The second floor. The annoyed rambling of the Voice still rung in his otherwise deaf ears. Maybe Mot just wasn't clever, but he simply didn't understand what the Voice spoke of. It was like walking into the middle of a play's climax without any sort of context to go by.
He wondered if his other self would have been clever...
Steps: 126
Quote:
Mot is a 6 foot tall teenager with long black hair and deathly pale skin
More years passed and he still hadn't returned. Acerium was probably the only person who hadn't given up. She was grown now, tending her own garden, growing medicinal herbs and teas. She took the training to be a wild card the moment it was offered and signed up for the green kingdom. She would find her father! If she had to trek anywhere to find him. She remembered standing at the verge of the portal, thinking about places unknown
She could see another one now, a door of darkness. Of nothing. The dream was becoming harder to break from reality.
Or was it all real?
As she did then at the portal, and now at the last stretch between her and the door above...
she went onward.
OOC Acerium
Name: Acerium Current HP remaining: 40/50 Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: BLAH Target(s): BLAH Rank Ability : Wild Card/Chance-unused Stats: 2d8-6 to attack 1d8 to defend. Kingdom ability: NA Character kingdom: Gold Character's Miasma Colour: Silver Character description:b[/] Acerium has had her tea. The green eyed woman with wild brown hair (messed with twigs, leaves, and seeds) is dressed in gold kingdom clothes with a silver sash and silver leaves. She's energized now. She's confused. She's VERY shell shocked. But she doesn't know the truth yet. Or at least won't accept it. Her memories are real, right?
Now this door...her eyesight? Really? Okay, now that was not cool. Eva stared at it uneasily for a moment, the idea of losing her eyesight unnerving her...but she wasn't about to turn back around after after climbing all of those stairs.
...Alright. Sometimes sacrifices had to be made. In this case, she had no choice but to go on.
[Exit]
OOC
Current HP remaining: 50/50 Damage done: -- Target(s): -- Rank Ability : -- Character kingdom: Silver Character's Miasma Colour: Silver Character description:Eva has shoulder-length black hair, blue eyes, and is wearing a simple silver-colored dress.
300/300
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:49 pm
She paused before the darkness. The emperor must have gone in here. Others, travelling on the stairs as well, were leaving through it, vanishing into the black beyond.
What had she to fear? Nothing to lose, nothing to gain.
Just her and her optimism.
And the emperor.
Onwards. Up and up.
[exit to 3!!!]
OOC Acerium
Name: Acerium Current HP remaining: 40/50 Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: BLAH Target(s): BLAH Rank Ability : Wild Card/Chance-unused Stats: 2d8-6 to attack 1d8 to defend. Kingdom ability: NA Character kingdom: Gold Character's Miasma Colour: Silver Character description:b[/] Acerium has had her tea. The green eyed woman with wild brown hair (messed with twigs, leaves, and seeds) is dressed in gold kingdom clothes with a silver sash and silver leaves. She's energized now. She's confused. She's VERY shell shocked. But she doesn't know the truth yet. Or at least won't accept it. Her memories are real, right?
Oh great, more stairs. The Voice must really like stairs. Why else would they have so many?
OOC
Name: Clyde Caroyne Current HP remaining: 50/50 Rank Ability : Wild Card Character kingdom: Silver Character description: A monochrome version of the original red and maroon pawn. Clyde is simply here to help clean up this fake truth he is living in. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step - 124 / 300
First hearing, now...speech? Blinking up at the doorway to the second floor, he shrugged, then stepped through, only to see...more stairs. Lovely. Onwards and upwards.
OOC
Name: Aedan HP remaining: 50/50 Stairs Ascended: 100 + 36 = 136 Rank: Wild Card Character kingdom: Silver Character's Miasma Colour: Silver Character description: On the taller side of average, with dark skin, gold eyes and pale hair. He looks faded and worn, as if he's had one too many things to absorb, it's stripped him down to something slightly...less than he was before.
Bix continued onwards as suddenly any effort placed into speaking was pointless. He'd open his mouth and nothing happened. Others passed by him, all realizing the same thing. He wondered what the point of it all was.. to reveal the truth yet force this journey upon all of them.
Clyde can't hear, nor could he speak. However, that doesn't mean he can't think about things...Oh man, that one song is stuck in his head now. GET IT OUTTTTT.
OOC
Name: Clyde Caroyne Current HP remaining: 50/50 Rank Ability : Wild Card Character kingdom: Silver Character description: A monochrome version of the original red and maroon pawn. Clyde is simply here to help clean up this fake truth he is living in. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step - 148 / 300
Hmmm, have he past the half way point yet? Hopefully, otherwise, they would have a long, long way to go.
Again, he could hear the Voice talking. You would think it would know when to give up.
Do you ever stop talking?
OOC
Name: Clyde Caroyne Current HP remaining: 50/50 Rank Ability : Wild Card Character kingdom: Silver Character description: A monochrome version of the original red and maroon pawn. Clyde is simply here to help clean up this fake truth he is living in. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step - 172 / 300
The Voice rung clearer, somehow less ominous, less omnipotent. More... approachable, tangible. Its hold on Mot's actions dimmed and faded. This Voice was no threat.. he was a threat to it. He must be.. otherwise it would not sound so desperate.
No, he'd press forward. Kingdom? He had no Kingdom. No friends. he was a fragment of someone's dream.
It was time to wake up.
Steps: 150
Quote:
Mot is a 6 foot tall teenager with long black hair and deathly pale skin
Still climbing, but with a bit more caution, Aedan pressed onwards. He was tired, he was feeling more than a little bit mentally battered...and there were way, way too many stairs for his liking.
Quote:
The Voice is louder, but because of that, it also sounds more dissonant. Strange. It doesn't have as much pull or power over you. "Remember your Kingdom, and why you were created into this world. Without it you will be lost. Without it you will become discarded and thrown away. You are a fragment that I created. Without me, you will cease to exist in this world."
The voice, again. This time, though...it sounded less omnipotent, less convincing. He did remember his kingdom, though, he thought with a faint pang--it wasn't hard to remember why he'd felt the sense of pride and belonging, or even respect for their Emperor. However, the time when things could go back to what they had been...were long past. While he wasn't keen on ending his existence, to not push on, and get answers (even if they did lead to that particular ending) wasn't an option he was willing to contemplate.
OOC
Name: Aedan HP remaining: 50/50 Stairs Ascended: 136 + 20 = 156 Rank: Wild Card Character kingdom: Silver Character's Miasma Colour: Silver Character description: On the taller side of average, with dark skin, gold eyes and pale hair. He looks faded and worn, as if he's had one too many things to absorb, it's stripped him down to something slightly...less than he was before.
Up, towards the harsh reality that awaits them. It was only a matter of time before it all stops and returns to nothingness.
OOC
Name: Clyde Caroyne Current HP remaining: 50/50 Rank Ability : Wild Card Character kingdom: Silver Character description: A monochrome version of the original red and maroon pawn. Clyde is simply here to help clean up this fake truth he is living in. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step - 189 / 300
More stairs. Still more stairs. It didn't look like he was anywhere near done, either. The feeling of a weight on his shoulders, other than the figurative he'd been carting along from the get-go, made them seem all the more endless, and he was starting to wonder just how many floors worth of stairs there were going to end up being.
OOC
Name: Aedan HP remaining: 50/50 Stairs Ascended: 156 + 27 = 183 Rank: Wild Card Character kingdom: Silver Character's Miasma Colour: Silver Character description: On the taller side of average, with dark skin, gold eyes and pale hair. He looks faded and worn, as if he's had one too many things to absorb, it's stripped him down to something slightly...less than he was before.
Given the chance, Clyde would suggest making this a contest of endurance. Man that's a lot of stairs.
Up the stairs he goes. Up, up and awayyyyy.
...Ugh. The Voice is talking again.
These promises are hollow to something that never truly was there. You're wasting your time.
OOC
Name: Clyde Caroyne Current HP remaining: 50/50 Rank Ability : Wild Card Character kingdom: Silver Character description: A monochrome version of the original red and maroon pawn. Clyde is simply here to help clean up this fake truth he is living in. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step - 212 / 300
Steps: 126
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