Post by storyteller0910 on Oct 3, 2014 8:43:04 GMT -5
Dark Souls 2
Night Eight: The Sunken City
Night Eight: The Sunken City
Sensing that the final battle is drawing nearer, they are more on guard than ever as they descend a twisting mountain path into the sunken city of Shulva. The Chosen Undead now seeks the Crown of the Sunken King, the first of three great crowns once belonging to the fallen King Vendrick. Why? Only the Chosen knows, and it has been Hollowed and restored so many times that even it no longer can say for sure.
The trail to Shulva is a hard one, and the party is beset on every side by enormous, iron-clad warriors armed with greatswords and tremendous maces the size of small trees. They fight bravely. In a strange, ruined temple they face an enormous pack of such, fighting in a coordinated style not characteristic of the mostly mindless beasts they’ve encountered so far.
Amidst the chaos, the one called dizzymrslizzy is quickly surrounded. She raises a bone staff a describes a tiny circle, and a sudden burst of white hot light strikes around her, driving four of the soldiers to their knees around her. She raises her staff to perform the coup de grace.
And then …Cookies is charging, sweeping aside one of the prone warriors with a great heavy cutlass and making for lizzy with single-minded fury. lizzy turns quickly toward Cookies; the staff comes up, and a spear of light springs from the end, driving through Cookies and out the other side. Cookies’ eyes widen, and she stumbles.
CometotheDarkSideWeHaveCookies, who was Laddersmith Gilligan, part of the Company of Champions (Non-Hostile), has been Day Killed.
But in Drangleic, even the slain are dangerous. As lizzy turns her attention to the surrounding soldiers, the fading craftsman at her feet extends a hand, tripping lizzy and throwing her off balance for just long enough. The sorcerer looks up, eyes widening, and the enormous maces descend.
dizzymrslizzy, who was Royal Sorcerer Navlaan, part of the Brotherhood of Blood (Non-Hostile), has been lynched.
And thus the company is reduced to seven. But one among them, at least, has good news:
Bufftabby is now HUMAN again (again!).
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Night Eight begins here, and will end at 12:30PM on Sunday, October 5.