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Lifestone is maybe going to be a singleplayer RPG. The systems will be similar to Fable, like you will have renown from every quest and you will have the alignment to be good or evil.
Here is the story for the first act, it isn't done yet. But at least it's already quite something.
But watch out! Spoiler alert =p
Lifestone – The Searing Star (Act I)
The story of the Lifestone,
Long ago the world was created by a mighty creature without a name, he didn’t know why he was given this power. But he sure knew he was going to have some fun with it, as a mighty dictator he controlled the land behind the scenery and managed many wars and created many artifacts and legends to entertain himself. The watched many people die and sometimes even grabbed a chosen one to have some fun with like pretending he was a god but actually the creature just helped him to believe that he was.
Yes, he was a emotionless brute. He liked to play with his own creations and they’re lives. Because they offcourse didn’t mean anything to him. At the end the creature was bored, but before he wanted to leave and explore the universe a mighty evil lord (which was just human) made a ritual so he could speak to him. He asked the creature what he was planning and the creature wanted to know why he should answer his questions. The evil lord said ‘Because I have a funny new game for you’. The creature was interested and made the evil lord do his story. The lord wanted to create a Lifestone who could bring back the lives of fallen people, so there would be even more chaos and disaster because a lot of people would like to have such an artifact.
It turned out the artifact was created, the nameless creature cast it onto the earth and left. But this was not the evil lord had this planned, it was meant he could find it easily. But now he had to search for it like anybody else, at least he knew it as the only one of this earth. But he died before he found it, and to ensure the secret would not perish with him he had left a note for his servants to tell the world about the Lifestone. And so now we know, many have died before us but never found the Lifestone.
The story of a human called Arkhon,
Arkhon was a normal boy like any other, he was told stories before bedtime. Including legendary stories like the story of the Lifestone. He was most fascinated by it like anyone else and promised his father to once retrieve it. As a kid he sure did the normal stuff, like going to school and doing good and bad deeds. When he grew up as a man he was sent out to get some resources for the town, because they we’re almost depleted. But when he came back he found his village in ruin, all houses were on fire and corpses spread everywhere. Burning pyres with impaled corpses and heads on spears from children and adults. After a time of crying and grieving Arkhon told himself to go to the big city. On his way there he met some guards, got a suit from them and fought alongside them against the vicious boags (Dog-like humanoids). He asked they’re leader if they had seen who had destroyed his village or that they did it themselves but the boag lord told him that he had seen some bandits around there. After slaughtering the whole bandit camp he spoke to the bandit leader but they said to have made a pact with the Arkaghon demon clan.
It turned out that Arkhon’s village was raided by demon warriors. Now his only goal in life was to kill them and have his revenge. But wait, he remembered the story of the Lifestone; he could bring everyone back with it! So that would be his secondary goal in life, after he would kill his enemies. Now only to make those things happen he would need help from certain people, so he joined a warrior guild and met Nygan an elven warrior. To be able to reach the demons Arkhon’s goal was clear; he should reach the desolated lands of Graveland where the undead roam. But to get here he would need to go true the caves of the Gnork (Pig-like humanoids). But when he finally got to the end of the cave he discovered the way was shut with giant rocks. The sage of the warriors guild told him that the Hammer of Tone would be able to smash those rocks to bits easily.
The Hammer of Tone was an artifact hidden deep within the Temple who stood on the eastern beach. Nobody ever entered because once when war raged a whole army of pirates got stuck in there and they never got out. People believe they’ve mutated into demonic fish-like creatures. And that they’re leader controls the legendary Hydra, the monster of the sea. Everything the stories told about was true, Nygan and Arkhon battled various mutated pirates to finally beat the pirate leader and even the mighty Hydra! But there seemed also to be another artifact within the Temple and it was known as ‘The Searing Star’, a wand who wielded be power to destroy the Lifestone. Nygan was after this artifact and so Arkhon took the Hammer of Tone and Nygan took the wand.
After smashing the rocks to bits with the hammer Arkhon entered the Deadlands and after that he entered Graveland. [To Be Contineud]
I haven’t been able to write the story further.
And yes, if its all going to be completed then 'The Searing Star' will be Act I. And there will be another Act II and the end will be Act III
Here is the story for the first act, it isn't done yet. But at least it's already quite something.
But watch out! Spoiler alert =p
Lifestone – The Searing Star (Act I)
The story of the Lifestone,
Long ago the world was created by a mighty creature without a name, he didn’t know why he was given this power. But he sure knew he was going to have some fun with it, as a mighty dictator he controlled the land behind the scenery and managed many wars and created many artifacts and legends to entertain himself. The watched many people die and sometimes even grabbed a chosen one to have some fun with like pretending he was a god but actually the creature just helped him to believe that he was.
Yes, he was a emotionless brute. He liked to play with his own creations and they’re lives. Because they offcourse didn’t mean anything to him. At the end the creature was bored, but before he wanted to leave and explore the universe a mighty evil lord (which was just human) made a ritual so he could speak to him. He asked the creature what he was planning and the creature wanted to know why he should answer his questions. The evil lord said ‘Because I have a funny new game for you’. The creature was interested and made the evil lord do his story. The lord wanted to create a Lifestone who could bring back the lives of fallen people, so there would be even more chaos and disaster because a lot of people would like to have such an artifact.
It turned out the artifact was created, the nameless creature cast it onto the earth and left. But this was not the evil lord had this planned, it was meant he could find it easily. But now he had to search for it like anybody else, at least he knew it as the only one of this earth. But he died before he found it, and to ensure the secret would not perish with him he had left a note for his servants to tell the world about the Lifestone. And so now we know, many have died before us but never found the Lifestone.
The story of a human called Arkhon,
Arkhon was a normal boy like any other, he was told stories before bedtime. Including legendary stories like the story of the Lifestone. He was most fascinated by it like anyone else and promised his father to once retrieve it. As a kid he sure did the normal stuff, like going to school and doing good and bad deeds. When he grew up as a man he was sent out to get some resources for the town, because they we’re almost depleted. But when he came back he found his village in ruin, all houses were on fire and corpses spread everywhere. Burning pyres with impaled corpses and heads on spears from children and adults. After a time of crying and grieving Arkhon told himself to go to the big city. On his way there he met some guards, got a suit from them and fought alongside them against the vicious boags (Dog-like humanoids). He asked they’re leader if they had seen who had destroyed his village or that they did it themselves but the boag lord told him that he had seen some bandits around there. After slaughtering the whole bandit camp he spoke to the bandit leader but they said to have made a pact with the Arkaghon demon clan.
It turned out that Arkhon’s village was raided by demon warriors. Now his only goal in life was to kill them and have his revenge. But wait, he remembered the story of the Lifestone; he could bring everyone back with it! So that would be his secondary goal in life, after he would kill his enemies. Now only to make those things happen he would need help from certain people, so he joined a warrior guild and met Nygan an elven warrior. To be able to reach the demons Arkhon’s goal was clear; he should reach the desolated lands of Graveland where the undead roam. But to get here he would need to go true the caves of the Gnork (Pig-like humanoids). But when he finally got to the end of the cave he discovered the way was shut with giant rocks. The sage of the warriors guild told him that the Hammer of Tone would be able to smash those rocks to bits easily.
The Hammer of Tone was an artifact hidden deep within the Temple who stood on the eastern beach. Nobody ever entered because once when war raged a whole army of pirates got stuck in there and they never got out. People believe they’ve mutated into demonic fish-like creatures. And that they’re leader controls the legendary Hydra, the monster of the sea. Everything the stories told about was true, Nygan and Arkhon battled various mutated pirates to finally beat the pirate leader and even the mighty Hydra! But there seemed also to be another artifact within the Temple and it was known as ‘The Searing Star’, a wand who wielded be power to destroy the Lifestone. Nygan was after this artifact and so Arkhon took the Hammer of Tone and Nygan took the wand.
After smashing the rocks to bits with the hammer Arkhon entered the Deadlands and after that he entered Graveland. [To Be Contineud]
I haven’t been able to write the story further.
And yes, if its all going to be completed then 'The Searing Star' will be Act I. And there will be another Act II and the end will be Act III
