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    1. Darkmatter 12 yrs ago

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10 yrs ago
Current Currently buried in a number of things which I hope will benefit the Guild.
11 yrs ago
In some ways, the guildfall was a blessing. It makes it harder for my original 2009 RPing to be found...
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11 yrs ago
I've finally returned to the Guild. Many months of much RPing ahead.
11 yrs ago
A thousand things to be done; plenty motivation.

Bio

Aeronautical Engineer
Irish
TV and Film addict

Been here on the guild since April '08, seen a lot of change but still love it. I've been on and off, I've GM'd fantastic projects and train-wrecks, it all comes with the territory. I once tried to make a YouTube ad for the guild because I'm slightly insane. In a weird place with the Guild right now, seems like so many names I knew are gone, but more than happy and ready to meet new people. Been writing casually for over a decade, a lot of that practice has been here. I have some small short sci-fi stories printed in anthologies but those are so heavily edited they don't even feel like mine any more.

When not on the Guild I'm most likely working, playing FFXIV or the Souls series or (insert recent must play video game).
Anyone with a passing interest in sci fi needs to read Saga by Brian K Vaughan.

Most Recent Posts

Well I'm either gmt or gmt -1 depending on the season.
Anyways I look forward to the posts.
El_Tigre said
Sorry about my terrible absence. I will try my best to get a post up with Alina arrived to the Plains of origin. Should be up by tonight.


No need to apologize, we all get shotted by RL
Just for future reference, give heads up if you know you're going to absent just so we don't think you've just left and kill poor Alina
InspectorGadget said
Totally sarcastic. Going to read the IC in a few. Gotta catch up on the OOC because you guys post in a different time zone then me I do believe. At least that's what I've gotten from the type of activity I see going on while I'm at work.


What is your timezone out of curiosity?
MelonHead said
What time is it at the point of origin anyway?


Late afternoon.

Chronicles Of Enduwin Chapter 2: Gatherings ~ Part Two



Within the heart of the Olc’s highest peak, The Fang, the Underkeep lay, like a lumbering beast. A mighty fortress shaped into the mountain’s hollow centre, with parapets and buttress gnarling away from its body. Deep in the Underkeep itself, in its most internal chambers, waited the Necromancer. The room was empty save for Bawzel himself. They were his chambers, his inner sanctuary. A four poster bed sat in the middle of the room and looked as if it was rarely, if ever used. The room was illuminated, for the most part, by oil lanterns on each post of the bed. Bawzel sat a desk. Even the undead grew weary and sitting was much more of comfort than it had been when he lived. Black and uneven, the table was carved from rock. Bawzel sat in a large wooden chair. On the wall opposite hung a mirror which dominated the entire wall. Rising from his seat the Necromancer went and stood in front of the mirror. Casting his gaze up and down along his naked form, he thought deeply about how to handle his current predicament. Right now, as he stood there, the so-called champions of the Nanotheon were descending up the Point of Origin. How he wished he could just go there now and crush them. Killing them would be so simple. Wring the dwarf’s neck, flay the orc and the humans. Let Mizat have fun with the goblin. Yet, he couldn’t. Slaughtering them would reveal far too much to the Nanotheon. Doing away with the adventurers would give away too much of his plan. Then they would know that he knew, and his biggest weapon was that knowledge. Did they even know? Sometimes he wondered if he had overcomplicated things. He would let the travellers live, for now, but perhaps a shock to their systems may deter them without the need to kill.

Holding his right palm out in front of himself sAlightly, he breathed into it. The breath stayed around his hand, swarming it like flies humming around a carcass. It condensed and took solid form, becoming a velvety smoke. The smoke was black, then grey before fading completely to white. The patterns it swirled in become more definite, and it slowed. Suddenly it was no longer smoke and in his hand the Necromancer held a perfectly smooth, porcelain mask. It was as white as snow and held a sinister grin. Raising his hand once more, he placed the mask on over his face.

Turning away from the mirror he began striding towards the large set of doors that lead away from his own chambers and towards the War Room. They doors swung back, seemingly of their own accord upon his approach. As he walked through the now opened doors, a red mist swirled around his entire body, much like the smoke had around his hand. The mist too solidified and formed many layers of cloaks around his body. The all seemed to flow into one and another creating a cacophony of shapes and folds.

Already waiting in the War Room were two of the Elven lords who served under him.
“M’lord.” They both beckoned, the taller one with a slight quiver in his voice.
Bawzel waved them to sit down and then rapped his knuckles in a manner such as to indicate he wished them to continue speaking.
“Reports remain the same sire, a small misfit band seems to converging in the plains. There’s a wizard among them. We presume he is going to be the conduit.”
“He is old?” Bawzel rumbled.
“Well he is a Farrg,” piped the second elf, but yes. Old.”
“Hah.” Exclaimed the Necromancer “Always with their mercy.”
Bawzel stared at the two elves, both looked back into the unmoving expressing of porcelain, one with fear one with respect.
“So be it. Don’t attack them yet. Continue the raids. The siege engines are your priority for now.”
“See to it this Vrikdarok and the others are sent to me, and quickly, I have business I need to personally attend to. And somebody fetch Mizat.”
Zran said
If they were made by 1000s of cute goblin slaves maybe.


Yeah and you did get an achievement :lo

So basically chapter two was suppose to be two parts. But each of those two are split in two. You've had the first for Shankee and I am about to post the first short post for Bawzel. So we can have a round of two of posting with all the characters, on both sides, talking, if you guys want.

The the second part of Shankee's post which as I am sure you have guessed will be a huge plot dump exposition that we will all love.
Second part of Bawzel's could be put into that same post but we'll see how things go.
Zran said
Hey just a question, whyen our characters get to Shankee will we actually be able to see him? I mean it seemed from your post, Dark that he had to pass through some kind of barrier. Or can we just assume that was part of his magic to make everyone able to get there and see it/him?


You will indeed be able to see him, and the not stonehenge. Normally no you wouldn't have been able to but now you can.

NewSun said
Ok guys, just FYI for Darkmatter, Kiddo, Gadget and Melon, the only way I could make sure everybody's posts were acknowledged stay true to Shankee calling out across the land to us, is to not have everybody approaching Those Rocky Things at the time. I know it's a little convoluted, but we have to make do. The way I see it, it's Shankee calling out that makes us approach in the first place.EDIT: Poooooosted.


Well yes they are all approaching but are varying distances away.

Zran said
Sweet lets try to move quick and get our party to ShankeeEdit: Collab is up as is. Just continue in normal posts for now since we will all be at the (point of origin?) shortly. @Dark, did I win a achievey thinging pwease pwease.


I'll let you know once I have read the posts.

FYI I am adjusting some stuff about Bawzel. I am making the amount of time he has actually been back unknown and making the time the raids have been happening for seven weeks.
I mean, no way a fortress could be built in seven weeks for instance.
Ok guys no rush. We are moving at a very swift pace for advanced after all.
Zran said
My fingers still feel it. Anyone who hasn't written off a phone or other device isn't truly a writer lol. (Sent from Galaxy S3 right now.)


Thankfully using my laptop, but I have written 3000 word posts on phones
Zran said
Lol try a hiptop, back in the day it was all I had regular access to.


That must be a very painful memory for you Zran.
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