Game Thread: Tosti Hakisson

You blade smites the one that escaped your beam, and the remaining monstrosities are disintegrated by your moon beam, you have absorbed 7 Abyss-touched Souls. The path to the small ruined city now lies before you.

The very lands around you reek of the Abyss, but you sense no further enemies near by until you start to draw near to the city. Before you arrive there, you see a small path heading back into the woods, the trees grow thicker in that direction, but the ones in the distance seem less tainted, and are illuminated by a luminescent moss.

As you pass through the moss covered trees the way becomes less and less tainted by the Abyss. You get a feeling of elsewhereness, as if your steps do not simply mean more then just proceeding forward. Countless mushrooms populate the sides of the path and the forest grows thick with trees obscuring everything. You arrive in a grove with a number of decayed statues covered in luminous moss, in the groves centre is a bonfire, near by a large mushroom with a pair of eyes seems to take notice of your arrival.

Abyss-touched Soul. What was once the soul of a common person, it had become engorged with Dark. Not the pure white of a soul but the twisted purple of the Abyss. Use to gain 100xp, for trading or for Dark rituals.

The statues are old, from a time which you would consider to be a time of myths. They poses strong themes of nature but beyond that their age and obscured nature makes it imposible to determine more.

Though the mushroom has no mouth it speaks to you in the voice of an elderly woman. Mushrooms do not need the bonfire like you do undead, but it's power was a great boon. Especially in this dark times. What brings you to the ruins of Oolacile?

I am Elizabeth, and I suppose Oolacile could be a myth. You see it is not always real... Have you ever remembered not being real Tosti? Walked in a world where either you did not exist or the world itself was not real? So too does Oolacile wander through the world. A foul blot on reality, bound to the cycle of Light and Dark. The manifestation of Oolacile in your world marks a juncture, where Light may be preserved or an age of Dark ushered in. I have always wondered if Oolacile serves a purpose in that, a warning to what an age of Dark might be like. If your task is to clear this blot I am afraid you are outmatched, Oolacile will pass in time but so long as it is here the dark will remain. This glen I keep clean by the powers of this bonfire, and my knowledge of healing nature, but you will not find great enough a source of strength for a all of Oolacile. I suggest you aid your spirit in surging this storm, as Oolacile will pass in time. the shroom considers for a time, the adds though perhaps if you slay the twice killed knight it may ease the burden on this world. You may know him as a legend too, the Knight Artorias who was slain by Manus father of the Abyss, then slain again by the Wanderer who finished his task. But I warn you, Artorias is a powerful foe.

Far from it, the Artorias had come to Oolacile to repel the darkness, but was alas consumed by it. Before that he was one of four knights who served the lord of Light. There were four knights at one point, the wolf, the hawk, the hornet and the dragon. They all left these lands, and established new legends far off, save the wolf Artorias who's death here in Oolacile has trapped him here.

You exit the glade from the same way you came in but find that you are not back where you were before. You are closer to Oolacile then you were, and there is a clear path into the city. From this distance you can finally resolve what the squat building is; a large squat coliseum that forms the focus of the city. The streets are tight and winding offering plenty of potential ambush points.

How are you heading up? Just wandering in, carefully checking everything, sneaking?

Your travel through the outskirts of town is rather unhindered, you see down side paths that there may be fights to be had but the foes do not block your path at first. Coming around a tight corner you see eight of those corrupted figures, seven of which seem to be prostrating to the eigth which is convulsing.

You stand at the entrance of a town square. The path you walked in on is wide enough for carts so about 10 feet across. If you run across the share you could to a corner but that would take your turn.