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 Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:19 am
(Oops, sorry about that. Anyway, you can fight Osiris, I'm not gonna tell you what to do, but just know what you'd be getting yourself into.) ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ζ▀▀▀▀I▀▀▀▀ζ▀▀▀▀I▀▀▀▀ț▀▀▀▀Ћ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀  Lilith nodded and brought a disk of earth beneath them lower into the ground, just like she'd done before. They slid through the black ground with incredible speed. Thankfully Lilith made supports out of the earthen platform to cradle them against the terrific force of their acceleration. It wouldn't be long before they were at the edge of the Greco-Egyptian circle and were looking at an even bigger circle out around it.
Meanwhile the show of a lifetime would unfold before Adonia's eyes as they surfaced. The war was terrible, and the moon was setting. As it set, the moon turned over, from a full all the way to new. And there was a great stillness, and an eerie silence on the battle field for what seemed like an hour. Before it was over there, it ended where the girls stood with an unnerving fog rolling in.
The great God of the Underworld Osiris stood before them.
"Who dares upset the balance of this realm, home of rebirth and the second life!" His voice cut through the consciousness of Lilith, and probably Adonia too; this was no ordinary being. They had garnered the attention of a god.
Below, the people began to disappear, falling into the ground like snow. Osiris raised a hand and all who had fallen--which was all of them--were snapped back in time, to their original places, where they played out their peaceful, beautiful, violent sagas again. This was the scope of their eternity.
Except there was something wrong. One of the Assyrians was missing. This in and of itself did not cause trouble, but imagine the butterflying ripple of a soul lost to a continuum so fragile as this. Suppose the Higgs Boson were to vanish tomorrow. Sure, the universe mayn't undo itself immediately, but there would be shockwaves.
Soon the poets and artisans seemed to be taking different routes. And most notably they spoke differently, with doubt about things they shouldn't be doubting; they spoke with memory. They called the Isis they knew a demon, and soon enough the walls of the circle began to drip madness from the other side.
But instead of flowing through the land it curved and hurled itself to the sky just before reaching the Theban walls.
"This is the Duat," said Osiris as the very structure of the air around them seemed to ripple and give way, "the eternal night from which all birth comes. The darkness which births light. You have something of mine."
"Oh... Adonia?" Said Lilith shakily.
"Let's get out of here... You don't want to fight him, he's a god. I'm not being cute either, he's one of the main gods around here. He has virtually unlimited power in this circle."
"... That, and you did impersonate his wife." Osiris narrowed his gaze. He'd almost forgotten that.
"Return the soul you took and leave this land, and I won't call forth my beloved so that we can smite you together."
"Miss Adonia! He's giving a chance to leave... I'm not sure what happens if we die here, so let's not risk it."
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 3:08 pm
The Blaze Witch Adonia A.K.A Juanita Mendez 
Kindle a fire... The sole presence of Osiris was terrifying, she didn't think the God Osiris would be in the underworld. Damn Paradox never mentioned Gods in the underworld...I'm really screwed now. then she narrowed her eyes to Lilith who was the one to call her Isis, she just went along with it. Turning to Lilith she whispered harshly, "YOU were the one to frame me as ISIS, Lilith." turning back to Osiris she took off her hat and kneeled down to him, this was something witches NEVER did. In this case Adonia knew her place usually she was the bug squishier but this time she was the bug. "Oh great Osiris, please forgive me for trespassing on our land I was here solely on business." she looked up to him and motioned toward the Greeks and Assyrians. "I did not mean to cause so much commotion, the villagers merely mistook me for your beloved solely on the fact that I possessed exponential power." She continued to bow down to the Osiris. "Osiris, please lend me your hand aiding me in my quest. I know a low life scum witch like me is in no place asking for help but If you do aid us then I know we can achieve our goal. I will return the soul that belongs to you, only if you agree to think about it." Adonia said as her forehead touched the ground. ( Sorry im slow at posting right now, school is getting hetic.)  that cannot be extinguished...
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:45 pm
(lol No, it's cool. It justifies me taking my time writing this mammoth posts.) ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ζ▀▀▀▀I▀▀▀▀ζ▀▀▀▀I▀▀▀▀ț▀▀▀▀Ћ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Osiris
"A wise decision, magic user, but this does not suit you. Rise." Osiris lifted a hand out up as if to lift Adonia off the ground.
"What business do you have here in the city of the dead? Surely it is not the business of taking the souls of those citizens ever faithful to me," he said with some incredulity. "Observe, the extent of your disturbance is beginning to unfold."
A rift tore itself open in the Duat above them and down came a moon shaped mirror. The images shown in the mirror were not those of Lilith and Adonia but rather a view of life as it was happening in Thebes at this moment.
The people in Thebes, both Greek and Egyptian, were fighting amongst themselves now. The poets called the philosophers boring, blind, the philosophers called everyone else fools, the religious devotees called everyone heretics, even their own.
"Isis is not the Goddess of Fire!"
"She may do as she pleases, for she is wife of the Great Osiris!"
"Only Re can wield fire so, and this is not his place to judge. It is the land of Osiris."
"But Osiris is joined by Re at the night's darkest hour. Do you suggest your God be held to such bounds?" A greek said. "Furthermore, you pretend to live this life in the way you lived it back in the world of the living, yes?" The Egyptians nodded.
"Then why would there be any doubt in the manifestation of Re here, since he watches over your 'first' life? What is Osiris, then, but the moon which can never be grasped?"
"Kill the heretic! He knows nothing of our gods!" The Egyptians roared, the greeks flipped tables and hid behind them like shields. Osiris spoke again.
"You see now what has happened? There is dissent among the people. And, more importantly among different kinds of people. I am God of this realm, the Underworld, and this is my capital Thebes the City of the Dead."
"In their time, the Egyptians of this place found favor with some of the Greeks, and eventually died a good death after living a life right by us, the gods of old. Since the Greeks were so entwined in the life of this city, we decided to permit them into this Underworld sanctuary, but only those Greeks who were living in the city as our friends their entire lives."
"So you see, we had to keep them from finding out about the nature of our religion, and the fact that ultimately they had no real place here but the place of a potted plant in a home; it smells nice, it attracts conversation, but above all is unnecessary as it is ineffectual. Our solution was to make a path for the warring Greeks to come raze the city and die themselves in a cataclysmic battle, which would be triggered by a certain level of heresy from the Greeks in Thebes. Since they are souls in my charge, I only need say and they will be reborn, not remembering their difference until they are reminded."
"...However," he said turning back to the group, "that has changed. Now they remember, because you have disturbed the balance of souls between the realms of the Underworld to the North of here. Eventually the wars in this land will not be staged but rather genuine. The Assyrians will keep coming, and the Persians will come after them, until our circle sublimates to another version of the Abrahamic circles. This will cause untold imbalance in the Underworld, and this I cannot allow."
"Knowing all this, one with Ka still in you, what is your business here?" Osiris didn't blink, Lilith shot Adonia a nervous look.
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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 7:27 pm
The Blaze Witch Adonia A.K.A Juanita Mendez
Kindle a fire... Adonia stood like Osiris told her, she felt like she was walking on eggs shells around him. Listening to what he said about order and keeping the peace was much like what Adonia was trying to achieve. "Osiris, I know I've done wrong without truly knowing. How was I- a mere magic user suppose to know the unobtainable knowledge that the souls lived as if they were alive?" this was indeed a good point. "And dear greatness you are the overlord of this land can't you simply wipe their memories? I can even do that, so I know you must hold the power to do so." but Most thought of hell as a torture chamber for those who deserved it and every soul in hell had a reason to be there. "You may or may not be aware, but I Adonia am highly known amongst the magic users on earth, some put me on a pedestal-not as high as yours of course." Adonia shook her head "that's not my point your highness. On earth us Magic User are being slaughtered for living our daily lives, some deserve it while others are just victims. My own daughter was a victim wrongly accused by their judgment system. I plan to help our society and by doing that I need as many souls as possible, since our societies population is dying fast small amounts remain, So please Lord Osiris just think about aiding us." Adonia closed her eyes and chanted beneath her breath opening her mouth to have a red light escape from her boule. the light shot back into the greek-assiryan world showing the missing soul returned calming things down seeing as people believed it to be a gift from the Gods. Adonia looked at the scene then back to Osiris. "You have what belongs to you, but as one powerful being to another please think of my proposal." ( Sorry im slow at posting right now, school is getting hetic.) that cannot be extinguished...
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:47 am
(You'll get a soul in this next part, trust me. Just pick a place on the map, or any place you know in the area that's not on the map, and we'll get to work. Sorry if that was kind of a let-down.) ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ζ▀▀▀▀I▀▀▀▀ζ▀▀▀▀I▀▀▀▀ț▀▀▀▀Ћ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Osiris Ereshkigal Map of ancient Mid-East: As the soul found its way back into the blackened soil a series of moment meant to be filled with changes, glories of a universal rebirth of order, past by in blankness.
"I'm afraid it isn't so simple," said Osiris finally breaking the silence. He'd waited this long to let the pair find out on their own how things worked here. And since the silence was cracked, a new presence oozed into the fertile valley from the great ring to North of them. It was an Assyrian Goddess (picture not accurate at all lol), obviously come to see the inequity right.
The Goddess talked privately with Osiris for a while, Lilith whispered to Adonia. "This is going to be tougher than it looks. Too bad Para isn't here to help us..."
"Humans..." Sneered the Assyrian deity. "Osiris is only capable of restoring life to those in his charge, just like myself. Since we've agreed to let the Assyrians come over from my circle into his, that means there is some mingling, and invariably all of my men die in the process. We've accounted for this, and so Osiris may reverse the deaths of these men as long as they all die in battle and, more importantly, their souls remain in this realm."
"When you took the soul, you took it out of the equation." Osiris added, "in mathematical terms, it would be something like the difference between five to the fourth power and five to the third power."
"Now that the cycle as we have ordered it has been corrupted, it falls to me to put the soul I am in charge of back into the cycle," said Ereshigal matter of factly. Then she proceeded to rectify the problem without batting an eye. The town immediately slipped back in time to about a month before the incident, although that would be impossible to tell. Instead the pair would see a peaceful, lazy day of poetry, construction, and mercantilism.
This illustrated a few things: that the balance of this world was frightening precarious, that the gods and goddess of this world would be watching attentively the actions of Lilith and Adonia, that while it was true that the problems that arose here were potentially huge, they were easily corrected by another deity, and by that that all the deities of this world worked together. The two deities spoke to each other.
"Will you humor them, Osiris?"
"You think I concern myself with the petty politics of their realm?"
"...Will you humor them?" Osiris sighed.
"Fine... I suppose it would be all right to show them the futility of their struggle." He turned to the two and addressed them with the Duat rushing overhead.
"Lilith, mother of all Succubi, Blaze Witch," he began, "You seek an inkling of power here in this realm? Then you will find it elsewhere. Here I am God absolute, and this is my city forever. You think I have some sort of grudge against Death? Quite the opposite. He has filled my city with good citizens, but rest assured, mortals, he does not hold sway over my hand here, for he is messenger, deliver of souls to death, but I am God of the Dead." Then a rowboat with a rudimentary sail came down to them, the water of the Duat bending like a wilting flower.
"The Duat is one of the few mediums of this world which are not bound to the boarders of the circles. If you wish to visit the other underworlds, you will need this. But know this: other deities know of your presence here, as do some of the more powerful demons....Go."
With that he turned around to his city again. Then his body shone greatly and vanished in a great flash. The moon reappeared in the inky sky.
"Miss Adonia, where will you go? I know this region pretty well, so I can guide you."
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:45 am
▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ζ▀▀▀▀I▀▀▀▀ζ▀▀▀▀I▀▀▀▀ț▀▀▀▀Ћ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ After a while of traveling through the various underworlds of the world, Lilith received a call from Paradox to halt activity in the Underworld for the time being. Clearly something was happening or was about to happen in Death City. Instead of going straight to Paradox, though, Lilith decided to leave off and see what was going on herself. The Blaze Witch had established herself in Egypt and could camp there if she pleased.
The events of this campaign will recommence at a later date
{Exit}
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