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Dark Lemmings: A Souls-esque Mob Quest

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Thank you for the soul, I suspect the churches would be marked on his map as well. I'll save that soul for now, maybe buy my appearance and my gear at the same time.

Looking at the map, I also notice a number of dotted lines sectioning the map into chunks, with various symbols making the different sections, including a typical human, a humanoid creature with a feline head and tail, a humanoid with a thick tail and its tongue sticking out, a pointy eared human, a short human, a human with wings, a humanoid with wings and a beak, and many others aside. Combined with the subtle, but noticeable muzzle present on my own skull, and tail present on my rear, I figure that I must be from one of the other races, but if I'm from the felinoid race, how did I wind up here for my childhood? I mean, the countries border each other, but Waldstedt is definitely far from the feline territories.

[X] Search for more clues
Archeo Lumiere threw 1 8-faced dice. Reason: Success? Total: 2
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Oh boy, I've made myself a berserker. All hail Lord Tarkus, I guess!

[X] For far too many years of my life, I gave it to the Gods in their ivory towers. I fought, bled, and even died for them. Against the Undead. And this is my reward?

I... can't remember how I look. I can't remember my favorite food. I can't remember my family.

How dare they do this

My memory might be full of holes, but I do remember the unworthy "lords" did so love their ostentatious cities. Time for regret and lamentations will come... after I get answers.

Now, though, is the time to take stock of my situation and look towards the horizon to see if I spy anything likely to lead to the Gods of this dead land.
 
Pandemonious Ivy said:
Oh boy, I've made myself a berserker. All hail Lord Tarkus, I guess!
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With the first memory I gave you, I can hardly say that I'm surprised. Anyway, timefor my reaction!

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I stare up dumbly at the the not-at-ALL-incandescent figure, then turn to my compatriots.

"My fellow looters, we have gathered here today, to loot this place of everything of value or use from this once sacred place. The good news is, this place has ALREADY been quite throughly desecrated, so no worries there. The bad news is, HOLY SHIT."

"Any way, moving past the horror that is apparently our lives, let's lay down some ground rules: First rule, if you call dibs on something, it's yours. For example, I call dibs on the dead man's armor up there. That means that, whenever we get around to getting him down (somehow) I get his armor, and he goes in a shallow grave (you know, in case he crawls out of it later)."

"Second Rule: don't be greedy! There's nobody that we can fence any crap we find off to, so if someone else can use something that you have, let them have it. Feel free to try and haggle though, you did find it, whatever it is. ...Can't think of any other rules for now, so let's get to it. People keep there stuff in basements, right? So let's start there."

I start moving towards the basement door, then I hear the OMINOUS FOOTSTEPS!

"Oooor we start on this floor, and start working our way up! Anyone know how to break chains by the way? I was serious earlier, I call dibs on that armor."

[X] @Sightsear Scour the first floor for LEWT! With a special eye towards getting the headless desecration down, so that he can be looted and thrown in the hole I crawled out of. If nothing interesting occurs, we work our way up the building, fondly imagining that it is unlikely to lead to my horrible demise.

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And here I get to build a little more about the world, and what do you know, there isn't a threadmark to this post. I pity the person who only reads the threadmarked posts to get caught up on this game~

In keeping with the fact that this world is "horror that is apparently our lives" (Sightsear, 106), there are technically other races. Admittedly, they were rare at first and have become even more rare as interbreeding occurred. As it turns out, humans are kinda kinky, so a lot of people can claim heritage from "angels", "The cats that walk" and the like. In the modern day, this typically only means that some have higher aptitudes at certain things, like Kenyans being excellent runners in an entirely separate dimension.

Much rarer are those who strongly exhibit the traits of alternate races, which now typically are the result of certain... Less ethical practices typically associated with royalty or mad alchemists. Given the spread of humanity (and the prior wars of subjugation conducted by Alexander The Steadfast and subsequent integration by Obal the Creator back when they walked the ground), creatures like "angels" and "walking cats" have become a rarity and the subject of cult worship and traveling circuses.

As it stands, we have an interesting question in the existence of good @Archeo Lumiere. Is he an old corpse, given life in some strange happening, or perhaps is he the result of those previously mentioned unethical occurrences? Or something else entirely?

Management has declined to comment, which this Messenger believes is because there are no Messengers who have earned the right to be touched by Management's wise, destructive insight.
 
Raiu said:
And here I get to build a little more about the world, and what do you know, there isn't a threadmark to this post. I pity the person who only reads the threadmarked posts to get caught up on this game~

In keeping with the fact that this world is "horror that is apparently our lives" (Sightsear, 106), there are technically other races. Admittedly, they were rare at first and have become even more rare as interbreeding occurred. As it turns out, humans are kinda kinky, so a lot of people can claim heritage from "angels", "The cats that walk" and the like. In the modern day, this typically only means that some have higher aptitudes at certain things, like Kenyans being excellent runners in an entirely separate dimension.

Much rarer are those who strongly exhibit the traits of alternate races, which now typically are the result of certain... Less ethical practices typically associated with royalty or mad alchemists. Given the spread of humanity (and the prior wars of subjugation conducted by Alexander The Steadfast and subsequent integration by Obal the Creator back when they walked the ground), creatures like "angels" and "walking cats" have become a rarity and the subject of cult worship and traveling circuses.

As it stands, we have an interesting question in the existence of good @Archeo Lumiere. Is he an old corpse, given life in some strange happening, or perhaps is he the result of those previously mentioned unethical occurrences? Or something else entirely?

Management has declined to comment, which this Messenger believes is because there are no Messengers who have earned the right to be touched by Management's wise, destructive insight.
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So... no soul for my efforts? :(
 
[X] @Terrabrand believes others went into the church, fellow townsfolk. Join them for strength in numbers, and see if anything that can protect us is recognizable.

I have the religion knowledge, so may as well.
 
[X] @Nevill checks if his new friends elicit an appetite. He seems to appear plump and tasty to them, so he wonders if the feeling is mutual.
-[X] Then he tries to initiate a conversation. They are dead, he is dead. They have so much in common.
--[X] If that proves fruitless, he intends to find a big rock and try to smash the head of one of the hanged to death to examine him and his gallow closer. Who built those and who hanged all these people there?
 
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Exter said:
  • Fire. Fire and death. You remember kneeling on a burning hill, the weapons and bodies of comrades scattered around you. Blood flowed into the ground along the sword-ah, what was its name again?-supporting you. You remember someone charging up the hill toward you, a burning spear in their hands. You stand up -painfully, oh so painfully- and pull your sword from the ground. Emerald energies flow around it, as you lunge toward the spear user, a scream of grief and rage on your lips.

I claim this memory!
This is important to me because this was my last battle with my oh so precious sword.

Memory—

You fight and fight and fight,known as the warmongering king you kill all those who stand up to you and rule with a iron fist.You go to bed with your umpteenth wife or slave and die.
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It already was claimed. Sorry.
 
Kosjurake said:
You stood there on the edge of your hometown. You had been on a trading journey for a few weeks with a merchant caravan, and now all that was left of your home and family were ashes. From what news you had gathered a plague had struck the town. Almost Everyone had become infected no matter how hard they tried. Proper burials were too difficult to manage, and a mass funeral pyre had been erected. The flames had gone out of control.
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I claim this memory. Out of great tragedy comes resolution. Through the pain and despair that seeing nothing but ash all around me, where once there was life and companionship, one thought went through my mind. "I can't let anything like this happen anywhere else."

The memory I offer in exchange is...

You feel the water lap across your skin, irritating the welts left by long exposure to water. You can't remember anything but the sun on your horribly red and mottled skin, and the salt in your wounds, but even still, you can't help but grin to yourself as you whisper, "At least those rat bastards won't find it now."

You don't even know what these words mean as they leave your lips.
 
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@Exter Welcome to (un)dead/hellsville/town! Feel free to vote on your first action, may I suggest pulling youself out of the grave? Or perhaps you are a lovely fruit in the garden of gallows, finally ripe enough to return to this sullen earth?
 
I'm considering dropping the "Someone else must accept a memory you created" part of the joining process.

And sorry that bookkeeping has been a bit delayed. I'm trying to update for my other quest right now. Good gosh, why did I think combat would be simple?
 
Raiu said:
I'm considering dropping the "Someone else must accept a memory you created" part of the joining process.

And sorry that bookkeeping has been a bit delayed. I'm trying to update for my other quest right now. Good gosh, why did I think combat would be simple?
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Probably. It's cool to get people started, but it does make entry pretty complicated, and dependent on people joining the quest basically indefinitly. Like a chain letter.

And combat is something that I think every questmaster handles differently, barring those who manage to crib someone else's system. Not necessarily a bad thing! As your learning, combat be tough!

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Wait, someone's in a fight!? Good thing I brought minions! ... I mean valuable companions!

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