1st Wave | [Video]

[unteachableapprentice]

[So here's a warmage. He woke up in a bed with a letter telling him the world was destroyed.

Obviously the first thing to do (after raiding the chest of course) is to use that suspicous looking terminal that may or may not be booby trapped.

What you will see is a strange armor-clad guy standing in front of the camera with a glowing crossbow slung across his back.]

So, I'm stuck in this dump, right? And the world is destroyed or something. Man, I worked so hard to prevent that. If it ain't orcs it's another world-destroying calamity.

Eh, stuff happens.

So is anyone going to fill me in on what this place is?

[pokes the camera a bit]

Is this thing even on? Doesn't look very reliable.

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[papshooshing]

IT'S A PLACE WHERE ALL YOUR HOPS AND FUCKING DREAMS ARE CRUSHED
ALONG WITH YOUR BODY.
IT'S A NEVER ENDING CYCLE OF DEATH AND REBIRTH AND PUTTING UP WITH THE MOST RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS OF SHIT.

[unteachableapprentice]

...so basically just another day of my awesome job. Except for the whole 'dreams crushed' part.

Gotcha, horned man.

[papshooshing]

[ welp. on goes video. ]

You'll get used to it.

[unteachableapprentice]

I actually think I will. Actually seems like a nice change of pace. I never thought orc killing back at home could get boring. Mostly because I had to hang back and let the new guys learn though.

[papshooshing]

Hahaha. Nice change of pace. Yeah, like that will last long.

[unteachableapprentice]

Waaaaait, isn't this just a happy gathering of people who's 'rescued' from their worlds?

[Yes, he missed that part of the memo.]

[papshooshing]

We're lab rats, genius.

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[unteachableapprentice]

Lab rats?

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[unteachableapprentice]

Wait, what did you say?

[papshooshing]

Oh, the realization. This should be fun to watch.

[unteachableapprentice]

Woah woah woah. So I've gone from the most awesome War Mage of the Order to some kind of guinea pig for people to experiment on? Man, this sucks.

[papshooshing]

Welcome to the Tower.

[unteachableapprentice]

[Okay, calm down. CALM. DOWN.

Well, exactly what experiments should I be looking at?

[papshooshing]

Just about anything your feeble mind can come up with and the rest are so far beyond your grasp of reality that it will shake your very core?

[unteachableapprentice]

Yeah, okay, that doesn't sound fun at all. I'm guessing no one found a way out?

[nightfowl]

Pardner, I've been here for five years and I still think our worlds being destroyed is a load of bullshit. Call it a hunch. That was too good of a gamble to win to just lose it all immediately after. It's not often you can save the world and get the girl, too. Fought too hard to believe that all just went up in smoke.

Either way, this place is home now. Better get used to it, reckon it's going to take awhile before we figure this one out. Not all bad though, most of the fellas you'll run into here are good people. No shortage of beautiful women here, either.

[unteachableapprentice]

Five years and still not a single way out? Man. Well, that means that I can be the one to find it then.

And you wouldn't believe it, I saved the world twice. That, and managed to remake an entire order with the crazy lady who keeps doing her sexy pouting thing. And now I'm here.

Some strange people here, though. Never thought I'll see someone with horns on their heads who weren't bent on killing people. Or speaking in more than two sentences, for that matter.

[nightfowl]

I can already tell we're going to get along, pardner. I ain't giving up the ghost. Finding a way out of here is a risky gamble, but that's never bothered me any. Daredevil gambits are kind of my thing. The payout's always worth it, especially for me in this case. I got an Endless Frontier and a princess with a killer rack waiting for me.

Name's Browning. Haken Browning. Bounty hunter and captain of the Zeit Krokodil. Well, guess the latter means nothing without the ship itself, but I've still got a crew.

Oni aren't exactly bad folk once you get to know them. Trolls are the same, for the most part. Woudln't look either of them in the eye wrong though.

[unteachableapprentice]

And I have...uh, I guess an organization to head back home.

I actually haven't got a name, really. I was supposed to get a name when I finished my apprenticeship. Guess I was too awesome to. Guess you could just call me Warmage.

As long as they aren't out for my blood, I'm cool with them.

[nightfowl]

Family's Family, no matter what you want to call it, pardner.

Sounds like a good a name as any, WM.

People got bigger things to worry about here than being out for each other's blood, I reckon.

[unteachableapprentice]

Family... actually never thought of them as that. Guess it does make sense though, have to teach everyone how to work and all that.

I guess you're talking about the whole experiment thing? Horned head didn't really go into much detail.

[nightfowl]

I've always considered my crew as my family. Considering none of my bonds are by blood, they're still strong as hell. I attest that to the stuff we've gone through.

Yeah, between those experiments here and the monsters, there's not much room for infighting. The administration here likes to mess with us from time to time, getting us all sick and crazy, to who knows what. The amount of power and control they have is crazy. They don't call them the administration for nothin'.

[unteachableapprentice]

I guess me and the crazy lady got off a bad start. I stopped her plans of ruling the world once, after all. Had to help each other defend it afterwards though so it's cool. Chances to bond like that don't come too often.

Monsters? Guess it'll still be fun here. Especially since I still have my crossbow and bladestaff here. Can't let myself get too rusty.

So what, they just do whatever they want to us for fun? Man, that doesn't sound cool at all.