Story Storming

[Morty]

Cool.
Haha ok one more story idea, since they seem to be in demand. XD Going off on that previous thing I said about other worlds, if we really need conflict, Wormheart, that demon of corruption Raurik uses, could become a threat. It's kind of KH so read at your own risk. XD
Premise: Wormheart is a malevolent entity/eldricht abomination that wants to corrupt/conquer all the worlds. To have a lot of influence over a world he generally just possesses its creator, or just some other powerful thing that has an influence in that world if a creator is inaccessible etc.
Wormheart is present in many worlds, so the only way to destroy him completely is to a) hunt him down, identify him, and destroy him in every single world he's possessed or b) kill him in his home world.
Before I go on does anyone think this premise has potential or is it just too blah. XD

[Awesomoman]

Better than anything i got.

[Nohiki]

I second that

[darkdragon]

*shrugs* Well, all my ideas have been shot down, so...

[Nohiki]

Jun 22, 2011 17:42:20 GMT -5 Morty said:

Cool.
Haha ok one more story idea, since they seem to be in demand. XD Going off on that previous thing I said about other worlds, if we really need conflict, Wormheart, that demon of corruption Raurik uses, could become a threat. It's kind of KH so read at your own risk. XD
Premise: Wormheart is a malevolent entity/eldricht abomination that wants to corrupt/conquer all the worlds. To have a lot of influence over a world he generally just possesses its creator, or just some other powerful thing that has an influence in that world if a creator is inaccessible etc.
Wormheart is present in many worlds, so the only way to destroy him completely is to a) hunt him down, identify him, and destroy him in every single world he's possessed or b) kill him in his home world.
Before I go on does anyone think this premise has potential or is it just too blah. XD

So, yeah, seems like we're doing that... i think xD
So basically, somebody finds the device that can transport stuff from one dimension/world to another (A.K.A. Rubix cube). Then somebody has to figure out that wormheart set the wizard war in motion in order to get dragons as the power source of the world and then we can go on an epic crusade to kick his ass. Amiright?

[Midnightmoon]

I think it could work, my only concern is the confusion of the different dimensions

[Morty]

Works for me. Wormheart could have possessed some human officials or something. Or Dagon himself but Dagon's pretty satanically evil on his own lolol

[Morty]

Sort of related to EB part 2; in that big-ass post I made about Hell campaign I said something about the sluagh inhabiting the space between worlds. The idea is that the sluagh are a source of light power. And that the light clan's Angels of the Void are just an agglomeration of countless sluagh with a host mind and body that presides over them etc etc. So the light clan would probably like to get their hands on more sluagh. Therefor they would probably be wanting to open doors to the space between worlds. This is most definitely a bad thing, and this is where the heros come in. Stop the light clan, save the world. If we all agree that Wormheart is going to be a canonical event we just need someone to warn them about the threat the light clan poses and that leaving the door to the world open is not really the brightest idea. See what I'm getting at?
I hope that made an ounce of sense, just one of the possibilities I've been mulling over as I draw adorable kitty-faced tentacle monsters. XD

[Midnightmoon]

I can understand that because it would be easier to continue with all their plans when there is next to no one there to stop them.

[Kauria]

I like it in general, but for some reason I think I'd rather we keep Wormheart out of EB, especially since he hasn't been particularly established in his parent RP yet.
...Of course I'm probably totally misunderstanding the proposal here and ignoring the point.

[Midnightmoon]

I've said this idea a bunch but I'm putting it down one last time so at least we have it down solid

We could do a sequel of EB where it's before the dark clan get trapped away in their own territory. The ending would be where they eventually do trapped.

So basically this RP would be a looong time ago because in the current EB no one (at least no civilians) remember/ know of this other clan.

[Morty]

Yes, I agree haha. Gotta give him a test run first at least. But Wormheart himself doesn't even have to show up, just some dudes that are aware of the danger of opening interdimensional portals willy-nilly. And Wormheart might not be the only threat lying on the other side of the fabric of space. X3c

[Zetherus]

Hey Morty this story your talking about is perfect for Thoron. He can open portals with his Gauntlet of Armageddon and he is also a god slayer. ha haa two for the price of one

[Morty]

Cool! Maybe the adventurers will run into him on their transdimensional hijinx.

[Morty]

Another suggestion that probably has little to do with how the roleplay actually pans out but is still kind of fun for expanding the lore on the clan's history and stuff. You know, while we're on the whole prequel kick. XD
Piecing together bits about the dark clan we know for certain like the demons being able to contact eachother telekinetically and the Master being a very old immortal, etc, I spontaneously came up with a few ideas largely born of other preconceptions about the dark clan, etc, etc, to explain them in a fun way that totally doesn't derail the RP in any way whatsoever.
Gotcha!
My suggestion is that maybe after the dark clan's fall from grace they fell apart into groups that relegated themself to their own part of the province, hostile encounters becoming a regular occurance between the cooped-up groups, each blaming the other for the events that led to their banishment. Thus there coming to be separate clans of dark clan, like clans within clans. Clanception.
This was obviously very bad for the dark clan as a whole. SO maybe a couple generations later the then-chieftains got together in the temple of the old capital and found a solution, by using their combined magic to summon a lesser god of hell, the immortal Master: a demon. They made a deal with him; he would offer them a way to reunite their people and prosper once more, but in exchange the chieftains would become the vassals of the demon. They agreed, and were transformed into demons themselves, increasing their speed and strength and extending their lifespans dramatically. (And probably developing all sorts of cool crap like wings and horns and stuff, becoming more and more demonic over the years.) The demon kept his part of the bargain by linking the entire dark clan with a hive mind, with the chieftains having the strongest links to their subjects and filtering down the chain of command, with the demon himself at the head of them all. The effects of the demon-ificiation of the chieftains also filtered down the ranks, with the families of the chieftains, the matriarchs and patriarchs, forming the powerful ruling class, and the weaker, less affected members forming the easily influenced understory. And so the dark clan gained the advantage that would allow them to rise again as a military force capable of taking the entire continent by storm. (The other advantage being the dark clan potion of course lol.) The end.

The idea is that the dark clan was sort of occultish with all their alchemy and lessergod-worship, and so dark clan "demons" could have existed before the fall in some way, maybe by praying to the ELDER GODS or something or other to grant specific people unnatural abilities, just not on a scale that united the entire clan. Or maybe this all took place before the fall anyways, after some similarly clan-shattering event. XD But anyways there would be demons before the whole light clan fiasco, they'd just be somewhat of an isolated case probably related to tribalism and/or worship of some circle of Hell. Cause we really knew that was where this was all going, didn't we? XD

(A similar story could also account for their mythology as to how the elves got dragons in the first place; maybe in their mythology the one guy that wasn't above summoning a demon was the founder of the dark clan, who ended up procuring all the clans their dragons because the demon he summoned was kind enough to draw some out of thin air for them. I mean, going along with their whole "dragons out of nothing" thing. Just another semi-rational extension on this lore clusterbomb, probably not having any bearing on the story whatsoever. XD Why dragons would be the solution to their problems is a whole other can of worms.)

Yup.