Nechronica Ramblings

Ok this was not fun. I went from Dead space where I had to worry about the dead getting up and trying to kill me… to a world where everything was dead and many things were still walking around, including me.

I had awoken among 4 other girls in similar positions. We all knew we were animated by some Necromancer though not for what purpose. We also only had a few scraps to our name, a few faint memories of previous lives and some weapons.

We awoke in a small run down shack, the roof was partially collapsed and the sun in the sky told me it was about noon.

I was the last one to be awoken, shaken rather hard by Shirley. She was the eldest of the group and seemed to be the most assertive.

As she shook me I heard another of the girls; Nancy shouting that she knew she had seen something as she stood by an empty window frame aiming a rather large gun out of it. Another girl Meghan was just saying to leave me we don’t have time for this as I saw her grabbing a pair of hand guns.

I quickly got up from the warn and dirty couch I was laying on in the one room shack and went to the window in time to see that there were in fact shapes out there. I could make out things that looked sort of like young girls… except with massive teeth and claws and eyes that glowed red. Something told me they weren’t friendly.

Shots rang out as the girls spotted them unfortunately that seemed to bring more. Shirley was yelling at me to help her move the couch in front of the door as shots started to ring out from the empty window pane.

I told her not to bother pulling out caliburn the sword of kings. I didn’t want to risk us getting trapped. I told them to hold the door closed as I headed out. All of them were stunned.  I was trying not to show too much as I dove out the door. By then the monsters had noticed us.

The monsters fell easily; I released their tormented souls from their bodies as they fell to my blade.

I soon stood before a pile of bodies.

I could sense that there were no more monsters around.

I walked back to the stunned girls who watched me with wide eyes. They asked me what I was. Who I was. Meghan immediately began accusing me of being in league with the Necromancer.

I told them. I knew it was risky but I had powers and abilities that could help and it was better to get this out of the way now.

It’s strange to try and explain the whole jumper thing. This divided them immediately because Meghan immediately confused my benefactor for the Necromancer.

Erika tried to calm everyone down telling them they shouldn’t be too hasty to judge me since I had saved them.

Sherley finally broke things up saying whatever I was that we needed to find a better shelter before more of those things turned up. I felt a few sets of eyes watching me constantly as we moved out.

We were in a ruined town. The shack was probably the best thing there unfortunately. It was the only thing with a door. We did manage to find some salvageable items, some more ammunition, some study knives, a couple of backpacks to carry stuff. Nancy had an adorable undead ferret that took up residence in one of them. He (or maybe she) sort of became the group mascot.

Off in the distance we saw some structures so we decided to head for them. So we decided to head out for the structures. I regaled them with tales of my previous adventures. Most of them seemed amused though I doubt they believed them. Meghan just gave me the stink eye the whole way and stayed close to Nancy.

I told them of my companions, my wives and our child the last parts seemed to draw some irritation from Shirley. I had decided to wait until I found a door with a lock so I could introduce them using the warehouse. I think the group would take it better than if I just started summoning them from nowhere.

The walk was long and more than a few time we had to fight off some unfortunate abomination or other… There were dead things crosses between animals and humans they looked like part Hyena but had clawed hands and human legs standing upright. Thanks to Nancy’s marksmanship and her large rifle they didn’t get close.

As the structures came in to view it was clear that we were approaching an amusement park.

It was a large park. Though in an obviously dilapidated state with several of the rides having fallen down. There was a childish glee among my companions as they saw it. It helped to remind me that despite everything they really were just little girls.

They were the ones that brought up getting it back working against I merely assured them that it could be done after it was secured. What can I say their enthusiasm was infectious. Even Meghan had taken a break from giving me the stink eye to stare at wonder at the potentially new home.

I just wondered if the place was really as abandoned as it seemed. The place was huge so we set about exploring the entrance first. It seemed clear so I brought everyone together… it was time to introduce my companions.

I showed them first the empty booth that we found that had a door that unlocked. I guess all this time of being a bard has made me a bit showy as I loved doing this trick. I closed the door turned the key and opened the door to my warehouse.

I couldn’t help but grin as I heard their gasps at the huge space inside as the lights hummed to life above us.  I had sectioned my warehouse off in to different rooms, so most of it was concealed however waiting in the main room were 5 figures that turned to look at us.

Within moments I was swarmed in bodies as four of my wives rushed me and hugged me, Doom-chan just hmmphed crossing her arms. I was a bit overwhelmed by the greetings and complaints at taking so long to bring them out. Doom protested the loudest but seemed to be the first to notice I was not alone.
As I turned to begin introductions I couldn’t help but notice Sherley giving my wives a death glair. I also noticed Meghan still giving me a death glair.

I introduced them each in turn Arcueid was happy to meet them though I was a little worried, it still took effort to get her not to kill vampires and undead out of force of habit at times. Tamamo seemed warm and happy but I could tell she was a little disturbed at my undead status. Akitsu quietly greeted them calmly talking in the situation. Yubel stood protectively next to me, I noticed her glairing at Meghan having spotted her hostility towards me.

Meghan then accused doom of being a necromancer and I thought she might get obliterated right there. Doom answered that she was no mere necromancer but a master of the mystic arts and that she would never create something as shoddily made as Meghan… yeah Doom always a charmer. It was Erika and I who spoke up and broke things up. I was grateful to Erika for the support.

I admitted that I didn’t know how they would react to my status as a doll and it made me a little hesitant to bring them out, to which I got called an idiot quite a few times as they were used to me in different forms.

With that out of the way I explained our situation. Amid calls of hunting down the necromancer I suggested that we secure and fortify the Amusement park. To which it was pointed out by Yubel an amusement park is huge and probably not the best place but I explained short of building someplace from the ground this was the place with the most intact structures and we could use robots and stuff t guard the place.

Having decided on a course of action we found a building, an old game place with the an old gaming place where they had a bunch of video games with games that gave tickets to turn in for prizes… none of the games were in working condition the girls checked. But the building was sturdy and defensible so we left the girls there with a few doom bots as well as Akitsu to guard them and spread out through the park to look and make sure the park was empty.

During my travels I thought I heard something. Fallowing the noise I saw a girl with rabbit ears ducking down a hole. I tell the rest of my companions via telepathy and then head down the hole… and down and down… as the hole turns in to a really long slide.

I slide down in to a large room with giant mushroom looking structures. I am greeted by a rather disturbing creature. A human caterpillar who seems to be made out of human torsos sown together is there smoking a hookah.

I ask it who it is, it tells me it’s a caterpillar, I ask it where I am. It says this is wonderland… of course. It warms me to avoid the guards of the queen of hearts. Great so some necromancer who is obsessed with Alice in wonderland.

I am  informing the others as I continue to look around, travel down a section labeled eat me with giant stuff and a section that says drink me where I have to squeeze in to to and see a miniature forest around.

I encounter a cat girl and chat a while with her before she runs off. I also see the stop for a tea party with a girl in a hat and her friends.

Then the guards come… cybernetic soldiers wearing giant cards armed with guns. They try and chase me but I just smash them. This leads to more of them coming I fight my way through to the queen of Hearts. She of course is calling for my head. I break her soldiers then she tries to decapitate me with a large axe which breaks on my skin. I try to tear the broken axe from her hand but accidently pull off her arm. She runs crying. I feel terrible suddenly. I chase after her only to find her cowering behind a young girl dressed as Alice on a throne.

“Alice” angrily yells at me for breaking her toys. I explain they were trying to hurt me and I was just defending myself but she calls me a toy too.

I get a sense despite her view of me as a toy that she may not be evil and may just want to play… manage to convince her that the dolls have feelings like fear and feel pain and she shouldn’t break them. I also manage to convince her it’s better to have actual friends than toys.

She admits she is just hiding here because she is scared of the other necromancers, that she didn’t create us. Realize we probably just lead whoever did create them right to her.

Start to hear from my companions monsters are showing up on the surface.

So I head back up and fight off the monsters with my companions, what’s left of Alice’s guard, and my sisters… we fight all sorts of horrors. Including zombie tigers and elephants but eventually we push them back.

I introduce Alice to my sisters. At first they are scared but I manage to calm everyone down and hammer out a friendship between all of them.

We finish securing the park and posting some robot guards then we head out to go find the necromancer who created me and my sisters.

It’s a long journey but eventually we find him, we fight horrible creatures and make it to him. He snidely tells me I can’t do anything to him as his power over life and death is absolute.

I use clerical magic to turn him to dust and send his soul to the appropriate afterlife…

My Companions and I spend the next 10 years trying to improve the world, take down evil necromancers and build something of a civilization.