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<blockquote data-quote="jdeleski" data-source="post: 2409549" data-attributes="member: 33307"><p><strong>Initiation</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ffcc00"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The jagged streak of twisting, blue-white lightning lit the night, rising from the ground near the towering canyon walls to unite the deep, brooding earthworks with the pent-up energy of the dark, roiling clouds above. Briefly lit in stark, contrasting blacks and whites, the tall striated peaks were plunged into blackness in the next moment, as if hidden, looming behind a curtain. A monstrous explosion of thunder crackled and crashed amidst the giant forms, reverberating on and on, buffeted and borne on by strong winds weaving through the canyon.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ffcc00"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">But not all of the bolt’s force was harmlessly transferred between earth and sky, or transmuted into flash or echo. Far below the shoulders of the giant stone guardians, deep in the cavernous space at their feet, a portion of the blast had been diverted through an unfortunate creature who happened to be directly at its origin, and was now nothing more than a charred, smoking mass.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ffcc00"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">As it is wherever one observes it, this display of raw power was overwhelmingly and utterly violent. Some minds ascribe a godlike whimsy to Mother Nature’s works; considerably alien, unblinking, and inscrutable in purpose.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ffcc00"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The fast-moving clouds moved past the towers, dragging their lights and deafening sound along, leaving behind the warm, smothering stickiness of the humidity. At the base of the walls, deep in the canyons, small, palid beings cautiously emerged from dark openings. They gathered, milling about, zig-zagging around large pools of water and hopping over rushing flows. The electricity in the city would probably not return for hours. Their small, squalid lives lived within the stone towers could now return to their rituals of vanity and deceit.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ffcc00"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Soon, a tiny cluster of these beings would travel to the dark ice at the end of the earth to observe similar forces of Nature; unfeeling, capricious and ancient. Their destiny would be complete. Towering egos would soon confront doubt. But for now, the questioning, curious, and quarrelous will be busily organizing.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ffcc00"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">So begins our return voyage of humanity into the depths of the unyielding unknown. </span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jdeleski, post: 2409549, member: 33307"] [b]Initiation[/b] [color=#ffcc00][size=3][font=Times New Roman]The jagged streak of twisting, blue-white lightning lit the night, rising from the ground near the towering canyon walls to unite the deep, brooding earthworks with the pent-up energy of the dark, roiling clouds above. Briefly lit in stark, contrasting blacks and whites, the tall striated peaks were plunged into blackness in the next moment, as if hidden, looming behind a curtain. A monstrous explosion of thunder crackled and crashed amidst the giant forms, reverberating on and on, buffeted and borne on by strong winds weaving through the canyon.[/font][/size][/color] [color=#ffcc00][size=3][font=Times New Roman]But not all of the bolt’s force was harmlessly transferred between earth and sky, or transmuted into flash or echo. Far below the shoulders of the giant stone guardians, deep in the cavernous space at their feet, a portion of the blast had been diverted through an unfortunate creature who happened to be directly at its origin, and was now nothing more than a charred, smoking mass.[/font][/size][/color] [color=#ffcc00][size=3][font=Times New Roman]As it is wherever one observes it, this display of raw power was overwhelmingly and utterly violent. Some minds ascribe a godlike whimsy to Mother Nature’s works; considerably alien, unblinking, and inscrutable in purpose.[/font][/size][/color] [color=#ffcc00][size=3][font=Times New Roman]The fast-moving clouds moved past the towers, dragging their lights and deafening sound along, leaving behind the warm, smothering stickiness of the humidity. At the base of the walls, deep in the canyons, small, palid beings cautiously emerged from dark openings. They gathered, milling about, zig-zagging around large pools of water and hopping over rushing flows. The electricity in the city would probably not return for hours. Their small, squalid lives lived within the stone towers could now return to their rituals of vanity and deceit.[/font][/size][/color] [color=#ffcc00][size=3][font=Times New Roman]Soon, a tiny cluster of these beings would travel to the dark ice at the end of the earth to observe similar forces of Nature; unfeeling, capricious and ancient. Their destiny would be complete. Towering egos would soon confront doubt. But for now, the questioning, curious, and quarrelous will be busily organizing.[/font][/size][/color] [color=#ffcc00][size=3][font=Times New Roman]So begins our return voyage of humanity into the depths of the unyielding unknown. [/font][/size][/color] [/QUOTE]
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