the
CORE
CORE
The effect is immediate.
108's fingers wrap around the Core, quite literally, and electricity races along their limbs as if to try and stop the inevitable. The power that has held them back, that has kept them trapped for centuries, now it courses through 108, boiling the fluid that sustains them, shorting out circuits and utterly frying any semblance of them.
But they will succeed in prying the Core free, even as their body crumbles and burns, even as everything that they are and were and could be becomes dust in the wind. They shatter, and the sphere they hold, it--
a bright flash
a howling scream
wind, rushing, freezing
the crack of stone
is there no longer. In the blinding light following 108's decision, the top of the Spire simply disintegrates, showering the group with black diamond dust. The body of the Core crumples, no longer held aloft by wires and other circuitry. And above...
Above, the barrier - glittering, shimmering, beautiful - is falling.
With the wind billowing about them from the now open Spire top, the group will see as, even in the black of night, the world is revealed from behind a veil, glorious and wonderful as anything the gods might have created.
The Spire is breached.
The Voice and the Core are free.
Are you saviours?
Or are you damned?
Only time will tell.
But they will succeed in prying the Core free, even as their body crumbles and burns, even as everything that they are and were and could be becomes dust in the wind. They shatter, and the sphere they hold, it--
a bright flash
a howling scream
wind, rushing, freezing
the crack of stone
is there no longer. In the blinding light following 108's decision, the top of the Spire simply disintegrates, showering the group with black diamond dust. The body of the Core crumples, no longer held aloft by wires and other circuitry. And above...
Above, the barrier - glittering, shimmering, beautiful - is falling.
With the wind billowing about them from the now open Spire top, the group will see as, even in the black of night, the world is revealed from behind a veil, glorious and wonderful as anything the gods might have created.
The Spire is breached.
The Voice and the Core are free.
Are you saviours?
Or are you damned?
Only time will tell.
