Heroes of Survival

The following story I wrote this evening for a mate of mine and me for a future project I may want to start. First I'm going to help him with his Survival map and then we may start.

That dude liked the story and I'm curious if you like it too, aswell as I like to know why you didn't like it (if you didn't like it ) But then also give me tips how to change it.

The following story is just a prelude on the big story, though not shure if I will continue with it since it takes quiet some time to think of something good.

Well, here it comes... there goes nothing!

-Heroes of Survival-

Dorall acts strange lately, it looks like he isn't really there, like his mind is somewhere else, somewhere far gone, I'm wondering what is happening with him. It can't be that he has totally no interest for the lately strange events in the Glacier. None of our scouts have yet returned as we worry more and more. Dorall doesn't seem to care a bit of what happens up there, but every time we ask for new people to find our missing group he does accept it and in those times he looks more and more interested in finding the lost band, strange, very strange indeed. Well, let's not think about this any longer, he propably got some kind of explenation for his strange behavior, I'm propably beeing to sceptical about this. All I need to think about now is getting to Zorak, to my wife and son, it shouldn't be far from here, though lately all places look more and more the same, a sharp cold has overthrown us and the food has been mostly destroyed or frozen, poor us, let's hope the crops from Lordearon will arrive soon.

< Over half an hour passes as he finally arrives in Zorak, the northmen village>

"Dad!"
"Darall, finally, I have missed you, hey, tell me, where is mom?"
"She, she got sick"
"Sick? In such a short period of time? Yesterday she felt wonderfull, what did she do?"
"I got no idea, dad, it sounds strange to me aswell, this morning the crops from Lordearon arrived, as I was hunting with my friends in the nearby forest mom collected all the food for the comming week. She took a small part of it she told me in her illness, she got sick almost straight away. She told me not to eat the food, I have no idea why not, maybe that's the reason she got ill?"
"I got no idea, if so, then maybe Lordearon has problems aswell, I will send the runner to Brill and ask what is going on"
"Well, I don't think that 'll work, with mom near the whole village got sick aswell, like there was some kind of plague in the food"
"A plague? Nonensense, there hasn't been any plague in these regions for near 200 years, you can't just be insinuating that there has come some kind of random plague comming here, that really makes no sense"
- 'He..Help..' -
"Mom!"
As Darall and Tures run into their small hut they make a horrible discovery. Darall's mother is changed, her body looks mutulated, her skin is slowly changing color, to a more darker form, her body is beginning to smell and her eyes are beginning to fall further in the deep darkness of death.
"No, Tanya, what is happening!"
"I..the f...food...must be...plagued...w..with...something"
"What?!"
"Don't eat it... rest of village... has.. same problems..."
"No, don't die!"
"I..I.. I love you..."
While Tures holds his wife in his hands he begins to get tears and slowly he lays his wifes soulless body on the bed as he picks a chair to sit on.
"We...we...something strange is happening here!"
"What? What are you talking of, dad"
"It's not only the village, Dorall is acting strange aswell, as the whole council is."
"What are you insinuating, dad?"
"Nothing, Darall, just that something is very very wrong in here, it almost looks like this is some kind of propaganda of some higher power"
"You..you think of the Orcs having broken the encampments and have enplagued all the food to let us die?"
"No, unthough the Horde and their untrustfull magics do got the will for such things, they simply don't got the skill for this. I think something higher is doing this, something mysterious..."
"You mean the strange events in the Glacier?"
"How do you know.."
"Comeon, dad, everybody knows that"
"Huh, how?"
"A messanger from Dorall reached our camp about 2 hours before your arrival, he asked for volunteers to the north, to find the missing band of scouts"
"What?!"
"Saey, Yuax and a couple of farmers joined him, and they left shortly before your came here"
"What the... Dorall is calling help from the villages? What the hell is he up to! The meaning that I left was to select people for the rescue team, we already made groups last night! He wasn't in need of any more people at all!"
"Strange, the messanger said they had lach of volunteers, since most people were scared"
"I'm going to find out what the hell is wrong with this... boy, stay here and try to find any more surviving villagers of the plague, maybe they know more and don't eat from the crobs, you will have to hunt for your food these days till I get back, I'm going to Lordearon and speak with Uther about this... maybe he knows more of Dorall's plans..."

< END >

Remind that:

- I wrote this story in about 10-15 minutes
- I wrote it in MSN messanger to the dude (since my idea was to put it in his map but he wanted it to be more of a survival instead of an adventure based campaign)
- It's my first story :D

Thanks,

Syntic_Arrow

;) :)

Hey, that's pretty good. You can branch out of Arthas' story and find other people that tried to do something about it(other than Arthas and the Silver Hand).

Maybe they'll see them sometimes?

Thank you that you like it :P but can you be more clear in what you mean? Cause I don't really understand ;)

edit: please keep posting more replies plz ;)

What I mean is that you could sort of give the player glimpses of what Arthas and the entire entourage are doing(like a 2-5 second segment). It would give your campaign a unique way of showing that when your doing this, Arthas is doing this. It would also give the player a better understanding of what is happening at what time, too.

Although, it'd probably be complicated.

Or, you could do some semi-cross over(even though it might mess up WC3's original story line).

well, I hope you understand that this is happening BEFORE Arthas is evil, this happens even before the first human mission, it's about 2 days before Arthats and Uther meet and when they go to kill some horde