the fellowship of the thing The Fellowship of the Thing - I'm bored. Let's mess around! (Retired)

[Emi she/her]

"Well, I never actually forced myself to post on TLT, but I'll try here" Emi replied

[Channelknight Fadran]

"You're not trying to poach my thread, are you?"

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Seriously, are you trying to poach my thread?

 

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Narrator X remarked passively that he wasn't exactly sure what was meant by that.

11 minutes ago, xinoehp512 said:

The Longest Thread is a Narrative Thread similar to this one, explained Grace. It's more chaotic by nature- yet, some Narrators banded together to create order in the form of a story. There was conflict, and they were persuaded to split off into their own thread, a decision represented in-world by a division of reality.

She paused, in case anyone had questions.

Grace continued. Recently the two realities reunified - after a fashion. It was triggered by our leader, Narrator Master of Silence, for Fate knows what reason. But the wheres and whys don't particularly matter- the important thing is how it was done. To put it simply, some things got broken. Including, unfortunately, our high-security holding facility for dangerous enemies.

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[Channelknight Fadran]

13 minutes ago, xinoehp512 said:

Narrator X remarked passively that he wasn't exactly sure what was meant by that.

Grace continued. Recently the two realities reunified - after a fashion. It was triggered by our leader, Narrator Master of Silence, for Fate knows what reason. But the wheres and whys don't particularly matter- the important thing is how it was done. To put it simply, some things got broken. Including, unfortunately, our high-security holding facility for dangerous enemies.

"So your cosmere edition SCP foundation had a security breach?"

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Just now, Channelknight Fadran said:

"So your cosmere edition SCP foundation had a security breach?"

Grace blinked at the terminology, but continued. Yes, I suppose you could put it that way.

[Channelknight Fadran]

Just now, xinoehp512 said:

Grace blinked at the terminology, but continued. Yes, I suppose you could put it that way.

"And you need a monster-hunting strike force?" Fadran asked.

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Just now, Channelknight Fadran said:

"And you need a monster-hunting strike force?" Fadran asked.

Monsters and humans. One human in particular. I believe you've had dealings with the recent infestation of withergeists?

[Channelknight Fadran]

1 minute ago, xinoehp512 said:

Monsters and humans. One human in particular. I believe you've had dealings with the recent infestation of withergeists?

"That we have."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Just now, Channelknight Fadran said:

"That we have."

Well, as far as threats go, they're not too dangerous on their own. Powerful, certainly, and hard to get rid of- but mindless. Easily tricked, evaded, or even controlled. She made a flicking motion with her pen to project a holographic image of one into the air. It's that last one - control - that poses the real danger. There are people out there who have the ability and knowledge and desire to use the withergeists to further their personal goals. She clicked something on the pen and the image shifted into a picture of a rather nondescript-looking man with black hair, black eyes, and pale skin.

This man is one of them, she said quietly. He's used the withergeists as a weapon before- tried to conquer the entire sector with them. We only just managed to stop him by sealing him up. And now he is free again.

[Channelknight Fadran]

"You want us to take him down." Fadran replies. "Do you know where he is?"

[xinoehp512 he/him]

6 minutes ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

"You want us to take him down." Fadran replies. "Do you know where he is?"

We have a rough idea, said Grace, clicking her pen again to change the holograph to a map of the worlds, a mess of glowing dots and lines looking like a spider's web drawn in three dimensions. One of the dots was flashing a bright red, along with several of the dots connected to it.

This is where he escaped from, Grace said, gesturing to the red dot in the center. By now he could have made it to any of the connected worlds. We've already checked several of them and found no trace- yet.

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

Kindness peers at the map.  "Is there anywhere you know he won't go?"

[Nathrangking he/him]

13 minutes ago, xinoehp512 said:

We have a rough idea, said Grace, clicking her pen again to change the holograph to a map of the worlds, a mess of glowing dots and lines looking like a spider's web drawn in three dimensions. One of the dots was flashing a bright red, along with several of the dots connected to it.

This is where he escaped from, Grace said, gesturing to the red dot in the center. By now he could have made it to any of the connected worlds. We've already checked several of them and found no trace- yet.

"What is he capable of? If we go after him we should not be ill prepared."

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[Channelknight Fadran]

"You say you've checked," Fadran replied, "but there's only so much a single group of people, no matter how large, can check when it comes to entire worlds. Have you checked through the criminal undergrounds? Trade routes? Smuggler's ships? How do you even know he's in those world, and not somewhere in between?"

[AonEne he/him]

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OOOOH SIDE PLOT 

“I can’t really help catch him, but I could come along and try to think of ideas,” the man offered. 

[xinoehp512 he/him]

1 minute ago, Spren of Kindness said:

Kindness peers at the map.  "Is there anywhere you know he won't go?"

Just now, Nathrangking said:

"What is he capable of. If we go after him it should not be ill prepared."

We cut him off from the majority of his power when we shut him up. All the withergeists he controlled were scattered, and most were destroyed. We had recent resurgence in population, but most of those got destroyed too. He'll be looking for new withergeists to take control of.

But even weakened as he is, he's not powerless. He's naturally immune to most damage, and he can travel between worlds without needing to rely on a vessel or portal. He's incredibly charismatic when he wants to be. Still, he's far weaker than he will be if he manages to bond a withergeist. So try and capture him before that happens.

10 minutes ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

"You say you've checked," Fadran replied, "but there's only so much a single group of people, no matter how large, can check when it comes to entire worlds. Have you checked through the criminal undergrounds? Trade routes? Smuggler's ships? How do you even know he's in those world, and not somewhere in between?"

We are, indeed, rather overwhelmed, agreed Grace. We've only managed to clear the most empty worlds, those with little to no inhabitants at all. We have a few teams searching the ones we think he's most likely to have fled to, but we haven't had much luck yet. At least we know he can't have escaped into the Void Between just yet- he'd need a withergeist to do that.

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

"Hmm...  What we need is some sort of tracing spell, or something like it."

[Nathrangking he/him]

1 minute ago, xinoehp512 said:

We cut him off from the majority of his power when we shut him up. All the withergeists he controlled were scattered, and most were destroyed. We had recent resurgence in population, but most of those got destroyed too. He'll be looking for new withergeists to take control of.

But even weakened as he is, he's not powerless. He's naturally immune to most damage, and he can travel between worlds without needing to rely on a vessel or portal. He's incredibly charismatic when he wants to be. Still, he's far weaker than he will be if he manages to bond a withergeist. So try and capture him before that happens.

"How did you trap him and how did he escape?"

[xinoehp512 he/him]

4 minutes ago, Nathrangking said:

"How did you trap him and how did he escape?"

His son tricked him, said Grace simply. He has a bit of a blind spot when it comes to family. He escaped when part of the prison that was holding him got destroyed. It works on a mental level for the most part, so it wasn't to hard for him to escape when it went offline.

Edited June 17, 2020 by xinoehp512

[Nathrangking he/him]

Just now, xinoehp512 said:

His son tricked him, said Grace simply. He has a bit of a blind spot when it comes to family.

"What was the mechanism? Spell, curse, mundane chains?"

[xinoehp512 he/him]

9 minutes ago, Nathrangking said:

"What was the mechanism? Spell, curse, mundane chains?"

The prison is called the Nightmare Tree. It takes control of the senses of any who inhabit it in order to keep them imprisoned.

[Nathrangking he/him]

"It cannot be coincidence that the prison was breached and he was prepared just then to escape someone must have helped him."

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[xinoehp512 he/him]

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I edited my previous post.

 

[Nathrangking he/him]

"What are your intentions for this man? Will you simply throw him into a dark hole knowing what he is capable of or will you find a way to remove this problem from the board?"

[Vapor she/her]

Vapor, who was sitting on the ground, comes out of her daze and looks up. "TLT? I tried reading it. It ended up growing 5 pages during the time that I was reading, and so I gave up."