A night at the tavern

[Beelzebull]

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My dear companions and champions of Athanatus,

Last night while I was at the tavern a beauty approached me. With a shy smile she handed me a letter. On reaching out for the letter I could only just be stunned by this young lady. I stared at her for a few moments, while everyone around me was tittle-tattling. Her emerald eyes and her rosy cheeks made me fall in love and I could feel the sexual erg only but increase in me. I felt my old demonic feelings grow bigger again. I tried to calm down and read the letter

A request from the Head of Town

Valorous Athanatus’ian,

I am sending you this letter cause I am in distress. A young warrior, foolish as all the inexperienced are, left during the night to take a challenge. I have only heard rumors that he was at the tavern and have been challenged to take the War Beast Commander down.

That young foolish warrior is my grand son. I request your services. Please venture into the Valley of Death and return my son to me. I also heard that this War Beast Commander is a wealthy beast and I am sure your funds will like the out come.

I have heard rumor about your provenience. I know who your father is and I know what are your needs. As a token of my appreciation I will give you my grand daughter for this night.

Praying for your acceptance of this deed,
Yours truly,

The Head of Town

While I was reading the letter, I took a few glimpses at the young lady, who just got shier.

On reading the last few lines, I could not resist my self and a smile of mischief was only but spontaneous.

“Follow me young lady!” I said with a strong and confident voice. Without saying a word, she just walk besides me.

I took her to my modest hut. She started looking around and noticed all my battle mementos. I took my armour of and gave her a sign for her to get closer…. She slowly got closer to me undoing her dress. At this point in time I lost control of my senses and I felt the Demon inside of me alive. It felt good being myself once again.

Barely covered by her undone vest she said with a very delicate voice “Please be gentle, it is my first time.” These words, the innocence in the way they were spoken, just made me feel human again. I stopped.

“Forgive me young lady but I lost control of myself. I felt the Dark Aura possessing me again. You do not deserve to be used by me, neither your femininity nor your beauty deserve being abused by my demonic side. You are too fragile for my needs and I will surely hurt you if I take you. Please leave now. One of my imps will take you home. Tell your father I will accept his plea!”, she smiled, kissed me tenderly and left. Just before leaving she stopped at the door, she turned around and said in a shy voice “We can never know what will happen in the future.” I smiled back.

I require my Guild comrades to help me in this adventure. Sunday I will be heading to the Volley of Death. Please join me in finding this lost soul. I will be waiting at the tavern for any of you to join me. We will have a pint of Ale before.

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Hi people,

Well this is going to be a guild hunt at wbc. Our main aim is to gather barr, ess and maybe a few sorc hats. Please all join in. It will be held on Sunday at about 8 GMT. It is a free for all, magic or melee.

Please add you comments and story to this. Try to link it to mine if possible to add continuity. I am at the tavern so that should help you link it to my story (try to role-play guys and gals, its fun).

As pointed out in the Forum, Bodge will decide who will get the drops. Barr will all go to the guild funds though and ess collected will be stash in guild stash for further us or for selling.

Join in please.

Regards,

[skullo]

As soon as heard of my fellow athanatus'ians mission i made straight for the tavern.
Once there i found our mighty warrior bel and offered my lowly but loyal service to use as he saw saw fit, but i had to explain that i had only attained the rank of lvl 22 and was not sure if would be able to acompany him in his quest to the dark and evil place.

Bel sat, supping his ale, whilst i stood at his side awaiting an answer.

Would i be endowed with the great honor of fighting by his side? or would i be left behind to ponder our heros fate?

[Beelzebull]

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I thank you for you swift response to my request young warrior. Unfortunately you are still young in heart to face the Valley of Death, but do not worry. You and any other young in heart will very soon be able to join me in the battle, as I have heard rumors that the young warrior’s unconscious body might have been dragged by the War Beast Commander to the War Beast post in Abias.

We will first scout and kill the War Beast Commander in the Valley of Death, hoping to find the young warrior. If we will fail to find him, after rest, we shall search for him at the War Beast post in Abias. I will inform you about the happening and will request your assistance if we fail the 1st expedition.

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No prob. Mate, get ready and equipped though, cause the 2nd trip as u have guess will not be there.

I think I will organise the 2nd guild hunt on Wednesday. Still to be confirmed though.

[skullo]

Disheartened by bel's first responce but exsilerated by his second, i ran to get my best wares equiped.

I replenished my health and mana potions and now i lye in wait for the warrior Bel and fellow heros to sound the charge.

I only pray we find the young warrior before it's to late!

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Nice work m8 hope my replies are what ya where hopin for.

If 2nd hunt goes ahead and lara isnt dropping the babe i will be there

[knifey]

The tavern is filled with noise, genral banter and the like. Bel sits happily, leaning back into his chair, sharpening the point to his arrow. He glances around the room and sees a group of men chuckling amongst themselves, he raises a smile and continues to refine his weapons.
Moments later Bel orders another ale, the bar keep slides it down the wooden topped table in the warriors general direction. As the metalic tankard hits against Belials hand the Tavern door slams wide open, a face fimiliar to belial enters. Bel gets to his feet and stares at this figure, who slowly steps forwards.
"Are yo gonn abuy me a drink then you oversized sausage jockey?" The figure questions. Bel simply replies with laughter and signals the bar keep to send down another beer.
"What brings you here old friend?" bels asks, while handing over the ale.
"I hear news of a young boy, over enthusiastic in his hunting. Any idea of what is going on?"
Bel places one hand on his shoulder and simply states..."War Beast Commanders"
The two smile at each other then pour their beverages down their throats as fast as possible....

And so Knifer joins the hunt!!

[Ultimawep]

As the group of young warriors and warrior`ess left the tavern they saw a strange figure stumbling around among the trees, they went to check out to see who it was.
The strange figure fell out the tree and the group of warriors helped him to his feet and asked " What is your business around here" the young warrior replied drunk out his head " what the %£*! happening here" ,
A warrior replied he was running funny almost like a girl, i think his name was Bel " We are going to Slay some War Beast Commanders" The young warrior replied " ........ I have some experience in killing them " * colapses*. The group of warriors drag the man behind him and continued on there journey.
Ultimawep has joind the adventure.
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I hope this is ok you lot , i not very good at this kind of thing lol

[V1k]

The white warlord prances round the forest, his terrority, when he heard the sound of a belching drunk disgracing his land.
"Which f00l dares to disturb my forest at this dark time, he shall be PUNISHED" he thought to himself with a grimacing smile.
He followed his prey at a distance, the skilled warlord could hear every footstep the drunken man made, readying his sword to prance on the unsuspecting prey when more heavier footsteps approached. The warlord listened among the trees.
A warrior replied he was walking funny, his name was Bel " We are going to Slay some War Beast Commanders" The young warrior replied " ........ I have some experience in killing them " * colapses*. The group of warriors drag the man behind him and continued on there journey.
"So it is Ult who disturbed the peace in MY forest, he shall pay as well as all his companions, hmm going to Wbc- this shall be interesting.

None shall return to you my dear forest, do not fear I will be back soon.

V1knife follows the band

[Micky]

Role Play:

Noting that his comrades were all departing on their Quest, the valiant Micky, distrught at the thought of the beautiful young woman left behind after being so callowly used by the lustful Belial, seeks her out and spends the rest of the quest period doing his very best (several times ) to console her in the best way(s) that he could and to ease her mind from the torture of the horrors she had had to submit to at the hands of the evil Belial...............

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[Ultimawep]

After the group left for the fatal Valley of Death where War beast Commander lay deep in there lairs , The group were talking about what items they wanted and what statistics they were aiming for when they came along to a flat space of land , they thought it would be helpfull to brush up on there skills ready for anything that the War Beast Commander could throw at them but unfortunatly Belial and Ultimawep were up first and one of Belials arrows shatterd through Ultimawep`s Dark Top and penetrated his shoulder.
The group had to camp over night and try to heal up the damage caused , The group decided to camp over night and sharpen up there skills using wooden sticks as weapons not the real thing. the adventure should hopefully continue tomorrow evening.
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Belial: Postoned till tomorrow ppl ( think tht how u spell it )

[Beelzebull]

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As Ultimawep is lying down on his back, our mages formed a healing aura around him. Unfortunately, the wound is deep and will require several hours for it to heal.

“Josephine, prepare some meat dished, Ultimawep is looking weak and will need to eat some good food,” said Gens, “in the mean while I will prepare some mana pots for our mages to keep the healing aura at it’s utmost level of intensity.”

“Doing now G…”

“I am standing guard to keep away any creatures,” I said while I was scanning the area carefully for any movement.

The team grouped up, and stayed close to cover and protect our wounded comrade. The valley of Death is not the best place to find shelter but luckily enough we have found a small abandoned hut.

“We need to get to our best form as quickly as possible. We cannot risk that the young warrior is taken to the War Beast post. We have to try and save him while he is still here.” The party has now formed a strong post, waiting and resting for next day’s battle.

“My turn to stand guard Bel, go rest” says Mickyc. As I lay down resting, I lean toward some straw piles and I slowly close my eyes. As I fall asleep I could only see the beautiful smile of the young girl I met at the tavern. I couldn’t forget the innocence in her smile … I felt that I owed her my utmost in this battle and was ready to offer her my victory as a token of my feelings… I then slowly fell into a ironically peaceful slumber

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As Ultimawep said people, postponed to Monday at about 9GMT. Sorry lads could not make it.

[Beelzebull]

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I slowly opened my eyes, just to feel a sorrow sensation. I just realised that it was just a beautiful dream. I stand up ready to fight my way to get back as soon as possible to my beauty queen, with hopefully good news.

As I stood up, Knifer turns around at me. “Did you rest well?” he asked. “Yes mate”, I promptly answered, “I had the sweetest of dreams. I cannot wait till this fight is over to return to the angel awaiting me at Thousand Years Town with news.”

“You seem to have fallen for this young lady,” said Knifer, “Hmm funny of you.”

“I do not know what to say!” I answered. “I will stand guard mate. We need a scan of the area, you up to it?”

“Will do, will be back in an hour.” And Knifer disappeared in the mist of the night.

As I took post I checked Ultimawep condition, which seemed very stable and nearly totally healed. The meat dishes have done wonders and he will definitely fully recover. The constant Healing Aura around him has made hi wound cloth. The wound has nearly disappeared.

I stood guard and scanned the area, waiting for Knifer’s return.

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People remember tonight. Join in please cause part 2 will be dedicated to the lower levels that cannot access VoD.

[knifey]

Knifer returns to the modest camp as an up-roar comes from his commrades.

"This is excellent!" Belial exclaims.

"How do you feel?" Questions Gens.

I peer over micky's shoulder and notice ultimawep is up and clutching his best axe. He begins to spin around and slash at the air with his trustworthy weapon.

"He wields that weapon well. Does this mean the hunt will go ahead?" i asked bel.

"It would seem so;" Belial turns with a satisfied smile on his face, "what news do you bring from your scouting?"

I feel myself go weak at the thought of what i saw, my face looses colour and my clentched fists relax.

"It is not good news, during my exploration i came across a heard of devilfish - enroute to the WBC, using my wit, i managed to get around them..... a few paces on however," my tone of voice becomes much more dry and deeper "A few paces on, i found this...."

I hold out a pouch, it bares the symbol of authority that the Thousand Year Town is known for.

"Only the Owner of thousand year town and his family hold this logo Belial,i think we are too late, i fear our brave adventurer may of lost his life already."

"IT IS NOT SO!" Belial booms, " In my dream last night the fair maiden i met at the tavern told me i must pursue this hunt, it will bring our guild great fortune and will gain us the respect of the Thousand Year Town family."

Taken back by his slightly stubborn approach, i turn away and begin to question ultimawep on his condition.
Gens trades places with Belial for guarding, and belial walks over to a small stone wall and sits on it, dropping his head into his hands.

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[knifey]

[glow=blue,2,300]Hours pass, and slowly the jolly tone of the camp begins to fade. The warriors begin to draw their weapons and sharpen them on rocks and stones around them. The archers make their arrows into the finest point possible, and put new strings onto the frames. Without uttering a word, all the warriors place there weapons in various carry stations and rise to their feet. I straighten my armour and look around at the warriors either side of me, both bravery and fear fill their hearts as they do the same thing as me. All attention turns to belial, who for this hunt is being assumed leader, he looks back on the crew of adventurers and states; [/glow]

"So it begins!"

[glow=blue,2,300]He turns a 180 degrees and marches onwards, like soldiers in an army we follw, leaving our dingy camp behind.[/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]Barley any time has passed before we encounter our first problem, a Devilfish floats by, at first we seem safe from it until it suddenly turns and charges at Ultimawep full pace. Its green eyes burn as the rest of the team draw swords,staves, bows and axes to him. Knowing ultimwep had only recently recovered from injury the team dispose of the DevilFish efficently.
We begin to relax, foolishly you might think, another DevilFish approaches,

"It must of heard us kill the other one" I yell out.

Warmed up from our previous battle the DevilFish takes sevral arrow shots before getting near, my crusher axe collided with its skull at the same moment V1Knife let out a flurry of shots in the form of a third sword aura, he looks on his other members as the DevilFish dies and gives a smug smile.

We lead our way out of the DevilFish area, but as the saying goes, 'out of the frying pan into the flame' we were now in xenomorph teritory. We were well aware of this so held our weapons firmly and kept ourselves on full alert, this came in usefull as a xeno came up behind us, it raised its claw to strike Gens, (our guild leader) but before its dirty claw could make contact Belials arrow had hit it in the shoulder, the sudden movment caught the other members attention and they began to club the xeno until it dissapeared, seemingly, into thin air. These Xenos were sneaky and two more attempted the same thing, but all 3 came to the same end.

Now we were at the pits edge, where we had been told we could find this boy, we glance around in hopes of seeing him but from our current location we cannot. We begin to move closer to the edge when suddenly, a normally passive palus begins to bite at V1, Josephine fires several mage shots at the beast while V1 hacks away at it, suddenly ultimawep leaps forwards and rapidly punches it, causing red smoke (third knuckle).
It sucks itself into its shell and dies.

Now we get into the pit, everyone's caution levels fly up and we slowly step into the pitted area. Searching every inch possible we slay War Beast after War Beast, Commander after Commander. The pace at which we kill is slow as there seems to be few and far between of these monsters. This gives us all hope for the young boys life.
Suddenly a stream of 3 Commanders attack us together, using all our best skills we hack and chop away at them but they seem to much for us, health points are low for everyone when suddenly help arrives, micky (who had left ot find StarFury) and StarFury both arrive and help us in battle. With our two extra members the WarBeast Commanders fall like dominos.
With our new found strength our pace quickens, and with that so does our search. A moments rest from battle is suddenly interrupted, by one of the most aggresssive critters we could of hoped not to find. An apus, wielding its bow begins to fire arrows on us, myself and utlimawep run in hack away while bel micky and the other stay back and hit from range. I managed to catch a glimpse of Ultimaweps face during battle and i could see the fear this beast had brought upon him, and i knew in my heart i had that same fear, but we did not allow this to stop us we were persistant in our attack and finally this dangerous beast became just another mark on our death list.

Our search continued but it was now that things got difficult, we paused for a slight break when an assortment of 5 wb/wbc ran at us, we fought them off but they just kept coming, now casualties ran wild, we lost both V1Knife and Ultimawep first and then moments after them Joxer too. All three healed themseves as fast as possible and charged back to help us. This battle ensued for a long while, ocassional Palus getting caught in the fire atttacked too.
Eventually this became to great for us, and Belial gave us the order to pull out. White mist of G-Bird feathers fills the air and the pounding feet of a running human can be heard as we retreat from our battle.

We quickly decide to warp to town and give up our search.
Moments after being in town belial freezes and his eyes shut, he sways slightly as a breeze picks up around him, he hears the young woman from the tavers voice, speak softly to him...

"Belial....Persistant in his hunt the boy you seek moved on from VoD and has tracked the WarBeast into abias deserts. Be carefull he is still with us....for now....."

The breeze fades and belials eyes open, he tells the rest of us of this encounter and demands a search to Abias, weary from our expadition to VoD belial seeks other help from the lower strengthed members of the guild. They, like all good athantusians, immediatley accept and follow belial to the Desert.

Myself, Micky, Gens and StarFury, were unsatisfied not finding him in the VoD, so our leader, Gens, Took us 3 back in and we tried another search. With only us 4 the pace was alot slower, kills to WB/WBC were far slower and really our search was pointless, we stuck it out but then eventuall gve up hoping that Belial would have more Luck his end.[/glow]

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Offical Kills Report :

This shows how many of a specific monster were killed during the VoD hunt :

DevilFish - 2
Xenomorphs - 3
Palus - 2
Apus - 1
WarBeast - 47
WarBeast Commander - 61

[Beelzebull]

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So here we are facing the moment we all wanted to avoid, but is not possible any more.

“Knifer, we have to split. I will take a couple of our young in heart warriors to the War beast outpost in Abias. You will have to go by yourself at the Valley of Death. We have no choice” I said with a sign of hope in my heart.

“Yes my friend we shall split, I will report back to you will all the details” said Knifer.

And there we left heading towards two separate directions. To my side I had Grangelar, Skullo and Cogleastro. We headed north to the War beasts.

“IT IS AN AMBUSH”, I shouted. All of a sudden Wraiths, Warbeast and Xenos surrounded us. “He must be here, to much defenses to be a normal outpost.”

“We need help, Skullo I want you to concentrate and send a massage to the others in the Valley of Death.” Skullo stopped and concentrated. You could see the aura build around him, the strength it grew was impressive, he will surely become a great mage. All of a sudden a ghost like figure lifted of from him and flew toward the Valley of Death. He then became cautious again.

“I have met Mickyc and Gens and they are on their way to our location” he said. “Good we need help”

After a few moments we could see them haste toward us. We fought our way into the very center of the post….

As we slathered our way we saw a glimpse of a human figure.

“It must be him” shouted Cogleastro.

We went close, yes it was him…. But there was something not right. “Are you ok?” I asked.

“Yes I am!” the young warrior said. “Are you here to take me home again?”

“Yes, on request of you father.” I answered.

“Well then take me!” he said.

So we took off, but I could only think of something wrong. Something will happen, my demonic senses can sense evil in him………

We will have to expect more battles, but now I can only but think of my love in Thousand Years Town. I need to see her and feel the warmth of her embrace.

To be Continued…………………..

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Well people, was very good fun. Will soon post pics of event. Also as you have notice more is to come. Keep checking this section.

[skullo]

After following bel into battle we where drained of our energies and covered in the blood of slain beasts.

Even with the serport of mickyc and gens the fight was a grewling and hard fought one.

But after retrieving the young warrior we eventually made it back to tyt.

Bel has expressed his concerns that the young warrior has an evil,almost demonic aura about him, but being a young but skilled band of warriors we could still not sence this. maybe in time we would be able to.

So once again myself and fellow athanatus'ians sharpen our weapons and ready ourselves for battle.