Feb 02, 2010 18:07
I'm dropping Retribution is at Hand. No longer can I write for a franchise I now despise. Sorry Derrick Mace, but I'm afraid that your story will remain untold.
Short ending by chapters:
Chapter Eight: Talks about Derrick from Lyrissa's POV and she narriates her travel to the hidden chapel, and then switches at the end to the POV of a student, Dayrath, and it explains the magic system I've developed, and reveals that Ralph is closer to making his weapon.
Chapter Nine: Set a week after, where Derrick and Co. ferry old Sir Owen to Ironforge, the main part of this chapter is the process of ferrying him, and the news was leaked to the Scourge, who want Owen's body to examine how the plague effects paladins. They escape and send Owen away. Narlen goes to Silvermoon to leak false information about their movements and Lady Karin is sent to Light's Hope. Derrick infiltrates the Scholomance and interrogates a teacher to reveal how they were given away. Shit hit the fan and it was revealed that the spell Lyrissa cast on Derrick's cape was twisted by Ralph's magical mirror (having the ability to reverse mid-level spells), and now it works for him. Rest of the chapter consists of an escape for his life from the deathly school.
Chapter Ten: Set a week later as Derrick tends to his wounds in an abandoned cottage, Lyrissa finds the hidden chapel (finally) and tries to purify the Lay Line. The Scourge left soldiers in the chapel, and they attack Lyrissa and her dwarf bodyguard but are eliminated. Lyrissa tries to refresh the spell on Derrick's cloak and tries to find him, eventually being lead into the cottage where he rests. They talk, and Derrick tells her that he is preparing an assault on his brother, where he plans to kill him and break the new mirror he made before he develops it further.
Chapter Eleven: Derrick rallies up his allies and asks the Argent Crusade for assistance and they send a few soldiers, and they assault the Mace estate at sundown. A big battle ensues and Derrick confronts his brother at the top floor. During their fight, Ralph expresses how he doesn't want to kill Derrick, and Derrick replies the same, but it is either the mirror or Ralph's life, and Ralph spirits away the mirror to Icecrown Citadel, sacrificing himself to get the mirror away. Derrick captures Ralph and strips him of his magic trinkets, afterward ordering Lyrissa to destroy whatever magic could remain in him. He is taken away and Derrick follows Lyrissa southwards to Stormwind.
The Plaguelands Arc is done, and then it's Northrend.
Chapter Twelve: Derrick flies to Dalaran with Lyrissa, she reports and he goes out to educate himself about the current political situation. The mirror is sighted with a magi, they go to kill him, wade through a flood of enemies and finally get back the mirror, bringing it back to Dalaran.
Chapter Thirteen: The mirror undergoes studies, and it is finally destroyed, and Derrick is free to go back wherever he wishes. Ralph is exposed to the mirror and all traces of his necromantic power are removed, and thus the world is given a way to heal the magic plague. Ralph, stripped of magic and a great deal of physical strength is taken by Dalaran to interrogate, Lady Karin is finally put to rest (as the magic was all that kept her together), Sir Owen retires, Narlen remains in his post as a spy for the Ashen Verdict, Lyrissa is finally relieved from her mission and Derrick returns home with magi and warriors to cleanse the Lay Line with the mirror and return the Plaguelands to what it used to be and call it: New Lordaeron.
The End.
Rushed ending? I guess, but it's a logical and a realistic one.
Thanks to Blizzard for killing off Arthas, Kel'Thuzad and most of the canon, and I have to end it with a low note like this.
Sorry, dear readers, but that's it. I hope it's enough.
stories,
stuff,
sad,
disgrace,
retribution is at hand