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RP PUBLIC V10T: The Exotic Gardens of the Valley.

Posted by Master DivineFor group 0
Hallowed Leord Anik the First, Returned God of Craft
player, 330 posts
Blue/Slight/Thaumaturge
Lesser Realm
Fri 29 Jan 2010
at 12:16
  • msg #129

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Anik waited... this was a long 10 minutes.
Purjopiarre Foun the Third, Returned God of Magiscience
player, 150 posts
Grey/Slight/Conjurer
Lesser Realm
Fri 29 Jan 2010
at 21:10
  • msg #130

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Suddenly smiled, something enigmatic and definitly eccentric seemed to have taken him completely. Sitting back he pulls out a pipe and seems to began smoking a sharp cackle had appeared in his now dangerously observing eyes. You need not worry about me crailek although your company would prove to be more then valuble I am perfectly alright where I am and finding it more then interesting. I'm certain I could find a way out if I tried hard enough although perhaps I couldn't. I believe that somehow through mixing with one of my people I have found an entirely new layer of reality that I'm not certain existed before... or perhaps it did and was never discovered. Also there is much we need to speak of anik, I have plans you see, but first we have the small problem of our associate which seems to have caught herself in a small problem. Of course I won't speak any further on the matter here, but something must be done I assure you. He smiles of course it was amusing that no one noticed as maxilita said the unactivated oathblade, the fact that wyrn was smiling and the fact that another council man was agitated which means more then likely that in one way or another the conclave hadn't planned for maxilita's arrest or in some way didn't expect for this to happen.
Master Divine
GM, 2221 posts
Sun 31 Jan 2010
at 12:23
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Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

3. The Reading of the Will

BODHAVIUS: "You all understand what the Dhaal have left you, if they've left you anything at all. I will now read out the will. You may come and collect the items requested from myself once your name is called. Orderly line, please."

[Bodhavius reads the will. ]

BODHAVIUS: "Anik, God of Craft, to receive the remains of the great hammer Anvildramadum - what little remains.. Msonus, God of Mysticism, to receive the unforgable metal.. Crailek, God of Shadows, to receive the Ring of Marriage.. Foun, God of Magiscience, to receive the Ring of Magiscience.."

[Each God lines up and receives their gift.]

BODHAVIUS: "I now declare the service over. The Dhaal have been spat upon - food is not suitable. Forgive us. Be merry, and leave. I am here for protestations and questions."

Anik

Anik receives a large black sack. Within it, hundreds of tiny pieces of scrap metal, springs, electronics, crystals, shattered glass.. the remains of Anvildramadum. Even with it destroyed, however, Anik can still sense its power..


Crailek & Foun


Crailek and Foun are given their inheritances together. Two simple, Living Metal bands, shifting and squeaking.. rings of union. Wedding rings. It is obvious what these are.. but why?

Msonus

Msonus is given the bizarre piece of metal - which feels alien and slippery but physically looks like steel - and his mind is swarmed in vision.

A delightful young God with wild eyes and a penchant for talking to rocks. Recognizable.. who? He wore green and brown, spoke fairly, if erratically, and was always kind to ... who?

The name comes suddenly: Ayar.

Poor, poor Ayar, slain by Crailek..

What? A shift.

Ayar has snuck into the sacred place of the Odinic Government. He's been watching it. A sword: shimmers, protected by wards - easily disarmed by Ayar - and immensely heavy. The Sword of End World. A queer alien presence seems to be held within it. Ayar is not evil, but he cannot help himself.. he picks up the sword and swings.

No dice.

Ayar is killed for the second time. He is not enough to destroy an entire universe.

The sword shatters..


Hallowed Leord Anik the First, Returned God of Craft
player, 338 posts
Blue/Slight/Thaumaturge
Lesser Realm
Sun 31 Jan 2010
at 14:14
  • msg #132

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Anik wraps the item carefully he will examine it later. He places it inside his pack and leaves, making sure to pick up his weapons on the way out. He legends all of them to make sure they weren't tampered with. Anik may seem paranoid... but he's lived through a lot of people trying to spy him for some reason or another.
Hierophantasm Msonus the First, Returned God of Mysticism
player, 248 posts
Grey/Fragile/Thaumaturge
Lesser Realm
Sun 31 Jan 2010
at 19:18
  • msg #133

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Msonus stares at the piece of metal for a few seconds, blinking rapidly. Finally he begins to move again, and stores the shard carefully, though he still seems stunned as he leaves.
Hallowed Leord Crailek the Second, Returned God of Shadows
player, 424 posts
Grey/Slight/Dabbler
Lesser Realm
Sun 31 Jan 2010
at 23:16
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Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Crailek looks quietly at the ring, then leaves just as quietly. He wondered at why Balverstus would have it, and not in fact himself.
Purjopiarre Foun the Third, Returned God of Magiscience
player, 152 posts
Grey/Slight/Conjurer
Lesser Realm
Mon 1 Feb 2010
at 00:15
  • msg #135

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

So this was the true ring not that flimsy piece of metal he carried about, but that was just the engagement ring the one he remembered. The engagement he remembered, but never the wedding.... He would study the ring and learn it's meaning he had business to do though and he would also leave.
Master Divine
GM, 2236 posts
Wed 3 Feb 2010
at 13:06
  • msg #136

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

The funeral was over, and the guests dispersed.

(This thread will now be reborn as "The Exotic Gardens of the Valley")
Purjopiarre Hirsu the First, Zealous God of Life
player, 184 posts
Brown/Slight/Magician
Balanced Realm
Thu 4 Feb 2010
at 13:05
  • msg #137

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Hirsu enters the gardens, and sits down on a bench. He opens up An Eye to the Heavens and begins to read.
Master Divine
GM, 2278 posts
Fri 5 Feb 2010
at 07:18
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Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Hirsu saw that the book was composed of three parts, entitled, in order with which they appear, A GLANCE AT HELL, THE SIGHT OF EARTH, and AN EYE TO THE HEAVENS. He begins to read.

[Part One - A GLANCE AT HELL]

A GLANCE AT HELL was written plainly, but seemed to have been encrypted somehow, with metaphores obscuring and enhancing meaning at every turn. There was a story, telling of two villages that sold and traded rather innocently with each other, and which burnt witches and stoned criminals, and freely grew hash and opiates, and believed in food and shelter for every man and woman.. but there was more to it than that. The story itself was interesting, but seemingly pointless.

Would Hirsu like to keep reading?
Purjopiarre Hirsu the First, Zealous God of Life
player, 187 posts
Brown/Slight/Magician
Balanced Realm
Fri 5 Feb 2010
at 14:31
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Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Hirsu pondered the tale, but quickly decided to keep reading. The meaning might become clear the more he read.
Master Divine
GM, 2320 posts
Mon 8 Feb 2010
at 10:56
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Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

[Book Two]

THE SIGHT OF EARTH was completely blank. Another aspect of Msonus's work, however infuriating..
Purjopiarre Hirsu the First, Zealous God of Life
player, 197 posts
Brown/Slight/Magician
Balanced Realm
Mon 8 Feb 2010
at 18:06
  • msg #141

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Hirsu rolled his eyes, and flipped forward until he reached a part of the book with text he could read.
Master Divine
GM, 2349 posts
Thu 11 Feb 2010
at 06:37
  • msg #142

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

The third section was written, it seemed, in code that Msonus could not understand. It was Script, yes, the written tongue of the Divines, but it was written in such an extremely technical metalanguage - possibly the language of the Architects - that no matter how hard Hirsu tried to concentrate he couldn't make head or tail for it.
Purjopiarre Hirsu the First, Zealous God of Life
player, 201 posts
Brown/Slight/Magician
Balanced Realm
Thu 11 Feb 2010
at 14:22
  • msg #143

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Hirsu closed the book, his head hurting after that last chapter. His questions to Msonus were going to be rather lengthy and in depth, it seemed. He breathed deeply, and took out a root from his bag. He took a few bites of the nutrient rich plant, though he didn't particularly care for the sour taste. He would have to cook some of his gatherings at some point.

He idly looked around for a garbage to dispose of the root. Afterwards, he decided to take a break from that volume, and took out the new volume he'd purchased. With a deep breath, he opened What We Learn Without Magic to the first page, and began to read.
Master Divine
GM, 2389 posts
Fri 12 Feb 2010
at 10:16
  • msg #144

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

[Chapter One]

This book was much easier to read. Msonus, it seemed, had spent quite a lot of time in a place he termed '19th Century Yearth," which was found in the Realm Mundane, with the aim of studying the mystical traditions practiced by the human population therein. The book itself was a collection of essays on these topics - the first chapter being an introduction - which goes into detailing regarding the cosmological detail of the Realm Mundane as understood by Mosnus, a cutting Yggdrasildic scholar, and how mysticism can be found even without magic.
Purjopiarre Hirsu the First, Zealous God of Life
player, 206 posts
Brown/Slight/Magician
Balanced Realm
Fri 12 Feb 2010
at 14:24
  • msg #145

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Hirsu read on, intrigued with the latest relevation. Why should there be mysticism without magic? What would be the point? What would its practitioners get out of such a practice? He eagerly flipped to the next chapter.
Master Divine
GM, 2403 posts
Fri 12 Feb 2010
at 15:37
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[Chapter Two]

Msonus arrived in a place that he called Afreeka. It was a great, dry continent, he described, filled with warring tribes and noble shamans. The shamans had no immediate magic of their own, but it was one of the places on Yearth where the residue affects of the banished sorcery of the Realm Mundane (which Msonus promised to detail below) still lingered. Many of the world's spirits resided in that dark and brooding place, taking advantage of the shamans who worshiped and appeased them, borrowing their magic. The spirits were hungry things, only barely sustained by the traces of magic, and believed that by killing the shaman of another spirit it starved them further, removing a rival; thus was war a harrowing theme in Afreeka.

Msonus spent a small while learning the mystical, pseudo-magical arts of the shamans, to no success, though he could speak and command the spirits in his own fashion. He was not of the land, though, and while he could garner similar results the art was lost to him: a mysticism lost.

This was further complicated by the presence of a people, the British, who worshiped only one God and ruled over much of Afreeka, causing much dismay to the peoples and spirits there. It disrupted the cycle of things, Msonus lamented, though instead of acting against he simply lost interest and took the next outboard sailing vessel to the Islands of Britannia.
Purjopiarre Hirsu the First, Zealous God of Life
player, 212 posts
Brown/Slight/Magician
Balanced Realm
Fri 12 Feb 2010
at 16:30
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Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Hirsu blinked, and re-read the passage about the banished sorcery. Perhaps the Realm Mundane had not always been so. The idea that mysticism might be tied to a world was also a new one. He knew that there would be different mysticisms from realm to realm, and thus highly likely from world to world. But for the mysticism to be tied to the natural inhabitants of that world... He shook his head. He still had much to learn of magical theory.

He continued reading the next chapter.
Master Divine
GM, 2413 posts
Mon 15 Feb 2010
at 05:50
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[Chapter Three]

Britain - or Great Britannia, as Msonus often called it - was a series of islands near a place called Europe. It was devoid of most magic, though there were a few currents still existing in the place, mostly sunk deep into the earth and rising only in the case of certain lines of power. Regardless of this, Britain had many powerful traditions of mysticism, especially a more rigid 'ceremonial' practice which Msonus was deeply intrigued by. They used ritual and mysticism to understand the mind and soul - an art that requires no magic, only dedication, to accomplish - and to manipulate reality around them in profoundly non-magical ways. Many of the affects of sorcery were accomplished through this - Msonus intrigued by this aspect.

He saw that they also had the methods to contact those very few spirits who still remained, feeding on bad emotions or the lingering power of a gone age, and was initiated within several prominent groups: the Golden Dawn, Rose Crucius.. finally staying for many years until he'd reached the higher degrees of Masonism (which he said would further Msonism and was the basis for the Grand Architecture).. he left upon meeting a certain Mr. Crholy, initiating through his mystical system - known only as the A.:A.:, for Msonus claimed that he could not give the name to the profane - and then, his fill taken, left the Realm Mundane to return to the Realm Supernatural.
Purjopiarre Hirsu the First, Zealous God of Life
player, 218 posts
Brown/Slight/Magician
Balanced Realm
Mon 15 Feb 2010
at 15:25
  • msg #149

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Intrigued, Hirsu continued reading.
Master Divine
GM, 2445 posts
Tue 16 Feb 2010
at 11:20
  • msg #150

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[Chapter Four]

On the Road of Roads, Msonus found a well. This was not unusual, for the Road often shifts and turns as the paths between worlds twist and turn, but it was Msonus's great wisdom that anything experienced on the Road is a gift; a challenge to be overcome. And so Msonus, who was very thirsty, drank from the well. The water was green, much like Varnal, City of the Mists, but it did not have the curative properties of that strange place; it was heavy in his mouth, and he then dreamt of all manner of places - the City of Alkan, the Realm ex Abyssus, the Realm Silver, among many others..

He awoke to the crying of a thousand soldiers.
Purjopiarre Hirsu the First, Zealous God of Life
player, 221 posts
Brown/Slight/Magician
Balanced Realm
Tue 16 Feb 2010
at 15:01
  • msg #151

Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Hirsu made a mental note regarding the wells and their locations, before continuing on to the next chapter.
Master Divine
GM, 2465 posts
Thu 18 Feb 2010
at 12:36
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Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus

Hirsu felt his very presence waver, drop from this place, as he was whisked to the Underworld.
Hallowed Leord Anik the First, Returned God of Craft
player, 462 posts
Blue/Slight/Grand Magus
Lesser Realm
Wed 21 Apr 2010
at 12:50
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Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus



Anik came to this place for the quite and solitude. He went deep into the gardens to find somewhere he won't disturb others, and somewhere next to a water-hose of some sort. He had been without crafting for too long.

With limited materials he couldn't do much, but he could make a reactor here none the less. Taking his bag off he gathered his small supply of stone balls, iron rods, quartz, and the lead box of Thorium.

He got to work.

The quartz was bent and pulled away from itself, expanding to unnatural shapes of crystal which would redirect sunlight into his work. After which he began slowly transmuting the iron into necessary minerals using it's own radiation from the process to further it, as he could now bend and shape that as well as the material itself. He even used the lead box from the thorium in the mix, as a base actually. Twisting and turning them metal at a molecular level until it was pure and smooth. He used the water hose to bring fourth the needed water.

The first part of the design would be tricky, though intellectually simple (well actually it was incredibly complex but simple enough idea for Anik). He was creating a miniature nuclear reactor. With his ability to transfer properties (even shadows of his own powers). He separated the 3 kg of thorium into strands which would twist around each other inside a pure water barrier. So tight was the ball that he had to keep a hand on the water to keep it from springing out. 9 stands of would protrude outward from the material. He was careful in the way he wove the material so that the isotopes would continuously be changing from non-fissile thorium to the fissile Uranium which would release a chain reaction around it's thread. But unlike a normal reactor which uses the heated water to produce mechanical energy, the microscopic nuclear reactions would be directed instead. The wires were woven in such a way that it was a highly impressive fractal of magnetism which kept the nuclear power moving along wire of the thorium and then out of the 8 protruding wires of thorium.

Of course any radiation (there was no "extra" radiation, Anik very much intended that some radiation escape the threads of the wire-ball) that could not be sent through the wires would be absorbed by the water which flowed through the molecular-sized "gaps" in the ball. The water was a key component of controlling the ball, which is explained later.

Just a note but by this point any "names" for elements basically meant what is WAS at "rest state" before the reaction, truth be told once the reactor got going the ball of "thorium" would constantly be moving between the nuclear metals.

The wire-ball having directed the raw nuclear energy through it would then be connected to some quartz. This is where superior "raw" science, divinity, and super-naturalism would connect. Crystals are good because of their structure. With structure comes order, and with order comes the ability to manipulate that order. And if anything will manipulate the order of atoms, it's nuclear radiation being pumped out of a small reactor.

Anik would use layers and compartments once again to allow the reactor to be "modular" the first bit would need a bit of Anik's own skill in it. Taking his own divine energy from his blood (no need to include the blood now). He made 8 quartz crystals which he completely fused into the wires in such a way that they WERE part of the wire... with millions of atomic "strings" being twisted inside the small crystal connectors. The crystal would his his divine power of transmutation except not with material, but energy. 6 of the crystals would allow the output and input of raw-harmonic energy in which other "transmute" crystals could be activated when connected.

The last two crystals would instead be kept "inside" the reactor on it's magnetic poles. Instead of outputting or inputting energy they would be used to "contain" the energy of the reactor by keeping working the magnetic fields through the wire-ball reactor. But they were not powered by the reactor's "line-feed" instead they were only "input" the energy. These crystals would take heat and radiation from the water and transform it into the needed magnetic energy. Inside the crystals Anik imprinted an atomic order into them, so that the crystals would act like a "scale" of input, output, and control by comparing the poles, their own heat and radiations inputs, and the potential energy of their own wires.

Now if you recall there were 9 strands that nuclear energy could be transmitted (well 6 that transmitted and 2 that could have potential nuclear energy). The last one was a external "control line" which was connected to the heart of the reactor, where in fact all 9 wires were one. While the Internal Control lines would act like super-transistors to the rector to keep it stable, the Outer Control would be something like a users control. Right now Anik could be the only user since only he could control the reactor by touch. The outer control would allow him to edit all crystals, the reactor, and water as needed. This would allow him to upgrade the internal materials as well as eventually put a control crystal which anyone could use.

Right now without a shell... the thing only weighed 9 kg. 3 kg of thorium, 4 kg of water, and 2 kg of quartz.

After everything was complete he took the iron rods and lead box to form the outer shell which would keep the high-pressure reactor from bursting out, or the radioactive water inside from coming out. With the shell now it weighed a nice 25 kg.

In the end it looked like a bowling ball sized orb of black iron (the lead being mostly on the inside of the shell) with 1 wire sticking out on top, and 6 control crystals an equal around the middle.

While as a "reactor" it was really really good because it was compact, but that wasn't the point. Anik could have easily made a much less complex and smaller reactor. But the key was... it allowed for input as well as output, meaning it was a RECHARGEABLE reactor. Basically a prototype of a nuclear battery that allowed output in any form of energy (as soon as a energy-transformation crystals were made to change the harmonic energy into the needed type).

Anik was pretty much spent by the end of making this... and he hadn't even charged the damn thing.
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