The Longest Thread (Misadventures)

[ThroughTheLivingSequence she/her/they/them]

11 minutes ago, Nameless said:

Wow Thaidakar, Moni would not be happy if she found out about this.

Too bad she never will.

[NameIess]

1 minute ago, Sequence said:

Too bad she never will.

Or will she?

[xinoehp512 he/him]

27 minutes ago, Nameless said:

Do you know how she was healed?" Moni absently continued scribbling on the survey.

I have had one adventure before this. It... was worse than this one. I was narrated into stabbing someone in the back, which was... not fun. I hate fighting people.

"Oh, no- I was talking about my teacher. Professor Jones. She wasn't the one that was converted. Although she didn't tell us much about it... only that it was a friend of hers."

Ouch! 

Why were you stabbing them?

[NameIess]

Just now, xinoehp512 said:

"Oh, no- I was talking about my teacher. Professor Jones. She wasn't the one that was converted. Although she didn't tell us much about it... only that it was a friend of hers."

"Do you know where she is? Your teacher?"

1 minute ago, xinoehp512 said:

Ouch! 

Why were you stabbing them?

Because a narrator wanted me to.

[xinoehp512 he/him]

2 minutes ago, Nameless said:

"Do you know where she is? Your teacher?"

"Probably still teaching."

2 minutes ago, Nameless said:

Because a narrator wanted me to.

"Why did the narrator want you to?

[NameIess]

Just now, xinoehp512 said:

"Probably still teaching."

"Do you know where she teaches?"

Just now, xinoehp512 said:

"Why did the narrator want you to?

I don't know. I think they were trying to take me from Nameless.

[Ashbringer he/him]

52 minutes ago, Nameless said:

Nameless made slightly more conscious noises. The wound on his chest was looking very bad, and there were tendrils of corruption all over his body. His hands twitching.

“Okay… uh… here goes,” Ash said, focusing his Aether. Then he hit the tendrils with strands of Aether and began working backwards in Nameless’ time.

[NameIess]

1 minute ago, Ashbringer said:

“Okay… uh… here goes,” Ash said, focusing his Aether. Then he hit the tendrils with strands of Aether and began working backwards in Nameless’ time.

Pain radiated through him as his Aether touched the tendrils. Nameless arched his back, mouth open in a silent scream.

[Ashbringer he/him]

Ash pushed through, searching for a parallel universe where Nameless had survived unscathed. There were very few. But enough to make a template. He pushed harder, ordering the corrupted tendrils to become something new. Something Nameless.

[NameIess]

Just now, Ashbringer said:

Ash pushed through, searching for a parallel universe where Nameless had survived unscathed. There were very few. But enough to make a template. He pushed harder, ordering the corrupted tendrils to become something new. Something Nameless.

The tendrils resisted like nothing Ash had ever felt. They strove to overwhelm Ash, to corrupt him too. As he pushed against them, he began to hear a whisper in his mind: Wither all. Wither all. Wither all.

[ThroughTheLivingSequence she/her/they/them]

Sequence perked up from the ruins. She could feel a new soul in the process of joining the Witherlord.

[Ashbringer he/him]

Ash could feel the Aether straining. But he'd felt the touch of the Wither before, even if that Wither was much less malevolent. He felt the same sense of decay from within. The same consumption. And the same... predictible chaos.

Ash's eyes began to glow, first dim red, then a bright red-tinged-white, leaving no more shadows for the quivering tendrils to hide in. He had to keep trying. This could work.

[NameIess]

Something changed. The whispers stopped. The darkness seemed to retreat, drawing into Nameless. Then it exploded outward.

[Ashbringer he/him]

He knew he wasn't done. Ash dove back, then blinked forward. A spine of wither scored his leg - he was pretty sure his armor held, but now was no time to check. But now most of the darkness was behind him, with Ash's burning light seperating the Nameless and his wound.

He drew his scimitar and began slashing, letting his Aether run wild. Fighting, changing, cutting out the infestation. 

He was also very, very surrounded.

[NameIess]

Nameless gasped. The darkness froze, then melted away. Nameless relaxed. Then he opened his eyes. They were pure black.

Edited February 25, 2022 by Nameless

[Ashbringer he/him]

"A little help here!" Ash yelled, watching Nameless stir as he blasted another circle of black tendrils that came too close. Then he noticed the eyes. "Oh... uh, you alright? Help?"

[NameIess]

Nameless stood up. "I thank you, Ashbringer. Having a voice in my head would have been... inconvenient."

[Ashbringer he/him]

1 minute ago, Nameless said:

Nameless stood up. "I thank you, Ashbringer. Having a voice in my head would have been... inconvenient."

"You're welcome? Help?" Ash kept cutting. He wasn't sure what the wither would do without a host, but it was definitely still there. But some part of him still questioned.

[AonEne he/him]

Ene woke up. 

(No, that wasn't right.) 

Ene did not wake up. But she said: Wow I totally disappeared from this thread for a while. Having a job sure sucks time away from you. 

(The Author retreated from her, not wanting to strain the Wall, or her creation.) 

Then Narrator Ene woke up. (Confused, because why had she Narrated a 'then'? She couldn't remember the last few days.) She stood and blinked around at her new environment. Ah well, TLT just did things like this sometimes, change into something new and bud off another new plot. She shrugged and took it in stride - it being the floor, that was, as she took a step forward and fell right onto her face in front of Ash and Nameless. 

[NameIess]

Nameless stared at the tendrils. They melted into the shadows. "Help you? why of course I can help you. As soon as you help me. You see, I'm not quite as good at spatial and chronological manipulation as you are, and it might take me a bit to break out of this dimension." He jumped as Ene fell into the dimension. "Ah, perfect timing Ene. Now Ash, you can either help me get out" Nameless reached down, summoning a dagger to hold at Ene's throat, "Or I can kill Ene."

Edited February 25, 2022 by Nameless

[Ashbringer he/him]

Hi Ene, long time no see!

"Okay, hello, this Wither is really annoying and please tell me you can help me do something about it," Ash said. He blasted a larger chunk of wither into three smaller ones. He wasn't sure if that was better or worse. He went with better, but aimed more of his Aether tendrils at his back and over Ene.

He turned to see Nameless with a knife. Well.

"Shar, how do you feel about this?" he said sheepishly. This could get complicated.

[AonEne he/him]

Hi Ash! Yeah it's been a while  

"Oh, come on," Ene grumbled. She'd forgotten that plots did this; yanked you into them headfirst. "Alright, Nameless, friend, sule, buddy, what is up with you?" 

[NameIess]

"Oh, Shar isn't up to talking at the moment." Nameless glared at the wither "And I thought I told you that I can handle this, so you can back off. I still need him. For now." He looked back at Ash, the wither reluctantly retreating for the moment. "So, what'll it be? I can kill Ene and you, or you can help me escape and I can kill only one of you. I might even let you choose."

1 minute ago, AonEne said:

"Oh, come on," Ene grumbled. She'd forgotten that plots did this; yanked you into them headfirst. "Alright, Nameless, friend, sule, buddy, what is up with you?" 

"Oh his Ene, I'm afraid that I got a bit infected by a withergeist. Ash really helped me out though. I don't have an annoying voice in my head. It's just me."

[Ashbringer he/him]

I need to leave soon... xD

"And what do you do then? Join Sequence? Kill her? Make your own mark on whatever world this is?"

Ash let the Aether tendrils expand a bit. His leg was fine - he'd checked. He looked desperately for anything that went wrong, anything he could undo. But something told him he wouldn't find anything. Not in time, at least. Maybe not at all.

[+Doomstick he/him]

THIS SLAPS OF PLOT 

:P