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chirigami rolled 2 20-sided dice:
14, 20
Total: 34 (2-40)
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 Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:50 pm
The enter, sacrifice all that you hear
She read the words aloud a few more times, only realizing what it had meant when she crossed through the doors to enter the first set of staircases. Her eyes went up to look upon them all, reminded of the trek into the old Silver Tower. There there had been traps and debris, but here seemed to have none of that. And not a sound, not even a soft ringing in her ears.
Maple was used to silence, but not like this. It was... haunting. And because of it, she almost missed Uru's calls to her. Only turning in time to realize he had been shouting at her. She tilted her head and shook it. She couldn't.. hear him.
She stared, watching him flail and gesture. But she had been raised a Shadow, and so many didn't have lips to read so she didn't pick up on any of it. What he had to tell her would fall on death's ear.
Maple looked around for a moment, before placing her hand on his arm as she often did and just pointed up. Just climb was all she could manage.
And she did, pausing every so often to make sure they were still together.
[[goin' to step 34!]]
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Eight rolled 2 20-sided dice:
20, 12
Total: 32 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:52 pm
Candace found herself constantly checking behind her to make sure Atropos was still with her. Every few floors she would stop to check her thigh where Harrison had shot her, cringing at the blood that was soaking the torn dress wrapping. It stung and she had no fear shield to just heal it in the next few minutes. Never taking this for granted again, not ever. A look behind her told her that she'd also lost Rep, Jordan and Jerry. Fine...she'd just..make it as far as she could on her own. ******** Rep. b*****d let himself just... She frowned, limping up the steps. When there was literally nothing to listen to it gave a lot of room to think, to meditate on what had happened and what she had done. There was no telling how long she would be at this. OOC Characters: Candace and Atropos HP: 44/50 Rank and Kingdom: Rook, Blue Floor: 45/100 Description: See avatar for Candace. Tired, dirty, and clearly stressed. Atropos looks like this minus the tail, horns and stripes. She's also dirty and battered, her clothes torn from fighting.
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 20-sided dice:
8, 10
Total: 18 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:52 pm
The sound of the booming voice startled him, making him gasp and hold to the railing as he looked up. The Voice was angry that he dare rise up these steps, but what else was he supposed to do? Remain and vanish again? Who did he care for those around him, the fake authority, the fake kings, all who did nothing for him but only for their own means? He wasn't existing for them even if he was created. His purpose was his own, though they could take his fake life away. He had nothing to loose and everything to gain.
He pressed on.
Stairs Total: 41 + 18 = 59
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 20-sided dice:
17, 4
Total: 21 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:56 pm
Breathing deep, he looked up again, wiping his brow as the wind did not howl but blew against him. Despite knowing Saliva wasn't real or anything else, he still wished for her company. He wanted her here, and while it was that dependence that had wound up hurting him, killing him, he still wished for it.
Would it be lonely at the top? Would she be there? Would he care, in the end, when he did see her and would she even care that he existed as he did?
There might not be answers, but all he could do was keep going.
Stairs Total: 59 + 21 = 80
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 20-sided dice:
16, 9
Total: 25 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:57 pm
As he neared the top, faint of breath and legs aching, he heard the Voice again. It spoke of it's own hope, and then an anger about the betrayal it felt. "Hurts, doesn't it?" He said, though his voice couldn't be heard.
Betrayal. He knew it. To have those around you that you trusted turn on you. It was bitter, but it seemed the way of the world. This world.
Everyone was his enemy in the end.
He rose and moved to the next floor.
Stairs Total: 80 + 25 = 105
Exit
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PhiferWolf rolled 2 20-sided dice:
9, 12
Total: 21 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:59 pm
He chuckled as Maple ran on ahead while he himself too a nice slow pace. Even their footsteps made no sound. It seemed this floor stole the sound from them. Does this tower rob those inside of it of things? Either it stole the sound or it stole their ability to hear. If it was the former, it would be fine once they moved to the next floor. If it was the latter, this place could arguable be much more dangerous than a crumbling tower. If that's the case, then the next floor would a concern for them. He looked on to see maple up ahead as he climbed his twenty-first steps. If she was with him, he would have to keep her safe.
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Eranas rolled 2 20-sided dice:
20, 17
Total: 37 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:04 pm
Zephyros was looking around as he walked. And he looks down at Sinclair curiously.. what exactly was going on? His mind pondered everything that was going on. What would happen before they die. ... -he seems to stumble at that thought.
No.. they won't die... They can't .
Suddenly he trips over his own foot. Startled by the voice that just invaded his mind. He looks around quickly and then twitches. It was.. the Voice. It was back.. and mocking him.
Created him? No. He wasn't created. He was... he was stolen. From the other person that he was... This wasn't fair. Why couldn't he really be himself? How could he not want to fight the voice.
He responds back in his mind. 'You didn't promise me a kingdom... you the one who would live. But I am not alive.. I am.. nothing but a fragment.'
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PhiferWolf rolled 2 20-sided dice:
2, 16
Total: 18 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:04 pm
(( Steps Taken: 39 ))
As Uru passed by the petite, girl, he placed a hand on her shoulder to get her attention. He pointed to her and then, using two fingers, gestured to her brown eyes to his own heterochromatic, and then pointing to his chest.
Keep your eyes on me.
Taking a finger, he made a circle gesture and gripped his shoulder while shaking his head.
It is not safe.
Nodding, he continued upward.
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its me debz rolled 2 20-sided dice:
8, 7
Total: 15 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:04 pm
[[ enter ]] Ashford went up the stairs and entered a dead zone of silence-quiet-void. The sounds of footsteps were conspicuously absent, alongside heartbeats, breathing, and other things that were so subtle that they were normally ignored.
Ashford trudged upwards.
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its me debz rolled 2 20-sided dice:
18, 1
Total: 19 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:08 pm
He kept green eyes trained on his surroundings. The Voice needed to perish for its sins. There would be no atoning; only death.
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Eight rolled 2 20-sided dice:
12, 9
Total: 21 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:08 pm
They had all fallen prey so easily to this trap. The memories of the Candace of this world still meddled with her thoughts and feelings, with her heart. The Candace and Rep here had been friends, good friends; they had a history, they got along, she could hug him and..they'd... Oh god. She shuddered, rubbing her face with an unheard whimper and shaking her head. The Rep and Candace here had an understanding. Candace would never have stabbed him in the back like this, neither would she. Would he? Perhaps. Maybe some things hadn't been different at all. She tried so hard. For Harrison. Harrison loved him enough to marry him and Jordan, there was something about him Harrison loved though considering the man's personality himself it was more a question of what Jordan saw; Candace had begun to see that, small glimmers of a man she was able to finally give in and call a friend. And then he betrayed her. Emotions running wild were dangerous. It had gotten Candace in trouble so many times; checking out of the mission last year, twice, ******** up her weapon project, ******** up the golem testing, so many things. She was done ******** up. She was done being...a liability. "Candace, Epsilon-10, who once held power in their hands as a candidate and even a beginning trainee, who now cries and begs and continuously pleas for help."She winced. Caelius was right...goddamnit. Why was he right. She needed to stop this, to stop being so pitiful. She was no one's b***h. Candace wiped a tear and shook her head again. She was not a liability, she was not a weakness. She was Candace Pennington. Suddenly a voice filled her head and she actually stumbled up the steps. Atropos cursed to herself. She could have caught her if she'd heard it. "You dare take the powers of the others, when I created you, gave you purpose, and promised you a Kingdom. You dare raise your punitive claws against me? Even reforged you will never be on the same level that I am."...She couldn't place the voice but it sounded like it could be Caelius. Candace snorted. <******** you. Someone who speaks so big of themselves like that can't possibly be as strong as they claim to be. OOC Characters: Candace and Atropos HP: 44/50 Rank and Kingdom: Rook, Blue Floor: 66/100 Description: See avatar for Candace. Tired, dirty, and clearly stressed. Atropos looks like this minus the tail, horns and stripes. She's also dirty and battered, her clothes torn from fighting.
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Vethrfolnir rolled 2 20-sided dice:
1, 8
Total: 9 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:09 pm
Sinclair caught Zephyros' arm and tugged before he hit the staircase. The strange expression on his face gave him pause. "What happened?" He mouthed, enunciating the syllables carefully on the likely chance Zephyros wasn't well-versed on lip reading. (This version of him was. Sort of. It was a useful information gathering skill, he remembered, and shoved the memory away before a flash of bitterness could show on his face.) He hooked the index finger of his other hand into a question mark for emphasis.
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its me debz rolled 2 20-sided dice:
5, 2
Total: 7 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:10 pm
The silence embraced him like a veil, warm and comfortable, and that alone was enough to be eerie.
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Baneful rolled 2 20-sided dice:
4, 18
Total: 22 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:10 pm
[Enter]
Rep walked in silence, letting Tracey guide him without a word or gesture of dissent. It was silent, and that was good. Because any sound would have been a blasphemy on what had just happened. He didn't feel like there was room in the world for sound when there was no hope left in it.
Tracey petted his hair, all he could do, he wasn't in the man's head, and was incapable of knowing what he was feeling. He had an idea though, that hollow blank emptiness he inhabited in the hospital jarring and worrying to the angel.
They had to find him soon, he wasn't sure how much the drained and worn out man could keep it up.
Steps: 22
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chirigami rolled 2 20-sided dice:
11, 16
Total: 27 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:11 pm
Maple wasn't sure exactly how she felt about Uru taking the lead, that he had taken upon himself to become her protector. She had been one of the Shadowlord's Chosen, a Warrior and a Dread Cleric for the Black Kingdom after all. (Though, she had failed at it quiet a bit). She may have looked like a small girl, and that this world was fake, but it didn't mean she couldn't take care of herself.
But she couldn't argue, she couldn't even sigh in annoyance at him. The once Shadow rolled her eyes though, letting him go on with his dillusions of grandeur as they continued up the steps.
At the 50th's level, Maple paused with a start. Though they had been making good time with the climb, the lack of sound had slowly become.. so normal, that hearing an actual voice, and of THE Voice, made her jump. It was yelling, lecturing and sounded so angry.
Who was it talking to, she wondered, looking to Uru though no discussion could be made.
She continued.
[[34 + 27 = 61 ]
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