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The Deathmaster Journal; First step in the war for Skaven fluff!
Topic Started: 14th July 2004 - 10:18 AM (2,220 Views)
warlord Arqueek
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just look at the site you-you wil see
let the storm come !!!!


here's to us Rats that have no meaning
I tip my glass to you my komrats
let's toast the night away with some skavenade
and forget about tomorrow
forget about ouré sorrow
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SingTheScreams
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Call me Sings

okay, im so completely lost...
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no need to worry for soul, instead starts worshipping STS and slaughtering unbelievers in his holy name.
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Snikkit
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Ok, when you bring up deathmasters journal, compare the little pictures mik posted, there are differences......
ONLY 3 TENTACLES.....add more warpstone.
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grendel23
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Beneath Zundap
[loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Rats in the Walls']

Burgomeister Zeitlung had been brave enough above ground, brave enough to send ten good men to their deaths while he sat safely in his office on the surface.
The tunnel had been discovered in the sub-cellar of the chapel of Ulric, a part of the building said to predate even almighty Sigmar. The mouth of the tunnel was small and uneven. The night watchman Gunter, the man who had discovered the hole showed the gathered town councilmarks that he said had been cut as if from below, but everyone knew that the man wasn't quite stable. He had earlier made a reportof dark scurrying shapes in the narrow alleys of Zundap. Shapes that resembled the beastmen who were assembled in the forests surrounding the town, but smaller, faster, and unlike the foul chaos-spawn stealthy and silent. his reports were laughed off and his sanity questioned. If the beastmen were inside the town's walls, wouldn't everyone be aware of it? No, declared the burgomeister, this was the result of underground movement of the chapel's foundation, and ordered the town's stonesmiths to go down and assess the damage and begin repairs.. Even though the town had been besieged for over ten days, it was felt that if the chapel collapsed, it would be a sign of Ulric's disfavor and would be a detriment to the morale of the defenders. So Hauser and nine of his comrades were taken from the wall defenses and sent into the darkness beneath Zundap.
After widening the tunnel's opening and entering, Hauser noticed a peculiar odor, resembling that of animal excrement. But what sort of creature could live in such lightless places? there were no animals that Hauser knew of that could live without the wholesome light of day, and what could such a thing sustain itself with?
The lamps that the men carried revealed to them that this was no ordinary tunnel. There was a stairway carved into the stone, a stairway so old that the center of the steps had been worn almost completely away by untold numbers of feet over what must have been millenia. Strewn across the stairway were countless bones gnawed by rodents. Rats, that accounts for the smell, thought Hauser.
Intrigued by their discovery, the stonemasons descended the stairway to find that the tunnel was much larger than first they thought. The glow of their lanterns no longer reached the walls. one of the men gave a shout and the returning echoes indicated that the cavern was huge. But, disturbingly, the shout was answered by a distant chittering that came from all directions..
Turning his bullseye lantern to his left, Hauser noticed a series of small building at the edge of the light. Moving nearer, he saw that they were actually stone pens, cells that held yet more bone, these of men. What sort of men would subject their peers to such torment? Hauser thought. His musings were disturbed by the sound of a scuffle behind him. Heidigger and Ruthen were gone, back to the surface Hauser supposed, frightened by this latest discovery. Cowards.
The group of workers started back toward the stairway when suddenly and simultaneously, their lamps were extinguished by a multitude of thrown objects. hauser felt one of them hit his side, just below the ribcage and a fierce burning ensued. Plucking the object from his flesh, he saw a triangular piece of metal that had a strange green glow about it.
Who, or what had attacked them? he thought. Had the beastmen found an outside entrance to this tunnel system? His revery was broken by a choked moan from his left, followed almost immediately by a cry from his right. He called out to his comrades, but there was no answer. Hauser was alone. he knew that his friends were dead. they had been taken by the darkness that surrounded him on all sides.
He felt a sharp sting across his neck and drew back in pain. Whatever lurked in the darkness was toying with him. Panicked, he began to run, not knowing in what direction he fled. He lost his balance and fell amongst the bones of those who had preceded him in this game of death. Once again, he was prodded by a sharp blade. Hauser screamed and leapt to his feet, launching himself intothe black unknown again. This time he ran headlong into a stone wall. He felt his nose shatter and blood began pouring from his nostrils. He ran again, but his breathing was constricted. he began to pray to Ulric and Sigmar, hoping vainly that they would hear his cries for help, but the only sound that returned to him was that of chittering laughter.
Hauser knew that his life was at an end, that his unseen assailants would continue to torment him as long as he ran, so he resolved to meet his fate head on. Something brushed against him and he reached for it. What he grabbed was an arm, but fur covered, with muscles like steel cables. The arm broke his grip and grabbed him in return. Hauser drew back to strike his foe when he felt a sharp pain in his back. Looking down, he saw a dark green glowing blade standing out from his chest. He fell to the ground and his last sight was of a swarm of dark shapes blotting out the dim light of the tunnel's entrance. As the blood poured from his body and his life force ebbed, Hauser knew that Zundap was doomed.
if vegetarians eat vegetables, i guess that makes me a humanitarian
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warlord Arqueek
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hey you guys it schould be fun if all the writers where mentiend in a fluf story in the one Iam writing al the writers are mentiond
:rolleyes: and I kill a stupid grey seer that stands in my way in the fluf .lol
dom't try this at home :P
let the storm come !!!!


here's to us Rats that have no meaning
I tip my glass to you my komrats
let's toast the night away with some skavenade
and forget about tomorrow
forget about ouré sorrow
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flitskoekie
the intelligent Rat Ogre
could be fun, the site looks marvelous, nows let's fill it up with some Skaven goodies...

teamwork and we might get a White dwarf mentioning...
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Deathmaster Mik
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flitskoekie
Jul 16 2004, 01:36 AM
could be fun, the site looks marvelous, nows let's fill it up with some Skaven goodies...

teamwork and we might get a White dwarf mentioning...

Hehe.. don't count on it!

The first 6 days are finalized (director's cut ;)). Thanks go out to Arqueek, Venomclaw & Giantrat for that part. Thanks for the excellent fluff. I've combined it and added some stuff to make it coherent (I think that's the word I'm looking for)
Hope you like it

Have no fear; all the other stuff will find it's way on this page!
I'll work on it some more tomorrow, so keep it comming

Off the bed,
DM -sleep-with-1-eye-open Mik ;)
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Death lurks in my cloak.................. Death dances in my footsteps;................. I am become Death. ................. Amen
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s'nkeep
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Ajax = warpstone juice

now that we got some fluff it might also be a good place to archive some of it... as well as come up with a web blog persay to look back on... maybe the stuff that doesnt make it can be still put up per author on the side when you click their name...


id suggest maybe ninjastars or a kensi sword striking targets we hit but dont stay at....
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Mutator
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Great stuff... but is it legal?
Mostly harmless
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Deathmaster Mik
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Jul 16 2004, 07:19 AM
Great stuff... but is it legal?

Doesn't it just get better if it's ILlegal? ;)

To be quite frank, I don't know. I've added they have the rights (and wrongs) of the page. I don't know if it's enough.. any lawyers out there? :unsure:

And -please- no Darkwing Duck stuff anymore, pretty pretty please? Go to off-topic ans discuss the whole Duck-city populace, but not here. I check this for updates, not for the name Darkwin's daughter listens to.
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Death lurks in my cloak.................. Death dances in my footsteps;................. I am become Death. ................. Amen
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phordicus
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parodies are legal here. i don't know about the UK. honestly, it passes muster but you might want to make the copyright notice at the bottom clean, i.e. just straight legal speak, no puns or anything else.
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if you meet a master swordsman, show him your sword; but do not show your poem to one who is not a poet.

- japanese proverb
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Verminous Fang
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Well, that's mostly my fault about the Duck. Make a new thread, say what you gotta say, and I'll pin it and close this one.

OK, thread is pruned (took the initiative since Mik logged off).

The above offer still stands, if you want it.
Go forth my brethren, that we shall nibble at the roots of the old world!

We are the rats in the shadows. We hold the blades of corruption, aimed at the very heart of the Old World. We are The Council of Thirteen.

Second place in the UnderEmpire painting competition!

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Or you could just prune this one, VF. Get the trimming knife out.

I hope the DMJ is legal, because I've provided the link on a few forums now ;)
Mostly harmless
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Deathmaster Mik
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Jul 16 2004, 10:44 AM
Or you could just prune this one, VF. Get the trimming knife out.

I hope the DMJ is legal, because I've provided the link on a few forums now ;)

ACK!!.. it's not DONE yet! *goes in over-drive*
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Verminous Fang
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LOL. OK, so now you're back. :D

Anyways, I cut out the cartoon discussion, and all the death threats against Gav as being OT. Hey, he gave me recognition, so he can't be all bad. :D
Go forth my brethren, that we shall nibble at the roots of the old world!

We are the rats in the shadows. We hold the blades of corruption, aimed at the very heart of the Old World. We are The Council of Thirteen.

Second place in the UnderEmpire painting competition!

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