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DayDreaming Wizard wrote:Ok, I've had this plotline kicking around in my head for.years, and it has gone through several major revisions and rewrites, but i have to say that I'm quite happy with how it has turned out.
I have been wanting to finally put an end to the very long Ghost-Belladrox-Hawk arc that i have been working on for years. I figure now (or at least in the next few weeks) is as good a time as any.
The plot runs a little something like this: David Hawk, in truth an avatar of Azhi Dahaka (anyone who doesn't own one should really pick up a copy of Pantheons of the megaverse, its a great book and the has the basis for a great deal of this storyline), has been on BtS earth for millenia looking for an artifact called "The Eye at the End of the World". Within lies one of the many locks upon the Infinity Labrynth, which is the prison for Dahak's master, Ahriman. He found it relatively quickly, but was unable to do anything with it as powerful wards barred him from going anywhere near it. Unfortunately, Dahak was a patient being. He waited for an opportunity to present itself. During this interval, at some point, he corrupted a relatively quiet order of monks known as the Obertine Brotherhood. His patience was eventually rewarded when he discovered he remains of an ancient cult looking to regain its former power,
and avenge itself on its enemies. He manipulated them into summoning belladrox into this dimension, whilst at the same time he tricked the Catholic church into a plan he had had a hand in devising. The church, under the guise of missionary work, gathered together 3 artifacts of great power. They then raised a great army, under the guise of a crusade, and rounded up a group of "heretic" sorcerers to combat belladrox. The army fought and died, the sorcerers using those deaths to fuel a great spell that broke belladrox.into three pieces( spirit, mystical power, and body). Each piece was bound into an artifact, and those artifacts were scattered across the world.
Long winded? No worries, cause here is the point. One of those artifacts was the eye, and while Hawk could not touch the eye, the sorcerers who imprisoned belladrox could. They were, for the.most part, good men. Why was this important? Because hawk hoped that with the binding of belladrox, the wards would be weakened enough that he could open the eye and break the lock on the Infinity Labrynth, bringing his master one step closer to victory. Unfortunately, he miscalculated. One piece of belladrox was not sufficient to weaken the wards to the extent he required. He needed the whole being, and it was bound away in a prison that only it could open. Thankfully for hawk, belladrox being the sneaky bastard it was, was able to put a tiny portion of its essence within the soul of the.most corrupt of the sorcerers. A man named Klaus Andreas, an ancestor of.our own GS. The essence remained hidden in the bloodline of Klaus' descendants, slowly changing them until one would be born that could contain belladrox. Becoming his freedom and rebirth. Enter Konrad Andreas, aka Ghostspider. He has successfully bonded with two parts of belladrox. However he is well aware of what will happen should he come into close proximity to the eye. This has lead to a stalemate between him and hawk. Unfortunately hawk has two things of great value to gs, his siblings. Recently hawk, in an attempt to break the stalemate and lure ghost to the eye, released information on a way to free ghost's siblings from his control. Ghost has not yet received this information, but when he does, its showtime.
Sorry if this was a bit long, but.unfortunately its a pretty convoluted backstory.
Also, just to say it now, this is NOT a end of the world plot. In fact should hawk win, and the lock is broken, nothing will happen. Not a damn thing, at least nothing that will register to the society. Those with enough foresight will realize that evil has just got that much closer to victory, even if victory is still millennia away.
So the question should come up: why should the society help ghost in what amounts to a suicide mission?
Thoughts? Suggestions? Ideas?

Shady Character wrote:Considering how often the nightmare has returned, one can never truely be sure it is done.
I am working on a plot idea that is kind of general purpose. So that anyone who would like to work with it, and maybe even link it to other plots can.
The basic idea is a Organized Crime group that has Supernat resource. The planned intro to this group would perhaps be finding out about a Protection racket making use of Gremlins. From there we would find that as they go deeper down the rabbit hole it as it were, they find that Gremlins are just the tip of the iceberge.

Jefffar wrote:I was thinking the coffee baristas. Vile lot those.

Petite Elfgirl wrote:Do you want someone to notice the "suddenly edited" post, Cyber, and thus have someone comment about it?