Gods of a New Star [IC]

[ArlEammon]

Despite its best efforts, plagues still seem to be occurring within the Enlightened colony. The Hive mind begins sending apparently healthy bodies into the fields to be used as fuel for its bio-magic in a vain attempt to halt the disease.

The undead look at the Ensirex blankly. When asked about what happened they shake their heads. They tell vague stories of a great war, but everything after that is hazy at best, if not a complete blank. The researchers seem to think the magic creating the disease may be tied to the land somehow. A few fights break out between the Ensirex, usually over petty differences or imagined slights.

Saradinus
Saradinus appears in front of Cellix... "Oh, I see that you are having terrible trouble with somesort of plague." He appeared stoic. "Perhaps I can help you, and immediately stop this... for a price.. Or if you feel like not wanting to owe me anything, I can slow it down."

[puppyavenger]

Cellis
What do you wish in return?

[ArlEammon]

Cellis
What do you wish in return?

"Simple.... you must promise never to attack my people. Not unless provoked... If your people should declare war, please send them an avatar or a dream or some kind of sign NOT to attack my people. This is all."

[puppyavenger]

Cellis
that's reasonable, but if your's attack first,the Enlightened will defend itself.

[ArlEammon]

Cellis
that's reasonable, but if your's attack first,the Enlightened will defend itself.

Saradinus and Cellis
"Exactly. Not unless provoked..." Saradinus'es ring shined..He muttered the words..... Then, he opened the Grand Book of Spells and with his ring and his book, the spell was cast...... Enhanced also with a minor Act. A wave of life energy filled the Enlightened.

To the Monkey people
"We are new to this continent. How may we not anger the spirits of the forest?" Dougan the Battle mage wanted to know how these people came to be. Other races besides those of the Continent, or the Saradinians? This was interesting."

[Kaiser Omnik]

"Take only what you need. Be gentle with the trees. Learn to listen to the Earth. Then, you may be accepted by the spirits.

We didn't know there existed other continents. Our people have resided here since the dawn of time. We don't go far from the island. Sometimes we cross the water, passed the Great Stone Arch. But rarely."

[ArlEammon]

"Take only what you need. Be gentle with the trees. Learn to listen to the Earth. Then, you may be accepted by the spirits.

We didn't know there existed other continents. Our people have resided here since the dawn of time. We don't go far from the island. Sometimes we cross the water, passed the Great Stone Arch. But rarely."

"I see. Would your people be interested in some kind of exchange? We have tools that no one on our continent has access too, even those more advanced than us."

[Kaiser Omnik]

"Maybe. It depends on the tool. As you see, our lifestyle is simple. What do you want from us?"

[Smiley_]

At the heart of the island is a fortress inhabited by rogue ashenborn pyromancers of great power and protected by several constructs (starmetal golems, magma golems, Juggernauts and the like) and elder elementals. The ashenborn are busy with strange rituals involving the feathers and bones of phoenixes. Their ultimate goals seem to be to create more phoenixes then there are (since the birds do not reproduce) and to allow their master, K'Salaii, to come back into this world.

((Description by Omnik 'cause I can't find anything I want to change))

Set and Otako gazed upon the vast fortress within the island. Set seemed to get excited and whispered to Otako.
So, the earth mother was right. There is evil brewing here. Let us see what else we can find.

Are you certain that that is the most prudent course of action?

You worry too much. What’s the worst that can happen?

Set leapt from their hiding place and started to scale an unattended section of wall. Otako sighed and followed. They breached the wall and dropped down into a courtyard, if it could be called that. Great geysers and rivers of molten rock sprawled over the area around the central keep. Here and there, there were skeletons of grand dragon like beasts. However, there was only an occasional patrol of ashenborn or golems.

I thought there would be more. Where do you suppose the rest are?

Probably inside. They aren’t expecting an assault, for good reason too. They would be able to see an attack force coming from miles away. Let’s see if I’m right.

Otako was about to protest, but once again, it was too late. Set had already childishly dashed off to indulge his curiosity.

((Thank you omnik for giving me the freedom to tell this chapter. I will not post it all at once because I do not want people to be confronted with a massive wall of text.))

[ArlEammon]

"Maybe. It depends on the tool. As you see, our lifestyle is simple. What do you want from us?"

"Well if you have some kind of magic we could learn, we have tools we may provide capable of supplying you with a continuous supply of food. We will have to kill a few trees, but if these devices are made you would not have to mistreat the trees nearly as much you do for harvest."

[Virgo]

To Alrinach

The delegate smiles. "They go to the Spirit Realm of course. Where do you think they go?"

Nemerensis does not respond but walks on, anticipating the meeting with the cleric.

[Kaiser Omnik]

The leader of the monkey people looked back to its companions.

"We discuss with the Earth. It is not magic and I'm not sure you can learn it. Maybe with time...

But we do have some magic. Dances and songs to control the elements. We also have these weapons which are made of special material."

The monkey-man held his wooden staff over his head. A lightning bolt suddenly hit the weapon. Neither the staff nor the man were harmed. Most surprisingly, the sky was completely clear that day...

"We are ready to trade."

[ArlEammon]

The leader of the monkey people looked back to its companions.

"We discuss with the Earth. It is not magic and I'm not sure you can learn it. Maybe with time...

But we do have some magic. Dances and songs to control the elements. We also have these weapons which are made of special material."

The monkey-man held his wooden staff over his head. A lightning bolt suddenly hit the weapon. Neither the staff nor the man were harmed. Most surprisingly, the sky was completely clear that day...

"We are ready to trade."

"Alright...." He hands over a few loaves of bread......"Simply brush off some crumbs or break it in half, and it will replicate. It stops reproducing after it has reproduced many times. When you eat it it tastes like what you want to taste like."

[Kaiser Omnik]

A few monkey men stepped up and took the loaves. In exchange, the leader gave the tekians his dagger and his quarterstaff.

"Study the weapons, you will learn a lot. The wood is from a sacred grove here, on the island. We find the magical stone across the water. If you decide to stay here for a while, we can show you our dances. In exchange you will teach us how to fabricate this "bread"."

[ArlEammon]

A few monkey men stepped up and took the loaves. In exchange, the leader gave the tekians his dagger and his quarterstaff.

"Study the weapons, you will learn a lot. The wood is from a sacred grove here, on the island. We find the magical stone across the water. If you decide to stay here for a while, we can show you our dances. In exchange you will teach us how to fabricate this "bread"."

Saradinus
"Well, you can choose either the art of Wizardry, or Conjuration....Conjuration is for those who are purely intellectual.. A wizard combines his logical strength as well as his intuitive. ::The Tekians teach the monkey people their ways...::

[Virgo]

Alrinach

A flat, black square of nothingness appeared in the air of the Reaches, where Hetrimont had disappeared. Like a sheet in the wind, it rippled and lashed out at Alrinach, but was repulsed by a pure white beam of Law energy that wrapped around it and formed a roughly spherical cage of bright beams of energy and hung gently in the air, within which the black sheet-like nothingness twisted around itself and writhed gently.
Alrinach grinned at Abraxys and Gargax.

"Feisty. Still, I would not have it any other way."

Pulling his relic from the folds of his robe, he concentrated on it and it became crystalline, distorting its form into a multifacted, semispherical diamond as large as a humanoid fist, a smaller model of the cage of energy surrounding the strange black creature. In a blaze of divine energy, it glowed brightly for an instant before taking on a soft, permanent inner glow.
Alrinach tucked the Orb back into his robes, and the cage and creatue vanished.

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One Major Act to create the Orb of Alrinach. Further details in the OOC thread.

[Kaiser Omnik]

Saradinus
"Well, you can choose either the art of Wizardry, or Conjuration....Conjuration is for those who are purely intellectual.. A wizard combines his logical strength as well as his intuitive. ::The Tekians teach the monkey people their ways...::

The monkey people chose to learn the art of Wizardry. As promised, they led the Tekians to one of their villages and taught them their ways. They also offered to show them the Great Arch of Stone and the coast on the other side.

[Lord_Asmodeus]

Gargax

The Ensirex offered the now-sane undead the chance to come with them to their homeland. Those that agreed boarded a ship on return coarse to Shilliax, the ship was guarded by two cruisers, and watched over by Gargax himself.

Back at the camp more intelligent undead without emotions are called in, especially those like the Shade Kings who could be summoned from their locations without the long journey overseas, and more Changed were called in as well

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At the gaping maw the Ensirex tried to blast the undead away with pure magical bolts, and called in aid from the Changed. Boneguard, Warrior Ensirex with finely crafted armor and weapons made from bone tried to attack them. Priests used the divine fire of Gargax, the immortal blue flames, to try and burn the creatures off. The leader and a small circle of fellow Ensirex wove a circle of four, all four of their arms curling out as is custom for spellcasting, and they attempt to create a divine cage for one of the creatures for study.

[Kaiser Omnik]

To Gargax

The spirit parasites were extremely hard to target, but were vulnerable to magic and especially the blue fire. The Ensirex succeeded in destroying some of the parasites while the others escaped. The divine cage also trapped one of the creatures.

[ArlEammon]

The monkey people chose to learn the art of Wizardry. As promised, they led the Tekians to one of their villages and taught them their ways. They also offered to show them the Great Arch of Stone and the coast on the other side.

(Those who study wizardry gradually become more like Saradinus.)
The Tekians see the Great Arch on the other side. "Now where did you say this leads/" They asked curiously.

[Kaiser Omnik]

Abraxys sent his ship away with one of his avatars inside. The Apotheosis landed in the Divine Engineer's old realm, just outside the Cyst (in 2,4). It attracted the remaining humanoids in the region. Soon, a new, technologically advanced city was built around the science ship, thanks to the minds of the brilliant creatures aboard.

[Ipphli]

Cyrus

Cyrus' people sent an envoy to the new city, curious as to their intentions.

[Fan]

Abraxys sent his ship away with one of his avatars inside. The Apotheosis landed in the Divine Engineer's old realm, just outside the Cyst (in 2,4). It attracted the remaining humanoids in the region. Soon, a new, technologically advanced city was built around the science ship, thanks to the minds of the brilliant creatures aboard.

The Few Protoss ambassadors that had been sent from their new realm went to meet with their fellow techies...
"Greetings I hail from the great plane of the Khalla, and I'am the interplanar ambassador of the Protoss. We are most interested in your itnention here."

[Kaiser Omnik]

(Those who study wizardry gradually become more like Saradinus.)
The Tekians see the Great Arch on the other side. "Now where did you say this leads/" They asked curiously.

From the southern coast of the island, one could see another landmass in the distance. The Arch in question floated above the water between the two lands. It was fascinating. The Great Arch of Stone was at least 75m in width and twice as tall. When the Tekians first took a look, the Arch was filled with smoke. In an instant, the smoke lit up and turned into a curtain of flames.

"We have never gone too close to the Arch. It is much too dangerous. According to legend, beings of great power once emerged from the Arch and taught our ancestors how to invoke the elements. The land on the other side of the water is not very hospitable. It is home to clouds of insects and beasts of all kinds. We believe creatures like you and I live there, but we have never met one. Then again, we didn't know anything about your homeland."

[Kaiser Omnik]

To Cyrus and Baldier

A representative from the city's government met with the ambassadors from the the two foreign states. The woman was dressed in tight fitting clothes made from an artificial material. Many tubes filled with fluids connected to the suit. Her face was human. She had pearly skin, black eyes and short, braided hair.

"Greetings to you, strangers. I'm honoured to meet esteemed delegates like yourselves. However, I must say I'm a little surprised by your tone. You wish to know our intentions here? Why is that? Are we doing something wrong? Aren't we on lands sacred to the Divine Engineer? We are simply taking back what is ours. We are also in phase II of the Experiment."

(OOC: By the way, their technological level is industrial, maybe mid-1800s.)

[Fan]

(So, wait I'm more advanced then them? :D))
"we question your intentions due to your peoples having been gone, so lone, and your peoples returning in sucha odd manner... We Protoss are no longer of this plane, but we still have our minor settlements on our holy grounds."

[Kaiser Omnik]

Abraxys to Gargax and Alrinach

Abraxys turned its attention to the ancient Lich.

"Oh yes, I remember. The Ensirex. I'm pleased to meet their creator. I must say, I'm impressed by what your worshippers have done with my technology. Those ships are fascinating. So, how everything's going for you, Gargax?"

[ArlEammon]

Saradinians

A colony was established on the island, living a lifestyle much the same as they had on Teke. Teleportation between Teke and Monkey Island was a simple matter, and scryers attempted to find alternative routes to Monkey Island by sea. The Protoss and the Saradinians attempted to discover ways of preserving the environment before they would begin harvesting resources.

For now, the agreement between the Saradinians and the Monkey people would be honored. In fact the Saradinians would go out of their way to honor the agreements between them. Protossian tech allowed a profit of mining with no taint, combined with the wizardry of the Tekians.

[Ipphli]

Cyrus

The envoy nods. "Apologies to our neighbors. We meant no disrespect. We were not even sure if you were the same people. We are glad to see our neighbors return after their long absence." He smiles kindly at the woman. He glances at the Protoss and nods in greetings. "Greetings brothers. I trust your recent...move will not effect our relationship. Or our trade agreements."

[Lord_Asmodeus]

Gargax

Gargax smiles warmly, or as warmly as a corpse rightly can. Things are going well for me thank you, I hope with your return trade between our peoples can continue. That is a rather fascinating piece of technology.