Nephry gasped, putting her hands to her mouth. This creature looked like Khyrrus with a x10 evil factor. She was certain it was anyone but however.
Junko tensed, reaching for his spear and unwaveringly bringing it forward. He wasn't a shy hand to fights, but this guy looked like serious trouble. For now though, he decided to keep his wings out of the equation; best if the enemy didn't know about them.
Jade had almost immediately tensed as well. His expression was blank, hands currently empty. But he wasn't so shy that he didn't create a familiar or two which flanked him, dark catlike beasts prepared to pounce at a moment's notice
Kieyrn just backed the fuck up, praying the beast and his lackey didn't take notice of the unrestrained Noxier. He wasn't a coward, but he knew who not to fuck with. He put a hand on Ariana's shoulder and roughly jerked her back as well.
Elysian...was far less fortunate. The creature before them had incredibly potent emotions in relation to itself. That was probably due to how incredibly angry it was. It didn't freak him out, but it did make him a bare bit jittery. And he quickly realized that down here, he had no real use. He had physical strength and powerful wings, but he was more of a speedy dodger and overall a nature gifted. He was not completely at a loss though. He could transform into an eagle and do serious damage.
Jade, Junko, and Elysian didn't move. Neither were willing to betray a first move to this frightful being, and neither had ever encountered a Mind either.
Muse: Don't have « Result #2 Yesterday at 9:56pm »
This is as of now, an indefinite LoA concerning my activity.
I just don't feel like posting. I'll still be on AIM if anyone feels a need to talk to me even if I don't post.
I'm going to give you more or less what I think the big effing deal is.
1) Busy with school. It's coming to a head, really, and I can't afford to dick around, because if I don't get straight Bs or better, I'm going to be one step from being expelled.
2)Nothing new. That's pretty self-explanatory. I just keep posting NAP and TENE, and even though I'm trying to start new rps and junk, it's not really...working. I need a change of pace.
3) Because of up there, I'm tossing out shoddy posts at 2 hour intervals. What's the point of making myself and my rp partners suffer?
So I'm taking the break. Like I said, you can talk to me on AIM/MSN if you want to, or else I'll be on Mene I guess, and Gaia. I don't really do anything but talk to my friends Chrissy and Gaa on there, and I find it amazingly nice to just talk and not have anything really expected of me, at least not so much lately.
BUT I WILL STILL POST. Just less frequently, sorry if I bore you guys...
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Re: TENEBRAE « Result #3 on Nov 23, 2009, 10:36pm »
Ciel froze, gasping at the appearance of the creature and the Mind. She had never seen a Mind first hand, and for that she was thankful. No one ever saw them unless they were in huge trouble. The creature beside it was equally frightening. She had never had any experience with the administration or anyone who would be "master" to the Deus. At least for the moment it hadn't addressed them directly yet.
"Ooh, fuck," Gavin whispered to himself.
Surprisingly he was rather pissed off. He had wanted so badly to get out of the castle, and here they were at the very least delayed. Now that the Deus knew that they were intruders, would it still help them? If not, and if the strangers lost to their newest challenger, then they were all in deep deep trouble.
He waited to see what Reikas or Jade or Elysian would do. If they attacked, he would do so with them. Hey, if he was already in trouble what more could this hurt? If they ended up winning then his effort would have been worth it.
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Re: TENEBRAE « Result #4 on Nov 23, 2009, 8:10pm »
It took the hexas at least two or three minutes to flood the room, and they spilled easily into the cave beyond, behind the portal. As Reikas waited for some sign that they were finished, the Deus started making some kind of a small, humanoid whining noise, and one of its shriveled hands twitched and slowly closed, kneading its palm like it wanted something. Several of the teal O hexas noticed and climbed its wheelchair, extending forelegs to its pale bare skin. They understood immediately what it wanted, and one looked up at Reikas.
"Release his hands, please," it asked.
Reikas looked down at the hexa, and the loose cuffs around the Deus vanished. Almost immediately, its hands pulled closer, and its arms fell into its lap. The hexas crowded around and nestled themselves like cats under its arms, and its weak, wrinkled, wizened fingers petted and stroked the furry creatures. It hunched into them, and every hexa head turned to look at the Deus, even those just walking through the portal.
Flame stiffened on Jeiran's shoulder.
"Genius..." it said quietly, staring at the Deus like every other hexa. "It's using their telepathic bridge to stay in communion with us...I did not know it could do that without the Machina..."
As the last of the hexas filed through, the Deus spoke softly, its glowing lens-eye spiraling closed, head bowed
"My children are here," it said. "What will the master have me do now...?"
Reikas would have asked the Deus to shut down the machine, but the far corner of the room suddenly distorted, and a terrible beast shimmered into view, flanked by none other than a terribly tall, terrifying, purple-robed, old, aged Mind.
The beast was humanoid; green-skinned, with sickly yellow horns protruding from its forehead and following the contours of its skull as they curved backwards. More yellow upward-curved spikes protruded from its arms, much like Junko's, only several more, and much bigger. It had massive, green, purple-ribbed bat wings drawn high and folded close, and it sneered darkly with pure fury. The Mind behind it looked old and frail, but its eyes glowed with a vivacious, sharp, lively danger.
Reikas and Jeiran whirled to stare in terror at them.
"Master," the Deus said robotically, aware of the creatures yet unafraid of them. "Have I done well?"
The green beast snarled ferally, and swiped a hand out. A large swath of shadow slew a dozen hexas right where they stood before it.
"DONE WELL?!" the beast screamed. "DONE WELL?!? SLAVE!!! Can you not tell the difference between me and intruders?!"
The Deus was stunned. Reikas' mind raced as he prepared for another battle. Apparently their mission wasn't even close to over yet.
Re: TENEBRAE « Result #5 on Nov 22, 2009, 7:48pm »
Jade came through the portal after everyone else was through, minus the hexas, and ran a hand through his hair. He never expected to have to come down here. Flashes of painful stab wounds through his body from a spike pit and a shark man cowering at unloaded gunpoint crossed his mind before he could completely push them away. He ended up catching the tail of Reikas's response, but remained silent and rather than hang back, he headed up where his comrades were. That didn't mean that he wasn't keeping an eye on things though, he was just being discreet and shadowy about it.
Junko really wanted to ask how Reikas knew all of this, but didn't because the hawk had asked him not to...still. There were things he was going to poke and prod about, he wasn't too shy amongst his fellows when he wanted to know something, especially if it seemed important.
Elysian's wings fluffed a bit. He didn't like this place, it was dark and forboding, and had no nature in which he could immerse himself, so to speak.
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Re: TENEBRAE « Result #6 on Nov 19, 2009, 9:12pm »
Flame quieted after that, though, and Jeiran headed for the portal. ((The thing is on his shoulder. Let's say it got there when he was crossing to him.)) When he came out, he frowned. He'd never seen a place like this before.
"Where are we?" he asked. Either he forgot about the no-question rule, or figured it didn't apply to him, since Reikas had been looking at other people. Either worked for him.
Reikas looked back at him. "Maybe about a half-mile away from the castle, underground. If I remember correctly, that machine over there is a node shaping the barrier. If the Deus can cut power to that machine, the barrier will close up between the two nearest nodes, about a half-mile behind us, and we can teleport out..." he explained.
He waited for Jade and the rest of the hexas to file through, though, before he continued with the Deus.
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Re: TENEBRAE « Result #7 on Nov 19, 2009, 11:41am »
As soon as Jade nodded to them, Ciel and Gavin were off. Surprisingly, Gavin went first this time. He was beyond ready to get out of this school, even if it meant following strangers. Obviously someone never learned about Stranger Danger. Then again, being a Gifted his whole life was full of strange. What could be worse than this godforsaken castle?
When he came out into that underground room he stared around in amazment. This was all really down here? Did it control the shield? He stepped away from the portal before Ciel came through, and she did the same. Neither really wanted to be hit in the back by Jade, Jeiran, or the hexas.
It occurred to Ciel that she had left her own healing hexa behind. As much as she hadn't cared for them before, all the new information made her feel bad for it. She wondered if it had somehow made it into the swarm. Still, she hadn't thought that it had followed her down. Gavin didn't have any hexas, she knew. They always got destroyed by other students as soon as he got a new one, so after a little while why bother requesting them?
Re: TENEBRAE « Result #8 on Nov 17, 2009, 7:28pm »
Junko and Elysian were the first humanthings after Reikas and the Deus, followed shortly by Nephry, and eventually by Jade, though he gave Kieyrn and Ariana a jerk of the head to signal that they should go in first. The Noxier rolled his eyes.
"Such a good guard," he mocked, at which point Ariana looked down with a sigh. She would never understand his need to be a douche...
Jade didn't care. He was interested in what Smokey and Flame had to say, and he wanted Gavin and Ciel in front of him anyway. It was only because he was being a nosy bastard that he didn't immediately call Jeiran in front of him so that he himself could take up the rear, not counting the hexas.
What he heard was a little sobering, too...he could have done without knowing that he was killing a race of creatures that were all connected to each other and shared the loss of their kin.
Unfortunately, that was how things always played out. Gifteds fighting Gifteds. He'd learned to focus on the bigger picture a bit more, thank goodness for that.
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Re: TENEBRAE « Result #9 on Nov 17, 2009, 1:47pm »
Ciel and Gavin didn't hear Flame speaking, as the two were hanging back to allow the adults to go first. Like Jade, Gavin was a little nervous that it was so quiet down here. Not that he had much experience with the dungeons, really. It still made him uneasy no matter how one looked at it.
For her part, Ciel spent quite a bit of time down here while being instructed by Ariana. However, her attention was not on the lack of company. She was more concerned with the Deus, and she was more than a little bit creeped out by how it spoke of the principal. She had never actually met the man, but he seemed terrifying based on what he ran.
At any rate, it seemed that they were finally going somewhere. She was as fascinated by Reikas' shadow portal as she had been by the shadow dagger from earlier. Any sort of power that allowed teleportation was definitely intriguing.
And he pushed the Deus through the portal, with the dozen or so teal O spiders following their Deus loyally through before anyone else could say anything or stop them.
They appeared in that same, awfully familiar underground room with electric construction lights and bare wires, and the big, hulking metal box with dozens of odd, odd controls on a panel stretching the length of the machine against one wall.
He quickly moved out of the way to prepare the place to flood with seven or eight or so other Gifteds and a whole sea of artificially-created spiders, noticing that a bunch of them had followed him. He realized that he hadn't given explicit directions and hoped that the whole swarm wouldn't come through first, but he realized that those who had were just the direct attendants of their god, who stayed very close to the wheelchair.
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Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, Flame retreated to Jeiran, directing the rest of the hexas quietly to wait for the humans to go through first. Jeiran waited expectantly for his hexa, as well, having several questions for this knowledgeable creature.
"Hey," he asked it quietly as he waited for the others to file through. "How do you know all this stuff about the Deus? You've been with me for years, Flame..."
"We all have a mental connection to the Machina, and it connects to the Deus. We are all one with the Deus ex Machina from birth. It is how we know how to speak, and walk, and behave immediately upon formation. All knowledge comes from the Deus, and we may probe its mind at will...although many, many parts are cloudy and lost; washed away by the horrible, horrible things done to our abused god..."
"Oh hell..." Jeiran realized that this was a whole freaking culture of creatures that the kids were just...taking advantage of. These servants who came from mysterious parts unknown...it was incredible. And so many kids didn't like them, and so many more just...senselessly killed them like normal spiders on the wall...Jeiran himself was guilty of that. How could Flame just...talk to him so easily? He knew the creature had watched him char dozens of its brothers...
"Are you connected to one another as well?" he asked.
"We are. Not through the Machina, though. We are imbued with a telepathic communication directly with one another that allows us to work as a bigger unit, to form into groups, and to work together very well."
"So when one of you dies..."
"We all feel it."
Jeiran fell silent. He couldn't even begin to imagine that...
"Four more have just died at the hands of students, and two are slowly bleeding to death," Flame said quietly. "One has been poisoned, and its owner does not realize. It will be dead within the hour..."
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