[H-RP] Orcs of the Red Blade – Twenty Years Later

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Ask and you shall receive! Also, 1001st post, whoop!

Kraag’s Ode to Cactus Apples

In a desert land, where the sun beats down,
There lived a cactus, in a prickly crown.
With thorns so sharp, it stood tall and green,
Bearing fruit so tempting, a cactus apple serene.

Oh, the cactus apple, a sight to behold,
But beware, my friend, for its story unfolds.
It’s a fruit that’s tasty, but it comes with a twist,
Chew it wrong, and you might just choke, I insist!

A traveler wandered, parched and dry,
Spotting the cactus apple, he let out a cry.
He reached out eagerly, with hunger in his eyes,
Not knowing the danger that within it lies.

Oh, the cactus apple, a sight to behold,
But beware, my friend, for its story unfolds.
It’s a fruit that’s tasty, but it comes with a twist,
Chew it wrong, and you might just choke, I insist!

He took a bite, with careless delight,
The flavor was sweet, a heavenly bite.
But the seeds inside, oh, they caught him off guard,
His throat closed up, and it hit him hard!

Oh, the cactus apple, a sight to behold,
But beware, my friend, for its story unfolds.
It’s a fruit that’s tasty, but it comes with a twist,
Chew it wrong, and you might just choke, I insist!

He danced and he hopped, trying to dislodge,
That stubborn seed, like a vengeful dodge.
With watering eyes and a face turning red,
He regretted his greed, as he gasped for breath.

Oh, the cactus apple, a sight to behold,
But beware, my friend, for its story unfolds.
It’s a fruit that’s tasty, but it comes with a twist,
Chew it wrong, and you might just choke, I insist!

So remember, dear friends, when you spot that fruit,
Take small bites, don’t rush, no need to dispute.
The cactus apple’s charm can be a bit deceiving,
But with caution and care, enjoy its flavor worth believing!

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While the clan has been moving from one social gathering to another, tonight was a good time to set up camp and review all that’s been happening of late and, better yet, what’s yet to come! But the present is now, and now we celebrate Eliff Watersong’s taking of the oath at the Clan Meeting!

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For the blood of the clan! :grin:

Our first clanmeeting in a while, it was very nice! ^^

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Last night the Red Blades fought at the latest Pit event, with Rashka and Bamm each advancing but striking out before the finals, and Elcak… not getting a single shot in.

Great fun as always, and we’ll be sure to come along to the grand tournament in 1-2 weeks time!

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After a little break that allowed us to recharge our creative batteries, it’s time for our next big adventure! Introducing Chrono Clash, where I daresay we’ll get to play out some of our craziest ideas yet!

Elcak put together a little teaser trailer to give a taste of what’s to come below!

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Really looking forward to this campaign! A great chance for OotRB to start engaging with Dragonflight-era content and who knows where that will lead us?

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green is best.

Grip sends his regards aswell, old timers.

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Tonight the orcs underwent a Skull Hunt hosted by Elcak, who shared an old Laughing Skull custom with the Red Blades.

Our two rival teams scoured the Barrens and Durotar using their skill, wits and cunning to hunt down a list of rare ingredients and make it back to the Crossroads first!

Teamwork and strategy were essential to come out on top - just don’t mention “clam meat” to the losing team, you’ll give them traumatic flashbacks.

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Chrono Clash, part 1: The Barrens Anomaly

In a land of golden plains and warm winds, the orcs of the Red Blade Clan gathered for a cherished ritual known as the Summer’s End Communion. The spirits of their ancestors smiled upon them as Bashul Starsong and Eliff Watersong invoked their blessings, intertwining the clan’s fate with that of the land.

With the spirits’ guidance, the orcs embarked on a timeless pursuit, tracking the elusive kodo herds that roamed the vast Barrens plains. Their determination was unwavering, a testament to the ancient traditions that bound them to the world around them.

As the sun painted the sky with hues of orange and red, the orcs encircled the kodo herd they had tirelessly followed. Their movements were calculated, their unity evident as they prepared to bring down their formidable prey. The clan’s strength was a symphony of purpose, a dance of survival.

Yet, as the hunt began, reality itself seemed to falter. Temporal disturbances, like ripples in the fabric of time, cast a mysterious veil over the plains. Kodos flickered in and out of existence, caught in moments of temporal uncertainty. Some surged forward with unnatural speed, while others languished in a surreal slow-motion dance.

The orcs were not immune to these disturbances. Time played tricks on them too, shifting the battlefield in unpredictable ways. But the bond between them was unbreakable. They united against the anomalies, adapting and strategizing with unyielding resolve. Their strength, wisdom, and cunning merged into a force that defied the very laws of reality.

In the heart of this temporal chaos, a revelation emerged. An unstable time rift stood as the source of the disturbances. The orcs rallied, attempting to mend the fabric of time with magic and might. But the rift proved unyielding, resisting their efforts despite their mastery over arcane and shadow alike.

Undaunted, the orcs determined that a deeper investigation was needed. With a blend of pragmatism and mysticism, they enclosed the rift in a protective barrier. Warding magic mingled with raw orcish ingenuity as they erected a hidden cave around the enigmatic anomaly.

As the sun set on this extraordinary hunt, the orcs stood united, resolute in their commitment to uncover the truth. The coming week would be a time of exploration, of pushing the boundaries of understandingas they were given the task of investigating this strange phenomenon by any means necessary.

As the days unfold, the orcs will undoubtedly delve into the heart of the temporal mystery, seeking answers amidst the weave of time itself…

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Blessing for the Hunt
Amidst ancestral echoes, the clan converges in reverence, their spirits aligning with the land’s ancient pulse.

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Tracking Across the Barrens
Footprints in the dust tell stories of pursuit as the clan follows the path of the wild, their steps echoing a primal harmony.

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Hunting the Kodo Herd
Unity in motion, the clan encircles their quarry with primal elegance, converging as a force of nature in the heart of the hunt.

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Chrono Clash, part 2: Cold Black Heart

As the Red Blade Clan returned to gather around the mysterious time rift, the orcs made a fateful choice to step through its shimmering portal. Despite previous investigations yielding little, they embarked on a perilous journey, seeking answers beyond.

What awaited them on the other side was a world where the Scourge reigned supreme. The once vibrant Barrens had become a frozen wasteland, while the great city of Orgrimmar had transformed into a grim necropolis. Amidst a sea of undead, Chieftain Kozgugore Feraleye stood as seemingly the last surviving member of the Red Blade Clan in this bleak timeline, tormented by madness and despair.

Kozgugore, plagued by despair and madness, led the orcs on a perilous journey to the necropolis of Orgrimmar, where the mysterious Soulforge awaited them. The Soulforge, a powerful machine containing the souls captured by the Scourge, held the key to restoring the timeline. Their path led them to a chamber adorned with eerie green light, where a complex pattern of runic stones guarded the entrance to the Soulforge. To open the gateway, the orcs had to arrange these stones in the chronological order of the Scourge’s plagues, triggering a magical reaction.

The climax of their journey arrived when they faced the Warden of Lost Souls, a massive spectral sentinel guarding the Soulforge. The Warden, a twisted amalgamation of trapped souls, engaged them in combat, battling the orcs with haunting abilities and summoning undead shades of their reflections from this forlorn timeline.

Through collective effort, the orcs weakened the Warden’s spectral form, and their determination culminated in a climactic strike that shattered the chains binding the Warden to the Soulforge. A burst of ethereal light heralded the release of trapped souls, and the timeline began to mend. Undead forces crumbled, and sunlight pierced the clouds as hope returned to the once-dying land.

With gratitude in his eyes, Kozgugore thanked the Red Blade Clan as they were returned to their own reality through the closing time rift. Yet, this expedition left them with more questions than answers, realizing that the rift had changed, its energies transformed. Though wounded, they resolved to recuperate and investigate the rift once more, driven by the mysteries it held.

However, their time-travel adventure left them with more questions than answers. They noted a change in the rift’s energies, prompting a decision to investigate it further after they had recuperated. The mysteries of time and alternate realities still beckoned, promising more adventures and challenges ahead…

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Journey into Desolation
Orcs arrive in a desolate Barrens turned frozen wasteland, a chilling testament to the Scourge’s triumph.

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A Lone Survivor’s Despair
Amidst undead hordes, a forlorn Kozgugore stands as the last remnant of his clan in a world of despair.

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Spectral Confrontation
The Red Blade Clan faces the eerie Warden of Lost Souls, the formidable guardian of the Soulforge.

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Why is it that when looking for answers we only find more questions? :rofl:

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I had a lot of fun last night, it’s good to be back!

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Would’ve been nice NOT to have almost died. Rngesus got me there.
But I had a blast <3
Feels good to be back with OotRB shenanigans!

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Chrono Clash, part 3: The Forever War

One week after their perilous journey to a Scourge-dominated version of the Barrens, the Red Blade Clan had licked their wounds and steeled themselves for their next trip into the time rift. Their ongoing quest was to look for answers on how to close the temporal anomaly before it caused further chaos in their own reality.

Stepping through the portal once more, the orcs emerged in a strange version of Orgrimmar where legions of soldiers in blood-red warpaint marched through portals to a dozen warfronts across Azeroth. The interlopers were mistaken for that reality’s Red Blade Regiment by a gruff drill sergeant and given new orders to meet with their Regiment’s Liaison Officer for a top-secret briefing.

Walking through a toxic war-torn version of Durotar, the orcs then met Sadok Sharptongue, a deceased High Blade of the Clan still alive in this reality as an overworked pencil-pusher. The orcs were unable to keep their pretence up and confided in Sadok that they were from another timeline.

Sharptongue explained that in this world, the Horde and Alliance had been at war for 40 interrupted years - the radicalised factions now known as the Great Glorious Alliance and Blood Horde had destroyed much of Azeroth in the course of their conflict. This world’s Red Blades were a ruthless and bloodthirsty warband who had lost Kozgugore’s moderating influence years ago.

Their mission tonight? Blood Horde spies had uncovered a top-secret experimental weapons research facility on an island near Dustwallow, and the Red Blades were charged with infiltrating the base and gaining vital intelligence. The orcs took a stop-start wyvern flight down the coast, their beasts straining to breathe in the toxic smog and coming under attack from Great Glorious Alliance dreadnoughts.

Eventually the Red Blades made it to the base - dividing into two groups under an invisibility spell, they took out the shield generator protecting the facility and the fabrication unit replicating masses of swarm-bots. With the facility’s defences weakened, the orcs then assaulted the central complex and took out its defenders, including an alternate version of Bamm’s robotic wolf Boomer and a gnomish mad scientist.

They eventually uncovered what the Great Glorious Alliance had been working on - Project Victory, a terrifying super-weapon powered by the hate-filled life-force of sacrificed soldiers and with the destructive capability of leveling whole cities. The intent was to force the Blood Horde to surrender or be annihilated, but instead the Red Blades were able to gather vital research and sabotage the prototype to implode and destroy the facility.

Escaping the implosion with seconds to spare, Sadok admitted that the Great Glorious Alliance would build more of these super-weapons but if the Blood Horde could use the stolen research to engineer their own, the conflict could stabilise. With both sides unable to use their weapons without a counter-strike bringing about mutually assured destruction, there was now the faintest glimmer of hope that the Forever War could one day be ended. Sadok vowed that the Red Blades would be a force for bringing about this change.

Their mission achieved, the orcs were surrounded by temporal energy and transported back to their own reality - the rift still open but seemingly sated for now. The Red Blades are starting to understand that their task is to leave these unstable realities in a better place, but how many more strange worlds will they need to visit before the time rift is closed for good?

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An Unexpected Reunion
Orcs encounter an alternate Sadok Sharptongue, once a revered figure, now a bureaucratic liaison for the Blood Horde.

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Wyverns of the Blood Horde
Mounted and ready, the Red Blade Clan prepares to soar on wyverns towards a top-secret weapon facility.

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Betrayal in the Shadows
The orcs confront the Great Glorious Boomer, once an ally but now a formidable foe in this twisted timeline’s Alliance.

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Was great to be involved in DMing an event again - even working through the unexpected stuff like losing almost half of our wyverns to bad rolls. Whoops!

We’re already half-way through the latest campaign, where has the time gone? (No pun intended.)

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The timeywimey rift we found a little while ago seems to be losing some juice!!
How much longer will it remain open? :eyes:

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Something something Lok-tar ogar! Can’t post on the character I was on (because forum derp, of course) but ran into the group at the Crossroads on my Mag’har. Great evening, and the first time back in RP for me in months.

10/10, would banter and drink again :smiley:

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Lok’tar Ogar!
Great to hear that you had a good time! I hope you find more awesome RP!
For your mag’har, there is more events you can join in on! Tonight there is a Horde Weekend Gathering in Razor Hill, between the 21st and the 24th there’s a Kosh’harg in Razor Hill as well! Aaand, after that there is another Kosh’harg happening in Garadar, Nagrand!
So plenty of RP if you’d feel like it! I hope we’ll see more of you!

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Ooh, didn’t know about Razor Hill, I’ll be there (well, Shuzda will be! :grin: )

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We’re currently in Razor Hill doing, oh… nothing much. Just the Kosh’harg!! :man_dancing:

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