h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'll think of a reason and work it into the story. Other than that it's less tiring to ride on something else. And that it's nice to have company. So how do I go about getting into a story?

First, we need some other party members. Second, we need a story. You can participate in more than one, y'know, as long as you can come up with a plausible way you CAN be there.

Hey! My previous story kinda fizzled out, so if you want to start a new thread...Moloko will be waiting

Yeah, well, any story you come up with, run it by me first.

Anyone need a wood elf ranger called Orion (male).

An amazing shot with a long bow, good with a sword and knows lots about healing properties of herbs and such like. On a personal quest to find the murderers of his family.

No problem with that!

Just point me to my destination!

There IS no direction! We haven't got any new plots! Come up with your own!

Azrael is a disillusioned elven fighter mage who's been spending a lot of time lately working as a freelance assassin. However, working for the highest bidder gets tiresome and messy (not to mention harder and harder), so he's decided to become an adventurer. He has a highly developed sense of humour, which means that he hardly ever finds anything amusing and never tells jokes because he's sure that no one would understand them anyway. To most people, he therefore doesn't seem to have a sense of humour at all.

The assassin/fighter/mage Azrael dresses in bloodred and black, seems generally depressed and cynical and tends to care only about himself. His weapon of choice is a dark blade with a bit of black magical enhancement if the situation calls for it (more often than not, it's covered with poisonous slime or bloodred flames). However, he's also rather good at sneaking up on people and dispensing of them quietly with a dagger.

All in all, he's a rather bad boy.

As for plots, why not the old "find the magic item and save the universe" deal? Unless that's not already taken, of course.

Sounds good. Er, have you got an idea for an adventure?

Unintentional double negation! I meant to write "Unless that's already taken".

Cool, simulpost.

I need specifics.

Okay, here's a partial rip-off with some of my own stuff in there for good measure. There's this magic red jewel called the Heart of Darkness in which a powerful demon, Belial, has been trapped. Now the Sons of Darkness (assorted demons and necromancers) are on the verge of freeing him from his so called eternal prison. Of course, they're waiting for the perfect . When that arrives and the right words are spoken, Belial will awake and unleash his eighty legions of demons, thereby taking over the world. For future reference, he appears in the form of a beautiful angel seated on a chariot of fire-belching dragons. This is useful information, because if he does appear, the quest has failed already.

Here's the quest. Get the Hammer of God, which only the truly virtuous can weild, and use it to destroy the Heart of Darkness, thus slaying Belial. Of course, the Hammer of God is as well guarded as the Heart of Darkness, only this time by assorted warrior monks, clerics and all-round do-gooders.

It's not an easy task, but someone's got to do it. I think I'll have to leave place naming (ie where're the Heart and the Hammer) up to you, lest we get continuity problems. How's that sound?

No need to worry about continuity errors in any case. None of are adventures have crossed paths yet (One of them is/was in Dante's depiction of Hell!) and no real definitions of what The Realm is have been set in stone. Er, YOU come up with the places. And we need to set up more of the party ...

Ok... To continue playing around with stereotypes and mixing different stuff wildly and incorrectly like some kind of Hollywood producer, let's say that the Heart of Darkness is in the Valley of the Shadow of Death and that the Hammer of God is on Mount Olympos. They are both in the great kingdom Zion.

Great idea!

(Sorry, I'm having fun with the Bleep smiley. )

It seems very violent somehow. Intrusive might be a better word. If it were to be into a sentence at any possible , you would very confused and after a of the . Wouldn't you ?

Hmm, how many characters do we have so far? Azrael and Indy, right? How many do we need for a party?