Post by Aeric Ecrai on Nov 8, 2008 22:11:48 GMT -5
(This prettly muchly frees up the majority of my characters. In all honestly, the storyline is deteriorating and going nowhere - partly to my lack of drive, and partly to my lack of good, non-cliche ideas. Anyhow, now I may be able to get back into roleplaying with more fervor.)
The sun was rising, casting a luminous golden glow over the land below. The trees in the distance appeared as if they were alight with fire, and the sun reflected off the snow that had fallen the day before.
It had taken them days to reach the summit, if only to meet this one fool of a man that had drug them all into this entire debacle, splitting timelines and drawing the fate of the world into a teetering balancing act.
"Do you think he'll be here?" One asked the other, his green eyes turned on his companion.
"He's never late, friend. I should know that out of anyone..." said he in a jaded tone.
These characters, Aeric and his Guild, Kari being used as a puppet. So now they saw what the world could become.
The rising sun reflected off the golden band adorned on his head, and a chilling mountain breeze sent both his cape and his companion's scarf fluttering.
As soon as the entire sun had peaked above the horizon, the one that they had been waiting on appeared.
"Makes you feel all powerful, doesn't it?" the man inquired, his voice smug.
"Sollis..."
"Yes, well, now I'm here. See what your absence does to the world? And yours too," he said, addressing the first.
"So, I came to give you a choice, but I already know the answer."
"Yes," the second one sighed, "we aren't ready yet. We'll stay here in our world, just right what has been caused by all of your...scheming."
"My scheming?" Sollis seemed offended. "I just let the world take its course. Without you two, things turn out...differently."
"If you call this different..."
"Yes, different." Sollis scoffed, his sleeved hands (for they were always like that, the Observants. Robed and mysterious, as well as annoyingly manipulative) raised in indifference to their opinion.
"We'll go back. I, for one, have not enjoyed my prolonged absence, nor the path that you've forced Kari to take."
"Forced?" Sollis laughed. "I've not forced anyone, my friend. This would have happened regardless."
"I wouldn't have let her!"
"You wouldn't have had any influence." Sollis shot back, his voice dripping with contempt.
"Stop quarreling, you two." the first said.
"I'm going to head back and get Nicodemus and Daex out of the picture."
"And I have Aeric to deal with, as well as Kari to redeem...will the world ever be at peace?"
Sollis just turned away.
"Not as long as any darkness resides in it. And you cannot eliminate the darkness any more than you can eliminate your love for those you care for. The darkness has to be here for the light to be here. One must coexist with the other. For if you shine a light somewhere, won't a shadow be cast? But very well. I will allow you two back into the world to right what has been turned wrong."
And he was gone. Glancing at each other in half-felt satisfaction, they turned to descend the peak - but not before looking at the land below them. Such a beautiful world, with so much life...but so much darkness. A legacy lay there, the mantle of which would be taken up again..
And so they descended.
To return to the world they had fought for countless times...
The sun was rising, casting a luminous golden glow over the land below. The trees in the distance appeared as if they were alight with fire, and the sun reflected off the snow that had fallen the day before.
It had taken them days to reach the summit, if only to meet this one fool of a man that had drug them all into this entire debacle, splitting timelines and drawing the fate of the world into a teetering balancing act.
"Do you think he'll be here?" One asked the other, his green eyes turned on his companion.
"He's never late, friend. I should know that out of anyone..." said he in a jaded tone.
These characters, Aeric and his Guild, Kari being used as a puppet. So now they saw what the world could become.
The rising sun reflected off the golden band adorned on his head, and a chilling mountain breeze sent both his cape and his companion's scarf fluttering.
As soon as the entire sun had peaked above the horizon, the one that they had been waiting on appeared.
"Makes you feel all powerful, doesn't it?" the man inquired, his voice smug.
"Sollis..."
"Yes, well, now I'm here. See what your absence does to the world? And yours too," he said, addressing the first.
"So, I came to give you a choice, but I already know the answer."
"Yes," the second one sighed, "we aren't ready yet. We'll stay here in our world, just right what has been caused by all of your...scheming."
"My scheming?" Sollis seemed offended. "I just let the world take its course. Without you two, things turn out...differently."
"If you call this different..."
"Yes, different." Sollis scoffed, his sleeved hands (for they were always like that, the Observants. Robed and mysterious, as well as annoyingly manipulative) raised in indifference to their opinion.
"We'll go back. I, for one, have not enjoyed my prolonged absence, nor the path that you've forced Kari to take."
"Forced?" Sollis laughed. "I've not forced anyone, my friend. This would have happened regardless."
"I wouldn't have let her!"
"You wouldn't have had any influence." Sollis shot back, his voice dripping with contempt.
"Stop quarreling, you two." the first said.
"I'm going to head back and get Nicodemus and Daex out of the picture."
"And I have Aeric to deal with, as well as Kari to redeem...will the world ever be at peace?"
Sollis just turned away.
"Not as long as any darkness resides in it. And you cannot eliminate the darkness any more than you can eliminate your love for those you care for. The darkness has to be here for the light to be here. One must coexist with the other. For if you shine a light somewhere, won't a shadow be cast? But very well. I will allow you two back into the world to right what has been turned wrong."
And he was gone. Glancing at each other in half-felt satisfaction, they turned to descend the peak - but not before looking at the land below them. Such a beautiful world, with so much life...but so much darkness. A legacy lay there, the mantle of which would be taken up again..
And so they descended.
To return to the world they had fought for countless times...