Gentlemanvaultboy

Red Skies it's all a Game

@PrincessVampora

-@Jasper19 Druid character, Jace, has built up his druid house and is still hanging out in the starting zone being a better druid.

-his other character, Tanner the Pirate, is riding around plundering the sea routes you'd use to get to other cities. He's been having an series of conflicts with Jono the Rogue, @Sharidi37495 character, but they hadn't quite settled it yet. Recently he saved her from drowning after her crew threw her overboard because they thought she was cursed. They had a fight, and are now having a heart to heart on his ship.

- @Sanity43217 character, Boulder the Earth Mage, has been training on how to cast spells fast with a group of other earth magi. Last time they posted he'd returned to the starting town and wanted to go his own way on a boat.

- My character Maisy, with the help of Jono, has just been kind of doing stuff and getting better as a player. Right now she's doing quests in the big city of Rhea, and is maybe the only player there on account of sailing to other continents being unsafe due to rampant piracy.

- @Shadow Dragon and you are still in that cave near the starting town. He discovered a small band of orcs and is currently protecting you from them with his scythe.

I thinks that's everything. Please tell me if there's something important I missed or misinterpreted.

Red Skies it's all a Game

Maisy had been up to questing after that first one. She'd run down an underground rat ring in the reeking sewers, found some bodies kid wandering around in the wilderness, exterminated 6 more monster nests for knight captain Howzer, and spent the rest of her day delivering peoples mails all around the city. It had been a lot of fun helping these fake people with their make beileve problems, and the resulting XP has booted her up to level ten.

Now she was just wandering the city, searching for more people that had stuff for her to do and eating a fish stick. That is, a whole fish on a stick. At some point she'd overheard that if she used a fire she could cook food, so she'd found a giant ceremonial blazer in the knights guild hall and used it to cook up all the fish she'd caught into these, which she was disappointed to find were not actual fish sticks like from the freezer.

She took another big, greasy bite. They still wearn't bad though.

Hivemind

Not all. Prepare a special detachment that has only one mission; take one of these giant beetles alive. Wait for one of them to appear to receive offerings before launching our offensive.

Dawn of a New Age - The Return of Magic v3

Ho ho ho ho! This was the shit he'd been waiting for. The write silver glow in Gavin's hand cast weird shadows around the room as he...threatened? Archer didn't know what it did, but it seemed mighty threatening. So he threatened the guy that had strolled in here asking questions because the guy wasn't actually the guy. That guy was working for the real guy, and whoever that guy was he was influential enough to have followers and careful enough not to just walk into a weird situation himself.

Shit. He was probably the smartest guy here and he wasn't even here yet. Well, that or he just lacked confidence.

The minion went over in the corner to call up his master and, it looked like, sulk. Archer felt bad for him. "Hey, don't feel to bad buddy." He called. "Some of these powers are some absolute bullshit when it comes to getting information."

Gavin sat down and started to explain a lot of stuff Archer already knew. Angels, mission from god, strange powers, save the world, it wasn't anything he hadn't already been doing. Of course, the most he'd done for this "save the word" mission his guardian angel had given him was use his powers to build up funds because other than this he hadn't come across a real lead on what he had to do yet.

So as Gavin went on his attention was drawn elsewhere. Specifically to the girl that had slipped in as he began. She was young, younger even then their host, and had the sort of fashion sense only possessed by two groups of people; homeless and runaways. He wondered whether she was even supposed to be here or if she'd wandered inside to get out of the elements and use the water fountains.

As Gavin finished his explanation the reaction of the room so far was mixed. One guy that had come in all quiet like seemed to be all for it, but Archer wasn't surprised to see the girl as confused as she was. This whole thing did seem straight out of the playbook of one of those hoodoo guru group-think spiritual leaders. He'd be wary too if he hadn't woken up in the hospital with actual magic powers.

She did say something that caught his interest though.

He waved to Gavin. "You don't got to tell me twice. I already got paid for this so I couldn't drop it even if I wanted to. More that that though..."

He turned back to look at the girl. "I think I might be above to help with that." He said with was more confidence than his shabby appearance should allow. "Finding people is a good 65% of my regular job. Your feet just so happened to bring you to the best private eye on the east coast."

Normally that wasn't a claim he would be willing to make, but considering he now had actual superpowers he was confident it was true.

"My name's Archer." He said, drawing a crumpled card from his coat pocket and handing it to the girl. Archer Guld, it said. Private investigator. And under that a phone number that went to a melted phone sitting in a landfills somewhere. "Did you have anything besides a photo to go on?"

Hivemind

First of all the lost princes actions dedication is to be commended. Have the messengers relay the news to the populous before returning to him. The tale might take some of this sting out of losing the berry bush.

And about that berry bush. We needs to impress upon these beetles that actions like this won't be tolerated. Once our numbers are back up muster our forces to the the border, make it look like we're massing for an attack. But send a team of workers tunneling under the ground. These fortifications we had aren't built to our new standards, and we already know they are prone to collapse. Undermine them, bring them down, and in the resulting confusion have our forces sweep in and wipe out all beetles intruding on our territory. There are less of them than us and it would take a significant number to occupy our old defences, so this would be a terrible blow.

We can not suffer our own works being turned on us. It is offensive!

Red Skies it's all a Game

"You did well to impress old Giorgio, young lady." Said the fresh faced knight initiate standing before the great barracks in the center of town. The building was grand, with large banner bearing the same rose symbol emblazoned on the token Maisy carried. Wafting through the doors came the sound of knightly training, the clang of steel on steel and grunts of exertion or exhilarations.

"He used to be the greatest fighter on the continent." The NPC continued with his canned story. "At least, until the Dragon Knight took his arm and broke his pride. Oh, but that's not something you have to worry about now. Just know that if that man saw something in you, I believe it."

Hwy, maybe you can help me out with something..." He said, leaning in.

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That was his she found herself facing down a gang of tall lizard men in the cliffs around the city, who hissed and chittered at her as she scaled the cliff side to their home.

Coming up over the side she pulled her lance off her back. "Can you guys even just give me back the sword Initiate Arthur lost up here? Or would we still have to fight even if I was level 100 or something?"

When all she got a hiss and a charge she leveled her Lance at it. "I thought not. Video games aren't nearly as complex as I thought."

Complex or not, though, claws still hurt. She leveled her lance as the charging lizard and surged forward to meet him.

Red Skies it's all a Game

Maisy made her way through the city, watching people along with looking for the building with the rose symbol. They were odd, they all seemed to be in such a hurry but didn't seem to be going anywhere. She watched one walk her way down an ally, stand there for a few minutes, then turn around and walk out as though it wasn't anything odd. People would stop at stalls, but no money changed hands. No one greeted one another, except when it was to gather in groups and talk loudly about monsters lurking in the sewers or something like that. Quests, probably, because they only did it when she was passing by.

Red Skies it's all a Game

"Make sure to bring me then." Maisy forced out. In the space of a day she'd built this Pirate up in her mind. She smiled, then turned and disappeared into the city.

Hivemind

Perhaps that's why the beetles chose to nest inside the hollow log.

Our new workers were able to reinforce the walls of our tunnel with their new sticky fluid and hold back collapse, but perhaps we can go farther than that? Could we mix the spit directly with the mud in order to create a building material that is more fundamentally sturdy? With that we may be able to build up, store out food and grubs safely above the flood line.

Red Skies it's all a Game

Maisy looked up, her face somewhere between relief and disappointment. They hadn't been attacked by pirates, but they hadn't beaten any pirates either. It had been a totally neutral experience, like starring at the wall in her bedroom.

"That almost feels worse than the bad thing happening." She thought aloud, climbing off the boat and looking up at that-

"Wooooooow!" She said. Rhea was the biggest city she had ever seen, with towering building of white marble. All along the streets people walked to and fro, but Maisy realized they were probably fake people anyway so it really wasn't as bad as the player filled starting town.

She pulled out the rose token and tried to find that symbol on one of the buildings. "Maybe it's deeper in?" She mused, having found nothing. She turned to her friend. "What are you gonna do?"