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For R&R, INN and my whole steam gang
For the dawn gentlemen
For the dawn.
Authors note-
Sandscape began as nothing more than an fallout clone, mixed with metro and a drop of skyrim. But over time I added other elements, INNovaton, the lorecraftians, predators. I changed the map over and over. Then i came up with it all. No longer was there nuclear war, but mankind destroying itself with gas. I made project steam-roll after listening to steam powered giraffe and soo enough that was part of the lore to. It went from atompunk to steam/technopunk within 4 months. I created weaponry that others would scratch their heads at. Then Lovecraft invaded my mind, creating the solemn ones. The creator was also loaded on. Then I played a game called unturned and created R&R, from there I created the characters Howard Mob and Oliver “red” Putt. Howard became the narrator and Oliver an INNovaton operative. I started writing the first chapter of Tales of Exel long before the lore had become ripe, and it was solely based of his life so the lore changes interfered little. I posted it on Planet Minecraft of all places and I began my life as a pulp writer, pulp being the style of writing common in the 1920’s, more less the grandfather of the comic books. I made it fast paced action, dark and gloomy, over all distorted, but also having hope for tomorrow, it was a glorious wedding of dark humour, cosmic horror and the fire depths of life itself, or as i put it, a techno/steampunk gift in a bloody box, wrapped in lovecraftian paper and topped with a bow of stolen ideas. I hope you enjoy this collection of my Tales of exel. Have an Jolly good time!
The Tales of exel
After the war death followed,seeking a new victim
the beginning of death’s ave
It was 2:00 the sands where at the highest heat it could get. Most people would be in the mines or just sleeping like lizards that live there. But Exel was awake, he was walking of an infinite stretch of road. He sees a station a mile or so up ahead. As he approaches a gunfire rings out, he hides behind a rock and slings his own rifle over his shoulder. Another shot twisted the top of the rock slinging sparks of him. He stands to a human it would take only 5 seconds to him, it's like 5 minutes,3 heads blown off,three men and a claw dead. Exel Cong the cender strikes again.
Exel Cong was born of a cender tribe. His name was means: law ,and he ran with it. At age 7 he slashed an outlaws knee cap. By age 12 he killed one. At age 16 he left the tribe and joined a group of vigilantes, which he killed in 2 weeks. The word spread of this Exel, the one who killed the good and the wicked for their deeds
5:00 and the sands started to cool, exel took off his boots at the station he had already piled the bodies to burn,he layed down on his new claw skin,and went in too a half sleep state,like most people around here do. 6:00 next morning and he was woken up by gunshots, INNovaton GMA-rifles. He stood up, flung his new claw skin on and slid in his boot dodging the bullets as he picked up his rifle and fired back. BALM BLAM BLAM! One hit and 2 misses,he was much too tired to speed himself up. He broke out the window(it had been shot threw enough to) He heard the 3 different soldiers shouting. He shot one in the chest, he fell back in an gasp of pain. One of the soldiers tried to get of his hover bike to retreat, Exel picked up one of the HA-magnums off the soldiers and shot the engine. He was slung of the bike in the explosion. The other solder whacked Exel in the head from behind, he fell to the ground limp and randomly shot the HA-magnum. Feeling the stunner of his chest shot him into total blackness, one second after another.
7:51 exel sits in a INNovaton cell some 70 meters underground. The struggled to get out of the handcuffs he soon noticed, coming to full consciousness,that he wasn't wearing his normal clothes. He had too thank INNovaton for giving him an new set. One of the guards walked up to his 4 by 4 cell. “You not gonna get out of this one” he said in a annoyingly southern accent “we got you”,Exel responded in a sarcastic “how do you know?”. The man spat between the bars on Exel. A rumble started up stairs, He understood his situation: he was in the INNovaton glass prison, a sweatshop for mining, manufacturing, and murder. The rumbling was of the drill used to mine ore, or as the conspiracists believe to free a solemn one,a race of great god like creatures worshiped by over 4 million.
4:27, a riot has started, some of the prisoners have broken out, this being an almost weekly occurrence, Exel starts to bang against the bars as one of the freed prisoners clicks the button to free him. He quickly runs out, a guard with an stunner is whacking at 3 different escapists, Exel throws a rock at him he turns, it's the same southern man with a bump of his head,most likely from the fight, he walks toward Exel and swings the stunner, Exel ducts and swipes kicks him. He grabs the stunner and strikes it in his hip, he goes unconscious. The prisoners go around him and start kicking exel starts walking to the elevator when greeted by an door, he clicks the open button,locked. He knows that the stairwell to the drill is above, he takes it. 4:50, Exel nears the drill, the fighting around gives the impression that this was planned. He walks up the ramp too the drill. Around the drill is an catwalk to the guard elevator were most prisoners are heading. He lifts the stunner to a gaurds gutt grinning evilly as he shoves it in farther. The guard falls to the ground, pulling a lever on the way. The drill starts, a flash comes from the earth. For an second most prisoners would feel the adrenaline drain from there bodys,and the guards would drop their weapons. Exel looked as two wings sprung from it and darkness plunged as the lights were blown out,all at once.the prisoners jumpsuits fell to the ground in ashes,the guards melted to paste,only Exel stood alive. The solemn one stood there, an skelton with hard stone armor and wings, He spoke in an booming voice, a crackly, dark, deep, but booming voice: “YOU, EXEL, ARE ONE OF THE MEN, WOMEN, AND CENDERS I SHALL PICK, YOU AS THE FIRST, YOU SHALL GO BY WHAT THEY CALL YOU, DEATH’S AVE, YOU SHALL BE A FAVOR. TO DESTROY THE ONES WHO DISTURBED ME, INNovaton, FOR I AM DEATH, AND GRIM TIMES ARE COMING FOR THEM.”
With those words exel fell,not dead, but in a coma state,a sleep he would never get. He woke up in the glass hospital,he knew this from the overall look of his room. He had no needles in his arms, which were lighter in color,and not heart beat monitor.
He was in the morgue
Oh, a awful place it was. The smell of rotting bodies filled the room. There was no funerals in INNovaton territories, all you got from the military sector was a vial of the ashes,a few particles being the son you had, the rest his platoon. Exel quickly stood up, he has a hospital gown on, he was surprised they even got one. He walked to the door, It was naturally unlocked, since no one comes out and no one wants to go in. It opened,night, the clock at the guards post read ,there's one at the morgue? He thought.
7:54, Exel stands in the middle of the Glass, a INNovaton city,the capital of the totalitarian democracy, The first of the army of a solemn one, death. He was in a place for no hero, even though people thought they were. He looked out the window,of the 2cd floor of 6,in a sea of buildings and sand. He was in the land of dust,
Savgeah
Sandscape
“...I am death, and dark times are ahead for them”
The dust on the gates
That was the good news. He would either have to break out of this dystopia guns blazing, or try to sneak out. Either one was a risk, one of life or death. He decided for either he needed new clothes, military being best. He went down the hall, oddly empty, but INNovaton wouldn't allow anyone of the same floor as a ‘terrorist’,even if he was dead. He then noticed a patrol, not uncommon, coming around the corner. He dived behind a food cart, it was turned off, being a hunk of metal with cloth. The griped the fork from the plating of top, 2 guards, one fork The thought. They were having an conversation, one about pay for what he heard, The 2 seconds he felt 2 minutes he stabbed one guard's neck and slashed the other one's ankles. Time resumed to human standards, he quickly changed clothes quickly.As the slashed guard regained consuness, the looked him in the eyes “Who are you?” the guard said in a shaky voice. “I’m an angels favor, death’s ave, tell your friends, tell your employer, cause soon enough, your gonna have 300 of us on you.” The took both of the guards HA-magnums clipped them in the magnetic holsters, and spat of the guard. “welcome to hell”.
He walked out the building unresisted,due to his guard outfit, and walked down the lit street. In savgeah day was like night, soon of it cooling off. He took to the nearest map,and started for the northern exit, not that far,noting that the hospital was only 2 miles from it. The exit was guarded with high ranking military, fully suited, no place to sink a bullet in. He walked up carefully, one of the guards stopped him “where are you going?” ,exel replied calmly “I’m sent north to check of a distress message” ,a reply he’s used before to get out of an vigilante grip. The guard shook his head “they wouldn't send you…” Exel replied with a slit to the armor and a bullet to the neck, the guard was thrown to the ground but not mortally wounded. Exel ducked as an ROL-rifle shot ringed out shooting dust out just 4 or 5 inches from his direction. He pulled the other HA-magnum and rapidly fired at them.one hit a helmet guard popping it out of place. He ran for a riot cover, 3 of which were positioned at the gate. He stood up, 3 minutes,3 seconds,all 6 of the guards helmet holders popped off. He ran towards them a few roundhouse kicks to the heads of the soldiers wiped them unconscious he took the blood from a bullet he put in one of there heads and wrote of the wall “I am an angel’s favor, Death’s ave”. He unhooked his own helmet and blood splattered face guard and a half-concus guard whispered “exel..” he turned and unloaded his last bullet of one of the HA-magnums in his head. They think he’s dead, and he’s gonna stay that way.
He opened the gate, easy, no keys needed, just an press of a button. He walked out of to a dust filled road, a R0L-rifle slung on his back. Over 4 miles till the next stop, New hope city, The place of all races, a haven in the midst of the dust,
Savgeah
Sandscape
Bandits in the dust have no moral
THE ROAD TO DUNESDAY
Exel walked slowly, it was useless to run or try to walk fast, it would just make it harder to walk later on. Exel could only guess what was happening to his family. He hadn't seen them in 3 years, and only briefly saw them in a trading outpost to give them money, likely enough from an bandit party.
Exel heard a rustle. An dead bush rolled down the dune to his right. “Heh” he raised the R0l-rifle into hands and fired at an black raised head. Blood flew threw the air, as the metal spike from the gun broke threw bone,flesh and the person's brain. Yells rose, terror, “terrific” Exel said “full of terror”. The raiding party ran up the dunes in a frenzy exel fired randomly at the almost formless figures blood stained the sand, an arm fell with a scream of pain, the other bandits ran forward, so did Exel, he pulled a knife and slit one's neck as he passed fired at one's chest 3 down, one wounded, 3 standing and running at exel with guns and swords. Exel felt a sharp pain in his arm, a bullet fixed it self in his shoulder. He ran forth dropping the rifle, the knife lodged itself in the bandit's neck.
The other two stopped in their tracks and raised rifles, obviously hand crafted, with barnets, Exel charged, they fired, they missed and then ran forward bayonets pointing ath Exel’s chest, one missed completely, the other lodged itself in Exel’s intestines, Exel smiled, as if past insanity, as he grabbed the bandits neck, even with is moderate strength Exel crushed his windpipe in one fatal crunching sound. The other bandit ran, Exel threw the bayoneted gun at him, like a spear, the spear/gun hit him in the back. A shot fired from behind, Stood there was death, holding an gun, Exel stared, he looked different, wings were gone, and he also looked more human, like an 20 year old man, and not a crow. “You seem, worried, don't you recognize the fate of these bandits is a place of suffering.” he said almost indifferent to Exel's current situation “Why don’t you just keep walking, ignore me, I’m your shadow, and welcome to your new fate.”
At those words Exel blacked out.
He woke up head first in an rocky dune. Far from the dune he had fallen on. He felt the INNovaton uniform on he had no guns, no helmet, no money he got up. Say goodbye to sanity, cause I found the end to
savgeah.
Sandscape
“May god have mercy of INNovation's souls”
The Hole Deepens
Exel stood up,shaken still by the gunshot before, held his head. The light from the town was bright,at least 50 people had to be awake,if not more. As he approached he noticed that the light was pushed downwards. He stood at the edge of a canyon,or quarry,one or another,with a crane surrounded by scrap houses. It was more than 50 people,more like 150 people,claw,cthal,and every other kind of mutated beast,peppered with cenders. He slid down the slanted wall,(appears more as an quarry form below) and approached the town,no gates,barely any wall. He easily slipped in the crowds,even though his guard outfit stood out,looking down he tore of the INNovaton patch. Looked up to see a restaurant,he walked in too be stopped by an man “no cenders allowed” he said with a smile. Exel grabbed his neck and pulled him up, his three fingers slowly were soaked with blood. He dropped his limp body. No remorse to him,it scared him,he had always had remorse for his victims. He walked in sat down,not expecting to be served,he was surprised by an scardly clothed woman coming to serve him. A man grabbed her,he tried to ignore as he touched every part,he stood up and stabbed his hand into his stomach. He pulled it out and kneed him. The woman fell. He looked at her, “you're welcome”. He walked out being grabbed by two officers for the Lorecraftians ,a group of cthals and claw that worship a scientist, he struggle and cut,his right hand sharpened, his left stronger, he punched rapidly,and kicked the other. The pedestrians scattered. More officers surrounded the area,some with guns,some with sharpened sticks,others with nothing. He could easily take down the unarmed ones,however the ones with guns….
He took off,down an alleyway. He looked back no way to exit with guards coming,he climbs. There was no way he could ever climb that steep of a wall,had the bandits added upgrades
Or has the elder done it?
He stood on the top off a building, turning around and running faster than ever. 6 seconds 30 minutes. He stood outside the town. Blood still dripping from his hands,he stood on the edge of madness.
Insanity is nothing more than happiness told with a shorter word.
The holding of Hope
Exel walked for 2 days,north east, he walked for new hope city, nonstop. He now stood a few meters away,fire stroked the bright sky. He started for5 the city,at human running speed. He first came upon a dust stopper village,a group of bandits, enders were shooting at the town. He put arm around a soldier's neck far back. “Who are you?” He said “Exel?” he said in a sympathetic voice. Exel was stunned when he turned him around, His brother, paze, peace. Some others turned around and stood in shock. “exel”,”He's alive!” they all said. He joined the fight, grabbing a gun, they explained that the city had been taken by INNovaton. He killed more than any other,The others feared him with no remorse. He was taken on by 6 INNovaton soldiers. He swipe kicked one the punched another one shot him,no pain,shots rained on him,either dodged, blocked ,or just not felt. Others attacked their masks being slapped off with one punch,along with their spinal cord. The soldiers pushed all their forces of him. His kin becoming nothing more than support troops, he hacked and slashed with his right and shot soldiers with the other. He ripped one in half, by sicking one hand in the stomach and the other in the made hole, then pulling. The fire was made worse by the INNovaton chaos disturbed soldiers during retreat. The smell of smoke combined with the smell of blood, death stained the taste buds of every fighter, adrenaline thunder within each one's heart,some from victory,some form fear. He kept fighting, blood and dirt stained INNovaton guard uniform looked nothing like the others. The fire had engulfed most of the hover bikes, INNovaton destroying themselves like insane driven movie hungry for the flesh of others. No solder was left alive. He sat back,exhausted,but not tired.
Others grabbed fire killer, the fire still destroyed the city. Exel was joined by his brother, “gather forces” Exel said “why” his brother responded
“ were declaring war on
Savgeah”
Sandscape
The sword and the fork
Exel was trailed by his brother and new found camp of Cenders. New hope city was in ashes from the failed INNovaton take over. Thats atleast what Exel believes. The walked for days. Exel’s powers came with one crippling side effect, his love for all breathings subsided while a non-sexual version of necrophilia formed with in his heart. They finally came upon the fork. a town built on a old road fork. Most of the cenders split up to find supplies or love, the affectionless kind. Exel and his brother took to the local pub. like most around the 'unbuilt' areas, the pub was populated with scarcely plaid ladies and drunk men. Exel and Paze where not expectedly denied service of food. However they could easily discuss battle plans and other topics outside the ears of INNovaton with the sounds covered by bar fights and whooping. "..we can't just scamper around like ants, we need a base of operation.." said Paze throughout the sound. Exel looked out the window. "and just tell me where we can find a base of operations with a 50,000 note bounty on my head" he said pointing out the window as a holoprojector. showing a flip screen of cenders with Exel’s face beside them all. "50,000 notes" said a man in the booth next to them. He lift his head to reveal an atronomon his trench coat having a dark green painted clickback sticking out of his pocket. He wasn't a normal bot you would see in the dust. His eyes were green like the clover on the sign. He stuck out his gloved hand "names GOCK59, call me Gary" Exel stuck out his hand "Exel". The bloake stared at him sarcastically. A Lot of the whooping was becoming more shallow as exel turned around. A trio of INNovaton grunts stood at the door by the look of their body structure exel knew they were half way threw their short lives.
What was this. A short moment in the lasting timeline that does not exist. Exel stood naked in a dark room lines appeared on the walls. he touched on the closest one. His first kill in an orb. He looked down to see the clothes he had on at that moment. he touched another line. a world covered in flying robots being blown apart in clouds of mushroom. Another, men on a beach in europe being slaughtered with barely any kills on the butcher's side. One where a flag of an eagle is being burned. "THIS IS THE TIME ROOM" said the voice of death. Exel In his soldier's uniform looked ahead, the clothes disappeared as he walked. the was stood by 2 shadows "why have you brought me here? Why then or now or whenever?" “WHEN AND NOW AND WHENEVER DO NOT EXIST. TIME IS NOT A LINE!" The room collapsed outward the lines connected making a grid. and the holes became smaller and smaller. the line became waves and then they crashed against the ship below his feet.
Exel did not move an inch. He stood up from his seat walked up to the exel solder and kicked his crotch before he could recognise the eyes of the terrorist. the two others tackled him one was impaled by the sword the other shot by garry. Exel stood up people scattered out the back door. He took the street followed by his brother and garry. The other cenders were either dead or fighting exel grabbed a R0L-rifle and fired into the chest of a grunt. of a pestilence. and walking corpse.
Exel snapped back to the ship death was alone. "YOU KNOW NOTHING." it said facing to a picture of the INNovaton grunt. taking off the helmet he saw the terror filled face of the man. blood was frozen above his heart Exel flattened his hand,then chopped off his head. death fused to his mother, as he left her, pregnant. Her severed head talked "why? why? why?..." exel knew that she was not real. Yet he felt anger and remorse.
the dead grunt laid on the ground bleeding out Exel ran out and kept up killing
"and killing"
and killing
"and killing"
and killing
the cenders grouped together moving forward towards the center of the town Exel leading them. The INNovaton grunts were soon supported by Lovecraftian guards. Most civilians were hiding, the others were stealing in the chaos, even with it controlled in the center of town. The lorecraftains soon found the battle hopeless and retreated. INNovaton fought till all officers were dead then they were shot as they tried to escape. Exel stood on the center town statue of the creator of INNovaton,he pushed it over. it fell crushing a wounded INNovaton grunt that they let suffer. The thieves stopped thriving and the others stepped out as he started talking. "we are not your enemies, we are not your friends, we are your hope for freedom. If you want INNovaton out of you lives you join us,you help us. The lorecraftians lied to you, you won't accomplish anything with statues and magic, join us we will push out every idiotic idea left in savgeah"
sandscape
On the mount, a society of men want all men to die
The mount of dunesday
Exel paused as garry spurred his cogs. “Where are we?” Exel asked in an quieted voice.
“15 km south of the fork, 3 km north of the mount of dominion”
Exel coughed. He had 25 men with him, 45 cenders, and 47 beasts. Most of them understood only their native language of kadyis. None of these creatures could fight well with any weapon. The men couldn't accept a cender as their leader.
“Map a chart, I want to know every crook,every cranie that we could use.”
“Yes sir” garry said in a respectful voice
Paze walked up as garry left. He looked off passed the dune that they stood on.
“What are we going to do about the training.”
“Don’t worry”
Paze looked at him puzzling. He walked off believing that this couldn't be his brother
Upon night they moved again, lights came of to the mount, it was visible through the dust of the night. Light looked upon the edges of rocks, bouncing off the smallest reflective surface.
The march was set up in rows, Cenders first,then men,then calw,then cthal. The camp was set the same. All circled the main battle tent, alternating in that order.
Exel stopped. A shot rang out, blood flew threw the air, Exel looked at his arm too see an hole. He turned and whispered “death look upon this”
The troops charged, None were trampled, Even Exel was barely shoved past. Guns fired, swords unhooked. Exel turned around to see men dieing,Cenders wounded, and cthals tearing other men in uniforms apart. The claws looked to be doing the same. It was a force of 40.
Exel’s forces set up camp in the day, the wounded were treated with herbs. The dead were burned. Exel learned of the Dunesday men.
These men were people who believe man could not survive the next 100 years without banning together. In an way they were right. They killed anyone who don't convert in the first few years. Then killed anyone who were not born to other dunesday men.
Exel’s wound healed quickly. He ordered Paze leader of the sniper region. His birth defected helped him with this. A hook like muscle stuck out of his right side of his face he hooked it of the stock of his rifle and it held it in place better than any man could.
Exel looked upon the mount. The mourning sun burned his eyes. In mattered none to him. He looked for an weakness in the mount. He found none, only way to take this mount was with the sands themselves. Exactly Exel thought. “Get the men!”
Get the ones who created this
savgeah
Sandscape
Fire is light,and water burns it out
The beginning of the Preadors
A week passed. Men of the whole camp were given an task, a mission.
At sunset, Exel brought out 13 men in INNovaton uniforms, stolen off the dead. The dunesday men watched from the cliffside looking north west upon the camp.
“These are the men that created these lands have doomed your kind, not us, not the cenders or beasts.” Exel said “I present to you, the men of INNovaton.”
The men looked doomed, but each was equipped with an extendable dueling cane. The dunes day men sent down a man riding a caravan bull. The men were in easy removable chains they could break free from at any time.
The men were too enter the camp and take it over from the inside out. The beasts would then be supported by the cenders to assault and trap any escaping dunesday men at sunrise.
Exel went back to camp, the dunesday men believed this a piece offering. The beasts were cheering of a future victory. Life was beginning for them,they knew only slavery under the Lorecraftians, of course they were under slavery from INNovaton.
The sun rose of the camp. Exel stood covered in rags and leather in a cinder raiding outfit. He walked upon the mount. A lizard looked upon him. The piece of walking meat walked forward on a rock and looked of him. Exel quickly drew an hatchet and cut the head clean off the miserable creature.
The beasts crossed the dunes separating the camp from the mount, Exel walked slowly,The cthal were mounts for the claw too sire bows off of. The cenders supported in front with swords,hatchets,and some handguns.
Exel crouched down removing the bandanna to eat the lizard. The little scrawny thing went down in 3 bites. The attack party caught up too him. Screams and shot rang out.
“About time” Gary said with a monotone voice, but even the cthals could hear the sarcasm in his thoughts.
The claw said in one single voice. “For the land,for the glory of what the creator truly wanted!”
Exel ran forward straightening out his arm making an sword and reading his hatchet.
The bows fired arrows with attached explosives knocking sand upon the fleeing men. They charged. Exel running far ahead of them. The men inside knew this was a suicide mission.
By the time Exel entered the mounts town entrance half way up it, The dunesday men had reorganized. Exel took each charging man easily. Cutting heads and slashing throats easily.
Death watched upon this like an comedy. Finely he had power after decades.
The men ran up the mount. The attack party entered the gates as Exel open up a storage of guns. The claw fired a final set flame arrows. They stood on the ground to become the land of the predators. The freers of Savgeah
“Life starts with death”
The land of sand looses it's armageddon
Exel Sprinted ahead,using time of an cender. The men were either taking aim at the approaching army or running for swords hatchets or other melee weaponry that could be used to destroy the battle party.
Exel stopped at the main gate. Closed the insanity was at the edge of his vision. His army charged ahead. 2 of the cthal were down leaving 3 claw dismounted.
The cender front charged. Exel climbed the gate hatchet in mouth. The men fired bullets into his body, few missed. He took the hatchet out and threw it,activating the gate mechanism. It flew open. He dropped off.
Bullets fell to the ground. Exel’s wounds had healed. He walked full of rage. Unknown why he felt this way. He coughed blood. He ran forward picking up a makeshift handgun off the ground.
Paze looked upon the troops from an higher peak than what the town was set upon. He laid of the ground, a skin of some animal over him,only skin opened up was the area around his right eye. He was in the middle of 4 others,the sniper squadron. The sign was Exel firing a shot into the air. A crack rang out. Louder thanthe others. Paze fired off his first shot and the others followed almost robotically reloading and firing,as if one machine, with 5 different parts.
Exel Ran forward firing a shot into an man protecting a house. He kicked into the house seeing many masked children,they looked up upon Exel. He stood up straighter, and holstered the weapon in the fold of his armor. The kids were silent. He crouched down and removed the mask. The child was almost burningly bright with cleanliness. It looked like it had never see daylight, it blinked and squinted. Exel saw it better, a boy.
“Why? Why the masks?” Exel said quietly
“He told us to?” the boy answered
“Who?”
“Him”
Exel looked behind him a man with a spear charged him, He dodged, the man kepted running impaling the boy. Exel went bazerk. He grabbed the man by the throat and picked the spear out of the boy’s body. He threw him down. Raised the spear and stabbed his genitals. Then his legs,then finally his stomach,lifted him out of the house and impaled him the rest of the way outside.
The boys followed him outside. Carrying the dead one laying it beside Exel. He picked it up and walked towards the center court yard were an well sat. The battle was raging just close by, but the dozen children looked only upon Exel. Dropping the child beside the well. The dunesday men were dying. More and more Exel wished he had never came here. Then it hit him, this was how they thought of the world. No one mattered to them. He stood,coughed then pulled the handgun out walking forward the children seemed to pray around the dead boy. He raised his gun shooting men charging the well. He felt indifferent at death, no pleasure, no pain. Woman ran, he killed them. Everyone,except children. Then yelled “we have claimed this mount!” He dropped the handgun ripping off his mask. His arm became an sword and he ran forward killing men,bursting open doors and killing every this place was owned by. He walked back to the center of town to find the boy in the center surrounded by the masks of the other children,exactly 11. They looked up and spoke the center language “batha kia maetha?” Exel knew what it meant “well of death breaths” Exel nodded. They picked the boy up and pushed him in the well. He picked up his handgun covered by the dust. He slid it in the folds. They cried. He crouched down and wept with them The other cenders came up, they crouched down and sung a prayer of their gods, then the claw and cthal. Beasts of every religion singing and crying for a person they never really knew. Exel stood. Turned and said
“This is the place we shall camp and create the utopia that this place was never meant to be. A place of every religion, of every race, of every being. Every place equal to the peoples,the beasts,the beings, of the land of sand.”
“Savgeah.”
“To this we call it sandscape.”
“Life starts with death”
On the cliff side waits
Paze entered Exel’s house. He sat studying the gun an stack of books surrounded him, his favorite in his lap, ‘handguns for beginners’ the first he ever read. He put down the gun and started sowing a holster for the weapon. Designed for the chest. “The gun is an .21 caliber but has parts,like the handle from a .45.” Exel said with a curious voice. Paze looked at him thoughtfully. Exel kept on sowing.
“The children you saved are growing restless” Paze said with a sad voice,as like a mother to a son.
It had been an mounth scene the attack of mount dominion. The beasts sung songs of joy, replacing words, won of the most interesting was them using the name of predator which they said “preador”(pre-A-dor) and calling INNovaton and other people against the rebellion they had joined prey or “pred”(pre-ed). The others quickly adopted this name, and soon enough Exel did too. Even writing it of his now signature weapon, the makeshift gun form the siege of the mount. Now called ‘the battle of men’.
The gun had a handle like a revolver,but heat vents of the side, and browned metal. A detachable scope sat of to, and stocks were found for it in the weapon arsenal. He named it ‘the man's handgun’ in mockery of INNovaton.
The beasts,cenders and men were in harmony over the death of INNovaton. For once Exel found his perfect society.
Of the night of Lorecraftian holiday ‘getkoh’ a scout sat of the ledge that the dunesday used to defend only a month before. A shot rang out. Blood stained the sand behind him.
The day approached, Exel stood of the cliff side,were blood stained the ground. From there he saw an camp twice the size of the one a month before, won with flags showing a burning eye, with an claw and tentacle on either side.
“Lorecraftians it seems” garry said in his normal monotone voice with an slight irish accent.
“I see, notify the men,we have a better plan than the man before us, diplomacy first, then we burn them all alive.” Exel said.
Back at the peak,which was flat, men gathered rifles,an nd straped of armor. The plan was simple, Exel and 5 claw along with his cender family, totaling of 10, would go down in an march and talk with the lorecraftians to see what is needed,and what could be done to keep from war.
To keep the land of sand from total destruction
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“Life starts with death”
The Lorecraftian charge
Exel walked forward across the dunes, The troops followed close behind. He Knew that this was an useless mission,unless they attacked.
The claw he brought were nervous,they walked with guns that were loaded with .45 rounds,only 3 each won could peice an cthals skin and then exit behind the skull. Exel had his handgun ready of the front of his armor, a hatched put in a sling of his hip. He walked mask of the sand hitting him in an windstorm,then he saw it. The “gate” of the camp,omore an opening in he tents allowing troops and scouts in and out.
They were going in
Paze ran ahead. Guns were pointed at him. He slowed down too find an set of claw guards at post guns aimed not at him,but the cender behind him. The cender removed his mask. Exel coughed blood and then spoke. “We need to see the head officer here.” That was of course the priest.
Exel sat in a chair made out of wood, more common up north than down here. AN table sat in front with an cup of tea, he waved the guard over and whispered something in his ear,he nodded and left as the priest came in.
“We see you have set up an camp right outside our mount” Exel said “ I came to ask why”
Exel’s mask sat of the table in front of him. The Lorecraftian priest was transfixed of it.
“Gaht mack meg matta” It said.
Exel sat up obviously understand that it could only speak cender language.
The guard walked in with a bottle full of red liquid. Exel poured about 4 mL in his tea and then sipped it.
The priest looked in horror, the man he was talking about a mask to was drink blood in his tea.
“Meka paze?” Exel said
“JAKA FATHE MAKA?” it said angrily The mask with the creator’s symbol on it flashed red. He flipped the table. Exel stood and threw the blood stain cup at the mask, it broke with pieces ripping the mask, the priest fell face blooded.
Exel found the soldiers out side fighting as blood fell out of the tent. Exel cut threw it. His mask was stained with blood. He pulled his shot a lorecraftian guard and Cut the other's head off with the hatchet.
Fire stung the vision of Paze as he ran forth putting on his mask. He bulled the rifle of his back, it was a 10 mm with an baynton the end. He stabbed the bayonet in an soldier's throat. He stared in horror as blood squirted from the soft flesh covered in fur. Death covered the sky. Paze threw off his mask, covered in blood he ran and hid.
Exel rammed his hatchet in the head of an cthal, mid jump, he ordered a fall back. Not even death could hear his voice over the screams of his own work.
His troops ran
He ran, but not towards the gate, but towards were Paze hid, even he could guess, he hid behind a stack of crates. Exel grabbed his arm and pulled his up. He dragged him as they ran. Paze was shaking, his face clean however his armor was covered in blood.
The sand pushed of tents as they caught in fire started by the preadors. The lorecraftians ran forward, Exel and the other cenders could run faster with their time alteration, however the 3 claw left were unlucky. The cthal grabbed and ripped apart the heretics to their religion.
The war had begun. The war to carry the fate of
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“And death starts with blood”
The battle of the gods
Exel looked at the sun as it set upon the charging army. They had slown down. People screamed. They grabbed their guns and set up an primiater. They took aim at the approaching army.
“Now that’s how you start a war” Exel said proud of his army. He reloaded his gun a bullet at a time.
Garry was at the edge of the defence, the bottom of the mount, he wanted to stop the invasion more than anything.
Garry had know no master, and didn't plan to.
The first shots were fired from the charging army.
Garry’s legion fired back. Death came upon them both.
“The battle of the gods is here” Exel whispered.
Garry fell, His gun falling beside him, an arrow penetrated his chest, the central processor shut down, death to a robot.
The men around him retreated. The claw charged the cenders held, each shall die in their own right way, one in fear,one in foolishness,and one is idiocracy.
Fire tipped the wood of the front gates. The army charged them and destroyed them. The army had gone from 400 to 300 in a matter of 20 minutes. They charged up the mountain The parameters set up were nothing,won man,cender or claw could not stop an army.
Exel turned his arm into a sword, then ordered the gates opened. The guards did as ordered even with dissatisfaction. The cthal lined up with claw of to behind him. Then the cthal, with men mixed in. Then the charge came. Exel ran forth with the troops behind him. The lorecraftians persisted. Exel threw his hatchet taking off a head. He chopped threw an claw’s body, then fired a shot taking down an cthal. His troops fired shots attacked with hatchets and swords, both sides were suffering casualties. The lorecraftians were being drove back. The darkness overlooked them, and exel lit a torch, the snipers fired from the cliff side. Cthals dropped, claws were trampled and blood covered the ground.
Exel stood over garry’s body. Exel knew what he died for. His metal body mutilated by the passing army. Bent and burned,chopped and sparked. Oil stained the dust around him. Like blood from a living creature.
Exel coughed blood before he talked. “Take the body and bury it right inside the gate, but an tombwood on it with the name ‘garry’ on it.
Cover it with the sand of this land”
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“That’s how you start a war”
For every soul is a burden
Paze entered the operations tent. one of each race sat in an table with Exel at lead.
“We can’t have war with our brethren!” A claw screamed out
A cthal grunted in agreement
“But we must for the freedom from the oppressive hand!”, a human said.
Exel quited both
Paze opened his mouth to speak
Exel coughed blood
Paze spoke, “ our latest reports indicate that the neighboring town of rockstown is under INNovaton control.”
“Then take it” Exel said unemotionally.
“Doing so would both reveal our presence to INNovaton and cause the town and the surrounding area to become an warzone.”
Murmurs of agreement come from the ones around him
Exel stood up and addressed them.
“We either attack or we’ll be crushed, INNovaton knows of our presence. They believe we will be of the defencive until another attack. One with fully trained soldiers.”
“We attack.” Death whispered in his ear.
Exel coughed blood.
Paze nodded in agreement and so did the claw and cender. The cthal sat still.
Exel walked out of the tent and ordered soldiers to get moving.
The camp was no longer just adults of the male gender, children played, women watched and cooked. Even men became more domestic in the new home.
That changed with Exel moving forth and standing of stage. Children ran inside poking their heads out the windows. Males ran forth lining up with armor and weapons. Females gave males kisses as they lined up. They music stopped in their life Exel started giving the speech.
Today we march onwards against INNovaton. Many of you will die, many of you will be honoured. Most of you will be feared. None of you shall loose hope as they will when we cut down their ranks!”
The men screamed in agreement
Exel ordered a curtain behind him opened.
Behind him was mechanical contraptions that would give the driver size,strength,and power.
“These are called goliaths.” Exel informed the troops. “There are no Davids here.”
The march started, the goliaths ad cthals walked shoulder to shoulder in the back of a man and cender army. The army saw the horizon. Men set up charge they looked upon an army that will break this sand like an arm.
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“There are no davids here”
War_allowed (Exel’s take)
Exel’s army charged burning the dust in their path. Death looked upon this with excitement. He leaned back on his throne of swords,shields and skulls. The sky was red with dawn. The fires were shot from the backs of the goliaths and cthals. The INNovaton soldiers shot back. Blood spilled. The light was growing intense. The army finally hit the gate of the town. They opened away for an goliath piloted by Exel. He grabbed the gate and broke it off and threw it the gun behind it. The mortar fire was thrown back and the current shot backwards. The army poured in. Exel dropped the goliath and moved forward.
Paze jumped off the back of Exel’s goliath, his job was different. He was to arm any explosives in the town, they would blow it and leave a crater in their wake when they left. The army cut and thrashed each man they came across. Each won was equipped with an baynet and were trained to use it was an spear when it was empty. A hatchet was given to squad leaders, now a symbol of the peradors. Exel coughed blood and Death told him of the location of his objective. A man named Oliver, the head general too INNovation’s colonial expansion district. He would kill him and wear his scalp as a trophy,like the of the INNovaton leader,when he found him of course. Exel kicked down the door as he pressed an botton, he had an longish hair cut and neckbeard. He pulled a knife of him Exel charged with the sword hand. Oliver dodged and stabbed his mask. The knife stuck. Exel charged an gain and Oliver pulled his gun of Exel. The gun was pointed at his head. Exel removed the mask he wore. Then the knife stuck in his cheek. Dropped his hatchet and the knife and put up his fists.
“We settle this like cenders” Exel said.
Oliver threw his gun away and put up his fists. Exel swung Oliver dodged his punch. Exel ignored Deaths wishes and attack how he wanted. Oliver ducked down as he swung an again and kicked his feet. Then he pulled out a dagger and sliced a scar over his right eye. He fled leaving Exel of the ground coughing up blood. Exel stood up seeing death of both troops with only one eye. He pulled out his handgun and fired at one killing him.
“Kill them all” Death said “mercy is for the weak”
Exel coughed blood one last time as he wiped Death from his mind.
Life drained from his mind. He ran forth killing like a machine. Heads flew and blood stained the dusty streets of stone. He knew only one word then. “Kill” He repeated with an mechanical repetitiveness.
The creator only knew that Exel was inside crying over the death of every solder.
In the end he crouched down with an fist of the stone work of the center well. His gun beside him.
Life re-entered his mind. The endless killing had ended and Exel wept.
Paze finally armed the last charge. In 3 min this town would be blown off the face of this land.
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Exel stands in the middle of the Glass, a INNovaton city,the capital of the totalitarian democracy
The siege of the burnt sand
At 3:40 pm they left the town of rock to burn under the explosives and sun. They army seemed to grow with the civilians of the town. They took up guns of fallen INNovaton soldiers, they did not march, they looked upon Exel as a leader. Death watched, as Exel walked on he thought of the war that he had created.
At 6:01 they reached the gates. All hell broke lose. The cthals and goliath charged forth, tearing down the steel plate gates. Death looked in suspicion, the burning light of the city looked like day. They broke down the gates and charged.
Behind them stood an force of 468, along with the technologies to destroy a small fleet of airships with a single blow. Exel walked forth, not caring if they shot him. He stopped in front of the INNovaton general guarding the gate. And held out his left hand. The took this as a sign of fair war, he grabbed it as too shake it.
Exel extended his arm. Cutting the man's hand in too before he cut off his head, threw the arm.
The armies clashed as he jumped up grabbing onto a steel pipe and lifting his weight as if lifting a grain of sand. Death watched
Paze rode on an goliath's back as a sniper. He took out heads and bodies lined the street as him and the driver attacked almost safely. Paze saw his brother run across the roof tops toward the center corner of the city, the capital building and tower. It stretched like a burning beacon among the darkness of the night sky.
The soldiers cut into the suits of the INNovaton soldiers, then threw their soft flesh. Both sides took casualties, but oddly enough the Preadors drove back higher technology, perhaps it was from death.
Or something from the mind can also be magical,perhaps hope, perhaps fear.
Fires started of the INNovaton side as the Predators threw fire across the lines. Paze took Exel’s position as leader. Fire stroked like an artist's brush on a propaganda poster. Ammo whittled low of both sides. It took an medieval approach,using the bodies of both sides as weapons, lighting them on fire. The battle was nothing more that walking backwards. As they approached the residential district, some people from it took up trapping and attacking the force both sides of the INNovaton forces were dieing. They ran, abandoned their post, knowing that they were destined to die either way, they threw on their helmets and attacked their own troops as too join the Preador ranks.
The world has just been taken by storm, the war put into action. 598 Kilometers away an mission was taken into action too kill the Lorecraftians, The war had begun. The war for
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Exel Cong the cender strikes again.
Exel’s final trial for godhood
Exel coughed blood as Exel guided him. He dropped down upon one of the 2 guards and threw his hatchet to silence the other.
The lodged it out of the skull as he laid unable to speak, yet alive. Death did not take him. Exel kicked the glass doors in shattering them 4 guards stood up exel threw his hatchet once more taking out two and the ran forth attacking them by cutting their throats collapsing and making them bleed out slowly.
Exel jumped up the elevator shaft jumping from side to side with the swiftness and agility of a claw. He grabbed the top ledge of the elevator shaft. Then broke it with one swift punch. He Hopped up too find 7 different Automatons. The blokes raised their guns and fired. Each Bullet hit Exel.
He didn’t move.
He ran using cender time cutting each ones head off cleanly. Time resumed and the floor began to be stained in lubricant of the magnetic generators in their chest. He blinked he hadn't done so in 40 seconds. He walked up the stairs of the tower of INNovatons leaders. Most were out other places only returning home for vacation. He planted a bomb of each one’s door. He made his way up to the top. The fire below was growing, that was nothing more than a distraction. Death grew restless and gave Exel the ability to grow faster,physically. At the to he found a pair of luscious doors which he kicked in. He found a man about 56 being painted by a propaganda artist. Exel un-holstered his gun and fired a shot into the artist's head.
The man’s name was Henry Kolsire IV. The leader of INNovaton.
“Well you were expected”, Henry said almost sarcastic sounding. Exel ran forth with cender speed. Henry stepped out of his way with elegant grace and kicked him in the chin, throwing him backwards. Exel flipped and landed in a steady position of his feet. Henry flipped out an metal toothbrush like object. He clicked a trigger and it turned into an sword. Exel straightened his arm and coughed blood. The sword fight began, Each one swung with grace of an god. Exel threw punches and dodged with better grace than any man, but so did henry.
Exel threw a chair our the big overview window. They continued to attack each other. Exel ducked and kicked, using INNovatons own take down move against itself. Then grabbed Henry as he tried reaching for his sword. He was lifted up and pushed out the window being held by Exel.
Henry coughed blood.
Exel stopped himself from dropping the INNovaton leader. The man did not wiggle nor did he grab Exel’s arm in protest. He hand limp as Exel held him 15 stories up.
“You know what I’ve tried to do”, Henry said. Exel despite his own hatred listened. “Death had his control over you. God only knows what would he would have done when he has his job done. You see, your his favor, but I’m Life’s favor. And i see control wasn't the way to go.” He held out his arms like a cross.
Exel threw him across the room. He landed of the floor in front of the door.
“I’m sorry about your mother, even I couldn't save her” Henry said as he passed out from exhaustion.
“NO” Death said as he tore of the rooms overhang window and surrounding wall. Exel ran forward and impaled his human body. Darkness overwhelmed them both.
The death of an hero was that day, one that would postpone the men of INNovaton for the time of rust to set in. The only true hero of this land
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Exel awoke
Death held him up in a world of white. Exel did the same as henry he lay limp, understanding of his fate
Death left Exel there
among the white.
Then came the waters of time.
For the dawn gentlemen
For the dawn.
Authors note-
Sandscape began as nothing more than an fallout clone, mixed with metro and a drop of skyrim. But over time I added other elements, INNovaton, the lorecraftians, predators. I changed the map over and over. Then i came up with it all. No longer was there nuclear war, but mankind destroying itself with gas. I made project steam-roll after listening to steam powered giraffe and soo enough that was part of the lore to. It went from atompunk to steam/technopunk within 4 months. I created weaponry that others would scratch their heads at. Then Lovecraft invaded my mind, creating the solemn ones. The creator was also loaded on. Then I played a game called unturned and created R&R, from there I created the characters Howard Mob and Oliver “red” Putt. Howard became the narrator and Oliver an INNovaton operative. I started writing the first chapter of Tales of Exel long before the lore had become ripe, and it was solely based of his life so the lore changes interfered little. I posted it on Planet Minecraft of all places and I began my life as a pulp writer, pulp being the style of writing common in the 1920’s, more less the grandfather of the comic books. I made it fast paced action, dark and gloomy, over all distorted, but also having hope for tomorrow, it was a glorious wedding of dark humour, cosmic horror and the fire depths of life itself, or as i put it, a techno/steampunk gift in a bloody box, wrapped in lovecraftian paper and topped with a bow of stolen ideas. I hope you enjoy this collection of my Tales of exel. Have an Jolly good time!
The Tales of exel
After the war death followed,seeking a new victim
the beginning of death’s ave
It was 2:00 the sands where at the highest heat it could get. Most people would be in the mines or just sleeping like lizards that live there. But Exel was awake, he was walking of an infinite stretch of road. He sees a station a mile or so up ahead. As he approaches a gunfire rings out, he hides behind a rock and slings his own rifle over his shoulder. Another shot twisted the top of the rock slinging sparks of him. He stands to a human it would take only 5 seconds to him, it's like 5 minutes,3 heads blown off,three men and a claw dead. Exel Cong the cender strikes again.
Exel Cong was born of a cender tribe. His name was means: law ,and he ran with it. At age 7 he slashed an outlaws knee cap. By age 12 he killed one. At age 16 he left the tribe and joined a group of vigilantes, which he killed in 2 weeks. The word spread of this Exel, the one who killed the good and the wicked for their deeds
5:00 and the sands started to cool, exel took off his boots at the station he had already piled the bodies to burn,he layed down on his new claw skin,and went in too a half sleep state,like most people around here do. 6:00 next morning and he was woken up by gunshots, INNovaton GMA-rifles. He stood up, flung his new claw skin on and slid in his boot dodging the bullets as he picked up his rifle and fired back. BALM BLAM BLAM! One hit and 2 misses,he was much too tired to speed himself up. He broke out the window(it had been shot threw enough to) He heard the 3 different soldiers shouting. He shot one in the chest, he fell back in an gasp of pain. One of the soldiers tried to get of his hover bike to retreat, Exel picked up one of the HA-magnums off the soldiers and shot the engine. He was slung of the bike in the explosion. The other solder whacked Exel in the head from behind, he fell to the ground limp and randomly shot the HA-magnum. Feeling the stunner of his chest shot him into total blackness, one second after another.
7:51 exel sits in a INNovaton cell some 70 meters underground. The struggled to get out of the handcuffs he soon noticed, coming to full consciousness,that he wasn't wearing his normal clothes. He had too thank INNovaton for giving him an new set. One of the guards walked up to his 4 by 4 cell. “You not gonna get out of this one” he said in a annoyingly southern accent “we got you”,Exel responded in a sarcastic “how do you know?”. The man spat between the bars on Exel. A rumble started up stairs, He understood his situation: he was in the INNovaton glass prison, a sweatshop for mining, manufacturing, and murder. The rumbling was of the drill used to mine ore, or as the conspiracists believe to free a solemn one,a race of great god like creatures worshiped by over 4 million.
4:27, a riot has started, some of the prisoners have broken out, this being an almost weekly occurrence, Exel starts to bang against the bars as one of the freed prisoners clicks the button to free him. He quickly runs out, a guard with an stunner is whacking at 3 different escapists, Exel throws a rock at him he turns, it's the same southern man with a bump of his head,most likely from the fight, he walks toward Exel and swings the stunner, Exel ducts and swipes kicks him. He grabs the stunner and strikes it in his hip, he goes unconscious. The prisoners go around him and start kicking exel starts walking to the elevator when greeted by an door, he clicks the open button,locked. He knows that the stairwell to the drill is above, he takes it. 4:50, Exel nears the drill, the fighting around gives the impression that this was planned. He walks up the ramp too the drill. Around the drill is an catwalk to the guard elevator were most prisoners are heading. He lifts the stunner to a gaurds gutt grinning evilly as he shoves it in farther. The guard falls to the ground, pulling a lever on the way. The drill starts, a flash comes from the earth. For an second most prisoners would feel the adrenaline drain from there bodys,and the guards would drop their weapons. Exel looked as two wings sprung from it and darkness plunged as the lights were blown out,all at once.the prisoners jumpsuits fell to the ground in ashes,the guards melted to paste,only Exel stood alive. The solemn one stood there, an skelton with hard stone armor and wings, He spoke in an booming voice, a crackly, dark, deep, but booming voice: “YOU, EXEL, ARE ONE OF THE MEN, WOMEN, AND CENDERS I SHALL PICK, YOU AS THE FIRST, YOU SHALL GO BY WHAT THEY CALL YOU, DEATH’S AVE, YOU SHALL BE A FAVOR. TO DESTROY THE ONES WHO DISTURBED ME, INNovaton, FOR I AM DEATH, AND GRIM TIMES ARE COMING FOR THEM.”
With those words exel fell,not dead, but in a coma state,a sleep he would never get. He woke up in the glass hospital,he knew this from the overall look of his room. He had no needles in his arms, which were lighter in color,and not heart beat monitor.
He was in the morgue
Oh, a awful place it was. The smell of rotting bodies filled the room. There was no funerals in INNovaton territories, all you got from the military sector was a vial of the ashes,a few particles being the son you had, the rest his platoon. Exel quickly stood up, he has a hospital gown on, he was surprised they even got one. He walked to the door, It was naturally unlocked, since no one comes out and no one wants to go in. It opened,night, the clock at the guards post read ,there's one at the morgue? He thought.
7:54, Exel stands in the middle of the Glass, a INNovaton city,the capital of the totalitarian democracy, The first of the army of a solemn one, death. He was in a place for no hero, even though people thought they were. He looked out the window,of the 2cd floor of 6,in a sea of buildings and sand. He was in the land of dust,
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“...I am death, and dark times are ahead for them”
The dust on the gates
That was the good news. He would either have to break out of this dystopia guns blazing, or try to sneak out. Either one was a risk, one of life or death. He decided for either he needed new clothes, military being best. He went down the hall, oddly empty, but INNovaton wouldn't allow anyone of the same floor as a ‘terrorist’,even if he was dead. He then noticed a patrol, not uncommon, coming around the corner. He dived behind a food cart, it was turned off, being a hunk of metal with cloth. The griped the fork from the plating of top, 2 guards, one fork The thought. They were having an conversation, one about pay for what he heard, The 2 seconds he felt 2 minutes he stabbed one guard's neck and slashed the other one's ankles. Time resumed to human standards, he quickly changed clothes quickly.As the slashed guard regained consuness, the looked him in the eyes “Who are you?” the guard said in a shaky voice. “I’m an angels favor, death’s ave, tell your friends, tell your employer, cause soon enough, your gonna have 300 of us on you.” The took both of the guards HA-magnums clipped them in the magnetic holsters, and spat of the guard. “welcome to hell”.
He walked out the building unresisted,due to his guard outfit, and walked down the lit street. In savgeah day was like night, soon of it cooling off. He took to the nearest map,and started for the northern exit, not that far,noting that the hospital was only 2 miles from it. The exit was guarded with high ranking military, fully suited, no place to sink a bullet in. He walked up carefully, one of the guards stopped him “where are you going?” ,exel replied calmly “I’m sent north to check of a distress message” ,a reply he’s used before to get out of an vigilante grip. The guard shook his head “they wouldn't send you…” Exel replied with a slit to the armor and a bullet to the neck, the guard was thrown to the ground but not mortally wounded. Exel ducked as an ROL-rifle shot ringed out shooting dust out just 4 or 5 inches from his direction. He pulled the other HA-magnum and rapidly fired at them.one hit a helmet guard popping it out of place. He ran for a riot cover, 3 of which were positioned at the gate. He stood up, 3 minutes,3 seconds,all 6 of the guards helmet holders popped off. He ran towards them a few roundhouse kicks to the heads of the soldiers wiped them unconscious he took the blood from a bullet he put in one of there heads and wrote of the wall “I am an angel’s favor, Death’s ave”. He unhooked his own helmet and blood splattered face guard and a half-concus guard whispered “exel..” he turned and unloaded his last bullet of one of the HA-magnums in his head. They think he’s dead, and he’s gonna stay that way.
He opened the gate, easy, no keys needed, just an press of a button. He walked out of to a dust filled road, a R0L-rifle slung on his back. Over 4 miles till the next stop, New hope city, The place of all races, a haven in the midst of the dust,
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Bandits in the dust have no moral
THE ROAD TO DUNESDAY
Exel walked slowly, it was useless to run or try to walk fast, it would just make it harder to walk later on. Exel could only guess what was happening to his family. He hadn't seen them in 3 years, and only briefly saw them in a trading outpost to give them money, likely enough from an bandit party.
Exel heard a rustle. An dead bush rolled down the dune to his right. “Heh” he raised the R0l-rifle into hands and fired at an black raised head. Blood flew threw the air, as the metal spike from the gun broke threw bone,flesh and the person's brain. Yells rose, terror, “terrific” Exel said “full of terror”. The raiding party ran up the dunes in a frenzy exel fired randomly at the almost formless figures blood stained the sand, an arm fell with a scream of pain, the other bandits ran forward, so did Exel, he pulled a knife and slit one's neck as he passed fired at one's chest 3 down, one wounded, 3 standing and running at exel with guns and swords. Exel felt a sharp pain in his arm, a bullet fixed it self in his shoulder. He ran forth dropping the rifle, the knife lodged itself in the bandit's neck.
The other two stopped in their tracks and raised rifles, obviously hand crafted, with barnets, Exel charged, they fired, they missed and then ran forward bayonets pointing ath Exel’s chest, one missed completely, the other lodged itself in Exel’s intestines, Exel smiled, as if past insanity, as he grabbed the bandits neck, even with is moderate strength Exel crushed his windpipe in one fatal crunching sound. The other bandit ran, Exel threw the bayoneted gun at him, like a spear, the spear/gun hit him in the back. A shot fired from behind, Stood there was death, holding an gun, Exel stared, he looked different, wings were gone, and he also looked more human, like an 20 year old man, and not a crow. “You seem, worried, don't you recognize the fate of these bandits is a place of suffering.” he said almost indifferent to Exel's current situation “Why don’t you just keep walking, ignore me, I’m your shadow, and welcome to your new fate.”
At those words Exel blacked out.
He woke up head first in an rocky dune. Far from the dune he had fallen on. He felt the INNovaton uniform on he had no guns, no helmet, no money he got up. Say goodbye to sanity, cause I found the end to
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“May god have mercy of INNovation's souls”
The Hole Deepens
Exel stood up,shaken still by the gunshot before, held his head. The light from the town was bright,at least 50 people had to be awake,if not more. As he approached he noticed that the light was pushed downwards. He stood at the edge of a canyon,or quarry,one or another,with a crane surrounded by scrap houses. It was more than 50 people,more like 150 people,claw,cthal,and every other kind of mutated beast,peppered with cenders. He slid down the slanted wall,(appears more as an quarry form below) and approached the town,no gates,barely any wall. He easily slipped in the crowds,even though his guard outfit stood out,looking down he tore of the INNovaton patch. Looked up to see a restaurant,he walked in too be stopped by an man “no cenders allowed” he said with a smile. Exel grabbed his neck and pulled him up, his three fingers slowly were soaked with blood. He dropped his limp body. No remorse to him,it scared him,he had always had remorse for his victims. He walked in sat down,not expecting to be served,he was surprised by an scardly clothed woman coming to serve him. A man grabbed her,he tried to ignore as he touched every part,he stood up and stabbed his hand into his stomach. He pulled it out and kneed him. The woman fell. He looked at her, “you're welcome”. He walked out being grabbed by two officers for the Lorecraftians ,a group of cthals and claw that worship a scientist, he struggle and cut,his right hand sharpened, his left stronger, he punched rapidly,and kicked the other. The pedestrians scattered. More officers surrounded the area,some with guns,some with sharpened sticks,others with nothing. He could easily take down the unarmed ones,however the ones with guns….
He took off,down an alleyway. He looked back no way to exit with guards coming,he climbs. There was no way he could ever climb that steep of a wall,had the bandits added upgrades
Or has the elder done it?
He stood on the top off a building, turning around and running faster than ever. 6 seconds 30 minutes. He stood outside the town. Blood still dripping from his hands,he stood on the edge of madness.
Insanity is nothing more than happiness told with a shorter word.
The holding of Hope
Exel walked for 2 days,north east, he walked for new hope city, nonstop. He now stood a few meters away,fire stroked the bright sky. He started for5 the city,at human running speed. He first came upon a dust stopper village,a group of bandits, enders were shooting at the town. He put arm around a soldier's neck far back. “Who are you?” He said “Exel?” he said in a sympathetic voice. Exel was stunned when he turned him around, His brother, paze, peace. Some others turned around and stood in shock. “exel”,”He's alive!” they all said. He joined the fight, grabbing a gun, they explained that the city had been taken by INNovaton. He killed more than any other,The others feared him with no remorse. He was taken on by 6 INNovaton soldiers. He swipe kicked one the punched another one shot him,no pain,shots rained on him,either dodged, blocked ,or just not felt. Others attacked their masks being slapped off with one punch,along with their spinal cord. The soldiers pushed all their forces of him. His kin becoming nothing more than support troops, he hacked and slashed with his right and shot soldiers with the other. He ripped one in half, by sicking one hand in the stomach and the other in the made hole, then pulling. The fire was made worse by the INNovaton chaos disturbed soldiers during retreat. The smell of smoke combined with the smell of blood, death stained the taste buds of every fighter, adrenaline thunder within each one's heart,some from victory,some form fear. He kept fighting, blood and dirt stained INNovaton guard uniform looked nothing like the others. The fire had engulfed most of the hover bikes, INNovaton destroying themselves like insane driven movie hungry for the flesh of others. No solder was left alive. He sat back,exhausted,but not tired.
Others grabbed fire killer, the fire still destroyed the city. Exel was joined by his brother, “gather forces” Exel said “why” his brother responded
“ were declaring war on
Savgeah”
Sandscape
The sword and the fork
Exel was trailed by his brother and new found camp of Cenders. New hope city was in ashes from the failed INNovaton take over. Thats atleast what Exel believes. The walked for days. Exel’s powers came with one crippling side effect, his love for all breathings subsided while a non-sexual version of necrophilia formed with in his heart. They finally came upon the fork. a town built on a old road fork. Most of the cenders split up to find supplies or love, the affectionless kind. Exel and his brother took to the local pub. like most around the 'unbuilt' areas, the pub was populated with scarcely plaid ladies and drunk men. Exel and Paze where not expectedly denied service of food. However they could easily discuss battle plans and other topics outside the ears of INNovaton with the sounds covered by bar fights and whooping. "..we can't just scamper around like ants, we need a base of operation.." said Paze throughout the sound. Exel looked out the window. "and just tell me where we can find a base of operations with a 50,000 note bounty on my head" he said pointing out the window as a holoprojector. showing a flip screen of cenders with Exel’s face beside them all. "50,000 notes" said a man in the booth next to them. He lift his head to reveal an atronomon his trench coat having a dark green painted clickback sticking out of his pocket. He wasn't a normal bot you would see in the dust. His eyes were green like the clover on the sign. He stuck out his gloved hand "names GOCK59, call me Gary" Exel stuck out his hand "Exel". The bloake stared at him sarcastically. A Lot of the whooping was becoming more shallow as exel turned around. A trio of INNovaton grunts stood at the door by the look of their body structure exel knew they were half way threw their short lives.
What was this. A short moment in the lasting timeline that does not exist. Exel stood naked in a dark room lines appeared on the walls. he touched on the closest one. His first kill in an orb. He looked down to see the clothes he had on at that moment. he touched another line. a world covered in flying robots being blown apart in clouds of mushroom. Another, men on a beach in europe being slaughtered with barely any kills on the butcher's side. One where a flag of an eagle is being burned. "THIS IS THE TIME ROOM" said the voice of death. Exel In his soldier's uniform looked ahead, the clothes disappeared as he walked. the was stood by 2 shadows "why have you brought me here? Why then or now or whenever?" “WHEN AND NOW AND WHENEVER DO NOT EXIST. TIME IS NOT A LINE!" The room collapsed outward the lines connected making a grid. and the holes became smaller and smaller. the line became waves and then they crashed against the ship below his feet.
Exel did not move an inch. He stood up from his seat walked up to the exel solder and kicked his crotch before he could recognise the eyes of the terrorist. the two others tackled him one was impaled by the sword the other shot by garry. Exel stood up people scattered out the back door. He took the street followed by his brother and garry. The other cenders were either dead or fighting exel grabbed a R0L-rifle and fired into the chest of a grunt. of a pestilence. and walking corpse.
Exel snapped back to the ship death was alone. "YOU KNOW NOTHING." it said facing to a picture of the INNovaton grunt. taking off the helmet he saw the terror filled face of the man. blood was frozen above his heart Exel flattened his hand,then chopped off his head. death fused to his mother, as he left her, pregnant. Her severed head talked "why? why? why?..." exel knew that she was not real. Yet he felt anger and remorse.
the dead grunt laid on the ground bleeding out Exel ran out and kept up killing
"and killing"
and killing
"and killing"
and killing
the cenders grouped together moving forward towards the center of the town Exel leading them. The INNovaton grunts were soon supported by Lovecraftian guards. Most civilians were hiding, the others were stealing in the chaos, even with it controlled in the center of town. The lorecraftains soon found the battle hopeless and retreated. INNovaton fought till all officers were dead then they were shot as they tried to escape. Exel stood on the center town statue of the creator of INNovaton,he pushed it over. it fell crushing a wounded INNovaton grunt that they let suffer. The thieves stopped thriving and the others stepped out as he started talking. "we are not your enemies, we are not your friends, we are your hope for freedom. If you want INNovaton out of you lives you join us,you help us. The lorecraftians lied to you, you won't accomplish anything with statues and magic, join us we will push out every idiotic idea left in savgeah"
sandscape
On the mount, a society of men want all men to die
The mount of dunesday
Exel paused as garry spurred his cogs. “Where are we?” Exel asked in an quieted voice.
“15 km south of the fork, 3 km north of the mount of dominion”
Exel coughed. He had 25 men with him, 45 cenders, and 47 beasts. Most of them understood only their native language of kadyis. None of these creatures could fight well with any weapon. The men couldn't accept a cender as their leader.
“Map a chart, I want to know every crook,every cranie that we could use.”
“Yes sir” garry said in a respectful voice
Paze walked up as garry left. He looked off passed the dune that they stood on.
“What are we going to do about the training.”
“Don’t worry”
Paze looked at him puzzling. He walked off believing that this couldn't be his brother
Upon night they moved again, lights came of to the mount, it was visible through the dust of the night. Light looked upon the edges of rocks, bouncing off the smallest reflective surface.
The march was set up in rows, Cenders first,then men,then calw,then cthal. The camp was set the same. All circled the main battle tent, alternating in that order.
Exel stopped. A shot rang out, blood flew threw the air, Exel looked at his arm too see an hole. He turned and whispered “death look upon this”
The troops charged, None were trampled, Even Exel was barely shoved past. Guns fired, swords unhooked. Exel turned around to see men dieing,Cenders wounded, and cthals tearing other men in uniforms apart. The claws looked to be doing the same. It was a force of 40.
Exel’s forces set up camp in the day, the wounded were treated with herbs. The dead were burned. Exel learned of the Dunesday men.
These men were people who believe man could not survive the next 100 years without banning together. In an way they were right. They killed anyone who don't convert in the first few years. Then killed anyone who were not born to other dunesday men.
Exel’s wound healed quickly. He ordered Paze leader of the sniper region. His birth defected helped him with this. A hook like muscle stuck out of his right side of his face he hooked it of the stock of his rifle and it held it in place better than any man could.
Exel looked upon the mount. The mourning sun burned his eyes. In mattered none to him. He looked for an weakness in the mount. He found none, only way to take this mount was with the sands themselves. Exactly Exel thought. “Get the men!”
Get the ones who created this
savgeah
Sandscape
Fire is light,and water burns it out
The beginning of the Preadors
A week passed. Men of the whole camp were given an task, a mission.
At sunset, Exel brought out 13 men in INNovaton uniforms, stolen off the dead. The dunesday men watched from the cliffside looking north west upon the camp.
“These are the men that created these lands have doomed your kind, not us, not the cenders or beasts.” Exel said “I present to you, the men of INNovaton.”
The men looked doomed, but each was equipped with an extendable dueling cane. The dunes day men sent down a man riding a caravan bull. The men were in easy removable chains they could break free from at any time.
The men were too enter the camp and take it over from the inside out. The beasts would then be supported by the cenders to assault and trap any escaping dunesday men at sunrise.
Exel went back to camp, the dunesday men believed this a piece offering. The beasts were cheering of a future victory. Life was beginning for them,they knew only slavery under the Lorecraftians, of course they were under slavery from INNovaton.
The sun rose of the camp. Exel stood covered in rags and leather in a cinder raiding outfit. He walked upon the mount. A lizard looked upon him. The piece of walking meat walked forward on a rock and looked of him. Exel quickly drew an hatchet and cut the head clean off the miserable creature.
The beasts crossed the dunes separating the camp from the mount, Exel walked slowly,The cthal were mounts for the claw too sire bows off of. The cenders supported in front with swords,hatchets,and some handguns.
Exel crouched down removing the bandanna to eat the lizard. The little scrawny thing went down in 3 bites. The attack party caught up too him. Screams and shot rang out.
“About time” Gary said with a monotone voice, but even the cthals could hear the sarcasm in his thoughts.
The claw said in one single voice. “For the land,for the glory of what the creator truly wanted!”
Exel ran forward straightening out his arm making an sword and reading his hatchet.
The bows fired arrows with attached explosives knocking sand upon the fleeing men. They charged. Exel running far ahead of them. The men inside knew this was a suicide mission.
By the time Exel entered the mounts town entrance half way up it, The dunesday men had reorganized. Exel took each charging man easily. Cutting heads and slashing throats easily.
Death watched upon this like an comedy. Finely he had power after decades.
The men ran up the mount. The attack party entered the gates as Exel open up a storage of guns. The claw fired a final set flame arrows. They stood on the ground to become the land of the predators. The freers of Savgeah
“Life starts with death”
The land of sand looses it's armageddon
Exel Sprinted ahead,using time of an cender. The men were either taking aim at the approaching army or running for swords hatchets or other melee weaponry that could be used to destroy the battle party.
Exel stopped at the main gate. Closed the insanity was at the edge of his vision. His army charged ahead. 2 of the cthal were down leaving 3 claw dismounted.
The cender front charged. Exel climbed the gate hatchet in mouth. The men fired bullets into his body, few missed. He took the hatchet out and threw it,activating the gate mechanism. It flew open. He dropped off.
Bullets fell to the ground. Exel’s wounds had healed. He walked full of rage. Unknown why he felt this way. He coughed blood. He ran forward picking up a makeshift handgun off the ground.
Paze looked upon the troops from an higher peak than what the town was set upon. He laid of the ground, a skin of some animal over him,only skin opened up was the area around his right eye. He was in the middle of 4 others,the sniper squadron. The sign was Exel firing a shot into the air. A crack rang out. Louder thanthe others. Paze fired off his first shot and the others followed almost robotically reloading and firing,as if one machine, with 5 different parts.
Exel Ran forward firing a shot into an man protecting a house. He kicked into the house seeing many masked children,they looked up upon Exel. He stood up straighter, and holstered the weapon in the fold of his armor. The kids were silent. He crouched down and removed the mask. The child was almost burningly bright with cleanliness. It looked like it had never see daylight, it blinked and squinted. Exel saw it better, a boy.
“Why? Why the masks?” Exel said quietly
“He told us to?” the boy answered
“Who?”
“Him”
Exel looked behind him a man with a spear charged him, He dodged, the man kepted running impaling the boy. Exel went bazerk. He grabbed the man by the throat and picked the spear out of the boy’s body. He threw him down. Raised the spear and stabbed his genitals. Then his legs,then finally his stomach,lifted him out of the house and impaled him the rest of the way outside.
The boys followed him outside. Carrying the dead one laying it beside Exel. He picked it up and walked towards the center court yard were an well sat. The battle was raging just close by, but the dozen children looked only upon Exel. Dropping the child beside the well. The dunesday men were dying. More and more Exel wished he had never came here. Then it hit him, this was how they thought of the world. No one mattered to them. He stood,coughed then pulled the handgun out walking forward the children seemed to pray around the dead boy. He raised his gun shooting men charging the well. He felt indifferent at death, no pleasure, no pain. Woman ran, he killed them. Everyone,except children. Then yelled “we have claimed this mount!” He dropped the handgun ripping off his mask. His arm became an sword and he ran forward killing men,bursting open doors and killing every this place was owned by. He walked back to the center of town to find the boy in the center surrounded by the masks of the other children,exactly 11. They looked up and spoke the center language “batha kia maetha?” Exel knew what it meant “well of death breaths” Exel nodded. They picked the boy up and pushed him in the well. He picked up his handgun covered by the dust. He slid it in the folds. They cried. He crouched down and wept with them The other cenders came up, they crouched down and sung a prayer of their gods, then the claw and cthal. Beasts of every religion singing and crying for a person they never really knew. Exel stood. Turned and said
“This is the place we shall camp and create the utopia that this place was never meant to be. A place of every religion, of every race, of every being. Every place equal to the peoples,the beasts,the beings, of the land of sand.”
“Savgeah.”
“To this we call it sandscape.”
“Life starts with death”
On the cliff side waits
Paze entered Exel’s house. He sat studying the gun an stack of books surrounded him, his favorite in his lap, ‘handguns for beginners’ the first he ever read. He put down the gun and started sowing a holster for the weapon. Designed for the chest. “The gun is an .21 caliber but has parts,like the handle from a .45.” Exel said with a curious voice. Paze looked at him thoughtfully. Exel kept on sowing.
“The children you saved are growing restless” Paze said with a sad voice,as like a mother to a son.
It had been an mounth scene the attack of mount dominion. The beasts sung songs of joy, replacing words, won of the most interesting was them using the name of predator which they said “preador”(pre-A-dor) and calling INNovaton and other people against the rebellion they had joined prey or “pred”(pre-ed). The others quickly adopted this name, and soon enough Exel did too. Even writing it of his now signature weapon, the makeshift gun form the siege of the mount. Now called ‘the battle of men’.
The gun had a handle like a revolver,but heat vents of the side, and browned metal. A detachable scope sat of to, and stocks were found for it in the weapon arsenal. He named it ‘the man's handgun’ in mockery of INNovaton.
The beasts,cenders and men were in harmony over the death of INNovaton. For once Exel found his perfect society.
Of the night of Lorecraftian holiday ‘getkoh’ a scout sat of the ledge that the dunesday used to defend only a month before. A shot rang out. Blood stained the sand behind him.
The day approached, Exel stood of the cliff side,were blood stained the ground. From there he saw an camp twice the size of the one a month before, won with flags showing a burning eye, with an claw and tentacle on either side.
“Lorecraftians it seems” garry said in his normal monotone voice with an slight irish accent.
“I see, notify the men,we have a better plan than the man before us, diplomacy first, then we burn them all alive.” Exel said.
Back at the peak,which was flat, men gathered rifles,an nd straped of armor. The plan was simple, Exel and 5 claw along with his cender family, totaling of 10, would go down in an march and talk with the lorecraftians to see what is needed,and what could be done to keep from war.
To keep the land of sand from total destruction
Savgeah
Sandscape
“Life starts with death”
The Lorecraftian charge
Exel walked forward across the dunes, The troops followed close behind. He Knew that this was an useless mission,unless they attacked.
The claw he brought were nervous,they walked with guns that were loaded with .45 rounds,only 3 each won could peice an cthals skin and then exit behind the skull. Exel had his handgun ready of the front of his armor, a hatched put in a sling of his hip. He walked mask of the sand hitting him in an windstorm,then he saw it. The “gate” of the camp,omore an opening in he tents allowing troops and scouts in and out.
They were going in
Paze ran ahead. Guns were pointed at him. He slowed down too find an set of claw guards at post guns aimed not at him,but the cender behind him. The cender removed his mask. Exel coughed blood and then spoke. “We need to see the head officer here.” That was of course the priest.
Exel sat in a chair made out of wood, more common up north than down here. AN table sat in front with an cup of tea, he waved the guard over and whispered something in his ear,he nodded and left as the priest came in.
“We see you have set up an camp right outside our mount” Exel said “ I came to ask why”
Exel’s mask sat of the table in front of him. The Lorecraftian priest was transfixed of it.
“Gaht mack meg matta” It said.
Exel sat up obviously understand that it could only speak cender language.
The guard walked in with a bottle full of red liquid. Exel poured about 4 mL in his tea and then sipped it.
The priest looked in horror, the man he was talking about a mask to was drink blood in his tea.
“Meka paze?” Exel said
“JAKA FATHE MAKA?” it said angrily The mask with the creator’s symbol on it flashed red. He flipped the table. Exel stood and threw the blood stain cup at the mask, it broke with pieces ripping the mask, the priest fell face blooded.
Exel found the soldiers out side fighting as blood fell out of the tent. Exel cut threw it. His mask was stained with blood. He pulled his shot a lorecraftian guard and Cut the other's head off with the hatchet.
Fire stung the vision of Paze as he ran forth putting on his mask. He bulled the rifle of his back, it was a 10 mm with an baynton the end. He stabbed the bayonet in an soldier's throat. He stared in horror as blood squirted from the soft flesh covered in fur. Death covered the sky. Paze threw off his mask, covered in blood he ran and hid.
Exel rammed his hatchet in the head of an cthal, mid jump, he ordered a fall back. Not even death could hear his voice over the screams of his own work.
His troops ran
He ran, but not towards the gate, but towards were Paze hid, even he could guess, he hid behind a stack of crates. Exel grabbed his arm and pulled his up. He dragged him as they ran. Paze was shaking, his face clean however his armor was covered in blood.
The sand pushed of tents as they caught in fire started by the preadors. The lorecraftians ran forward, Exel and the other cenders could run faster with their time alteration, however the 3 claw left were unlucky. The cthal grabbed and ripped apart the heretics to their religion.
The war had begun. The war to carry the fate of
Savgeah
sandscape
“And death starts with blood”
The battle of the gods
Exel looked at the sun as it set upon the charging army. They had slown down. People screamed. They grabbed their guns and set up an primiater. They took aim at the approaching army.
“Now that’s how you start a war” Exel said proud of his army. He reloaded his gun a bullet at a time.
Garry was at the edge of the defence, the bottom of the mount, he wanted to stop the invasion more than anything.
Garry had know no master, and didn't plan to.
The first shots were fired from the charging army.
Garry’s legion fired back. Death came upon them both.
“The battle of the gods is here” Exel whispered.
Garry fell, His gun falling beside him, an arrow penetrated his chest, the central processor shut down, death to a robot.
The men around him retreated. The claw charged the cenders held, each shall die in their own right way, one in fear,one in foolishness,and one is idiocracy.
Fire tipped the wood of the front gates. The army charged them and destroyed them. The army had gone from 400 to 300 in a matter of 20 minutes. They charged up the mountain The parameters set up were nothing,won man,cender or claw could not stop an army.
Exel turned his arm into a sword, then ordered the gates opened. The guards did as ordered even with dissatisfaction. The cthal lined up with claw of to behind him. Then the cthal, with men mixed in. Then the charge came. Exel ran forth with the troops behind him. The lorecraftians persisted. Exel threw his hatchet taking off a head. He chopped threw an claw’s body, then fired a shot taking down an cthal. His troops fired shots attacked with hatchets and swords, both sides were suffering casualties. The lorecraftians were being drove back. The darkness overlooked them, and exel lit a torch, the snipers fired from the cliff side. Cthals dropped, claws were trampled and blood covered the ground.
Exel stood over garry’s body. Exel knew what he died for. His metal body mutilated by the passing army. Bent and burned,chopped and sparked. Oil stained the dust around him. Like blood from a living creature.
Exel coughed blood before he talked. “Take the body and bury it right inside the gate, but an tombwood on it with the name ‘garry’ on it.
Cover it with the sand of this land”
Savgeah
Sandscape
“That’s how you start a war”
For every soul is a burden
Paze entered the operations tent. one of each race sat in an table with Exel at lead.
“We can’t have war with our brethren!” A claw screamed out
A cthal grunted in agreement
“But we must for the freedom from the oppressive hand!”, a human said.
Exel quited both
Paze opened his mouth to speak
Exel coughed blood
Paze spoke, “ our latest reports indicate that the neighboring town of rockstown is under INNovaton control.”
“Then take it” Exel said unemotionally.
“Doing so would both reveal our presence to INNovaton and cause the town and the surrounding area to become an warzone.”
Murmurs of agreement come from the ones around him
Exel stood up and addressed them.
“We either attack or we’ll be crushed, INNovaton knows of our presence. They believe we will be of the defencive until another attack. One with fully trained soldiers.”
“We attack.” Death whispered in his ear.
Exel coughed blood.
Paze nodded in agreement and so did the claw and cender. The cthal sat still.
Exel walked out of the tent and ordered soldiers to get moving.
The camp was no longer just adults of the male gender, children played, women watched and cooked. Even men became more domestic in the new home.
That changed with Exel moving forth and standing of stage. Children ran inside poking their heads out the windows. Males ran forth lining up with armor and weapons. Females gave males kisses as they lined up. They music stopped in their life Exel started giving the speech.
Today we march onwards against INNovaton. Many of you will die, many of you will be honoured. Most of you will be feared. None of you shall loose hope as they will when we cut down their ranks!”
The men screamed in agreement
Exel ordered a curtain behind him opened.
Behind him was mechanical contraptions that would give the driver size,strength,and power.
“These are called goliaths.” Exel informed the troops. “There are no Davids here.”
The march started, the goliaths ad cthals walked shoulder to shoulder in the back of a man and cender army. The army saw the horizon. Men set up charge they looked upon an army that will break this sand like an arm.
Savgeah
Sandscape
“There are no davids here”
War_allowed (Exel’s take)
Exel’s army charged burning the dust in their path. Death looked upon this with excitement. He leaned back on his throne of swords,shields and skulls. The sky was red with dawn. The fires were shot from the backs of the goliaths and cthals. The INNovaton soldiers shot back. Blood spilled. The light was growing intense. The army finally hit the gate of the town. They opened away for an goliath piloted by Exel. He grabbed the gate and broke it off and threw it the gun behind it. The mortar fire was thrown back and the current shot backwards. The army poured in. Exel dropped the goliath and moved forward.
Paze jumped off the back of Exel’s goliath, his job was different. He was to arm any explosives in the town, they would blow it and leave a crater in their wake when they left. The army cut and thrashed each man they came across. Each won was equipped with an baynet and were trained to use it was an spear when it was empty. A hatchet was given to squad leaders, now a symbol of the peradors. Exel coughed blood and Death told him of the location of his objective. A man named Oliver, the head general too INNovation’s colonial expansion district. He would kill him and wear his scalp as a trophy,like the of the INNovaton leader,when he found him of course. Exel kicked down the door as he pressed an botton, he had an longish hair cut and neckbeard. He pulled a knife of him Exel charged with the sword hand. Oliver dodged and stabbed his mask. The knife stuck. Exel charged an gain and Oliver pulled his gun of Exel. The gun was pointed at his head. Exel removed the mask he wore. Then the knife stuck in his cheek. Dropped his hatchet and the knife and put up his fists.
“We settle this like cenders” Exel said.
Oliver threw his gun away and put up his fists. Exel swung Oliver dodged his punch. Exel ignored Deaths wishes and attack how he wanted. Oliver ducked down as he swung an again and kicked his feet. Then he pulled out a dagger and sliced a scar over his right eye. He fled leaving Exel of the ground coughing up blood. Exel stood up seeing death of both troops with only one eye. He pulled out his handgun and fired at one killing him.
“Kill them all” Death said “mercy is for the weak”
Exel coughed blood one last time as he wiped Death from his mind.
Life drained from his mind. He ran forth killing like a machine. Heads flew and blood stained the dusty streets of stone. He knew only one word then. “Kill” He repeated with an mechanical repetitiveness.
The creator only knew that Exel was inside crying over the death of every solder.
In the end he crouched down with an fist of the stone work of the center well. His gun beside him.
Life re-entered his mind. The endless killing had ended and Exel wept.
Paze finally armed the last charge. In 3 min this town would be blown off the face of this land.
Savgeah
Sandscape.
Exel stands in the middle of the Glass, a INNovaton city,the capital of the totalitarian democracy
The siege of the burnt sand
At 3:40 pm they left the town of rock to burn under the explosives and sun. They army seemed to grow with the civilians of the town. They took up guns of fallen INNovaton soldiers, they did not march, they looked upon Exel as a leader. Death watched, as Exel walked on he thought of the war that he had created.
At 6:01 they reached the gates. All hell broke lose. The cthals and goliath charged forth, tearing down the steel plate gates. Death looked in suspicion, the burning light of the city looked like day. They broke down the gates and charged.
Behind them stood an force of 468, along with the technologies to destroy a small fleet of airships with a single blow. Exel walked forth, not caring if they shot him. He stopped in front of the INNovaton general guarding the gate. And held out his left hand. The took this as a sign of fair war, he grabbed it as too shake it.
Exel extended his arm. Cutting the man's hand in too before he cut off his head, threw the arm.
The armies clashed as he jumped up grabbing onto a steel pipe and lifting his weight as if lifting a grain of sand. Death watched
Paze rode on an goliath's back as a sniper. He took out heads and bodies lined the street as him and the driver attacked almost safely. Paze saw his brother run across the roof tops toward the center corner of the city, the capital building and tower. It stretched like a burning beacon among the darkness of the night sky.
The soldiers cut into the suits of the INNovaton soldiers, then threw their soft flesh. Both sides took casualties, but oddly enough the Preadors drove back higher technology, perhaps it was from death.
Or something from the mind can also be magical,perhaps hope, perhaps fear.
Fires started of the INNovaton side as the Predators threw fire across the lines. Paze took Exel’s position as leader. Fire stroked like an artist's brush on a propaganda poster. Ammo whittled low of both sides. It took an medieval approach,using the bodies of both sides as weapons, lighting them on fire. The battle was nothing more that walking backwards. As they approached the residential district, some people from it took up trapping and attacking the force both sides of the INNovaton forces were dieing. They ran, abandoned their post, knowing that they were destined to die either way, they threw on their helmets and attacked their own troops as too join the Preador ranks.
The world has just been taken by storm, the war put into action. 598 Kilometers away an mission was taken into action too kill the Lorecraftians, The war had begun. The war for
Savgeah
Sandscape
Exel Cong the cender strikes again.
Exel’s final trial for godhood
Exel coughed blood as Exel guided him. He dropped down upon one of the 2 guards and threw his hatchet to silence the other.
The lodged it out of the skull as he laid unable to speak, yet alive. Death did not take him. Exel kicked the glass doors in shattering them 4 guards stood up exel threw his hatchet once more taking out two and the ran forth attacking them by cutting their throats collapsing and making them bleed out slowly.
Exel jumped up the elevator shaft jumping from side to side with the swiftness and agility of a claw. He grabbed the top ledge of the elevator shaft. Then broke it with one swift punch. He Hopped up too find 7 different Automatons. The blokes raised their guns and fired. Each Bullet hit Exel.
He didn’t move.
He ran using cender time cutting each ones head off cleanly. Time resumed and the floor began to be stained in lubricant of the magnetic generators in their chest. He blinked he hadn't done so in 40 seconds. He walked up the stairs of the tower of INNovatons leaders. Most were out other places only returning home for vacation. He planted a bomb of each one’s door. He made his way up to the top. The fire below was growing, that was nothing more than a distraction. Death grew restless and gave Exel the ability to grow faster,physically. At the to he found a pair of luscious doors which he kicked in. He found a man about 56 being painted by a propaganda artist. Exel un-holstered his gun and fired a shot into the artist's head.
The man’s name was Henry Kolsire IV. The leader of INNovaton.
“Well you were expected”, Henry said almost sarcastic sounding. Exel ran forth with cender speed. Henry stepped out of his way with elegant grace and kicked him in the chin, throwing him backwards. Exel flipped and landed in a steady position of his feet. Henry flipped out an metal toothbrush like object. He clicked a trigger and it turned into an sword. Exel straightened his arm and coughed blood. The sword fight began, Each one swung with grace of an god. Exel threw punches and dodged with better grace than any man, but so did henry.
Exel threw a chair our the big overview window. They continued to attack each other. Exel ducked and kicked, using INNovatons own take down move against itself. Then grabbed Henry as he tried reaching for his sword. He was lifted up and pushed out the window being held by Exel.
Henry coughed blood.
Exel stopped himself from dropping the INNovaton leader. The man did not wiggle nor did he grab Exel’s arm in protest. He hand limp as Exel held him 15 stories up.
“You know what I’ve tried to do”, Henry said. Exel despite his own hatred listened. “Death had his control over you. God only knows what would he would have done when he has his job done. You see, your his favor, but I’m Life’s favor. And i see control wasn't the way to go.” He held out his arms like a cross.
Exel threw him across the room. He landed of the floor in front of the door.
“I’m sorry about your mother, even I couldn't save her” Henry said as he passed out from exhaustion.
“NO” Death said as he tore of the rooms overhang window and surrounding wall. Exel ran forward and impaled his human body. Darkness overwhelmed them both.
The death of an hero was that day, one that would postpone the men of INNovaton for the time of rust to set in. The only true hero of this land
Savgeah
Sandscape.
Exel awoke
Death held him up in a world of white. Exel did the same as henry he lay limp, understanding of his fate
Death left Exel there
among the white.
Then came the waters of time.
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