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lostcarnival2018-08-15 11:28 am
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2018-08-15 11:28 am
⇨ EDEN PT. 4 (FINALE)
Who: Everyone!
When: Day 89
Where: Eden
What: The Mirror is taken by the carnival, and several people from the carnival have been taken by Lilith. As Eden's Architects take sides, the battle for Eden's future is set to reach its conclusion.
Warnings: Violence.
When: Day 89
Where: Eden
What: The Mirror is taken by the carnival, and several people from the carnival have been taken by Lilith. As Eden's Architects take sides, the battle for Eden's future is set to reach its conclusion.
Warnings: Violence.
INFINITE↴ When the Silver Mirror is taken, the war truly begins. Lilith had seen fit to take her time, gloating over the enemies she perceived as being no challenge to her power - only to sense the moment that the Ringmaster claimed the Silver Mirror and took the skies in challenge. The Ringmaster has taken on her half beast form, black scaled, winged, and horned, and wielding the Silver Mirror as some kind of shield. Only moments ago, she used it to blast a whole clear through the cathedral. Lilith, realizing her mistake, has swept up the darkness created by Bezaliel and begun using it as a weapon against the Ringmaster. She has six silver wings that reflect light like mirrors, as well as strange, geometric horns. Ostensibly, part of the Silver Mirror's magic has been taken into herself, which means that even though the Ringmaster has the Mirror, Lilith still has control over it. She scatters the prisms containing her prisoners across Eden while she counters her foe, drawing on their strength to aid her. Two godlike beings clash in the sky above you. On the ground, a war begins. What do you do? ► FAE VS NEPHALEM: While all of this is going on, the Ringmaster and Lilith are essentially fighting over the Silver Mirror in the sky. It is all very cyclical and unending, and just as outrageous looking as it sounds. They both currently have some degree of hold over the Mirror right now, which means the advantage is wildly vacillating between the two of them. You probably don't want to directly interfere with this, but who knows? Maybe you'd got something really cunning up your sleeve. ► EDEN'S ARCHITECTS: In the aftermath of the Silver Mirror being taken, the Architects of Eden are being forced to choose sides. At first glance, it would appear that Saraqael (wolf), Samyaza (hare), Araqiel (stag), Penemue (raven), and Armaros (spider) have chosen to fight with the Furies of Eden in an attempt to cast Lilith out for good. Bezaliel (bear), Shamshel (tiger), Azazel (crocodile), Chazaqiel (eagle), and Baraqel (stingray) have, alternatively, chosen to defend Lilith, and are attempting to convince as many Honorables to follow in their path as possible. Gadreel (dolphin) and Kakabel (axolotl) seem to be uncomfortably remaining neutral for the moment and seeing how things play out. Not all Honorables or Scholars have followed the choice of their Architect. Many have been pulled one way or the other regardless of their kind, and are generally being accepted into the fight on their claimed side. You can NPC conflicts with random Honorables, but not the Architects. To interact with those guys, you need to do an investigation. ► PRISM BREAK: All of the carnival members that attended Samyaza's garden party (except Herbert) have been captured by Lilith after falling prey to a trap set by Bezaliel. Each of them has been trapped inside mirrored prisms that are now scattered around hard to access areas of Eden, defended by both Honorables supporting their maker and by mirror eyed dopplegangers. The infinite reflections of the characters inside the prisms are being fed on by Lilith, and she is tearing out as many of those reflections as necessary to do her bidding in the meantime. Each reflection is functionally a magical clone with no true will of its own, but will be able to fully mimic the emotions and powers of the characters they're taken from. They serve Lilith above all. Each reflection spawned from a prism take a fraction of their host's spiritual energy with them, meaning the more clones that are spawned, the weaker the real version will become. The more powerful a character is, the more energy each reflection takes to make - so if you have a character with lots of powers, they will probably have something like 1-4 dopplegangers spawned, while characters with few or no powers will be going completely quantity over quality and spawn potentially dozens of mirror clones. Clones shatter and vanish when destroyed, though the prisms will keep spawning new ones until the captive is set free. Captives, it's your job to NPC these clones. Captives will have no idea what's going on outside of their prism besides the abstract idea that these reflections are being harvested from them, and that's bad. The mirror clones will be attempting to protect the source prisms from disruption, as well as generally trying to destroy all enemies. NOTE: all captives will have returned to their natural forms by now (IE are no longer animals) and their clones will reflect this. Those missing "darkness shards" from their chest will also have had those returned. ► EDEN'S FURY: The Furies of Eden are striking back against Lilith at last, and it turns out a lot more of them have lingering rebellious ideas than previously though. Those that take up the cause of the Furies will be fighting on the carnival's side, so you are free to NPC some allied Honorables as well. You can also use the Investigations section to interact with named rebels, if you want, or to get an idea of what they are generally doing. Another potential avenue of investigation is trying to get the Serpent out here, as she'd be undoubtedly a powerful ally if cured of her curse. You might need it. Now that they know of the fae, the Honorables and Lilith-supporting Architects have no qualms using iron again you! They will be utilizing iron in all possible weaponry. ► NEW, CONFUSED, OR BOTH: Did you just get here? Did you fall behind and now you're terribly lost? Don't sweat it - let your character be as confused as you are. Take the opportunity to make top levels asking other characters what's going on in-game, or check out the original setting info post to catch up. The short version is this: the carnival wanted to steal a powerful artifact called the Silver Mirror from Lilith, which was stashed in her realm called Eden. They did just that, and now Lilith is back and she's pissed! |
dragon in distress (for papyrus)
Now, as Lilith’s mirrors slice his wings to tatters and he feels the bone-deep exhaustion of his magical usage settling in, he’s paying the price. A golden dragon falls from the pitched battle and plummets towards the trees, struggling to spread his limbs to attempt to break his fall. All it does is tear at already injured skin, but he keeps on grimly, struggling to hang onto consciousness all the way. He needs to stay awake, he knows that much. Cling onto the magic already trying to unravel as long as he can — because while a dragon might manage to survive this fall, a witcher almost certainly won’t.
de-stressing the dragon
So he's stayed near the healing temple, using that as his base and reasoning. Protecting the injuried and recovering people sheltered within, by encouraging the outside fighting to find other places to be - whether they move further away or stop altogether - by getting verbally and magically involved. It's a good place to see the progress of the aerial fight, and he notices when a huge, familiar, injured form falls from the sky.
Papyrus startles at the sight, and immediately gets to the highest ground nearby while reaching out with his blue magic. It's tricky to reach for someone's soul from such a distance, especially when they're moving, but for now he has a clear line of sight to Lambert. It should be enough to ping him blue, and slow that fall to something more deliberate.
...Still lowering, though, because if Lambert's too injured to keep fighting near Lilith, he probably should get down to the ground.
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He's not so sensitive with magic or in much shape to be able to discern whose it is, or where it's coming from, but even he can't miss that he's no longer falling, which seems the most important thing at hand. The earth and trees are rushing up to meet him, and he just needs ... he just needs...
Letting himself feel relief turns out to be a mistake. As soon as his control wavers for a second, the spell holding his dragon form dissolves, and Papyrus's magic is now cradling a very bloody, very naked Nightrider, tail and limbs dangling slack as he falls into a dead faint.
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Papyrus breaks out in a nervous sweat at the thought that yet another person nearly died today, while he was watching. It's just... a day for that. People almost dying. In front of him. His intervention making the difference.
He banishes the thought as hard as he, and focuses on pulling Lambert towards him. The most positive thing about Lambert's sudden reversion to normal is, he's much less massive and pulling him sideways takes far less effort. It's a matter of a minute to bring him down to the ground near the temple.
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As is proven once he touches the ground, prodding him into some semblance of awareness. He groans -- his arms are slick with blood from a hundred knifelike gashes, his transformation's injuries transferring themselves onto his skin, to say nothing of the clawed up state of his chest -- and tries to push himself up, groggily. Naturally, his arm just buckles beneath him and he hisses in pain.
"What...?" He was falling, he was pretty sure, but now he can't tell up from down.
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"I'm afraid I took you out of the fighting, because you were... pretty injured." Still is, to go by all that blood everywhere. "But! Don't fear! We're not far from medical care. I can go... get some?"
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"The Ringmaster's still up there," he tells Papyrus, hoarsely. "We've got to--"
What they've got to do, he never does quite get a chance to get into, since it's right around that time that the Ringmaster takes ahold of the mirror and finally shatters it. Lambert might not have any sort of soul detection on hand here, but even he can't miss that much magic getting thrown around and he flinches, ears flattening to his skull.
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"I... Think she might be winning?" Papyrus guesses, mostly out of hope that they're not about to watch the Ringmaster get eaten this time.
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Apparently it’s a bit much for Lambert right now, since he swoons right away.
(returning from hiatus!)
After panic leads to action, Papyrus gets Lambert brought into the temple, checked out by people who know more about fae-influenced humanish physiology, and stabilized to the point of healing. It's slow and mostly natural, only encouraged by the crystals, but it's better than lying outside. And for Papyrus' nerves, it's a good time to take a breather inside. Circle around checking on Reira, Lambert, and any others - and see that they're all actually stabilizing.