Episode 2: The Darkness stirs.
Meanwhile, in a cell far beneath Bargate Prison, a subterranean dungeon, unknown and forgotten by all but a scarce few, sits a man.
This man is so dangerous and vile that the warden of the prison complex was forced to swear on penalty of death that this man be neither seen nor spoken to, but only to be fed his dismal and minimalistic rations, and then only once a day, by the yet unnamed hero who had slain the Jack of Blades.
This man was to never see the light of day as long as he lived. This man's name was Hardluk the Hammer.
Hardluk was a beast of a man who even dwarfed the giant ex-hero Twinblades, a man who stood nine feet tall, making even him seem as a mere child..
His mangy, greasy, long black hair was matted and tangled from thirty years without bathing or care, and his teeth had long ago rotted away. His eyes were filled with such vile hate that to lock eyes with him caused many a brave soul to tremble in terror and even lose control of their bowels. The rest of his body was a maze of scars inlaid between thick black body hair covering every inch of his muscular body.
The weapon he bore in battle was locked in a vault concealed beneath the thick inlaid stones of the warden's office floor.
This war hammer, a weapon of brutal and crushing warfare stood as tall as a normal man and weighted three hundred and fifty pounds.
On this day an evil glint sparked to life in his eyes and a gruesome smile grew upon his lips.
Unknown to those above his cell and the guards above, today is about to be a very bad day, for Hardluk The Hammer is about to make his breakout.
Hardluk stood from his cot and walked to the door of his cell as he had many times in the past, only this time the gate explodes outward with a well aimed hit, crushing the hapless guard who had come with his one daily meal.
With a dark, foreboding laugh, he charges up the stairs, aimed for the warden's office, his war hammer Bonecrusher calling to his dark, twisted mind like a long separated lover.
Any and every guard who tried to stop him met the painful deaths of either their heads being crushed against the walls or between his vise-like hands. It would be inaccurate to say he was unfazed by the gore of their brains squishing out of their bloodied skulls because it gave him a twisted thrill to see fresh gore and destruction.
Blasting the Wardens office door open in a single punch, an unbroken stream of screams could be heard all the way in Lynchfield Graveyard over 20 miles away as Hardluk systematically dismantled the man's body, one bone, piece of a bone, or bone joint at a time. The monstrous criminal roared with evil laughter until he only heard silence when the warden's blood loss was too great and he lapsed unto unconsciousness, his bowels and lower torso ripped from his upper half.
Instantly loosing interest and dropping the dying man's body, he proceeded to stomp and smash a hole in the stone floor until he could work his bloodied fingers under the pieces and rip them out of the floor one by one until he could access the locking mechanism of the vault.
Once he was to this point, he kicked and stomped on the old vault's lid until it bent and buckled.
Once an edge wide enough to get his fingers under showed up, he grabbed it and peeled it back until he could get a better grip and then he completely ripped the lid off of the vault, letting it smash into a nearby wall, making a hole as it went.
There inside lay his long lost lover in blood, Bonecrusher.
Ep 2, Chapter 2
Outside the Guild hall Brutus took his first steps into the outside world, having only known the Guild his entire life.
Taking a deep breath of the air he headed off into the world, heading for The Greatwood Entrance to start exploring this world.
Moments after entering Greatwood he was attacked by bandits, whose weapons and armor which his wrist blades cut through like a hot knife through butter.
Once he slew them all, a strange instinct awoke in him and he took the leaders skull from his body, ripping it, spine and all from his back and roaring to the heavens.
His first kill and his first trophy! Oh how happy he felt inside!
Onward he traveled, slaying bandits and huge wasps that dared to attack him.
Once he reached Greatwood Lake though, he came face to face with a much larger creature seemingly made of Earth yet alive with glowing red eyes. This was his first encounter with an Earth Troll.
As he remembers the name, his tusks twitch wide into his kinds form of a wide smile and he pounces, landing on its back as it was already busy fighting a bandit and a merchant.
He drove his wrist blades deep into the Trolls back piercing the gem that gives it form with a surgeons skill causing the mighty beast to crumble.
As it did so, Brutus pounces the bandit, pinning it to the stone fence by the wrist blades on his right wrist through the bandits heart.
He retracted the blades and walked over and speaks to the Merchant. "Are you alright good sir? You where not hurt to badly was you?" he asks.
"Why no thank you kind sir I thank ye for saving me. That is a fine weapon you have there. Would you like to buy some potions or food?" the merchant gratefully replied.
Brutus simply shook his head no and continues deeper into Greatwood smiling as he cuts down on the Bandit population.