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 Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:30 pm
Waiting? Sure, it was a possiblity and probably the safest way to do things, but that wasn't the way Ruuvan preffered to do things. Himself and Maximos had stared death in the face many times, most of them together, so why would the possibility of death occuring frighten him in the least? The answer was simple: If he died, how would he find Max. So many questions and very few answers, this was getting quite frustrating.
Getting back to work on the cakes Walter had provided, Ruuvan sighed and took a moment to look around the room they were sitting in; black and so elegantly decorated, everything reminded him of its 'Master'.
Takes one to find one, hm?" Joshua knew nothing of Ruu's past, the same could be said about the other way, but Walter knew what he was and at least one person in the room would understand.
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:16 pm
"That's the rule... There's only one way to get to 'that world' while you're still alive. Unless you're planning to make a deal with the devil, you're just going to have to trust that he knows the way back."
Joshua stood up from the table and took the tattered hat from the back of the chair; putting it crookedly onto his head.
"Sorry, Walter, I'm disturbing your guests."
Folding his napkin beside the plate, Joshua slid the chair back into place and headed for the exit.
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:57 pm
There was a way, Joshua had just said it before getting up, and Ruuvan would rather poke himself in the eye with a spork than let he who carried the information simply walk out like that.
"Hey now, wait a minute." Putting one of the half-eaten cakes back onto his plate, Ruu got up and walked towards Josh before he hit said exit, "I'm willing to go to any lengths to find him; if you know how I can get to 'that world', as you call it, please tell me." Although he didn't say sorry for being rude earlier, his tone put across that message and it held some good ol' sincerity.
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:17 pm
::Walter was trying to catch the bits of cereal D was eating so sloppily before they scattered and stained the carpeting below. Breakfast conversation is allowed of course, and he felt no need to play peace keeper, he was a man servant, not a police officer.::
Thats quite alright, Sir Joshua.
::Walter said calmly in return, as he caught a few more peices of flying cereal.::
You a guest as well, I do hope the turn of the conversation has not terribly ruined your appetite and that you will perhaps be returning for lunch.
::Joshua was clearly on the way out, while he could not leave his guests, clearly he had to say or do something, but there was nothing to say. He could not stop Joshua. Though his opinions on Ruuvans quests did differ.
He had his hands a bit full, with the child that had taken to dividng the marshmellows in half with his spoon, and giving half to the fox on his head, while shoveling the other half into his mouth like it was the last thing he'd ever eat::
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:11 pm
Maximos You a guest as well, I do hope the turn of the conversation has not terribly ruined your appetite and that you will perhaps be returning for lunch. "It's alright, Walter. I just didn't want a sour mood to spoil breakfast for everyone." Joshua turned on heel before he made it too far, taking the hat across his midsection in a sweeping bow; attempting to sincerely show gratitude for the hospitality Walter had shown, despite his own hostile tendancies. "This whole business just rubs me the wrong way. If he was killed, it's my sworn duty to avenge him. If not... then I have deep regret for him. Things like he was don't just die." Ruuvan "Hey now, wait a minute." Putting one of the half-eaten cakes back onto his plate, Ruu got up and walked towards Josh before he hit said exit, "I'm willing to go to any lengths to find him; if you know how I can get to 'that world', as you call it, please tell me." Joshua was about to take his leave again when Master Ruuvan got up. "...there is only one way in," he said, seeming to contradict his earlier statement, "you have to die." He left it at that, waiting long enough to guage Ruuvan's reaction. Earlier he had said that he would put his life on the line, but words and actions were two different things. It would be the next thing said or done that would determine whether or not Ruuvan was willing to make that sacrifice. (assuming a nonhesitant 'yes' to all of the above, as we all know is coming) "OR to be so close to death that your body and soul become separate. Like that you can go there, but you may lose your soul if the Reapers find you." Joshua gave Master Ruuvan a cold stare, and folded his arms across his chest. "That is the only way. To go to the world of the dead you must become as dead." (( @ Max: Would I be stepping on toes if I did this? xd ))
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:11 am
((If he is then it can be changed.))
"Yes." Ruuvan said to the first part, as nonhesitantly as was most likely expected. Of course he would go to the ends of the world, living and non-living, to find his friend and Joshua seemed to have a way to do it, "I take it you could help me achieve such a state?" He replied to the second half, renewed hope lingering on his words.
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:04 pm
Joshua nodded, grinning slightly. It had been a while since he did one of these, and he wondered if 'Master' Ruuvan would manage to make it out in one peice when all was said and done.
"Get your things, then, and finish breakfast. It will be the last meal you have for a while. You leave in an hour."
To Walter, he asked: "Do you have a large, open room here that I could use? Preferably with a stone or hardwood floor?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:46 pm
Yes, of course. The gymnasium should suffice.
::Walter responded without missing a step.::
Its three doors down on the ri--
HAY!!
: biggrin shouted interupting Walter. Its amazing how a child can seem so out of tune with the world around him, but in his childish nature be in fact taking in everything around him in absolution. And what he had just heard...he didnt like. He wasnt shouting at Ruuvan, he was shouting at Joshua.
And he shoving his chair back and stomping over to Joshua...though he stopped right beside Ruuvan, and just pointed like the parents he never had should have told him not to do.::
You cant take Mr. Ugwy Ewf wifout me!
::And he sternly put both hands on his hips and pouted, in his most "threatening" pose.::
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:59 pm
"..."
Joshua took one look at the child and his intent to argue simply evaporated. Instead, he simply shook his head and left the room.
"That boy ain't right."
His first stop wasn't the gymnasium, but rather, his own room; where he gathered the few things of his that were there to bring with him. A small traveling pack and his equipment. Then it was time to go to the gymnasium.
He had no interest in whether or not Ruuvan was following him, it wouldn't matter anyways. It would take at least an hour to prepare things, probably longer... especially with two. It meant that he had to double everything.
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:05 pm
The fox became defensive as soon as the boy did, there really wasn't much to it. What D felt, the fox acted on. And standing on D's head, he looked a little silly, but he was growling for all he was worth.
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:43 am
Ruuvan was also surprised, as everyone else in the room, as D shouted out that he wanted to come to. Again, like everyone else, his intent on arguing with the small child disappeared as he remember failing to disuade him before.
"D, you know it's going to be dangerous, right?" Ruu had turned to the child and knelt down, making sure the kid understood what was going to happen before he actually went through with it, "It'll be like going into a nightmare, but at least you'll be there to protect me, eh?" Turning it all around at the last second, Ruu smiled and got up; it was time to get his stuff.
About thirty minutes later, give or take five, Ruuvan walked on into the Gymnasium with his duffle bag in hand and placed it gently on the floor. He had no idea how he'd be taking this stuff with him, so what better way than to ask.
"First off let me say I appreciate your help." Another bow of the head followed this statement, "Secondly: Am I going to be able to take my weapons?" It was a simple question, after all one needed defence from the Reapers and whatnot.
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:57 pm
When Ruuvan arrived, Joshua was still at work. He was barefoot, on his hands and knees, etching designs within an array with a piece of chalk; an incredibly complex mix of designs and runes that took up a circle roughly thirty feet in diameter. Inside of the large circle, there were three others: A small, simple circle in the center that was empty except for a single looped rune in the dead center of the array, and two larger subcircles at 10 and 2 o'clock. One of these was complete, the other was still being worked on.
"You can take everything... or nothing," he answered, pausing the drawing to talk so that he didn't make any mistakes. "What you are when you leave your body depends very strongly on what you believe yourself to be. I can't tell you what will happen, but if you believe that you'll need them, or if you know they belong with you in that part of you that goes beyond thought and choice, then you just might take them with you."
He chuckled, tapping the chalk on the floor a few times. "I've seen men who talked like big shots cross over, only to show just how much of a coward they were when they arrived in full armor even when they hadn't brought any... and I've seen women who went looking for their children with nothing more than the clothes on their backs."
"I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of a man you are." Turning halfway, the man gave Ruuvan a thumbs up.
Then he went back to etching, attempting to finish off the second subcircle before the child arrived. This one was his, after all.
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:47 pm
"Me too."
With what Joshua had said in mind, Ruuvan stepped out of the area and took a seat on a bench of some sorts; what did he believe in? The two Decker Blades that were made for him had been forged with part of his own blood in them, so of course there was a bond in that. The only other item would be his bow, the one with the soul of his wife within the wood, now that was definitely a tie that wouldn't be broken.
As for what Ruuvan believed himself to be, that was certain now: An Elven Ranger from Aria, General of the Light army and destroyer of evil. It had only taken him what? A Year to remember all this and figure it out, Maximos helping him over the initial stone before going and getting all dead and such, but he had been finding things out himself. As for what would happen once this ritual began, only time would answer that one. With that thought over, Ruuvan closed his eyes and took the remaining time to centre himself for the journey ahead; the bow cradled in his arms as his mind washed over with a calm he hadn't felt in some time.
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:15 pm
And so, Joshua resumed etching the circles, waiting for the young D to arrive. It wasn't much longer before they were finished, though it was important to watch where he stepped while within the circles. Chalk was not the most permanent of materials to write in, and that was the reason it was what he used... people didn't tend to like having runes that connected the world of the living and the world of the dead permanently drawn onto their livingroom floor.
"Are you ready to die?"
He laughed as he said it, standing up and brushing the chalk dust off of his knees. It was a joke... a rather morbid one, but there was no malice meant by it, just a sick sense of humor.
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:36 pm
Ruuvan enjoyed a good sense of humour, a rarity amongst certain members of the Gaian community, but it seemed Joshua had one... albeit sick, but it was definitely there.
So, as his mind slowly returned to normal and his eyes opened to see the finished etchings, Ruu got up and rested his hands on the hilts of the Decker blades.
"Ready as I was the first time." Laughing slightly as he put his own sick joke in, Ruu moved to the edge of the chalk and took a moment to look over all the circles and runes, wondering which part he'd have to be on once it all started, "So I take it you've done this thing before, right? What have the past people done it for?" Joshua had mentioned 'big shots' and women looking for their children, but more information was required on what he was going into.
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