Post by Dungeon Master on Aug 30, 2006 0:57:12 GMT -5
Mistress Karnea, Slayer of Dragons
Karnea created by Adam “Dixie” Ensinger
2/21/2006
Post War of Souls
Part 1
Tower of Bloodsea
By the DM
The War of Souls taxed almost all of your magic, but has now been since renewed with the arrival of the Gods of Magic and One in particular.
Demons scream has they pass you by so closely that you feel it slam across your chest and you know something has happened but you can not register the pain yet……
Fire erupts all around you, you hold it back with you shielding……..
Karnea…….
I can help you……..
I can help you as I have before…….
You wake up……..
Schools of Fish by the hundreds, all different types swim by outside the gigantic window in Nuitari’s chamber in the Blood sea Tower.
Karnea can’t believe this is happening. These dreams of future happenings !?! Are they future happenings!?! You don’t know if it is true that the Gods have come back, are you really in the tower of Istar that somehow survived the Cataclysm and that Nuitari , your god controls it?
Though being with your love has taken much energy out of you, with what little you have spent out of the bedroom these last couple of days, some thoughts have rolled thru your head, things that are kind of important that you would like to see done. Some you form a mental list that is likely incomplete, and in no particular order (aside from the first thing) of things Karnea would like to accomplish in the near term:
• Retrieve Aravis (and kick the living shit out of anybody who happens to be in her immediate vicinity without an insanely good reason why)
• Stop by Schallsea Island and visit the site of the old tower to see if any "goodies" are lying about
• Present a plan to the Conclave for the construction of new Towers of High Sorcery to replace those lost in the previous ages
• Demand that the wizards take action to regain prominence in the world. (Take Initiative. No Hiding Out in Towers. Appoint Ambassadors to Other Nations. Get Out More.)
• Move a few key items from the Demiplane to the Tower of Istar....to make it more livable.
• Stop by the Roaring Griffin on the way to visit with Talidaar.
Busy busy....
However you can work this in, go for it. Karnea will sit on the information about the Tower of Istar for now....Ace in the Hole, you see....
As you muse to yourself, Nuitari is before you… “My sweet, sweet lady, I have found one of them.”
You race to what he may be talking about.
“A coven member of Murin-Thay is alone, away from their demi-plane. She is on a mission. One of the other gods are involved somehow, because the only way out of Krynn now is to pass thru the Dome of Creation. The Gods have the power to allow things to come in and out. Since I’m not letting them in, then somebody is and I guarantee at this moment, that it is Chemosh, because of a little side incident that I was involved in. It is not the point, the point is I know where one of them are at, I want her heart, her mind and her soul.”
Karnea
By Dixie
"You will have it, Lord. All this and more," she says reverently, bowing her head to her god. "Show me the way to this apostate, that I may deliver her unto you."
The Dark Prince
By the DM
“The God’s Eye will show the way.” You gaze deeply into the Eye and see the witch sitting on the ground in a pocket realm on the boarder ethereal.
Nuitari hands you a map, pretty new looking. “It is a map of the Planes, from my days without a world. I traveled much, and learned more.”
“You will be able to find the witch with this.” He pats your hand that is holding the map.
After you get ready,
He walks you to a portal on a lower level, a portal to the Gray.
You say goodbye to your Dark Lord and enter the Portal.
You drift thru the gray’s endless swirl of gray clouds thru the Boarder Ethereal.
You have been here before; you have come to understand some secrets of the gray, and how to move here. You cast Fly and Haste and accelerate thru the swirling mists, on course with the locater item that your Dark God gave to you; you know right where to go.
You find the right portal, ready, for anything.
Arula
By the DM
The Demi-Plane Arula is a world that alternates between periods of brilliant daylight and utter darkness. During the day the ground flourishes with plants and trees that grow thousands of times faster than normal. When night falls, however, the growths rot and decay into dust and dirt. The only inhabitants of this realm are vermin that follow the same growth and decay cycles as the flora. The exact boundaries of this plane are unknown as the grounds are joined together by fog-cloaked dream paths that shift and move in unpredictable patterns.
It is brilliant in light in here, you see the Witch is unaware of your arrival, retrieving rare spell component for an exotic spell of some kind you speculate.
She is younger, inexperienced, though with this crowd, you wouldn’t put it past this bitch to be hundreds of years old or something like that.
Enough thinking, you have sister to slay.
It Begins . . .
By Adam
Sneaking right up behind the witch, Karnea jabs the business end of her staff into the small of her enemy's back.
"I will ask you one question, which you will answer both swiftly and truthfully: Where is Aravis Dragonbane?"
Last moments . . .
By the DM
Samara Shudders . . . She knows she is done. But she knows she has a little time left.
“She is not whole. Her body is in possession of the Coven, as to her spirit, it lost to us. She is somewhere in the gray and we have looked for her, we do not know. We know she was taken from us by the Dark Queen, Aravis escaped or was let go then she was taken by a Huldrefolk who took her into the Gray.”
Some people just don't get it....
By Adam
"Her soul is in the keeping of her god, now," Karnea breathes. "I'm more interested in the body. Where is it?"
Last Moments . . .
By the DM
Samara’s eyes widen “. . . That would . . . okay. Her body is located in Cádiz, A Land in within a Land in the Darklands, Beyond the Sea of Storms. But if you go there . . . Wrymwood will win, the Oracle of Krayja said so, Karnea, id doesn’t need to happen like this . . .”
Buh-Bye Now
By Adam
Karnea smiles broadly (an act that should make Samara very, very nervous). "Good then. Thank you, my dear. Give my regards to Nuitari." Karnea reaches into a pouch, producing a fine, sparkling dust with a flourish, and tosses it over the witch's form, chanting the words of Temporal Stasis.
The End of Samara
By the DM
She of course freaks out and tries to get off a spell before she can’t move . . . think . . .
She is yours now.
Special Delivery for a Mr. Nuitari.....
By Adam
Levitating her prize off the ground, Karnea moves back towards the Portal, and makes her way back though the mists of the Gray, back to the Tower of Istar. Depositing her prize in the main laboratory, Karnea looks to her Lord.
"Here is the apostate you desire. I must now act upon the information I have gathered to recover Aravis. Will this place remain for my use in the meantime?"
You return to the Blood sea Tower to find your Beloved God sitting in the Star Chamber. You have been to this room only once before. The room is very large and circular and it is dark except for the Illusionary representations of the Constellations that are lit with muted white light. Only now the sun and all the planets of this sphere are rotating in tier respective Orbits around the central Star.
You had been to Krynnspace before, you remember that journey quite well for it gave you your immortality, though you did not know that the Stellar Islands were linked with the Immortality gift. Over the course of the Age of Mortals, your body has started to go forward in its aging process, albeit, very retarded.
This Sphere is much different then the one you remember. There is a very large world beyond a asteroid belt that swirls in white and grays and blacks representing massive storms that plague that world.
Nuitari is sitting cross-legged, levitating off the ground inside the orbit of Krynn, its moons, and another planet that that is close to Krynn’s orbit.
“Greetings my sweet, I trust your hunt went well?
He looks at you and your gift.
“I will glean everything I can from this wench, and help you. I will have all the information for you in a couple of Hours. Go rest yourself my sweet. We will get Aravis back. We are close.”
This makes you think. Just nights ago you got the feeling he was not interested in finding Aravis again. You aren’t sure that you heard him correctly, so you didn’t press it. Then yesterday he showed up to tell you he knew where this Witch was. Maybe you did mishear him?
Also a months ago you and he was in the Top Floor. The walls is made of Glassteel that allows to be able to look out into the Blue Sea where fish and other sea life can be viewed. The both of you were together and from no where he says,
“I have brought two dark wizards to This Tower to pave the way for the others that will be coming. I seek to use this Tower of power to restore the Black Order with capable Wizards that will fight anyone’s attempt of dominance whether God or fool. You of course will always have a place here, a whole Floor that will be yours alone.”
“I also want to talk to you about Dalamar. I know you despise him with every fiber of your being. I know why hate him, but it was not him that seduced you in your test. He was not directly responsible for anything in your test.
“I have decided about him Karnea, He is my servant, He will do my will and he has vast potential. He everything bad as well, he did look to serve Takhisis or the Red Overlord, he was a desperate man, and I have forgiven him, but I obviously have not forgotten. He will be coming here as well. You two are going to have to learn to get along for the sake of the Art that we are all together for.”
Back in the Here and now,
You leave your Dark God’s presence and prepare for where you’re going Next.
Hunting Season is finally open . . .
By Adam
Karnea bows her head. "My Lord, I cannot rest any longer. The Coven plots against us, and with every passing moment I can feel Aravis' soul slipping farther from me. They will be made to suffer for their treachery, and I fear I do not have much time."
The Search
By the DM
Nuitari raises an eyebrow and looks momentarily surprised that you would disobey him. But then understands . . . he gets it.
He puts his feet to the floor and walks out of the orbiting 4th Planet’s path.
“Kalim-See’-kalahim shaw-rochhse-khobem-ta” Nuitari Chants, and the Gift behind you raises off the ground and comes between you and the Dark Prince.
It raises higher in the room and melts away the amber casing that you formed, and then his finger turns into a blade and he slices away the parts of the body he requested in the first place.
Once he is completed the removal process, and the eyes, the liver, and brain are resting on Tenser’s Floating Disc, He makes a grand gesture with his bloodied hands and you, he and Tenser’s Disc are in his Laboratory.
He goes to his work table and casts a number of successive spells.
After twenty minutes, he turns with a smoking bowl. He breathes in and then you to do the same. By this time, you are pissed off and a bit skeptical.
But you do it.
You blink after a few moments . . .
You are traveling thru the Gray and emerge into a forested land. The beast runs on all fours, it is stalking its Pray. You see Aravis, she runs to a tree and climbs it. The Beast starts to climb after her. Another Beast runs out of the trees, it is Wolfen in appearance. It climbs up the tree and catches the other beast and they both fall to the ground, with the Wolfen being winning against this beast that you are looking thu its eyes.
The last thing you see before the vision ends is a smallish creature with a bald head, and large round eyes. The small creature watched the fight and then disappeared.
He reaches into his pocket and hands you several baubles.
“These will gather up her soul and will stabilize her until her merging with her body. I will find their hideaway and work on defeating the wards they will undoubtedly have protecting their realm. Go now my Love, and find out daughter, let this stone lead you the way.”
He hands you a stone that remind you of an Ioun Stone.
We're off to see a wizard....
By Adam
"My thanks, Lord," Karnea says as she accepts the artifacts from his hand.
But first a little side trip, Karnea thinks as she leaves the laboratory. Withdrawing to a side chamber, she fishes a round crystal from a bag at her belt.
"Show me the one known as Talron Darkblade," she commands.
Talron Darkblade
By the DM
Talron was left in Flotsam by Nuitari. He is in the Darken Hall Inn. 2-star inn that is a old mansion, one of two in town, the other one being owned by the cursed Hobgoblin Lord Toade.
Talron Darkblade
By Don
Ordering a glass of wine and some steak & potatoes, Talron sits down to enjoy another evening meal, oblivious to the fact that he is now being watched.
Watched by the Dark Witch
By The DM
The War of Souls is ended. The Dark Queen is dead. You were brought by the Dark Prince Nuitari to Flotsam and left to your own devices for a couple of Months while Nuitari and Karnea disappeared.
The local lore on Lord Toade is that he is a short fat hobgoblin that has lived and died many lives from the 4th age to now. Some say has made unholy alliances with demons from the Abyss.
The cliental of the dive known as the Anchor are rude and unruly. There is several bar fights a night and your time here has been less in satisfactory as you have been involved in several of the fights yourself.
But the Dark Lord placed you here and told you not to leave. You have been stabbed, choked, and punched in the face. But of ended up giving better then you got. Nobody bothers you anymore, and you eat your food in paranoid peace.
Karnea, you ponder the surroundings at the Inn for a moment, then make your decision what to do next.
Back into the Gray to hunt down the Huldrefolk.
Fight the Huldrefolk
The Earth Elementals
The Coven Muri-Thay
Coven of Muri
Karnea created by Adam “Dixie” Ensinger
2/21/2006
Post War of Souls
Part 1
Tower of Bloodsea
By the DM
The War of Souls taxed almost all of your magic, but has now been since renewed with the arrival of the Gods of Magic and One in particular.
Demons scream has they pass you by so closely that you feel it slam across your chest and you know something has happened but you can not register the pain yet……
Fire erupts all around you, you hold it back with you shielding……..
Karnea…….
I can help you……..
I can help you as I have before…….
You wake up……..
Schools of Fish by the hundreds, all different types swim by outside the gigantic window in Nuitari’s chamber in the Blood sea Tower.
Karnea can’t believe this is happening. These dreams of future happenings !?! Are they future happenings!?! You don’t know if it is true that the Gods have come back, are you really in the tower of Istar that somehow survived the Cataclysm and that Nuitari , your god controls it?
Though being with your love has taken much energy out of you, with what little you have spent out of the bedroom these last couple of days, some thoughts have rolled thru your head, things that are kind of important that you would like to see done. Some you form a mental list that is likely incomplete, and in no particular order (aside from the first thing) of things Karnea would like to accomplish in the near term:
• Retrieve Aravis (and kick the living shit out of anybody who happens to be in her immediate vicinity without an insanely good reason why)
• Stop by Schallsea Island and visit the site of the old tower to see if any "goodies" are lying about
• Present a plan to the Conclave for the construction of new Towers of High Sorcery to replace those lost in the previous ages
• Demand that the wizards take action to regain prominence in the world. (Take Initiative. No Hiding Out in Towers. Appoint Ambassadors to Other Nations. Get Out More.)
• Move a few key items from the Demiplane to the Tower of Istar....to make it more livable.
• Stop by the Roaring Griffin on the way to visit with Talidaar.
Busy busy....
However you can work this in, go for it. Karnea will sit on the information about the Tower of Istar for now....Ace in the Hole, you see....
As you muse to yourself, Nuitari is before you… “My sweet, sweet lady, I have found one of them.”
You race to what he may be talking about.
“A coven member of Murin-Thay is alone, away from their demi-plane. She is on a mission. One of the other gods are involved somehow, because the only way out of Krynn now is to pass thru the Dome of Creation. The Gods have the power to allow things to come in and out. Since I’m not letting them in, then somebody is and I guarantee at this moment, that it is Chemosh, because of a little side incident that I was involved in. It is not the point, the point is I know where one of them are at, I want her heart, her mind and her soul.”
Karnea
By Dixie
"You will have it, Lord. All this and more," she says reverently, bowing her head to her god. "Show me the way to this apostate, that I may deliver her unto you."
The Dark Prince
By the DM
“The God’s Eye will show the way.” You gaze deeply into the Eye and see the witch sitting on the ground in a pocket realm on the boarder ethereal.
Nuitari hands you a map, pretty new looking. “It is a map of the Planes, from my days without a world. I traveled much, and learned more.”
“You will be able to find the witch with this.” He pats your hand that is holding the map.
After you get ready,
He walks you to a portal on a lower level, a portal to the Gray.
You say goodbye to your Dark Lord and enter the Portal.
You drift thru the gray’s endless swirl of gray clouds thru the Boarder Ethereal.
You have been here before; you have come to understand some secrets of the gray, and how to move here. You cast Fly and Haste and accelerate thru the swirling mists, on course with the locater item that your Dark God gave to you; you know right where to go.
You find the right portal, ready, for anything.
Arula
By the DM
The Demi-Plane Arula is a world that alternates between periods of brilliant daylight and utter darkness. During the day the ground flourishes with plants and trees that grow thousands of times faster than normal. When night falls, however, the growths rot and decay into dust and dirt. The only inhabitants of this realm are vermin that follow the same growth and decay cycles as the flora. The exact boundaries of this plane are unknown as the grounds are joined together by fog-cloaked dream paths that shift and move in unpredictable patterns.
It is brilliant in light in here, you see the Witch is unaware of your arrival, retrieving rare spell component for an exotic spell of some kind you speculate.
She is younger, inexperienced, though with this crowd, you wouldn’t put it past this bitch to be hundreds of years old or something like that.
Enough thinking, you have sister to slay.
It Begins . . .
By Adam
Sneaking right up behind the witch, Karnea jabs the business end of her staff into the small of her enemy's back.
"I will ask you one question, which you will answer both swiftly and truthfully: Where is Aravis Dragonbane?"
Last moments . . .
By the DM
Samara Shudders . . . She knows she is done. But she knows she has a little time left.
“She is not whole. Her body is in possession of the Coven, as to her spirit, it lost to us. She is somewhere in the gray and we have looked for her, we do not know. We know she was taken from us by the Dark Queen, Aravis escaped or was let go then she was taken by a Huldrefolk who took her into the Gray.”
Some people just don't get it....
By Adam
"Her soul is in the keeping of her god, now," Karnea breathes. "I'm more interested in the body. Where is it?"
Last Moments . . .
By the DM
Samara’s eyes widen “. . . That would . . . okay. Her body is located in Cádiz, A Land in within a Land in the Darklands, Beyond the Sea of Storms. But if you go there . . . Wrymwood will win, the Oracle of Krayja said so, Karnea, id doesn’t need to happen like this . . .”
Buh-Bye Now
By Adam
Karnea smiles broadly (an act that should make Samara very, very nervous). "Good then. Thank you, my dear. Give my regards to Nuitari." Karnea reaches into a pouch, producing a fine, sparkling dust with a flourish, and tosses it over the witch's form, chanting the words of Temporal Stasis.
The End of Samara
By the DM
She of course freaks out and tries to get off a spell before she can’t move . . . think . . .
She is yours now.
Special Delivery for a Mr. Nuitari.....
By Adam
Levitating her prize off the ground, Karnea moves back towards the Portal, and makes her way back though the mists of the Gray, back to the Tower of Istar. Depositing her prize in the main laboratory, Karnea looks to her Lord.
"Here is the apostate you desire. I must now act upon the information I have gathered to recover Aravis. Will this place remain for my use in the meantime?"
You return to the Blood sea Tower to find your Beloved God sitting in the Star Chamber. You have been to this room only once before. The room is very large and circular and it is dark except for the Illusionary representations of the Constellations that are lit with muted white light. Only now the sun and all the planets of this sphere are rotating in tier respective Orbits around the central Star.
You had been to Krynnspace before, you remember that journey quite well for it gave you your immortality, though you did not know that the Stellar Islands were linked with the Immortality gift. Over the course of the Age of Mortals, your body has started to go forward in its aging process, albeit, very retarded.
This Sphere is much different then the one you remember. There is a very large world beyond a asteroid belt that swirls in white and grays and blacks representing massive storms that plague that world.
Nuitari is sitting cross-legged, levitating off the ground inside the orbit of Krynn, its moons, and another planet that that is close to Krynn’s orbit.
“Greetings my sweet, I trust your hunt went well?
He looks at you and your gift.
“I will glean everything I can from this wench, and help you. I will have all the information for you in a couple of Hours. Go rest yourself my sweet. We will get Aravis back. We are close.”
This makes you think. Just nights ago you got the feeling he was not interested in finding Aravis again. You aren’t sure that you heard him correctly, so you didn’t press it. Then yesterday he showed up to tell you he knew where this Witch was. Maybe you did mishear him?
Also a months ago you and he was in the Top Floor. The walls is made of Glassteel that allows to be able to look out into the Blue Sea where fish and other sea life can be viewed. The both of you were together and from no where he says,
“I have brought two dark wizards to This Tower to pave the way for the others that will be coming. I seek to use this Tower of power to restore the Black Order with capable Wizards that will fight anyone’s attempt of dominance whether God or fool. You of course will always have a place here, a whole Floor that will be yours alone.”
“I also want to talk to you about Dalamar. I know you despise him with every fiber of your being. I know why hate him, but it was not him that seduced you in your test. He was not directly responsible for anything in your test.
“I have decided about him Karnea, He is my servant, He will do my will and he has vast potential. He everything bad as well, he did look to serve Takhisis or the Red Overlord, he was a desperate man, and I have forgiven him, but I obviously have not forgotten. He will be coming here as well. You two are going to have to learn to get along for the sake of the Art that we are all together for.”
Back in the Here and now,
You leave your Dark God’s presence and prepare for where you’re going Next.
Hunting Season is finally open . . .
By Adam
Karnea bows her head. "My Lord, I cannot rest any longer. The Coven plots against us, and with every passing moment I can feel Aravis' soul slipping farther from me. They will be made to suffer for their treachery, and I fear I do not have much time."
The Search
By the DM
Nuitari raises an eyebrow and looks momentarily surprised that you would disobey him. But then understands . . . he gets it.
He puts his feet to the floor and walks out of the orbiting 4th Planet’s path.
“Kalim-See’-kalahim shaw-rochhse-khobem-ta” Nuitari Chants, and the Gift behind you raises off the ground and comes between you and the Dark Prince.
It raises higher in the room and melts away the amber casing that you formed, and then his finger turns into a blade and he slices away the parts of the body he requested in the first place.
Once he is completed the removal process, and the eyes, the liver, and brain are resting on Tenser’s Floating Disc, He makes a grand gesture with his bloodied hands and you, he and Tenser’s Disc are in his Laboratory.
He goes to his work table and casts a number of successive spells.
After twenty minutes, he turns with a smoking bowl. He breathes in and then you to do the same. By this time, you are pissed off and a bit skeptical.
But you do it.
You blink after a few moments . . .
You are traveling thru the Gray and emerge into a forested land. The beast runs on all fours, it is stalking its Pray. You see Aravis, she runs to a tree and climbs it. The Beast starts to climb after her. Another Beast runs out of the trees, it is Wolfen in appearance. It climbs up the tree and catches the other beast and they both fall to the ground, with the Wolfen being winning against this beast that you are looking thu its eyes.
The last thing you see before the vision ends is a smallish creature with a bald head, and large round eyes. The small creature watched the fight and then disappeared.
He reaches into his pocket and hands you several baubles.
“These will gather up her soul and will stabilize her until her merging with her body. I will find their hideaway and work on defeating the wards they will undoubtedly have protecting their realm. Go now my Love, and find out daughter, let this stone lead you the way.”
He hands you a stone that remind you of an Ioun Stone.
We're off to see a wizard....
By Adam
"My thanks, Lord," Karnea says as she accepts the artifacts from his hand.
But first a little side trip, Karnea thinks as she leaves the laboratory. Withdrawing to a side chamber, she fishes a round crystal from a bag at her belt.
"Show me the one known as Talron Darkblade," she commands.
Talron Darkblade
By the DM
Talron was left in Flotsam by Nuitari. He is in the Darken Hall Inn. 2-star inn that is a old mansion, one of two in town, the other one being owned by the cursed Hobgoblin Lord Toade.
Talron Darkblade
By Don
Ordering a glass of wine and some steak & potatoes, Talron sits down to enjoy another evening meal, oblivious to the fact that he is now being watched.
Watched by the Dark Witch
By The DM
The War of Souls is ended. The Dark Queen is dead. You were brought by the Dark Prince Nuitari to Flotsam and left to your own devices for a couple of Months while Nuitari and Karnea disappeared.
The local lore on Lord Toade is that he is a short fat hobgoblin that has lived and died many lives from the 4th age to now. Some say has made unholy alliances with demons from the Abyss.
The cliental of the dive known as the Anchor are rude and unruly. There is several bar fights a night and your time here has been less in satisfactory as you have been involved in several of the fights yourself.
But the Dark Lord placed you here and told you not to leave. You have been stabbed, choked, and punched in the face. But of ended up giving better then you got. Nobody bothers you anymore, and you eat your food in paranoid peace.
Karnea, you ponder the surroundings at the Inn for a moment, then make your decision what to do next.
Back into the Gray to hunt down the Huldrefolk.
Fight the Huldrefolk
The Earth Elementals
The Coven Muri-Thay
Coven of Muri