Post by Augidget on Dec 9, 2012 19:46:23 GMT -5
Augidget was born in a more questionable part of Gnomeregans society, the underbelly if you will. Her mother, Kunosi was her name, was a dark woman, always plotting, planning to move herself up in any way she could. She was trained as an assassin and carried out many illegal killings throughout Gnomeregan during her lifetime, despite this she never was able to make much money for herself, though when she met a brilliant scientist, one Spizzle Magnetshot she thought she saw an opportunity to marry herself into a rich family. This however was a flawed plan as he was already married, though he was not a faithful man, at least when he met her.
Kunosi seduced Spizzle and conceived a child with him, she had hoped to use the child to tug on Spizzle's heartstrings and leave his wife for her, this did not happen. Long story short, Kunosi was enraged at the rejection, they fought, law enforcement came, and she was forced to flee underground.
Hating Spizzle not only for rejecting her, even while she was with child, but also to force her into hiding once again, she constantly looked for ways to ruin Spizzle, despite his one mistake of being with her, he was the perfect example of a Gnome, intelligent, kind, and dedicated to progress. But then she realized, she was carrying the perfect tool in her own body.
At an early age Augidget was trained in the arts of Assassination, poisons, daggers, and subtly, her mother trained her to hate her father with a furious passion, labling him as a horrid monster that abandoned her to raise her daughter alone. And when she came of age, Kunosi brought her into the open, attempting to let the world know who her father was. No one believed her, Augidget, unfortunately for Kuriosi, didn't didn't look like her father. Her plans ruined again, she decided to have him killed, Kuriosi sent Augidget to kill her own father.
Augidget didn't know much about her father, or even where he lived, or worked. She spent the next few months tracking down and learning as much as she could about the man. One of the greatest lessons Kuriosi drummed into Augidget was probably one of the biggest mistakes she could have made.
"Question everything you see."
With this in mind, Augidget researched her father, everything she found contradicted what her mother had said. Eventually, she began to doubt her mother's words.
During her time out in the city, she met a young Gnome called Kelton Twisterbolt. While at first Augidget was wary of the boy, she and him became friends, and after a time. Augidget fell in love with him. It was also during this time that something changed in her, she slowly started to warm up to the people around her. But before she had the chance to express these feelings Kelton was called elsewhere in the city for his work.
Soon after Kelton had left, Augidget had located her father's home and went to confront him. She didn't kill Spizzle as she was taught, from the shadows and silently, she came out into the open, face to face, told him who she was. The very first thing Spizzle did, (After spitting out his morning coffee and staring dumbfounded for a few moments.) was fall to his knees and beg her forgiveness.
He begged her to forgive him for his part in her upbringing:
"I didn't want to hurt you, but it's my fault she ran, my fault she took you wherever she did, my fault you had to live in such horrid conditions."
Augidget stood there, frozen, everything her mother told her was flooding her thoughts. This was the evil man she was meant to bring justice to? This man, who has only done good for Gnomeregan, and now begs her to forgive him for something he had little control over?
Something clicked into place, and she sheathed her weapon, only one question sat in her mind, a question she had wanted to ask someone for so long, but was always scared to.
"What do you know of my mother?"
Spizzle told her everything he knew, Kunosi's upbringing, her life, the people she killed, and seduced to her own ends, even the way she was conceived, and how she attempted to use such to her own ends.
Augidget was frozen, dumbfounded, was all she had known a lie? Was the only reason she was born to be a pawn for her mother to exploit and throw away? She had to have answers, real ones. Without another word, she left her father's home, and rushed home with as much speed as she could muster.
Mother...
Augidget stood in front of her home, a small block tucked away in the back streets of Gnomeregan. The usual stench of oil and vomit fills the air, though this was the last thing on her mind right now. She wanted to walk inside, but part of her was holding her back. She was scared of what she might learn if she went through with this, part of her wanted to turn around and run, part of her wanted to go in and confront her mother, and part of her just wanted to blindly obey and kill her father like she was told to.
"No.. I have to do this.."
With a deep breath, she walked forward, she only took three steps before the door to her home opens, and her mother walks out. Kunosi, she was dressed oddly, normally in a jet black dress, she was instead in padded leather armor dark as the streets when the lights were off, her raven black hair cut short, like always.
"Augidget my lovely child, my Little Dagger, you're home. Were you successful? Did you bring justice to that traitor?"
Augidget stared at her mother, something was not right, she could feel it. The way her mother smiled, it reminded her of the time she had smiled years ago.
Low lights, a figure laying before her, her hands were gripped so tightly around a handle that her knuckles were white, she was frozen, her heart racing, she had her breath held in. Before her on the ground, a corpse, red blood pooling on the floor, a knife stuck in the Gnome's back, which she was still holding, why was she still holding it? Why can't she breath? With great effort she let go and released her breath. Panting heavily she looks at the Gnome she had just killed. Then out of the shadows stalks her mother, a cruel smile on her face.
She was scared, of what she wasn't sure, but she was, her hands were shaking at her sides.
"No mother.. I did not kill him.."
Kunosi's smile quickly changed in into a frown, then a subtle glare.
"Why not?.. Did you encounter problems? Could you not find him?"
"No mother.. I found him just fine.."
"....Then why does he still live?!"
Augidget took a step back. Kuriosi was now glaring furiously at her child, a hatred harbored for decades now directed at her. Augidget was shaking all over at this point, her heart was racing.
"I... I..."
Kunosi steps foward, one of her hands now resting on the pommel of a sword she had at her hip.
"You what? You failed to kill him? He got away from you?"
Kunosi's eyes widen with revelation, her face then quickly contorting to a vicious snarl.
"You.. Let him go.. Why?! Answer me!"
Augidget gritted her teeth, mustering her all the nerve she could to yell back at her mother.
"I need answers! Why do you want him dead? What is the real reason? He can't be the evil monster you made him out to be all my life. No one who does so much good for Gnomeregan can. So why?!"
Kunosi stared blankly at her child, almost in disbelief. Resting her hands on her hips, a sly grin curled on her face.
"Very well, you want to know the truth? Yes, he may not be the monster I tried to make him out to be. But he did abandon you when his actions forced me back underground."
Augidget stared at her mother, her fists clenching at her sides.
"After you tried to use me to worm your way into his family! Is that all I've ever been? A tool? Some sort of pawn to be used to your ends?"
Kuriosi's grin widened.
"Yes..."
Augidget glared at her mother, outraged over being used like this her whole life. Kunosi took a step foward towards her daughter, saying:
"You are my daughter. I gave birth to you, I fed you, I raised you, I taught you everything you know, you owe me everything. And when I give you a task which I basically kept you alive for, you don't do it so you can ask me some stupid questions that hardly matter? Bah! You're of no use to me anymore."
With that, Kunosi reached behined her to one of her sheathed blades, slowly drawing it from the scabbard. Augidget took another few steps back, did her own mother want to kill her?
"What.. What are you doing?.."
Kunosi takes another step foward, drawing her second blade from her hip.
"If a tool no longer has use it is put away. That wont do for you. You've been turned against me, how I don't know. I'm going to have to kill him myself, and if I let you live, You might try to warn him. I suppose this was how it would end anyway. Once he's dead I have no use for dead weight."
Augidget stood there, horrified, her own mother was going to kill her. She was scared, she had seen what happens to Gnomes who have crossed her, she knew she couldn't match her mother in combat.
Such thoughts were short lived though, within moments Kunosi had no only drawn both her swords but had charged forward and closed the distance between them. Her first strike was undoubtedly intended to be lethal, a cross slash aimed directly to the throat. Augidget draw her sword and had barely enough to to raise it and parry her mothers strike, quicker then Augidget thought possible her mother was already striking again at her stomach, it was all Augidget could do to jump back and try to get some distance to balance herself.
Kunosi didn't give her daughter the chance, quickly closing the gap again slashing in a flurry of sword strikes, with every strike blocked or narrowly dodged Augidget was taking steps back, she could do nothing but defend. Some she could some she couldn't, by the 8th step she had already be been cut on the leg, the side and left arm, minor cuts but still painful.
In a desperate attempt to get some ground back she flourished her sword in front of her, it worked if only for a moment Kunosi went to her back foot, Augidget slashed as fast as she could at her mother's face, the blow was easily deflected and in fact used against her, as she had already began slashing her blade directly toward Augidgets eye, with a jerk backwards she narrowly managed to avoid being slashed, she was too slow to avoid the blade fully, it had slashed into her face and cut her eye. Screaming Augidget staggered back, clasping her right eye. For a moment Kunosi just stood still, grinning sadistically at her daughter. But in that moment something in Augidget snapped, all the repressed hatred her mother had hoped to seed into her was now being directed squarely at Kunosi, gripping her sword with blood soaked hands she stepped forward and with all her strength she slashed towards her mother.
Unlike most of her mothers targets, whom sat there screaming when such a wound was inflicted, Augidget instead threw herself in a viscous counter attack, this caught her mother off guard, allowing Augidget to land a single clean swipe on her mothers left arm, cutting deeply into the forearm.
In a furious counter attack of her own Kunosi kicked Augidget in the face, sending her daughter reeling backwards, she then spinning her blades into a reverse hold she drived the pommels into her daughters gut simultaneously. Following up by driving the back of her fist into Augidgets face, knocking her to the ground.
"Stupid child.. You should have just done what you were told."
Kunosi pointed her sword at her barely conscious daughter's throat. Augidget looks up at her mother after her vision returns to her, seeing the blade directly pointed at her throat she scuttles back, whimpering in fear. Within moments her back is pressed against a nearby wall. Augidget looks up at her mother fear freezing her in place. Kunosi looked down at her frightened child, a sadistic smile curling her lips.
"Though like I said... I suppose this would have happened even if you killed him, you're a lose end, and dead weight after all. Goodbye my Little Dagger.."
With that Kuriosi raised her sword above her head, a wicked grin on her face as she prepared to deal the final strike. Augidget threw her arms up above her face in a feeble attempt to protect herself, convinced that this was where she was going to die.
A loud crashing sound, similar to that an explosion.
Silence..
Was she dead, did she feel nothing? She can't hear anything. Slowly Augidget lowered her arms, on her arms was more blood, she freezes with fright, before realizing that it wasn't her own, looking up she sees her mother, her face frozen in shock, a hole in her chest close to her heart.
"Damnit.. Not like..."
Before another word could escape her lips Kunosi collapsed on top Augidget, Augidget laid there, the world seeming to stand completely still, her hair was now mattered in the blood coming from her right eye. Though she was too scared to move, she knew one thing. She was saved by someone, but who?
"'Ey lassie! Ye alrigh'?!"
Turning her head, she could see the one who saved her. A dwarf, all she could make out from this distance was his long and thick brown beard, the rest of his head was covered by a black hood. Hefting his riffle over his shoulder the dwarf slowly walked over to the Gnome.
"Ye' could 'ear the fightin' half the city away. You naedn't worry lass, I ain't here te hurt ye'."
Augidget just stared, still trying to process all that had happened within a few seconds. She looked up to the dwarf, who was holding his hand out to help her up.
"Let's get ye' outa' 'ere, yer bleedin' badly an' I think I hear some peace keepers comin'"
Taking the Dwarfs hand Augidget let herself be picked up by the Dwarf, for a brief moment she looked down at her own mother, now laying face down on the cold metal floor. She then looked to the Dwarf who had saved her before losing consciousness.
Kunosi seduced Spizzle and conceived a child with him, she had hoped to use the child to tug on Spizzle's heartstrings and leave his wife for her, this did not happen. Long story short, Kunosi was enraged at the rejection, they fought, law enforcement came, and she was forced to flee underground.
Hating Spizzle not only for rejecting her, even while she was with child, but also to force her into hiding once again, she constantly looked for ways to ruin Spizzle, despite his one mistake of being with her, he was the perfect example of a Gnome, intelligent, kind, and dedicated to progress. But then she realized, she was carrying the perfect tool in her own body.
At an early age Augidget was trained in the arts of Assassination, poisons, daggers, and subtly, her mother trained her to hate her father with a furious passion, labling him as a horrid monster that abandoned her to raise her daughter alone. And when she came of age, Kunosi brought her into the open, attempting to let the world know who her father was. No one believed her, Augidget, unfortunately for Kuriosi, didn't didn't look like her father. Her plans ruined again, she decided to have him killed, Kuriosi sent Augidget to kill her own father.
Augidget didn't know much about her father, or even where he lived, or worked. She spent the next few months tracking down and learning as much as she could about the man. One of the greatest lessons Kuriosi drummed into Augidget was probably one of the biggest mistakes she could have made.
"Question everything you see."
With this in mind, Augidget researched her father, everything she found contradicted what her mother had said. Eventually, she began to doubt her mother's words.
During her time out in the city, she met a young Gnome called Kelton Twisterbolt. While at first Augidget was wary of the boy, she and him became friends, and after a time. Augidget fell in love with him. It was also during this time that something changed in her, she slowly started to warm up to the people around her. But before she had the chance to express these feelings Kelton was called elsewhere in the city for his work.
Soon after Kelton had left, Augidget had located her father's home and went to confront him. She didn't kill Spizzle as she was taught, from the shadows and silently, she came out into the open, face to face, told him who she was. The very first thing Spizzle did, (After spitting out his morning coffee and staring dumbfounded for a few moments.) was fall to his knees and beg her forgiveness.
He begged her to forgive him for his part in her upbringing:
"I didn't want to hurt you, but it's my fault she ran, my fault she took you wherever she did, my fault you had to live in such horrid conditions."
Augidget stood there, frozen, everything her mother told her was flooding her thoughts. This was the evil man she was meant to bring justice to? This man, who has only done good for Gnomeregan, and now begs her to forgive him for something he had little control over?
Something clicked into place, and she sheathed her weapon, only one question sat in her mind, a question she had wanted to ask someone for so long, but was always scared to.
"What do you know of my mother?"
Spizzle told her everything he knew, Kunosi's upbringing, her life, the people she killed, and seduced to her own ends, even the way she was conceived, and how she attempted to use such to her own ends.
Augidget was frozen, dumbfounded, was all she had known a lie? Was the only reason she was born to be a pawn for her mother to exploit and throw away? She had to have answers, real ones. Without another word, she left her father's home, and rushed home with as much speed as she could muster.
Mother...
Augidget stood in front of her home, a small block tucked away in the back streets of Gnomeregan. The usual stench of oil and vomit fills the air, though this was the last thing on her mind right now. She wanted to walk inside, but part of her was holding her back. She was scared of what she might learn if she went through with this, part of her wanted to turn around and run, part of her wanted to go in and confront her mother, and part of her just wanted to blindly obey and kill her father like she was told to.
"No.. I have to do this.."
With a deep breath, she walked forward, she only took three steps before the door to her home opens, and her mother walks out. Kunosi, she was dressed oddly, normally in a jet black dress, she was instead in padded leather armor dark as the streets when the lights were off, her raven black hair cut short, like always.
"Augidget my lovely child, my Little Dagger, you're home. Were you successful? Did you bring justice to that traitor?"
Augidget stared at her mother, something was not right, she could feel it. The way her mother smiled, it reminded her of the time she had smiled years ago.
Low lights, a figure laying before her, her hands were gripped so tightly around a handle that her knuckles were white, she was frozen, her heart racing, she had her breath held in. Before her on the ground, a corpse, red blood pooling on the floor, a knife stuck in the Gnome's back, which she was still holding, why was she still holding it? Why can't she breath? With great effort she let go and released her breath. Panting heavily she looks at the Gnome she had just killed. Then out of the shadows stalks her mother, a cruel smile on her face.
She was scared, of what she wasn't sure, but she was, her hands were shaking at her sides.
"No mother.. I did not kill him.."
Kunosi's smile quickly changed in into a frown, then a subtle glare.
"Why not?.. Did you encounter problems? Could you not find him?"
"No mother.. I found him just fine.."
"....Then why does he still live?!"
Augidget took a step back. Kuriosi was now glaring furiously at her child, a hatred harbored for decades now directed at her. Augidget was shaking all over at this point, her heart was racing.
"I... I..."
Kunosi steps foward, one of her hands now resting on the pommel of a sword she had at her hip.
"You what? You failed to kill him? He got away from you?"
Kunosi's eyes widen with revelation, her face then quickly contorting to a vicious snarl.
"You.. Let him go.. Why?! Answer me!"
Augidget gritted her teeth, mustering her all the nerve she could to yell back at her mother.
"I need answers! Why do you want him dead? What is the real reason? He can't be the evil monster you made him out to be all my life. No one who does so much good for Gnomeregan can. So why?!"
Kunosi stared blankly at her child, almost in disbelief. Resting her hands on her hips, a sly grin curled on her face.
"Very well, you want to know the truth? Yes, he may not be the monster I tried to make him out to be. But he did abandon you when his actions forced me back underground."
Augidget stared at her mother, her fists clenching at her sides.
"After you tried to use me to worm your way into his family! Is that all I've ever been? A tool? Some sort of pawn to be used to your ends?"
Kuriosi's grin widened.
"Yes..."
Augidget glared at her mother, outraged over being used like this her whole life. Kunosi took a step foward towards her daughter, saying:
"You are my daughter. I gave birth to you, I fed you, I raised you, I taught you everything you know, you owe me everything. And when I give you a task which I basically kept you alive for, you don't do it so you can ask me some stupid questions that hardly matter? Bah! You're of no use to me anymore."
With that, Kunosi reached behined her to one of her sheathed blades, slowly drawing it from the scabbard. Augidget took another few steps back, did her own mother want to kill her?
"What.. What are you doing?.."
Kunosi takes another step foward, drawing her second blade from her hip.
"If a tool no longer has use it is put away. That wont do for you. You've been turned against me, how I don't know. I'm going to have to kill him myself, and if I let you live, You might try to warn him. I suppose this was how it would end anyway. Once he's dead I have no use for dead weight."
Augidget stood there, horrified, her own mother was going to kill her. She was scared, she had seen what happens to Gnomes who have crossed her, she knew she couldn't match her mother in combat.
Such thoughts were short lived though, within moments Kunosi had no only drawn both her swords but had charged forward and closed the distance between them. Her first strike was undoubtedly intended to be lethal, a cross slash aimed directly to the throat. Augidget draw her sword and had barely enough to to raise it and parry her mothers strike, quicker then Augidget thought possible her mother was already striking again at her stomach, it was all Augidget could do to jump back and try to get some distance to balance herself.
Kunosi didn't give her daughter the chance, quickly closing the gap again slashing in a flurry of sword strikes, with every strike blocked or narrowly dodged Augidget was taking steps back, she could do nothing but defend. Some she could some she couldn't, by the 8th step she had already be been cut on the leg, the side and left arm, minor cuts but still painful.
In a desperate attempt to get some ground back she flourished her sword in front of her, it worked if only for a moment Kunosi went to her back foot, Augidget slashed as fast as she could at her mother's face, the blow was easily deflected and in fact used against her, as she had already began slashing her blade directly toward Augidgets eye, with a jerk backwards she narrowly managed to avoid being slashed, she was too slow to avoid the blade fully, it had slashed into her face and cut her eye. Screaming Augidget staggered back, clasping her right eye. For a moment Kunosi just stood still, grinning sadistically at her daughter. But in that moment something in Augidget snapped, all the repressed hatred her mother had hoped to seed into her was now being directed squarely at Kunosi, gripping her sword with blood soaked hands she stepped forward and with all her strength she slashed towards her mother.
Unlike most of her mothers targets, whom sat there screaming when such a wound was inflicted, Augidget instead threw herself in a viscous counter attack, this caught her mother off guard, allowing Augidget to land a single clean swipe on her mothers left arm, cutting deeply into the forearm.
In a furious counter attack of her own Kunosi kicked Augidget in the face, sending her daughter reeling backwards, she then spinning her blades into a reverse hold she drived the pommels into her daughters gut simultaneously. Following up by driving the back of her fist into Augidgets face, knocking her to the ground.
"Stupid child.. You should have just done what you were told."
Kunosi pointed her sword at her barely conscious daughter's throat. Augidget looks up at her mother after her vision returns to her, seeing the blade directly pointed at her throat she scuttles back, whimpering in fear. Within moments her back is pressed against a nearby wall. Augidget looks up at her mother fear freezing her in place. Kunosi looked down at her frightened child, a sadistic smile curling her lips.
"Though like I said... I suppose this would have happened even if you killed him, you're a lose end, and dead weight after all. Goodbye my Little Dagger.."
With that Kuriosi raised her sword above her head, a wicked grin on her face as she prepared to deal the final strike. Augidget threw her arms up above her face in a feeble attempt to protect herself, convinced that this was where she was going to die.
A loud crashing sound, similar to that an explosion.
Silence..
Was she dead, did she feel nothing? She can't hear anything. Slowly Augidget lowered her arms, on her arms was more blood, she freezes with fright, before realizing that it wasn't her own, looking up she sees her mother, her face frozen in shock, a hole in her chest close to her heart.
"Damnit.. Not like..."
Before another word could escape her lips Kunosi collapsed on top Augidget, Augidget laid there, the world seeming to stand completely still, her hair was now mattered in the blood coming from her right eye. Though she was too scared to move, she knew one thing. She was saved by someone, but who?
"'Ey lassie! Ye alrigh'?!"
Turning her head, she could see the one who saved her. A dwarf, all she could make out from this distance was his long and thick brown beard, the rest of his head was covered by a black hood. Hefting his riffle over his shoulder the dwarf slowly walked over to the Gnome.
"Ye' could 'ear the fightin' half the city away. You naedn't worry lass, I ain't here te hurt ye'."
Augidget just stared, still trying to process all that had happened within a few seconds. She looked up to the dwarf, who was holding his hand out to help her up.
"Let's get ye' outa' 'ere, yer bleedin' badly an' I think I hear some peace keepers comin'"
Taking the Dwarfs hand Augidget let herself be picked up by the Dwarf, for a brief moment she looked down at her own mother, now laying face down on the cold metal floor. She then looked to the Dwarf who had saved her before losing consciousness.