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« Reply #100 on: February 25, 2009, 09:48:52 AM » |
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Within the last of the chests that Thraxis pries open is a small ledger, written in unfamiliar hand and in an old and mystic script. Perhaps if he could understand it better, he would know what has happened here.
There are several tunnels branching off from this farming chamber, some with paved stone floors and hewn rock tunnels, others of more natural or more crude origin.
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« Reply #101 on: February 25, 2009, 09:54:39 AM » |
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Ferrus takes a peek at it to see if the language is anything he knows, or perhaps it's alphabet.
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The mind transcends the body. It's also a little cold because of that. Please get it a blanket. I wish I could read your mind, I can barely read mine. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill
To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
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« Reply #102 on: February 25, 2009, 10:05:55 AM » |
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The alphabet bears some small resemblance to one that he knows, but many of the letters are warped, or written in blocky form. Others make no sense at all.
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« Reply #103 on: February 25, 2009, 10:07:26 AM » |
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« Reply #104 on: February 25, 2009, 11:25:46 AM » |
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Thraxis says "Well, I'm glad I decided to open a few more. I'll keep opening them. Maybe we'll find something else of interest." Thraxis then proceeds to methodically open all the chests. |
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A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?
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« Reply #105 on: February 25, 2009, 12:55:41 PM » |
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Thraxis finds several more ledgers, clumped together in the bottom of a chest next to a desk, and wedged under clothing and other small items in another, what appears to be a diary, written in a plain hand.
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« Reply #106 on: February 25, 2009, 01:53:26 PM » |
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I found some more books, he says as he hands the pilfered pages to Lorag.
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A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?
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« Reply #107 on: February 25, 2009, 02:17:32 PM » |
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« Reply #108 on: March 02, 2009, 10:22:09 AM » |
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« Reply #109 on: March 02, 2009, 11:26:49 AM » |
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Perhaps we should explore some of the chambers leading out from this one, since we seem to have covered everything here.
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A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?
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« Reply #110 on: March 02, 2009, 02:36:36 PM » |
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« Reply #111 on: March 02, 2009, 02:38:14 PM » |
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My workDeviantArtCurrent gamesThe tier system in a nutshell: Tier 6: A cartographer. Tier 5: An expert cartographer or a decent marksman. Tier 4: An expert marksman. Tier 3: An expert marksman, cartographer and chef who can tie strong knots and is trained in hostage negotiation or a marksman so good he can shoot down every bullet fired by a minigun while armed with a rusted single-shot pistol that veers to the left. Tier 2: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything, or the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy. Tier 1: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything and the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.
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« Reply #112 on: March 02, 2009, 03:06:15 PM » |
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« Reply #113 on: March 02, 2009, 07:25:39 PM » |
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The mind transcends the body. It's also a little cold because of that. Please get it a blanket. I wish I could read your mind, I can barely read mine. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill
To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
There is no higher price than 'free'. "I won't die. I've been ordered not to die." |
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« Reply #114 on: March 03, 2009, 10:26:43 AM » |
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A week passed as the three scientists poured over the documents and explored the various surrounding fields and farms. Little had been learned, but they had begun to slowly decipher the language of the ancient Liarans. It bore some similarities to celestial tongues, and lead to speculation that the populace may once have been angelic in origin. Those reports that they had gathered seemed to speak mainly of crops and the harvest, numbers that suggested a populace of over 10,000 people, if they had eaten as humans do. Still, there had been no bodies, no sign of the ephemeral Liarans.
Satisfied that they had learned all that was possible from the outskirts of the city, the three heroes made their way inwards, searching for signs of habitation and culture. Two more days journey, along corridors marked with magical symbols long dead, deposited them in a great cavern, dwarfing those that they had found before. It arced up and over, and buildings spread hither and yon, scatted across the ground and stacked high into the air. Some even hung from the ceiling of the place, covering every open wall conceivable. The Liarans must have been natively capable of flight, for nothing else allowed for this strange architecture.
Strange noises echoed throughout the metropolis, clanks and hisses and other strange whirrings, marking the first living noises that had been heard in this city. It was an eerie place, alive, yet empty and dead.
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« Reply #115 on: March 03, 2009, 02:10:11 PM » |
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Two scientists + 1 bodyguard.  I guess while they were thinking and reading, I was digging around in the rubble for more relics to take to them. Thraxis stops and stares, tilting his head back to take in the entire view, speechless at the vastness of the cavern. Finally, he breaks the silence. " Well... this will take a while." |
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A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?
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« Reply #116 on: March 03, 2009, 07:02:00 PM » |
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"No doubt, but the place appears to be active, and warrants investigation."
Ferrus starts towards the nearest discernable source of the noises, perhaps some mechanism yet remains active despite the years.
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The mind transcends the body. It's also a little cold because of that. Please get it a blanket. I wish I could read your mind, I can barely read mine. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill
To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
There is no higher price than 'free'. "I won't die. I've been ordered not to die." |
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« Reply #117 on: March 04, 2009, 09:36:16 AM » |
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The noises echo off of the cavern walls, but by stopping and listening at various places, Ferrus is able to locate the closest of the sounds. It is a waterwheel, dipping into the same river as they first stopped by, grinding away happily, driving something within the large warehouse style building that it is attached to. The only issue is that it remains on the other side of the river, and the nearest bridge has rotten and fallen away, and only the wooden stumps remain.
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« Reply #118 on: March 04, 2009, 10:15:08 AM » |
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"Hmm, I wonder if it's the same river..."
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The mind transcends the body. It's also a little cold because of that. Please get it a blanket. I wish I could read your mind, I can barely read mine. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill
To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
There is no higher price than 'free'. "I won't die. I've been ordered not to die." |
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« Reply #119 on: March 05, 2009, 09:47:51 AM » |
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The river gurgles along happily through stone walls, a cheerful and fast current waiting to be touched.
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