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Post by Rule Hound on Aug 2, 2016 13:53:23 GMT
Gunnar
You stick one of the gems into your arm and as soon as is breaks the skin it is drawn in. In what is but a moment in reality seems to be several minutes to you. Your "soul" is ripped through a hellish land with demon faces and arms reaching out to you, screaming and hungering for your flesh and mind. As your mind starts to unravel your "soul" rejoins your body and you are back in the real world. The creatures you encountered have fractured your mind for the time being and you enter frenzy.
You find yourself raging your way through the streets destroying everything and anything unfortunate enough to get in your way. Alarm bells start sounding and you begin encountering more and more Martial resistance. In full frenzy your beast is both enraged and in fear. You are no longer the hunter but the hunted. ducking here, running there, destroying a group of soldiers like a rabid beast you rampage through the streets. You are eventually cornered in an alley and are preparing to fight the soldiers before you, rising into full combat form if you weren't before.
As you get ready to charge the soldiers part and a small group of men in holy robes calmly walk through. You feel terror at the sight of them, pressure on your very being as they draw closer. Your beast now in full fear attempts to transform into an owl to escape but the transformation goes awry and leaves you laying as a man, naked in the gutter. Your beast looses it and tries to charge and attack but you are forced to your knees in supplication long before you can lay a hand on these holy men. The power they exude makes mawks everything you have accomplished. The power in your unlife is challenged by the faith that is now literally glowing from them.
You back into a corner and are assaulted by their very aura of faith until you black out into torpor. As you go down and your beast recedes you can remember thinking that Inquisitor Samuel was but a new welped pup compared to a True Alpha.
This is where your story begins. We will get back to you.
Gunner - Saved by Peter of Capua from the True Faith Hunters and is give a set of task to complete. For example collecting the remaining relics and bringing them to Peter to "protect" or looking of Pagen relics to bring to Peter to "consecrate" to make them proper Christian relics. Maybe give him the choice of forced conversion to Christian for his unlife?
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Post by Rule Hound on Aug 9, 2016 15:42:51 GMT
As you awaken you are in a dark cell, though feeling around you discover that at least it is well maintained and furnished. Probably for the more affluent mortals who can afford proper payment for their accommodations.
Once you begin stirring you are pleased to discover that you are not very hungry, seems you have a goodly amount of blood still in your system from your rampage.
You find and manage to light a lamp on the desk. Looking around you are indeed behind bars though if it were not for that this is quite a comfortable place.
Attempts to get to close to the bars find you hitting a almost barrier, something that both hinders you and makes you aware that you will suffer greatly if you pursue your desire to reach the bars. Feels like the faith powers that brought you down.
A few hours after you light the lamp you hear a commotion in the Hallway. Several guards. A few minutes latter you see two guards escorting a man you recognize from several years ago. He has a few more worry lines but is otherwise still in peak shape and carries himself with a literal aura of power.
He dismisses the guards, crosses to the dooor/gate unlocks it, opens it and walks in standing before you. It makes you a little uncomfortable for him to be so close.
"We met some time ago, well some time for me though I KNOW you don't view things in the same way. But fortunately for you I have gained a little knowledge about you, about how you live your life if it can be called that.
Quite frankly I have had you spared, despite the stir it has caused the Bishops who witnessed some of your doings. I must say that this has fired some of them up pretty well and they are now preaching the need of the inquisitions. Some of the French have headed back all fired up to try to clear the heresies at home.
As I said I spared you for a reason. I know what is happening where you come from, I feel the darkness rising. I do not have the manpower to blanket the area and hunt down those that cause it nor the free time to lead a specialized force currently to be more surgical. So, that leaves me with the option using the shadow of darkness to hunt the greater evil. The need to find a way to hinder the progress of what is happening.
I prayed and God gave me a tool. YOU.
There are several Holy relics that are in and around the lands you inhabit, objects that are imbued with the greatness of Christ and his father. Also, there are many pagan objects that have been used and gathered the faith of their followers that similarly can be corrupted and used for evil. You, assuming you agree, are going to begin collecting them and delivering them to me. I can protect those holy to the church and Consecrate those that have been imbued with false faith and thus bringing them to the cause of the True God.
So long as you are making progress I will let you go in peace with but two stipulations.
1) You try to hide them from me and I will destroy you, let the Episcopal members know where they need to go to find heathens.
2) I prefer that you not tell anyone specifically whom you are collecting these for and to whom you are sending them. Your kind can be bothersome and there is enough on my plate without having to deal with more of your manipulations."
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Post by Rule Hound on Sept 7, 2016 18:53:41 GMT
Gunnar will travel back to Triest, taking his time to hit up every place along the way with Relics. He has the list of locations and objects from Peter, shouldn't be to hard to find.
Dedicated entirely to travel, spying on the locations of the Relics, and trying to find a way to get in and take them without causing a huge scene. Using his flight form to investigate the grounds of the Relic Locations.
Gunnar will speak with local farmers, even going so far as to enter the taverns and speak with people about rumors. Using this to get to know the area a bit better.
Scouting outside the cities for places to hide, travel paths, and then the hunting trails. Planning on using the areas as escape from any pursuit. Assuming things go poorly with retrieving a few of the relics.
Once a suitable scout of the building and the surrounding areas is done, Gunnar will remove almost everything and coat himself in charcoal powder (soot) so he's blackened and nearly unrecognizable. Use the cover of night and relative quiet, heightened senses and animal forms, he will sneak in and take the relics.
He will do everything he can to ensure that he isn't seen during the night of the heists.
This is all along the path towards Triest.
I'll respond for what Gunnar does in Triest after we find out whether or not he managed to steal a few relics.
Him 1: Rock Paper Scissors Paper Rock
Us: S, R, S, R, P
Him 2: Scissors scissor paper rock rock
Us: R, S, P, P, R
Him 3: Paper scissors rock scissors rock
Us: R, S, R, R, S
response: ZigZag course is going to add some downtimes. All your downtimes will be used and you will get back just before gather.
ST Note: We will have Tyr Pull him out about halfway through. this time due to Tyr's not full understanding of what he is doing time will work in reverse similar to Walk the Abyss but it will be months lost in hell.
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Post by Rule Hound on Sept 19, 2016 17:52:33 GMT
You begin your travels back towards Gaul zigging and zagging to find find and steal items of faith from various churches, cathedrals and such as you go. You do not find it to difficult. Most of the churches are very uncomfortable to be in but not enough to hinder you from getting in to snoop around and eventually learn where the artifacts are kept. In addition you begin picking up rumors of demons and the walking dead, as you travel further you begin to make a connection, if you weren't travelling it would be difficult to connect the dots but sightings occur in one place 2-3 days before you and then reports of activities having occurred in a time frame that most people could travel from one point to another. As you travel you again find this. that the wolves, which apparently appear here also will appear and then you find reports of them being sighted at a distance the wolves could have traveled in the course of the time between sightings. Only to disappear again.
In sad news is when you hear reports of trouble and sightings that occured ahead of your arrival at a particular location the item you break in to discover the item to have been stolen. Once it is only the keen sight of the night owl that tips you off to a trap. Seems someone tried but failed to steal a artifact and now the locals are setting traps to foil any more attempts.
On night you are traveling in northern Italy, aside from the list given you by Peter of Capua you learn of a item particularly of high value to a pagan faith. Long held to hold miraculous powers. You begin the chase of tracking it down and have found a local herb woman who has herself paid respects to it. While she is feeling you out to see if you might just be some Christian in disguise you feel your soul being latched onto and twisted. The very fabric of your being, being almost shredded. Grabbed and pulled.
Next thing you know you are ripped through the realm you initially traveled through when you inserted the gem. There are demons and screams of torment, arms reaching out to grab you. You find yourself almost appearing out of all this into a dark room but just as you are about to appear you become half frozen between this dark realm of demons and the real world. What is worse is that you are frozen there. From the corner of your eye you can see the door to the room slowly opening and someone time slowing down as it freezes in place along with whomever is opening it. You sense there are at least 4 of you trapped here.
You feel a deep dark pulsing and are near blinded as it seems the Northern Lights themselves are playing around the room. There is a massive pulse of dark energy flashing out almost like a nuclear explosion.
And you sense days and nights going by. You can even see the light of day come and go from the partly open door with someone frozen in the doorway. What ever happened has frozen you outside of time. The sun though obvious behind her never quite touches the person in the door. The sun rises and falls over what you presume to be several months. You can see the days come and go but are unable to do anything. What is worse is that during various periods you can see the demons still there. They are reaching and grabbing at you but somehow because you are frozen in time they can not quite get you. Who knows what will happen when you are unfrozen and can do more than "observe yourself thinking" (you feel like you are thinking and can observe and hear yourself doing so but not consciously affect what you are thinking or doing, sort of like when you dream).
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