#capernicus

[the-kaixo-campaign]

I mean it does???? Like have you tried? If you haven’t don’t hate on it 😔✋🤠👊

[dreverythingisaliens]

How Would Your Favorite Author Fare as a DM?

I mean, CS Lewis and Tolkien are givens (Tolkien is a bit Long-winded for me). But, consider this-

A D&D Campaign made by Tolstoy?

The NPCs Pratchet would have come up with?

The kingdoms Douglas Addams would construct and the rulers he would have over it?

A fetch quest from Monty Python? (A SHRUBBERY!)

The battles and encounters of Sun Tsu.

Kiekergaard creating a mind-flayer Big Bad?

Plato's Questions and Riddles?

Danielwski's Mazes?

Please.

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Ask more.

Write vicariously.

I would love to see what you imagine.

[luigiruigi]

PDF: The Angel of Death

It was another day at Pantheria High, rightfully in Pantheria, actually, Logan wouldn't call this day just another day, for this day defied all logic Logan had known about science and myths, he arrived at the table that his team always sits at. "Ok, so, our mission today is gonna be easier than everything we've ever done on a mission." Logan told them, "I already don't like the sound of this." Nots said, their mission today was to check on the church in Pantheria, the priest had report a sight of something only the P.D.F could handle. "A church? I thought this team was to protect the world, and priests could protect their churches." Sophie said, "Well this priest is having a problem only we can fix, a real human is harassing the church." Logan told them, when they all agreed to help the church, they went to the Panther Flyer, before Logan left he gave Malon, who he saved from a previous animatronic attack, a hug, and the team went to the church, where they saw a man with a mazeltov cocktail in his hand, clearly lit.

"YOU DON'T WANNA HELP ME FINE, I CAN TAKE A HINT OLD MAN, I KNOW WHEN I'M UNWANTED, I JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU WHAT THIS DEMON WILL MAKE ME DO IF I LOSE CONTROL OF IT!" Logan heard the man say, he clearly had means to burn the church down, and from the sound of things he was clearly missing a few brain cells, Logan marked him as insane on a piece of paper Raven had given him, before heading out to talk to him. "STAY BACK MAN, I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND I'LL BURN THIS PLACE DOWN TO THE GROUND BEFORE I LET YOU TAKE ME AWAY!!" the man said, his name was Angel Matthews, a kid Logan knew from Elite Elementary school,  Logan never knew him to be this crazy, he used to slip some gay jokes out every now and then but nothing about burning buildings to the ground. "Angel?" Logan asked, Angel turned around to look at him, "What do you want man?" he said in a terrified tone, "We're not gonna hurt you, we wanna help." Logan said, "Help? you want, to help me? You can't do anything, there's a demon in me only an exorcism can cure me, nothing you defense force types can do can save me." Angel said, clearly talking wasn't going to help, so Logan decided to disarm him and complete the mission, Logan walked up to Angel, took the mazeltov and threw into the nearby fountain, then cuffed Angel, "AHHHHHHHH, PLEASE I NEED TO CURE MYSELF!!!" Angel said, "There is a cure, it's called therapy." Wick said to him, jokingly "PLEASE, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!" Angel said, Logan decided to ignore him and closed the door to the prison side of the panther flyer, as the sleek, black jet ascended up into the air Logan had a bad feeling about the mission, it was a minor mission but none of them were ever this easy, even if it was a minor mission, that's when the jet shook violently, Logan looked at the monitor that showed the outside of the jet, they were being attacked by the Animatron again!! "Damnit Trogs you could have chosen a more important mission than right now?" Logan asked himself, and tried to avoid his flying animatronics, but as he did that, unknown to him at the time, Angel had fallen out of a hole that the robots made to the prison room, and into a cult summoning an ancient demon that helped the Hooded Wonder at a time, "OH GREAT BEING OF DARKNESS, THE CHOICE OF THE HOST IS YOURS, THIS WORLD SHALL BE TO YOUR LIKING I HOPE!" a cloaked man had said, little did he know that Angel had fallen into a pit of spikes, and the demon wanted to host him, since he was the easiest to control, Angel began to shake when the demon entered his body, he rose and the gaping hole in his chest had closed up, he then ascended to the floor and feeling absolutely normal, walked home.

When Logan got back to the high school he was unhappy to see that we lost Angel, but as long as he didn't cause anymore trouble, He supposed it was ok. "It's fine Logan, after all it was a minor mission, nothing that would end the world, and you did say in your report he was insane, so hopefully his family will get him some help." Raven said, meanwhile back at Angel's home, his family began to notice strange things about him, he had been talking to himself, disagreeing with some things and then arguing with himself at times, eventually he was heard yelling, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?!" in his room at night. The next morning Logan had gotten word that Trog, AKA: The Animatron, was about to get his hands on the gauntlets the team was going to use to produce fire, and or fireballs, and he was going to use them to build a new robot army, little did Logan know that this mission would take a turn for the worse, and reveal something more horrible and sinister than he imagined.

The P.D.F. arrived at Pantheria University, where Logan's adult friend, Lawrence Weatherby worked in the mechanics department, and helped his team with new weapons for missions, today Logan was supposed to meet him for new weapons they would use for the rest of their lives, He also needed to get Nots some gauntlets since some people complained about him not actually being able to punch bricks with bare hands. Angel apparently also worked there, in the same labs, and apparently was working on one special pair of fire producing gauntlets, he didn't hear the university's alarm telling the students/workers that something was wrong. When he was about to go see Lawrence about the continuation of his project he was stopped by one of the Animatron's robotic soldiers, "Stop right there, human." the robot said, fearing his life would end there, Angel stepped back into the room and grabbed the gauntlets he called, The Hands of Capernicus.

"You want me? you're gonna have to go through these little beauties first." Angel said, holding his right hand to shoot a burst of flames at the robot, "You do realize i am a robot and that fire will not harm me, right?" The robot said, "True, but can you handle the flames from the Hands of Capernicus!?" He yelled as flames shot from the right gauntlet, but as the robot said, the flames did not affect him, and the robot shot a bullet, but at the same time, Angel had activated the fireball function and shot one at the robot, which successfully went through it's metallic chest, but the bullet went through angel's chest, causing him to go unconscious for a few seconds. The P.D.F. had just arrived to see the chaos that the Animatron's robots had caused so far, Logan unsheathed his swords, and held them in both right and left hands, Nots used a gun that Logan gave him for this purpose, Kayy used a sword Logan had made that produced heat whenever she twisted the hilt of her sword during battle, Wick held a pistol, the other one was the one given to Nots until they got his gauntlets and Logans, which were said to him by lawrence to produce electricity when activated, and Sophie was using a whip capable of shooting a laser at the end, Logan made that himself as well. "Ok so we understand what our mission, besides getting the gauntlets is right?" Logan asked "Save the university we got that the first time Logan." Sophie said, Sophie was a replacement for Lula, She was a new student who moved from England to enjoy the ways of the U.S.A. and Wick was replacing Junnk, although Junnk could have been perfect for this job. When the team entered the university they saw the animatronic soldiers headed towards the mechanics department, "I'll head towards the mechanics department, you check for anymore of Animatron's soldiers." Logan said, the team nodded and headed towards other parts of the university, Logan sliced through a hoard of robots, cutting a few separating their torsos and legs, and heads from their metallic bodies, he had found Prof. Weatherby, who had locked himself in the A.I. microchips room.

Logan unlocked the door to get him out, "They're gone," he said "Oh, thanks Logan." the Professor said, Logan then asked him if anyone else was stuck back here, "Actually, Angel was supposed to come see me at some point and ask about his fire gauntlets project, could you go check on him for me?" Prof. Weatherby asked, Logan went to go find him and did, while he fell over, supposedly thinking he was dead, Logan went over to him. "Hey pal you gonna be ok?" Logan asked, and Angel gasped for breath, only it was a very weird breath, like a demonic deep breathe. And then he spoke, "Finally I am reborn to this world," The now demonic sounding Angel said, smiling, "Oh, i guess you weren't actually kidding back at the church..." Logan said, worriedly, "I don't think I need these metal gloves anym-" But as he tried to take his gauntlets off, he soon realized that the gauntlets were stuck to his arms and hands, as if they had fused with him, "What? DAMNIT,ARE YOU KIDDING ME WHY CAN I NOT REMOVE THESE PATHETIC HUMAN WEAPONS!?" The demon asked, Logan took this advantage and attempted to attack him, but he grabbed the right sword Logan started to swing with before it even came in contact with his body, "You think mere mortal weapons will kill m-" He then took a long look at Logan and his eyes widened, "Wait, I know you, You stopped my master, The Hooded Wonder and trapped him inside of his stony prison once more." he said, "Oh you know him too? Well that's good maybe he warned you about us." Logan said and kicked his left shin, which made him scream in pain. "CURSE THESE MERE MORTAL PAINS!!!" the demonic Angel yelled in pain, while Logan ran from him to prof. Weatherby, "Hey pal we gotta go now you're student's not exactly the same anymore." Logan said, he ran with the professor who grabbed two pairs of gauntlets, which Logan assumed was for him and Nots, and met up with the rest of the team. "Alright let's go guys, we evacuated the building and got rid of the robot soldiers our work here is done." Logan said quickly, "Something wrong, Logan?" Sophie asked, "NOPE LETS GO!" Logan said, quickly again. A few minutes after the P.D.F. left, the pain in the now demonic Angel's leg had passed and he breathed angrily, "I have found the savior of the last prophecy, but i must not go head on into war like my master did." He said to himself, he then looked at the sides of his now imprisoned hands, seeing the name of the gauntlets, "The Hands of Capernicus?" He read aloud confused, "Hm, what an interesting name, from now on, these mere mortals shall learn to fear the name, Capernicus!"

Literally a few minutes later, the P.D.F. had gotten a message from the same church that got harassed by Angel, the P.D.F. arrived at the church, in the middle of the night. "I've got a bad feeling about this." Wick said, Sophie looked at wick and said "It can't be that bad, it's probably just another insane man or woman like Angel was." We went inside to see Angel with yet again a mazel tov, strangely enough, he was still wearing his gauntlets. "Angel come on stop this already you can't jus-" Logan turned Angel around while trying to explain why this was the wrong thing to do, only to be cut off by the sight of Angel's now cut up face, "OK, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN THAT LAB AFTER WE LEFT?!" Logan asked, in horror. "You would love to know wouldn't you... hero of Pantheria." Angel replied, a gunshot went off, and Angel was hit between the eyes, causing him to drop the flared up bottle, and creating a fire within the church. Logan turned around to see Wick with a smoking gun, "DAMNIT WICK YOU COULD'VE GIVEN ME A SECOND AT LEAST TO CALM HIM DOWN!?" Logan asked, "He was talking crazy man, what was i supposed to do?" Wick asked, "Not shoot him?" Logan asked sarcastically, but Angel had gotten up, laughing slowly at first, the bullet didn't even go through, it was sitting there, flattened on his forehead. "Uh, wick prepare your gun in case he tries to run at me please." Logan said, backing up.

Suddenly, Angel collapsed to his knees, grunting in pain, "Hey, uh, you alright there pal?" Nots asked him, Angel chuckled evilly, "I'm just fine, 'pal'." He said, suddenly demon's wings had grown from his back and ripped the back his lab coat to spread, Angel laughed maniacally as the P.D.F. watched his transformation in progress, Angel then spoke in a deep voice, "PREPARE YOURSELVES, THE BELLS HAVE TOLLED." he walked towards them as he spoke, "SHELTER YOUR WEAK, YOUR YOUNG, AND YOUR OLD." muscles began to grow and rip a bit more of his lab coat, "EACH OF YOU SHALL PAY THE FINAL SUM, CRY FOR MERCY, THE RECKONING OF CAPERNICUS, HAS COME!" He laughed maniacally as his transformation completed, "OK NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO THINK OF A PLAN PLEASE!" Logan said, panicking. "Hey, you're the leader, you think of the plan." Kayylah said, preparing her sword for battle. Logan looked around the room, seeing if there was something that could keep the demon at bay, he then laid eyes upon a crucifix and bible, and got an idea. "Guys, try to distract Capernicus, I'll go find the priest." The team nodded, and started attacking Capernicus, "HA, your pathetic weapons cannot harm me!" He said, triumphantly, attacking the team. I found the priest hiding under the podium at the front of the church, "I did not actually think he was possessed, i would have helped him but i don't even know what this demon is." He said, his voice and eyes clearly showing terror, Logan attempted to calm him down by sharing his plan, "yeah something tells me the demon came in after the incident this morning, but listen, this demon apparently knows a being i fought named, The Hooded Wonder, I need your help to possibly send him somewhere far from here." "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!? THAT REQUIRES SOMEONE FROM THE BROTHERHOOD OF LAST KNIGHTS!" The priest said, "Do you know anyone who is a part of it?" Logan asked, "My assistant, Joe, he usually talks about it during our prayer sessions together." the priest replied, Logan went into a room by the podium to find a man in a cloak, with a blade in hand, "Joe I presume?" Logan asked, "That is me, I have heard your plan from back here and i can tell you this, that will hold him, but like the Hooded Wonder, it will only last a few years," the cloaked man said, "Look, i really don't care i have a lot of villains to deal with these days." Logan said, "Fair enough, take me to the tools of the ritual." the cloaked man and Logan went to the podium where the bible and crucifix lay, Joe picked up the two objects and held them high to his head, "DEMON FROM THE DARK AGES!" Capernicus turned around to see who was speaking, "I, THE LAST KNIGHT, BANISH THEE TO ANOTHER REALM, TO WHERE YOUR MASTER LAYS REST!" a strong wind was picking up inside the church, and portal to the realm appeared in the ceiling, "No...." Capernicus said, trying to gain his footing into the ground, "No, no." he then held onto one of the many benches inside the church, Wick then got up, aimed his pistol and shot directly into Capernicus's eye, screaming in pain, Capernicus covered his face with both hands, and was sucked into another dimension with a final yell, "NOOOOOOooooooo........" The portal closed after Capernicus was swallowed up, and the P.D.F. sighed with relief, "I-is it over?" the priest said, taking a peek from his hiding place, "Yeah it's over, you big coward." Wick said, "Oh what a relief, I thought i was a goner."

The next morning the church had held a celebration, for the heroes that stood against the demon, Capernicus, "These brave souls, with the help of a cloaked man who shall not be named, defeated a powerful foe from the dark ages, and for that, for the entirety of the church and the world, I thank you." The priest said, over the podium. A few minutes later when the speech was over, the priest, along with Joe, the assistant, walked up to Logan and his team to congratulate them, "That sure was something last night," Nots said, "Yes, it certainly was, it made me think a bit about how our world really was back then..." the priest said, lost in thought. Joe patted his friend on the back, "Hey, don't worry about it Ryan, it's over, and we have these brave kids to thank." "Oh that is right, how can we ever repay you?" Ryan asked Logan, "Hey, just the fact that you're alive is enough for us." Logan replied, happily. "Well, if we ever have an actual demon encounter like that again, i'm sure I know who to call." Ryan said, he then walked away with his friend, "So, what do you think will become of Angel?" Kayylah asked, Logan thought for a bit and replied, "Not sure, maybe he'll try to fight whatever possessed him, maybe he'll accept it, let's just be glad it's over."

Meanwhile, in a strange dimension beyond Earth, Capernicus had found his hooded master, "And where exactly have you been?" The Hooded Wonder asked, "I am sorry master, the 'cult' begged for me again, but this time i got a body, and one that is worthy to me." Capernicus explained what had happened while he was on Earth, The Hooded Wonder slammed his foot down in anger, "CURSE THAT CHILD, HE'S THE VERY REASON I'M STUCK HERE AGAIN!" "What do you want to do master?" Capernicus said, the Hooded Wonder looked at his surroundings, and said, "we are going to find a way back, and when we do, I will make that little punk wish he'd never met me."