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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #60 on: April 01, 2014, 09:34:27 PM »
Reaching once again into her sash, the goddess produces a branch with colourful jewels instead of leaves, and hands it over to Bulwark. As a branch of a tree that withers in the face of Taint, it would certainly provide some measure of protection.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #61 on: April 01, 2014, 09:42:07 PM »
Bulwark takes it into his hand and it gets absorbed into his body.  "Thank you."

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #62 on: April 01, 2014, 10:44:26 PM »
"That's... a neat trick! Wow! Too bad that won't protect against this smell... You probably don't have to worry about that though, huh? Goodness, that is wretched!"

Serafina unties the sash from her waist and re-ties it around her head, covering her nose and mouth as best as she can. It doesn't help much, but she's prepared to do just about anything to reduce the effect of the stench.


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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #63 on: April 02, 2014, 12:17:10 AM »
Not registering a smell in the least, Nina stepped forward and peered down the hole. "If we're being hesitant, allow me, then."

The child moved into the small tunnel without trouble and started walking ahead, pausing a short ways in to turn around and check on whether they would follow.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #64 on: April 02, 2014, 12:24:54 AM »
Imos smiled. He smelled of roses, of course. Always. Or at least, that's what he told himself, and his pheromones agreed. He nodded, and climbed down after Nina, following - though he had to stoop to fit, of course.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #65 on: April 02, 2014, 07:28:37 AM »
"On hands and knees crawling through muck, at least the bards will leave this part out of our story." he laments.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #66 on: April 02, 2014, 01:53:25 PM »
Steyven takes a deep breath and holds it, and then follows the others down.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #67 on: April 02, 2014, 02:05:56 PM »
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Not wanting to end up smelling like a sewer, and wanting some protection against possible traps and rockfalls in this tunnel, Tsukiyo put some of her power to use and followed. If there was any muck of filth down here, it would end up plastered to the tunnel walls rather than drenching everybody.

It would be no use if someone trod in a dead body or something, though.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #68 on: April 04, 2014, 07:53:09 AM »
Inside the darkness and tight space, you have an hard time keeping track of how far you've progressed or how much time has passed, altough you can still hear the sound of the rushing river trough the stone, meaning the tunnel isn't straying too much far away from it even as it twists and turns multiple times. But the stench, the stench just keeps getting worst. And after a while, all of you can hear the sound of metal striking stone somewhere underground.

Then you see a faint light at the end of the tunnel, and after some more feet of progress you emerge in a large cavern. The source of the stench becomes instantly evident-there's rotting humanoid corpses everywhere! The floor is covered in them, while more bodies are on the walls and ceiling, hanging from metal chains. Some have been reduced to skeletons, but most still have tatters of decaying flesh and skin hanging from their bones. Many hold dusty weapons like axes, spears and swords of some kind, and are clad in light crude armor.

There seems to be another tunnel opening at the other side of the room.

At the center of the room the corpses pile up in an huge mound, over which stands a stone throne, in which sits a female corpses clad in typical Magedom priestess clothes. Multiple chains are attached to her flesh. Then suddenly the corpse's head turns toward you and opens her eyes and speaks to you:
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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #69 on: April 04, 2014, 09:21:08 AM »
Steyven says "Well... looks like we found the problem. Burnination time!"

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #71 on: April 04, 2014, 04:28:49 PM »
Imos frowned, and took a half-step to his side, shaking out his sleeves, his appearance still immaculate - being an illusion, of course it was.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #72 on: April 04, 2014, 07:50:17 PM »
The presence of taint may have been obvious, but there weren't many things that were obvious to Nina. At least Steyven made it clearer to her that it was there. "Has the Taint overtaken you? Will you allow us the opportunity to return you to your proper state if so?"

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #73 on: April 07, 2014, 01:49:17 PM »
The presence of taint may have been obvious, but there weren't many things that were obvious to Nina. At least Steyven made it clearer to her that it was there. "Has the Taint overtaken you? Will you allow us the opportunity to return you to your proper state if so?"

"...My corruption pains me... But my hunger pains me even more! Your companions smell delicious even at this distance, fresh and sweet, unlike the shitty underground dwellers that sometimes roam too nearby to my hall. If your friends come any closer, I don't know if I'll be able to contain myself anymore..."


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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #74 on: April 07, 2014, 04:41:01 PM »
Imos frowns, watching, and tuned himself, pausing and waiting for an attack. Over the telepathic bond he shared with the other agents, he shared the information he recalled, hoping they would do the same.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #75 on: April 07, 2014, 07:11:51 PM »
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Tsukiyo joins in, dumping her knowledge of their likely opponent--including what she knows of her actual capabilities--and then adding in some more general information about harming her specifically (and undead generally). Sadly, meeting any of the conditions was more or less impossible, and undead weren't known for being possible to subdue.

It was worth trying, at least. If not, they'd have to keep watch whilst purifying. And maybe she'd regenerate free of Taint.

"Joana; if you can control yourself long enough, we can help... and even if you can't, before the inevitable: what changed? For the Taint to be so advanced... something must have changed."

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #76 on: April 07, 2014, 08:03:09 PM »
Nina scoured through all of the new information on this woman that was suddenly unloaded on them thanks to Tsukiyo and absorbed it rather readily. What stood out for Nina though the most was how it was possible this Joana had indeed lost herself to her Taint and Tsukiyo's prodding about that very same point helped form her plan of action now.

"If they threaten you, then just I?" she asks as she glances between Joana and Tsukiyo as if asking permission of the both of them, not wanting to inadvertently cause exactly what Tsukiyo sounded like she was expecting before everybody was prepared.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #77 on: April 08, 2014, 08:07:02 AM »
"Wait... she's one of us?" Steyven says with a confused look.
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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #78 on: April 08, 2014, 09:03:24 AM »
"Well, I think she needs a hug. Do you want to volunteer?"

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #79 on: April 08, 2014, 09:15:16 AM »
A look of comical horror passes across Steyven's face until he realizes that Izuna is joking. Then he just chuckles nervously.
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