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Ardmore

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Unfortunately, I can't consider you for advancement until you've reached the post requirement. It isn't there to stop newer writers, but just to make you demonstrate consistent skill.

I'll happily review your application when you do reach the required number of posts, though.

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24-Oct-2006 16:47:09

Dreamweaver
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***An Unfortunate Entry***

Nildi quickly composed himself, pretending that he was not about to vandalize the front door, but instead had just lost his balance momentarily. Following Zavistic somewhat sheepishly, he stepped across the portal and into the Guild.

As he crossed the threshold, passing through the protective magical field that surrounded the tower, his dragonstone pendant glowed so brightly that it nearly blinded him. It seemed caught in the field for a split second, pressing against his skin as he walked forwards through the doorway. The doors suddenly rattled and buckled violently against their hinges. Then he was inside. With a quiet click, the doors swung closed and the pendant was shining no more.

Zavistic appeared to not have noticed the episode at all and instead was fiddling with something on the other side of the wide circular room.

“Tea?”

“Oh, um that would be lovely. Thank you,” mumbled Nildi, still somewhat unsettled from the events that had just occurred.

Then from the corner of his eye he caught sight of one of the top door hinges, warped and splitting from the wall. This was not good! How would the wizards cooperate with him if they knew he was responsible for damaging their very seat of power? He approached the doors again, wondering if he could repair the metalwork, but suddenly his pendant began to glow again and swung out towards the perimeter magic field. He backed hurriedly away, but not before a brass nail rattled free from the shaking hinge and flew into the air with blinding speed.

Seemingly in slow motion, the nail spun across the room. Nildi watched in horror. It ricocheted off the rim of a vase with a hollow thunk and sped across the room again. Nildi’s jaw dropped. It glanced off a candelabrum, leaving candles to spray hot wax across the floor and flew across the room again. Nildi stared after it, speechless.

“Sugar, Nildi?”

~continued~

07-Nov-2006 04:53:34 - Last edited on 03-Dec-2006 05:27:29 by Dreamweaver

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It narrowly missed Zavistic’s tall hat and glanced off the helmet of a suit of armor with a deafening clang. Nildi gaped, thunderstruck. Sailing high into the air, it rattled through the chandelier before embedding itself safely into a beam. Nildi breathed a silent sigh of relief.

But just as things seemed calm, a loose crystal from the shaken chandelier tumbled down, crashing straight into Zavistic’s cup of tea. He leapt up with a yell, shaking hot tea from his beard and dropping the remains of his already-smashed cup.

“What the…” he shouted, looking around the room and up at the chandelier, swinging above. His eyes settled on Nildi. “How – exactly – did that happen?”

Nildi recounted the bizarre turn of events as best he could.

“I think,” concluded Zavistic Rarve, “that it would be better if you left the Guild as quickly as possible with that pendant of yours. I will open the doors, and you will run out, fast. I will arrange to meet you at the inn this evening instead. Ready?”

Nildi nodded, waited for Zavistic to open the doors, and then shot at full speed through them, much to the surprise of a gardener who was pruning some roses on the other side. The pendant glowed briefly, but no more devastation seemed to occur.

“Sorry about the door,” Nildi called back to Zavistic. “I’ll pay for the damages.”

Then the portal slammed behind him. He turned back towards the inn, unsure of what else he could possibly do. Perhaps he could get to the bottom of the Jongor and Savius mystery and find out who really ran the bar at least.

The gardener gaped at Nildi in shock.

“You went into the Wizards' Guild and BROKE the door?!”

07-Nov-2006 04:53:52 - Last edited on 19-Sep-2008 02:59:12 by Dreamweaver

EldestGreen

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Awesome. I love it when somethign is so powerful it unleashes involuntary destruction on the suppossed invincible.

It just makes all the character's jaws drop.

<~>Draken, Gold member of TGP, Silver of TWE and Novelist of TAL<~>
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07-Nov-2006 07:42:03

Roshinda

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I had to go back and read the earlier adds all over again when I noticed the most recent ones.

And I just realised I never left a comment earlier.

How appaling.

You really have brilliant talent. You are much more deserving of the third rank in the collection than I.

It's a shame more people haven't discovered this marvelous tale yet, but I do believe that will change soon.

Keep writing.

Roshie

09-Nov-2006 09:40:29

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