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@Jerkchicken, @Fetzen, @13Org, @HokumPocus, @elevation

So I may make a plot point that has all the character make it to safety. Would anyone like to make a post of the escape or skip ahead with a plot point?

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@fetzen so I was thinking since we're going to be doing some character interaction perhaps it will be better to have you captured later. That way you'll have a chance to interact with other characters beforehand. That is of course if we stick with the attacking the seed storyline.

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Personally, I do think taking on the seed will be the more interesting option. It is Also the one I have the most plans for. It will also be a more change of pace other than the fact that we will be in the same town still.

I do see Octavio as being a great provider in that scenario. With his ability to steal and everything.

@hokumpocus Lol now I'm imagining him stealing and hoarding all the good food while only giving bread to everybody else. Lol I'm imagining the fun in everybody finding out that he's holding back on the food. Just bundles of food falling out from under his shirt

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So that's another point. It depends on how we want to play it. To escape, we can either make a mad dash towards one of the town's gates and fight our way out, or we can kill the Seed of Insight. Killing the seed will stun the cult and allow for an easy escape. We now have a weapon to use against the cult. But it does have draw backs and the cult will be more prepared now.

So the second half of this arc will really depend on what the group wants to do. Do we fight our way out or do we kill the seed and then escape?

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Any who, What kind of scenarios/interactions would you all like to have? Or would you like to collab interactions to be more free form?

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Cool beans, We'll do a bit of A then. There is one issue with that option however, I just remembered that Fetzen and I discussed having his character be poisoned and captured.

So if we do that option A, I may have to do something special with Fetzen. Which could be fun. So basically, one of the things we discussed would be that he would be imprisoned with a bunch of other people. Some of who will have tried to over throw the Cult in the coming days. Others who will have been imprisoned earlier. Anyway, he will be trying to get those prisoners to start an uprising or something with him.

If anyone wants to rp temporarily as some of those characters, that would be fun. If not, I could work with him on it. Any ideas?

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Chres Sansus
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Sightless Syella

Interaction with @Jerkchicken, @Fetzen, @13Org, @HokumPocus, @elevation

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The illusion of Octavio die before Chres in a gruesome death. The nausea overtook him then causing him to empty his stomach yet again.

"That damn man..." Chres muttered weakly.

"Wha... what are you doing?"

Chres turned his attention away from his sickness. DB had returned to them. The candle in his hands.

"NO!" Syella screamed, launching sharpened fingers in his direction. DB crushed the crystal in hands using what could only be some kind of enhanced strength. A blinding light shot from the crushed crystal, enveloping them all.

Chres shut his eyes to the light, unable to take it's brightness. The light broke through the blinders which were his eyelids, forcing Chres to cover his eyes with his hands. Even then, he could see the light.

The light enveloped all. It covered him. It blanketed him. And... it entered him. The itch on his neck faded to its touch, stunning Chres and leaving a strange longing and an outside desire to run from the light.

The nausea and pounding in his head intensified. It was too much! It was overwhelming! It was...

Chres heard a loud yawn to his right. It was accompanied by a familiar voice.

"Why hello Mr. Sun! You're awfully close to the ground today!"

Slowly the brightness of the light began to fade. He could barely make out the shape of something fluttering beside him. He had come to know that form well over the past year. His companion. His familiar.

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Nothingness enveloped the man and Sightless Syella. No, not nothingness. Light.

The light covered her. It entered her. She felt it reach towards the bond she had with the Insight, and then... then it attacked.

Sightless Syella screamed in agony as she felt her connection to the Insight being severed.

"What have you done? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" She screamed

Sightless Syella ran blindly in the direction that the dirtied man last stood. "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL-" Sightless Syella's foot landed on nothing. She had reached the end of roof. Syella felt herself fall. Landing in a loud thud accompanied by several small cracks in her body.

Syella ignored the shock and tingly feelings that came with her wounds. The dirt beneath her beat a familiar rhythm. The rhythm she had come to associate with the Insight. It called to her and she to it. Syella dug her fingers into the ground, crying a black ooze as she did so.

"Give it back... give it back... I need it..." Syella muttered as she dug and dug with her hands. "Give it back! GIVE IT BACK TO ME!"

Syella shot her fingers into the dirt. Reaching... reaching for the Insight. She found it. Grabbed it. It entered her comforted her. That which touched the ground revealed to her. Everything else, invisible to the Insight.

The Insight tugged on her. It calling for her to retreat. She listened and obeyed. Running half blind. Her fingers dragging through the dirt behind. She needed to get away. Away from this light.

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The brightness of the light faded gradually. Chres was now able to make out the world around him.

"Oh, Hello Chres! When did you and your big old nose get here?"

Just then Sightless Syella ran by them screaming "What have you done? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"

"Right?" Sil said waving a hand behind her in Syella's direction. "What ever did you do to make your nose so big?" She said as Syella continued to scream, "I'LL KILL YOU!".

"Weeeeeell... I wouldn't go that far." Sil said absently as Syella ran off the roof. "Oh! Guess what, Chres? Can you believe it? Mr. Sun came down to visit! And here you said I would never get the chance to meet him. Ha! Look at me! A super smart thingamajig! Chres - 0, Sil - 1?... 5?... 2?... hmmmmm..."

"Sil-" Chres began. He was starting to wish she had never woken up.

"Shh shh shh shh shhhhh! I'm trying to remember how to count. For some reason, it feels like I haven't done it in months!"

"Oh... my poor head..." Chres sighed.

As Sil struggled to remember how to count, Chres forced himself to a sitting position. And began to focus on his surroundings. The air had a shimmery quality to it. As if the light unleashed from the crystal was lingering in the air. Everything seemed brighter now. As if they weren't still in the Distortion. In fact, now that he noticed it, his shadow was pointing away from the distortion's green sun instead of towards it.

Chres shook his head. Did the light somehow cut through the Distortion? The sun was still green. The Distortion was clearly still here, and yet it's effects on their shadows and the brightness of the sunlight appeared to have been nullified in the nearby vicinity.

"It's gone!" Chres heard one of the two remaining cult members say. He was clutching his head. It was the one who had tried to get the candle. "I need it! I need it!" The other cult member was struggling to get to his feet.

Interesting... Chres thought, storing the information away for later.

At the moment, the healer passed by. Dashing towards the innkeeper's wife, tending to her wounds.

Chres slowly struggled to his feet. "We need to go." He said in a weakly voice. "We... we need to get out of here... Can't stay..." Chres managed to limp his way a few feet before collapsing again.

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Dirty Bastard
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Sightless Syella

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The man was pretty confident in performing his strike with the staff at Syella. He had wounded her and was now dashing back at her to knocked her over. He wasn't sure if he'd win the fight as opposed to merely keep her occupied till something happened to give the group an opening to move on. Then that man, if only he could remember it right now, he spoke about the jade candle and smashing it. New change of plan, that lunge to her legs would now be channeled into a spinning headbutt. Just as he made the transition to the new move, the fingers they speared through the flesh.

"Good job..." He stood up with a quaver in the wounded leg. This was going to start hurting once the booze, numbing oil, and adrenaline wore off. He was still going to be having some trouble moving around now as having punctures in your legs is wont to do. He could feel the blood spurting out and down his leg. He need to press on to get that candle! After all, what good would all that training and conditioning do if this was the thing that defeated him? He took a breath as he leaned on his staff bending it as he used it to launch himself towards that rooftop.

The man fell and stumbled on the roof, but at least the crystal was in hand. Syella would soon be following no doubt trying to kill or capture him. He let go of the staff as he slowly got up with some difficulty from that leg. Its wounded state made it tricky for him to get up but he managed. His fists were balled in a peculiar manner. His index, middle finger, and thumb were curled into hooks and he was swaying a bit. He waited.

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Syella smiled cruelly as she felt her fingers pierce through flesh.

"Good job..." The man said to her. Syella's smile only deepened. The poor fool... She wasn't done ye-

Syella's head jerked up in mid-thought. Something... something had changed... The Insight... the immedaite possible futures it showed her... one by one they were winking out... No... they were simply going blank.

"What..." She muttered in genuine surprise. That's when she heard the Tempraisionist speak.

"The... The Candle!" he shouted. "Someone get the Candle! We... we need to... we need to smash it..."

What candle? What did he mean? She wondered. The futures disappearing at an increased in pace. Sightless Syella felt panic rise inside her chest. The panic of uncertainty. Fear of the unknown.

The man she wounded launched himself away from her, reaching for something on the rooftop. Something... invisible to the Insight. "Wha... what are you doing?" Syella asked, her voice wavering.

The man lifted the object off the ground, and all at once, the futures went blank. All, except one... A future of the man bleeding out. Dead, by her hands. An itch crawled up from the bottom of Syella's spine to the top of her neck. An outside force pressuring her. Forcing her to action.

"NO!" Syella screamed. What she needed to do was clear. She had to kill this man! He needed to die before it was too late!

Sightless Syella shot her sharpened fingers towards the man's head, but her window of opportunity had already past. The remaining future went blank.

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He swayed to one side disappointed she did not chase after him. The attack having missed him, he swung back again with an outstretched hand. A brilliant light emananted from the fighter's fist. Motes of luminscent dust drifted out his grip like dazzling embers. He tried to look away but the brightness was overpowering. In the opening created by the light he took advantage to get out.

As fast as he could he hobbled his way to the group's general vicinity. He hurriedly took a swig from his gourd. It was starting to hurt real bad and his movement was worsening. To his horror the gourd was emptied quick. Another gourd, then another, they too were barely full. He gritted his teeth, this was going to be a rough day.

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Alrighty. So Chicken an I are almost done. He's about the smash the crystal, It will probably be a short post. Afterwards, here's what will happen:

• I'll do a plot point showing what happens after smashing Crystal Jade (FYI, breaking crystal Jade takes a good amount of force)
• I'll do a Chres post immediately after. This may be combined with the plot point
• I'll allow everyone to make some last few quick posts involving everyone's escape. I'll give everyone a week or so for that.
• After the escape. I'll make a Plot point to wrap things up.
• I'll make an interlude plot point

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From here, we can do a few things and I'll want everyone's input on this. @Jerkchicken, @Fetzen, @13Org, @HokumPocus, @elevation

A) we can do a two weeks of collab interlude posts with interactions between characters to add character building. (This could be done before or after the interlude plot point)

B) We can start a new Thread for the next half of the story's arc in an effort to attract fresh people (Though a better time for this may be after the arc is finished)

C) We can pick up the second half of the Arc immediately after the escape or have it take place a few days later (I'm leaning towards the latter option so we can skip boring Intel searching)

D) If we decide to skip ahead a few days, for the second half, I would like to collaborate together to decide what occurred with everyone's character during days that will have passed.

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If anyone has any additional ideas for progression, I'm all ears. Thanks to Fetzen, I have a solid foundation of an idea for how this next half will progress initially, but there are a few details which are fuzzy.

If you have any bit of story for your character which you would like to add to the story progression, let me know. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer :)

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