[IC] Ever Dream, The Worlds of Life (Closed)

[FreeXenon]

Shara (Light, Life, and Wisdom) @ 7th Planet??

In a flash of light Shara appears before Jo'Karr. She looks to Jo'karr with the maternal eyes of a mother looking upon her son struggling to find himself and struggling to fighting the fight that he cannot win. She places a hand on his shoulder and divine energies start to fill him and invigorate the weakened Godling. A bright aura of white light is shed from Shara and it crescendos in a bright flash and both Godlings are back in his Sarcophagus room.

With her had she motions to the Godling's sleeping chamber.

"Rest Jo'Karr. We will solve this when you have recovered."

She fades away, back to Zhyreus, leaving a Phaenix to silently and invisibly watch over the soon to be slumbering Godling.

Jochannan [sblock]Which planet is this? Or possibly and asteroid in the field? Planets 2,3,4 and 6 I think have activity on them? Leaving us with 5 and 7 available?[/sblock]

 

[Jochannan]

Jo'Karr the Titan slumbers. Alexandra, the now defacto quasi-goddess of Inspiration, gathers all her angels and surviving archangels together, along with the strongest surviving aelve mages, volunteers from the surviving Malkavians and Treants, and they invoke a barrier around the Forge that no mortal or immortal can penetrate, only a god. No more portal incursions will enter the Forge. The survivors arm the mass-destruction weapons and mount them on launchers around the forge. They raid the storage room and set up other advanced defenses.

Alexandra goes to Allyssa and the newcomer, and starts tending to his wounds.

 

[magic_gathering2001]

When he is fully healed, the man stands up, thanks the angel and Alyssa, and introduces himself, "I am Korbin of the mages. Where am I and who in Endovior's name are you?"

 

[Jochannan]

"I am Alexandra, and this is the Forge of Jo'Karr."

The man quickly notices that he is amidst a flying platform several city blocks in width, where tens of dozens of field hospital tents have been set up. Angels, Malkavians, Treants, and Aelves are having their injuries treated, and the dead are being blessed so as to prevent ressurection as undead. Corpses are then dragged away to be incinerated. There are pained screams, families gathering around injured loved ones, and a great deal of many types of blood.
The man then notices other flying platforms, and the great Megalopolis below. Other platforms have assembled armies of troops, training barracks, mechanoid armors in formation, repair stations, and armories. Parts of the city are in flames, but the fires burn slowly and not very hot, since most of the buildings are made of hard, strong stone.
The man can hear barked orders, rythmic drums, synchronus marching boots on metal, and the heavy foot-falls of armor.
Avian multitudes of angels fly by, some fighting fires, some carrying cargo, and others practicing aerial combat maneuvers.

"You're lucky to have made it here. We just erected a teleportation and portal barrier."

 

[Tonguez]

Alyssa's mind was in turmoil for though she had come as a emmisary to Jokarrs forge, she had been caught in the invasion and once more had experienced war. Yuneki was a most beutiful goddess and would learn quickly both to percieve Alysa by her apparent abscence and also of what things Traume wished the youngest godess to know.

Of course it was not sufficient time before the Fiend War, and indeed Albedo's return!
"So this now is your nature my brother" she spoke not expecting him to hear beyond the barrier "eternal champion, returning in times of war before fading away to leave suffering in your wake. So be it, I will be there to comfort them."

She knew that Alexandra was not to be blamed for Albedo's binding in the last war yet still in her mortal heart there was resentment towards the ArchAngel made all the more sharp when Alyssa was asked to aid the Angels in the skills of healing. Nonetheless she was a Healer, and she had taken that vow to bring comfort to the grieving and aid whereever possible. So as the battles raged and human, aelv, Treant and angel fell she was there, with a a company of watchers and angels beside her to offer comfort and healing. Establishing in Jokarrs forge a hospital for all the world
It was here that the charred and ravaged figure appears before her seeking help, and Alyssa, exahausted to the point of collapse looked in despair for she beleived him beyond her aid. Until Alexandra elevated to goddess as Jokarr faded. came and put forward her hand to healed Korbin of the Mages. Despite her resentment Alyssa respect for Alexandra grew not as a goddess but as a fellow healer and comforter


Kerion
In Tocho's realm Katryra, the Watcher Kerion contains to meditate finding a place of calm amongst the eternal conflict, understanding the the ebb and flow of the worlds until finally Tocho greets him, "Hail, Kerion, Master of the art's of combat and free motion. I do believe you are nearer perfection than any mortal has come before. But alas, perfection is an unatainable goal, for the closer one comes, the further the boundary is pushed, never to be breached. But we may still try, come."
And Kerion moves like the wind, an unseen movement, faster than any mortal thought, filling all available space and yet formless and encompassing.

"I am honoured to meet you finally Lord Hunter" the Watchers says with respect "I know there is much more you can tach me"

With that Kerion unfolds his legs to stand his full height, taking the 'Seven Cloud Mountain' stance as the two spar. Kerion's step is light upon the mountain top and their sparring takes them to the clouds and back down amongst the jungle trees



The Nightwing also came forward at Traumes behest. The Elemental Forms were set to stand around the perimeter of the universe ready to react against excess of the gods, "You shall maintain the Worlds of Life and though war may shake the very foundations you will ensure that life endures".
The First and Second Companies of the Watchers gathered beneath the Nightwings embrace and came amongst their mortal wards. Amongst the aelvs they manifested and were called Sidhe and the Watchers attempted to guide them away from the carnage of the fiend teaching them to defend against the demons and to conceal themselves amongst the trees. To the humans they were called Mentors and Good-folk and to some of these were taught 'Kerions Art' to the extent to which each of them had sampled of it.
The Watchers of the Third Companion moved amongst the ranks of the dying, just beyond the edge of vision, collecting the souls of the dead and guiding them to their place of rest. They were able to shepherd many but a few were lost to them taken instead to hell or left to wander as undead.

The child Juchim stood up in darkness looking all about him and wondering if the demons had finally got him and that this was how it felt to be consumed. Thin and gaunt the Watcher Cercueil looked into Juchims eyes
" You are dead child, though I sense perhaps that you have become more. You have been touched by Nos and are no longer what you were, I will take you to my Lord for he has greater wisdom than I
Perhaps another path for you?"

For the Watchers of the Fourth company the Nightwing gave them a startling order - to take upon themselves the form of beasts and vermin and to follow Tensok into hell, fighting at his side until he could come home

A swarm of creatures thus breached the borders of hell seeking Tensok trail....



Jo'karr
Throughout the planes, the gods felt something, as if a part of the universe itself was dying. They soon realized, to their undescribable horror, that they could no longer sense the God of Inspiration. Jo'Karr was still there, but somehow, he was not quite divine anymore.

Traume felt the change most poignantly, for the greatest of his own fears had come to pass, the death of the divine. He heard the whispering from beyond the shadows and understood.

 

[Jemal]

Jemal - Ruler of Hell and the undead, God of Rebirth

Jemal, silent for so long after returning to his plane, finally manages to get out a message to the other Godlings. "My fellows, I beg your forgiveness. When first I tried to restore life, something went terribly wrong, and I no longer control them. These Demons are, I fear, my fault. And powerful too, are many of them.. There are demon lords here that rival even our own power, and they have kept me captive. It was only with the recent arrival of a Mortal, Tensok. I managed to.. stop his soul's demise and return it to life here, and he has freed me."

Jemal stood finally, for the first time in decades free of the Demon's power, and filled with a burning rage. Now free, Jemal opened portals across Hell to the material plane, and the Demons trapped within Hell whooped with Joy, but their joy at seeing an entrance to the ripe worlds of life ended abruptly as Undead poured through into Hell, a new and surprising force joining the fight against the demons.

"THIS IS MY PLANE, Churlix! ALL of you will be banished from it and destroyed! I cannot stop you all because of the power you took from me, but HERE, FREE, I can do THIS!"
With that he chanted for several long minutes, using his own godly powers and arcane might learned from Endovior, Jemal summoned all his energy while his followers and Tensok protected him. When it was done, many of the Demons who had been killed returned to life, but these were not the same as they'd been before. The Demons were bent on destruction and Death, whereas these beings were infused with Jemals cunning, and Arcane might.. and above all else a hatred for Demons. Forces of good they were definitely not, but these newly created anti-demons, much like the Undead, were still forces the Demons had to contend with.

Eventually the Demonlords managed, through powers none but a GOD had shown until that moment, create a rift into a portal of their own, but because this was not a godly place, it was little more than that.. A rift in space, a great endless abyss into which the Demons fled, until Jemal once again ruled Hell. Jemal fell then, exhausted more than he'ld even been fighting other Gods, and the barriers keeping others out fell as he sent out a final plea for Help.

 

[Daia]

Yuneki is very greived at the state Jo'karr is reduced to after his battle. Not only because of his benevolance towards her but also just because the loss of a god is such a huge and terrible blow to the universe. Her tears are made manifest in a string of misfortune for the demon army, who suddenly find themselves almost entirely unable to land a blow on their foes. They are also blighted by a series of earthquakes and tornadoes, ravaging their ranks.

 

[Jochannan]

Commander Grenn, of the Malkavian forces at the Forge, gathered his handful of elite troops, and a handful of angels who had trained in stealth and rescue missions, and left the Forge. They traveled to Lord Jemal quietly and gathered around him, keeping a wary eye for demon attacks.

Grenn spoke first.

"Lady Alexandra bade us come, we are your liasons to the resistance based at the Forge, and we can call on limited backup from our armies there. We would have come in force, but only these few were prepared for an incursion into Hell itself, you've made it quite inhospitable... my lord. Others are making ready as we speak."

 

[periculum]

Tensok's rampage through hel

A back story of Tensok's travels to Jemal to aid in freeing that god.

Tensok soon entered into a routine within this hellish landscape, leading the pursuing demons on an erratic goose hunt, full of twists and turns and frequent backtracking, assaulting them whenever the opportunity for ambush and surprise presented itself, raiding them for food and weapons, and freeing victims to aid in his strugle. His path eventually led him to the top of the tallest volcanoe within hel, where sat a great citidel to the demon lords. by this time he had gathered around him a small army and got it in his mind to kill the head of the demonic beast. He was not prepared for what he would find.
The demons had never expected such an assault upon their mightiest fortress within the very heart of their realm, fully under their control, thus their forces were relaxed and taken completely unawares. Tensok's initial assault quickly and violently tore past the citidel walls, where him and his force ground to a violent halt. The demon lords they faced neared the power of gods, and they controlled scores upon scores of demons. Tensok and his forces fought a violent and desperate struggle, using cunning and pure strength of will to survive. The battle waged for days, the demons hurting badly but slowly widdling the numbers of attackers. It was then that the beasts and vermins once of watcher form burst upon the scene. With the fresh reinforcements at their side, Tensok made one last surge forwards and breached the heart of the fortress, where he found a true god, in chains.

 

[Jochannan]

Commander Grenn and his forces were using their strongest magics to break the chains, but they would not break. When Tensok and his forces arrived, Grenn beckoned them to help.