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 Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:16 pm
Quote: You come across what can only be explained as a horrifically large cage, enough to contain hundreds of humans. You see it in the air, as you are no longer fully human, the lingering memories of those who had been trapped inside. They echo in the area as shapes and voices, and you feel only a great sadness that they were so incomplete. (Roll 1d4 if you wish to look around - OPTIONAL - and match your dice roll to the results below. You can roll as much as you'd like!) 1. You come across a man in grey. His echo resonates as he shakes his head. "I volunteered because I expected to succeed. I failed. I understand now, it is because I had not accepted it when it was there in the first place. This is only my fault." 2. You come across a woman in grey. Her echo resonates. "I rejected it because this was not our organization's true intentions. This was originally not the knowledge we sought and the power was not something we should have handled in the first place. We once had good causes. We wanted to save people. We wanted to show the world that anyone could have helped, that everyone had a purpose." 3. You come across a man in grey. His echo resonates. "-- Means the serpent that consumes itself. We are the wildfire that comes from centuries of inactivity. The -- knew long ago all this knowledge and they kept it to themselves. They could have shared all of this in the world, they could have given back to humans but instead, they thought they were better than us. This is our trump card against them." 4. You come across a child wearing a mask. He is dressed entirely in green foliage. "It is true, these are the children who did not make it to Neverland. Not all can join us in this final voyage. We were never meant to harm any, it is the rejection that hurts the most. When all understand us, then we can finally rest. This is our legacy.." After he speaks this, he immediately disappears.
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medigel rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Total: 1 (1-4)
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:20 pm
With the dinosaur put to bed so to speak, Adelaide was free now to wander. Part of her wanted to look for her sons, but part of her also knew that they were consigned to the same fate as her; therefore, they weren't going anywhere, and she could find them later. For now, she had found a peculiar room.
In it was a cage, and things had happened in such a way that Adelaide couldn't joke that it must have held one large bird. Already she heard a man speaking from the memories it still held: "I volunteered because I expected to succeed. I failed. I understand now, it is because I had not accepted it when it was there in the first place. This is only my fault."
"Is everyone going crazy now?" she had to wonder aloud, retracting her vines from the cage and into herself for a moment as if it were contagious. The sadness was a little too great for even her jokes to lighten.
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Blade Kuroda rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Total: 3 (1-4)
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:51 pm
For one reason or another, the Boss found his way back to the cage. Maybe he just wanted to reflect on what was going on here a little more. It was hard to say, exactly. "Crazy? No. That part's already passed. "-- Means the serpent that consumes itself. We are the wildfire that comes from centuries of inactivity. The -- knew long ago all this knowledge and they kept it to themselves. They could have shared all of this in the world, they could have given back to humans but instead, they thought they were better than us. This is our trump card against them." His vines lightly touched the cage as he peered in, before he turned to the side towards the other figure here. The voice's echo couldn't have had better timing. "Else we probably wouldn't have ended up in this mess, eh?"
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medigel rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Total: 3 (1-4)
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 11:16 pm
"Already past?" She didn't even blink as the boss appeared. There was no such thing as surprise when one was connected to all which, once Adelaide had realized it, seemed to deepen the sadness. "We're literally living it right now, Boss."
Her vines seemed to coil tighter as the man repeated himself. "There was a woman who kept going on about it on the radio--Caroline, I think. Some O word. Makes sense with the snake eating itself imagery." She was a writer--used to be a writer--had always wanted to be a writer; she could appreciate it.
Adelaide scoffed at herself and shook her head. It wasn't like her to start letting her mind wander like that. "How're you holding up after all that, eh? Couldn't've penned a stranger ending myself."
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 11:40 pm
"Ouroborus," the Boss stated, staring into the cage, "Yeah. Definitely on the weirder side, but I don't feel as upset as I should. Maybe that's just the whole Creation thing affecting me." Vines released the cage bars and he took a step back. "Sorry I couldn't get you all out of this mess."
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medigel rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Total: 3 (1-4)
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 8:03 am
"Well, I'm pissed." But she sounded more tired than anything else. Adelaide still flicked the cage with a vine as the man continued to drone on, though, out of spite if nothing else.
"Feh. How would you've gotten us out of this mess?" she asked. "We are the mess, Boss. Hell, my boys probably aren't even really my boys at this point. What's that make this whole virus fighting, eh?" Her face contorted and darkened. "Pointless?"
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Blade Kuroda rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Total: 1 (1-4)
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:11 pm
"I don't know, but you all were my responsibility. As a leader, it feels like I've let you down," Magnus said as he looked around the cage room, "And so that brings us here today. If I could have found a way to save you from this fate, I'd do it." He shook his head. "Too late for any of that now, in any case. And now... well. I guess we're in this together, eh?"
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medigel rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Total: 3 (1-4)
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:36 pm
"Oh, don't you start." It was the Boss' turn to get a light smack from a thorny vine. Adelaide snorted. "Apparently we were doomed from the start. Point is we got to live, I guess."
She paused, curious about something, and began to form a set of thick horns on her head, curled and barbed. "Guess that's a consolation," she said with a short chuckle. "Customizable avatar or whatever the ******** it's called. So!"
She clapped her hands.
"M'I ever gonna get an actual name outta you, Boss? Or you gonna keep a lady waiting 'til the end of her probably very short lifespan now?"
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Blade Kuroda rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Total: 3 (1-4)
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:59 pm
The boss tilted his viney head at Ade after she swatted him. Had his name managed to slip through the cracks somewhere? Well, that didn't matter so much now. Maybe it got lost under all the times he was just called 'warden' or 'boss'. "Magnus Fury," he answered, "One thing's for sure. If you told me a year ago that I'd end up becoming a part of some greater collective and turn into a bundle of vines... I'd think you were high or something." Medigel Dice don't like even numbers
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medigel rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 7:03 pm
"Magnus Fury." She gave each syllable a ponderous weight to it and then grinned. "I like it. Strong name for a character. Odd name for a person. Slightly romantic. Where's the cover of the novel you're on, eh?"
The same men kept droning on and on and on. Adelaide huffed pulled herself away from the cage and its aura of grief. "Think we could pull a raid in this joint?" she asked rather seriously. "I'm itching just sitting here. Like it's early retirement."
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Blade Kuroda rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Total: 2 (1-4)
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 7:13 pm
Magnus actually chuckled a little at that. "No. No romance novels here," he said, "And...maybe. I'm not sure what you'd expect to find in a place like this, though." One of the echoes decided to finally speak up right about then. "I rejected it because this was not our organization's true intentions. This was originally not the knowledge we sought and the power was not something we should have handled in the first place. We once had good causes. We wanted to save people. We wanted to show the world that anyone could have helped, that everyone had a purpose."
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medigel rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 8:33 pm
"None at all?" There was the impression that she would have fluttered her eyes, but it seemed so pointless now. Everything was vines, so at best it would be the little waves of leaves or flower petals.
"Ah, c'mon now, Boss, maybe we'd find something. Nice hidey hole, some supplies, some ********' answers." As it turned out, more voices were now beginning to rise above the general whispers just in time. Adelaide had some choice words for Ms. Grey and her supposed good intentions, but a child appeared before them and she grew quiet.
"It is true, these are the children who did not make it to Neverland. Not all can join us in this final voyage. We were never meant to harm any, it is the rejection that hurts the most. When all understand us, then we can finally rest. This is our legacy."
Adelaide's vines coiled restlessly as he disappeared, her head shaking slightly. "No...Ah, ******** me..." The horns disappeared and began arms, wrists that were wrung. "Can't be right. He was just an apparition." She didn't know why she was denying this specifically; maybe it was just a little too much to invoke themes like Peter Pan on top of everything else.
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