Death at my door.
I woke up this morning to the sound of many spells being cast and people screaming in pain, I looked out my bedroom window and saw nothing but my backyard green and lush as always. I walked to the entry way and looked out the window there I saw a man running by my front door with flames sprouting from his back. Immediately I ran outside to attempt to heal this man but he was gone from sight that’s when I heard the unmistakable sound of someone dieing from my neighbor’s house. I didn’t have time to investigate as some strange red robed mage stepped around the eastern corner of my house and without a word rushed at me as if to tackle me. Well I’ve been fighting for some time now and I’ve decided that if someone is running at you looking like they are going to attack you they probably are so I calmly said “Corp Por” to the gentleman he didn’t respond to that greeting other than stumbling a couple of steps so I said “Kal Vas Flam” this time he stopped in his tracks and said to me “Vas Flam” I felt my hair singe and face got hot for a second or two so I said to him again “Corp Por” and he said to me “aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!” and fell at my feet dead. I bent down to examine him then remembered the sounds of death from next door and went to investigate. There lay the corpse of Ben Cartwright at least I suppose that was his name it was stitched on his cloak anyway.
“Hey ghost come on out I can resurrect you.”
No response to my shouts so I went back to the business of searching this strange fellow who shot a fireball at me before I could even have my morning meal. The first thing I found was his purse or satchel if you will, it contained about 280 gp and a funny looking gem. Of course I pocketed these. I noticed this fellows name stitched in his cloak too he was called “Kronos” I had to look at this a couple of times for its awfully close to mine own name “Kronic”. Ahh well coincidence aside I looked at his cloak it was a nice blood red color, as a matter of fact all of his clothes blood red every stitch. Now I’m not a fashion critic by any means but I know when you’ve overdone something. Anyway I unhooked his cloak figured it would help keep out the morning chill but alas the thing disintegrated in my hands as though it had turned to ash, all of his clothing did this when I touched it. Talk about greedy he wouldn’t even give up his stuff after he was dead. A slight vibration in the ground, followed by a huge thudding sound, interrupted my thoughts. The sound got louder and louder then I saw the source of it, a colossal beast about the size of an earth elemental but very funny colored I thought perhaps I was seeing an elemental I hadn’t met before I spent so much time, in fact, studying this creature that I didn’t notice how fast it was moving. It swung one colossal fist and whapped me on my noggin I couldn’t see straight or even think much for that matter, I stumbled around in confusion and pain for a few seconds then regained my wits, I stood up straight, looked this beast in the eye and bravely ran for cover. From the tree in which I was hiding I shouted “Kal Vas Flam” and watched with satisfaction as the beast caught fire then I looked again it hadn’t even phased that thing. Still curious but not enough to die I ran again. This time when I looked back and saw it plowing through the trees and underbrush I took a few seconds and summoned a blade spirit no make that two blade spirits because within just a couple hits my first blade spirit was looking rather ragged around the edges. I summoned a third blade spirit about the time my first was destroyed; finally the beast fell to the onslaught of these three blade spirits. Ever the curious fellow I took a look inside this thing and found some diamonds a set of gears and yet another of these strange gems I had never seen before this morning. When I pulled the gem and the gears out the thing fell apart leaving scrap metal behind I called to the house where Forge was still asleep and asked him to come take a look at this.
Forge “Yep that theres iron all right guess I’ll smelt it down.”
“Yeah but what about the beast, what do you make of that?”
“What beast alls I see is a pile of metal rubbish.”
Well suffice it to say I didn’t spend much time arguing with him (what a lummox). I spent most of the rest of the day wandering through the woods behind my house finding these Mages and giant metallic beasts all over the place. Finally I ran into some other adventurers who were doing the same thing and I found out people are calling the mages Controllers and the metal fiends are called Golems. Apparently the Controllers are just that, controllers of the golems.
I found one other little oddity it looked like a strange box spouting electrical current from the top and surrounded by an energy field of some sort. There is a control panel on the front of this infernal device and I saw some intrepid fellow messing with it he moved a few things around then a few more things and took off running for the machine was making a very strange sound then it exploded leaving behind a large pile of shadow colored iron ore. I talked to this fellow for a few moments and found out that if you solve the controls on the front panel you can “kill” the machine. We had a bit of a break from the mages and golems then I heard that weird humming sound again and saw another control panel get assembled I started fighting the mages and golems again as the fellow who had destroyed the first panel went to work on solving this one. I paid him little attention while I was killing these mages then I heard the humming sound get louder and something sounded like it was frying in a fire, I looked back at the control panel and saw the machine frying the little fellow who thought he had it all figured out, soon enough I heard his death cry and I had to leave the area being low on mana and set upon by several of the golems.
I will not tolerate these fiends mucking about in my woods. I don’t mind sharing but these fellows apparently have something in mind that involves the demise of any they meet. Beware Controllers for I am hunting you now.
