podraptorJoin Date: 2008-10-13
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[This'll sorta be like Mount and Blade]
The echo of Rhodok Boots signalled an end to the daily torture as the executioner left you in dark silence. The pain of purple bruises and cuts sucked your body of all will to move or breath. Rough stone sent needles into your back as the hours passed.
Will you get up? |
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generalp7Join Date: 2006-10-07
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I get up. |
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podraptorJoin Date: 2008-10-13
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You don't know how you manage it, but after all the months of beatings, near dismemberment, water torture, even r.ape, you manage to pull yourself up against the wall of your cell. Flea-ridden hay strewn with feces rustles as you get up and lay your back against cool green-cellar moss growing through ancient brick.
A man in the shadows chuckles. |
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generalp7Join Date: 2006-10-07
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I ask the man why he chuckles. |
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podraptorJoin Date: 2008-10-13
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(This is the one. Feel free to participate; first come first serve.)
"Why are you chuckling?"
After such a long time in silence, your voice feels almost alien as it shrinks down the hall-- hoarse, awkward. A man in a leather jherkin and feathered beret of a Rhodok spearman answers you as he stalks out of the shadows with a hooked pike at his shoulder. You've seen him with the other guards of the garrison; Alonzo, they call him.
"Because you still hold hope that the Swadian scum you call your liege lords will rescue you." |
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SigurdcrozovTop 25 PosterJoin Date: 2008-12-06
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So you're not doing a separate thread for each person? |
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podraptorJoin Date: 2008-10-13
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(Sigurd, I might think of doing some once I tell you guys to choose your appearance. I just miss the times when ISRPs were where everyone was allowed to participate.)
"Your ignorance will be the end of you, Swadian," Alonzo replied with a contemptuous sneer. Leaning on the pommel of his spear, he examined you like a piece of trash waiting to be thrown out into the gutter. "It's been 6 months, yet you've still held hope that your arrogant, imperialistic King Harlaus still has forces to spare. For all I know, the Nords could be raiding Praven as we speak." |
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"You expect me to drop my faith?" I laugh.
"You know I'm not that king of man, Alonzo."
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"Yet you could have joined us," he said. "But you didn't. You joined them."
Alonzo began to walk away.
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I look over my memories, who exactly were these people again?
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podraptorJoin Date: 2008-10-13
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Many years ago, central Calradia was claimed by the Swadian lords. They controlled the central west coast of the continent, all the way from the rocky shelf of the Nordlands to the highland peaks of the hill tribes. Threatened by the Sarranid horse tamers of the south east and the Nordmen and the Vaegirs of the North, the high lords and forest kings of the Swadian plains decided to unite under one banner-- the Kingdom of Swadia.
But alas, when the plains became one, the hills did not. Threatened by the thought of an feudalistic ways of the Swadians, the highland merchants of the Rhodoks rebelled, many warriors and farmers joining the cause. After many years of bloody fighting and crusades, the Swadians left the battered Rhodoks to fend for themselves, who in turn gathered together into free trading cities known as the Rhodok Republic.
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I guess I continue with my normal prison-y schedule then
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podraptorJoin Date: 2008-10-13
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Wait... Did that shadow just move? |
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Using the last of the strength in the cut ruin that used to be your arms, you drag yourself closer to the rusty bars of the jail door. Aged musk fills your nose, but you ignore that for a more important matter at hand.
Over there. The flicker of the lamp gave it away. A cloaked figure, heading for Alonzo down the hall. |
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generalp7Join Date: 2006-10-07
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I sit and watch the figure. |
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(Is this only for alp, or can anyone join in? I really love M&B, and it's rare on Roblox.) |
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podraptorJoin Date: 2008-10-13
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(It'll be once you're free from jail and I decide appearance.)
The figure stalks gracefully across the lamp light, a bludgeon hidden under its coat. Moments later, there is a muffled scream and a thud against something hard, and then the cloaked figure engulfs Alonzo.
Perhaps you could alert the guards? The Rhodok guards may treat you better. |
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I decide to watch in morbid curiosity; I hurt enough as it is and don't want to risk grabbing the mysterious figure's attention. |
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I do nothing, it will be worth it watching my guards die. |
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The slump body of Alonzo is dragged across the lamplight as the cloaked figure places it into the shadows and takes something clanking from his belt. The figure turns, beginning to walk towards you in silence. Graceful steps don't make more than a slight sound on the hollow stone. The reflection of aged leather from the cloaked infiltrator's slim belt gives the assumption of a blade in its scabbard.
You feel slightly alarmed. |
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I back up to the back of my cell. |
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"Don't be afraid, loyal captive." The feminine voice is both calming and surprising. There weren't many ladyblades in Calradia--certainly not here. Despite the mystery surrounding your rescuer, she fetches out the item she took from Alonzo's belt-- a loop of keys which she tosses to you.
"I'm not good with locks. You must've seen the key a thousand times with how long I've been told you've been held here." |
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