story continues
Part 3
The man’s boat bumps into another as they head downstream; the number of boats dwindling as boats head off down side currents, some of the people grab at the roots of the giant trees at the shore and climb from the water; most in fact are trying to get off the water. It has been several hours now since they exited the cave, he’s been chatting now with a rough looking man in a nearby boat. The man looks behind him at the boat he bumped into to see a teenage girl curled up in the middle mumbling, “it’s just a dream, just a dream, just a dream…”
“What the fuck is wrong with you?”
“She can’t accept that we’re dead obviously,” says the rough looking man who grabs onto his boat and ties his rope to it, “If we want to get out of this Hell alive I suggest we do something other than split up or just let this fucking current take us to where ever the fuck its going.”
The man shrugs and ties his own rope to the girl’s.
The girl looks up, “Who are you?”
“Greg,” says the man, “So why are you in Hell?”
“This is a dream,” she says, “not fully convinced,”
“Man,” says the rough looking guy, “go easy on the girl okay, girl looks like she’s been through Hell.”
He starts to laugh.
“We’re not in Hell!” screams the girl surprising them both, “I wouldn’t go to hell, I was at a party…” she drifts off silent again and plants her face between her knees.
*Kaboom!*
“What the fuck!” exclaims Greg, as water splashes down on him.
He can’t see the source of the explosion; but he does notice that there is no more current, and no river is much wider now.
“I think we entered a lake,” says the rough looking man pointing back where they came in, “right off the main river.”
The girl looks around, seemingly un-phased by the explosion just mumbling, “just a
dream, just a dream, I’m high that’s all, high dream.”
“Great,” says Greg, “the girl ODed at a party.”
“I didn’t OD!” snaps the girl, “I’m not dead damn it!”
“What ever bitch,” says Greg.
“Dude,” says the rough looking man.
“Hey,” says Greg, “I’ve spent the last twenty years in prison, and the last thing I want to put up with…in Hell…is some whiny bitch in denial about being dead, so excuse me if I don’t watch my words…what is God going to make things worse.”
*Kaboom!*
“Over there,” says the other man, “something fired from that….giant row boat!”
Indeed hidden behind giant bush limbs is a massive vessel, whose shape and large wood grain clearly depict the form of a gargantuan row boat, a row boat with cannons sticking out of portals on its side.
“Hey!” yells out Greg standing and waving his arms, “stop fucking shooting at us!”
Inside the massive boat a surly pirate grimaces through the porthole.
“They look promising,” says a woman in a red pirate captain’s attire, “bring them aboard.”
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 09:12 PM
and now for part 4 of 6
Part 4:
It happened rather quickly, one moment they are in a cave, the next facing a gauntlet of giant demons grabbing up boats, the next going down a massive river. And here these three strangers are, standing on the deck of a pirate ship like something out of a movie, being lined up and sneered at by pirates.
The girl continues to mumble “its just a dream” over and over.
*Slap*
The pirate queen slaps her across the face, “Felt real right kid? That’s because this isn’t a dream, but it is the worst nightmare imaginable.”
She paces back and forth, “don’t know if you three guessed it or not, but you are in Hell…one of the Hells at any rate. I am Captain Cor…Kathryn, Captain Kathryn. As you can plainly see my crew and I have acquired a row boat from one of the giant demons and rigged it into a worthy sea vessel. We fully intend to leave this swimming hole and exit back out into the river. With this vessel we need not fear the monsters that would pick us off and send us back to start…where we’d have to face…”
Her eye twitches,
“Those demons…” she sneers, “trying to use us as toys…and slaves…and toys…like little dollies…”
“Captain,” says the stubbly first mate.
“Right,” says Captain Kathryn regaining her composure, “you three are the first in a good long while to wander into this little pond.”
She stops in front of Greg, “and you show some promise for a little action figure, so tell me, what is your name and….how’d you die?”
“My name is Greg, and I was finally executed after being in hell for twenty years; so trust me babe, all this fresh air and open waters; this aint hell for me.”
The crew laughs, “Sounds like another Boris,” says the Captain.
“One of our hands below deck,” she says to Greg, “was in a Russian prison for forty years before his cellmate killed him.”
A very large man steps forward and says in a thick Russian accent, “Don’t worry captain, a few days scrubbing and peeling will get the ego out of this one.”
“And you,” she says to the rough looking man, “What’s your story?”
He shrugs, “The name is Mack, I lived, I wandered, I think someone shot me.”
She chuckles slightly, “and what about this pretty little thing,” she says to the girl, “you got a name or should be just call you Barbie Doll?”
“I…” she says, “I’m Emily.”
“Oh,” an Emily, “So which one of you men wants to play with our new Emily Doll?”
Greg and Mack expected boisterous laughter but instead the crew is dead silent.
Captain Kathryn tilts the girls chin up and moves her head from left to right, “Lovely complexion, nice brunette hair,”
She practically flings the girl away, “Stubs”
“Yes captain,” says the first mate.
“Take Emily to my quarters, I will find her some proper attire; and remind the men if anyone touches her I will have their dicks dangling from my door.”
She waves a dismissive hand, “and put these other two to work.”
Part 4:
It happened rather quickly, one moment they are in a cave, the next facing a gauntlet of giant demons grabbing up boats, the next going down a massive river. And here these three strangers are, standing on the deck of a pirate ship like something out of a movie, being lined up and sneered at by pirates.
The girl continues to mumble “its just a dream” over and over.
*Slap*
The pirate queen slaps her across the face, “Felt real right kid? That’s because this isn’t a dream, but it is the worst nightmare imaginable.”
She paces back and forth, “don’t know if you three guessed it or not, but you are in Hell…one of the Hells at any rate. I am Captain Cor…Kathryn, Captain Kathryn. As you can plainly see my crew and I have acquired a row boat from one of the giant demons and rigged it into a worthy sea vessel. We fully intend to leave this swimming hole and exit back out into the river. With this vessel we need not fear the monsters that would pick us off and send us back to start…where we’d have to face…”
Her eye twitches,
“Those demons…” she sneers, “trying to use us as toys…and slaves…and toys…like little dollies…”
“Captain,” says the stubbly first mate.
“Right,” says Captain Kathryn regaining her composure, “you three are the first in a good long while to wander into this little pond.”
She stops in front of Greg, “and you show some promise for a little action figure, so tell me, what is your name and….how’d you die?”
“My name is Greg, and I was finally executed after being in hell for twenty years; so trust me babe, all this fresh air and open waters; this aint hell for me.”
The crew laughs, “Sounds like another Boris,” says the Captain.
“One of our hands below deck,” she says to Greg, “was in a Russian prison for forty years before his cellmate killed him.”
A very large man steps forward and says in a thick Russian accent, “Don’t worry captain, a few days scrubbing and peeling will get the ego out of this one.”
“And you,” she says to the rough looking man, “What’s your story?”
He shrugs, “The name is Mack, I lived, I wandered, I think someone shot me.”
She chuckles slightly, “and what about this pretty little thing,” she says to the girl, “you got a name or should be just call you Barbie Doll?”
“I…” she says, “I’m Emily.”
“Oh,” an Emily, “So which one of you men wants to play with our new Emily Doll?”
Greg and Mack expected boisterous laughter but instead the crew is dead silent.
Captain Kathryn tilts the girls chin up and moves her head from left to right, “Lovely complexion, nice brunette hair,”
She practically flings the girl away, “Stubs”
“Yes captain,” says the first mate.
“Take Emily to my quarters, I will find her some proper attire; and remind the men if anyone touches her I will have their dicks dangling from my door.”
She waves a dismissive hand, “and put these other two to work.”
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Posted 24 April 2012 - 11:26 PM
part 5 of 6
(my muse started to grab hold towards the end here; tomarrow's part 6 is much longer than any other part as a result)
Part 5
Captain Kathryn rummages through a closet filled with many fine dresses, and pirate costumes.
“This will do,” she says picking out a steam punk costume, “you will nice in this one. Get us some variety around here; besides we only need one pirate queen on this vessel.”
“Take it!” yells Captain Kathryn to the mostly still girl who now grabs the outfit.
“Well,” says Captain Kathryn, “are you going to thank me for giving you one of my outfits to wear instead of that burlap sack you have on?”
“Th…thank you,” says Emily
*Sigh*
Captain Kathryn sits down behind the captain’s desk, “There is a fold out on the wall if you want privacy when you change. You don’t need to worry; I’m not into women…or men for that matter.”
She takes out a bottle and takes a swig, and says to the girl behind the fold out, “are you thirsty? Hungry perhaps?”
She hears Emily has stopped rustling about with the clothes for a moment.
“Didn’t occure to you did it?” says Captain Kathryn, “not hungry…not thirsty…we dolls don’t get hungry or thirsty.”
“D…dolls?” says the girl poking her head out.
“Guess you really are new,” says the captain, “examine yourself…”
Emily blushes.
“Not like that…well like that too if you want…you aren’t made of flesh…not normal flesh anyway…its more like a fancy super-advanced….eh….plastic…sort of…real fancy stuff. Although you’re lucky doll, we are all fancy like you here; either upgraded by our…I mean changed by those demons, or are new enough to be all fancy. Meet some older types and you’ll see folks made of cloth like talking voodoo dolls, or porcelain or some weird shit…it aint pretty all the time in Hell…heh that just sounds funny no matter how you try to spin it.”
She takes a swig of the bottle as the girl comes out dressed in the odd leather Victorian costume, like a cross between a western costume and some weird sci-fi Victorian sort of thing.
Captain Kathryn looks her over, “guess you don’t really need the goggles, it’ll do. We dolls have to look nice…so I hear. So doll what you in for?”
Emily looks away.
Captain Kathryn pauses as she goes back to her desk and taps on a chair opposite it for the girl to sit down; which she does obediently.
“You don’t seem the type to be in Hell,” says Captain Kathryn, “last doll we ran into had a mouth on her and first chance she got jumped ship. So come on…Emily…do you even remember how you died?”
“I…” says Emily, “I was at a party…and…then I was in a dark cave and alone and surrounded by all these people and…*sniff*”
“Eh,” says Captain Kathryn, “don’t be crying on my clothes doll…that shit aint salt water it’s some kind of lubricant or something stupid like that. Don’t worry…we dolls have to stick together down here.”
******
“You act like you never picked up a mob before in your life scum!” yells the large Russian man as he kicks Greg over, “now scrub the god damned floor properly, or you don’t eat!”
“I’m not hungry” growls Greg standing up to the man easily twice his size.
“Good,” says the giant Russian, “then you keep scrubbing and cleaning, and working till you are or I decide you do something else. You work or we throw you overboard for the fish.”
“And you,”
“I’m working, I’m working,” says Mack.
“Good,” says the Russian, “I don’t want to see you stop.”
(my muse started to grab hold towards the end here; tomarrow's part 6 is much longer than any other part as a result)
Part 5
Captain Kathryn rummages through a closet filled with many fine dresses, and pirate costumes.
“This will do,” she says picking out a steam punk costume, “you will nice in this one. Get us some variety around here; besides we only need one pirate queen on this vessel.”
“Take it!” yells Captain Kathryn to the mostly still girl who now grabs the outfit.
“Well,” says Captain Kathryn, “are you going to thank me for giving you one of my outfits to wear instead of that burlap sack you have on?”
“Th…thank you,” says Emily
*Sigh*
Captain Kathryn sits down behind the captain’s desk, “There is a fold out on the wall if you want privacy when you change. You don’t need to worry; I’m not into women…or men for that matter.”
She takes out a bottle and takes a swig, and says to the girl behind the fold out, “are you thirsty? Hungry perhaps?”
She hears Emily has stopped rustling about with the clothes for a moment.
“Didn’t occure to you did it?” says Captain Kathryn, “not hungry…not thirsty…we dolls don’t get hungry or thirsty.”
“D…dolls?” says the girl poking her head out.
“Guess you really are new,” says the captain, “examine yourself…”
Emily blushes.
“Not like that…well like that too if you want…you aren’t made of flesh…not normal flesh anyway…its more like a fancy super-advanced….eh….plastic…sort of…real fancy stuff. Although you’re lucky doll, we are all fancy like you here; either upgraded by our…I mean changed by those demons, or are new enough to be all fancy. Meet some older types and you’ll see folks made of cloth like talking voodoo dolls, or porcelain or some weird shit…it aint pretty all the time in Hell…heh that just sounds funny no matter how you try to spin it.”
She takes a swig of the bottle as the girl comes out dressed in the odd leather Victorian costume, like a cross between a western costume and some weird sci-fi Victorian sort of thing.
Captain Kathryn looks her over, “guess you don’t really need the goggles, it’ll do. We dolls have to look nice…so I hear. So doll what you in for?”
Emily looks away.
Captain Kathryn pauses as she goes back to her desk and taps on a chair opposite it for the girl to sit down; which she does obediently.
“You don’t seem the type to be in Hell,” says Captain Kathryn, “last doll we ran into had a mouth on her and first chance she got jumped ship. So come on…Emily…do you even remember how you died?”
“I…” says Emily, “I was at a party…and…then I was in a dark cave and alone and surrounded by all these people and…*sniff*”
“Eh,” says Captain Kathryn, “don’t be crying on my clothes doll…that shit aint salt water it’s some kind of lubricant or something stupid like that. Don’t worry…we dolls have to stick together down here.”
******
“You act like you never picked up a mob before in your life scum!” yells the large Russian man as he kicks Greg over, “now scrub the god damned floor properly, or you don’t eat!”
“I’m not hungry” growls Greg standing up to the man easily twice his size.
“Good,” says the giant Russian, “then you keep scrubbing and cleaning, and working till you are or I decide you do something else. You work or we throw you overboard for the fish.”
“And you,”
“I’m working, I’m working,” says Mack.
“Good,” says the Russian, “I don’t want to see you stop.”
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 11:00 PM
and now the final part of this story.
Part 6
“I am so sick of this fucking place,” growls Greg while mopping the mess room floor after their dinner of giant blue gills they had to shoot with cannons and haul on board earlier.
“Its not so bad,” says Mack, who is mopping up along side him.
“Not so bad?” says Greg, “How long have we even been here? I swear to God the sun never fucking sets, its day and night when that bitch of a captain says it is; and that kid we brought with us; some good she is; she’s the captain’s little bitch now…fucking aye, we clean, we eat every so often even though we’re never hungry and…” Greg looks at his hand remembering the day before.
Greg hadn’t eaten anything in what they were told had been three days; even though he wasn’t feeling hungry for some reason he was still pissed off. After trying to sneak a strip of fish from a table the large Russian man had grabbed him, slammed his hand down and cut it off with a sword.
Greg looks at his hand again and clutches his fist remembering how his wrist had spluttered out a clear fluid and his hand after a little twitching vaporized; only for a new hand to grow back quickly.
“Ya know,” says Mack, “for Hell its not so bad…”
(All hands prepare to set sail! And get your asses on deck!) comes the Captain’s voice over an intercom system.
“Except,” says Mack, “for the totally un-authentic use of an intercom in a pirate ship.”
******
The crew is gathered on deck, as Captain Kathryn, First Mate Stubbs, and Cabin Girl Emily stand behind the captain’s wheel.
Captain Kathryn holds up a scroll, “Today we set sail! Using this map of the River Styx we will sail out of this pond, back into the river, and down clear to the southern end of this island continent…”
“Island continent?” murmurs Greg.
Mack just shrugs.
Captain Kathryn continues on, “and into the portal of the Land of the Dead; we will escape this retched place; not to another Hell, not to some Limbo, but back into the cycle of reincarnation; back to life. Forgetting this nightmare ever happened; to live again!”
The crew hollers ecstatic.
“Now some of you,” says the Captain, “those of you who have been with me the longest remember how we escaped the house of the devil while she slept, how we turned this rowboat of hers into a ship, and set off…almost a year ago.”
“They did this in less than a year,” whispers Greg, “just a few of them by themselves?”
One of the other crew does a double take at Greg and looks back at the captain; as though the thought never occurred to him before.
“and as you remember,” she continues, “we ended up getting stuck in the reeds on the opposite side of the pond; but now we have cut free of them; and we have gained new crewmembers over the last six months. Today we are free of this wretched place.”
Captain Kathryn turns to Stubbs, “Stubbs, take a few men down to the motor room to help load the batteries, Eric, Emily, and myself will operate the controls of the front of the ship.”
Stubbs calls out, “Boris, Nathan, all three Gregs, and Mack come with me; the rest of you man the cannons and the oar positions to push us off the reeds and rocks”,
As those others, and one man Greg assumes is Eric head away from the Wheel; Greg in curiosity follows a little behind and sees them pulling a tarp off a giant radio controller with the Captain at the wheel and telling Eric and Emily to man the joystick controls for speed and Emily to help her turn the wheel joystick in the middle.
“You there,” shouts out Stubbs, “I said all three Gregs now get a move on!”
******
“Seriously, what the fuck is this?” says Greg as he and the others are carrying giant C-batteries and loading them into a massive plastic outboard motor that was hidden in the back of the ship.
“Havn’t figured it out yet?” laughs Boris in his thick Russian accent; “we little here; just tiny people made of fancy plastic and rubber…ha haa haa haa.”
“Humbling isn’t it?” asks Stubbs in a sarcastic tone, “demons must think it’s funny to turn us into their play things…but I am done playing pirate; we’re leaving finnaly; and thankfully before that bitch woke up.”
“Demon’s sleep for weeks, sometimes months on occasion,” says one of the other Gregs as he lifts a battery into place; “I’ve been in one or another of these Hells for years…decades maybe; we got lucky we stole this playhouse pond toy and made…”
“Shh,” hisses Stubbs, “new guys don’t need to know that.”
Greg smiles and says, “figured as much” as he loads another battery in place.
******
Greg is below sitting next to Mack as they man the oars along side at least fifty others; most of whom Greg had never seen before; figuring by their chains they were less cooperative than he was; and noticing none of the none-chained men are sitting near the chained men.
The boat moves, he can hear the motor, and the man leading them telling them to look out this way or that way with the long poles so they can tell which way to push if need be.
“Holy shit!” exclaims Greg as the boat suddenly dips and rocks about; most of the men falling off their seats from the sudden upheaval.
“To the cannons!” yells Stubbs over the intercom, “everyone who is able grab a weapon and get to the deck!...no…damn you!. Noooo….” His voice trails off.
*splash*
“Out there,” yells one of the men.
Greg looks out the porthole to see Stubbs swimming in the shadowed water…a shadow that is moving and making a flapping sound. Greg tries to look up through the small opening but can’t make out much more than there is something massive on the deck.
He is thrown back as the ship upheavals again and the shadow is gone. Everyone rushes to the deck. As Greg gets there he sees the man called Eric helping Stubbs back on board via a rope ladder.
“Where is the captain?” asks Stubbs.
“She got them.”
“Them?” asks Stubbs.
“Yes…” says Eric, “It was….Rossette, she…she grabbed up the captain and the new girl.”
“Fffff…Fuck it all!” yells Stubbs, “I bet that demon bitch was watching us wasn’t she?!”
Stubbs grabs Eric by the collar, “Tell me? What the fuck is the point then? What the fuck is the…point.”
Stubbs falls to his knees about the cry.
“We still have the map,” says Eric.
“Let me see that,” says Greg grabbing it.
“Hey!” yells Eric as Greg opens it…
“What is this shit,” says Greg,
Boris looks over his shoulder and grabs up the map, “This is it?” he says, “It like England…only smaller…Hell is really this tiny?”
“This Hell,” says Eric, “a calm tiny Hell with a big wide exit right at the bottom, look.”
“Whirlpool?” says Boris who tosses the map aside where several more men who had never seen it stare at it in disbelief.
“I believed her,” says Boris, “she was going to get us out of Hell…instead she wanted to drive boat into whirlpool?”
“That is the exit,” says Stubbs standing up, “fine, the devil only took those two, didn’t get us…we…sorry Kathryn…we can still leave…”
Eric leans down and grabs up the map and walks over to Stubbs, “We can’t use this ship anymore, we’d have to use the little boats unless you think we can row out of here.”
“What,” says Stubbs.
Greg yells out, “She took the toy remote didn’t she?”
The crew look at him confused as Greg walks up the stairs to the captain’s wheel.
“How many of you know were are all six inch tall toys?”
“None of you? Some of you? All of you? Well here’s the reality. I helped load fucking batteries into a toy motor to propel this fucking thing, they were piloting it with one of those little controllers you get from Radio Shack for your RC cars and shit. And am I the only one who noticed there is a latch on the other side of the boat and hinges of this side? The whole fucking top opens up. We aren’t in some row boat turned into a ship?...maybe…unless….fuck it…no we are in a toy ship…made by hand or not…its still a fucking toy we were escaping in. I don’t know about you people, but I am fucking sick of playing pirate. I was a condemned man in life, I lived the last twenty years in prison, so fuck this ship, fuck your captain, and fuck going back to the real world. I don’t care if I get eaten by a fish and have to return to start or what ever. I am getting the fuck out of here! So long!”
He runs and jumps off the side closest to shore. The crew looks over as they see him swim the short distance, get up on land, and disappear in the grass.
*****
Meanwhile, Captain Kathryn and Emily are set down by a giant pink skinned hand with long fingernails, belonging to a gorgeous woman in a weird tight red leather outfit with corset; a cross perhaps between a pirate costume and steam punk….a steam punk pirate perhaps. This woman sets them down in a massive doll house where three other women their own size are seated around in chairs in Victorian costumes eating tiny cakes.
“Look who is back,” says the giant demon through her ruby red lips, “Captain Coroline has returned from her stay at sea and brought a new friend with her…I think I will call her…hmmm…oh yes Engineer Sally…such a cute name for our little Steam Punk princess…that reminds me, better retrieve your…luggage Captain Coroline, don’t want those rough and tumble men getting into it do we…tee hee.”
As she turns Emily sees the giant woman’s horns poking back from above her pointed ears framing her short pink hair that stops just above the nape of her neck, and her giant tail with its heart shaped tip waving back and forth. As she walks out the front door in clear view of them she sprouts wings and flies off towards the pond…also in straight view of the house.
Emily looks about to ask but Kathryn cuts her off, “We’re up a hill, you can’t see this summer cottage from the pond.”
“So,” says one of the Victorian dressed women, “how was this attempt to escape?..hmm, Captain Coroline?”
“My name is Kathryn,” she says, “and you know it Betty, or do you prefer Duchess Lisa, who has a thing for Captain Coroline as a strong woman in uniform, but is afraid to admit it in the strict Victorian society?”
“Point taken,” says Betty dropping the Victorian accent, “but seriously Kathy you couldn’t really think you and those…action figures could just sneak out of here with Rosette’s remote control and take her jimmy rigged toy boat with out her knowing. She’s been watching you all everyday…did you know she had cameras in that thing…”
“Impossible…” says Kathryn.
“Indeed,” says another woman in a red Victorian dress, “The demons have access to some very advanced technology; you know that; remember when she visited the Mecha Hell with all of us; she bought some nano-cameras there…she even has them in this doll house.”
Kathryn looks out away from the doll house as Rosette is dragging the entire ship up the hill on a wagon, much of the crew on the deck; as Rosette turns to take the wagon to a shed Kathryn slumps down into a chair, “Emily, you might as well take a seat…”
She follows up in an exhausted tone, “Welcome to the doll house collection of Mistress Rosette, our demonic Overlord.”
Part 6
“I am so sick of this fucking place,” growls Greg while mopping the mess room floor after their dinner of giant blue gills they had to shoot with cannons and haul on board earlier.
“Its not so bad,” says Mack, who is mopping up along side him.
“Not so bad?” says Greg, “How long have we even been here? I swear to God the sun never fucking sets, its day and night when that bitch of a captain says it is; and that kid we brought with us; some good she is; she’s the captain’s little bitch now…fucking aye, we clean, we eat every so often even though we’re never hungry and…” Greg looks at his hand remembering the day before.
Greg hadn’t eaten anything in what they were told had been three days; even though he wasn’t feeling hungry for some reason he was still pissed off. After trying to sneak a strip of fish from a table the large Russian man had grabbed him, slammed his hand down and cut it off with a sword.
Greg looks at his hand again and clutches his fist remembering how his wrist had spluttered out a clear fluid and his hand after a little twitching vaporized; only for a new hand to grow back quickly.
“Ya know,” says Mack, “for Hell its not so bad…”
(All hands prepare to set sail! And get your asses on deck!) comes the Captain’s voice over an intercom system.
“Except,” says Mack, “for the totally un-authentic use of an intercom in a pirate ship.”
******
The crew is gathered on deck, as Captain Kathryn, First Mate Stubbs, and Cabin Girl Emily stand behind the captain’s wheel.
Captain Kathryn holds up a scroll, “Today we set sail! Using this map of the River Styx we will sail out of this pond, back into the river, and down clear to the southern end of this island continent…”
“Island continent?” murmurs Greg.
Mack just shrugs.
Captain Kathryn continues on, “and into the portal of the Land of the Dead; we will escape this retched place; not to another Hell, not to some Limbo, but back into the cycle of reincarnation; back to life. Forgetting this nightmare ever happened; to live again!”
The crew hollers ecstatic.
“Now some of you,” says the Captain, “those of you who have been with me the longest remember how we escaped the house of the devil while she slept, how we turned this rowboat of hers into a ship, and set off…almost a year ago.”
“They did this in less than a year,” whispers Greg, “just a few of them by themselves?”
One of the other crew does a double take at Greg and looks back at the captain; as though the thought never occurred to him before.
“and as you remember,” she continues, “we ended up getting stuck in the reeds on the opposite side of the pond; but now we have cut free of them; and we have gained new crewmembers over the last six months. Today we are free of this wretched place.”
Captain Kathryn turns to Stubbs, “Stubbs, take a few men down to the motor room to help load the batteries, Eric, Emily, and myself will operate the controls of the front of the ship.”
Stubbs calls out, “Boris, Nathan, all three Gregs, and Mack come with me; the rest of you man the cannons and the oar positions to push us off the reeds and rocks”,
As those others, and one man Greg assumes is Eric head away from the Wheel; Greg in curiosity follows a little behind and sees them pulling a tarp off a giant radio controller with the Captain at the wheel and telling Eric and Emily to man the joystick controls for speed and Emily to help her turn the wheel joystick in the middle.
“You there,” shouts out Stubbs, “I said all three Gregs now get a move on!”
******
“Seriously, what the fuck is this?” says Greg as he and the others are carrying giant C-batteries and loading them into a massive plastic outboard motor that was hidden in the back of the ship.
“Havn’t figured it out yet?” laughs Boris in his thick Russian accent; “we little here; just tiny people made of fancy plastic and rubber…ha haa haa haa.”
“Humbling isn’t it?” asks Stubbs in a sarcastic tone, “demons must think it’s funny to turn us into their play things…but I am done playing pirate; we’re leaving finnaly; and thankfully before that bitch woke up.”
“Demon’s sleep for weeks, sometimes months on occasion,” says one of the other Gregs as he lifts a battery into place; “I’ve been in one or another of these Hells for years…decades maybe; we got lucky we stole this playhouse pond toy and made…”
“Shh,” hisses Stubbs, “new guys don’t need to know that.”
Greg smiles and says, “figured as much” as he loads another battery in place.
******
Greg is below sitting next to Mack as they man the oars along side at least fifty others; most of whom Greg had never seen before; figuring by their chains they were less cooperative than he was; and noticing none of the none-chained men are sitting near the chained men.
The boat moves, he can hear the motor, and the man leading them telling them to look out this way or that way with the long poles so they can tell which way to push if need be.
“Holy shit!” exclaims Greg as the boat suddenly dips and rocks about; most of the men falling off their seats from the sudden upheaval.
“To the cannons!” yells Stubbs over the intercom, “everyone who is able grab a weapon and get to the deck!...no…damn you!. Noooo….” His voice trails off.
*splash*
“Out there,” yells one of the men.
Greg looks out the porthole to see Stubbs swimming in the shadowed water…a shadow that is moving and making a flapping sound. Greg tries to look up through the small opening but can’t make out much more than there is something massive on the deck.
He is thrown back as the ship upheavals again and the shadow is gone. Everyone rushes to the deck. As Greg gets there he sees the man called Eric helping Stubbs back on board via a rope ladder.
“Where is the captain?” asks Stubbs.
“She got them.”
“Them?” asks Stubbs.
“Yes…” says Eric, “It was….Rossette, she…she grabbed up the captain and the new girl.”
“Fffff…Fuck it all!” yells Stubbs, “I bet that demon bitch was watching us wasn’t she?!”
Stubbs grabs Eric by the collar, “Tell me? What the fuck is the point then? What the fuck is the…point.”
Stubbs falls to his knees about the cry.
“We still have the map,” says Eric.
“Let me see that,” says Greg grabbing it.
“Hey!” yells Eric as Greg opens it…
“What is this shit,” says Greg,
Boris looks over his shoulder and grabs up the map, “This is it?” he says, “It like England…only smaller…Hell is really this tiny?”
“This Hell,” says Eric, “a calm tiny Hell with a big wide exit right at the bottom, look.”
“Whirlpool?” says Boris who tosses the map aside where several more men who had never seen it stare at it in disbelief.
“I believed her,” says Boris, “she was going to get us out of Hell…instead she wanted to drive boat into whirlpool?”
“That is the exit,” says Stubbs standing up, “fine, the devil only took those two, didn’t get us…we…sorry Kathryn…we can still leave…”
Eric leans down and grabs up the map and walks over to Stubbs, “We can’t use this ship anymore, we’d have to use the little boats unless you think we can row out of here.”
“What,” says Stubbs.
Greg yells out, “She took the toy remote didn’t she?”
The crew look at him confused as Greg walks up the stairs to the captain’s wheel.
“How many of you know were are all six inch tall toys?”
“None of you? Some of you? All of you? Well here’s the reality. I helped load fucking batteries into a toy motor to propel this fucking thing, they were piloting it with one of those little controllers you get from Radio Shack for your RC cars and shit. And am I the only one who noticed there is a latch on the other side of the boat and hinges of this side? The whole fucking top opens up. We aren’t in some row boat turned into a ship?...maybe…unless….fuck it…no we are in a toy ship…made by hand or not…its still a fucking toy we were escaping in. I don’t know about you people, but I am fucking sick of playing pirate. I was a condemned man in life, I lived the last twenty years in prison, so fuck this ship, fuck your captain, and fuck going back to the real world. I don’t care if I get eaten by a fish and have to return to start or what ever. I am getting the fuck out of here! So long!”
He runs and jumps off the side closest to shore. The crew looks over as they see him swim the short distance, get up on land, and disappear in the grass.
*****
Meanwhile, Captain Kathryn and Emily are set down by a giant pink skinned hand with long fingernails, belonging to a gorgeous woman in a weird tight red leather outfit with corset; a cross perhaps between a pirate costume and steam punk….a steam punk pirate perhaps. This woman sets them down in a massive doll house where three other women their own size are seated around in chairs in Victorian costumes eating tiny cakes.
“Look who is back,” says the giant demon through her ruby red lips, “Captain Coroline has returned from her stay at sea and brought a new friend with her…I think I will call her…hmmm…oh yes Engineer Sally…such a cute name for our little Steam Punk princess…that reminds me, better retrieve your…luggage Captain Coroline, don’t want those rough and tumble men getting into it do we…tee hee.”
As she turns Emily sees the giant woman’s horns poking back from above her pointed ears framing her short pink hair that stops just above the nape of her neck, and her giant tail with its heart shaped tip waving back and forth. As she walks out the front door in clear view of them she sprouts wings and flies off towards the pond…also in straight view of the house.
Emily looks about to ask but Kathryn cuts her off, “We’re up a hill, you can’t see this summer cottage from the pond.”
“So,” says one of the Victorian dressed women, “how was this attempt to escape?..hmm, Captain Coroline?”
“My name is Kathryn,” she says, “and you know it Betty, or do you prefer Duchess Lisa, who has a thing for Captain Coroline as a strong woman in uniform, but is afraid to admit it in the strict Victorian society?”
“Point taken,” says Betty dropping the Victorian accent, “but seriously Kathy you couldn’t really think you and those…action figures could just sneak out of here with Rosette’s remote control and take her jimmy rigged toy boat with out her knowing. She’s been watching you all everyday…did you know she had cameras in that thing…”
“Impossible…” says Kathryn.
“Indeed,” says another woman in a red Victorian dress, “The demons have access to some very advanced technology; you know that; remember when she visited the Mecha Hell with all of us; she bought some nano-cameras there…she even has them in this doll house.”
Kathryn looks out away from the doll house as Rosette is dragging the entire ship up the hill on a wagon, much of the crew on the deck; as Rosette turns to take the wagon to a shed Kathryn slumps down into a chair, “Emily, you might as well take a seat…”
She follows up in an exhausted tone, “Welcome to the doll house collection of Mistress Rosette, our demonic Overlord.”
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 11:10 PM
and now the reason I did that story all at once like that instead of part per saturday, a character sheet ready to go.
a demon character.
Name: Rosette Atrish
Gender: Female
Race: Demon (Fire Hell)
Description/History: Rosette’s physical appearance is rather typical of her race, an attract humanoid female form with pink skin, pointed ears, ruby red lips, long fingernails, an a tail (although her triangular tip is more “heart” shaped than spear head). Her horns are flat against her temples (grey and segmented like a goat’s) and go back under the tips of her ears and off the back of her head to their points. She has pink hair which she keeps kind of short, just above the nape of her neck and combed back between her horns.
Rosette like any of her race can sprout wing bat like wings from her back. Which makes her costume a little more clever. She has a red leather corset outfit that can best be described as (Steam Punk Pirate). Which for her wings means two flaps on the upper back that are held on with snaps so they come off easy when her wings come out.
Rosette is fond of travel, in fact she hasn’t returned to the Fire Hell since leaving; her older sister owns the family castle there; Rosette is content with this as her prized possessions would burn up in the Fire Hell anyway; so she travels between various worlds (thanks to the allowance their father gives them), she has homes and cottages in (The Mecha-Hell, The Land of Styx, The land of Dao, a grape plantation is run by her secretly in Mid-Croix on Aesperia, and she claims a Penthouse apartment in the Metropolis area of False Earth.)
Her prized possessions would be her “doll” collection and her accessories; her family runs a company that produces accessories and “doll sized” merchandise for doll collectors (dolls being a form of soul body for human souls). Some demons like to keep them for all manner of reasons; she collects them like actual living dolls; she owns large elaborate doll houses, numerous outfits, costumes, accessories; even stocking up in bottles, weapons, plates, furniture and such for their size. One of her hobbies is even making and testing out new product ideas; including her own personal “modified” toys like a rowboat she by hand made into a closed in ship her dolls could sale on the pools and ponds of her various properties (after an incident in the land of Styx she has made a mental note to make sure the outlets of these ponds are gated off and she needs to put up doll barriers to keep out extra soul bodies that may wander by; and keep her own collection safely inside it). Although she has gained a few dolls this way, she’d rather not lose the ones she already has.
Example of powers:
Rosette isn’t much of a fighter, she has typical powers of her kind such as flight, shape shifting, hypnotic gaze, fire immunity, and some Pyrokinesis. Although to say she isn’t much of a fighter really means she doesn’t really train nor has any style to fight; although that’s not to say these sometimes child like grown woman doesn’t have a few tricks up her sleeves; she has learned a good many barrier spells of all sorts for all sorts of occasions as well as self teleportation, mass teleportation, and dimension gates (she likes to travel between worlds on her terms not by using some transportation systems); her transportation skills are so advanced she can use them to send more powerful demons and even Celestials away from her; for she has (Random Dimensional Gateway); a very advanced move that opens a portal to a random world *with magical essence and its own dimensional portals* and sends her adversary there.
a demon character.
Name: Rosette Atrish
Gender: Female
Race: Demon (Fire Hell)
Description/History: Rosette’s physical appearance is rather typical of her race, an attract humanoid female form with pink skin, pointed ears, ruby red lips, long fingernails, an a tail (although her triangular tip is more “heart” shaped than spear head). Her horns are flat against her temples (grey and segmented like a goat’s) and go back under the tips of her ears and off the back of her head to their points. She has pink hair which she keeps kind of short, just above the nape of her neck and combed back between her horns.
Rosette like any of her race can sprout wing bat like wings from her back. Which makes her costume a little more clever. She has a red leather corset outfit that can best be described as (Steam Punk Pirate). Which for her wings means two flaps on the upper back that are held on with snaps so they come off easy when her wings come out.
Rosette is fond of travel, in fact she hasn’t returned to the Fire Hell since leaving; her older sister owns the family castle there; Rosette is content with this as her prized possessions would burn up in the Fire Hell anyway; so she travels between various worlds (thanks to the allowance their father gives them), she has homes and cottages in (The Mecha-Hell, The Land of Styx, The land of Dao, a grape plantation is run by her secretly in Mid-Croix on Aesperia, and she claims a Penthouse apartment in the Metropolis area of False Earth.)
Her prized possessions would be her “doll” collection and her accessories; her family runs a company that produces accessories and “doll sized” merchandise for doll collectors (dolls being a form of soul body for human souls). Some demons like to keep them for all manner of reasons; she collects them like actual living dolls; she owns large elaborate doll houses, numerous outfits, costumes, accessories; even stocking up in bottles, weapons, plates, furniture and such for their size. One of her hobbies is even making and testing out new product ideas; including her own personal “modified” toys like a rowboat she by hand made into a closed in ship her dolls could sale on the pools and ponds of her various properties (after an incident in the land of Styx she has made a mental note to make sure the outlets of these ponds are gated off and she needs to put up doll barriers to keep out extra soul bodies that may wander by; and keep her own collection safely inside it). Although she has gained a few dolls this way, she’d rather not lose the ones she already has.
Example of powers:
Rosette isn’t much of a fighter, she has typical powers of her kind such as flight, shape shifting, hypnotic gaze, fire immunity, and some Pyrokinesis. Although to say she isn’t much of a fighter really means she doesn’t really train nor has any style to fight; although that’s not to say these sometimes child like grown woman doesn’t have a few tricks up her sleeves; she has learned a good many barrier spells of all sorts for all sorts of occasions as well as self teleportation, mass teleportation, and dimension gates (she likes to travel between worlds on her terms not by using some transportation systems); her transportation skills are so advanced she can use them to send more powerful demons and even Celestials away from her; for she has (Random Dimensional Gateway); a very advanced move that opens a portal to a random world *with magical essence and its own dimensional portals* and sends her adversary there.
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 11:43 PM
and how about an Overlord class demon today?
Name: Endara Tarata
Gender: Female
Race: Demon (Blue Devil)
Description/History: Endara like most her kind has a gorgeous appearance, although she does have a bit more muscle tone than most the females of her kind (which makes since given she is an Overlord). She has blue skin like all her kind and her horns are a deeper purple blue color. Her horns are flat against her temples and go backwards behind her long pointed ears and jut back from her head like a crest almost (gives her a speedy appearance according to some humans *weird creatures if you ask me*). She wears a black leather battle outfit with horned skull belt buckle (with red ruby eyes).
Endara Tarata is an Overlord, ruler that is of a Hell; granted not a full Hell. She rules one of the 80 layers of the Cone (a Hell world that can be described as looking like a giant fat cut cigar with a crusty exterior; or a turd as some have described it). She rules the very top layer; AKA the first layer that soul bodies find themselves on known as “False Earth” (for resembling the human world Earth as well as some of its building types and cities). Her “palace” is in fact a grand hotel on the Eastern Sea Board with her personal chambers being the Pent House. She has a strong personality; she prides herself on her strength and intelligence; although she can seem childish at times as she collects human toys and girly stuffed animals in her private collection rooms and can sometimes be found just goofing off as she flies around the landscape; once even just for the sake of her curiosity stopping a swarm of zombies from devouring some soul bodies just to ask those people why they were in Hell. There isn’t much else to know about her other than what will be listed under powers.
Example of powers:
She is powerful…insanely so; to the extent that her full power is seldom seen except during Overlord Tournaments (contests where Overlords show off their strength and upstarts may attempt to officially overthrow an Overlord of a Hell world). She can fly using gravity manipulation powers, able to move so close to the speed of light that it boggles the mind that she can survive it or doesn’t turn into energy; but given the dimensional warp capabilities of gravity control it is possible she is using something akin to dimension drive to bypass physics; but there is no (black line) to give that away as she moves. Her body is durable enough to survive a supernova, and only lose her clothes and singe her a little in the process (she does also have a very powerful defense aura)…well it also knocks her loopy for a while and if caught unprepared can knock her out for a month or two.
(the fact she is so powerful boggles those who question why she is just the first of the 80 Overlords of the Cone; when her power is second only to the 80th Overlord *who controls the gateway at the bottom of the Cone; but that apparently has more to do with her personality and her preference for an open air flying environment in a mostly open space landscape vs a more populated Hell world or one with an underground or thick environment feel to it.)
She has three signature attacks that have become well known.
1: Omega Drill: She flies through the air, feet first, spinning like a drill yelling out “weeeeee”. This spin attack unleashes a powerful wave of energy around her able to shatter mountains should they be in her path, as such if she did this through a city it would likely obliterate the buildings, roads, subway, and everything else for miles around her.
*it gets its name Omega Drill because theoretically she could do this move downwards and pierce a planet’s core; stopping its rotation; thus leading the planet to die…there is no record however of her using it this way.
2: End of the World Fist: It looks simple enough, she does a back flip, lands on all fours, and then lunges forward with a red sphere of energy around her fist and hits her target…however it then unleashes a red energy shockwave that can set off an extinction level event…to put it mildly if she is dead center on a tectonic plate when she does this she could actually “dent it”…as in massive crater, earthquakes, tsunami on all sides, sonic boom so loud and powerful it levels everything (granted the red energy wave swallows up the sound wave and levels everything for thousands of miles its self). There is a rumor she did this one on a planet near the edge of tectonic plate and tilted it; causing the other side of the plate to overlap the neighboring plate differently…however this was a none-living world.
(researchers of the Overlords believe the red energy she unleashes defies some physics in plate tectonics and normal geological behavior in relation to impacts due to a Geokinetic element present or gravity control element, and may be similar to another powerful attack called “Tectonic Disruptor” which can be used by high level users of an Extinction Scythe.)
3: Gravity Domination: Basically she does this kind of focus and hand movements (similar to a fortune teller looking at a crystal ball) while forming a black sphere with purple electric like bolts through it. This sphere is only about the size of a basketball at its largest but at the climax of this move she thrusts the sphere into the air, up into low orbit heights and creates a miniature black hole in the sphere so strong it creates a cone of atmosphere, clouds, and numerous objects on the surface of the planet being sucked up into it. When her target is sucked in it stops (thus dropping anything else on its way up) and then explodes with enough force to take out half the planet below it (Earth sized planet).
*Naturally she has other basic energy blasts, energy spheres, and martial arts type special moves; most of which aren’t nearly as insanely powerful; but the above three are known as her signature moves as they come out during the final rounds of the Overlord Tournaments when its just the highest level fighters remaining and she needs to bring her A-game to stay in the game.
Name: Endara Tarata
Gender: Female
Race: Demon (Blue Devil)
Description/History: Endara like most her kind has a gorgeous appearance, although she does have a bit more muscle tone than most the females of her kind (which makes since given she is an Overlord). She has blue skin like all her kind and her horns are a deeper purple blue color. Her horns are flat against her temples and go backwards behind her long pointed ears and jut back from her head like a crest almost (gives her a speedy appearance according to some humans *weird creatures if you ask me*). She wears a black leather battle outfit with horned skull belt buckle (with red ruby eyes).
Endara Tarata is an Overlord, ruler that is of a Hell; granted not a full Hell. She rules one of the 80 layers of the Cone (a Hell world that can be described as looking like a giant fat cut cigar with a crusty exterior; or a turd as some have described it). She rules the very top layer; AKA the first layer that soul bodies find themselves on known as “False Earth” (for resembling the human world Earth as well as some of its building types and cities). Her “palace” is in fact a grand hotel on the Eastern Sea Board with her personal chambers being the Pent House. She has a strong personality; she prides herself on her strength and intelligence; although she can seem childish at times as she collects human toys and girly stuffed animals in her private collection rooms and can sometimes be found just goofing off as she flies around the landscape; once even just for the sake of her curiosity stopping a swarm of zombies from devouring some soul bodies just to ask those people why they were in Hell. There isn’t much else to know about her other than what will be listed under powers.
Example of powers:
She is powerful…insanely so; to the extent that her full power is seldom seen except during Overlord Tournaments (contests where Overlords show off their strength and upstarts may attempt to officially overthrow an Overlord of a Hell world). She can fly using gravity manipulation powers, able to move so close to the speed of light that it boggles the mind that she can survive it or doesn’t turn into energy; but given the dimensional warp capabilities of gravity control it is possible she is using something akin to dimension drive to bypass physics; but there is no (black line) to give that away as she moves. Her body is durable enough to survive a supernova, and only lose her clothes and singe her a little in the process (she does also have a very powerful defense aura)…well it also knocks her loopy for a while and if caught unprepared can knock her out for a month or two.
(the fact she is so powerful boggles those who question why she is just the first of the 80 Overlords of the Cone; when her power is second only to the 80th Overlord *who controls the gateway at the bottom of the Cone; but that apparently has more to do with her personality and her preference for an open air flying environment in a mostly open space landscape vs a more populated Hell world or one with an underground or thick environment feel to it.)
She has three signature attacks that have become well known.
1: Omega Drill: She flies through the air, feet first, spinning like a drill yelling out “weeeeee”. This spin attack unleashes a powerful wave of energy around her able to shatter mountains should they be in her path, as such if she did this through a city it would likely obliterate the buildings, roads, subway, and everything else for miles around her.
*it gets its name Omega Drill because theoretically she could do this move downwards and pierce a planet’s core; stopping its rotation; thus leading the planet to die…there is no record however of her using it this way.
2: End of the World Fist: It looks simple enough, she does a back flip, lands on all fours, and then lunges forward with a red sphere of energy around her fist and hits her target…however it then unleashes a red energy shockwave that can set off an extinction level event…to put it mildly if she is dead center on a tectonic plate when she does this she could actually “dent it”…as in massive crater, earthquakes, tsunami on all sides, sonic boom so loud and powerful it levels everything (granted the red energy wave swallows up the sound wave and levels everything for thousands of miles its self). There is a rumor she did this one on a planet near the edge of tectonic plate and tilted it; causing the other side of the plate to overlap the neighboring plate differently…however this was a none-living world.
(researchers of the Overlords believe the red energy she unleashes defies some physics in plate tectonics and normal geological behavior in relation to impacts due to a Geokinetic element present or gravity control element, and may be similar to another powerful attack called “Tectonic Disruptor” which can be used by high level users of an Extinction Scythe.)
3: Gravity Domination: Basically she does this kind of focus and hand movements (similar to a fortune teller looking at a crystal ball) while forming a black sphere with purple electric like bolts through it. This sphere is only about the size of a basketball at its largest but at the climax of this move she thrusts the sphere into the air, up into low orbit heights and creates a miniature black hole in the sphere so strong it creates a cone of atmosphere, clouds, and numerous objects on the surface of the planet being sucked up into it. When her target is sucked in it stops (thus dropping anything else on its way up) and then explodes with enough force to take out half the planet below it (Earth sized planet).
*Naturally she has other basic energy blasts, energy spheres, and martial arts type special moves; most of which aren’t nearly as insanely powerful; but the above three are known as her signature moves as they come out during the final rounds of the Overlord Tournaments when its just the highest level fighters remaining and she needs to bring her A-game to stay in the game.
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 08:05 PM
The core concept here is, if NIS made a traditional turn style RPG adventure game, exploring fields, forests, caves, towns, ect….
What is here is not the story, main characters, or anything of that nature; but rather the idea of how NIS could/might use some of their past characters and creatures to appear in this game.
(For the core concept we imagine a team of heroes exploring in the Netherworld for what ever reason).
*In order to keep the identity of such a game distinct from the Disgaea series or La Pucelle Tactics and others; the powers of the monsters won’t likely be as extreme as those games when they are faced; nor will the mechanic of recruiting them be present; thus allowing the game to have a wide range of diverse NPCs and opponents with out worrying about memory space on such factors; such as this type of game usually has.
NPCs:
Like any traditional RPG as the player explores the lands and towns a few familiar faces will pop up (re-used sprites and models) for towns people, shop keepers, and others. So here are what could potentially be used to fill those roles for this game.
Church/Save Point/Inn/Healing Locations:
These are potentially diverse types of places where players can save and heal as such several character types can be present at them.
Church Save Point *with options such as curing poison and curses*: Cleric (Female)
Inn: Cleric *short haircut* (Female)
(such locations can also have the Male Cleric present depending on the town and location).
Healing Tents: (A type of place found in the middle of larger fields)
-Medic (Male: from Makai Kingdom)
Larger city Hospitals: (more high tech locations: the Netherworld is very diverse on these matters).
-Medic (Female: Introduced as DLC in Disgaea 4)
Shops:
Item Shop: Merchant (Makai Kingdom)
Weapon Shop: Warrior (Male)
Armor Shop: Warrior (Female)
Black Market shop: Pumpkin Jack
Magic Shops: Witch and Skull Boys (various types by various locations)
-potential also run into Grown Magicians, and a new Adult Witch class.
Alchemy Shop: Fusion Expert (Phantom Brave)
-Mechanic from (Makai Kingdom) as background characters here, as well as Ruska from (Makai Kingdom).
Random NPCs:
Characters seen standing around towns and various shops; posing as “other adventurers”, guards, and what not.
None-specific Adventurer types seen in various towns and places:
Warrior (Male and Female),
Brawler (Male and Female),
Infantry (Male and Female),
Archer (Male and Female),
Gunner (Male and Female),
Magic Knight,
Thief,
Rogue,
Scout,
Job NPCs (found in specific spots of Towns)
Guards: Armored Knight, (castles)
Bouncer, (big cities)
Majin, (darker locations)
More random Towns people:
Any of the above NPCs, some new models, and even some monsters here and there like Saber Cats, or a Spa run by a Succubus, Nekomata, and Alraune.
What is here is not the story, main characters, or anything of that nature; but rather the idea of how NIS could/might use some of their past characters and creatures to appear in this game.
(For the core concept we imagine a team of heroes exploring in the Netherworld for what ever reason).
*In order to keep the identity of such a game distinct from the Disgaea series or La Pucelle Tactics and others; the powers of the monsters won’t likely be as extreme as those games when they are faced; nor will the mechanic of recruiting them be present; thus allowing the game to have a wide range of diverse NPCs and opponents with out worrying about memory space on such factors; such as this type of game usually has.
NPCs:
Like any traditional RPG as the player explores the lands and towns a few familiar faces will pop up (re-used sprites and models) for towns people, shop keepers, and others. So here are what could potentially be used to fill those roles for this game.
Church/Save Point/Inn/Healing Locations:
These are potentially diverse types of places where players can save and heal as such several character types can be present at them.
Church Save Point *with options such as curing poison and curses*: Cleric (Female)
Inn: Cleric *short haircut* (Female)
(such locations can also have the Male Cleric present depending on the town and location).
Healing Tents: (A type of place found in the middle of larger fields)
-Medic (Male: from Makai Kingdom)
Larger city Hospitals: (more high tech locations: the Netherworld is very diverse on these matters).
-Medic (Female: Introduced as DLC in Disgaea 4)
Shops:
Item Shop: Merchant (Makai Kingdom)
Weapon Shop: Warrior (Male)
Armor Shop: Warrior (Female)
Black Market shop: Pumpkin Jack
Magic Shops: Witch and Skull Boys (various types by various locations)
-potential also run into Grown Magicians, and a new Adult Witch class.
Alchemy Shop: Fusion Expert (Phantom Brave)
-Mechanic from (Makai Kingdom) as background characters here, as well as Ruska from (Makai Kingdom).
Random NPCs:
Characters seen standing around towns and various shops; posing as “other adventurers”, guards, and what not.
None-specific Adventurer types seen in various towns and places:
Warrior (Male and Female),
Brawler (Male and Female),
Infantry (Male and Female),
Archer (Male and Female),
Gunner (Male and Female),
Magic Knight,
Thief,
Rogue,
Scout,
Job NPCs (found in specific spots of Towns)
Guards: Armored Knight, (castles)
Bouncer, (big cities)
Majin, (darker locations)
More random Towns people:
Any of the above NPCs, some new models, and even some monsters here and there like Saber Cats, or a Spa run by a Succubus, Nekomata, and Alraune.
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Posted 29 April 2012 - 10:12 PM
a race from the Dream World:
Species: Lust Fairy (Dream World)
Type: Humanoid (Fairy)
Average Life Span: Unknown, likely indefinite
Habitat: Dream World: Reside in any area really; preferring to stick to areas where emotions of love and lust can be found in abundance.
Physical description: Their true form is a six inch tall human female of any ethnicity and always what is considered beautiful for that ethnicity and relative time period (as such it is questioned if these are their true forms by some; and if their actual true forms are never seen; leading to much speculation as to what those might be from beautiful too abstract too horrifying).
They are shape shifters so it is not out of the question.
History & Abilities:
The Lust Fairies are beings who feed on emotions of love and lust; more so sexual gratification emotions. As such they tend to hang around areas near where humans and other sentient beings minds wander in the dream world where such emotions are prevalent. They will enter a dream and take a pleasing form; changing size, appearance, and attire, to fit the expectations and desires of the dreamer. They will then seduce and engage them in what ever way would best please them; although the Lust Fairies have been known to use the dream logic *do what ever with out question* to make the dream go their way so sex and lust abound; much to the confusion of the dreamer when they wake up. As their actions do not alter the true mind of their “prey” nor do they cause any harm; in fact they may make the “prey” more psychologically healthy for it (Lust Fairies will alter deviant perversions in the dream to better suit what the Lust Fairies find acceptable…granted their limitations are few); no action is taken by the Dream Police or the Dream Weaver against them intruding into dreams.
Species: Lust Fairy (Dream World)
Type: Humanoid (Fairy)
Average Life Span: Unknown, likely indefinite
Habitat: Dream World: Reside in any area really; preferring to stick to areas where emotions of love and lust can be found in abundance.
Physical description: Their true form is a six inch tall human female of any ethnicity and always what is considered beautiful for that ethnicity and relative time period (as such it is questioned if these are their true forms by some; and if their actual true forms are never seen; leading to much speculation as to what those might be from beautiful too abstract too horrifying).
They are shape shifters so it is not out of the question.
History & Abilities:
The Lust Fairies are beings who feed on emotions of love and lust; more so sexual gratification emotions. As such they tend to hang around areas near where humans and other sentient beings minds wander in the dream world where such emotions are prevalent. They will enter a dream and take a pleasing form; changing size, appearance, and attire, to fit the expectations and desires of the dreamer. They will then seduce and engage them in what ever way would best please them; although the Lust Fairies have been known to use the dream logic *do what ever with out question* to make the dream go their way so sex and lust abound; much to the confusion of the dreamer when they wake up. As their actions do not alter the true mind of their “prey” nor do they cause any harm; in fact they may make the “prey” more psychologically healthy for it (Lust Fairies will alter deviant perversions in the dream to better suit what the Lust Fairies find acceptable…granted their limitations are few); no action is taken by the Dream Police or the Dream Weaver against them intruding into dreams.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 11:08 PM
an Overlord overview: the rulers of the various lands of (The Makai Cluster)
-a brief reminder, the Makai Cluster is a bunch of floating continent lands (lifeless rim holding a thriving living flat world inside it) located in the universe known as (Other World), most of these continent worlds are only about the size of some countries, some even smaller. They are all located fairly close to each other; although travel between them is usually done via portal gates.
Location Overlord/Ruler Gender of Ruler Universe is in
Makai Cluster: Aesir Odin Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Asta *Human Kingdoms* Varies Other World
Makai Cluster: Astral Sea Najina Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Astral Sea (Law Lands) *Hinnen Parlament* Varies Other World
Makai Cluster: Dark Forest Rayzore Rhuen Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (All) Litmet Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (Black Mountain) Black Rose Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (Blue Mountains) Blue Rose Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (Green Mountains) Green Rose Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (Red Mountains) Red Rose Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (White Mountains) White Rose Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Frozen Roots Country (None) (NA) Other World
Makai Cluster: Land of Dao (Northern) Rhit Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Land of Dao (Southern) Sehkmenta Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Land of Styx Styxah Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Mysta Rhuniva Hermaphrodite Other World
Makai Cluster: Plains of Oblivion Lord Valg Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Sands of Time (Above Ground) Pharaoh Gais Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Sands of Time (Underground) Ahn Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Water Roots Country *Aesperian Monarchy* Varies Other World
Makai Cluster: Ying Yang Plate (None) (NA) Other World
-a brief reminder, the Makai Cluster is a bunch of floating continent lands (lifeless rim holding a thriving living flat world inside it) located in the universe known as (Other World), most of these continent worlds are only about the size of some countries, some even smaller. They are all located fairly close to each other; although travel between them is usually done via portal gates.
Location Overlord/Ruler Gender of Ruler Universe is in
Makai Cluster: Aesir Odin Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Asta *Human Kingdoms* Varies Other World
Makai Cluster: Astral Sea Najina Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Astral Sea (Law Lands) *Hinnen Parlament* Varies Other World
Makai Cluster: Dark Forest Rayzore Rhuen Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (All) Litmet Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (Black Mountain) Black Rose Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (Blue Mountains) Blue Rose Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (Green Mountains) Green Rose Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (Red Mountains) Red Rose Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Five Mountains (White Mountains) White Rose Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Frozen Roots Country (None) (NA) Other World
Makai Cluster: Land of Dao (Northern) Rhit Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Land of Dao (Southern) Sehkmenta Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Land of Styx Styxah Female Other World
Makai Cluster: Mysta Rhuniva Hermaphrodite Other World
Makai Cluster: Plains of Oblivion Lord Valg Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Sands of Time (Above Ground) Pharaoh Gais Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Sands of Time (Underground) Ahn Male Other World
Makai Cluster: Water Roots Country *Aesperian Monarchy* Varies Other World
Makai Cluster: Ying Yang Plate (None) (NA) Other World
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 08:05 PM
some other locations in Other World (I am doing proof reading of my book "Stratalian Ambitions" this week so these copy and pastes from my Access files are being used as place fillers this week)
Location Overlord/Ruler Gender of Ruler Universe is in
Aesperia (All) *Various Empires* Varies Other World
Drayn Hanama Female Other World
Galactic Tree (Stinger Queen) Hermaphrodite Other World
The Electric Blue Sky Gravatas Male Other World
The Red Sky Lahk Fhar Male Other World
Location Overlord/Ruler Gender of Ruler Universe is in
Aesperia (All) *Various Empires* Varies Other World
Drayn Hanama Female Other World
Galactic Tree (Stinger Queen) Hermaphrodite Other World
The Electric Blue Sky Gravatas Male Other World
The Red Sky Lahk Fhar Male Other World
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Posted 02 May 2012 - 08:39 PM
I honestly thought I had more shadow universe Overlords than this.
Location Overlord/Ruler Gender of Ruler Universe is in
Dimension of Darkness Shadow Lady Female Shadow Universes
The Abyss of Darkness Rho-Sho-Shin Male Shadow Universes
Location Overlord/Ruler Gender of Ruler Universe is in
Dimension of Darkness Shadow Lady Female Shadow Universes
The Abyss of Darkness Rho-Sho-Shin Male Shadow Universes
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Posted 03 May 2012 - 09:12 PM
Okay Access isn't translating well to forum post, so no more of those.
So today we instead have a plant from Aesperia:
Name: Venus Flower (White)
Type: Flower (Humanoid)
Habitat: Other World: Aesperia: They can be found through out the equivalent of Japan, Korea (both), and China.
Description: When first seen what one sees is a thick short trunk, which is dark green in color, and stuck into the ground (under ground it has a large bulb which is filled with liquid and its tendrils) these tendrils can when it needs to be used to move it to another location (more in abilities).
On this trunk is a large tear drop shaped white flower. It’s at least six to seven feet tall. What’s amazing is what’s inside. When the blossom open one sees a light green skinned woman, usually the blossom opens just enough and bends down to reveal the upper body. She has very small breasts and a cute oriental face, she has icy blue eyes and
white hair.
This creature/plant has a full humanoid body, but what one doesn’t usually see is that the base of the spine (where a tail would be) is a vine that goes down into the bulb, two more of these come off the back where the shoulder blades would be. During the day this flower normally stays closed and the humanoid body curled up resting in the bulb. The humanoid body is usually only seen when it hunting for food, communicating with others, or breeding (a most unusual sight). It’s important to note these plants are hermaphrodites, as are most plants really, except in this case it means the female form has a penis (retractable).
History/Abilities:
Definitely an evolution from the planet’s mystical alteration, from what is not known; humans, plants, or something unique, it’s simply not known.
The body is very resistant to damage and in times of need it can all retract into the bulb and travel under ground as it uses its tentacles to dig a tunnel. It has been seen to do something like this above ground once when seriously provoked (a group member of an adventure team had been lured into one for mating (more below on that), and they pulled her free.) Large vine tentacles came out of the flower with a great scream and the body retracted into the bulb which pulled out of the ground and went upside down with the flower facing down, using the tentacles as legs (it was discovered this way that they have four very thick and strong tentacles hidden away (that are normally used for digging) that are strong enough to stand on like some massive plant squid spider.
*It is assumed all Venus Flowers possess this ability.
Special Mating: It sends out sweet pollen that drugs humanoids and lures them to it. It pulls them into the flower and has sex with them, the Venus Flower allows males to use its false vagina, which seems more for its own fun (it has no reproductive organs that allow it to become pregnant; it is a plant after all). It will then use its “penis” stem that comes out of this vaginal opening and impregnates the male with its seeds (Venus flowers are self fertilizing but need a host for their seeds). With female humanoid victims its tends to go straight for the most part to the impregnation, and some will go straight to this part with their male victims as well, it varies by the individual.
The humanoid victim will carry the micro-seeds inside them which form into tiny B.B. pellet sized black orbs. These orbs make their out either through defecation (why they would use male victims at all), or work their own way our later in their small slug like forms. These small seeds rarely reach it to maturity (when they become very powerful) due to predation and environmental hazards.
The White Venus flower is highly resistant to cold temperatures, and absorbs magical ice (healing it in the process).
It has three special abilities.
1: Ice Spear: an Ice Spear forms in the hand of the humanoid body which then throws it.
2: Chill beam: The humanoid form can fire using both hands a frosting blast.
3: Ice Blast: When it it’s out of the ground state an icy aura forms around the closed up bulb, this then after a short charge up time can fire like a giant satellite dish a huge ice beam.
So today we instead have a plant from Aesperia:
Name: Venus Flower (White)
Type: Flower (Humanoid)
Habitat: Other World: Aesperia: They can be found through out the equivalent of Japan, Korea (both), and China.
Description: When first seen what one sees is a thick short trunk, which is dark green in color, and stuck into the ground (under ground it has a large bulb which is filled with liquid and its tendrils) these tendrils can when it needs to be used to move it to another location (more in abilities).
On this trunk is a large tear drop shaped white flower. It’s at least six to seven feet tall. What’s amazing is what’s inside. When the blossom open one sees a light green skinned woman, usually the blossom opens just enough and bends down to reveal the upper body. She has very small breasts and a cute oriental face, she has icy blue eyes and
white hair.
This creature/plant has a full humanoid body, but what one doesn’t usually see is that the base of the spine (where a tail would be) is a vine that goes down into the bulb, two more of these come off the back where the shoulder blades would be. During the day this flower normally stays closed and the humanoid body curled up resting in the bulb. The humanoid body is usually only seen when it hunting for food, communicating with others, or breeding (a most unusual sight). It’s important to note these plants are hermaphrodites, as are most plants really, except in this case it means the female form has a penis (retractable).
History/Abilities:
Definitely an evolution from the planet’s mystical alteration, from what is not known; humans, plants, or something unique, it’s simply not known.
The body is very resistant to damage and in times of need it can all retract into the bulb and travel under ground as it uses its tentacles to dig a tunnel. It has been seen to do something like this above ground once when seriously provoked (a group member of an adventure team had been lured into one for mating (more below on that), and they pulled her free.) Large vine tentacles came out of the flower with a great scream and the body retracted into the bulb which pulled out of the ground and went upside down with the flower facing down, using the tentacles as legs (it was discovered this way that they have four very thick and strong tentacles hidden away (that are normally used for digging) that are strong enough to stand on like some massive plant squid spider.
*It is assumed all Venus Flowers possess this ability.
Special Mating: It sends out sweet pollen that drugs humanoids and lures them to it. It pulls them into the flower and has sex with them, the Venus Flower allows males to use its false vagina, which seems more for its own fun (it has no reproductive organs that allow it to become pregnant; it is a plant after all). It will then use its “penis” stem that comes out of this vaginal opening and impregnates the male with its seeds (Venus flowers are self fertilizing but need a host for their seeds). With female humanoid victims its tends to go straight for the most part to the impregnation, and some will go straight to this part with their male victims as well, it varies by the individual.
The humanoid victim will carry the micro-seeds inside them which form into tiny B.B. pellet sized black orbs. These orbs make their out either through defecation (why they would use male victims at all), or work their own way our later in their small slug like forms. These small seeds rarely reach it to maturity (when they become very powerful) due to predation and environmental hazards.
The White Venus flower is highly resistant to cold temperatures, and absorbs magical ice (healing it in the process).
It has three special abilities.
1: Ice Spear: an Ice Spear forms in the hand of the humanoid body which then throws it.
2: Chill beam: The humanoid form can fire using both hands a frosting blast.
3: Ice Blast: When it it’s out of the ground state an icy aura forms around the closed up bulb, this then after a short charge up time can fire like a giant satellite dish a huge ice beam.
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Posted 04 May 2012 - 08:26 PM
a mushroom from the Makai Cluster:
Species: Toxic Gas Shroom
Type: Fungus (Mushroom)
Average Life Span: Unknown (the mushrooms are seasonal sprouts of a vast underground fungal network; individual life spans can not be determined for such an organism)
Habitat: Other World: Land of Styx: Appear during the summer months (not that the season actually changes here, just routinely that many months apart) in the Southern region of this continent world, just north of the Whirl Pool area in the swamp region.
Physical Description: The cap is the size of a small round dinner table, and just as tall. It has a thick stalk. The stalk is a pale pink color while the cape is a deep purple. There are pores all over the cap big enough to fit a fist into (one should not do this of course).
History & abilities: In the swamp area of The Land of Styx these giant mushrooms appear; along side the purple leaf bushes and other purple plants and fungi of the swamp these too wouldn’t bat an eyelash on this world if not for their one feature that gives them their name. Routinely, about three times a day the pours on the cap shoot out spinning columns of purple toxic miasma. It is believed they create it as a by-product of feeding and as a means to attract pollinators in the area (unlike normal mushrooms these do not shed spores; instead they enter the bodies of creatures that feed on the purple toxic sludge inside the cap and spread through their feces). It does make the swamp however very toxic during this season; and thankfully (from the natives’ point of view) the fungus does not seem able to spread to any soil outside the swamp area.
Species: Toxic Gas Shroom
Type: Fungus (Mushroom)
Average Life Span: Unknown (the mushrooms are seasonal sprouts of a vast underground fungal network; individual life spans can not be determined for such an organism)
Habitat: Other World: Land of Styx: Appear during the summer months (not that the season actually changes here, just routinely that many months apart) in the Southern region of this continent world, just north of the Whirl Pool area in the swamp region.
Physical Description: The cap is the size of a small round dinner table, and just as tall. It has a thick stalk. The stalk is a pale pink color while the cape is a deep purple. There are pores all over the cap big enough to fit a fist into (one should not do this of course).
History & abilities: In the swamp area of The Land of Styx these giant mushrooms appear; along side the purple leaf bushes and other purple plants and fungi of the swamp these too wouldn’t bat an eyelash on this world if not for their one feature that gives them their name. Routinely, about three times a day the pours on the cap shoot out spinning columns of purple toxic miasma. It is believed they create it as a by-product of feeding and as a means to attract pollinators in the area (unlike normal mushrooms these do not shed spores; instead they enter the bodies of creatures that feed on the purple toxic sludge inside the cap and spread through their feces). It does make the swamp however very toxic during this season; and thankfully (from the natives’ point of view) the fungus does not seem able to spread to any soil outside the swamp area.
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Posted 05 May 2012 - 07:29 PM
and it is story time (don't worry this one has much more focus than that last story: which I will admit kind of shifted focus; well to be honest that was a rough draft story outline I had sitting around called "The River Styx"; it would have been expanded with more character development and all that between the (parts) and expanded on them as well. Those (parts) were the key stone segments of the whole. I just never got back to it, trying to figure out how to make these characters more interesting, humanize them *I always seem to fall flat when I try to make characters with a human point of view.
anywho, today's story is written as a Japanese legend.
Legend of the Lake Oni:
Once upon a time in feudal Japan there was a small village nestled between some mountains and a lake with three islands in its center. This village was small, but growing with prosperity. The daughter of the head man of the village was being courted by the son of a local lord.
One evening during a festival at which the son of the local lord was to officially announce their engagement a giant Oni emerged from the lake and declared to the people of the village that a virgin maiden was to be sent out on a boat and sacrificed to him; he pointed out such a maiden from the crowd; the daughter of the head man. The head man tried to bargain with him; but the Oni declared her the most beautiful virgin maiden he had ever seen; the perfect thing to sate his apatite for he intended to eat her so she could marry his heart. The son of the lord threatened the Oni; who only laughed at him and said to go ahead; while he would punish the village if they did not send the girl by killing all the fish in the lake and spreading disease upon the land he would allow any man who wished to fight for the girl to challenge him. He boasted their deaths would amuse him. However he gave them only three days, on the third the daughter of the head man must be sent out in a boat in her wedding dress alone.
The son of the lord sent out the next day a fleet of men; none returned alive. The second day was the same. On the third the son of the lord had given up hope, if his well trained men could not stop the Oni of the lake what hope could any warrior no matter how skilled have against the giant.
In the village there was a boy who was also in love with the daughter of the head man; he had intended to propose to her, and knew she would accept. However he is but a humble fisherman’s son and proposed too late for the son of the lord of the land had seen her during a tax collecting visit and declared her to marry him. On the third day when the maiden was being sent out; he could not stand it no more. In an act of incredible courage; or a massive break in his sanity; he grabbed one of his row boats and headed out into the lake. The daughter of the head man was only slowly drifting, a magic current carrying her towards the islands; the fisherman’s son however rowed with all his might to get to the island ahead of her. Upon the island he pulled out a large troll line hook and a knife and called out for the Oni to fight him and prayed to the heavens for the strength to save the girl he loves even if she is to marry another man.
As luck would have it this was all being observed by a strange spirit who heard his prayer and possessed his body to answer the prayer. The spirit made him fly, although not as easily as the spirit would have liked for the boy’s spiritual presence was too weak for the spirit to use its powers as their fullest. The spirit could easily tell where the Oni was in the lake, just past the other end of the islands where the daughter of the head man was headed and where the fisherman’s son had landed. It flew the boy over and challenged the Oni.
The giant rose from the lake and boasted and laughed; even if the boy could pull a trick like flying he was still too weak to fight the Oni. The Oni could not sense the spirit as the spirit could sense him; the spirit took advantage of the boasting to perform a spell that removed the large round green heart of the Oni from its chest. The Oni dropped dead in the lake.
The spirit still inside the boy flew back to the village dragging the giant Oni by the horn through the water with one hand and carrying the giant heart with the other hand, the daughter of the headman using the oars from the other boat returned to the village behind him.
The spirit using the boy’s body dropped the giant Oni, sitting up against a cliff side in the forest outside the village; and in the village made the heart float in the air while manifesting a strange sword no one in the village had seen the likes of before; it had a straight thick blade, sharp on both sides and ended in a point like a spear. She stabbed the heart with the sword sealing it. They flew off again after saying that the sword must never be pulled from the heart and the heart should never be allowed to touch water. Manifesting a giant spear the spirit skewered the body, thrusting the spear down the mouth, out the chest, and back in through the gut before impaling the blade into the ground beneath the Oni. It declared upon return to the village that the body is sealed as well, but will not rot as it is not truly dead and the seal will keep anything from trying to eat it for their protection as the flesh of the Oni is pure poison.
The head man decreed right on the spot that this amazing boy who slew the Oni and saved his daughter was to be declared a hero and marry his daughter. The spirit with in the boy explained that it was merely possessing the boy and using its own power through him to answer his prayer to save the girl and protect the land. The head man was even more elated by this news at the boy’s sacrifice and courage.
The son of the lord of the land was not happy and demanded a duel with the boy with out the spirit’s aid and that he has sacrificed as well, the loss of his men and the town would suffer if he did not get was he was promised. The spirit bargained with him, the spirit told him if he would drop both issues, forget the duel and leave the town in peace, the spirit would honor his family with the duty of guarding over the sealed heart of the Oni. The son of the lord of the land accepted this honor and left with the giant heart. The spirit was happy in its trick in getting the heart away from the lake. The spirit told the people the boy could see and hear everything that has happened and would now depart back to its own realm.
The fisherman’s son and the daughter of the head man married, and one never saw such a happy couple. The town continued to prosper and grow; soon right to the edge of the Oni’s body. The town buried the body sitting there in rocks; too this day where once was a cliff now is a cliff with a hill of loose rocks that the town forbids anyone to move; a sign warning that a monster is buried beneath them. The son of the lord of the land took the heart back to the city and was berated by his father for being tricked by a spirit into promising he would leave the town in peace, losing the girl, and being burdened with a duty to guard such an evil thing. A promise to a spirit is what it is however and the family sealed the heart inside a large lacquer box which Buddhist monks then placed seals on and have kept inside the temple raised above the floor. Too this day that remains; now on display amongst other relics; although the family refuses to allow anyone to open the box to see if the cursed heart is still inside.
anywho, today's story is written as a Japanese legend.
Legend of the Lake Oni:
Once upon a time in feudal Japan there was a small village nestled between some mountains and a lake with three islands in its center. This village was small, but growing with prosperity. The daughter of the head man of the village was being courted by the son of a local lord.
One evening during a festival at which the son of the local lord was to officially announce their engagement a giant Oni emerged from the lake and declared to the people of the village that a virgin maiden was to be sent out on a boat and sacrificed to him; he pointed out such a maiden from the crowd; the daughter of the head man. The head man tried to bargain with him; but the Oni declared her the most beautiful virgin maiden he had ever seen; the perfect thing to sate his apatite for he intended to eat her so she could marry his heart. The son of the lord threatened the Oni; who only laughed at him and said to go ahead; while he would punish the village if they did not send the girl by killing all the fish in the lake and spreading disease upon the land he would allow any man who wished to fight for the girl to challenge him. He boasted their deaths would amuse him. However he gave them only three days, on the third the daughter of the head man must be sent out in a boat in her wedding dress alone.
The son of the lord sent out the next day a fleet of men; none returned alive. The second day was the same. On the third the son of the lord had given up hope, if his well trained men could not stop the Oni of the lake what hope could any warrior no matter how skilled have against the giant.
In the village there was a boy who was also in love with the daughter of the head man; he had intended to propose to her, and knew she would accept. However he is but a humble fisherman’s son and proposed too late for the son of the lord of the land had seen her during a tax collecting visit and declared her to marry him. On the third day when the maiden was being sent out; he could not stand it no more. In an act of incredible courage; or a massive break in his sanity; he grabbed one of his row boats and headed out into the lake. The daughter of the head man was only slowly drifting, a magic current carrying her towards the islands; the fisherman’s son however rowed with all his might to get to the island ahead of her. Upon the island he pulled out a large troll line hook and a knife and called out for the Oni to fight him and prayed to the heavens for the strength to save the girl he loves even if she is to marry another man.
As luck would have it this was all being observed by a strange spirit who heard his prayer and possessed his body to answer the prayer. The spirit made him fly, although not as easily as the spirit would have liked for the boy’s spiritual presence was too weak for the spirit to use its powers as their fullest. The spirit could easily tell where the Oni was in the lake, just past the other end of the islands where the daughter of the head man was headed and where the fisherman’s son had landed. It flew the boy over and challenged the Oni.
The giant rose from the lake and boasted and laughed; even if the boy could pull a trick like flying he was still too weak to fight the Oni. The Oni could not sense the spirit as the spirit could sense him; the spirit took advantage of the boasting to perform a spell that removed the large round green heart of the Oni from its chest. The Oni dropped dead in the lake.
The spirit still inside the boy flew back to the village dragging the giant Oni by the horn through the water with one hand and carrying the giant heart with the other hand, the daughter of the headman using the oars from the other boat returned to the village behind him.
The spirit using the boy’s body dropped the giant Oni, sitting up against a cliff side in the forest outside the village; and in the village made the heart float in the air while manifesting a strange sword no one in the village had seen the likes of before; it had a straight thick blade, sharp on both sides and ended in a point like a spear. She stabbed the heart with the sword sealing it. They flew off again after saying that the sword must never be pulled from the heart and the heart should never be allowed to touch water. Manifesting a giant spear the spirit skewered the body, thrusting the spear down the mouth, out the chest, and back in through the gut before impaling the blade into the ground beneath the Oni. It declared upon return to the village that the body is sealed as well, but will not rot as it is not truly dead and the seal will keep anything from trying to eat it for their protection as the flesh of the Oni is pure poison.
The head man decreed right on the spot that this amazing boy who slew the Oni and saved his daughter was to be declared a hero and marry his daughter. The spirit with in the boy explained that it was merely possessing the boy and using its own power through him to answer his prayer to save the girl and protect the land. The head man was even more elated by this news at the boy’s sacrifice and courage.
The son of the lord of the land was not happy and demanded a duel with the boy with out the spirit’s aid and that he has sacrificed as well, the loss of his men and the town would suffer if he did not get was he was promised. The spirit bargained with him, the spirit told him if he would drop both issues, forget the duel and leave the town in peace, the spirit would honor his family with the duty of guarding over the sealed heart of the Oni. The son of the lord of the land accepted this honor and left with the giant heart. The spirit was happy in its trick in getting the heart away from the lake. The spirit told the people the boy could see and hear everything that has happened and would now depart back to its own realm.
The fisherman’s son and the daughter of the head man married, and one never saw such a happy couple. The town continued to prosper and grow; soon right to the edge of the Oni’s body. The town buried the body sitting there in rocks; too this day where once was a cliff now is a cliff with a hill of loose rocks that the town forbids anyone to move; a sign warning that a monster is buried beneath them. The son of the lord of the land took the heart back to the city and was berated by his father for being tricked by a spirit into promising he would leave the town in peace, losing the girl, and being burdened with a duty to guard such an evil thing. A promise to a spirit is what it is however and the family sealed the heart inside a large lacquer box which Buddhist monks then placed seals on and have kept inside the temple raised above the floor. Too this day that remains; now on display amongst other relics; although the family refuses to allow anyone to open the box to see if the cursed heart is still inside.
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Posted 06 May 2012 - 07:48 PM
Overlord spotlight: From the Makai Cluster in Other World.
Name: Styxah
Gender: Female
Race: Rai
Home world: Original home world is unknown, however she conquered and rules over The Land of Styx in Other World, which she named after herself.
Description: Like all female Rai she is a fourteen foot tall bipedal wolf with a long shaggy tail, a mane of hair, and long pointed muzzle. She has a muscular form with large breasts (see description of Rai for more details). What sets her apart is her coat color, she has a black and brown striped fur pattern.
Name Origin: Her name mean “death voice” in the Elder language of Other World. This seems to imply that she is native to Other World, somewhere.
Personality: Very little is known other than her desire for everything and everyone in her domain to obey her with out question. She otherwise prefers to stay to herself and perform her duty, which is a secret known to only to a few. She does have a soft spot which she reserves for her pets that she keeps in her cave and nearby areas.
Despite her association with death Styxah’s appearance holds little distinction with death. Her fur is a light brown overall color with black tiger like stripes.
Name: Styxah
Gender: Female
Race: Rai
Home world: Original home world is unknown, however she conquered and rules over The Land of Styx in Other World, which she named after herself.
Description: Like all female Rai she is a fourteen foot tall bipedal wolf with a long shaggy tail, a mane of hair, and long pointed muzzle. She has a muscular form with large breasts (see description of Rai for more details). What sets her apart is her coat color, she has a black and brown striped fur pattern.
Name Origin: Her name mean “death voice” in the Elder language of Other World. This seems to imply that she is native to Other World, somewhere.
Personality: Very little is known other than her desire for everything and everyone in her domain to obey her with out question. She otherwise prefers to stay to herself and perform her duty, which is a secret known to only to a few. She does have a soft spot which she reserves for her pets that she keeps in her cave and nearby areas.
Despite her association with death Styxah’s appearance holds little distinction with death. Her fur is a light brown overall color with black tiger like stripes.
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Posted 07 May 2012 - 07:55 PM
A plant from Hell (and a reminder that I havn't really shared that many Hell worlds, hell I was sharing some of the Race Way locations a long time ago and never finished sharing them here)
*I even shared the College of Torment, but I never shared the Cone or False Earth.
anywho,
here is a plant from the Forest Hell.
Species: Metal Razor Tree
Type: Tree (Deciduous)
Average Life Span: 120 years
Habitat: Hell: The Forest Hell
Physical Description: From a distance it can be mistaken for any other deciduous tree; however up close it is clear the trunk is made of metal, and the green leaves with their serrated edges are razor sharp blades.
History & abilities: These can be found growing near the outskirts of the Metal Forests that exist in various spots of the Forest Hell. Their trunks are like solid brass and their leaves when green are as thin and sharp as razor blades. Fall is the safest time to go near these trees (minus the metal branches being sharp that is), as the leaves don’t so much fall off as turn to rust and blow away as rust powder.
*I even shared the College of Torment, but I never shared the Cone or False Earth.
anywho,
here is a plant from the Forest Hell.
Species: Metal Razor Tree
Type: Tree (Deciduous)
Average Life Span: 120 years
Habitat: Hell: The Forest Hell
Physical Description: From a distance it can be mistaken for any other deciduous tree; however up close it is clear the trunk is made of metal, and the green leaves with their serrated edges are razor sharp blades.
History & abilities: These can be found growing near the outskirts of the Metal Forests that exist in various spots of the Forest Hell. Their trunks are like solid brass and their leaves when green are as thin and sharp as razor blades. Fall is the safest time to go near these trees (minus the metal branches being sharp that is), as the leaves don’t so much fall off as turn to rust and blow away as rust powder.
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Posted 08 May 2012 - 07:54 PM
a plant, well I have it classified as a plant but it would be more fair to describe it as Light Elf technology.
Species: Data Bonsai Tree
Type: Bio-computer (tree like)
Average Life Span: Indefinite with maintenance
Habitat: Used by the Light Elves of Juhn
Physical Description: Looks like a thick trunk, two foot tall Bonsai tree on the outside.
History & abilities: The Light Elves like to hide their advanced technology; as such they have disguised their bio-computer systems to look like bonsai trees. When activated an interactive hologram screen appears in front of the tree for use.
These “plants” can store incredible amounts of data and only require special food and water given to them by the Light Elves to thrive. As these are manufactured they have to natural ability to reproduce.
Species: Data Bonsai Tree
Type: Bio-computer (tree like)
Average Life Span: Indefinite with maintenance
Habitat: Used by the Light Elves of Juhn
Physical Description: Looks like a thick trunk, two foot tall Bonsai tree on the outside.
History & abilities: The Light Elves like to hide their advanced technology; as such they have disguised their bio-computer systems to look like bonsai trees. When activated an interactive hologram screen appears in front of the tree for use.
These “plants” can store incredible amounts of data and only require special food and water given to them by the Light Elves to thrive. As these are manufactured they have to natural ability to reproduce.
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Posted 09 May 2012 - 07:42 PM
a race from the Netherworld:
Species: Children of Chaos
Type: Plant (Humanoid)
Average Life Span: Unknown (possibly immortal)
Habitat: Netherworld; very rare inhabitants, buds can be found in dark forest areas near water sources.
Physical Description: They start off as buds, these buds look like black flowers closed up, only the petals are armored and there is a little red glowing speck where the petals meet at the top. These buds grow bigger and bigger over a period of 1000 years. At full growth they open up and out steps a gorgeous humanoid woman with pale skin, jet black hair, red eyes, and wearing a carapace armor that looks like dark wood mixed with leather.
(they bare such a resemblance to Sethians and to the overlord known as “Chaos Queen” that many speculate a relationship between them; more so towards the Chaos Queen; so much so that this race has been dubbed the Children of Chaos).
*although some speculate the Chaos Queen may just be a member of this race who is really old and powerful.
History & abilities: They are believed to be one of the oldest races of the Netherworld, they are immensely powerful, able to shape shift their bodies, even to the extent of forming tentacles, spikes, blades, and other similar things based on their own experience and imagination. Although the buds aren’t hard to come across in the deep forests, there aren’t that many of this race around. For one thing they make no effort to protect the buds (it’s not even known how often they spread their seed into the ground), a belief system of the strong surviving. Thus many buds are eaten by animals, destroyed by weather, or in some cases even destroyed by demons fearing this race appearing on their lands in the Netherworld.
The Children of Chaos are well known for their diet; they eat meat, plants, life energy from demons and spirits (even to the point of hunting them as food), and milk. The Children of Chaos could be classified as “Milk Vampires” have been on some worlds as they release a pheromone that can make human women produce milk; which they then feed on while seducing the victim to also feed on their emotional energy (two pronged feeding). They normally leave these victims alive; and have been known to do so for demon females who they seduce as well. It is mostly male demons who are in fear for their lives and bestial and various genderless demons.
The Children of Chaos are also one of the few things in the Netherworld that seem able to live on the floating platforms and just float about the dark nether clouds between them. Their shape shifting allowing them to create a massive winged craft like exterior for travel (this form varies a bit between individuals and is basically there way of spreading out between areas so they don’t compete with each other or over populate a single platform). If all the buds survive to maturity *never happens; but if they did* one could be looking at hundreds of these. Once they fully emerge as adults they are ravenous; but their first instinct is to spread out.
Species: Children of Chaos
Type: Plant (Humanoid)
Average Life Span: Unknown (possibly immortal)
Habitat: Netherworld; very rare inhabitants, buds can be found in dark forest areas near water sources.
Physical Description: They start off as buds, these buds look like black flowers closed up, only the petals are armored and there is a little red glowing speck where the petals meet at the top. These buds grow bigger and bigger over a period of 1000 years. At full growth they open up and out steps a gorgeous humanoid woman with pale skin, jet black hair, red eyes, and wearing a carapace armor that looks like dark wood mixed with leather.
(they bare such a resemblance to Sethians and to the overlord known as “Chaos Queen” that many speculate a relationship between them; more so towards the Chaos Queen; so much so that this race has been dubbed the Children of Chaos).
*although some speculate the Chaos Queen may just be a member of this race who is really old and powerful.
History & abilities: They are believed to be one of the oldest races of the Netherworld, they are immensely powerful, able to shape shift their bodies, even to the extent of forming tentacles, spikes, blades, and other similar things based on their own experience and imagination. Although the buds aren’t hard to come across in the deep forests, there aren’t that many of this race around. For one thing they make no effort to protect the buds (it’s not even known how often they spread their seed into the ground), a belief system of the strong surviving. Thus many buds are eaten by animals, destroyed by weather, or in some cases even destroyed by demons fearing this race appearing on their lands in the Netherworld.
The Children of Chaos are well known for their diet; they eat meat, plants, life energy from demons and spirits (even to the point of hunting them as food), and milk. The Children of Chaos could be classified as “Milk Vampires” have been on some worlds as they release a pheromone that can make human women produce milk; which they then feed on while seducing the victim to also feed on their emotional energy (two pronged feeding). They normally leave these victims alive; and have been known to do so for demon females who they seduce as well. It is mostly male demons who are in fear for their lives and bestial and various genderless demons.
The Children of Chaos are also one of the few things in the Netherworld that seem able to live on the floating platforms and just float about the dark nether clouds between them. Their shape shifting allowing them to create a massive winged craft like exterior for travel (this form varies a bit between individuals and is basically there way of spreading out between areas so they don’t compete with each other or over populate a single platform). If all the buds survive to maturity *never happens; but if they did* one could be looking at hundreds of these. Once they fully emerge as adults they are ravenous; but their first instinct is to spread out.
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Posted 10 May 2012 - 08:33 PM
a plant from The Land of Styx.
Species: Chaos Bush
Type: Bush
Average Life Span: Unknown
Habitat: Other World: Land of Styx: Grow in the southern region in the swamp areas of this continent world.
Physical Description: A black thorny bush with flat purple leaves.
History & abilities: These are fairly common plants in this region of The Land of Styx. They were given their (over blown) name due to a passing resemblance to chaos vines *a plant from the netherworld which is black and thorny with purple flowers*. However examination has revealed no relation between them; and this plant has no special powers outside of a high resistance to toxic substances and ability to process methane and other toxic gases as well as Carbon Dioxide (possibly why it is one of the few plants that grow near Toxic Gas Shrooms;) which helps give this area a very purple look to it.
Species: Chaos Bush
Type: Bush
Average Life Span: Unknown
Habitat: Other World: Land of Styx: Grow in the southern region in the swamp areas of this continent world.
Physical Description: A black thorny bush with flat purple leaves.
History & abilities: These are fairly common plants in this region of The Land of Styx. They were given their (over blown) name due to a passing resemblance to chaos vines *a plant from the netherworld which is black and thorny with purple flowers*. However examination has revealed no relation between them; and this plant has no special powers outside of a high resistance to toxic substances and ability to process methane and other toxic gases as well as Carbon Dioxide (possibly why it is one of the few plants that grow near Toxic Gas Shrooms;) which helps give this area a very purple look to it.
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 07:03 PM
a plant from Aesperia:
Name: Venus Flower (Red)
Type: Flower (Humanoid)
Habitat: Other World: Aesperia: They can be found in the equivalent of the South Western United States.
Description: When first seen what one sees is a thick short trunk, which is dark green in color, and stuck into the ground (under ground it has a large bulb which is filled with liquid and its tendrils) these tendrils can when it needs to be used to move it to another location (more in abilities).
On this trunk is a large tear drop shaped red flower (varies from light red too dark red). It’s at least six to seven feet tall. What’s amazing is what’s inside. When the blossom open one sees a pink skinned woman, usually the blossom opens just enough and bends down to reveal the upper body. She has very small breasts and a cute oriental face, she has red eyes and pink hair or red hair (matches with the eyes).
This creature/plant has a full humanoid body, but what one doesn’t usually see is that the base of the spine (where a tail would be) is a vine that goes down into the bulb, two more of these come off the back where the shoulder blades would be. During the day this flower normally stays closed and the humanoid body curled up resting in the bulb. The humanoid body is usually only seen when it hunting for food, communicating with others, or breeding (a most unusual sight). It’s important to note these plants are hermaphrodites, as are most plants really, except in this case it means the female form has a penis (retractable).
History/Abilities:
Definitely an evolution from the planet’s mystical alteration, from what is not known; humans, plants, or something unique, it’s simply not known.
The body is very resistant to damage and in times of need it can all retract into the bulb and travel under ground as it uses its tentacles to dig a tunnel. It has been seen to do something like this above ground once when seriously provoked (a group member of an adventure team had been lured into one for mating (more below on that), and they pulled her free.) Large vine tentacles came out of the flower with a great scream and the body retracted into the bulb which pulled out of the ground and went upside down with the flower facing down, using the tentacles as legs (it was discovered this way that they have four very thick and strong tentacles hidden away (that are normally used for digging) that are strong enough to stand on like some massive plant squid spider. (as serendipitous as this is, the same exact thing occurred with another team when confronting a Blue Venus Flower and a Green Venus flower).
*It is assumed all Venus Flowers possess this ability.
Special Mating: It sends out sweet pollen that drugs humanoids and lures them to it. It pulls them into the flower and has sex with them, the Venus Flower allows males to use its false vagina, which seems more for its own fun (it has no reproductive organs that allow it to become pregnant; it is a plant after all). It will then use its “penis” stem that comes out of this vaginal opening and impregnates the male with its seeds (Venus flowers are self fertilizing but need a host for their seeds). With female humanoid victims its tends to go straight for the most part to the impregnation, and some will go straight to this part with their male victims as well, it varies by the individual.
The humanoid victim will carry the micro-seeds inside them which form into tiny B.B. pellet sized black orbs. These orbs make their out either through defecation (why they would use male victims at all), or work their own way our later in their small slug like forms. These small seeds rarely reach it to maturity (when they become very powerful) due to predation and environmental hazards.
The Red Venus flower is immune to fire and has one special ability related to fire.
Fire Rocket: A red fire ball forms in front of it and then circles around the blossom as though in orbit, gaining strength as it circles. During one of the passes it will fly off and explode upon impact with a solid object. *it can do this in both rooted and “spider” mode.
Name: Venus Flower (Red)
Type: Flower (Humanoid)
Habitat: Other World: Aesperia: They can be found in the equivalent of the South Western United States.
Description: When first seen what one sees is a thick short trunk, which is dark green in color, and stuck into the ground (under ground it has a large bulb which is filled with liquid and its tendrils) these tendrils can when it needs to be used to move it to another location (more in abilities).
On this trunk is a large tear drop shaped red flower (varies from light red too dark red). It’s at least six to seven feet tall. What’s amazing is what’s inside. When the blossom open one sees a pink skinned woman, usually the blossom opens just enough and bends down to reveal the upper body. She has very small breasts and a cute oriental face, she has red eyes and pink hair or red hair (matches with the eyes).
This creature/plant has a full humanoid body, but what one doesn’t usually see is that the base of the spine (where a tail would be) is a vine that goes down into the bulb, two more of these come off the back where the shoulder blades would be. During the day this flower normally stays closed and the humanoid body curled up resting in the bulb. The humanoid body is usually only seen when it hunting for food, communicating with others, or breeding (a most unusual sight). It’s important to note these plants are hermaphrodites, as are most plants really, except in this case it means the female form has a penis (retractable).
History/Abilities:
Definitely an evolution from the planet’s mystical alteration, from what is not known; humans, plants, or something unique, it’s simply not known.
The body is very resistant to damage and in times of need it can all retract into the bulb and travel under ground as it uses its tentacles to dig a tunnel. It has been seen to do something like this above ground once when seriously provoked (a group member of an adventure team had been lured into one for mating (more below on that), and they pulled her free.) Large vine tentacles came out of the flower with a great scream and the body retracted into the bulb which pulled out of the ground and went upside down with the flower facing down, using the tentacles as legs (it was discovered this way that they have four very thick and strong tentacles hidden away (that are normally used for digging) that are strong enough to stand on like some massive plant squid spider. (as serendipitous as this is, the same exact thing occurred with another team when confronting a Blue Venus Flower and a Green Venus flower).
*It is assumed all Venus Flowers possess this ability.
Special Mating: It sends out sweet pollen that drugs humanoids and lures them to it. It pulls them into the flower and has sex with them, the Venus Flower allows males to use its false vagina, which seems more for its own fun (it has no reproductive organs that allow it to become pregnant; it is a plant after all). It will then use its “penis” stem that comes out of this vaginal opening and impregnates the male with its seeds (Venus flowers are self fertilizing but need a host for their seeds). With female humanoid victims its tends to go straight for the most part to the impregnation, and some will go straight to this part with their male victims as well, it varies by the individual.
The humanoid victim will carry the micro-seeds inside them which form into tiny B.B. pellet sized black orbs. These orbs make their out either through defecation (why they would use male victims at all), or work their own way our later in their small slug like forms. These small seeds rarely reach it to maturity (when they become very powerful) due to predation and environmental hazards.
The Red Venus flower is immune to fire and has one special ability related to fire.
Fire Rocket: A red fire ball forms in front of it and then circles around the blossom as though in orbit, gaining strength as it circles. During one of the passes it will fly off and explode upon impact with a solid object. *it can do this in both rooted and “spider” mode.
