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Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

New post is up! Morganna one coming very zoon, and Vecta itself is joining the party as a 'collection' of characters. Haha.

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

Interactions: @Xaltwind@ERode@Zeroth

DALTON
Something was off. The young Merrick girl rushed through the forest, her wolf fur cloak flapping in the wind. She'd been out for her morning hunt through the Penrithe Forest when an unfamiliar scent caught her attention. It was extremely faint, but it smelled like another Merrick! That could mean trouble if the source was from a rival pack. As the smell got stronger, the girl wrapped her cloak around her body as she fell onto her arms and legs. In a matter of seconds there was a sleek silver wolf rushing along the forest floor. Coming upon a clearing, she stopped at the sound of a voice through the trees.

"Uh, System? Menu? Status Screen? Cultivation Arts?" said a confused man. "Query: What is Skill, [Combat Sense]? Please?" Just barely peeking her nose through the brush, the girl could see a figure sitting in the clearing. He certainly LOOKED like a Merrick. She noted his wild and untamed hair, pointed ears, and the fangs in his mouth, but why on Vecta was he dressed like THAT?! At his age, he should have had five or six pelts on him at minimum! Not to mention there was still something wrong with his scent. Now that she was closer, the girl could tell it was unlike any pack of Merrick she recognized. Something was wrong here...

Her suspicions were proven correct when the man called out a new phrase, "Uh.. Status open?" Suddenly a glowing green square blazed to life right in front of the Merrick. The girl watched in bewilderment as he began to tap at the square as though something were on it. Sensing this could be trouble, she leaped out of the underbrush. For a split second, she thought she saw the man turn his head right to where she'd been hiding before she jumped; almost like he suddenly knew she'd been hiding there.

As soon as the mythical status screen blazed to life in front of Dalton, he began to see information about his new form spread out on various tabs. Oddly enough, it didn't seem to have anything listed as a "Name". Outside of that, he only had enough time to flip to the skills page and read 'Combat Sense - Your keen senses allow you to detect and predict where potential attackers are hid-' when suddenly, a silver wolf jumped out of the underbrush and began growling at him menacingly.

MINAMI
The door to the castle slowly swung shut behind Minami before any sunlight could reach inside. The woman was left alone in the dark for a moment before a series of torches blazed to life. She found herself inside a lavish medieval gathering hall. A grand staircase dominated the room and split off in two directions for different wings of the building. Before she could explore further, there came a voice from the top of the stairs.

"Ahh. His Lordship did say there was someone at the gate." Looking up, Minami saw an older woman clad in a maid's uniform descending the stairs. In her hands she carried a candle and a black cloak. "Poor thing, you must be chilled to the bone with that morning sun. Wrap yourself in this." The maid handed the cloak over before offering a small curtsey. "Apologies for not being down to greet you sooner. We were all about to turn in for the morning when my master sensed the arrival of a fledgling at the gates. You're lucky to have made it inside before the sunrise. Traveling all night. You'll need some rest. Og but where are my manners?! My name is Rowena, a humble servant of Lord Dragomir. If you have any questions about the castle, I'm happy to answer them as best I can?"

Meanwhile, in the crypt beneath the castle, a vampire was observing the small flock of fledglings that had fallen into his care that day. Many of them were likely fleeing persecution in other parts of the continent while others may have just needed a place to stay to wait out the sun. He curled his lips at the thought of such easy marks. They would make promising servants.

BELO
"You're sure it was THAT one?" The silver elf eyes squinted through the thicket towards the scrawny orc carrying a child on its back. The beast didn't look any different from the ones they had killed on the beach, but if repoarts were to be believed, it had killed one of their own. While the orcs did fight back, the Elves - with their superior arms and armor - usually quashed any resistance without much trouble. As a result, it was rare for any of these abominations to mortally wound one of them.

In true orc stupidity however, this one and its group had decided to flee from the beach and into the wooods. In other words, they had walked right into the Elves home turf. Regardless of which side you fell on in Vecta, everyone knews the elves were unrivaled when it came to forest basked combat. All this would take was one good arrow to the head and Mirai, the falled warrior, would be avenged. The would-be assassin picked up his bow, notched an arrow, and...

Got stabbed through the eye before he could even pull back the bowstring. On the other end, Belo found himself looking at the bloodstain with incredulity. He couldn't explain this sudden feeling. He couldn't see the elf, but somehow he knew exactly where he was hiding. Hopefully that intuition would hold out as Belo followed this pack of orcs down the forest trail. They all seemed to know where they were headed, and none of them asked Belo any questions regarding his name, or his sudden appearance at the battle. The growing excitement on everyone's faces made Belo hope that wherever they ended up, there would be food available.

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

Oh and @Digmata I’m working on the art thing you asked about. Just need some time. If there are any other character and world questions I missed, try the DMs because I’ll see them faster

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

@Silver Carrot For sure. Basically, imagine there’s a large circular room with a raised platform or Dias in the middle. Each Otherworlders will appear on a spot on the Dias when you arrive. Whether or not you arrive together or at different intervals is up to you guys. There will be someone on the other end, but it may or may not be Morganna. 👀

Gotta have a few surprises. 😜

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

... But I'm so curious... *slowly moves towards the curtain with grabby-gropey hand-motions*

@Xaltwind

Smacks hand away NO! Bad player! Spray bottle

Hand crawls out from under curtain NO! Bad mangled corpse! Punts away

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

Hello everyone! Sorry for the radio silence the last few days, but work picked up AND I had a small realization that I needed to correct in the RP. In short, I needed more characters than just Morganna and Drasil to flesh out Vecta and the ones I had… well I wasn’t satisfied with them so I went back to the drawing board. (*muffled screams* Don’t look behind that curtain over there… @Xaltwind this means you.)

And yes, Morganna’s reincarnations will indeed be seeing each other. Not in the grandiose way that has been proposed, but there will be a little fanfare nonetheless. Post incoming soon!

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

@Silver Carrot That's what Zeroth's character (that fucking isekai-consuming nerd) is trying right now. Guess wait for NoCo to post and hopefully there'll be an answer to that.

@ERode

This post is coming. Needless to say he had the right idea.

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

All the “Light” characters are set to wake up in Morganna’s temple in her capital city. I tried to spell that out in the first one with Ryoko. I didn’t specify it for the latter segments because I was trying to avoid writing the same thing 3 or 4 times over.

Essentially, Morganna will drop people in a “safe” place and explain everything. Drasil is hard mode and places you where he thinks you’ll thrive on your own with your new race and skills.

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

@Digmata Working on that

@Kero Yeah, my idea was that - in Vecta - Isabella is a 'child of light', but being an adventurer and given her history she can utilize dark magic and abilities. Shadow Walker comes from her hating large crowds and groups. I figured if she prefers being by herself she'd stick to the shadows if that makes sense?

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

@Xaltwind
Also, "13 new posts in subscribed topic," I nearly had a conniption but it was just this nonsense >_<

@Zeroth

We will make this the biggest shitpost on the guild if we have to! Outpost everything else! :P