Estylwen

Umbra: The Abyssal Connection

Great post, @SporkoBug! Mimi and Wren are awesome.

Backrooms: The Thing that Breathes

Busy weekend and long training the first half of this week. Tomorrow during my lunch break I'll isolate myself and try to get something up!

@Xandrya

Sounds great, no rush! Life always takes priority.

Backrooms: The Thing that Breathes

New post is up!

I haven't written anything for @Xandrya and @Vertigo as you both are remaining in your rooms, and Lexi already gave a stuffy update. I'll update once you leave the room or, in Xandrya's case, try to solve the puzzle. ;)

Backrooms: The Thing that Breathes

PG.101

@Squirrel98

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Amanda would find, through her shifting of the papers on the tip of the desk, a curious thing. Most of the papers were invoices. Boring business things. What made them curious objects of fascination was the name written across the top.

It was her name. Her address. An overdue water bill. Electrical bills with amounts being forwarded. Home insurance demanding renewal. It was like she had disappeared for a year, and no one had told the companies she had contracts with.

Alas, there were no other secrets to be had here, or anywhere on or in the desk. Except, of course, what was hidden under the rainbow worm.

If Amanda wanted the key to progress forward, she would have to steel her nerves, and venture into territory no human had yet done in this particularity of the backrooms:

Confront her fears.

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C.G.107, The Princess Palace -> P.G.107, Kids Backroom

@Ocelot79

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As Lucas spiraled down the left slide, he would find himself an abrupt, nonsensical change. He was back in the room with the locked door and its morse code painted on the wall. He could see the opened left door with the pole he had slid down moments before.

He could see, indeed, that he had gone in an elaborate circle. He could also see that physics were broken and nonsensical here, wherever he was. He had somehow descended into the Princess Palace room, and ascended a little, then descended again into the Kids Backroom, descended a little too far to have it make sense that these places were physically connected…

Regardless, he was once again in the room with an addition of his slide. There was one other addition: A small Polaroid camera on the floor in front of the wall with the Morse code. It seemed filled with the paper necessary to print photos.

Perhaps he could use it. But how? And how did it relate to the Morse code? Maybe he could snap a photo for his notes…?

Again, the door directly in front of him was locked, requiring some kind of knock.

(OOC: Hunger Counter = 3)

As Lucas debated on what to do, he could feel hunger pains growing in his stomach. Quietly, at first, then more, with more force. His mouth watered, and he could feel an almost maddening hunger that started taking over his other senses.

On top of this, his vision began to behave poorly. It faded in and out, becoming blurry. And as he stared at the wall, he saw a line cut across it, then open up to reveal a large, bloody, red eye, staring directly at him. The walls around the eye also began to move, in and out, like the wall was breathing…

As he stared, the eye would stare back…

ArrowFell: The Wizard Queen's Court

Still in one collab... but I'll be posting soon. I'll just have Mirie arrive just in time to catch everything said if that's fine.

@Click This

For sure, that sounds totally fine. I'm looking forward to it; no rush. :)

Umbra: The Abyssal Connection

@Abstract Proxy It looks great! Feel free to add them to the CS tab when you have a moment.

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The first post is up! If you aren't specifically mentioned in the IC, you have the option to go for the Umbra Corp supply drop that dropped from the sky north of Elhm. Or, you can go for the coded energy signal south of the city. The choice is up to you. :)

Umbra: The Abyssal Connection

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Umbra Corp, Secret Facility

@Qia, @Wayward

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After a hearty meal provided to them in the armory room, the administrator directed the trio to the showers, separated for girls and boys, where they could rinse off the sweat, fear, and residual chills of the surgery room. New clothes were provided for each, a dark skin suit with insulation that cooled in hot heat, and warmed in cool weather. It also provided some protection against the dust storms in the world they were being sent to.

The administrator only smirked when VV highlighted the strange use of words. Instructing the group to grab the rest of their gear, the administrator and her guards brought VV, A and D to a closed door. A single swipe of an ID card, and the door opened to reveal a small emergency eject pod, equipped with a view that told a million stories.

The view in question…

VV stared at the curvature of the world sprawled out on a ball in front of them, before she side-eyed the administrator.

“Always figured we were underground…”

The administrator only smiled. “This is why we were less worried about your ‘dastardly escapades’. Only so far you can get when you're out in space.”

The administrator clapped her hands together once. “Alright. Everyone single-file into the escape pod, please. We will be sending you down there right away.”

Before she held up a finger, and nodded to the guards standing by her. They approached the trio, before restraining them temporarily. When they were done, a titanium-cased anklet was locked around one of each of their ankles, with no obvious way to take off, and far too tight to remove.

“A tracker, just in case you get any funny ideas about heading off-course. Our space station is equipped with abyssal energy cannons that can and will vaporize you if you stray too far from Ehlm’s spectral woods.

“We will be dropping you at the outskirts of the City of Ehlm. Don't mess this up~!” The administrator said as the door slid shut, and she began to walk away.

Soon enough, the small escape pod began a countdown sequence, and detached from the space station. Slowly, steadily, it began careening towards the planet…

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The City of Ehlm, Bears Hideout

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“I'm telling you, these streets are bone-dry. drier than the Ehlm riverbed.”

The boys sat around a fire in a half-collapsed building, sunlight streaming through parts of the room. They were nursing various flasks of Shiners, the alcohol one could make out of blue fruit found in the spectral woods.

All the men had grim looks on their faces. It'd been a week since anyone had wandered into their side of the city. Most of the locals knew enough by now that they were thieves at heart. Even the Wilds didn't dare to bother them solo.

It made making credits a sorrowful job. And they continued to eat from their coin purses, and the credits kept disappearing. They needed a break, and they needed it fast.

“Buck up, boys,” Vin said as he leaned against the nearby wall, armed folded across his chest. “Our luck will turn a corner. Benefactor-willin’.”

It was then one of the watchers standing by the cracked door gripped his gun tighter. “Boss? You're gonna wanna see this.”

Vin frowned, before moving closer to the door. The watcher pointed through the cracks towards the red sky, where a white streak broke up the red.

Indeed, there was a white streak that was incredibly noticeable. Whiteness of fuel, like a comet streaking down the sky, the head of it a small black speck.

Vin's jaw dropped. “Benefactor be! It's a supply drop! I haven't seen one of these for months!”

Vin spun towards the group, clapping his hands together. “Pack it up, men. We move in two minutes. That drop from the space station could be our ticket out of this drought.”

One of the boys raised a shaky hand. “Won't Umbra be pissed ‘bout that?”

“You let me worry about who'll be pissed, boy.” Vin growled, before turning back towards the door, staring at the comet with a hungry gaze.

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Ghost Corp Head Quarters, Three Hours East of the City of Ehlm

@SporkoBug, @illirica

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General Solen stood in the war room, hands leaning on the holo-table as he stared down at a 3D rendition of the City of Ehlm and its surrounding territories.

He pointed to a red dot on the map, south of the city by five hours of driving, or on horseback.

“This is where we've picked up the signal. Our scouts have marked the site as an abandoned Umbra Corp research facility.”

His hardened gaze lifted to the two Ghost Corp members present at his table, Ivy Tenebra and Wren. With a nod, he gestured towards Ivy.

“Miss Tenebra, I want you to scour the facility in search of the research within it. We have reason to belive they were working on next-generation technology that could elevate our own weaponry.”

Then General Solen's gaze shifted to Wren.

“Wren, I want you and a few of our men to accompany Miss Tenebra and ensure both of yours safety. Remember, acquiring anything that can help us is imperative to the mission.”

General Solen leaned back from the table, clasping his hands behind his back. “Good luck to you two.”

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It was after many hours of driving in Ghost Corp's armored vehicle that Ivy, Wren, and three other soldiers made it to the abandoned Umbra Corp research facility.

The stone and cement building was ringed by sparse trees and dry grass. A staircase led to the main door, which was locked. There was a console on the left side for an access card.

Ivy, Wren and the men had the opportunity to hack into the console to gain access, or plant explosives and blow the door open. The choice was up to them.

Regardless, the moment they entered the vicinity of the research facility, the facility would begin to emit a unique, coded signal that could be picked up by most radars.

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Outskirts of the City of Ehlm

@Qia, @Wayward

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The reverse thrusters kicked in as the escape pod made its descent. VV, like the rest, had strapped herself in one of the wall seats, staring through the window at the dusty, desert-like expanse unfolding below them.

The escape pod roared in a final hurrah before the engines died down, and they careened into the dust strong enough to shut off the internal lights.

Emergency red lights flickered on as the escape pod's overhead hatch opened up. VV was immediately hit with the suffocating density of dust in the air, and pulled out her rebreather mask from her pack. She attached it to her face, the abyssal energy compartment lighting up.

“Everyone alright?” She asked, eyes glancing to D and A as she carefully unbuckled herself.

Standing upright in an overturned escape pod, VV pulled at the ledge below the escape hatch, and a small rung ladder extended itself. VV gave it a test step before before being the first out of the pod.

D and A would hear the shocked dismay in her voice as VV swore aloud.

A worn jeep rolled up to the escape pod, men in tattered clothes and sun-leathered skin hopped out, holding all manner of rifles and pistols.

A man with spiked dusty blond hair stepped out of the passenger side, holding a different type of rifle. A rifle with pulsing light coming off of it. The same light that powered VV's abyssal mask.

The man whistled, taking a step forward. “Well, well, what have we got here? They sent people, not supplies. Means you must be pretty special, huh? Why don't you tell your friends to hop out, real slow?”

The men had spread out, raising their guns and surrounding the escape pod on all sides.

VV raised her hands placatively, never taking her eyes off the man. She spoke out of the side of her mouth, down the hatch.

“Hey uh, guys? We have a problem…”

ArrowFell: The Wizard Queen's Court

"That Lord Blackthorne too acceded to the scheme."

ArrowFell: The Wizard Queen's Court

This i gotta see. xD

ArrowFell: The Wizard Queen's Court

New post is up!

Also,

Spirit Teardrop of the Clandestine

Spirit Teardrop of the Clandestine

31 | He/him | Human

Description: Spirit is the older brother of Valor, and the Right Hand of the Clandestine. Whenever a little muscle is needed, or a little pressure, he is the one best sent for the job.

Learning magic meant to tremble the soul, his very presence causes the soul to shiver. He is ruthless under his initial decorum, usually going to outrageous lengths to complete his mission.

He is wholly loyal to his younger sister, whom he holds no contempt for as his leader. He is also wholly loyal to the employer of the Clandestine, the Ghost King of Ravenfell.

Magic/Seed: Unknown.