main plot The Great Game

[Gancho Libre he/him]

Ioc tapped its foot against the top of the worldspire, a musing smile on its face. Just a little longer to wait...

Edited November 6, 2018 by Gancho Libre

[+Ark1002]

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Uh, Gancho...

Worldspire.

"Let's just do this duel. Right here, right now. There is an island devoted to dueling."

Hellbent looked at him.

"I need to do it before the voices come. If they do... I don't know if I can resist. Show me the treaty now."

@Darth Woodrack

[Gancho Libre he/him]

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Is that not what I said?

Iopc pressed it's palm to the top of the worldspire. Millions of people would be having a headache right now.

Time to go.

Ioc tapped Connection, draining it at an alarming rate. It connected with millions of souls through the worldspire.

Ioc saw through all their eyes at once. It felt their minds, their consciousnesses, their souls.

Ioc smiled. 

Hemalurgy could be so storming convenient sometimes.

Ioc drew power from the spike at it's <REDACTED>, drawing the power from the contained Talent.

The Smedry it had spiked had the power to drive people insane.

Ioc pressed it through the worldspire, breaking the minds of millions of beings. Cracking them to pieces.

Ioc felt pain through the artificial Connection. 

The pain of freedom.

Ioc grinned wide enough to crack its lips. It heard the voice of Chaos giggling in the back of its mind.

It tapped the last of the Connecting, flaring it for the space of a couple seconds.

Then, Ioc teleported, taking millions of broken minds with it.

Edited November 6, 2018 by Gancho Libre

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

Walker was sad. He had two friends and he really wanted to punch one. He than went over to his other friend talked to him. "You want to go shoot something?" He said to Dareck.

"Sure." He responded. They went to shoot something.

[old man moomba he/him]

Rick came back to the worldspire and saw that loc was gone. He frowned "Well," he said, "Any idea where it could be?" the snake looked at him "Nope, I can't sense him anywhere" "Well, then, I guess we could wait for loc to come back." He sat down, a chair made out of snakes forming beneath him. He pulled the remote out of his pocket and tossed it up and down. 

Dwig sailed down, and fell through a gateway and came sailing out of another gateway pointed horizontally. He crashed into Dusk. "hey buddy, good to be seeing eye to eye, for once." He laughed. Ciera walked out of another gateway nearby, smiling. "Something dramatic, he says. If I hadn't put a gateway under you, you would have landed on the band. So of course, if I hadn't done that, you would have crushed the musicians, causing the music to stop playing, meaning that you wouldn't have jumped. And if you hadn't umped, then you wouldn't have crushed the musicians"

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

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I will get you the treaty by the end of the day Ark. I don't have enough time right now for a long write up.

Walker and Dareck were tossing things of the side of the islands and shooting them before they hit the ground. It made Walker feel slightly less lonely. Than he saw a G.U.E.S.S. soldier being mauled by a prowler without a rider. He ran down and hit it in side with his heat mace. It looked like one of Dusk's prototype independent super lifeless prowlers. They were supposed to all be destroyed. He grabbed the man and ran him back up to the party, away from the prowler. He brought him to Ambrosia and said, "Hello. He was mauled by a wolf with super strength and steel teeth. It also has cloaking so he didn't prepare for the impact. Do you think you save him?"

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Tena pulled herself together and stood up. Her eyes blazed with something beyond the comprehension of someone who hasn't gotten whipped several times. She wanted to fight.

[kenod]

KoTiel arrived on the main island. Thinking about what had happened in the experiment, they started looking around for other DA members.

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Are there actually any here?

 

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

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I think mac is around somewhere drinking infinite eggnog.

 

[little wheel he/him]

Just as Silas was explaining why he could not choose a favorite food, he saw Walker approach.

"OH FRICK WHAT HAPPENED TO STEVE!" Silas gasped.

Edited November 6, 2018 by JacobClaessen

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

"I literally just told you that." Walker replied.

[+Ark1002]

Ambrosia looked at Silas.

"did you know him?"

@JacobClaessen

[little wheel he/him]

Silas grimaced.

"Yeah. He was one of my good friends, and he served directly under me, but he's a bit foolish sometimes."

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

"You know this guys still alive, right?" Walker said.

[MacThorstenson he/him]

Mac approached from behind @kenod's character. He knew that kenod had also been involved in the Experiment, and needed to find out if his experiment was similar to his.

"Hello KoTiel, How did mraizes experiment go?"

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

Dusk heard this. "Experiment? What experiment? I like experiments!"

[MacThorstenson he/him]

12 minutes ago, Darth Woodrack said:

Dusk heard this. "Experiment? What experiment? I like experiments!"

Mac groaned inwardly. Then put on a grin.

"Oh I was referring to the experiment done in alley 925 subsection F by Mraize earlier today. Its a fascinating experiment that is a part of a longer series of experiments that are trying to locate the spiritual gene for individual pigments of your hair. We've made a lot of progress in this area and are able to generally locate different colors, but because hair is composed of a multitude of colors, we need to locate the different pigments in order to really achieve mastery over the hair." He took a breath and started eating a peanut butter cookie. 

"The difficult thing about this entire endeavor is that the genes for hair color are different in different people. For the educated, those who know the science and chemistry behind hair color, the sDNA sequences are generally located in the area that control pigment production. For those who perceive their hair as just a color however, the genes are in a completely different area. Its really a fascinating subject. Do you want to hear more?"

Edited November 6, 2018 by MacThorstenson

[+Ark1002]

"DUSK. GIVE ME THE TREATY OR I WILL LEAVE!"

~~~~~

The man passed from the world.

Damnation

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"Oh crap. He was?"

She looked away, trying not to cry.

"Silas, would you like to get some food?"

@Darth Woodrack @JacobClaessen

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

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Working on it.

"He still is!" Walker said, "He's bleeding out though!"

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"Why would Mraize be working on this?" Dusk said.

[MacThorstenson he/him]

"No not Mraize, as in a member of the trifecta which was formerly in charge of the ghostbloods.

I mean Mraize as in the title. It's a title for someone in the Ghostbloods. Now that we officially acquired them we decided to incorporate some of their ranks into our own. Now whenever you walk the alleys, in addition to seeing the generic Acolyte's, or Denizen's, or Department Head's, or Supreme Creator of the Alleyverse, you can also find a few Mraizes scattered around."

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

"Does Mraize know about this?" Dusk said.

[MacThorstenson he/him]

"I would assume so. I mean, I wasn't exactly subtle with my acquisition." Mac paused to glance over at the ruins of the GB ball. That had been fun. "If he doesn't know about it than I would say that his network of spies is pretty bad.

Whether or not he acknowledges the acquisition is a different matter, but frankly I don't care enough about the matter to pursue it. We have much more exciting things coming from the alleys than worrying about the guilds."

 

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

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Just so you know, Dusk doesn't believe you, and he will now do everything in his power to figure it out.

"Well okay then," Dusk said before walking away.

[MacThorstenson he/him]

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Ok. Good luck. 

Mac watched him walk away. Keeping an eye on him, he turned back to @kenod's character. Leaning in close, so no one could hear them, he burnt bendalloy, forming a bubble around them. "Keep an eye on Dusk. He was somehow interested in the spiritual pigmentation of hair. Don't say anything about the experiment with mraize around him."

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

While Dusk was walking away he pulled out a mobile and started researching the spiritual pigmentation of hair. It sounded interesting.