EPIC OF FATES: STORY OF STORIES

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EPIC OF FATES: STORY OF STORIES

 

TRYING TO KEEP IT SIMPLER THIS TIME

 

NOTE: THIS STORY IS BASED ON FUTURE POSSIBLE VERSIONS OF KNOWN GAMES AND SO THERE WERE BE SOME CHANGES BUT MUCH WILL BE THE SAME INCLUDING QUESTS, CHARACTERS, CREATURES ETC.

 

 

All Wheels of Fate Games

Story of Stories, One Story At A Time

Story #1: Of Lucky Eddie and the Whirla of Fate

 

 

SPECIAL NOTES TO BE ADDED/EDITED HERE

HAVE REDONE, IMPROVED THE VERY FIRST CHAPTER IF ANYBODY IS INTERESTED IN TAKING A LOOK AT IT.

Edited August 18, 2012 by Maharg67

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NOTES A TO Z

Will be edited and spread out through new posts as epic continues.

 

Notes A to Z

Will be edited and spread out through new posts as epic continues.

 

ALDMER: The original Mer People (Canon).

 

ASHELASHAE:

 

CARNANOID: Reptilian humanoids, large and powerful, daedra (New).

 

CARTHRIDA: Elder man of the Empire, Wizard, Mages Guild.

 

CLANNFEAR: Daedric creatures serving the Daedric Prince Mehrunes Dagon (Canon).

 

FATEGAME:

 

FATEGAMECREDIT:

 

FATEGAME-POINT:

 

KILLOGIC DAGON: Grand Daedra, Daedric Prince, brother of Mehrunes Dagon (New).

 

LEVAVALKIRUNA: Aldmer Cavecity

 

LUCKY EDDIE: Central Character

 

MATRINA: Elder woman of the Empire, Priestess.

 

MEHRUNES DAGON: Grand Daedra, Daedric Prince, brother of Killogic Dagon (Canon).

 

NIRN:

 

RAYMAR: Servant people of the Aldmer being human, Mer, other hybrids.

 

SARISHA: Soldier scholar

 

TERRA:

 

WHEEL OF FATE:

 

WHIRLA OF FATE:

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Edited August 18, 2012 by Maharg67

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0001: Of Lucky Eddie and the Whirla of Fate #1

 

Lucky Eddie picked up the small box that he had gotten in the mail. It had come in a standard postal box but the black cube shaped box, black with golden patterning, was far from standard. He sat on his bed, booted feet on the floor, wearing jeans and a Tshirt with Betty Boop and some other female toon characters on the front along with a puppy, a cat and a parrot. All the females had slimly voluptuous figures, as natural for such cartoons, and not much clothing on. Lucky Eddie was lightly dusky white of skin color, being partly Aboriginal, His skin was also influence, in appearance, by his being a metahuman; it was just a little too smooth to be normal human substance.

 

His bedroom was fair sized, was fairly well furnished, fitted and decorated. As a cadet he did not have to live in barracks except out in operational zones or in special training. That he had done excellently in both the Academy, and out in the field, had helped to make the bedroom an even nicer place to spend time. He was elite of elite and was treated as such.

 

Outside there was the sound of construction as a new apartment pyramid was being built across the way. With the World Crisis growing steadily worse the elites were busy creating fortified domecities for themselves to keep out the masses while they survived. That would also be part of the Academy that he attended. The domecities were expanding for the elites, and those who served them, as were the space colonies; in contrast the vast majority of humanity were being abandoned to ever worsening conditions with the exception of an ever decreasing supply of aid.

 

Lucky Eddie hated what was happening but he was not sure what he could do about it. This was largely due to the program-conditioning inserted into his mind even as he went through the agonizing metahumanization process. It was a process that not all survived and, if they did, they did not do so as able bodies and-or able minded individuals. There was also the extremely careful way that he was monitored, kept control of in many ways and the microbombs inserted in brain and in his heart, along with another hidden somewhere else vital. The CyberNexus Corporation did not trust anybody so not trusting the metahumans was just normal for them. The world had always seemed to be at least a little paranoid but if anything it was getting far worse.

 

So he focused on the ring. It seemed the safest thing to do. Security was heavy in the domecities and was getting worse as the elites became increasingly paranoid about their power, their very safety. Surely he would not have gained the ring with out the corporate security people checking it over carefully and what about other security forces, networks, out there in the world. Everything that was posted was at least triple checked at every point. So Lucky Eddie figured that the corporation must know he had the ring and that thus it was okay for him to check it out.

 

Lucky Eddie was narrow in his thinking because of his program-conditioning, his training and his teaching. He could not help being thus at the time.

 

*********

 

He opened the box and felt an odd tingle go through his body. There it was, a black golden ring. It was a black band with a small black disk on the front and on the disk was a golden emblem. On impulse, going past his normally very cautious nature, the slimly muscular young picked up the ring with his right hand. It vanished with a sparkling shimmer and suddenly he had such a ring on each middle finger.

 

A strange sparkling, tingling went through his body and he fell backwards onto his bed and was soon slipping into warm, comforting darkness.

 

He awoke as a phantom of himself, translucent looking to himself but invisible to others. He was naked and lay on hard, dark rocky ground. He could feel the ground, the air, the cold but in a muffled sense as if his strange 'ghostly' state kept him removed from such. As he sat up he was to be glad of this for he was in an open sided cave and outside was snow. The air was freezing, somehow he knew this though he could feel it only in a dull fashion.

 

The chamber was large and there was, at the back of it, a doorway to a tunnel that led back into the mountain. Outside was a great ledge and mountain tops, clouds, and the air was quite thin. Then he saw it and he was surprised. There was a black square melded into one wall and, in its centre, the same strange golden wheel symbol that was on the front of both of his rings.

 

The voice spoke deep in his mind, warm and supportive, female but not quite human.

 

=- The Wheel of Fate! Welcome to your new destiny oh Chosen Player of Fate.

 

Wheel of Fate? Chosen Player of Fate? He was not sure he liked any of this. He wondered how he was going to get home. He did have to go to the Cybertech Academy Courses. They were pretty strict there and very harsh on those who missed lessons. He had lived there since he was three when his parents had sold him to the CyberNexus Corporation for $100,000 International Dollars.

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0002: Of Lucky Eddie and the Whirla of Fate #2

 

He made his way across the cave, realizing that he could see in the dark though in a greyish fashion with less color clarity and distance vision. There were stalagmites and stalactites, boulders but the cave chamber was, in general, oddly even and clear. Then he stopped in surprise for there was a black statue, huge and impressive, of a seminaked woman in a toga, her left breast being bare, who was holding a round shield in her left hand and a big, long sword in her right. The golden wheel emblem was on the shield.

 

The tunnel mouth, and tunnel, were now proven to be quite large and the tunnel was slanted downwards, gently, to vanish out of sight in the distance.

 

The group of humans were miserable, very cold and hunkered together to try to get warmer. There was a grizzled old man with a beard and strange thick glasses, three young women and two young men along with a mature woman in a thick hooded robe. They had some weapons, tough outdoor clothes including leather body-armor, some tools, backpacks but it seemed they lacked some important resources.

 

There was something about those humans that was oddly familiar to Lucky Eddie.

 

A young woman, with red brown skin, spoke in a language that was known, yet unknown, to Lucky Eddie.

 

“At least we found strong evidence that the Wheel of Fate exists in reality as much as it does in stories.” She shivered and took out a hand made notebook, opened up a page to show very small writing done to save space. “The Wheel of Fate Symbol here is much simpler than that of the Wheel of Fate Cult in Skyrim.”

 

Skyrim? A province of the super continent of Tamriel.

 

Another young woman, white of skin but lightly tanned, frowned. “I have enough magicka to throw another warmth spell.”

 

The grizzled old man smiled. “You couldn't magic up some hot cofii for us, could you, Tafna?”

 

Cofii was a coffee like drink that was actually made with cofii tea leaves. It was uncommon in most of Tamriel, unknown in a few places, but it was spreading and becoming steadily more popular.

 

The grizzled old man was an Imperial with pale white skin and large dark eyes.

 

Tafna sighed. “Father, I might manage to do so but it would vanish away soon after we drank it, even if we managed to do so fast enough. I suspect my magicka is better spent on other things.”

 

The old man sighed. “I was foolish to drag you up here. Those abominable snowmen took even me by surprise and I am supposed to be a powerful wizard as well as a sage of much renown. So big, so powerful and yet so damned fast.”

 

Lucky Eddie found himself becoming concerned for these people who seemed to come from a big online game known as Tamriel Ventures. It was vast, it was popular and it was used with super virtual reality avatars. It had the main 'factions' and one of those was the Divine Empire that was most often just called 'the Empire'.

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0003: Of Lucky Eddie and the Whirla of Fate #3

 

Lucky Eddie wished that he could help them.

 

=- You can but it would mean you revealing that you are here. You can remain phantom like but of course they will wonder where the items came from. You will know the list of items in your mind and how much fategamecredit each costs. You have 1,000 fategamecredit.

 

It was an odd list of items but they made sense in context of a realm like Tamriel where there was magical, fantasy quasimedieval reality. As a super virtual reality avatar he had gone up into snowy, icy areas and had fought against hostile trolls, ogres and even yetties (abominable snowmen) once. The yetties had been very hard to fight and in the end he had got away by bribing them.

 

Yes, he knew what to do though not how it worked. He examined the list of items in his mind and then focused and willed for 'it' to happen.

 

With a soft sparkling shimmer there appeared, out of mid air, carry-sacks of food rations, waterbags full of water, a stack of blankets, small lidboxes each with four vials of concentrated healing serum, a large coil of thin, strong rope, three folded up tents with extras, three small lamps, lamp-oil in special metal bottles, some rolls of white bandages, a couple of survival knives in sheaves, a tinder-box, a bag of special burning torches, a bag of oiled wooden f@&!ts, a small ream of parchment sheets, two boxed writing kits with quills and ink, an axe plus a set of basic camp cooking utensils.

 

The list had some odd gaps and some odd items in it.

 

=- You can add items to the list but this can be expensive in terms of fategamecredit. You just spent over 200fgc (fategamecredit).

 

The group were surprised, natural, some being more so than others. The older woman just smiled and nodded a little. The grizzled old man grinned a little and shook his head. He turned to the woman. “Matrina, what do the divine spirits tell you about this?”

 

She sighed. “Foolish old man! I 'sense' that the items are given freely and that they are safe to use. We have a friend close to us, both here but not here. He is wary of us. Yes, it is a 'he' and I suspect that he is human.”

 

LE Not human, metahuman!

 

=- I doubt that this woman, Matrina, knows that metahumans even exist.

 

The others seemed to trust Matrina enough to take her word for the items being safe. They went to the mound of stuff, read the picture-symbols on it that were used through out much of Tamriel for trade and aid, then began to use things most efficiently.

 

Soon they had a fire going, were heating up rations, were sipping mugs of lightly hot cofii and had blankets wrapped around themselves. They huddled less together than before, clearly preferring some bigger social distance between them, or so did many of the group.

 

Then he realized he was getting hungry and thirsty. He wished to return to the CyberNexus Academy, even though he hated it, for trouble would occur if they found him missing and the authorities might take it out on other students.

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Edited August 18, 2012 by Maharg67

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0004: Of Lucky Eddie and the Whirla of Fate #4

 

=- You can choose to be visible and face these humans but it costs a good deal of fategame energy, that is fategamecredit also, to go back into a phantomic state. This happens automatically if you teleport, or are teleported, for safety security reasons.

 

So he became visibly solid, standing there naked except for the black gold ring on each middle finger. He did so with a sparkling shimmer so the whole group turned to look at his quite tall, slimly muscular body. CyberNexus Academy did not go much for modesty as he often showered with female students and even tutors sometimes. Modesty was considered a weakness amongst metahuman operatives as he had learned on field exercises, both super virtual reality and real reality. So it surprised him when his nudity seemed to effect many of those there, but not all.

 

Matrina stood slowly, gracefully, almost as one movement. Then she bowed to him from the waist, briefly. “I am Priestess Matrina of the Order of the Nine Divines. You are?”

 

He gave a mild grin but did not smile. “Lucky Eddie, sometimes known as Lucky Eddie, come from another world by means unknown to me. Still working things out. Cold here! Still, not too cold! See you liked the gifts. Perhaps you could share some of that cofii with me. Tears of blood, I am in need of something hot inside and I don't mean something rude like. Shake a leg, I am hungry and thirsty. Could do with going home but got the sense of it that it's not going to happen just yet.”

 

A young soldier type, a red-brown man, scowled. “You are indecent and in front of a much beloved and respected priestess. Use some of your strange magic to make yourself modest or I will bring you to task.”

 

Lucky Eddie grinned at the soldier. “Indecent? Nobody has called me indecent! People have called me lots of things but not that.” He sighed and, with a sparkling shimmer he was dressed with a basic, tough outfit of clothes as from the list and tough, basic boots. “That better, oh fierce one? Got ya all hot under the collar there, did I? Hmmph, hmmph!” He turned to the older woman. “Better he do nothing and I do not snap his neck.”

 

Matrina sighed and spoke to the soldier. “He could kill you in seconds, Barrata. Keep your cool and please remember to not automatically judge others by your standards. Lucky Eddie clearly comes from another world.”

 

Lucky Eddie nodded. “The Earth, sometimes known as Terra or Sol-3. This is the world of Nirn, the supercontinent of Tamriel and the Imperial Province of Cyrodiil. Who is the Emperor?”

 

“Emperor Uriel Septum VII!” Another soldier responded. “A greatly wise leader who is said to possess the Third Eye.”

 

Lucky Eddie sighed. “Then I suppose he has not been assassinated yet.”

 

Barrata, the young soldier, sprang to his feet and drew out a strangely glittering longsword, a weapon of ordered arcane magic. “What treachery do you speak of? Do you know of a plot against the Emperor's life? Are you an enemy of the Emperor, of the Empire?”

 

Lucky Eddie grinned at Barrata. “You really do get over excited, don't you?”

 

Barrata scowled and approached Lucky Eddie with his drawn longsword.

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0005: Of Lucky Eddie and the Whirla of Fate #5

 

“Enough!” The grizzled old man leaped to his feet with impressive agility and strength. “Barrata, you are being a fool, yet again. You almost got us killed by those yetties when you struck out against them with out orders. What is the matter with you?”

 

=- My sensors are picking up a very light residue of daedric magic around Barrata the soldier.

 

Lucky Eddie grinned. “I know something about you Barrata, you naughty boy, that maybe the others do not know. Who is not what he seems or who he seems? Why it is Barrata of the Mythic Dawn.”

 

Barrata looked stunned for a moment and thus he was exposed by his own reaction as much as he was by Lucky Eddie's words. He glared at the others in the group. “We have been isolated from the Empire for months now and by now the pagan Emperor will be dead, the Empire in chaos and Oblivion Gates will be open across Cyrodiil to release the glorious hordes of daedra upon the enemies of Mehrunes Dagon. You will learn none of my secrets.”

 

Lucky Eddie snorted. “I doubt very much that you have any. Your just an expendable nobody, a weak little string puppet and here come the scissors.”

 

Barrata shouted in rage and charged at Lucky Eddie. With a flicker of motion, the metahuman was suddenly behind Barrata and striking into his neck. The Mythic Dawn Follower crumpled forward, unconscious, but Lucky Eddie grabbed him and held him easily, as if Barrata was but a child.

 

Matrina spoke. “We knew he was a Mythic Dawn Follower and was trying to lead us to somewhere up here. We wanted to know just where he wanted us to be.”

 

“Sneaky of you!” Lucky Eddie grinned mildly. “Trouble is I think there are others of his kind not too far from us. I 'sense' daedric magic being used.” He lowered the unconscious man to the floor, flipped him over with out any effort and began to check over his body. “Has to be here somewhere.”

 

=- I will assist with my sensors and closer range scanners. You will know what I know.

 

The other young man, another soldier, came up as did the two young women soldiers and the young woman mage. The grizzled old man frowned, now clutching a metal capped mage's staff imbued with ordered arcane magic. Ordered arcane magic was not to be confused with wild or dark or other kinds of arcane magic. Ordered arcane magic was the magic of the Mages Guild since the new Archmage had began the reforms in the guild. Matrina was a priestess with divine magic as provided by the Nine Divines. Tafna, the young woman mage and daughter of the grizzled old mage, was also of ordered arcane magic.

 

Matrina spoke. “What are you looking for?”

 

“A powerful form of daedric magic that is more than just daedric magic.” His hand suddenly became translucent, ghostly, in appearance and he thrust into slowly into the spine of Barrata where it was close to the back of the neck. After a moment he drew his hand out but it was not empty. Instead it held a translucent, ghostly version of a creature like a leather skinned tadpole with tentacles springing both out of the head and tip of its tail. His hand became solid and so did the creature that wiggled crazily in his grip. “Strong little bugger. If I was not metahuman he would be giving me loads of trouble. This is a daedric spinal-worm, a kind of specialized daedra.”

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0006: Of Lucky Eddie and the Whirla of Fate #6

 

The grizzled old man spoke. “I am Wizard Cathidra of the Mages Guild, Sage of the Arcane University in the Imperial Grand City. Such as creature as you have there is in no list of daedra that I have ever seen?”

 

“Riratarg is the formal name of this rare kind of daedra.” Lucky Eddie shook his head. “Back when there were more than the Sixteen Daedric Princes there was a Grand Daedra who used these entities to help control followers and to keep track of them, to communicate with them. They can control somebody who is at least partly willingly to be a follower but not somebody who is opposed or who is powerful in magic of certain kinds or of psychic ability. That was the brother of Mehrunes Dagon, being one Killogic Dagon. I do not think you would know of him for he vanished thousands of years ago when he, and others like him, lost a great daedric civil war. The war took place in the Mythic Age when time passed differently than it does now on Nirn.”

 

Cathidra frowned. “I have read the small amounts of information of such retained in the Tome of Daedric Fragments. There is an ancient story of one Killogic Dagon and his strange daedra that helped him control followers. Only one copy of that book remains, as far as I know, and that is in the Arcane University Archival Library that very few are allowed to access.”

 

Matrina nodded. “A great resource of books that the Arcane University need must share with others but refuses to do so.”

 

Cathidra sighed. “Until the Archmage changes his mind, and the Mage Elder Council support him, that is how it will be. Is Barrata still loyal to the Mythic Dawn?”

 

Tafna, daughter to Cathidra, spoke. “So what is such a thing doing here now and inside a Mythic Dawn Follower of Mehrunes Dagon?”

 

Lucky Eddie shrugged. “Have no idea, no idea at all. Who have I not been introduced to?”

 

There was Tafna and, her father, Cathidra. There was Barrata who was unconscious. There was Matrina. Then there was the soldier scholar Yanimod and the soldier girl Sarisha along with the soldier boy Taricgal. They had been but part of a much larger group and had been separated from the others when the yetties attacked.

 

Except that Matrina was not certain they had actually been attacking. Lucky Eddie was able to confirm that the yetties had only been giving a challenge display to show that they were strong and that the intruders were trespassing in yeti territories.

 

“Good to bribe them with hot brewed cofii, dried fruit and mead.” Lucky Eddie grinned. “It is especially important to please the alpha matriarch. Yetties can use basic weapons and tools but nothing magical, which they do not like. Yetties know much about the isolated highlands and mountains that they inhabit. They also make excellent guides and, if pleased enough, pack carriers and bodyguards.”

 

Matrina sighed. “You grin, Lucky Eddie, but you never smile.”

 

Lucky Eddie gave her a puzzled look, feeling surprisingly disturbed at her observation. “We need to focus on immediate matters.” He held up the riratarg, spinal-worm, which was now quiet. “I will not kill the riratarg for they are not truly evil creatures. Not all daedra are evil, not even the Grand Daedra.”

 

Matrina gave him an odd smile which had Lucky Eddie feeling even more uneasy.