Zylas
2016-08-18, 03:47 PM
*CRACK*
Your desk lets out yet another painful creak under the weight of yet another stack of papers being dumped down from the overhead pipes.
This barely even made you blink – this has been your reality for decades if not centuries now. Day in day out. Stamping forms for 1 copper a day. Just enough forms to give your desk that perfect bend of almost, but not quite yet, the point of breaking.
And yet..
One of these forms did make you look up from your work. The top form was blue. You never get blue forms..
You have been selected for a mission by a client in Prime Material Paralle RXG-2174.
Successfully completing this mission will earn you 50.000 gold towards paying off your debt to Waukeem.
To view mission parameters, sign this form.
__________
These appear in curly golden letters, flowing out over the paper as the blue form turns into a scroll that gets longer and longer.
[After a whole bunch of contractual information]
TL:DR:
- Return princess Dodoki, alive and unharmed, to the castle of her father, King Calido of Rototon.
- Permanently slay the dragon Jura the Inferno, and deliver its head to King Calido’s castle.
- Liberate the cities of Groblo and Ratowon from Jura the Infero’s dragonspawn. The cities still need to be inhabitable by the people of Rototon, as said people are at the moment of this writing. That also means the surrounding farmlands need to still be fertile, and that at least the majority of the buildings should be left standing.
- Slay lieutenants Verax, Dardas and Charger. Deliver their heads to General Ozo of Rototon.
- Harming innocent intelligent life on this mission is unacceptable. Killing, torturing, poisoning, magically cursing, raising or otherwise inflicting harm on innocents will result in your immediately being called back, as well as a fine of 200.000 gold. I.e. another 7828 years of accounting work.
((OOC - This is pretty much the only true permadeath this game has.))
To accept, sign here ____________, here ____________, here ____________, and here ____________.
You feel a familiar feeling – it’s been so long that you’d almost forgotten what it feels like. Static energy covers your body, and half a second later you are pulled through the very fabric of existence.
You teleport into a huge hall of light. A deep, grumbling voice echoes through the room from all sides at once.
“WELCOME, SQUAD. MEET YOUR TEAM MATES. CLAIM YOUR GEAR FROM THE CHESTS AND INTRODUCE YOURSELVES TO ONE ANOTHER. YOU WILL BE SENT TO YOUR DESTINATION IN FIFTEEN MINUTES. CLOCK STARTS COUNTING.. NOW.”
For each of you a chest appears at your feet. Your chest has all the gear in it you had on you when you died.
There are three of you. So each of you sees two other “heroes”.
Knowledge local, arcana and the planes for more information about your destination or the cultures/enemies mentioned.
Your desk lets out yet another painful creak under the weight of yet another stack of papers being dumped down from the overhead pipes.
This barely even made you blink – this has been your reality for decades if not centuries now. Day in day out. Stamping forms for 1 copper a day. Just enough forms to give your desk that perfect bend of almost, but not quite yet, the point of breaking.
And yet..
One of these forms did make you look up from your work. The top form was blue. You never get blue forms..
You have been selected for a mission by a client in Prime Material Paralle RXG-2174.
Successfully completing this mission will earn you 50.000 gold towards paying off your debt to Waukeem.
To view mission parameters, sign this form.
__________
These appear in curly golden letters, flowing out over the paper as the blue form turns into a scroll that gets longer and longer.
[After a whole bunch of contractual information]
TL:DR:
- Return princess Dodoki, alive and unharmed, to the castle of her father, King Calido of Rototon.
- Permanently slay the dragon Jura the Inferno, and deliver its head to King Calido’s castle.
- Liberate the cities of Groblo and Ratowon from Jura the Infero’s dragonspawn. The cities still need to be inhabitable by the people of Rototon, as said people are at the moment of this writing. That also means the surrounding farmlands need to still be fertile, and that at least the majority of the buildings should be left standing.
- Slay lieutenants Verax, Dardas and Charger. Deliver their heads to General Ozo of Rototon.
- Harming innocent intelligent life on this mission is unacceptable. Killing, torturing, poisoning, magically cursing, raising or otherwise inflicting harm on innocents will result in your immediately being called back, as well as a fine of 200.000 gold. I.e. another 7828 years of accounting work.
((OOC - This is pretty much the only true permadeath this game has.))
To accept, sign here ____________, here ____________, here ____________, and here ____________.
You feel a familiar feeling – it’s been so long that you’d almost forgotten what it feels like. Static energy covers your body, and half a second later you are pulled through the very fabric of existence.
You teleport into a huge hall of light. A deep, grumbling voice echoes through the room from all sides at once.
“WELCOME, SQUAD. MEET YOUR TEAM MATES. CLAIM YOUR GEAR FROM THE CHESTS AND INTRODUCE YOURSELVES TO ONE ANOTHER. YOU WILL BE SENT TO YOUR DESTINATION IN FIFTEEN MINUTES. CLOCK STARTS COUNTING.. NOW.”
For each of you a chest appears at your feet. Your chest has all the gear in it you had on you when you died.
There are three of you. So each of you sees two other “heroes”.
Knowledge local, arcana and the planes for more information about your destination or the cultures/enemies mentioned.