Deimos Evening pressed, and the world lit up anew in wares and foundations, stones marked and etched in scrupulous fixtures and factions. His attention, meticulous and conniving, ranged from the strangers lurking amongst shadows, where lantern light didn’t touch, his imposing figure cutting through crowds, and studying stalls, kiosks, for something appropriate for the Shield. Parting ways only to run more errands and to take care of other matters, his wanderings had turned into musing and mulling of the world here. The Moonlit Tides hadn’t had these lively assortments, the cloak and dagger ministrations, or the promise of riches. Instead, the ocean had been cold and distant, but strong and potent just the same – made them tough, formidable, fortified beacons for the next onslaught, when childhood was over, when wars rampaged on the horizon, and savoring the damp sand was a forgotten blessing. As unfamiliar as this portion of the kingdom was, it still settled into his curiosity, speculation, and amusement (as barren as that had been as of late). The Sword meandered through a bundle of clustered people, towering above the assortment, before inspecting some other notions of jewelry nearby, some charms clustered like stars and moons, clusters of ideas that he could either replicate or barter for. Out of sight and out of mind Make everything alright So let the sky and sea collide Just not in our lifetime |
always prepared
|
||||||
the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster ✓
Age: 34 | Height: 6'4" | Race: Hybrid | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Halo Level: 14 - Strg: 74 - Dext: 74 - Endr: 75 - Luck: 80 - Int: 3 BELIAL - Mythical - Peryton (Blend) ZURIEL - Mythical - Unicorn (Healing)
Played by: Heather
Change author: Posts: 6,785 | Total: 10,982 MP: 5754
07-15-2020, 11:28 PM
Age: 23 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Ascended | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: N/A - Strg: 10 - Dext: 10 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 5 - Int:
Played by: Whimzi
Change author: Posts: 56 | Total: 926 MP: 0 EVELYN Flowerbirth had meant the end of the Longnight, the ceasing of the monsters tap, tap, tapping at windows and doors (cursed doors, doors that killed, that slayed, that mercilessly slaughtered those of her creed). She had watched from afar, from the shadows of the temple, as the door had been dismantled, taken away by the tall, strong General, watching as her freedom was granted by its absence (though still having to wait until the sun ran below the horizon once more to let her and her sister leave).
It hadn't been an instant desire within her to explore, to expand her horizons - she knew she had wanted to, eventually. But when she heard talk of the easy, joyous times many had in the beach-rimmed land of Torchline, she had been filled with curiosity and anticipation, and made towards the portal promptly from there. And so she too stalked the markets, keen eyes seeing more than before, drinking in a twilight world full of life, of colour and activity - her hand always resting on the bag slung around her shoulder, a dagger kept within its folds that she was prepared to use to defend herself in an instant. Perhaps that was what she wandered for - a belt, a hilt, a more convenient place for her dagger? When she saw the man, she paused her search, mind diverting from its original focus to behold the General she recognised by appearance and name only, knowing nothing more than that about him. "What are you looking for here, sir General?" she asked, unable to restrain her curiosity or her question, standing before him, diminutive in comparison to him, but determined all the same to know more about him. cross me once i dare you it is the only chance you will get the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster ✓
Age: 34 | Height: 6'4" | Race: Hybrid | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Halo Level: 14 - Strg: 74 - Dext: 74 - Endr: 75 - Luck: 80 - Int: 3 BELIAL - Mythical - Peryton (Blend) ZURIEL - Mythical - Unicorn (Healing)
Played by: Heather
Change author: Posts: 6,785 | Total: 10,982 MP: 5754
07-16-2020, 10:31 AM
Age: 23 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Ascended | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: N/A - Strg: 10 - Dext: 10 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 5 - Int:
Played by: Whimzi
Change author: Posts: 56 | Total: 926 MP: 0
07-17-2020, 08:30 AM
EVELYN Perhaps it was presumptuous of her (it definitely was) to demand such answers, to cast judgements on the General of her home, when she herself had come here as well, to have a break, to sate curiosity, to explore and experience this land for herself. She didn't know the man, save for name and rank and face, who was she to judge him?
Well, she was Evelyn Occidendum. Eyes beheld the items he held, 'brow raising in silent question, before she followed him, hearing his response with complete dissatisfaction - a frown crinkled the skin between her eyebrows. She didn't what she expected, but still, the one-word reply was utterly insufficient. "Ideas for what?" she pressed, before they came to a stop near a food stall. Food no longer interested her, its scent doing nothing to stir her senses, dulled as they were in that regard. Keeping focussed on him, she mulled over just how to answer his return query. Then, seemingly coming to some silent conclusion, she nodded a curt nod and reached into her bag, holding the artfully crafted blade, currently wrapped up in the cloth she had found it folded within, on both hands before her. "A belt and a hilt for my blade," she supplied simply, unwrapping it that he might admire the craftsmanship himself. cross me once i dare you it is the only chance you will get the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster ✓
Age: 34 | Height: 6'4" | Race: Hybrid | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Halo Level: 14 - Strg: 74 - Dext: 74 - Endr: 75 - Luck: 80 - Int: 3 BELIAL - Mythical - Peryton (Blend) ZURIEL - Mythical - Unicorn (Healing)
Played by: Heather
Change author: Posts: 6,785 | Total: 10,982 MP: 5754
07-17-2020, 01:02 PM
Age: 23 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Ascended | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: N/A - Strg: 10 - Dext: 10 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 5 - Int:
Played by: Whimzi
Change author: Posts: 56 | Total: 926 MP: 0
07-18-2020, 11:52 AM
EVELYN Bright eyes drank in the daggers he proffered for her to look upon, curiosity and yearning clearly evident as she admired them. The girl had ambitions, had desires to thrive and moxie enough to get her there, and to do that she had to grow, to adapt and change. A dagger alone wouldn't do that, she knew, but it was a step, a promise, to herself and the world, that she was willing and open, fresh putty ready to be shaped into whatever fit best in the world.
Tucking the blade back into her bag, and following the behemoth of a man through the crowd (finding his ability to carve a path through the crowd a rather convenient wonder) she passed by the food stalls once more with barely a thought, not missing the pangs of hunger that plagued her family so often, as the gift of her Ascension gave her everything she needed. When they came to the next stall, she saw thing that did interest her, an assortment of hilts, belts, and sheaths too. Chewing her lip, she eyed a particular style she liked, but upon hearing the price, and offering what trinkets she had in her bag, she stepped back once more, unable to come to an agreement with the stall owner. "Perhaps another time." She concluded softly, guarding her tone so as not to reveal the depth of her disappointment, in herself, in her family for leaving her and her sister nothing. With a sigh, she gathered herself, looking to the man with renewed focus, able to push the matter of her dagger to the side for now (or at least put on a decent performance of such). "How long will you stay here?" cross me once i dare you it is the only chance you will get the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster ✓
Age: 34 | Height: 6'4" | Race: Hybrid | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Halo Level: 14 - Strg: 74 - Dext: 74 - Endr: 75 - Luck: 80 - Int: 3 BELIAL - Mythical - Peryton (Blend) ZURIEL - Mythical - Unicorn (Healing)
Played by: Heather
Change author: Posts: 6,785 | Total: 10,982 MP: 5754
07-18-2020, 11:41 PM
Age: 23 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Ascended | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: N/A - Strg: 10 - Dext: 10 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 5 - Int:
Played by: Whimzi
Change author: Posts: 56 | Total: 926 MP: 0
07-23-2020, 05:20 AM
EVELYN A shrug, an action demonstrating her refusal to commit to a preference of weapon, was given in response to his question. "We used knives everyday on the farm, for different things" soft tones chimed. "They are familiar to me. I have not used other weapons to know if I prefer them." She just wanted something more than herself, something substantial, something vicious, that she could wield, twist and put to work towards her own devious machinations and designs.
Surprise widened her eyes a moment as she took in what he offered her. "I would be honoured, General. I… would you maybe teach me about other weapons, too?" It was as if she gained the confidence to ask directly for such merely from his simple offer, following eagerly in his steps as he weaved through the crowd. They were a blur to her - her focus upon the man, the General, as hope dared to bloom within her un-beating heart at the idea of what he could offer, what she could learn - she couldn't wait to tell Mabel. Attention idly shifted to the play, to the puppets that paraded about, mouth tilting into a thoughtful line as she considered the question thrown at her. "Not that long. My sister and I will come and go through the portal. We haven't ever gone further than the Grounds before now." Firstly because of the barrier, then because of their family and their desire to cling to the Old Gods who ignored them time and again. cross me once i dare you it is the only chance you will get the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster ✓
Age: 34 | Height: 6'4" | Race: Hybrid | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Halo Level: 14 - Strg: 74 - Dext: 74 - Endr: 75 - Luck: 80 - Int: 3 BELIAL - Mythical - Peryton (Blend) ZURIEL - Mythical - Unicorn (Healing)
Played by: Heather
Change author: Posts: 6,785 | Total: 10,982 MP: 5754
07-23-2020, 01:21 PM
Age: 23 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Ascended | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: N/A - Strg: 10 - Dext: 10 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 5 - Int:
Played by: Whimzi
Change author: Posts: 56 | Total: 926 MP: 0
07-24-2020, 05:36 AM
EVELYN Farm life had taught her the ways of knives, of skinning animals, slicing meat, cutting vegetables and fruits. She could wield pitchforks and shovels as well, though they hardly lent themselves to convenient the same way a good blade did. But none of the blades from home had been crafted with such care as the one she had found in the Grounds, with a note attached blessing anyone who needed it to take it.
"Of course." Curiosity piqued, had she been interested in looking at the sights and sounds that surrounded them, she no longer was. Bright eyes considered him with a slight head tilt, mind sent awhirl with possibilities of what he could want her perspective on, when he was so much more lived and experienced than she, a simple farm girl turned Ascended? Well, she wasn't necessarily simple. Sheltered, perhaps. The ocean was mentioned, and she followed his gesture to glance at the great deep midnight-blue expanse in the distance, her keener senses able to see the subtle rise and fall of waves breaking. "I will," she promised, before turning her attention back to the man, awaiting more information from him, that she might lend him her perspective. cross me once i dare you it is the only chance you will get the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster ✓
Age: 34 | Height: 6'4" | Race: Hybrid | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Halo Level: 14 - Strg: 74 - Dext: 74 - Endr: 75 - Luck: 80 - Int: 3 BELIAL - Mythical - Peryton (Blend) ZURIEL - Mythical - Unicorn (Healing)
Played by: Heather
Change author: Posts: 6,785 | Total: 10,982 MP: 5754
07-24-2020, 06:48 PM
Age: 23 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Ascended | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: N/A - Strg: 10 - Dext: 10 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 5 - Int:
Played by: Whimzi
Change author: Posts: 56 | Total: 926 MP: 0
07-25-2020, 03:29 AM
EVELYN It wasn't until he mentioned the door, the accursed barrier that locked them inside the entire Longnight, that the girl had any idea what he might want her perspective on. It was a heavy topic, the implications of his query not lost on her, but still it required a lot of thought from the girl who usually let her wits dance off the edge of her tongue the moment they came to light in her mind. No, this question required more consideration, and so she took it, worrying at her lower lip as she weighed up the various directions her response could go.
The door was accursed, but perhaps, only to her and her ascended kin - to others, it was a shield, a protective layer against the monsters of the Longnight. Monsters. Were they also her kin, if the door was made to affect them so? Or were they lost, beyond help, and so no longer her kin? All her life had been spent fearing the monsters that came every Longnight; such feelings did not disappear easily, even if she was granted greater strength and keener senses than before. The stinging of sunlight on her skin whenever she tried to venture out of the shade during the day was a stark reminder of her mortality, the effect the door had on their Queen yet another. In the wrong hands, what would the weapon do? Destroy her, and her kin? But would that also mean the monsters of Longnight too? Did that not mean some good, in the bad could be achieved by its existence too? "I think, in the right hands, such a weapon-" - for that is what the door was, even if it was only ever meant to be a shield - "-could be used to slay the monsters of Longnight." She began, quietly, looking up to the man from her comparatively diminutive height, seeking to pin him beneath her hard azure stare. "But once they are slain…" Words drifted into a silence, as she mustered the courage to complete her thought. "…it would serve no other righteous purpose, no matter the hands that wielded it." cross me once i dare you it is the only chance you will get the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster ✓
Age: 34 | Height: 6'4" | Race: Hybrid | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Halo Level: 14 - Strg: 74 - Dext: 74 - Endr: 75 - Luck: 80 - Int: 3 BELIAL - Mythical - Peryton (Blend) ZURIEL - Mythical - Unicorn (Healing)
Played by: Heather
Change author: Posts: 6,785 | Total: 10,982 MP: 5754
07-25-2020, 06:45 PM
Age: 23 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Ascended | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: N/A - Strg: 10 - Dext: 10 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 5 - Int:
Played by: Whimzi
Change author: Posts: 56 | Total: 926 MP: 0
07-26-2020, 04:44 AM
EVELYN A time limit; a way of ensuring that such a weapon of destruction and doom could only have opportunity to slay the enemies of all (monsters) rather than the enemies of a few lumping an entire race in with the monsters. To be able to cause such instant, finite death with just a touch - an unintentional, innocent touch at that - it held implication far greater than she would ever riddle out completely, no matter how smart she thought she was. He expressed gratitude and she nodded, a ghost of a smile on her lips as she felt satisfied that she had helped, that he had understood her, possibly even agreed with her? It gave her a sense of accomplishment, false or real, she wouldn't know for some time yet.
The question he posed in return surprised her, eyes widening and head tilting as if she wasn't sure she heard him correctly. Further plans? The girl was ignorant, woefully so, frustratingly so, and so suddenly hated herself for it - had there been an option, a way to secure the world from the threat once and for all? But who would have the power to plot such a thing, who could hope to stand up to the many ancient, broken, monstrous creations of the Voice and hope to defeat them? Or perhaps, perhaps, it wasn't a matter of working against the Voice at all, to achieve such means. "None aside from the weapon you speak of," the girl cursed herself for showing her surprise before, much preferring to guard her expressions, but this titbit was too shocking, too great for her to guard against. Time passed, and she didn't pose any further questions on the matter, wanting to ask who, when, where of the man, to become involved further - but as it was, she nor her sister were capable of making a difference in such a war yet, so she asked something different. "Do you think there would be a Longnight if the monsters were all slain?" Would darkness fall still? Would there be a need to stay indoors, to protect and fortify the town? Or would it be just another week of Deepfrost, cold and gloomy, but comparatively safer, brighter and endurable than Longnight? cross me once i dare you it is the only chance you will get | ||||||
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)