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Chapter 6: the first real battle begins
AN sorry folks for the wait but I had stuff with college and all that noise but summers here and I'm here to write.
Also from now on for some major choices of what happens next ill hold a poll first one up is should the boat be intact after all this or do you want our group to get to the capital on foot. Each choice has a sever consequence to what happens next for example on foot they have to deal with more a-holes on the way to the capital and or possibly furry crazed nuts who live underground. Alternately if they take the boat something will most likely go wrong it could be bandits to well more savage beings I won't go into.
H20 Ferrum Dominus: I was already planning to make this multi pov. Mainly on the fact we won't always have our duo together in the same place as well battles can get out of hand and you can easily lose sight of people in a fight and it leaves more options of what's going on in our duos head.
Anyway, on with the show.
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(kroppleben inn)
We see out duo sitting in a pair of chairs watching the movie's end credits roll on by. We see that our human compatriot isn't wearing his helmet and has a concerned look on his face as he stares at his dwarf companion who has his jaw dropped and his face stuck in this shocked expression.
(jacks pov)
Well the movie's over and gorgeg hasn't flipped his shit yet surprisingly and is just starting at the screen I hope he's ok." I thought as I stared at the currently comatose dwarf ranger only wondering what the hell is going on in that ale pickled brain of his.
(gorgeg Pov)
I have seen may things in my long life as a dwarf. I've seen the thaggoraki overthrow an entire Kazad, I've seen wars between the dawi and elgi with umgi caught in the middle, I've fought the urks and their never ending green tide. But I HAVE NEVER SEEN WHAT THE FLYING FUCK THAT WAS! It makes us dawi look like idiots I don't know what that was but I'm going to get some answers! I retract my jaw and look over to jack and see he's looking at me with a look of concern that makes me pause a for a bit while I composed myself.
"Jack what in the name of morgrim was that?!" I yelled at the umgi
"that was the lord of the rings movie special uncut edition." He replied looking at me with some surprise for getting yelled at.
"WHY WHOULD ANYONE MAKE THIS?!" I yelled at him still displeased at what I just witnessed
"Hey, calm down I didn't make the damn movie so don't yell at me man." He tells me with a scowl on his face
With that I take a few seconds to calm down and try to regain my composure. Once I calm down the boy looks at me carefully before speaking
"you good man?" the umgi questions me as he looks at me
"somewhat yes can you now explain to me what I just saw now umgi." I ask him tersely
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(jacks pov several days later)
Okay after gorgeg settled down I began explaining to him what the lord of rings is and what exactly he just saw.
I explained to him that it was a movie and how they were made back in my home dimension. This naturally got him more curious as to what else my world made for entertainment and I explained to him that we made a whole bunch of things and in time I would show him more. He however made a condition that I should never show the lord of the rings to the elves, he didn't exactly explain why, but I think I may know why.
Mainly because of the whole no human elf interrelation/dating. Any way moving on me and gorgeg kept training with the sword and shield combos along with him training me in basic two handed weapons.
What I found out is that I'm strong enough to use the sword and shield fine for right now, but currently I'm not strong enough to properly wield two handed weapons like a great sword yet as I keep losing my balance when I swing the blade.
Good news though gorgeg says that I'm at least able to defend myself against regular everyday joe's that have pitch forks or slow moving creatures depending on what they are.
Also, I did a little more rooting around the container and found all my clothes in there. So, it turns out I didn't need to buy that stuff from the tailor. Speaking of which I got my jacket back from the guy and now has been upgraded to the point that it will at least protect me from shrapnel and random debris so long as it hits my body and not my face.
That brings me to what our current travel plans are and uhh…... they're not that great. What I mean is that the ship will be here but it's been delayed by something or well something for all we know. So instead of a week we got to wait about nine days for the ship to get here. Of which we've already spent the last 8 training and getting ready to go. Also during this time, I have been reading the manuals the box had in them. One of the best things to come out of the box was a Manuel on firearms and the conversion from black powder to shell ammo.
I figure now that I have this in hand I should try to convert some of the weapons the case has into something like what my world has made. I won't be able to make an assault rifle any time soon but I might be able to convert the rifle into a henry repeater rifle or if that's not possible a bolt lock rifle.
I've been doing this without gorgeg's help mainly because (and I'm saying this with a good amount of shame.) I don't fully trust gorgeg yet. Hear me out here it's not that I don't trust him personally it just that I don't trust what will happen to the information if it gets out. Because if its release out into the world it could make the first world war back at home seem like child's play in comparison.
So, as it stands I'm on my own trying to make ammunition and a new loading system for the rifle.
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(out at the blacksmiths)
Count down until ship arrives 28:39
we now cut to our main protagonist who currently is at the blacksmiths and appears to be focused intently on tinkering on something on one of the workbenches in the shop.
(jack pov)
I was glad I could convince the local blacksmith to experiment inside his workshop. Only thing he said is that I don't break anything or destroy anything important that I pay him for the supplies that I use.
Currently right now I'm trying to tinker on a new loading mechanism for the rifle that I'm working on. I've already got the barrel cut in nursing set up to you at the loading mechanism problem is right now is that I got to create a loading mechanism that doesn't break as soon as I fire a round.
Oh, yeah and I could make the brass rounds already that was easy. The hard part is trying to create the loading system like I said. Right now, I'm working on the Imperial harquebus. If you're asking why I didn't use one of the better-quality rifles it's because I don't want to accidently waste and destroy them with my experimentation and if you're asking why I didn't use the more lower quality rifles it's because I want the damn thing not to be a piece of shit. Anyway, I have already made some significant changes to the rifle as it stands.
For one the old flintlock system has been removed to make room for the new system and have had the barrel re-rifled to give it a better accuracy and cut the barrel without cracking it. Also, I've changed the old Ramming Rod Holder into the new location where I'm going to hold the ammo for the rifle. Also change the trigger so now it resembles more of a trigger for the big Henry rifle. I'm almost done with the rifle loading system it's taken me a couple of try's but I've nearly got it. By the time, I'm done the rifle should be able to fire at least twelve.45-70 caliber rounds from short to medium range of about 800 to maybe a thousand if I'm lucky.
While I've been working on the rifle components I've been keeping gorgeg distracted with some of the movies and TV shows from home. Never knew dwarves would like sci-fi shows.
As I was almost done fitting the loading mechanism on to the new rifle-
"Hey lad- "
"GAH gorgeg don't do that!" I yelled at him as apparently, the short man snuck into the forge without me knowing.
"calm down lad you've been sneaking off for a while now and I was concerned where you were." He told me
"sigh alright fine so you found me." I respond with weariness as he then looks at me with some concern
"lad are you alright? You don't exactly look well." Gorgeg responds as he looks at the bags underneath my eyes
"I'm fine gorgeg honest." I respond with my hand over my chest and the other held into the air in a mock salute
Gorgeg doesn't seem to buy it as he just gives me a deadpan stare
"lad I wasn't born yesterday. Tell me what's wrong I can probably help." He tells me with a hand on my should that makes me drop my hands to my side
"I- look I'm- "I try coming up with an excuse but he just squeezes my shoulder and gives me a concerned stare
"sigh alright it's this world, its everything that's been happening to me ever since I got here. I just- sigh- I don't even know where to begin on to how fucked up my situation is." I tell him as I look down and cover my face with my hands
"lad just get it off your chest." He tells me
"I'm away from the very world I came from and trapped on a planet that will more likely than not kill me in what most likely one of the most gruesome ways imaginable. An to make it worse I will most likely have to fight for my life more times than I can even count if I ever want to see my loved ones again. I can't even begin to describe how FUCKED up this is!" I look up and tell him honestly with a bit of panic and despair in my voice.
Gorgeg simply stands there and listens and pulls his hand back and brings it to his beard and begins stroking it like and old wizened sensei. Before he takes a deep breath and exhales and responds
"Umgi life isn't predictable and it often throws many forms of Dum into our lives. All we can really do is hold on and take that Dum and change it into bugrit. You can't change what has happened to you, but you can change how you handle the change." Gorgeg tells me as he looks at me
"so, in other words suck it up and make the best of whatever the hell god throws at you." I tell him questioningly
"yup." He responds with a smile on his face
With that I slowly begin laughing and soon gorgeg joins in with me and now were both laughing at how messed up the world is. Slowly though we calm down and that's when gorgeg notices the rifle on the desk.
"umgi what is that your working on?" he asks curiously as he points at the rifle
"oh, uhh that it's just an experiment." I tell him nervously as I scratch the back of my head.
"really lad I'm not stupid I know that's a rifle." He tells me plainly
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(3 hours later at beginning of nightfall)
Time till ship arrival 25:10
(location on top of the town wall)
From there I reluctantly explained to him what the rifle was and what I was trying to do only after he promised not to tell anyone what and or how it was made.
He was interested to see if there were any other upgrades I could do. I responded with that it was possible but it depended on what he wanted to upgrade and whether or not I had the tools and supplies.
It sort of escalated from there into a brainstorm of what possible gadgets I could make in the future. During this time, I was able to finish the henry rifle to which I named Lincoln mark 1. I chose the name because it came from another weapon in fallout that looked like it to a degree.
It loads just like a big henry rifle as in it loads new cartridges from the side and ejects the spent ones out the top to the right. An on that note I had little time to actually make any decent and usable rounds for it. So, as it stands I have a repeater cowboy rifle and about 48 rounds for it. So, it's about 4 full mags of ammo and I beforehand had the tailor make a belt to hold these rounds in box like leather containers to hold the ammo.
I'm getting ahead of myself you see after I finished the rifle. The town guard were freaking out about something, so me and gorgeg went out to see what was going on.
What happened was that we got shanghaied into the town militia to hold off what looked like an army of undead that ranged from beast men to ordinary human corpses and skeletons. That brings us to what the hell is happening right now.
As me and Gorgeg now stand a top of the town wall looking over the oncoming darkness that is the undead army.
"well shit." I say aloud
"well lad looks like your about to get more combat experience." Responds gorgeg as he stands next to me. Before he takes a closer look at all the corpses and notices something.
"lad are you seeing what I'm seeing." Gorgeg says as all sudden as he stares intently at the undead horde.
"What you mean the marching army of the dead yeah. I see that" I respond with sarcasm.
"No not that I mean look at how they're moving the cow there so slow and basic in their movements." He points out
with that I take a closer look and I know is the same thing that the dwarf pointed out. The way that they're moving it's very clumsy very awkward and extremely uncoordinated. If we were dealing with a master necromancer I'd expect them to move the bodies into formations and have them march in step. However here I don't see that I see just one big clump of undead.
"Yeah I see it to. Gorgeg you think it's possible that were dealing with one necromancer a very inexperienced one at that." I ask
"I don't think it's possible umgi I think it's what's happening. I have fought the undead before him and usually against Masters to novices and I've noticed that novices tend to do what's happening right here. Also, I've noticed that when multiple necromancer's work together experience doesn't matter however it's just one this happens." He responds pointing out important facts what's going on.
"So, in other words we don't really need to fight this support we just have to take out the leader." I comment as me and Gorgeg get ready for the horde to come rushing at the gates.
"aye lad, it's a simple thing however I don't see the leader anywhere usually led be somewhere where you could see all of the action below." Gorgeg comments and is right usually when you suspect a necromancer you imagine them to be all the way in the back behind their minions hiding behind their meat shields.
"So that brings a question where is the necromancer" I asked in curiosity.
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(with the necromancer)
"I have amassed my army and now we are almost there to the damn town." She thinks to herself
This was the perfect timing to attack as the nearest Imperial guard regiment would take exactly a week to get here as they were out practicing in the field. By that time, the town will have been raised to the ground. The town guard number in at least 100 as the rest were called out to deal with a local beastmen attack
"Damn good thing about having an invisibility spell" thinks the villainous as she stands on the back of one of her undead monstrosities. She then looks out onto the wall he notices them militia that is gathered to defend the city from her attack.
This is something a little odd in the normal rabble the militia. She sees two beings that are standing near the wall's edge. One at dwarf that obviously is a ranger from the equipment that you he's wearing. The other a man but just like any other human but not like any that she's seen before.
Stands there wearing thick leather black coat underneath what appears to be guardsmen armor but no initials or insignias stating that he is. She also notes that there's a strange weapon on his back looks to be a rifle but none that she's ever seen before.
She doesn't know why but she feels afraid of them. The gut wrenching here that she doesn't exactly understand where it came from. She shakes it off and gets rated marching army on the wall with siege ladders on hand she prepares to invade the town.
All the while she doesn't notice two of her skeleton guards right behind her notice something strange.
"Bob, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Asks red Skelton to the blue skeleton
next to him as they march with their leader.
"Yeah I see it to joe and I don't like it." Says the blue skeleton as he and his companion have noticed something strange in their master.
See the two have been around for a long long time and it served many necromancer before. So, it kind of gives him perspective of what's going on in the world. One of the things that they've noticed is that their masters have been before in the past have been influenced by what appears to be chaotic magic. We see the same thing that's happening now with her.
"Joe I don't know who those two are but apparently, they must have pissed someone powerful off." Says Bob
"I don't know what's going on here Bob but I think we should be careful. Chaotic forces at hand that's never a good sign." If the skeleton could scowl right now he would.
The previous owners would be influenced by the force of chaos before in the past and it usually led to their deaths. No offense to their masters but they don't exactly like being stuck in a book for next decade or so before someone else picks them up.
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(jacks pov)
okay I don't know what the hell I just felt but whatever that was I didn't like it.
"Okay I think someone may be targeting us Gorgeg." I tell the dwarf is the undead Legion soon becomes close enough for the archers to start shooting off volleys of arrows.
"What makes you say that umgi?" Gorgeg questions as he starts firing off a couple bolts to nail several of the undead in the skull.
"I don't know why but I just got a bad feeling about this." I tell him as I my sword and shield ready to repel the oncoming invasion as the undead get their own siege ladders onto the wall.
Ready or not here come the dead.
AN thanks for reading folks