Cursed Immortality
Season 2 - (3/4)
The Morris Inc. - Curse of Legacy
Description
Even from a young age, Gideon had been blessed with abnormal strength and resilience. Where “Balt” went Gideon followed, what “Balt” instructed Gideon would do.
It was not long before the boys were essentially orphaned that they were approached with a proposal - bury an extra body, receive some extra money. They dared not question the man making this generous offer. Soon the offers changed, retrieving something from a buried man, changing the name on a headstone, things of that nature all pertaining to their gravedigger work. When the brothers had to rob the dead to make a living, Gideon did most of the physical work, as Balthazar handled the business side of things. This arrangement worked well; Gideon could dig up a grave in minutes while Balthazar would keep watch. Their new operation in the city proved profitable, slowly but surely they were able to keep a roof over their heads and save up for Balthazar’s university tuition. Although Gideon did not care much for Balthazar’s studious nature, he did his work in ponderous silence.
Through their underground contacts, Balthazar was offered a good amount of extra money to arrange for a few “disappearances” of certain items from the bank, and he drew up the plans for a clean job. Although riskier than other jobs, it was also by far the most lucrative one the brothers had been offered so far. It would be the last one needed to pay off Balthazar’s tuition. They would still need to work to provide a living for themselves, but the main focus of their underground operations would be paid for. Gideon, of course, was the muscle, and responsible for the bank doors and vault, while Balthazar would keep watch, provide a distraction if needed, and bury the evidence in a secret spot to wait for the heat to die down.
The job went off without a hitch, Gideon crashed through the heavy doors to the street. Balthazar started his stopwatch. 30 seconds was all they had. Gideon got a running start and lowered his shoulder toward the vault door. It was blown off the hinges and hit the ground with a crash that shook the whole building. Suddenly a whistle blew, then another, then another, and dogs started barking. Too fast, it had only been 12 seconds since they broke down the first door. Guards raced towards the bank as the dogs ran in through a side door and Balthazar shouted for his brother to run. The dogs bit at Gideon’s legs and feet, tripping him up and sending him crashing to the floor. More and more joined on, ripping right through his exposed flesh with hungering fury. Gideon tried to pull himself through the doorway but the dogs would not relent. Maybe if Gideon had been willing to drop the loot he could have fought back, but he was unwilling to let his brother’s opportunity go to waste. Balthazar lashed out with the spade hitting anything he could in an attempt to save his brother. Finally, he was able to heave Gideon’s body into the cart and escape, trying to staunch the bleeding and steer at the same time.
They arrived back at their headquarters with Gideon near death. Balthazar set to work immediately but knew his brother did not have much time. He could only keep Gideon in an unsteady near-death state similar to his father’s first and only experimental undead. As Balthazar began his university education, he revisited Gideon each day and started refining his process, often stealing samples and tools from the university’s lab. They were all they had left, the both of them. Gideon refused to die, and Balthazar refused to give up. Through experimentation on further corpses that Balthazar dug up in nightly silence, he refined a chemical that, upon ingestion, allowed Gideon to move his body again. The first thing he did was ask Balthazar to change him. Make him stronger. Make him useful.
As he watched over the resting, twisted form of his younger brother, Balthazar wondered if his father would have been proud of him - performing surgeries that even old Jedediah would have failed at. He knew this result was by his own hand, and without his intervention, his brother would have surely died, but at the same time, he felt immense guilt over the new Gideon there before him. Once again, his resolve hardened and he vowed to restore the Morris name.
Details
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This product contains the following parts:
- 80mm Base
- Body
- Legs
- Cleaver Arm
- DnD 5E Datasheet
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