Tormeron's events: the Stories

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Topic/Postby Gergel » 25 Mar 2015, 10:30

This week's adventure consists of two somewhat intertwined plots. The A-plot involves Arthuron's Adventurers finding a young orphan kid who wants to join the group and lean to be a great fighter or a mage.

And then there's the B-plot.

Despite Arthuron's insistence on time being short (fooooooreshadowing!), the group spent a lot of time wandering randomly around the Venture Bay docks, chatting with locals and running into a little kid (I'd say 6-8 years old judging by the behavior, Tormeron said 10, I can work with that) whom they brought with them against all better judgment. Aroona was positively doting on him, Kynidris (Lilandris' sister who happened to join the group that night) was just doting without the "positively" part, Coalbrow cared little about the kid and far more about potential herbs, and others fell somewhere between those extremes.

So Arthuron once again insisted that "time waits for no one" (fooooooreshadowing!) and hurried the group along. After crossing a river or two, the first odd thing they encountered was a strange anomaly in the middle of nowhere where gravity had apparently gone awry and a handful of leaves were just floating in mid-air. Coalbrow and Silsbury, out of sheer curiosity, began to poke the leaves. Nothing bad happened to them nor the leaves, the only result was that each poked leaf was freed from their floatiness and fell on the ground the way they should be doing.

The next weird thing they encountered was a bear. Also floating in mid-air and looking terribly confused. Serendipity cast her slow fall spell on the beast and that was apparently sufficient to break whatever enchantment was keeping the bear afloat. It glided gracefully onto the ground, took a good look at the group, decided that discretion was the better part of valor, turned its tail and ran into the woods. To do whatever it is that bears proverbially do in the woods.

(Still no herbs for Coalbrow at this point, and no treasure for Clara.)

As Coalbrow and Kynidris advanced in front of the adventuring party (the draenei because she was a brave warrior and wanted to be the first to face whatever dangers might be attacking them, and the dwarf because he wanted to find herbs), both suddenly felt a strange sudden gust of wind pass between them. Kynidris suspected undead presence. Coalbrow enjoyed the breeze in his beard. But nothing else happened and so they pressed forward. Until finding the next strangely floating object.

That strangely floating object was a fireball. Even though such fireballs were usually known to fly at rapid speeds towards whatever it is that was unfortunate enough to get a fireball lobbed at it, this one was sitting still in mid-air. Just as the leaves and the bear had done. Kynidris poked it. Quite predictably the fireball was released and hit the draenei dead-on. Fortunately the warrior was not particularly afraid of fire, and had strong armour, so the damage was negligible.

They passed a little further. A lone human male was sitting at the edge of a precipice. He was wearing a mage's robes and looked quite gloomy. The way he explained it, those floating objects (and bear) had in fact been time distortions that the mage (named Meganohberrysome, and boy, is that a mouthful!) had accidentally created when practicing a temporal spell. As it turned out, the entire group had been stuck in one of the distortions for hours without even noticing it. And the breeze that Kynidris and Coalbrow had felt was "Berry" walking past them in real-time.

After having provided this bit of exposition, Berry jumped down a cliff (which was actually not too terrible because it was not very steep and the man could easily walk down its side) and the group proceeded forward. There was an amusing incident with Kynidris getting stuck in another time distortion and all of a sudden being stuck in slow-time. Coalbrow promptly ran into it after her. Then, trying to be incredibly helpful, also pulled Arthuron in after him. The entire confusion was finally ended by Serendipity who Fortunately knew a thing or two about temporal magic and cast Time Warp which made everyone temporarily immune to time distortions.

It was now possible to regroup properly and proceed forward again. Berry the mage showed up again not far from the latest distortion. He had decided to come clean and tell his story in hopes that perhaps the adventurers could somehow help him. As it turned out, he had recently learned that the young prince Arthas had gone insane and intended to assassinate his father, king Terenas II. The mage wanted to travel back in time to be able to warn the king...

Except this had happened a decade ago. King Terenas was dead, Arthas was dead and quite a few more terrible events had happened as well (such as a dragon breaking the world, old gods, silithids, pandas and the like). Berry had been unstuck in time for quite a while.

The mage had a solution, of course. As Serendipity likes to say: "Magic!" He would just go back in time and fix everything.

Meganohberrysome waved his hands, cast his spell and... disintegrated into dust. Clearly time travel was not something meant for someone who was not a bronze dragon. Poor Berry. There was nothing the group could do except shake their heads in sadness and walk away. Hopefully the local time distortion anomalies would either be gone after the wizard died, or at least would disappear... in time.




And then there is the A-plot. Which I personally disliked immensely, so if someone else wants to have a go, feel free to do so!

In short:

As mentioned earlier, a young boy named "Cam" ran into the group. Quite literally, as he bumped into Coalbrow. According to the boy, his parents had been killed by the Scourge and now he wanted to grow up to be a great warrior. So instead of doing the sensible thing and finding someone in Venture Bay who knew the kid (someone must have, a child really doesn't survive in such a place without someone watching over him at least a little), Aroona decided to pick the boy up and bring him with them.

Cam was fairly reasonable and quiet during the B-plot, but then went off his rocker and flipped out when poor Berry poofed into dust. From that point forward the kid decided to unrelentingly blame the group for the death of the wizard, the death of his parents, and anything and everything else. It took a lot of effort to catch the brat who ran away, yelled blame at everyone, wanted to jump off a cliff and did other such annoying things. Roo probably sprained some muscles in her eyes because she was glaring so hard at people who were less than enthusiastic towards the kid. The boy was finally sedated, taken back to Venture Bay, put on the next ship to Stormwind and shipped off.
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