Fun Game no. 2

[Dogmeat]

We tell a story, line by line, each new post continuing the story after the last one, one sentence at a time.

I'll start.

A long time ago, in a kingdom far far away

(*cough* Starwarsripoff *cough*)

[Xylenix]

A wandering singer/warrior, Xylenix (sorry couldn't help it) was looking for a place to stay for a while...

[Dravlon]

he finaly made it to an inn and.....

[Morte]

much to his horror and surprise he saw...

[Wrentia]

that the inn was closed! He also noticed that...

-Wrentia

[George]

There was a sign hanging on the door that read " Out of Business by Decree of the Imperial Tax Collection Agency", and if that wasn't bad enough he saw that a dark shape was approaching rapidly on the horizon....

[UBIK]

"oh my god!" he screamed, the sun turned black...

[Morte]

before his eyes, and he felt himself slipping away. Hours later, when he awoke...

[BelDragos]

... he discovered to his dismay that some Necromancer switched his arms and legs. He was stuck in a mutilated shell of a body...

[Indigo]

Dismayed he began to wonder just how he was going to get out of this one, just then...

[Slitherrr]

He realized that Xylenix is actually a she, and that throughout this entire adventure she was living out a fantasy in which she wanted to be male for some ungodly reasoning which would require a psychic probe and a lot of axle grease to discover the underlying cause of. It was then that she stopped leaning on her shovel and once again began her work moving manure from one part of the stables to another, when suddenly...

[Dogmeat]

She stepped in something...Something EVIL!....

[Edited by Dogmeat on 02-27-2001 at 09:51 PM]

[UBIK]

but then she realized she was realy a man dreaming about being a woman being a man!

[Indigo]

as he/she pulled his/her (make up yer mind) foot out of the evil goo a knight on a jet black horse rode up and said..

[Wrentia]

Hi Toots! Meanwhile, down at the nearby temple, UBIK heard...

-Wrentia

[Morte]

a horrid gurgling sound. Upon closer investigation, it appeared to be...

[Dogmeat]

Dogmeat, foaming at the mouth, after being bitten by a rabid squirrel....

[Xylenix]

Xylenix came down to the nearby temple (after finally straigtening out the whole fact that she is (in fact) a she and never has or ever will dream about being a man, or being a man dreaming about being a woman dreaming about being a man etc.) to come to dogmeat's aid, when suddenly...

[Kintoun]

Kintoun came shuffling down the temple steps to greet Xylenix. "Hahahaha no wonder everyone was confused about your gender! Your the striking resemblence of a man!", exclaimed Kintoun as he pointed a finger at her/him/it.

"Ahem, excuse me... it's not my place to judge your sex, after all it's the 1400's! But I must ask of you. May I join you on your journey? You see I have been tossed out of my temple just now for...

[Morte]

gross negligence and stealing temple funds. I have to repent my sins by getting killed in a horrid fashion, and therefore set out to adventure. Although I lack usefull skills and have misplaced the money I stole, I am a usefull addition to any party. And so Kintoun the fraudulent quack set out to fulfill the bidding of his god. Shortly thereafter...

[Kintoun]

...a skull came rolling down the path. Kintoun decided this would be about a good time to play soccer with Xylenix. After hours of fun and games (and a beat up skull), Kintoun and Xylenix sat down under a nearby tree with their skull to have a rest. Suddenly the skull began to quiver, and started to speak, "Ooooh you have roused the fury of the Harbinger of Entropy!" Bewildered Kintoun tossed the skull away from him.
"It.. it spoke!", screamed Xylenix.
After many many threats by the skull (but nothing really became of them) the gang got around to talking and found out quite a bit in common with each other. The soccer ball was named Morte, and if one could see through his idle threats, he really wasn't that bad of a skull. They all finally concluded that they would join and travel with Xylenix in her/his/it quest for...

[UBIK]

meanwhile, Arch-Bishop-to-be Ubik was confused about the gurgling, when he decided just to ignore it and get back to his books....

[Kintoun]

Kintoun wrote: "They all finally concluded that they would join and travel with Xylenix in her/his/it quest for..."

Ubik wrote: "meanwhile, Arch-Bishop-to-be Ubik was confused about the gurgling, when he decided just to ignore it and get back to his books...."

BAD BAD Ubik! You messed up the flow!

[Xylenix]

quest for clarity (everone knowing that Xylenix is in fact a she. Not a he or it.) The small group continues along the path, Kintoun still kicking Morte along....

[Kymeri mac An Iolar]

when on the path before them appears a globe of softly glowing light. A voice from within said if your seeking clarity you must seek out the God of Knowlegde and Wisdom, he will help you along your path... and then the light drifted up an up until out of sight.

[Xylenix]

so Kintoun queries about the obvious- "Who the hell is the god of Knowledge and Wisdom???" "And what was that funny glowy ball thingy... I want one!!" Xylenix adds. "Well, there's one way to find out... If Kintoun could stop kicking me, I could see further down the path..." Morte suggests. "I've got a better idea!" Xylenix states. So she picks up Morte and throws him high into the air, so he has a better vantage point. "Woah!!" he yells down "there's a....

[Morte]

large fireball about to disintegrate Kintoun. And with those words Morte releases a fireball and floats away, chuckling. Meanwhile, Kintoun, seeing a large fireball rapidly advancing upon him...

[Kintoun]

is completly oblivious to whats going on since he saw that wonderful light... and gets blasted to a crisp! "Owie!", says a pile of ash with 2 eyes on it. The light floating upwards stopped for a sec, turned back and in a flash the pile of ash turned back into Kintoun. "Sigh, come now follow me!", said the light. "Wait wait!", Kintoun yelled, "At least tell us your name, and where we are going!" "My name is Kymeri, and we are headed towards..."

[Slitherrr]

..But before she could answer, the light disappeard with a disappointing *plop* and a few muttered curses. A monk wandering from the monastery to the south happened to notice this and glanced at them (including the pink-headed one that was OBVIOUSLY a female from the start) just at the moment when Morte's spell of levitation ran out, placing the battered skull on the monk's shoulder. "Ahh, that isss where you have been, you rassscal!" said the reptillian monk. "But who are thessse people you have found?"

[Morte]

Slowly drifting to the monk's shoulder, Morte said: Those are two unsuspecting travelers, my reptillian friend. They think the glowing sphere I summoned was send by a benevolent god, and they are now seeking the God of Knowledge and Wisdom. Settling in a comfortable position on the monks shoulder, he asked: Now what shall we do with them?

[Indigo]

Just then a clearly rattled Indigo rides up on a brown horse... she yells a warning caught by the wind and rides on close behind her comes...

[BelDragos]

...Cerebus on a hunt. He catches sight of his old playtoy and forgets about his quarry and leaps on Slitherrr in an attempt to get at Morte.

[Morte]

With a glare from Morte, Cerebus evaporates into thin air, its wail still hanging in the air. While Slitherrr cleanses the filth the late hellhound left on him, the new arrival comes to a halt near a terrified Kintoun. As the dust settles,...

[Kintoun]

(man! Why am I the one always vicitimzed, and getting beat up by Morte? <sigh> o well =/ )

...Kintoun stumbles for words, "Umm.. eh.. err, heh hi there! You two seem to know each other well. May I ask that you two would join us? And you there, riding the horse, what brings you here? We are in a search for the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, would you also join us?"

Kintoun thinks to himself, hmm how odd for so many stange people to meet in one place... this must be fate!

[Morte]

As Morte watches the conversation with the new arrival, who upon inquiry introduces herself as Indigo, a strange new emotion comes over him. Inspired by his recent contact with the goddess of Light he experiences benevolence. Acting on this impulse he contacts Kymeri to grant Kintoun the healing powers he deserves. As a radiant beam of light descends upon Kintoun, Morte feels strangely content. As the beam of light fades, a new and improved Kintoun is revealed. In the meantime...

[Kintoun]

...Kintoun and Morte walk off ahead of the pack deep in conversation, enjoying themselves immensly.

The others agreing that they would join forces hasten their pace to keep up with Kintoun and Morte. Indigo quick on the gallop catches up to overhear Kintoun say, "Aye Morte! This will be the beggining of a GREAT friendship indeed! We were so swept up in judging each other that we never realized very much about each other."

So off deeper into the mountains the small band travelled to...

[Xylenix]

a large city just down the path. While walking through the city, they all meet a man, dressed in what looked like a bed sheet toga. "Umm, who exactly are you supposed to be??" Indigo queries "Who am I? Who AM I? I'm am ONLY Romulus, founder of this fair city, Rome! So I believe the only question left to be asked is: Who are you??" the toga wearing man replies. The group of travellers introduces themselves one by one.... "So what exactly are all these names supposed to mean to me?? You are all just strangers in my town. So you have two choices. You can pay me 500 gold, or you can fight, in our Arena." The party all checked their pockets and assorted sachels, but low and behold, the 500 gold just didn't appear....

[Slitherrr]

The monk gathered the ashes with the two disembodied eyes into a sack. "You will come with usss to the monasstery, yess? Your friend here isss in need of help... And perhapss my Brotherss can allow you ssome assssisstance in your journey." He rose, brushing the remaining ash from his hands into the bag. "Well?"

[Indigo]

indigo smiles and wonders how come anyone would want a bag full of eyes and ashes but she shrugs and continues on to the city wondering why everyone is still wandering around chatting while the red dragon destroys the city..

[BelDragos]

As she approached the torn city gates she realized what everyone was doing acting like a chaotic mess.
The Dragon was not in sight!!!

The noise and ruckus they were making lured the dragon from the city so the battered survivors could be led to safety by Indigo.

Everyone was battling the Ancient Wurm as Kintoun, the Prime Healer was keeping the others alive aided by Morte's floating skull who applied his Entropic abilities to deflect the attacks away from Kintoun.

As the last survivors were led from the ruined husk of a city...

[Edited by BelDragos on 03-07-2001 at 01:15 AM]

[Kintoun]

...the battle against the great dragon ensued! (anyone know where this dragon came from anyways? =/ )

The dragon was a huge beast who was tearing the village apart with the flow of flame from its mouth. Morte summoned up Cerebus, his newly charmed hell-born aid, and sent the dog howling towards the great Dragon as a distraction. Slitherrr seeing his opportunity dashed towards the dragon slamming upon his right leg's pressure point. The dragon breathing flames, which to his surprise were ineffectual, towards Cerebus reeled in sudden shock and pain from Slitherrr's blow. "How could THEY even hurt me!" thought the dragon. In retaliation the dragon swung it's massive tail, glancing Slitherrr in mid-dodge, but sending him flying from the blow. But then suddenly, the same glowing ball from before appeared and flashed bright for a split second, and Slitherrr's flying body seemed to stop in mid air gently, and came to ground with a rest. Kintoun rushed to Slitherrr's side checking for wounds. But Slitherrr was much more hardy than that...
The dragon let loose a huge bellow and began his charge upon the party, but a small darkness covered the feet around the dragon slowly. Morte was casting an entanglement spell! The dragon was stopped dead in it's tracks. A small light appeared very high in the sky above the dragon. As it became larger and larger, seemingly falling towards the dragon, the party realized that it was Xylenix! With a powerful downward thrust, Xylenix plunged her sword deep into the back of the dragon, blood staining Xylenix's brightly lit sword. The dragon in a scream of pain, rasied its hand to bat Xylenix off his back. Galloping was heard behind the group as they turned to see Indigo returning, charging fast and chanting a spell, sword drawn. Upon completion of the spell, Indigo's sword magically flew from her hands, penetrating the dragon's massive rasied hand, and pinning it to its own body. By now Cerebus was at the neck of the dragon laying on its side unable to stand anymore. Kintoun chanting words and making sharp hand gestures, flung his hands in the direction of the dragon, and large arches fell from the heavens and covered the dragon restricting all its movement.
With the dragon wounded, immobile, and grossly outmatched, the group approached the once great dragon and asked it this, "...

[BelDragos]

"You are old and wise. If you want to survive, you must tell us where we can find the way to the God of Knowledge and Wisdom"

[Indigo]

Indigo thinks about the foolhardyness of having wonderfully a one track mind as the dragon...

[Xylenix]

As the dragon speaks, everyone freezes, to hear what he has to say.... "The God of light and wisdom-" he began, tension rising... "can be-" but then suddenly in a bright hot flash of light the dragon disintegrated. The party was shocked. "Well," says Kintoun "now what should we-" but he was cut off be the sudden......

[Edited by Xylenix on 03-15-2001 at 08:55 AM]

[BelDragos]

...trembling of the ground as the earth shook. Fissures opened at their feet and they fell to their knees. The mountain they were standing upon rose into the air and began drifting away from the ruined city. As the wind pushed them towards the sea a star began to shine brightly upon the horizon. In a shaky voice someone said"...."

[Slitherrr]

"I think we sshould go back to the monassstery now, what ssay you, Morte?"

[Xylenix]

"But I don't want to go to the monastery anymore" Morte replies. "There's more good out there to be done, I just have to find it." Slitherr, not taking this little rebellion kindly.....

[Morte]

but trusting that Morte had good reason to make this for him very unusual statement, did not pursue the matter. Morte suddenly masked his presence, and when a glowing light appeared, he understood why. The light intensified and...

[Dravlon]

"poof"
They were all taken to another world and....

[Indigo]

the mountain they were floating on poofed out from under them.. Indigo sure hoped the party knew how to fly but soon found that they were in the plane of air, where there is no such thing as down so the party began to...

[BelDragos]

...try to get their bearings, they heard the voice of the dragon.

"To find the way to the God of Wisdom and Knowledge you must first collect all four of fragments the Elemental Heart. There is one here in the Domain of Air guarded by Yan-C-Bin, the ruler of All Air Elementals. Imix has one in the Domain of Flame, Olhydra has hers in the Domain of Oceanus and Ogremoch has his hidden in the Domain of Granite.

Beware for their brother Cryonax will try to get the fragments for himself for he believes that He should have a domain for his own. He believes that with the four fragments joined together he can reshape the Prime Material Plane as his own for all the cold creatures he rules over.

Once you get the peices of the Heart take them to the center of creation and assemble them. A way will be shown to you if you are worthy."

They were then left alone to find their fate.

[Morte]

Morte sighs, wondering why he ever joined this damn expedition in the first place. The insolence of that Cryonax was astounding, but that would have to be dealt with later. He had good reason to be here, and he didn't want to kill people that didn't need to die yet. Venting his frustration on a nearby Air elemental, he settled on Slitherrr's shoulder. The party set off...

[Slitherrr]

...to find Yan-C-Bin. It was difficult at first learning how to move in the open air...

"Maybe if I push off this..."
"Hey, get your finger our of my eye!"
"Look, we're floating!"
"Ssstop pusshing!"
"Foolish mortals! Harbingers of Entropy such as myself merely need to think to go in a direction!"

...but they got it figured out, and set off in what looked like a likely direction. They tried many of the elemental gatherings, asking for information in a language of gusts and moans, until they came to...

[Indigo]

A place where the air swirled the clouds into a castle rising above a thunderstorm. The party noticed that...

[Kintoun]

(man is it just me or does this story just have too many plot changes in it to be any good? Can we all calm down with the severe changes and just stick to what we have going here, might turn out to be interesting)

...this must be the castle of Yan-C-Bin. Upon reaching the castle in somewhat of an awkward way, the party was met at the door by a servant. The servant spoke to the party saying how the residence was actually the home of Zan-C-Guh, kind heir to the throne of his father, Yan-C-Bin. The party asked if they could be taken to speak with Zan-C-Guh, knowing of his out-of-place benevolence, in order to locate and gain more info on his tyrant father. The servant spoke in return saying...

[BelDragos]

"The Lord of Zethers will be able to see you but first you must purify yourself so as not to desicrate the Holy Presence of Zan-C-Guh."

Everyone looks around and notices the scorch marks and blood from their last battle and realized how shabby they must appear.

With a gesture the Senchal summons a number of aerial servents who cleaned and polished the entire troop from head to toes(for those who have toes). He then led them through the immense Palace to the throne room doors.

Upon opening the doors the gang saw...

[Kintoun]

...a great dining hall with a long table rich with gold and food fit for a god. At the end of the table the group saw a man dressed in fine clothing, holding a wine glass. The man began to speak, "Welcome travellers. I have been expecting you...". "Zan-C-Guh..?", a few from the group spoke. "Your reputations preceed you all", said Zan-C-Guh as he gestured toward Kintoun. "You for instance, Prime Healer Kintoun, High Priest of the great Kymeri, and Arch-Bishop to Morte, Habinger of Entropy. And the finest healer who walks on this earth. Orphan who was adopted by the previous Prime Healer Nicolaus D. Wolfwood. Previous to that your history is unknown, even to yourself..."
Kintoun gaped in awe as the rest of his doings and life experiences were listed before him.
"And you...", Zan-C-Guh said as he pointed towards...

[Morte]

Morte, who now appeared to have a solid body and was clad in pitch black flowing robes. His face was still a skull, with burning fires where his eyes would have been. "You are the famed Necromancer Moridin, originating from the portal city Sigil, and responsible for setting off the Blood Wars. The rest of your past is unknown." As Zan-C-Guh tried to probe more into Morte's brain where futile, he turned to someone else. Morte laughed silently it his deception. All of his party saw him as Moridin now, not remembering anything about a floating skull. Zan-C-Guh turned to the person standing behind him, and spoke...

[BelDragos]

"And you are Kintoun. The Fates seem to favor you. Yhey speak highly about..." He was interupted by a Djinni hurridly aproaching him, speaking in his ear, and abruptly dissappearing.

"I must cut this short for my Father approaches. From the reports I just received he is in a foul mood. You will be shown to your rooms where you must stay for your own safety until I send for you."

After you are shown to your rooms and given food and drink...

[Dravlon]

Then suddenly out of the shadows popped out Dravlon wanting to know if he can join with the group to help him find his place in life.

[Xylenix]

Two or three people jumped at the sight of Dravlon suddenly apparating out of the shadows, but Xlyenix stepped forward and said "Sure, I don't see why not," gesturing at the colourful group "these people saw fit to trekk along with us!! Hey Kintoun, remember when it was just you and me, walking along playing soccer??" "Yeah, with me as the ball" Morte interjected... Then un unexpected, seemingly bodyless voice said "......

[Kintoun]

"I believe it is time for you all to turn in." It was the Djinni from before, sticking his head thru the crack in the door.

Upon hearing this the party separated by gender (and skulls) off to their rooms.

Later in the guys room Kintoun glided up to the beams high above the room to rest peacefully. Morte followed suit and floated up to an adjacent beam next to his brother.

Meanwhile...

[Dravlon]

in the room with Morte he is floating there doing nothing. Then he decides to go out to visit the other party members and realizes the door was magically locked and there was no way out. The next thing you know........

[Morte]

He blasts a hole in the wall, forms a body, and continues on his way. He is tempted to find out why they locked him in, but decides against it as it might reveal is real identity. As he rejoins his other party members,...

[Kintoun]

...Morte decides that he better go check on the girls since something suspicious was goin on. Morte levitated down the hall towards the womans room being ever so silent. As Morte cracked open the door and peered thru he decided to throw open the door and take charge of the situation.

Suddenly one of the girls screamed! The last thing Morte saw was a pillow being thrown his way from one of the girls, and she yelled "letcher!" Morte was knocked back by the pillow back into the hallway wall. Then the door was slammed shut. Morte heard something down the hall as he saw Kintoun standing in front of the guys room laughing.

"No it's... not.... arg nevermind!" Morte stammered as he struggled to stand up.

Kintoun retorted, "Nice try brother... hahahaha"

[BelDragos]

In the middle of the night they are all awaken by a loud crash and the sound of falling stone. They rush to the doors to find that they are blocked by broken blocks of the ceiling. They crawl out through the rift wrent in the ceiling between the rooms. As they climb onto the ruined roof of the Palace they see...

[Dravlon]

this really big giant pounding on the foundation of the building. Dravlon looks at every one and says........

[Morte]

"eek". Morte's eyes begin to emit a faint green glow, and the Giant shrinks to normal human proportions. Ripping of the things head with a bony claw, he strides away to find out what that was all about, angrily muttering about foolish mortals. Kintoun, in the meantime, is...

[Kintoun]

...resting peacefully in a nearby tree sipping some tea while he watches his group "do their thing".

[Dravlon]

Every one looks at Kintoun and wonders why the hell he is sitting under a tree drinking tea and not wondering why that giant attacked.

[Kintoun]

Kintoun yells down, "I believe you guys can handle this without me. I never involve myself in a situation that doesn't need me. Continue on now.", and takes another sip of his tea.

[Dravlon]

Dravlon walks up to Kintoun and sits down beside him and says......

[Morte]

"Eek", as a Bile Demon appears out of nowhere. As they all scatter in every direction screaming, being chased by the hungry Bile Demon, Morte comes walking back in a slightly better mood and seats himself beside Kintoun under the tree. Handing Kintoun a mug of mead, he makes himself comfortable under the tree.

[Edited by Morte on 05-11-2001 at 11:24 AM]

[Kintoun]

Mmmm mead, sounds much better right now. Ahhh there we go. Tis the life, isn't it Morte?

[Morte]

Yes. I just wish those people would stop screaming. It's just a Bile Demon. He is not going to eat them all. Just one or two.

[Dravlon]

Then there is Dravlon hiding in the shadows where no one can see laughing at the people running around.

[BelDragos]

Morte with his Entropic twisted sense of hurmor summons another Bile Demon behind Dravlon who is too busy laughing at the others to notice.

[Dravlon]

Then Dravlon notices the bile demon behind him climbs up the tree and dumps a bottle of Tums in the bile demons gullet which causes him great pain and in a rage he goes after Morte.

[Morte]

Morte sends the charging demon back to his home plane. His pet demon has tired of chasing and has settled himself next to Morte and Kintoun with a large barrel of mead.

[Kintoun]

Whoa thats quite a bit of mead there pal! You sure you can drink all...

<The Bile Demon throws back his "cute" head and shoves the barrel down his throat>

Umm ok.. I'll take that back

/emote rattles his empty cup in front of Morte...

[BelDragos]

OK we got sidetracked again. Lets see if we can get the quest going again.



As the group sat lazily around a tree growing in the middle of the Elemental Plane of Air, It's Ruler appeared behind everyone. You can see a shard of the Crystal hanging from his neck.

Yan-C-Bin demands in a loud voice,
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY DOMAIN? SPEAK NOW OR I WILL SCATTER YOU THROUGH OUT THE PLANES. WHAT DO YOU WANT?"

[Morte]

Waking from his slumber, Morte sees a largish Air Elemental thing shouting at the party. Picking up a Barrel o' Mead, he refills Kintouns cup and his own. Finishing his mead, he strides away with his Bile Demon in tow to find more mead while someone else does something about that air elemental.

[Kintoun]

Meanwhile Kintoun sips on his mead a bit more but then is completely wrought with shock! Diving towards the air elemental and splilling his mead everywhere, Kintoun lands near the feet of the air elemental.

"Ah! A gold coin! YES! Got it....! Hey Morte wait up! Lets just go BUY some more mead brother! Check out what I just found! Lets get some legit mead. No more of this stealing, the mead doesn't taste as good unless it's bought. Maybe we could get our hands on some elven wine too! And mmm elven women? Muhahahah come lets find the local tavern!"

[Dravlon]

Dravlon asks "why are we standing here looking like fools in front of this being?"