Diamondeye lay on his back, staring at the ceiling. It seemed a good time for a rest. Things were quieting down, hopefully. The drab, brown ceiling was a bit depressing, but at least it wasn't so garish to prevent rest for the weary. He wasn't quite feeling up for sleep, but settled for resting his eyes for a second.
A second would be all Diamondeye would get. With a mighty bang, the door exploded behind the rearing kick of a white stallion, and was blown across the room. Sprinting behind the path made, an intruder brandished a sword with its right hand, while the left raised a buckler for protection. Diamondeye managed a haphazard roll to his right to avoid a downward slice. He grabbed his spear, which had been laid on a chair, and swiveled to face the intruder. The intruder charging, Diamondeye hopped to his left and attempted to bring a thrust around the raised shield. However, the intruder swung its blade upwards, smacking the spear amiss. It made impact with Diamondeye's chest with its buckler, driving him to the ground. Without hesitation, it brought the sword to bear on Diamondeye's neck, The strike wasn't clean, forcing the attacker to rip the blade out for three more blows to settle the matter once and for all.
In the swamp beyond the encampment's borders, a woman's head popped up from under the murkey water. She swiveled, checking the surroundings. Deciding all was clear, she ascended the shoreline on the lower bounds of the mountain, revealing a scaly, dark green, slithering lower body. Sliding along, holding her upper body aloft, she entered the cave entrance. She was taken off guard when an animal-headed humanoid leaped from the shadows, knife bore. At the last second, the two froze. Then stared incredulously at each other.
“Wait, he's in here too?” she asked it. It cocked its head for a second, then nodded. She raised an eyebrow, and the humanoid cocked its head to the side again. “Well... I suppose there's no harm in going together, I s uppose....” she muttered. Nodding, the humaoid turned and gestured that they move on. In the distance, a shimmering purple light could be seen. After nearly an hour of treking through the tunnel, the two seemed no closer, and had made zero progress. The humanoid was emitting a low growl. T'was then a deep voice rumbled throughout the cave.
“Oh, we have visitors! How nice, isn't it, little brother?” A child's voice rang out in response.
“Oooooh, yay! Yes, yes, its been so long! We might get friends, big brother! Its been ages since we've had anyone else to play with!” The woman frowned.
“Where are you!?” She demanded.
“We're just a bit further, pretty lady!” the child proclaimed. “Just go to the purple light!” Now severely annoyed, the woman turned to the one next to her, who was growling quite a bit louder now. Nevertheless, she put a hand on its shoulder, and motioned that they continue. After just a few seconds, a chilly, black fog misted around the two. Any sight from before vanished, but they marche forward a bit further. Then, suddenly, the fog was gone. In front of them stood a massive pyre, which was ablaze with a purple flame. “Come on, pretty lady, you're almost there!” The child encouraged. “Follow the purple light!”
Before she could object to the odd demand, the humanoid next to her let loose a snarl, then stomped straight up to the pyre's walkway, directly into the fire itself. Though the flames clearly licked at its heels, the woman's partner stood there, seething in anget at the whole situation. Hesitantly, she slithered forward, and reached a finger out to the flames. A flash blinded her, and a high pitched ringing richoted around the cavern.
Whens he came to, the humanoid stood before her, still very clearly angry. She got a hold of her surroundings. They were in a stone chamber, with seven alters laid in a circle around them. In the center of it was massive dais, at least ten feet tall. Atop it stood a stone golem, at least as tall as the dais itself. It wore a badly rusted mail hauberk. Riding atop it was a small, blond haired boy, his legs wrapped around the neck of the golem, its hands maintaining balance on the head. The boy wore a simple gray tunic and trousers.
“Yay, now we can have fun, right big brother?” the boy asked the golem.
“Yes, now we can have fun,” the golem responded. The humanoid finally lost its last thread of patience, and leaped up from the floor onto the dais. Growling loudly, it thrusted the knife at the golem. The golem raised a hand and grabbed the humanoid's arm, stopping the attack dead in its tracks. Th golem grabbed it at the neck with the other hand, then tossed it off the dais, landing back-first onto one of the altars. The woman was stunned at the brute force, but would not be intimidated. She slid up to the base of the dais, then uncoiled, scrambling her upper body onto the platform, then pulling the rest of her up. “Do you want to have fun too?” The golem asked her.
“I will have none of this nonsense!” She screamed. She charged it, taking first a swing with her clawed hands. When the golem grabbed her wrist, she was ready. She swung her lower body to the left, the scaled length wrapping around the golem. The end of it snapped around the neck of the boy. When the golem attempted to throw her off the dais, she kept her hold, and the boy came flying off with her. She skidded and rolled across the stone floor, while the boy was completely ragdolled.
“Little brother!” the golem rumbled. It jumped off the platform, resulting in a loud crash. The golem was not nimble enough to coordinate the jump, and it collapsed to the ground. The woman recouped and was treking for the boy, while the humanoid had jumped onto the back of the golem, stabbing at every point it could find. The child was still laying limp on the ground when the woman arrived. She reached back to gouge it with her claws, when it snapped its head 180 degrees to face her.
“Isn't this fun, big brother?” It called out. The woman was taken off guard. The golem, which was still flat on its face while an angry intruder stabbed at its joints, agreed.
“Yes, we haven't had this much fun in quite a while!” The woman hesitated for a moment. The backwards head of the boy just grinned at her. It was... off putting. She decided the best way to settle this would be to end it, now. She reached back once more, and gouged the boy in the back of the neck. She slashed, and cut, and cut, but that grin would not leave the boy's face....
Pop
She staggered for a second. The altar room was gone. The boy was gone, the golem, gone. In the stead of the altar room, they were in the meadow far to the northeast of the encampment. In the stead of the golem, with the humanoid still stabbing it, lay the remains of Sprig. In the stead of the boy's grin was what was left of Cultured Drizzt fan. The woman hissed, slashed at the remains one last time, then slid away in fumes at the whole debacle....
Alive: 22
A1_Unit
A completely inoffensive name
Andres
Atheotes
Beskar
CCRunner
Centurion1
Chaotix
Double A
johnhugthom
Jooray
Kralizec
pevergreen
Psychonaut
scottishranger
Scienter
Sigurd
Thermal Mercury
TinCow
Winston Hughes
woad&fangs
YLC
Slain: 14
A Very Super Market (N1)
Khazaar (N1)
White_eyes:D (N1)
Captain C (N2)
splitpersonality (N2)
slashandburn (N2)
Captain Blackadder (N3)
Peasant Phill (N3)
Yaropolk (N3)
Csargo (N3)
Beefy187 (N4)
Diamondeye (N5)
Cultured Drizzt fan (N5)
Sprig (N5)
Lynched: 4
Seon (D1)
Askthepizzaguy (D2)
GeneralHankerchief (D3)
Sasaki Kojiro (D4)
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Re: Netherworld II (IN PLAY)
Originally Posted by Cultured Drizzt fan
I love that book so much.
I own the huge version which is all the books combined into one.
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