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(3/4/2008 1:12:34 AM) c is now known as kAFKaesque
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(6:27:36 PM) Kraken is now known as Cerin
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(6:29:09 PM) Colapso is now known as Lucent
(6:30:14 PM) charlequin: -------
(6:34:48 PM) Imrama: As the Fable of the Reconstruction crests over the peak of the Labyrinthine Cascade, it cuts an odd angle against the image of the noonday sky, as though the ship's prow where striking deep into the heart of the sun.
(6:37:41 PM) Imrama: Safely home, Imrama vaults over the aft rail, plunging 250 feet before stopping just before hitting the ground. ::"Cerin,":: Imrama thinks loudly but politely, ::"Lucent and I have made some discoveries we believe you will find most interesting."::
(6:40:06 PM) Cerin: ::I am in my study at present, please, come down:: Cerin replies after a moment.
(6:43:19 PM) ***Lucent steps down on a stairway of shining discs made by the coronal, making his way to Cerin's study. Thankfully, he already had enough balance not to fall from... so far up. "Cerin the Wolf! You have no idea HOW much we missed you...!"
(6:57:26 PM) Cerin: Cerin looked up from his writing desk as Lucent steps through the door, setting down the large Haliime quill he uses for writing his notes with into the inkwell at the top of his desk. The study is much as it has been for some time, although someone who has made note of the contents of the shelves would notice the addition of three containers, all of intricately worked metal. one is a red and gold octagonal case bearing the image of (...)
(6:57:32 PM) Cerin: a flower, one a silver, circular container split by a single line, and the third a square black box, decorated by a design of six iron spears. Above his desk, attached to the walls with pins is a picture of a complex series of essence flows, vaguely shaped like a woman. It is labeled 'A', "Welcome, Lucent, Imrama. Please, come in."
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(7:02:31 PM) Imrama [~chatzilla@Magic Star?-A 883 F 60 A?.bos.east.verizon.net] entered the room.
(7:05:34 PM) Imrama: "Thank you, Cerin." Imrama takes a seat.
(7:07:06 PM) ***Lucent watches the flower and the box, wondering what they are for... "Thank you." He smiles, walking to the black box and wondering about its spears... "We need your help. I... think we discovered something important. But neither of us have much knowledge of Essence flows."
(7:10:35 PM) Cerin: "Don't touch that Lucent, please." He cautions as he notes Lucent's interest. "Though please, explain more of this important thing you have found."
(7:11:33 PM) Lucent: "Remember what I told you last time? About Pluto, and the Shadeborn?"
(7:11:45 PM) ***Cerin nods
(7:15:22 PM) ***Lucent grins, then reaches his hand almost to Cerin's face... and then a pendant comes down, in the form of a dark-blue caste mark. "Well, I had been searching for ways to find Pluto, without much success... until Imrama took me to Gem. We gave its dead a decent eulogy... and found this!"
(7:21:26 PM) kAFKaesque is now known as z
(7:21:49 PM) Cerin: Cerin's eyes don't widen of course, instead focusing on the pendant. "Ah." Over his shoulder appears Aliza, tilting her head to study the pendant also.
(7:26:14 PM) ***Lucent looks a little disappointed. "This is the mark of a Shadeborn Caste Mark. We found it on the Underworld, just outside of Gem... and miracle of miracles, an altar to Pluto. One who corresponds with the First River in the Underworld's sky... the feature of its Celestial Order that is represented by this Caste."
(7:26:49 PM) charlequin: The pendant is made of tarnished metal, but clearly crafted by an expert hand. It bears no trace of Essence beyond the slight wisps of necrotic energy that still cling to its surface after long years spent in Netheos.
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(7:29:52 PM) ***Cerin nods to indicate that the fact it is a shadeborn castemark is no news. "An altar. That is an interesting prospect." Aliza moves a little further down his arm, coiling through the loops of ribbon.
(7:33:26 PM) Lucent: "From what I understand, it is one of THE Altars. Apparently, it begins in the south, the river. And this altar... it sends essence to him. It starts the flow. Directional altars connected directly to the god... do you see where this is going?" Lucent appears so... excited! "With you, it's possible that we can... find him! Pluto!"
(7:33:54 PM) ***z stretches a little, and then opens the door into Cerin's study from the bedroom, clad only in a semi-translucent robe of red. "Ah, I thought I heard voices." She surveys Imrama and Lucent for a moment, absently rubbing her left wrist. "I see you have returned from your adventure."
(7:35:16 PM) Lucent: "Empress!" He smiles bright! "Yes! We laid Gem to rest and found... things!"
(7:35:30 PM) Lucent: "Is there something wrong with your wrist?"
(7:36:49 PM) ***z smiles slightly, glancing over at Cerin and his current projects, "No, Luc, I'm fine. Do tell me about Gem, though."
(7:40:08 PM) Imrama [~chatzilla@Magic Star?-A 883 F 60 A?.bos.east.verizon.net] entered the room.
(7:40:34 PM) Lucent: "We got there... and it was terrible, Empress. We were so busy fighting with the Lily that... I could barely *understand* what happenned, then. A whole city... a whole city gone. They were crying out for release, the lost souls, their grief still palpable there. We gave them a proper send-off... I'll take the Kashaen there later. Build a memorial for them..."
(7:44:25 PM) ***z frowns, "Was there a Shadowland?"
(7:45:37 PM) ***Lucent sighs, and focuses on better things. Like the land of ultimate death and suffering "Yes! There was! We went into the Underworld from there and met this old fogey and his dog... and with him, this!" He throws the pendant to Zahara. "A Shadeborn Caste Mark! Someone coming from Gem gave it to him!"
(7:45:58 PM) ***Cerin smiles warmly at Zahara, moving in the chair so she could join him if she wished. "A river of essence ... similar to the dragonlines?" He muses. "I suppose I would have to see."
(7:46:09 PM) Lucent: "And then... we found an altar to Pluto! To the first river! Which can... take us to him!"
(7:46:51 PM) Lucent: "... yes! In a way. It is more like the sky, a line of clouds-that-are-not-clouds in the Underworld's sky. It envelops the stars... it flows the path of death and life on its celestial order..."
(7:49:56 PM) ***z catches the pendant on her way to drape herself decorously over Cerin's lap, one arm around his neck. "Why would someone from Gem have something like this?" She inspects the pendant in her free hand, "Take us to him, you say? I thought he was dead?"
(7:52:39 PM) Lucent: "Maybe! Maybe he isn't. I have no idea. Maybe it can't take us to him, but to remains of the Shadeborn. Maybe he's dead and gone... maybe he's shattered, maybe he's just 'dead' like the Neverborn... maybe he's just sleeping. But that altar was there, just outside of Gem, and surely..."
(7:53:14 PM) Lucent: "... damn it. Just outside of Gem... I... wonder if we are the first people to have this idea."
(7:54:24 PM) ***Cerin rests the arm currently unoccupied by coldflame serpent lightly on Zahara. "Then we will have to be better than them," he shrugs. "It changes little."
(7:56:30 PM) ***Lucent sighs. How could he never be SURPRISED? Or Urgent? Or at least act like it?
(7:56:40 PM) Imrama: "It may serve as a map to a treasure of tremendous worth: the restoration of a lost Incarna, and perhaps a new equilibrium between the living and the dead."
(7:57:11 PM) z: "Perhaps it is the reason for Gem lying where it is. Was."
(7:58:29 PM) Lucent: "Wait, you mean Ata'la is not the only thing imprisioned within it? That when we broke Ata'la off his prision... we may have broken other things as well?" Lucent strokes his chin. That was worrying. Did he remember any tales of things locked under the earth in that region...?
(7:59:41 PM) z: "Perhaps Ata'la was a guardian of sorts."
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