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Post by Tikobe on Jun 3, 2017 20:01:46 GMT -4
"Pffft! Edgy little TFF, aren't we? You have a purpose to be here, and that is to play my game and earn your body back. I mean, I can't say I'm happy that you'd use a character from some nerd game for it, but that doesn't change the facts. Now chop chop! You can't rest here, that thing, I call it Jabberwocky N, will find you soon enough. You can rest soon after you reach the end of this. Well, I mean, you can't die, not permanently at least, but you can still feel the pain of dying, so this will help you get there."
Can't die? You didn't hear about this before.
A path that looks like a blue line appears before you. It leads some distance through the edge of the forest, just out the dragon's, Jabberwocky N's, sight.
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Post by official clown business on Jun 3, 2017 20:45:12 GMT -4
(Man, I sure wonder what little fagdick coined the term 'edgy' back then 'cause that word makes me feel stupider and stupider every time I hear it.)
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I need to doze off first. I need to spend the next hour or two resting and recovering before I keep going. I mean, I feel lucky the whole situation didn't cause me to go catatonic or something.
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 3, 2017 22:39:19 GMT -4
(No clue, but it sure is convenient!)
"Huh? Wait! What are you doing!? I just said that it's gonna find you!" O-Lord begins. "Oh well, you survived by some pretty ludicrous means. Kinda pissed me off a bit to be frankly honest. Okay! You'll learn that next time God grants you his favor, you accept it! Oh here dragon!"
The path disappears, and a gigantic blue arrow in the sky points straight down to you. Of course, it was clearly visible to the world for the dragon made a sound that even at your distance you could hear.
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Post by official clown business on Jun 3, 2017 23:49:29 GMT -4
Fine, be that way. Looks like it'll have to be enough of a rest this time around.
I'll walk in the direction of where I assume the path was. Actually no, I think a brisk jog would be best here. I'll be a little more careless this time around.
While I'm on the move, I'm going to Hocus Pocus a companion out of my hat so I can have someone or something to talk to. (Doesn't speak Abracadab this time.)
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 4, 2017 0:08:48 GMT -4
As you pull your gullible dwarven spellthief out of the hat, you hear giant wings flapping over you. The dragon roars and the trees glitch and turn into a hedgemaze with a clear overhead view for the dragon. He lands in front of you and the spellthief, anger in his eyes. Apparently this Jabberwocky N character knows how to hold a grudge. And apparently O-Lord has his arrow set to follow you.
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Post by official clown business on Jun 4, 2017 0:53:46 GMT -4
I grab the Dwarf by the shoulders, and in the most serious tone I can muster, go "You're the only hope for this world. But as long as we can still see you, everything is doomed." While he does that... hedge maze, huh? Sounds like a lack of solid walls to me, so I'm simply going to Fire Dash through as much hedge as I can, unless I can't for some reason which will cause me to just burn it and run instead. Whatever happens, this whelpling isn't going to kill shit this time around. |
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 4, 2017 1:04:54 GMT -4
The dwarf nods as you run off and charges. Jabberwocky N, clearly not seeing him as a threat, looks at you at the end of your row of fire and runs after you. With a body roughly the size of Castle Cyvler, it won't take long at all for him catch up.
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Post by official clown business on Jun 4, 2017 10:41:00 GMT -4
Alright, I got a plan this time. Here goes!I turn around, though I'm still taking back steps as I can't have this dragon catching up to me. I take a deck of cards out and perform a fancy midair shuffle, then pick out all the Aces and toss them into my hat. Alright, here we go. I'm going for the money! For my first spell, I use my hat. Mother's Hand and Mesmerize step up to the plate. Guess it'll be the second one then. For my second spell, I go to cast Polymorph, but Drain Magic EX is just a more interesting option here. And for my third spell, Mana Shield and Bathed in Lafeu come out of my hat. Well, I think it's a pretty easy choice. First thing I'm gonna do is release an arcane burst of magic with a flick of the wrist in an attempt to put the dragon into a trance, or at least throw it off guard. At this point, I've stopped moving, deciding now is the time to go on the attack. I'm gonna take my hand and throw a spell at the dragon, draining a little of whatever magical essence this monster has and also hitting it with a little wild magic. (I'll let you draw the random spell that hits this guy.) I take two steps forward, fairly confident that I have the potential to deal some damage in this fight, and pull another spell out of my hat, probably the best one I could hope for right now. A barrier of magic is going to envelop me, making it so I can't get hurt or die for the next several moments. Which is pretty important considering the situation I'm currently in. Let's see what the dragon can come up with.
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 4, 2017 16:08:44 GMT -4
Your mesmerize hits the dragon, causing it to blink and pause for one second, giving your Drain Magic, and your second Drain Magic you got cause of Encore (It confused me so I'm just gonna go with two Drains), to hit. However, the result of this is less than desirable. Jabberwocky N shrieks as if he's in severe pain after being hit by those. You feel a massive surge of energy that you drained from the dragon, however something is wrong with this. It feels as if it's very existence is unstable. You body begins to glitch, the parts of it changing into the parts of other things, dragons, bears, lion, and it didn't stop once. Your body keeps transforming, causing immeasurable pain to you. Your sight is block by a pop-up like that from a computer screen. Warning!
Virus Detected Jabberwocky N regains his bearing, and roars. Your shield begins to start glitching out. It transforms into a solid orb of earth, trapping you inside. |
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Post by official clown business on Jun 4, 2017 20:16:17 GMT -4
Well, that's hardly what I expected to happen. It's still going to shield me though, right?
Anyway, it seems I won't be able to do much until this issue is taking care of, and the words and weird transformation deal definitely freaked me out a little. Seemed like the adventure was making less and less sense as it went on.
Seems like the best course of action would be to fight through the pain as I prepare to react to whatever happens next. Which could be anything at this point. I'm still probably in pain, so I shouldn't be doing any thinking anyway.
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 4, 2017 21:39:47 GMT -4
As the pain and transformations continued, the shield began to crack at one point. After a bit, you can see a large object breaking through. Oh wait, that was the dragon's claw. It's trying to crush you while it still has you trapped.
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Post by official clown business on Jun 5, 2017 2:30:49 GMT -4
Well, I'm currently in this situation where casting a random spell now poses the significant risk of either doing nothing or blowing myself up somehow. This fucked up shield doesn't help me in any way.
Literally my only option is to just let the shield break and then become a Flock of Ravens in that same moment so I'll hopefully get lucky and escape all over again. There are trees and hedges after all. It's not that hard for five ravens to hide in some trees.
I'm currently enduring some painful transformations right now so I don't think it'll be that big of a deal if I transformed again. That tends to work quite well, from what I've found.
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 5, 2017 2:53:10 GMT -4
All of a sudden the nail stops, and then Jabberwocky N pulls it out. You have a very small hole to see out of, and through it, you can see the dragon curling up it's fist, all of a sudden bringing it down to you like a hammer. The shield which trapped you was cracked all over, and wouldn't stand much pressure, and while you can never be sure, it's not hard to guess that being hit with a fist that big with that amount of strength you would expect a castle-sized dragon to have would, at the very least, be as much force as being hit by a car. The shield would break and the amount of time you would have to escape, after being trapped in an orb made out of solid earth, would not be enough time to escape. The claw left a hole just barely large enough for one raven to escape, but the speed of the incoming fist left very little, if any, of a window to escape with, and that was assuming that the virus which had infected you didn't transfer onto the ravens. After all, it was probably brought on because you absorbed the energy of Jabberwocky N, and therefore it could be said that is tied to the energy you had stolen from him.
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Post by official clown business on Jun 5, 2017 12:09:35 GMT -4
Ok. Jeez. I didn't know spells could do that. I guess I should've been a Spellthief instead.
Anyways, that's the plan. I'm going to transform into a Flock of Ravens and try to get out. I'll make sure to rush the hole with my palm extended as well, that might make things easier.
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 5, 2017 13:59:23 GMT -4
You cast Flock of Ravens and... The spell glitches and turns your shield in ravens, as well as the surrounding grass and a few large rocks. Not like it would've matter, for most of them couldn't fly fast enough to escape the dragon's fist, leading them to be crushed with you.
You wake up in complete darkness. A look at your body would reveal a black silhouette with a white outline. In front of you was O-Lord, as well as many screens with views of different areas in what you could assume to be Thesland. They all had the following on their screens: Error! O-Lord snickers as you wake up. "I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. You were so weak and miserable and you abandoned your friends, thought it was only appropriate to be killed by Jabberwocky N as well. Besides, I needed to test the respawn system anyways. That dragon broke the original so the new one should probably have a test run. Figured that if it fails and you're actually permanently dead, that would actually be better for me." |
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Post by official clown business on Jun 5, 2017 16:44:17 GMT -4
"I would've died either way," I respond, since I'm dead and I don't really care how the afterlife judges me at this point. "I simply knew when to consider my life over those of the others when it came down to it. Go ahead and judge me all you like. You probably would've done the same thing if you were there yourself."
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 5, 2017 17:01:07 GMT -4
"Pffft! If I was there? I am a god! Hubris has always been mankind's downfall so don't say you're as good as a divine being. The fact stands that if it you weren't here I could've erased that thing's existence, but I, the Great O-Lord, has decided to show mercy on your soul and find a solution that would benefit you. You see, that thing, it isn't supposed to exist. Jabberwocky N is a virus in the game, and the only surefire way to remove is to reboot the world. Problem? Your soul isn't tied to a body anymore. You possess one, yes, but if it dies, you don't. The lack of a connection to a material world means that if I reboot it, however, your soul is ejected into the void, which is so big I'd never be able to find you and pull you out of it. It's dark, cold, endless and empty in there, and since you can't die as a soul, there'd be no afterlife. For eternity you'd be alone in conditions that are worse than hell. But look at me! I'm the one who's trying to make that not happen. So where is my appreciation? Huh? Huh!?"
It seems O-Lord's been butt hurt.
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Post by official clown business on Jun 5, 2017 23:32:32 GMT -4
I must've rolled my eyes at least twice during this speech.
"Appreciation? Based on everything that's happened so far, I think I'm going to be a little behind on that one for a while. Sounds like you really want me to take care of this problem for you, though."
Ah, yes. That problem. The problem that, up until now, I had no reason to see as anything other than an attempt by O-Lord to sate his thirst for blood. That problem, huh? Well, it's not like I have anything better to do right now.
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 6, 2017 0:06:13 GMT -4
"Actually, no. I don't want you to do anything. I can't actually get you out of here until Jabberwocky N and a small army of other viruses he made are all killed. However, he broke the 'Quit Game' function, as well as leveling and loot and the original respawn system. In other words, you can't leave, not until you complete the game, or as close as your gonna get to it's completion with what just happened. So yeah, you have to finish the game and wait until all of the viruses are killed to exit, and then when you're gone, I get to reset the world and fix everything. However, you've shown yourself to be pathetic, so I will kill the viruses. You can just sit down and watch as it all happens, or just try to kill them yourself and waddle around in your misery. Now, I'd love to talk more, but your new body is finished. Ready to leave?"
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Post by official clown business on Jun 6, 2017 0:58:55 GMT -4
Hey man I can't help it if random bullshit happens whenever I actually attempt to do something cool. Anyway, that's enough time wasted here.
"Yeah, I'm ready to go. Next time, let's skip this part."
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 6, 2017 14:19:07 GMT -4
"Very well then. It seems you didn't learn your lesson about being grateful for a god's favor."
"H- Hey! Wake up!"
You open your eyes. It's blurry but you can tell your at the edge of a forest. Not the forest near Rembes either, the surrounding terrain was far to different. In the distance you could see a city. It looked like a speck of dust from your location, but you can tell it's very large, perhaps even larger than Rembes.
There was a man kneeling next to you. He looks familiar... Wait a minute, that's Ethan, the knight that Baron Cyvler was talking with when you met him.
"Oh, thank the Light you're up. I was getting worried," he says in relief.
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Post by official clown business on Jun 6, 2017 15:34:39 GMT -4
Another day, another adventure. Hopefully a more sedate adventure this time. Better figure this part out before I start taking everything in.
"Hey," I say to Ethan as I start getting up onto my feet. "Any idea how long I was out for?"
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 6, 2017 16:38:37 GMT -4
"No clue," he says, "I just found you a few minutes ago. Couldn't remember your name but I remembered seeing you in Rembes so I came over to make sure you hadn't collapsed out of fatigue. If I had to guess though, you might've been out for some odd number of minutes, maybe a couple of hours. After all, it takes almost a week to get here on foot and I had a running start and a horse which only takes three days to arrive if you have a good breed so I'm trying to figure out how you got this far before me. By the way, my name is Sir Therius. I know it might have been rude to forget yours but may I ask for it again?"
Sir Therius? Perhaps he was addressing himself just like Sir Cauthrien, who went by a title and his last name over his first name, which was Selfer.
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Post by official clown business on Jun 6, 2017 18:47:21 GMT -4
"The name's Zynna. I don't think we really talked to each other, so don't worry about that. As for how I got here, I simply got a head start like you did. And, like any respectable magician," I say as I grab my hat, casually waving it around, "I've got plenty of tricks and methods when it comes from going place to place." |
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Post by Tikobe on Jun 6, 2017 19:19:16 GMT -4
"Magician? I'll just assume you're a mage of some sort," Sir Therius sighs as he sits down. He whistles and a grey horse starts approaching. You notice it came from a road that led to the city.
"I'm just glad I met another survivor of Rembes near here. I was already out of the city but I saw the sky turn to night and I ran back just to see that... thing. The Adventurer's Guild is calling it Suskethmos, the 'mysterious Great Dragon,' but I've never seen any dragon like that, even from the lesser breeds. I was able to meet the remainder of the Cyvlers, though. They sent me on ahead because of some matters that they needed to sort out, like succession. That reminds me, you were with the Baron for a bit? Would you know that happened to the Baron? It'd help out the family if they knew whether or not they need to appoint Kellius's successor before they entered Leusken."
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