Brier
Brier wanders around the cave in search of stone, occasionally passing by a miner. A few mages seem to have established some light sources for the miners, making the search for stone all the more easy. It doesn't take long for Brier to stumble upon a large deposit of what appears to be a material used in constructing the buildings around the Hub.
Brier has a miner pick out a few chunks of the material, and Brier runs off to start construction. The design takes only a few minutes each to complete, and in just a few hours Brier finds himself with 20 completed spiders. He pours mana into one, and it almost immediately begins moving. The legs are a bit stiff, but nothing that can't be worked out with ease. Brier gives himself a pat on the back for his successful creation, then gets to work on the rest of the spiders, having them all up and about in a matter of minutes.
Veranu Tigerclaw
Veranus falls into a light sleep, but is almost immediately woken up by the small screeches of a bird. When she looks over, she sees the phoenix chick vying for her attention. Veranus looks around, and sees Gram, Hoz, Asa, and the mercenary operating some kind of strange device. In their tinkering, Veranus becomes trapped in the vessel.
"Before you start panicking, we're doing this for my own good. I'm sick of healing you, so we're going to make it so that I don't have to do it again while you're here. Oh, and your pet bird hatched, so that makes this easier."
Before Veranus can react, Hoz pulls down a lever, and a sharp pain enters Veranus. For a few short seconds, Veranus feels what the mother phoenix must have felt when her life ended. But like all things, the pain leaves her body just as soon as it enters, and Veranus feels a new force flushing through her veins, and a strong draw to the phoenix chick.
"There! I'm done with this, you're on the same list as Maid-Face and Captain Sparkles now, I refuse to heal you again!"
Veranus is released as Hoz storms out in a fit of what appeared to be a lesser rage than usual.
Forrel de Yahmiz
Forrel looks around. This area feels similar, yet vastly different from the Hub. While the Hub was a gathering point for countless spirits that outnumbered even the spirit lair by it, this place was utterly devoid of spirits. It even feels like mana has difficulty flowing through, something incredibly worrying in a place called the mana realm. Forrel notices that the architecture and building materials are almost exactly the same as the Hub, so what's rejecting the spirits and mana so forcefully?
Cicatrix Greywood Greenflower
Cicatrix wanders outside, finding her way to the labyrinth. She begins pushing mana into the plant labyrinth, steadily growing them out, until she eventually runs out of mana. It was a dangerous thing to do, but she runs back, drinks the liquid mana to force herself back at full power, and gives an extreme push to the puny obstacle, forcing it to nearly eight times the size it was, but draining her almost entirely of mana. Another few sips of that mana would be dangerous, so Cicatrix spends the remaining morning trying not to overexert herself, and meditating.
Ba'gandi Kashi
Like Forrel, Ba looks around. But not for spirits, or details in the architecture, but for people. People he can seek information from. None of the people in the hall prove helpful in the slightest, but they do reveal that Veranus was here. She apparently went missing over night, along with the hall master, the head maid, a healer, and the captain of the mercenaries. Just as Ba nearly abandons his hopes of finding her anytime soon, someone points out that a disgruntled elf who had just entered was the healer who had gone missing. When Ba looks over the elf, a sense of familiarity overwhelms him, as both chains begin to forcefully drag Ba to him.
Seiyas Stormclaw
Seiyas wanders around looking for stone for over an hour, until she spots Brier leaving the cave with his haul. Having not known what had happened to him, she doesn't recognize Brier, and simply regards him as another faceless person in the crowds. Regardless, she goes into the caves, and finds herself the stone she needs. The only problem is convincing a miner to help her... These were mostly humans, and humans had a longstanding hatred of her people for being part demon.
Newman/Vox
As Newman interrogates Vox, he notices the ever increasing cracks in the bed, until it eventually snaps. Newman draws his swords, and waits in a defensive stance for Vox to make his move. Vox looks around for his weapons, but eventually sees that his sword was busted, and his dagger wouldn't hold up against Newman's swords. Vox eventually begins his assault using the broken bed posts his hands were still tied to, and the two swordsmen fight it out into the courtyard. The scar on Vox begins to turn black as they get closer and closer to the Hub, until he eventually stops in surprise, completely forgetting he was in a fight. Newman stops his assault when Vox stops showing signs of hostility. Newman hears a voice in his head.
"Where am I...?"
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Topic: Runners of Hyperion -- one spots open (Read 36100 times)