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« Thread Started on Jan 22, 2007, 3:24am » | |
Richard had spent the rest of the night and early morning on the forth floor. The deserted fourth floor. The useless forth floor. Not a single visible door lined the walls and a few of the hallways were even devoid of windows making them pitch black for your typical mortal. To Richard though there was something important about this floor. There was a secret that was masked behind the emptiness. This useless floor without a single door hid a room unlike any other room in the school. Even Richard didn't know what exactly it held but it wasn't much until he would know.
Sadly he had to thank Marion for the most important information throughout her research. It had been pure speculation on her part but it made the most sense. Richard found himself on the windowed hallway facing the lake due to Marion's speculation. The windows, the windows did more than just illuminate the hallway. The windows were in a repeating pattern of five pictures with each window five feet from the next. There were five different pictures in all. The first windows in the pattern were of the sun rising over Emerald Magic, the second of a Unicorn in what appeared to be the Old Forest, the third was of the sun over Emerald Magic and the lake which seemed to glitter even though it was just stained glass, the fourth was of a dragon over a mountain which was probably located in the Wild Mountains, and the last was of the sun setting over Emerald Magic. But what did it mean.
Richard was exactly directly in front of the middle picture in the hallway which happened to be on the sun over the lake. His eyes were forced to squint as he looked upon this window for the picture matched perfectly to the scene beyond it with the real sun and the real lake. This was obviously no coincidence.
The next step was purely of Richard's ingenious; no part attributed to the foolish Marion. From his robe's pockets he drew the broken sword and the broken shield. To the broken sword he stabbed it into the picture of the unicorn though the window did not shatter but instead simply absorbed the sword. He did the same with the shield and the dragon window.
The entire hallway was silent and still from a moment; a very long moment. But then the sound came starting from the other corners of the floor. It was the sound of shattering glass; the windows were imploding. The sound finally reached Richard's hallway from each side and continued until it reached the Central window. However this one did not implode but instead the image on the window began to fade from the window and appeared slowly on the stone wall it faced.
There was one for noise though, somebody was coming.
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« Reply #1 on Jan 24, 2007, 11:30pm » | |
OOC: This Open?
Eva had been simply wandering, though that wasn't anything new. The Head Girl was just plain bored with this school, and wondered everyday why she stuck around anyways. It made much more sense for her to just give up her badge and leave. But where would she go? The girl didn't want to give up Anatoly, and there was no other convienient way to see him other then living in the school. Her long black hair falling down her back and the light ebony clothing that she wore gave the pale girl the appearance of something unearthly. Long ago Eva had given up on any form of school robes, she found them beneath her. The halls were silent, no sounds of running children or anything else of the matter to break the eerie silence.
Until she heard the glass shattering.
Her grey eyes snapped to where she heard the sound, a floor below her. It was loud enough to make her wonder what was going on, and head for the nearest stairwell. The sound of breaking glass was echoing everywhere in the school, and Eva found her heart beating quickly in her chest. Were they under attack again? What was going on? Bringing her hand to where her wand was at her side, she appeared in the hall where all the broken glass was. It littered the floor, glittering and gleaming. The Head Girl noticed that it came from the windows, they were all broken, completely shattered. "Hello?" She called, feeling more excited now then worried.
Someone had to be here, windows didn't just explode by themselves. Walking warily around a corner, she saw that there indeed was someone. Eva's wand went up and pointed it at the boy standing by the one unbroken window that there still was in the hall. "Who are you?" She demanded carefully, unable to see his face or who he was. Not that it would matter, Eva had never really met Richard despite the fact that they were in the same house. Had she known he had any afinity with Marion, well, she may have shot and asked questions later.
The Head Girl's grey eyes narrowed, and she walked carefully closer to where Richard was. "You know, those things are generally supposed to remain intact. I would say that is a lot of years of bad luck for you." As much sarcasm was in her voice, her wand didn't move. No sense in being reckless.
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Richard Kiligian
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« Reply #2 on Jan 26, 2007, 3:28am » | |
Richard just stared at his accomplishment for a moment; almost unwilling to continue forward. The fruits of his labor sat before him, his trophy, his prize. He had worked for so long to reach where he was. So much time devoted to research and exploration. So many reasons and means behind this ends and no matter how foolish some of those reasons had been it felt good just to stare achievement in the face. He had forfeited his once hansom looks to a worn out corpse like body after months on noting but research. His ends were long over due and so near.
With glass littered on the floor around him he stood there almost dumbfounded at what he had done though his appearance was that of a man of indifference. With a curious hand he reached forward toward the image on the visible solid wall and it went through the bricks as if nothing was even there except for air. It was marvelous and as he retracted his hand he took a step forward into the wall; anxious as to what laid on the other side.
He was about halfway through the wall when a curious then sarcastic voice reached his ears. With a turn of his head he found himself face to face with the Nocte Prefect holding a threatening wand in his direction. He knew this girl, not personally but he knew her. She was the only mortal that truly gave Marion any trouble. She was strong. Too strong for Richard to handle in his drained state. Richard was never really a fighter, better placed in a research setting, but he used to be able to hold his own. However he could barely keep himself conscious yet alone fight. He would have to deal with her in a different way.
"Hello," Richard said in a monotone emotionless voice that didn't even bother to imitate kindness. "I do apologies for the mess, wasn't exactly sure that would happen." He paused for a moment as he slipped further into the wall. "Care for a chat?" He asked as his head traveled into the room.
The room he entered was long hallway with no clear walls, ceiling, or floor. They were there but at the same time they weren't. Simply there was both nothingness and something at the same time. The hallways was eerily dark but at the same time it was light enough that someone could see clearly in front of themselves. And at the end of this hallways of contradictions was a bright light opening up to another room. Richard moved forward unsure whether the girl would follow him or not.
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« Reply #3 on Jan 26, 2007, 10:56pm » | |
Eva watched Richard warily, the fact that his voice was so bland struck her as something odd. What else was obviously odd was the fact that he seemed to be melting into a wall. Even for a witch who had been around magic a great deal of her life, this was weird to see. Was the boy in front of her a ghost or something? Her eyes narrowed as she walked closer, her wand arm slowly falling down to her side. His last sentence was nearly lost on her as he traveled the rest of the way through the wall. Walking the remainder of the way to it, she inspected it carefully through steel grey eyes.
What the…She thought warily, reaching out a pale and elegant hand, expecting it to brush stone. Instead it passed through. What was she going to do? Her gut feeling told her that this boy was up to something odd, and Eva was dying for a bit of excitement. On the other hand, it could be dangerous and that meant that others could be in danger. The Nocte took a deep breath though, and made her choice.
Sending up a quick prayer to who knows who, she went to walk into the wall, hoping that she wasn’t about to walk facefirst into stone. When her grey eyes opened, she was on the other side. Or…whatever it was.
The ‘room’ around them was odd, and had Eva not grabbed her emotions and kept them well surpressed from her features, Richard would have been able to easily see the amazement on her face. Where the heck were they? And what the heck had he done to get here? This obviously wasn’t a part of the school. Her mind snapped back to reality, and she looked at Richard through apprehensive eyes.
Eva’s wand arm quickly went up, and she pointed the wooden device directly at her fellow Nocte’s face. “What is going on?” She demanded in a no nonsense voice. One that said her wand wasn’t moving unless she got a suitable answer.
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« Reply #4 on Jan 31, 2007, 1:57am » | |
The room he had entered was truly amazing. Everything was a contradiction of itself; seemingly a room that could defy the catch 22. There was nothing but darkness yet one could see as if it was clear as day, though this mattered not to Richard who had been given the gift of night vision from Marion Lefey. There was clearly nothing below his feet and yet his feet were clearly walking on something. That wasn't all however. The room seemingly had no center of gravity nor was there clearly any true sense of direction; though Richard continued to walk forward in a straight line, never moving from his course, the light source he seeked seemed to spin around him or perhaps Richard was the one spinning even though he felt constantly up right. The hallway was clearly a grand entrance way to whatever laid beyond that light.
The girl's quizitive voice reached Richard's ears and he peered over his shoulder for a moment just to make sure that it wasn't the room playing a trick on him. The girl's wand was aimed threateningly at his head though he continued to peer forward, his stride never faltering. Richard knew her to be a brave girl but he did not fathom for a second that she would actually follow but apparently he had underestimated the curiosity of a Nocte.
"I'm slightly amazed but greatly impressed that you decided to follow me," Richard spoke in his dead voice through lips that resembled the lifelessness of his soul. "I'm not completely sure what's going on myself but I assure you there is nothing here that you require your wand for." Richard was not offering this girl a spot next to him of his journey but simply there was no use getting rid of her at that point. If she chose to follow Richard's path that was her choice but she did it as an individual.
"But again I reiterate that I don't know exactly what is happening. What I can assure you of is that we are still inside the castle just apparently in a room that defies all natural laws. What lies at the end of this hallway you could call my Magnum opus; my great work. My ends after a very long means. The actual contents of the room I don't know but I do..."
Richard paused for a moment before asking a question. "Have you ever wished to be something slightly closer to perfection?"
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Evaline Fawne
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« Reply #5 on Feb 5, 2007, 12:48am » | |
Eva still kept a very wary gaze on Richard as if she wasn’t willing to take her eyes off of him for a single moment. He seemed so off, almost inhuman as he spoke, and the tones of his voice annoyed her more than someone scraping their nails against a chalkboard. He had no true answers for her, and the ones he gave made him sound like he was a madman. Maybe he was, knowing this school he could be just about anything. Nothing was normal around here, and the room or hall that they were in was as far from normal as Eva could think. She kept her eyes from the room though and on the one she had followed into it. There was that nagging feeling that told her to go back and just get out of this before something bad happened.
…but there was also that nagging curiosity. She wanted to know what this was, and she wanted to know what Richard was up to. If he was up to something bad, she was going to stop him, no question. Her wand arm never moved as she stared at the man, trying to think of the words to respond to her fellow Nocte with. “This cannot be your great work if you do not know what is happening. And if you do not know what is happening then we should leave right this moment, it could be dangerous. And you may be mad, but that doesn’t mean you need to get yourself hurt through something stupid.”
Why would she even care?
His other question though made her think for a moment. There were so many things she wanted to be and she knew she would never attain half of them in her lifetime, but perfection was not one of them. Perfection made people boring. If they had no flaw they were nothing but a diamond, something to sparkle and something to look at, but something completely useless all the same. “There is no such thing as perfection sir, or even close to it for us humans. That is why we are human. And whatever this magic is…it isn’t going to help you be anymore perfect, especially if you do not know what is going on.”
The girl took a deep breath and stepped closer to emphasize her wand pointed at the boy. “So, you going to prove you still have a brain or must I drag you?”
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« Reply #6 on Feb 6, 2007, 3:34am » | |
Richard just kept on walking no matter what that girl said or did. It was her choice to be in, she had followed him. It wasn't up to him what that girl would do and even if she did kill him the door to the room was opened; if he did then it was up to the rest of the world to find the end to the hallway. He had discovered it, he was content with that. That was his great work, doing what no other had done before by finding this room. What happened now was up for time to decide but he would do as much as he could.
"Perfection, is an idea not a fact my dear," Richard spoke in his usual manner though his words leaked a bit of annoyance toward the girl passed the rock wall of his heart. "You can not achieve such a thing because once it is achieved something else will be perfect. As such perfection is merely a point toward which one can travel." He paused for a moment allowing the girl to think over his words. Even if she thought him mad she seemed like the kind of girl who would listen to something comparable to reason.
"This is my Magnum Opus not because I know exactly what is hidden at in that distant light but simply because I got this far," if she wasn't going to turn back then Richard would have to make her see some sense in all this so called madness. "Research as told me how to reach this place and research has also given me clues as to what I seek.
"Again...perfection," he said changing the subject back to the original. "For a moment think about the creatures scattered about Emerald Magic; vampires, werewolves, spirits, sins, and demons. Obviously someone or something must have created beings such as these but it is also just as obvious just how imperfect every single one of them are. So why would someone who spent some much time making creatures such as these stop at that? There is something new, something beyond mortality and immortality. That is what lies at the end of this hallway."
The hallway clearly didn't wish to end. For every step Richard took the light moved to another strange position as if it was afraid of him. Hiding like a timid rabbit or a greedy man holding a valuable object. Was the point of this room simply to make a man go crazy or was there a reason. What would the light be afraid of? What could threaten it?
Stopping in his tracks Richard removed his wand from his pocket and held it with his arm straight out to the side for a moment. Then, without another though, he allowed his wand to fall from his grasp and disappear into the strange darkness below. "Drop your wand," Richard said as he continued to stand still, "no matter if you wish to turn back or if you decide to continue forward; this room isn't going to allow you to do either with such a weapon. This is now trick, as you can see I am unarmed."
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« Reply #7 on Feb 7, 2007, 10:43pm » | |
He apparently thought he could lecture her like she was some child. Every one of his words had a tone to it that was so arrogant she wanted to slap him across the face. And just the fact that he kept basically ignoring her threats was getting so annoying she thought that she might hex him for good just to make him stop. There were other tones though too that were just making Eva feel too creeped out for her own good because he seemed to knowledgeable about what was going on and at the same time so…not!
“There are flaws in every creature that are meant to be there.” The Nocte said under her breath, unable to hold it back any longer. She was uneasy in this place, it was so strange to her. There was a part of her that felt vulnerable and unable to do anything about it, and she hated feeling helpless like that. Stuck in this strange room with an equally strange boy she had no clue what to do. Her thoughts began to turn though on two of his words that he had said.
Mortality and Immortality.
The difference between those two was death, and the only way to get beyond it was to actually die. That was why when she considered his words about whatever was at the end of that light being beyond mortality and immortality, she went even paler. The only thing she could conceive higher then those two states of living was Death itself. She wasn’t the kind of girl to believe in God or Angels or anything divine of that matter, despite all she had seen in her life of the wicked creatures that roamed the earth. But she did believe in that black power of death and how much sway it held over their lives.
About to open her mouth to speak again, he had to make that comment about disarming herself. Instinctively she felt her hand grip tighter around her wand, because there was no way in hell she was giving it up. “Are you out of your mind?” She asked sarcastically with a half laugh, striding forward to the strange boy and wrapping her hand in a tight grip around his arm as if she wasn’t going to let him go any further. “You just gave up your one passage to magic and I would be insane to do the same with mine. Neither of us are going to that light. The only place we are going is out of here, and you are coming whether or not I have to drag you.”
Her grey gaze was steely and serious as she kept it on Richard, her grip tightening even more which was surprising for a girl of her size. “I am not kidding, so please don’t make me.”
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« Reply #8 on Feb 14, 2007, 3:30am » | |
It was clear that this girl would not comply right away and so he began to walk again while he also continued to explain the situation in simple terms to the stubborn girl. "Look directly behind yourself if you will for a moment with your wand still in hand," he instructed to girl while at the same time seemingly ignoring her, "I see the entrance to this hallway there and ahead of me I see the light directly in my path. But you do not as I didn't with my wand still in hand. It doesn't matter if you want to continue forward or leave the way you came; this room will not let you do either so armed." From the girl's perspective Richard was moving just as the light and entrance did; always moving and not in one specific direction. To the girl Richard would appear almost as if he was spinning though to him he was still continuing in a straight line.
This girl was very annoying and stubborn; perhaps that was why Richard disliked those who "upheld peace and order" so much. The would see one thing and only that one thing, never allowing their mind to open to new ideas. They could believe themselves to be the heroes all they wished but in reality it was nothing but stubbornness. Righteousness depends on who is in charge.
"Are you so weak that you are that afraid to drop your wand?" Richard asked as he continued to walk, "or can you just not survive without it. Perhaps in that respect muggles are more perfect than we, perhaps we came first but were the rejects. They can survive and adapt without magic. As much as magic is helpful to me I do not need it, I can survive without it. Even though I have no magic and even though my body is frail I can survive. But as for you, you won't be able to do anything with that stick in your hand."
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« Reply #9 on Mar 4, 2007, 3:21am » | |
Eva wanted to growl in frustration with this boy. She ground her teeth together, something very much out of her character, and resisted the urge to yell at him. The whole unnaturalness of the place was getting to her completely now, and it was doing a number on her usually unshakable nerves. She wanted out, and at the same time she didn’t want to drop her wand at all. She also wanted to get a giant club and thwack Richard over the head a few times and drag his lifeless form out, but alas she generally didn’t carry a giant club on her person. The raven haired girl thought for a moment, and sized Richard up. He appeared to be tired, and she figured if it really depended on it she could fight him if he attacked her. For he was wandless as well.
So with great reluctance, she dropped her wand and let it disappear. Eva kept her steely grey eyes on the Nocte, and walked up to him again and repeated a previous gesture, though this time much harder. Her fingers wrapped around his arm, and she gave him a tug to make sure he would turn and look at her and pay attention. “Look, I do now know who you are, what you are, where we are, or whatever. There is no way I am about to just let you walk to the wonderful light at the end of the tunnel. We are both leaving right this moment, do you understand me?” She gave his arm another tug for emphasis.
“I am not so weak I can’t afford to lose my wand, to answer your previous question. But I think that you are. So we are not going to go and face whatever at the end of that tunnel without our magic because I am not going to let someone, even a complete stranger, just walk themselves calmly to their death. And I for one wont do that for myself either.” She thought for a moment what she had to lose if what Richard was doing went wrong, and decided then and there that neither of them were proceeding anywhere but out of that Hall.
Tightening her grip again she made sure that her eyes met his. “Are we clear Sir, or do I have to drag you out of here, because I swear that I will.”
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« Reply #10 on Mar 13, 2007, 2:16am » | |
"Eva Fawne," Richard said almost warmly as he continued to stare toward the light even though the girl was attempting to pull him back out of that very strange hallway, "I'm disappointed. Death does not rest between life and the after life; that's simply where it was placed by man so that it made sense. Nor is this the only thing beyond existence. Spirits, ghosts and what not, intangible creatures created either after a soul exits the plain of existence or who were simply created outside of existence. These creatures do not exist on a physical plane but they are there nonetheless. These creatures are all similar, yes, but they can't be the only things out there. There are probably hundreds of different planes outside existence that we can't even fathom."
Richard stood there, upright as the tight grip around his wrist attempted to force him to leave. "If numerous things can exist out of "existence", a place where death abides than things can also be within existence more than life or death. I do not wish to enter that room on blind ambition. Death does not await me inside that room. No, what waits me inside inside is just another plane of existence. As spirits and other such thing accompany death outside of existence than why must creatures existing on the same planes as humans exist. No, there must be other planes within the boundaries of existence. What waits for me within that room is the pathway to such a plane."
Richard, for the first time in a while, turned toward the girl and stared her dead in the eyes. "If you do not wish to continue then by all means leave. I am not keeping you here, I simply offered an invitation to you to accompany. Likewise, I do not seek such an existence for the sake of doing harm on anyone but I simply seek such as an explorer."
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