Either the smile on my face or the Athame in my hand must have clued the centaur in to the fact that things were about to get interesting. He tried to break the bindings I had conjured around him, not that he had a chance to do so, the frozen chains I had bound him in were tight and ...
2020-01-03 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The food served at the Guild-dinner was surprisingly scrumptious, a feast in the most literal sense of the word and at first, I had a ‘feasting while the world burns around us’ impression, wondering just how we were supposed to enjoy the expertly prepared food knowing that around...
2020-01-02 20:39:51 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Happy New Year, Everyone
Part of me wondered if the Centaurs were somewhat related to ants. Watching them gave that impression, they looked rather agitated as they moved around camp and I thought I could smell their unease, even through the scrying magic I used to watch them.
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I was waiting with a feeling of breathless anticipation. During the night, Lenore and I had, more or less jokingly, made predictions and bets on the reaction the centaurs that escorted the supply-oxen would have, once they noticed a mist-bank rolling in and how they would react once ...
2019-12-30 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
My original hope, to attack the centaur supply-team during their nights-rest was sadly out of the question. They hadn’t moved on after arriving at the western centaur-camp during the middle of the day, instead, they had stayed there, obviously planning to spend the night. For us, t...
2019-12-27 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Come on, Children, gather around the hearth and sit down. Sit down and listen.
Now, that the nights are long and dark, let me tell you of times long past. History has many lessons for us and if we don’t learn from it, it might just repeat itself. Tonight, I will tell you the ...
2019-12-25 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The sleet kept going for four days and by the second day, all of us were bored out of our skulls. On the first day, I had enlarged the Igloo to create multiple chambers, one for Sigmir and me, one for Rai and Adra one for the wolves with us and finally, a chamber to be used as out-ho...
2019-12-23 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Success had never been so miserable.
Lenore and I had managed to keep our ritual going for a little over sixteen hours, pumping an insane amount of Astral Power into the storm. After that, I had slept for a good eight hours, securely held in Sigmir’s arms until waking again, ...
2019-12-20 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
After making sure that everything was ready for a prolonged session of spell-casting and telling my party and the wolves around us to take cover, I took up my position in the middle of the ritual circle Lenore and I had set up. For a moment, I considered sitting on the ground, ...
2019-12-18 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I had to blink a few times, after seeing the attributes of my new weapon. Or rather, casting tool, it wasn’t quite as useful as an actual weapon, just like my Athame. There had been small losses to the original Whacking Stick, it had lost a small amount of damage, it had lost the d...
2019-12-16 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
During the evening, Lenore returned once more, quickly entering her Hallow after landing on my shoulder.
“There’s a storm coming.” she told me, sharing a feeling of apprehension. “I wouldn’t want to be caught by it in the air.”
“Good to know. Doe...
2019-12-13 17:01:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Misdirection. That was what it all came down to. Everyone agreed that trying to face the centaurs head-on would produce only one result, our death. Originally, I had believed that we might be able to actually push them back but once I had fully realised just how many of the silly pon...
2019-12-11 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
After dissecting the Centaur and discussing with Rai what the best spots to attack were, Lenore and I used magic to scatter the remains, plowing them into the snow and making the snow look as pristine as it had looked before the battle.
“Snowdust, we are finished here. Do you...
2019-12-09 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Official Road to Purgatory-Beta Forum
Did you have a bad day? Spent a long time walking down a lonely road? Are you looking for something to soothe your weary soul?
Join me and let yourself be h...
2019-12-06 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The rest of the day went by in a blur of mental activity, incorporating the vague information from Mordred, directing the people outside, trying to get everyone to work together, it felt as if whenever I managed to deal with a problem, three more cropped up.
Finally, with the s...
2019-12-04 21:09:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Yes, Master?” Rai asked once he was next to me, having picked up on the seriousness in my voice.
“Once, I told you that information was the key to defeating your enemy. This lesson is one on information gathering, in this case, we want to understand how centaurs work. Sadly, I cannot...
2019-12-04 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“You are bleeding…” Sigmir reminded me, once the fighting had calmed to the point that she had breath to care about anything other than keeping Centaurs from running either of us through. After taking a deep breath and settling my mind a little, I felt the wound I had suffered ...
2019-12-02 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The snarls in front of me got louder and now, there were other noises mixed in. Screams of pain, cries for help, commands to form up as a commander tried to get his people into a semblance of order, the dull sounds of weapons hitting wood, all of it combined to form a horrific racket...
2019-11-29 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Irminsul-Forum, General Discussion
Greetings to everyone reading this
I wanted to make this thread to share my first impressions, seen through the lense o...
2019-11-29 16:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post
After another couple of fun-filled minutes of walking up and down the seemingly endless stairs on the cliff-face of Grey Quarry, I reached the landing from where I had looked out over the valley below with Roknar, just a few hours before. Now that I had explored it a little, I was ab...
2019-11-29 13:33:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I made my way to the door that housed the kitchen, domain of Grethra, the cook. Or maybe calling her a chef would be more appropriate, I had yet to meet her, so I wasn't sure. The door a a symbol on it, after a second, I realised that it was supposed to be a large, witch-style cauldr...
2019-11-28 19:24:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Finding my way on the stairs leading up the cliff into Grey Quarry was more difficult than I had expected. While I had a rough idea where to find the craftsmen and with them the trainers for other professions, it was only a rough one and the stairs had surprisingly few connections be...
2019-11-27 17:54:34 +0000 UTC View Post
“What hubris…” I idly thought, watching the centaurs from above. They hadn’t learned from our attacks in the last couple of days, not at all. The first attack, under the cover of conjured mist, that they hadn’t respected the change in environmental conditions and fumbled in...
2019-11-27 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
With the big, bad wolf slain on the ground, Venja, Menja and I were done with the quest. But it would have been rather impolite to simply abandon the other two, letting them fend for themselves. Before that, I needed to regenerate what I had spent in the fight, so I pulled a crystal ...
2019-11-26 15:05:25 +0000 UTC View Post
After steamrolling the first two wolves with our newly expanded party, the two newcomers gave a more or less grunted greeting of Hello and we turned to make our way back up the slope, towards the area where the big, boss wolf was supposed to be. On our way, I learned a little more ab...
2019-11-26 00:50:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We had retreated into a rock-formation to recuperate, when Menja suddenly spoke up.
“Gotta go for a few minutes.” he said and I could hear the urgency in his voice.
“Do you need me, love?” Venja instantly asked in response, cementing the idea that they knew each o...
2019-11-25 17:36:11 +0000 UTC View Post
After my magical scouting, we quickly returned to the cave the wolves had claimed as their den for our operation, while I considered what I had learned. The main thing of which I was now quite certain was that trying to openly attack the camp during the night would be difficult, with...
2019-11-25 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe killed a few more wolves as a group, with me keeping their attention, Venja stunning them before we all unleashed our combined attacks in that moment. The experience-points were a little meagre, at least for time spent killing the enemy, but on the other hand, the ability-gain was insane. Each...
2019-11-25 12:39:54 +0000 UTC View Post
For a moment, after killing the wolf and greeting my new teammates, nothing happened. I felt a drop of liquid on my face, running down towards my lips, and my tongue darted out, licking it up. There was little flavour, just a tiny bit of a metallic taste, but the effect it had on one...
2019-11-24 06:09:58 +0000 UTC View PostAN: The "decline" and "failure" parts of quests have been removed and I might do so in past chapters.
For the next couple of hours, the complete ingame-night and well into the next day, I did quests around the fields of Grey Quarry, hunting various more or less cute furry critte...
2019-11-24 02:13:17 +0000 UTC View Post