder, and he suspects that she has commited it to aid him. He now leaves, through teleportation, for the shady feathered closet behind his 'ladies' closet, to wait for her to return from the announcement that Lorenta has been slain. Lezard waits, ever thinking to himself of his greatness, to confront, congratulate, and consumate with his love, though he secretely knows that simply approaching her is a call for rejection. His relationship with her always involving one chasing the other, with Mystina never admitting her feelings.

(That should be a good start )

 

[Creamsteak]

(Bump)

 

[GnomeWorks]

Slowly, the door to Lezard's room opens, and Mystina walks in. She then just as cautiously closes the door behind her.

"Lezard!" She calls out. "Where are you, you snot-nosed brat!" She looks around the room, though she apparently fails to notice you. "Where are you? I know that you have something to do with this!" She pauses, then turns to leave. "Of course, I am not surprised... you can't possibly overcome my achievements through the system as it stands, so you have decided to remove the one person standing in your way. You must already realize that it won't work - you will never be better than me."

She then opens the door, walks out, and shuts it behind her, quietly and slowly.

 

[Creamsteak]

"What poetry! She thinks she can fool me by blaming me for this horrible horrible murder. Perhaps I should attest to her guilt and prove the crime to be true! Yes, Yes! This is what I will do!"

Lezard then drops out into his basement entrance and makes his way through the lower steam-pipes below the school towards the scene of the crime, Lorenta's home.

He tries to move swiftly and dust-lessly towards this location, and waits for the pitch black night to come over, and for everyone inspecting to leave. "They say that the murderer always comes back to the crime-scene. Now if I can catch my lovely little Mystina, I will confirm her guilt."

Lezard, while jaded, doesn't take notice of the fact that indeed, someone else could be waiting for someone to show up at the site anytime now.