Necromancy Quest!

O.2- Of Futures Past
Because I had to write something, have a side story. As a bonus, you actually get to decide some backstory. As a malgus, you get a penalty for not ever mentioning that Uncle was Adam, despite the previous Omake making it blindingly obvious.

The penalty is that if you want the fact that Lord Terror is your Uncle to be on the OP, you must accurately describe the sequence of events that made him your guardian, effectively.

Omake: Of Futures Past

Adam sighed. It was a long fucking day, but then again every day is a long fucking day for him. Now if his long fucking days fucking included some fucking, he'd be fucking thrilled. Fuck.

Adam sighed again, finally getting it all out of his system. Instead of his Throne room, which was being built, he took over the Bishop's office near the top of the old Cathedral. He just finished furnishing the basics; His Throne Room, His Office, His Bedroom, Ava's Work-

A knock on his door alerting him from his administrative thoughts. Annoyed, he said, "We're the only two people living here, and my zombies don't knock."
i

There was a pause from the other side, before a voice answered, "It could be locked!"

Adam rolled his eyes, "Yes, because I really don't want you in my office, I replaced the lock in the time it's been since you were last in my office. Now Come In, Ava."

"Bossy. Keep this up and it's the couch for you, mister." Ava said, smirking. Her red hair was striking against her simple black dress with silver buttons and pants. She has some tasteful silvery spikes adorned around her waist, going around some red designs that also served as her pockets. And, of course, the necklace was around her neck, too.

[GM Note: There was a picture here, but for whatever reason I cannot for the life of me get it to show up again. Picture a gold necklace that is a star in a circle like a pentagram, and instead of the the outside being one circle it's two, with interlocking gold circles in-between them.]

It's been on her since the day Adam and Ava met, years ago. Before all of the death and power-gamboling. To be honest, Adam owns a not-insignificant part of his success to the efforts of one miss Ava Pyrre, for it was she that, to Adam's knowledge, was the first human to even unlock the secrets of Artifact Creation from the Necronomicon. With it, she created a powerful Artifact based on the necklace she always wore. Actually, come to think of it, it probably was the same necklace, and she just copied it.

Ava created a pentacle that became one of Adam's primary tools of success. He made the Army, she made the Supplies, in a sense.

"We're not even sleeping with each other, how exactly can you put me on the couch?" Adam asked, putting down his pen and massaging his temples.

Ava smiled a pretty smile, "Ohhhh, you shouldn't tempt fate like that Adam~"

Adam rolled his eyes again, smiling, and motioned to pick up his pen before he frowned in realization, "Wait...was that regarding sleeping with me, or putting me on the couch?"

Ava smiles perceptively wider, and walks forward until she pitches her tall frame over your desk. Now that she's inches away from Adam's face, he realizes the front of her dress isn't all the way buttoned up...

"Yes." She says simply, catching his dropping gaze and gaining a catlike smirk, "Like what you see?"

"Hmm?"
Adam replied as he was lost in a daze. Adam and Ava had a relationship before, before this mess that is, but that ended rather spectacularly due to some misunderstandings and information Adam didn't know about at the time. After they reconciled, events conspired to never really give them the chance to try it again...

"My eyes are up here, Adam. Pervert." Ava said with a very satisfied smirk.

Adam only returned the smirk and quirked an eyebrow, meeting Ava's gaze once more.
"Your necklace is down here, which is what I was looking at. What were you thinking about, Pervert?" Adam retorted.

"I was thinking about calling you a Pervert for drooling over my impressive breasts, actually." Ava replied, smiling brightly at Adam's dumbstruck look.

Instead of attempting to stammer out a reply, Adam grabbed the pentacle and showed it to Ava.
"What is this? I know what the Artifact does, but why this necklace? You've been wearing it longer than my ring." Adam said, referencing his slightly tarnished Silver and Onyx class ring.


Ava sighed, disappointed at the loss of the conversation's charge, "Well, I wore it because I'm Wiccan. It basically contained a part of myself and my energy, even before all of this zombie-world-destroying stuff. It helps me to ground myself and also helps me to focus my magyk and blah blah blah." She said with a dismissive wave.

Adam smirked.
"So that's why you made it a Mind Control Device? It contained a part of yourself and your energy, so you copied it to make the wearers serve you, and by extension, me."

Ava rolled her eyes, "Nice job recounting your own rise to power. Make sure you don't break your arm patting yourself on the back."

Adam smiled, meeting her red eyes with his blue, "I'll take it under consideration."

After a moment of staring, Ava hefted herself off of Adam's desk,
"Well, I'm going off to my bedroom." She said as she headed for the door.

Adam checked the window, and it was indeed getting dark out. However, these was much in the way of administrative duties to accomplish, so Adam figured he would not be heading to his own bed for a good time yet.

"Night." Adam said back, picking up his pen once more.

Ava stopped at the door, slowly turning around to face Adam. "I said, I'm going off to my bedroom." Ava repeated, annoyed at something.

Adam quirked his eyebrow at her, which was apparantly the final straw. Placing a hand over her slightly unbuttoned dress, she slowly popped the next button down off, before biting her bottom lip softly and motioning him to come along with a finger.

Oh.

What did Adam do?

[] He heard the lady, best walk her there so that she can get there...safely...yeah, that's it.

[] He softly shook his head no. She was still out there, possibly still alive. And Adam wanted to talk to her, at least...
 
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2.2- Homecoming
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You frown, and decide that Daniel taught you these targets for a reason, so doing what he says will make him happy! Yay!

You grin as you come down on the zombie, driving the blunted point to smash through the hard circle that Daniel indicated was the 'spine'. Deciding to have a little fun, you carve out the little white hard...thing you crushed. You take a little bit of the shirt you were wearing and wipe off all the pretty red...

...You wanna keep it.

[Keep the Vertebrae?]

[]Yes [Madness > 50]
[] No [Alignment > -25]

Of course you keep it! You slip it into your pocket and think no more about it.

[Item Gained: Vertebrae]
[+20 Madness]
---

Gah, no spacing out! Madame Red looks super amazing, and you want to talk to her! And she's offering to talk to you, and maybe take you to Uncle!

Yay!

You nod your head enthusiastically and step out into the hall with her. She smiles and laughs to herself, though you don't really know why. Before you can ask, she holds out her hand to you.

"Well then, shall we go, Aria?" Madame Red asks, smiling.

"Yes!" You say, taking her hand and almost bouncing in excitement. Madame Red covers her mouth with her hand as her eyes light up in laughter.

And with that, you skip town the hall together.

[+5 Madness]
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"Madame Red, what's that thing you're wearing around your neck?" You ask as you start to move into more familiar parts of Uncle's house.

"Hmmm? This?" Madame Red asks as she touches her necklace, "It's something my friend and I use to do work. It's a little bit of my past, and it really means a lot to me. Do you like it?"

You nod enthusiastically. Madame Red smiles again. "Thank you. Maybe if you're a good girl, I can get you one just like it!"

Yay! Madame Red is awesome!

"So, where did you get the name Madame Red, anyway?" You ask, approaching another unfamiliar set of hallways.

"Oh, just something that I picked up though work. Plus," Madame Red points to her red hair, "That helps people remember it. Red's one of my favorite colors, after all."

"Mine too..." You say, shyly.

Before either of you could get a word in edgewise, a door bursts open. Out of it step Uncle, Levi and Daniel.

"Just deal with them. The fucking vultures are broken enough already that just sending one of you should be fine. Leg it if they seem pissed off, I'm not in the mood to give a shit over them raiding a such of traitor's homes anyway." Uncle says, only just noticing the two of you as he finishes.

"Ava. Aria." Uncle says. You greet him back before Madame Red- Ava? -and she gives you a funny look and decides not to say anything.

"What's up?" Madame Red asks.

Uncle looks at Madame Red for a moment, before looking at you.
"Aria, bad guys have broken into your old house. Do you want to go throw them out?"

W-What? People are...breaking in?!

KILL THEM.

Uncle smiles, "Good. Who do you want to go with? I can't, I'm busy with work..."

[] Go Alone! It's your house, you throw them out!
[] Bring [Write-In]
-[] [Plan of Attack?]
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The Character post has been updated btw
 
2.3- Homeward Bound
KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL

You're fuming, you can't even begin to try and think straight. All you can think of is people, in your house, TOUCHING YOUR STUFF

KILL KILL KILL

SUDDENly, you feel
arms sweeping you up. Daniel is there, holding you and looking right into your eyes. You forget all about your rage for the moment and look away, blushing.

[-1 Madness]

"Now now girlie, calm minds equal best minds." He says softly. You still feel like wanting to throw a fit, but he's right. If you wanna KILL them, you have to be smart about it.

...KILL.
--

You hear Daniel and Uncle talking about The Plan, and it sounds like a more exciting variation of the hide-and-seek you were playing earlier. You were supposed to lead Daniel around your house and the neighborhood, pointing out targets for him to take out. It seemed like a lot of fun!

Daniel asked what you would like him to bring with, seeing as you were the one to ask him along. Hmm...you should take into consideration using those knife skills Daniel taught you.

[Asset Gained: Daniel - Armsmaster]

Equip Two:

[] [Weapon- Long Rifle: Allows highly-skilled users to make long-distance shots accurately. Loud]
[] [Weapon- Shortsword: Allows moderately-skilled users to reliably fight in CQC. Scaling Skill]
[] [Weapon- Pistol: Allows lightly-skilled users to make short distance shots accurately. Loud]
[] [Weapon- Axe: Allows highly-skilled users to be devastating in CQC. Unblockable. Cannot Block]
[] [Weapon- Dagger: Allows barely-skilled users to have an edge in CQC. Stealthy.]

[] [Item- Silencer: Removes the trait 'Loud' from any equiped gun.]
[] [Item- Medkits: Restores Health in case of Injury]
[] [Item- Flare: Can be used to create a bright light. Throwable.]

With that set out, you prepare to leave. This will be the first time you're leaving Uncle's house after the incident, which is a pretty big deal. As you're wandering around the place, fiddling with your vertebrae, Madame Red stops you.

"Hey there little Arhi-chan!" She says, smiling as she greets you.

"Hiya!" You say back to her, smiling.

"What'cha got there?" She asks, pointing to your Vertebrae.

You show it to her, "It's a thing I pulled out from one of Uncle's zombies! Neat, huh?"

"Yeah! Say, you wanna make something cool out of it? If you give me it, I can make it into something really neat by the time you're back."

Hmm...

[] Give it up
[] Refuse

After that, you gather up your courage and leave the room. Ready to go?

[] Yes!
[] Write-In
 
AU.1- Adam's Day Off
Back in high school. I've got a lot of time in my day, suddenly.
--

Omake 3: Adam's Day Off

"Actually, how would you like me to come along, Aria? It'd be great if we could both go back, yeah?" Adam asks his young charge. She shyly nods, and Adam decides that this would be a great time to blow off some stress~

"Great! Levi, help me break out the 4/4ths Legion." Adam beams and turns to his friend. Levi only gives him a blank look. Daniel smirks.

"Seriously? You still keep them around? I thought that was a one-off joke." Levi asks in disbelief.

Adam scoffs, "Are you joking? The 4/4ths were the most fun I've had in a long time."

Levi just rolls his eyes, "This is stupid."

Adam just beams brightly. "Absolutely! Good thing I made a lot of them, huh?"

Adam turns back to his young 'adoptee' Aria, "Arhi-chan, run along for a bit. We've got some stuff to take care of. Ava?"

Ava smiles and takes the young girl's hand. "Come on Arhi-chan, I've got more cool stuff to show you!"

As they leave, Adam and Levi watch them go. Levi is the one that breaks the silence, "I still don't like her."

Adam smiles and shrugs, "I know. I do, so I'm going to keep her around."

Daniel raises an eyebrow, "Aria or Ava?" Levi and Adam both look at each other, before looking back at Daniel and giving their answers simultaneously.

"Both." "Aria." Adam and Levi recoil slightly at the dissonance.

Adam shook his head, "Levi, why can't you get along with Ava? She's useful, powerful, and not actively a prick." He ribbed his old friend.

"Force of habit." Levi replied. He waved his hand in the air, without direction, "I didn't like her before this, I don't now. The kid is just another annoyance that's terrified around me."

"Yeah, because that's totally unjustified." Adam quips, rolling his eyes.

"She wouldn't know, she didn't exactly ask." Levi deadpanned.

Adam shrugged, "Ava likes her, It's good parenting practice to get in the post-apocalypse, and having a potential assassin on hand isn't terrible."

Daniel had been quiet for a long time. Aria wasn't a bad girl, but he did suspect she was sliding down the same slope Adam ended up going down. Adam wasn't exactly going to dispose of her if she didn't go crazy, but Adam's not huge on emotional investment in girls he just met.

...Anymore.
--

Aria stood, staring down a horde of zombies bigger than she could comprehend. Now...why were they dressed funny, and carrying...instruments?

"I have a lot of time on my hands." Adam says to Aria as he walks over, carrying a white conductor's stick. Aria only nods, dumbfounded.

"Time to go!" Adam says cheerfully, taking Aria's hand. With his stick in his right hand, he begins making rhythmic swishing motions. The zombies begin to follow, all in step.

"What's that for, Uncle?" Aria asks. Adam cheerfully ignores her, humming an unidentifiable tune.
--
"Ah, almost there. Best to start now." Adam says, turning. The following zombies all stop, and form ranks. Adam stops, nods, then begins the motions again walking backwards.

Only now the zombies are playing instruments. And, after a bit, some...chanting is heard...?

"Your sports team is vastly inferior
That simple fact is plainly obvious to see
We're gonna kick your collective posterior
Of course you realize we're speaking literally
Our stats are thoroughly impressive
Our coach really has the Midas touch
Our players are fast and strong and brave
And your guys, eh, not so much."


The remains of Aria's home settlement were almost upon them, and Aria could hear a frenzy. Someone was there! And they were really loud! And running around! And running...away?

"In fact we've played teams across the nation
And you're the worst one we've come across
Try to assimilate that information
And it just might help you cope with your impending death
Oh, and if somehow we are still failing
To effectively articulate the points at hand
Allow us now to summarize them in a manner
That your feeble brains can understand."

Adam's army, over the course of that time, has marched straight into the center of the neighborhood. As he reached the end of that 'verse', he brought the 4/4ths Legion to a stop. Then, in a suspended moment in time, a deafening roar of gunshots could be heard. Aria was frightened, and went to the ground to try and avoid them.

As the gunfire quieted, the dust that had been kicked up settled. Adam was still standing there, conductor's stick still in the air, with a smirk on his face. The 4/4ths Legion looked a little worse for wear, but there were still so many.

Adam's eyes lit up in a feral glow. He dropped the stick.

The zombies went insane.

"We're great (we're great)
And you suck (you suck)
We're great (we're great)
And you suck (you suck)
We're great (we're great)
And you suck (you suck)
You see there's us (we're great)
And then there's you (you suck)
We're really, really great (really great)
In contrast, you really suck (really suck)"

Zombies went every direction, shouting and beating down doors and generally tearing into everything they can see.

Adam smiled. This was a wonderful idea.
 
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2.4- When Suddenly...
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Daniel smiled as you picked out what you thought was best, back in Daniel's room. It was large, but it seemed that half of it was more of a gym and target practice. He walked over to a closet and takes an odd knife, and a big another big...sword? Or like, one of those farming tools? You can't even describe it.


[If the link is broken, It's Draven's axes.]

"So, I'm going to be sneaking around and stabbing like you? It's not a bad plan, and I bet you were a little biased because I taught you tricks with your knifes. But just remember Aria..." Daniel took a couple of identical daggers and strapped them to his legs.

They seemed to be like two triangles of metal fused together, except where the handle ended there was this strange metal ring. Peering over to the rack in the closet, you see that they were labeled 'Kunai'. Whatever that means.

"Don't be afraid to press your advantages. Like with my axes." With that, Daniel hurled the...axe across the room. It spun a bunch of times, but it hit a dummy on the wall straight on the chest, blade-in.

THWACK.

"Just saying." Daniel smiled. You maybe swooned a bit.

[-4 Madness]
-

"Scary..." You thought, looking at the diminishing view of Uncle's house as you and Daniel walked away. Here you was, going on a trip back home to kill who knows how many people, when just few weeks ago you was back in that same home playing with Kali...

Ahh! Kali! OHMYGOSHKALI!

You eeped out loud, thinking about how you totally forgot about your, like, best friend! I mean, a lot has been going on...

Ohmygosh, is she in trouble?!

You bite your lip and look at Daniel, who is only looking at you askance. You are really worried about your friend, but Daniel and Uncle seem to think these people are really bad...and they're touching your stuff.

Tell Daniel? If so, what?

[x] Write In

In spite of your concerns however, some more pressing concerns emerged. As you've been walking the path to your old neighborhood from Uncle's house, you both took the cobbled street out of habit. You remember learning that when Lord Terror attained control of the world, he did it by letting others destroy it first. This was why walking out at night wasn't safe, or why old cities had to be abandoned. Everything was broken. When Lord Terror sweeped in, however, the first thing he did was rebuild infrastructure. That was why many roads still existed.

You also remember that using the roads was disrespectful to a big majority of survivors, who died in the struggle against Lord Terror's necromancers.

Which is unfortunate, because it seems you've been caught doing just that. Lying in one of the many overgrown fields, five people emerged from the grass. They all seemed to be men, and they looked really scary and mean. You steeped behind Daniel, peering at them from behind your patron.

"Shit." Daniel mutters softly, as he moves his hand over one of his knifes.

Four of the men break off into a group of two, and take out guns that they point in your direction. The middle man does not take out a gun, and walks towards you with a grin.

"How ya'll doing today? Nice weather, ain't it?" He says, giving you a scary smile.

You Have Entered A Combat Situation.

Relevant Skills and Items:
[Stealth-D: You can reliably move silently, albeit at a slower pace. Sneaking up on more than one person, or someone particularly alert, is likely beyond your ability]

[Combat Trick: Assassin Style- You know exactly where to strike to take down somebody, and can do it unfailingly so long as you get the drop on them]

[Weapon- Daddy's Knife: A big butcher knife your father used to work with corpses as a Necromancer. You killed him with it. Stealthy.]

Plan?

[x] Write In
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Do note, you can still go with diplomacy.
 
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2.5- Mexican Standoff
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Walking along the path, you tug on Daniel's shirt. He looks down to you, eyebrow raised.

"Umm...When we get home...can we stop by another house on the way?" You ask, looking straight down at the cobblestone road and tugging at your clothes.

Daniel sizes you up as you walk, staring at you while deep in thought, "Maybe. Why'd you bring it up now?"

"Umm..." You stammer.

In spite of your concerns however, some more pressing concerns emerged...
---
"How ya'll doing today? Nice weather, ain't it?" He says, giving you a scary smile.

You peek out from behind Daniel to look at the man. He's wearing a white shirt under a flannel jacket, with dirty jeans on. He has...dirty blonde hair that's almost as long as a girl's, and he looks to be about as old as Daniel. Despite his appearance, he seems perfectly comfortable. This might have to do with the fact he has friends backing him up with guns.

Still, that's not about to stop you. Daniel might get hurt if you don't do something!

"...Um, yeah!" You say, stuttering as you step out from behind Daniel. The group turns to regard you, while the gunmen are still firmly pointing their arms at Daniel.

The unarmed man smiles when he sees you. "Howdy there, girlie. Don't get too excited now, we just wanna have a chat with yer daddy."

You're confused for a moment before Daniel speaks up from behind you, "Now now, no need to get my daughter mixed up in'ta all this." He says, emulating the blonde man's accent.

[Trait Unlocked = Speech-E: You're brave enough to speak to others, but a little intimidation or explaining advanced concepts go slightly beyond you.]

"It..." You pause, and take a deep breath as everyone regards you once more, "It seems to be pretty nice out. W-We're lucky there isn't much rain, right mister?" You say, adding a forcefully cheery note to your voice at the end.

Everyone waits, as if you just asked him a question about his personal life. The man steps forward onto the cobblestone road, then gets down on one knee to be at about your height.

[Speech Test: E-D Pass, F Fail]
[Rank E: Partial Success]

"Girlie, this man here isn't your daddy, is he?" You are shocked that he saw though the minor deception, but you realized only too late that you didn't even attempt to sound the same as Daniel.

But he's not shooting...?

"Girlie, what's yer name? Whaddya doin out here on the roads?" He asks, peering dangerously up to Daniel, as if to tell him to stay silent.

You Are In A Combat Situation.

Relevant Skills and Items:
[Stealth-D: You can reliably move silently, albeit at a slower pace. Sneaking up on more than one person, or someone particularly alert, is likely beyond your ability]

[Speech-E: You're brave enough to speak to others, but a little intimidation or explaining advanced concepts go slightly beyond you.]

[Combat Trick: Assassin Style- You know exactly where to strike to take down somebody, and can do it unfailingly so long as you get the drop on them]

[Weapon- Daddy's Knife: A big butcher knife your father used to work with corpses as a Necromancer. You killed him with it. Stealthy.]

Plan?

[x] Explain exactly who you are, and where you're going.

[x] Signal Daniel to attack, this man might be important enough to deter the gunmen.

[x] Say something to appease him,
-[x] What?

[x] Write in
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This encounter tickles me, because they're a bunch of ways this could've gone depending on who trained you, and who you took along, and how you equipped them.
 
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2.6- Loose Lips
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"Girlie, what's yer name? Whaddya doin out here on the roads?" He asks, peering dangerously up to Daniel, as if to tell him to stay silent.

You deliberate for a moment. This guy is super scary, but he seems like he means well? He must be concerned that Daniel is a bad guy, and he's taking you away. That's silly of him, Daniel would never hurt you!

...Not like Daddy...

[+5 Madness] [-5 Madness]

Shaking the bad thoughts out, you look back to the man. He's smiling, but the kind of smile that is really...dangerous. The kind that Uncle, and Levi and all the cool people have!

You giggle. "There are mean men in my house, touching my stuff. My Uncle's friend and I are going to stop them!" You tilt your head, smiling at the man. "Do you want to help?"

The man turns pale for just the briefest of seconds, his eyes flickering over to Daniel. Huh, maybe this guy wasn't so cool after all. You bet he didn't even carve up corpses for fun. Laaaaaame.

"...Well, why don't we see about that?" He says, getting up. His grin has returned, and you see a glint in his eye as he seems to have gotten over whatever effect you had on him. Like the +15 Madness you inflicted...

He gives a signal to the gun-holding men, and they fall in behind you as you continue walking along the road.

[Smarts Test DC 4: Rolled 3]

You begin to smile, as you think of how lucky you are to have all this help. Tugging on Daniel's hand as he falls in next to you, you beam up at him. "Isn't it great how much help we're getting, Daniel?"

[Bad Guy's Smarts Test DC 8: Rolled 14]

Daniel immediately tenses up, as the man leading you snaps his head to the side, "Daniel?"

The men with the guns are confused, but soldier on regardless. You feel like you did something, but can't quite be sure what.
--
You were walking for the rest of the trip in absolute silence. It was almost eerie, like you were missing a sense but couldn't remember ever having it. Eventually, you made it back home!

...home...?

Home was destroyed. The neighborhood was reduced to a collection of burned-down buildings and hastily re-reinforced fences around it all. Whoever is here now decided to take up residence in your half of the neighborhood, and you can see people with guns on the balconies of some of your close friends' houses. Someone destroyed your home, and now...

Now these people want to move into it?!

You barely contained your rapidly-building RAGE as your...captor led you through the new, junky stupid gates. He turned, bent down and smiled at you like a stupid IDIOT JERK.

"Now dearie, why don't you move along? Danny boy and I got some'thin to talk a'bout." He smiled, stupidly.

[x] STAB STAB STAB
[x] Go along with him, meekly
[x] Write-in
 
O.3- The Lord
The Lord

Shay was lazing about in his home. This wasn't exactly an uncommon occurrence, his brother has been strangely quiet the last view days. He tapped into the network a while ago, but there hasn't been any mass zombie migration since he sacked that one town of his own Cultists.

Strange, that. That's why he nudged his own Cultists to the ruins of that town; Adam's not the kind to waste resources, so he had to have killed them for a reason.

Preliminary results, from what Assistant gathered, was that this Cult town was a residential district. This answered more questions than it raised, Shay assumed one of the Cultists got into a bit of the Necrominion he shouldn't and ended up killing the town, making his brother clean up the mess.

But it's been a few days, and Assistant didn't turn up whatever caused the wreck.

As we was pondering the situation, he navigated himself towards his Ritual Room.

"Ah well. Best see what's what." Shay kneeled down, and ritually sliced his palm to drip blood on the well-drenched ritual circle.

And with that, Lord Alpha had tapped into Lord Terror's zombie control Network.

"Shame I never figured out a trick to kill them all. Anything else would tip off Lil'bro that I'm here." Shay thought to himself.

Adam's Network was so thoughtlessly laid out, in Shay's opinion. His organizing was practically incomprehensible, and it made it really difficult to steal his network. So very inconsiderate of his brother.

"Hmm. It seemed like he replenished a bunch of his zombies in the Cathedral. Those were cleared out a while ago, must've swept back in out of spite." Shay noted to himself, sliding out of the Network.

"Otherwise, nothing. The downtime's nice," Shay muttered, absently. "Brother's always been such a busybody. He should seriously get laid."

He briefly considered replying to some of his messages, or doing some cadaver work...

...nah, best to sleep some more. Assistant will inform him of any changes.

Zzz...Zzz...
 
AU.2- Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!

Adam's head was going to explode. Just because there was a Top Five system to the Lords of Terror does not mean they could all come together like they were family.

"Now now brother, haven't you ever heard of Armistice Day?" Shay asked, smirking from the far end of the banquet table. They were sitting at opposite heads of the table, to have the maximum amount of people Adam would need to climb over to splatter his elder's brains on the wall.

"THAT'S NOT THE SAME FUCKING HOLIDAY." Adam raged from his side, before slamming his head in the table. Ava was at his side, making sure he didn't accidently kill himself.

"Is this really necessary, hon?" Ava asked, setting up the various condiments that Adam's attack on the table toppled over.

Adam just sat up, wild-eyed. "He-You...What?!" Adam sputtered, unable to articulate the RAEG.

Was everyone just trolling him?

"Oh come on now, can't family come and talk over a nice dinner once in a while?" Shay asked, clearing out an ear.

Adam surged to his feet, "FIRST, GO FUCK YOURSELF. SECOND," He threw his arms wide, "THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT MY FUCKING FAMILY, AND NEITHER ARE THEY YOURS!" Adam screamed.

Seated to Adam's right were Ava Pyrre, Daniel, another mouse-y woman with raven hair, and...Corpse, at Shay's left. Not even a zombie, Shay literally took a corpse from outside and set it on a chair. Not that present company was adverse to it, but it didn't improve Adam's disposition. From Shay's right Assistant was seated, followed by the portly Lord Techron in all his blue-TRON-like stature, followed by Lord Oculus in his all-encompassing trenchcoat sitting silently, before finally ending with Levi and Aria Crowley who was seated to Adam's left.

"Language. There are children here." Shay said, wagging a disapproving finger at his brother.

"You are going to die slowly, and painfully." Adam promised.

"Didn't you say the same thing, as your family lay dying at my Master's feet?" Assistant innocently inquired, before dodging a lightning-speed butter knife.

"You're next." Adam threatened, as he was popped on the nose by Ava.

"Now you, settle down. While I'm setting the food up, you will keep your temper, okay?"

*Grumble Grumble*

"Good~!" Ava says, kissing him on the cheek while departing from the table.

"Whi-pish! Whi-pish!" The mousy-looking woman down the table smirked as she made whipping motions.

"WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN HERE? WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?" Adam was this close to pulling all of his hair out from this insanity.

"Me? I'm Bailey! I'm Lord Void's stand-in for today's gathering~" She replied, cheerfully. Similarities to Ava were immediately obvious.

":jackiechan:"

"Well obvioussssllyyyy Void couldn't show up in person~! It'd break character!" Bailey cheerfully exclaimed.

Adam swung an accusing hand over to Trenchcoat,
"Oculus is here without his horde! That's not a thing, ether!"

"Yeah, but you know what Oculus looks like~! Void is still a plot point!" She retorted.

":facepalm:...Whatever."

"Ohhoho, seems like quite the lovely party you've assorted, Terror!" Lord Techron exclaimed from the diaphragm.

"Shut. Up. Techron. I swear to god if you show up at Christmas again..." Adam warned, exasperated.

"Ohhoho, but Terror! We have a little one to...entertain." Techron boomed, trying to subtly indicate Aria.

Adam didn't notice, as he was mid-faceroll.

"Ah, I'm back!" Ava called out, followed by Zombie-butlers carrying various dishes.

As the food was (grudgingly) passed around, Shay stood up suddenly,
"Now wait just a moment...!"

"..."

"...What?"

"We need to say grace!"

As Adam's face hit the table, you could hear a muffled, "You've gotta be fucking kidding me."

Suddenly, Aria stands up. "God Bless us, everyone!" She says with childlike glee.

Shay grins a toothy grin, "God save the Queen!"

"God, please kill me."
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Happy Thanksgiving. Even if you don't celebrate it, take time out of your day to talk to a family member. You only get a few of them.
 
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2.65 - Knife to meet you
Writing the Thanksgiving and Christmas Omake before the updates seems silly. So consider this my christmas gift, since it'll be past midnight by the time I'm finished.
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You want to cry. This is stupid. Yeah, Daddy tried to kill you and Uncle got mad and took you away, but you didn't want this place destroyed! You live here!

Stupidhead
misinterprets your emotional state, "Hey now, we just wanna talk to him. Do you wanna go and play with some other kids?" He asks, smiling a bit too wide for your liking.

You look up to Daniel, and notice he's tensing his fingers. He obviously doesn't want to talk to the bad man, and you just want to go home. Maybe if you make stupid happy, he'll finish talking to Daniel quickly and you can both leave. Yeah, that seems okay.

As you nod and wipe your eyes walking past him, you notice the two men holding guns check their ammo.

...oh, it's on.
[+5 Madness][-5 Madness]

Almost in slow motion, you look back at the blonde man to see him just standing up. That means the base of his spine is right there for you.

Well, Daddy and Uncle didn't raise you to refuse a gift. In fact...
[-5 Alignment]

Uncle taught you to take your gifts.

As you draw Daddy's Knife, one of the guys holding guns notices you and curses. Before he can raise his gun, two of Daniel's kunai thunk into his chest. From the way he cried ooof rather than aauuggh as he fell, he's probably alive.

Shame. Wasting no more time, you spin around and drive the point of the knife though Stupidhead's flesh.

He screams. You smile.

[+10 Madness][-5 Madness]

As his blood spurts on your clothes, you make sure to finish the job by trying to work your knife in-between the bone. Sadly this proves to be much easier on a zombie than a struggling idiot, and his falling over while you attempted your work caused you to only drive the knife away from spine. Lots more blood, lots more screaming, but with less permanent injury.

That's not okay.

He spins around as he falls, landing on his back and preventing you access to your earlier wound. This cannot do. As you are about to try and flip him over, Daniel shouts.

"Aria!" He bellows, kicking over one on the men before facing the other. "Like this!" He finishes, slashing a knife across the man's throat so fast you barely saw his hands move.

As you look back to see Blondy struggling to get up, you notice the pale flesh of his neck, straining and exposed...

...Ohhhhh.
[+10 Madness][-5 Madness]

You climb on top of him, and swing your arm to slash at his gasping throat. Sadly he notices this and catches your arm, eyes wide with fear.

"Stop, Please! Shitting Fuck just calm AAAGGGGHHH!"

He screams as you try a different approach, taking the knife in both hands and swinging in behind your head, trying to drive the point of the matter home. He pushes this attack out of the way too, but unfortunately he pushes this one a little too far and you drive the knife straight into his chest. You recoil back as blood sprays on your face and his screaming intensifies.

Ugh, this is stupid.

You look around, and see Daniel moving to take care of the man next to him. However, you see that the first man he attacked is getting up and not happy.

Oh dear. What do?

[x] FINISH HIM.
[x] Attempt to intimidate Blondy into getting his guys to drop the guns.
[x] Run over to the man and take care of him before he can recover.
[x] Write in
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So that happened.
 
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