Cyclone

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay (Rebooted)

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I suppose most importantly I would like to know whether the turn has ended while I left?

@Inuyasha

Nope I'll be your savior and summarize what relating to my character, which I'd say is most of the big stuff that went on when you left.

For Ialu, since you left (was it right after that big battle?) he had an encoutner with Sauranth. Sauranth was going to wreck his town but Ialu is a clever little bastard so instead they became friends and Ialu got 3,000 skeletal dragons.

There was some stuff about Ialu's deteriorating mental state and how his house is more than a little creepy. There was also plotting to get revenge on Aztoc. If you don't remember from the last battle, Aztoc was the guy Ialu left in charge of Garakai, but Aztoc betrayed him by commanding the dragons to attack Ialu during the giant battle against Thulemiz.

Invidia came and talked to Ialu. He offered his help with Aztoc.

So then Invidia and his monks, Ialu and his soldiers, and the horde of 3000 dragons led by Mirtagne all went north to kill Aztoc and whatever pitiful resistance was up there. But Thulemiz had become a necromancer at this point through a pact with Astarte, so en route he ambushed Ialu and used his necromancer powers to possess the dragons.

Ialu lost the dragons in that fight and ended up smashing his most precious treasure (the Blade of Chaos) over Kanros' head. Kanros is the demigod of war and he was helping Thulemiz in all of this. So anyways, Thulemiz took half the pieces of the shattered Blade of Chaos and then fled. Ialu still has enough of a force (so he believes) to take on Garakai, though both he and Kanros were severely wounded when the Blade of Chaos got smashed and exploded.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay (Rebooted)

His army? He lost 14 of the 100 soldiers he brought. Could call in more reinforcements.

All the skeletal dragons are gone but some living ones showed up and he still has Mirtagne and Invidia to help.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay (Rebooted)

Glee that quickly fled at Vestec's Avatar's reminder and warning. "Don't forget to kneel to Thulemiz like you promised. Also, don't rely on any one thing too much. Ferghus wanted me to pay him for the two Arma Igna I corruputed, and I believe my time is up. Not that I was going to pay him anyways. What ever happened to those two anyways?"

@Scarifar

Care to have Ferghus get involved like this quote suggests he might? I think I'm going to start a PM conversation soon with everyone involved so that we can start the super-collab.

And to think that a simple showdown has already been escalated to what's probably going to be yet another cataclysmic battle

How many cataclysmic battles has the IC had in the past month? 3?

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay (Rebooted)

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And you know, not the constant war and struggle and death that is only now just coming to an end. :p

@Rtron

Pffft. You think this is the end? Oh no, the warlord shall strike again...

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay (Rebooted)

That's the problem with assuming Humanity was created merely 60 years ago.

@Frettzo

I agree. But it's what we've been going with to explain extremely small populations:

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay (Rebooted)

Nobody really taught humanity how to build castles either. We explained it a while ago by Humanity evolving on its own.

@Frettzo

This would make sense if humanity had existed with agriculture for more than the 20-30 years that they have, but as is I doubt they realistically would have invented anything on their own. There has hardly been any time and the population is small and spread apart.

I suppose I'll chalk it up to knowledge spreading from Zerabil.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay (Rebooted)

You know what I just realized? You lot are all making books and libraries, but the entire world is illiterate. Nobody invented writing or reading that I can recall.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

@CyclonePretty sweet. I'm gonna have a bunch of fun with this. TIME FOR CARNAGE FORRRRRRM!

@Athinar

Try not to get blown to pieces by the meteor =P

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay (Rebooted)

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Eh, full-plate armour was actually pretty light compared to the stuff everyday soldiery were trekking around in back in the day. You could easily roll around and even do back-flips (if you're acrobatic, of course) in full-plate armour.

@Kho

You're right of course. Good armor didn't restrict movement very much at all, but that wasn't my point. I was just saying that it's heavy and the extra encumbrance will slow you down, be a huge pain on the march (whether you wear the armor or just lug it around), and of course affect your stamina in a fight.

I have some first hand experience since I've actually worn some replicas of Spanish conquistador arms and equipment. A suit of steel plate was easily something like 50 or 60 pounds, and while it distributes itself better than one might imagine that's still obviously going to be a big disadvantage over someone lightly armored.

It was actually a fairly common tactic to just skirmish a heavily armored enemy until they got tired and sloppy, then start half-swording to try to stab them through the joints and gaps in their armor. Of course, failing that you could always just shoot them with a longbow, bludgeon them with a mace or warhammer, stick them with a rondel knife...

I really like ancient and medieval warfare if you can't tell

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

The human village

Inside the household of one of the local plutocrats, the situation was grim. As Balothiss was finally able to breach the door with Torrens' help, several men and even the plutocrat's son were revealed to be waiting just past the mound of furniture and such that barricaded the ruined door. Pointing their crossbows through the gaps in the barricade, they fired and then retreated further inside to reload and most likely set up some sort of ambush. While it might be tempting to just cave in the entire mansion or set it ablaze, causing that sort of damage would kill and destroy everything inside. While it might be a nuisance, taking the rich family as prisoners and thoroughly looting the place might prove profitable indeed.

As in for the plutocrat himself, if one went into the basement he would be found cowering behind a crate or two inside the wine cellar. His wife was currently in some crazed attempt to escape with their children by fleeing out the back door, but she would be lucky if Torrens or Balothiss caught her in the act and merely took her prisoner. With the orcs everywhere and spilling into the city, there was no hope of escape. Indeed, there wasn't much hope of survival and the horde of orcs seemed likely to just give in to their violent nature and kill on sight due to being mostly unsupervised.

Meanwhile, in the plaza the knight was sent flying backwards by Athinar's attack and he did indeed break several bones. Wincing in agony, he could only wait helplessly for the barbarian to finish the deed. As fate would have it, his defeat would not come so easily. One of the guardsmen had at this point managed to reload his crossbow and he shot the thing right for the back of Athinar's knee, where he knew armor was so often weak. Picking up a pike from a fallen comrade, he then charged the man with either a death wish or a stupid amount of bravery.

While that one guard's valiant attack was likely to just cause his death, it would be a distraction. Seizing the opportunity of even just a few moments, several water priests conjured water. The stuff glowed a bit as they chanted, and then they hurled the healing waters at the downed knight. The waters began to wrap around his body and enveloped him, quickly undoing the damage to his body and reinvigorating him with a second wind.

Back at the dungeon

The Overlord sighed as he scried the town with his magic to observe the attack. It would seem that half of his champions had yet to even show their cowardly faces to the fray, content to do nothing. They would be punished if that did not change soon... Athinar's battle with the champion was interesting, but the Dungeon Keeper couldn't help but roar in frustration as his minion failed to finish the downed foe before the mages could get to healing him again.

Rather bored and seething with frustration, the Master began to work his magic. In all the chaos of the battle, nobody was likely to look up. If they did, they might just get a few seconds warning as they saw a great chunk of fire and rock being conjured in the air before left to simply plummet straight down into the square. The makeshift meteor that the Dungeon Keeper sent down would strike perhaps twenty or thirty seconds after the mages began to heal the lord of the town in shining armor. The Master expected it to kill almost everything in the plaza, quite possibly including Athinar, but he had to have his fun somehow. If questioned later, he would even go so far as to call this a test of Athinar's abilities. Or perhaps a punishment for incompetence?

Sighing again, he simply watched with eager anticipation as the meteor rocketed downwards. This should be droll, the Master thought to himself. But then, he suddenly sensed something. Someone was trying to get into contact with him!

Octavian and his friend would have to wait a bit as their Master was truly quite eager to see the result of his work and unwilling to take his eyes off the meteor. But after that was done, he quickly turned to see their message. They couldn't expect him to instantly respond, could they? In any case, he was impressed.

He replied in short order. At first the gladiator might simply sense an approaching magical presence of some sort, but then the Master's familiar and rather sinister aura would be felt and there would be no mistaking him. The shadows in the corner of the room seemed to convulse and spread out, casting the entire room in an unnatural dark and turning that one corner as black as death itself. Well, except for the Master's two red eyes that peered out that that shadowy portal.

"Your work spying on this town was good, but I am recalling you now. Step into the shadows and return to the Dugneo instantly or travel on your own; it makes no matter. There will soon be more work to be done. If the duo did not accept the Keeper's rather uncharacteristically kind offer of simply teleporting them back, it would be hard to blame them. This wasn't the most caring or trustworthy of figures and such portals could be exceeding dangerous.

But then again, his blatant and extremely powerful black magic would almost certainly be detected by the local wizards as he made no attempt to even hide it or conceal his aura. If they did not go through that portal, the local mages would soon be arriving and the duo might have bigger problems.