This time the Story, roled at April 21, '10, was a bit confuse. I'll try to explain it better with narrative, in the form of this resume. Deception has started. The Story is being shown from a neutral viewpoint, and I have planned all that will be written at the Novel. Storyline, new characters, parallels, the Events which will set a new level into this fictional universe.
Hope you're enjoying your reading.
Previously...
They listen, so, to the voice of Ayasta.
- Get out of there. You upside of a Ship. (said her).
They started to fly away, with magic or psionic powers, and moved to a mountain, near the teleport which was used to come there.
So, they started to see the ground moving. Sand moving off the center, where's the Temple, and they all got really impressed with what they saw.
The Desert Temple is, in fact, a gigantic Temple Ship moving upwards.
Words are not found to describe what they suddenly see.
The imense Temple Ship move each time higher, as a flying bloom, passing the clouds, and then desapearing.
(Teleport Home)
The barabarian deserts of northeast are vast, as the place monsters had fight the Old Nine Realms during the daemonic invasion of the Great war. They see now that it has many secrets to show. It's an arid land, with a number of strange plants, walking cactus, hyenas, and red lizards. Land is red. Water is a rare spice, wich is in fact reason of war.
They stayed there looking to an imense templeship moving upwards, until far up from the clouds. It desapeared in the highness.
- Báech, could you teleport me home? (asked Tack).
- Of course, my friend. Your wish is a command to me, see you soon.
Immediately at home, Tack went to discuss with his fellows who integrate his investigation groups eh himself had put together in this time of disruption. Ryklanta is a place where every noble and merchant go, and it takes a number of hours to get the news from everywhere, with a distinct accent of course. But this time he was really impressed. The reason, a voice, was inside his own family.
- Let's go to the Troll Philosopher.
- That's an order, Torian. We are here, already.
The Troll welcomed the group, igniting the fire that marks the permission to enter the territory, and they went right to the point.
After talking, it's assumed Hadesh took a large part of the Ambar godess knowledge of time, at the moment everyone was suffering the Event, but Adria the new godess of time doesn't have this. So, the Troll accepted to try and invent a ritual to give this knowledge to Adria. He remembered Adria asked them to find a place her people the ichi to live.
Ayasta, who was watching the group all the time, at the Temple of Ivory, immediately started to search for the heritage at the planes.
As she have found, they were hiding from a vulcanoe at their territory, at the White.
- I've found the ichi (they listened to Ayasta's voice). Help me find a place for them, and your debt with Adria will have been fulfilled.
- I know of a place, Ayasta (said Rudyn). Look for the places near the great lakes, at Kalacoktoa. They start at those deep blue areas northwest, you can see them clearly from here in the autumn, and they come to be places where the fae don't go.
Ayasta created an image of herself with six arms, and opened a portal to the ichi people. First, they were a bit terrified, but they sensed her godhood, and wish to help. None of them are magic users, that's what Ayasta noticed.
So, she blessed a little girl with her magic ability, in a very similar way she took off and replaced magic to professor Tack Primus.
She sensed a predator following the ichi, but it was a spirit predator. This time, Death has made her choice and helped. Ayasta saw the presence of the Death godess, and She sent the predator to another direction, as if it were a veiled wish from some worshiper within the ichi people. Well, maybe it was.
- The ichi people passed the portal. Adria thank you for remembering her people. (said Ayasta). They're well, and will live now at the astral caves, northwest lakes, at Kalacoktoa.
It called the attention of a draka, and her name is Sin, so Ayasta started to talk with her. They talked about the universe, Kor the draka Highergod, and a lot more. This is the first divine approval from an entity whose status is godlike Ayasta has had. The other were talking about the Rings. She was watching, but Sin was there to make comments.
The group has come to a conclusion. That the Rings are a way to ressurrect Ambar. Of course, they don't know for sure.
Tack came back, and they were waiting for him.
- The Academy says magic is weaker than before, but there are other things important. All magic items made before Ambar's death are full power. All new items will suffer eighty percent penalty, so they think the Guild of Thieves will try and theft all they can, and soon, and maybe this will start a new war amongst those who want potent items of power.
- Hmm..... terrible. (said Torian). The Troll will make the ritual to transfer the hidden knowledge Hadesh has received as illumination to Adria, and Ayasta has saved the ichi people. They're living in Kalacoktoa, now, at the northwest lakes area.
The djine Báech was hungry, but normal food doesn't feed him. So, Tack takes a bag and gives him a coin made of telluron. It's a bag with maybe one hundred telluron coins, and the others became amazed, for this is an imense treasure, and so Tack explains the Academy had given it to him as patronage.
Báech eat it, easily, and it worked.
- Eah. It's like bones. Like eating bones, but the taste is a bit good.
Torian says he need to go home, and leave the meeting. At home, he talks with his new Staff, an item of power he has taken as reward at the templeship.
- Helo. What's your name?
- I don't have a name. Helo. And I don't exactly like names.
- Can I give you a name? Just to make it easier.....
- Well, this way, right. Do it.
- What you can do?
- I see magic's dead, here. Well, not exactly. Your aptitude is five times greater that the others, maybe for you have mantained it with all your might.
- You can keep me doing magic as it were before?
- Well, actually, I can make it stronger. But you need to take much care. It will get so strong it can kill you too, when you're casting. I can make twice, maybe the triple of what you could normally do.
- Can you keep it under control?
- Yeah, I guess. It's just a measure of exactitude.
- Right, then. Keep it under control, and we're going to shake things a bit, so when I need more I'll ask you to amplify.
- It sounds interesting.
Back at Troll's, Rude explains not only Adria needed help. Spike and his people are made at The Forge, a great construct in Shadeza. They don't know if the warknights will be made life, anymore, so Rude insist that the group help Spike.
Lena explains to Tack that the "map" they got at the East Labyrinth is in fact the map of a meeting centre made with all that can be done by the Guild of Thieves. So, they're constructing a Tavern. This will show how the Guild keep it's secrets.
Rude explains the ogres from Kalacoktoa have other things than magic. A form of much more evolved things at the same way as goblin's gadgets.
Daytel come back, and gives his Tome to Tack. So, the professor opens the Tome, but it's written on it that "I'm sleeping. Study Nature to understand yourself", and he closes the book of power without saying anyone what was written.
They thank the Troll, and start to go back to Torian's Castle. The flowers of Ora are seen on plantations, in every direction.
They keep talking at Daytel's apothekary.
- It's true. (Tack listen his daughter's voice). Actually, the Egg is at Hadesh's Bag of Things, and it's probably the way to ressurrect Ambar. I'm with you. And I always will be. Decide what you want with your friends, and we do the rest.
The whitch of the planes appears.
- Daytel, (she says), the old owner of the book is dead, well, not exactly, but the Tome is yours, now. It may happen that I'll need it, but it's yours. (so, she look to the veiled wishes of Tack, and look to him to say something without a bargain). The Balance depends on with whom are the Portals and who will gather the major number of portals. To balance things is one thing, but to fix or recondition the world is completely different. I've said what was needed. Goodbye.
She said this last part to everyone and vanished, but...
Where's Hadesh?
(The Dark Tower)
Hadesh has put his hand inside the Bag, and desapeared from sight.
He looks around, to see he's top of that gargantuan Tower he only saw at the Cursed Lake at Flausin's village territory. There was an imense shadow dactyl, which was flying in a distance. He sensed terribly affected by a presence so mean he watched the top of the Tower.
He sees a man, dressed in fine black clothes, and his right hand is made of vala.
- So, you came. Our enemy in common is dead, and it was the Old Mummi King. Now, the enemy is Tweet, the most important thief of History. The now Mummi King is not strong enough to be the enemy, and I won't explain why now. Go back, and I'll see you as soon as a plan can be settled. There is an enemy who haven't shown his face yet, and we need to wait until he show up.
- How do I go back? (asked Hadesh).
- Hmm..... so, you came without your own wish. Your friends are manipulating you. They think they're doing everything right. They're not. You're probably being manipulated by another enemy, the one who we don't know yet who he is. You don't know how to go back, even if your Ring knows. He's much more powerful than you, but you have much more potential. Go back the same way you came.
Hadesh sensed his armour covering all his body, in the presence of this evil creature, and calmly put the hand inside the Bag.
The Dark Grimoire was trying to say something.
So, he appeared at Daytel's apothekary, again, but they didn't looked for him yet, and were discussing what they'd do next when he came back.
- I tried to warn you (the Dark Grimoire hissed inside the Bag).
So, Hadesh tried to lie, saying he was just anywhere but it was not important, and Tack noticed he was in fact lying or hiding something.
After everyone notice something was wrong, the rogue princess asked him to show his mark to prove he's the right Hadesh. He does, but even so it's strange. Then the Ring of Intelligence says Hadesh was fooled, and probably by everyone, the grimoire, the léach (lich), by Death, by everyone, and so he decide to hide things til understand 'em better.
The meeting was interrupted by a guard.
He uses the coat of arms of Drazci, a knife and a two handed sword. Pilgrims were attacked by dark sidhas, and some soldiers fought them. They're outside with the bodies, but there's one captured and kept on the dungeons of the castle.
Torian said to the group he'd go interrogate the dark sidha.
And Tack went to the bodies, deal with what to do with the bodies, but this time Hadesh was aware of Tack's real intentions.
He goes, too.
- You won't do it. I'll do it.
- I know what I need to do, Hadesh. I respect you have your own secrets, as I noticed just now, but this time I know what to do.
- You have a family to take care of.
- I'm not doing it for my family, but for myself. I need to know, and this is the only way.
- I'm a physician, Tack.
- You won't change my mind, but I accept your help.
- Tell Torian. He needs to know.
The Drazci Dvoráka (Castle) is not imense, but it shows many rooms. Teleport is possible only if the master permits it to happen. The bronze is everywhere, as the colour of Priatel'sa family, but you can see also a lot of white, in special at furniture coverage. Some symbols, many of them elemental's related, may not scape to anyone who take a look at silverware, in contrast with hardwood, clear, and the walls, dark brown.
So, there is a dungeon.
Hadesh is the one who most use it. The Drazci is a family so respected, there's almost no sense maintaining a dungeon.
When Torian, the master of the castle was in front of the entrance, there were a huge explosion, so strong the castle shook. He immediately created a contention, and the djine Báech came to help. He took the flask he created to contain every type of black magic.
They put most of the poison inside the flask, but even so, Torian decided to evacuate the castle to decide what to do first.
Outside, soldiers didn't know what to do, until he regroup 'em and give the orders.
Tack asked everyone to report exactly everything that happened. It looks like the dark sidhas are monks, and their attack is an special attack to the chest.
The batlers have being saved. The castle was not under attack. It looks like the dark sidha had a bomb, and he was waiting for Torian to activate it. That could only be done it the bomb was inside his body, and an enemy who dares doing it.....
The Priatel immediately made a wind to clean the castle, and send the poison upwards, so he selected two soldiers from his guard to go there and look for anyone who could be there yet.
No one was in there.
So, he went to Tack and Hadesh, understood what they'd do, and asked help from the rogue princess and the djine to keep everyone attention while they do it.
Daytel went to his library, and came back with a backpack, so the side house were being used to keep the pilgrim bodies. It was a book of necromancy. Tack opened it, feeling this was the right thing to do. No one else could understand what he and Hadesh could analyzing the bodies.
Christalla, and the djine Báech were keeping everyone ocupied enough to understand what was happening, waiting for Torian to come back.
Torian and Hadesh went to the mountains, and more than three hundred ice flowers were being taken, so the elemental Ice was terrifying the area. They went quickly to the passageway after the mountains, where the mark of border with the barbarian wastes is located, and there where Hadesh and Adria always used to go to make magic studies were profaned.
Many black magic symbols were there. And a dead goat was there, in a dark ritual.
They analyzed and came to the conclusion that no God could see whatever would be done there, for the ice flowers could have been used to block any interference. That ice flowers could be used into a ritual so strong it could create or destroy the strongest.
Torian and Hadesh cama back, and the mage took the front to talk with the pilgrims, and in his discourse he said the family will hunt those who did it, for what he was cheered.
Unfortunately, Hadesh was in his beast form, so he started to play a young red dragon, and went to help Tack with his deeds.
Tack said he defined where is located immortality, and the attack with five finger points is an attack to take off imortality from someone. The flowers stolen are the same used to create the Mummi King, so these elves may not be servants to the Mummi King.
Tack went to goblin territory, fifty miles north, with Hadesh, to burn the bodies there, and a cloud of poison came from the bodies.
They kept the remain ashes into an urn, and teleported to the bay of Nine Realms.
This way, Hadesh opened the urn there underwater.
So, they teleported back. He finished everything and took a shower, there at the side house, for he had taken extra clothes.
The rogue princess then come back from the Tavern, saying everything was safe there.
At this time, the castle was liveable, again. Tack decided to go sleep, while the others started to discuss what to do next, as a sequence from this attack.
(The Dream)
Tack suddenly was in a middle of a public square. People use strange clothing, and he's using the same, blue pants, white shirt, and strange but very confortable shoes, but he was using a white hood. He immediately note everyone is ejik (human).
He tried to sense magic, but that simply didn't existed.
So, he tried to talk with people, but he said the word Bog and everyone runned from the area, calmly though, for it immediately started to rain acid.
He runned also, but just not to call attention.
No one spoke common, elfic, or whatever other languages he tried, but someone explained him Bog is this thing everyone was chewing.
Someone gave it to him, but he sensed it was made of pure Corruption.
He understood some syllables were forbidden, and all of them were the basic syllables used in names of Gods, but Efemmera was known there, as the thing that were down there (one of them pointed down).
He called the Dreammaker.
- Helo, professor. (said him, appearing on his side). Interesting. This dream was kept hidden for the last five hundred and twenty one years. I didn't know what it was. It looks like you're seeing the future, or the future someone has reserved to show you a long time ago.
Tack woke up and rightly went to tell Hadesh about the dream.
(Pause)
Professor Primus went to the Academy, and was surprised by other teachers. He negated the paralyze, and give direction to the Headmaster.
He asked why his magic is different, and suported Primus giving an explanation to the other teachers.
The Headmaster let him inside the Forbidden Library.
(Back at Priatelka)
- So, but I listened to your wish, and that's how you have the Egg inside your Bag.
- When you'd tell me that, Báech?
- Oah, I forgot. Somehow. But it's there, inside your Bag.
- Great.
Hadesh put the hand inside the Bag, and listened to Flausin's voice imitating a human little girl and saying "The one who take the sword from the sheath will defeat the Enemy", and Hadesh desapeared, going to what he identify as the Plane of Negative Energy.
(At The Forbidden Library)
Tack was searching for two books, and the Headmaster let him in, using a strange yellow clothe, and what he discovers is what follow.
The Event duration is two years, until the set free of the Antigods. The book tells ritual experimentalism with death, life, and new forms of reincarnation, ressurrection, and the curse of the mummy, with examples to everything.
It tells to "get together the major number of Portals, and decide the new rules of reincarnation", dated with the exactly today present day.
He could also see, dated five hundred and twenty one years ago, a set of planar coordinates, with supposed positions to eight locations, marked "Portal", and used a magic trick to remember those numbers with exatitude as he wishes.
He go back with the Headmaster, and say to the Headmaster his group is the group that is trying to put all things in it's right place.
The Headmaster gives him a vow he'd take much care with this information, and Tack explain Ayasta, the New Godess of Magic is in his group.
(Meanwhile)
Hadesh finds a gimba, like a tobacco stub, and as he never keep 'em, he understand it's the Egg. So, he asks the Egg to get off there.
- Say Hoe.
- Hoe.
He immediately appeared at the Plane of Positive Energy.
(Tack was preparing to go Priatel's)
Hadesh listened again to the "Say Hoe", and he asked to be anywhere but there.
- Say Hoe.
- Hoe.
Luckily, due to he being changing planes so quickly, his armous was locked. For now he's looking to Toj, from the outside.
He's in orbit.
(End of Session)
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And Thank you.
