[IC] Masters of the Universe - Legends of Grayskull

[Omega Man]

It all began nearly one year ago….

He-Man and Skeletor were in battle just outside of Castle Grayskull. Several of the Heroic Masters and Warriors were at He-Man’s side, as were several of Skeletor’s usual henchmen. It was unclear what caused the blast of blinding energy, but in the end the two chief combatants were no more and the remaining forces were left with more questions than answers.

This whole time King Randor was under the impression his son was abroad with Orko. Now so much time has passed he’s beginning to wonder about the safety of Prince Adam. For the past year Man-At-Arms, the Sorceress, and Orko have done everything they could to figure out what’s become of He-Man and Skeletor. To this day they’re no closer to the truth.

The Heroic Masters had mostly disbanded over time. Now only Mecha-Neck, Ram Man, Teela, and Man-At-Arms helped the Royal Guard defend the city of Eternos. On a day like any other Lord Masque chose to attack the capitol city again, making his presence known with shadow dragons and serpents bringing terror to the peoples outside of the city walls.

Episode List

Ep. 1 – The Beginning: With He-Man and Skeletor missing for nearly a year, Lord Masque attempts to attack the Royal Palace. Man-At-Arms put a call out to former Masters as well as his younger brother, but who else will answer?

Ep. 2 – The Silver Swordsman: Who’s the mysterious guy flying around with the strange sword? He’s not what anybody expects and he spells doom for everyone on the planet.

Ep. 3 – The Chaos King: The Silver Swordsman’s master is revealed and his plans for Eternia are made clear. He wants the Star Seed beneath Castle Grayskull, but what can the Sorceress bring to the party for our new cast of heroes?

Later this season…

Ep. 4 – The Legends: After the Sorceress exhausted her energy last episode to empower the heroes, Evil Lyn and Marzo attack Castle Grayskull. And is that… Prince Adam?

Ep. 5 – The Prodigal Son: With Prince Adam back at the Palace all seems well, and Orko finally leaves Grayskull to investigate. Before Orko can make any sense of it Skeletor returns out of nowhere when Beast Man attempts to breach the Palace walls.

Ep. 6 – The Machine Messiah: Unknown to Zodak and his cosmic allies, an entity makes itself known on Eternia and seemingly returns He-Man. Who is man, and who is machine? And what did it do to Tri-Clops?

Rules:

1.) No back-to-back posting. Posting will be restricted to 3-4 posts per player per Episode. Larger storylines will have higher post caps as well as Character-centric Eps.

2.) PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND SET-UPS!!

3.) Make sense. If we can't make heads or tails of your posts they're likely to get skipped over.

4.) Get permission before using another player's character in your posts if it involves changing the scene or making actions. Everybody will take beatings in this game in battle however, so don't get pissed if you get punched or blasted into a wall by the bad guys! Namely me or the Co-GM controlling the badguys...

5.) Problems with the game or players should be sent directly to me or the Co-GM through PM's. I don't want a bunch of bickering in the OOC. And I don't particularly like it when some random argument costs the game players and story potential. So don't be dicks to each other, just send your concerns to us.

6.) Abandoned characters will be used as NPC's or killed off within the context of the story.

7.) “I was waiting for [insert player/character] to make a move” is not how this game is played.

8.) There is no rule #8.

9.) My word is law.

10.) Obey the law.

11.) In the event that I'm offline for any period of time, the Co-GM [none ATM] will take control and HIS/HER word will then be law.

Episode 1 – the Beginning

The Royal Palace…

King Randor sat upon his throne questioning the whereabouts of Prince Adam when an alarm rang out within the palace walls. Man-At-Arms, also called Duncan, came into the throne room after passing the royal guards stationed by the doorway.

“It’s Lord Masque. There’s several shadow serpents just outside of the city walls, however Masque himself is riding a shadow dragon.” Duncan explained removing his helmet and revealing the manliest of mustaches.

“Can the Palace defenses hold him off?” the King asked.

“Many of the Royal Guard along with Teela and Ram Man are on the edge of the city taking on the serpents. Mecha-Neck is seeing over the turrets and trying to take the dragon out of the air. I put out a call to all of the former Masters just in case, although many of them haven’t responded recently.” Duncan continued explaining.

Ten Minutes Earlier…

“Masters, this is Man-At-Arms. The Royal Palace is under attack. Lord Masque has returned. Repeat, Lord Masque has returned!” Duncan said into some sort of communications device that looked super advanced but really only had basic functions. He moved to another table in his workshop where there was another smaller device that was hand held and not jacked into a table or wall. The Man-At-Arms looked at the device and spoke.

“Malcom? The palace is under attack. I could use your help, brother.”

The bearded hero heard the device from across his home. He essentially lived in a bachelor’s tree house deep within the forests outside of the city walls. He could hear the dragon in the sky as well.

Roughly two miles away near the city walls Teela and Ram Man fought the shadow serpents, one of which was trying to squeeze the life out of one of the Royal Guards.

[Red7VII]

He couldn't believe what he was seeing. His hands stood still, wrapped around the neck of his mystical lute as he sat atop a boulder. Moments before, he had been strumming along, enjoying a small rest in his travels. Now, however, he found himself staring at a terror in the sky being piloted by an even worse fiend.

"Is that... Masque?" He squinted as he peered toward the villain, trying to be sure. Ryker, the RiffMaster, had never met the nefarious rogue personally, but Masque's reputation was quite infamous.

"Hoo, boy. This isn't good." He pushed himself to his feet. "That looks like a charge, which means there's bound to be more of them." Just as he said it, he could hear the serpentine movements of Masque's minions in the distance as they made their way through the ground terrain. Their target was easy enough to determine; they were headed straight for the palace walls. Ryker took in a deep breath, wound his arm around like a propeller to get it loose, and finally exhaled. It was that time again. He squeezed his knuckles into his hands and let each digit pop in rapid succession before slinging his strapped lute toward his back, digging his foot into the dirt and sprinting off in pursuit of the shadow serpents and the palace itself.

[Omega Man]

“KEEP FIRING! TAKE IT OUT OF THE AIR!” Meka-Neck shouted while operating one of the turrets while using his extendable neck to check on another. Eventually the barrage of blasts took out the shadow dragon’s left wing and it faded away like black smoke. The dragon cried and crashed into the ground, a small earthquake erupted for several moments afterwards.

The rumble of the ground managed to knock Fisto’s drink off of the wooden table it sat on. He was at least thirty feet in the air in the top of a large Eternian tree, his home looking like a tree house mixed with a retired gym owner’s quarters. In a matter of seconds his chest armor was on and he leaped from the tree down to the ground below. You could hear him tearing through the forest as he got closer to the palace and the city walls.

“They managed to take the dragon out of the air, Ram Man. Maybe we’ll catch a break with these serpents too?” Teela joked as several of the large snake like shadow constructs were nearing the walls of the city.

Fisto came leaping out of the forest at the shadow serpents with big metal right hands for several of them before they began retreating towards Lord Masque and his now wingless shadow dragon.

“Where’s your father when you need him, Teela?” Fisto asked punching the last shadow serpent repeatedly before it began to back off and slither away as well. Suddenly Man At Arms showed up in a large vehicle that looked like a giant toy.

“I wanted to bring more than a fist to a gun fight, little brother. I brought a walking tank.” Duncan said stating the obvious from his somewhat Robotech styled transportation with large robotic legs but no arms.

[Metal Head]

King Jaguaro and his army of well trained battle cats surveyed the battle from atop the ridge.
He held his right hand up, then motioned for half the unit to begin sneaking in.
Turning to his left, King Jaguaro let loose his war cry roar, and the right unit charged with great speed at the shadow serpents.
The half man - half cat leader leaped from the top of the boulder, and landed on all fours, his claws digging into the ground, as he bounded off towards the Guard.
Stealthy, the other battle cats folowed their leader, as he made his way quickly to aid his new friends.
A shadow serpent had the unfortunate greeting as it fled straight in the path of King Jaguaro, instantly it went down with a flash of claws.

King Jaguaro bounded up the steps two or three at a time, until he reached the platform where Ram Man and Teela were.
" We have come as promised by my father many years ago, raaaaaaar"
The Catman bowed before them, "How can we be of service?"

[Omega Man]

Fisto and his brother Duncan [aka Man At Arms] pursued the shadow serpents while Teela and Ram Man were just inside of the city walls regrouping with the Royal Guard as well as the newest King Jaguaro of the cat-people. It seemed as if the serpents were moving closer to the downed dragon and the brothers hit the scene just in time to witness a transformation. The dozen or so shadow serpents slithered into the body of darkness that was the dragon and in a matter of moments developed several more heads like a hydra as well as a dramatic increase in size. The enormous shadow creature decimated a guard tower just before crashing through one of the city walls. If He-Man was around the creature would’ve never got this far.

“You got anything in your workshop big enough to take THAT thing, Duncan?” Fisto asked running ahead of the slow and bulky mech that Man At Arms was piloting.

Roughly a hundred yards away Teela, Ram Man, and the king of the cat-people hurried to assist the people of the city get to the palace. Royal Guards, the cat-people, and others worked around wreckage and saved several civilians from getting in the way of the shadow hydra slowly working towards the palace itself. Lord Masque walked behind the creature that was under his control after leaping from it’s back. Fisto was nearing the enemy and punched the ground hard causing a small quake to erupt in the direction of the cloaked Masque.

“Nobody will stop me from taking my revenge on King Randor!” yelled the shadow bender just before making another power play.

Shadows of the heroic warriors slowly peeled themselves up from the ground and surfaces around them. They began to take three dimensional shape and soon there were shadow duplicates of nearly everyone trying to stop Masque. Teela, King Jaguaro, and Ram Man were met with duplicates as well as several of the cat-people and Royal Guards. Fisto looked in awe as a shadow duplicate with a large left hand mirrored him.

“So THIS is the best you’ve got… eh?” Fisto began saying out loud when a man with a lute on his back ran past. The Shadow Fisto cracked the normal one in the face with his giant left hand and sent him flying back into some debris.