Chaotic Light: A CBST-Verse Adventure

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Emily squeezed her eyes shut, holding back the tears. "Why?" she thought, not realizing she was speaking aloud. "Why today of all days...?"

[Channelknight Fadran]

1 hour ago, The Ward's Guard said:

"Don't . . . Want to do . . . This . . ." He stared directly into Selill's eyes, a resolve harder than stone evident in whatever was left of its face.

Selil held up a hand. “I’d like to say that I don’t either, but unfortunately… I do.”

[Fallapede]

1 hour ago, xinoehp512 said:

Emily squeezed her eyes shut, holding back the tears. "Why?" she thought, not realizing she was speaking aloud. "Why today of all days...?"

"I couldn't stand the thought of another one. I'm sorry I didn't tell you."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Emily sighed. "It wouldn't have mattered."

[Fallapede]

"It matters to me. I'm not sorry I left, but I am sorry I hurt you."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Emily returned a wan smile. "Thanks, I guess." She hesitated. "You... do know you can't run away forever, right?"

[Fallapede]

"Watch me."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Emily stared. "You're serious?"

[Fallapede]

"I'm always serious. It was just that no one ever believed me."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

"Well, yeah, because it's impossible. Where would you go? How could you possibly hide?"

[The Ward's Guard he/him]

8 hours ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

Selil held up a hand. “I’d like to say that I don’t either, but unfortunately… I do.”

The Corpse tensed up, eyeing the guards who surrounded it for a moment. It seemed to be waiting for them to make the first move.

[Channelknight Fadran]

"Cooperate, creature," Selil said, "and I won't have to kill you."

[Fallapede]

12 hours ago, xinoehp512 said:

"Well, yeah, because it's impossible. Where would you go? How could you possibly hide?"

"I'll keep running forever, if necessary, rather than go back."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

"You don't think anyone would be able to catch up? Blossom... I was able to find you in under an hour."

[Fallapede]

"Time is strange. I don't have the answers, but if nothing else I want you to understand that I would rather die than go back,  Em."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Emily's heart sank. "No!" she cried. "You can't- I can't-"

[The Ward's Guard he/him]

3 hours ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

"Cooperate, creature," Selil said, "and I won't have to kill you."

With a loud crack, the Corpse launched forward like an arrow shot from a bow. Faster than the eye could blink, it covered the distance between itself and the dark lord. shoving its arm forward, the Corpse produced a Mordite blade aimed directly for where Selill's Narrational Core should be.

[Channelknight Fadran]

Time slowed.

Selil's eyes narrowed, calculating. This creature was inhumanly fast, and that blade could snuff out a Narrator's life in just instants. If it really did exist to kill Narrators, then it would have almost no trouble doing so.

But Selil wasn't just any Narrator. He growled, swished his cape--

Appearing behind the creature, Selil whipped out his sword and swung at its back.

[The Ward's Guard he/him]

The blade cut through the Corpse's flesh with ease, like a hot knife through butter. However, it stopped at the creature's bones, unable to harm them. Just as the blade made contact, the bones shifted around it to lock the blade in place as the creature shifted to strike back. Every movement it made, down to the stance its feet took was unnatural for the body the creature had. Looking as if its arms should dislocate themselves, the creature struck towards the Narrator without fully turning around without so much as a pause.

[Channelknight Fadran]

Selil yanked on the blade, then leapt backwards as the creature started to move. He was somewhat confident that he could draw the blade back out, but that wouldn't achieve anything. Clearly, normal methods wouldn't kill this thing.

Decayed flesh. Powerful bones. It could contort, and was seemingly immune to pain. Was this thing even killable?

Covering his exposed arms in hard iron plating, Selil put himself on the defensive. Long fights required reading: so he needed some actions to read.

[The Ward's Guard he/him]

The Corpse rolled its shoulders. It was a meaningless display as its bones bent the blade before letting it fall to the ground, rust evident on its surface as the sword started to wither away. Disregarding the piece of inferior metal, the Corpse turned to face Selill as if it didn't have a care in the world except for dealing death to this Narrator. 

It lunged forward, pushing for the offensive as it flicked its wrists, forcing shards of Mordite through its flesh until its hands and arms were covered with the black spines. It swung wildly for the narrator, uncaring for what it struck.

[Fallapede]

8 hours ago, xinoehp512 said:

Emily's heart sank. "No!" she cried. "You can't- I can't-"

"I knew this would happen," Night's Blossom whispered. "It's why I couldn't bring myself to tell you."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

On 2/14/2022 at 0:26 PM, The Ward's Guard said:

"Oh, easy enough." Vulpy dusted his hands off. "Something to do with mining the sparkly stuff, I'm sure. Although what it is an' what it does is beyond me. But I'm more than eager to find out if you wanna help me."

"Uh, okay." He picked up a pick and gave the wall a gentle tap.

8 hours ago, Fallapede said:

"I knew this would happen," Night's Blossom whispered. "It's why I couldn't bring myself to tell you."

Emily breathed in and out. In and out. I cant- I cant- I cant-

[Fallapede]

"Please don't follow me again. It will only hurt both of us."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

"No, I... I can't leave you here!"