(flexibility check: 13, that's in there) You're laying in your living room by the feel of the floor with your eyes open, but everything looks fuzzy. Your hand tingles slightly from the electric shock, and you smell motor oil and hear the hustle and bustle of people moving and talking someplace nearby.
Beyond Our World: Jhiaxus 3 continues
(1357 posts) (2 voices)-
Jhiaxus
Member*checking my hand, trying to get up, trying to remember how he got here, and then he remembers*
"Serpentor must be stopped"
*looking around for Val, and then looking around period, and try to feel for her or any versers here*
*finally looking around for his stuff*
J
Wed Sep 29 2010 11:36 pm # -
Your hand stops tingling. You seem to be in an alley; the old paint on the walls of the buildings on both sides is chipping. There are fire escapes up to the third story; above that is the roof. It is daytime (for the first time in 1000 years), but chilly, probably between 55 and 65 degrees. The smell of motor oil still lingers, and there are sounds of many people talking and yelling in the distance. Your things are here.
Wed Sep 29 2010 11:48 pm # -
Jhiaxus
Member*gather my things, putting on my armor, and getting on my cyclone, using the storage bins to hold the majority of my items, and my backpack on my back for the rest, realizing Val has my extra protoculture cells and cursing himself for being so shortsighted, only has the existing cell that will keep it running for a year. Needs to find a gas station, having trouble remembering basic thing in his old life.*
"Sorry Val, I'm coming hun, might be awhile, but I'm coming"
*making sure his lightsabres are hooked to his belt, his swords in their sheafs, and his EVO Type Three Phaser, Magnetized to his Leg armor, wheeling the motercycle out to the street to get a better look at what's going on and trying to get a feel for where the talking and yelling is from*
*The Bike and CVR-3 armor are Dark Grey, the bike has advanced features like cloaking, and sensor packages, retractable forarm vibroblades, and a compliment of 12 mini missiles, plasma. With his lack of available protoculture cells, turning all unnecessary systems off and it's just a motercycle right now, saving the armor feature for when he needs flight or what not*
Thu Sep 30 2010 12:07 am # -
It's fairly obvious; there are many people walking about here. You find that you stick out like a sore thumb; everyone here looks to be wearing clothes that have been worn down to dirty rags. The street is paved, but deteriorating. You seem to be in an open air market, with smells of prepared, fresh, (and spoiling) foods assaulting your nostrils. The noise is a modest din.
Thu Sep 30 2010 12:14 am # -
The shopkeeper, too, is wearing similar dingy rags. He sucks his teeth a moment in thought, and then answers, "Yer in Muscall. Wha with the economy around here, what else would ya expect? I'll be lucky ta sell a () thing today. More ta the point, you got money to buy somethin, or are you just gonna stand there and stare?"
Thu Sep 30 2010 12:37 am # -
Jhiaxus
Member*looks concerned*
"I probably don't have anything that qualifies as money, I'm pretty self sufficient. I am not familar with Muscall, if you can spare a moment, I can trade you some food for information, *rummages around in his bin for a cup o noodles box (not case)* and hands it to him*
J
Thu Sep 30 2010 12:56 am # -
"Well, Sefyr's army ha bin takin the world by storm; no one know wha he really want, we jus know he keep on goin. One o his genrals, Alex, an his adopta son beside, ha bin around fightin close by, some mile away in Fanta. I kin draw ya a map if ya like, buh I woul steer clear if I were ya."
Thu Sep 30 2010 1:45 am # -
He draws you a map of the surrounding area. He is a very poor artist, but you do get the general idea; you seem to be in a city that is surrounded by mountains, and beyond the mountains on the one side is a forest (the shopkeep calls it west), to the other is a desert (which he calls east). Alex's army has taken a city beyond the forest, and one further beyond that; from the description, his army does seem to be heading this way. "We a pretty good spot for ta defen a army, if ya know wha I mean."
Thu Sep 30 2010 2:01 am # -
There are no additional scriff vectors other than what you've felt from your possessions.////A little girl, hair to her middle back that appears brown (though is tangled with dirt) and light brown eyes, caucasion, somewhere close to four feet tall and probably fifty pounds soaking wet, in similar garb to those you have seen except that i seems somewhat large for her stature approaches and "propositions" you -- 5 meyhr coins for a little, 5 meyhr dollars for whatever you want is her not-so-cryptic offer. (Difficult Intuition check 25) Something about her seems strange, though not physically; her speech pattern is much more educated sounding than the last man you spoke to, but that's not all. Call it a hunch.
Thu Sep 30 2010 2:19 am # -
She doesn't move to take the cup of noodles; she eyes it suspiciously. At the mention of parents, or someone watching over her, her eyes narrow, affect changes, and she responds tentatively, "Yes." It means no. She's such a terrible liar you don't even need to roll a die to tell.
Thu Sep 30 2010 2:34 am # -
Jhiaxus
Member*opens the visor to his helmet*
"Well Jewel, I'm going out to try and figure out what this world is about, and your welcome to come along. I have no want or reason to hurt you, and can probably defend you from any threat there is, besides there is something about you I can't place my finger on, but your special. If you want hop on and we'll take a drive in the mountains."
J
Thu Sep 30 2010 3:05 am # -
Jhiaxus
Member*smiles*
"Cheer up, don't worry about not knowing everything right away, took me a thousand years to find my place in the verse, sometimes, you just have to have faith, that your on the right path.
*starts up the cycle, makes sure she has a firm grip, and starts slow to make sure she gets the hang of holding on*
J
Thu Sep 30 2010 3:14 am # -
She picks it up very quickly.///You've been driving for a while, and she yells something over the wind that you can't make out. When you stop, (her hair is even more a mess now than it was then), she says, "You aren't from this world, are you? Where are you from?" (((ooc: off to sleep, early tomorrow)))
Thu Sep 30 2010 3:20 am # -
Jhiaxus
Member*smiles and takes a break and makes a cup of noodles, just making it wet, with no heating unit, and taking about half in his hand, and leaving her the other half with the soup, and eats the noodles he has*
*after he finishes chewing and not talking with his mouth full*
"No I am not from here, I'm from a place called Earth, and I've been away there a long, long time, long enough that I have placed most of my old life deep inside my mind, so it is hard to remember. I have done some pretty fantastic things, this is the first time, I am actually using the Cyclone as a vehicle. What has been going on here, this place seems too run down to just be a war, something had to proceed it. I know there was an economic downturn, but was that it? I know you might not be able to answer, but I am asking anyway."
((Thanks have a good night, me too, you did a lot of work today good job :P ))
Thu Sep 30 2010 3:29 am # -
Jewel looks thoughtful for a moment, and answers you, "There are lots of people here from Earth, but they don't all always agree on what Earth is like. This is Syatan Fanilf; we're in a dimension trap within a dimension vortex; what that means is that sometimes people are dragged out of their home dimensions and end up here, and there isn't any way out." You don't have any reason to mistrust her; you've already seen how much trouble she has with lying. She looks as if she's just thought of something. "Oh, but I'm one of the people who was born in this world. Many Earths have people who do magic in them; I don't know if yours is one of them, but there's also magic here; it's broken into five areas, or "schools:" Magic, Sorcery, Wizardry, Warlocry, and Necromancy. There are also a few people from other dimensions who can use power that isn't magic but comes from within themselves, like that which psychics use. ////"Sefyr is an evil person; he wants to conquer the world, not rule it. He doesn't need wealth, he isn't hungry for power; I'd say he's insane. I really don't know what Alex sees in him -- Alex is really a nice guy. He seems to look up to Sefyr, and was adopted as Sefyr's heir. I would say that Alex is helping Sefyr because it's better to be on the winning team than the losing team.////Sefyr's army is comprised mainly of people from this world, but his commanders are mostly like he and Alex are in that they're from different dimensions.////"There's another thing I should mention to you; our world has many different people of different races living in it. Muskall is a human town; we're descended from primates. There are also Draconians, Wolfbrothers, Serpents, Ayludians, and the Beastpeople. It's pretty hard to tell everyone apart, except for hair and eye colors, and stature, to some extent. Wolfkin have red to white hair and red to yellow eyes, humans are brown haired with brown, blue, or green eyes, serpents have green to light blue hair with green to blue eyes, beastpeople have yellow to white hair and yellow to green eyes, and draconians have eyes and hair in virtually any color, but it seems to usually have something to do with the color of their dragon form." She sees that you're trying to take everything in, and pauses. "Sorry, am I going too fast?" (intuition check 21) No 8 year old should know all that she knows; special, indeed.
Thu Sep 30 2010 11:09 am # -
Jhiaxus
Member*smiles*
"No your going just fine, you seem to know an alot about what's going on. I am thankful for the information, just concerned about you. You know way too much for someone of your age, dimension trap within a dimensional vortex? As long as your honest with me, I will be honest with you, so there is no need to hold back."
*considers*
"As for magics and psionics, I have a fair knowledge of both, well I am heading to meet Alex and see what he is about. I checked and I am the only one like me here, so the others pulled here must have come through a different way than I did."
J
Thu Sep 30 2010 12:46 pm # -
She flushes slightly. "Yeah, well, just.. if you pay attention, you can learn a lot." She isn't being completely forthright with you. "Our world was created by four powerful warriors, The Warriors of Dusk. Their names are Blade, Pain, Skelly, and Vize. Blade holds dominion over Time and Law, Pain holds dominion over Space and Evil, Vize over Magic and Chaos, and Skelly over Nature and Good. Vize, Blade, and Pain would have everyone believe they're gods, but I don't believe it. They're powerful, yes, but I wouldn't say omniscient or omnipotent. Skelly doesn't communicate very well or he would probably try to convince everyone they're gods, too; at any rate, our world is constantly in balance because of those four fighting. It wouldn't suprise me if at least one of them was behind this war of Sefyr's."
Thu Sep 30 2010 1:25 pm # -
Jhiaxus
Member*grins*
"Your almost as bad as not telling the whole truth as you are with lying, but I trust you have good intentions. Well I would assume they are a lot like me, but they aren't versers, of they could be and aren't here at the moment. People have been using weaker people to fight their wars since the beginning of time, so I wouldn't put it past them."
*smiles*
"Anything else I should know Jewel, before we continue?"
J
Thu Sep 30 2010 1:39 pm # -
She opens her mouth as if to continue, then closes again, as a "person" appears, starting as a small pinpoint of purple and expanding outward until it floats before you. It appears to be a royal purple hooded cloak with no legs supporting it, glowing red eyes under the hood, and numerous gems and necklaces adorning it. It speaks, "Why, Jewel, would you tell our new visitor that I am not omniscient? Unless you'd like to go back to your father right now, instead of when his people find you; that can be arranged, if you like." Jewel is speechless and places you between it and herself.
Thu Sep 30 2010 2:05 pm # -
Jhiaxus
Member*makes sure he is blocking her entirely as she move behind me*
"Well your not Skelly, you are communicating very well, so you must be one of the other three, if I had to hazard a guess, It would be Vize. I am Jhiaxus, someone who tried to kill me said I am a disciple of Odin, might be something to consider. So just who are you, and why is this little girl scared of you and who is her father?"
J
Thu Sep 30 2010 2:17 pm # -
Vize nods to you. "Indeed, I am Vize, one of the deities of the people of Syatan Fanilf. I would advise you to be wary of who you escort; this little girl may be the most unmanageable child on the planet." Then another voice chimes in from outside of your peripheral vision, and you turn with Jewel to stand between her and the both of them; this man is nearly six feet tall and very muscular, with unkempt purple hair to his ears that looks like someone cut unevenly with a knife and bright purple eyes. It says, "Leave, Vize. The newcomer and I have business to discuss." Vize seems irritated, but disappears as he came. Jewel whispers, "That's Fizgig -- he's one of the few people even the Warriors fear." Fizgig is just standing there for a moment, watching you intensely.
Thu Sep 30 2010 3:07 pm # -
Jhiaxus
Member*turns to face the Fizgig, not backing down or showing any sign of fear, because there is none* "Greetings, I am Jhiaxus, who might you be, and why am I getting so much attention all of a sudden?"
*worried for Jewel, things are not adding up, with people jumping up at seemingly random intervals*
J
Thu Sep 30 2010 3:14 pm # -
He's wearing all black, what looks to be some kind of ninja garb that is more black than the blackest black you've seen. He has a knife hanging from a small chain that leads up each sleeve to what appears to be some kind of bracer under each sleeve; at the moment, each hang loosely below his hands. He speaks. "I'm Fizgig, as Jewel has already informed you. I don't know why Vize was here or who else you've spoken to. I'm here because Mark's scriff detector detected something he called a "verser", and I've come to greet you in his name, mostly. I see you've met Jewel;" he shifts his weight slightly, peeking behind you, "no worse for wear, it seems."////"Are you here to take me back to my father?"//// To her, "Don't be ridiculous." Back to you again, "Judging by your course, I'd say you're headed to meet up with Alex's splinter group from Sefyr's army. Not really a very wise move, unless you want to join them; Sefyr's army has a strict "If you're not with us you're against us" policy; not to say you couldn't take them all, just that it's more trouble than it's worth. I'd steer clear, if I were you; especially with the little one. Sefyr's army isn't very kind to women, regardless of their age; not surprising, considering one of the commanders is a pedophile and very honest about his preference, and is already well acquainted with Jewel."
Thu Sep 30 2010 3:48 pm # -
Jhiaxus
Member((I asked in the first or second post if I "felt" any other versers, all I felt were my things, is that till an accurate statement?))
*a little confused*
"You will excuse me if I ask some questions, because I am a little confused now. Who is Mark, and I am assuming he is a verser if he has a Scriff detecter. The only other person I spoke to other than Jewel was a merchant that I gave food to for information. Who is Jewel's father.*
*pauses*
"She's in good hands, well better hands than being on the street doing what she was doing. She doesn't have to worry about that from me, I have a woman I love and I am going to find her again. I am just trying to figure out where I am, and why it seems everyone is warning me off against everyone else. Something is very off here, it all seems very....random."
J
Thu Sep 30 2010 4:02 pm # -
Yes, still only your equipment. "Who is Jewel's father?" A faint smirk plays over his face. "Right now, it's a guy named Claude; Blade took a particular shine to him, and helped him kill the last Power Guardians, depose Celeste, and become the All-Ruler. I bet now you know even less than you did before you asked; this world takes some adjusting to, take it from me. There was something Mark wanted me to warn you about..." ((rolls an attribute check behind the screens) "... I don't remember. Oh well."
Thu Sep 30 2010 4:40 pm # -
Jewel shifts uncomfortably.//// (((difficult intuition check 25, you've been quite lucky with these intuition checks)))You realize that another person has been here for a while, and then realize that he must have done something to make you believe that he did not just appear, but had been there. He's about three and a half feet tall, and is wearing a purple cloak, somewhat darker than the one Vize was wearing. The hood is pulled up, hiding his face. He speaks to Fizgig. "I wanted you to explain to him that death in this world will not cause his body to enter the scriff." He turns to you, still hiding his face. "Greetings, world traveller, I am Mark. To explain further, when your body bears too much injury, it will be taken by one of the Four Warriors of Dusk to another part of the universe, depending on whether you have shown selfishness, lawfulness, selflessness, or adherence to the principles of freedom in your life. Resurrection to this universe is very common to those of us who are from other dimensions ourselves; it is not a well known ability, but it is well known to many of us. I am working on a way to travel across the scriff to escape from this dimension trap, but there are many variables I had not anticipated, and I expect there will be more to come. Unless you have questions, we will be taking our leave of you." Back to Fizgig. "This world is full of suprises for him to meet head on, Fizgig. I trust you will not allow your rivalry with Sefyr cloud his judgment."
Thu Sep 30 2010 5:03 pm # -
Jhiaxus
Member*shakes his head*
"Well that's just great, so in order to leave to find out where Val went, I have to figure out how to get out of here first. So how many versers are trapped here because I can't feel any? I can manipulate Scriff magically, but I don't see how it will help unless whatever is trapping us here stops."
*looks to everyone here*
"There is too much weird stuff going on here without their being one focal point where all this started, and I will find it."
J
Thu Sep 30 2010 5:18 pm # -
Fizgig answers, "Interesting deduction. I'll be keeping an eye on you." He swings one of his knives, slicing a hole through the air, and steps in before it closes. Mark hasn't been here for a while, but you already know he has some trick up his sleeve to make you think that; your question regarding versers goes unanswered. It's just you and Jewel now.
Thu Sep 30 2010 5:59 pm # -
She finally gives up. "My older brother and younger sister and I lived in this world before the Warriors of Dusk came. Things were so beautiful then..." she has a wistful look in her eyes. "It wasn't a perfect existence here, but we were pacifistic and we all loved one another. When the Warriors came, they destroyed everything... our parents, our friends... only my brother and sister and I stood up to them... as punishment to us, they spared our lives. They cursed us to never grow old, and to be watched over and tortured by people in power for all time; the All-Rulers. In order for them to be sure the All-Rulers were powerful, they created a system by which once a year, the All-Ruler could select three power guardians; if they were all defeated, the All-Ruler's throne could be taken by the next person other than the All-Ruler and other than Nic, Eri, or me. The first All-Ruler, Zero, was draconian; he beat us for not living up to his expectations. The second All-Ruler, Bloodfang, was a wolfkin; he raped my sister and me frequently; he liked us a bit too much. The third was Snow, who hated us with a passion because we were different; she thought humiliating us publicly would build character for us and teach us to stay in linel apparently it didn't work in her childhood, so I don't know why she thought it would work for us. Celeste was disappointed in Eri and me because she felt we were too masculine, and she felt Nic was too feminine; she had a lot of things backwards, and really messed Eri up psychologically; I don't know if she'll ever be the same. It's roughest for her because she's so young. Anyway, Claude took over after Celeste; in comparison to the others, he isn't bad; he mostly only neglects us instead of actively hurting us. That's how I managed to escape; but he'll have people looking for me by now, of course. They won't find me if I'm with Sefyr's army; they think that's the last place I'd go, which is why I was going to meet up with them."
Thu Sep 30 2010 7:52 pm #
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