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Orcris

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Interesting. I wonder what will come of Skad in the near future. And stuff about the higher ups always makes me curious.
~Orcris~
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~Est Sularis Oth Mithas~ Sturm Brightblade
~Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality~ Richter Abend
~What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger* Friedrich Nietzsche
~Who I am is not important, my message is~ Darth Revan
~Amor omnia vincit~ Virgil

16-Jun-2010 05:25:50

Dantalian

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“Hey Chris, don’t you think this suits Alex?”
“Wait! What suits me?”
Linksona sighed, and despite his better judgment, turned around to look at the rest of his group, then sighed more deeply at what he saw.
“Alex,” commented Chris, after a moment of silence, “There’s a pink bow in your hair.”
“What?!” shouted Alex, “Hekate, how did you?!”
“Remember when I said there was something in your hair, and offered to get it out?” asked Hekate, “I lied. But, don’t worry, it was for a greater cause!”
“Such as?” asked Alex, as his face turning red.
“My amusement,” replied Hekate.
“Hekate, I’m going to kill you!” shouted Alex.
“Says the boy with a bow in his hair,” Hekate teased.
Alex’s face got even redder at this comment, and he quickly snatched the bow and tried to pull it out of his hair, failing miserably.
“Oh, did I forget to mention?” asked Hekate, “I wove your hair through that, if you pull it out, you’ll be taking a chunk of hair with it, but since you can*t see the way I wove it, someone else will have to unweave it. Don‘t worry though; I volunteer to get it out.”
“You’re not coming with three feet of me ever again!” retorted Alex.
“Then which do you choose, bow or bald spot?” laughed Hekate.
“He won’t have to choose either,” said Chris, “I’ll get it out.”
“Thank you,” sighed Alex.
“Just hold still,” instructed Chris as he began trying to undo Hekate’s ridiculous knots.
“Alex makes a pretty girl, doesn’t he, Chris?” asked Hekate, embarrassing Alex all the more. As Hekate was about to make another stupid comment, she felt something fly by her head, and turned in shock to see Chris’ halberd embedded in a tree next to her.
“Hekate,” Chris said, smiling at her, “Please shut up, and stop picking on Alex, okay?”
“Sheesh,” said Hekate, never learning, “What are you, her boyfriend or something?” "He appears in the Form of a Man with many Countenances; and he hath a Book in his right hand. His Office is to teach all Arts and Sciences unto any; and to declare the Secret Counsel of any one."

23-Jun-2010 03:07:11

Dantalian

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This succeeded in embarrassing both the young warriors, but, unfortunately for Hekate, it just so happened that Chris had just gotten the bow out of Alex’s hair, and now turned to Hekate with a look of incredible malice.
“Shall we take turns in destroying her?” asked Chris, “Or should we attack simultaneously; it’s so hard to decide.”
“The second option seems faster,” replied Alex, drawing his sword, “I say we go with that.”
“Aw, couples work so well together,” commented Hekate, apparently not realizing the danger she was in. Right after making this comment, Hekate found Alex’s sword pointed at her neck, and Chris’ now recovered halberd poking her back.
“This is going to be painful,” warned Chris.
“Licht,* sighed Hekate, “Looks like I was too absorbed to notice you two actually get this close.*
*Excuse me!” shouted Linksona, “As much as Hekate deserves you two beating her to a pulp, now might not be the time; according to Avias, we have a fire heading our way.”
“Fire?” asked Alex, but even as he asked, he could already began to smell smoke.
Apparently Chris could too, because he cursed under his breath and turning to Hekate said, “You really lucked out this time.”
“I did, why?” asked Hekate, feigning innocence.
“Don’t worry,” said Chris, “We’ll deal with you when we get to safety.”
“Enough talking!” shouted Linksona, “The fire’s spreading rapidly!”
Even as he shouted this, a crackling sound reached the group, encouraging them to make a dash through the jungle. Miraculously, they managed to both keep together and make fairly good time, despite the jungle’s undergrowth. However, even so, they soon felt heat coming from behind them, and soon after, actually caught glimpses of flame between the trees. "He appears in the Form of a Man with many Countenances; and he hath a Book in his right hand. His Office is to teach all Arts and Sciences unto any; and to declare the Secret Counsel of any one."

23-Jun-2010 03:09:36

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very interesting so far... but is that the end?

23-Jun-2010 03:09:36

Dantalian

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Right as it seemed the flames were about to catch up with them, the group managed to break out of the jungle and into a small clearing with a steep mountain on one side, and the jungle on the other. Noticing a cave in the mountainside, Linksona pointed it out to his companions, and they quickly ran in, just as the edge of the jungle caught ablaze.
The cavern was unusually warm, and although first Alex thought it was simply due to the blaze raging outside, Linksona was quick to point out that several pools of magma were visible, and soon after noticed something else.
“There’s a sign here,” commented the half-giant, examining a portion of the wall, “But these symbols are alien to me.”
The others moved forward, and in the dim light of the cave made out a number of sigla within interconnected octagons, triangles, and tetragons.
“This is clearly not a natural formation,” said Chris, “But it is unlike any language I have ever seen.*
Alex however, said nothing, staring at the symbols in a mix of confusion and interest. Finally he spoke, “The first wall of the great throne. The path of fire.” "He appears in the Form of a Man with many Countenances; and he hath a Book in his right hand. His Office is to teach all Arts and Sciences unto any; and to declare the Secret Counsel of any one."

23-Jun-2010 03:12:03

Dantalian

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“You understand this?” asked Linksona, surprised.
“I… can’t be sure,” said Alex, “When I looked at these symbols, I did*’t read them like you would read a book. I just... it’s like a description entered my head or something.”
“Prantiqeth Sigla,” Hekate muttered under her breath.
“Did you say something?” asked Linksona.
“This is the only way further into this land,” replied Hekate.
“How can you be sure?” asked Chris, “No one’s been here in centuries. At least not if I heard correctly.”
“Just trust me on this one,” said Hekate.
“Even if you say that…” began Chris.
*I think she’s right,” said Alex, “I don’t know how, but I do know this is only way further in.”
“I had Avias scout the outside area,” added Linksoma, “According to him, these mountains are insanely high, he couldn’t even reach their summits, and they seem to go all the way around this area. At the very least, there are no passes nearby.”
“Fine, then we have no choice,” sighed Chris, “I guess we have to venture through these caverns.”
“Aren’t you supposed to be trying to stop us?” asked Hekate.
“As you said, I can’t overpower all of you,” said Chris, “So all I can do is keep an eye on you.”
“True enough,” replied Hekate, “Now* let’s go!” "He appears in the Form of a Man with many Countenances; and he hath a Book in his right hand. His Office is to teach all Arts and Sciences unto any; and to declare the Secret Counsel of any one."

23-Jun-2010 03:13:53

Dantalian

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Neon, you just had bad timing and arrived on this page when I was in the middle of posting an add.

"He appears in the Form of a Man with many Countenances; and he hath a Book in his right hand. His Office is to teach all Arts and Sciences unto any; and to declare the Secret Counsel of any one."

23-Jun-2010 03:14:27 - Last edited on 23-Jun-2010 03:24:01 by Dantalian

Dantalian

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CHAPTER 4-THE PATH OF FIRE
“Nature escaped, and hurried past,
Find a land akin to where demons were cast,
Inside, consumed by fire, even rocks do hiss,
Soon, even vicious nature will the traveler miss.
Yet, through smog and smoke their way to make,
In doing so, ancient immortal shall they wake.”
--Mephos Nidhogg, “The Monolith’s Eulogy” (excerpt)
“Ah, reminds me of home!” exclaimed Sliske, taking deep breaths of the sulfur-laden air.
“Home?” asked Jen.
“He means Freneskae,” explained Aion, “A land of fire and ash, where brimstone rains from the heavens.”
“Sounds like Hell,” said Jen.
“Since basically no mortals have ever seen the real Hell and kept their sanity intact, I think the description used by Saradominists and the like was supplied by some who saw Freneskae, and mistakenly believed they were looking at Hell,” commented Aion.
“Wait, so Hell exists?” asked Jen.
“Define ‘exists’,” replied Aion.
“What do you mean?” asked Jen.
“The place known is Hell is literally the Void,” replied Aion, “But the Void, by definition is nonexistence. So one could argue that Hell does not exist. At the same time, demons do exist, and many dwell within the Void; so the question becomes how can something that does exist reside in a place that by its very definition does not?*
*My head’s beginning to hurt,” complained Jen, “If I understand you, then Hell both exists and doesn’t exist? That makes no sense at all; I may not be a scholar, but I know that it is impossible for anything to be both true and false at the same time; so how can one say Hell or anything else, both does and does not exist?”
“Fragments of the Absolute,” Sliske said out of nowhere.
“Oh, you know of Mephos it seems?” asked Usha.
“Mephos… isn’t he…?” Jen trailed off as Usha spoke. "He appears in the Form of a Man with many Countenances; and he hath a Book in his right hand. His Office is to teach all Arts and Sciences unto any; and to declare the Secret Counsel of any one."

23-Jun-2010 03:16:41

Dantalian

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“There’s been a lot of debate about whether something like Hell is a state of being, or a literal place,” said Usha, *The quote ‘Fragments of the Absolute’ was used by Mephos as a way to describe the souls of sentient beings. He hypothesized that every soul was an imperfect miniature of the first soul; literally that of, in his words, the UNKNOWN.”
“The Mazoku term for the God who created the universe,* explained Sliske.
“Yes,” confirmed Usha, “According to Mephos, because of this, not only would a soul cast into the Void not be destroyed, but would even be able to create a world in the Void.”
“But that world would inhabit a separate reality from ours,” added Aion, “Which implies that in order to get from this new world to say, ours, you would need to not just jump worlds, but whole realities. Meaning you couldn’t just teleport to or from it, like some people have done to get from Gielinor to Zanaris and vice versa.
Also, the sustentation principle states that such a world would be the worst possible reality."
“Meaning that to move something from that reality into ours, you either have to do something very evil to bring the realities as close together as possible, then use a really powerful spell that essentially changes which reality you are already in,” said Sliske, “Or create some reality in which two separate realities are connected.”
“Which is how the Pandaemonium gates were made,” said Aion, although it sounded more like a question than a statement. "He appears in the Form of a Man with many Countenances; and he hath a Book in his right hand. His Office is to teach all Arts and Sciences unto any; and to declare the Secret Counsel of any one."

23-Jun-2010 03:22:19

Dantalian

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“If they really exist,” observed Usha.
“Well, enough philosophy for one day,” stated Sliske, “I think we’ve hurt the poor child’s head.”
And sure enough, Jen was holding her head as if suffering from a large headache.
“Sorry about that,” said Usha, “We did*’t mean to go on like that.”
“It’s alright,” replied Jen, “More importantly, which way do we go?”
“That way,” said Monica, surprising the group who, due to her silence, had forgotten she was with them.
Looking down the tunnel Monica was pointing at, and finding it no different from the other tunnels in sight, Jen asked, “How do you know?”
“I feel it is my lord’s will that I travel down that tunnel,” said Monica, “So I will be going this way, you people are of course allowed to choose whatever best suits you.”
“Though, as none of us have any idea on how to find our way around here, we should probably go with her,” said Aion.
“Fair enough,” agreed Usha.
“Very well, so let’s go. I want to get to the city as quickly as possible,” sighed Sliske. "He appears in the Form of a Man with many Countenances; and he hath a Book in his right hand. His Office is to teach all Arts and Sciences unto any; and to declare the Secret Counsel of any one."

23-Jun-2010 03:23:44

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