Sorana

The endless circle of winning and loosing....

So he went to a library.

@Spacefaring Ferring ============================================================================================ And nice box. Althea was still thinking about his question about life, why they were here, forming an answer when the comment cut her line on thought in half. The box. Blushing she handed it over. "I guess it's for both of us." she told him and then hastily turned away. "I'm back in a minute." Breathing in her remaining stormlight she concentrated and left. She knew where to go, had spent a lot of time there, so it was easy to conjure up the image she needed to travel. Only when she appeared in her lab, did she realize, that she hadn't answered his other question. Well, that had to wait. The laboratory was empty, save for some of the creatures there, devices someone had worked on. Her warning to leave the city obviously had been heeded. Walking through the silent halls she used the moment to collect herself, to concentrate. They needed to stop him and then they needed to rebuilt. To make sure something like this didn't happen again. She stopped in front of a room Lusk sometimes used and then used her own personal code to override the security and entered the room. Zinc. Lusk had worked with zinc, if she remembered correctly. It took her a while to locate a vial, but she pocketed it and left the room again, locking it again behind her. He would probably miss it sometime, but she didn't really care about it right now. If they survived she could always tell the quartermaster to deliver another one. And if they didn't, well then she doubted that Lusk was left to get angry. Turning left she entered another room and walked over to a safe. Entering another code she opened it, then placed her finger on a sensor. With click the door opened a bit and she grabbed the handle pulled it towards her. Exchanging her dull spheres for glowing ones, she also grabbed the small crystal lying there, this time leaving a short note with her sign, before closing the safe again. One thing left to do. The kitchen. There was always some food around for those working late, or staying the night. Like herself. She had spent more nights here, than in the place she called her own. Putting some sandwiches in a bag she stopped when she saw her reflection in the cooktop. She looked exhausted, worried, like she needed a good nights sleep. Which she did, she quietly reminded herself. Closing her eyes, she took a deep breath, allowed herself a moment to calm down. One thing after the other. Go back, see what was hidden in the floor Aurell hadn't been able to access so far. Stop Sephtis, one way or the other and then meet with the council. Elsecalling back to Max was the easiest part of that list. She offered him the vial and smiled. “Here you are.” Over their link she added. If it’s necessary – anything but desperation. Silently she hoped, he would understand. And yes, I’ve wondered. Not only about my purpose, but about life. There are days when I feel like, the world would be a better place without me in it, without me killing people, without our conflicts destroying cities. I have no idea why I am here. She hesitated and then added. Sometimes it’s hard to find a reason to live, to go on, to get up in the morning. When he asked earlier if I want to die and I told him no, it was a lie. In that moment it was a lie. And I was proud, that I was strong enough to lie, to not tell him yes, just kill me and I’m done with all of this. “Anybody want a sandwich?” she asked both Max and Aurell, abruptly changing the topic. “And of course, after you Aurell. Let’s go." @Ookla the Guacless @Mraize

I can help with the summaries as well, take over some threads. As to the End of Era 2: I really want to finish the whole Solace plot first.

"Actually I like the idea of a pantheon. And yes, I am in favour to keep our influence as minimal as possible. We are the ones that decide which actions our characters should do, therefore we already interact with them. And we broke the fourth wall before to move a character around, or influence what was happening." I fall silent and then stand up again, look at what we created. "Honestly, while I can see the appeal of what we are creating here, with the different layers and all that. I am not sure if we really need it. We already have the guilds, where we act and plan as Avatars and even that isn't really working right now. So maybe we should go back there and sort this out before we destroy the fourth wall completely."

You're right. That's what I tried to say above. It's fun to plan secretly, but you're right in that it complicates a lot of things. For the guilds to work well again we need to change that a bit and we need to have more active guilds apart from the GBs. (I never said that officially of course.)

You're right. I am against removing the guilds, but yes maybe we should change something regarding the way we plan. But I have to admit it's a lot of fun to create a pm and then discuss things there. And then see how it affects the Alleyverse and what evolves out of that idea.

Althea stared at the heart in disbeliev. A heart? She took a careful look at the package, if she could find a notice of whoever sent this. This was embarressing. And aluminium meant she couldn't simply change the inscription. Leaving it alone she turned to Aurell. "Yes. We will. Give me a moment, I will fetch some spheres before we go down there. If it's as dangerous as you say, I don't want to go there unprepared and I used up most of those I had with me earlier." For nothing. Just to keep her own darkness at bay. Turning to Max she added: "Do you need something as well? The place I worked isn't far away, I'm back in a few minutes." @I think I am here.

That's a good point. Personally I like the idea of a regular summary, and I try to provide one right now if someone asks. I think that posting a few sentences at the beginning of each new page should work - but I can offer to take over some threads I am actively rping in and keep them uptodate. As to a pinned thread with all active threads: It won't work if we don't work together. We could use that one to plan/ announce new threads and then edit the op to fit, maybe with a short summary, but to actively keep the op uptodate is a lot of work, so while I like the idea of having a place to check what's going on, also for new members, I don't think that this thread could work as an uptodate summary of everything. I 100% support this! More rp, less killing each other. And weaker characters that can't do everything on their own.

"It makes sense, in a strange kind of way. Since what you write now will be the past for us, and once the future comes it's already happened." Musing about this I sit down again. "But since you don't know what will happen, even if your character is from the future, he may be, but he will lack the knowledge of whatever will happen. Therefore he is from the future, but without the knowledge it's just a fact. As long as we don't change the past, apart from a retcon, we should be able to handle this." I look at xinoehp earnestly. "But I still think we should try to avoid playing around with the time too much. This game lives because we are able to interact with each other. If we all end up in different times and different places, maybe different realities, then we can't interact anymore."

I throw my phone on the floor and stomp on it. It's hard, but it breaks. Then I wonder how often I've done this already and get the slight impression that my narrator imagined me doing this for a while. Satisfied with the result I read through the posts I missed. "I would prefer to not create too many time travel scenarious. I know it has been stated before, but I fear that will to situations we have a hard time to sort out." Turning to @Dr. Jacques Rodriguez : "What do you have in mind?"

My favourite picture of those you posted this time. It's so beautiful, how the bird looks, how it stands there. I think I've said this before but you are really talented!

You were, you mean

You are right. But we can't risk to not follow her, can we? She looked over at Max and then realized, that she had only seen his face once. Back in Shadesmar, close to Hellbent's tower. He had always been wearing his armor afterwards. Quietly, he had spoken quietly. That was a change from his behaviour earlier. But then, most of the time she had known him, he had been insane. This was crazy, all of this. She wished again, that nothing of this had happened, that nothing had changed. That they hadn't split up, had stayed strong and together. But it wasn't relevant. Solace was back and they needed to cope with what happened. Are you sure, you trust her? And more importantly, are you alright? "Let's go. We'll follow you." she adressed Aurell. "Do you know if he keeps some infused spheres somewhere? And maybe something to eat?" @Mraize

Althea simply nodded at Aurell's outburst. Helpful was something else. "I asked if you know about traps, not if there are any. If there weren't you would have entered that lowest level already." She kept her voice calm, to take the bite out of her words, fighting each other wouldn't help right now and the one thing they hadn't was time. "What do you think Max? I feel like we should go and take a look." @I think I am here.

T.G.I.F.

"Then let's go and take a look at what is down there. Do you know anything about traps that could hinder us?"

Damaya laughed. "And what do we do now?"

Althea fell silent at her words, keeping her hand where it was. "Maybe we can find a way past his darkness. I've heard it's possible for him to overcome it. Though I'm not sure how, since he can't feel anything anymore." She thought for a while, this was getting more and more complicated with every passing second. Parents. Strangely the thought still hurt. "What did you want to show us in the building? Do you have an idea regarding his weakness?"

My friend is on another continent right now, same as her sister. Their father died years ago. Both of them moved out of our village a few years ago, but their mother stayed here and I still met her regularly and we talked for a while since she lived not even a minute away from me. I already called my friend, offered help, but right now they are trying to get some flights to take them back. And yes it is. Especially if you can't prepare for it.

Why should I lie without a purpose? Then I need to think about a convincing lie and don't even get something out of it? Way too much work... Each of you can win, but until some starts calling for a mod to end this, I will drop in to leave unqualified commentaries.

It wasn't the most happy of all feasts, sice they were really busy staring.

Since she felt like Riathor wouldn't answer in a while, Damaya turned around and asked Mari to follow Araha. Catching up with her she smiled at her friend. "What is going on here?" @Badadah

Althea nodded at Galvris, and gradually relaxed. It was good, that he decided to leave. They had work to do, and it did get more difficult with each passing minute. She smiled at Aurell, extended a hand to place it comfortingly on her arm. "I know what it's like to loose your parents." Looking over to Max she added. "I guess we all do." Focusing again on Aurell, she made sure her voice stayed soft, unthreatening. "What happened to you parents? Do you know why he decided to kill them?" @Mraize @I think I am here.

And what if I don't care about winning or loosing, but simply like this thread with it's utter nonsense written in it?