Journey of the Elementals RP (Pm if Interested, Started)

[UnusualStranger]

Seth couldn't help but let a small grin start to show as he heard Raven go back to trying to be the dark tough Nightstalker. He knew well enough that Raven was probably unhappy about this whole turn of events, and he would need to apologize later for the odd behavior. Of course, Fei clinging behind him was a sign that the act wasn't without merit.

"It's OK Fei, she won't bite." Seth whispered back with his grin still there. Though, he wasn't going to ask Raven to stop, because he doubted she would anyways.

The newcomer, was a slight surprise though. And he quickly recognized him as the one that was with Nydia before.

"Ah, hello there loverboy. It isn't closed yet, but the librarian is probably working on getting the broken window fixed....or something." Seth said with a chuckle. It was probably a bit over the line, but he felt well humored, since he had been invited to....something, and it involved the visitors.

 

[Mr.Ivebeenframed]

Cale's ears reddened but all he did was roll his eyes to the pyromancer's remark.

"Ha-ha very funny... but what happened here in the first place anyway?" Cale asked as he looked around. It looked like slight fire damage if he ever saw one. "Also did you guys get invited by the visitors too?"

 

[NeoAC]

The young girl hid away once Raven started talking. Good. At least...Fei was it? At least she understands what she is facing. So rare to see someone get that right away.....at least for me. Seth was trying to put her at ease, and the line about biting wasn't exactly well placed. I would bite if need be. But whatever he feels he has to do to calm the masses to my presence I guess.

The newcomer brought up two questions, both of which Raven knew the answers too, yet could not elaborate on other than simple blunt responses. Of course, why did this man need to know what she knew? "There was a conflict of interest," she answered his first question. "It resulted in the damage. As for the visitors, of course they would be interested in someone of my talents." Or lack thereof, I don't know what the fuck they want with me.

 

[UnusualStranger]

Seth paused, listening carefully as Raven acted as he had hoped, keeping what had happened to be a secret. Though, what stunned him was that "loverboy" had been invited along as well. It was quite the fascinating change in things, which brought Seth to another thought.

I wonder if they invited Nydia too?.....I mean, is fate really going to mess with me that much?

"You too huh? That is kind of crazy. I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say that they knew your full name as well? Demanded you be there at noon and all that fun stuff?" Seth asked, now curious if they were going to match up perfectly. He wasn't sure if that would be military style of doing things like that, or if because they were made of metal.

As the small group stood there, the night slowly began to overtake everything, with some torches being lit by passing Pyromancers, and some of the students returning to their rooms for the resting periods.

 

[Mr.Ivebeenframed]

"Why yes they did. In fact they sent their metal soldiers to every which way in order to announce the fact that we get chosen. Rumor has it is that we're going to Kerbones too." Cale said. Even if it wasn't true, why would they want them?

Cale looked around and took a quick glance of who he would be with on this trip or wherever they would be going. Cale looked outside the broken window and saw the horizon slowly melt into darkness.

"Anyways, thanks for the information. If you don't mind, I am going to camp out in the agrarian section of the library until we get called..." Cale mumbled as he began navigating the lengthy maze of the library.

 

[NeoAC]

The newcomer brought up an unpleasant possibility in Raven's eyes. What? No. They can't be shipping me off like that, can they? They can't do that. Why would they do that? Oh fuck, they're going to do that. I'm going to be sticking out of there like a sore thumb, even more than back home. Exactly what I want. Fuck my life.

The night was returning to the land. While this was enough to make Raven feel a little better, she still worried about what it's departure would bring. "I grow weary of this conversation. I'm going to return to my room, and prepare to fully make use of the night's aura. Enjoy the evening." With that, she turned and headed back to the room. I am so screwed.

 

[SkyeNeko]

"They're taking us away?!?" Fei panicked when Cale mentioned going to Kerbones. "I don't want to leave!" she cried, her tears getting reabsorbed into her skin. Right now going there seemed like a nightmare come true, a place populated with machine-men was not high on her list of paces to go, and she never wanted to go. "What if they experiment on us? Or or make us slaves! Or make us machines too!"

 

[Mr. Omega]

"Look, I'm not letting them take you anywhere..." he said, trying to comfort Fei. "They wouldn't want anything with you." He had remained silent for most of the conversation, trying to take in as much information as he could, but was still trying to wrap his head around everything. So some machine thing wants us all to meet somewhere... hopefully that Earthshifter was just pulling rumors out of his ass...

 

[blaze96]

As Alexander walked back he heard some rumors about the library being the site of some kind of battle and decided to check it out for himself. When he got there the library wasn't in too bad of condition but since he was already here he may as well see if he couldn't get in a bit of study. He overheard mention of a group worrying about being taken away and not letting themselves be taken away.

Could they have been asked to go to? I should listen in and see if they know anything. He had grabbed a few books and sat down close enough to hear as he listened in on the conversation. He didn't want to divulge anything if they had no idea what was going on.

 

[UnusualStranger]

"Good evening Raven. Good luck." Seth said as Raven began to go and enjoy the darkness the evening brought. However, it seemed that everyone was now...paranoid? It probably wasn't the word it needed to be used, but it seemed off from all those here.

"Calm down everyone. I mean, it is nothing more than rumor right now, so we don't know what they are doing...Besides, why do they need all of us in the first place? It isn't like any of us possess anything that many other people have." Seth said, rolling things over in his head.

So....they did speak the same and everything....are they machines? Following the same thing as the other...what would it be like to be part machine?

"Yeah, you go check out the library...I think I am going to go get prepared for our meeting tomorrow. I imagine there being a huge feast tomorrow for our guests, so at least breakfast will be big and amazing." Seth said, with a quick grin, looking forward to all the stuff that would be there before the meeting.

"Good evening Fei, Drew. Don't worry about it, I'm sure we will be alright. Things always have turned out so far, why not continue the trend?"

With that, Seth got to walking back to his rooms, mulling over what he would take. His sword would be a must in this situation. His good cloak, perhaps change into something slightly more favoring his blade......

 

[Mr.Ivebeenframed]

Cale marched to a lonely section of the library and as he mentioned earlier he had arrived in the section of the library solely based on the land of the areas far beyond the island. Cale pulled out a large volume based on Morguad farm lands and sat that close to him. He dropped his bag gently to one side and turned to a random page.

"Most interesting..." Cale said sarcastically as he sank back with his back to vast volumes of literature. He bored himself to sleep reading on the moisture of a Morguadian soil and the right a landlord has to rule that parcel of land. Soon his eyes knew rest once again.

 

[UnusualStranger]

The evening drifted by rather quickly over the Academy, with the few students falling asleep in the libraries, or heading to their rooms to get their rest. For a selection of students however, there was an anticipation of what was going to happen the next day as the evening quickly sprinted by, with no events or changes that would be noted at all. (Except for the repaired library window forms....)

As the sun just slightly began to rise, a large selection of mages which were selected to prepare the huge feast of a breakfast that would be occurring. As the sun slowly began its ascent to the higher sky, the Mess Hall was in an absolute bustle with more mages than usual running about preparing any food they could grab. Eggs of many styles, meats of many more styles, different types of breads, snacks, sugars, and anything else that would work. It was plainly obvious that this was a big moment, and that the Mess Hall would not be open until many students were awake the the Guests from Kerbones were awake and ready as well.

Soon, crowds of earlier rising students began to appear as they waited impatiently for the doors to be opened at the hall so they could have a taste of their meal, and many more students waking and learning of the feast that was to occur.

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"Wake up, man. You got a woman to fight for and a feast to attend." Seth's roommate was bothering him as he got up, not quite realizing what was going on. A Lightdweller by stance, the man that Seth was stuck with was somewhat more chatty and tended to be like a Nightshade, gathering any information he could.

"Bah.....wait.....Woman to fight for? What the blazes you talking about?" Seth rose groggily at first, things still processing in his head.

"I heard that the girl who you walked with and went with that one day is being moved on by another guy! An Earthshaper at that! Named Cale. Came out and said he loved her and everything! YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHING!"

Seth rose, his mind catching up with everything that was going on. A feast was expected, but he didn't plan on defending his "honor" or anything like that this morning. However, appearances might need to be kept. As Seth got to putting on his good robes and grabbing his blade, his roommate regarded him wearily.

"You.....arn't going to go STAB him are you? I mean...goddamn, remind me to not get between you and your girls..."

"Don't worry about it. I don't plan on stabbing anyone quite yet. Not unless I have to." Seth said, making sure his weapon and appearance was how he wanted before he went out today. Satisfied, he got to stepping outside, somewhat weary of being up somewhat early, but he was up, so there wasn't much to be done about it now.

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

Aden stared into the water in his private study room. Humans. A blight if ever there was one. He traced a finger across the burns on his face. They did this to him, and now expected him to accompany them back to their decrepit hole?

And yet he had no choice. He had to go with them. Many of the others were little more than initiates, children in need of guidance. He couldn't abandon them to the Humans. He had to protect them.

"Damn them." He didn't know for certain what the Humans were planning for them, but he could make guesses. Vivisection. Torture. Brainwashing, darker things he didn't want to imagine. Someone had to be there to fight, and not some half-trained initiate.

And further, open defiance would result in only more deaths. He just hoped that when they inevitably returned that the Mages would be more prepared to defend their homes. He could only hope.

He stood and left his study room, heading for the Grand Hall. It was still early yet, but he had already eaten and he wanted to have time to pay attention to the hall in the event it was a trap.

 

[blaze96]

Alexander woke up bright and early. His letter had probably just arrived at his parent's place, and he hoped he would be around to read their response. If not he would have to have it forwarded to...wherever he would be. At least he hoped he could do that.

No point in worrying about it now I guess. Just need to hope I'm not going anywhere too far away. He thought as he dressed in his robes and walked to the mess hall. The crowd was already quite large at this point and he figured cutting would just anger one of the pyromancers so he stayed to the outskirts and just waited as more people had already begun to collect around him.

 

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

Nydia was awakened by the sun streaming in through her window. She sat up quickly, startled to find that she had fallen asleep reading at her desk. "Ah! I seem to have overslept. I suppose this will interfere with my schedule a bit. I suppose the training grounds will be occupied by this time. Well, I haven't skipped laser practice in over 4 months now. I suppose one day won't hurt." Nydia mumbled to herself as she sluggishly got up and began getting ready for the coming day.

Her dress robes that she had foolishly worn into battle yesterday were certainly in no state to be worn for an occasion such as today's. She changed into her normal robes, which were nothing fancy, but they would have to do. Once she was sure she was sufficiently prepared to see their guests, Nydia stepped out into the hall and made her way towards the mess hall for breakfast.

I wonder if Cale will be going to the meeting at noon as well... If I was summoned based on my performance in the arena, it's only natural he would be too. I'll have to prepare for that. Oh... what should I say? Nydia thought, her mind returning to the turmoil of yesterday as she made her way through the crowded halls.

 

[SkyeNeko]

Fei woke up later than usual, but no less excited. "Drew! Drewdrewdrewdrewdrewdrew..." Thanks to Pyromaster Marcus the siblings now shared a room in the general dorms. Of course Fei was all sorts of overjoyed, and she was practically jumping on her brother's bed. "Wake up Drew! There's a party for breakfast today!" The thought of having bacon twice in a row was enough to make her stomach growl. "They're gonna have pancakes, and waffles, and bacon, and ice cream, and bacon..." The promise of food had overshadowed her fear of the machine people for the moment, and even the fact that she might be kidnapped and taken to a foreign world and made into a robot.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Drew grumbled and turned away from her "Bacon can wait... just give me a couple minutes...". He was glad to have the new accommodation, but he had grown used to having his own room. He loved Fei, but knew he'd have to get used to her waking him up in the morning. He reluctantly got out of bed and got dressed in the bathroom. "C'mon... get ready and let's get going..."

 

[NeoAC]

Raven was slow to pull herself away from the sweet darkness that sleep provided. Getting up today was just not an attractive option at all. Fuck. What am I going to do today? I can't really get out of this one. Damn hunks of bolts will probably round me up anyway even if I don't show up. She tossed in the blankets. Ugh, I don't even know if I want food...oh who am I kidding. Of course I want food.

She rose slowly from the bed, moving to the dresser, where her latest prize awaited. A quick stop by the office confirmed that the special dye she wanted was now in. Pulling the jet black cartridge from the box, she grabbed her applicator and went to work filling in the auburn roots that had grown in over the past month. It took a few minutes, but soon the offending areas were covered in a coat of black, just like the rest of her hair. She even dipped some of the front ends in the dye, just to give the color a bit of a revive from the fade that had occurred. She waited a few more minutes for the dye to properly dry before applying the makeup that covered up the freckles upon her face.

Satisfied with the work done on her face, she got dressed, throwing on whatever clothes had escaped the laundry hamper and tossing on another of her pitch-black robes. Maybe some breakfast will help me make sense of what is about to happen. Like how many normals I'm going to have to inflict pain on to make sure they feel what I want them to feel...

 

[SkyeNeko]

Fei nodded, bustling around her tidier side of the room. She put on her nicest robe, a deep blue embroidered with gold fish. It was a present from her parents for one of her recent birthdays. She figured she'd be presentable at least for the big event. As soon as she was dressed she grabbed her brother's hand and half-dragged him to the mess hall.

Once they got in she ran through the lines piling her plate up with everything she found.

 

[Mr.Ivebeenframed]

Cale awoke the morning bells outside. Luckily the librarian hadn't kicked him out but he didn't want to push his luck. He quickly gathered his things and saw his way out as fast as possible. He stole a quick glance at the massive airships as he went towards the grand halls for the big meeting.

Whatever would happen Cale prepared himself. His imagination wrecked havoc on his concentration as he nearly missed the hallway to the grand hall and nearly wandered off into the pathways towards the fields. Then his stomach grumbled. Reluctantly he went towards the mess hall before going to the grand halls.

As he arrived he was greeted with the wonderful smell of cooked bacon and fried eggs. He quickly got on line and grabbed all he could but he had noticed that someone else had beat him to it. He watched as the small mage that he had seen in the library yesterday was filling her plate with food. Cale grabbed a handful of bacon then a few eggs followed by a few biscuits and followed her back to her table where he saw another mage which looked like her brother. Cale approached the table knowing that these mages would also be going to the great halls afterward as well.

"Is this seat taken?" Cale asked the pair. He motioned towards an open slot in the table.