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Azigarath

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Playroom

Charles still did not answer Spirry's question, and the knight screamed Alania's name, and charged the strange mechanical lengths that lashed out at Alania. He had jumped forth and attacked them with his sword, knocking their trajectory off, so that they all would either whiz out of control or miss Alania. Thus, Charles saved Alania's life – that is, saved her from this dreamy world. The two Spirrys looked at Sir Charles and the same time; whatever everyone else was doing occurred, though this realm was so odd, as if everything and nothing was happening at the same time.

“I am the dreamer of this realm, but not the dream inside. You bleed in your real world, I can already smell and taste it, you will eventually suffer in your world as you do here.” Mechanical Spirry threatened, bending his knees and elbows, the red-hot machinery inside of him sizzling his regrowing flesh and boiling his blood.

"Don't listen to him, no matter how much you are tortured here, it will never be as severe as in your real world, unfortunately, you will miss much pleasures of suffering.” The Newborn mumbled, crossing his arms.

The strange metallic skeletons covered in fleshy parts and faces grumbled, and several nearby ones extended themselves, like immense mechanical maggots squirming out a bloodied corpse. Soon, they would squirm out, having bases of intertwining metallic roots.

One of the metallic skeletal contraptions leaned over suddenly, arching down beside Charles, immense arms clamping onto the shadow-ground, staring at him, the column covered in beating hearts, working lungs, staring eyeballs, hanging tendons, faces of loved ones, bulging veins, and leaking blood. The skull writhed, as if in pain, empty eye sockets, nasal cavity and mouth gushing blood. Not only had the strange machine covered itself in fleshy parts, but the organs, slabs of meat, tendons, veins and whatnot, they were beginning to grow.

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Hamstead

The Elder Demon's laughter rang out as Br'nard ineffectually struck out at its pincer, fading in and out of tangibility. It clearly relished in the barbarian's failings, yet the laughter stopped short when Br'nard dispatched of his sword, grabbed Azul bodily, and tipped him upwards and careening onto the floor!

Tentacles and claws and mandibles flailed out manically in order to build up a defensive sphere as the demon was laid out vulnerable. Azul could feel his essence leaking, out of his form and into Kuro, the man trying to entrench the demon back inside him once again- and worse, threatening to end them both.

"

I am Elder, and you a half-bred whelp,

" spat out Azul in defiance of his would-be captor. "

Whose afterlife do you think we'd be taken to? Yours? ... Or mine?

" The prospect of returning to Hell drew no fear from the Elder Demon- there he would be whole again, rejuvenated, waiting until the next time some foolish mage's apprentice or would-be demonologist decided it would be a wise idea to play with pentagrams. It might take a year, it might take a thousand years, but Azul was immortal, ever patient, ever vigilant... And better yet, he would have a play-thing with him. Kuro's soul would make great sport for a thousand years of torture.

But there was another talking to him- the girl, Annie, who was healing the knocked-out hagspawn. Azul could recall her power from Copperdale, and being in Kuro had heard tales of her being imbued with the power of gods. And yet she was not smiting him, she was talking to him as though a normal being, as though he did not deserve to be persecuted against... Hags be hagglin', gods be god damn crazy, it's all happening ogre at Into The Fire

06-Apr-2016 01:49:46

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"

I come where all true demons come from,

" the elder demon told Annie honestly. "

Hell. It is a world unlike yours in every way. I was summoned by a young mage dabbling in magic far beyond their comprehension. No doubt they were set up- one does not stumble upon my incantations accidentally. But who was the trickster? I do not know- the politics of this world do not interest me. Demons do not fight demons, it is humans that war. All I desire is home.

"

"

As for trusting me... In the demon world, we write contracts. Magically binding. If you think my word is without honour, then perhaps we can come to a written deal.

" Azul knew a lot about honour, he had experienced it in droves whilst encased in Kuro's body, his soul and Azul's lack thereof mixing together, the lines between them muddying.

"I who shall awaken from this slumber...."

The demon's attention snapped away from Annie, caught up in this new voice that was adding to the fray. It sounded almost like...

"I am the demon that shall devour this world..."

Azul roared and lurched to his feet once again, propped up by incongruous body parts hastily shifting to bear the weight as the elder demon readied itself for what was to come. Azul could understand the significance of such an enchantment immediately, but was so cumbersome in his mutilated façade of a body that he was hopeless to stop what was happening in time. Ahead, Rovaan was no more, or else, the façade he once held onto had been dropped- in its place was a demon of such a kind this world seldom saw, both lupine and draconic, oozing with volcanic malevolence, quivering with unrestrained power. Hags be hagglin', gods be god damn crazy, it's all happening ogre at Into The Fire

06-Apr-2016 01:49:58

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"Blast it all!" Growled out Tempora Sage, wheezing from the pressure of forcing his ancient body to move at a quickened pace, clutching onto his staff for dear life. He was upstairs, but heard the commotion well enough. He should have known it would all go to hell- he should have been prepared! Damn his old and ill-fitting body, and all its ineptitudes. Joric had ran past him coming up the stairs, entering one room, backing out and then entering another in the time it took the wizened mage to take four steps.

He arrived at the top of the stairs, and despaired at what he saw. He had heard the cry of Azul, but just now he knew not which was the elder demon- for as he looked he beheld two great monstrosities, abstract nightmares from the deepest corners of mankind's subconscious. The hagspawn seemed incapacitated, Annie appeared to be bartering with the monster, and where the other girl had vanished to was anyone's guess. The hellhound was howling out, a dark harbinger of the night's events, and by the robed man's feet was a barely-clothed girl, her hair blue, seemingly in a trance.

Tempora Sage gave her a good thwack on the temple to make certain her unconsciousness, and grumbled in annoyance. He had known that powers were stirring, that the great game was being played, the game in which all mortal lives were the pawns to higher powers... But he did not expect things to happen so soon .

"Dwaaarf," the wizard called, as he focused on his staff and the potent aura of magical potential which swirled about it. The Time Mage was not accustomed to combat; his magic had been experimental, pulling at the strings of reality itself, but never had he put it to such a usage. He had little idea on how effective it would be, but what he did have was time . Hags be hagglin', gods be god damn crazy, it's all happening ogre at Into The Fire

06-Apr-2016 01:50:08

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"Two demons, three girls out, only the barbarian and the man with the large sword still fighting," he yelled out to Joric, in order to give him as much information as possible for when he returned to the fray. "Federico spoke highly of you, t'would be a shame for him to never be proven right about anything."

Below, Azul was wailing. It seemed something was going wrong- something was polluting his body, something totally alien to Azul. Whilst Rovaan resisted Azul's absorption, Siera was fully open to it- but more of her was leaking into the elder demon than the elder demon had bargained for. It was incorruptible, it was pure, it was of a source so foreign to Azul as to bruise and blister at the insides of his mind. This pain he channelled into rage, and with this rage he stood prepared to tackle Rovaan, or the beast which had replaced Rovaan, and at the same time Azul stopped his plans of absorbing the demonic energies of the others- exposing him more to Kuro's own drainage. Hags be hagglin', gods be god damn crazy, it's all happening ogre at Into The Fire

06-Apr-2016 01:50:18

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~~Espionage~~

The Black Knight

As Brodus hit the circle that had once encased the elemental, power from his sword began channelling into the faded carvings within the stone, lighting up as the air elemental's claws came slashing out, unperturbed by his attempt to stop it, ready to decapitate the foolish intruder-

Only for the claws to bounce off the re-raised shield.

The air elemental began spinning erratically as it released a storm of a torrent, the centre of the room being replaced by a raging tornado, eerily silent behind the trappings of the pentagram. After several seconds the air elemental stop, glowering at Brodus with its near-human features, but unable to escape.

"Deftly done," said a voice from behind, as Soahc the Deceiver stalked into the room, no longer hidden behind another's face and rubbing his head as though trying to rid the thoughts of a particularly displeasing nightmare.

"The sneak attack is going well," he observed nonchalantly, looking out of a window towards the half-ruined streets where a floating ship had ploughed through them, and what appeared to be distant fires picking up as well. It was quite self-evident that their plans of not drawing any attention to themselves had been well and truly ruined.

"We'll teleport in, I've been learning a lot about teleportation lately," Soahc licked his lips as a passionate fire lit in his eyes. Being the only known demigod on the planet, (until the so-called Abolisher arrived, that is,) any art he set his mind to he became a master in. And any art Soahc chose to master, could only be for a truly nefarious purpose...

"The souls your sword steals, does it take their power too? Their magic?" Soahc asked Brodus, still gazing out of the window, back turned to the mercenary. "Trust is a delicate thing... And some of our friends are less dependable than others." Hags be hagglin', gods be god damn crazy, it's all happening ogre at Into The Fire

06-Apr-2016 01:50:27

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Town Centre

And while it did*’t do anything to physically deter the approaching enemies, the predatory smile on her face told them, “Come to me and die.”

The destruction of the falling ship, the intensity of the battle betwixt infamous pirate captain John Black and the brave defender of the pace Cirion, and the appearance of the well-recognised and rightly-feared Kira Vesteros was enough to give many of the amateur defenders pause. The mounted knights however were made of sterner stuff, trained and disciplined and filled with righteous fury they did not halt their advance, but instead charged directly at Kira, hoping to hit her with a wall of steel, horse and fury.

As for the adventurers that had paused- it seemed to have been their doom. Ryokin's demonic transformation took them by surprise, and the following attack left many of them charred to ashes, but most lingered on in life, screaming as the flames engulfed them, dropping their weapons and running for what little remained of their tortured lives, or else tearing at their own armour in the hopes of escaping the ferocity of the blaze.

Still, there was a small number who managed to evade- primarily archers, who had been sure to keep their distance. Three longbowmen, a crossbowman and a water mage now remained, and each had their targets set on Ryokin, letting loose a contingency of arrows, and one particular powerful gulf of water. Hags be hagglin', gods be god damn crazy, it's all happening ogre at Into The Fire

06-Apr-2016 01:50:47

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The Necromancer

The prying eyes of Ubaid's most ancient and unorthodox magic would reveal the building itself not warded against magic- in fact, the building seemed quite unmagical in its entirety. There were several under-chambers, sleeping chambers perhaps as well as food stores, for some were rising from the depths whilst a few more gathered just behind the main entrance to the building. None of them seemed to have a hint of magical ability, and this close to the structure it became apparent that the void was not so large as it first seemed...

No, it wasn't large, it was simply dense . It did not seem to be radiating magical energy- or even the strange antimagic that appeared to be rippling out from the source, instead it was simply being held in place by this, as though whatever was contained in this building had been torn out, ripped from the fabric of reality and stitched back in at this location. It was other , and a great deal of power went into forcing it there, but it was not large, not large at all. It was in the direct centre of the building, (which, if Ubaid cared to look, was a glass dome through which he might enter or otherwise spy,) and it was unmoving.

Encampment of the Empire

"Ah, it's a bi' too soon fer tha', don' ya think?" Karstone asked as Alicia fell to her knees before him. Having the same magical capacity as a mouse, it seemed that the aged adventurer was luckily impervious to the siren-call of Spirry. He held out a hand for the girl to use, and when this didn't seem like enough to bring Alicia out of her trance, he put his hands at the side of her arms and bodily went to lift her, wheezing out a, "'ere we go," as he did so. The physical contact might aid in Alicia's defence against the mental invasion, or it might just annoy her, but either way Karstone Greatjohn was oblivious to any of the possible outcomes. Hags be hagglin', gods be god damn crazy, it's all happening ogre at Into The Fire

06-Apr-2016 01:51:18

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The Playroom

"Not so old as you," replied the woods witch, sounding almost pitying for the creature who called this realm their domain. Her tongue tasted the air as she looked for the words to say. But before she could get out another sentence she was cut off by Soahc bursting out into a torrent of laughter, throwing his head back and holding his sides as Spirry made the analysis that Tyrrus would love him more than Soahc.

"Ah yes, daddy would love you!" It was exhilarating for Soahc to imagine it: this demon's vision was perfectly ordered, contained, manufactured, the mass-production of torture and torment on a scale unimaginable to most mortals. Despite the horrors, despite the gore and the ripping and the tearing and the cold, heartless machinery which was at work here, despite all of the atrocities that were no doubt a part of this vision, it was still to be preferred over Soahc's method of working. Even the Demigod of Chaos was not so mindlessly depraved as all of this, would never go to such lengths so as to cause such individual anguish. The contradiction of Tyrrus preferring this over Soahc's more low-key brand of evil was something that amused Soahc to no end.

"Why... Why are you doing this?" Alania Clarke was sobbing, sobbing harder than ever she had before. It was a hideous sound as great, thick blobs rolled down her cheeks. This thing, this monstrous spectacle that the Newborn called beauty... It was so horrific to her, to someone who had before such an idealistic look upon the world, that her mind simply could not process the diabolism involved. "Why? WHY?" Hags be hagglin', gods be god damn crazy, it's all happening ogre at Into The Fire

06-Apr-2016 01:51:30

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Another had entered the dream now, blue haired, the songstress Siera. Soahc recognised her well enough, he had walked among her in Copperdale without her seeing through his disguise. She was singing- such an awful song- and Soahc, wary of the dangers of having his enemies sharing in a dream world he did not control, wary that perhaps Siera might probe his mind for information, decided it was time for him to tap out.

"I wish you the best," Soahc told the Newborn sincerely. "This land is the perfect ********** of order. You've quite convinced me to your vision! Meet me at the mountains and we'll talk. Might be a tad late though, got a few slaves in tow." He turned to leer at Siera as he faded, slipping out of the dream and back into reality...

"I did not expect that," the woods witch admitted to Spirry and Spirry, seemingly two different aspects of the same being, or else the real version and the one who was present in the dream. It was not certain to the wizened priestess, but she seemed to have been emboldened by Siera's song, rather than harmed by it, and showed little fear in the face of the blood-dripping and the mechanical monstrosities ahead.

"The world is pregnant," she recited, not to the Newborns but to Siera, if she were in any stable mind to hear her words. It was words she'd told Siera before, when the girl had come to the woods witch in order to hear her fate. "Beware the midwife." The woods witch nodded towards Spirry. Spirry that had inadvertently awakened something at the planet's core. "The daughter returns home in the guise of the father. And in the east, liches dance to the bickering of old men."

Having said her reminder, she now turned to face Spirry himself.

"You are beyond my power to predict- yet you are here, after all this time. Why? Why now? The gods themselves have not accounted for you... You hold more power than even you realise." Hags be hagglin', gods be god damn crazy, it's all happening ogre at Into The Fire

06-Apr-2016 01:51:44

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