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Seven Sins (Start-Up)

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Ansom stood on a balcony overlooking the capital city of Anzaar. A woman carrying a staff came out and stood behind him.

"Brother," she said, "you're crazy."

"I hope it didn't take you twenty years to figure that out, Alice."

"Not in the way everyone is, brother. You are absolutely, over-the-top crazy."

"And that's why this will work. We'll be able to find at least one of the Blades or Seals." He then changed the topic. "Have you had any visions?"

"Not even a seer can conjure up the future at will, brother."

"Yes or no?"

"Yes. It was of the distant future, about someone studying our time. They called it 'steampunk' for some reason."

"It's the future, Alice. They're just as crazy as me."

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"Alright, men, the tundra isn't going to cross itself!" Ansom yelled to the battalion of men that were following him. In the northern tundra, a glacier was approching, and that was where he hoped a Blade or Seal might lie.

OOC: You can post a bit of your char's past, or what they're doing right now, or whatever for your first post.
 
Here's the first rule of going to a bar alone if you know you're gonna get wasted:

Don't drive.

It was dumb of Jabs Dakka, sure, but hey, wife leaving you, you gotta drown your sorrows somehow. He wasn't that bad a drunk, really, it's just that he got mad easily, so he got road rage like nobody's business. He shambled out of the bar. He might have been drooling, He didn't know. He took a long look at the cart, then decided to ask his pal to pick it up later.

At that point, a pair of obviously intoxicated thugs stumbled out of an alley and started walking towards him. He hoped for their sake taht they wouldn't try to attack him.

They did.

They immediately learned why you should never mess with a drunk guy that easily succumbs to wrath who has a katana on his person.

Some guy, younger than Jabs by the looks of him, watched the whole thing. Afterwards, he walked up and told him that he was being drafted for a team of some sort. Something about him made Jabs believe him. He didn't know what. But he drove Jabs in his own cart to Jabs' apartment. He told Jabs to pack to leave and say goodbye to it: he'd never see it again.

Sometimes, nowadays, Jabs wishes he hadn't taken him up on his draft.

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"Dammit, Ansom, it's cold!" Jabs yelled over the blizzard. "It's cold and I'm not in the mood to suffer through you giving orders! So please, shut your damn mouth!"
 
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Ansom now stood over a hastily constructed table, looking down at a map. He had marked possible locations for the Blades and Seals- first, there was the glacier they were heading towards. Then there was the desert in the West, the mountains to the South, the volcanic region to the East- and plenty of points between them in moors, plains, and others.

Ansom looked up, searching for the other six. They should arrive soon.
 
Grey stood against the window of Ansom's room. "You ready or not? I don't want this to be another wild goose chase like the one before." He leaned against the frame, standing was always his choice, you could always stay awake as long as you stood, now blacking out was another story. "I want to get my hands on that sword so that we can make some serious dough!"
 
Jabs scowled. "Not sure if I can come on this one," he said. "I'm still wounded from our last foolhardy 'mission -' thanks for not saving me Grey, by the way."
 
"What're you guys talking about?" Archibald says, jumping from the roof of the cabin and falking on his face. He peels himself off the ground, and, seemingly unfazed, continues. "Adventures are fun! Heroics and quests and everything!" He says.
 
"Grey, it may be a Seal, you know that. Those damn ancient prophecy riddles and such aren't exactly clear on anything. But from what the seers say, something is up there in the glacier. Maybe not a Seal or Blade, but something that can help us if it isn't. Dakka, why haven't you seen one of the healers? Have a problem with Light Mages? And Archibald... I still must ask myself how in the world that you ever got a mage to make you such ubsurd clothing. Even my sister didn't see anything like it in the distant future."
 
"I haven't seen one of the healers because the last time I did, I ended up with a frog growing out of my arm!" Jabs said.
 
"How about one that speaks the same language as you? Nodding your head and showing them your wound doesn't always translate correctly."
 
"I still don't think I understand why we need all of these swords." Arch says. "Wouldn't guns work better? And seals... Why do we need these seals? Why not walruses? They have tusks."
 
Andrew facepalmed. "Not seals, the animals. But a Seal, like a sign, I think...." he explained to Archie.
 
"Because I'd rather have enough magic to wipe out a continent than experimental- emphasis on the 'mental', the mages trying to develope them are bonkers- weapons that only have the advantage of outright power."

OOC: While guns DO exist, they suck. Think of the first guns- one shot, forever and a half to reload, inaccurate, and expensive. Magic works better right now, for anyone that has it.
 
"Wait, magic swords? Sweet, what do they do? Can they shoot lasers by sacrificing octopus hearts?" He asks.
 
"We're not sure," Ansom said. "For all we know, that's exactly what they do. We just know that they're powerful enough to... what's the slang that my sister said they used in the future?... to nuke them."

OOC:new plot device immenent! Octopi lazers!
 
"So what do I have to do again?" said Neil as he walked in with a bored tone in his voice.
 
"Well, since Jabs is too lazy to find a healer that understands him, you're going to have to take his place in our next scouting run. Grab your stuff, you'll be going soon. It'll be you, Grey, and Archibald while the others get back from the current one." He pointed to a ridge on the map. "This is where you'll be going to. No further, no closer. Some men have been attacked by Yeti around here, though, so be careful."
 
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