Topic: Monster's Paradise Q&A
Subject: You're on my radar!
Sorry about the post delay, I'm usually better about this but have been a little bogged down lately. Will post tomorrow.
Posted on 2010-05-30 at 19:58:46.
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Topic: Diabolic Genesis-Origins of Evil
Subject: Seluumiel
At Xavier's assurance of safety Seluumiel set foot on the bridge and began to make her way across. With every step she gave thanks for the lightness of frame the Seladarine had graced her with. The moon elf moved with a cautious speed hoping and praying all would make it to the other side.
Posted on 2010-05-26 at 22:41:23.
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Topic: Monster's Paradise
Subject: I see what I see...
As the Sight gifted vision passed Seluraiiel stepped bak from the frozen human a look of utter disbelief flashes in her eyes before it fades and is swallowed by a cool impenetrable calm. Was it possible that the world had changed so much? Her visions long ago had foretold of the return of darkness but never had she imagined this. The darkness they had vanquished had returned to swallow the world and it left not even the faintest ray of light.
The faerie let her eyes focus once more on the human held before her. This was no mindless thrall, there was something about him that was different. Just as she had seen the light of intelligence in his eyes so in his soul did she find a man fully intact. True his mind had been twisted and molded to suit the needs of his masters' needs but there still remained an autonomous consciousness. It would take time but she might be able to erase his fear and return to him his freedom. A sly smile spread across Seluraiiel's face. If the mind of one thrall remained then surely there were others and she would find them. One by one she would forge the blade that would cleave through the darkness.
Seluraiiel laid a hand on the human's cheek in a gesture that held at once the tenderness of a mother's touch and tempting heat of seduction. With a final glance into the man's eyes she turned from him to glide over to Gortag's side. Locking eyes with the dwarf she wove a simple charm bestowing on the warrior, for a time, the gift of tongues. Although the magic would fade quickly it would still last long enough to suit her needs.
"Be thankful that you have not seen what has just been shown to me," Seluraiiel began speaking not in the common tongue but rather in an ancient long dead dialect of elvish. "This world is swallowed wholly by the dark. Drow, ilithids, duegar and all there ilk have reclaimed their subterranean kingdom. They walk side by side in a massive city far larger than any I have ever seen. The horror does not end with their return, it only grows for they have enslaved the races of man and dwarf in body, mind, and soul."
She did not add that in the dark metropolis there were no elves, only drow. A terrible thought danced in her mind as the possibility of extinction dawned on her. The faerie shuddered involuntarily at the thought, it was a possibility she could not allow.
Returning her attention to the matter at hand Seluraiiel continued, "We cannot allow this to continue and I think our human friend might hold a piece of the key. He is no mindless thrall."
Posted on 2010-05-16 at 22:43:43.
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Topic: Diabolic Genesis-Origins of Evil
Subject: Seluumiel
As they reached the rope bridge Tenacity pulled her horse to a stop. At this Seluumiel let Chiron take the chest from her before dismounting. Once her feet touched the ground she looked up to the still mounted knight and spoke her thanks.
"Tenacity, I owe you a debt of gratitude my friend. Let it be the will of the Seldarine that I have chance to repay it," the moon elf paused a moment to let her gaze linger on the other woman before turning to make her way to the bridge.
Seluumiel moved across the short distance with haste, molten volcanic rock still rushed at them leaving little time for hesitation. It was that fact that led her to follow the paladin's plan without voicing her own concerns. So she stood at the edge of the cliff and watched Xavier make his way across. With each step the pale man took Seluumiel offered prayers to Sehanine hoping the lunar goddess would see them all to safety.
There the elf stood at the foot of the bridge waiting for some sign from Xavier that it was safe to cross. Seluumiel steeled herself, for the very moment the man signaled she would set foot on the bridge and cross it.
Posted on 2010-05-11 at 03:05:43.
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Topic: Diabolic Genesis-Origins of Evil Q&A
Subject: Getting back into the swing
Okay, will post tomorrow, sorry I've been MIA.
Posted on 2010-05-09 at 18:28:05.
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Topic: Stare into the Night Q&A
Subject: I think this game might never die!
Seems we keep on a-resurrecting these characters. I'm a big fan of that. So glad to see we're all still on board. Shall we try to get new posts up this week/weekend?
Posted on 2010-05-09 at 18:24:50.
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Topic: Monster's Paradise Q&A
Subject: Post is up
Again, sorry about the day. Life seems to have calmed down a bit so I should be able to get back to reg. posting.
Posted on 2010-05-09 at 18:17:47.
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Topic: Monster's Paradise
Subject: tell me tell me what I need to know
"Probably doesn't matter. The flayers have sucked half of his brain out anyway. Don't think he'll go running for help and even if he does, they probably wouldn't listen to him," Gortag responded to her inquiry as he cleaned the illithid's blood from his axe. "Just tell him to stay here."
Seluraiiel nodded at this but shot a glance towards the immobile human. The dwarf's suspicions echoed her own though unspoken. If he had been with the illithids then he was a thrall. There was no question of that. Illithids were quite skilled in mind control but they lacked the subtlety and finesse to manipulate the mind without breaking. She remembered finding herds of thralls who even after the death of their illithid masters remained empty shells waiting for the next command. This man was likely no exception and that meant his mind would be little more than an echo of consciousness.
"It's been centuries, probably even millennia since we last set our feet outside this temple…" Slayer's gravelly voice interrupted Seluraiiel's reverie and so she turned to face him as he spoke. "How long, it doesn't really matter. Everything we knew is dead and gone. But if there's more of the squids around, then we've got our hands full of work, you and I."
The faerie nodded in response, "It seems likely that while we slept the passage of years became millennia, and the look of this temple only confirms that. You are right Gortag, the world we knew has long since faded even from memory. Before we embark on any path we must learn what we can of this new world, without that knowledge we might as well return to our lithic slumber."
Seluraiiel paused a moment letting her amber gaze drift from the dwarf to the human. A sudden use for the man dawned on her and a sly smile curved across her lips. He might only have a shadow of a mind but for the Sight that would be enough. In that shadow and in his body would be memories, and from those memories Seluraiiel would come know what world lay beyond the temple doorway.
"I think our human here may have just become useful," the faery said as glided over to the yet nameless man. "And that usefulness I think shall be twofold. He surely will be able to tell us not only what lies immediately beyond this temple but also what has become of the world."
A cool look came over her eyes as she studied the man. His terror was clear and evident, it held his eyes wide like a caged animal but behind that fear lay a gleam of intelligence. That she had not expected. At this the intensity of her gaze softened and her eyes took on an almost comforting light.
"I'm not going to hurt you child, just try and relax."
With this Seluraiiel led her amber gaze upward to stare into the human's eyes. Letting the power of the Sight take hold she took a breath and readied herself to follow wherever the oracular vision led her.
Posted on 2010-05-09 at 18:15:39.
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Topic: Monster's Paradise Q&A
Subject: Posting...
I know I owe you a post, I'll have one up this weekend I promise! I usually can't post during the week and last weekend was a bit of a marathon, sorry about the delay.
Posted on 2010-05-05 at 21:28:36.
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Topic: Stare into the Night Q&A
Subject: La LA LA
I'm still here and would love if we picked things up again. I've been a bit bogged down, it's a good bogged down but there's no end in sight - still I think I could manage a post once a week. Are we all game?
Posted on 2010-05-05 at 04:26:05.
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Topic: Monster's Paradise
Subject: I won't brook no running little boy!
Ancient fey magic spun into the illithid's mind and Seluraiiel watched as the creature fell to the floor clutching its skull in pain. Its paltry psychic shield had done little to keep her magic at bay and now she held its mind wholly and completely. Without batting an eye Seluraiiel tightened her charm breaking to pieces any semblance of the illithid's mind until all that remained was her will and the faded memory of the human being the creature once had been. Once she released it from the spell an empty husk would be all that remained and without its essence the body would soon expire. The faery rarely used such potent enchantments, but to allow even a small piece of the illithid's mind to remain intact might well prove to be a mistake. Mind flayers were an insidious lot and left with even the tiniest bit of itself the creature might one day find a way free of her enchantment and that would certainly be most inconvenient. Complete annihilation of mind flayer's being was the only prudent course. Still it was a pity that she had to destroy the creature's mind before learning what she could from its memories.
A flash of movement caught Seluraiiel's eye and the faery shot her gaze in its direction to see a human man running toward the temple exit. She did not hesitate. In an instant her had raised upward, her fingers snapped and the running man was frozen still in mid stride. He would retain his will, his thoughts would be his and he would be aware of all that happened around him, but the part of his mind that commanded his body was frozen still. The man had made no threatening action but she could not allow him to run free, not yet anyway. Being held still might be a terrifying experience for him but in the end he would leave the experience relatively unharmed.
Secure in the knowledge that both the illithid and human would offer no threat the faery scanned the room to see how Gortag fared. Her amber eyes found Slayer standing above the beheaded corpse of the other mind flayer. With both creatures neutralized Seluraiiel's mind began to race. The last of the illithids had been killed many years before she even set foot in the Temple of Eternal Light. How had they come to be here now?
Soon after evil had been vanquished from the world the Sight had sent her visions of a world consumed by darkness. It had been those visions that brought the faery to the temple in the first place. Had the terrible prophecy come to pass? Seluraiiel shook her head and sighed. The magic of the temple had frozen she and the other heroes out of time until the moment they would be needed most. In a world swallowed by darkness, a world without hope that moment of need had come. Yet what hope could they offer? Of all the great heroes only two remained, the severity of that truth washed over her and Seluraiiel felt a pang of sorrow at the loss of the others. Sorrow passed and the cold reason of one who had lived long took over. It was what it was and there was little to do but move forward. They were here now and they needed knowledge, the knowledge what now was and the knowledge of just what catalyst had awakened them.
Seluraiiel spared a glance for both mind flayers. There was so much she might have learned of this new time from their minds, but what was lost was lost and regret would not serve her now. She would find other avenues to knowledge and once she learned what she needed the darkness would tremble once again before Seluraiiel Asrai the faery.
Her eyes fell on the immobilized human again and she pressed a finger to her lips. Before anything else could be done they had to figure out just what to do about him. He was probably a thrall and it was unlikely the illithids had left him with any semblance of a mind, but on the slight chance a man still inhabited that body he might well prove useful. A slight smile broke across her lips as she glided across the room to stand beside Slayer.
"A beheading?" Seluraiiel began in a cool silvery voice, "Gortag I would have thought one such as you would have found a much more creative end for the vile thing. Perhaps splitting it in two... groin first."
The twinkle in her eyes and smirk on her face told of the good natured jest in her words. That mirth faded quickly as she turned her attention to the human.
"The two illithids have been dealt with but one question remains. What to do about him?" the faery punctuated her words with a gesture towards the unmoving man.
Posted on 2010-04-26 at 01:58:39.
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Topic: Prayers and Light needed
Subject: To Brianna and DM
So sorry to her DM is in the hospital, but I am glad to know that her condition is improving. My heart goes out to you both. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
Posted on 2010-04-24 at 14:08:26.
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Topic: Monster's Paradise
Subject: Sweet dreams waking or no...
Awareness returned slowly like a warm tingling that spread out from within. Seluraiiel Asrai began to breathe deeply, relishing the sensation of breath. Cold grey stone gave way to smooth coppery skin and where there once had been a statue now stood an elven woman of unspeakable beauty, a beauty possessed by no mortal elf. A gown of brilliant saffron gossamer clung to her lithe form tracing the contours of her body. She stood with her weight shifted to the left causing her slashed skirts to fall to the side. A thick mane of silver curls fell just below her breasts in untamed tendrils. Seluraiiel opened her eyes to reveal brilliant amber irises alive with incandescent light. Those eyes peered into the dimly lit room as if seeing more than what was there.
To have the Sight is to see what is not there, what was, and what is yet to come. Throughout the ages Seluraiiel had trusted in the Sight to lead her, and it had been the sight that lead her to the Temple of Eternal Light. Long ago, when men had vanquished evil from the land she had forseen a time when the mortal world would have need of her again. In truth even without Aldorax's magics she would have lived to see this day. It would have been all too easy to return to Faerie and wait, but something made her go to the temple and be frozen out of time. The Sight had led her true for something in the world had changed, something was wrong.
In all her time in the mortal realms Seluraiiel had always felt the presence of Faerie. Her native realm had been just a step away, waiting just beyond the borders of the world of men. It was no longer there. She could still feel Faerie, but it had receded farther into the depths of the world between the worlds far beyond the grasp of any. Where Faerie once had been now remained only dream and shadow. If she returned to Faerie now she might never again set foot in the mortal realm.
Selruaiiel traced her gaze across the temple in search of some sign of those heroes that had been petrified by the master mage's spell. Time had not been kind, only she and the dwarven warrior Gortag remained. All that remained of the great wizards and warriors were bits of stone and dust. She spared each little more than a glance. Although she had fought alongside many of them they were still mortals and mortals died. Fate it seemed had seen to it that only faery and dwarf remained. Still Seluraiiel was glad that one still remained who remembered the age she had left behind. It would at the very least make the transition easier, that and despite the dwarf's utter love of violence she'd always liked Gortag. He was who he was, and to one whose every breath was filled with intrigue it was refreshing.
With a quiet breath the faery pulled her gaze from the lost heroes to study the rest of the room. Across the way unfamiliar forms moved into the doorway and as each moved into the torchlight it became clear what they were, illithids. Of all the terrors of the dark the mind flayers were near unmatched at completely destroying the will of their victims. They were skilled at manipulating the mind but she was better, far better. No illithid had ever been born that could match a faery's power over the mind and the spirit. Her people were the true masters of the mind and among them she was one of the best.
Across the ways she heard Gortag begin to move and in but a moment he entered her line of sight as he rushed at the mind flayers with a terrible cry. Seluraiiel only took a step forward before focusing her amber gaze on the illithid farthest from the dwarf. Without moving the faery spun her enchantment directly into the mind of the illithid crushing it's will.
Posted on 2010-04-20 at 02:24:43.
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Topic: Monsters' Paradise Game Recruitment
Subject: Fantastic Start
Sorry about the post delay. Just got back from a business trip and I'm a little too fried to write a quality intro post. I'll have it up tomorrow evening.
Posted on 2010-04-19 at 01:08:52.
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Topic: Diabolic Genesis-Origins of Evil
Subject: Rut Ro!
The sudden great cacophony pulled Seluumiel to attention. The moon elf snapped her head in the direction of the explosion to see the mountain peak erupt. Rivers of molten rock began to rush down the mountain side, speeding towards them.
With widened eyes she turned to her companions, "We must go now! I have no magics that can stop the volcanic onrush, I can only offer healing once we are beyond the volcano's reach. Run!"
Seluumiel spoke no more. Turning away from the portal the elf began to maker her way down the mountain moving at a swift run. All the while she offered prayers to Sehanine hoping the Seldarine would see she and her companions safely through this trial.
Posted on 2010-04-14 at 00:01:06.
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Topic: Monsters' Paradise Game Recruitment
Subject: Ditto
Fantastic opening, can't wait to get started. Not sure where to start Seluraiiel. Let me know. Thanks!
Posted on 2010-04-13 at 23:51:40.
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Topic: Monsters' Paradise Game Recruitment
Subject: Excellent
Most definitely looking forward this getting underway. I can't wait to see how the dwarf/faery dynamic works out!
Posted on 2010-04-10 at 23:20:00.
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Topic: Monsters' Paradise Game Recruitment
Subject: Just want to say...
I love love love the idea of the tattoo covered dwarf. LOVE IT! It'll be a great compliment to my manipulative faery/elf.
Posted on 2010-04-07 at 04:05:51.
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Topic: Diabolic Genesis-Origins of Evil Q&A
Subject: Mounts and Stuff
Pick Seluumiel up! My vote is cast. 
As to the magic items, you make a good case when you say you're building a tank. Sounds like that'll help keep my lovely Seluumiel alive. I say go for it.
Taimat - will try and get a post up this week, just want to try and strategize a bit before posting.
Posted on 2010-04-05 at 22:29:44.
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Topic: Diabolic Genesis-Origins of Evil Q&A
Subject: Ouch
Well then, I guess we better gets-to-gettin'
If we move at a full run we should be able to outrun the lava.
Posted on 2010-04-04 at 21:54:04.
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Topic: Diabolic Genesis-Origins of Evil Q&A
Subject: Welcome to the new world, now say hi to the pretty volcano...
So just how far is the lava from the party? I'm interpreting that as it's at the mountain peak right now since the volcano just erupted, but want to double check.
Posted on 2010-03-28 at 14:45:35.
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Topic: Diabolic Genesis-Origins of Evil Q&A
Subject: Sourcebooks
Any word on the sourcebooks?
Posted on 2010-03-21 at 19:56:45.
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Topic: Peradyse Lost
Subject: Soronuume
A brilliant blue white lightning bolt flashed down from the skies striking a trio of orcs below. Rock and dirt sprayed into the air in the aftermath of the blast leaving only one orc standing. Soronuume watched all this with a stoic calm and then surveyed the scene before her.
Raising her hands to the heavens the wild let the power of the storm continue to course through her. Above the clouds rumbled and raged before releasing yet another blast of lightning into the invading orcs.
((OOC: Calls a second lightning bolt. The bolt will be directed at one of the following:
a - a group of orcs away as long as they are far enough from her companionss so as not to be harmed by the spell.
b- the most dangerous orc she can find
Xu actions were not included in the break down - so she'll continue to attack whichever orc she attacked last round.))
Posted on 2010-03-16 at 03:19:48.
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Topic: Diabolic Genesis-Origins of Evil Q&A
Subject: Great minds...
I have my sights set on the same two items, if nobody else wants them maybe you take one and I'll take the other.
Working on getting the character sheet updated, I seem to remember that we will be adding new source books at each level. I am hereby casting my vote for The Complete Divine and The Spell Compendium.
Posted on 2010-03-16 at 03:16:00.
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Topic: Diabolic Genesis-Origins of Evil
Subject: And through the portal we go...
Seluumiel bowed her head as the old Guardian faded away. She had so many questions and they would all go unasked. That feeling of loss and emptiness was soon replaced by a warm, vital force that flowed through her whole being. In that moment the priestess knew she would do as the Guardian had asked.
Turning to face her companions she saw Tenacity bringing her horse to the portal and nodded in agreement with the woman's words. It was time for them to go.
As the knight stepped through the portal so did Seluumiel step forward. She stood at the gateway in silence before looking back to the others. Just as she was about turn and walk through the portal her gaze fell on Xavier. At the sight of the blood dripping from his chin the moon elf narrowed her eyes and pursed her lips. It was most definitely time for them to go.
"Xavier," Seluumiel began, "I do not know what is causing you to bleed but it is a sure sign that we need to leave now. I can offer you healing once we are on the other side, but for now we must go."
The moon elf turned to step through the portal then paused to shoot a final glance behind her, "I trust one of you men will carry the chest through."
With that Seluumiel stepped through the portal with spells already at her fingertips.
Posted on 2010-03-16 at 03:07:50.
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