Post by Beets The Beetle (Feenix) on Apr 9, 2024 7:53:44 GMT
PART 1
“W-wait…So-you went to a space casino?!”
“Hold on Jer you’re skipping ahead!-Beets I-I still don’t understand how this relates to Dwirhian and Sergeant Derthaad.”
“It will Gary! So, after helping my friends Dwirhian and Derthaad previously with investigating the reason behind the ‘mysterious disappearance’ of the town of Serpent’s Spine, Dwirhian said they had gotten a message from their dad saying we had to go find some piece of a ‘sundial’ that had been blasted into the Sunset Spines during the whole ‘disappearing’ of the village. We eventually found it lodged in the slide of a cliff and with a little ‘magical-lubrication’ we manage to pull out the gnomon.”
"A gnome-man? Is that what gnomes call their snowmen?"
“No Jer, a gno-mon. It’s the pointy blade-like bit on a sundial, like an early version of a hand on a clock face.”
“How do you know that Ga?”
“I read books when you guys are out delivering sometimes, we have tons lying around in here. So go on Beets you were saying?”
“R-right the gnome-man heh. Well it gets a bit magically and religious’y here-neither of my strong suits-but Glint and Derthaad suggested how gnomon was part of a bigger device-I mean it was the size of a giant’s spear head-one that that ‘bad’ science/wizard dabbler Zhilil had used to unwillingly bind the power of two gods, Primus and Tiamat. But all his playing around eventually went wrong-big boom wrong-and also really pissed the gods off, so now along with being stuck, Primus started slowly copperizing some of the villagers into statues as punishment.
The magic users in our party then started doing their own experiments casting magic at the gnomon and watching how it reacted to their spells. All very pretty in a likely very hazardous kinda way, till Felix said it was all still pretty confusing, and suggested we should just take the thing to the Serpent Side, wave it about it a bit and see if we if we could split the magic and get them home. Still following?”
“Uhh..”
“So we ‘warp’ to the village like last time and go to Dwirhian’s Dad’s worksho/windmill-windshop-me carrying the gnomonie. Poor Dwirhian wasn’t feeling too great, very confused, especially with their Dad mixed up in the whole thing-they had a quick chat outside with Derthaad who’s of course got a lot of emotional-investment given what happened during the build up to the village’s situation with their squad and all. Suliol-Dwirhian’s Dad came down at started asking about the thing, being..particularly a bit more of a prick than usual-we were all talking in each other’s minds then.”
“As ya do…”
“Sssh Jer! Listen.”
“Dwirhian’s Dad was all over the place trying to be apologetic the last time we met him, but this time he was..well…Just cold…Something stunk, and in reading his mind Dwirhian realised Suliol was infact bad-guy Zhilil-in disguise-who ordered us all to be killed declaring he would be ‘The Lord Of Time.’"
“A Time-Lord?”
“No-‘The Lord Of Time’ she said.”
“Then things got a bit weird where he kinda skipped time back a bit, and then all the wizards did that thing where it looks like they’re gonna cast a spell but another blocks one then another blocks another…so on and so on…Like they’re playing some game of mental O’s and X’s. It was really confusing…Oh so we all got hit with lightning and Zhilil sent some of the guards after me, and I…”
“Beetled-up and totally wrecked them?!”
“Well actually I took the gnomon I was holding-and started sorta hitting them with it.”
“Dude-thats buggin’awesome!”
“Beets, You took the really important-‘potentially village-saving thing', and started ‘hitting’ guards with it?”
“Hey I panicked okay! Dwirhian said a lot of people in the village were innocent and to try not to actually kill or hurt them, except Derthaad literally vaporised two into dust-that might of counted as ‘killing’ them.”
“Sick…”
“Well Zhilil caused it, being all evil monologgy, bringing up Derthaad’s dead squad and all, telling him how he was gonna kill all of us in front of him too. He kept blasting me with lighting whilst his goons were trying to pull the gnomon off me. Let me tell ya holding onto a bit lump of metal whilst being electrocuted over and over again Not-fun!”
“And then?”
“W-well I kinda got a bit pissed off about Zhilil’s low-blow about Derthaad’s squad- kinda sorta killed a guard with my mandibles-then went up to him raging and would’ve totally ended him myself if Dwirhian hadn’t knocked him the bug-out!
We then found Dwirhian’s dad sitting trussed up in a cupboard- just like we had just done to Zhilil-who had been using him to double check his crazy works whilst he posed as Dwirhian’s dad. Then there was a big explosion in the nearby temple where apparently the rest of the ‘sun-dial’ machine thing was being kept and has been rigged to explode if Zhilil didn’t get his way.
Quite buggin’frankly it seemed like we were gonna be stuck their for a flittin’heck of a long time if they had to rebuilt it. But then emerging out of two ‘suddenly-portals’, a big metal lump with eyes and a black five-winged dragon-born appeared…
Bug am I hungry…Think I’ll head to Paradise-Frost and see what they’ve got on offer lunch.”
"W-wait! You can’t leave us hanging there!!-Who were the dudes Beets?!”
“B-beets! P-please s-stay and finish the story-I-I-can make ya something for lunch!!”
“O-ooo, well t-thats really flittin’temptng of ya Gary! B-but I could use the flight to stretch my wings anyway! See ya both in a bit!”
*Wing drones that fade away.*
“Gary-man! You scared her with ya offer of lunch!”
“W-what? Nooo!! E-everyone likes my cooking! Come-on ya can help me get it ready.”
“What is it?"
“Roast cabbage and left over chilli-bean soup, found some funky looking gooey mushrooms growing in one of our window boxes, so I added those in too.”
“S-sounds..great!…Eck..”
END OF PART 1
“W-wait…So-you went to a space casino?!”
“Hold on Jer you’re skipping ahead!-Beets I-I still don’t understand how this relates to Dwirhian and Sergeant Derthaad.”
“It will Gary! So, after helping my friends Dwirhian and Derthaad previously with investigating the reason behind the ‘mysterious disappearance’ of the town of Serpent’s Spine, Dwirhian said they had gotten a message from their dad saying we had to go find some piece of a ‘sundial’ that had been blasted into the Sunset Spines during the whole ‘disappearing’ of the village. We eventually found it lodged in the slide of a cliff and with a little ‘magical-lubrication’ we manage to pull out the gnomon.”
"A gnome-man? Is that what gnomes call their snowmen?"
“No Jer, a gno-mon. It’s the pointy blade-like bit on a sundial, like an early version of a hand on a clock face.”
“How do you know that Ga?”
“I read books when you guys are out delivering sometimes, we have tons lying around in here. So go on Beets you were saying?”
“R-right the gnome-man heh. Well it gets a bit magically and religious’y here-neither of my strong suits-but Glint and Derthaad suggested how gnomon was part of a bigger device-I mean it was the size of a giant’s spear head-one that that ‘bad’ science/wizard dabbler Zhilil had used to unwillingly bind the power of two gods, Primus and Tiamat. But all his playing around eventually went wrong-big boom wrong-and also really pissed the gods off, so now along with being stuck, Primus started slowly copperizing some of the villagers into statues as punishment.
The magic users in our party then started doing their own experiments casting magic at the gnomon and watching how it reacted to their spells. All very pretty in a likely very hazardous kinda way, till Felix said it was all still pretty confusing, and suggested we should just take the thing to the Serpent Side, wave it about it a bit and see if we if we could split the magic and get them home. Still following?”
“Uhh..”
“So we ‘warp’ to the village like last time and go to Dwirhian’s Dad’s worksho/windmill-windshop-me carrying the gnomonie. Poor Dwirhian wasn’t feeling too great, very confused, especially with their Dad mixed up in the whole thing-they had a quick chat outside with Derthaad who’s of course got a lot of emotional-investment given what happened during the build up to the village’s situation with their squad and all. Suliol-Dwirhian’s Dad came down at started asking about the thing, being..particularly a bit more of a prick than usual-we were all talking in each other’s minds then.”
“As ya do…”
“Sssh Jer! Listen.”
“Dwirhian’s Dad was all over the place trying to be apologetic the last time we met him, but this time he was..well…Just cold…Something stunk, and in reading his mind Dwirhian realised Suliol was infact bad-guy Zhilil-in disguise-who ordered us all to be killed declaring he would be ‘The Lord Of Time.’"
“A Time-Lord?”
“No-‘The Lord Of Time’ she said.”
“Then things got a bit weird where he kinda skipped time back a bit, and then all the wizards did that thing where it looks like they’re gonna cast a spell but another blocks one then another blocks another…so on and so on…Like they’re playing some game of mental O’s and X’s. It was really confusing…Oh so we all got hit with lightning and Zhilil sent some of the guards after me, and I…”
“Beetled-up and totally wrecked them?!”
“Well actually I took the gnomon I was holding-and started sorta hitting them with it.”
“Dude-thats buggin’awesome!”
“Beets, You took the really important-‘potentially village-saving thing', and started ‘hitting’ guards with it?”
“Hey I panicked okay! Dwirhian said a lot of people in the village were innocent and to try not to actually kill or hurt them, except Derthaad literally vaporised two into dust-that might of counted as ‘killing’ them.”
“Sick…”
“Well Zhilil caused it, being all evil monologgy, bringing up Derthaad’s dead squad and all, telling him how he was gonna kill all of us in front of him too. He kept blasting me with lighting whilst his goons were trying to pull the gnomon off me. Let me tell ya holding onto a bit lump of metal whilst being electrocuted over and over again Not-fun!”
“And then?”
“W-well I kinda got a bit pissed off about Zhilil’s low-blow about Derthaad’s squad- kinda sorta killed a guard with my mandibles-then went up to him raging and would’ve totally ended him myself if Dwirhian hadn’t knocked him the bug-out!
We then found Dwirhian’s dad sitting trussed up in a cupboard- just like we had just done to Zhilil-who had been using him to double check his crazy works whilst he posed as Dwirhian’s dad. Then there was a big explosion in the nearby temple where apparently the rest of the ‘sun-dial’ machine thing was being kept and has been rigged to explode if Zhilil didn’t get his way.
Quite buggin’frankly it seemed like we were gonna be stuck their for a flittin’heck of a long time if they had to rebuilt it. But then emerging out of two ‘suddenly-portals’, a big metal lump with eyes and a black five-winged dragon-born appeared…
Bug am I hungry…Think I’ll head to Paradise-Frost and see what they’ve got on offer lunch.”
"W-wait! You can’t leave us hanging there!!-Who were the dudes Beets?!”
“B-beets! P-please s-stay and finish the story-I-I-can make ya something for lunch!!”
“O-ooo, well t-thats really flittin’temptng of ya Gary! B-but I could use the flight to stretch my wings anyway! See ya both in a bit!”
*Wing drones that fade away.*
“Gary-man! You scared her with ya offer of lunch!”
“W-what? Nooo!! E-everyone likes my cooking! Come-on ya can help me get it ready.”
“What is it?"
“Roast cabbage and left over chilli-bean soup, found some funky looking gooey mushrooms growing in one of our window boxes, so I added those in too.”
“S-sounds..great!…Eck..”
END OF PART 1