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Off topic => Off topic => Topic started by: Zoythrus on 24 March 2010, 20:55:47
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Hey, i looked at the "Glest Story Creator" and it seemed to serious (no offense to anyone), so i though to make a new topic!
This is the Glest RPG! here you will create a character (keep in mind, this character is you, so you will be talking if first person) and we'll band together to fight some enemy or go on an adventure or something of that nature.
Rules: no God-modding, please no "I THREW A BUNCH OF NUKES AND EVERYONE DIED! PWND!"
have fun, this can go anywhere you want it to, just keep it in the Glest universe (this includes any recognized mods)
I'll start:
It was a sunny day in the town of Canjouster, one of the Tech's largest cities. Dirigibles and steam power was a common occurrence, life was good. But even through all of this, the concept of an invasion by the magical forces on the other side of the mountains hung throughout the land. The tension was too much to bear, so i thought to take my inventing skills and try to do something about it.
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So I got out my laptop and started typing away...
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My trusty laptop typewriter click-clacked away furiously as I put my thoughts onto paper while they were still fresh in my mind. The nations of Tech and Magic would never be made to get along, and the only way I knew to prevent an attack would be to craft a weapon so terrifying that Magic would never dare attack, and our leaders would never dare use it. Perhaps I was simply a food in my youth, and I would come to regret that decision. I finished typing my goodbye note and left it on my side of the bed, careful not to wake my wife as I slipped out the door just before the sun came up. Knowing that only my former master could help me with my mad scheme, I took a coach down to the station and prepared to board the first train to Cogshire.
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When I reached Cogshire I took a cab up to my former master's mansion, wile we drove I finished typing my idea on my laptop typewriter.
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it took me three days to reach the mansion, but eventually i got there. i knocked on the giant wooden door of the mansion, and in no time at all, my former master was looking me in the eyes.
"oh...it's you," he said in a disappointed voice, "i havent seen you for 7 years...but i remember that before you left, you destroyed half my house!"
"well, you knew that i was a bad chemist! i do clockwork, not chemicals! stop blaming me!" i shouted.
He got this angered look, but then calmed down.
"well, with that aside, why did you come back?"
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"Well, sir...", I said, "I'm thinking about.....building a new weapon, and Magic won't be able to stop us, and I think I'll need your help...".
My Former Master's name is Deldrick, and his face got an interested look as I spoke...
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"follow me to the study," he said calmly, "ive been writing down some ideas of mine, i just hope that they will be useful against those mystical freaks..."
we eventually arrived at the study, and Deldrick pulled some books from his shelf. He browsed through one of them with this very intent look on his face.
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He looked up from his book and said "But no more of my house will surfer any damage, understood?". "Yes" I gulped.
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We sat down at a small dusty wooden table, he placed the books in a stack at the side of the table, and I placed my plans on the center of the table....
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He started looking over the plans, Well, well, well, he said this looks like it just might work. It will be expensive though.
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"You better have at least 250,000 diroks", Deldrick said, "else you won't be able to pay for this".
"Well, sir", I said, "I have about 5,000 saved up at the bank, but..........I was hoping you'd help me pay for this....".
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That's when I noticed that something was wrong. I don't know how I knew, but I could feel that someone was watching me.
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"Do you sense that, Deldrick?" i asked, "something's here..."
just then the front door of the mansion was bashed down. Demons were pouring into the building, we were under attack.
"quick! come with me to the cellar, i have something that should buy us some time..." Deldrick whispered forcefully.
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I grabbed my plans and followed him.
I could hear guards yelling and creatures screaming.
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Send some of my airships out he yelled, that should take care of that attack. We descended down into his basement and walking over to a paneled wall he...
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opened up a part of the wall that unveiled a secret passageway that led outside.
"quick, run south to downtown Cogshire, there, alert the city guards!" he yelled at me.
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As I ran I realized I had left my plans at his house, no time to go back I needed to alert the city guards!
Mean wile as soon as I was out of sight "STOP" yelled my former master, instantly the noise stopped "return to your jobs" He commanded.
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As everyone went roleplaying I sat down and ate a hamburger. Then fell asleep then was ran over by a fat guy on a horse . damn life.
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i opened my eyes once i realized that i was dreaming....i was in a Mcdonald's, and i saw Phoenix flat on the pavement outside. So i rushed out to see if he was ok...
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he was dead so i started teabaging the body halo 3 style
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when i saw deathrun teabagging Phoenix, i shouted "dont do that...this isnt Halo 3!"
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When I saw this ridiculous discussion, I said, "get back on-topic or I'll do it for you!" :bomb:
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Yes, and delete your posts.
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Actually you know what, I don't care, the Glest Story topic creator, is a much more serious story and it is that that makes it so interesting, so whatever, have a completely ridiculous story here if you want, I'm going to stick to the good stuff.
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feel free, the point of this is not to necessarily be "serious," im just curious on where this is going... (it means we can do what we want here...i dont care)
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Yes but just don't post dumb stuff. ::)
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Cool! im going to make the natural reader tell this story on youtube!
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well, back to the story....
once i got the deal with deathrun and Phoenix solved, i became really (and inexplicably) tired. As i dozed off, i came back to the dream i was having.
When i was about a mile away from the castle, i stopped and pondered if what happened was all a ploy.
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But then I thought better of it and continued on my way...
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I stopped again and started to think:
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What if that old trickster was a spy for those filthy mages >:( >:(, I unslung my arbalest started walking back to the mansion :archer:
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Even as I rushed back I could see houses burning and a shattered battle machine on the ground, I turned tail and ran to alert the others but three daemons chased after me. I was too slow and they caught up but my 40 metal armor protected me from their attacks while my 80-160 piercing attack made short work of the pathetic midgets. He betrayed us I thought and then to my horror I realized that the weapon plans were in the hands of the enemy...
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but my 40 metal armor protected me from their attacks while my 80-160 piercing attack
:O
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I ran back as fast as I could but 220 speed is not very good but at least I would get there fast enough to alert the guards, i hoped...
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after running for 3 miles (it was pure adrenaline), i finally got to Cogshire. Once i got to the guard post, i passed out (all my adrenaline left me....)
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I woke up in a hospital bed surrounded by several wounded soldiers.
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they had strange red dots on them...
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Immediately I was sent to report to the army group commander...
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When I got to his office he was busy drinking a 44 ounce Coca Cola, with a 3 pounder cheese burger unwrapped and laying on the table by two empty one gallon buckets that had once contained fries and chicken nuggets, man, he ate a lot. Now that I thought of it that might explain the measly hospital food rations."Why, are you, *yum yum*, here, *slurp* again", he asked before belching."I'm here because....
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"I'm here because...wait, where'd you get the fried chicken?"
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"From McTech haven't you seen the commercials but really what are you *slurp* here for...
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"The mages are attacking, the mages are attacking"...
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"The mages? Who are they? i thought it were only us and the magic in this world?"
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A mage is a user of magic. ::)
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"Oh yeah I knew that...
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"It's worse than an invasion Deldrick betrayed us"...
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"Deldrick? you mean the crazy loon who lives in the castle 3 miles from here?" he asked.
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"Yep thats the one"...
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He said,"I wouldn't worry about him cuz he's crazy"...
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"But I had plans for a super weapon and he stole them during the raid"...
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"that loon might just be crazy enough to actually build it...this is serious..." He then gave me this worried look....
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like this :look:
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And poping a burger into his mouth he said, "Well even if thay take over ill just care for their wounded and theyl be fine with me."
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"You idiot", I screamed >:( >:(,"This isn't just about you its about all of us"...
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"then, i dont need your help! I'll find someone else who cares about us...."
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"Fine then you big bully", was his reply as he started to cry :'( :'(...
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I raced off and immediately jumped on a horse, I had to reach Blownbang :bomb: the second nearest city with a captain of guards that was a friend and someone who could take action.
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The horse fainted as soon as I reached headquarters but I was here
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i ran up the steps to the guard station, burst open the door, and demanded to see the captain!
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"A guard jumped to attention and said,"Of course bu..."."No buts this is a matter of great urgency" >:( >:(
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Suddenly guards were all around me, one of them said "You can see him but you will have to wait your turn!". They brought me in to a room.
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I whipped out a crossbow and all the guards flinched, and said "Ouh!". :O
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The guard fumbled with the sword before dropping it and taking me to the captain, we walked into the room...
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You know Mr.Cap'n Guard, you're guards aren't very well trained.
What do you want, I'm terribly busy!
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I have to fill out those damned papers about outposts being overwhelmed all over the country!
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"What >:( >:( why wasn't I informed"
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Sir my town has been attacked!
WE need assistance at once!
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"Okay, gimme your registration paper and i`ll look into it after i`ve looked into all the others..." said the guard cpt. calm
"Sir i can`t wait! We must act now!"
"Im sorry, but all the country is under attack, your village isn`t priority yet"
It seemed liek you were on your own...
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I raced out and stole a horse, riding off to find help, we were doomed :look: :look:
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As rode back to town I saw Deldrick's house, and I got mad so...
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I lit a molotov cocktail that was strapped to the saddle and threw it at the mansion, it exploded and I smiled
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it took me 2 days to get back to Coujester, but i was too late. Half of the city was gone, and the intact side was under seige! Battlemages and Daemons were storming all of the buildings, and corpses filled the streets. as i was basking in the death, a daemon slashed at my back.
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Spinning around I decapitated him with my sword, as I observed the siege with my recently modified crossbow (it had a telescope attached for sniping) I noticed that many of the mage soldiers were human but armed with axes, bows, cheap spears, and sticks, why they appeared to be indians and norsemen. they had frequently raided our settlements but never in such force. Spurring my horse forth I rode of to the cavalry post of Crazy-Knight which was occupied by the only allies I could think of...
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as i rode to the post, i thought to myself,
"Why were the Indians and the Norse working with the Magic? What have they to gain by attacking us? Ever since the Tech started trading with them, they were becoming our allies...this just gets stranger and stranger..."
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We'd always been able to handle the occasion attacks by disorganized Magic, Indian, and Norse raiding parties, but this was no raid. It was an all-out invasion. I knew there was no way we could stand alone against the might of these three powerful groups. We were going to need help, and lots of it.
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I thought frantically,"The dwarves had several posts in the city and were steadfast allies unaffected by dark magic, they might be of help but i feared a betrayal by persians and egypt". Suddenly the base came into view and I saw aliyps and morlocks attacking, some buildings were burning while others were intact, I saw a group of knights, horsemen and mounted archers, holding their ground. They were supported by assault troopers and a single tank that fired occasional shells at the enemy, it also appeared that there was a small crossbow armed contingent of dwarves firing at the attackers, a harpy streaked out of the sky screaming, I stood in horror, but dwarves are more stout hearted and they stood their ground, firing at the attacker knocking it out of the air...
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Soon a tower that a worker dwarf was building finished and it ended the rest of the attack. "Well hello" said the dwarf captain, "what can I do for you?".
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"I need help, my the city is under attack and I need a rescue force"."Theres not much of us but well help ya laddie", replied the dwarf, but give us two or so hours to rest and prepare, then we will go"."Very well"
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Two hours later we departed, it was a measly force considering the enemies numbers, it consisted of a dozen assault troopers who came in the rear, a tank, thirty six knights and four times as many horsemen and horse archers(144 each) this was supported by a mix of Outriders, warriors and canoneers totaling about 400, meaning that a force of less than 800 had to deal with thousands of mages, indians and norsemen. In addition some horsemen had come from scouting missions to inform us that the 10,000 soldiers hammering at the city gates were in fact a tiny scout force, I cursed but then decided that the city needed to be recaptured prior to any further plans...
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So we brought all the cannoners up on a mountain and with there range started sniping out the mages.
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The mages didn't just wait around to get killed though, instead they sent up unicorns and drake riders to wipe them out. At this moment I unleashed all of our cavalry at the rider less enemy. meanwhile the assault troopers beat off the mage cavalry with their heavy armor. The mages were horrified as the tank and the dwarves followed up the cavalry to complete the destruction of their soldiers. Shot after shot rained down as the riders slaughtered the enemy. But the mages still had tricks up their sleeves and withdrew from part of the city to regroup while we slowed down. Dragons, harpies, and eagles flew over from some far off base to destroy us. Despite the tanks defensive ballista, and the fire power of the horse archers and canoneers, some broke through and would have destroyed our cavalry had not some ornithopters from the city showed up and given battle. Then the mages counterattacked...
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Daemons were storming us but we held our ground, then came ghost armors and to our horror behemoths that sent horsemen flying. But the tank fired shot after shot at them blowing many to smithereens then came a great blast of ice and I could see a ...
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fleet of elven mages! they had come to the rescue! Thank God that we got reinforcements!
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Wait the mages are on the other team...
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the elves werent a part of this fight...and they are a more magic based people, so why cant they have opposing mages? (not all have to be a part of the enemy)
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Meanwhile, ents trampled the mage and indian infantry, reducing them to mash...
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Behemoths can rushing in and smashed down the ents.
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But behemoths are no match for a tank and soon our offensive was rolling toward the city and victory...
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A strange and blue light appeared on the sky...
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As a horde of ibis's appeared, burning up everything we would have been doomed, only a couple of yards from the city gate, had it not been for...
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Our well protected clothes that repelled flames and fire and sustained our lifes, healed us...
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And our heavy crossbows, we finally reached the gate sixteen at a time because of some stupid glitch, and were greeted like heroes by the surviving civilians and soldiers alike...
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"WTF? this isn`t supposed to be happening! we need a coder to fix that bug immediately!" one of the soldier said
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Thats right I shouted as I headed for the citadel...
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Another glitch, i teleported far away, things just appeared much clearer, i thought about it, and i came to the conclusion that the resolution had changed drastically.
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That was very good and I entered the citadel looking for the commander, suddenly a guard rushed up to me and informed me that the commander had died in the initial mage attack and I was the highest ranking officer in the city...
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I wondered if it were just a glitch....
So this is the source were you get your post count from eh?
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What do you mean? :angel: :angel:, not really I have lots of posts in religious debates and most of my posts are in mods, I must admit though, I post a lot in this topic
I went up to the former commanders office and...
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there was nothing and then the door smacked and i was trapped, i heard laughter outside
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"Fooled you", screamed a voice from outside,"we infiltrated this place shortly before you arrived", then he shouted for the guards to open the gate for the mages...
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twisty one huh?
However, the mages did not know that the town was a bug so they.....
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Despite all the problems the mages might be having I already heard sounds of battle outside, a soldier raced up the stairs, shouting for me, then I heard a crossbow twang and someone tumbling down the stairs then I got an idea, I flipped over a table, lit a molotov cocktail and placed it by the door, before rushing to hide behind the table...
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i heard the mage outside the door, shouting like hell, he was angry, then...
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he raced past the door and I cut him down with the cavalry sword I carried...
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and zoom, i glitched and become a giant. oh no, everythign was turning red, my god ran vista ultimate, and now whaaa!
RSOD!
(http://images.wikia.com/inciclopedia/images/d/df/RSOD.PNG)
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This sucks I though, how will I help my friends...
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then my god reboots with a new operating system, the UBUNTU! But glest won`t work!
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What the heck is going on I think as I prepare for anything else that may come.
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then the code messes up and the ubuntu crashes, all i see for the rest of my life is a black screen.
THE END
New topic?
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thats when i realized that i was knocked unconscious during the first siege of the city. as i rose to my feet, i could see that i was being protected by a row of ents.
"climb up me, and ill get you to safety," one said.
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I was hallusinating because the computer had gone messy
and zoom, i glitched and become a giant. oh no, everythign was turning red, my god ran vista ultimate, and now whaaa!
RSOD!
(http://images.wikia.com/inciclopedia/images/d/df/RSOD.PNG)
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I climbed onto the ent and was once again in our half of the city where mages were everywhere slaughtering soldiers and civilians alike, I saw the remaining cavalry and ordered them to charge, and the charge came on the magic and they broke, and were being driven to the gates when...
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The watch-tower man cried "100's of goelms are coming" (Since they walk so slow there are only here now) "What do we do!?".
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nothing happened cause of
(http://images.wikia.com/inciclopedia/images/d/df/RSOD.PNG)
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Gabbe thats spam posting and remember what Zoythrus said, no god endings that end the story instantly.
I screamed,"fire the bombards and catapults, launch the bombers and airships, crossbowmen and arbalestiers get in formation". the golems were getting in range and so I shouted,"first row fire" they shot and ducked down reloading,"second row fire". This process kept on going until very few of the golems were left and they started a boulder exchange with the ents. Supporting daemons and our crossbowmen were slaughtered by the barrage. then the daemons started rushing forward with ladders, morlocks and imps, there were also dark beings and awful one wheeled machines with saw blades.
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"This just gets better and better!" i remarked as i watched the carnage.
I got off the ent and picked up a firearm. thanks to the warfare training that my dad gave me, i was able to pick off a few daemons. after a few hours of defending the village from the magical freaks, victory was looking certain until...
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Large, and ferocious balls of fire, came hurtling down through the sky, slamming into the ground, and throwing troops flying.
A large fleet of dragons came swooping at them, whipping up at the last minute, and unleashing massive fireballs, dealing devastating damage.
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This was it time for our well prepared ambush. A red flag was flown and out of the sun flew ornithopters and gryffon riders cutting through the unprepared dragons in their first attack pass. Despite their fear crossbowmn and cannoneers fired bringing many of the beasties down. The tank was using its side mounted ballista to shoot at the dragons causing further damage...
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Oh, were talking about Glest Dragons not Dragons.
Glest Dragons lack scales, and Dragon scales could not be penetrated by any weapons of Tech's time.
I think even today we don't have weapons powerful enough to pierce Dragon scales. It would be cool if they existed though.
Back to the story:
THe dragons were hurling fireballs much faster and more accurately than the ambush could muster, the ambush wasn't working.
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Oh, were talking about Glest Dragons not Dragons.
Glest Dragons lack scales, and Dragon scales could not be penetrated by any weapons of Tech's time.
I think even today we don't have weapons powerful enough to pierce Dragon scales. It would be cool if they existed though.
I am sure nuculuar missals could...
Any ways how do you know how thick or hard their scales were?
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This was when we pulled in the specialists, the 72nd anti air battalion moved in firing arbalests with reinforced armor piercing arrows, they also had telescopes mounted to enhance their aiming skill, dragons were falling but was it enough to win the day, I could already hear shouts for an evacuation from the city to safer areas...
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all of the opposing army stopped, looked around, then began to flee. We won! yes we suffered the losses of thousands of men, dwarves, and elves; but they suffered even more. Today was a victory!
but in the middle of the celebration, i looked down and realized that i had blood running down my side...
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I fainted from blood loss and woke up in a hospital bed...
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"Were am I?" I asked. "You were badly wounded, we found a damon in your side"
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"Ugh", I said and started getting up,"Oh no you don't", said a soldier,"You are tired and need rest"...
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I chilled and took a nap, then as all out of sudden
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I noticed a partially torn up tile and under it something glittered, when everyone had left I got up feeling fine and walked over to it I still saw the faint glitter and so I heaved and ripped it loose, underneath was...
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an
HAHA blocked from using "a" :D
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piece of gold, and a tunnel I took out my sword and arbalest and put on my chain mail, then I snatched some food supplies and went into the tunnel intending to come back in an hour or so...
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so i crawled through the tunnel for an hour, and eventually stumbled on a secret lair. when i was walking around with my sword in hand, i heard some voices. i followed the voices, and discovered a hidden group of men, dwarves, and elves. They were discussing a way to eliminate the magic once and for all...
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Suddenly they noticed me several of them swung up their bows and crossbows and asked,"Who are you stranger, drop your weapons".
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"It is me" I said "the man who asked you for help".
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"You didn't ask us for help"...
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I thought frantically,"The dwarves had several posts in the city and were steadfast allies unaffected by dark magic, they might be of help but i feared a betrayal by persians and egypt". Suddenly the base came into view and I saw aliyps and morlocks attacking, some buildings were burning while others were intact, I saw a group of knights, horsemen and mounted archers, holding their ground. They were supported by assault troopers and a single tank that fired occasional shells at the enemy, it also appeared that there was a small crossbow armed contingent of dwarves firing at the attackers, a harpy streaked out of the sky screaming, I stood in horror, but dwarves are more stout hearted and they stood their ground, firing at the attacker knocking it out of the air...
Yah, see here.
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They thought about it and then decided that I could be trusted.
Those guys came with our character to the city
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"How do you think we should deal with the mages", I asked them...
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I noticed a shadow...
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And out stepped aliyps blasting my new friends to bits..
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A Roman Praetorian dropped from a low roof and destroyed two allyps with powerful spear swings, the other allyp hurled a ball of dark magic at him, but this praetorian was the top of his century, he firmly and proudly held up his large shield, the ball of dark magic splattered and stained his shield. He yelled, charged, and bashed the allyp with his shield, he quickly yanked his shield back and drove his spear into the allyps chest, it exploded in a flash of dark magic.
He stood up proudly, and said, "I am Tiberius, the Praetor of Rome, the commander of the Praetorian Guard. I come to announce that we will side with you in this great war. I have brought diplomats to discuss an alliance, if you would kindly allow them to enter this place."
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"Yes sir, indeed", I declared and swiftly led him back to the hall, there I saw a band of roman, dwarvish, elvish, and tech diplomats speaking in low voices about the alliance and from what i could tell the romans had been devastated by a simultaneous invasion, the dwarves had lost most of their trade caravans to raids, and the elvish forests had been terribly burned up...
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Tiberius spoke, "We have lost 3 legions in this war, we are no longer going to sit back and defend ourselves, legions: 2, 6, 7, 9, 11, and 12 have been mobilized for combat and sent tovarious different hotspots in the lines."
Tiberius spoke again, before anyone could cut in, "I have been sent to organize the main defences of all the factions that will choose to ally with us, 50 centuries of Praetorians will be available to each allied faction. For those of you that do not know, 50 centuries is about 4000-5000 men. I don't mean to offend when I notice and note that the Praetorians are definitely far superior to the guards of tech and the guardians of the Elves, you Dwarves though, you are very formidable, and before I forget to mention it, I'm quite hopeful that we can resolve the border conflicts and become allies with you Dwarves."
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Tech had a long relationship with the Dwarves, and the two races had collaborated on many of their great inventions over the centuries. It was rare for any conflict to rouse the reclusive Elves into battle, and especially for them to take the fight beyond their own forests, so there was no doubt that this was something far greater than the typical wars we'd had with the nation of Magic.
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Intel was being passed around and grouped together. Theories of what was going on began to rise..........
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Tiberius spoke, "We have lost 3 legions in this war, we are no longer going to sit back and defend ourselves, legions: 2, 6, 7, 9, 11, and 12 have been mobilized for combat and sent tovarious different hotspots in the lines."
Tiberius spoke again, before anyone could cut in, "I have been sent to organize the main defences of all the factions that will choose to ally with us, 50 centuries of Praetorians will be available to each allied faction. For those of you that do not know, 50 centuries is about 4000-5000 men. I don't mean to offend when I notice and note that the Praetorians are definitely far superior to the guards of tech and the guardians of the Elves, you Dwarves though, you are very formidable, and before I forget to mention it, I'm quite hopeful that we can resolve the border conflicts and become allies with you Dwarves."
We will ally with you said the dwarf after deliberation, and we will send all of our allies, divisions of heavy infantry, the ents will come to aid us all said the elf delegate and we will deploy our galadrim archers to all of our allies, the tech will provide medicine, tanks, and the one thing all but the elves lack, fire support, the 42nd crossbow regiment, and the 73rd arbalest regiment will cover the dwarves and we will give the romans support from the 43rd and 2nd arbalest regiments, lastly should you need reinforcments during siege you can always rely on the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions being there to reinforce you, but deep in my heart I felt that the mages would not pause til they annihilated us...
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Tiberius cut in, "Oh you've no need to send that much fire support to us, we've got the Roman archers, and definitely some powerful ballistae, we also happen to love to brag about our abilities with a pilum. We'll provide some siege support to those who need it."
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"OK" I said "hopefully we can defeat them now, but dose any one know who is on the magics side?"
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"Those Rebels have been playing both sides, they need to be wiped out!" announced the Techian diplomat.
Tiberius added. "Agreed!"
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"Still your archers are weaker then our crossbows," I pointed out.
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Yes but we have balstas, long-bow men, and fire archers. [Elim, the Romans never had longbow-men -- Arch]
Leaving original message so you can't accuse me of deleting content. :P
"Ah, but we have ballistae." Tiberius proudly stated.
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This cocky upstart Tiberius fellow was starting to get on my nerves. "I hope you get stepped on by a behemoth", I muttered under my breath.
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Tiberius didn't hear my comment, and continued to talk about the "incredible power" of the Romans Ballistae.
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I finally got really angry and asked him ,how come we have mechanical equipment and you don't if your so great >:( >:(, I challenge you to a shooting match I said and I pulled out my arbalest...
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Tiberius was much faster. He whacked the crossbow out of my hands with the back of his spear and said, "I prefer melee combat, but feel free to have a shooting match with a Roman archer."
"But still," I said, "if the Romans are so great, then why are we farther in technology?"
Tiberius merely grunted and said, "We've had border skirmishes with you in the past. Surely you've seen how ineffective your rust-buckets are... Anyway, we shouldn't be squabbling amongst ourselves. In gratitude of our new alliance, I invite you all to dinner down at the town hall."
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Sure I said, bitter about this, I was really mad at this roman braggart, the romans had gotten crushed by our battlemachines and tanks and now they dared to detest them, compared to our arbalestiers the roman archers were children with wooden sticks, they were no match for our fire power, still we needed an alliance and we'd have to get along with them, outside I could here elves firing arrows and magic bursts, dwarves practicing there riflemanship and melee skills, romans drilling formations and tech troops conducting flying practice, mechanized manouvers, cavalry skills, and sharpshooting,
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I came above ground and looked at our allies. It just struck me, ive made an alliance that my grandfathers had only dreamed of, but then i was snapped back to reality.
"Sir, we have designed a new walker for you based off of your own schematics, do you want to see it?" a Tech engineer asked me.
"Ok, lead the way!"
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I came above ground and looked at our allies. It just struck me, ive made an alliance that my grandfathers had only dreamed of, but then i was snapped back to reality.
"Sir, we have designed a new walker for you based off of your own schematics, do you want to see it?" a Tech engineer asked me.
"Ok, lead the way!"
I entered the room that it was being housed in and the engineer pulled down a sheet to reveal a new walker, it was shining with a new coat of paint and carried several new pieces of equipment, it had a telescopic sight in the cockpit a chain fed crossbow that was powered by a small steam engine and a large double bladed axe, its feet were covered with spikes to help it hold onto slippery ground and to step on enemies, the cockpit was fully enclosed and there were several other modern features we might have a chance of beating the enemy after all...
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Still raising your post count here? oh well..
but, there were a window, i looked through, and it mirrored...
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Still raising your post count here? oh well..
but, there were a window, i looked through, and it mirrored...
Hey not even half my posts are off topic so don't complain
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it was a rear mirror so you could see what was behind you I was shocked, then came a man in leather armor, a metal helm and a short sword, he jumped to attention and explained to me that he was going to be the captain of a new battle machine squadron, the 49th which would operate these machines, he also told me that I would get a personal battlemachine, then he led me into an adjoining hall which contained some sort of aircraft, the wings were designed to flap and powered by a steam engine, it also had a rocket pod a telescopic sight, and twin rapid fire crossbows, and impressive machine and the replacement for the obsolete ornithopters...
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Tiberius walked in, "Did you know that we got 1/5 of our Empire out of the border skirmishes with you Techians?"
I grumbled and looked away.
Tiberius spoke again, "Did you also know that--"
I started to walk away, not wanting to hear this stuff again.
But he finished anyway and I heard it. "the senate is currently voting on whether they want to offer half of the land back to you after the war". He spoke again, "I really shouldn't be telling you this, and we did get that land fair and square..."
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Weren`t Omega telling me forum games weren`t allowed?
"i though rather we could start a campaign into new foreign lands..."
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huh? Omega just didnt want us to make this all of our posts. dont worry, everyone here has most of their posts in other forums
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As I recall, the thread that was locked/deleted/whatever was one that was dedicated only to posting for the sake of posting, and that's why it wasn't allowed. I haven't seen anyone saying there was a problem with forum games in general.
Something felt very suspicious about this Roman. He appeared seemingly out of nowhere and was trying to take control of the whole operation. I couldn't tell what he was planning, but something in the back of my mind told me to be very cautious.
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Weren`t Omega telling me forum games weren`t allowed?
This is more of a story, and as you can see...or others can see, it is different then those forum games which is really pointless and just to raise post count (I remember, other forums...) ...for this, it is somewhat related to glest, and we actually think...when we post...most of us maybe, :|
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i like this story, it wasnt how i had imagined, its better.
i cant wait for the end... ;)
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I mean the "post big bigt big big pics" topic, he locked.
i cant wait for the end... Wink
you mean the thing that never come?
i thought i should speak with someone..
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He spoke with the chief of city security and it was decided that the Praetor should be captured and tortured. What they didn't know was that the Praetor had really come to get the King of the Techian society and pull him into Rome under heavy guard to ensure that he didn't die, because long before the border skimishes, a Romans Emperor had promised a Techian King that Rome would defend them and especially the King during war, that the Techian King knew would inevitably come. 2 hours before the capture was to take place, news reached me that the Roman Praetor had taken off for the Capital of the Techian Kingdom on horseback with 300 of the most elite soldiers in the known world.
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Meanwhile as the tech army was called up to arms and mobilized my generals had already worked out a cunning counter attack, it would be all tech and would start with fighter sweeps, and bombing of the rocket river sector, the bridge there was the only way across and had to be captured intact, after softening up the enemy with artillery and bombing the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions would capture the bridge for an immediate breakthrough, I would lead the air part of the fight general Lacky would lead on the ground...
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But suddenly flairs and bursts of magic were pounding from the back way only guarded with a few horse-men! I looked back with the telescope on my walker and all I could see behind the mages were thors....
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The defense at this city isn't very strong, we're going to need a lot of help.
But he'd forgotten about the large Praetorian forces outside the town. And just after he thought about needing assistance, a huge rain of arrows came pouring down on the mages, in the distance he could now spot Roman legions 12, and 13, pilums flew, Thor's groaned and collapsed into the ground, the Mage's were devastated, they hadn't expected to be ambushed while surprise attacking.
But still it wasn't enough. The Praetorians outside the city moved to block the gates and posted groups of soldiers all around the walls, the Roman legions we're suffering numerious casualties while taking of lot themselves. The mages still advanced, and the Thor's continued to hold the Romans at bay. They were going to need more...
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somehow, i managed to rally the new battlemachine squadron. we geared up in our new walkers, and we marched into the fray. Bolts of magic whized by us, but we kept on marching. in unison, we lifted our crossbows and fired...
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The mages fell back screening with... GLEE! we gave chase and suddenly....
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A mechanic came running out onto the field with his wrench, "I forgot to put the last bolt in, sir!". A leg on my BattleMachine came unhooked and I was thrown from it as it fell. The mechanic saw this and ran even harder. One of the Thor's was heading toward him. Meanwhile, The Praetorians had gotten the King, and a part of the force was taking him back to Rome. Tiberius had gotten news of the battle via guards being ordered around and stuff like that, and was heading with 187 of the Praetorians to the battle, but it was unlikely he would get there in time. Meanwhile Battlemachines were smashed into bits as Thors were sliced in half, thousands of screams could be heard, bodies went flying up into the air and then back down with a gruesome thump.
All of a sudden out of the trees came about 50,000 mages along with a good 4000 behemoths, and and about 500 archmages, and standing on a platform carried by his enslaved daemons, stood the Archmagus of War, the top General in terms of the Techians view. There was no hope......... "Retreat!!" I called as the mechanic pulled me back behind the fortifications.
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I consulted the other generals and they said there is no hope at all we must serender.
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then, a fleet of something was in the sky above us, it appeared to be a mass of flying horses!
"Valkyries! They're here to kill us all!!!" my personal engineer exclaimed.
but to our surprise, the Valkyries started to destroy the Thors and the mages. soon, they began to flee into the forest. Ha! the tables were turned. But none of us knew why the enemy was helping us. maybe the Valkyries just wanted to kill us themselves.
After the dust had settled, a few of them landed in front of me and the generals. The Roman guards all rose their swords, we knew that it would be a fight to the death. But the Valkyries had other ideas.
"We are sorry that this had happened, we didnt want to side with the magic; but there was nothing we could do, they captured our chieftain. We need your help, because we Norse are tired of slavery to the Magic."
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but to our surprise, the Valkyries started to destroy the Thors and the mages.
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That is good I said tommorow you can fly escort fo our bombers
The next day was bright and sunny perfect for flying, our bombers and airships slowly rose up with their wing flapping and valkyrie escorts, I was flying one of the bombers, the mages launched some unsuccesful attacks but other then that we bombed their positions with impunity, smoke rose higher and higher, as we flew back the waves of transports were dropping troops behind and on top of the bridge, the defense was poorly led and by nighfall we had captured and fortified the bridge heads...
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but to our surprise, the Valkyries started to destroy the Thors and the mages.
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Elim, the Norse were enslaved, they were forced to build Thors, but the Valkyries were against them because they are mindless beings...(and they were being controlled)
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We decided to launch raids from this bridgehead to scare the mages and force them to get stuck surrounding our sector around the bridge, meanwhile the elves and dwarves would cross the northern mountains, bridge the river and flank the mages, also the romans would bridge the river south of us to completely encircle the enemy, then we would wipe them out with our four combined armies, obviously it would only wipe out the mages in the immediate vincinity of our sector, but it would allow us to fortify our new position relatively unhindered, during this the main forces of our roman, elvish and dwarvish allies would make similar attacks into mage, indian, norse, and egyprtian territory... then we would use the winter to fortify our positions as there was rarely any fighting in the winter, then there was something we would do personally agaist the mages, the tech would launch bombing raids onto indian, magic, and egyptian weapon manufacturing and training centers hopefully crushing or at least weakening their numbers and resolve...
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I walked over to Tiberius. He cut in before me, "don't think I'm a traitor to the alliance, I merely captured your King and sent him to Rome."
He laughed and spoke again, "I'm joking, he came willingly, for a reason that you are not to be told."
"Why can't I be told?!" I said, "I'm practically leading the alliance".
Tiberius laughed again, ruffled my hair and jogged off toward toward his tent.
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I walked over to Tiberius. He cut in before me, "don't think I'm a traitor to the alliance, I merely captured your King and sent him to Rome."
He laughed and spoke again, "I'm joking, he came willingly, for a reason that you are not to be told."
"Why can't I be told?!" I said, "I'm practically leading the alliance".
Tiberius laughed again, ruffled my hair and jogged off toward toward his tent.
Where does this come in something different just happened :confused: :confused:
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I was baffled but despite this we had preparations to make for the bombing campaign
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Yah, you spoke in more general terms I zoomed in and covered a small chat. :P
I was baffled but despite this we had preparations to make for the bombing campaign
Later that night after the bombing campaign was readied to be sent in morning, I met with Tiberius the Praetor, Lefesdas the Elven General, derikan the Dwarven Commander, and the temporary Norse Resistance leader.
We discussed plans...
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The temporary Norse Resistance leader said "I have over 20,000 spear men all hiding in a under ground cavern, if you lead the mages army over the cavern then the spear men will come out and the mages will be traped"
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Good idea I complimented him and so I said first and second mounted regiments try to draw the mages over those tunnels, there the norse resistance will hit them on the rear , er from the front and the others from the flanks, so we deployed soon we heard hooves and our horsemen coming back with drake riders, unicorns, and indian horsemen in hot pursuit, farther back I saw the main mage army advancing on our position, imps were drawing nearer and outpacing the horsemen bringing several down and tearing them to bits, I launched the 1st and 45th horseman divisions into a counter attack, they were soon joined by silverhelm lancers, reavers, dwarvish outriders and roman cavalry, the enemy cavalry regrouped and withdrew to report to their commanders meanwhile our first air strikes against the mage cities of Dronk and Drish were being launched with the intent to wipe out the armories there in the meantime the mages advanced on our forces...
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We kept retreating until the main mage army had crossed the tunnels...
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When they were on top of the tunnels we fired a catapult volley to slow the mages and to signal our allies, immediately they swarmed around the huge mage army trapping it in an encirclement...
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Suddenly with a huge splash of light we saw a giant from emerging from the group of mages...
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it looked like a behemoth, but on steroids! This thing was HUGE!
it marched toward us, crushing the poor mages who were unfortunate enough to be in its way...
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It swung a large tree through our forces, our forces lost 1000's a second, this thing HAD to come down, soon!
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It swung a large tree truck
A tree truck? Oh dang! :o
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Logging_truck_and_bush_taxi_accident.jpg/629px-Logging_truck_and_bush_taxi_accident.jpg)
I can see how that would be dangerous.
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Fortunately, the elite airships took it down. But without the loss of their allys...
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hmm...allys? probably not...don't know a better word for..now.
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Now our forces were cut in half and only like 9 mages were crushed...
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John: Oh...... :O Good catch! :O :O :O
Guy you're being totally boring, "the elite airships took it down", god is that dull.
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Well I was trying to contribute just a bit. Life and Glest is sometimes dull, ya know... Well I guess you don't.
Anyways, continue on...
allies*
...want me to point out how many times you misspell your posts?
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Fortunately, the elite airships took it down. But without the loss of their allys...
Guy you're being totally boring, "the elite airships took it down", god is that dull.
Yah, I wanted them to have a huge battle with it...
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Quote from: -Archmage- on Today at 17:05:18
Guy you're being totally boring, "the elite airships took it down", god is that dull.
Yah, I wanted them to have a huge battle with it...
Maybe "the elite airships took it down" sounds dramatic and creates a huge battle in your head, but too me that sounds pretty childish, no offense. :-X
Another creature came, but it was in full battle armor, the airships were nothing for it, smashed them into bits sending the pilots flying, and raining shattered wood all over the troops below.
Hundreds of troops got slammed into flight, the archers were useless against the thing and even the steady Praetorians couldn't take the thing down. Hundreds of Egyptian warriors came from within a nearby forrest. I was forced to surrender, and I did so.
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Ultifd you were asking, and i knew the answer! if you really want to diss me because of mispell, i think everyone sees it is made in a rush and not though through, i could find every single post were you got grammar errors...
But the, as all out of sudden...
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A force of silver clad riders charged out hurtling lances at the beast, they also towed light ballistas which rained a rapid death to the enemy, our forces swiftly forgot surrender and slammed into their foes with renewed vigor, meanwhile lines on lines of silver clad spearmen, swordmen and archers marched into the fray bringing death to our enemies the gervoriath had come to our rescue I thought with a sigh of relief, our bombers were returning from the air strike and joined in the fray strafing the mages on the ground, one of the huge beasts stood in our path but the gervoriath deftly fired arrows into its eyes blinding it while our catapults and crossbows rained heavier fire into its body, finally a squadron of gervoriath lancers slammed into it from behind stabbing its heels till it fell over and was left to the mercy of the infantry, meanwhile the praetorians had driven back the egyptians with cover fire from the elves and our tanks and the dwarves obliterated the few attempted escapees it was a day of great victory...
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A force of silver clad riders charged out hurtling lances at the beast, they also towed light ballistas which rained a rapid death to the enemy, our forces swiftly forgot surrender and slammed into their foes with renewed vigor, meanwhile lines on lines of silver clad spearmen, swordmen and archers marched into the fray bringing death to our enemies the gervoriath had come to our rescue I thought with a sigh of relief, our bombers were returning from the air strike and joined in the fray strafing the mages on the ground, one of the huge beasts stood in our path but the gervoriath deftly fired arrows into its eyes blinding it while our catapults and crossbows rained heavier fire into its body, finally a squadron of gervoriath lancers slammed into it from behind stabbing its heels till it fell over and was left to the mercy of the infantry, meanwhile the praetorians had driven back the egyptians with cover fire from the elves and our tanks and the dwarves obliterated the few attempted escapees it was a day of great victory...
im satisfied with this battle, how about you guys?
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I am, now back to the story,
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the gervoriath were masters at fortification and soon we were conquering the mage territory in our area, building forts to control critical points...
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a special startegic point would be the tower of Zarg, but it was protected by Zarg himself, a powerfull archmage with thousands of shadow walkers, dark magic and magic had teamed up...
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a special startegic point would be the tower of Zarg, but it was protected by Zarg himself, a powerfull archmage with thousands of shadow walkers, dark magic and magic had teamed up...
we figured they teamed up a long time ago
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luckily we were all very skilled when it came to besieging any location, sadly the tower of Zarg was on the only hill in miles, surrounded by a moat and three rows of walls....
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The soldiers didn`t want to enter because there were suicide, most of them already had problems with this war and the morality were very low.
fancy make a blender movie?
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The soldiers didn`t want to enter because there were suicide, most of them already had problems with this war and the morality were very low.
fancy make a blender movie?
then I got an idea, beer for everybody, that swiftly increased our soldiers morale
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a blender movie sounds nice, we could make a movie out of glest rpg, then use it to advertise glest. by the way whats the storyline behind glest
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no storyline behind glest yet...starting thread in general diguiss about this now...
but...the beer was poisoned and then half of our soldiers were dead...morality was lower than ever before...
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no storyline behind glest yet...starting thread in general diguiss about this now...
but...the beer was poisoned and then half of our soldiers were dead...morality was lower than ever before...
luckily most didn't die but were merely in a stupor, soon they were all cured, we caught a mage in our ranks and hung him soon afterwards for he had poisoned the beer
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then afterwards we figured out that the mage could`ve given us intel about the tower of Zarg
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then afterwards we figured out that the mage could`ve given us intel about the tower of Zarg
we were absolute idiots :( :( :(, luckily we captured a norse scout who quickly informed us that after their disasterous defeat the mages were bottled up in the tower of Zarg...
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there last stand...
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against the avenging tide of their enemies, they knew that for their dark magic there would be no mercy...
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i rallied up the generals of all of our divisions and platoons.
"Zarg is where we will make our final stand, the fate of our world will be decided tomorrow at dawn. Generals, ready your troops! Prepare them for the fight ahead."
"Yes sir!" they all replied back to me. We were all afraid, but we knew that it's what we had to do.
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What a boring war, it's just a continuous stream of victories and reinforcements magically appearing.
A blender movie of this would be boring. :|
Morning came.
One of the generals was standing out over his troops on a small ridge, "Let us have victory today!".
The war horn sounded early and the traditional war speech was abandoned. Troops marched forward, archers rained arrow cover, Roman soldiers hurled javelins into the forces outside the grand tower, it looked like surrounding the tower would be an easy victory, but another war horn sounded, an Egyptian war horn. A massive wall of Egyptian soldiers charged across the western field, chariots came whizzing by, the riders hurling spears into the allied army. It was hopeless, the large force that had been sent to capture a spot for siege equipment, had been stopped.
At that moment Tiberius grabbed me and flung me on onto his horse, "Go! Ride! Warn the nearest cities, we've fallen, and-- GAH!!". At that moment an arrow had pierced his leg and he'd buckled in pain.
As I rode away I looked back, they were surrounded, being savagely killed, from atop a far ridge I watched as the allied army was brutally executed. As I rode on, I could hear the screams of the women in the camp being brutally attacked. I gritted my teeth knowing it would be suicide to turn back. I rode on, and on, and on, and finally, I got the the large city of Waltreshire, and ran hard to the governor's palace.
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Zarg was officially a loss. we hadnt even fully set up and we lost. that got me thinking, what if there was a spy in our camps?
Well, it couldnt be our the Norse resistance, they showed us proof of the kidnapping of their chief. and it couldnt be the Dwarves, because they have been the Tech's allies for a while now. that leaves the Elves and the Romans...i put my money on the Romans...
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As i walked around in the city i come to realize that now, as the main force of ours were dead, all we could do was gathering farmers and merchanters against the enemy. I entered the castle, the guards knew me, so i entered easilly. when i got into the throne room, i saw three girls, a old man and slaves. The throne room was covered with gold trimmed on the furniture, in the roof, there was decorated with diamonds and rubies. As I walked slowly forward I noticed that the three girls looked almost the same, i figured out they were princesses or something, one of them were very special...
If it is okay, im going to make a new thread like this for the blender movie, but then there will be serious with no grammar mistake or non-capitalized in beginining of sentences, Interesting story ideas will only be accepted and so on.
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The defeat was awful but the gervoriath who had stayed behind dug in and fought tenaciously for weeks to stem the enemy, they held the bridge so while our defeat was something like a stalingrad we still were able to launch our air raids on the enemy, when I thought about it the true losers of that battle were we the tech alone for the others had brought only small contigents the largest being the romans with around 10,000 men, Zarg could be crushed but it would take far longer, we would also need to train new troops, another thing that lowered the level of defeat was that many of our troops escaped 40,000 out of 115,000, and our rearguard withdrew prior to total collapse escaping with few casualties, tiberius was from what I knew in a torture chamber and our survivors who had surrendered and failed to escape were slaves...
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I realized where the mages were learning about our tactics and how they had gotten the behemoths to grow, Deldrick, the man who betrayed us all in the first place...
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were are you starting from now, it got confusing...
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were are you starting from now, it got confusing...
remember at the beginning Deldrick took the secret weapon plans and so on.
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now I went back to thinking of the present and my anger rose at deldricks betrayal, I looked at the princesses and tried to hide my anger...
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I don`t think it is the intent to start all over agan...
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I don`t think it is the intent to start all over agan...
were not starting all over again its just that our character realized whats caused their defeats
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shouldn`t you then make it fit into the already wrote part?
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what already wrote part and I did write it as just thought not as whats truly happening
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Deldrick fits into the story here fine, he played a part in the beginning of the story.
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okay, still, im confused..
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lets get back on topic...
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its on topic.
I needed to figure out how to help my fellow soldiers to escape from the slavery.
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so that they could fight again, then the news arrived, the 45th and 34th infantry divisions along with the green and blue walker companies were trapped and encircled in the fortified city of Karsh by the mages and there allies, it was the dead of winter and they would not hold for long, luckily the 12th airborne division was dropped to reinforce them, along with bringing in supplies...
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they were however still not fully prepared to break out.
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Then news reached us that the prisoners were to be executed in about 40 hours, but the news reached us 25 hours after it was current, there was simply not enough time.
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I cursed and then an idea formed in my head, I shouted to my officers,"get the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions down there to the prisoners and bomb the enemy as heavily as you can, you there, mobilize the tank and walker divisions, and you give us some suppresive artillery fire, were going on a trot through the enemy lines". We were gonna breakthrough to the prisoners and pull back before the mages knew what hit them, all we could hoe was that it would work...
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the soldiers started roar as they prepared their weapons.
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and then we could already see the aircraft flying, loaded with paratroops, rockets, and bombs, artillery rained death on the enemy as our forces broke out steam rollering toward the prisoners...
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As we approached the cage were they was being held, we noticed something, they were not humans anymore..
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they had been turned into shadowy beasts with long swords, we were horrified luckily not all of the prisoners had been transformed yet so we managed to save many before withdrawing to safety pursued by the mages...
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those we rescued were in a coma, probably by the shock they must have had of seeing their fellow soldiers become the monsters they were.
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when we finally reached our encampment we were also informed that Karsh was being heavily pressured by mage assaults...
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When we were all going back to Karsh, we all prayed that the defenses would hold out for just a bit longer. Karsh was our main foothold in enemy territory, so we couldnt lose this!
well, half-way through the trip there, i got this wonderful idea.
"hey! Jono (my personal engineer), do you remember that super-behemoth that the mages summoned? well, let's do the same!"
"wouldn't that mean that we would become what we are fighting? Ive always been against magic..." he said kinda shocked.
"no, Jono, we will build a device that is much bigger than that! when we get to Karsh (if it still stands), we will get everyone together and design this 'Mega-Fortress.'"
when we got back to Karsh, we were all surprised that not only was it standing, it was winning! the mages were getting tired and eventually fled. but this victory cost us men...including Tiberius (he was eventually saved by some of his men from our last battle). In a brave charge with the Roman cavalry, he was slain. Even though i didnt like him too much, i began to shed a tear. behind me was Tiberius' right hand man, Sextavian Arturus; he told me that Tiberius did his duty and that we should just go on without him.
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I could not believe how long Karsh had held, it was nearly two weeks, now we started to prepare plans for a humongous machine that would rip the mages to shreds, we also ordered our navy onto the rocket river where it would head north to meet up with the elves and south to join the romans, that way the mages remaining east of the rocket river would be cut off and we would have a clear defensive boundary...
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A week later, news came that a new Praetor had been voted into office and he was coming in two days...
Two days later, the new Praetor arrived, he looked similar to Tiberius, but a bit stronger looking, "Hello, I take it this is Karsh."
"Yes it is, and we've been expecting you." I said.
"My name is Gaius Horatius, elder brother of former praetor-Tiberius Horatius," he said. "Speaking of which, what exactly became of him? I've heard little more than that he's dead."
I told him how Tiberius died, and he smiled, while shedding a few tears, "A proper way for a Roman to fall."
He spoke again, after wiping away a few more tears, "I'll see if I can't send a letter to Rome and get a statue erected, honoring his great service during this war."
"Well he wasn't that great, I mean--" I started but Gaius cut me off.
"He saved the your King and Queen!" he bellowed, "if that isn't worth something, what is?!"
I nodded, and invited him in to see the mechanical monster I was building.
We discussed how it was going to be piloted, and other various issues, and I found out that Gaius had one been a great engineer, and he offered to assist me...
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"do you think we should give it treads or should it walk?" i asked him.
"legs, because the mages live in the mountains."
"ok, what kinds of weapons should it have? we should pile on everything that we got, dont you think?"
"i hear that the Dwarves have been creating a new weapon, something which can fire bullets at an astonishing rate" he said with great confidence.
"i'll ask them about it."
and so i did.
i went over to the Dwarves' engineering section and inquired about the prototype. the head engineer came up to me with a working version.
"it has the ability to reload with the recoil that it produces! and, the multiple barrels are spun with the assistance of a chain!" he said with great enthusiasm. "this is my greatest invention yet!"
"so, do you think we can give the mega-fortress a huge 'chain-gun'? and, do you think that all of our forces can be equipped with this? why should the walker get all the fun?"
"give us a week, and all of your firearms will be this impressive!"
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"As a gift to this city, and the army, I have brought 100,000 pilums, 50,000 square pilums and 50,000 weighted pilums, one of our soldier typically carries one of each of these," announced Gaius proudly, "I also offer to train some of your troops to throw pilums effectively."
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I'm honored I said, if you could get a message through to the dwarves I told one of my aides tell them that they have the okay to build our tanks all of our industries are dedicated to creating the airforce that everyone lacks, Oh I told a roman nearby if you wish we can donate some of our aircraft, he thanked me and set out immediately to procure them, everywhere troops were training, while our tech infantry were great fighters, they were not nearly as fine in formations so they needed lots of training from the romans, on the other han the romans got practice with tanks and high accuracy shooting, the elves kept to themselves using their bows with astonishing accuracy, the dwarves would comprise most of our heavy infantry and artillery, our armies were starting to be trained, armed and cooperate like one which was far better then the mages...
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...who in the meantime were squabbling about which faction should lead the army of "freedom from the Techians".
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they were quite stupid that way, mages were overly individualistic...
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the elves had some men on the inside of the Magic forces - its so good to have some spies...
well, one of them reported back to me, and informed me that Deldrick was in fact working on a massive walker too that was based off of my original designs!
"that traitor! we'll make his demise our greatest priority!"
He also told me of the defenses of Zarg, and that it has become a nigh impregnable fortress. They used the Indians as scouts around the perimeter, the enslaved Norse as the first line of defense, and themselves (the mages) as the second line and support for the Norse. We were in for the fight of our lives
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However there was some hope for one of my specialists known as "lightning" because of how swift his attacks were had devised a plan to kill Deldrick and recover the original plans, we loaded a single transport with twenty of the finest paratroops that existed, they would drop on the enemy fortress capture Deldrick and the plans and be picked up by and airship...
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before they left, i told them to capture him alive if possible, we wanted to interrogate him and learn the best way to take down Zarg.
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"Lightning" or Enrich Walter decided to schedule the attack for that night...
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They struck at midnight, despite my brain telling me not to I went along with them to help the commandos, we were dropped in total silence, each of us was armed with a rapid fire crossbow that barely made noise when fired and large five foot long swords, we eliminated the guard in one of the small turrets before heading into the main palace, we managed to snipe most of the guards and those we didn't were cut down without mercy, finally we came into the command chamber, Deldrick and what must have been the entire mage high command in our sector were there, the guards charged and were mown down by our crossbows, the mages drew swords and staffs and readied their magic blasts, but then I was given a shock, Enrich made one swift jump and twirling his sword like a reed cut the mages down with contemptuous ease, he would have grabbed Deldrick but my rage made me faster and I punched Deldrick square in the face, he was knocked unconscious and from a packet he carried tumbled all of my super machine plans. I picked them up and we raced for our pickup point, the airships were right on schedule and they lowered ropes and dragged us out just in time for shortly after we were shot at by archers, as we landed I considered how to handle Deldricks interrogation...
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As when we finally touched down, two soldiers immediately dragged Deldrick to a decrepit, abandoned house, where they securely tied him to a chair where he awaited interrogation. As I entered the house...
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Wyvern: like the LOTR tag btw.
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I thought maybe I should get someone to help interrogate him.
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I saw several burly soldiers...
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thanks for the compliment Seanachaidh
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"Hay you" I yelled, Saluting they came up to me, "come I said I could use your assistance...
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we need to persuade this jerk to cooperate I said...
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The Soldiers ran over, and stood at attention by my side as I explained what was to be done...
"Deldrick is ultimately devoted to the magic, so I doubt any physical torture will break him. We need to break him down psychologically. What we need to do is..."
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During the night wiper in his ear and brain wash him..
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"brain wash is brutal, dont you think? would we not become what we have been fighting? i say, let's leave him in that cell for a week...that should weaken him...what do you think?"
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"Nah", I said,"lets drug him with something, or poison him and threaten to not give him the antidote if he doesn't cooperate, plus if we brainwash him he won't know anything"...
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"I've heard that he has family," one soldier said, "why don't we threatened to kill his family off?"
"Are you crazy?" I replied, angrily, "That's almost as bad as..."
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brainwashing, plus his family is horrified of his crime and they want nothing to do with him...
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How can you be sure? MAYBE THEY ARE ACCOMPLICES!
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I doubt it his family has been respected by tech for years, they have never tried to interfere with anything :), in fact I met them and they were very nice people...
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Fine, but I must have answers from him! Maybe we just threaten to kill his family off, and we really wont...
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Ok Ok I said
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"so far, poisoning seems like the best bet," a guard said, "lets do that then"
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And so we did, at first Deldrick was resilient but then he began to cry and beg us for mercy :'( :'( :'(
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What the! I said, ok, well tell me all you know..
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"Zarg is not where you want to attack, but the command center is in the small town of..." Deldrick just couldnt make out the last word. Just then, his left eye started to turn black and roll off to the side...
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I pushed the flask of antidote into his mouth and he sputtered the name Galag before collapsing, unconscious...
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"Get this traitor out of my sight and to a doctor, after that, lock him up." I said distastefully.
As the soldiers carried the man away, I sat down and went over what the man had said. Galag was a brilliant location for the Magic's command center. Even though small, Scouts have reported that the town is well defended. It was also perfectly inconspicuous, if it weren't for our capture of Deldrick, we would never have considered Galag.
As I thinking this over, a scout burst through the door of the house. "Sir," The man gasped, "I saw a group of daemons not too far off, they're headed this way!" Although short, the man had a strong, muscled torso and legs that could only come from a lifetime dedicated to running. Although built, he had a surprisingly high voice that would have been comical in other situations.
"How far is 'not to far off'?" I asked, surprised and angered at the man for interrupting my train of thought.
"About half a mile, sir," the man explained, regaining his breath, "Another scout reported that there was an archmage with them."
That caught me off guard. Jumping up from the chair, I ran outside and started to rally together the remaining soldiers which I had, and started to form together a basic attack strategy for which we were to employ against these hell spawn.
As The first daemons made their way over the hill, I shouted orders, and...
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I saw to my horror that behind those few daemons and a mage were hundreds of thousands of enemies, around 400,000 to be precise against 130,000(We had gotten rreiforcements), As the enemy neared I screamed fire, immediately, row upon row of elvish and roman archer, plus tech and dwarvish crossbowmen and gunners, fired, mowing down the scout force.
I saw one of the mages signalling to his troops and organizing them, he was way out of range, suddenly a single arrow whined from a hidden position and from well over 400 yards slammed into the mages skull, killing him instantly, as I looked to the source of the shooting I saw our commando snipers picking off the commanders, the roman, tech, and dwarvish infantry formed up in a shield wall while our cavalry readied for a counter attack...
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"all though the super-walker is not done yet, this might not be a bad time to test it out." i thought to myself. then, i rushed to the mech hanger to get it running.
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My technicians objected because its engines were poor, and it was unarmed, yet I got my way...
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As I moved it out of the hanger I saw a bunch of fakir nail seats with spikes on both sides. I Jumped the walker onto them and the top spikes stuck fast into the walkers feet.
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"Fakirs," i thought, "i didnt think that the Persians were a part of this conflict." That got me worried. "Does that mean that we have another enemy to fight?"
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It does they're fighting the romans down south mostly...
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It looked like the seats were to block any one from coming out of the hanger, but now they had helped me. I ran the walker as fast as I could to the battle and started tramping on the mages...
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They were soon destroyed, even a squadron of behemoths and dragons couldn't wreck it, but then the engine ran out of coal... :(
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I was siting there wile the behemoths came running up! Suddenly out of the hangar came a bunch of technicians...
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Sir here is more coal and ammo...
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groups of Dwarves armed to the teeth surrounded us as i was being refueled. i will say, these were probably the greatest squads of Dwarves in our army. we were defended long enough for the walker to be completely refueled and i got back in the fight.
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We soon won and the mages began surrendering...
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The bulk of the mages retreated to re-group...
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But they didn't get very far before most were wiped out by bombers...
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this battle ended in an victory. and thanks to the training that we've been putting our men through, we only had 100 casualties. this war was going to end soon...
once the dust settled, and everyone went back to their posts, i put my walker back into the hangar and the engineers resumed their work.
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I had given orders for my army to build a ring of forts around Zarg...
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it was decided, we were going no further until we took down Zarg. we knew that the magic leaders would flee here (if they havent already), so might as well cut them off!
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We started bombarding zarg but our projectiles just vaporized...
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We realized that it was because the ancient books of blarp...
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which gave great magical power to their user...
Is this dead, sorry for the triple post
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Can you combine your 3 posts? Your allowed to have a long one...
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I think I will combine the last two, I just wanted to jumpstart this topic.
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Wyvern, this didnt die, im just waiting for something that i can work off of.
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I know, but if noone replies this will get nowhere ::) ::) ::)
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There was one problem however, the only mage in our vincinity who had the magic to use the books of blarp was Zarg himself :o :o :o....
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"we might not need him anyways! magic is all based upon the mind and concentration. if we could disrupt their concentration, the mages might lose their hold on the magical shield," i thought to myself. i know this because my sister was banished from the Tech nation 10 years ago for practicing magic. She tried to get me into it, and i almost did...i wonder where she is now...
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"we might not need him anyways! magic is all based upon the mind and concentration. if we could disrupt their concentration, the mages might lose their hold on the magical shield," i thought to myself. i know this because my sister was banished from the Tech nation 10 years ago for practicing magic. She tried to get me into it, and i almost did...i wonder where she is now...
probably dead :'( :'(...
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but I learned that she was now a wandering mage...
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With a rush It came to me, the books of blarb only work on other mages! My connection to my sister was the only thing holding us back. I had to destroy or change here...
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and so I left for the capital of the tech to temporarily be relieved of command, this way my troops wouldn't be held back...
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do to all the things that had happened recently, i have been unable to write in my journal for some time now. now that i have gotten back to cataloging my adventure so far, let me fill you in on what's happened.
i was on my way back to the capital to get myself relieved of command, but then a few of the generals stopped me.
"Sir, what are you doing?!" the all asked in unison, "why are you leaving in our most desperate hour? the walker is almost done and we are about to assault Zarg!"
"Men, it has been an honor serving with you, but i have to leave so that the ghosts that haunt me will not affect your war. im sad to say that i am leaving, but it is for the good of the resistance."
right then, i got a backhand to the face by the leader of the Valkyries.
"What has gotten into that thick head of yours?!" she yelled at me, "By the name of Odin, we need you here to lead the forces of the Tech. by far, you are our strongest asset, and you just want to leave us? may those damned "ghosts" in your head be expelled! those illusions of your sister cant hold you back from your duty."
"how do you know about my sister?" i asked her.
"because now she is the one who keeps the Norse warriors in slavery. She was the one who kidnapped our chieftain, and holds him hostage. and sadly, we will have to get through her to free our people."
then my eyes started to tear up for i knew what my friends would have do to her...and because i knew that i couldnt back down like a coward...
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But I knew my duty and shook my head...
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i walked away from my former comrades, there was nothing i could do to help them now.
i took a carriage back to Canjouster and tried to get back to the life that i knew before. i often thought of the armies that i fought with, and the generals who were my friends. the more that i gave to conforming back to the life i once knew, the more that my mind became occupied with the war. as the days went on, my thoughts were directed back to the lands of the Romans, the Elves, the Dwarves, and the Norse. no matter how much i reasoned with myself that i did the right thing, i just couldnt shake the feeling that i abandoned them...
the Magic nation was a very real threat, and i knew that the Resistance needed all the help that they could get. so after a month of mental torment, i got up and packed my bags again. as i took a carriage to the camp, i planned the Magic's defeat:
if we could save the enslaved Norse warriors and their chieftain from my wayward sister, then we would have another large army with us. this might give us the advantage over the Magic. (we'd cut off their mining operations, and give ourselves another army, its a nice swing isnt it?)
after that, we would find some way to break the shield surrounding Zarg. although this isnt the Magic capital, might as well take out the largest stronghold now so that we wont have to do it later. if Zarg fell, then that might demoralize them. with all that psychological trauma, they would lose focus, thus their magical abilities would suffer greatly (obviously making the war much easier)
i got back to the camp, and stood in front of the generals that i fought next to, and they looked like they knew i would come back...
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bump!
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I was greeted by great cheers and whoops from my army, they even organized a banquet in my honor
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I chattered with the generals and officers while eating. Then all of a sudden I heard yelling and screams, and then the roof imploded and everyone scrambled to get out.
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bump, again....
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I could hear screams of dragons, dragons :o :o :o!!!!!
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We ran
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as we ran, I realized that the schematics for the battlemech were still in the building. if we lost these, we would probably lose the war. so in a daring move, i ran back to the now smoldering building. good think that we put the schematics behind the bookcase, because it was in perfect condition. i grabbed the plans and fled to the hangar to make a stand against this raid.
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Actually the battle ended early for as usual the elite anti air division was near and soon there were hundreds of falling dragons...
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and then, i, Zoythrus, woke up from the dream i had again. i realized that i was still in the McDonald's parking lot. I got up, got a coffee from the McDonald's, then went home. As i walked home, i couldnt stop wondering about the nameless Tech protagonist and his battle against the Magic.
once i got home, i sat flipped up my laptop's screen and started to play Glest (this odd freesource game that i found on the internet, it's one of my favorites). After a few hours of playing, i got inexplicably tired. i laid down on my bed and fell asleep again...
back to the story!
We had won another victory! but i instantly realized that we need to invest more into our anti-air defenses - another raid like that would kill us!
"Engineers, get some ballistae up, we dont any more of those dragons hitting us again!" i shouted to my men.
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bump!
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Rightyo replied the captain of engineers as they got to work...
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within a day we had enough air defenses to stop every dragon that would ever assault us. things were looking good.
we needed to stage an offensive, so i called up the Elven generals and told them to get their best spies. We were going to sabotage Magic's energy supplies and their libraries. that would severely cripple their ability to retaliate when we do attack.
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I found the Generals to be unresponsive to my attempts at communication, after waiting three days I began to worry...
It wasn't like them to ignore our communications, and unless something terrible happened, the generals really shouldn't have taken this long to reply...
I stalked over to our designated meeting area, and instructed some people to gather up a squad of ten of our best men, we needed to know what had happened to the generals...
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:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X
"confusion" "shock" "disturbition" "wondering" "amazed" "more confusions"
i dont mean to interrupt at all. things here are going a bit crazy? or is this the strangest online topic i've ever seen in my life?
no offense. what a legendery order. i wish if i joined earlier! DAMN ME AND MY LAZYSELF OF NOT CHECKING OTHERS' TOPICS!!!!!!
if someone will be kind and show me the morale of this conversation? thank you.
i hope am a good story actor? i'll figure out. can i come in? if i can. i'd like to be a warrior of chaos or a dark lord or something. i'd like to see the morale of the story. explained in a list if possible.
thanks! cheers. nice topic.
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ummmmmmmmmmmm
errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm????????????
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X
"confusion" "shock" "disturbition" "wondering" "amazed" "more confusions"
i dont mean to interrupt at all. things here are going a bit crazy? or is this the strangest online topic i've ever seen in my life?
no offense. what a legendery order. i wish if i joined earlier! DAMN ME AND MY LAZYSELF OF NOT CHECKING OTHERS' TOPICS!!!!!!
if someone will be kind and show me the morale of this conversation? thank you.
i hope am a good story actor? i'll figure out. can i come in? if i can. i'd like to be a warrior of chaos or a dark lord or something. i'd like to see the morale of the story. explained in a list if possible.
thanks! cheers. nice topic.
first off, read the whole thing, you cant just jump in as a whole new character (that was the way it was supposed to be originally, but it didnt work out like that. maybe in the next one). as of right now, our unnamed character (who will probably remain unnamed for the rest of the story) is trying to figure out what happened to the generals.
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i dont mean to interrupt at all. things here are going a bit crazy? or is this the strangest online topic i've ever seen in my life?
no offense. what a legendery order. i wish if i joined earlier! DAMN ME AND MY LAZYSELF OF NOT CHECKING OTHERS' TOPICS!!!!!!
if someone will be kind and show me the morale of this conversation? thank you.
i hope am a good story actor? i'll figure out. can i come in? if i can. i'd like to be a warrior of chaos or a dark lord or something. i'd like to see the morale of the story. explained in a list if possible.
thanks! cheers. nice topic.
Read topic ;) and dont post so huge amount of un needed stuff :)
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back to the story:
i led the group into the generals' encampment - it had an eerie silence about it. there was no trace of the missing generals, everything was the way it should have been. but something wasnt right, so i had the team split up and search the surrounding area thoroughly.
no one would have expected to find what one scout spotted - the generals were all dead and decaying. it had appeared that an ambush got them, so we had to remain ever vigilant...
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you know, im really sad to see this story die....now we'll never know if the Tech and their allies defeat the Magic...
:'(
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but nothing else happened for the rest of the trip, the mages were obviously marshalling their troops for another major battle...
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Suddenly, many of the troops were start to report a strange ringing in there ears. I myself was starting to experience such a sensation, but dismissed this out of hand as anxiety. As more reports came, the ringing within my own ears became louder, and yet even louder. It was now more comparing to a high-pitch whine, and as I looked around I observed that my comrades were starting to drunkenly sway from left to right, as if dizzy.
The whining then double in intensity, causing my head to feel like it was about to split in two. I clutched my ears and fell upon my knees as did everyone around me. Obviously at this point I realized that the whining was little more then just hysteria. My head pounded with the intensity of it, and then could feel.... Oh my... I couldn't feel anything, save for this torturous pressure upon my skull. My hands gave way, and I laid face down upon the ground, wishing, praying, hoping for this to stop... stop... STOP!!!
As my eyes started to shroud with a peaceful blackness, I saw a large looming shape, and then a scaly, milky white pupil.........