Dungeons and Dragons
Plot
Abraxis Wren confronts the susprects of a murder case he's been working on, and reveals how he knows that everyone is guilty, one of the guilty jumps out of the window, thinking he still had his Feather Fall Tallisman (it makes it so falling will cause no damage) on him, bu then Wren reveals that he stole it from him as the others look down and see their brother dead on the streets below.
Later, Wren and Trin are talking about the case and Torin is a bit disturbed by Wren's actions when a woman comes to the door and asks Wren to look into the disappearance of her brother from an asylum, whilst investigating Wren concludes that the brother was kidnapped rather than him being an escapee and heads to the Warden Towers in a flying chariot, however they're attacked by a masked man who tries to kill them. Luckily though Wren and Torin are able to escape mostly unscathed, whilst also unmasking the man as well.
The duo arrive at the Warden Towers and can't find the case in the unsolved case files, but do find it in the "Solved" files, signed by a Captain Kincaid, when they ask who Kincaid is, the receptionist points out the same man who tried to kill them just recently. Wren and Torin decide to follow him for a while.
The two follow Kincaid to another level in a ruined area and see him doing some sort of demoinic ritual with someone on an altar, who tells him a name for "who's next" under a crystalline device with a beast inside it. Wren decides to stop this and attacks Kincaid, and causes the crystal to explode.
Later, Torin and Wren are relaxing at home when suddenly the city shakes and they see the same monster in the skies.
The city is filled with chaos as the monster (an Elder God) is in the sky and several people are driven insane. Kincaid finds Wren and reveals the truth, that the monster arrived a long time ago and was trapped in a lower level city and was guarded by a secret society since then. A couple weeks earlier the creature started acting up and some people who were suseptable (ie the mad or creative) started channeling him. So they started collecting the mad and using them to hunt down the people who worship the Elder Gods and kill them before they can rescue the monster (the people who channel him however don't survive the process), however due to Wren's actions, the followers are now free to assist their master and spread his power.
They decide that to make another prison for the beast would be impossible now, but Wren gets another idea and goes to see a friend in a Magical Supply store who says that to be able to use a spell on something that big would take something like 50 wizards, especially to create a gate spell to send it elsewhere.
The trio head to a Magical College and abduct the evacuating teachers and asks them to help him out, which they agree to.
The teachers start on the gate spell, and the Elder God can sense it, thus sending his possessed minions and followers to stop them with Kincaid, Wren and Torin defending the teachers from the masses, during the battle Torin is possessed as well and turns against Wren. The God is sent through the gateway, but is able to start escaping again as the teachers are in a trance and can't stop the spell. Kincaid is kille dby the crowd during th battle. Wren throws his sword at one of the teachers, which slices off his arm, breaking the connection and stopping the spell, which slices the Elder God into pieces, killing it, and all the possessed are free of it's control.
Later Wren and Torin are hanging out back at home once again.
Characters
Abraxis Wren
Torin
Captain Kincaid Killed by rioters
Elder God Sliced to Death by Gate Spell
Marrith
Arya
Arya's Brother Missing, probably dead
Lucien Killed from Fall
Luciens Brothers and Sister Arrested
Magical Supplies Salesman
Menthis College Teachers, Students and Staff
Morgrave University Elder God Followers
People of Daanvi (Flashback) Dead
People of Sharn
Boldrei Asylum Staff
Asylum Patients Many Dead
Warden Towers Staff
City Watch
Torin's Wife (Mentioned)
Aticus Ru (Mentioned)
Lucien's Father (Mentioned)
Lucien's Maid (Mentioned)
Ardrin D'Cannith (Mentioned - Elder God Worshiper)
Notes
- Okay, honestly, I don't follow D&D at all, so if I have any names or whatever wrong, don't shout at me!
- In the GI Joe story it said that the insane were some of the least affected by the Elder Gods, here, they are the first (accompanied by the creative). Maybe it's because it's a different God?
- Abraxis is kind of an ass isn't he?
- Elder Gods seem to be mostly immune to normal magic
- The possessed people in this storyline gain starry eyes, whilst in the other stories they seem to gain red eyes.
TMNT
Several people have gone missing recently in or near the sewers and the Turtles are a bit concerned. Donnie is reading up about some ritual killings from a while back when they watch the news about the missing people again when the power cuts out in the sewer lairs. The turtles take some flashlights and start looking around for the problem with the power.
Outside the lair, they find a strange creature and battle it leading them to find an old cavern with dead bodies inside it. The turtles decide to investigate the cavern further. Inside it they find more strange monsters like mutated rats and a statue made of dead bodies hanging from the ceiling and Donnie believes this may be connected to the rituals he read about in his book before.
The Turtles find an old room with lots of books and plans inside it, as well as recent digging materials and TNT The group look further in again, and suddenly Leo is attacked and kidnapped by a monster, which causes a small cave in on the others, splitting up the group.
Donnie rescues Raph and Mickey from the collapsed tunnel whilst Leo is brought to a cloaked man and a large statue of a hideous monster called Shub Niggurath, who claims that he is almost awake now, and Leo seems to be a sacrifice for him. The others follow Leo's trail and fight through some monsters to find their brother in the cavern.
The turtles go to rescue Leo but the cloaked man, whom Donnie assumes (correctly) to be the decayed body of Bloch, the leader of the cult he read about before. Bloch decides to use Donnie as the sacrifice instead when Mickey uses some of the TNT to cause chaos in the cavern and killing the monsters created from the missing people, distracting Bloch enough for Leo to slice him up.
With Bloch's death, Shub Niggurath is awoken and appears in the cavern and he's too powerful for the Turtles to defeat themselves, so Donnie gets the idea of using the statue of him to crush Shub instead, which also causes the cavern to collapse around them as well. The turtles escape just in time however.
Within a week later, life is back to normal, however Donnie decides to research these creatures some more with some of HP Lovecraft's books.
Characters
Donatello
Leonardo
Michelangelo
Raphael
Bloch Killed by Leonardo
Shub Niggarath Crushed by Cavern Collapse
Master Splinter
April O'Neil
Lieutenant on TV
Lauren Stanton
Missing People Mutated into Lovecraftian Monsters
Notes- Again, I'm not a TMNT fan, so I've probably missed some very obvious things here, so sorry in advance!
- Unlike the previous stories, none of the main characters get possessed in this story...feels sort of like a cop-out to me
- The missing, mutated people clearly did work on the tunnels and unearther the statue for Bloch.
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