"You ran all that way and this is how you die." People possessed by evil just have to gloat, well people have to gloat, me I just shoot people, talking is something I do after the fact or in this journal. I think specifically because I have this journal I don't feel the need to do the taunting after the fact, but I digress! Vontresa had the pistol pointed at my head, I could practically feel the bullet coming my way. It was at this point I decided it best to live rather than try and save Vontresa because well I like living and Vontresa had made her idiotic bed and would now have to lie dead in it. I gathered up some fire and launched it at the pistol. I mean I knew it was a god hand of sorts, it could not be defeated in a traditional sense, but Vontresa's hand could certainly be injured and that would at least stop the bullet temporarily.
The burst of fire hit her hand and didn't actually do anything at first which made my heart sink a bit thinking the weapon could some how eat magic, but then something weird happened the fire burst out of the gun in a flash and Vontresa dropped it and then collapsed. The weapon stopped glowing green and instead just looked kind of inert, like whatever was inside it died, which was unintended on my part but totally awesome.
I actually used the dead snake to try and see if the pistol was dangerous (finally the beast came in handy!) It didn't appear evilified anymore, but magical feelings are not 100% and so I was still leery of the weapon. Vontresa appeared flat out knocked out, whatever had happened to her had taken her all the way out of commission.
So there I was on the edge of a river in a foreign jungle with a passed out woman and a formerly evil pistol and a dead snake. Have to tell you, this is definitely one of the weirder situations I've ever run across.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
In the Jungle Where You Flee Into the Night
You'd think I'd be better at fleeing while wounded (my legs were hurt from the fall not bad enough to stop me, but bad enough to slow me), but I'm still terrible at it. I leave way too many markers and indicators of where I'm going, I stop and crash into things. Basically I'm as coordinated as a drunken person fleeing imaginary booze demons (something I also have experience with). I could sense Vontresa was behind me as I stumbled into some kind of insect nest that left a lot of stinging beasts eating my face, at this point I almost considered turning myself over to her, death would be preferable to being eaten by whatever was in the jungle, but unfortunately/fortunately I slipped and fell down the side of a hill and into a rushing river. Which took care of the insects, but stuck me into a rushing river going gods know where.
Its like one of those good thing bad things that happens. "Oh hey no more insects, oh shit now I'm rushing down a river and oh god there is something huge trying to eat me here." Yeah the river as one could expect from a jungle river had a gods damned huge snake in it, that shortly after I fell into the water attempted to strangle the shit out of me. I fought it off using a combination of fire magic, necromancy, and just plain old I don't want to die. Eventually I struggled with the dead beast to shore, I didn't want to carry the snake ashore with me, but since it was wrapped so tightly around my body when it died it was more didn't have the energy to dislodge the beast. I was so tired I just flopped down next to the bank. I actually just fell asleep, I woke up to the sound of a hammer hitting back.
"Hello Trezlan." It was Vontresa she had some how tracked me down.
"I really hate my life." It was the only thing I could of saying, as far as last words go, its probably the most ironic.
Its like one of those good thing bad things that happens. "Oh hey no more insects, oh shit now I'm rushing down a river and oh god there is something huge trying to eat me here." Yeah the river as one could expect from a jungle river had a gods damned huge snake in it, that shortly after I fell into the water attempted to strangle the shit out of me. I fought it off using a combination of fire magic, necromancy, and just plain old I don't want to die. Eventually I struggled with the dead beast to shore, I didn't want to carry the snake ashore with me, but since it was wrapped so tightly around my body when it died it was more didn't have the energy to dislodge the beast. I was so tired I just flopped down next to the bank. I actually just fell asleep, I woke up to the sound of a hammer hitting back.
"Hello Trezlan." It was Vontresa she had some how tracked me down.
"I really hate my life." It was the only thing I could of saying, as far as last words go, its probably the most ironic.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Sea Travel Still Sucks
The tearing of metal is a sound I am all too familiar with from my time in the modern age. So when I heard the ship wrench itself apart I knew we were in trouble. I mean I already knew I was in trouble, but with the ship being sheared or whatever I was in more trouble (since I had basically rune trapped myself in my cabin, without the cabin being there I was boned. At least Vontresa was no where to be found, though I was pretty sure she was lurking somewhere, she looked now like the lurking type (yes there is a type). But since the ship was sinking I had to get out of my cabin and hopefully avoid drowning to instead die on the sea waiting for someone to rescue me. Basically I was choosing my method of death and having to live (or die) with my choice either way.
So I bolted out of my cabin running headlong for the outside. I figured if I could jump off the ship, I could take my chances on the open water (because that's worked out fine for me in the past, really it actually has) I didn't see Vontresa, but I did hear the gunshot she fired at me. It made a weird like coughing noise and I could see the green singe of energy zip on by me and impacted against the ship. It wasn't exactly a bullet, and when it moved by me it felt like the island's energy had felt, just an evil shiver, I shudder to think what would have happened if she hit me with one of those bullets. I couldn't think too hard on it though because I had to get off the ship, I couldn't see what it was grinding itself into, but I could hear it and oh gods the sound was getting worse. So I reached the rail and lept over the side.
You ever heard that phrase "look before you leap?" Yeah that should be something you do, unlike what I did. See I lept over the side of the ship, about 15 to 25 feet above the ground, and yes there was freaking ground underneath me. See I expected water, I did not expect the ship had managed to hit gods damned land, but it certainly had, and it had ground itself into the land by well over half the ship's length. So instead of hitting water and having to swim, I hit a beach and damn near broke my legs. I didn't have time to think though, because I had to run from Vontresa, so I lept, smashed into the ground, noticed it was ground, cursed, and then ran away from the ship as fast as possible.
This would ordinarily have been pretty amusing if it had of course happened to someone else. Thankfully the beach was right next to a jungle and I quickly ran into it to lose Vontresa. Unthankfully (its a word now gods damn it!) the jungle was full of horrific monsters. I tell you its like even when I win I lose. In this case though "winning" was injuring my legs jumping off a ship as it plowed into land while being chased by a former colleague wielding an evil god weapon.
So I bolted out of my cabin running headlong for the outside. I figured if I could jump off the ship, I could take my chances on the open water (because that's worked out fine for me in the past, really it actually has) I didn't see Vontresa, but I did hear the gunshot she fired at me. It made a weird like coughing noise and I could see the green singe of energy zip on by me and impacted against the ship. It wasn't exactly a bullet, and when it moved by me it felt like the island's energy had felt, just an evil shiver, I shudder to think what would have happened if she hit me with one of those bullets. I couldn't think too hard on it though because I had to get off the ship, I couldn't see what it was grinding itself into, but I could hear it and oh gods the sound was getting worse. So I reached the rail and lept over the side.
You ever heard that phrase "look before you leap?" Yeah that should be something you do, unlike what I did. See I lept over the side of the ship, about 15 to 25 feet above the ground, and yes there was freaking ground underneath me. See I expected water, I did not expect the ship had managed to hit gods damned land, but it certainly had, and it had ground itself into the land by well over half the ship's length. So instead of hitting water and having to swim, I hit a beach and damn near broke my legs. I didn't have time to think though, because I had to run from Vontresa, so I lept, smashed into the ground, noticed it was ground, cursed, and then ran away from the ship as fast as possible.
This would ordinarily have been pretty amusing if it had of course happened to someone else. Thankfully the beach was right next to a jungle and I quickly ran into it to lose Vontresa. Unthankfully (its a word now gods damn it!) the jungle was full of horrific monsters. I tell you its like even when I win I lose. In this case though "winning" was injuring my legs jumping off a ship as it plowed into land while being chased by a former colleague wielding an evil god weapon.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Oh Look At That Evil
"Trezlan, Trezlan come on out Trezlan." It was Vontresa sort of, the voice was still her aristocratic bitch, but it was higher attempting to be seductive I think. I could see her on the other end of my wards just looking at me something glowing and evil looking in her hand. It looked like a pistol but I couldn't make it out from the glowing green aura around it. Honestly it reminded me of the hand of the fire god, but whatever god this pistol was from clearly wasn't a nice one.
"I'm shocked, shocked that what was in that box was evil, I mean so surprised." I'm not actually that surprised. In fact I believe I said multiple times that what was in the box was evil, I was kind of shocked to see it was a god weapon, but not too shocked.
"Drop your wards Trezlan let me bathe you in the light." I figured the rest of the crew was dead (I was right they were) and I was not going to drop any of my wards, at all ever. In fact I planned on creating others (which I did) of course I didn't have any food, the ship was now adrift in the sea, and Vontresa had a god weapon, but you know I was willing to wait things out, the alternative was terrifying.
And so things went, Vontresa tried to get me to drop my runes and I kept telling her I wasn't going to do that. I figured things would have continued like that until all of time except we hit something about a day into our little dance. But that is next entry you know it is because of course it is, it always is!
"I'm shocked, shocked that what was in that box was evil, I mean so surprised." I'm not actually that surprised. In fact I believe I said multiple times that what was in the box was evil, I was kind of shocked to see it was a god weapon, but not too shocked.
"Drop your wards Trezlan let me bathe you in the light." I figured the rest of the crew was dead (I was right they were) and I was not going to drop any of my wards, at all ever. In fact I planned on creating others (which I did) of course I didn't have any food, the ship was now adrift in the sea, and Vontresa had a god weapon, but you know I was willing to wait things out, the alternative was terrifying.
And so things went, Vontresa tried to get me to drop my runes and I kept telling her I wasn't going to do that. I figured things would have continued like that until all of time except we hit something about a day into our little dance. But that is next entry you know it is because of course it is, it always is!
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Ship of The Probably a Trap
Coincidences are just traps that are harder to see coming. You see most people go "wow this is an amazing coincidence." Not me! I know I just know this a trap that you couldn't possibly have set up but I now know it totally is a trap because I'm smart! And not like totally crazy after years of bad shit happening to me completely with no way of seeing it happening well in advance.
So with this in mind a steamer ship arriving on a deserted island that had no reason for a ship to ever come to magically pick me and Vontresa up despite neither of us calling for help was immediately a trap to me. Sure the people on the ship were nice, they seemed like nice people, but they were totally evil jerks who were somehow in league with what was in the box. I still hadn't seen what was in the box at this point, and apparently no one else but me was entirely concerned about two stranded people alone on an island, one of them coveting a box, the other with a fresh black eye who didn't talk (look part of a trap is getting people to speak, and so I knew to avoid talking so they couldn't do to me whatever they planned on doing!)
Still for all their connection to evil the people were at least nice and invited me and Vontresa on to the ship and even gave us separate quarters (I got shoved in a supply closet, Vontresa got a huge cabin once again proving that this was no coincidence). After getting my quarters I strung up runes all over the place. I knew the evil would come for me, it probably already would have tried to kill me had the ship not arrived, so I knew whatever was in the box would come and I made my preperations. And I was totally right, like usual!
So with this in mind a steamer ship arriving on a deserted island that had no reason for a ship to ever come to magically pick me and Vontresa up despite neither of us calling for help was immediately a trap to me. Sure the people on the ship were nice, they seemed like nice people, but they were totally evil jerks who were somehow in league with what was in the box. I still hadn't seen what was in the box at this point, and apparently no one else but me was entirely concerned about two stranded people alone on an island, one of them coveting a box, the other with a fresh black eye who didn't talk (look part of a trap is getting people to speak, and so I knew to avoid talking so they couldn't do to me whatever they planned on doing!)
Still for all their connection to evil the people were at least nice and invited me and Vontresa on to the ship and even gave us separate quarters (I got shoved in a supply closet, Vontresa got a huge cabin once again proving that this was no coincidence). After getting my quarters I strung up runes all over the place. I knew the evil would come for me, it probably already would have tried to kill me had the ship not arrived, so I knew whatever was in the box would come and I made my preperations. And I was totally right, like usual!
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Nope Totally Normal, FOR EVIL!
It felt like we'd been descending for hours, but I'm pretty sure it was only a few moments. It was like swimming in a sea of evil. I can't express how awful that ruin was. Outside of all the evil in the air it would have been fairly boring, just simple traps to avoid, some hidden walls, the usual for ancient ruins. But the evil? Oh man it was vile, it soaked into me like a bad smoke cloud. Everything I did seemed to make it worse. Like trying to swat nats you couldn't see. And the worst part of it was Vontresa did not seem to be affected by it at all! Completely oblivious to the dark energies swirling around us. I learned my lesson about saying anything, after I mentioned again I didn't to be there and Vontresa pistol whipped me (bad enough that she closed my left eye entirely, which made seeing some of the traps a pain in the ass let me tell you).Eventually we came to a dias literally swirling with evil energies.
Sitting on top of the dias was a simple box, wooden in construction. The walls of the room were written with all kinds of dire warnings and bad shit. Like a history of horrific conflict was etched into that stone, in what seemed like dried blood and bone (literally someone etched bone in the walls). The stories they told were all bad, I mean I knew we were in some trouble when we got there, but honestly the walls were covered in "please do not let this box leave here" and yet Vontresa ran right up and took it off the pedestal. In a sign of things to come the rest of the evil went right into the box when she did. Like one moment we were swimming in it, and then the next the air was fine, the room was just covered in blood and bone writing (which while creepy isn't like evil in itself maybe uhh ok still pretty awful).
I would have said something at the time like "What's in the box?" Or "What do we do now?" But my thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a steamer ship blowing its horn. I thought somehow Vonresa had planned this, but thinking back on it, something else had clearly set this in motion and we were just the unwilling (well I was unwilling Vontresa was hella willing) participants. The ship was a sign of even worse things to come, but hey at least I was off the island.
Sitting on top of the dias was a simple box, wooden in construction. The walls of the room were written with all kinds of dire warnings and bad shit. Like a history of horrific conflict was etched into that stone, in what seemed like dried blood and bone (literally someone etched bone in the walls). The stories they told were all bad, I mean I knew we were in some trouble when we got there, but honestly the walls were covered in "please do not let this box leave here" and yet Vontresa ran right up and took it off the pedestal. In a sign of things to come the rest of the evil went right into the box when she did. Like one moment we were swimming in it, and then the next the air was fine, the room was just covered in blood and bone writing (which while creepy isn't like evil in itself maybe uhh ok still pretty awful).
I would have said something at the time like "What's in the box?" Or "What do we do now?" But my thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a steamer ship blowing its horn. I thought somehow Vonresa had planned this, but thinking back on it, something else had clearly set this in motion and we were just the unwilling (well I was unwilling Vontresa was hella willing) participants. The ship was a sign of even worse things to come, but hey at least I was off the island.
Monday, September 22, 2014
No No Don't Thank Me Or ANYTHING!
I was sitting on a stone step admiring the architecture of the ruins. Well "admiring" as much as one can when surrounded in a nasty soup of evil. I was sitting there because my attempts to assist Vontresa, the entire reason I was there. HAD BEEN REBUFFED! Yes she literally had asked for my help to ignore it. I was in such a blinding rage I just sat down stupefied. STUPIFIED!!! Like thinking back to it now years later I'm still pissed off she had me sitting there while she dumbed her way through some kind of puzzle using a map and muttering. And she was dumbing it, like she didn't understand the language (I did) and she didn't understand what it was asking for (like I did again I tried to help she ignored me!)
"This just doesn't make sense to me." I asked to see the map and she looked like I kicked her in a sore point.
"You do not need to see the map, if I need your help I'll ask for it, sit down and shut up." I was so angry at being treated like this, me of all people! She kept fudging with the door to whatever horror was down below that I eventually cut my own hand and threw blood on the door and spoke the words of sacrifice the door wanted. The stone locked back and opened immediately.
"There see all you needed was the ancient words and blood, good lord can we move on." She was elated, like gone was her anger from a moment ago and in its place was almost an orgasmic joy. I was really getting worried though, because when the door opened evil rushed out of it like a gaping wound. It was bad before, it was awful afterwards, and I knew she wanted me to go in.
"Well come on necromancer, if you insist on doing things for me, lets get this done."
"I'm not going in there, whatever in the gods name is down there should remain down there." She stomped up to me and locked an arm around my neck and put a gun to my head.
"You will come in, or you will die, now follow me." I felt our relationship was really plummeting, like we started kind of poorly and it only got worse. Sadly this was a slope and we were at this point mid way down.
"This just doesn't make sense to me." I asked to see the map and she looked like I kicked her in a sore point.
"You do not need to see the map, if I need your help I'll ask for it, sit down and shut up." I was so angry at being treated like this, me of all people! She kept fudging with the door to whatever horror was down below that I eventually cut my own hand and threw blood on the door and spoke the words of sacrifice the door wanted. The stone locked back and opened immediately.
"There see all you needed was the ancient words and blood, good lord can we move on." She was elated, like gone was her anger from a moment ago and in its place was almost an orgasmic joy. I was really getting worried though, because when the door opened evil rushed out of it like a gaping wound. It was bad before, it was awful afterwards, and I knew she wanted me to go in.
"Well come on necromancer, if you insist on doing things for me, lets get this done."
"I'm not going in there, whatever in the gods name is down there should remain down there." She stomped up to me and locked an arm around my neck and put a gun to my head.
"You will come in, or you will die, now follow me." I felt our relationship was really plummeting, like we started kind of poorly and it only got worse. Sadly this was a slope and we were at this point mid way down.
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