Introduction
Winged rodent-beasts attacked the market square, shattering the tranquility of a warm spring day. These snarling creatures fixed their attention on just a handful of the scattering crowd. Flanking their targets, the rodents gnashed their teeth and snapped their long tails like bullwhips.
What is it that connects these unlucky pedestrians? One thing: each carries an item with a glass gem. What would these creatures want with such simple trinkets? Do they pursue the sparkle with a raven-like zeal? No – there are plenty of shining baubles to be found at the market, and such beasts have never been near the town before now. That a flock should be passing by of its own accord is unlikely. Someone has deployed these beasts.
Even stranger: the glass gems begin to glow. It appears that these are no ordinary trinkets.
The premise of this game is simple: each adventurer possesses a differently colored trinket, and someone is pursuing them. Someone wants these trinkets. Badly.
The trinket may have come into your character's hands in any number of ways: they could have bought it, found it, received it as a gift. They might have even stolen it. Regardless, each trinket's ultimate origins are unknown. They aren't particularly impressive, either. Glass gems are beautiful -- but they are inexpensive and common. There was never any reason to think these were special.
Yet, special they are. When the trinkets first came together, they glowed. Over time, their true potential will unfold. Now, it's up to the group to decide: will they fight for their possessions? Will they band together? Where will they go, and how will they get there? These decisions must come soon, for monsters won't stop coming.
Setting:
This is non-modern fantasy on an original planet. It doesn't correspond to any specific time period, but technology is roughly similar to the 1400s with some advances due to magic. Fashion is a little less rigid -- just make sure it isn't too modern.
Firearms are rare as gunpowder is dangerous and expensive; armies may use cannons and hand cannons, but the average person does not have any access. Magic is more common (though it can be just as dangerous).
Magic is an attainable skill, one that requires study. Anybody of any species can learn it, but it takes years to become a master. It takes around 3-5 years to have basic but combat-useful skills, and at 10 years of training, one may be strong enough to join the Selian Army as a soldier mage. Most advanced mages have taken a professional apprenticeship, but some people may learn from family members or other contacts who know magic. Children who learn magic often start as young as 11 or 12 years old, and professional mages will almost never take apprentices younger than this. A few very stubborn mages are self-taught through as many books and scrolls as they can get their hands on, but this usually takes longer and often results in magic that isn't as polished as someone who learned from a skilled practitioner.
Humans are the most common species, but others exist. As long as it's reasonable (roughly on par with humans in abilities), I'll probably accept it.
The game starts out in Mara's Ridge, a large town under the crown of the Selian Empire. These are cool, temperate lands in the North. Many other settlements and lands exist; again, as long as it's reasonable, I'm open to embellishment.
Slots:
Each trinket is a different color, so this is how we'll do slots. We definitely don't need all the colors (the story can work with whatever number, and 9 is a lot of characters... I just want to give you a good choice, so I'm listing a bunch). However, we do need at least a few! You may play non-trinket role if you like, also, but again, we do need at least a few trinket-holders for this plot.
Note: We now have 2 or 3 thief characters, so I may not be accepting anymore than the applications I've already gotten.
Red: Suezanne's Akira
Blue: Marionette's Glissia "Glis" Laine
Yellow: WakkaWakka's Roderick Vanar
Orange: not taken
Purple: HadoukenLSD's Ada "Mew" Lunapaw
Green: not taken
Pink: not taken
White: headwig1010's Raven Hart
Black: not taken
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But more rats descended, and they weren’t just after Glis. Squealing and slashing, they picked their targets. The market square surged with the clatter of feet – parents snatched their children, merchants gathered their wares, and those who could scattered.
“Leave – me – alone!” yelled Glis. Each time she thrust her hands, blue fire streaked the air. It leapt onto the rats, and the air filled with the scent of singed fur. Her eyes shifted – did anybody else stand a chance? She could see the "flock" crowding around others. She couldn't keep her eyes off her enemy for long, though. Its powerful tail ripped into her dress. Glis screamed and lobbed another fireball. She was too busy to notice, but the gem around her neck began to glow.
"Why do you wanna hurt me!? Guys, guys! Stop it!" she yelled, pouncing on one mid air, sinking her claws into the flesh of it's back and ripping it's throat out with her sharp teeth. But even as she exterminated this one, more flew at her and attacked her relentlessly, not seeming to pause at all. She swiped at the, occasionally knocking one from the air, but never hard enough to damage the especially large rodents.
She shrieked in frustration. Every time she knocked one down, another would fly at her with unreasonable fury.
She muttered "Desapareciendo felino" under her breath and fell under the cloak of invisibility, vanishing into thin air. She ran through the hordes of screaming people, trying to escape the attack.
Impossible! Several of the rodents were still pursuing her! How could they see her? She looked down, thinking the spell may have been corrupted.. And to her utter shock, it seemed the purple pendant around her neck was omitting a glow which was going off like a beacon, alerting the beasts to her location. How could this be? What was happening?
She turned to another of the rodents, still in her invisibility cloak, slashing it's neck open with her claws. Blood ran down her face and her arm from her small victories.
Growling, Glis jumped forward and kicked the beast with all her strength. She threw up a wall of rushing water in front of herself. It caught a rat midair, forcing it to the ground. In seconds, the wall dissolved into a puddle, and two rats dove after her, but it gave Glis enough time to dash toward the "floating" purple gem. "Hey!" Glis said, waving, "Whoever you are! Strength in numbers!"
Yawning, Raven stood up from the rafter of the barn leaping down lightly onto the floor, slinging her pack over her shoulders as she walked out the barn. An actual bed tonight yay laughing lightly Raven continued down the small track leading away from the abandoned barn, whistling softly. Her rare moment of peace was interrupted by a scream to her left. Raven froze; both fear and curiosity battling for dominance finally giving into the later raven ran towards the direction of the noise, knives drawn.
Raven ran swiftly using the undergrowth as coverage until she stopped on the edge of a small back alley leading into Mara's Ridge. Pausing behind a tree raven observed the alley. Raven’s breath caught in her throat, she has never seen such monsters. Sorry lass you’re on your own. Raven turned to leave the poor girl behind. “Argh” Raven yelled her neck burning where her pendent lay over her chest. However Raven had no time to worry about that as the beasts turned and threw it’s self at her.
Running on pure adrenaline Raven stabbed the creature in its underbelly releasing a disgusting torrent of black blood in its wake covering Raven arms.
What the hell is going on?
Otherwise, the crowd in the marketplace thinned out, and Glis had a wide view of the battlefield. As each target fought, rodent corpses began to litter the ground. A few of the living rats cowered, trembling too much with pain or fear to rise from the cobblestone. Still, some continued to fight, and these struck twice as hard, twice as fast.
"Hey!" Glis yelled again, louder this time. Now she hailed anyone that might hear her. "If you have a weird, glowing gem... over here!" A guard tugging his sword from a twitching rodent looked over, and Glis waved. "They want us!" she said.
Glis turned back toward the sparkle of gleaming gems, but a rodent threw itself at her, and she tumbled to the ground with it. Winded again, she grappled with it as the guard charged over. Glis growled like a dog as she threw the rat off. It bounced toward the guard who speared it on his sword. Glis flashed the old man a feral grin before brushing off her dirt-strewn dress and dashing off.
A part of her wanted to simply take off the gem and throw it away so she could hide from the creatures, but if it was so damned important it had attracted these strange rodents in such a frenzied force, she wasn't going to part with it. It must be valuable...or powerful... probably both. At least she assumed the animals were after the gem. Of all the people the rats could be targeting, it was her and a scant few others. Did they carry gems like that? All this for a stupid gem she'd found lying unwanted in the woods, huh?
It was then that she heard a voice calling out, presumably to her, about safety in numbers. Shortly after that, the same voice yelled out about the rats being after those with the gems. So Mew was correct in her assumptions. She began searching frantically among the commotion for the owner of the voice, darting between diving rodents all the while.
"Mew, mew, mew!" she wailed in panic, her eyes wide with terror. Finally, her eyes locked on a woman with blue hair, a glowing gem at her neck, fighting off the rodents as hard as Mew was. The catling began racing over towards the other woman, resulting in one of the creatures clawing at her back viciously. Mew squealed in pain as blood poured from the open wound.
"What the hell do these guys want? Why are they after the gems?" Mew asked the stranger as she approached her. Mew swiped down another of the rodents after she had finished her sentence, her claws dripping blood. She would need to escape this place promptly and attend to her injuries, especially the one on her back. She wished her brother had taught her some healing spells, that would sure have come in handy right about now.
With that in mind, Raven ran into the market square dodging the fleeing shoppers and merchants. So this is how this place looks in the day time…though I imagine there’d be fewer beasts normally. Finally raven reached the woman who had been shouting; she was not alone however as the girl she had seen earlier had too reached the square. “Well, this looks like fun” raven remarked dryly too the two women “so any idea what the hell is going on”.
Before Raven got an answer another shout sounded "Mew, mew, mew!”. Turning, Raven cursed she knew that voice and to think the day couldn’t get any worse.
Great, in the space of 5 minutes I’ve been attack by monsters, chased by said monsters and now my only rival in the entire city had turned up and guess what she has a gem too. I really need a drink right about now.
“Hello Ada, lovely day for it isn’t it?”
"Okay, okay." Glis ran her hands through her disheveled hair. Now that the four stood in one tight group, the remaining rats rushed them from the corners of the market. The guards cut down a few, but eight remained: three sprinted on the ground, and the rest whizzed through the air. "I, uh, didn't think this far," she said. "Make this count, ladies!"
Drawing on the rest of her strength, Glis flung an arc of blue fire at the ground. It burned in place, extending several feet into the air. Two of the charging rats skidded to a stop just beyond it, but one was unfortunate enough to tumble right into the spray. It flew backward, shrieking and lashing is tail. Sparks from the tail jumped onto one of the rats beside it, causing it to yowl and roll.
The third hissed at the wall of fire and tried to shoot upward, but one wing hung broken. Instead, it sought a way around the arc. Meanwhile, the five airborne rodents never stopped. The flames could not reach them.
OOC: ((HadoukenLSD, apologies if Mew's invisibility spell hadn't worn off yet. I wasn't sure if you meant "fading" as in "becoming visible over time" or "fading" as in "still invisible but won't be much longer." If she is still invisible, just lemme know and ignore the part about Glis seeing her. I'll edit it out in that case. :,D))
She turned hurriedly to the other voice that had spoken, the one who knew her real name. Great. Just great. Of all the people in the world to be right here among the chaos, to be carrying a gem as well it had to be Raven. She graced the other thief's question with nothing more then a scoff, turning her attention back to the rats. She would deal with that later.
Hurling her body upward, her talons caught in the flesh of one of the remaining rats which flew overhead, bringing it to the ground shrieking. She tore it's throat out with her teeth, the thought occurring to her that she had killed more creatures today than she would in the average week. Aside from the occasional hunt, Mew was a fairly peaceful catling and rarely found herself in situations where violence was necessary. In her thieving, she was always the type to favor sneaking above direct combat, like most thieves. The blood which soaked her form disturbed her slightly, but she didn't have time for feeling unnerved, not in the heat of all of this.
Withdrawing her dagger, she impaled another of the rodents as it swooped at her, blood pouring from it's body as it twitched and died. Mew checked out the amount of damage she had done, only to meow hysterically as several more of the creatures remained, furious as ever with the four unfortunate women who held these bizarre gems.
Ripping the blade free Raven prepared for the next attack which came in quick succession with two other rats falling. Raven's wound felt like it was on fire, her muscles aching, she was unused to this type of fighting she was a theif not a warrior after all.
One of the rats let out a shriek turning raven saw Mew ripping her talons out of one of the rats. Raven’s back ached with an old pain, she too had felt those talons and she had the scares to prove it. She almost pitied the rat, almost.
Well at least we got even Raven smirked flourishing her blades.
Raven cursed when she saw the reinforcement, they couldn’t take on that many. Knowing she would regret this later but what choice did she have? “All of you with a gem follow me, I know somewhere we can hide”
Raven turned and ran east into one of the cities backstreets not checking if anyone followed her assuming they would. She could hear the shrieks of the monsters taking another left Raven reached a dead end.
Not pausing raven rushed to the back wall searching frantically ah here we are. Raven slid out one of the bricks in the wall pulling the lever inside, the wall shook slightly then half of it opened. Not pausing for breath Raven ran inside.
They'd better be grateful…
At the opening of the passageway, Glis skidded to a stop. She looked around, biting her lip. There was no telling where this thing led. A squeal in the distance reminded her of one thing: it would probably lead somewhere monster-free. With that, she took a deep breath and charged in after Raven.
"So," Glis said, panting between words, "what is this place?" Her eyes moved from the bloody rips in her clothing to the same in Raven's. "More importantly, any first aid? Maybe we should go to my teacher's place..." As soon as those words left her lips, she cringed. "Oh- oh, great. She's gonna kill me."
Rave carefully lit the four small lamps around the room filling the small space with a warm glow. Home. It was a single room; an old bed covered with blankets lay in the far corner shoved against the wall. A rickety shelf lay to the right of the room filled with various (stolen) trinkets tossed carelessly on to it. Raven looked around again eyes flickering nervously to the newcomers. Too late to change my mind now.
Ignoring the women Raven walked over to an old oak chest at the foot of the bed pulling out various garments throwing them at the women. “These should fit, better you were these than them” Raven nodded towards the torn clothes they currently wore “and…if any of you are injured sit on the bed, I can heal the minor wounds or ease any major ones but I’m not a miracle worker”.
Waiting for a response Raven pulled her own bloody clothes of, hissing. She sat carefully on the bed fully aware of the mistrusting looks sent her way. Pulling a deep breath Raven held her right hand over the cuts in her forearm whispering softly. A warm blue glow spread from her hand trickling down her arms healing the smaller cuts and lessening the deeper ones.
A wave of nausea swept over Raven then but she pushed it down looking up at the women she said.
"You should also bare in mind that the amount of magic it will take to heal all of you will cause me to lose consciousness for at least 2 hours. So I must ask why should I heal you and leave myself vulnerable”
I’d really like that drink now.
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"I don't think I need any different clothes or healing but hank you for the offer and for leading us away from the monsters" Akira said kind of shyly.
"What now?" Akira thought,"I'm in some room with a bunch of strangers after just being attacked by giant rat type creatures." This was quite the day she was having.
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