drewccapp

Lantern

I came up with an idea for invisibility using light, but I don't think that Anise will think about it as it would take an understanding of physics she just doesn't have. Basically using her ability to create light to bend the light around her is the idea. Who's knows, maybe she'll think of something similar.

Unquiet

Rain nodded and smiled as Soul turned on the lights that were available while she and Vin stacked up gears to make a ramp for Nor. "Nice to meet you, Vin. This place kind of broke down and let out all the Old Gods... crazy right? I hardly believe it myself."

She stood in such a way that she would catch Nor if she should fall down from the makeshift ramp, but thankfully that didn't happen. Rain wasn't certain she'd be able to take the pain of catching someone with the beating she had taken so far today. She watched Nor's reaction to Vin and then her gaze turned to him. She hadn't looked at him particularly closely until now, but she realized just how different his eye was from normal.

Nor stopped just before she might have touched him, and her eyes widened in hopelessness and fear. "You have an Old God inside you," she said, mostly for Rain's benefit. She took a step back away from him. "It is not benevolent."

Panic spiked in Rain's chest as her heart jumped. "W-w-wait, you have an Old God in you?" She took a step back ready to make a run for it. "It isn't going to eat me is it?"

She then heard the howl of the big kitty and looked up to the top of the pit. Her heart sunk as she watched it took a leap off the edge to reach its prey. The whole point of jumping down this pit and taking the beating he did was so it wouldn't follow, and now that whole plan had been thrown out the window. Not that she had considered the fact it could probably manage to get down here in the first place.

"Oh shit," Her voice came out small and fearful. She came to the decision that she'd rather risk being with the person that had an Old God inside him already than the big kitty coming down to kill them now. She immediately got to work finishing the repairs to the elevator. If she rushed it, she might be able to finish it well enough for the elevator to work in only one direction: up. A full repair would just take too long.

She muttered repeatedly to herself. "I'm not going to be a kitty snack." and "Nuh-uh no God's taking my soul today."

Unquiet

I was actually about to post something asking how things were going. I'll get a post up by the end of the week. I'm suffering from withdrawal symptoms from kicking a very hardcore internet-based addiction, and I'm a bit foggy from the chemicals in my brain turning upsidedown, but I will have something up.

Moonfiend

"What is that?!" Randy's voice hissed in an alarmed whisper, and this time the only sound was in Vincent's mind. He didn't want to alert the thing to their presence, though Randy was now technically immune to whatever physical harm it might cause. "What happened? Why is there blood? Vincent! Don't you dare --"

Vincent flinched as he thrust towards the Grit. He hadn't expected such a strong reaction from Randy. Perhaps, it would have been smart to, but hindsight is always twenty/twenty. He felt a mixture of feelings varying from surprise to anger and frustration. He wanted to kill the Grit, and Randy just stopped him from achieving his first kill. Now the Grit was angry and rearing up to strike at him.

"Run, run, run!" Randy roared throughout the room, and Vincent would feel a tremendous, adrenaline-pumped energy that would speed him away faster than ever before. "Move, for once in your miserable life!"

"Son of a bitch!" Vincent shouted as he felt the adrenaline rush and dodged the Grit's insanely fast attack. Now that he failed he bolted for the servant passage in the back corner of the library. The speed he moved at was incredible and yet the Grit was practically snapping at his heels. He whipped the door open and dashed into the corridor, slamming the door behind him. He halted for a moment as he saw a stone maid standing in the corridor. Getting around her wouldn't be too hard, but it would slow him down a bit. He quickly grabbed the soulstone and squeezed past her as quickly as possible.

He felt bitter about his failure as he rushed down the corridor and burst into his room. He grabbed his bed and shoved it in front of the entrance to the corridor after closing it. Afterwards he sat down at his desk on the other side of the room to catch his breath. "Sonofabitch."

He looked the Randy and the soulstone he held in each hand. "Okay, Randy. We gotta figure this out. You clearly don't want me dying, otherwise we wouldn't be here and I'd be laying in that puddle of blood and be that Grit's next meal. I am not interested in running though. Together we've got more than enough to remove the threat, and thanks to the Queen I know how to kill the things. We-we got this. I just need you to work with me on this."

He couldn't believe that he was actually trying to negotiate with Randy of all people. He'd rather be negotiating his way into some hot girl's bedroom, but that was no option and he had to do this. He let out a sigh. "Damn it all. This wasn't supposed to happen."

He suddenly felt emotionally exhausted.

Moonfiend

Trying to write up something that isn't 2 quotes and 4 sentences... but I'm so tired from lack of sleep that I can't really at the moment.

Lantern

I am super satisfied with my post. Anise is totally starting to act the role that she has placed herself in. :) I doubt she's going to get any of the lanterns from this venture, but I think the first impression she's made on the elder is important.

She isn't planning on staying long enough for the Witch to bust into the scene, but we'll see how that plays out.

Lantern

For Anise, releasing the light felt perfect. As if everything could be made right. She felt warm. Clean. Happy. She looked at herself to see the dirt and wounds on her appeared to be washed away. She found herself paying little mind to the squabble going on behind her. Then one pulled ahead of her on a larger and older gryphon.

"Please let me announce your arrival. You'll frighten the Roost, and that won't help your cause. Follow us."

She nodded once with a smile. "Very well, go ahead."

As Anise watched the lady walk away the blue egg whispered to her. She listened as hard as she could, but she couldn't tell what it had to say, and something seemed wrong. This instantly put her on guard, and while she waited for the lady to return she decided to keep glowing softly. She could still see the green lantern from here. She then remembered Rhea and the purple lantern from before. Perhaps it was here as well.

She closed her eyes and whispered to herself. "Peck, I promise I will do everything in my power to save you."

When she reopened them she saw an old man standing before her with a skeptical look on his face. She considered for a moment how she should introduce herself. She understood that not everyone believed that she was the new Lady of Light. She would have to earn that, and she knew for a fact that wouldn't be easy. However, she felt she would lose all credibility if she just used her real name to introduce herself.

She smiled and looked the old man in the eyes. "Greetings, I am the new Lady of Light. I know that the previous Lady was slain by the Lord of Shadow. I understand the challenge that is before me because of this." She paused to let him think about what she said. "I am here because a friend named Peck has been taken by the Lord of Shadow. I would like to gain possession of the Lantern of Scales to save him." She stared off towards the mountain feeling that time was pressing. "I am afraid I cannot stay long. I know this is no small decision to make, but time is of the essence."

Anise felt certain that the urgency of the situation got across to him. She faced the old man again. "With or without your help, I must save him. I must do it by myself, but that doesn't mean I can't get help from others before I arrive." Again, she paused. "Even if the answer is 'no', I thank you for your consideration."

Unquiet

"That's Nor. The girl. The godkeeper. A snare like me, not a god but gods are afraid. Of her, not of me. I'm just Soul." He lifted his face to the sky, where the remains of Lha-tak's storms scudded calmly across the sky as dark dissipating clouds. "It's getting dark."

Godkeeper. Rain just nodded as Soul explained. She never cared for how most people treated snares. They had as much a right to live their lives as anyone else did. The darkness, however, would provide with another problem: it would make working more tedious. She would need another two hours to fix the elevator at least, and helping Nor would slow that down too.

She hadn't noticed the newly awakened member of the Stone. "Alright, Soul, what do we have that can help Nor out?" Having someone around that the gods feared sounded like a good idea to her. A little bit of protection from being possessed sounded fine by her. "Probably be best to get her down here before nightfall. Also, what do we have for lights?"

She started to scan the area for anything useful to get Nor safely down here. There were gears everywhere. And another person climbing the wreckage. She blinked a few times just to make sure she wasn't hallucinating from some unknown blow to the head. She then cleared her throat.

"Hey!" She called out to the stranger climbing the rubble. "Can you help pull some of these gears over... y'know and make some steps or something for the the lady to make her way down here to join us?" She waved over towards Nor to specify exactly who she was talking about. She then approached the stranger and help him move the heavy gears. "I'm Rain, you are?"

Moonfiend

"I'd rather not," said the spear.

Vincent stared at the spear with an expression that mixed surprise with curiosity. Then a smile grew onto his face. This was certainly a fascinating turn of events. While the fact that the spear said something negative was in fact a problem; Vincent felt certain he could work something out one way or another.

"I expect you plan on swinging me about like a monkey with a stick, hoping to smack something. I expect you'll feel proud of yourself while I do all the work. I expect you'll get yourself into deep shit and assume I'll dig you out of it. On the contrary, your dad's not around and I have no more use for a paycheck or this job. I quit."

Vincent's smile turned into a grin. That grin turned into a chuckle. He almost started to laugh in near hysterics. "Oh, wow! I would have never expected this." Well who would have? "I never pegged you for a quitter, Randy. You certainly wouldn't have kept working for my father just for the money with how difficult I know I can be."

He made a mental note to not use an entire soul on the next attempt just a large part of it. "So... can you see? Hear? Smell? Well... I figure you can hear since you can talk."

Vincent then heard the sound of a creature licking the blood off the wall on the other side of the room. He readied Randy for emergency use as he stepped clear of the blood to grab the book Applications of the Soul of Advanced Devices, but he quickly noticed that the spot Regarding Dreams and the Application of the Soul was supposed to be was empty and the neighboring book was now leaning over the vacant spot like some lazy bumpkin. He could hear the Grit approaching quietly behind him.

He placed the book in his jacket's inside pocket where the volume barely fit. He then tiptoed to the opposite side of the Grit with Randy ready to strike. If he were to test out if Randy would work or not regardless of his apparent apathy then sooner was better than later. While it was still occupied with licking up the fresh blood, Vincent thrust into its spine fiercely, and then quickly retreated away from it. If problems arose he knew of a servant's corridor he could quickly escape through.

Lantern

The feeling of flight was the most freeing sensation Anise could imagine. The air flowing through her hair and around her body. Everything about it felt calming and safe. She found herself smiling with pleasure despite everything that had just happened. She had realized in her time here that she needed to accept the small pleasures in this Forest, or it would consume her. If that happened then she would more likely destroy the Forest than save it. That simply was unacceptable.

As she flew along Anise became distracted by the sensation caused by the visibility of the green light she saw in the distance. She knew that light. She had seen it before. If she could acquire it, then she would be even safer and stronger if it came to a battle against the Lord of Shadow. She found herself drifting towards the light of the Green Lantern instinctively.

The sensation of the approaching griffons and their riders startled her more than seeing them with her own eyes. She imagined that they would be confused and concerned about the flying lights. Perhaps she could send some hope to the denizens of the Forest. She imagined word would likely spread quickly through the Forest.

She reached out to each of their minds and sent them a message. I am the new Lady of Light. My position has been recognized by the Lady of the Pond. I have come to return the sun to its proper place. Please, tell the others of this news and remember there is hope.

She focused on the sun rune she carved into herself remembering the warmth and brightness of the sun she had felt only days ago. Even if she could bring just a piece of that warmth into this world she could present a real case for hope. The Lord of Shadow's reign of terror would not last long.

She noticed that she was getting close to the Green Lantern, and her concentration on the rune broke as she prepared for a landing.