THE HIGHLANDER'S TOMB (TEAM FORUM RPG)

Lore for Gourdy! Oh, and yes, 3 months!
Wow.
Cool, then.
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Wes puts up his Iron Shield to block the giant staff! 6! The staff slams unto the shield, breaking the head of the staff off! The recoil sends Wes to his knees, but he manages to stand. His shield doesn't, as it falls into pieces!
"What a blow! This thing is no push-over!" Wes states in amazement.
Kairy aims her shot and fires a Zip-Shot into the Guardian's eye! 5!
The guardian looks at Wes as it's eye glows! It's about to fire a Magi Beam when a Quartzine Bolt is sent straight into it's eye! It manages to crack into the stone, causing the entire head to be blown to bits from the charged magi inside that was released! The Guardian falls to it's knees and goes still. dropping it's staff.
Meanwhile, the Terror starts to rise, and Fureira says "We should get out of here!" while Kairy rushes towards Razuna and Wes, who picks up Zuko.
"Let's go back through the prison, we'll have to force our way through the steal door!"
Kairy suggests. Razuna replies hastily
"Okay, better idea, let's go back the way Wes, Zuko, and I came through, a cleared trap room?"
The Titanium Terror rises once more. It casts Dread Zone! 1! The terror is about to create a floor of darkness to slow and drain it's foes, but it instead blows itself apart! It will reform eventually, however.
"Perfect time to move! Let's go!" Kairy says as everyone rushes towards the east door. Fureira breaks from the group and rushes towards the spring, takes a deep drink, then rushes back to everyone. They enter the east door.
Passing through a burnt room, Fureira comments "So that's how you cleared it, eh? Little fire and explosions? My kind of method!"
Soon they all re-enter the Node room.
"Up the stairs?" Fureira asks, but Razuna says "No, down that hall" pointing in front of him. Keeping pace quickly, the group enters from a far southeast door into an extremely large and long rectangular room. From what they see, there are two staircases, both at the far northeast and northwest corners, and another door at the far southwest, with a door in the middle.
There are skeletons strewn about, cracks everywhere, and an ovular pit against the north wall in the middle. There is a giant chest in the middle of the room, with two domes twenty meters away on either side. Just then the entire tomb shakes violently! Dust and pieces of ceiling fall, and a violent, muted roar is heard.
Now debris of all kind is scattered about, some shiny and others dull and some bricks. After walking in a bit, Kairy notices that the door on the south wall in the middle is solid metal and identical to the one in the prison hallway, however this one has a handle.
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"Hiya! My name's Bazyli!" You say in your child voice.
Shivad stops all motion at once, and slowly turns to look into your 'eyes'.
After a moment of awkward silence, the spirit erupts into laughter.
"BAHAHAHAHHAAAAA! EEEEhhheeehehehheeee!!! OHohohohoooohohohohoo!"
She can't seem to stop laughing. When she finally composes herself, she comments delightfully.
"I could of sworn you were older, but oh my! What a talented child I have on my hands!! Oh, I'm sure the story of your power would be a tale indeed! Oh, if only we had the time my boy, but time is of the essence, in fact! These manikins can't hold our souls for long! We'll be needing to construct our old, or new if you prefer, bodies! We just need to find a transmogrification tome, and I'll use my magic skills to transform some animal into our bodies and remove their soul, then I'll cast a soul transfer to get us into our new bodies!"
"You have this all figured out, then? Cool! So, uh, where to?" Bazyli asks.
"Ah, you follow well, youngster! Let's get this show on the road then! First, into here!" Shivad strides past the worktable and goes past the doors, while Bazyli fumbles over himself trying to get there, what with his third body. Once through they are in a room that... looks exactly like the miasmal pillar room! Shivads tells Bazyli some information while they walk around the pit to the North Staircase. "Those doors to the east and west lead to rooms absolutely FILLED with treasure and CEIL! Oh, it's beautiful! BUT, we have no way of carrying it, so let's not bother, yes?"
"I understand! But, I swear I've seen this room before, in fact... I died in here!" Bazyli yells, alarmed. "Except I couldn't have, there were no treasure rooms, no staircase and no workshop connected to it... we came here from a ravine..."
Shivad calms Bazyli by telling him "Oh, didn't you know? There are six floors to this tomb, 7 if you count Anathema's origin- Oh!" Shivad motions to Bazyli to follow and they go right next to the miasmal pillar.
"Below us is the prison for Anathema, the congregation of dark energies generated from our, and the Highlander's no doubt hundreds of thousands, resurrections. See, when a soul fades between realms, they go through a veil of darkness, so right now there is darkness in our souls. It's a paltry amount, to be sure, but when you do it thousands of times... well, let's just say it adds up. The highlander removes these dark energies and places them in a prison. Now, after millions of resurrections, mass quantities of dark energy have been stuffed together in this pit. The miasmal pillar is what keeps Anathema, the dark energies, down there. Take a look if you dare, it's hideous." Shivad shudders.
Bazyli, curious at best, look down the pit through the slightly transparent miasmal pillar. He can't see well, but he can at least make out a big, empty, room with a door at the bottom.
"Uh... anathema is a door?" Bazyli asks, puzzled.
"What?" Shivad says, shocked. She looks down the pit quickly.
"OHNONONONO THIS IS BAD VERY VERY BAD OH DEAR OH ME OH WOE IS US!" Shivad starts ranting crazily, rushing up towards the staircase, while Bazyli follows clumsily.
She starts pacing in front of the staircase.
"Ok, ok, ok... no! DAMN! How on earth...?" Shivad seems to be thinking very hard.
Then, she stops and has an epiphany.
"That's right... the pillar, I had to reactivate it... which means it must of been put out on both Null AND here... which means Anathema... escaped! How did the pillar disappear in the first place..." This sends Shivad pacing once more.
Bazyli answers her.
"Uhm, I think that might of been me..."
Shivad looks at Bazyli not with anger, nor with forgiveness, but with a questioning look. "How?" She asks.
"Well I kind of, uh, cast a spell I call Miasmal Currents" Bazyli explains to Shivad how it works, then he continues "See, I kinda used it on the pillar, but I was creating too much MAGI from the miasma and kinda could only release it into beams... I was stuck, so I tried to free myself so me and my friends could escape, but I kinda... disintegrated myself... it was as if the living realm was rejecting the very existence of the constant flow of MAGi and Miasmal... I think the pillar probably disintegrated with me, that's kinda how I died." With that, Shivad thinks more. "Truly an accident, then... others? Your friends?" Bazyli tells Shivad about his friends. "I see... well, with enough of you..."
Shivad stops pacing.
"This will have to be it. We must get our new bodies by heading to the study, follow me to get there Bazyli. Once we do, we'll come back here and get as many power stones from the stores as we can, then we'll find your friends, distribute the power stones, find anathema who is no doubt in this tomb trying to escape, the highlander was very wise in their design of the tomb to keep Anathema inside and others out, then we kill Anathema, causing the dark energies to return to the veil! YES!"
Shivad starts dancing oddly, due to the manikin body, and then states gleefully.
"This might just work! We can escape here with our lives and not have them constantly endangered by Anathema! We can live full lives, and if we want to, perpetuate our souls' existence with this tomb! OH AND THE TREASURE, ALL OURS WEHEHEHEEE!" Then Shivad abruptly changes her mind. "No, the treasure stays. It must. We cannot anger the highlander. His power is that of millions of mages, all of their skills, their magic, their POWER! All of it passed down with the soul! I wouldn't doubt that they could rival gods themselves by now! Oh dear me! Let's hurry and hope the highlander overlooks our transgressions... Come now, let's be off!"
With that, Shivad strides off up the stairs. Bazyli follows, if a bit clumsily.
After a winding staircase, they reach the fifth floor and enter into a room... a miasmal pillar room! "Yes indeed Bazyli, the pillar goes all the way to the first floor, and it comes not from a source in this world, but through the veil from Null, Absorbing the miasmal energies released by Carthiser's soul crushing... it's perfect! Perfect for keeping a bridge and keeping down Anathema, or it would be, if it hadn't been turned off... oh well, the past is the past! I've no idea where we might find a tome for my transmogrification, nor where we can find the flesh to morph. Should we go through the south door, or perhaps the west door? What do you think?"
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Lvl 4 Wes: Soothe Wounds on cooldown(2 Turns) (E)Quillard Feathered Hat (E)Angelus Bracelet (E)Holy Longsword, (E)Quartzine Armor Set, x1 Filled Canteenx1, Dunnen Chestplate, 5 MREppers, 1 Red Pulp Fruit, 1 Valkinite Ore, Log, Rope, x1 Red-Pulp Salve, x1 Pitus Elixir, x1 Geri Tea.

Lvl 4 Zuko Reaver Slash(3 Turns) & Darkfire On Cooldown(1 Turns): (E)Onyx Helm (E)Demoni Bracelet (E)Katarina Demoni~Fire~Force, (E)Sanguine Balgroth Leather Armor(Empty), (E)Murkal Shell Chunk(Shield), x1 Filled Canteen, 5 MREppers, 1 Red Pulp Fruit, x8 Valkinite Ore, 1 Torch, , True Sight Gylph(7 Uses left).

Lvl 3 Razuna: Dual Pierce(3 Turns) on CooldownRaven Companion Gourd! x2(E) Onyx Gladius (E)Force Bracelet x2 Shoddy-Iron Gladius, (E)Ferall Leather Armor, x1 Filled Canteen, x1 Log, x1 Ferall Pelt, 1000 CEIL.

Lvl 3 Kairy: 10 Onyx Bolt 5 A-Bolts 5 E-Bolts 22 Hardened Tip Bolts 18 Quartzine Tipped Bolts, Large Wooden Crossbow(Force-Air Lvl 1) (unLoaded), Quartzine Hatchet, (E)Ferall Leather Armor, 8 MREppers, 2x rope, x1 Red Pulp Fruit fruit, 250 CEIL

Lvl 3 Bazyli's soul is in a manikin! Wooden Body; You are doubly harmed by fire!
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Lvl 17 Shivad.
Wooden Manikin
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Lvl 7 Fureira; Molten Plume on Cooldown (??? Turns Left)
Thin-Sheet Quartzine Boots&Chestplate(E) Scale Leggings(E) Fire Chakrams(E)
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