http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=106910.0 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=106910.0)  OOC thread.<br/><br/>http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=106912.0 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=106912.0)  Character Thread.  (Approved Sheets only please.)<br/><br/><br/>http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=107981.0 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=107981.0)  Romance/Sex Thread.<br/><br/><em>In the year 2148, explorers on Mars discovered the remains of an ancient spacefaring civilization.  In the decades that followed, these mysterious artifacts revealed startling new technologies, enabling travel to the furthest stars.  The basis for this incredible technology was a force capable of controlling the very fabric of space and time.<br/><br/>They called it the greatest discovery in human history.<br/><br/>The civilizations of the galaxy call it....<br/><br/>MASS EFFECT.</em><br/><br/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>http://www.mythopoeicpress.com/fr_faerun_overview.jpg (http://www.mythopoeicpress.com/fr_faerun_overview.jpg)  Toril World Map.<br/><br/><strong>Current Location;  Toril, in the southwestern edge of the Milky Way Galaxy.  Time is 12;00 P.M.  Exact location is Baldur's Gate, northern edge in Bloodmire Manor.  Current objective is to clear out the mansion and to discover why people are turning up mutilated.....if they turn up at all.</strong><br/><br/>Having just picked the lock to the wooden double doors, the cloaked elven warrior sighed heavily as her dexterous hands hovered over her father's blades she had inherited a century and a half ago.  Icingdeath and Twinkle were about as famous as her father was, and now they were hers.  She treated them with the utmost respect and cared for them quite well, but they were going to be needed now as unearthly growls and other noises filtered down the halls of Bloodmire Manor.  A while back, (a couple of centuries to be precise,) this place had been the scene of horrific human experimentation by the former heiress to this massive estate by the name of Luvia Bloodmire, but her reign had come to an end when it was discovered by adventurers hired back then that she was to blame for the malformed creatures running about the place, made up of human body parts for the most part.  That wasn't even the half of it of course since she had been paid quite handsomely, (blood money begot blood money it would seem,) by a dark organization that had sought to gain ultimate power over the Western Heartlands by using the Onyx Tower a ghost of Baldur's Gate past, a soldier and hero back in her day, to make shadow gates and to spread their influence everywhere by using these gates.  No matter the history, the dark elven woman closed the door behind her and pulled her swords free, but not before pulling the hood of her cloak away so her brown eyes could get a better look at the dark interior of this place.  Dust and cobwebs covered almost everything, but the smell of blood was thick in the air as Twinkle gave a soft blueish glow, telling her that danger was near.  She didn't have long to wait as a hideously malformed creature that stood on two legs climbed down one of three flights of stairs and shambled up to her, its right arm a scythe like weapon while the other once belonged to a human from the looks of it.  Its eyes were covered by a black blindfold, telling her it couldn't see but its hearing would make up for it most likely.  This thing was once a person, just like the last time things like this had been made, which meant that whoever was here now had taken up Luvia's old research into human experimentation.  That didn't bode well for the rest of Baldur's Gate, or the rest of Faerun for that matter.<br/><br/>Ducking under the first attack, the dark elf grinned as Twinkle parried the second from its human arm, easily severing it at the elbow, gaining a scream of agony as it tried to impale the agile elf, only to hit nothing but air as she got around the attack and behind the creature, having spun to the right.  Icingdeath ended its pitiful existence, going into its back and out the front of its misshapen chest, right where its heart was.  Of course, that was assuming it even had one, and if it did that it was in the same place as a normal person's was.  Thankfully it held true this time as the creature fell after she pulled her sword free.  There were plenty more where that had come from however, and not all of them were human like in appearance either since it sounded like there were more animal like creatures coming her way.  A poisoned dart shot from the tail of a dog like creature answered that question, just missing her as she rolled to the left as four such creatures ran down all three stairwells, two of which taking the middle flight that lay before her.  Well, this was going to be interesting.  Easily slipping between the barrage that followed, Giselle Do'Urden's brown eyes seemed to shine brightly for a moment as she tossed Icingdeath into the air and held out her open palm, the fingers spread open, and fired off an orb of lightning from her hand up the middle flight of stairs.  The two dog like creatures were fried with the energy within the lightning orb as it floated slowly on by.  Catching her sword by its handle right before having to move again, her mithril chainmail armor taking one of the poisoned darts without letting it punch through, Giselle's long silver hair flowed out behind her as she plunged Twinkle up to the hilt within the third creature's head, right down its deformed throat before pulling it out by slicing part of its head in half as she used the dead body as a shield against the last of the demon like dogs after getting behind it.<br/><br/>Heading up the left flight of stairs that led to the same hallway all the way around until a single door was found between the right and middle stairs, Giselle slipped behind the wall that separated the three and stealthily moved to a better position to take out the last of them before it did the same to her.  There was still more beyond this main entrance hall, but she wasn't worried about them just yet as she spotted the thing moving up the middle flight of stairs.  It didn't see her since her black skin and clothing gave her the advantage.  Waiting until it was on the landing, Giselle quickly pulled herself away from the wall as Twinkle was put into its sheath and her free hand now formed a small sickly green orb of energy within it before she fired it off at her target.  Melf's Acid Arrow was especially effective against living targets, and extremely effective against trolls.  It seemed to hold true to this stitched together dog thing since while man made, it still had flesh and bone to it which gave her Acid Arrow plenty to consume as the creature became a puddle of green goo.  It might have been a horrible way to die, but considering it was the sum of several creatures' body parts, it wasn't technically alive anymore anyway.  Moving on, Giselle slipped into the next hallway, hoping she'd find the person responsible for these horrible creatures before she became the next one to be lined up on some operating table.<br/><br/>((I didn't add anything for Shepard or any of our other alien friends only because I'm leaving that to you guys already out amongst the stars.  I have a plan however to get you down here so don't worry about rushing out here just yet.  Anyway, good luck to us all.  Also Elf?  You might want to head this way yourself lol.))