by Dragon Sage007 » Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:11 pm
To run ahead the timeline a touch, Ethra, Terra, and Tiffi manage to find the log-in platform before the other, heavier people do-though they're slowed down by a mysterious cart-crash which appeared in front of them-and Terra gives the keywords to the gate.
When they arrive...they find it to be an abandoned town they land in, full of decrepit buildings and old dust. It simply exuded decay.
There were no monsters, yet, but it seemed only a matter of time in this place. Where to begin searching...
Meanwhile, the old man accosted a certain player, asking for help with some skeletons at his farm. Cerr readily agreed, and the two of them went on with the new quest.
Once there, the old man revealed himself to be a Polearm, and a passing good one...he also spoke of how the city was once attacked by skeletons, strong enough to kill the old 'Watchers' of the city. The city's Gods, in other words. And he mentioned how he was once one -of- those Watchers...but the conversation was cut short there.
Skeletons were attacking. Five of them, three man-sized and the other two more like children, who seemed to hang back. And while the old man dived in the fray, Cerr stayed back -just- long enough to cast one of the spells from her old days...
Only to find out she was too short on MP as of yet. So she instead grabbed her dagger, healing the both of them as they needed it...the old guy dismantled two of the skeletons himself, and Cerr managed the last. The child skeletons cried after each was destroyed, one of them even rushing at Cerr afterwards...which the old man caught, and broke in a single swing.
The other child, however, began begging...pleading for her life, saying that it was the fault of the 'big guys' that they were attacking, claming that the Gods themselves were forcing them into it. She pleaded for her own unlife, crying without tears...
The old man? He busied himself with poking and knocking about the destroyed skeletons, making sure they -stayed- destroyed.