We Are Our Avatars XI (Open)
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"I wouldn't say addicted..." Candace replied after a sip, putting the cup down. "What's happening to me?"
Otherworld
"Well ... lot's of things. Basically, we had several hundred mages being able to travel through worlds. Most of them went out to find artifacts for our country, to get a rise in power. Magic, technology, biology ... everything. It went well for some time, until we also got some uninvited sideeffects from the artifacts. We were powerful, so powerful that we could, for example, hold off a virus that we had no immune system against - but fighting against it had a price. We had to modify our own bodies with technology and biology from other worlds ... that is only one example of many, but it proves a point.
We got something from a world, it threatened our lives, we got something from another world to combat it - and all this until reality itself seemed to have enough." Robin pointed upwards, to the messed up sky. "If this is any indication, I think we are not really in one world right now ... we are in several, at the same time."
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Avinah
[color=e50000]"Time seems to be distorted? How do you mean that? Is it going too fast? Too slow? Too different here?"[/color]
"Well ... lot's of things. Basically, we had several hundred mages being able to travel through worlds. Most of them went out to find artifacts for our country, to get a rise in power. Magic, technology, biology ... everything. It went well for some time, until we also got some uninvited sideeffects from the artifacts. We were powerful, so powerful that we could, for example, hold off a virus that we had no immune system against - but fighting against it had a price. We had to modify our own bodies with technology and biology from other worlds ... that is only one example of many, but it proves a point.
We got something from a world, it threatened our lives, we got something from another world to combat it - and all this until reality itself seemed to have enough." Robin pointed upwards, to the messed up sky. "If this is any indication, I think we are not really in one world right now ... we are in several, at the same time."
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Avinah
[color=e50000]"Time seems to be distorted? How do you mean that? Is it going too fast? Too slow? Too different here?"[/color]
"It slows, just for a moment..." Candace closed her eyes and hung her head. If one looked closely at her pale skin, they would be able to see vein like patterns, slightly brighter than even her white flesh, pulsing along her body
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
[small]-Terry Pratchett [/small]
The darkness is as alive as the light. As flames flickered, dimmed and brightened, so did the darkness. As fire coats the world, the darkness flees. As the cold snuff out the lights, the darkness returns. As light seek, and look, and think...
The darkness thinks. The darkness dreams.
Sometimes, The Darkness has nightmares.
The darkness is scared of the light. The light that claws it it, tears it apart. It scans the room that it's landed in. The room it swears it has never known. A feeling of fear crawls on it's skin, but it overcomes. It shapes itself.
A knight of nightmares. Hidden in darkness, unseen. Watching. Feeling scared.
Yet it feels something else. The fear others hold for it. The fear that they have. It holds onto it, grappling to it like a man to his life.
And it looks around, to see where it resides.
OoC: (Highlight to read OoC) Figure I'd give going through the thread a shot. Just place the nightmare knight someplace random, anywhere will do. Want to just give myself a moment to figure out what's going on, and this is vague enough. How much do people fear the dark here?
Candace's head snapped up, faster than should be physically possible. "You think it would help?"
Forefront HQ, portal room. Previously
"I'll go fire her up again, then. Give me the sign when you're ready."
Walking back into the control booth, the engineer waited for the mages to get into position, and give the go sign, then started a portal again. After, he kept it running, and alternated between looking at what the mages were doing, and reading feedback on the portal on the screen of the console.
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Throne room, otherworld. Presently
"If she wants the portal closed, could it be problematic if she learns we intend to allow you passage between here and Earth?"
OoC: [Expanding on the previous post]
In many places, the light streaks, helped by metal. Scarring through the darkness, even through the underground.
It fears the darkness. But so do many fear it.
It claws through the light, through the chaos, to silence it. To smother it. To coat it.
It consumes the sun with darkness.
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The power generator is coated in darkness, as all energy ceases within it. The power generator ceases to transfer power througout the city.
Decide wherever you wish for where the effects happen. But it seems like the best way to start with, preferably somewhere where it's night.
In many places, the light streaks, helped by metal. Scarring through the darkness, even through the underground.
It fears the darkness. But so do many fear it.
It claws through the light, through the chaos, to silence it. To smother it. To coat it.
It consumes the sun with darkness.
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The power generator is coated in darkness, as all energy ceases within it. The power generator ceases to transfer power througout the city.
Decide wherever you wish for where the effects happen. But it seems like the best way to start with, preferably somewhere where it's night.
Otherworld
It took quite a while until Nina and Robin reached a big black Keep. It looked martial, a lot of cannons and spikes pointing outwards. The air seemed to shimmer slightly behind the first wall.
Robin walked up to a giant doorway, and knocked. "Hello? Anyone home?"
Answer came soon, and Robin asked to open the door - which was granted.
"We still have wonders." they said, as stepping through the door, and then through the shimmer, shone a different light on the keep. Birds were tweeting in the king's garden, and while the sky looked the same, it seemed much more peaceful than outside. "How do you like this?" Robin asked.
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Avinah
[color=e50000]"Well, doctors are usually the guys you go to if something is wrong. So ... I have no idea? I don't know what's wrong is you, apart from that you drank a possibly dangerous drink."[/color]
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Forefront HQ
The mages tried to manipulate the energy of the portal itself. They sent several strands of energy around it, and through it, finally also trying it together.
They were able to cause slight rifts in the outer border of the portal, but nothing more for now.
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Throne Room
"It could be, and I don't intend to tell her. But her world is also full of travelers, so the possibility should not seem to be too strange to her.
I don't know what she thinks of you guys, though. And I better not ask."
It took quite a while until Nina and Robin reached a big black Keep. It looked martial, a lot of cannons and spikes pointing outwards. The air seemed to shimmer slightly behind the first wall.
Robin walked up to a giant doorway, and knocked. "Hello? Anyone home?"
Answer came soon, and Robin asked to open the door - which was granted.
"We still have wonders." they said, as stepping through the door, and then through the shimmer, shone a different light on the keep. Birds were tweeting in the king's garden, and while the sky looked the same, it seemed much more peaceful than outside. "How do you like this?" Robin asked.
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Avinah
[color=e50000]"Well, doctors are usually the guys you go to if something is wrong. So ... I have no idea? I don't know what's wrong is you, apart from that you drank a possibly dangerous drink."[/color]
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Forefront HQ
The mages tried to manipulate the energy of the portal itself. They sent several strands of energy around it, and through it, finally also trying it together.
They were able to cause slight rifts in the outer border of the portal, but nothing more for now.
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Throne Room
"It could be, and I don't intend to tell her. But her world is also full of travelers, so the possibility should not seem to be too strange to her.
I don't know what she thinks of you guys, though. And I better not ask."
"So what should we-" Candace stood, the bed she was sat on springing back into shape as it did so and sending Candace's tea flying. The cup sailed through the air, but Candace's arm blurred and within a second she was holding it to her mouth, the liquid inside sloshing with inertia. "That was close... Anyway, what should we do?" she asked, apparently oblivious to her own burst of inhuman speed.