RuneScape Forum Archive | \+/The History Of Runescape\+/

Jan

2023

Sliske

Posts: 9,275 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Mysterious Ghost: Well, as I headed on me merry way, hoping the foul odours that lingered in me nostrils would soon pass, I see in front of me this explorer fella, all decked out in his fine clothing, and carrying some long package bundled in rags. So I says to myself, ‘Rennard’, I says, ‘Rennard, why would some fella all dressed in finery be carrying something wrapped in dirty rags?’ So I thinks to meself a little more, ‘Rennard’, I thinks, ‘Rennard, maybe that fella has something valuable in there, and covered it in dirty rags so it don’t look so valuable’. So I conked this fella round the back of his head with me bag of jewels, picked up the package and was on me merry way afore he comes to.
Player: So what happened then?
Mysterious Ghost: Well, I makes me way to the closest tavern I knew of that catered to my sort of people…
Player: You mean thieves?
Mysterious Ghost: Right ye are, so I makes me way to the nearest friendly tavern, and unwraps the bundle to see what it had inside.
Player: The Staff of Armadyl?
Mysterious Ghost: Was it? Ah, I never knew that… Anysways, I unwrapped this staff, and sees it be a god-weapon; I may be just a common thief, but I recognizes a weapon not made by mortal hands when I sees one.
Player: So, what did you do then?
Mysterious Ghost: Well, I knew such a weapon would be of great value to… Now, that’s funny. Can’t remember his name, now. The powerful god, lived in the North-east. Took the Mahjarrat away from under Icthlarin’s control. Anyway, I hired me a messenger to go off and let him know I had something I was prepared to sell that I thought he’d be interested in… Now WHY can't I remember his name? Very odd that…
Player: So you sold the staff to this god you can’t remember?

Everyone dies.

Master of the Shadow Realm

28-Apr-2008 08:06:59 - Last edited on 14-Nov-2008 14:37:58 by Sliske

Jan

2023

Sliske

Posts: 9,275 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Mysterious Ghost: Well, that's the other funny thing... He never showed up, he sent some General or other instead. Hmmm... You know... Thinking back on that, I'm getting the feeling that messenger did a little doublecross of his own, and took me message to the wrong fella.
Player: So what was this General's name?
Mysterious Ghost: His name was Zamorak. I remember thinking at the time it was odd, because the fella was a mighty powerful warrior, but he was never fully trusted by… WHY can't I remember his name???
Player: So you suspect the messenger might have taken the message to the wrong person? So you think it was an accident or deliberate?
Mysterious Ghost: Well that I can't tell ya, but if something happened to get me cursed, it’s likely the messenger would know more than me. His name was Kharrim, and if he caused me to be stuck like this, I’m gonna fillet him like a dog, ghost or no! I tell ye what, you’ve given me much of think about so I’d like to offer yer a gift; Here, take these, they were the gloves I stole me first cake with, they might bring yer some luck.

Everyone dies.

Master of the Shadow Realm

28-Apr-2008 08:07:05 - Last edited on 14-Nov-2008 14:38:56 by Sliske

Jan

2023

Sliske

Posts: 9,275 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Kharrim:
Player: Hello. So you must be Kharrim the messenger.
Mysterious Ghost: How do you know my name, stranger?
Player: Well now* I had an interesting chat with Rennard the thief. It seems you redirected his message regarding a certain god-weapon for your own ends.
Mysterious Ghost: So THAT is what this is about… I should have known the deal was too good to have no repercussions…
Player: It seems as though you might be responsible for this curse that has befallen you by not delivering Rennard’s message to the correct person.
Mysterious Ghost: Ha! That is not a truthful assessment of the story… You might think differently if you had heard my side of events.
Player: Please let me hear your side of the story then…
Mysterious Ghost: Well, if you have spoken to Rennard, then you will know that he had somehow managed to obtain a very valuable weapon, and was looking for buyers. What he probably did*’t tell you, was that he met me in a drunken stupor in some smoke filled tavern, and I offered to arrange a purchaser for this item, in exchange for a small finders fee.
Player: So you knew what the staff was?
Mysterious Ghost: The god-staff of Armadyl? Well, of course I did. Honestly, you would have to be pretty slow-witted to not recognize a legendary artefact such as that.
Player: Wait, I don’t understand, Rennard said that he had a buyer already in mind, and that you diverted his message to a General Zamorak instead?
Mysterious Ghost: Ha! Here is a word of advice for you adventurer; Never trust the words of a drunk. Whatever he might have thought he was doing with it, in the end all that happened was he left me to arrange a purchaser for the item.
Player: So you thought you would offer it to General Zamorak?

Everyone dies.

Master of the Shadow Realm

28-Apr-2008 08:07:12 - Last edited on 14-Nov-2008 14:39:41 by Sliske

Jan

2023

Sliske

Posts: 9,275 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Mysterious Ghost: Ah yes, Lord Zamorak. He was merely a mortal back then, you know? Yet I could see great things in store for him even then. He had a kind of brilliant ruthlessness… And the special kind of vicious streak you see so rarely… Well anyway, when given the task of selling a weapon forged by the very gods themselves, I naturally thought of Zamorak as a potential buyer. I was a messenger in his employ anyway, so it was a mere trifle to find him and deliver the news, and I knew of his particular interest in armour and weaponry of all kinds. Yes, he was always quite the connoisseur when it came to weaponry… But I digress. I let Lord Zamorak know that there was some drunken fool with an artefact of incredible power that could probably be bought off with a few jewels and trinkets, and he escorted me to the tavern and made the purchase there and then. It was a satisfactory deal all around, I got a share of the sale price from Rennard, and I greatly increased my prestige amongst Zamorak and his followers. But maybe… Perhaps the event that followed were responsible for my cursed state…
Player: Events that followed?
Mysterious Ghost: I can not tell you of them precisely, for I myself was not there to witness them. I am after all, simply a messenger. When…’it’ happened, I was busy elsewhere delivering a message from Zamorak to the rest of his Mahjarrat ilk.
Player: When ‘it’ happened? What was ‘it’?
Mysterious Ghost: As I have explained, I was not there, and I do not know what Zamorak did with the staff, but whatever it was resulted in his banishment by the other gods for so many years. The very strange thing was that Saradomin must have known about it, whatever it was, before it even happened…
Player: Really? Why do you say that?

Everyone dies.

Master of the Shadow Realm

28-Apr-2008 08:07:19 - Last edited on 14-Nov-2008 14:40:13 by Sliske

Jan

2023

Sliske

Posts: 9,275 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Mysterious Ghost: Well, it was the contents of the message I was returning to Zamorak; Lucien seemed quite certain that there was a spy for Saradomin somewhere amongst his followers named Lennissa. If whatever happened to the staff caused this curse to befall me, then it is certain that she too would have been afflicted, because she would have been in the very heart of the action. Hmmm… You have given me much to think on adventurer. I would like to reward you with my sturdy messenger boots, may they aid you in your travels.

Everyone dies.

Master of the Shadow Realm

28-Apr-2008 08:07:25 - Last edited on 14-Nov-2008 14:40:34 by Sliske

Jan

2023

Sliske

Posts: 9,275 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Lennissa:
Player: Hello. You would be Lennissa, I take it?
Mysterious Ghost: Who are you? Where did you hear my name? How comes it that you can see and speak to me?
Player: Well, a ghost called Kharrim directed me towards you.
Mysterious Ghost: So that weasel Kharrim has been blighted by this curse too? Ha, a good thing too. If anybody deserved such a fate it would be one such as him.
Player: I guess you did*’t get along then?
Mysterious Ghost: No, evil scum such as he should never have been allowed to walk this world. What lies has he told you to come here? Have you come to try and kill me?
Player: Well, I’m not sure I could if I tried, but that is not why I have come to you.
Mysterious Ghost: Then speak, and speak well, for I may yet be dead, but am still a danger to those who cross me.
Player: Actually, I’m trying to work out why all of you invisible ghosts seem to have been cursed. I’m not sure how exactly, but the trail seems to have led me to you…
Mysterious Ghost: That makes no sense… I served Saradomin faithfully my entire life, then all of a sudden I find myself reduced to this state!
Player: Well, it seems as though that may have been the cause…
Mysterious Ghost: What? Explain yourself.
Player: As I understand it, it has something to do with the Staff of Armadyl, and your refusal to tell Saradomin it had been stolen…
Mysterious Ghost: What? But… But that is not how it happened at all!
Player: Then please, go ahead and tell me the events of that day in your own words…
Mysterious Ghost: Let me see… I had been working as a spy for my Lord Saradomin, amongst the forces of… the Empty Lord.
Player: ‘The Empty Lord’? who is that?

Everyone dies.

Master of the Shadow Realm

28-Apr-2008 08:07:31 - Last edited on 14-Nov-2008 14:41:57 by Sliske

Jan

2023

Sliske

Posts: 9,275 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Mysterious Ghost: I will not give you his name, for to do so would give him power here. Let us just say that he was a fearsome deity, whose strength was greater then all the gods we knew of on this realm at the time. It is probably worth mentioning that at this time we had no knowledge of the mysterious nature god Guthix.
Player: So he was stronger than Saradomin?
Mysterious Ghost: As Saradomin was, yes. As Saradomin is now? Who can say?
Player: I see. Please continue.
Mysterious Ghost: As I say, I was working as a spy within the very camp of my Lord’s enemies. I knew that should I have been caught, I risked being killed upon the spot, but my combat skills were always formidable, and if truth be told, there was a fair amount of dissent amongst… ‘his’ followers anyway.
Player: How do you mean ‘dissent’?
Mysterious Ghost: Ah, to not understand this, you must have led a sheltered life… Let me tell you this: Evil will always breed more evil, and will never be satisfied with what it has. The Empty Lord chose to ally himself with the dark creatures of this world, fully aware that their own natures would cause them to rally against his rule, and take every opportunity they could to betray him. This has always been the nature of evil. Perhaps he thought his power could prevent such a treachery? This allowed me freedom amongst their camp, for it was always easy to point the finger of suspicion at some unsuspecting necromancer or foolish Mahjarrat if it seemed as though my activities had been discovered. Similarly, should I ever been caught in the act of my sabotage, it was all too easy to bribe whoever found me or persuade them into believing it was just some minor treachery of my own, rather than my work for my Lord Saradomin.
Player: Okay… Well, that makes sense, but I don’t understand what the Staff of Armadyl had to do with this…?

Everyone dies.

Master of the Shadow Realm

28-Apr-2008 08:07:37 - Last edited on 14-Nov-2008 14:42:27 by Sliske

Jan

2023

Sliske

Posts: 9,275 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Mysterious Ghost: As I told you, the Empty Lord was extremely powerful, but not so powerful that he could rule over the other deities of this world. Should he have made a move against any other god, then he could still have been easily brought down by the combined efforts of the others. The theft of Armadyl’s staff changed this however. If he had taken possession of this god-weapon, then this power would have been so great that he could have overthrown all on this world, and made it into his own image! I could not allow such a thing to happen! I went immediately to my comrade Dhalak, the mage, and told him that a message had come to the lair offering this weapon for sale! I knew that as soon as my Lord Saradomin heard this, he would contact Armadyl to inform them of the theft, and the matter would have been resolved quickly and discreetly.
Player: So you passed this information to Dhalak instead of taking it to Saradomin yourself?
Mysterious Ghost: To my eternal shame, I indeed failed my Lord Saradomin… I could not risk taking the message directly, for I feared my disguise had been uncovered. Lucien particularly had been taking an unhealthy interest in my activities, and I had a gut feeling that to make any obvious moves against the Empty Lord would have been my undoing. But Dhalak was a noble man! I can not believe that he would not have taken my message immediately to Lord Saradomin!
Player: Well, it seems like he did*’t, but I don’t know why not*
Mysterious Ghost: Please adventurer, discover what foul fate must have befallen him for him to have neglected his duty! I have not much to offer as reward, but for these spare robes I wore while on assignment… Please find him and discover why I am cursed like this!

Everyone dies.

Master of the Shadow Realm

28-Apr-2008 08:07:43 - Last edited on 14-Nov-2008 14:43:02 by Sliske

Jan

2023

Sliske

Posts: 9,275 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Dhalak:
Player: Hello Dhalak.
Mysterious Ghost: You see my form, hear my words, and know my name, yet your face I recognise not* Be you some mighty sorcerer to bind me so?
Player: Um… Well, not really… But that is besides the point. It is not I who has trapped you here as a ghost.
Mysterious Ghost: Then how comes it to be that you know my name stranger?
Player: Lennissa told me about you, and where to find you?
Mysterious Ghost: Lennissa? Oh that poor sweet girl… Has my foolishness cursed her as well as myself???
Player: Your foolishness?
Mysterious Ghost: The story shames me stranger, I wouldst rather keep it unto myself.
Player: Look, I don’* want to force you into telling me, but perhaps sharing it with someone might relieve your guilt?
Mysterious Ghost: Aye… Perhaps it might at that. So what has Lennissa told you of the events of the day the curse befell me?
Player: Well, she told me that she was working as an undercover agent of Saradomin amongst the followers of some ‘Empty Lord’, and when news of the theft of a god-weapon reached her, she passed the message on to you instead of taking it to Saradomin because she was scared her cover might be blown.
Mysterious Ghost: Aye, that is a fair account of events…
Player: But I don’t understand why you did*’t take her message to Saradomin?
Mysterious Ghost: Stranger, my foolishness was a result of my respect for Saradomin, not as a result of any attempted treachery!
Player: So why did*’t you pass on Lennissa** message? As I understand if something happened with the staff that could have been avoided if you had passed her message on!

Everyone dies.

Master of the Shadow Realm

28-Apr-2008 08:07:43 - Last edited on 14-Nov-2008 14:43:42 by Sliske

Jan

2023

Sliske

Posts: 9,275 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Mysterious Ghost: *sigh* I know not what occurred with that god-weapon, but I have my suspicions… Let me explain myself. I was Lennissa*s immediate superior, and I was often her contact for missions. Because of this role, I had access to a larger picture of what was happening than she herself did, and I was not only well aware that her presence amongst the enemy camp was detected, but I also was aware that there was a growing faction amongst them who were plotting against their master.
Player: Their master being…?
Mysterious Ghost: That I will not tell you. I will tempt the fates no more than I already have done. But anyway, it had become to my attention that the Mahjarrat who had been liberated from the control of Icthlarin did not much appreciate one form of slavery to another, and under the leadership of the mighty Zamorak were making plans to overthrow their master and take his power for themselves. Now, As powerful, long-lived and evil as they were, they were still just mortal, and I made the decision that it would be of benefit to my Lord Saradomin for his mightiest rival to be distracted by such internal conflicts.
Player: So that is why you decided not to pass the report from Lennissa on?
Mysterious Ghost: Yes, but my guilt is more than simply inaction… I knew that with such a weapon, Zamorak would be capable of launching an attack that could actually stand a chance of success, but I also knew that he would never be able to get a chance to use it in battle for being a god-weapon its presence would have sung out to their leader.
Player: I’m guessing you did something about that, then?
Mysterious Ghost: Indeed I did. To my eternal shame, I decided that I would assist Zamorak and his henchmen in their battle, by secretly casting a spell of concealment upon the staff so that they might use it secretly against their master.
Player: So Zamorak knew about this?

Everyone dies.

Master of the Shadow Realm

28-Apr-2008 08:07:49 - Last edited on 14-Nov-2008 14:44:09 by Sliske

Forums

\+/The History Of Runescape\+/