06-09-2003, 07:39 PM
I was considering writing a fan fiction thatspanned through the campaign, but could not reconcile the fact that I had nothing to work on concerning the Assassin, Druid, or Act V. Now that I'm actually going to play through LoD, I can kick-start the whole thing back up again.
Don't know just where to start off, though: a limited third-person perspective on the beggar-thief Marius as he sits in the Monastery's jail, next to the cell of this cloaked and infirm Wanderer. Marius gets a first-hand look as his cloaked cell-mate beckons the Rogue who guards their cell to come closer...
Or, start high up at the Rogue Citadel in the mountains (the one that'll get torched in "The Beckoning") as a young lackey gets hired to carry the boxes of this mysterious old man who is, as his father says, "Far from being right, if he's talkin' to the dead like that." From the lackey's eyes, we make passage down the mountain pass, through the Monastery as friendly as y'all please, and then a commotion erupts just as the pair passes through the westernmost gates, moments before they close upon them and are sealed.
Or, start out on a far more bloodier gambit: the legions of Westmarch, outermost province of the Zakarum Empire, have set out on a campaign to bring "salvation" to the wayward nations of the West. Khanduras has already fallen, and Einsteig stands next. As three legions march to the capital, the King of Einsteig's pleas for help are answered by the tribe-cities of the Three Islands, who dispatch by ship an army of their finest warriorsâsupported by a brigade of their magic-endowed female fighters: Amazons, the "wood witches" as they are derisively called by the technologically adept (but magically bereft) soldiers of Westmarch. As the three Prime Evils of Hell gather and prepare for the coming Dark Days, the two greatest armies capable of defeating them are themselves foolishly set on destroying each other in the Oroton Mire of Einsteig. In the cataclysmic aftermath of the battle, two of our wayward heroesâa Paladin and an Amazonâfind their way to the lonely Rogue camp near the Monastery of the Eastern Pass through the Tamoe Mountains. There, they will find a silent, hulking warrior of strength and hidden ferocity; an amnesiac sorceress who barely escaped with her mind and soul the corrupted fate of her sister witches when the Monastery fell to evil; and a sardonic old blind man who gets around with a nervous young lackey and the subtle voices of the dead to guide him on his way.
Don't know just where to start off, though: a limited third-person perspective on the beggar-thief Marius as he sits in the Monastery's jail, next to the cell of this cloaked and infirm Wanderer. Marius gets a first-hand look as his cloaked cell-mate beckons the Rogue who guards their cell to come closer...
Or, start high up at the Rogue Citadel in the mountains (the one that'll get torched in "The Beckoning") as a young lackey gets hired to carry the boxes of this mysterious old man who is, as his father says, "Far from being right, if he's talkin' to the dead like that." From the lackey's eyes, we make passage down the mountain pass, through the Monastery as friendly as y'all please, and then a commotion erupts just as the pair passes through the westernmost gates, moments before they close upon them and are sealed.
Or, start out on a far more bloodier gambit: the legions of Westmarch, outermost province of the Zakarum Empire, have set out on a campaign to bring "salvation" to the wayward nations of the West. Khanduras has already fallen, and Einsteig stands next. As three legions march to the capital, the King of Einsteig's pleas for help are answered by the tribe-cities of the Three Islands, who dispatch by ship an army of their finest warriorsâsupported by a brigade of their magic-endowed female fighters: Amazons, the "wood witches" as they are derisively called by the technologically adept (but magically bereft) soldiers of Westmarch. As the three Prime Evils of Hell gather and prepare for the coming Dark Days, the two greatest armies capable of defeating them are themselves foolishly set on destroying each other in the Oroton Mire of Einsteig. In the cataclysmic aftermath of the battle, two of our wayward heroesâa Paladin and an Amazonâfind their way to the lonely Rogue camp near the Monastery of the Eastern Pass through the Tamoe Mountains. There, they will find a silent, hulking warrior of strength and hidden ferocity; an amnesiac sorceress who barely escaped with her mind and soul the corrupted fate of her sister witches when the Monastery fell to evil; and a sardonic old blind man who gets around with a nervous young lackey and the subtle voices of the dead to guide him on his way.
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