Blackspear Mountains

[Dustar Forgash]

(Well, I was going to make something different, but when inspiration strikes, listen while it lasts.)

- The world has many harsh terrains -- Swamps that suck the unsuspecting into their murky depths; Forests so dark and thick, many lose their path, and then their life; Desserts with unbearable heat, and sand storms that cut flesh from the bone -- but the region Blackspear mountains is none of these.

- The Blackspear Mountains exist to the far north-by-northeast of the Badlands. It's a volcanic region, with huge, steep mountains that are completely black -- like the rest of the ground. Lava flows through rivers along the ground, and poorly constructed bridges with questionable usability, above them. The mountains themselves are black and rocky, with caverns running through them, some paths leading into the cores of the mountains themselves. It is in the cores of these mountains that fabulous gems are created by the extreme heat and nutrients of the volcanic soil.

- The mountains reach into the sky beyond where the human eye can see. Beasts of pure flame with a heart of enchanted volcanic rock guard this land from all invaders, torching them alive. Giant scorpion-like creatures dwell within the caves, feeding on the nutrient rich soil with charred roots, the occasional fool, and even each other. Even the mountains themselves seem to pray on explorers, as unexplainable rock slides send many brave adventurers falling to the sharp rocks below.

- Be you savior or thief, many tempting treasures are said to reside within these mountains, gems capable of healing any wound, curing any poison, emeralds that could make royalty jealous. But nothing is known for certain as few have ever returned, and those who fill their mouths with liquor, their minds with fog, and ramble on like drunkards do, too traumatized to speak anything in clarity even when sober.

(Please continue this, I don't want this to be as much a flop as my last. =/ )

[CASPER]

Levi_Kain steps out of a fading "Shadow Gate Portal "

His black buffalo hide boots smoke as he quickly jumps to a rock out cropping spur

~ Cursing to him self ~ " Damn this fate !,

* I never asked for this ?.. Did I ??

~ Levi checks his ^Death Watch^ : The pocket watch glows with the same familiar aqua green reflective glow..

* Death dispatched him here, & yet she sends no word of what his cause should be...

~ Levi soldiers on with a determined stride jumping from bed rock island to island, all sinking & rising in the lava planes..

* Levi Kain pulls a faded ca-mo sweat rag from his pocket & wipes his brow : Noticing " This pattern "

* The Green,Brown,Sands yellow... This is not the bandanna of his
" Last remembered * South western planes*...

~ Levi remembers : He DIED... What ? ,,, Last time ?
It was??

Odd.., A mis fit age?

* The tech was advanced with the feel & look of the late 1800s..

Resolved to confusion.. Levi Kain leaps to the lava flows shoulder & runs north along the open plains..

~ The remembrance of a cool dink in a Goth Western saloon drives him on..

* Levi Kain dose a Sprint to the famed

^ Singe Saloon & Social Club~

[Dustar Forgash]

-Meanwhile on a rock, farther upstream the river of lava..-

"Ohh you mother F.."

Smoke and flame is strewn into the air as Dustar cleaves wildly into a beast of fire.
The beast merely grins, and throws a punch, glancing Dustar's shoulder and knocking him off balance.

"Is that all you got?!" Dustar shouts insultingly.

Suddenly, a pair of flaming arms grabs him from behind as another beast raises from the river, its grasp making Dustar's armor unbearably hot, desperate, he kicks it away, and leaps into the air, spreads his wings, and flaps continuously until the beasts are extinguished, and he's safe to land.

"Wretched things.." He mutters under his breath, and slices their cores while they're vulnerable. Safe for the moment, he sits, and takes a breather from his rather 'heated' battle.

Still unknown, the question remains, if the creatures are defenders of the land, then what's threatening them enough to provoke them to attack?

[CASPER]

Levi reaches the fire flows vally edge
where the Black Spear Mountain rise sharply
to form the jagged bowl like rim about the plane..

For a moment his Death watch glowed blue green,
but just as quickly it faded..

Levi muters as he climbs the dagger like clifs

" Guess Death changed her mind on this one ?"

[Dustar Forgash]

After his rest, Dustar takes flight to the entrance on one of the many caves. "I have to reach it.." he says to himself as he slowly travels on ward, spitting the ocational burst of fire to light his way. "Ughh.. This place reeks of death." he groans as he goes deeper.

[CASPER]

Solarus Bane Major
joins his smaller faster moving twin sister Moon
Solarus Bane Minor
As they dance across the ever
" Less than true day lit sky "

The stars above
&
his own weary, mortal bones
Tell Levi he has gone far to long with out rest.

The Marshal of Death seeks to retire for a few hours
as he slips into an ancient sleeping lava tube..
The relative cool of the cave
drawls him quickly into a deep
&
Long sought, if not well deserved sleep.

[Dustar Forgash]

(I'm going to try to revive this.. and if anyone else wants to join in, please do.)

- The scent of death within the caverns was over powering. Dustar stopped blowing fire so that he wouldn't have to inhale the thick, disgusting stench as much. The oder was getting to him - really getting to him. No longer able to walk a straight line, he swerved along, traveling onward. That's when he slipped. He put his arm out to catch himself, when it hit the wall, there was a loud crunch, it gave way about six inches and his arm sank into something slimy that felt as if it was moving, his head quickly followed and hit something hard and damp as he finally came to a stop.

- "Have I found water?" he thought, "Did I just slip in mud?" he grabbed a dampened twig with his free arm and lit the end. A loud scream echoed through the cave, but the "oh no" kind of scream, not a "this is going to hurt kind of scream, either. He screamed in pure terror. In his past, he had seen some horrible things, his father slain, his own hands soaked in the blood of his brethren, but what laid before his eyes was by far the worst thing he had ever imagined, let alone seen.

- Dustar was looking into a skinless bloody skull, one eye still remaining. The twig he held in his hand wasn't a twig at all, it was a decomposing, bony arm. The dampness his other hand was in, wasn't water, it was blood. The 'mud' he slipped on wasn't mud either, it was someone's intestine. The wall that cracked under his weight was neither stone nor wood, it was a rotted, fleshy ribcage. As for the slime he felt, that was maggots crawling within a corpse, feeding on the carrion.

- He screamed until his lungs burned, and cried in absolute dread, he forced himself away from the body, only to discover there were bodies plastered all over the walls and ceiling. He just kept backing up until he hit the other wall, and the arms of a skeleton fell onto his shoulders, and its skull snapped from the neck and hit him on the head. Dustar blacked out, perhaps the skull knocked him out, perhaps he was petrified from the image forever burned into his mind, maybe it was a mix of the two. Regardless, he fell to the ground, landing in a puddle of blood.

(Edited for spelling, flow, and replaced words.)

[CASPER]

Levi wakes from a freight full dream of some past life..
Or was it the memory of a past death ?..

Levi Kain has no time to ponder the meaning of dreams
as he is once again called to duty as a Death Marshal..

Death contacts Levi via a mystical pocket watch
the Death watch vibrates gently with the incoming message..

Levi flips open the watch case
&
his face is immediately washed in a flowing green light
like reflections off troubled waters against a caves wall.

Death message is vague
" Follow the screaming ."

The message ended
the Death Marshal puts away the Death Watch
&
wonders what death had meant...

Then from within the Black spear Mountains
across the fire plane Vally Levi hears a wailing scream.

Levi reluctantly rises & heads back across the lava flows
Following the sounds of dread..

[Dustar Forgash]

- As Dustar lays unconscious on the ground, he has a vision. He sees a bright green glow and a dark silhouette and hears an argument. He feels the heat of lava, he smells the stench of death. With his 'minds eye' he explores the cave, unaware if this it's a dream or if it's real. The farther he goes, the more his senses become overwhelmed. The vision reaches a climactic feel of battle, steel and iron clashing, bone and sinew becoming exposed to air.

- Dustar bursts out of his sleep and recognizes the familiar taste of blood on the ground, he soon remembers everything that had happened and groans in disgust, while stomach churns and he soon vomits from the memories calling a bad case of nausea. He sits a while thinking of turning back. "I've come too far to give up now" He raises and presses on slowly, trying to ignore the crunch of bones breaking beneath his feet.

[CASPER]

Levi bounds from stone to stone
crossing the lava flows
until finally he reaches the distant Black Spear cliffs
&
Begins the treacherous climb..

He curses the light..

" Shank ! If I could find but the faintest shadow I could *Shadow walk*
&
by pass this monkey suck'n climb!"

At last Levi reaches a ledge
just out side the caves gaping maw.

The stench of Death is so over whelming
it makes the Death Marshals eyes burn..

Levi chokes back his own bile.
Then pulls out a camouflage bandanna
&
drenches it in Red Eye whiskey
be for tieing it over his nose & mouth,
only pausing long enough
to take a long stiff shot be for putting the flask back in his boot.

Entering the cave Levi opens his Death watch
allowing it's haunting blue green light
illuminate his path..

[CASPER]

Levi drives on without care of cause
He only knows
*Death is near*

The Physical body of his wrathful Mistress
{Death}
overpowers the stench of this cave..

Levi Kain draws power from her
sweet disembodied presence
&
Drives on to find the screaming cause
that called him here..

[Dustar Forgash]

- Dustar goes still and calls into the darkness, "Who's there!? I heard you, now show thyself! I demand it!!". He questions his own sanity wondering if the dank air and corpse reek is drowning away the remains of his rational thought. Maybe it's just fear... maybe it's going to happen again...
-"Show yourself damnit!" Dustar roars into the darkness, as his primal instints, and inhuman anger drive theirway into his mind.

[CASPER]

Levi closes the face of his death watch
&
Steps into the abundant shadows of the cave.

There he enters a
*Shadow Gate * & *Shadow walks*
across the cave from out side the mortal deminsion..

From the Shadow plane Levi speaks into the cave,
*His voice echoes as a whisper from darkness behind the Dragon Man*

"Shhh...
Shouting so could only draw death's attention
&
believe me friend, she is already aware of you presence.."

[Dustar Forgash]

Dustar extends his claws, and turns around hastily.. startled.

"Who are you." He askes with a hiss on his tounge, and a glare in his eye. "And more importantly, what do you want?" His hiss becomes a lower growl. His mind quickly fills with questions.. memories.. his past, his battles, his scars... he senses death more-so than ever.

[CASPER]

Levi slowly steps through the *Shadow Gate*
to appears from the darkness
&
opens his *Death Watch*
The liquid blue green light washes over his face.

The Death Marshals smile is at once sardonic
&
yet oddly sincerer as he says
" Peace friend ?"
" My Mistress has dispatched me here"
&
" Yet I doubt it is your soul I am here to collect "

[Dustar Forgash]

"Good, I don't plan on dying _Anytime_ soon" Dustar lets out a small laugh and a flame lights up his breath. "Heh" "It'd be a waste for anyone... anything.. to attempt to claim my life right now." Dustar punches the wall, crushing a skull into peices with the force of his fist.... obviously better adjusted to the enviroment. "You didn't tell me who you are yet.. I'm known as Dustar." Looks at the figure, an inquizitive glare in his eye.

[CASPER]

The blond haired man in black
steps forward extending his right hand in greeting

" The names Kain, Levi Kain "
" I'm one of Death Marshals "
"A spiritual repo man if ya like & this is my territory.."

Pausing for a moment,
Levi looks around at the grim piles of twisted flesh
&
continues his introduction..

" But for the life of me,"
" I can't see why death called me here "
" While this carnage is relatively fresh "

Then the Death Marshals voice rises with a quiet questioning tone.

" All these poor souls where harvested quite some time ago..."
" And not by me....."

[Dustar Forgash]

"Heh.. A dragon and a repo-man.. hahaha" Goes completely serious. "He must be more powerful now than I even imagined... Damned fool. Why don't they ever realize that you cannot control demonic energy.. it thinks for itself.."
Dustar glares onward into the tunnels, rage burning in his eyes, he stomps his foot and yells "We're Going To Kill Youuu!!!!! Do You Hear Me!?! KILL YOOUUU!!!" He spits a fireball into the distance and it lights the cavern for a moment, allowing countless bodies to be seen... "It's going to be a trap.. You look like you've seen your share of action.. How are you at fighting the enchanted dead?"

[CASPER]

Levis smile is crooked
&
Smug in a friendly way when he says to the Dragon man

" I reckon I had bit O' experience "

And with that he pulls out a Black Myth~Real bowie knife in each hand
* 2 identical blades take their place *
* In the mystic sheaths of holding strapped to his thighs *

" I didn't come all the way out here "
" Just ta square dance "


Levi then shouts at the hidden stranger

" Show yer self !"
" Ya bloody Necrophiliac !"