2010

Book of the Day – Darkness Comes by Zanadi

stargrace January 10, 2010 No Comments

(( Every weekend I like to post one of the books I have in my Norrathian Library on the Antonia Bayle server for others to read who may not be able to visit in person – you can donate to my library by sending a book to Ellithia, or if you’re from another server I will gladly donate a blank book to you so that you can send it back to me. The library itself is located in North Freeport at the mage tower (bottom floor) under the magical housing. Please feel free to stop by! ))

Darkness Comes – By Zanadi
book 1

The sunset was beautiful this night with the warm reds and oranges. The breeze blew just right stirring the warm air. On a hill sat a young looking woman in a faded blue cotton dress. Her dark brown hair pushed back behind Ayr’dal ears.She was picture perfect, smooth skin just tan enough to proudly show her ruddy red markings. She brushed her hand gently through the lush grass she was sitting in. A warm smile creased her face as a man quietly approached her from behind, settling himself beside her.

“Hello my love.” Her voice was a sweet as honey. She leaned over, resting her head upon him. He grinned back at her, encasing her tiny hand in his.

“What brings you out here dearest? You are a long ways from the wagons.”

“Oh aye but I wanted to see the sunset. Beautiful isn’t it?”

He looked right at her totally ignoring the hues that crested the land. “Yes, she is.”

She looked over at him and her smile grew. There was no place she’d rather be than content within his arms. She always had found it funny how opposite they were. She preferred the night while he preferred the day.

He hated to break the moment but something weighted heavy on his mind. “Maynace, someone came by the house looking for you today.” Gone was the light hearted feel to his words, replaced by something more serious.
“Hrm? I wasn’t expecting anyone. Who was it?”
“It was Tishnar. Nace, the old man isn’t going to give up.”

Her face fell and she sighed. “He means no harm Ryac.”
“That is what you say. You do not see his eyes. The old necromancer wants you for his own. I told him to leave.”
She sat up and turned to look at him. “You didn’t.”
“I did. I’ll not having him bothering you.”

They settled back down together their hands intertwined. It was the perfect moment as the last of the sunset faded. Darkness began to creep over the land. One may have thought it from the absence of the suns but as it creeped over the hill and along the land the cold came with it. As it touched each blade of grass, it wilted. Each flower succumb to the absence of light dropping it’s beautiful petals and dying. The darkness here had a purpose.
Maynace…

Slowly it killed everything in it’s path, creeping along the ground. Maynace and Ryac stood in disbelief as it called out to her.

Maynace…

“She’s not yours necro!” Ryac screamed out to the dark nothing as he grabbed her hand and then they were running. They ran and ran until their lungs burned and Maynace thought she’d collapse. Yet still the darkness followed behind them leaving a trail of death in it’s wake.

They ran for what seemed like hours but in truth was more of mere minutes as the darkness licked at their feet. A branch pulled up before them catching Ryac’s foot. He went down hard with a thump.

“Ryac!” She screamed and grabbed at him, pulling for all she was worth.
“Run Nace! Do not stop!”
“I won’t leave you!”
“GO!”

She looked back at the darkness. It would be on them in seconds. “Never forget I love you Maynace. Never. Live for me.”

She was still holding his hand as the dark nothing creeped up his legs and over his body. It tickled at her fingers as she screamed forcing her to release him. She watched horrified as his body decayed and died before her eyes. He was still calling her name as his jaw fell from his rotting corpse.

“Ryac!”  There was no time to stop to weep and once again she was running. The darkness called out to her again.

Maynace…

“You won’t have me! Never!” She screamed as she ran. A high pitch shrill filled the black of night. The nothing surged forward surrounding her tired worn feet.

“NEVER!”

But it held her fast in place, tripping her to the ground. She gasped as it first crept over her legs to her hips. Her dress rotted and fell apart. She clawed at the ground to pull herself away, kicking until her legs became dust. Panic screamed in her eyes. Slowly it made it’s way up her body until it consumed her. As it took in her innocence it stops. A saddness replaces the cold and in an instant the darkness is gone.

Ellithia’s Estate – Creative Housing

stargrace January 7, 2010 1 Comment

Pictured above is the stats for my Norrathian Museum – I couldn’t help but laugh yesterday as I looked at the placed items – only 428 items register as part of the house count but there are really 712 items in the house already. With a limit of 700 that count. Basically what this says is all of my books (thankfully) don’t count towards my house limit, and by the time all is said and done, I will have over 1,000 items in my 700 item home. I’m excited about this, I’ve never had so many items before.

It was important to me to finish off the Champion of Bayle quest (beginning in Qeynos Harbor in the Inn) and the Champion of Lucan D’Lere quest (beginning in West Freeport under the crushed citadel) so that I could not only gain the titles, but have two new house items (the Soulfire replica and Claymore replica) to add to the museum. I’ve also gotten the frozen sword that comes from the Heroic Frostfell instance, and added that.

I don’t want my museum to become TOO crowded. Despite the fact that there are over 700 items within the home, I think I’ve done a fairly good job at spacing them. Pretty soon it will be time for me to start working on another home for a different character, and leave the museum to random ‘updates’ like adding books to the library, or a painting here and there. There’s still some display cases that could use items down in the basement, but aside from that, it’s a pretty good representation of “norrath” – or so I feel.

There are a few limited items that I wish I had not of lost over the years, so that I could add them. One would have to be the miniature griffin statue that we received for helping build the griffin towers a few years ago. I had one and lost it in one of my server transfers, at the time I thought nothing of it. Now that a few years have gone by I really wish I had it. There are a few other items like that, not that I can remember them currently.

I enjoy being able to look through a home that I’ve created and decorated and see my play history. I like that a piece of me in game tells a story, and that I can look through it and see five years of game play put into various corners. It’s a little creative outlet for me, and I’m very thankful that EQ2 has this feature. I wish more games had their players involved to such a degree. I don’t know what I’ll do when Sentinel’s Fate comes out, and with it a whole collection of new house items. I’ll just have to start over in a new house I suppose! Too bad we can’t own ‘country homes’ or something, so we can own more then one house per character – that would be a neat idea. Who wouldn’t want to escape to Maj’Dul to get away from the hustle and bustle of Freeport or Qeynos!

Thursday! Almost Friday, and almost the weekend. Have a great day no matter where you find yourself, and I’ll see you in Norrath.