spades 2015/03/01(Sun)15:18 No. 627258 ID: f74bb7
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They say that when a soul is reborn, destiny offers it two paths: one of ice, or one of fire.

Choose wisely this time, and may fate guide you home.

fire's tempting but hardly anyone picks ice. Voting ice.

ice

let's go FIRE! Evaporate that pesky fog!

Fire and INDUSTRY

This soul is old and cold.

spades 2015/03/01(Sun)16:34 No. 627276 ID: f74bb7
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>fire's tempting but hardly anyone picks ice. Voting ice.

>ice

>This soul is old and cold.

Ice it shall be.
Good luck, traveller.

spades 2015/03/01(Sun)16:37 No. 627277 ID: f74bb7
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Your name is Jakko, and despite being made out of ice you are adamant that you are still human.
Behind you is the forest's edge, where the valley begins to climb steadily into the foothills and the mountains beyond.
Above you is the interminable fog, which deadens both sound and light like a sodden blanket.

You have been travelling for several days, and though you no longer have need for food or sleep you are beginning to feel a bit weary.
In the distance you see a thin curl of woodsmoke, and a bit further off you can just make out a grey smudge of a village on the horizon.
What will you do?

head towards the smoke I guess.

>a bit further off you can just make out a grey smudge of a village on the horizon.

Go there.

As you walk, reflect on your life, such as it is.

To the grey smudge in the distance, hopeful it is a village!

spades 2015/03/02(Mon)16:16 No. 627491 ID: f74bb7
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>As you walk, reflect on your life, such as it is.

To put it simply, you've been cursed for so long that you're beginning to forget what life was like before the ice.
It's been eight years since you tried to reach the summit and see beyond the valley, and you've almost gotten used to the cold, the angry mobs, and the trail of frost you leave in your wake.

You weren't born like this and you certainly didn't choose to be reanimated, but the chances of ever going back to normal now are pretty slim.
All the same, you try to keep your hopes up.

>>627491
so what are your goals in life and just how bad do people freak out when they see you? I guess I should also ask what kind of skills and abilities do you have?

spades 2015/03/02(Mon)17:46 No. 627503 ID: f74bb7
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>>627495
>so what are your goals in life

Really, all you want is to get over the mountains and out of this godforsaken valley. If only your curse let you destroy ice as easily as you could create it, then you'd probably have made it through the wall at the summit by now.

>and just how bad do people freak out when they see you? I guess I should also ask what kind of skills and abilities do you have?

Being made of magically-reinforced ice has its benefits, sometimes. Ordinarily you can walk on water and do other small freezing tricks, but bigger things like shields take a lot more energy to maintain. You once made one that saved you from lynching by fire, but the strain left you lying half-dead in a ditch for about a week afterwards.
You don't like talking about it very much.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the cold doesn't effect you, could you not simply clim over the ice wall?

>If only your curse let you destroy ice as easily as you could create it, then you'd probably have made it through the wall at the summit by now.

why are you trying to go THROUGH a wall? go over it. grow an ice staircase out of the side and just climb.

>>627521
Well, maybe not so much a staircase, if that's too much of a strain, but handholds at least, right?