open The Other Realm: Grollmeth (Dice Rolling Included!)

[Technicolour Dream (Sunny) 38]

LINK TO OOC THREAD! NEW? GO HERE FIRST!

 

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Elixer...Eeeliiiiixeeeeerrr? ELIXER, GET UP! UP UP UP UP......

 

Elixer awakens in the deep in the woods of Grollshire with a thumping headache as a familiar voice, calling his name, ceases to beckon his soul from the void and into his body again. That was the worst nap of my life Elixer thought to himself as he stood to he hooves and checked his surroundings. 

 

"Where the blazes...blast I can't see a thing..." Elixer says quietly to himself as he looks down at the patch of grass he had just woken up on. Next to his imprint in the grass, a tan saddle bag made of burlap was lain on the ground beside him. Odd...that is not my saddle bag. He thought to himself as he checked it's contents. 2 maps, a candle, and a filled canteen. The first map was one of Multiple landscapes labeled 'The Other Realm' and the other, a map that showed 4 large cities and was labeled 'Grollmeth'. A white light shown and blinked dimly in the middle of a small landmass beside the smallest of the 4 cities, the landmass was wooded and labeled 'Grollmeth Wood'.

 

"Okay so, I guess I'm here...so...bollocks, i can't see my own two hooves. I gotta find some sort of shelter." Elixer says aloud to the all consuming darkness and he begins to stumble through the woods, in search of shelter, any pony at all, and some light.

[MagicalStarRain 599]

On the stoney floor inside of a building in Mellshire, Night Song's right front hoof twitched and her eyes fluttered open. She sat up and look around at the grand architecture. It was a stone castle by the looks of it, large and grand and old and decorated with royal objects. There was lighting, so it wasn't hard to see all of this.

 

But nopony else was there.

 

What? Where... where am I? She turned her head around a lot to try and pick up some clues as to where she is. As she was observing everything, her gaze fell onto a brown saddlebag. Seeing as nopony seemed to be around, Night took a peek inside. She found the two maps, candle, and canteen and took out the first map. The Other Realm? She put it back in and took out the second map. She saw some light glowing on a spot labelled "Mellshire Castle". 

 

Well, I guess better look around and see what I can find here. And with that, she took the saddlebags and its contents and took flight to explore the castle. 

 

(OOC: Can you find weapons in the location you spawn at?) 

[Majabya 7]

Whisper heard the cheers of the audience as he finished another ballad upon the stage, blowing kisses as he gave the usual "thank you, you're too kind!" speech. As they cried out for an encore, with which he was more then happy to oblige, he felt a pain in his throat slowly growing. By the time the band readied to play, not a word could pass through poor Whisper's lips. Immediately, the audience let loose all the fury of a scorned world, laughing, booing, crying, damning, cursing, and scorning Whisper with such intensity that they began to look like an enormous maw, twisted into a demonic, wailing frown. The stage lifted, as if it was now a plate held by massive hooves, and sharply tilting, sending the silent, screaming Whisper downwards into that fearful face's gaping mouth.

 

Whisper awoke harshly, his screams still muted as he struggled for breath, but soon enough, he managed calm himself and examine his surroundings. It was hard to make anything out in the pitch black surrounding him, but as he stood up and began to walk about, one of his hooves met with a saddle bag. After investigating it's contents, he took a swig of the canteen and pressed onward into the dark, decrepit slums. The way was treacherous and dark, and more then once Whisper's clumsy stone hooves got caught on something. Twas slow going indeed, but in the midst of this bumbling was a spark of inspiration! Time and again Whisper tripped and stumbled, but on one such trip he fell with such intensity that when his stone hoof met the decaying cobblestone, sparks appeared. Small and fleeting sparks to be sure, nothing in comparison to proper flint, but sparks nonetheless. Removing his candle and placing it carefully, Whisper began to hammer his hoof against a loose cobble stone with all his force. Again and again he pounded the stone, the noise carrying through the empty streets for miles around, until eventually he succeeded to light his candle. Now armed with the only light in sight, and having more or less made his presence known, Whisper began his trek again. And this time no tripping.

Edited June 20, 2013 by Majabya

[WarpShot 10]

Warpshot was running. Royal Guards were chasing him. Ever since he moved to Canterlot, Warpshot loved to sneak into the Royal Palace. Normally when guards came he would teleport away without being seen, but for some reason he couldn't teleport. All he could do was run but he was not going anywhere now. The guards kept getting closer and closer. They grew fangs as they approached him and their armor grew darker by the second. And just as they approached Warpshot...he awoke.

 

That was one crazy dream. Warpshot said to himself. The dark purple unicorn awoke in what appeared to be city streets. He could smell the salt water of the coast. He saw strange floating white crystals lighting some areas of the city. It was still pretty intact. Warpshot realized when he stood up that he had a saddle on. This was not his saddle at all. Inside was a candle, two maps, and a canteen. Looks like his canteen was empty. What a shame. You look at your map, you can hardly see it in the dark but it looks like you are in Fever Coast's Southern City Commons. You would try to light your candle but you know that you only know how to perform levitation and teleportation magic. Guess you need to do it the old fashioned way.

[RedStorm 66]

Redstorm woke up on something hard.

"What?"

He opened his eyes to see that he was lying down on cobblestone.

As he tried to turn around his hoof hit the saddlebag.

"What's this?"

He started investigating, while it was pitch black. After a while Redstorm found 2 scrolls and a waxed thing, that was supposed to be a candle.

He opened the maps. A faint glow created from one of them. Redstorm used that little light to observe the cobblestone.

"What? Ponyville didn't have cobblestones... and it was lighter." He mumbeled.

*PING!* Redstorm thought as he found an axe near the saddlebags. He placed the candle down and started hitting the cobblestone with the axe. Finally, a spark. The candle lit and he picked it up quickly. It became lighter, alot lighter actually. He could finally see everything around him.

He spotted an inn and some food stands. He picked the stuff up and started making his way to the inn. But on the last second, he looked past it and saw that there was a cooked, fresh morsel. He felt his stomach making noise and made his way to the food stand instead.

 

ROLLED 6 (Goddamnit!)

 

As he approached the food stand and started to take the morsel but his clone from the opposite side of the stand had he same idea.

"OH! WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YO-"

He dodged out of the way as the doppleganger swung a sword at him.

*I guess this is what the axe is for...*

He charged at the doppleganger, swinging his axe. But the clone moved out of the way. Redstorm charged into the food stand, his axe was now stuck in there.

"COME ON!" He tried to pull out the axe while the clone was slowly closing in.

"COME ON I TELL YOU!" He looked at the clone again to see a flash.

Redstorm felt much pain as the sword cut a wound in his shoulder.

"YOU LITTLE RAT!"

Redstorm grabbed the canteen and charged the clone with it. The clone swung his sword, resulting in another wound on his leg. Now was his chance. He bashed the clone as hard as he could with the piece of metal. That knocked the clone over.

"YOU. DON'T. KILL. ME. YOU. IMPOSTER!" He said, after every word kicking the clone in the head. After a while, the ganger stopped moving and bursted into shadows.

"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET! YOU DON'T MESS WITH ME!" He threw the sword that the clone dropped into water.

 

@@WarpShot, (You spawned at the Fever Coast as well... so maybe have you heard the yelling?)

[WarpShot 10]

Warpshot hears screams coming from the southeast. Uh oh somepony's in trouble. He decides to make his way to the Market Place from which the screams came from. He realizes he doesn't have a weapon and decides to check inside a building for supplies.

 

ROLLED 3

 

The building is pretty intact but it looks like there is nopony home. Is anypony home? Somepony's in danger. No response. Warpshot decides to search the building for a weapon. He opens a closet and to his surprise a ghost appears in front of him. The ghost looks tormented and vengeful. That doesn't matter to him right now because the ghost is attacking! The ghost engulfs him in it's hollow body. Warpshot cannot breath. He tries to kick but he cannot break free. Warpshot focuses hard with what little air he has left and teleports himself out of the ghost's body. Unfortunately the door is locked so Warpshot gallops upstairs. 

 

ROLLED 5 (I honestly was not expecting that!)

 

Warpshot locks himself in a room upstairs. This appears to be a small bedroom. This building probably used to be an inn. He finds a flintlock pistol and 10 bullets on the nightstand. Now why is this here? Warpshot takes the pistol and prepares to go back downstairs.

[RedStorm 66]

Warpshot hears screams coming from the southeast. Uh oh somepony's in trouble. He decides to make his way to the Market Place from which the screams came from. He realizes he doesn't have a weapon and decides to check inside a building for supplies.

 

ROLLED 3

 

The building is pretty intact but it looks like there is nopony home. Is anypony home? Somepony's in danger. No response. Warpshot decides to search the building for a weapon. He opens a closet and to his surprise a ghost appears in front of him. The ghost looks tormented and vengeful. That doesn't matter to him right now because the ghost is attacking! The ghost engulfs him in it's hollow body. Warpshot cannot breath. He tries to kick but he cannot break free. Warpshot focuses hard with what little air he has left and teleports himself out of the ghost's body. Unfortunately the door is locked so Warpshot gallops upstairs. 

 

ROLLED 5 (I honestly was not expecting that!)

 

Warpshot locks himself in a room upstairs. This appears to be a small bedroom. This building probably used to be an inn. He finds a flintlock pistol and 10 bullets on the nightstand. Now why is this here? Warpshot takes the pistol and prepares to go back downstairs.

*Well there's one rule in this place... don't steal food, or your clones try to kill you... another inn. Well might as well go in and ask for the nearest hospital.* Redstorm looks at his shoulder and his leg before entering the house.

 

ROLLED 2

 

Redstorm walked in the house.

"Hello? Anyon- OH WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT!?" Redstorm yells as he spots the ghost. The ghost doesn't seem to be paying attention to him though.

"Whatwhatwhatwhat!? You're not supposed to exist! Go away!" Redstorm says and shoo-s the ghost.

He looks around the room, not wanting to attack the thing. Redstorm sees some bread and a a small piece of cooked meat.

*Should I take it? Or is this guy going to attack me?* He looks at the ghost, slowly making his way to the food.

"Anyone here? There's uhh... not sure how to say this, but there's a ghost in here!" He suddenly heard hoofsteps coming from the upstairs. Redstorm quickly took the food and readied his axe.

*Let them fight off...* He limped to a dark corner and waited for something to happen.

[WarpShot 10]

Warpshot carefully made his way downstairs back into the main room of the inn. He nervously levitated the flintlock pistol ready for one hell of a fight. The ghost immediately takes notice of Warpshot as he re-enters the room. It charges at him moaning and groaning. Warpshot fires the pistol. No! It missed! The ghost shoots chains from its mouth binding Warpshot. They slam him against the wall and into the counter. Agh! The chains begin to tighten on Warpshot. The ghost closes in on him ready to engulf him yet again. Warpshot fires once more and lands a brilliant hit on the ghost. It fades to a strange goo.

 

Warpshot got Ectoplasm!

 

The ectoplasm lights up Warpshot's candle with an ominous blue light. He makes eye contact with an injured pegasus in the corner of the room. 

[Mana 9]

Mana awoke slowly, groaning as she regained consciousness. Her head felt like it was being pounded by fifty hammers all at once. It took her a few more minutes before she felt like she could get up. When she did, she realized that she wasn't in her bed at home, and that she had no idea where she was at all.

She could barely make out her surroundings as there was no sun or a moon. She saw the dim silhouettes of a group of trees, perhaps a forest or a wood? She could also see a dock and a few buildings. When she took a step to go to one of these houses, she almost tripped over a saddlebag which was lying on the floor. What's this doing here? It certainly isn't mine. She thought before tipping out the contents and using her magic to produce a small light so that she could examine them better. She found two maps, presumably of the place that she was in. It was too dark to read them properly, even with a dim light. She also found an unlit candle and a canteen full of water. Could be worse. She thought, shrugging inwardly as she put everything back in the bag and slung it onto her back and started to head towards one of the cottages.

She opened the door to one of them and looked inside cautiously. There was a strange glowing creature floating around, which Mana recognized as a ghost. But ghosts are just made up creatures to scare foals? What the heck is this?! Suddenly, it lunged at her. Quickly, Mana opened the canister in her saddlebag and collected the water inside, solidifying it slightly and using it to whip at the ghost. She didn't want to 'kill' it, even though it was probably already dead. Instead, she shaped the water to cover up the ghost completely and froze it, leaving the ghost immobile. Mana then hurried outside, filling up her canister again and thought of what to do next.

[RedStorm 66]

Warpshot carefully made his way downstairs back into the main room of the inn. He nervously levitated the flintlock pistol ready for one hell of a fight. The ghost immediately takes notice of Warpshot as he re-enters the room. It charges at him moaning and groaning. Warpshot fires the pistol. No! It missed! The ghost shoots chains from its mouth binding Warpshot. They slam him against the wall and into the counter. Agh! The chains begin to tighten on Warpshot. The ghost closes in on him ready to engulf him yet again. Warpshot fires once more and lands a brilliant hit on the ghost. It fades to a strange goo.

 

Warpshot got Ectoplasm!

 

The ectoplasm lights up Warpshot's candle with an ominous blue light. He makes eye contact with an injured pegasus in the corner of the room. 

*Since when do ghosts shoot chains?* Redstorm thought as he watched the battle between pony and... undead?

Suddenly the room lit up and Redstorm saw the purple pony look at him.

*He has a gun, you're injured and have an axe... this is bad...*

Redstorm got up with pain.

"Uh... h-hello? Ok I'll give you all my stuff if you want... it's not my fault i'm here. I swear to Celestia, I just woke up in the middle of the street! I just fought my CLONE! Here!" Redstorm took out the piece of meat, nervously.

"I-I have more stuff! I swear I'm leaving this instant! I just wanna get home, that's all!"

[Technicolour Dream (Sunny) 38]

After wandering about, lost in the woods, for about a good 15 or so minutes, Elixer comes across an empty looking cabin. (I rolled a 5! WOO!) Elixer finds a candle burning in the corner of the room, giving the cabin a faint unearthly glow. The candle rests on a porcelain saucer (OOC: plate) atop a small, wooden, circular table.

 

"Um, hey! Anyone in here!? I need help! Please..? A-anybody...anyone a-at...at all..? Nobody..." Elixer says aloud at first but his tone dies down to a whisper as he spots a glass cabinet by a stairwell. Maybe a clue or something? He says to himself in his head as he trots slowly over to the cabinet, opening it cautiously and jumping back a foot or two in anticipation of something bad. "GORGEOUS!" Elixer yells aloud.

 

Inside the cabinet is a Short sword with a shiny, and faintly glowing blade with runic inscriptions on it. (OOC: It does not glow enough to be used as a source of light. It's made of the same metal as the sky crystals so it only glows but does not cast light in any direction. It is only as strong as any other sword, i just like fancy things!) The hilt is a Slate colour with a stonewashed green piece of cloth wrapped around it. The pommel is a single Ball shaped pommel that shines like opal. Next to this weapon is a note in the same runic text. Soma places the note in his saddle bags. "I sure hope this doesn't belong to someone because I am taking this." Elixer says with a wide cheeky grin. The sword's scabbard is the same metal with the same stonewashed green cloth wrapped about it.

 

Elixer takes great care in placing the sword in the scabbard and tying the scabbard about his waist. Elixer then goes to check the upstairs room and finds a bed. "I'm not tired...just woke up...where ever I am..." Elixer decides to wait there as the faint pitter patter of rain begins to sound above him on the thatched wood roof.

[WarpShot 10]

Warpshot walked towards the pony not wanting to harm him. The pegasus looked a bit older than Warpshot but seemed to have a blank flank. "Ponies don't eat meat... are you sure you're a pony? Cause I mean you don't even have a cutie mark." Warpshot brought the ghostly light closer to the pony's face to observe him.

Edited June 20, 2013 by WarpShot

[RedStorm 66]

Warpshot walked towards the pony not wanting to harm him. The pegasus looked a bit older than Warpshot but seemed to have a blank flank. "Ponies don't eat meat... are you sure you're a pony? Cause I mean you don't even have a cutie mark." Warpshot brought the ghostly light closer to the pony's face to observe him.

"I? O-of course I'm a pony... and so what if I don't have a cutie mark?" Redstorm pinched his eyes as the light was closer to his face. He was starting to feel more comfortable near the other pony.

*I don't really think he wants to kill me... otherwise he'd do that a long time ago.*

"Well..." He said putting the piece of meat back into the saddlebag. "What is this place anyway? Why are there ghosts and... clones that fight like you?"

[WarpShot 10]

((You don't need to reply with a quote, I think we will know who you are talking to.))

 

"Sorry I just assumed since you look older than me." The pony looked badly injured.

"I really don't know, I just woke up to a pony screaming and found myself in the streets. I can assume it was you."

Warpshot didn't have any supplies but he offered to go look for some. Before the pegasus could respond Warpshot ran upstairs to search.

 

ROLLED 3

 

Warpshot opened a door to one of the many rooms upstairs. His ominous candle grew brighter and the door behind him locked shut.  Another ghost! This ghost wore a single shoulder pauldron and held a mask to its face. The ghost seemed to laugh at Warpshot's attempt to open the door. It levitated a chair and flung it at Warpshot when he struggled to open the door. The chair broke as it hit him. Warpshot fell to the ground. The ghost closed in on Warpshot but Warpshot took his opportunity and fired his pistol into the ghost's face. The ghost dodged the bullet and got closer to Warpshot. Warpshot stood up and saw the chandelier above him. He shot the chandelier as the ghost stopped to laugh once more. The chandelier dropped on the unsuspecting ghost causing it to turn into goo.

 

Warpshot got Ectoplasm! Warpshot got Ghostly Pauldron!

 

The Ectoplasm made Warpshot's ominous light grow stronger. He equipped the Ghostly Pauldron. This item improves defenses against ghosts but seems to have no effect on attacks by other creatures.  

Warpshot exited the room and tried a new one. He was hurt but it was nothing but a few scrapes and bruises. He opened another door.

 

ROLLED 2

 

This room had no enemy's. Just in case Warpshot checked how much ammo was in his saddlebag. ((I know you said ammo was unlimited but I think having a limit makes the game more exciting.)) He only had 6 bullets left. Warpshot observed his surroundings and saw three plates of food. What luck! Warpshot was very pleased with what he saw as his stomach growled. Each plate had bread and mashed potatoes. The food was still warm. Warpshot took one plate for himself and ate it right away. He put the other two in his saddle bag. 

 

Warpshot is healed and will take the food back downstairs.

[RedStorm 66]

"Well we could look for supplie-" The unicorn dashed off.

"... I guess I'll explore the place as well."
Redstorm went towards a door but stopped as he heard gunshots.

*I want a pistol...* He went inside the room.

 

ROLLED 2 (Food for everypony! )

 

Redstorm opened the door and immiedatily smelled food.

He observed the room with his candle and saw a table. On the table there was a plate of soup. An empty bowl and butter.

"Meh, that'll do."

He cut the bread with his axe and somehow even managed to get butter on it. On top of all he hesitately put meat.

Half of the soup didn't really go down his throat because he was super hungry and had no spoon. So he just gobbled it all down.

Redstorm closed his eyes and tasted the meat sandwich. It was pretty good, but Red had a feeling that it was one of these foods that he couldn't eat much.

After finishing his meal, he put all the foods back into the saddlebags including the bowls and went back to the room, where the ghost died. Seeing Warpshot wearing something as he came downstairs.

*Don't even ask Red... this is a world where ghosts and your clones try to kill you.*

"So... my name's Redstorm by the way." He held his hoof out for a shake.

[Mana 9]

Mana decided to explore the other cottage before doing anything else, hoping that she could find something of use or at least not run into another ghost like the last one. She pushed open the door and saw that there was, thankfully, nothing of danger inside. After a quick look around, she discovered that there was literally nothing there. She sighed and did another quick check before going back outside and taking out one of the maps.

The map appeared to glow faintly on the spot that Mana assumed she was standing on. Its light shone onto the rest of the map, lighting it up. Hmm... Maybe I should head towards a city, somepony else has to be in this place except for me and the odd ghost... She thought to herself as she headed towards the south city commons.

[WarpShot 10]

"I'm Warpshot, pleased to meet you." Warpshot happily shaked his hoof. "You look better. Did you find food too?" 

Warpshot looked at Redstorm and asked, "wait, there are clones here? I've only seen ghosts. That's weird."

Warpshot still had a considerable amount of ammo, so he didn't ask Redstorm for any.

[RedStorm 66]

"Yeah... clones. They fight like you. And well yeah, I got some wounds... I found some butter and bowls, nothing else."

He pulled out his map.

"Well I... spawned here." He points at the marketplace. "There I fought the clone." He points to another spot near the marketplace.

"I think I should go back there... if you don't mind coming with me. I saw some more houses and food there."

He opened the front door. "Well? You coming then?" He said with a smile.

[WarpShot 10]

"Sure, but before I forget" Warpshot pulls a plate of bread and mashed potatoes from his saddlebag "Just incase you get hurt again.Besides I already got food for myself." Warpshot hands the dish out to Redstorm hoping that he will take it for his own good.

[MagicalStarRain 599]

Night Song flew around the room she spawned in and found nothing that told her anything useful. So she flew to the upper level of the castle.

 

(OOC: Rolled 5)

 

When she got up there, she found some paintings that had been worn-out beyond repair and recognition. Everything else looked alright and in good condition, but old and worn. Nothing... I suppose I'll just fly on out of here an- what's that? Down the hallway, there seemed to be something. She walked down to it quickly and picked up some arrows and a quiver along the way before finding a dark-brown bow with designs carved into it. It was in almost perfect condition strangely enough. Nertheless, Night took it with a grin.

[RedStorm 66]

"Uhh... yeah sure." Redstorm already got food, but he knew that it would make the younger pony happy, so he took it and put it in his saddlebag.

"Alright, thanks. So... ready to go?"

As they stepped out of the door, Redstorm saw a light in the darkness.

 

@@Mana,

 

"There's something over there..." Redstorm whispered to Warpshot, pointing over to Mana.

"Looks like another light of somesort. Ya got that pistol, right? Keep it close." Redstorm went out on the streets to see the light coming closer.

*Well that thing's gonna see your light... so yeah... you got that axe...*

[WarpShot 10]

Warpshot smiled as Redstorm took the food and followed along with him.

"Don't worry, if that's a pony like us, this ghostly light will probably scare them off." The ominous light was still burning with blue fire.

Still Warpshot didn't know for sure so he made sure his flintlock pistol was loaded.

Edited June 21, 2013 by WarpShot

[Mana 9]

Mana thought she had heard very faint voices for a moment. She looked around quickly and pretty much saw nothing.

"Hello? Anypony there?" She called, silently praying that it wasn't anything dangerous. A few moments later she noticed that a light had appeared in the place where she had heard the voices.

"Oh thank Celestia! HEY! OVER HERE!" She yelled, heading towards the light.

[WarpShot 10]

Warpshot heard Mana yelling to them. "Looks like the thing noticed us, I have an idea. You stay here and I'll warp behind it to see what the figure is." Warpshot takes off without another warning and teleports closer to Mana. Warpshot is standing to the left of Mana and realizes that she probably noticed his blue light next to her so he takes out his Flintlock pistol.

[RedStorm 66]

@@WarpShot, @@Mana,

 

*You ain't tellin me what to do...*

Redstorm started walking towards Mana.

"Who's there?" He took out his axe and lifted the candle higher.

"Hello?" He pinched his eyes and waited for the unicorn to get closer.

*That's gotta be one of the village people........... right? Or is this place abandoned?*