Kenshi
Umbra Animo 20 Nov, 2022 @ 3:32pm
The Tale of Onix the Shek slave. (warning based on a current playthough.) (Modded game)
Chapter 1 Escape
Once there was a Shek slave held in the UC stone mine named Onix. a large shek she was a tougher the many of the other slaves despite her youth. and much better and picking the locks to her shackles. for many days she would taunt the guards by picking the locks to her shackles and dropping them out of the cage she was often confined to. the Slavers would just groan in annoyance and force new shackles on her. what they didn't know was Onix was using the shackles as training and eventually picked up enough lock picking to open her cage after a few attempts she even got lucky and opening it on her third try. She waited til night fall for the guards to fall asleep before she escaped her cage. she silently moved around the boarder wall of the mine to avoid the guards who had the night-shift. as she approached the front gate and prepared for the run of her life, the Universe blessed her with a lucky break. Two Skimmers had gotten close to the gate and the guards had attacked them. but the Guards were arrogant and thought the two of them could win. they could not and fell to the stronger Skimmers who left soon after. Taking this chance she looted the to guards stripping one of his armor and weapon and looting both of coin and medical supplies.
Know dressed as one of the very slavers who trapped her she fled the camp that night. making her way to a town for supplies and hopefully a place to rest her head as she waits for her bounty to pass.

Chapter 2 Freedom
Onix ran all night far away from the camp that held her. she ran to the UC town of Sho-Battai. while a town close to the camp and selling slaves it's not run by the slave traders, and while waiting for the news of escape to die down she spot some of the free roaming outlaws pick a fight with some of the UC guards. the outlaws where quickly taken down and the dead left to rot in the heat. but the guards left the bodies unlooted. Onix knew running around in the marked armor of the slave traders would be risky. she had no trust in her ability to play a slaver. so taking the risk she took of the stronger armor and replaced it with that of the fallen outlaws. know looking more generic she was able to pawn off the armor both of the other outlaws and the slaver armor. thankfully the deathly nature of the desert meant having the armor wasn't anything special. using the cats she got for the sale, she went to the bar to get a proper meal for the first time since she was caught. while eating some simple cactus stew she heard talk of the infamous Tin-Fist. Onix has forgotten about the ancient Skeleton and how much he fought to free slaves. and unlike many of the slavers she had some idea where he was. it was rumored among the slaves he had a base in Stobe's gambit. Not like she had anything to lose. using the Cats she had gained she bought a small pack, a sleeping cot, and some Sand cubes. a version of the meat cube made of cactus and chew-sticks. and after a short rest in the open cots in the poor district, Onix set out for Stobe's Gambit hopeful to going to Anti-slavers

Chapter 3 RIsk
The trip to Stobe's Gambit was not with out risk. while Onix's garb helped removed the look of a slave she always ran the risk of being caught again. and along the path to Stobe's was a deadly region known as Guts, a appropite name since it took guts to travel there with the extreme number of deadly Beak-things the call that region home. Onix had to keep her eyes open as she traveled along the region. even forgoing the chance to set a fire as the rested under the cover of the giant planets to sleep out of the range and eating the dusty sandcube. thankful the cube did have some water in it but still to dry to be pleasant. but Onix's luck could not hold just as she was leaving Guts a small pack of Beak things spotted her. as she ran one got a lucky hit on her arm tearing a large section of her limb of. not enough to doom the limb but enough to cripple the use of the arm. the only saving grace she found was a unlikely safe place. a slave farm. the guards at best could serve as a distraction to the beasts. Onix took the risk. if nothing else she could escape again from the slavers but if the beasts killed her she would be eaten alive. Thankfully the guards where to focused on the Beak-Things and ignored Onix. the numbers and better armor let the slavers kill the Beak-Things and Onix was able to carve off some usable meat and leather from the remains before she quickly left. Stobe's was closer but still a few days away. and know Onix had a injured arm though bandaged was still hurt

Chapter 4 Stobe's Gambit.
After a day Onix made it to the deadly land of Venge. I land Beset by a massive beam of heat during the day leaving very little life in the area. Onix made it during the night during which the beam is gone. Onix rushed across the region in hopes to avoid the laser. but despite her speed night ended to day and Onix could already see the laser striking the land just as she made it to Stobe's Gambit. Onix made it to the land of her hope but know she had to find him. if he even lived there. Stobe's would prove to be a deadly land. The water she could see from afar turned to acid when close many beasts wandered the land and even rouge Skeletons hunted for sport many still holding ancient weapons from ages past. Onix could only grint a bear the danger in hope she could find Sanctuary from the slavers. A few days would base as Onix carefully explored Stobe's in hopes of finding anything a few times she would stop signs of a building only to see it was a ancient ruin. but near the end of her search and hope she saw a city hidden on a mountain near the lower end of Stobe's Gambit. could it be Tin-Fist's home or a bandit camp. Onix didn't have many other options

Chapter 5 Sanctuary
Onix ran up the winding path to the hidden Town. careful but still hopeful. as the Town came in to view she saw a sign exclaiming the Town's name, "Spring". as she approached no one shot at her. and then a watchman Called out "Are you Slave or Slaver stranger?" Taking the risk Onix replied "They would call me Slave but their chains could not hold me" The watchman a Skeleton seems happy with that answer "then Welcome to Spring friend Tin-Fist would love to talk to another who took freedom in their hands." TIn-Fist was here! Onix had made it She was safe. and soon she could work to take vengeance on those who captured her. Onix entered Spring and was led to a central building. there among other Anti-Slavers was Tin-fist a tall Skeleton. well know for forgoing any weapon and using is metallic fists since they could never be disarmed meaning he was always able to fight back. "Hello sister you have traveled far from your captures." he said "yes all the way from the great desert but I funded my trip from the bounty I took from my captors. And know I wish to take the fight to them and free all who are caged." While Tin-Fist lacked a face to express emotion Onix could feel he was pleased "talk to Grey he Handles recruiting and can remove the marks that denounce you as a slave to others" Onix thanked Tin-Fist and went over to a number of training dummies and saw a Hive prince garbed in ninja garments "a escaped slave I see your here to join? I warn you the people we help will hate you, we fight a Nobel cause but fight for every meal such is the path we have chosen you sure you want to join?" Grey asked seeming skeptical of the young Shek's will "I have fought for every scrap I ate I grew up a slave and instead of breaking me it has made me strong, and know I won't let any one else grow up the same way I have." Onix said her voice strong "Very well sister welcome to the fight of freedom give a day to spread the word. we don't want any of our members to attack you. but word will spreed to UC and their slavers a message like this will be to wide spread to go unnoticed" Grey said as welcomed Onix to their family "all that will do is show I am coming for them much faster then before"

Chapter 6 Travel and Training
Onix would stay in Spring for a around two weeks. during this time She would train on the surprisingly good assault training Dummies. when not training she would mine from a few ore deposits around spring for some extra cash. while similar to the work she did as a slave she know can keep the product of her effort and sell it for her own cash.During this time she was able to buy some proper clothing and while low quality two weapons. A large sword focused on user defense and a short blade of similar design. Onix decided on these due to her lower confidence in her defensive combat ability. After two weeks she decided to travel while nice to live with others who want freedom and her hero spring was located in a deadly area and lacked many facilities she could use to get stronger. Some tech hunters a wide spread neutral party had a shop in spring and mentioned a tech hunter city was built nearby in a region named Flat lagoon. Onix decided that would be her next stop maybe there she can get some better gear.

Chapter 7 A place to rest.
Onix would roam around for few weeks taking the time to train her combat skill on some Lone wildlife. She had some luck with stray Beak-Things her defensive blade gave her a edge on the slow attacking animals. while she traveled she found the Town of the creatively name "Flat lagoon" the tech hunters might be great at finding tech but they suck and naming things. buying a collection of maps she found some way-stations run by the tech hunters. While looking around Flat lagoon she also found a large structure for sale. Onix thought "I might be able to make a base here. get the material for a some kind of forge and armor bench and I can work on making my own weapons and armor. if for no other reason but selling them." Thinking this She set out to buy the building and the needed materials. taking a long trip to a far away way-station to buy building supplies she spent most of her saving buying the property but when placing a camping bed she been carrying since spring she finally had a place to sleep under a roof. She built a simple forge she was taught by the Anti-Slavers to cheaply make iron plating from some stone she carved out. and started working of getting some iron to refill her coin purse.

Chapter 8 Allies
while Onix worked on filling her pockets by selling needed Iron she was a Strange skeleton roaming around the area. The Skeleton's design looked similar a walking Fox not that she know what that was. clawed hands and feet with a pointed head with Large metal ears. one day she stuck up a conversation with the Skeleton. "I seen you wander around here for some time know. Mind explaining why?" Onix asked. "It's safe here. simple as that. Had a bad run in with the Slavers before but it was easy enough to claw my self out of the chains. but know they are after my CPU. but the tech hunters don't let them try anything. so I do odd jobs to pay for any repairs when I need them." The Skeleton said "I can understand that. I fled from one of their slave camps I broke my chains and snuck out during the night using a stroke of luck when the guards fought with some skimmers. The cocky fools where knocked out in the fight and I took the armor off of one and fled in the night." Onix shared a bit of her own tale. "Know I am working to take the fight back to the slavers and if your willing I could use someone guarding my back?" "Well it beats staying here I don't have much equipment on me though, oh and call me Kitsune" The know named Kitsune said "We can work on the equipment later I going to work on improving my home here then take a trip to the great desert. and train on some of the hostile factions there" Onix said to her new allie
Last edited by Umbra Animo; 22 Nov, 2022 @ 5:59pm
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Kaykurin 19 Apr, 2023 @ 10:15am 
Sounds not bad on the whole. I always find it exciting when someone writes their own stories. I'm working on a few stories myself. What's stopping you from writing more?
Personally, I lacked the details to imagine it better. Places and people names ok with a little more depth I found it even better.
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