Eternal
You decide that the best way to keep your mind off things is to keep yourself occupied. So you tell some of the Eyes to accompany you and tell the Eternals to keep a good watch over the engineers.
You remind the Eyes to follow you, as the danger of stepping into a negative zone is great. They all acknowledge your order apathetically and follow.
A few moments after the portals are both out of sight, you start to hear more complaining, bitching and overall whining. You’d swear you were travelling with Galen or several copies of him.
“Damn it, what the hell is wrong with you all? You’re supposed to be Eyes! Start acting like it before I have to make an example out of one you!”
“Oh what’s the point? We’re all dead men anyway!” one of the Eyes exclaims.
You travel a little longer and eventually you encounter a ruined structure. Probably not where the book is located, but no point in not checking it out since you’re already here.
You all approach the structure slowly. You because you’re cautious, the rest well because they’re all still suffering from the effects of the oppressive aura of Mortos.
When you get close enough an ugly head pops out from around the corner of the ruins. When it sees you it makes an inhuman scream and comes loping at you.
“Shit, ghoul. Quick, there will be a multitude of them!” you exclaim backing off and blasting the ghoul with a fireball.
As more ghouls come pouring out of the ruin, you motion the Eyes to prepare themselves for combat, which they do so but only reluctantly.
“COME ON! These fuckers are going to eat you!” you shout.
There aren’t as many ghouls like when you walked into that town of them last time, but there’s enough to be dangerous. You fight the ghouls with blade and spell, but your Eyes are barely putting up a fight despite you yelling at them and the very real threat of death the ghouls pose.
Pretty soon the ghouls begin to get the upper hand over your Eyes, some of whom have given up completely and practically laid down to die.
Frustrated by this place altogether you begin flinging fireballs at the ghouls regardless if the Eyes are in the vicinity or not. If the weak willed fools wish to die then so be it. Eventually the only thing left is you and many charred bodies.
You sit and rest for a moment from the battle. You realize that you’re going to have to train your people to endure this place. It’s obvious that this place is going to affect your people more than you realized…
Then suddenly a panic wells up inside you and you make haste back to the portal.
At first your major concern is that you’ll find everyone not doing their job or at worst dead by their own hand, the reality is much worse however.
The portal lies on the ground and partially broken, magic still powers it, but its highly unstable now and its changing different colors quickly. All the engineers are dead and some of your Eternals are too, but it doesn’t look like everyone took their own life. It looks more like a slaughter.
Two of the Eternals still live and have a deranged look in their eye; in fact they’re eating one of the engineers. It would appear that the negative aura of Mortos may have another side effect other than severe depression.
Upon seeing you, they both attack like a pair of ghouls. You easily put them down with a couple of magic bolts, but the damage is done.
You look at the portal and you ponder if you should risk going through it or possibly continue searching Mortos for the book and hope that maybe you could find a way out of here that way.
You also ponder if you just stayed put that maybe someone from Evigrus would try to send someone else with a rope tied to them through the portal and you could get home that way.
You ultimately do decide to wait for what you think is a few days but nobody shows up. You’re actually a little surprised, but then they might think that if going through killed you that what chance would any of them have?
This doesn’t have a good effect on your own morale which has been diminishing by the day due to the oppressive aura of Mortos and your current hopeless situation. You also haven’t eaten or drank anything for quite some time, you’re starting to feel those effects as well.
Lacking any other options, you decide that you’ll have to take a chance on the portal because you don’t think you’ll have the strength to find the book in your current condition, even if you had any idea where it might be located.
You stare into the portal, which still changes different colors rapidly. You don’t have a good feeling about this. You’re fairly certain in fact that you’ll wind up on the other side in pieces, but there is little choice in this matter.
“Well better an unknown risk than a certain death.” you say and you jump in…
The good news is you do make it out of Mortos in one piece.
The bad news is you reappear several miles under water in the middle of one of the oceans. Taken completely by surprise by this you gasp for air and your body cannot handle such crushing pressure.
Your dead body falls to the bottom ocean where it provides nourishment for the creatures that live there.
You remind the Eyes to follow you, as the danger of stepping into a negative zone is great. They all acknowledge your order apathetically and follow.
A few moments after the portals are both out of sight, you start to hear more complaining, bitching and overall whining. You’d swear you were travelling with Galen or several copies of him.
“Damn it, what the hell is wrong with you all? You’re supposed to be Eyes! Start acting like it before I have to make an example out of one you!”
“Oh what’s the point? We’re all dead men anyway!” one of the Eyes exclaims.
You travel a little longer and eventually you encounter a ruined structure. Probably not where the book is located, but no point in not checking it out since you’re already here.
You all approach the structure slowly. You because you’re cautious, the rest well because they’re all still suffering from the effects of the oppressive aura of Mortos.
When you get close enough an ugly head pops out from around the corner of the ruins. When it sees you it makes an inhuman scream and comes loping at you.
“Shit, ghoul. Quick, there will be a multitude of them!” you exclaim backing off and blasting the ghoul with a fireball.
As more ghouls come pouring out of the ruin, you motion the Eyes to prepare themselves for combat, which they do so but only reluctantly.
“COME ON! These fuckers are going to eat you!” you shout.
There aren’t as many ghouls like when you walked into that town of them last time, but there’s enough to be dangerous. You fight the ghouls with blade and spell, but your Eyes are barely putting up a fight despite you yelling at them and the very real threat of death the ghouls pose.
Pretty soon the ghouls begin to get the upper hand over your Eyes, some of whom have given up completely and practically laid down to die.
Frustrated by this place altogether you begin flinging fireballs at the ghouls regardless if the Eyes are in the vicinity or not. If the weak willed fools wish to die then so be it. Eventually the only thing left is you and many charred bodies.
You sit and rest for a moment from the battle. You realize that you’re going to have to train your people to endure this place. It’s obvious that this place is going to affect your people more than you realized…
Then suddenly a panic wells up inside you and you make haste back to the portal.
At first your major concern is that you’ll find everyone not doing their job or at worst dead by their own hand, the reality is much worse however.
The portal lies on the ground and partially broken, magic still powers it, but its highly unstable now and its changing different colors quickly. All the engineers are dead and some of your Eternals are too, but it doesn’t look like everyone took their own life. It looks more like a slaughter.
Two of the Eternals still live and have a deranged look in their eye; in fact they’re eating one of the engineers. It would appear that the negative aura of Mortos may have another side effect other than severe depression.
Upon seeing you, they both attack like a pair of ghouls. You easily put them down with a couple of magic bolts, but the damage is done.
You look at the portal and you ponder if you should risk going through it or possibly continue searching Mortos for the book and hope that maybe you could find a way out of here that way.
You also ponder if you just stayed put that maybe someone from Evigrus would try to send someone else with a rope tied to them through the portal and you could get home that way.
You ultimately do decide to wait for what you think is a few days but nobody shows up. You’re actually a little surprised, but then they might think that if going through killed you that what chance would any of them have?
This doesn’t have a good effect on your own morale which has been diminishing by the day due to the oppressive aura of Mortos and your current hopeless situation. You also haven’t eaten or drank anything for quite some time, you’re starting to feel those effects as well.
Lacking any other options, you decide that you’ll have to take a chance on the portal because you don’t think you’ll have the strength to find the book in your current condition, even if you had any idea where it might be located.
You stare into the portal, which still changes different colors rapidly. You don’t have a good feeling about this. You’re fairly certain in fact that you’ll wind up on the other side in pieces, but there is little choice in this matter.
“Well better an unknown risk than a certain death.” you say and you jump in…
The good news is you do make it out of Mortos in one piece.
The bad news is you reappear several miles under water in the middle of one of the oceans. Taken completely by surprise by this you gasp for air and your body cannot handle such crushing pressure.
Your dead body falls to the bottom ocean where it provides nourishment for the creatures that live there.
