Killing off Lye: Official Sign Ups

[Breaker]

Sounds like Jake and Flint will be rallying something.

[Ashla]

Is this officially starting up now or on 4.0?

Also, I don't know how Ashla would know about Lye's location. I mean, she's been searching for a while, but...

[Mari]

People are posting their threads and prequels now so I'd say now.
Ashla, if you are struggling maybe look for someone else who is yet in a group? I Think Breakers char, Jake is yet in one? He would be able to work out something with his portal thing maybe

[Breaker]

Jake and Flint are all booked up.

[Mari]

oops my bad I didn't see that post before Ashlas that will show me :P

[Shinsou Vaan Osiris]

Our thread here

[Ashla]

Okay, I don't think that I would be able to do this. I have way too much going on IRL to take time and focus on everything going on, as much fun as this sounds. I'm going to have to step out. Have fun keeling Lye, guys! *Insert Plankton's version of the Fun Song*

Thanks

[SirArtemis]

Lye, can you provide more insight on the dark crawlers, how they work/look, what might hurt them? I don't want to override your canon. What are the totems? Can i see them above ground? Do they have a range? Like can i outrun their reach? Can they be killed or hurt? Or is the totem basically infinite life supply? Etc.

[Lye]

Yes, begin now.

As for non-power gaming and finding out Lye's location, he hasn't been as quiet as he would like. The Crimson Hand has now made a presence in Salvar in Knife's Edge and Rubble Town. To the Rubble Town people, they're more like angels in the night, "removing" problems for a bit of information and a touch of coin. To the Baron's, The Crimson Hand are more like pests or the boogey men depending on how bold the barons are. In Archen, Aurelianus has his brothel, the House of Sin. He's done well to keep it masked as related to the Hand, but speculation is strong that its more than just a brothel. People are just too scared to prod into it thanks to the rumors surrounding its owner.

Lilith would know that some of her "sisters" currently work for Aurelianus' brothel. Since she had a run in with Lye who was overseeing one such human trafficking run, she would be able to plug two and two together. Philomel obviously knows where the camp is, and likely how to navigate the forest. However, it has been a while and the Dark Crawlers may have relocated some of their hunting grounds.

If anyone has had exposure to Lye, they would know he likes to use ravens as a form of scouting and message sending. Unfortunately, avians are not keen on flying that far north. If they do, they keep flight short and to whatever trees they can. The Great White Expanse is like a snow desert. No foliage, no rock, just dunes of snow. To see a single black bird flying over this would be odd. To see several or to see them regularly day after day might raise a brow or two.

Those are some venues you may want to use to locate him.

As for the dark crawlers, here is an image I did up a while back: http://pre11.deviantart.net/60fb/th/...on-d5gaott.jpg

Their appendages are amorphous with no concrete length, thickness, or shape. They generally take the form of spiders, centipedes, or similar multi-legged critters. Their bodies are like black holes or pure void. When angered, their bodies will obliterate whatever they touch. If it swiped an appendage at a tree, it would cleave through it like a sword strike, but the wound path would be as wide as the appendage was thick. When they use their jaws to bite, it's a clean cleave. When most animals bite or eat, the wound is a tear or crunch. For these guys, its like the wound was just surgically removed.

They are like animal cells in the way they live and reproduce. By eating, they grow in size. After a point, that size is too large and they sort of break down, leaving little clumps behind until they're at a standard size (about bear size). Those little globs grow sentience over time and start as the babies in those image. The babies are skittish on their own, but arguably more terrifying than an adult when they swarm. Dark Crawlers use light to lure in unsuspecting prey. Consequently, they are also lured themselves by that light. So, its very likely that prey encounters more than one and you'll want to avoid the light to avoid them.

As for weaknesses, they dislike fire. More specifically, they hate the light that fire gives off. It attracts them, but more in an angry sense. This might have something to do with the druidic people that created them. They also dislike sunlight. Sunlight actually weakens them, like throwing water on magma. Their void bodies begin to harden like a shell where they can be torn open or shattered. If one were to remain in the sun for too long, it would become a hollow shell. This is a defense mechanism. The hardened shell essentially creates a personal cave to block out the light since by absorbing the light, they actually shrink. This is a double edged sword, because if they remain in the shell without food, they also diminish. Generally, they wait until night to shatter their shells and return to darkness.

Weapons that dispel magic or are immune to magic are also effective against them. So are most forms of elemental damage. They are fast and again, amorphous. They can literally change the shape of their bodies to dodge a threat such as a fireball or spear jab. They're honestly better avoided than confronted. Especially if any light is involved.

[Jake Narmolanya]

Mine and Warpath's thread is here