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Notes on the Siege of Redwind

(Food for thought only)

♦Redwind would be a desert city that normally gets its water from a river and several waterways that pass through shards of the city, similar to Venice nowadays, or how desertic cities from the past used to do it here on Earth (kinda like in Pi-Ramesses, to give a clear example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi-Ramesses) The point is, that water turned into blood because locus monsters might dump the blood of the people's flesh they take in there. So we have blood waterways. That should add to the horror-based scenery, too.

♦The waterways now lead to a castle that used to be ruins (and a touristic attraction of the city), but said castle is made of flesh and bones now, like the rest of the constructions. Gotta stick to the theme.

♦Flesh zombie-like monsters with pulsating blue veins all over their bodies and an eye travelling through it - which allows them to see from any angle, and by the way the succion noise it makes every time it does is supposed to sound very much ew - roam round Redwind.
They're basically the unneeded flesh that couldn't be used for the, uh, re-creation of the houses. Point is, their job's to patrol the city and find any survivors, then bring 'em in the castle so that their flesh may be used for something too. The idea's that they automatically regenerate any fleshwound - I am not sorry - unless you poke their eye, which is hard to do because it moves through these veins coverin' their bodies. Doable when you've got one flesh zombie around, a bit harder when say twelve of them are around you.
So yeah, they might cause us less trouble than the locus monsters themselves, but they're still kind of annoying.

♦There would be a local survivor NPC, Darkin Putrasill, a Luminier (yes the, uh, Dark part of his name is totally intentional just to make sure he says how fed up he is about the dark and light jokes) specialist in conjuring light arrows with an epic crossbow. The point of this guy is to explain to our team what the heck happened to Redwind and how to deal with everything, since we just arrived and didn't expect any of this, right?

♦Long story short, Darkin was givin' a friendly tour to the ruins of that castle I mentioned earlier, and then the locus monsters came from seemingly nowhere and started attacking/killing tourists, then use their flesh to build that flesh castle. And THEN the rest of the town.

♦The idea to deal with this problem would be to find the source of the locus beasts' power, AKA the thing that allows them to perform their... "fleshbending" stuff. Once again taking some stuff from Pi-Ramsesses' story, the artifact would be a magical/dark aether-like artifact they hid somewhere in one of the major waterways that silted up and caused the Old Redwind to become a dersert city with little to no water in the first place (they solved the problem by the story's current point in time, but basically it used to be bigger before, or at least that's my take on the matter).

♦So there would be two ways to reach that artifact: either enter in the castle and take the shortcut underground that the locus beasts use themselves to take their prisoners there and fleshblend them, or find the old river, find its source and dig your way underground 'til you find that darn artifact. Since we have a Machinist who can most certainly create a machine that can scan the underground stuff and find the old river AND a chimera/lizard girl who can act as a scout to see what's inside the castle, methinks that both ways are doable, and I'm not yet sure which one we should pick, assuming that my plot is even taken into consideration.


Shell Master Tortwag is finished.