We Are Our Avatars VI (Closed for Good)

[Chungus]

Paying only very little attention to whoever else as climbing the trail, Loki kept up his advance, moving at a steady pace while loosing his grip on the scepter. He eventually came to a stop upon entering the space that was less cramped then the mountainside he was before. Looking around, Loki playfully twirled the scepter around between his fingers before stopping upon spotting the light in the distance. And that, I think, is my destination. Firmly holding the scepter once more, Loki moved towards the light.

OoC @Outis: Could you perhaps use a diferent text colour for Tao? The gold is rather hard to read.

 

[Captain Anon]

the minute that was said, John instantly fell over anime style with his feet in the air with a face of WTF

 

[Drakmorg]

Jessica continued down the pathway, moving incredibly quickly and almost completely unhindered by the roughness of the terrain as she simply repeated the act she had taken to get to the path before, disappearing and reappearing in burst of light and moving as far down the path as she could see with each movement. Noticing the light, she muttered to herself, "Just as good a way to head as any, I suppose." She continued heading down the path and towards the light, teleporting much more than walking. "Get the lead out people!" She shouted back down the trail as she quickly moved to the end.

 

[Random berk]

Cynane scowled as the large wheels of the cart scraped against the canyon walls. She had held back so that she wouldn't hold up people behind the cart, but if anything happened up front, reversing or turning would be impossible. At least from Stripe's high back, she had a clear view not just ahead, but over the heads of the rest of the group. She did a quick headcount of them while she had the chance.
And not a single one of them looks like anyone from any town I know. Except the Cathulii woman. I wonder if that guy talking about travelling into stories might not have been so crazy after all.

"Hey! Uh... Maintainer! What did you say your name was? How exactly do your people travel into the old stories? Do you mean in a dream state? Burning ritual herbs and such? How would we know if we were in one of these stories now?" She called out over the crowd.

 

[FPSfanatic]

Lyra sighed, before moving forward in front of Tao, collaring her with a quick movement and lifting her up to look her in the eyes by her jacket. "Okay, the molestations? They better stop now. I doubt anybody will tolerate that behavior for long. Capiche?"

 

[Slenn]

Dal'Sheed stopped to walk along side Cynane on her dino-steed.

"My name is Dal'Sheed. Once a world or Age has been properly described and inspected for faults and contradictions, all one needs to do is to place their hand on the front page. Then the person is 'linked' or transported to the world. But you have to have a book that describes the world you just came from, otherwise you wouldn't be able to go back."

"We could be in a story. But the events that happen in a story of any kind aren't described in the books that I work with. It's the world itself that's described in the book. The events in a story will happen on their own. And anything along the lines of a beginning or an ending can never be truly written, much like any other world."

 

[Outisakanobody]

Spirals replaced Tao's normal, red eyes for a moment after she ran into Lyra. She shook her head and focused on Lyra after a bit. "Owie. You came out of nowhere lady, otherwise Tao wouldn't have ran into you, meow. And, what does ca-pii-shee mean, meow?" she asked.

Echo decided to hide behind Lyra for now, since she was holding Tao at bay for the moment.

 

[Saltyk]

As the group came up to the crest of the closest hill, they would see a small camp. Scattered around it were generators, tents that while large, could be taken down rather quickly. There was no sign of fire, but rather small lights around the vicinity. In the midst of it all stood a large Mech. Several men were scattered around the perimeter. Ten in total.

Spoiler: Mech

Those would good hearing or a listening device would be able to hear speech coming from the man they saw before and one other.

"Explain yourselves. What are you doing here in violation of the Peace Treaty of 8965 AE XX?"
"Peace Treaty? You dare bring that up?" A man dressed in grey officer's clothes replied. A small pistol in a holster at his hip. There were two soldiers armed with rifles on either side of the young man.
"Don't mock me. This is a violation of our treaty. You must leave at once."
"The treaty is over, boy. Or haven't you heard?"

The young makes starts to move for his sword, but realizing that he has two men behind him, stops. Damn. Volarian, you sure are slow...

 

[Demonjazz]

Steiner jogs down the trail with a loud clanking sound before seeing Tao and running towards "Don't attack this fair maiden, cat... thing for if you were to hurt this poor lady I would be forced to use my sword in combat against you" He than turned to Lyra "Please don't kill like those other unfortunate souls you carry on your belt"

 

[Random berk]

Cynane frowned beneath her helmet.
"Oh...kay. That sounds like... I don't know. Like something that travelling Shamans would claim when they're trying to sell their witchcraft. You say that you use books for these stories though? I've seen a few books, but they're used to store important knowledge like monster physiology, smithing, agriculture, things like that. Books take a lot of time and effort to scribe. To use them for hearth tales... I've never heard it done before. And for that matter, I've only heard the stories describe the world of this life, and in some, the After-World. Most stories are about people or Monsters, famous hunts and such."

 

[Slenn]

"For us the stories that happen in these books aren't really important to us. Only the resources and lessons the worlds give us when we travel to them. This Age in particular was supposed to be used for studying the effects on civilizations on worlds, like an example for future writers. Writing an Age is not an easy task. It takes a lot of patience and attention to detail to make sure that the world we go to isn't hostile. And apparently the writer for this Age may have forgotten a few sentences about a stable civilization."

Dal'Sheed heard and understood the conflict to its importance.
I don't think these men would have the same patience to listen to my story. But the conflict here is definitely present, and it's nothing to be shrugged off. If the rest of this Age is stable enough, perhaps I can assist in getting rid of the conflict. A good civilization makes a good Age after all.

"Listen. We need to be informed of what's happening. Is there some sort of conflict between nations or cities going on here?" He asked the two men.

 

[FPSfanatic]

Lyra glared into Tao's red eyes, before leaning closer, hands at her belt. "Just stop molesting people. You'll get us in trouble. I really don't feel like ending up in jail because you decided to grab some viziers breasts. So from now on, just, please, try to avoid it. Okay? That's what capiche means. you understand?" she looked over to Steiner, and grumbled. "Relax. I don't kill people for this. That's full on rapes and mass murders. So relax. I'm not going to just stab some poor girl."

 

[DotSlash]

The woman continues to fiddle with the overlay until it highlights 'ATV'. She smiles to herself as she hits 'BUILD' and a blue horizontal light shoots out of her PDA, slowly moving upward. A mass of pixels and numbers seemed to flow around before the light shut off and an ATV was parked right in front of the woman. She slowly mounts it and revs it up, allowing herself to catch up with most of the group. She silences her ride as she nears the camp. [small] "As I feared... It seems I've walked into a dimension at war. So much for a break." [/small]

 

[Chungus]

Moving up to a hill, Loki stopped upon seeing below was what appeared to be a temporary military camp. A modern-looking one at that, much unlike most of everyone he had seen so far. With his keen senses, he could just about pick up what was bein said between the person he caught a glimpse of earlier, and several other soldier who appeared to be wearing a diferent uniform then he was. Whilst his looked to be a poor man's version of the armour found in Loki's homeworld, the other soldiers had uniforms reniscent of those found on Earth. For a moment, Loki wondered wherther or not he should advance further, but the decision was quickly made a negative when he noticed tension rising between them.
Wherther they are actually human or not, it would seem these people share humanity's lust for war. How quaint.
Loki sat down on the cliff, holding the scepter so that the glowing gem was covered by his coat under the shoulder area. He waited to see what would happen next, deigning to get answers after the posible violence.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Suddenly, a wave of hot air washed over the group, which was followed by a red flash, almost like fire. A figure appeared and landed on his feet perfectly, then staggered around and fell flat on his face. The heat subsided and the air stopped moving.
The man lying on the ground groaned loudly. His clothes were burnt and torn, and the skin underneath was scratched and grubby. His short blond hair was unkempt at best, chaotic at worst. The outer half of his right hand and wrist were drenched in fresh blood, and there was a ring of metal around the wrist, also spattered with blood. To anyone familiar with police equipment of the early 21st century, it would be obvious that it was half a handcuff. The other half was nowhere to be seen.
The man continued moaning in pain, until he was able to get out three words.

"Fuck me sideways..."

 

[Random berk]

As Cynane spoke, she caught sight of the mech behind the soldiers and her jaw dropped.
"What in the spirits of the fire wyverns is that?" she gasped.

 

[Captain Anon]

Steiner jogs down the trail with a loud clanking sound before seeing Tao and running towards "Don't attack this fair maiden, cat... thing for if you were to hurt this poor lady I would be forced to use my sword in combat against you" He than turned to Lyra "Please don't kill like those other unfortunate souls you carry on your belt"

john suddenly appears infront of Tao "so much as touch her and i will cut your head sir knight" he said with a fury in his voice

 

[Slenn]

OOC: @Random. I edited the last post for Cynane. But we have a giant mech and two men on our hands to talk about.

"It's a walking machine... I wonder how intricate it is."

 

[Outisakanobody]

"Avoid boobies, meow? Ooooo. That's a lot to ask Tao...But, I don't want to get anyone in trouble...I will try to control myself...But Tao makes no promises." Tao said with a goofy grin.

Echo still wasn't very trusting of the cat girl, but since she couldn't add anything, she just stayed behind Lyra.

 

[Random berk]

@Random. I edited the last post for Cynane. But we have a giant mech on our hands to talk about.

OOC: Yeah, I just noticed that. Reacted to it in my last post. Truth is, Cynane would have very little chance of understanding anything Dal'Sheed says, since books aren't even widely produced where she's from.

"I've never seen anything like it! It looks like... well, nothing I've ever seen! What is it for? Do people ride them, like Aptonoth or Popos?" As she spoke she lifted her visor again, to get a better view of the machine. Her eyes were wide and starry with amazement.