I was awoken by an elbow to the ribs courtesy of my cousin. He was letting me know we were here. We exited the carriage and stared at the building in front of us. If the hospital was a masterpiece of architecture this place was a fucking fortress. It was an armored citadel of metal and magic. I mean you could literally feel the mana radiating off of this place. Vee led us to the doors and we noticed there were no guards here. Cody also noticed this and decided to ask Vee about it.
So Vee how come there are no guards here? ©
Because nobody is stupid enough to attack the Council (Vee)
You mean nobody’s stupid enough to attack you? (Z)
Yep except Volk I guess, but he’s always been an idiot when it comes to money (Vee)
We finally reached the doors and Vee held out his hand and uttered a spell.
Arcane Key (Vee)
A magical looking key appeared and slid into the lock on the doors. The doors swung open and we entered. Lights lit up the hallway and there were metal statues of warriors holding different types of weapons. Eli and Matt were greedily eyeing the weapons.
Don’t touch if you want to live to see another day. Those are all metal golems. If anybody but a member of the Council touches them they’ll activate and attack you. They’ll also attack you if I give them a command so do be careful. (Vee)
Matt and Eli immediately backed off of the golems. We continued to follow Vee into a conference room at the end of the hallway. Inside were seven people sitting down at a round table. They were all a variety of races and all looked very intimidating.
Hello travelers welcome. You may call me Oracle. (Oracle)
Oracle was an elderly human woman. A grandma type if you will. She was a tiny thing much smaller than all her fellow council members. But if she was on the council she had to be strong.
Yo I’m Galileo (Galileo)
Galileo was a handsome rogue of sorts. He was wearing a bandana over most of his face. He looked just like a regular human except the horns growing out of his head and the jet black eyes marking him as demonkind.
Pleased to make your acquaintance. I am Krehan (Krehan)
He was a Orcish male with grey skin. He was sitting there with a smile on his face showing off the trademark orc tusks.
Mwuahaha I am Brianna the Death Mage. Cower before me. (Brianna)
Great someone else besides Vee was a weirdo on this council. She seemed to be a Dark Elf from what I could tell and she was a smokeshow. She was wearing armor that left little to the imagination and accentuated her voluptuous figure. She also had those crazy eyes I recognized from all my exes.
Ignore her, she’s always like this around new people. I’m Jaxon. (Jaxon)
Jaxon was a beast of a man. He had vaguely wolf like features and had huge muscles all over his body with his clothes straining to contain them. There was a ferocity to his eyes though, like a monster was just beneath the surface.
Hey name’s Elric (Elric)
If I thought Jaxon was a beast this was a man who could only be described as a fortress. He was easily ten feet tall and as wide as a truck.
The final members of the council was covered head to toe in golden armor. He introduced himself as Roland. Beneath the armor was a scaly visage that looked at us in disdain until his eyes landed on Cody. He jumped out of his seat and prostrated himself on the ground in front of him.
MY LORD (Roland)
What are you talking about? (Cody)
We all stared at the exchange in wonder until Roland spoke up again.
Forgive me for my outburst my lord. To answer your question, You are a High Draugnir correct? (Roland)
Instinctively we all went into a defensive stance.
Relax we mean you no harm. What I’m trying to get across is that I am a Dragonkin the closest thing you can get to being a dragon. But you Draugnirs are said to be the race that fathered the modern dragons. You are a God in my eyes. (Roland)
Back to the main topic at hand. We are here to help you otherworlders. (Oracle)
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How do you know that we’re from another world? (E)
Because I’m a Seer. It is an evolved class of Druid. Do you know what a Seer is? (Oracle)
Someone who sees? (ML)
Thanks Matt (Z)
No. It is someone who has a high enough perception to be able to have visions of the future. And I had a vision of five heroes from another world sent here by the Gods themselves. (Oracle)
One problem with that; We’re not heroes. We are not here to save the world or whatever. We were sent by the Gods but they gave us a different kind of mission. (M)
That’s fine but in my vision I saw that we would help you five get stronger. So that’s what we’ll do. One of us will each mentor one of you. That will leave three of us behind to handle the cities affairs and defenses. Does that sound alright with you five? (Oracle)
Getting stronger? Sign me the fuck up. (ML)
That’s fine by me (M)
Sounds good. (Z)
Yes please (E)
Thank you for the opportunity to learn from beings such as yourselves. ©
You all should go to the Adventurer’s Guild next to register as adventurers. It’ll make your lives much easier. (Oracle)
Okay but how do we get there? (Z)
Don’t worry about it. Vee will lead you there (Oracle)
Vee’ll do fucking what now? (Vee)
Just do it. I’m not asking. (Oracle)
*Sigh* Okay. Let’s go kiddos I got places to see and people to meet (Vee)
Vee then led us out to the street and began walking.
Aren’t you going to hail us another wagon? (E)
Do I look like I’m made of money? We’re walking. (Vee)
We followed Vee for a couple of blocks until we had arrived at what I assumed was the adventurers guild. I thought it would be a rustic looking wooden building but it was fairly nice looking. It was a brick building interlaced with steel beams and wooden pillars. You could hear raucous laughter permeating from inside. The smell of alcohol and food was prevalent in the air surrounding the Guild hall. We stood there mouths agape as we marveled at the building before Vee brought us back to our senses.
Oi wake up kiddos. It’s time to go inside. (Vee)
Character Sheets (Council):
Vee
Race: Sun Elf
Class: Elemental Summoner
Affinity: Ice
LVL 150 Stats:
Health: 1840
Mana: 3250
Health Regen: 40.5 HpM
Mana Regen: 89 MpM
STR- 60
INT- 300
PERC- 130
VIT- 55
WIS- 152
DEX- 55
CHRM- 150
Krehan
Race: Dark Orc
Class: Balance Monk
Affinity: Fire
LVL 150 Stats:
Health: 2408
Mana: 2150
Health Regen: 89 HpM
Mana Regen: 52 MpM
STR-152
INT- 120
PERC- 120
VIT- 150
WIS-100
DEX- 120
CHRM- 140
Brianna
Race: Dark Elf
Class: Death Mage
Affinity: Darkness
LVL 150 Stats:
Health: 2350
Mana: 2800
Health Regen: 52 HpM
Mana Regen:115 MpM
STR-200
INT-200
PERC- 100
VIT-102
WIS- 200
DEX-50
CHRM-50
Oracle
Race: Human
Class: Seer
Affinity: Nature
LVL 150 Stats:
Health: 1730
Mana: 1850
Health Regen: 156 HpM
Mana Regen: 35 MpM
STR-20
INT- 30
PERC- 500
VIT-300
WIS- 50
DEX-1
CHRM-1
Jaxon
Race: Lycan
Class: Moon Warrior
Affinity: Air
LVL 150 Stats:
Health: 3848
Mana: 2050
Health Regen: 39 HpM
Mana Regen: 27 MpM
STR- 512
INT- 100
PERC- 20
VIT- 50
WIS- 50
DEX- 150
CHRM-20
Galileo
Race: Demon
Class: Outlaw
Affinity: Void
LVL 150 Stats
Health: 2083
Mana: 2175
Health Regen: 33 HpM
Mana Regen: 33 MpM
STR- 102
INT- 100
PERC- 200
VIT- 50
WIS- 50
DEX- 200
CHRM- 200
Roland
Race: Dragonkin
Class: Templar
Affinity: Holy
LVL 150 Stats
Health: 2775
Mana: 3275
Health Regen: 56 HpM
Mana Regen: 36 MpM
STR- 300
INT- 300
PERC- 50
VIT- 100
WIS- 52
DEX- 50
CHRM- 50
Elric
Race: Half Giant
Class: Crusader
Affinity: Crystal
LVL 150 Stats
Health: 2575
Mana: 2275
Health Regen: 132 HpM
Mana Regen: 60 MpM
STR- 250
INT- 100
PERC-50
VIT- 252
WIS- 100
DEX- 100
CHRM- 50