Ashram's Arrival (RP)

Ashram's Arrival was a short and aborted roleplaying session on the FRPG, the phpBB2 version. The full Hungarian-language logs can be read here.

Plot
Disguised as a 18-20 old boy, the shapeshifting lich Ashrám Wegnard arrives to the city of Copperport on a ship, having used underground contacts to have his weapons and armour smuggled in - upon seeing the city from the ship, he remarks how long he was here, and that when he was still a mortal, it was just a fishing village. Now it is a sprawling metropolis - not just metropolitan, but cosompolitan too. He thinks to himself - "So it begins."

At the same time, the Dark Elf May'diira Hun'ath was also in the city. Since she could not speak the Etrandish language (only Dark Elven, High Elven and Despotanmagi), there was a clear language barrier between her and the majority of the city's denizens. She was first sitting in a contraption made out of a broken barrel and a broken crate.

Both Ashrám and May'diira notice just how diverse the city is, how it is inhabited by all sorts of races: Humans, High Elves, Dark Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, etc. How these people all mix and commit miscegenation, how often one can see a Human male with Elven girls on his arms, how often do Human girls go with Orcs, etc. On the very same ship that Ashrám was travelling to the city, there were also many peasants looking to move here for better opportunities. Sellswords and merchants as well. When the ship makes it to the dock, they line up all the passangers, and make them present their papers on an alphabetic order. After a passanger has presented their papers, they are instructed to leave the ship. When a peasant takes too long to find his papers, a guard yells "YOUR PAPERS, PEASANT, YOUR PAPERS!!!" - meanwhile, a nobleman is given leniency, and is treated kindly, no matter the amount of stalling. This convinced Ashrám that this world is inherently rotten to the core.

Ashrám, by a freakish coincidence, goes into the same alley that May'diira is "residing" in, and immediately senses that someone powerful in the Dark Arts is nearby. That someone turns out to be the young Dark Elven girl, May'diira. The recognition of Dark Powers was mutual, as May'diira too "felt a disturbance in the force", so to speak, and when Ashrám asked her "Who are you", she just replied "I am a stranger. Call me May'diira. And you? Are you too a stranger? Or a returner?". Ashrám's reply was "I am both a stranger and a homecomer.", before introducing himself in more detail to May'diira, like telling her his name. Much to May'diira's surprise, Ashrám appears to be fluent at the Dark Elven tongue. The two have a brief conversation about what it is to be like a stranger, and why would a stranger want to return, a discussion that ends with Ashrám claiming, that he returned because he has much work to do here. May'diira claims, that she was sent up to the surface by her superiors, so that she may learn and bring back knowledge. Ashrám asks her, if she would like to witness the creation of a new world, to which she replies "Perhaps. What is the difference between the old world, and the new world?"

"The current world is.... a corrupted plague. The new world is, when we take that out by its root, and kill even its seeds. A new world, where these signs of decline are gone together with their reasons. A new golden age, where no one has to live in misery!" - says Ashrám.

"Sounds like quite the interesting world." - replied May'diira, before the roleplaying session got aborted, due to Ashrám's inactivity.

Tropes

 * : Ashrám's player copped out.
 * : How Ashrám ended up infilitrating the city.
 * : Between May'diira nad pretty much everyone else in the city. Luckily for her, Ashrám can speak Dark Elven.
 * : Both Ashrám and May'diira can feel each other's presence, due to the fact that both are very powerful in Dark Magic.
 * : Ashrám rambles about how he'll create a much better world. A utopia.
 * : What Ashrám sees the city of Copperport as.
 * : Admittedly, not much. Other than May'diira and Ashrám having maybe an even longer conversation about philosophy or something.