[OOC] Dungeon Keepers (This one's done. Go to The Horde of Evil instead)

[BBeast]

PS. Cav, first creature takes 3 posts, not 2.

But yeah, good going so far. I can't wait for things to get off the ground.

[Cyclone]

Happy holidays, everyone!

[The 42nd Gecko]

Happy Holidays. :P

[Lugubrious]

Indeed.

Duly noted, Bbeast. It'll take a little while regardless, since so many people are indisposed due to the holidays.

[KabenSaal]

Crap, there was a new thread?

[Lugubrious]

Yep.

[KabenSaal]

So, this might go against everything you have got planned, or it might work swimmingly. If it is the former, I shall remake the app.

Emily: The Spirit's Sonnet

A young looking girl in a hooded cloak, Emily is possibly the least overt of the current generation of Keepers, with the only striking figure being her molten red eyes that seem to glow in the dark of night. Or though, this works well, considering she is not a Keeper in the sense of a being that the Devourer created. She was instead a young casualty of the original world the Keepers destroyed. Having been slain and then brought back to life by a Keeper, she was imbued with great skill in magical arts, affiliating most strongly with Fire, but also having Earth and Storm at her disposal. These did not save her Master, as he was blown away by a rival Keeper, and Emily was left free to wander the lands. Which she did, until she happened upon a Keeper's pet that she found personally repulsive. A fight broke out, and the creature was nearly vanquished, by the Keeper who owned the creature arrived, and in a bout of sadistic torment, banished the girl to a frigid realm of demons and ice, to die the worst kind of death.

However, Death was not on the cards for the young Rogue Being, and so she was brought before a minor Warlord, and tricked him into being sacrificed to a Sung Spirit - a unique type of spirit that demanded both a song sung to attract them, and an object or being sacrificed to entice them - who called herself the Mistress of Magma. Together, the took over the small castle, and their power consolidated for several months, while Emily drew the metaphysical construct of a Sung Spirit Rune across the entire realm. Eventually, after fending off uprisings and invasions from other parts of the realm, Emily finished the rune, and began the Song of the 'Ignis Divine', the Godly Fire. While most songs simply had levels - Lesser, Greater, Grand, Noble - the Godly Fire responded to only one song, and was only enticed by a gargantuan offering.

The song was simple, and to the point. It lasted less than a minute, but Emily waited in her frozen castle for three hours, before the walls started to melt. After the first drop of unfrozen water hit the ground and immediately vaporised into steam, it took all of three seconds for the entire realm to burst into flames, and then from the ashes of destruction, the Flame King, Surtr appeared. He commended Emily on her voice, and the offering she had made. He then mused about how long it had been since anyone had been able to so much as reach his ears. Emily let him talk, because he was both old, and powerful, and both parties liked to speak a great deal. The King finished his monologue and looked to Emily, asking the formality of wither she wished to bond with him. She accepted, and became the host for Fire Incarnate, sharing her mind and body with him, as she had with the Mistress of Magma. Emily had expected the Lesser Spirit to be driven out by the King, but the meshed perfectly. Together, and yet apart. She had plans to summon a Greater, a Grand and a Noble Sung Spirit, but was warned against inviting too many spirits into herself so quickly, for it was a perfect way to lose your individuality in the sea of minds.

Emily accepted the King's words, and channelled the magic of the three to find a way to return to the Keepers and finish them with her new strength, eventually punching through from the now burnt lands of Kokytos to a new land, one unknown to her. She knew Keepers where here, but that was all. She would find them, and they would burn.

[BBeast]

Sounds fine, except for perhaps the incineration of all of Kyotos. You'll need to ask Trapezoid if that's ok, for he's taken the ice demons of Kyotos, or at least those which have made it to Cyprus. I assume you meant Kyotos, and not a separate yet similar world named Kokytos.

[KabenSaal]

BBeast said
Sounds fine, except for perhaps the incineration of all of Kyotos. You'll need to ask Trapezoid if that's ok, for he's taken the ice demons of Kyotos, or at least those which have made it to Cyprus. I assume you meant Kyotos, and not a separate yet similar world named Kokytos.

I copied the spelling off one of his posts. But, I guess for convenience sake it could be a separate yet similar world named Kokytos. Could even be a place touched by the demons of Kyotos at one point.

[BBeast]

Perhaps a neighbouring ice hell place? Or maybe it is Kyotos. That would provide opportunity for animosity between Emily and the Ice Demons. I don't care too much about Kyotos, it isn't this world, but Trapezoid or someone else might, or they might not.

[KabenSaal]

BBeast said
Perhaps a neighbouring ice hell place? Or maybe it is Kyotos. That would provide opportunity for animosity between Emily and the Ice Demons. I don't care too much about Kyotos, it isn't this world, but Trapezoid or someone else , or they might not.

Or could be something linked to Kyotos, like Ganondorf is linked to Ganon.

[BBeast]

I'm not particularly concerned about which. In my opinion multiple ice hells sound redundant. Sort out something. Maybe just blow up half of Kyotos, which would be a sufficient sacrifice while keeping enough of Kyotos remaining for future use if we ever need it again. You can discuss with Trapezoid, for he has a bunch of Ice Demons, and Cyclone who I believe made the place in the first place. I myself don't particularly care, because I have no plans for it. I'm going to be out of contact for four days now, so once you decide whether you blew up Kyotos or Kokytos you can get started.

[Cyclone]

I originally made both Kokytos and the ice demon nation, which were suppksed to be from Kokytos. I don't know if Trapezoid's 'Kyotos' is just an alternate spelling or supposed to be different.

In any case, I didn't think we were going to use any of the story from last RP, which has already lead to another contradiction. 'Cocytus' is a river of the Underworld in Greek mythology (not an icy hell) and Moggotheddon's story obviously borrows from said mythology. In fact, I think I mentioned somewhere that he was drowned in the Cocytus before being thrown into Tartarus.

So now we have three very similar names for what may or may not be the same place (we could always say the Cocytus river simply runs through Kokytos, I guess), and the three are almost entirely disconnected in the story.

To avoid confusion and unnecessary complexity I suggest you just be vague with Emily's background. Say she was sent to some other frigid world, leaving out small details like its name or that it was in the Underworld. That way our stories don't have to contradict.

[KabenSaal]

Ok. I'll just take out the makes and have it a frigid demon waste. Like Hel, or Jottunhiem.

[Lugubrious]

Well that was a particularly long down-time. With the holidays over and the guild back up, hopefully we'll get to see some progress.

[KabenSaal]

Yush! Onwards to glory!

[BBeast]

Yeah, onwards!

[Cyclone]

I posted last. One of you lot can go onwards. :P

[The 42nd Gecko]

I have a post in mind, and I can post it, but it feels a bit odd to have my second minion before anyone else has their first.

[Lugubrious]

Trapezoid and 001 and Kaban are up next. I would absolutely adore it if two more people posted and I could get my first creature up to write about. So go ahead, gecko.