Quest for the Light.......The Child of Light is lost, the quest for the key to salvat

[Miguelito Breathstealer]

A strange thing. The ice and cold of death feels like warmth and life on the other side . . . from the other direction. But to be so in this state of casual bliss is to be without the comfort of creation and growth. To many it is a state so easily forgotten when they should fall to their birth. But for one who is never truly born, it pains him with longing while he suffers the twist of the mortal world. All these torments, hunger, lust, need, bad music, they added up to one undeniable conclusion -- advercity.

I knew of adversity. And I didn't like it. I long had found the cloying scent of life in my nostrils, and enjoyed it as it filled my belly with that sickly sweet fullness that never wanted to stay. I knew what I was, by far an advantage over my kind, and I knew there was more, by far a bane to those whom found themselves in my arms.

I would like to say, for the record, that I don't regret anything, not past nor yet to come. How so? Because I don't make choises that I will regret.

In a similar fasion I can say certainly that I don't like any of it either. Life for me is a borrowed thing, so it is beyond the gods and their delicate sencibilities that I should ever be allowed an ounce of true happiness. Oh, pleasures I have had, but happiness is not something you can suck from any sleeping victom in the street. It is as fleeting as water. I do only drink life.

I knew a peom too, but it were one better left unsaid.

"I play and fight and stand for the right.
I work and strive and keep things alive.
I kill and mame and scortch with my flame.
I dance and sing and do everything.
What am I?"

I knew the answer. And that's why, when they summoned me and asked me to be their knife, I said, "Yes, but you must let me taste each of your minds so that I may do each of you justice in time and see that each of your wills are carried out fully." And when I let them place their geas upon me, I knew each of their fears more than any of them knew of one another. I was not working for them, so much as they were playing for me.

And thats how I found my self gazing from a half mile away behind a tree at a large, sudden accumulation of stone while my less mindful counterparts brought down yet another mistake and failure upon the warm children that so easily saved underneath. The mistake was two fold. First, it was timing. How was I supposed to do my silent work while surrounded by mortals raining screaming death. Second was it direction. But that was a mistake that all mortals seemed to make.

The woman was immune to such mortal mistakes. Alas, another night wasted. I would regroup and try again on the next.

OOC: I thought you could use a nice meaty villain right about now.

 

[Vivid]

OOC

OOC: Very interesting character Brethstealer. It'll be a pleasure writing with you.

 

[Moonlight_33]

OOC

welcome Breathstealer, your entrance is both timely indeed and appreciated. I shall post shortly and keep the story moving.

 

[Miguelito Breathstealer]

I watched as the small starlike drops descended from the heavens. "Ah," I thought, "much like the way you dealt with their trolls." The flaming tears cried mercilessly upon what had been a perfectly penetrable camp. The stone barrier, I expected was more than sufficient to block the damage they could have taken from the impact. But I wondered if they could still hear the screams in the air around them. Such a graphic display of nasty weather was quite enough to make me shy even at this distance. "Wasted magic," I thought. "But it will keep them here a while. It gives me a chance to make my way ahead"

 

[Kalann Rathwind]

Kalann Rathwind

OOC: And thus when the need it great the hero of light shall return to this world...

IC: Kalann stared out across the night to the heavens above the stars shone brightly and all was at peace. Yet something was amiss this night. The silence of the night was far too complete, the shadows too deep. This unnatural darkness was all to obvious to one so attuned to the light of day and night. A chill crept up Kalann's spine threatening to steal away his strength but he pushed it away and rose to his feet. He took his blades in his hands for he was far more comfortable behind his masterwork blades knowing few could stand against him in such a conflict.
Kalann walked to Tabbetha and shook her awake,

" Something is wrong. " he said when her eyes opened, "Something is very wrong."

 

[Moonlight_33]

Tabbetha * The Keeper*

With the comming of the dawn, Tabbetha opend the stone that had kept them safe through the night. Things were indeed wrong, and much time had been lost. The land outside the stove lay in waist, everything that had lived and breathed was now dead and waisted. Leading Morlock in his horse form out into the daylight, she mounted and waited for the others, but she would not wait long, shadows moved fast, even in the light of day.

 

[Vivid]

Milor

Minlor stretched in the sunlight. It felt good to be out of the giant spherical coffin. The sight that greeted him made him contemplate going back in however.

Trees gnarled with black soot, ground so desicated that nothing would grow there for decades, unfortunate fauna half devoured by the flaming acid that came from the sky, it was not a pretty sight.

Seeing Keeper Tabbetha mount, he summoned Gloryka from the staff. Even she seemed jittery at the display of destruction before them. Her alabaster wings folded to her equine body and he mounted her bareback, careful to avoid the horn.

He peered mirthlessly at the desolation of the land. "Well, they certainly are thorough." he said without the gaity that had come so quickly to his voice before.

[Edited by Vivid on 04-06-2001 at 01:51 PM]

 

[Kalann Rathwind]

Kalann

After the others had mounted Kalann led his horse from the lone standing tree in the area the tree which had been within the structure Tabbetha had constructed. The loyal mount pawwed the ground nervously as it looked at the destruction which had taken the natural beauty from the land. Kalann rested a reasurring hand upon the nervous beast and whispered into it's ear,

" Calm friend, all is well now we are safe. "

But as Kalann looked out across the land at the destruction which had come with the night his hand went instictively to the scimitars at his hip though never drawn the feel of the smooth ivory hilts calmed his nerves as they always had and assuredly always would. He turned to the others after he had mounted and asked,

" To where do we go now ? "

 

[Miguelito Breathstealer]

Wasting no time, as my power to move would be greatly diminished by the coming dawn, I set forth in the direction that I knew they must go. I alone had all the peices of the puzzle to guess which way the answer would lie. I had taken a dip in each of my masters minds, both as a way of enslaving them to me, and as a way to learn the secrets I would need to fulfill my un-quest.

Each of the great evils that had helped to summon me was of great influence in the things of the wotld. And as all wise things of the world, they feared one another immeasurably. Almost as much as they feared the answer itself. None of them would share with one another more than they absolutely had too. But when I touched each of their minds, with me they had no choice. Each of the others would be watching, ensuring that each opened themself fully to my taste, that each other would be as vulnerable as they.
I knew that the answer would be hidden from their minds, and from mine as well, if I weren't clever. The power that protected the child would only guide in those who were truly worthy of it, those who would protect it and keep it safe. Until it was ready to pose its own question, that same power would cloud them minds of those that opposed it, forcing them to expend their resorces in the search rather than where they would be of most effect.
But great evil had a way of distributing a balance with such things. The combined force of the greatest evils would all together remain ignorant, the answer just out of their reach. By comparing the knowledge of the evil with my own knowledge of the world, I knew that there was to be one place they were not thinking of. It was this one place that would be their destination.

What came to the would be heroes, no doubt, as visions and sudden flashes of clarity, came to me as blindness, and an unrelenting willingness to stumble forth into that dark. I would lead their way, and when they arrived, I would be waiting.

OOC: Where do you want me to "lead you?" I want to make sure this goes somehow in the general direction of where you want to go. Also, how long before you actually want to bring in the golden child? is it just a matter of finding someone to play dad?

 

[Moonlight_33]

Tabbetha * The Keeper*

"We go North."

Looking ahead, Tabbetha got the feeling there was more out there than she had anticipated. She had known the shadows would stop at nothing to see her fail, yet without her, the child of light was little more than an ordinary child, yet she was the only child created with the capasity to absorb all the magic and knowlage stored within every living cell in her body. She knew it would not be as eays as simply riding in and collecting the babe, nothing was ever that easy, but she was prepared for whatever was thrown at her, at least, as prepared as she could be.

The horses were skittish as they rode forward, but with the death and devistation that surrounded them, that was only to be expected.


OOC: We do need a dad, but i was thinking of a little more trouble before we fink the child. Just go with the flow and we'll all work with it. Doing great so far.

 

[Miguelito Breathstealer]

OOC: Every good lead in requires a . . .

{How about this?}

They traveled on, trying their best to put some distance between themselves and the desolation that had befallen them the night before. It was almost a mile before they had put it behind. The desolation gave way to the remains of a poorly kept trail that lead . . .

 

[Moonlight_33]

OOC: i like it, sorry for my lack of entries, i have been unwell, but i will get back to it as soon as i can. Your doing great.

 

[Miguelito Breathstealer]

OOC: Are we dead?

 

[Moonlight_33]

OOC: not completely, i'll have a nap and then try and make an entry worthy of getting the thread running again.

 

[Moonlight_33]

Tabbetha * The Keeper*

Traveling as far and as sast as they could each day, they still seemed unable to outrun the dedistation or the feeling tha something was chasing them, but was in front of them. When they rested at noon by the side of the river, Tabby once again saw the face of the small boy in the water. There was something about the boy that was calming, his preasance reasuring. She bent to dip her fingers into the water, humming a soft melody that soon bacame a song. It was ancient, timeless, but the expression on this immage of the boys face changed into a broard smsile.

In her sing she called to him, asking him to come and talk with her, to share with her his wisdom and truth, for this was no ordinary boy, this was an earth child. His immage vanished and she felt a hand touch her arm. Turning, she found him standing there, smiling sweetly. Sitting down beside her, they talked without words, for the language of truth needed no words. a few moments later, he vanished, and Tabby returned to the others.

"We will travel no more today, and tomorrow we head East."

 

[Vivid]

Minlor

He had just put on another pot of stew. Roots. Not too tasty, but the recent devastation made game scarce. Minlor was releived to hear that they wouldn't be travelling any more this day. These things would take a while in softening. His magic intensified the fire; the heat grew to envelope the iron pot.

 

[silverwolf]

sorian

A man dressed in a light blue robe, light blue hair and blue eyes came out appered from what looked to be nowhere.
"Good evening. May i join you"He said as he sat down. not concerned with the party's reactions. "I may be of some assistance if i am allowed to stay"he said as he set is staff down that was otherwise concealed.

 

[Neale]

Morlock

Morlock, still in human form, eyed the stranger, and interposed himself between his Mistress and this new potential threat. "Who are you?"

 

[Moonlight_33]

Tabbetha * The Keeper*

Tabbetha eyed the new comer with care, but felt no threat.

"Let it never be said that i would turn a fellow traveler away from my fire, you are wecolme to join us, but i would hear more of you if you would care to enlighten us. I am Tabbetha" She held out her hand in a gestuer of friendship, but she was never quick to trust and kept her guard up.

 

[silverwolf]

Sorian

"I am called sorian.Atleast most of the time anyway."He said as he took tabitha's hand."I am a traveler and a wierd wizard.By wizard standards any way."he said as he set his daggers and his staff next to him to show he is not hostile."as to my story. That will come as you trust me and i trust you more."He said with a smile that seemed to make him glow more.

 

[Miguelito Breathstealer]

And yet another hand reaches into the future

Watching them stop meant little to me. It was the waiting for them to start moving again that was killing me. Out in these places where the healthy no longer lived was unbearable. Without the life I grew hungry, and the hungier I got the stronger I became, and more patient. I didn't want to be patient!

So it was as I watched the Blue man come. And so it was when they welcomed him.

One and one and one and one makes one.

I would have to even those odds. Or at least find a way to divide them.

 

[silverwolf]

sorian

"There is one thing i would like to know."he said"why you are out here and if i may assist you in any way."

 

[Moonlight_33]

Tabbetha * The Keeper*

Tabby eyed Sorian cautiously. Although she felt he was no threat, she was not going to take any chances on giving up inforamtion that might cost them their goal.

"It is kind of you to offer assistance, but i fear i have no knoelage of you, or what you can do. As for us, we are simply traveling."

 

[silverwolf]

sorian

"I offered to help because it will help me aswell"i said with a smile."Knowlege is what i seek and to go with a party is alot more learning then if i travvel alone so i offered my services in return for you allowing me to travvel with you".

 

[Vivid]

Minlor

"Well," the old half-elf said plainly. "Sorian, is it? Minlor, pleasure to meet you." The old mage held out as hand as an empty bowl flew toward it. He spooned a healthy helping of the vegetable stew into the bowl and set it beside this 'weird wizard' as he called himself.

"I've studied in quite a few colleges, and met countless other mages, wizards, shamans, and sorceresses in my day. Are there any names you can rattle off, maybe we know some of the same people?" He ate heartily from his own bowl and smiled toward the newcomer. There were any number of divination spells he could employ, but the best one is just to ask a question.



[Edited by Vivid on 05-11-2001 at 11:46 AM]