Post by thealmightymudworm on Dec 5, 2013 12:45:31 GMT
I was in a silly mood (no change there) and when I saw Greenspine's post on the musical parodies thread I thought I'd reverse-engineer the background for a mini-adventure out of something. Besides it's about time something was posted on this board. Not sure if it's worth writing the adventure but I don't rule it out at some stage.
It was always a foolish move, but sleeping a night on the streets of Blacksand would have been suicide so you staggered in through the door - just slightly ajar - of a sinister looking house down Deepshadow Way. A cold, empty room with the door bolted behind you was comfort enough and you fell asleep immediately.
It is cold no longer. The sweltering heat is the first thing that begins to rouse you, and then, peering through the gloom you think you can discern an angry red shapeless …portal? But it is the figure standing over you that truly snaps you out of your slumber: It is tall and humanoid, yet misshapen, and try as you might you cannot make out any eyes.
"Greetings!" booms the figure with a horribly charismatic voice that echoes around the room, "Fix not your gaze upon that - but upon THIS!"
Suddenly, somehow, you are aware of similar humanoids all around you - not just in the room but beyond the limits of your normal senses - on the streets around and even on a stage awaiting …what? A call to arms? The demonic humanoid before you continues:
"Listen for the sound of the underground monsters - the evillest sound in all of Titan. You've wandered in off the street to this place and you're beginning to sense their warmth - now listen fool! It is time for you to stir your limbs to the relentless march of the unhinged mind."
You glance back at the portal - is it your only means of escape? Or the humanoid's favoured way for you to meet your demise - perhaps down the gullets of the underground monsters? Perhaps it is both? Seeming to read your thoughts, the being's booming voice concludes:
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"
…and with that a piercing hunting-horn rings out with a relentless free-flowing sound and humanoids everywhere spring into movement: a terrifying, inhuman, fist-shaking dance. Some hop from one foot to the other. A column of humanoid soldiers marches down the street as one, with a lumbering, stomping, fist-shaking movement. What fresh hell is this?
The horn-player seems to be in many places all around you at once. Waves of terror seep through you and you stagger towards the portal as if with no will of your own. Still the humanoid's booming chant continues:
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"
It was always a foolish move, but sleeping a night on the streets of Blacksand would have been suicide so you staggered in through the door - just slightly ajar - of a sinister looking house down Deepshadow Way. A cold, empty room with the door bolted behind you was comfort enough and you fell asleep immediately.
It is cold no longer. The sweltering heat is the first thing that begins to rouse you, and then, peering through the gloom you think you can discern an angry red shapeless …portal? But it is the figure standing over you that truly snaps you out of your slumber: It is tall and humanoid, yet misshapen, and try as you might you cannot make out any eyes.
"Greetings!" booms the figure with a horribly charismatic voice that echoes around the room, "Fix not your gaze upon that - but upon THIS!"
Suddenly, somehow, you are aware of similar humanoids all around you - not just in the room but beyond the limits of your normal senses - on the streets around and even on a stage awaiting …what? A call to arms? The demonic humanoid before you continues:
"Listen for the sound of the underground monsters - the evillest sound in all of Titan. You've wandered in off the street to this place and you're beginning to sense their warmth - now listen fool! It is time for you to stir your limbs to the relentless march of the unhinged mind."
You glance back at the portal - is it your only means of escape? Or the humanoid's favoured way for you to meet your demise - perhaps down the gullets of the underground monsters? Perhaps it is both? Seeming to read your thoughts, the being's booming voice concludes:
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"
…and with that a piercing hunting-horn rings out with a relentless free-flowing sound and humanoids everywhere spring into movement: a terrifying, inhuman, fist-shaking dance. Some hop from one foot to the other. A column of humanoid soldiers marches down the street as one, with a lumbering, stomping, fist-shaking movement. What fresh hell is this?
The horn-player seems to be in many places all around you at once. Waves of terror seep through you and you stagger towards the portal as if with no will of your own. Still the humanoid's booming chant continues:
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"
"A step …INTO THE BEYOND!!"