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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7447767" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Dawn of a New Age </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>As soon as had they set foot on the damp, sandy surface of the cave’s interior, everyone present felt a strange lurch. They wondered if this had something to do with stepping out of the chamber, but no: Harkover and Leon determined that something was amiss. The very nature of magic was beginning to change.Four of the unit bore golden planar icons, and Leon was able to sense that they had responded to this change, and grown more powerful. Uru remembered that these ‘new’ properties had manifested before, when they stood on Axis Island.</p><p> </p><p>This led Harkover to declare his suspicion that the Axis Seal had already been opened. He shook his head and muttered, “the fools” under his breath.One happy consequence of this otherwise dire event was a sensation of puissance experienced by the unit. “The Ancients' ban that limits the power of mortals has been removed,” said Harkover, again as if this were a bad thing.King Baldrey felt that his mere words would have a greater impact on those around him; the Fading One’s kinship with shadow intensified; The Avatar of the End became even more impossible to kill; the Childe of Hewanharimau felt her tiger form grow stronger; the curses of Leon the Clever became even more biting.Quratulain did not report her own sense that she could calculate trajectories with a greater accuracy than before. Instead she stood apart from the others, silently cogitating.For the first time, Korrigan noticed her stiff, hostile body language. “Quratulain?” he said.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>01000110011011000110000101110011011010000110001001100001011000110110101100100001*</strong></p><p><strong></strong><em></em></p><p><em>As Quratulain enters the throne room and slices at a dragon which vanishes into thin air, she is suddenly aware of a new reality. The king lies dead and his crown now sits on Korrigan's head! The very same person who asked her to join his struggle is the clear victor of a series of events in which everyone else is a loser. Good-old, little Korrigan.</em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>Now the group stands in a realm in which this new king, who ironically first presented himself to Quratulain in the image of Nicodemus, is the only key to bring everyone out of the prison of the Bleak Gate. A light of déjà vu flashes in Quratulain's mind: has she been so stupid as to be tricked again in exactly the same fashion? Was this last trace of human emotion her downfall? "That's what I get for being kind and trusting", she thinks in a corner of her vast mind.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>To make matters worse, Dame Jillian, the valiant fighter who swore to protect the king is, against all odds, alive and well. Why would she feign death, and why would her enemies let her live? Quratulain has no time to ponder whether Korrigan's intentions are true, and doesn't about the victims as long as is not her. She must not be left behind at any cost... and diplomacy is not her forte.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Suddenly, they are out of the Bleak Gate and back in the real world. Korrigan is clearly contemplating the role of Dame Jillian. Quratulain considers her tattered armour, and feels horribly exposed. Could replacing her be part of the new king’s equations? Around her, the old king’s death is accepted as if nothing has happened. No one seems to bat an eyelid. Quratulain regrets she herself has no eyelids to bat.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Suddenly, they are in a darkened cave, and everyone around her is growing ever more powerful. Quratulain begins to think it might be better to solve this problem in her tried and tested fashion, and figure out the truth once she feels safe. She takes out her pistols to ‘clean and maintain them’. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>As she loads her weapons she knows there are millions of ways in which twelve bullets can fly through the air, but in a split second she has calculated them all, in her mechanical mind she has already practised them, a hundred times over. There are only a few trajectories which her bullets can trace to hit the mark, but she has found those too.The whole thing stinks of betrayal and 500 years of confinement is the only thing which Quratulain is not going to count within her field of possibilities.Inevitably, Quratulain starts a countdown…</em>“</p><p></p><p>Quratulain? What is it?”</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>End of Session</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>*<a href="http://www.online-toolz.com/tools/text-binary-convertor.php" target="_blank">http://www.online-toolz.com/tools/text-binary-convertor.php</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Alternative Song for Korrigan?</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QZ_AnOZsY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QZ_AnOZsY</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7447767, member: 79141"] [B]Dawn of a New Age [/B] As soon as had they set foot on the damp, sandy surface of the cave’s interior, everyone present felt a strange lurch. They wondered if this had something to do with stepping out of the chamber, but no: Harkover and Leon determined that something was amiss. The very nature of magic was beginning to change.Four of the unit bore golden planar icons, and Leon was able to sense that they had responded to this change, and grown more powerful. Uru remembered that these ‘new’ properties had manifested before, when they stood on Axis Island. This led Harkover to declare his suspicion that the Axis Seal had already been opened. He shook his head and muttered, “the fools” under his breath.One happy consequence of this otherwise dire event was a sensation of puissance experienced by the unit. “The Ancients' ban that limits the power of mortals has been removed,” said Harkover, again as if this were a bad thing.King Baldrey felt that his mere words would have a greater impact on those around him; the Fading One’s kinship with shadow intensified; The Avatar of the End became even more impossible to kill; the Childe of Hewanharimau felt her tiger form grow stronger; the curses of Leon the Clever became even more biting.Quratulain did not report her own sense that she could calculate trajectories with a greater accuracy than before. Instead she stood apart from the others, silently cogitating.For the first time, Korrigan noticed her stiff, hostile body language. “Quratulain?” he said. [B] 01000110011011000110000101110011011010000110001001100001011000110110101100100001* [/B][I] As Quratulain enters the throne room and slices at a dragon which vanishes into thin air, she is suddenly aware of a new reality. The king lies dead and his crown now sits on Korrigan's head! The very same person who asked her to join his struggle is the clear victor of a series of events in which everyone else is a loser. Good-old, little Korrigan. Now the group stands in a realm in which this new king, who ironically first presented himself to Quratulain in the image of Nicodemus, is the only key to bring everyone out of the prison of the Bleak Gate. A light of déjà vu flashes in Quratulain's mind: has she been so stupid as to be tricked again in exactly the same fashion? Was this last trace of human emotion her downfall? "That's what I get for being kind and trusting", she thinks in a corner of her vast mind. To make matters worse, Dame Jillian, the valiant fighter who swore to protect the king is, against all odds, alive and well. Why would she feign death, and why would her enemies let her live? Quratulain has no time to ponder whether Korrigan's intentions are true, and doesn't about the victims as long as is not her. She must not be left behind at any cost... and diplomacy is not her forte. Suddenly, they are out of the Bleak Gate and back in the real world. Korrigan is clearly contemplating the role of Dame Jillian. Quratulain considers her tattered armour, and feels horribly exposed. Could replacing her be part of the new king’s equations? Around her, the old king’s death is accepted as if nothing has happened. No one seems to bat an eyelid. Quratulain regrets she herself has no eyelids to bat. Suddenly, they are in a darkened cave, and everyone around her is growing ever more powerful. Quratulain begins to think it might be better to solve this problem in her tried and tested fashion, and figure out the truth once she feels safe. She takes out her pistols to ‘clean and maintain them’. As she loads her weapons she knows there are millions of ways in which twelve bullets can fly through the air, but in a split second she has calculated them all, in her mechanical mind she has already practised them, a hundred times over. There are only a few trajectories which her bullets can trace to hit the mark, but she has found those too.The whole thing stinks of betrayal and 500 years of confinement is the only thing which Quratulain is not going to count within her field of possibilities.Inevitably, Quratulain starts a countdown…[/I]“ Quratulain? What is it?” [B] End of Session [/B] *[URL]http://www.online-toolz.com/tools/text-binary-convertor.php[/URL] [B]Alternative Song for Korrigan? [/B][URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QZ_AnOZsY[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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