Floating lives (Closed)

[Akion]

Rules

Read them, learn them, follow them.

1) This thing is literate. The more you can write, the better, just as long as you don't ramble on about something unrelated.

Literacy includes:
- Using the shift key now and then.
- Typing out all of your words.
- Using periods.
- Using commas.
- Using paragraphs. (Big blocks of text make my head hurt...)
- Proper spelling when you can.
- Please, if you know how to punctuate dialog properly, do so.

2) No godmoding. You know what that is... Right?

3) No Power playing. You will be hit once in a while and you will miss sometimes.

4) Gaia rules always apply. If you cyber, I will be very angry...

5) Cursing is okay just not excessively.

6) No killing other people's characters unless they have agreed to it.

7) Keep quoting to a minimum. It just takes up space.

8 ) No shorthand or smilies while in character please. It's not literate.

9) Place all OOC parts in (()). It helps to sort it out.

10) If you would like to control more then one character, feel free.

One last thing. If you join late, please make sure to read all previous posts so you know what's going on.

If you enjoy the prospect of joining this please simply PM with either a profile and a short RP sample OR your opening post introducing your character.

Characters can start with abilities but they must be very limited, the abilities can grow slowly throughout the RP, any abilities the characters start with should be bordering upon the limits which you can train yourself to do, you can better than average but nothing which is super natural nor extraordinary.

That should be everything... Good luck with it.

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World description:

This Rp involves world hopping and so in such a description of the world will be derived by the Rpers as we go and explore each new world, simply know that the sea within the stars is but one of many gate ways and means of travel between worlds but only one of a few natural means to do so.

Within this RP the ocean is only present within a body of space and time of it's own and works as a bridge between the worlds and when ever some one passes through the ocean the world upon which they end up will find itself heavily overcast
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Alex gasped as the water tried to flood his lungs, his eyes tore themselves from sleep to see the dark sky reflected in the water around him. This certainly was not where he's fallen asleep. Then again Alex didn't actually remember settling down for sleep that evening.

Alex thrashed away with his leg's under the water, pushing to reach the surface of this sea of water surrounding him, with every push he made upwards towards that which he saw as the surface. With each push he made Alex felt something beneath him dragging him down into the murky depths below him. He knew thrashing his legs wasn't going to keep him up; strong steady and regulated movements would help to keep him moving up but fear over-rode common-sense every step of the way.

Alex's felt his stomach clench as he took what he knew was his last breath of air. He didn't know why or how he'd ended up here but as he looked up into the blank black sky above him a single star caught his eye, a single pin p***k of hope in this ocean of despair and darkness, his hand reaching out for something to hold onto.

Blacking out as he felt himself succumb to the water's pull, his hand still outstretched gripping onto the pinprick of hope above him as his last breath left him; his lungs flooded with dark thick water.

Alex didn't know what happened or how long it took to happen but he woke up again this time the water was falling on him, onto the hard flat stone surface beneath him. Looking around with newly opened eyes he saw a street, one that he'd never seen before, and above him the sea of water now raining down upon him from the sky, a sky full of stars the single star he had seen hidden among the many others.

what had happened, had he really fallen to earth from an ocean in the sky? was that same ocean now raining on him? or had something happened which he could not comprehend?

[Saloo]

A man wandered through the vacant streets of the city. He walked briskly, though it seemed his pace was more out of irritation than an actual need to be somewhere. He kept to the shadows and moved silently, though it was more out of habit than effort.

He muttered angrily to himself as he ran his hands through his semi-short, black hair. Someone who passed by looked quickly around as he spoke, surprised that they didn't notice him. Shay Fawks, master thief, cursed at his bad luck. The lead he had been following had been a dead end after all. He was, once again, without work.

A drop of water hit his face. He looked up. The sky was clear. He raised an eyebrow, questioningly, as if asking the sky what it was thinking. Another drop, then another, and suddenly it started to pour rain. He could still see the stars, yet it was pouring rain.

"Damn it. The hell is going on?" he muttered. He started to run, hoping to find some shelter. The rain was thick, making it almost impossible to see in the dark. He could barely see anything, let alone where he was running. That must have been why he failed to notice the person in the street.

He felt his leg get caught on something. He reflexes didn't allow him to recover fast enough and he fell, hitting the road with a hard thud. Shay coughed, the air gone from his lungs for a moment. He rolled over, getting a face full of water, and sat up, trying to find what he had tripped over.

He saw a kid laying in the street. "What the hell? Hey kid, you alive?" he asked, a hand on his chest where it had hit the ground.

[Akion]

Alex let out a groan as he slowly pushed himself off of the ground. He coughed as he looked at the person who'd fallen over him, it was dark and the rain was thick and heavy he couldn't blame him for falling over him.

"S...sorry." he managed to stutter as he coughed a few more times clearing his lungs of the remaining water which he promptly spat out, the water running away and joining the indiscriminate stream of water now running down the street. Alex thought about this, maybe this meant he really had been in that ocean, maybe he really had passed out and for some unknown reason he was now on the floor.

Looking up the clouds were rolling in now, covering up the night sky but above him there was no sign what so ever of the ocean or that it might of ever been there.

Pushing a large amount of his medium length brown hair from his face Alex looked around at the man he didn't look too happy to of found Alex laying in the middle of the path, not that Alex could blame him

"S..sorry to ask this but where am I?" Alex asked looking around, there wasn't a single land mark or even from what he'd seen briefly constellation which Alex recognised, "It's just... well it seems I may be a little lost."

[Maat Of Egypt]

Kalyn ran along the open road. It was mostly abandon except for the occasional person whom came through. Kalyn was hoping that it would be that type of day.Kalyn was bored of the same old same. She had been living like this ever since she could remember.

Her eyes always looking for someone as she took her daily jog. but then and there she noticed something different. She wasn't in the same place she had been the night be for. As she realized this wasn't the same place she had been for so long she felt water or what felt like raindrops hitting her face.

Kalyn saw tow figures in the distance. She was was hoping to get answers, so she ran up to them. She looked at the man then at the boy on the ground. "Sir is everything ok here" she says noticing the clear sky and everything but not reacting to it. Kalyn had a heavy southern accent that was sometimes hard to understand.

She knelt down and examined the boy as she took her bag off her back.she started to take her Medical gear from it...

[Saloo]

Shay sighed loudly, standing up. He was soaked to the bone already. The rain was really coming down. "Hey!" he shouted, doing his best to make himself heard over the loud sound of the rain. "Maybe we should get inside before we try helping the kid." He looked at the woman questioningly. "I mean it's hard to give someone an examination when you can't, I don't know, see?"

Looking around, Shay noticed a cover stairway up to the second story of a nearby building. "Look, I think we should hold up over there for the time being. At least it's dry. He held out his hand to the kid. "I can tell you where you are when we can get a little shelter. Can you stand?" he asked.

[Akion]

Alex staggered hap-hazardly to his feet look around at the place the man had mentioned he nodded "Walking...? Yeah i think i can just about manage that." he replied in a rather shakey manner.

Treading slowly he made his towards the stairway, stumbling a good few times before falling down a second time half way towards the stairway; "Well it seems that walking may not just be in my range of currently accessable abbilitys." Alex said this thinking how drained he felt right about now, he'd never found walking so hard and the rain was only making it harder, drenched through and cold he wasn't sure why he was where he was, or to that matter where he was at all. He also had the problem of the poundingly ice cold rain showering down upon him each drop feeling like a small needle pushing against him.

Thinking back to what he still thought of as a dream at least the ocean was temprate and it didn't pound against him it simply pulled him down into it's dark depths. "Umm... could I maybe have a hand?" he asked looking at the two people who'd been talking over him moments ago.

[Saloo]

Shay kneeled down next to the kid as he fell for the second time. "Doesn't really look like you're handling it too well. Here," he said, pulling the kid back to his feet again. "I'll help you the rest of the way." Supporting the boy's weight, he managed to get him under the cover of the stairway.

After setting him down on the stairs, he sat down heavily next to him, taking a deep breath now that he was free of the rain. "See? Better. Now..." He looked over at the kid, finally able to get a good look at him. "I'm Shay. This city here is called Boas. I'm not sure how you got lost, or where you came from, but it looks like you could use a little help, right?"

"Now, I guess I should ask your name so we can get that out of the way."

[Akion]

"Alex..." He looked at the man, the rain outside was still pouring down and it didn't look as if it planned on stopping. "Boas? I don't recognise the name I'm from a small village named Rutur, it was out in the countryside, nothing like this place."

Alex put his hand to his forehead "is there an ocean any where near here?" he asked as he masarged his temples hoping the pounding head ache would vanish along with the sound of the water rushing past him as he was pulled down through the ocean, the memory of the dream pulsing at him as he slighty zoned out the rain falling outside only echoing the dream, making him feel somthing more was to be taken from the dream, or what ever that was.

[Saloo]

"Rutur..." Shay muttered. He put hand on his head, trying to remember the name. Being a theif meant he traveled to just about every corner of the world, but he had never heard of that place before.

"Hmm... Sorry. I don't know the place. It must be rather hidden away," he said, laughed a little, an honestly apologectic tone in his voice.

"Is there an ocean any where near here?" the boy asked. Shay raised his eyebrow at the question.

"You must be really lost kid. Sorry, Alex. The ocean's miles away," he said gesturing to the east. "It would take you a couple days to get to Delterum by normal transport. If that's where you're headed, you're not there yet. I guess that means you must be from the west, right?"

[Akion]

Alex looked at Shay in confusion; the ocean was two days from here? "the west? umm no, where I lived was quite central in reguards to the Xilan isles." Alex thought about it, the more he remembered of the ocean the more vivid the memory, the more realistic and sure he became that the dream was not just that but a memory of an event which had in fact occured only moments ago.

The fact of this may of been deeply submerged within his psyche but there was that nagging feel that what he remembered was so out of place, he'd never seen an ocean before, infact he'd only once left his home town to visit the city. He knew of the ocean, his father had been a sailor, he'd described the vast expanse of deep dark water as far as the eye could see.

Thinking back past the ocean became a blurr he remembered waking up and leaving the house, in fact he remembered doing his chores on the farm but after that, at about an hour after noon everything became a blurr, that must of been hours ago though, it was night now, and it was raining. That was another strange thing where he came from they'd been in the middle of the dry season.

[Saloo]

Shay looked back at the boy, equally confused. "Xil...an? Never heard of them. In fact, I don't really know of any islands, let alone ones that you can live on and never see the ocean... I'm not sure what you're talking about Alex, but you're not on your islands. This is a continent," he said, sounding concerned.

"Are you sure you're okay? Maybe you hit your head somewhere." Shay was starting to worry that he had tripped over a nut job. That would just add to his troubles of the day. He wasn't sure, but the kid seemed honest enough. Maybe he was just honestly confused. There were strange things the world.

Shay suddenly looked up. The rain was starting to lessen. This sudden rain was strange in itself. It was almost like the boy had fallen out of the sky, along with his ocean. He shook his head. Naw... What am I thinking. That's not possible.

[Akion]

Alex nodded his head "yes I'm sure I come from Xilan I grew up there my entire life, why would I lie about that?" Alex asked this in confusion as he noticed that Shay had never even heard of his home island "I mean I could just come from a place you havn't been, it's not like you've been every where is it now?"

Alex looked around at the town surrounding them, as the rain settled down more so the buildings and streets around them were slowly coming into view. One thing he noticed was that the buildings here looked alot more like the buildings in the city he'd visited but more refined, it seemed as if the people within this city were alot richer maybe than the people on Xilan.

[Saloo]

"Yes, I'm sure I come from Xilan. I grew up there my entire life. Why would I lie about that?" asked the boy.

"Ahh... Well, no reason I guess. Calm down. I didn't really mean anything, honest. I was just asking..." Shay said apologetically, waving his hands defensively.

"I mean, I could just come from a place you havn't been. It's not like you've been every where, is it now?" he continued.

Shay sighed a little, smiling to himself. "That there is a different story. You see... I pretty much have been everywhere there is to go. Comes with the job, you know?" Being a thief meant that he was constantly traveled the known world. There wasn't a place that he hadn't been.

"Well, regardless, it seems you're without a place to go... Sadly enough, neither do I," he continued, standing and poking his head out to make sure that the rain had stopped. "I was about to go find a place actually. You can come with if you like. I'll try and help you figure out where you should be going, deal?"

[Akion]

Alex nodded "umm sure I guess" he didn't know why it was that this man was being so nice to him but he didn't see a reason to object to the kindness, Alex was all alone here it seemed and no one had heard of his home, his island was quite big and it housed alot of people on it in spread out areas.

Peering outside Alex looked around, the water from the rain had vanished and his clothes has seemingly dried up. No where around could Alex see any sign water had been falling there mere moments before "umm... why's there no water?"

[Saloo]

"Umm... Why's there no water?"

"Eh?" The question caught him off guard. "What do you mean? Of course there's wa-" Shay stopped as he looked down at his clothes. They were dry. The water seemed to have vanished from his clothes and the street, without leaving a trace behind. "The hell?"

He looked at Alex, his confusion evident. "Alright... Now I'm lost." First, rain comes out of a clear sky, then, he trips over a kid from some place he was sure didn't exist and now the water vanishes without a trace. What the hell is happening... Maybe I'm the one losing it... he thought, a small, confused smile appearing on his face. Well, no point worrying about it.

"Let's get going. I know a place." Shay headed out into the street. Taking a left, he started to wind his way through the city, heading for the outskirts.