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Hwær cwom mearg? Hwær cwom mago?
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Yep, I even lifted part of the line because I'm a bit of a LOTR nerd
... What would we even do in a reboot? That's a silly question, we'd do similar stuff only we don't lose 120 odd pages of work... It allows us to continue this but come up with some reason for the universe to have been hit by a massive crisis which shrunk every ones Empires down or something

Or maybe we could use the Borg to even everything out a little?
Kalok took a step back from the altar and folded his arms with a smile "Arise." The creature rose from the slab and peered around the chamber, moving forwards. As it did, the glow from the lava caught it's dull greyish green skin. It's eyes trailed along the chamber until it came to rest on Kalok, who stepped forwards and circled his new creation
"Hm... could be better" He said as he examined it "But you'll suffice. Strong, fast... loyal. Who do you serve, Orc?" He inquired with a smug grin
"Kalok!" The Orc Growled in return, turning it's head towards it's master. Kalok nodded, stopping before the Orc.
"Foreman!" He called, and the whimpering, downtrodden little imp stumbled back into the room
"Yes master, what does the heartless one require?" He stuttered as he looked up to Kalok, then to the Orc with fearful eyes gulping as he looked at it, still remembering his failure from earlier. Kalok took a step forwards
"I wish a spawning room and a forge completed immediately. We have the mages most basic facilities, it's time we set up a way to call forth more minions, and my Orcs will need weapons if they are to conquer the world" Kalok ordered, then glanced to the Orc "What do you think, Ori? This is the first of my fighting Orcs. They will defend the heart and fight to the death in the armies to seize control of this realm. And this is just the beginning."
"Orc look big and strong, just like the master!" Ori said quickly, with a nod while regarding the Orc with fearful eyes. It gave a small growl and Ori jumped and turned quickly, scurrying off to relay Kaloks wishes to the other imps. Kalok turned and once again examined the Orc, who continued to watch him with inquisitive eyes. Kalok merely gestured and the Orc stomped off to patrol the dungeons halls with the grace and deliberation of a sleep walker. Kalok gave a small smile as he watched the things odd movements. It still needed to get used to walking, it appeared. No matter, it should adapt within the day. Kalok himself followed after him, there was much work to be done and so little time



Rebooting over, and over, and over, is not the answer. We need to actually control it so we don't have to reboot every hundred pages!
Message to the Human Fleet

"Kree, Tau'ri. You possess a map from over 140 years ago... A star map, given by a Triarii named Lucinius. I want that map. Though outdated now, it contains something of a economic interest. Give it to me, and you will have your planet. Kel chula a lazla?" Sekhmet said with a small smile

Collective

Conditioned Cell, Facility Nova Prospekt

Ara sat in the metal cell, cold on the dull floor, staring blankly at the wall... The Prison door opened and the young Queen glanced up to it as a Triarian in an envirosuit came through it. It closed and locked behind him and she turned away and moved into a fetal position to guard from him instinctively, but it was no use and she hovered up into the air and spun around, yelping in fear as the unseen forces forced her into a standing upright position. The Triarian took a few steps forwards and she did all in her power to struggle against the invisible force holding her. The Triarian's eyes intensified... and suddenly she could feel it inside her head, tearing through her memories, uncovering her secrets and tearing them from her mind so that the Collective might use them. Nothing stayed private, no matter what she tried the unstoppable force pulled her memories out. No more secrets, no more lies She heard a voice say in her head, and let out a screech
"Please no... no..." She begged, but she could hear the voice again Your thoughts are mine now. To make and destroy at a whim... "No..." My command is your wish "I'm sorry..." She whispered as her mind was violated and torn apart by the systematic extractions of any useful information.
Why reboot... Just nerf stuff and place a power cap, there are ways to do it.
Maybe if the new threat, the borg, were actually a big bad this time instead of monster of the week :/
Meh, we need to work on some way to limit it rather than just routinely wipe it all away...
They had dug for many weeks to dig a path to the caverns and many months to dig out their lair. Over time the small collection of mages had used their magical arts to create their own little fortress within the volcano, which lay on the island off the coast on the string of Volcano islands (About 50, 16). Most of these caves were still uninhabited and they lived mostly in a single strip of small rooms, a bunkhouse, stores rooms and a library, while the rest of the caves were simply used for... experiments. Eventually, three of them had decided to perform the most complicated ritual they could imagine. To do this, they spent many weeks to dig their way to the Magma Chamber of the volcano... And now here they were, stood above a pit full of the liqud hot magma, tossing choking sulfer up at them.
There were four of them in total, three brothers and a woman, quite obviously held against her will judging by the way one of them had his hands clasped tightly around her arms like a vice. The Ring leader had slate grey eyes and black hair, short cut and kept neatly in line, with dark and forboding grin that revealed his white teeth. The middle of the three who held the girl, had the same grey eyes but brown hair instead, with a crooked nose and a scar down his cheek. The third was the youngest, and had a different rather to the other two. He had blonde hair and blue eyes and was barely into his teens, with rather large ears and a kind smile which did not fit the cruel act they were performing.
The ring leader nodded to the youngest of the three brothers, who returned the nod as he pushed the young girl towards him. She kicked and sqealed as he seized her by the throat, raising her off the floor with unnatural strength
They stood in a circle around the fiery depths, and cut her throat to form their alliegance... the blood hissed as it hit the flames. The life left her green eyes and she fell limp in his hands as she choked on her own blood. The leader rose from the girls lifeless corpse, tossing it onto the fire "Hear the words of Malakar, fires of the mountain! Summon forth the mistress of the flames and bind her essence to me, to Ari, to Andrew!" He yelled into the fires, and they joined with him in their yells
"Lend us your power, mistress of the flames!" They called... and the body raised from the fiery pit, a chared wreck as they had expected. They fell to their knee's in praise at the charred body.
"My lady, we have brought you forth from the void, bless us with a place at your side as you conquer this world and con..." But he was cut off by a laughter... a dark, grating laughter. And then the corpse hovered forwards, it's eyes coming to rest on him
"Oh, poor Malakar, summoned the wrong being, did we?" It said, in a masculine voice, and the three men raised and stumbled back, startled
"But... I performed every... No matter, you're bound to me, you must obey my command. Name thyself!" He shouted, taking a step forwards and reasserting his confidence... but the charred corpse gave another dark laugh
"Me, obey you? Who do you think you are little Malakar? But do not fear... for you gave me a beacon to this world that I might claim it. You three did me a great favour, and I shall repay it... I have a gift for each of you, one greater gift for one, and a lesser gift for the other two. Which do you each wish?" Malakars eyes lit up with greed and he stepped forwards
"I shall take the grand gift, your lord ship" He said, bowing to the floor. The corpse cracked a smile, a sickening crunch echoing from it's burnt lips as it floated forwards towards him
"Excellent... Look into my eyes, Malakar" The corpse said, and the man looked up towards the corpse and into the empty holes where it's eyes should be. Suddenly there was a flash within them, and he screamed and tried to pull away but the corpse stuck out both it's burnt arms, grabbing him with a grip of death and holding him in place. The other two backed away from their brother and looked to each other in fear. Suddenly the light stopped, and Malakar and the corpse fell to the floor, Malakar having turned into a mumified body. There was a bright flash and a new one being appeared. Having absorbed the energy from Malakar, he had been able to tear a hole large enough to force his way through from the void "I am Kalok the Heartless" He said, with a dull smile. Andrew looked towards Malakar in horror, and Kalok caught the look on his face before speaking "His soul is trapped inside that rotting shell, I needed his energy, I had grown weak from my wait in the void."
Ari glanced to the tunnel they had made to the entrance as if contemplating escape, but was a bit taken aback when he saw that in it's place lay a small, purple vortex. He had seen this when they had been summoning lesser creatures. He kept his eyes trained on it, awaiting whatever foul creature was about to step out, and at last they did. Or rather, flew out. Tweleve imps came through the portal, their wings flapping to keep their stocky bodies in the air as they landed at the entrance to the tunnel as the portal closed behind them. They all had a black mark stamped onto their forehead, the symbol of their master, except one who had the mark in Silver... Actual silver that appear to have been grafted into his forehead. He was a foreman, an overseer of the imps, controlling them when his master wasn't available or simply couldn't be bothered to.
"You call, we come, yes master! We loyal imps! We good imps!" The imp foreman said, bouncing up "We bring pickaxes too, master, so humans can serve!" One of the imps stepped forwards, dropping two pickaxes to the floor and bidding Ari and Andrew to come take them. Ari raised his voice in protest
"We're not slaves, we won't bend knee to yo..." But he was cut off as Kalok gave him a dark look
"Would you like to become like Malakar? I could do with some more energy, Ari" Kalok said with a dark grin, approaching him menacingly and Ari miserably backed down and took up the dull pickaxe. Kalok smelt the air, and whispered to himself under his breath. Slowly but surely, his body mutated into a different form. He paused for a moment, before raising his voice and announcing "This will be our dungeon heart... Andrew, are there more of you?" He asked, turning his head towards the young boy, who quivered for a moment
"Yes, my lord, eleven more..."
"Excellent. Imps, find them and bring them to me, they shall join us or die." Kalok commanded. The foreman gave a curt bow and him and his imps raised into the air and flew off through the tunnels once more, vanishing into the dark
They returned a short while later, with ten humans trailing nervously... Only Ten imps returned, and the foreman trudged forwards before bowing slightly before Kalok
"My lord, one of the humans put up a fight... We lost Ki and Ti, but Zi brought him down" He said fearfully, as if expecting to be tossed into the lava for losing two of his imps. Kalok nodded slowly and the foreman flinched, but Kalok looked upon the mages "Some serve 'willingly'... the others will not." The Foreman whimpered gestured to his imps, and they batted two of the mages forwards. They glared at Kalok and he returned the stare, having a sort of staring contest. That was how it remained for a few minutes, before Kalok simply shrugged and turned away
"Cast them into the fires." He ordered, and an imp grabbed each shoulder of the mages and raised into the air. The two mages let out terrible screams and attempted to use their magic, but the imps flew above the magma and dropped them down towards their fiery dooms. The lava hissed as it stripped away their skin and melted their bones. Kalok turned to the other mages
"Does anyone else wish to question their lord?" He said forbodingly, in a manner suggesting that he wouldn't be afraid to kill every last one of them if anyone tried anything. They all tenatively shook their heads, and Kalok smiled. "Excellent. You shall begin construction of my dungeon immediately... We shall call it Kasi'dur. "Leave me." He ordered, and the imps nodded, slipping out of the room with the new human slaves.
Kalok approached the fiery pit and drew a length of magma out of it with magic, placing it like a bridge across to a single pillar of rock within the center. Cooling it magically so that it hardened into black obsidian, Kalok crossed the bridge to the center of the chamber and raised a small pedestal of stone from the ground. He opened his clothing and revealed a single scar running down the left side of his chest. He moved his hand gently to it, before digging his fingers in. The warm blood trickled down from it as he grimaced in pain... and tore out his own, beating heart. Breathing heavily from the pain, he placed it within a lock box, turned the key in the lock and listened for the tumblers click, then placed it upon the pedestal. Turning, he crossed the obsidian bridge and and drew a roll of paper from Malakars corpse, laying it out over a small stone slab and setting up four gems, each a purple cystralline structure, around the slab, before setting to work.
First Creature: 0/3


Lady Sekhmets forces

"Shin tel?" Sekhmet inquired as she watched her First Prime through her communications device as he rushed around the bridge of the Ha'tak
"Tok'Sekhmet" He replied
Sekhmet nodded slowly and replied "Arik tree'ac te kek" She paused to turn but he protested and mentioned that his force was outgunned and requested reinforcements, to which she spun and her eyes flashed as she spoke again "Hol... Chel Hol Tau'ri... Kek tok'tau'ri?" The first prime merely nodded to her, then clicked a button and transmitted a message to the human fleet, spoken by Sekhmet herself "Leaa. Tok'tau'ri kek. I have pacified the rebellion on your planet for you. I will gladly return it to you... At a price. Kel chula a lazla? Sekhmet Lek tol."

Collective

A bright day in Videt, a celebration... music playing in the background, ships roaring overhead, holoscreens displaying their prize... The captured enemy leader, paraded through the streets as they fleet passed like she was some prize from a hunt. With this, they finally had the bargaining power to negotiate what they wanted all along. The Primicerii met again to discuss matters
"Abh Infernum posse promittit" One said, and the other titled his head
"Est?"
"Nescio, Debemus illud revelabis... Abh Apparent sadistic"
"Bello opus est? "
"Forte. Nos debemus uti non illud permittere"
"Possit esse gravius quam memoria?"
"Forte..."
Well, firstly its a good place for a fledgling overlord to emerge, who's going to risk their neck searching all the lands volcanos? Meanwhile the overlord builds his prowess and moves to somewhere safer
Secondly, lava makes for good moats
Thirdly, as long as its dormant you should be fairly safe, they tend to take a very, very long time to explode. Better yet, choose one that's extinct
Fourthly, the heat/magma has many uses that could be exploited by a cunning Keeper

The risk of the volcano exploding is also not too troublesome. If you are living inside the volcano you will likely be able to discover that its going to explode before it does, giving you ample time to evacuate and find somewhere else to set up shop.

And when it does explode, I get to move to an ice castle, when that collapses, I get to move back to the volcano that has now settled again and use it once more for teh evilz :D
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