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 Post subject: Tides of Change
 Post Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:22 am 
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He had managed to arrive at the keep ahead the main imperial force.

The stories of the keep walls had been all but hearsay before today. The sun clung to the ice cold blue sky, a chill carried on the unwarmed breeze.

Young men could be seen outside the stone walls strapping on home made armor and hand me down weapons. The leadership had recently shifted. He could make out the dark ones who strode among their brethren with relaxed anxiousness.

Sutra shifted on his right leg. The broken ankle caused flesh and blood to reel with every step. Making sure to keep as much pressure off his left foot, he calculated his painless descent into the small valley. He had come with a rekindled intention, not with blood lust, but something else.

He made his way to the middle of the battlefied before he was cautiously recognized. A small band of men , armed and prepared, eyed him with distrust, as they neared the motionless man.

Sutra's hair wavered in the icy breeze as he waited patiently. He laxly called out as he raised his right arm.

'I seek the masters of the Shadow Keep. I wish to speak with...'
'Aye, we are here brother...'

The familiar faces that were unseen by the small band of men, seemed to materialize before their very eyes. Some of the young ones shifted uncomfortably, not having grown accustomed to teleporting bodies yet. Especially those of the shadow kind.

'Brother Kofka...Brother Rage....' Sutra modestly nodded. 'I wish a moment of your time gentlemen.'

The three men were left alone in the grassy stretch of land. It had been too long since Sutra had seen these men, the mark of the ferocious lion, emblazoned proudly upon their chests.

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A young girl made her way through the royal camps. The queen had come with her contingent. The numbers seemed to be the same as before. The men did not laugh out arrogantly, no sign of haughtiness could be found in their eyes. They had heard the tales of the respectable defense the upstart freehold had procured weeks before.

A tree of a man paced forth from the grandest impromptu structure there was. The royal standard flapped angrily above all others at the apex of the structure.

'Sir Forest...a messenger for the queen.' spoke a large man, his shaven head showing the duress of the high sun and cool weather.

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Queen Reine scanned the message again. It was a familiar scrawl, the penmanship was nothing impressive, but it was laced with emotion none the less.

The words replayed in her head as she formed the words on her lips.

"Give me a duchy, and I will give you a kingdom. -S"

She peered out into the desolate fields through her tent's opening, making out the figures of three men clad in black.

She would meet them with her Regent in attendance. Perhaps today, the blood shed would indeed be avoided.

Perhaps today, she would have peace.

S
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 Post Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:11 pm 
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THe moon did not rise that night,but hung just out of sight, hiding behind the black horizon. No light shone through the small cracks of the shadow keep nor did any sound dare creep along it's mossy passages. only one small flame traveled through it's vastness. A lantern light, held high as it's master allowed it to guide him down the twisting maze was all that pierced the ever growing pitch of the gloomy sanctuary. the light flickered on, leading it's master to the large oaken door at the end of a small passage. The man reached out a pale hand and grasped at the handle, opening the door and flooding the keep with a brilliant white light. He entered, and with him, the light faded, again the keep silent and still.
"Nexus...." a voice emanated from the far end of the room, beckoning him to come closer.
Nexus moved towards the voice and found himself staring into the small well he had so many times consulted. From the center, the water took the shape of a small woman, rising from the pool in a splash of grace and splendor. A smile came over his face, a renewed vigor brightened his eye. It had been so many years...

"My lady.....with what do I owe this honor?"...

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 Post subject: Re: Tides of Change
 Post Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:03 pm 
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As the queens caravan arrived they hoisted a white flag of truce. The queen and Sir Forest rode a the front to show that they meant no ill will. Sutra had spent some time talking with Mysteri the night before... they had spoken long about what was to be discussed today. Now Mysteri wanted to see if any good could come of it. So much planning had gone into today surely they could be persuaded, surely.
Chaos was displeased but all knew that his greed would kill any deal on this day. Mysteri looked around her, at all the people who were ready to fight. At their gleaming armor and their sharpened swords. They were a sight to behold until you looked deeper, the fight had aged them all a great deal. Lines ran deep and she wondered if any of them knew how to laugh any more. It had been so long.
Rage and Kofka approached the keep. Their confident stride almost seemed pleased. Hope sprang into Mysteris heart and for a moment she could scarcely breath. When they entered the school of assassins, Rage turned to his brothers and sisters, and to all who had been willing to follow him against the will of the baron Chaos. "It is done friends." Then he strode away. Few noticed the exostion that caused him to slow his pace and fewer noticed the great joy in his face. Cheers went up all over the keep. Women and children who had been sent away for fear of the battle were now sent for and fires were being lit. The keeps gates were opened to allow the Queen to enter. "We greet you Dutchy of Finders Keep" The Queen began to say, when everyone started to cheer again. It was deafening and Mysteri was caught up in all the excitement trying to find out what had happened. What had been done and said and from the back of the Queens army a cry goes up "we are under attack!" All look at the other at first before we realize who has come "

And on the horizon, four great forces rallied, each army reeking of evil power. There among one of the forces stood Typhus. He didn't look so proud anymore. He was running from one demi-god to another. It appered to Mysteri that he to had aged he was pailer and looked so very tired but his eyes still shone with his intent.Mysteri could only keep a look of angry disgust knowing the traitorous dark healer had brought a new doom upon his very own homelands.

Scouts soon reported the news of the army and that with the combined efforts of the keep and the Queens Army we should be able to do well. Family's were forced to hide in less than adequate areas. Anyone who could shoot a bow was called upon and again the home stone was needed as weapons were falling all around them. Mysteri's voice was failing as she called upon the magic within the stone to aid in their battle and between calling upon the stone she had been spell casting herself. The walls were being attacked from all around. No one could figure out what to do. A breach, someone had teleported into the keep itself attacking with forces unknown. All around more death and screams of pain. The gates fell but still the keep and the Queens army took to the fight with renewed spirit. They had to survive. The Queen fought with grace and fought well. The members of the guild did all in their power to push back the dark legionsand their demi-god generals. The enemy was retreating....but for how long??
Still, the people of Finders Keep had to be ready to fight, would it never end? Mysteri looked to see who was well and who needed a healer and the queen could be seen among those aiding.

At least there was peace between the keep and the kingdom.


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 Post subject: Re: Tides of Change
 Post Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:26 am 
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Sutra leaned on his bow. His ankle ached, bound tightly in preparation for the long walk he decided to make this day.

The Queen was escorted by her Regent.

She held an audience with the familiar shadowed faces. Kofka and Rage.

Deliberations and terms were made and reworked.

An agreement was reached.

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Sutra hobbled towards the mighty walls of the Keep. He had heard tales of the walls that almost rivaled that of the kingdom's own outermost walls.

The eager guards watched the dark man approach the gate. Women and children, men, young and old scurried towards the keep. They rushed passed the ambitious man.

A horrible sounding of war blared over the keep hills. Sutra staggered for a moment before turning on his right foot. He scanned the horizon and watched an vista. Almost instantly, the thundering hoofbeats, not of horse, but of monstrous creatures echoed on the rolling hills.

Four distinct banners peeked over the farthest hill. The four marks of the black gods. The same gods the foolish Typhus had decidedly unleashed on his own.

Sutra recalled the years he spent in his home towns library. He could recall the chill that would wash over him, knowing he was not alone as he scanned the archaic pages of the book of warning.

The god of corruption, war, change, and glutton opulence.

The stench of their unique cults wafted in the chill afternoon breeze. Sutra leaned forward, lighting fast glimpses of the underverse assaulted his mind. He had been there as well.

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The quickened pace into the walls was a relief as many angry faces turned to confused shock as the Queen and her forces entered the fortified position.

'The queen!? She's fighting with us?'
'What's she doing here!?'
'What's the meaning of this?'
'Are we no longer at war?'

The whispered questions coursed through the confused keep forces. Laced with electric excitement, the word of the Keep's new status in the kingdom emboldened the weary populace.

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The gate held strongly against the angry waves of the corrupt.

At first, the four legions seemed to confront each other at every turn. One moment, the diseased would assault from the left flank, where they would be meet in gory retribution by the children of gluttony. The cult of the war god waged war on both the walls and those cults outside on the leprous fields.

It was the god of change that made the battle turn in their favor. He managed to entertain the other three deities, persuading them to focus their lusts upon the populace within the protected walls.

They did.

The gates fell, the populace made a defiant stand. It took the might of four gods to assault the people inside the walls.

Seeing much carnage they slowly turned away, eager for open war against each other again. Hidden healers and druids made their rounds among the dead and wounded. Many had feigned death and prepared for their last stand.

Sutra remaind motionless against a friendly tree and watched as the dead were revived.

Shadows that zig zagged among the undead and poisoned earlier in the day, their eyes fluttering like angry butterflies, sought out their dammed marks once more.

Brave magic casters made the air crackle with strong majicks that could have awakened the ancients. Mysteri, the keeper of the Home Stone, saddened that her verbals failed the sustaining of the gate, hurriedly continued in the keeps plight.

Warriors, archers, barbarians, scouts and everything in between regrouped, rallying under the knowledge that the enemy host had been exhausted to the point of certain defeat.

Pouring out of the gates in revived waves, the populace of the keep and the royal contingent washed the lands of the keep in the blood of their enemies. The god's fell to the overwhelming blades and arrows of the determined.

For the first time since the dawning of the new crown, had the Kingdom fought as one.

That day, the Kingdom, stood victorious.

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Typhus stood alone on the field, surrounded by his summoned ilk.

He shivered naked in the contaminated blood he was sure would have made the kingdom kneel and serve.

With a grimace of smug arrogance he mocked the living, assuring them he would return with a stronger purpose and angrier gods.

Before he could be executed for his treason against the crown and his own homelands, he vanished in the blink of an eye.

Gone.

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'It will serve it's purpose fully.'
'And what purpose would that be?' asked the attending healer.
'As a reminder, that I am of flesh and blood. An equal to my brother and sister...' Sutra calmly said, his eyes fixed on his unhealed ankle.

The healers shook her head and thanked him for his help on this day.

Sutra smiled as he hopped up the hill on his good foot. Though his wounds and bones had been mended, his spirit continued being shattered. The cost of everything leading up to this point, was worth it, he accepted.

Sutra nodded a humble thanks to the future of the keep, who watched as he left again, before making his way south again.

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