ok I dont know where to post this stuff... but I present to you, Mitrash RPG, the 1st chapter!!
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It was a hot day, unusually hot. A girl with long silver hair, tied in plaid with with gold-beaded tyer was walking towards the King's City, Matherauimme through the Salvan's Plain. She walked with pride and dignity, yet at the same time a humility, as seen fit as a Priestess of Light. The sun was already began to set as she reached King’s City. Amazing to behold, this was the city where the Palace of Margandee stood. The Sanctuary, a Grand Cathedral of the Convent was also here. True to it’s nature as a big city, this place is always crowded with people and merchants and vendors can be found along the streets of King's City. But not all were honest merchants, most of them were swindlers, trying to pick out unsusceptible victims with fake and forged items. Thus, she kept her head high, and ignore every single merchant who called out to her and walked to the Sanctuary to meet the Grand Bishop. When she got inside the Sanctuary, she announced herself in a loud, clear voice. “Angel Louisnere, here by the order of the Grand Bishop, seeks audience with him”
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The inn was deserted, save a few merchants that forgot to read the sun and ended up napping an hour or two pass their 'supposed' departure time. Being a station inn, the only people that ventured this far out were merchants bound for the King’s City. Occasionally, they get an adventurer or two but now all they had were late merchants and a Keeper. He sat on a table at the inn common room, eating an apple, his eyes on a parchment that had just arrived for him. He took another bite before opening the letter.
'To the sad excuse for a Keeper,
I trust you had a hard time getting out of the Paygroth forest. But that was expected. With your skills, if you are reading this, consider yourself lucky. But that was expected too, because your are my student. Still, there's still no way you'll beat me! Try again in another 200 years.
Anyway, considering your lack of skills and experience, the Council has decided to give you a Task (its also because you're the only free Keeper we have).
You are to head to Matherauimme and reach the city by the full moon. There you'll seek out Convent's chosen priest/priestess. Further information on your Task will be available to you once you have completed the said orders.
Good luck. You'll need all of it.'
Surpressing an anger, he walked towards the common room fireplace, intending to burn the letter, when his eyes fell on a rather important postscript at the bottom.
'P.S: Don’t destroy the letter. You'll need it to proceed with your Task.'
"That egoistic old man!" he thought aloud, "First he insults me then he tries to fail my Task by writing the warning... in FINE PRINT! When I get back, I'm going to introduce him to a whole new world of pain... ElderG style!"
The steak he ordered arrived, and he started attacking it, all the while contemplating on means on getting to King’s City. He thought of the words “by the full moon”, and he knew that tomorrow would be the full moon. King’s City is 4 days of walking, considerably less if the person has a ride. But he knew that was out of question, because his budget is tight, very tight. Well, he had no other choice than to get there somehow by foot, and he needed to get there by tomorrow night. After he had finished his food, he went out, stretching a bit, and then started to run at the direction of the King’s City.
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A young boy woke up at daybreak and ate his breakfast quickly, as today will be his first riding lesson. He quickly went to the stables to prepare his pony. As he approached the pony, he noticed a lump on a corner on his pony stables, a quarterstaff lying next to it. Being a curious boy, he poked the lump, and the lump shuffles. He stepped back and that lump of turned out to be a man, his tunic travel-stained, his dark cloak was his blanket. He wore an angel necklace on his neck, and his face was a bit scarred from past battles. The boy just stared as the man cracks his neck and back, rubbing the stiffness out of his body. Then the man spoke "Are you a good boy?" The boy replied "Yes, at least I was told I am" The man then instructed "Well, if you are a good boy, then go to your kitchen and get me some food. Do not tell anyone I’m here ok?"
The boy ran to his house, gathered as many foods as he can carry than ran back to the stables... after he gave to that man, he watched as the man wolfed some of it, and stored the rest in his backpack... then he asked the boy again "Boy, where is the nearest city here?" The boy then told him about Matherauimme, the King’s City. The man stood up, wore the cloak and held his quarterstaff as his walking stick. Before he set out, he asked the boy "What is your name?" "Michael", replied the boy. "Well Michael, you will be a very good boy if you don’t tell me that I’m here ok? And give my thanks to that pony too, she was nice enough to give me space to sleep."
The boy nodded, and then watched as the man started walking along the road that he had pointed out. The man then suddenly stopped, and then turned around to face him, and regarded him with sharp eyes. “My name is Bean, young boy. Remember it well, because I had a slight feeling that our paths might crossed again” Then he continued on his journey, leaving the boy in confusion, his young mind full of questions.
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Elsewhere, a young man with small spectacles was out ruing his bad luck. After the death of his parents when he was young, he has been enduring hardship while traveling to find his uncle, which just died recently before he found him. He heaved a sigh, wondering if he was destined to be alone forever, without family or friends,
Suddenly, he hears a commotion nearby and slowly picks himself up to head there. A badly injured girl brushes past him as he walks. And he heard someone shouting, to not let her get away. To his surprise, it was a demon. The demon approached him, and started to question him, if she had saw any girl. DD tried to deny it but the demon noticed a bloodstain on his jacket, apparently made by the girl when she brushed past him. The demon then snared at him “Are you really sure? I'm asking you for the last time!” “Yes” the young man replied confidently, but his eyes betrayed him at the critical moment. “You lied! And now you shall die for it!!” The demon grabbed him by the throat and prepared to stab him, but then another sound spoke
“She is here!! I found her!!” The demon released the young man and went to the sound. The young man followed them, and he found not one, but two demons standing over a girl, who was kneeling in a small pool of blood. The girl seemed like thinking about something, murmuring.
“A shame you have to die now. I would’ve keep you if it’s not for my lord’s order. Die!!” The demon raised his blade and strike. The young man threw himself in front of the strike, fatally injuring him. He felt his life was ebbing away from him, the world is turning dark, when he heard something from the back of his mind. The girl’s voice.
“Why? Why did you end your life for me?”
“It has been only pain for me in this world.... Hopefully the next world would be better place......There is nothing left for me in this world”, the man replied.
Then the girls coughed, and when the next voice came to him, it was weaker. “I cannot leave this world yet. I have something important to accomplish. I have a request. Please.”
“What is it?”
“ I need a host for me to complete my task. I have been badly injured by the demons. I fell into their trap. In this state I can’t do anything.”
“But what can I do? I'm dying.”
Then the man felt as someone was reaching for him “No need to worry. I will merge my spirit with you. You'll be feeling better then.”
The man hesitated, then feeling finally he could do something in this world, accept the reach. When he opened his eyes, both demons were slain, the corpses turned to dust. He wondered about what happened, and just who is this girl, when the voice came to him again with instructions.
“There's no time to waste. Head towards King City quickly. I'll explain in the meanwhile.”
The man complied, although his mind was full of questions. But he felt another soft touch in his mind, signifying she is still there.
“What's your name? Mine's Daniel Delores”, he asked. He felt she hesitated for a moment, and then came the answer.
“Ariel”
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some notable changes in this:
1. Although DD posted before me, and there's a lot of things happened between Angel and ElderG before my first post, I figure this would be used to introduce the characters first... I put DD'S post after me, so as to give a little clue about what is going to happen in King's City.
2. Changes in Angie's intro post
- discarded the merchant's attempt to swindle her out of buying a thing
- discarded when she healed a man (please notify if you want to put this back in)
- added a nice announcement from Angie (since DD's post has some intro in it, i figure i just put in everybody's name in)
3. Changes in ElderG's intro post
- instead of attempting to fireball the letter, he tried to burn it at the fireplace
- editted out pecos and zees
4. Changes in my intro post
- the boy name is "Michael" now
- the boy doesnt gave out the distance to King's City (to try to keep the timeframe correct)
- Bean's introduced himself to the boy, and implying that "their paths might crossed again" (I need an intro too
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5. Changes in DD's intro post
- nothing much, just editted out the long dialogue.
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so comments/criticism/swearing/bickering are welcomed and expected
... just tell me where and what to improve, to include or to exclude...
PS: tell me where can I post this stuff next time... and let's try to break the stuff into chapters (DD I need your help in this...)
PSS: Jester and Hunted character are not included, since they are not involved in this arc
