Insanity Clinic: Season Two

[Going_North_cal]

2 hours ago, The Bookwyrm said:

Bookwyrm floated.

He didn't know where or when he was anymore.

That was the thing about this place; it never acted how you thought it would. These worlds, these countless, many worlds...they were a dream. An echo. A memory that shifted with time and distance and thoughts and hopes and visions and the many souls that ventured through them...

He didn't remember when he was. Or where he was. The tides of the dream had swallowed him again. As they had many times before. He felt as if it was going to be a long, long while before he existed again. Then again, who could say...

As Bookwyrm had drifted to the edges of existence, so too had the aspects of the world he'd seen. The structure of existence itself had shifted in his absence, as new souls had carved the face of fate and found a path to their own story. What had once been had passed away, not just into memory, but into nonexistence. No one remembered Kaos anymore, it seemed. Threads that had once been so prominent had all but faded.

Thaidakar...Nameless...Emma...Wizard...Calano...Insa...

They all still existed somewhere, right? Their mark was still left on this world? Even if it had been swallowed up?

Right?

When he was gone, would they leave, too?

I just wish I knew why.

Bookwyrm found himself standing in the lobby of the Clinic. Or...a lobby, at least. No one was around him. The lights were on, the familiar dark wood of the building seeming to welcome him home. Or had it ever been wood? Maybe only to him.

Still, in the center of the room, there it stood. The golden statue. Two men, both dead and yet alive. Wizard and Calano.

...Those were a crazy first few memories, there, my friends. 

He wished he could remember them as well as he used to be able to.

This place really was like a dream...the past that had happened didn't line up with the present that was, and the future ahead wasn't the future that you'd thought would happen.

So much we thought would happen.

I wish I hadn't left.

Why did he feel bitter? This was the way of things, now. His time had come and gone. His story had been told. 

...That's what this place is for, isn't it? It's for stories. He remembered an old conviction, one that was now meaningless, but it still rang true somehow; "it was never about the cure." 

Stories. People. They came and gone, but somehow, in their own way, they each built off each other. 

Would any of them be here if you hadn't been?

And can't that be enough?

Bookwyrm smiled as he gazed up at Calano's statue. "I can't decide if you'd make fun of me for getting sentimental, old friend, or simply stand beside me." It was weird talking to him like that. Calano wasn't dead. He was living happily with his family. And yet...the waves of time and reality had drawn them apart. 

Let it be enough.

"Regardless...thank you, friend. I don't know if or when I'll be back. But this story was a good one, though ours seems to have ended long ago.

"Thank you for making a place where it could be told."

Bookwyrm closed his eyes then, a smile still on his face.

"Until we meet again."

The waves of time and fate took him, and he vanished.

@Medium

Calano looked up from his book.

It'd been many years, many many years, since the Kaos Wars.

His girls were still growing, but they were older then they once were. Such is the path that all children inevitably take: they grow up.

Now 16 years old, but having physically matured just some 2 or 3 years ago (a side effect of godly parents), they were well mannered, well taught, and powerful.

Calano couldn't be prouder of them.

But the reason he'd looked up from his book was because he'd felt something. A presence? A voice, muffled by the fabric of space and time and dimensions?

"...You for making...Be told...Meet again."

For reasons unknown, tears came to Calano's eyes. He knew that voice. Or, he thought he did. He knew what the voice was saying, even if he hadn't fully heard it.

"You're welcome," He said to his bedroom, to that voice beyond the everything, "Rest well, old friend."

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This is so bittersweet I did not see it coming. Thank you for this, Bookwyrm. It's a beautiful end to your Clinic character. I love it. I love how much you remembered. That conviction, that magnum opus of this whole fun social experiment, the lobby and it's statue of Calano and his brother-in-law.

Thank you for that. Truly.

It is still so invigorating to see the rest of you keeping your own plotlines going in this crazy thread.

That's what this has always been about: many other RPs have a set plot, a set end goal, a final boss. From the get go, I wanted the ICMBAAOM to not be that. I wanted it to be made up as it went, by the players, and for the players. I wanted chaos, action, romance, and I wanted a life within these forums.

And you gave it to me. And you continued with it. Thank you all for that.

 

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

7 minutes ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

 

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Wait..... I'm confused. 

 

[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

Just now, Halcyon The Only said:

 

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About what?

 

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

7 minutes ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

 

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What does it mean that his consciousness is dormant? Also, where is all her power? 

 

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3 minutes ago, Halcyon The Only said:

 

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Well, it's like if you scanned a person's brain and stored that information. Once the person dies, they're gone, but that information could be used to reconstruct them. It's kind of like that except the power contains his whole being. But it doesn't have a willpower of its own and can't do much with it right now because he died.

Whose power? Do you mean the queen's?

 

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

7 minutes ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

 

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Yeah, the queen's. 

 

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1 minute ago, Halcyon The Only said:

 

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Well, TAAron killed her. Apparently the hive is not exactly disconnected yet, but they no longer have her controlling them

 

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4 minutes ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

 

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So his consciousness is just... out there? Or in the hive, or what? 

 

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3 minutes ago, Halcyon The Only said:

 

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No. Remember how he was on the track to becoming a god? He gave in to that at the last second when he was dying. It's his own power, nothing to do with the queen.

 

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15 minutes ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

 

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Oh, I think I get it. 

 

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1 minute ago, Halcyon The Only said:

 

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So she can't access him this way. If she had some Stacis crystal of his, maybe she could, though I'm not sure how that would work. Up to you what you want the result of her attempt to be.

 

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4 minutes ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

 

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It's supposed to just be weird, spacey dark magic and in my mind it would at least allow her to pinpoint his consciousness. 

 

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1 minute ago, Halcyon The Only said:

 

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Well, he doesn't really have a consciousness currently. If you want, she could locate where his power is accumulated. I'd allow it because she still has a lingering connection to him and his abilities. 

If she's trying to actually find him, maybe she could create a false replica or something. That could be interesting, though I don't know if it makes sense.

 

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5 minutes ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

 

"I need something more powerful," she murmured, tossing the vial aside carelessly. It shattered on the floor, smoking. "His Stacis. I need some of that." 

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We'll go with something more powerful

he can come back anytime now 

 

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5 minutes ago, Halcyon The Only said:

"I need something more powerful," she murmured, tossing the vial aside carelessly. It shattered on the floor, smoking. "His Stacis. I need some of that." 

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It doesn't carry any innate power, but it connects to his in specific ways.

What does she want to do with it? Like I said, she could probably use whatever this ability is to find where his power is most concentrated, which happens to be where he died

 

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10 minutes ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

 

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She's tryna bring him back in exchange for pieces of her soul 

 

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2 minutes ago, Halcyon The Only said:

 

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Ah. Well, she can certainly try, but what she's doing won't work. If she can locate and get to where he died, that might help. Unless you want him to return on his own.

 

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1 minute ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

 

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There are vast amounts of power connected to this crypt and stuff, and I'm thinking it should work, just by gathering his energy and replicating his other pieces. I guess it might know if she needs to travel. 

 

[Through the Living Elan He/Him]

3 hours ago, Spark of Hope said:

"I'll take your word for it."

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"Eh heh heh..."

"Come on, you didn't tell him about me?"

"I didn't tell you about him either!"

"You should." Elan says, driving into the neighborhood and parking the car.

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"I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of something here..."

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2 minutes ago, Halcyon The Only said:

 

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She can't use her powers to move his. That's a feature of his magic. It doesn't interact directly with other magic

 

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1 minute ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

 

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ohhh right 

hmm

Haly beckoned Lerac over. 

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Just now, Halcyon The Only said:

Haly beckoned Lerac over. 

He approached.

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

1 minute ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

He approached.

She grabbed him and smoke consumed them both, leaving them wherever TAAron had died. 

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1 minute ago, Halcyon The Only said:

She grabbed him and smoke consumed them both, leaving them wherever TAAron had died. 

@Ancient Elantrian

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Elan, mind describing what that room looks like now? I think it was the Queen's throne room or something? And now it's been blasted by her wave of darkness.

 

[Through the Living Elan He/Him]

56 minutes ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

@Ancient Elantrian

 

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There's a white throne at the end of the hall, which has fallen to the new ground, it's fully intact. The rest is now a crater of shiny black stone, perfectly rounded.