Ascent: Fiendish Redemption Quest

Feed on Greenstone (Rolled 27+10=37) Failure


Greenstone is on heightened security after an attack from Union forces, attempting to get in there and feed would prove too risky at this time. It would be best to wait and try again at a later time for when you can avoid risking Avaritia's attention.

You stalked about the border of Greenstone's territory to try and find any suitable target, small groups of heavily armed guards regularly patrolled the area, too many to try and sneak up on them. You were almost ready to leave when one of the patrols were ambushed by a group of Unionized thugs, and a battle quickly broke out.

Feed on the Union (64+10=74) Success

That said, the attackers provided the perfect opportunity for you, and you lept into action the moment an opening presented itself, driving your claws into the back of one of the Greenstone guards and slicing into his spine, you block an attack from one of the other guards and knock him backwards where one of the thugs attacks him from behind. You move around the fight, attacking anyone who gets close as you slip out of sight and memory. It was only until near the end that one of the Thugs attacked you from behind and managed to hit you that the gravity of the situation made itself known.

The sword drove itself though your back, the edge cutting through flesh and muscle as it protruded from the other end, you stumbled forward for a moment before you regain your footing and slowly turned to face the offending attacker. The cocky grin on his face slowly melting as you began to walk forward, paying the blade no mind, it hurt yes, but the blade was not magic... and you had no organs to rupture...

Another ofthe thugs charged you from the side only to be stopped by a quick downward slash of your claws, tearing his face in two as bone is sliced cleanly away. You strode towards your intended meal when you heard something, looking to see a large ball of fire being formed in the hands of a particularly corrupted member of the band, likely the leader. And before anyone could react the crazed man though the fireball, and an explosion rocked the cavern.

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What the fuck was that thing? Was all the man could think to himself as he covered his eses from the flames, it was a simple job, go around and make life hell for some of the Greenstone upstarts, like the Bosses told him to do. Nobody said anything about this...


He had heard rumors about some pale freak but he never expected it to be real, and for it to be so damn deadly! It tore through steel like it was cloth! No matter he supposes, no way it survived that blaset, cost him all of his men too the damned freak. He spat in the creature's direction before turning to hightail it out of there, making a few steps before he was stopped by an explosion of pain in his leg, looking down to see a sword pinning it to the ground... the same sword that...

"Not so fast."

What he saw when he looked behind him was by far the most terrifying thing he had ever seen.

It was still alive, hell it didn't even look fazed by the fire that was still surrounding him, it had removed the sword and thrown it his way so he couldn't escape. It began slowly making his way to him, tattered robes slowly dancing amongst the flames as its mouth opened to reveal a tongue like a snake. It grabbed him with another hand and lifted him up too eye level, soulless white eyes burning their way into his skull as the tongue striked...

And he knew no more...


Mental Huger partially sated, you are now at stage one.

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Construction Team: Add Guest Room (11+10=21) Failure


There was an incident with one of Arnas's old traps going off and nearly killing one of the workers, thankfully you were able to step in with your newfound healing ability to prevent him from suffering but it still slowed down progress. What was he working on that required this much security?

As expected the Miners are not willing to get anywhere near the warded area of the Spire, and you still haven't gotten around to trying to find a way passed the barrier to see what is in there so you're fine with that arrangement. You're still hungry, perhaps you'll go on another hunt, there are plenty of fights breaking out around the Pit after all.

You are suffering from Mental Hunger.
You have two actions. Please use plans.

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Search the Spire (60-5=55)


You knew it was only a matter of time before you found yourself searching through this place again, there's just too many traps for you to simply allow multiple mortals to work here without at least trying to find some way to deactivate them. Your safest bet is that barrier in the basement, but you don't know how to get past it, and so you decided to check some of the more ruined the areas of the tower in hopes of finding some sort of clue.

You did find a few interesting things, the remnants of a staff, clearly magical in nature and expertly crafted, or at least it was before it was smashed into several pieces. The occasional notes regarding experiments, it seemed that Arnas what's especially interested in trying to understand the anatomy of the corrupted, snd he seemed to have some understanding of what was really going on in this city.

You did find some information regarding the barrier, and it seems that there is a specific stone somewhere in the basement, that if pressed will cause the barrier to dissipate for a short time. That ultimately leaves you with two potential options to get past it, try and get some more information regarding how to find this stone...

Or just start pressing every single one in there until you find it.


New action unlocked.

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Repair the Spire (73+10+5-5=83) Success


As you searched the tower you made sure to get some work done as you did so, you kept track of where everything was and insured that it would be safe to move. You don't think you found any runes left unactivated, something that anyone who works in there would be grateful to hear.

After that you made sure to move some of the various bits of rubble into the storage room two await repurposing. you were able to find some interesting bits of stone that appeared to have originally belonged to a statue, perhaps when you have the time you could attempt to find the rest and repair it, if the rest of it is still around that is.


Repair the Spire is now at 3/10

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Construction Crew Build Guest Rooms (51+10=61) Success


Once they were sure there were no more runes to stumble upon, the group of miners quickly got to work on building the guest rooms, they were certainly well trained it seems, and they were able to get a fair amount of the groundwork done. They carved and smoothed stone while one of them went off to procure the necessary materials to create the doors. Once that done with the room itself and begin work on actually transforming it into a proper guest room. For now though they need to continue work on the walls, yo no expert yourself but you don't think a sleeping quarters is supposed to have a gaping hole to be outside in it, and these rooms have several!

Guest Rooms are now at 2/6

It's good to finally have work progressing on the Spire once again, and on all fronts at that! You know that Arnas is keeping something important behind that barrier, so you need to find that stone sooner or later. There are rumors of another battle brewing between the Union and Greenstone, and the Merchants Guild has been poking around more and more into the pit, something might happen soon.

You are suffering from Mental Hunger.
You have two actions. Please use plans.

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