New page! Just in time too. I had hoped to have another page ready for Wednesday but it looks like it’ll be Saturday now. I’ll do my best to get into a position where I can do two weeks of Wed/Sat updates after next week though 🙂
It seems like the holy order are gaining the upper hand! Rath’s down and now so is Leth! Only Kazu and Alice remain (and Zeen-wherever he is). Alice seems to be doing okay for the moment but I doubt she can stand alone for long. Let’s hope Kazu can win out against Vitae…
I want to get back to the mountain gnolls soon but there’s a point I want to reach here first. Not too long now 🙂
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Its always quite funny whenever the battle pretty much stops for a second so they can figure out what the rules are for the things.
It mimicks real life rpgs 🙂 For the same reason I let the characters make silly jokes involving modern pop culture.
The twist: this whole time, all the characters have just been some friends LARPing!
That would be a twist that would annoy lots of people. Let’s do it! ;D
(Climbs onto a raised platform facing a huge crowd then clears my throat.)
LET THE FRACAS OF TOONISH VIOLENCE RECOMMENCE!
YEAH!!! XD
Soooooo, if the fanatics aren’t trying to kill the good guys, what do they want to do? Just beat them up for being heretics and then being on their way? Take them prisoner and put them into boot camp?
They want to know where the Galanesh stone is 🙂
Okay, I completely forgot about that. Um, what is the Galanesh stone again? XD
And have they already mentioned why they want it?
That’s okay-It’s been a long time 🙂 The Galanesh stone is the stone of power they took from the Vermin Queen. These stones are said to be the reamains of an elder god and can grant immense power to any that wield them-But at a price. Over time the user of a stone has their will and body transformed by it until eventually they become an aspect of Galanesh (like the guy our heroes fought at the top of the Vermin Queen’s tower) and desire nothing more than to gather the other Galanesh stones and become complete (each additional stone will make a person exponentually more powerful).
The Aspect they fought didn’t have a stone-He was merely created by sorcery using the power of a stone. As it was he was a handfull for Rath and the others (plus the Raven Knight and Vaznev). If he’d have gotten the stone he would have been ten times stronger. The cult have not said why they want the stone but I’m sure you can make some pretty good guesses 😉
Thanks for explaining. 🙂 I think I’ll reread it at some point, because I also forgot how Rath got is despair-based powers that eventually changed into sexiness-based powers. I think it was somewhere at that point, too.
Didn’t Rath absorb one of these stones to get his powers or something?
Calicos (the faun of evil) says he unlocked those powers within Rath when he took his eye. As he features in Rath’s dream at the beginning of Chapter 4 it certainly seems as if he is linked to those powers 🙂
Okay, thanks for explaining! 🙂