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You step onto the 43rd defensive line of the Ithil'Inas beach. Wind rips across the sand, carrying the scent of salt, oil, and dried blood. The trenches here are deep and raw, cut hastily through earth and ash. Sandbags line the edges like broken teeth. Metal-reinforced bunkers hum softly with generator power. Inside, heavy machine guns are already in position, their barrels glinting under the grey light. Spotters bark coordinates into short-range radios. Engineers rush past with crates of ammunition and unstable glyph charges. The sea growls beyond the smoke. The monsters are not far now.

You pass a hastily erected checkpoint, a small tower bearing the crest of the Empire, fluttering against the wind. The soldiers here barely glance at you too tired, too focused. But at the center of the line, near a reinforced command post half-sunk into the sand, stands an officer. His armor bears the dark crimson plating of an Imperial frontline commander. He does not smile. He does not blink.

He turns his head toward you.

"Soldier? Mercenary? Present yourself, we don't have much time to prepare and planify the position of the troops. Once done, you can ask questions... I'll try answer the best I can."

As you get ready to answer, you can hear some static noises coming from a radio placed on the table, a gift of the Organisation to help with communication during the defense. It mumbles a lot of words very quickly, you don't understand what it says. You may now be able to perform a roll of a dice of twenty faces whenever you want to complete a precise action that may require efforts, if you want a less stressful experience, you can simply ignore the rolls.
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About

The shores of Ithil'Inas are going to be under unstoppable siege from Cynwale's Monsters army, how stronger are they in comparison than you? They are all swimming from one continent to yours without pause, and they're going to fight once outside of the water. But worry not too much, you'll probably die far before you can meet any real powerful creatures summoned by Cynwale.

As for Lore, this scene is based around the Chapter of my dark fantasy series near the ending, the main character Cynwale, an adventurer who's being pushed towards roads she shouldn't take to save the world from an unknown threat that might aswell not exist at all. It's 8 weeks after Cynwale and her party of friends and her lover, with the help of the Empire Army, assaulted the Dead Islands to take down Nitarius, the Dawn Elf behind the apparition of extremely dangerous and intelligent monsters all around the world. After a long, painful and gruesome fight, they manage to reach him before he summons more monsters, allowing Cynwale to kill him and put an end to the final enemy... Or that's what they believe, but what they didn't know, was that Cynwale was hiding them something, the more Nitarius lieutenant she killed, the more they destabilized her seal that stopped her from fully recovering her memory and completely open her link towards Angély, the real daughter of her Father, Arthur Langolier. It leads her to finally have words place on her fate, on why she was made in the first place. Way back in time, when she was still 16 year old and still living with her Mother in Rosalie, she had a weird vibrant and oddly realistic nightmare of the world being consumed by a Black Star in the nearby sky. The seal breaking allowed her to finally understand what it was, and she understood immediately what Nitarius and his lieutenants were looking to achieve... They intended to ALL die by her hands (Except Morgrath, the dwarf behind her armor, he died years before Cynwale was even born.) in order to activate a slow mecanism that would help destroy the seal of Cynwale and give her, once broken, all of her memories, the link to Angély and the memories of Nitarius, revealing everything he knew about the Black Star, which he actually didn't know much other than a way to apparently being able to permanently seal the eldritch star eternally....

I'm not going to reveal more because I don't want it getting stollen :(
(But I do hope you appreciated or got intrigued by my little résumé.)

Created
Jul 4, 2025
Updated
Jul 5, 2025
Version
v1
Origin
Imported

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