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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Levi Cutscene

The priest of Vecna found himself floating again. The gray light that shined with no direction was actually calming, and having no landmarks to see made the stomach a bit queasy. The corner walls of a room come into view, and he thinks himself forward and lands on the plush carpet. The two enormous book cases are easily twenty feet tall and ten feet wide. Filled with books and dust from unknown ages, a single book, easily six feet wide lays out open to a page near the middle . Reading the undecipherable script is impossible, but then the letters rearrange themselves into the common tongue. Further reading and images begin to flood the brain quicker and quicker then...
You are standing in a ornate and expensive garden, the full noon day sun beats down and a well appointed woman is standing near,urging you on. The candle stands just three feet away unlit, and you raise your finger and it lights. The woman claps and smiles, fades...Nighttime. Fire. Mob with weapons charging through the beautiful garden, trampling the flowers. Woman in night gown dragged by her hair out under the stars. Stately official reading from a scroll but you only hear the woman sobbing. You struggle but strong arms grip you tight. The sword falls in a slow arc as the top of her head flings off with a snick, and equally as quick is the secondary swing that removes her head. 
"Now for the boy!" the official says, "we need to be rid of these witches once and for all!" The men drag you kicking to in front of the swordsman and force you to kneel.
"Vecna you have been found guilty of witchcraft and by order of the Crown of  Fleeth I condemn your soul to the pits of Hell!"

The swordsman raises the sword and you close your eyes and imagine yourself far away with your mother and you think you hear a voice in that silence. A quick rush of air and you are standing on a hill outside of town, turning your back you walk into the night.
The page of the enormous book turns to the next page.
A baby being born, screams, blood, and a dripping sound. A cry turns to a howl as the scaled head and nub horns followed by rows of sharp teeth, hellish eyes, and claws gripping at the air. Fades...cambion(half-demon) lighting a candle with a flick of a finger. A undead man with red coal eyes steps from the shadows and says his name is Vecna, and that he can take you from this place and teach you as a apprentice, agreeing he departs knowing that at night a torch wielding mob will burn his house to the ground along with his mother. 
Riding a horse over a field of battle and into a walled city, rides you,Vecna, and a vampire warrior in front of a army of undead and living alike.
"And so the capital of Fleeth falls," adds the lich Vecna, "farewell not! None shall know of your existence for I shall wipe it from the histories!"

Fades...
Standing in the shadow of a tall single tower in the afternoon sun, you watch as Vecna and a the vampire warrior argue about tactics and then finally about the who controls what. Sword flashes, fires scorch, an explosion in a great cloud of dust and smoke, throwing you far into the field....darkness.
A multitude of wandering days, hungry, tired and lost. Finding a cave you find provisions...and what appears to be a secret lab of some sort. Turning it into a arcane lab was easy. Now to get the materials. Performing the ritual, becoming a lich,
"Now the work begins" 
The book turns again. 
A beautiful towered city rises majestically into the sky. Slim bridges join spans and people look out and walk along them. Then the sky darkens, and the people begin to lay down where they are and go to sleep.  Thousands of people suddenly sleeping, darkness, cold, lifedraining.
Flash of dark horrific towers piercing the darkness amid flashes of lightning. Crumbling bridges and a soul numbing cold.

Now the page turns and the images are now of watching from a distance and flying over low treetops. A full moon is high in the sky illuminating a open space and a mound of earthwork and boulders layed out to form a skull when seen from the air.
The book closes and library disappears and you fall asleep only to wake up in a Secure shelter.






 

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