Helo, and Be welcome to my Adventure blog.
This is the resume of one day adventure, number #02, runned on day 05, June, 2011. I had to make my room a place to play our stories. It was a mess for a long time. Now, we can play a Story with four people, including me. It was a cold day and night. Well, I have not yet decided if this adventure will set place before or after the adventure number #01, Starting Point, but that won't make you lose anything. This will be great. So, I hope you're enjoying your reading, and Stay Plugged.
About the Music :: I do not intend any offence to anyone's right, and I do not really own the music I suggest my readers listen during the Story; the suggestion is in honour to the musicians who created those beautiful songs, and I explicitly want to thank you very much.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxMpMaSZKQM
Adventure #02: The Unknown Ritual
Information: Characters
Borttom, race: pyk, 59, origin: Tanka City State, on the world of Tanahta, 5 days travel from Kalacoktoa
Template: supernatural, inventor, special agent (Regency)
Type: adapted character which played an entire old campaign
Player: Demolay
Mote: "Why graffiti a wall if I can break it down?"
Takket, race: ejik, 23, origin: Footlant Islands, near The Dark Forest, Kalacoktoa
Template: wizard, counterwizard, catalyst
Type: wanderer, trickster, bon vivant
Player: Heitor
Mote: "That will fix it".
Tul, race: korochi, 26, origin: The Arid Ayanima Peninsula, Kalacoktoa
Template: psionic, solver
Type: the race korochi needs very special training, in which it's secret culture, mostly telepathic, is passed through generations in tribal orgy rituals, but Tul is a special ring at this chain, the one who solve urgencies within korochi society
Player: Batata
Mote: "Go home, and don't look back. I'll take care of it".
Resume of this Day of Play:
Today is April 17, 2.056 Kala time. After five days into spacetunnel, Borttom leaves his ship on the Hangar Twelve, southeast Ryklanta, to go drink something strong at the local bar. He's gifted. The sight is a very difficult gift to have when traveling tunnel. You see nothing, no matter what.
It all happened to be 'cause Borttom is a seer. So, he came with his crew, Ail, a supernatural like him, to the world of Kalacoktoa, also called Akkoya as a nickname.
Akkoya is a Capital world, major technology producer, and also a world centered at the Academy. The Academy Base of Ryklant (a Magic academy, secretly; he knows), and all major business noble knows of magic. It's known because the ikka race, the white, use technomagic for everything. Borttom came here from Tanahta, a world five days tunnel distant, where he saw things getting started in here, a huge Event that starts with assassination of seven major business nobles, and some inocents would be blame for it, for being on the wrong place, at the wrong time.
These persons are a wanderer, a korochi, and three others he can't see their faces. He also sees a little girl, maybe an ikka, because they are same size as ejik youngsters. She'd be blame for everything, 'cause she was the only one who gained something with the death of those noble corporates.
There's also a man he can't see his face, and doesn't know his race, who'd become a major leader, in secrecy, and rule an enormous number of people, here and elsewhere.
He came to the bar, at the hangar to distress from the tunnel, and the droidtender recognized he's from Tanahta for his accent. He's impressed. Those andies are good, in here.
The firewisky made it's burning sensation, a sensation of freedom.
A sensation he's got to remember, for ever.
(Meanwhile)
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTnCrtCro44
For three days, Tul has worked on social efforts on a new settlement, on Ryklanta's countryside academic area, separed from the large city for mountain. There are five new families there. They traveled for two months on the tunnel, that means, they came from the other side of the galaxy to start a new life.
The families are all scientists, and they have different customs. So, he made 'em get together, asked many questions on their former life, and so on.
He'd get a two week free time, before meeting his elder at the arids, after this.
Right.
All done, a young boy about seventeen said he saw a bar nearby, and invited Tul to have a beer. As a sign of friendship, he accepted.
Twenty minutes later, Tul and the korochi boy got to the bar.
It's night, and the two moons are at the sky. One is full, the moon of Raýla.
He sees a custom motorbike on the backyard, and a small white little creature just by the wheel, which saw 'em and quickly hides, looking afraid.
Tul stops at the entrance, and concentrates on metal, to sense loads of metal inside. So, he concentrates on small pieces, and there are loads in there, too.
The two entered.
For a simple countryside bar, that's a nice place. They see a traveler, on the left side of the box, a table with five ejik men whispering, a game of balls table on the right, near the balcony, where an old motorbiker seats, back to the bartender, talking to him, drinking from a two liquimeasure's mug.
The old hat biker looks like a drugdealer.
He asks for a beer, strong for him, dark for the boy.
(Meanwhile, at Hangar Twelve)
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnLgjMumca0
The short pyk, in hologram, looks just like an ejik, but only 1.3 normeasures. He came to this place guided by his visions. It's something big, he knows. He knows yet there will be an Event. He remembers 44 years ago, when he and a fellow group get involved in the murder investigation of the Tanahta's old Chanceller, what happened to chain an event that forced Tanka to fight for independence.
Tanka is now a city state, on people's control, and not large corporation's.
He was drinking his second firewisky when it happened.
His mind traveled through time, and space, to see a small fluffy white creature, playing puppets with two lemons, but then something happened.
Another creature, that looks just like the first one, but with evil on it's eyes, came from the back, sneaky, and pressed it's hand on the back of the playing fluffy. It fainted. So, the evil one put the first on it's back, and started going down from the custom motorbike.
From the viewpoint of the vision, Borttom could see the korochi from his other visions, the ones which called him this place, and an outdoor selling ora grains of a countryside area.
It ended, abruptly.
- Hei, bartender. Where can I find a good bar, in countryside, here? It's woody and glasswalls'. I'm sure it's nearby, and you probably know this good one.
- Strange... (the man stoped to think). I don't remember any. And yes, I know 'em all.
- It's near a place where korochi lives, I guess.
- Well, then. There are only two korochi villages around. One is very old, and they don't drink much. But there's a new settlement for some new families, just after the mountains.
- How long til there?
- Well, fifty minutes. But the skeightas make it in less than half an hour.
- I'll get there first, I bet. Here's the credit for that, and for the firewisky. I have to go, now.
He headed his ship, and took his custom car. "You're in control, Ail", he said to his imediate, a strongly beautiful woman, also short like him, and rushed out.
(On the countryside Bar)
Takket is a wanderer, but he's also a wizard. He stoped at this countryside bar to eat something, and looking at the digital menu at the table, he immediately asked for the Grandma's Soup. It's a large soup bowl. He's hungry enough to eat a twoleks.
Suddenly, Tul had a goosebump, and he knows there's a spirit around.
At the same time, Takket sees a spirit passing along the first table, not entirely visible. It's an herald. Those spirits whose work is to make known bad things are going to happen. It tries to go to the men whispering table, but changed direction. Went softly to the game of balls table, but changed again. So, it fluctuates at the middle of the bar, until getting off through the left door, and it's gone.
Well, that's good to know what's going to happen, don't you think?
Takket invokes the spirit, to bind it to say why it was here.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KECrSw1lvBg
Suddenly this time, the lights gone off.
The boxman, which's probably the owner, starts to call names at the blackout.
Tul immediately gets his swarf bag, and creates a protective armour, for him and the boy. The boy takes his hand to his knife, a traditional korochi weapon. Tul mouthed "Don't do anything until it involves us", and the boy noded in agreement.
Takket make a trick on his shirt, to not be seen for anyone. The korochi Tul knows he's there even if he can't see, and for him, that's some kind of power, and they can listen sound outside.
It sounds like a car being pushed.
A man, from the table of whispering men, starts to laugh. The korochi race sees in the dark, and Tul sees the face of this man.
He doesn't look the same as before.
Then, the door opened, and a silhouette of a man appears, tall, his hair tied. The korochi sees it's an ejik, in formal clothes.
The man laughing stops, and says a "that's nothing" for a friend. His eyes are evil, though. He doesn't looks like himself, really.
So, the man in formal clothes, his legs covered in dirty earth knee down, muttered "It must be my bad luck day. The only place I find blackouts", and entered the bar.
- Hei! Where's my wallet?
- Don't know, Kley. Look at the restroom.
The man went to the restroom, to find his wallet. The three of 'em were going the restroom all the time, and for that, Tul took from granted they were using drugs, but that's out of his business, unless it affects him or someone under his protection.
- My car stoped, and I need some battery. Do you have one?
- Well, (said the man in the box)...
- Kley? Did you found your wallet? - and he went to see.
- Actually, I only have the battery for the restaurant, but I don't know if it's right. This blackout, it shouldn't...
- Oha, shit! What happend?
The man yelled, and his loud voice made everyone know there's a wrong move going on.
- What? - said the other ball player.
- Shit! Look at this!
- Wuw! He's dead! What happened?
- I don't know. It looks like he exploded inside out.
At the box.....
- Hei! What's happening there? - asked the owner at the box.
- We don't know. He's dead.
- It must be my bad luck day, that's for sure. Hei! I'm a noble corporate duke. I ask you to talk with me.
- Huh.... Yes, noble duke. (said the man). Hey, barman, take care of it, right? I have a special client in here, and I don't want to be distressed. Call the police corporation.
And the bartender took off his Pk off his pocket, called 17 for police, and went to take a look on what was happening, right away.
- Yes, my noble duke. (he opened a metal box, and got a battery off there). It's here.
- My corporation will give you that right back. Don't worry.
They all abruptly listen to a noise, like a youngster toy car coming, "Tweee, n-twee, n-".....
Tul got up, and asked the boy to come outside, in time to see the car coming. It's a custom car. Outside, he tells the young korochi "Go home, and don't look back. I'll take care of it", and took the iron protection off the boy, so the boy runned in the road off the bar, off the blackout zone, and Tul noticed light exists in a place 50 normeasures away, and suddenly it offs, in both directions on the road.
- I'm leavin', pawn. You called the guards. - says the old motorbiker.
The motorbiker leaves for the backdoor, and headed quickly to his bike, but then...
- Skeightas my left nut. I won. - said Borttom, getting off the car.
Borttom sees the korochi from his visions at the entrance door, but he had something more important to do, so headed to the backyard.
There's a very expensive sport car at the front door, red, no battery, flat tire.
The motorbiker was coming off, too. He backdoors, running out.
The korochi man saw Borttom fluctuating fast til the backyard, and when he got off view, he entered the bar again and made his protective armour stronger.
When he got there, Borttom quickly looked if the small fluffy creature was in there, but the old hat came and drew a pistol, aiming the small man.
- Get off my motorbike!
Borttom attacked the pistol with telekinese, getting it off his hands.
- I'm here to help. I know someone is going to try and kidnap your little friend. He's in here. I'll enter now the bar to see what's happening.
- My friend! - he rushed - Are you all right?
The little fluffy mumbled something, and the man appears to understand it.
- I'm leaving, (the man turned Borttom's), they called the guards.
- Just get off here, man.
And the old hat clicked the motor, and runned off there.
Tul scanned the car telekinetically, just to see it's battery was defunct. That's not supposed to happen, specially with so expensive matterials.
So, he entered the bar again.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf__T33gLu0
A man dressed like a wanderer appeared (he turned off his tricked shirt), and came to talk with the nobleman, and the noble corporate noticed something was wrong, at last.
- Hei, master! There's a dead man in the restroom. - the bartender cried.
- That's better everyone get outside. - suggested the wanderer, calmly, while on the very side of the noble, as he knows if something happens to that man, everyone there's cracked.
- Yeah! - said the master - Everyone! Let's come outside.
This time, Tul noticed the wanderer knows too that something is happening. That's not only the man dead, but there's something rotten on the air.
Borttom sensed danger, while investigating the body at the restroom. He got there as fast as he could, but then he just listen someone saying there's a noble in.
Remembering his visions, that a war can get started with the death of seven important noble corporates, there's urgency.
- That's right! Everyone, get off here. - said the small man.
At the whispering men table, at the moment they all were heading outside, that man who laughed aloud got everyone's attention. The laughing young man was laughing again.
It was an evil laugh.
They all stoped to look, as he could be the killer, somehow, but.....
He exploded, inside out.
Blood exploded in every direction, and Takket was happy to see a worry face on the noble features, because he was exactly thinking about what could be it all.
He knows a legend. It says two millenia ago, there was something magical on these kind of thing. He'd try to investigate to prove it's not it. The reason for that is that it's Pact, the very thing that can transform a person into demonkind.
The problem is, Pact only exists in legends. Olde myths and legends, from a long long time ago.
- My duke,... (said Tul, coming closer)... stay near me and the wanderer. Do you understand what's happening in here?
- Every duke knows. All of us, in the high business.
- So, (started Takket), we're here to protect you, then you need to come out. Let us stay away from the others, none of 'em will care. They know you're a duke.
- Exactly. Stay near. I'll make a protective suit around you, now.
- This way, if you please. (resumed Takket).
They went left, and in a moment Borttom, Tul and Takket looked each other.
- I know you're people of power. In these situations, we nobles give you the right to command the situation. So, I 'll be quiet, watching.
Borttom could never be happier with a duke's word on this.
- Right, (he said),...
Takket deactivates his magic hide trick, and Tul notice he's a wizard, probably. This is the moment, it'll happen, or start to happen, Borttom knows.
This way, he send a message through Regency channel.
"Special Agent Alppa. Situation: Bodies exploded. Noble present. Urgency", he typed on his Pk, a different computer, Tul noticed, 'cause it's a bracelet.
- Right. I called help, but they'll probably took some time. What happened?
- I think it's.....
- Yeah? (insisted the small man).
- There is a legend. In this, the last time it happened was two millenia ago.
- And?
- It could be Pact, but... it's only a legend.
- Well, wizard. I've seen it about forty years ago, so it's not legend. Where's the ritual?
- I don't know. There's magic in here. It's magic darkness.
- And?
- You two. (called Tul). The motorbike stoped.
Tut-tut, made Borttom's Pk, and he reads on it "The agent sent dress in black, and uses a hat. He's the urgency agent. We'll send police".
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztD6rgvUTFs
- I'll go there. You two take care of the duke, and I'll come back. The agent sent to help us dress in black and uses a hat. He'll probably be here in a moment.
Borttom immediately moved, fluctuating fast til the woods. He found the biker. The bike has gone off, but he came closer.
- I'll give you charge, but you'll owe me one.
- Just do it. The pols are closer. I must get off here, now. (said the biker).
- Your Pk.
The biker clicked his computer, passing his contact to him. So, Borttom energized the battery, enough to go somewhere and recharge it.
As soon as the motorbike started up, the biker was off.
Meanwhile,...
Tul saw a shadow, near the amphitheater. It made a cumpliment, moving the hat. Takket explained to the others, all common people, not to enter the bar, whatever happens. This time, the hostel at the very back of the restaurant was full of people, asking what's happening.
- You take care of him. (Tul said to Takket) I've seen the agent.
When Tul came to the place, he sensed a presense.
- What happened? - asked a voice.
- Two people. They exploded inside out. There are too much commons in this place. And there's a noble duke we are protecting.
- It's a demon. (he listened the sadow saying). Take care of the duke. I'll start the hunt.
- I want to help.
- So, ask the duke if he has any religious symbol with him.
Moving telekinetically, Tul goes back and when asked, the duke shows in his walet a symbol of protection from the godess of commerce.
A visible light came from the symbol, but the noble closed the walet.
Tul immediately fly til the amphitheater.
- He has a symbol, on his walet.
- He must not hand that symbol off for nothing on this world. - said the shadow.
- How do I must call you?
- I'm the Doctor. Stay away from the bar. I'll investigate, now. We need to find the receptacle. It should be someone in despair, but I can't feel anyone like that in here. So, it's probably unusual. Don't let the duke enter the bar, that's really important.
Then, Tul get back to protect the duke.
Borttom comes.
- Hei. Did you know what's happening here?
- Yes. Better later. I've seen things, really bad things happening, on the past. - answered Borttom.
- Duke. Hold the symbol with you, no matter what happens. - said Tul.
- I'll take a look at the area (resumed Borttom, but he immediately looked at the direction of the bar, sensing someone inside).
- Pay attention to the duke. - asked Takket, and he entered a trance attune state.
Takket analyzes the energies he sees. There's a trace in the sky. So, there may be a large alignment today, that would probably be of planets.
He also see by the energy around an ending of a ritual.
He gets off the trace state.
As soon as he says what he saw, Borttom run fast into the bar. He sees a body turned inside out moving, but they're already circling the ball game table.
Borttom warp the bodies off the table, but he sees the blue eyes on them, an energy charged with corruption, mean, deadly mean.
The ritual, whatever it was, had ended now.
- Shit! - said that, Borttom runs outside.
He assumed position just by the right side of the duke. This moment, they all listen to a cry, off the other building, the hostel.
Coming from nothing, the Doctor appears.
He carries a bubble, with a small ball of light inside it.
- This is one amongst the responsible for the ritual. What more you discovered? - asked the shadowman, really attentive.
- I know a legend. Of a man with a hat, just like you. Are you... (started Takket).
- Yes. I am the Doctor.
- The ritual is over, Doctor. It ended just around the ball game table. (resumed Borttom). There you can see what happened.
- I'll go there, and analyze the ritual. (firmed the wizard).
At the same moment he runned in, the Doctor vanished.
Takket got there and saw the Doctor materialyzing on his side. He thought of a trick he could do, but the table would never more be put together.
Who cares?
The wizard touched the table and it dismantled.
They could see, though, levitating in the air, a seven pointed symbolic ritual. It shown a yellow collour, and the small fluffy creature in the middle.
Dead.
Takket got his grimoire off nothing, but the Doctor interrupted.
- You can call your memory of it back later. Don't take notes. (he levitated a spoon from the bar, and continued, in a low voice). Give me twenty seconds, and you throw this spoon onto the ritual. It'll end it. I'll go after the receptacle, 'cause the harm is done, already.
- Right.
- Regency agents must be coming, now. So, get off here, as soon as you get it done.
- I'll do it.
The Doctor vanished.
He appeared on the right side of Borttom, and explained.
- The Ritual's ended. The harm is done. The receptacle's with the motorbiker. I'll follow him, to investigate. What direction did he went to?
- That way. - Borttom pointed southeast.
- Regence must be coming, now. The Ritual's going to stop in seconds. I need to go.
Said that, he vanished.
Borttom just looked the korochi, waiting. Then, lights came back to existence.
- Waw. Wawaw. My Duke, please come with me. - asked Tul.
The duke was covered with swarf, his protective armour the korochi had powered around him. He went to a side, afar from the commons, and took it off, and telekinetically moved the iron back to it's bag.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KShx1K1nflc
Takket came back from the bar, but he decided going through the backdoor.
At the moment he thrown the spoon at the ritual, everything came back to normal, and he saw the ritual lines, together with the fluffy creature just disapear.
He's almost spoted, 'cause the backdoors take directly to the hostel, but he magically activated his confusion trick on his shirt back, in time to see police corporation cars moving at the air.
He took care not to touch anyone.
The police vehicle landed, and an old policeman came off it.
He looked directly to Borttom's eyes.
- Hey, everyone! Stay calm. You, (he pointed the other policeman getting out off the car), go inside, and take pictures of everything. Stay outside the restaurant, everyone.
And so, he came to talk with the group.
They could see the Regency symbol at the vehicle, but as it's magical, no common can see it. He came, and made a cumpliment to the noble man.
- My duke. A vehicle will court you home. I'll interrogate everyone, and tomorrow you'll receive a note on this investigation. Are you all right?
- I'm safe, policeman. These men protected me.
- I'll take a look at your car. - firmed Borttom, and he called the wizard who was coming with gestures only, to near the noble's vehicle.
Tul looked at the policeman, wating.
- Do you know what's happened, in here, yet?
- Yes, nobleman. (resumed the police officer) The bartender called 17, and it's all chipped in. This is probably a situation phenomenon, we have here. That's good you're safe. (he turned Tul). The corporation thanks your protection, citizen. I'll take care of it, from now on.
- You're welcome, officer.
That said, Tul went to see Borttom and the wizard.
- It should be working. Take a look at this, and see if there's a spirit on the battery.
So, the wizard, now no longer hiding, identified a spirit in there, but although his abilities are good in magic, the spirit was banished.
- It escaped. Sorry.
Tul came, and the three went to a walk, around.
- How did you know about this?
- First, names. I'm Borttom. I'm special agent on Tanahta.
- I'm Takket.
- Tul.
- First, don't say anything to the Regence. I'll explain. I come from Tanahta til here, well,... do you know something about second sight? It's a seer skill.
- Yes. - said Takket.
- Well, then. I know you two from my visions. There's an Event coming to happen, and it starts here. I'm a seer, and let's say I like it first person.
- What more you can say about the event?
- Well, Tul. You're marked to be blame for seven assassinations. We solved the first, right now. With the duke now Not being killed, now I don't know more, yet. Do you know the biggest businees corpotations? Names? The event starts with seven high nobles getting killed, and that can start a war. There are two other people involved, and there's a little girl ejik, or an ikka woman, I'm not sure. They just look alike. So, it's important you don't get involved into these killings, but well, it all starts here.
- What happened here?
- I saw you, Tul, in a vision, and came here as fast as I could.
- I think it was a ritual of pact transference, but that only exists on legends.
- No, Takket. I've seen one, fourty four years ago.
- There was a herald spirit, I think, that comes to these places before womething bad happens. I saw it passing, and I tried to talk with him.
- I sensed the spirit. How exactly you tried to talk with him?
- I invoked it.
- You invoked a spirit just before it all happens? I think I know what happened.
- That's exactly the point, Tul. You're not responsible, but the Regence will think you were. That's the reason why I'm saying you can't get involved saying it all. You, Takket. Do never mention you invoked anything, 'cause they'll think "you" are responsible for this all. Did you understood?
- Now, I see the reason why. (answered Takket). I also have seen a star alignment, on the sky.
- That I can confirm at my car, just now. Come.
The two bent over the car, while Borttom asked the navigation system about an alignment, today.
And so, they saw it.
A small star, on the border of the galaxy. Two planets on a side. The major star. The gas giant just after. And two other stars, on the other side of the galaxy.
- Seven. They're seven celestial bodies.
(End of Session)
Some necessary questions:
Stories. Legends. Myths.
Is these all connected, through a straight line? How to understand what's connected, and what's pure chaos into these moves?
Hope you're enjoying your reading,...
and Stay Plugged.
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