Interlude: A House Divided
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A House Divided
The castle of Lyonesse and the isle it resided had seen better days, the putrid servants of the plague god Nurgle had claimed the island and the castle for themselves after a prolonged siege which lasted years.
The influence of the plague god's touch could already be seen as the vegetation of the island was corrupted and transformed into something else entirely. Effects include pus exiting from the leaves and bark, faces of lost souls being seen in them, as well of the fact that if you were in their presence there was the highly likely chance of it devouring your body and soul.
The water surrounding the isle had a black ink like substance which is extremely corrosive melting stone, steel, flesh, and bone in seconds.
Truly it is a place for the damned to gather.
But this is not all the chaos lord of the warband, a being who may have been once a man now with a bloated body and rusted armour which is fused with him, declared that a special child of their god would enter the world of mortals if only they followed the necessary rituals for him to enter their plane. The being is known as Ku'Gath a favoured greater daemon of Nurgle, if he enters the mortal plane than none will stop him as he remakes all into his god unholy design.
This can not be allowed to happen at all costs, the ritual must be stopped, and a being who was once a man then a son of the night and now a god took precautions to stop the fell ritual to be enacted. Using his agents who lived in the shadows of all he sent forward them to the location of the ritual and personally ordered them to stop it at all costs.
And so they set out with the only purpose in their indoctrinated minds to stop the ritual and nothing more, for their ideology is complete subversion to their god wishes nothing more nothing less. First they gathered a few specialized tools along with other things and so began the operation.
First they targeted the sorcerers, with special ranged weapons which had a type of explosive ammunition, which proved easy even with their guard which consisted of several aspiring chosen of Nurgle. Then they unleashed the most unpredictable of weapons, it wasn't easy to get an entire warband but they managed it. A orc warband was unleashed upon the norscans, a savage green tide meeting a fell green tide as the two forces clashed. The orcs would not win of that the agents are certain but this does not mean that they did not enjoy it.
The orc race only objective is of course to fight battles and wars, with one of their dreams even being to find an eternal battle where the warriors of both sides would fight for eternity.
This managed to distract the warband long enough for the agents to infiltrate the food supplies of the warband, a special venom which drove men mad with rage with only a single spill. They were adding whole bottles. The warband will probably not even notice it.
On the next day, several norscan warriors went insane with such rage that they started attacking anyone on their line of sight not bothering if they were ally and when there was no one on their line of sight they started hurting themselves which did nothing as their god's numerous 'blessings' tried to keep them alive.
Many of the afflicted by this 'red rage' where to be part of the ritual and they were now dead. The ritual could not be carried out as the method had to be very specific and precise and the ones who were specific and precise are now dead, or insane (well more than normal).
This event caused a unease to settle in the warband with a minority even wanting to desert from it, fortunately for the norscan leader a common enemy to unite his warband against had just appeared after they finished exterminating the orcs, the environment of the isle helped them in this endeavour, the foolishly duke of Lyonesse has come to reclaim his land which belonged to his family for generations.
The agents used the resulting clash between the two forces to escape the nurglic territory. After having all of the members of the operation team screened for corruption, the operation was declared a success.
OOC: The chaos lord got a good roll to keep his forces together the DC was 70 and he rolled plus the diplomatic bonuses a 74, and after the duke appeared everything went smoothly. The result of the battle will be shown in the rumor mill. Also another thing to add, future interludes will now involve other charecters that arent from your faction not just your actions, they will not be related to turn actions.
