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Post by Lilium Kether on Apr 26, 2007 20:49:41 GMT -5
...Awakening... When I awoke, I found myself in utter darkness. Reaching out with my hands I felt around. To my very own horror, I found that I was encased in stone. How long was I unconscious? With my hands, and the only sense that would ring true in this tomb I found my book, and my staff. Good, at least whoever had buried me alive had the decency to place my things in my grave. As I lay there, I wondered what had become of me. I remember that I was on the busy streets of Jerusalem, contemplating the changes that had taken place over the past millenia. The bustling streets. The strange markets. The unnecessary devices. Their strange clothing, the odd language. The Gentiles and Yeshuites in the city. Then I remembered what had happened. A strange man entered a shop, and there was fire. Fire as if God himself had ripped the man from positive existence into negative existence. Then I wondered.... Am I dead?
Is my suffering finally over? Will I no longer be hungry? Homeless? Thirsty? Have I gone to Hell?I tried to push the stone that was covering my coffin off, yet to no avail. My strength was gone, and I arrived at the conclusion. That this must be Hell. Not only was I unable to escape. But I was alone, and no mortal would find, nor remember me. If you aren't remembered, then you never existed.My power... it was all gone. I was weak then. I couldn't even remove the stone with my God given power. That is why I stopped masking my signature. If I was truly in Hell, no one would feel me there anyway. They would all be preoccupied with their own suffering. I don't deserve this. God of my Father, hath thou Abandoned me?
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Post by Aiyon on Apr 26, 2007 21:24:11 GMT -5
"Hpmh... hot. Too friggin' hot."
Tas was muttering this under her breath as she strode briskly down a sidestreet in Jerusalem, trying in vain to stick to the shade. Ordinarily this wasn't somewhere she'd go, doubly so considering this was order territory, but she'd heard about something here... something possibly valuable to her. An old book on runes. Coming here was folly for most people, just to look for a book she didn't know the name of. But she wanted to advance her magic, and every little helped. But at least she had the address of a little shop where she might find it... a start at least.
Tas suddenly paused in a spot of shade, listening carefully. No, she hadn't heard something... so what was it? Ah, wait... magic. Fairly strong too. She hesitated, knowing that the source could be order, but in the end her curisoity won out. It was one of the few traces of magic she'd picked up so far since sneaking into the area, so it was worth investigating. A quick backtrack proved to her that she'd been heading in its general direction anyway, so she continues onward into the city, the shop she'd been aiming for momentarily forgotten.
This wayward venture ended with a little confusion half an hour later, near what struck her as a burial site of some sort... her sense was pointing her downwards. Knowing the eccentricies of the ability she'd been wandering around the neighbouring area trying to get it pinned down, and she couldn't deny it. Downwards. Unfortunately the only possible way down she'd spotted was an old entrance to what had to be catacombs... which she was certainly uncomfortable with.
Spirits. Why does it have to be spirits?
Tas goes to the entrance she'd spotted and looks around, checking that nobody was paying attention to her. Then she ducks inside and starts her descent. It goes well until her feet skid from under her near the bottom of the first set of stairs, sending her tumbling to the floor in a heap. After a moments pause she murmers quietly under her breath.
"... ooookay. Ouch."
She picks herself up, aparrantly none the worse for wear, and finally thinks she might need a light source down here. A quick session of fumbling in her pockets turns up a half box of matches and, sighing reluctantly, she strikes one and moves on into the catacombs. Her senses were still telling her that whatever it was she was sensing was below her, so onwards she had to go. Thoughts involving curiosity and cats were very much present in her mind.
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Post by Lilium Kether on Apr 27, 2007 15:33:54 GMT -5
...Shamblers... In the quiet I remained. It felt like forever since I had awoken in the confining stone tomb. Time moved so slowly when I was awake, it could have been for days. It could have been for years. It felt like it was eons that I spent in that stone tomb, before I heard anything that was. The first thing I heard in there, aside from myself, was a shuffling. I listened intently, and I heard what sounded like a human voice. Yet.... When I reached out with my spirit... I found nothing but many souless life forms... The God of my Father never made any form of life without a spirit. Only the dead were spiritless. What kind of vile person could resurrect the dead without their souls? Was it Lucifer? Was it Samael? Whoever it was.. had obviously stationed the dead of the catacombs there to keep me from being discovered. To protect my tomb. Maybe they were there to protect my tomb from grave robbers? Or the secrets contained within my book? (OOC; There are a few low level zombies guarding the tomb. Once they are all "dead", the Necromancer controlling them will wake, and time will be of the essence.)
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Post by Shadow Chrestmire on Apr 27, 2007 17:04:56 GMT -5
One hour ago: Shadow was looking everywhere for clues to his memory. It seemed that if chaos was present it ment it would help him regain his memory and increase his abilities.
Persent time: Being teleported into these catacombs from the school a huge ammount of chaos was coming from a sprit I can see them clearly I can see everything so clearly why? Noticeing a few zombies he took out The Elsydion. sliceing one in half then taunting the others.
"C'mon zombies don't arise with out a necromancer" The Elsydion emmited a bright light (theirs your light Ayion) "this is too easy"
OoC:sorrry for just appearing but I was bored and need some action. so I'll wait for Ayion before killing more
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Post by Aiyon on Apr 27, 2007 17:17:43 GMT -5
((OOC: No problem, i'm glad your here actually... fighting Zombies with a handful of matches for light wouldn't be much fun. )) It was all Tas could do to keep from gaping at the new arrival. One moment it had been impenetrable darkness ahead of her, the next a skirmish between this guy and some zombies. Once she gets her head around it the match drops from her fingers and her pistol snaps up. A pointless gesture, seeing as the zombies here were down already, and she sheepishly lowers it again after a moment. "... uhm. Hi. Thanks for taking them out..." She comes closer, pausing by the nearest zombie and looking at it for a few seconds, scowling thoughtfully. Then she looks at him again. "You don't look like order... wait. I've seen you before, i think... at the school. Anyway." With an unconcerned shrug she moves up to shadow, eying the darkness beyond his light warily. "I'm sensing something magical down here. Wanna help me find it?"
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Post by Lilium Kether on Apr 27, 2007 18:03:53 GMT -5
....Voices.... I could hear voices. Yet I couldn't tell whose voices they were. I did not recognize the language or the timbre. I had never heard them before. Inside the sealed stone coffin I had remained silent. Summoning my power to check how much I could use to defend myself. It was a pathetic amount compared to my previous power... Then I remembered an important bit of information. Any amount of power, is considerable against any mortal. I'd just have to employ it properly. I searched myself then, and found that aside from using my book, I could force lightning onto some poor soul, shapeshift, and move across the border of negative existence. At least I had some tools to use. I wasn't completely defenseless against who ever was coming to my tomb. If it be grave robber, or the people that put me here. If it was either, at least I would be able to give a fight before they end my suffering, and receive my punishment seven times seventy seven fold.
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Post by Tristan Knightrhode on Apr 28, 2007 13:55:09 GMT -5
Tristan in Jerusalem? Why? Hunting...thats why. There was a rumor of a six armed man running around killing people and animals and shit. Basically a shiva sort of thing. The only problem? This was the Orders neck of the woods, why the fuck would they let something like that run around? Who knew? All Tristan did was that he was looking for something that was most likely a demon.
He walked across the hot desert like terrain, uneffected by the weather. His element was fire after all. Whats that? Igneus asked, feeling a few high power levels.
[Mana...Three or four different mana sources...none of them feel like a demon though.] Igneus grunted an affirmative, then suggested that they check it out any way.
The hunter was then not to far from a grave site when he felt one of the power levels directly below him. "HEADS UP!" He shouted down, drawing his blade and stabbing it down with a burst of fire mana. The diamond and titanium blade cut a hole around Tristan in the roof of the cavernous space below, and the hunter fell, landing heavily with his blade still a blaze. Moaning? "Now what?" Zombies...Fuck.
Tristan charged with his vampire like eyes and scorched through one of the zombies. There was a light around the corner and the hunter rounded it, expecting more zombies. Oh, there were zombies...about four still intact, but what surprised Tristan was the glowing blade of his friend. "Shadow? What the fuck are you doing here?" He called out before charging up his mana and loosing a huge ball of fire from his mouth, incinerating two of the remaining zombies.
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Post by Shadow Chrestmire on Apr 28, 2007 14:38:18 GMT -5
"Chaos energy Tristan, there's an Emerald down here with it I want it, my friend and I here were going to look around here care to join?" Shadow asked wondering why Tristan was here. Other then the Elsydion's light the place was dark and spooky.
"A crusnik like yourself has built in night vision right?" Shadow said being a little humorious, he doubted that his friend would find it funny. "In any case that Emerald is something that's going to help me restore my memory I just know it!"
Shadow said with excitement pulling an uzi.
OoC:I thought we weren't supposed to use magic outside the island just wondering.
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Post by Aiyon on Apr 28, 2007 15:59:36 GMT -5
((OOC: We can use it. We just have to hope we don't get caught using it or we have to clean toilets. ¬.¬))
Tas wasn't sure what to make of yet another rival, but since they both knew each other the new guy was probably from the same place. This entire thing was in danger of becoming a crazy field trip of some kind.
"... welcome to the party."
She pauses to fire three shots at a pair of zombies that were just emerging into the light. The head on the more distant of the pair suddenly lurches back with a new hole in its forehead, but the other two rounds miss their target.
"Whatever it is, it's magical. And it's not gonna find itself. Shall we get going?"
Tas was understandably nervous of going into the zombie infested darkness without a good lightsource... though the company was also welcome.
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Post by Lilium Kether on Apr 28, 2007 16:29:27 GMT -5
....They're right outside.... It only took the people that belonged to the voices a few moments to enter my chamber that I was in. That was after I heard a sound like the ceiling caving in. The foul undead that were outside my tomb were still alive, by their individual moans I assessed that there were around four. That meant that either my protection was getting killed off, or that my prison guards were being removed. Either way... whoever was coming.. was probably coming for me. I waited for the longest time. Moments seemed like an eternity. But I had the time to come up with a plan. As soon as someone would open my tomb to check what was inside. Robber or assassin. I'd use what I could of my power to escape and not be pinned. Then try to fight my way to freedom. The chances of that actually working? I had no idea, there was no way to tell how many I had to fight, and how long before my energy reserves were gone. Mother.. Father... where art thou now?
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Post by Shadow Chrestmire on Apr 29, 2007 19:04:01 GMT -5
"You know what would be nice, if their was a tresure chest right there" Shadow said as he pointed to near a wall. "With a map for this damn place or a walkthrough Shadow joked. The Elsydion was glowing a emerald green. "ok whose got the,oh never mind that was easy"
Shadow picked up the Emerald that was about two feet away from him.
"YES!! that was easy" Shadow said with excitement. "Next the topaz but for now," Shadow looked at the other two. "Whose up for checking this place out?"
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Post by Tristan Knightrhode on Apr 30, 2007 9:16:51 GMT -5
"Indeed I do. Works better in the other form though." Igneus hopped off his partners shoulder and blasted one of the last Zombies that the girl next to shadow had put a hole through. The corpse lit up and the bunch of them made a few torches for the lot of them to be guided by. "So who are you?" He asked the girl, beginning to walk back around the corner he'd come.
He looked back, forgetting that one zombie was left, and threw his blade into its chest. The undead ignited, Igneus soared back up to Tristan's shoulder, and Tristan held out his hand. The flame on the blade extinguished, then the only half metal weapon flew back, as though the throw were filmed, and now it was rewinding, back to Tristan's hand. Remote control...gotta love it.
The hunter had opted with Shadow on checking the place out, especially since Tristan had felt at least three mana sources...Shadow and the girl were only two. Down the hall, a little ways passed where Tristan crashed through the ceiling, there was a coffin. Right in the middle of the room. "There's mana coming from this thing...Shadow, help me get it open." He then dis-engaged his fire sword spell, and slid his blade under the top of the coffin with a bit of effort. Once the white haired young man did the same with the Elsydion, Tristan would wrench the top off to reveal the magical contents.
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Post by Shadow Chrestmire on Apr 30, 2007 15:57:53 GMT -5
Shadow wondered if Tristan was greedy but hey Shadow decided to find out all right let.........Shadow stopped in mid sentence. Looking at Tristan Shadow wondered then whispered "Tas cover my back." He then approached Tristan "all right" here we go Shadow had to push pritty hard because he wasen't that strong. The Elsydion was sheathed but the sheath was in his hand. Don't bother trying to pull anything I'm not stupid.
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Post by Aiyon on Apr 30, 2007 19:04:10 GMT -5
Things were moving along a little now, a few zombies left and two allies to fight them. And Shadow, as she thought the first arrival was called, had found a gem of some kind. If he was happy with that it was fine with her. Tas fires off a few more shots before the last of the zombies falls, but they both go wide of the mark. Not that it mattered much, as the guy called Tristan had cut them down with little trouble. The little black creature on his shoulder was very interesting... and kind of cute. As she thinks this a couple of magic circles appear around her pistol for a few seconds, her reloading spell doing its work.
"Well, i'm Tas, Tristan. I like the dragon."
She follows the pair further into the catacombs, making sure she didn't fall far behind. They reach their target without incident and she eyes it apprehensively as the other two get set to open it. When Shadow asks for cover she nods slowly.
"Ok Shadow... got it."
Tas moves to stand at the foot of the great stone coffin, aiming her gun at roughly its center. She could feel something powerful in there even with her limited senses and this place was making her edgey. Though that was probably the fault of the zombies.
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Post by Shadow Chrestmire on Apr 30, 2007 19:13:27 GMT -5
Shadow wasen't sure if Tas knew what he ment he ment cover him from Tristan for some reason Tristan seemed different but Shadow decided that he'd take his chances. (Don't think the next part is godding because we're doing this at the same time anyway) After they got the cover off Shadow looked in surprise. "I expected an artifact but this is...........a body? Shadow wasen't sure if he was seeing things or not.
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