From c9e7ec773e134c909495d9e469bfd02692ec97d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Blake Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:02:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] capitalizing Chasm of Doom git-svn-id: https://projectaon.org/data/en/xml@553 f6f3e2d7-ff33-0410-aaf5-b4bee2cdac11 --- 04tcod.xml | 19 ++++++++++--------- 16tlov.xml | 4 ++-- 17tdoi.xml | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/04tcod.xml b/04tcod.xml index 6faec40..6202a94 100755 --- a/04tcod.xml +++ b/04tcod.xml @@ -1241,7 +1241,7 @@ To claim their long-awaited reward.

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Dont you see? Barraka has found the dagger of Vashna. He is going to sacrifice my daughter upon the altar of Maaken to release the undead of Maakengorge, the chasm of doom.

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Dont you see? Barraka has found the dagger of Vashna. He is going to sacrifice my daughter upon the altar of Maaken to release the undead of Maakengorge, the Chasm of Doom.

During the Age of the Black Moon, King Ulnar of Sommerlund killed the mightiest of all the Darklords, Vashna, with the Sommerswerdthe sword of the sun. Vashnas body and the bodies of all his troops were hurled into the bottomless abyss of Maakengorge. He plans to lead the dead to victory; first to conquer Sommerlund and then all of the Lastlands, explains the Baron, fear in his eyes.

You stare at the Baron in stunned silence. If Barraka completes the sacrifice, all is lost. What mortal army can stand against a legion of the dead?

Captain DVal ushers you from the chamber and closes the door. I feared he was insane, and I refused to listen to his words. But the events of the last few days confirm my worst nightmare. He speaks the truth!

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All around you, the captains men are rebuilding the barricade and tending to their wounded comrades. It sorrows you to see Sommlending dead, but you take heart at how few they are beside the enemys losses.

The captain ushers you to the watchtower where your wounds are cleaned and dressed with Laumspur. The herbs restore 6 ENDURANCE points.

We have beaten this foe, but I fear that it is but a temporary reprieve, says the captain, his face now composed and sombre. The sacrifice of Baron Vanalunds daughter must be stopped if we are to avoid catastrophe, for our strength will not avail us against a foe freshly risen from the grave.

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The words of the verse flood into your mind and a chill runs down your spine as you realize what may lie ahead. In three days time, when the moon is full, Barraka will sacrifice the Barons daughter at the buried temple of Maaken, a sacrifice that will unleash the dead of Maakengorgethe chasm of doom. You know you must prevent the sacrifice.

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The words of the verse flood into your mind and a chill runs down your spine as you realize what may lie ahead. In three days time, when the moon is full, Barraka will sacrifice the Barons daughter at the buried temple of Maaken, a sacrifice that will unleash the dead of Maakengorgethe Chasm of Doom. You know you must prevent the sacrifice.

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Barraka carries the stench of death and decay about him. He strides into the temple, his boots of Gourgaz hide covering both legs and feet, and slams shut the huge stone door with frightening ease. He stands in silence before pushing open the huge black doors engraved with the menacing skulls. Suddenly a gale force wind sweeps through the temple and your ears are filled by a terrible scream. Beyond the open doors, a pier of stone juts into the abyss of Maakengorge: you are staring into the chasm of doom.

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Barraka carries the stench of death and decay about him. He strides into the temple, his boots of Gourgaz hide covering both legs and feet, and slams shut the huge stone door with frightening ease. He stands in silence before pushing open the huge black doors engraved with the menacing skulls. Suddenly a gale force wind sweeps through the temple and your ears are filled by a terrible scream. Beyond the open doors, a pier of stone juts into the abyss of Maakengorge: you are staring into the Chasm of Doom.

Barraka turns away from the windswept pier and walks slowly towards the altar. From a hidden scabbard he removes a twisted black dagger and holds its stiletto blade to the light. An evil blue flame runs up and down the black steel spike, flickering in the ice-cold winds of Maakengorge. The sacrifice is about to begin.

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You grasp the Flask, take careful aim, and hurl it straight and true. Barraka stares open-mouthed as the container shatters against the black steel dagger. There is an explosion of searing white flame. The heat scorches your face, and you are thrown to the floor. You lose 3 ENDURANCE points.

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You stare in horror as Barraka, his arm torn from his body by the blast, staggers backwards across the temple. He has been blinded by the fire, and he claws at his sightless eyes with his remaining hand. You watch in silence as he stumbles through the black skull doors and plummets into Maakengorge, swallowed up by the chasm of doom.

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You stare in horror as Barraka, his arm torn from his body by the blast, staggers backwards across the temple. He has been blinded by the fire, and he claws at his sightless eyes with his remaining hand. You watch in silence as he stumbles through the black skull doors and plummets into Maakengorge, swallowed up by the Chasm of Doom.

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As Barraka dies, the wind suddenly rises in pitch and intensity, filling the temple with a mournful cry of despair. You feel the chill, malevolent spirit of Darklord Vashna engulfing you in an icy embrace, but you sense that he is powerless to harm you. The sacrifice has been foiled; he is doomed to lament for a victory that might have been.

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Lying on the black temple floor is the Dagger of Vashna. As you pick it up and tuck it into your belt (mark this on your Action Chart as a Special Item), the evil blue flame flickers and dies. As long as you possess this evil blade, Darklord Vashna and his legion of dead warriors will remain imprisoned in the chasm of doom.

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Lying on the black temple floor is the Dagger of Vashna. As you pick it up and tuck it into your belt (mark this on your Action Chart as a Special Item), the evil blue flame flickers and dies. As long as you possess this evil blade, Darklord Vashna and his legion of dead warriors will remain imprisoned in the Chasm of Doom.

You free fair Madelon from the altar and carry her through the corridors of the temple that lead up to the surface. As you emerge into the moonlit ruins, an astounding sight greets your eyes. Barrakas warriors are running from the ghost city in all directions, closely pursued by an army of cavalrymen. The light of the full moon and the guttering torches that these horsemen carry, illuminates the sun-crest that bedecks their tunics. Word must have reached Holmgard for they are the Sommlending army, led by King Ulnar himself. Your countrymen praise your courage and daring, their strident cheers drowning the cry of Maakengorge, for once again you have proved yourself a true hero of Sommerlund. As you deliver Madelon into the waiting arms of her father, his overwhelming joy fills you with a sense of great achievement. You are indeed worthy of the title Kai Lord. You have succeeded in your perilous quest, but the epic saga of Lone Wolflast of the Kai Lordsis far from complete. A new and deadly challenge awaits you in Book 5 of the Lone Wolf series entitled:

Shadow on the Sand

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(133) Moved the choice regarding losing ENDURANCE points into the first position.

(135) Replaced one and with one, and and counter-attack with counterattack. Replaced Durncrag mountains with Durncrag Mountains.

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(137) Replaced foe but with foe, but, Captains with captains, and both occurrences of Captain when not part of Captain DVals name with captain. Replaced chasm of doom with Chasm of Doom.

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(280) Replaced bridge but with bridge, but and who it is and with who it is, and. Replaced on to with onto.

(281) Replaced re-light with relight.

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(283) Replaced face and with face, and and fire and with fire, and. Replaced chasm of doom with Chasm of Doom.

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(350) Replaced Maakengorge; for with Maakengorge, for. Replaced Lone Wolf series with Lone Wolf series. Added a period to the end of the illustrations caption. Replaced chasm of doom with Chasm of Doom.

(Combat Rules Summary) Replaced cross reference with cross-reference, top of chart with top of the chart, and fall to 0 with falls to 0 or below. Replaced Pick number from with Pick a number from the. Replaced Turn to Combat with Turn to the Combat. Replaced to random number with to the random number. Replaced when ENDURANCE with when the ENDURANCE. Replaced ignored, only with ignored; only.

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Before you stretches a gigantic cavern. Its walls of ancient obsidian rise to a high-arched roof where hangs a circle of stalactitestwelve huge luminescent spears of lime-green stone. Bathed in their pulsating glow is a many-tiered crystal dais, identical to the one on which Arch Druid Cadak stood before the great shimmering archway at the edge of the Maakengorge. To the right of this dais you see a dark tunnel. The entrance appears like a black semicircular shadow upon the cavern wall.

Standing upon the uppermost tier of the dais is a creature which both mesmerizes and repulses you. It has the semblance of a human female, yet she stands more than seven metres tall. She is strikingly beautiful but you sense at once that she is also wholly evil. Her skin has a deathly, corpse-like pallor and she is clad in a flowing black costume which trails thin wisps of smoke. Cloaked figures scurry around the lower tiers of the dais, carrying out their mistresss commands and attending to her every whim. If they fail or displease her she crushes them like lowly insects in her elegant, deadly hands.

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You watch in silent fascination as this demonic creature makes preparations, as if for a long journey. Then, in a flash of a sudden realization, you know her purpose. She is getting ready to enter the tunnel, a tunnel which will transport her to the archway at the edge of the Maakengorge. She is the deliverer of Vashna of whom Cadak spoke, the one who will raise the spirit of Lord Vashna from the chasm of doom!

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You watch in silent fascination as this demonic creature makes preparations, as if for a long journey. Then, in a flash of a sudden realization, you know her purpose. She is getting ready to enter the tunnel, a tunnel which will transport her to the archway at the edge of the Maakengorge. She is the deliverer of Vashna of whom Cadak spoke, the one who will raise the spirit of Lord Vashna from the Chasm of Doom!

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In the deepest subterranean level of the monastery, a hundred feet below the Tower of the Sun, you ordered the excavation and construction of a special vault. In this magnificent chamber wrought of granite and gold you placed the seven Lorestones of Nyxator, the gems of Kai power which you had recovered during your quest for the Magnakai. It was here, bathed in the golden light of those radiant gems, that you spent countless hours in pursuit of perfection. Sometimes alone, sometimes in the company of your two able advisorsBanedon and Rimoahyou worked hard to develop your innate Grand Master Disciplines and grasp the fundamental secrets of Left-handed and Old Kingdom magic. During this time you noticed many remarkable changes taking place within your body: you became physically and mentally stronger, your five primary senses sharpened beyond all that you had experienced before, and, perhaps most remarkably, your body began to age at a much slower rate. Now, for every five years that elapse you age but one year.

At this time many changes were occurring beyond the borders of Sommerlund. In the regions to the northeast of Magador and the Maakengorge, the Elder Magi of Dessi and the Herbwardens of Bautar were working together in an effort to restore the dusty volcanic wasteland to its former fertile state. It was the first tentative step towards the reclamation of all the Darklands. However, their progress was painfully slow, and both parties were resigned to the fact that their efforts to undo the damage caused by the Darklords would take centuries to complete.

Elsewhere, throughout Northern Magnamund, peace reigns victorious and the peoples of the Free Kingdoms rejoice in the knowledge that the age of the Darklords has finally come to an end. Readily men have exchanged their swords for hoes and their shields for ploughs, and now the only marching they do is along the ruts of their freshly furrowed fields. Few are the watchful eyes that scan the distant horizon in fear of what may appear, although there are still those who maintain their vigilance, for the agents of Naar come in many guises and there are those upon Magnamund who wait quietly in the shadows for the chance to do his evil bidding.

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Already your newfound skills have been tested against Naars agents and you have, on each occasion, acquitted yourself admirably. But your continuing victories against his minions have enraged the Dark God and inflamed his lust for vengeance. Earlier this year you thwarted Naars plans to revive Vashna, the greatest of all the Darklords, whose spirit is trapped deep within the fathomless reaches of the Maakengorgethe chasm of doom. Vashnas spirit has remained there in uneasy entombment ever since the day, long ago, when he and his army were defeated in battle by King Ulnar I of Sommerlund. Your brave and courageous actions prevented Naars agents from summoning to Magnamund a demoness named Shamath from the Plane of Darkness. This supernatural creature possessed the Deathstaffan artefact of great evil forged by Naar himselfwith which she could have resurrected Vashna and his army from the Maakengorge. Yet your timely intervention destroyed the Shadow Gate through which she was travelling, and by so doing, you imprisoned the demoness Shamath in the limbo which exists between your world and the Plane of Darkness.

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Already your newfound skills have been tested against Naars agents and you have, on each occasion, acquitted yourself admirably. But your continuing victories against his minions have enraged the Dark God and inflamed his lust for vengeance. Earlier this year you thwarted Naars plans to revive Vashna, the greatest of all the Darklords, whose spirit is trapped deep within the fathomless reaches of the Maakengorgethe Chasm of Doom. Vashnas spirit has remained there in uneasy entombment ever since the day, long ago, when he and his army were defeated in battle by King Ulnar I of Sommerlund. Your brave and courageous actions prevented Naars agents from summoning to Magnamund a demoness named Shamath from the Plane of Darkness. This supernatural creature possessed the Deathstaffan artefact of great evil forged by Naar himselfwith which she could have resurrected Vashna and his army from the Maakengorge. Yet your timely intervention destroyed the Shadow Gate through which she was travelling, and by so doing, you imprisoned the demoness Shamath in the limbo which exists between your world and the Plane of Darkness.

Confident in the belief that you had saved Magnamund from the demoness and the Deathstaff, you returned triumphantly to Sommerlund. Several months later, however, as the year was drawing to a close, Lord Rimoah came unexpectedly to the Kai Monastery seeking an urgent audience. With growing dismay you listened as he relayed ill newsthe Deathstaff had reappeared in Magnamund. The threat to the peace of your fragile world was greater now than ever before.

When you destroyed the Shadow Gate at Maakengorge, Grand Master, said Lord Rimoah, as the two of you discussed the matter in the secure privacy of your vault below the Kai Monastery, you banished Shamath to the void, hopefully for all eternity. Yet, alas, the weapon she possessed did not go with her. Naars accursed Deathstaff has since returned to this world through another Shadow Gate, one that lies far away to the west, on a remote and icy peninsula that is called Ixia.

My lord, do you wish me to go to Ixiato find and destroy the Deathstaff before another of Naars agents can use it against us? Is this why you have come seeking my help? you replied, expecting Rimoah to affirm your assumption.

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(The Story So Far) Replaced no Kai lord with no Kai Lord, both occurrences of new-found with newfound, and north-east with northeast. Replaced all occurrences of shadow gate with Shadow Gate. Replaced all occurrences of freestate with Freeland. Replaced elite with lite. Replaced Naarthe King with Naar, the King. Replaced Age of the Old Kingdoms with Age of War. Replaced Grand Master Disciplines, and grasp with Grand Master Disciplines and grasp. Replaced monastery of the Kai with Monastery of the Kai. Replaced both occurrences of the Monastery with the monastery. Replaced gold, you with gold you. Replaced chasm of doom with Chasm of Doom.

(The Game Rules) Removed that you will find in the front of this book. For ease of use, and for further adventuring, it is recommended that you photocopy these pages and on the last page of this book. Replaced both occurrences of ie with i.e.. Replaced fall to zero with fall to zero or below. Replaced each occurrence of Lone Wolf with Lone Wolf when referring to the series.

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