The Essence of Souls [Open, PM me for bio submission]

[Battal]

<J!>  Oxryklne shouts.  <Barry!>

[Blewcheese]

Neither Barry nor J responded to Oxyklne's cry for help. However, some of the shades did. They charge at the source, heavy footsteps jarring the ground.

[Battal]

Oxryklne flattens himself under the rock, mostly incapacitated for the moment.

[Blewcheese]

The shades, being not so intelligent, search the area with frustration before going back to killing Dryads.

[Percival]

(I didn't really think the beetle would die. Also, where on Earth-er, Nether am I?)

Edited January 10, 2014 by Pecival

[Daemonic]

Avam has been wandering in the woods for days, without knowing where exactly he is heading.

[Blewcheese]

(Uh... I had assumed you were still with Oxyklne. Not sure though. I'd like all of the characters to be in one place for this. That means you, @TheFireStarter. Now's the time to grab an entrance. Because it's probably not going to get much easier from here.)

The woods Avam had been walking through slowly grows more sparse, until it is simply a field. In the distance, he can see the shimmering of darkness and shadows coming from the ground.

[Daemonic]

After Avam first notices the shadows he says " Nope, not this again!" and attempts to run... and trips.

[Percival]

(Ah well, I'll assume that too.)

 

Petal, who saw Oxryklne, lifted the stone off of him. It then threw it haphazardly into the crowd, unsure of who it would hit.

[Daemonic]

(Firestarter hasn't been on since Christmas Eve...)

Ooc: ....

[Blewcheese]

Laughter is heard around Avam.

You're not going anywhere.

The voice was very familiar. For he had heard the jeering voice once before, on a fateful wedding day... Shadow hands grabbed onto the tripped Avam, and pulled him into the shadows.

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The rock hit a shade. The shade turned to face the direction from which the rock had come, and he glared down at the beetle and the doll. At that, it lunged.

(Dangit FireStarter. I might kick him. Should I kick him?)

Edited January 11, 2014 by Blewcheese

[Battal]

<You idiot!  I save your ass, and you blow my cover.  Okay, let me do the talking.>

 

Oxryklne turns to the Shades, hoping that they aren't smart enough to sense an Ancient inside him.

 

<Evening, gents.  Got a prisoner you might want to take a look at.>

 

He turns towards Petal.

[Blewcheese]

The man sitting in the throne bursts out laughing, as he speaks to no one but himself.

Congratulations, beetle. You're doing my job for me.

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The shades grunt at each other in confusion before accepting the beetle's tribute. Shadow hands grab Petal, and begin dragging him away.

[Daemonic]

The shadows pulling Avam cause a massive drain in sanity very quickly, Avam tries to resist by grabbing on to something and all he manages to get a grip of is a vine with very sharp thorns, he gets cuts along the whole length of his hand as he is dragged.

[Percival]

Petal glares at Oxryklne, and it struggles against the shades, but inevitably stops.

Edited January 11, 2014 by Pecival

[Battal]

(J is the antagonist?)

 

<Alright.  I'll come along, if ya don't mind.  Need to watch my prisoner, after all.>

[Blewcheese]

(I'm not going to give anything away, but if he is and you didn't see it coming, then I was hypothetically successful.)

A shade narrows his eyes with suspicion, but dismisses it. They return to the hunt.

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Despite Avam's efforts, he enters the corrupted land. He soon wakes up seated in a chair in a small room. The room is bare, and very dim with no obvious light source.

[Battal]

(I knew it!  Never trust the guy who talks in bold lettering.)

 

Oxryklne walks along with the shades, having trouble keeping up over the Nether's terrain.

[Daemonic]

Avam gets up from the seat and looks around the room, and then to the chair and attempts to inspect it for any hints as to where he is.

[Blewcheese]

(And the fact that he pretty much led you right into a horrible world of shadows and death without a legitimate reason. But this is hypothetical. He might still be on the up and up.)

The chair is a generic plastic one. The room is plastered with bland and somewhat torn white wallpaper. A small flicker of shadows is seen in the corner.

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Barry touches down into the nether, exhausted.

"Damn."

He looks around at the war scene.

"What? More? Seriously?"

[Daemonic]

Avam tries to distance himself as far away from the shadows as possible until his back touches the wall, he then turns around and tries tearing off the wallpaper to see if it reveals anything.

[Battal]

(So where are they going?)

[Blewcheese]

Behind the wallpaper is the word "LOST" written in a strange, black substance.

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The shadow hand continues on for what seems like a few hours, but time has become hard to tell. The land is more bare now, but eventually the hands retract into a small hole in the ground.

[Battal]

Oxryklne climbs into the pit, hoping this isn't a trap.

[Blewcheese]

Inside the pit is some sort of dungeon, with darkened stone walls. Petal is chained to the wall, hung by chains attached to all his limbs. Guards are walking down the halls, but none of them have vision of Oxyklne or Petal due to the labyrinth-like dungeon.