The Odeoron
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Nimda
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Valiance
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Your timing truly couldn't be worse. I had to leave a family dinner for this occasion, just so you know.
*Squints*
Hold on, I recognize you. Aren’t we all on the same side, here?
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*Squints*
Hold on, I recognize you. Aren’t we all on the same side, here?
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*Narrows my eyes and speaks calmly as I slowly turn around and take in the now-changing environment*
No... No they are not.
*The flame wall in front of us calmly narrows in front of us from either side until it forms more of a focused pillar of flame jetting into the sky from beneath the earth, while the wisps from the cracks in the ground elsewhere begin to bend and coalesce to the pillar as well*
*Picks myself up and gazes at the sky*
So which of the two traps do you think this one is?
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*The casting of intense light down into the crevices partially reveals more earth, but it also meets resistance in the form of the darkness itself being the actual color of a steadily burning black flame beneath in the ground, emitting no light and previously camouflaged by the darkness above it*
While I really don't like the idea of disturbing the grounds of a graveyard...
*The flames suddenly surge in opposition to the light touching it, flaring up and quickly exploding up out of the ground into a massive wall of dark fire as a reaction*
*Lurches back and lands on my butt, looking up at the intense wall of blackened flame in front of me*
Woah! I’ve seen a lot of fires, and they’re not supposed to do that.
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That would be very appreciated, if the world could do us that favor.
*Even the larger ones are pretty tight with barely enough space to fit an arm into, and they get too dark to see at a point very near the surface*
Do you want me to try opening one of these up?
*Gets on my knees and sticks my face close to one of the larger chasms, and light floods the fissure*
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Always is, I'd say.
Well that’s just absolutely pleasant. Hope our collective luck is up there.
*Walks to the edge of one of the larger crevices and peers inside*
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Maelstrom- and Ridge of course- are both the sort that could conjure up just about anything they'd want on a whim. A true reality manipulator. So it is quite literally impossible to rule anything out.
Any chance they left gifts of their own, unrelated to your friend?
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I was incredibly young, so it's hard to remember every detail. But besides the obvious things, like the live fires that have since died away and the last signs of chaos before everything inevitably went silent, I don't for the life of me recall anything happening that would be a source for this in particular.
*Walks in the direction of, but not terribly close to, the nearest crack in the ground from which the ethereal dark smoke is incessantly rising from*
The mystery smoke was also something that caught my eye. But you never really know, especially with cases like this.
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Unfortunately so.
Is everything the same as far as you can tell?
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In regards to how time flows here, I think it just recently passed the twenty year mark.
That makes sense. And the buildings—
*Gestures toward one of the toppled structures*
Were they like this when you left?
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And a bit more instant as well.
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*Takes a few slow steps through the dirt, walking between the petrified remains of a woman posed as though she were running and a man on his back as though he were crawling away from something he was looking at. I look out over a swath of mostly flat land into the horizon*
It's hard to believe the place can remain so unnatural for so long after.
How long has it been like this? I wouldn’t have expected something so well-preserved.
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