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A Higher Plane: A Huar'raughq's Ascent to the Stars.

Posted by GamemasterFor group 0
Gamemaster
GM, 46 posts
Mon 9 Jul 2012
at 05:39
  • msg #1

A Higher Plane: A Huar'raughq's Ascent to the Stars

(OOC: This thread is for Kidhido'on's narratives.)
Captain Kidhido'on
player, 35 posts
Etyri
Charioteer
Sat 14 Jul 2012
at 19:10
  • msg #2

Re: A Higher Plane: A Huar'raughq's Ascent to the Stars

“Freak.”

He kept moving down the huge passageway, mentally noting the direction and distance as the ignorant Guilder fell behind him. The Etyri effortlessly made updates to the image of his surroundings that he maintained in his head. He saw it in three dimensions, a trick that many of the humans found difficult. Color-coded lines indicated his path while on the surface, if jet-assisted, and under his own wing-power. He wasn't accomplished enough to work out the vectors were he piloting a space-vehicle. Not yet, it was still all theory.

“Crackle-bread! Zor fruit!” called a vendor. The smells were noxious, but Kidhido'on ignored them and passed by without turning his head. Or his eyes. He felt a rush of shame as his own hunger welled up. Eating required mental gyrations that he still needed to work through consciously. His people, being hunters, would look down upon him with scorn for purchasing his food from humans. But there was no other way.

No other way to rise.
Captain Kidhido'on
player, 36 posts
Etyri
Charioteer
Sat 14 Jul 2012
at 20:27
  • msg #3

Re: A Higher Plane: A Huar'raughq's Ascent to the Stars

“Nice work!”

The young human was standing over the Etyri's shoulder. Kidhido'on had been aware of his presence for some time now. With some frustration, he diverted a minimum of attention to conversation, while continuing to work out the physics project on the think machine.

“Lazarus, I see you.” He braced himself for an attack, and decided to take a chance on this human. “I thank you for your words.”

Lazarus grinned at the alien. “You're welcome, Kidh. We're going out to watch the game later. You're welcome to come along.”

Kidhido'on let his eyes scan the room. None of the other students in the library seemed to be paying attention to him. He considered the overture. “I would like that. Thank you, I will look for you there.”

There was always the risk that he was being set up for abuse. But he was willing to see what happened.

He missed companionship.
Captain Kidhido'on
player, 40 posts
Etyri
Charioteer
Wed 1 Aug 2012
at 03:39
  • msg #4

Re: A Higher Plane: A Huar'raughq's Ascent to the Stars

He saw the ebb and flow of spatial vortices weave a pattern around him. So long as he remained passive, he was able to expand with them. Yet, he would eventually reach his limit; he just couldn't maintain his consciousness in such a great sphere. As he felt it all fall apart, he pushed desperately, he tried to rise...

It was useless. He was back again, in the now-mundane sphere of existence he'd grown accustomed to. Certainly, he was off his homeworld, far beyond his original sphere. But how to push through to the next level? It must be that his discipline was lacking. He fell back to silently going over the chants he'd been taught as a boy, fiercely determined to wring out of them whatever magic he'd missed. Or was unworthy of.

Later on, he climbed out of the trainer and his instructor was waiting for him. “Kidh, you're trying too hard,” the man said as he fell in beside the young alien. “You can't force it. You've got to relinquish control to a higher power.” And the universe fell in upon him.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:41, Wed 01 Aug 2012.
Captain Kidhido'on
player, 41 posts
Etyri
Charioteer
Wed 1 Aug 2012
at 03:39
  • msg #5

Re: A Higher Plane: A Huar'raughq's Ascent to the Stars

He flew upon a comet's tail, bone-crushing g-forces tearing at him as he dodged through a latticework of plasma-hot death. His enemies were painted inside his skull, he knew them as he knew his own plumage, and it was only natural for him to stoop and strike.

Natural.

His wingmen supported him, he knew what they would do and could forget them. But this foe, he reached across the void and tasted this one. Then chance lined them up, and he could see the pilot clearly for just an instant. He released the pent-up hellfire at his command, and he died inside.

He knew the man. It had been Lazarus, his friend from Grail.
Captain Kidhido'on
PC, 49 posts
Etyri
Charioteer Captain
Fri 14 Sep 2012
at 17:02
  • msg #6

Re: A Higher Plane: A Huar'raughq's Ascent to the Stars

Kidhido'on cut his speed as he brought the yawing transport down towards Acheon and the end of another run. His mind was filled with memories of boiling plasma and exploding metal shells over this same view, but it didn't affect his piloting. The memories were a part of him now; no doubt his suffering was only just.

He acknowledged the crew as he made his way off-ship, after landing. The physician in charge of the mission tried to speak with him, but the Etyri pretended not to notice and continued on his way. He had contributed to the rebuilding efforts in his own way, by piloting the missions, but he had no intention of listening to the humans babble on about it. This only stirred the demons.

Kidhido'on, war veteran, Charioteer Captain, also ignored the looks directed at him by those who recognized him. He was the Etyri, the alien, who had caused so much pain and suffering to this planet-nest. They cared nothing for his symbolic atonement; no doubt they would remain unsatisfied were he to be lynched. He knew his alien-ness only made his sins worse in their eyes. He had taken the gift their race had given him, and turned it against them.

His garb carried only his guild and rank insignia. There were no references to his military career visible. And yet, he knew he was soiled, and the humans could sense what they would call the darkening of his soul. His mind touched briefly upon his own cosmology, still in desperate flux from all he had been through. He needed meditation time, he needed to fly in atmosphere and breathe clean air again. He looked through glass at the murky sky beyond the spaceport, and made up his mind to leave the city for a time. Noting the damage still waiting to be repaired, he acknowledged that he had much to work through.
Captain Kidhido'on
PC, 50 posts
Etyri
Charioteer Captain
Fri 14 Sep 2012
at 17:36
  • msg #7

Re: A Higher Plane: A Huar'raughq's Ascent to the Stars

Kidhido'on gazed upon the smog-filled sky of Acheon once again. The contrast with the clean mountain air was dramatic. He had needed the time away, and felt that his thoughts and emotions were back under control.

He made his way towards the spaceport again, crowds parting to provide the winged biped with passage. He allowed that perhaps he remained anonymous to some of the population, after all. Taking in the state of repairs, he was forced to admit that as fast as the works of humanity were rebuilt, they were again destroyed. Where was the lesson? Was this kind of existence necessary in order to provide Guild technology? The alien couldn't see a direct relationship.

He knew that he was bound to run into Nadia or some of her friends now that he had returned. A part of him wanted to speak with them, but he wasn't ready. Not yet.

He looked up at the Cathedral of St. Ignatius, he considered Zebulon's Tower. There would be no revelations today. In any case, he would check in with the Guild and get the latest news. It was a new day.
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