[RP] - The Fall of Crandor

Znath · **Posted:** April 6th, 2008, 2:55 pm

"You missed me hun? Surprised to see you too...I don't think I got your names... " Mark 6 says turning around toward Kratos.

"Kratos is here? NO! You must not! I am dangerous, stay away!" Zemdi says looking up seeing Kratos's outline approaching. Dust swirls around her as she gets up quickly and leaps away extremely fast into the forest. She continues dashing off beyond sight.

"This is TOTALLY not my fault! I'd seen those two attack Zemdi and then out of nowhere she just like.. Drained the life out of that guy! She would have probably kept doing it had I not jumped in and stopped her." Mark 6 says maintaining a safe distance from Kratos. She walks casually over and picks up Desera's crossbow. "This guy's been after you guys a while. Ever since he saw Zemdi... I stayed away from him, he has this armor that enhances strength... That bolt that hit Zemdi a while back. he meant it for you not her to make her capture easy. And what, you think he's dead now?"

(By this time Desera had crawled out of sight into a nearby tunnel)
"Blast it all... Stupid... over priced mercenaries." Desera grumbles crawling away through the mucky cave. The deep gashes in his armor sparking. He eventually makes it to the underground lake where his sub was stored and sneaks away.

"It boggles the mind. Self preservation is one of our top priorities and yet, she seems to be in love with you enough to sacrifice herself. That's why she ran off, she can't control herself. It's why I ran off... but here I don't need essances, so I haven't had to kill for money. I want to help you find her... and don't call me Mark 6 ok? it's so... bland... I don't have a name though since master never gave me one. I should pick one sometime." She says fiddling around with the bow.

OOC: 500th post in the topic

Kikori · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 3:14 pm

"Uh.... well, I got him in the heart, throat, and gut, so... If magic and arrows didn't kill him, I have no clue what will unless I blow him up myself." Kratos controlled the rage in his voice, knowing now Mark 6 wasn't trying to kill him... "Mark Six? The only name I can think of that could come from the letters of that title is 'Maria', but with all the awkward names I'm hearing in everyone related to Zemdi, that's probably too bland for you as well..." Kratos stares off after Zemdi's trail, which is apparent with broken foilage. Kratos contemplates it and who he's with while saying, "She's never been dangerous around me except when she overheated horribly... Even then, it was easily bearable, she's never meant me harm."

Kratos looked at Mark Six. "I'm Kratos Aurion. For now, you're Mariaxis to me... I tried to use the letters of your name to get something that sounds decent while being odd enough to match what I've heard. If you want to object, then try to keep up to tell me." Kratos put away his sword and tore off after Zemdi... He remembered Alex's "gravity rune" and how it affected his agility. Kratos concentrated on that kind of magic, lightening his body and increasing the force of each footstep to allow him to practically jump from tree-limb to tree-limb like a monkey. He stayed to the floor of the woods, however, yelling "Zemdi-i!"

Znath · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 6:54 pm

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lower left is what she looked like originally. At this point she'd appear like a cross between the two eg, nicer hair than being all messed up but still very "self repaired" and not as smooth covered. So unlike Zemdi which appears totally human outside, Maria is very mechanical and has only limited facial expressive capability

Seeing Kratos take off, Maria follows quickly dashing along fast enough to catch up. She scans along the path finding it got more rocky. Eventually she jumps forward and grabs Kratos by the collar in time to stop him about ten feet in front of a sudden drop to the beach. "And what about your friends? You expect to find her alone but you didn't think of one thing... She's faster than all of us and things like the ocean won't stop her." She says pointing at the beach to where a large crater in the sand is and others leading into the water toward the east.

"And also, thank you. Maria is a nice name, I can do without being reminded of the rest. If it helps, I know I'm not very pretty to look at. SO I found THIS in town. Somebody was just leaving it tied to a string outside." Maria says unrolling a light blue kimono-like robe from her backpack and fits it on. "Now, do you want to wait here... or find your friends, I think they're about... a mile that way, speedy."

Maria heads back with Kratos toward where the others were last and comes in view and then asks Kratos, "Oh yea... Um you should introduce me. I don't want them to think I'm out to get you or something." She says and then yells over to Chipp and Alex, "He's over here! I kept him safe for you!"

Chipp · **Posted:** April 14th, 2008, 6:39 pm

Chipp glanced in the direction of where the voice came from, his head had been down trying to retrace Kratos' footprints towards the pit, he recognized the voice slightly and when he lifted his head to look, he scowled and drew his scimitar. All he really knew about her was that she had attacked their group at one point and that she was Zemdi's sister. He gave a whisper of a warning toward Alex "careful mate, that one's got many tricks up her sleeves." He then turned to Kratos "what are ye doing, mate?" he shouted.

Kikori · **Posted:** April 14th, 2008, 7:03 pm

Kratos sighed and didn't look back, simply raising his hand and keeping the back of it to Chipp, a half-hearted wave. "I heard what you said, Chipp, she's okay now. Come on." Kratos sat on a rock and rested his arms on his knees, looking from Zemdi's path of destruction over to Maria and back again. "Since Falador, I've tried to protect her. How can I do that when I can't hold her hand anymore?" Kratos stood up, more comfortable standing, and a wave of sea breeze smacked him awake. "Maria... Where do you plan to go? With us, to follow Zemdi, or to find Djanzad or Sjenas...? If you helped Zemdi and she wound up trusting you, I'll trust you."

Kratos held back his curiosity at how she survived the fight in Varrock, replacing it with said curiosity, and hope.

Znath · **Posted:** April 15th, 2008, 10:32 am

"My sister Zemdi was under attack when I intervened. Then she ran off down that broken path. From the looks of things, she left the island and went east..." Maria says pointing at the broken out path. "You can call me Maria now. Mark 6 is how you knew me before. I had originally followed you to take revenge for Varrok... The more I saw though and thought about what happened, it changed things. I realize now that when Zemdi shot me, she must have missed my core on purpose which gave me the chance to escape only losing my legs. The gun is dead accurate, it was master's insurance we wouldn't turn on him." She says pulling the Kimono up partly showing a different set of legs than before. "It's not like I'm happy about it or anything. There's a lot of reasons I changed my mind, but... it's not important." She interupts herself when she catches sight of Alex. "And who are you? You just joined these guys?"

Moments later a voice calls out from the forest, "Blast it I'm too late." As a man on a white horse comes in to view turning out to be Sjenas. "I'm sorry it took us so long to remember. I thought it was strange the size of the disk you had. Laurami had recalled seeing it before. It seems that disk was little more than an ancient market advertisement... I should have guessed sooner knowing Desera was behind it." He says and dismounts. "Did Zemdi chase after him or something? And... who is the little one?.... A creation of my brother Djanzad I would presume. Exactly how long were you following us?"

"SIR .... Urgent news!" A rider comes up fast down the road yelling after spotting Sjenas' horse. He comes close enough to talk easily. "A strange iron clad ship came in to port... requesting to dock but refuses to disarm their men. It's definately not Sylvrian but it bears no flag and the men don't show themselves... They requested you by name."

"I'll check it out. Sorry fellas, but this seems a bit important to put off. You're welcome to attend heading back to town if you're going that way." Sjenas says climbing back onto his horse and starting back toward the city.

Chipp · **Posted:** April 21st, 2008, 9:37 pm

"Sounds like it could be that fellow that took over Falador, he'd be one of the few that would have been able to make it out here and know who we are" Chipp said, just throwing something out there. "I don't think he'd recognize my men, but he might recognize the ship. I'm going to head back, if you guys are worried about getting hurt we'd have some protection from my crew. That's my take on things" he said. "The people might even be able to help us find Zemdi," letting his sentence trail off, Chipp started into a jog following after Sjenas' horse.

Kikori · **Posted:** April 22nd, 2008, 7:03 pm

"Tch. I wouldn't hold my breath... Djanzad didn't track Zemdi once, or couldn't, and he won't again." Kratos' words were in a (rare) spiteful tone, and only Maria could hear them. He stood up and watched Chipp run off. "As for Chipp, he's the one who sailed us down here. He's definitely a character." Kratos looked over to Maria's face. "I can't read your eyes yet, but if something's not important enough to say, I won't even if I can. For now... let's just make sure Chipp's okay. Then we can look for Zemdi."

Without waiting for a response, Kratos looked back at the horribly beaten path and crouched like a track runner before taking off in a full magical sprint, even daring to bend over to scoop up Chipp on his way in passing. "C'mon, I'll get you to Alex." It didn't take long before the lonesome Alex was reunited by Kratos, who knelt down and let go abruptly of Chipp, knowing the sailor was on his feet. "Sorry for the crazy rush, but I doubt you'd want to have waited." Kratos turned to Alex. "When this mess is dealt with, I'll teach you how to do magic similar to how your gravity runes worked. It was easy to figure out." Kratos looked back for Maria, wondering if she was going to join the party in Zemdi's place for now.

Znath · **Posted:** April 22nd, 2008, 9:29 pm

Maria followed the others into the town. They come down the hill to the harbor and Maria ducks behind a corner. "I can't let them see me... I know it's them. Sorry I'll join you again later." She jumps up off the walls of the building reaching the rooftops to overlook as the group travels on.

Sjenas reaches the docks first just as the metal ship pulls in to dock. The ship has sloped sides and about 200ft long with a tower in the center with thin horizontal slots for the windows. The cannons on the ship are near WW1 era in shape. A cloaked figure steps out onto the large dock along with two others carrying heavy rifles with drum magazines attatched. The central one steps forward to Sjenas and says in a metalic voice, "You are Sjenas Coersade. We are of the Crandorean Technocratic Empire. Lord Djanzad sends with us items for trade." He signals and several other cloaked figures come out carrying heavy boxes. One is pried open showing ores, gems, herbs, etc. etc. "This is our price list. Lord Djanzad assures that this is top quality and more will be available when the project is finished."

Sjenas looks at the price list with his eyes wide, "You must be joking.. My brother sent this... and he wants these kinds of prices?? He knows exactly what we're short on... I should have known... Fine, I will arrange payment. Much as it costs, much of this is priceless." He looks on in amazement as the armored men walk out of the ship with large crates of heavy goods to the unloading area. "They use no crane or anything... I can see how the people of Falador had no chance. From all the immigrants we get, I assume he let them leave." He looks at the ship more and remarks to the group in particular. "Still, even we would have a hard time holding off these guys. I've never seen guns like that. Our ship's cannons look nothing like those. And.. what are the guards holding?? I've never seen a rifle like that ever."

Maria creeps out from behind a corner and says to Kratos. "Oh good, they're not looking for me. I knew they were my brothers. They're sending stuff here to sell? I don't think Djanzad is there, but those men are holding 'phase 3 sub-auto cannons.. they could sink a whole ship with those alone.. Are we going to go now or wait til they leave?.."

Chipp · **Posted:** April 29th, 2008, 4:32 pm

"That depends on how we are getting to wherever we're going" Chipp remarked. "If we go by land we'd need to resupply our supplies but if we go by ship, then we can leave now unless they turn their guns on my ship, then we're in trouble" he paused and thought for a moment. "By the way, where exactly are we going? I know we're chasing Zemdi but where exactly would she be going?"

OOC: Sorry guys, been busy

Kikori · **Posted:** April 30th, 2008, 2:51 pm

Kratos looked from Maria to the ocean, and back again. "I personally want to wait it out to see if they plan to leave. We can get around if need be to get away, and your ship should be okay for a quick get-away, Chipp, but as for Zemdi..." Kratos thought hard. Could magic help? Runic magic didn't affect her, and he only hurt her at the reactor when he grabbed something magically when she was made of the same material... Wait, that material? "I think I may know how to find Zemdi. If there's a way to search for something by magic... Maria, Chipp, Alex, I say we lie low until they're gone and get on the ship until we know what course we're headed for. For now, though, let's get away from here directly. I don't like being within eyesight of them, it makes me un-easy."

Kratos stepped back, watching the machines until he could safely turn around and find a small section of the town dedicated as a park. The docks were still visible, but from that distance, only very plain features could be seen. Kratos found a bench and sank into it, pulling out the book to look through for something to aid a search. He flipped through until he saw the letters of "Crying" and couldn't help his curiousity, thinking there was something about fixing or creating tears.

Scrying
(Scrying comes from the English word descry meaning "to make out dimly" or "to reveal.")

Scrying (also called crystal gazing, crystal seeing, seeing, or peeping) is a magic practice that involves seeing things supernaturally in a medium, usually for purposes of divination or fortune-telling. The media used are most commonly reflective, translucent, or luminescent substances such as crystals, stones, glass, mirrors, water, fire, or smoke. Scrying has been used in many cultures as a means of divining the past, present, or future. Depending on the culture and practice, the visions that come when one stares into the media are thought to come from God, spirits, the psychic mind, the devil, or the subconscious...

Kratos read on, curious, wondering if he had anything he could use. If he was reading right, scrying magic could help him see where Zemdi was... The only problem was that the only immediately local gem was on his amulet. He didn't want to bother Sjenas after a rough trade, so he hoped it would do, somehow, as he kept reading and occasionally glancing at the docks.

Znath · **Posted:** April 30th, 2008, 7:43 pm

Maria fits on a mask she 'found' on her trip around the rooftops. "She went east. I could see the top of an island in the distance from the cliff we were on. I would guess it to be in the area of 15 miles off. Knowing my sister, she would most likely have gone in a straight line until reaching land. That's what I'd do at least, although I'd avoid the water altogether if I could." She finishes and looks back at the boat.

About an hour or so later, the workers from Djanzad's ship return carrying several boxes back on to the ship. Sjenas hands off all the paperwork to the leader who then hands off a small package. "This item is meant for you personally. You can expect more return shipments. The Master will need much more." He says and boards the ship again. The ship makes a whirring sound as it pulls backwards unassisted from the dock and turns to leave.

Sjenas spots the group later and approaches them. "The metal men of Falador I presume. It wasn't the best deal ever, but I'm amazed at the quality of these bars shipped in. Near flawless gold, mithril, even adamantite all in dozens of boxes. All he wanted was tons of Drakatite "Dragon's blood ore". It often costs so much to refine in any quantity that it's rarely done. Most of what you see of it was done several ages ago still in good condition. It sadly often sits in our warehouses since it costs more to refine it than mine it." He sits down on the nearby bench. "Oddest looking ship I've seen. Those cannons too... I guess you're getting ready to head out. Your ship has been totally outfitted now with mana engines and the furnace. I guess it doesn't matter what you use for fuel since it can run off the mana in the air in this area. Just remember to shut off the reactor when you reach the mana field, and then switch over to like.... coal, wood or something to power outside... though you shouldn't need it within the islands here."

Maria sighs and walks uneagerly to the ship's dock. "The faster we get the ride over with the better. I absolutely hate boats and I want to get back to land as soon as possible. So lets get going."

Stip45 · **Posted:** May 6th, 2008, 7:38 am

OOC: Sorry for the incredible lack of posts, but the reason is basically a mix of moving, and not recieving notification emails for some reason.

IC: "Oh yeah, I'm Alexander, though everyone calls me Alex. And yeah, I'm new." Alex answered to Maria when she asked him.
He fiddled a bit with his gloves until they were on nicely again, and looked at Kratos. "Thanks, I'd like that. Honestly, I have no idea how magic works around here, it's just so confusing."

"By the way -Maria, was it?- , what did Zemdi say before she ran away? It might give us a clue to where she's going."

Chipp · **Posted:** May 7th, 2008, 10:44 pm

"Alright" Chipp whispered with a nod. "My ship is ready to sail, I checked up on it and the crew. If you guys don't have anything you need to do, follow me, if you have stuff you need to do, you know where to find me." Chipp started walking along the docks, ducking and dodging other sailors that were coming and going. Weaving through the traffic Chipp arrived at his ship and nodded at his crew. "We're heading out" He said, walking up the gangplank. His crew hustled up and down the deck, getting the ship prepared to set sail.

Chipp stood at the helm of his ship and looked at the new device that had been installed, "I wish we had someone with us that new how to use this" he muttered, but he shrugged it off, his crew knew how to sail and they could stick with that until they figured out this device.

Znath · **Posted:** May 9th, 2008, 12:27 pm

Maria walks over by Alex, "That's the thing, she didn't say where." She simulates Zemdi's voice and adds "What?! Kratos is here. NO I am dangerous" .... then continuing as normal "Then she ran off crazy fast eastward. The trail just went in a straight line so I doubt she varied any from it. And yes, Kratos says my name should be Maria. I hope we work well together Alex." She says looking up at Alex happily.

Sjenas overheard Chipp's remarks about the ship. And followed him up. "Already taken care of, I don't know how you are about me adding crew to your ship. I'd come myself but there is far too much for me to attend to here, especially if with Djanzad's ship coming here unannounced like that... The Sylvrian's might also raise a fuss about it since our treaty says we need to give them equal opportunity to trade with any new partners..... anyway I digress. This is David Falkenbach. He's a bit young but one of our best engineers. He can accompany you for a while to be sure you get the hang of the engines."

David is about 6 foot tall, dark medium length hair, dark tanned skin. He wears a long bomber jacket looking outfit, a pair of round lensed glasses (currently with a sunglasses attachment) and a pack of various tools and instrumentation.

David steps up on to the ship and says to Chipp "Hello there captain. I'm really excited to work with this engine a...er and your crew too. I've heard a lot about you, and though I've never worked with westerners before....

Sjenas interrupts David, "Ok well, I'm sure you'll have much more to say later. Sorry I can't come with you again. I'm sure you'll be able to find Zemdi soon enough." Sjenas says stepping down from the ship.

Kikori · **Posted:** May 11th, 2008, 11:50 am

Kratos looked away from Maria as she repeated Zemdi's message. Dangerous? Huh. Kratos only knew Zemdi as a danger to herself or whoever threatens her... humans were more dangerous than she was. He walked past the crew and got on the boat, which hadn't changed in structure, so he knew where to go to find maps. Scrying alone was a good way to be able to not show his worry to the rest of the crew.

Kratos finally found the maps and a table, lit by a lantern. So he unfolded the maps of the area, making a crude combination of the maps to cover a larger area. Remembering that he needed a gem, Kratos took off his amulet and held it by its string, concentrating on Zemdi. He needed to know where she was, and knew she'd head east, but... how far? Did she stop? Was she okay? The more he thought of her, and worried for her, the more the amulet tilted east on the map. Kratos moved his hand east and the gem kept sticking straight out, trying to touch down on a certain point on the third map in the row he laid out.

The amulet finally rested on an island, sandy in colour. He couldn't tell just where on that map it meant she was, but it was definitely that island, and since the amulet wasn't moving, Kratos knew she was sitting still. He had nothing to write with, but since it involved helping Zemdi, it was impossible to forget where on the map she was. He stepped out of the room, looking for a crewman. He finally found one and gave him a message. "Tell Chipp, Maria, David, and Alex to come here. We're going to plot our course." The sailor nodded and walked away, ready to relay the message to everyone.

Chipp · **Posted:** May 15th, 2008, 6:30 pm

Chipp shook David's hand "glad to have you onboard, mate, cause no one on this ship knows how to work that machine. You'll make a fine pirate" he said with a wink.

Chipp watched as he saw a sailor emerge from below deck, somewhat hastily, and walk towards the captain. Chipp eyed the pirate as the pirate gave his message, "Kratos wants you and the rest of our passengers to join him, he says he knows where to go. He's with the maps". Chipp nodded to the man, and the man went on carrying his messages. Chipp glanced at David, "let's see what Kratos has found out", and headed below deck. Chipp entered the room where Kratos was with the maps. "Where are we headed?"

Znath · **Posted:** May 18th, 2008, 4:35 pm

"It's simple really, the two levers on the right are to control the power to either the right or left motor, or both at once for forward. Down by the engine we will have the emergency release lever in case of emergency to vent the engine." David says pointing out the two new levers. "Then there's the full stop lever beside them that will force both levers to zero." After he says this Chipp then had left for where Kratos was.

Maria had just barely crawled onto the main deck when she overheard the sailor call for everyone. She walks down in to the room with the maps set out. "Lucky you have that book. I haven't been able to pick up Zemdi's signal for the past hour or so now. I can usually at least find something, but it's strange that I can't even see the slightest thing." She looks over at the map about where it seemed Kratos was looking. "A straight line after all, well almost. If she went in only a straight line, she would be about there by now. But at some point she changed direction... I'm a bit weary of why you can detect her but I can't. Lets go, but we should be carefull."

Kikori · **Posted:** May 19th, 2008, 10:28 am

Kratos gave Maria a curious look... from how long it took her to get on, she had to be afraid of water, no doubts about it. Kratos smiled a bit and mouthed to himself, "Same as Zemdi." He looked back at the map. "As Maria pointed out, Zemdi's supposedly stopped on this island. I can't pin where because the gem in the amulet is surrounded by gold, but it's definitely that island. Since the island looks creamy on the map, I'm guessing it's a desert." Kratos sighed, remembering the heat from the Shanty Pass... "This is probably going to stink." He pulled his amulet off the island and slipped it carefully around his neck again.

Chipp · **Posted:** May 23rd, 2008, 11:39 am

Chipp marked the map on the spot where they wanted to get to, then grabbed a straight piece of wood on the table and lined it up with the island and where they were now, he grabbed a feather that was close by and dipped it into some ink, then drew a line alongside the wood. Chipp then rummaged around in the room until he found a compass which he placed pointing north on the map and marked the degree of the direction they were headed. "Alright, I've got the bearing" he said, then turned to David "if you don't mind, we'll use our regular methods to get us out of this port and then you can show use how that contraption works" Chipp said to David. Then Chipp turned around and walked out onto the deck, shouting orders at his crew and getting the ship ready to sail. He walked up to the helm of the ship and grabbed the wheel "Heave Ho!" he shouted, and made the final preparations to head out to sea.

[RP] - The Fall of Crandor

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