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Roleplayers of Steadfast: Your humble Bard is writing this document largely from memory and my extremely untidy WoWScribe notes, so feel free to correct any inaccuracies/embroider any details you want to see mentioned in the comments thread, and my apologies in advance for anything I forget/overlook/fail to include. Bear in mind: this is the basic story outline and not even the Really Good Parts Version as of yet. Any questions? Just ask!

In those days, the Steadfast brotherhood ventured into the cold wilds of Northrend in the service of both the Horde and the dark visions of the shaman Jinjin, whom the spirits plagued unceasingly. Steadfast fought many battles against the Lich King and his minions, rejoiced in victory and suffered the sting of loss, but no matter how sweet the rewards for their service or how deep the wounds they suffered, they would not turn from their course: to prevent the horrors their shaman had foreseen from occurring, to bring an end to the threat the Lich King posed to the living forever.

Within the Steadfast brotherhood there was a warlock called by the name Dharkoth. Though he had been freed in mind and body by the grace of the Dark Lady, he remained troubled in spirit, the scars left on his soul by his enslavement still raw and bloody, and it was his quest to discover why this continued to be true that set his feet and those of his brothers on their current path. Dharkoth's search took him to the four corners of the world, and drew to him the aid of his comrades in arms, who traveled with him and helped him as best they could in his time of trouble. It was in the marshes of Dustwallow that he began to find some of the answers he sought, at the knee of the witch Tabetha, whose arts revealed that the young warlock's mind and soul had been deliberately shaped into a channel for immeasurable necromantic power and both were infested with a parasitic creature of shadow meant to prevent him from wholly free and sound in mind. With Tabetha's help, Dharkoth freed himself from the influence of the shadow parasite and brought what he learned to his comrades.

Seeking greater knowledge of how this had come to pass, Dharkoth and his companions -- among them Andinthe, the sister of the Ebon Blade Jinjai, and Dayari -- invaded the dark school of magic called the Scholomance, beneath the ancient, fallen city of Caer Darrow in Lordaeron. It was there that they found documents detailing the existence of a Scourge weapon known as the Vortex of Souls. Powered by the pain and madness of souls slain, captured, and tormented by the Scourge and focused through the minds and souls of both living and unliving vectors, the Vortex of Souls was originally conceived as a siege weapon to be deployed against cities capable of resisting the outbreak of necromantic plague, a weapon that would spread a plague of fury and slaughter among the living. The Vortex of Souls had, however, changed in form from its original intent and had taken on a much greater and more terrible purpose under the ministrations of the Cult of the Damned. It was now a weapon meant to drag the rest of the world down with him in the event of the Lich King's fall, his destruction the trigger that would deploy the weapon against all the living races of Azeroth through the minds and souls of children stolen and reshaped into weapons against their own peoples.

Realizing the full extent of the danger, Steadfast brought what they had learned to the leaders of both the Argent Crusade and the Ebon Blade, who pledged their assistance in thwarting the plot and sent the brotherhood forth with orders to locate the mechanisms of the Vortex and the stolen children. This Steadfast did, though it cost them dearly to do so: their sister, the paladin Andinthe, fell in battle with the King's Fist, a band of death knights still loyal to the Lich King who acted as protectors of the Cult of the Damned and of the Vortex of Souls itself. It was then that Andinthe's brother-in-arms and comrade of old, Baranthore, brought the Argent forces at his command to the aid of Steadfast and joined his efforts to theirs. Within the structure of the Gates of Icecrown itself, they found traces of the Vortex weapon's structure -- the indestructible crystal prisons that held the souls that would power it, the necromantic circles that would draw the power and feed it into the children that were the weapon's focus -- but though they searched the world without ceasing, all but a few of the children eluded them.

Stymied, and with the danger to the world rising even as the Ashen Verdict drew closer to bringing the Lich King to judgment, the decision was made to insert a spy into the ranks of the Cult of the Damned in order to learn the locations of the children. Dharkoth volunteered for this dangerous task and permitted himself to be psychically altered by Baron Silver of the Ebon Blade to conceal the freedom of his mind and soul from the Scourge. This proved to be even more perilous than Steadfast thought: the Lich King fell and while the weapon did not deploy the reason for that was no cause for joy. Dharkoth, already primed to act as a channel for the weapon's power, was instead used as a host by a fragment of the Lich King's vengeful consciousness, who intended to use the weapon to punish those among the Scourge who had acted against him and to continue his own parasitic existence in another's flesh. Forced to work with the remains of the Lich King to obtain any hope of rescuing their comrade, Steadfast sought out the true location of the Vortex weapon -- while one of their number, the death knight Meton, sought out the King's Fist to infiltrate their ranks and determine if they were salvageable in freedom or to destroy them from within.


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The document above brings us more or less to present, less the events that occurred in game on 11/11, which really deserves its own series of In Character posts and detailed explication all of its own.


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Looks like a very good, concise, summary of the events thus far. I would mention that Jinjinn (correct spelling wink ) disappeared from the brotherhood at some point (since he did actually leave the guild and it would be good to avoid people getting up to speed seeking out someone who is no longer an option for furthering the story).


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Salvageable? I thought this was strictly a sabotage and destroy mission.
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Meton08 wrote:
Salvageable? I thought this was strictly a sabotage and destroy mission.


Well, you know, Solivar always considers 'salvageable' a legitimate tactical option.


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Fair enough.
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