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Part 1: The Awakening
Four mysterious men and women woke up in the lonesome darkness with only a lit lantern on hand they stumble blindly in the dark.
Suddenly a great beast appeared from the darkness and attacked them. The beast was relentless and hungry, Some of them was heavily injured and someone was attacked by the lion so hard that his head exploded upon impact with the beast’s powerful claws. In the end the beast also suffered heavy injuries in its temple and in its belly that is now trailing its intestines on the ground but in the end one of the survivor dealt the finishing blow killing the beast.
Part 2: Lion’s Bane
Draging their dead they wandered the darkness and found a faint light on the horizon, they followed it and found 6 more men and women gathered around a pile of latterns and they decided with the 6 others to make it their home, thus the Lion’s Bane seatlement was founded. One of them stand above everyone to establish their own language and from the darkness they established organ grinders, a skinners and bone smiths. They buried their dead and mourned for him, but life must go on. They made weapons from the bones and organs of the beast and armors from hide of the beast.
Part 3: First Official Hunt
Within their dwindling food supply they are now forced to hunt great beast to survive they made a hunting party of 4 and went back to the darkness, they found a lion cub and they decided not to kill it and their moods was uplifted and they found an unsuspecting white lion and ambushed the low level white lion.
The lion was hard to kill they suffered heavy injuries and someone bled out and died in their hunting party but ultimately they killed the beast and took what can be harvested from the beast. The survivors went back to their settlement a bit stronger before they left.
Part 4: Lantern year 2
Upon returning one of the survivors dreamed the wierdiest dream. She shared it to another survivor and this survivor tells the wierdiest tale about a monster and she was running with all her might and in the end the monster was only her shadow.
Now that they successfully hunted their 2nd lion with all the lion parts within their disposal they founded a catarium where they can fashion armors and weapons from the parts of the white lion.
With the threat of starvation the survivors form a hunting party again but now is different there are more survivors willing to join the hunt with new weapons and armors equip they hunted.
Their hunt preference was the White Lion.
Part 5: The Third hunt
While on the hunt the found the white lion and again they suffered heavy injuries but this time they already have experience and nobody died. The great beast died in their hands and they harvested a lot from that lion.
Part 6: Lantern year 3
The survivors return home to Lion’s Bane they founded a hovel and some other things but suddenly an earthquake hits the settlement but luckily nobody was harm but their hovel was severely damaged.
Then from the distance they heard a maddening scream where all the survivor hudled in fear one survivor gathered his wits and courage and became the voice of reason where he was driven mad of the terrible screams and gathered everybody to look for the source.
Part 7: The Screaming Antelope
The man gathered 6 survivors including himself to look for the screaming source as they ventured out they encountered toxic pools that drive them mad and end up attacking each other. Ultimately they located the source of the madding screaming it was a large antelope with a gaping hole where its belly supposed to be with a closer look it was a large disgusting mouth. It saw them and galloped towards them, they scrambled, ducked and dodged, the antelope drew closer at the same time a survivor struck it on its throat with all his strength and with all the luck in the world crushed the monster’s wind pipe. With a single hit the antelope stops in its tracks and crashes to the ground wailed its final maddening screams for the last time and died. The survivors rejoiced and thanked whatever gods they believed in but after that last scream a survivor was so affected by it that it cause him to delve deeper to his insanity.
Part 8: The Butcher
After the terrifying but successful hunt of a Screaming Antelope the survivors returned to Lion’s Bane full of good spirits and optimism because non of the hunting party died so they rejoiced, cheer and danced, yes they discovered that they can dance, they danced and danced and danced they even put up a show showing the brave hunter during the hunt in a form of an enactment where their bravest face off a terrifying monster and for the first time they were happy but it was short lived for on the horizon their was a mysterious man walking towards Lion’s Den. As the survivors spotted him they notice two things, one, this man was monstrously large and two, he carried two cleaver like weapons in each hand. As the man moves closer and closer to the settlement the survivors rushed, the hunters equipped their gears and prepare for the worst.
Then the large man howled, a bone chilling howl that even the veterans were afraid, the survivors choose to fight this large man for they know losing to this man may lead to their village extinction, so they run towards the man and attack him head on. It was a bloody battle, blow after blow after blow, they manage to Knocked down the Man twice and dealt damage to it and in return the man also frail wildly that the surrounding survivors got knocked back and knocked down, one of the survivors was so bloody and was in an inch of dying but slowly the survivors fought back and gain the upper hand and slowly do damage after damage to the large man and with all his strength a survivor dealt the final blow so strong that it cleaved the head of the man clean off his shoulders. The large man dies on the spot still standing.
Recovering from the shock the survivors shouted in joy for they have beaten the most dangerous foe they have encountered so far and they they feel much much stronger.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
-Mark Twain
Part 9: The aftermath and another antelope
After the butcher demise the survivors celebrated and cheered for they have repelled a major threat for now and after the celebration they went back to their usual life and decided to hunt another antelope to feed the settlement. During the hunt they found a field of archantus plants scattered a good sign that they were in the right track after another couple of hours they found a half eaten antelope dead they were lucky it seems that the killer was already long gone they scavenge the antelope for its pelt and horns and went on. At last they saw the beast grazing on the field one of the survivors try to ambush it on the other side of the field while the 3 directly at it only a pillar block there way, it saw them approach, the antelope ran to ward the singled out survivor. That survivor went up a stone faced obstacle to get a better position on the beast and drew his bow and shot two arrows but it missed. The other survivors ran toward the beast and try to catch up to the beast. The beast was angered and attack the guy on the the large stone faced the survivor was hit by the attack a suffered light injury, that survivor his name was Arcan realizing that his comrades are too far to help him he drew his bow again and shoot at the beast the shots were true and pierced the beast making it bleed while it try to run, his other comrades still a long way try their best to catch up. The beast ran towards the neariest plant and graze on it while it graze on the plant Arcan swore that the wounds he inflicted earlier was healing.
Arcan draw his bow again and shot at the beast it damaged the beast. The beast now replenished ran toward Arcan, turn its back on him and kick him with all its might. The last thing Arcan saw was his arms flying and his armless torso before his fire went out and died on shock. Arcan was a brave soul struck down in the prime of his youth. The other survivors saw this and was enraged that this beast killed a brother and now they have catched up they can now unleashed hell to the beast back and forth, blow by blow they withered the beast vitality their brittle swords and darts shattered from the hide and teeth of the beast. Two fighters tried several times to use their special synchronized attack skill which they both trained together for long and inflicted some more wounds. The beast ramed them one by one and also ate the plants to heal its wounds but in the end with its dying wail the three remaining survivors killed the beast.
They went home with a dead body and they mourned for him but life has to move on.
There are now few of them in the settlement there were 3 dead and only 7 living they need to to find a way to to increase their numbers so they decided to couple up and make babies. The chieftain Parin courted successful Kaesi and produced twins – a boy and a girl, while the other couple produced a boy and they all decided that the kids in their settlement will be raised without mercy for the founders received no mercy as well.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao Tzu
Part 10: The Lantern Heat
One lucky night as the survivors were all sleeping, one of the lantern of their lantern pile accidentally broke off and fell to the ground. A sudden flash of heat bathes the survivors, now shattered the lantern light dies but a seed of ideas started to grow. The nominated survivor with his full of understanding and knowledge try to experiment with the broken lantern. He shook it vigorously and it bursts into a blue light with a distinct hissing sound, the lantern grows hot in the survivor’s clenched fist, burning their flesh, He bellow in primal triumph as he gain a special ability.
Hunger now approaching the settlement and the survivors need to hunt once again to provide food. This time their where 4 hunters, their chieftain remained in the settlement to look after his twins. During the hunt the 4 hunters notice claw marks on the ground indicating that a white lion is near by, suddenly for some unknown phenomenon that started to age very quickly before they realized in the midst of the tall grasses they found a white lion Cub, without second thoughts they killed the cub a gathered it resources but suddenly out of the blue a Female white lion jumped in front of the hunters, it was a large female bigger that the last lion that they hunted and it was enraged. it run up to a hunter and swiped its claws towards him dealing damage to that hunter, The hunter retaliated armed with their bow, Katars, Spear, Ax, Fist and tooth, one by one they hit and damage the lion but one of the survivor got lucky to hit the beast on its heart, with all his might the Beast fell on its face, dead. the hunters celebrated their hunt and they were right the beast was indeed bigger than all the lion they hunted so far. the hunters went home full of the spoils of their hunt, happy.
Part 11: The King’s Men
Chaos erupted as the survivors began to speak, yell, and shriek at one another. Panic began to take hold as a realization quickly dawned on the survivors. They had lost their common language.
The frightened babble ceased in an instant as a piercing cry cut through the noise. All eyes turned to resolve, as happened so many times before. His lone arm raised, palm out, he began to speak, and his words held power. The strength of his conviction infused his words, wrenching the other survivors from the clutches of the madness that had stolen their common language. The chieftain try to calm everybody down but it was futile even he begun to babble and mumble.
Shortly after the confusion, the clang of armored feet rang out from the darkness. A double column of heavily armored men, approached. Equal parts nervousness and dread filled the survivors as the strangers marched ever closer to the light of the lantern horde.
They demanded to hand over our veterans to them without questions but we have only one veteran and that’s our chieftain his name is Parin Dar. Parin refuses to go with them and took arms, the King’s man saw this as resistance and ready his fighting stance.
There were 5 survivors that were willing to stand by their chieftain and these are their name:
Brainless Nerevar fool of the antelope who was good in hand to hand combat,
Brainless Guile nick of the lantern the specialist in using Katars,
Murap Dar son of Parin Dar with an ax for his weapon,
Ryu the son of Guile who was good with a bow and
Parin Dar the Chieftain with his King’s spear rushed to the King’s man screaming and wailing battle cries.
But sadly the survivors fell one by one by the spear of the king’s man. It was a very close fight. Together they managed to wound the Kings Man badly, but the fight was too long and to devastating as that they could beat the experienced battle-hardened enemy. Murap Dar died in shock upon losing his arm to the king’s man. Guile bled painful and slowly to death. Parin Dar, the chieftain suffered a shattered jaw, several broken ribs from the swinging side of the crushing spear, and a destroyed back. Despite all this he was still fighting, knowing that everything was at stake, but in the end he also bled out and died with last thoughts on his beloved wife Kaesi Dar. Nerevar also suffered a shattered jaw and a broken rib as he fought an the king’s mans spear struck him on his waist disemboweling him. He tried to fight back with his intestines hanging out of him but he also bled out and died in pain. Last but not least it was on Ryu, son of Guile, who kept shooting his arrows to the monstrous man but to no avail. His arms were shaking and it seemed that he couldn’t land a killing blow. First the King’s Man destroyed the man’s genitals and dismembered one leg but still Ryu never stopped firing those arrows in hope to struck the enemy down. But at the end Ryu loss both of his legs and bled to death. His last view was on the 4 other comrades who scattered on the ground, dead. After the slaughter the King’s Man was satisfied that he killed a veteran went away silently back to the darkness and thus there were now 1 male and 6 females left in Lion’s Bane mourning their dead.
Part 12: Under new Leadership
Silence was over Lion’s Bane. The deaths of 5 hunters was a crippling loss to the settlement with one male left and the most experienced within the group he became the new chieftain and wed a female were the bore a set of twin boys, but the boys were special.
The newborns vanishes from the loving arms of the settlement for a fraction of a second. In that second, they spend a lifetime in the domain of the Ethereal Dreamer and returns with a dream of the lantern.
After that the settlement rejoices, danced and do all sorts of merry making they have to to this sort of things for they know that tomorrow someone may die yet again.
The food supply is now dwindling they need to hunt once again, so they made a hunting party of 3 males and 1 female and went out to the darkness. as they were looking for their prey they yet again entered a strange place in the darkness a phenomenon that times seems to go very fast they have heard the stories from their veterans, now they were ready for it they closed their eyes, hold hands together a ran as fast as they can when they open their eyes their was a beast waiting for them a Huge beast bigger that the stories shared with them and it was a male White Lion. The Lion ran towards them and bared its claw towards them hitting the closest survivor standing. after a long back and forth battle one of the survivors got lucky with a bow and hit the beast on its genitals severing its balls from it, this made the beast roared in agony and hatred towards that survivors that the beast now has this specific survivor within its sights this survivor suffered a great deal of punishment from the beast as he was nearly mauled to death by the beast but in the end team work and hard work came through for the survivors and at last killed the Beast. The survivors gathered everything they need from the lion and went home to eat, rejoice and importantly heal.
Part 13: Phoenix Feather
One day the survivors saw a large looming shadow passing their settlement, they do not know what it is, all they know that it was a gigantic monstrous bird like creature. As this creature pass through Lion’s bane a feather fell from the sky and landed in the middle of the settlement. The survivors were so afraid they cower from the sight. But one of the survivors was brave enough to approach the feather and examine it, when he touched the feather he was suddenly filled with rage that he shredded the feather into pieces.
Later on that morning some bellies were empty as hunger striked the settlement. With a little of fire and some made shift pots and pans they learn how to cooked by themselves but cooked bugs and plant are not filling so they decided to hunt once more.
They search high and low for any beast they already encountered, anything but the beast flying around earlier, at last they saw signs of a white lion they followed the trail leading to the beast but the beast was also stalking them and without warning the beast attacked, it was large, angry and hungry. It used its natural dagger claws to ripped flesh and sadly Quin, Partner of Maximilian, fell prey by the beast sharp claws with all the beast’s strength it hit Quin on her head. With a thump the head exploded into bite size chunks of gore all over the the Beast Claws. The rest of the survivors that witness the death of yet another comrade was devastated but they still push and attacked the beast cornering it crippling its legs and at last the beast died. Mixed emotions flooded the survivors that they know killing this beast will bring ample of food to the settlement and if they are well fed they can live another year but with them slowly dwindling in numbers the only thing that’s left to do is survive.
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. – Edward Albert
Part 14: Bringing Down a Phoenix
After the long walk going back to Lion’s Bane, The survivors was met by the rest of their tribesmen, they are now so few that you can count them with two hands as they sat quietly and ate their previous hunt. They thank their luck for the meal and fear that their time in this mysterious place wont be long. as a another year pass they all decided to hunt that mysterious bird like creature that keeps on passing their settlement.
They gathered 5 people out of the 11 people and made a hunting party only the experienced were allowed to go to this hunt for they planning to hunt that monstrous bird in the mountains.
So they set out and a day after they saw it. The Monstrous bird like creature perch on top of a large tree with lanterns hanging on it. It was so huge that the survivors thought that they were as big as its claws. They named it a phoenix for its red fiery feathers. As they approach the Phoenix saw them coming, it screeched and approached the closest survivor it can reach and attacked him while this was happening the other survivors found cover and regrouped. The phoenix returned to the tree and screeched a bone chilling screech that the previous survivor attacked by it starting to age rapidly as the other survivors looked on they are now terrified to be hit by the claws of the beast even more. Back and forth they attack the beast one by one until the beast was already heavily injured they know this because the beast movement was restraint and the damage it dealt was bit bearable.
In the end the beast fell from the sky dead with minimum injury suffered by the hunting party they celebrate their kill and were excited to bring it to the settlement to be feasted by their tribesmen.
Part 15: Beginning of the End
When the survivors returned they heard a very familiar sound – the clang of armored feet rang out from the darkness. A double column of heavily armored men, approached once again. Equal parts nervousness and dread filled the survivors as the strangers marched even closer to the light of the lantern horde.
It was the King’s Men once again. It was like before but they didn’t demanded anything like before out the the multiple armored men one step out and readied it’s halberd and sword. The scene scared the survivors but after enduring this in the past its now their change to take revenge for their Father’s and Mother’s who were slaughtered by these King’s men in the past.
Equipped by the knowledge in dealing with these so called King’s men the survivors were ready for them and strike first. The King’s man only stood there and took everything they dished out after they all of them had a chance to attacked the king’s man moved with its blinding speed and stroke the nearest survivor with its halberd. The survivor was flown a bit of distance of the strike landing on his back. It was going well for the survivors they attack one by one the king’s man suffered damaging blows from the survivors but that good streak was about to melt in front of the survivors’ faces. The king’s man methodically separated the survivors and dealt the finishing blow to one of the survivors decapitating his head. Eventually the survivors’ morale fell as they found themselves killed one by one by the relentless king’s man. Two survivors were left and they decided to run away from there faith. They succeeded in running away but to were are they running away to? There is only the settlement and the unknown darkness. They cannot go back to the settlement for the other king’s men were now starting to slaughter the remaining people there. Their only chance is to escape to the unknown darkness where they were never heard of again.
As the dust settled, the settlement was now in ruins and dead bodies were all scattered everywhere. And thus this was the end of Lion’s Bane and the end of this tale.
Thank you for reading and thank you for being a part of this journey.
Thank you for the players who took part
Sven – Loran, Parin Dar, Arisi
Jam – Quinn
Kendrick – Tyro, Guile, Acacia
Marc – Arcan, Ryu, Eremis
Mychall- Murap, Mike
Adrian – Niruwar, Nirawarine, Bob II
Cathy – Kaesi
Jerald – Maximilian
Lance – Tyrrus, Lydia
We all died at Lantern 9. Congratulations!!!
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Part 1: The Awakening
Four mysterious men and women woke up in the lonesome darkness with only a lit lantern on hand they stumble blindly in the dark.
Suddenly a great beast appeared from the darkness and attacked them. The beast was relentless and hungry, Some of them was heavily injured and someone was attacked by the lion so hard that his head exploded upon impact with the beast’s powerful claws. In the end the beast also suffered heavy injuries in its temple and in its belly that is now trailing its intestines on the ground but in the end one of the survivor dealt the finishing blow killing the beast.
Part 2: Lion’s Bane
Draging their dead they wandered the darkness and found a faint light on the horizon, they followed it and found 6 more men and women gathered around a pile of latterns and they decided with the 6 others to make it their home, thus the Lion’s Bane seatlement was founded. One of them stand above everyone to establish their own language and from the darkness they established organ grinders, a skinners and bone smiths. They buried their dead and mourned for him, but life must go on. They made weapons from the bones and organs of the beast and armors from hide of the beast.
Part 3: First Official Hunt
Within their dwindling food supply they are now forced to hunt great beast to survive they made a hunting party of 4 and went back to the darkness, they found a lion cub and they decided not to kill it and their moods was uplifted and they found an unsuspecting white lion and ambushed the low level white lion.
The lion was hard to kill they suffered heavy injuries and someone bled out and died in their hunting party but ultimately they killed the beast and took what can be harvested from the beast. The survivors went back to their settlement a bit stronger before they left.
Part 4: Lantern year 2
Upon returning one of the survivors dreamed the wierdiest dream. She shared it to another survivor and this survivor tells the wierdiest tale about a monster and she was running with all her might and in the end the monster was only her shadow.
Now that they successfully hunted their 2nd lion with all the lion parts within their disposal they founded a catarium where they can fashion armors and weapons from the parts of the white lion.
With the threat of starvation the survivors form a hunting party again but now is different there are more survivors willing to join the hunt with new weapons and armors equip they hunted.
Their hunt preference was the White Lion.
Part 5: The Third hunt
While on the hunt the found the white lion and again they suffered heavy injuries but this time they already have experience and nobody died. The great beast died in their hands and they harvested a lot from that lion.
Part 6: Lantern year 3
The survivors return home to Lion’s Bane they founded a hovel and some other things but suddenly an earthquake hits the settlement but luckily nobody was harm but their hovel was severely damaged.
Then from the distance they heard a maddening scream where all the survivor hudled in fear one survivor gathered his wits and courage and became the voice of reason where he was driven mad of the terrible screams and gathered everybody to look for the source.
Part 7: The Screaming Antelope
The man gathered 6 survivors including himself to look for the screaming source as they ventured out they encountered toxic pools that drive them mad and end up attacking each other. Ultimately they located the source of the madding screaming it was a large antelope with a gaping hole where its belly supposed to be with a closer look it was a large disgusting mouth. It saw them and galloped towards them, they scrambled, ducked and dodged, the antelope drew closer at the same time a survivor struck it on its throat with all his strength and with all the luck in the world crushed the monster’s wind pipe. With a single hit the antelope stops in its tracks and crashes to the ground wailed its final maddening screams for the last time and died. The survivors rejoiced and thanked whatever gods they believed in but after that last scream a survivor was so affected by it that it cause him to delve deeper to his insanity.
Part 8: The Butcher
After the terrifying but successful hunt of a Screaming Antelope the survivors returned to Lion’s Bane full of good spirits and optimism because non of the hunting party died so they rejoiced, cheer and danced, yes they discovered that they can dance, they danced and danced and danced they even put up a show showing the brave hunter during the hunt in a form of an enactment where their bravest face off a terrifying monster and for the first time they were happy but it was short lived for on the horizon their was a mysterious man walking towards Lion’s Den. As the survivors spotted him they notice two things, one, this man was monstrously large and two, he carried two cleaver like weapons in each hand. As the man moves closer and closer to the settlement the survivors rushed, the hunters equipped their gears and prepare for the worst.
Then the large man howled, a bone chilling howl that even the veterans were afraid, the survivors choose to fight this large man for they know losing to this man may lead to their village extinction, so they run towards the man and attack him head on. It was a bloody battle, blow after blow after blow, they manage to Knocked down the Man twice and dealt damage to it and in return the man also frail wildly that the surrounding survivors got knocked back and knocked down, one of the survivors was so bloody and was in an inch of dying but slowly the survivors fought back and gain the upper hand and slowly do damage after damage to the large man and with all his strength a survivor dealt the final blow so strong that it cleaved the head of the man clean off his shoulders. The large man dies on the spot still standing.
Recovering from the shock the survivors shouted in joy for they have beaten the most dangerous foe they have encountered so far and they they feel much much stronger.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
-Mark Twain
Part 9: The aftermath and another antelope
After the butcher demise the survivors celebrated and cheered for they have repelled a major threat for now and after the celebration they went back to their usual life and decided to hunt another antelope to feed the settlement. During the hunt they found a field of archantus plants scattered a good sign that they were in the right track after another couple of hours they found a half eaten antelope dead they were lucky it seems that the killer was already long gone they scavenge the antelope for its pelt and horns and went on. At last they saw the beast grazing on the field one of the survivors try to ambush it on the other side of the field while the 3 directly at it only a pillar block there way, it saw them approach, the antelope ran to ward the singled out survivor. That survivor went up a stone faced obstacle to get a better position on the beast and drew his bow and shot two arrows but it missed. The other survivors ran toward the beast and try to catch up to the beast. The beast was angered and attack the guy on the the large stone faced the survivor was hit by the attack a suffered light injury, that survivor his name was Arcan realizing that his comrades are too far to help him he drew his bow again and shoot at the beast the shots were true and pierced the beast making it bleed while it try to run, his other comrades still a long way try their best to catch up. The beast ran towards the neariest plant and graze on it while it graze on the plant Arcan swore that the wounds he inflicted earlier was healing.
Arcan draw his bow again and shot at the beast it damaged the beast. The beast now replenished ran toward Arcan, turn its back on him and kick him with all its might. The last thing Arcan saw was his arms flying and his armless torso before his fire went out and died on shock. Arcan was a brave soul struck down in the prime of his youth. The other survivors saw this and was enraged that this beast killed a brother and now they have catched up they can now unleashed hell to the beast back and forth, blow by blow they withered the beast vitality their brittle swords and darts shattered from the hide and teeth of the beast. Two fighters tried several times to use their special synchronized attack skill which they both trained together for long and inflicted some more wounds. The beast ramed them one by one and also ate the plants to heal its wounds but in the end with its dying wail the three remaining survivors killed the beast.
They went home with a dead body and they mourned for him but life has to move on.
There are now few of them in the settlement there were 3 dead and only 7 living they need to to find a way to to increase their numbers so they decided to couple up and make babies. The chieftain Parin courted successful Kaesi and produced twins – a boy and a girl, while the other couple produced a boy and they all decided that the kids in their settlement will be raised without mercy for the founders received no mercy as well.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao Tzu
Part 10: The Lantern Heat
One lucky night as the survivors were all sleeping, one of the lantern of their lantern pile accidentally broke off and fell to the ground. A sudden flash of heat bathes the survivors, now shattered the lantern light dies but a seed of ideas started to grow. The nominated survivor with his full of understanding and knowledge try to experiment with the broken lantern. He shook it vigorously and it bursts into a blue light with a distinct hissing sound, the lantern grows hot in the survivor’s clenched fist, burning their flesh, He bellow in primal triumph as he gain a special ability.
Hunger now approaching the settlement and the survivors need to hunt once again to provide food. This time their where 4 hunters, their chieftain remained in the settlement to look after his twins. During the hunt the 4 hunters notice claw marks on the ground indicating that a white lion is near by, suddenly for some unknown phenomenon that started to age very quickly before they realized in the midst of the tall grasses they found a white lion Cub, without second thoughts they killed the cub a gathered it resources but suddenly out of the blue a Female white lion jumped in front of the hunters, it was a large female bigger that the last lion that they hunted and it was enraged. it run up to a hunter and swiped its claws towards him dealing damage to that hunter, The hunter retaliated armed with their bow, Katars, Spear, Ax, Fist and tooth, one by one they hit and damage the lion but one of the survivor got lucky to hit the beast on its heart, with all his might the Beast fell on its face, dead. the hunters celebrated their hunt and they were right the beast was indeed bigger than all the lion they hunted so far. the hunters went home full of the spoils of their hunt, happy.
Part 11: The King’s Men
Chaos erupted as the survivors began to speak, yell, and shriek at one another. Panic began to take hold as a realization quickly dawned on the survivors. They had lost their common language.
The frightened babble ceased in an instant as a piercing cry cut through the noise. All eyes turned to resolve, as happened so many times before. His lone arm raised, palm out, he began to speak, and his words held power. The strength of his conviction infused his words, wrenching the other survivors from the clutches of the madness that had stolen their common language. The chieftain try to calm everybody down but it was futile even he begun to babble and mumble.
Shortly after the confusion, the clang of armored feet rang out from the darkness. A double column of heavily armored men, approached. Equal parts nervousness and dread filled the survivors as the strangers marched ever closer to the light of the lantern horde.
They demanded to hand over our veterans to them without questions but we have only one veteran and that’s our chieftain his name is Parin Dar. Parin refuses to go with them and took arms, the King’s man saw this as resistance and ready his fighting stance.
There were 5 survivors that were willing to stand by their chieftain and these are their name:
Brainless Nerevar fool of the antelope who was good in hand to hand combat,
Brainless Guile nick of the lantern the specialist in using Katars,
Murap Dar son of Parin Dar with an ax for his weapon,
Ryu the son of Guile who was good with a bow and
Parin Dar the Chieftain with his King’s spear rushed to the King’s man screaming and wailing battle cries.
But sadly the survivors fell one by one by the spear of the king’s man. It was a very close fight. Together they managed to wound the Kings Man badly, but the fight was too long and to devastating as that they could beat the experienced battle-hardened enemy. Murap Dar died in shock upon losing his arm to the king’s man. Guile bled painful and slowly to death. Parin Dar, the chieftain suffered a shattered jaw, several broken ribs from the swinging side of the crushing spear, and a destroyed back. Despite all this he was still fighting, knowing that everything was at stake, but in the end he also bled out and died with last thoughts on his beloved wife Kaesi Dar. Nerevar also suffered a shattered jaw and a broken rib as he fought an the king’s mans spear struck him on his waist disemboweling him. He tried to fight back with his intestines hanging out of him but he also bled out and died in pain. Last but not least it was on Ryu, son of Guile, who kept shooting his arrows to the monstrous man but to no avail. His arms were shaking and it seemed that he couldn’t land a killing blow. First the King’s Man destroyed the man’s genitals and dismembered one leg but still Ryu never stopped firing those arrows in hope to struck the enemy down. But at the end Ryu loss both of his legs and bled to death. His last view was on the 4 other comrades who scattered on the ground, dead. After the slaughter the King’s Man was satisfied that he killed a veteran went away silently back to the darkness and thus there were now 1 male and 6 females left in Lion’s Bane mourning their dead.
Part 12: Under new Leadership
Silence was over Lion’s Bane. The deaths of 5 hunters was a crippling loss to the settlement with one male left and the most experienced within the group he became the new chieftain and wed a female were the bore a set of twin boys, but the boys were special.
The newborns vanishes from the loving arms of the settlement for a fraction of a second. In that second, they spend a lifetime in the domain of the Ethereal Dreamer and returns with a dream of the lantern.
After that the settlement rejoices, danced and do all sorts of merry making they have to to this sort of things for they know that tomorrow someone may die yet again.
The food supply is now dwindling they need to hunt once again, so they made a hunting party of 3 males and 1 female and went out to the darkness. as they were looking for their prey they yet again entered a strange place in the darkness a phenomenon that times seems to go very fast they have heard the stories from their veterans, now they were ready for it they closed their eyes, hold hands together a ran as fast as they can when they open their eyes their was a beast waiting for them a Huge beast bigger that the stories shared with them and it was a male White Lion. The Lion ran towards them and bared its claw towards them hitting the closest survivor standing. after a long back and forth battle one of the survivors got lucky with a bow and hit the beast on its genitals severing its balls from it, this made the beast roared in agony and hatred towards that survivors that the beast now has this specific survivor within its sights this survivor suffered a great deal of punishment from the beast as he was nearly mauled to death by the beast but in the end team work and hard work came through for the survivors and at last killed the Beast. The survivors gathered everything they need from the lion and went home to eat, rejoice and importantly heal.
Part 13: Phoenix Feather
One day the survivors saw a large looming shadow passing their settlement, they do not know what it is, all they know that it was a gigantic monstrous bird like creature. As this creature pass through Lion’s bane a feather fell from the sky and landed in the middle of the settlement. The survivors were so afraid they cower from the sight. But one of the survivors was brave enough to approach the feather and examine it, when he touched the feather he was suddenly filled with rage that he shredded the feather into pieces.
Later on that morning some bellies were empty as hunger striked the settlement. With a little of fire and some made shift pots and pans they learn how to cooked by themselves but cooked bugs and plant are not filling so they decided to hunt once more.
They search high and low for any beast they already encountered, anything but the beast flying around earlier, at last they saw signs of a white lion they followed the trail leading to the beast but the beast was also stalking them and without warning the beast attacked, it was large, angry and hungry. It used its natural dagger claws to ripped flesh and sadly Quin, Partner of Maximilian, fell prey by the beast sharp claws with all the beast’s strength it hit Quin on her head. With a thump the head exploded into bite size chunks of gore all over the the Beast Claws. The rest of the survivors that witness the death of yet another comrade was devastated but they still push and attacked the beast cornering it crippling its legs and at last the beast died. Mixed emotions flooded the survivors that they know killing this beast will bring ample of food to the settlement and if they are well fed they can live another year but with them slowly dwindling in numbers the only thing that’s left to do is survive.
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. – Edward Albert
Part 14: Bringing Down a Phoenix
After the long walk going back to Lion’s Bane, The survivors was met by the rest of their tribesmen, they are now so few that you can count them with two hands as they sat quietly and ate their previous hunt. They thank their luck for the meal and fear that their time in this mysterious place wont be long. as a another year pass they all decided to hunt that mysterious bird like creature that keeps on passing their settlement.
They gathered 5 people out of the 11 people and made a hunting party only the experienced were allowed to go to this hunt for they planning to hunt that monstrous bird in the mountains.
So they set out and a day after they saw it. The Monstrous bird like creature perch on top of a large tree with lanterns hanging on it. It was so huge that the survivors thought that they were as big as its claws. They named it a phoenix for its red fiery feathers. As they approach the Phoenix saw them coming, it screeched and approached the closest survivor it can reach and attacked him while this was happening the other survivors found cover and regrouped. The phoenix returned to the tree and screeched a bone chilling screech that the previous survivor attacked by it starting to age rapidly as the other survivors looked on they are now terrified to be hit by the claws of the beast even more. Back and forth they attack the beast one by one until the beast was already heavily injured they know this because the beast movement was restraint and the damage it dealt was bit bearable.
In the end the beast fell from the sky dead with minimum injury suffered by the hunting party they celebrate their kill and were excited to bring it to the settlement to be feasted by their tribesmen.
Part 15: Beginning of the End
When the survivors returned they heard a very familiar sound – the clang of armored feet rang out from the darkness. A double column of heavily armored men, approached once again. Equal parts nervousness and dread filled the survivors as the strangers marched even closer to the light of the lantern horde.
It was the King’s Men once again. It was like before but they didn’t demanded anything like before out the the multiple armored men one step out and readied it’s halberd and sword. The scene scared the survivors but after enduring this in the past its now their change to take revenge for their Father’s and Mother’s who were slaughtered by these King’s men in the past.
Equipped by the knowledge in dealing with these so called King’s men the survivors were ready for them and strike first. The King’s man only stood there and took everything they dished out after they all of them had a chance to attacked the king’s man moved with its blinding speed and stroke the nearest survivor with its halberd. The survivor was flown a bit of distance of the strike landing on his back. It was going well for the survivors they attack one by one the king’s man suffered damaging blows from the survivors but that good streak was about to melt in front of the survivors’ faces. The king’s man methodically separated the survivors and dealt the finishing blow to one of the survivors decapitating his head. Eventually the survivors’ morale fell as they found themselves killed one by one by the relentless king’s man. Two survivors were left and they decided to run away from there faith. They succeeded in running away but to were are they running away to? There is only the settlement and the unknown darkness. They cannot go back to the settlement for the other king’s men were now starting to slaughter the remaining people there. Their only chance is to escape to the unknown darkness where they were never heard of again.
As the dust settled, the settlement was now in ruins and dead bodies were all scattered everywhere. And thus this was the end of Lion’s Bane and the end of this tale.
Thank you for reading and thank you for being a part of this journey.
Thank you for the players who took part
Sven – Loran, Parin Dar, Arisi
Jam – Quinn
Kendrick – Tyro, Guile, Acacia
Marc – Arcan, Ryu, Eremis
Mychall- Murap, Mike
Adrian – Niruwar, Nirawarine, Bob II
Cathy – Kaesi
Jerald – Maximilian
Lance – Tyrrus, Lydia
We all died at Lantern 9. Congratulations!!!
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