Thaidakar the Ghostblood

"Questions," I start, "give me the sandwich."

I'm not in all the people? *downs jar of root grumpily*

The hallway Oddly, as the weird goopy monster hurled a snowball like ball of shadows at him, Thaidakar thought about the clinic. Who the heck was even running it right now? He shrugged and ducked, the shadowy goop splatted against the stone behind him. Thaidakar gripped one of the carvings as he steadied himself, pushing his glasses back into his face before they slid off. That crack was going to be inconvenient. The carving was cold, colder than the rest of the hallway and it felt like metal. Thaidakar blinked and looked at it, it was another white stone with a carving in it. He tilted his head to look closer at it, but a pile of goopy shadows hit him in the back. He cursed, turning around, "you know, I never thought shadows would feel like wet hair until now." The shadows seemed to slide off of Thaidakar's back with no apparent effect. The goop monster looked at Thaidakar, confused. In slow, weirdly accented soft words it said, "why not shadow?" Thaidakar blinked, "but that's not..." He paused, the voice before hadn't been from the goop monster. Great. Someone else was trying to kill him besides this pathetic goop pile. "What if we became friends?" The goop tilted its head, "friends?" "Allies, friends. Yeah, you help me and I help you. See?" Thaidakar said eagerly, wiping some of the shadows off his jacket. "I... don't see..." "We could help each other," Thaidakar said slowly. "If you show me how to get in this place..." he blinked, why had he said that? It became clear to him, there was a place here. Perhaps it was another archive... that would be interesting. "do you know about the world seers?" "World seers?" it frowned visibly, "world seers bad... locked me up..." "Well, maybe they aren't bad anymore! I know one, they aren't so bad. At least, not that I can tell. Perhaps we can change that and make you and the world seers friends!" said Thaidakar. "Maybe..." it considered then smiled, "Gloppy will be friends with you." Thaidakar grinned, "I'm Thaidakar. Good to meet you, Gloppy. Though, I'd prefer if you don't throw hairball shadows at me." Gloppy the shadows monster let out an uproarious laugh.

Mythos blinked again, "I... I'm fairly certain I have memory loss."

OH WHERE IS MY HAIRBRUSH OH WHERE IS MY HAIRBRUSH OH WHERE OH WHERE OH WHERE OH WHERE OH WHERE OH WHERE OH WHERE OH WHEEEEREEE MY HAIRBRUSH! I love veggie tales. yes.

The Hallway Thaidakar walked calmly. After the flight and fight a few hours ago, he expected some sort of peril to be down here. Surely it wouldn't be this easy. He paused, expecting something to happen. Nothing did. He shrugged and continued walking. Perhaps, for once, it would be alright. Perhaps he'd finally be able to- he felt something shift in the floor and he cursed, "of course, now you do it." The ground shook as the lights dimmed slightly. He started running as fast as he could. "Why am I running?" he asked to himself. "I don't know," he respond to... himself. "Great, I'm talking to myself. I blame Nameless." The floor just behind him cracked, but he just kept on running. "This better be worth it..." A dark shadow slipped up through the cracks. The shadows appeared to be goopy and stuck to the floor. Thaidakar had only taken two seconds to look back. His glasses almost fell off, but he stopped and gripped them in his hands just in time. He shoved them back in place and glanced back. The shadows were piling on top of each other. He groaned, "great..." He gritted his teeth, running faster. A soft voice seemed to come from the goopy shadows, "soulless one..." "Yes, goopy one?" yelled Thaidakar sarcastically as he saw what lay at the end of the hallway, another corner to run around. Excellent. "I will destroy you..." said the soft, odd voice. "Good luck, I happen to not take well to being destroyed. I find it bad for the heart." He rounded the corner quickly. "Ow!" He'd hit... a storming wall. Who puts a sparkin' wall 'round a corner? What slontze made a wall? He slid to the floor and grunted, his glasses had a crack in them. The shadowy goopy thingy was now as tall as the ceiling and had rounded the corner as well. A red glow started shining out at Thaidakar from slits that had appeared in the monster's head. "Well, this is just great." Thaidakar moved into an ancient stance and readied to fight.

ALRIGHT So, it's been awhile since I've posted a theory, and for good reason. I'm taking a swing at it again I guess. So in Elantris there are metal plates with Aons on them throughout the city, someone invested could press it and be warped to another part of the city (if I remember right). So, how about someone, using the sel magic jars in TLM, presses various Aons with attachable parts that change locations to go places with the ship? They could use technology similar to the fourth bridge to fly, probably in a simpler method, but same design mostly. They could also use fabrials to make oxygen stay with them and then they could just store oxygen on board. Now, imagine if they had those Aons thingies, but with Aon Ehe for a weapon or with Aon Edo for a forcefield. If a few of the details were worked out and made simpler somehow, it would be a cool weapon of destruction. I can just imagine smaller versions of these with dogfights similar to Skyward or Star Wars. Just imagine Kelsier in his own yellow spaceship, with a droid on the back and a com on his face. Imagine what he would say... Imagine where the fun begins. (Sorry, I couldn't help it) This sort of stuff would just be fun. Now, I'm sure there are a great deal of holes in this theory thingy, but... it's a cool idea at least.

"Alright, sure."

Mythos blinked, surprise flashing over his face, "that's... that's unfortunate."

Shadow blinked, "no." Thaidakar tossed a jar of root to the cat.

Mythos wondered what had happened while he'd been taking a break.

the OG color war was... insane. I guess I won't start it again. for now

The Stairwell in Unknown Thaidakar stepped down the first few steps into darkness. He shivered as a pebble he'd accidentally kicked made a loud noise as it hit a distant end of the stairwell. Thaidakar paused, feeling something in the walls somehow. What was that feeling? That creepy feeling- he stopped as a light appeared at the distant bottom of the stairwell. The light seemed to approach. It was a silvery light, similar to the stones... As it got closer, he realized it was bursts of white flames appearing on black stone rods that were fixed onto the walls. He took a breath, realizing he'd been holding it in. He walked over to one of the rods and observed it. The black rod had carvings in the same language as the ones on the outside of the stairwell. Interesting... the white flames seemed to start out rainbow and then fade to white. Beautiful. Thaidakar continued walking down the stairs, noting more carvings and painted words on the walls. After what seemed like an hour, Thaidakar reached the bottom of the stairwell, a long hallway reached for at least a mile out underground. He groaned and adjusted his glasses. "Guess I'm in for a long trip." He said to himself. The thing inside him seemed to sneer at him, it said quietly in his mind, "I could give you the power... You could fly across the hallway in a second... so much time would be saved..." the nasal voice was getting annoying. "No." said Thaidakar in a whisper. "I'm doing this by myself." He started walking along towards whatever end the hallway had.

@Ookla the Perpetual

Mythos thought for a moment, "training montage would be good. 1v1 with nameless would be..." he chuckled, "even I don't want to do that, not yet at least."

He nodded, "that would work too. And, yes, if I let you win it would be cheating. But... wouldn't that show how crafty and cunning you are?"

"I wasn't suggesting dueling Nameless. No, quite the opposite. I suggest you duel me and I let you win, but it won't be easy nevertheless."

He stood up and started pacing the room. Mythos rubbed a silvery button on his black uniform and then smiled. He turned, a mischievous look on his face, "do you think Nameless is listening to this somehow?"

Mythos rubbed his chin, "I see... So you are Nameless' potential successor then, eh? I'm Thaidakar's successor, hopefully we're more allies than old Thaid and Nameless were. Anyways... what if you dueled one of the most powerful people in TLT and won?"

Mythos rubbed his chin, "why exactly do you need it done so soon?"

Mythos nodded, "it might take long, but it'll be more interesting for sure."