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 Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:30 pm
Faust choked back a sob. He'd done this before, pushed his mind beyond its limit... he'd already gotten as far as the other scientists, doctors and mathematicians, but he was trying to take it one step further. Scribbling furiously, he took a minute to stab the pencil repeatedly into his hand. He couldn't be distracted by Eliza and Hao, he had to focus everything on the visceral nature of the equation.
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:35 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:38 pm
"Faust?" Manta asked, knocking urgently on the door. "Faust, are you all right? I'm coming in..."
Faust didn't even hear. Ink mixing with his own blood on the page, he started to write the final solution.
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:41 pm
*netsubo had hear the commotion too and came in with mephisto. she froze when she saw hao*"what are you doing here?!"
*hao*"whatever i want...obviously.."
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:04 pm
"GET.... OUT...." Faust said, the words tearing at his throat raggedly. His hands trembled, but he continued to write the complex function that summarized the universe; his mind was a wreck. Finishing the equation was like attempting to make a broken motor last long enough to finish a race.
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:09 pm
*netsubo moved closer to mephisto*"what can we do?"
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:14 pm
Mephistophiles was pale and uncharacteristically grave. "I don't believe it," he said faintly. "Faust figured it out. I thought that no human could, but Faust..." he glanced around fretfully, as though worried about the walls collapsing.
"IT'S DONE," Faust said. "FINISHED." his tone was flat and his eyes blank, like someone whose will was completely broken.
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:16 pm
*tatsu heard the commotion and went to check faust's room* "guys, what's going on in here?"
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:16 pm
*hao*"very good...now hand me the equation and i'll give you the skull..."
*netsubo touched mephisto's arm*"whats wrong? what will happen?"
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:21 pm
Faust held the equation out. On the page, his small, neat handwriting had metamorphosed into fragmented, tortured gashes in the paper, but even through the blood they were legible.
"Hao!?" Manta asked angrily. "What did you make him DO?!"
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:23 pm
*hao snatched the paper and tossed the skull to faust*"he did what i told him to..now then..."*he studied the equation*"i'll rule with this..."
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:25 pm
"not if we have anything to say about it!" *tatsu pulls out his staff and rushes at hao*
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:26 pm
"Not good," Mephistophiles said softly. "This is definitely... not good..."
The skull fell to the carpeting, rolling across the floor and bumping an alarmingly unresponsive Faust's ankle.
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:28 pm
*hao jumped out of the way as tatsu rushed him*
"what will happen?! how can he rule with an equation?!"
(how should he make it work?)
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:30 pm
*tatsu rolls to a stop and looks at hao* "damnit, just what are you planning anyway?!"
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