[GC] A Game of Children IC (introduction)

[Drawmack]

Wolfgang quietly followed Aska outside and overheard her pledge. He sits next to her.

''Aska, we are all frightened and we are all children. You cannot expect yourself to be more then what you are. We all must bear a load that many three times our age would be crushed under but we need to be here for one another and we need to allow the others to be there for us.''

He holds out his arm, to put it around Aska, holding out his coat to wrap around her but leaving her able to decide to slid in or stand pat.

(Edit: woohoo first post on page two. It doesn't take much)

 

[Drawmack]

ooppss

 

[Drawmack]

I must bow out

 

[Sixchan]

Aska looked to Wolfgang and smiled. But she shook her head. "I have a fight of my own. Inside me, what I was as a child...and...and what I am now...it is my burden. I am not old, but I'm not a child anymore. I...I want to be, but I can't. My parents are dead. Most of my friends are dead. And now...inside...I'm dead too. No crying. No comfort. No peace. Peace is what my parents had. Peace is what my parents have. I have pain. I'm scared. I want to run. But I won't cry anymore."
Aska then looked ahead, and her eyes narrowed in a look of hate.

 

[Timothy]

(OOC: I mailed dramack the maps, they are VERY basic and I'm not happy with them, but they will have to do)

You have all retreated back into the temple of Illmater, which still stands for the most part, as well as a couple of the other bigger buildings, although the people in there have also been killed.

In the back of the temple, you (anyone who is inside, looking inside) can see a transparent white humanoid form, floating to the altar. The Ghost (looks like one, could be something else) is dressed in robes, wearing a symbol of two bounds hands on his chest. You think that you hear chanting, although when you try to focus on the sound, you cannot hear it anymore.

 

[Sixchan]

Aska pushed past the others to face the ghost. Taking on a commanding voice (as far as it is possible for an eight year old), she spoke, "Who are you spirit? Speak! Why are you still in this world? What has happened to the others who died? Can you help? Speak!" Aska continued her stare at the ghost in a look of determination and defiance.

 

[Timothy]

OOC: I'll wait with posting till the others have stated what they will do as well, and offcourse when the l;ast child and his puppy arrives!

 

[EvilMountainDew]

Damien walks around the ghost, completely around him in a circle and staring at the translucent body, when he gets back to the front he says, "What is your name?" in a high pitched, child tone.

He puts his hand to his club that is in his backpack, taking comfort in the feeling of solidity.

 

[Lichtenhart]

Tom Bishop

Tommy coughes heavily as he finally wakes up, and he notices he's covered with dust and debris, and all around him is pitch black. He can feel Chester licking his face, and as he tries to get up he's overwhelmed by headache. Slowly he picks up Chester and tries to find the exit from the catacombs, but he gets lost in the dark corridors. Suddenly he stumbles and falls, and he understand he stumbled upon a cold, dead arm. He then just runs away, away with no directions, hitting the walls as he can't see them with Chester running after him howling.
At last, he ends up in a room where a crack has opened in the ceiling, and he can see the light of the moon falling from above. He and the puppy desperately climb the debris and manage to go out in open air... only to see the whole city destroyed before them. All over he can see only cinders and crumbled buildings, and he can 't even recognize where his home once stood, where his mother waited for him. He fall on his knees crying, silently.
Then he recalls what his mother told him. Someone must have survived, he had to find them and take care of them. For he is a good child, and his mother would be glad.
Tom and Chester explore the ruins calling and calling but can't find anybody, till they arrive near the temple of Illmater, and he seems to hear a song... but hey! There's people there! Someone has remained! We aren't alone!
Then he and the puppy run towards the temple, shouting "Hey! Is there anybody? Hello?"

OOC: I'm very sorry for the delay

 

[Sixchan]

Aska heard the shouts of the boy. She turned in their direction, and then back to regard the ghost. Her hands tightened and loosened around her mother's mace. Finally, she turned to Fritz and Wolfgang, and motioned with her head towards the ghost. "Watch him. I'll go find the other one." She headed towards the door, picking up her healing supplies on the way, and stepped out to meet the boy.