AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young woman, a wonderful beeing as never seen before.
Her name was Torizo; blessed with many talents, she brought joy to the ones around her.


One faithful day, she came across a young woman.


Said the young lady.

She asked. As friendly and generous Torizo was, she didn't need to think long, as the answer was clear


As time passed, Torizo and Tatzel became very close friends, sharing many moments: the pop flyin' ones, the silly ones, even the
sad ones. Nothing could tear them apart.

But one day...

It started like a normal day. Torizo came running towards Tatzel

She showed Tatzel a cute doll of a Boo.

She replied. But at the same time, she had a guilty conscience.

After a small time of thinking what she could do, an idea rised

Little did she knew that she was beeing watched and someone was reading her mind.

Later that evening, Tatzel appeared at Torizos house.

*knock knock*


Tatzel interrupted her.


Torizo was pop flyin'. She gladly took the invite and went back inside to change her clothes to a lovely dress.


As they wanted to set off, a loud voice could be heard.

A mysterious woman appeared.

Tatzel took a step ahead, guarding Torizo, and confronted the mysterious woman.


The woman walked over to Torizo.




Tatzel didn't like watching the scene. She had a little secret she never told her friend... so in order to keep it a
secret, Tatzel decided to stay calm and solve this problem like a gentleman, seeing as her friend was astonished by the vampire.

All the vampire did was laughing, and then continued to arouse Torizo.

Tatzel knew about the seductive aura vampires had around them, and she didn't wanted to leave her friend in danger, so in order
to rescue her, she decided to break the secret and show her true nature.


Tatzel changed into a werewolf, ready to lounge at the vampire. But before any harm could be done, Torizo interfered

She proposed a competition, since she didn't wanted any blood to be shed.
The vampire tried to keep enthralling her

But she failed.

Frustrated she flew away, but a different plan already rised in her mind...


Tatzel still hasn't moved.

Encouraged by her friend, she set off to find the jellyfish aswell.

But Starseed the vampire and Tatzel the werewolf shouldn't be the only ones competing for the accompany of Torizo, no...

Near the castle an ancient creature, a Bunyip, got swept away by the waterfall as it was thinking back on old times, a good friend it had.

Luckily it could grab the edge right before the water fell down. She then witnessed the scene which just took place

Torizos voice peeked her interest, and she took a closer look at her, and realised that she shared similarities to the Bunyips old friend

She wanted to go closer, but she feared that either Torizo or atleast Tatzel and Starseed would be frightened by her appearance. She believed that Torizo would be her lost friend, so she overcome her fears and lept down the waterfall, and headed south in search of the jellyfish.




The crimson phantom watched the scene and decided to partake in the competition.

Iconsting heard of the competition aswell, and was thinking of a way how he could win it.

He decided to test his new formula


Upon transforming into a hydra, he gained the neccessary capabilitys to partake.


Meanwhile on castle Crawfish...

Lord Crawfish heard of the competition and was enraged. The red jellyfish is a rare species and needs protection.


He decided to get on his way and stop the competitors.


While Lord Crawfish was on his way, Starseed summoned from the sea the great Albinopus.

As she was on her way back, she got confronted by Iconsting.

He offered an alliance to Starseed

Starseed seemed interested, as she could bring two precious creatures as a price to Torizo.

She asked.

Iconsting countered.


While Starseed and Iconsting were still arguing about the alliance, back in the sea Badmermanfish was attempting to catch the red jellyfish, but it was too elusive even for a skilled fisherman like him.

But his friend was nowhere to be found.

Unfortunately he forgot that he can't survive on land, and died on the attempt to safe the albinopus.


Starseed would agree with the alliance, but she had two proposals


She put a big paper bag over Iconstings many heads


Iconsting didn't complain about the bag, he wasn't exactly pleased with his appearance either. Plus, until he could get his other heads to behave and work with him, he wasn't capable of fighting.
So he followed Starseed to the ocean, where she was presumably going to release him and Matilda to go find the jellyfish.



Miles away, Peter catched with his sensitive dragon ears that there is a competition held over a sweet lady.

He leaped out of his cave and flew towards the vast sea.
Along the way, he passed by a strange beeing, who was no other then Squigzog. This skeletal beeing directly came from the castle, riding on his once noble steed.

Peter asked.

A perfect opportunity for Squigzog, as he was looking for a partner in this quest anyways. He thinking about the offer, and didn't see any harm in it

Peter answered all of them calmly, and Squigzog seemed to be pleased with him. He agreed to partner up with Peter, and they set off. But yet Squigzog couldn't help but to think of his steeds safety.

Meanwhile, in ye olde Sheffield, in Bill Nyes secret base, Bills butler told him about the latest happenings

Bill decided to join in on the competition, and look out for that monster who shares his appereance.


Albeit a little late, Robot arrived at the ball that the invitation listed.

He was very exited, as he would have the opportunity to dance with beautiful women. Upon entering, he heard of the competition beeing held
over lady Torizo.
Even more exited, he went over to the sea to search for the red jellyfish.
In his exitement he forgot that he was made out of ultra dense alloy, so he slowly started sinking. Probably because the water damaged some of his circuits, Robot had the strange idea to start dancing. This proved as a bad idea aswell, as he was facing to the surface now. Strangely, this attempt attracted fishes towards him

But suddenly the fishes turned into jellyfishes and started attacking the helpless Robot.

In a last attempt, he fired his Save our Robot beacon, in hope that someone would see it and help him.



One might think, with everyone left in search of the jellyfish, the castle would be empty. But this wasn't the case, it was still very lively.
An awkward zombie appeared near Torizo, introducing himself as Null.

He was thrown out of the castle by the guards.

In a corner, a skeleton named Zink was watching the crowd gathering around Torizo, but didn't find it worthwile enough to go see for himself what the noise was all about. Upon shuffeling his chair a bit, he hit something. He picked the creature up and realised it was a red jellyfish. He decided to keep it, but yet he had the strange idea to yell really loud, proposing to everyone that he had a jellyfish. Probably the loneliness of his undead existence made him longing for attention. After Zink kept yelling for quite a while, a guard told him to finally be quiet, but Zink refused to, so the guard threw him out of the ballroom with a fascinating throwing technique.

Unnoticed, atleast for the while, the guest Banana rolled across the floor, determined not to be stepped on. As he wanted to go towards the punch bowl, he was picked up by Torizo. As she peeled off his skin, he screamed in pain

Torizo halted, looked down at him and said

Angered, Banana agreed.

Banana casted his magic and granted her wish. Torizo was now a jellyfish wizard, with all the accessorys.

Yeili, a fine lady, came towards Torizo.


She found out about Torizos proposal, and she couldn't believe what she was hearing


Answered Torizo nonchalantly.

She sulked.

Chirped Torizo and ran off to get pencils and paper, forgetting in her happyness that she was still holding Banana, with two wishes left.
She managed to only get a few steps, as she was stopped by a young man sitting at a nearby table



Magus Epona offered Torizo to teach her all the tricks he learned ever since he was a child.

Suddenly, Epona was interrupted.

The crimson phantom was sticking out of Eponas hat. He found it more amusing to make fun of a magician then competing in the jellyfish hunt.

He snipped his hat away.

After ending this sentence, he offered the ladies tea and scones. Whilst asking this, he changed the phantoms dress.

Not quite amused, the phantom took a seat.



Meanwhile at the jellyfish sanctuary, the caretaker Water was pretty bored. It was a normal day, none of the competitors has arrived yet, and he didn't knew about it either.



Let's have a look what happened to Lord Crawfish...
He reached the jellyfish sanctuary and attempted to safe the jellyfish, but he couldn't find it, so he thought it had been kidnapped.

He revealed the sword from his staff, ready to find the fiend whoever captured the jellyfish, but he wasn't paying attention to his environment, so he found himself beeing strangled by a sea monster


Not too far away, in a cave in the cliffside, a creature was sleeping. It was a large dragon mutt, and guessing by it's physique it enjoys sleeping.
On top of his belly was lying a red jellyfish with a pretty ribbon.
The dragons name was Decker, who was enjoying himself in the hot spring he had dug for himself.

Suddenly, a loud shout echoed through the cave. He raced outside, and saw Lord Crawfish in the grasp of the sea monster. He flew towards him,
breathed fire at the monster which caused it to drop Lord Crawfish and it fainted. He catched him in midair and flew him back to the shore.
Crawfish was looking at Decker as he flew back to his cave, and saw the red jellyfish resting on it's back

As he was resting because of the mild paralysis enduced by the monsters tentacle, he was playing with the thought about capturing the red jellyfish.
But he came to the conclusion that it will be safe with the Decker, so he decided to test his new monster capturing device on the sea monster.



Back at castle Torizo, many new guests have arrived.
Under them were two gentlemen, one was Shaggy

The other one Avion. Shaggy seemed to be attending the ball for amusement, whereas Avion was interested in the jellyfish hunt. Avion thanked Torizo for the invite, and departed. He wasn't quite fond of who was attending the competition, but then a sinister idea rised in his mind. He grinned to himself, and left to report the happenings to his master.

Another guest was a strange lady. She was short in statue, her dress beeing in a soft green, and a complex painted porcelain mask covering her face. Those who tried looking into her eyes couldn't withstand her look
for very long. The lady was a very special guest, as it was the Queen of the Oracles, the Seeress who ruled over all of divination.


But there was also one more interesting guest, his name was Odds Christoph Genosi, the crownprince of the land Ennossin.

He told a heartwrenching story to Torizo and Yeili, that in fact he is a human under a curse of a witch, and only the facebattle of a purehearted maiden can break this spell.
Unfortunately the two ladies didn't take notice of the small prince, but the Magus Epona did. He bent down on the table and teased him

After he finished, he left behind an angered prince and summoned a cart, and asked Torizo to show him the court yards.
Mander came towards the scene, and offered help to the small prince.

He lifted him with his hand, and on the princes request, Mander threw him towards Epona, directly on his shoulder. As a revenge for Eponas insults, prince Genosi bit him in his ear

Epona screeched in pain, and as soon as Torizo mentioned the princes name, he stopped nibbling on the poor Magus' ear and hopped on the ladies hand.

He pleaded. Torizo decided to listen to his plea, and asked the whole audience to return to the inside again.
Still standing in their places, around the corner the simple fisherman Deiotheus was standing. Lady Torizo convinced him to go hunt for the jellyfish aswell, and he misstook the poor prince for the jellyfish.


He asked. Still hanging on his line, the prince replied


Asked Deiotheus the small prince.


I wonder, what happened to the werewolf who was so eager to protect her friend?
She was dashing over the bridge, trough the city, into the valley and to her cave in the mountains. On her way she heard that actually several more heard of the competition and are attempting to catch the red jellyfish. A vampire alone was bad enough, but she got worried even more who might be attending to harm her precious friend. She knew there
was only one possible way to succeed, she had to take on her old name as Blademane again.




As the sun rose in the sky, Lord Crawfish turned to stone, as he was a gargoyle

Crawfish's petrified body fell into the sea, positioned right next to the steambot. The appereance of Crawfish let the jellyfish flee.

Right next to him, Robot found a strange object, which was Crawfishs monster capturing device. Since the jellyfish didn't actually attack Robot, but repaired him, and as curious as he was, he touched it, releasing the mystical dragon Shenron in a flash of light. He thanked Robot for freeing him, and told him that he would grant him one wish in return. Robot wished for him and Lord Crawfish to be returned to the ball.



In a mysterious land Avion has returned to meet with his master. He explained to his master about the disturbing number of monsters at the party and his frothing disgust. The Paladin and his master decreed to use the hunt for the red jellyfish as an excuse to destroy the other contestants. Avion headed to the armory to prepare himself for the battles ahead...



After becoming free of Prince Genosi's desperate distraction, Epona was shocked at Lady Torizo's declaration to return to the castle.

Epona trapped her as she tried to escape, binding her legs with mystical rope.

He then revealed his plot to sacrifice Lady Torizo and siphon the energy of her pure heart to feed his power as a sorcerer.


Meanwhile, Lady Creeper is back in the castle designing a Jellyfish Wizard costume for Torizo. She may or may not be taking it seriously.


Prince Genosi made a desperate escape from Deiotheus' fishing line to save Lady Torizo. He ran towards Epona, crawled up under his trouser sleeve and started to bite him wherever he could

After several bitings, Epona managed to grasp the small prince, roping him up aswell and threw him to Torizo.


Suddenly Bill Nye crashes trough the roof of the balcony, since he can't control his flying machine properly.


If this wasn't enough of sudden appereances, Mander appeared out of Eponas hat


And then the mysterious Tuxedo Elf makes a grand appearance as well!



Somewhere in the sea, Peter and Squigzog traveled in search of the jellyfish. Squigzogs horse had a powerful spell cast on it, which allowed it to walk upon water, while Peter simply flew upon his leathery dragon wings. Peter suddenly dived into the water, sensing the abyss around him for any telltale signs that might aid their quest. Satisfied, he surfaced and they continued their journey.
As Peter and Squig continue their cross-ocean journey, Squig reveals his past as an adventurer who had aided one of Lady Torizo's ancestors.
Peter and Squigzog also find themselves back at the castle after a fruitless search for the jellyfish. They decide to ambush Epona by using a special stone that allows Peter to shapeshift for a short period of time.


Somewhere in the sea aswell, Starseed, Iconsting and Matilda where searching for the jellyfish. Suddenly Iconsting and Matilda behaved strange, and left the place.

Starseed formed a bat out of her cloak to fly after them and observe their actions, and she continued to search for the jellyfish by herself.


Lady Torizo uses her powers as a Jellyfish Wizard to disarm Epona and distract him.

Peter quickly throws a smoke bomb. During the confusion, he rushes to Torizo and tosses her to Squigzog to keep her safe. Peter then transformed himself into the likeness of Torizo, confusing Epona when he freed himself of the Cuboza spell. Epona ensnared Peter in his rage, falling for Peters trick.


Lazily dreaming in a tree outside the castle, Snarf was awoken by a castle guard to meet with the King. The King ordered Snarf to protect the red jellyfish, lest the world fall to ruin.


Back at the castle, Zink continues to roam the halls with his good friend Jellyfisherson. He is in a very drunken state, despite beeing a skeleton.
Zink drunkenly stumbled outside and watched what he defined as a terrible game of "Tie the Rope". Displeased and jealous by the entire scene, he exclaimed that they were hating skeletons and departed with Jellyfisherson.

Suddenly, a mysterious maiden appeared through a portal in Tuxedo Elf's hair.


The fisherman Deiotheus was watching the scene still from a distance, he decided to turn into a higher beeing

But as he watched that already many enough are attacking Epona, he changed back into a fisherman, retaining only his warr guitar.

The Magus Epona had enough of the scene, too many people attacking him out of nowhere, messing with his plan.

Epona teleported back to his castle, taking Torizo and accidentally the prince with him.

Peter transforms back with a puff of smoke, breaking the ropes as he grows back to his own size.
Squigzogwasn't exactly stunned, just surprised. He believed the Magus was overwhelmed. But after destroying Lady Torizo's spell and seeing through Peter's ploy, he suddenly lost faith. He then decided it might be best to work alone as he usually does, so Squigzog slipped quietly outside of the courtyard. He moved towards the woods, to an old spire. As he reached the highest chamber, he opened a magically locked door with his pendant. Inside, he took a book from the shelves and a cape which resists magic from a powerfull wizard he keeps imprisoned with his sword.

Back in the courtyard, Tuxedo Elf and the girl who came trough a portal trough his hair, Angie, were running away from the exploding rose. After they reached safety, Angie asked the Elf what was going on, and insisted on following him.
Robot was shocked by the events which just occured, so he decided to built a small golem which should defend him from harm. After he performed this small task, he decided to follow Tuxedo Elf and Angie.

Iconsting beeing in the water, just having watched the kidnapping scene, laughed, tossed aside the paper bag and headed for his mansion.

Peter slipped away from the group amongst the confusion and headed for the castles library. He searched and found a book about Epona himself. It stated that after he lost the siege over the kingdom, he fled to his castle and locked it up, and no one was able to enter it. One day, it vanished completely. It also stated that there was a creature holding one of the keys needed to unlock the castles gates, and Peter remembered that he actually saw it in his childhood. He took the book with him and went outside to the people standing there and showed them what he has found, making clear for everyone what has to be done now.
Suddenly the book started glowing....

The crimson phantom summoned a creature he named Draenus, which should help them find the keys.



Meanwhile, in Eponas castle...
After being transported to Epona's castle, Torizo fell unconscious. After losing her magic and enduring the stressful transport, she couldn't bear much more. Dreams bubbled in her mind...

She was holding the red jellyfish and whispered

The dream ended abruptly. She was torn from her sleep, greeted by the glistening eyes of the snakes charmed to protect her. Epona said she had time to wander the castle before "dinner" was served. She decided to search for some clues about his plans. She wandered the halls until she finally came upon a room full of dusty tomes and magical instruments. She opened the ones that seemed to have been most recently used and began to read.
As Torizo was unconcious, the queen of oracles teleported to Eponas castle thanks to her magic, and 'rescued' prince Genosi for a yet unknown reason...



Back at Torizo castle, Lady Creeper decided she had enough of waiting for Torizo and Magus Epona, so she decided to leave the castle, but not without looking for her hat, which she had left to the attendant at the entrance. As she was on her way, she heard a faint voice laughing... as she searched for it, something fell from the small window near the top of the ceiling

She catched the mask, but let the hat and the cloak fall to the floor. The mask had a strange, alluring aura... Lady Creeper decided to put it on, since it was just a custome. As she put it on, she heard the strange laughing from before again, and realised that she could neither demask herself, nor put off the cloak and the hat. In order to remain unseen, ashamed by the situation, she jumped out of the window.



Meanwhile, in an unknown place, Avion got ready to slay the competitors of the red jellyfish hunt.

He walked into the town near castle Torizo and overheard a group of villagers talking about having seen a werewolf. Avions interest was peeked, and asked them for more information. They told him that it passed two times, once in fancy clothing, the second time in black clothes, heading towards the station, taking a train to Eldnoir. Avion decided that Tatzel would be his first monster which has to be killed.


Tatzel was on her way to Eldnoir. It appeared that the travel brought her back in time, getting her closer to her past, and her time as the infamous and feared bounty hunter Blademane.

As she arrived, she walked to a bar she used to go, visiting her old friend Emma. After a small chit chat, she asked if the informant Bubba was in town.

She made her way to Bubbas 'office', hoping not to cross her rivals path.
As she arrived, Bubba was surprised that she returned, but Tatzel simply asked for information.

Tatzel told him in very brief words what she was looking for, and Bubba looked trough his thick notebook if he had any usefull informant listed.
Unfortunately he hasn't, so Tatzel headed out again, enraging Bubba since he hoped that she would atleast pay him, despite not beeing a help at all. As she headed to the exit, she catched a glimpse of an old friend of hers. She walked outsite, and greeted him



Unbeknownst to Tatzel, many things were going on. The people who were watching Torizo getting kidnapped by Epona, decided to split up and go search for the keys.

Peter, Deiotheus and Squigzog headed for Deckers cave. The entire journey Peter was feeling uncomfortable, his childhood experience still feared him. As they reached the end of the bridge and the mountains, they decided to camp for the night. As they set up camp, Squigzog decided to use the time preparing for the greater task ahead. He took from his rucksack the book of binding spells he had taken away from the sorcerer in the scorched tower, and began searching for a particular spell.
Later Peter approached him, and asked what he was reading the whole time.

Awoken by their conversation, Deiotheus approached them and asked what they are talking about. By his approach, Peters tense composition lightened a bit. Peter proceeded to tell them that it was only a childhood delusion, but he knew aswell as Squigzog that he was lying. Everyone went to sleep, but Peters fear kept him awake, until he fell asleep from fatigue.

In a different part of the area, the Tuxedo Elf just kept running, not once looking back, with two others close behind.

As they reached the beach, they stopped. Upon catching his breath, he explained what he knew to Angie and Robot.

After a short pause, Angie proposed to be his assisstant. The Tuxedo Elf pulled another mask out of his hair for the young girl to wear.



Iconsting returned to his laboratory, now working on which animal would be most appropriate for exploring the desert. He then decided a Dingo would be best suited for this task, and injected himself once again a strange liquid

As he headed out, he noticed the small bat of Starseed which followed him around.

With this said, he made way to the City of Ashes.

In the city of ashes, a small leprachaun named Alexandy was getting drunk in a bar. The sudden glowing of the clocktower woke him up, and he decided to down one more drink and then headed to the clocktower to investigate it.

The leprechaun pushed on a part of the wall as it swung inside the building. The leprechaun stepped inside, not bothering to close the door behind him.

Meanwhile, the grumpy skeleton Zink was wandering the courtyard of castle Torizo aimlessly, as his friend Jellyfisherson started glowing and teleported him to the City of Ashes. He landed directly in front of a small child, which was scared by his appearance. After a short talk the child calmed down, and Zink learned where he is. Suddenly Jellyfisherson started glowing again, and as he was beeing enchanted, Zink was dragged to the clockworktower to protect the key, even when he didn't knew what was waiting inside. The small child followed him, as he ran away and hoped that he would stay safe with him.


Back at Eponas castle, the queen of oracles explained to prince Genosi why she saved him

His bloodline possessed a special 'golden light', but as the years passed it faded. It is the prince in whom this light has awakened again, and the queen wants it in her possession to gain eternal life.
The prince then bit her hand, and fleed towards a small crack in the wall, infuriating the queen.


Unbeknownst to anyone, below castle Torizo is an ancient water city. A treasure chest within the palace opened slighty, a small voice calling for help. In her desperation, a small beeing, a sprite, struggled to get outside.
After she managed to get out, she didn't lose time and used her magic to see what is currently happening in the world. She decided that she had to act now, and used her last bit of magic power and began to chant in order to break trough Eponas barrier which surrounds his castle. She managed to do so, and landed in his castles basement. Tired and exhausted she fell into unconciousness.


As Tuxedo Elf, Angie, and Robot began to make their way to Narwhal Island, Lady Creeper, calling herself Turncoat Creeper now to stay disguised, asked to join them. She couldn't stay in the castle any longer with her face in its current state.

She begged them to take her to see the Great Narwhal. They agreed, but none of them had a boat to make it to the island. Angie brightened and had a brilliant idea: she grabbed Tuxedo Elf and pulled a boat out of the portal she created in his head. Creeper was filled with glee until she noticed a strange figure observing them from afar.

The vampiress Starseed came forward and questioned them about their quest. She wanted to make sure no one was moving in on her jellyfish- or her lady...



He was cut short by Starseed's laughter. She didn't believe his words, but then her bat minion returned and informed her that the elf's words were true.


After a long voyage to the island, the disproportionate team arrived at the island and proceeded to king narwhal.





In the meanwhile Bill Nye and the crimson phantom got ready for their travel to the City of Ashes.


The Crimson Phantom was already on his way to the city. He noticed a peculiar fog coming towards him and turned his "Black Rod that does Many Things" into a telescope to examine the fog.

It turned out that it was a swarm of bees. He jumped in his hat and steered it with haste in the direction of the city, making a desperate attempt to escape.


Already in the city, Zink and the child following him reached the clocktower. At the top of it Jellyfisherson hovered over to a secret door. Inside lay a robe and staff, which would allow Zink to perform magic. However, he was horrified at this idea since he is a mere skeleton. Instead, the jellyfish hovered over to another location, shrouded by clock gears. He climbed through the rusty machinery and obtained the glowing key. Suddenly, a new force came over him

The child was amazed by his important task. Zink enlisted his help, building traps in the tower to keep anyone from entering.

However, the leprechaun Alexandy was keeping watch on Zink, and decided that he wanted this valuable treasure as well.

Iconsting wandered into the clock tower to take refuge from the storm of ash. He sees Zink and the child taking apart the gears and assembling strange traps and calls out to them to stop. Zink ceased tearing the gears apart and called to the child.


Zink took hold of the staff Jellyfisherson had revealed to him earlier and threatened Iconsting to leave. Iconsting simply laughed at his threat. Feeling defeated already, Zink put the staff back in the safe. All he wanted was to protect the key. However, Alexandy was watching them from above. About to make his move to take the key, he accidentally knocked over a bucket of nails. Iconsting simply jumped over the fallen nailes and pinned Zink to the ground. Iconsting grabbed hold of the key and tore it from Zink's neck, tossing it down into the wastes that flow out to the desert.
Suddenly Jellyfisherson began to glow erratically. It flew out of the clock tower and into the wastes, retrieving the key. Zink landed a mighty blow on Iconsting's face with the wooden staff and screeched at him to leave.


Alexandy continued to watch their skirmish. He decided to make a distraction so that he could nab the jellyfish, and with it, the key. He pulled a small steam machine from his hat and generated a large cloud of smoke, a perfect disguise for his plan. Zink panicked and accidentally hit Jellyfisherson. The jellyfish, along with the key, were sent flying. The skeleton and the leprechaun began to panic and search for where the key might have fallen.

Meanwhile Peters group continued their travel. Suddenly Peter stopped and told Squigzog and Deiotheus to stay alarmed. A cockatrice leaped out of the trees and attacked them

Squigzog rushed at it and pinned it down with his shield. However, the monstrous creature lashed out with its tail and knocked the skeleton to the ground. As Peter and Deiotheus rushed forward to help Squigzog, they saw that the creature had no eyes. Thrilled at their luck, Deiotheus strummed his warr guitar and summoned a mighty gale. Squigzog used the storm as an opportunity to stab the beast. The creature howled in rage as the sword cut through its flesh. A second gust hit them both as Peter and Deiotheus joined the fray. After sufficiently beating the cockatrice, Peter grabbed hold of his companions as the gale steered them toward Decker's cave.



Continuing her hunt for information through Eldnoir, Tatzel came across an old friend, a young vampire girl named Tamiel. Tatzel had met her several years ago when she was freshly turned and took care of her. They shared a strong bond as the last members of the Crowblood lineage. Tamiel also had an affinity for blood magic, hence her tattered and disturbing appearance.

Tamiel inquired Tatzel about her purpose for wanting to save a "human". Tatzel regaled her about how she met Torizo when helping her carry groceries through Samerkain long ago. Tamiel noticed Tatzel's missing necklace, which started getting annoying for her, as everyone tells her about it. Finally, after seeing how important their friendship was, Tamiel agreed to help.

However, Tamiel had a proposition: she asked Tatzel to give her a piggy back ride like in old times. As they wanted to get on their way, a thundering voice shattered through the air

It was Tatzels old enemy, Gado.

Tatzel pleaded with him to stop and listen to her. She couldn't afford to lose any time fighting him now.

Despite having to restrain himself, Gado was pleased at this proposition. He stayed his hand and allowed Tatzel to leave. Tatzel threw him her hat as a gesture of thanks, and ran off with Tamiel into the night.



At Eponas castle, the queen of oracles approached the magus.

As they couldn't find the prince, they left the room again; Epona now with Tatzels necklace in hands. However, the queen saw that Torizo had great potential, and was thinking of a way to use her powers for herself, not disrupting and allowing Eponas sacrifice.
Meanwhile, the small hero crawled trough the crack in the wall, as he suddenly got attacked by a rat.

After a long, hard and exhausting fight, Genosi managed to overwhelm the rat. Heavily injured, he went trough the walls for several hours in search for Lady Torizo. Finally, he reaches her.

With his remaining strength left, he comforts Torizo, and then collapses.
Torizo scooped Prince Genosi into her arms.


She pleaded. He was horribly wounded... and growing colder every second. Tears fell down her cheeks and she felt a terrible sadness growing insider her. She could feel Epona's locks on her magic begin to shatter.


Torizo used this powerful healing spell from jellyfish wizardry for the first time, enveloping her and the prince in a bright light. Genosi was completely healed, he barely could believe that he was alive




Back at the City of Ashes, the crimson phantom was still fleeing from the swarm of bees. He ran until he reached the City of Ashes, where the constant veil of smog repelled the bees. But the Crimson Phantom did not stop running, not until he reached the Clocktower. Actually he ran up on the walls of the tower

He started falling down fast, and reached the ground quickly. The impact from his fall was so big, that the key, which flew away at the struggle between Zink and Alexandy, shook it out of it's place.

It fell down into the very core of the clocktower, landing in the power cell that ran the city. Sensing danger, the key protected itself with magical energy to protect itself from destruction in the core. Unfortunately, the core drew off as much power as the key could provide. Across the city, factories began working harder and harder, pouring out more and more smog.

The clocktower itself shot out great plumes of ash, knocking anyone inside out the windows.




At the camp of Peters group, a knight mounted on a horse, and a dwarf appear.


While initially shocked, Peter recovered and told him, deciding it would be best to leave out details of Torizo's capture, since these people might happen to be their enemies.


Peter, Squigzog and Deiotheus seemed confused.

Now the knight was surprised by this question. After a moment of thought, he answered

The three nodded in affirmation. And with a pleasant smile on his face, Sir Gigsalot continued.




Meanwhile, Tatzel and Tamiel have reached the outskirts of Eldnoir. Tamiel guided them to a tavern. Before they entered, Tatzel changed back to a human since she didn't know how fond the people in it are towards non-humans. As soon as they entered, Tamiel pointed to the retired castle guard they were looking for.

He seemed shocked upon hearing this, but he didn't knew if Tatzel was speaking the truth, so he asked that she should tell him first who they are and what the dangerous situation exactly is. Upon hearing the tale, he decided to help them.



Mixed feelings started to rise in Tatzel after hearing this, and got lost in thought until Tamiel tugged on her sleeve.


Tatzel accepted the invite. She handed the guard her cloak and sat down, getting lost in thought, repeating in her mind over and over again what she just heard, pondering what to do next. She couldn't think clearly, as mainly the thought why her friend never told her this or asked for help was rushing her mind.


Back at the city of ashes, Alexandy found himself sitting on a gutter. As soon as he got his memory back, he figured that there will very likely be a way leading to the basement of the clocktower. He slipped down into the waterways, not bothering to close the entrance behind him once again.
Iconsting landed in the sewers aswell. As he was looking for a way out, he decided to search for a weapon amongst the rubble lying around. After looking around, he found a machete; displeased about it beeing in a dung heap, he pulled it out. He continued to travel the sewers, when he spotted someone up ahead, but he couldn't see who it was.
Outside of the clocktower, Zink and the crimson phantom tried to make themself a picture of the current situation. Zink was very confused that the clocktower was the power source of the city, but was soon distracted by Jellyfisherson who started glowing again, controlling Zink with it's magic; causing him to go into the clocktower again to acquire the key.
Above the city, in the smoke covered sky, Bill Nye was flying towards it. But his steampunk device stopped working, causing him to crash into the clocktower.


As Alexandy and the crimson phantom worked their way trough and to the sewers trough one way or another, Zink followed Jellyfisherson to the top of the tower and snatched the key from the core with the wooden rod, apparently it is enchanted as it came out undamaged. After a short time after picking up the key, the air started to clear up a bit.
As Alexandy crawled out of a pipe and brushed off the dirt from his clothes, he saw the key sparkling in the distance. He ran towards it's location, and snatched it from the skeletons hand. Unfortunately he didn't payed attention to his surroundings, as he ran against a wall while he was running away as fast as he could.
As Zink was going towards the leprachaun, Iconsting found a way trough the sewers aswell, and as he crawled out of the pipes, he appeared in front of him and questioned what happened here. Zink continued to walk to Alexandy and grabbed the key from him, and spoke out his confusion to Iconsting, as he couldn't understand at all why everyone wants this key. Iconsting replied that this is one of the keys required to save Lady Torizo from the grasp of the evil Magus Epona, and if it wasn't for the pact he had with the Countess Starseed, he wouldn't be interested in it at all. He had barely finished his sentence when he was hit by a very large black rod.


Iconsting replied to the phantom that he can't take the key, that Starseed demands it.

Zink sighed by hearing even more arguments over the key.

He thought. But suddenly he was interrupt in his thoughts by Jellyfisherson, changing his thoughts once more. He grabbed the staff, and swung it with a big impact, hitting the phantom in his face.

It was obvious that Zink was beeing controlled by Jellyfisherson now, not beeing himself anymore.
Meanwhile Alexandy gained his conciousnes again, and decided that the best idea would be to side with one of the attendants.
The phantom couldn't help but grin at the skeletons antics. With a snippy comment, he hit Zink with his rod, delivering a fatal blow to his head.
Jellyfisherson glowed, and blurred for a short time. Zink rushed with speed unbeknownst to him behind the phantom and hit him multiple times. He didn't had a reason why he wanted to hurt the phantom so much, Jellyfisherson had taken control over his very actions. Before he could land one more blow, the leprachaun suddenly leaped in front of the phantoms back, blocking it with his cane. He then drew the hidden blade in it, preparing to fight the skeleton.
Iconsting took the opportunity and grabbed Jellyfisherson, and started angrily slashing his machete at the annoying jellyfish. Altough it got cut in pieces, it didn't stayed this way. It blurred again for a second, and vanished for an even shorter time, and reappeared unharmed. Still in the grasp of Jellyfisherson, Zink thrusted away Alexandy, not caring that he was outnumbered anymore, but willingly welcomed this fight.

During the night, the brave group in the mountains got woken up by a lovely sound. As they were looking for the source, they found Sir Gigsalot playing his mandolin. They asked him what is on his mind, as he had a sad look on his face.

As he saw that his friends were showing interest, he motioned them to sit down and started telling his tale...



Now that the Knight had related to them his story, the adventurers weren't sure of how to respond. Though, the tale had shown them the good Knight's intentions for helping them retrieve the key, but now they wondered just how much he knew.
After Sir Gisalot's tale was finished the others had felt like sharing their stories as well.



After sharing their stories, they went to rest again, after all, they had a troublesome day before them.












As the sun rose, the group continued their travel to the beasts cave. As they got closer, they got surprised by a group of ogres. Luckily Squigzog was studying the book of magic pretty closely, as he invoked a fire spell and fend off the ogres before any harm was done.
As an additional effect, the trees and bushes along the fires way were burned down, revealing a path to a cave shrouded in mist.
They advanced towards the cave, the mist getting thicker and thicker as they walked. Peter's stomach curled knots around itself as they arrived at the entrance.

Peter simply started walking into the cave, the others following behind. After just half a minute, darkness was invading the edges of their eyes.
Sir Gigsalot searched his inventory for a lantern, and as soon as he lit it,
the chamber flooded with light, giving the others security but leaving Peter unaffected. They ventured forth, and after a few minutes, heard a sound. An all too familiar sound to Peter.
Not before long, the lantern cast a shadow far ahead of a drowsy creature, much larger than any of them. The creature got up and turned around, looking confused for a moment.

Whispered the dwarf.
The creature, seeming to gather it's bearings, roared at the group fiercely. The same memory of that long ago night came flooding back to Peter once again. He never went near that part of the mountains again, and it was as such for the rest of his life... Until now.
He tried to gather all his courage and face the creature, but his fear was stronger and took over him. He fled to a corner and whimpered that the creature shouldn't hurt him.



Meanwhile in the City of Ashes, strange things happened. A shadow fell in the Clocktower. Not the shadow cast by the ash, but a very different form of darkness. A darkness that felt like it was peering into your very soul and judging your misdeeds.

















Ladies and Mentlegen, I present to you tonight a story about friendship, love, plottings and determination.
It started off as a small story, it is continuing which will eventually become an epic saga.
Come closer my friends, come closer and watch which one from the children of the night will accompany the lovely
lady to the ball!

It started in the pics or gtfo thread, I, no, we are continuing it in this thread, we simply liked the idea too much.
Basically the goal is that there will be competitions held, and the winner is the lucky person who will accompany
Torizo to the ball. We haven't planned anything particular now, we will just go along to whatever comes up.
This story will be told by both drawn and real pictures, and I will recap the story every now and then.

Torizo suggested that everyone can join, so feel free here.

So as the thread progressed, here are two helpfull things for you:
First is a map of the near area, and the location of the three keys required to unlock Eponas seal of his castle (courtesy goes to Epona for the picture)


Mander was so nice to write a quick biography for the people who are participating now. Nice flash animation

Here is the group list to see who is with who, and who is heading where (courtesy goes to gigoergong who kept track):
Narwhale Island:
Angel
Creeper
Kalekemo
Phat Shaggy
Starseed

City of Ashes:
Alexandy13
Mr. Mander
iconsting
Bill Nye
Zink

Decker's Domain:
Deiphobus
Unbalanced
Squigzog
Sir Gigsalot
Trygve


Here is a special something, a group picture of the cast (As of page 94)

i just exploded

THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING

... i love this.

Yaaaay

I'm working on my part now, so everyone should be able to join in when they want to when it's done!

fuck year i'll join just for the lulz

I will have a brief cameo.

I was also thinking, it would be cool that whoever participates could try to stick to a 18th/19th century appearance or an urban monster. Or if it really has to be something robot related, steampunk is allowed as well.

Remember, this is a fine lady, we have to behave like gentlemans (or atleast try to).

Oh ho, I am such an evil bitch. I'm a very snooty vampire - only the finest of bloods, and beautiful ladies, will do~

I think it'd be cool if people tried to be an original monster, so we don't just have multiple vampires and werewolves with only a few other original things. (If I hadn't already taken the pictures, I probably wouldn't of gone with a vampire myself. There's a lot of cool monsters out there.)

I don't have any dresses right now though... sadfacesadfacesadface


or any suits...or anything steampunk related
what i do now

Inb4 unicorn Fooflyer

There had better be a mothman, that would be amazing. I would love to see someone do that.

Draw something! You see, I did one aswell, since I don't have a werewolf costume.


Now that I think of it... ooops. There you see what happens when a sleep depraved Tatzel is allowed to post late at night.

this should be a very high class late 18th century affair