Percival Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 (edited) (twiddling thumbs waiting for opportunity to rear its ugly head) (. . .agh, screw it.) Corthias opened her eyes. She could see a world beyond her own, muddled and distorted. She could see lights, visible with such stark clarity compared to the world around, curling around her, streaks of warmth that were unfamiliar to her. She felt herself drifting towards the warmth; so inviting, so pleasurable. She could hear mutterings, words unfamiliar to her being spoken as she drifted into the light, words of disdain. Reaching out into that distorted world, she touched an orange smear that flared with comfort. She felt her hand go numb, quickly turning to pain. She felt her fingers being stripped away and, fearfully, she tried pulling her hand away, but the streak of warmth stuck to her, eating away at her flesh. She could see it slowly charring away, the streak of orange blackening the skin until it fell away. She could see the other streaks curling around her, sinking and burrowing themselves under her skin, and she writhed, scratching herself; get them off, get them out, that was the only thing that she could think rationally as she felt herself disappear. The fire consumed her, burning her flesh and bones away, and she felt her being, her soul, lose grip on this reality. <----------------> Corthias opened her eyes, and she tore her eyes away from the book. Solemnly, she flipped the book, the pages facing the ground, and she shook it; she saw a clear writhing mass fall between the cracks of the pages, falling in large, sickening globs before breaking off and dissipating, leaking away into the ground and the air, singing the ground and making the air reek of smoking glass. Disgusting to the touch, but yet it was so interesting to see it fall in this manner. Corthias almost wanted to look at the mass, but her fear of the scene, along with the nauseous smell, told her otherwise. The last drop of the mass disappeared with a hiss, singing the ground. She cast away the concept Truth; perhaps that wasn't wise, but she had no desire to look at that horrible scene any longer. She preferred the lie that she saw the 'truth' as she perceived it, not objective truth. Sighing, Corthias closed the book, now drained and empty, and she lay down on the ground, staring into the sky that was poking through the leaves of the forest. She would say she has set up camp in a clearing of a forest, but it would be generous to call her current situation a 'camp'. The only object set up next to her are the rotting corpses of two rabbits and two charred logs (which were supposed to act as the campfire, but someone or something took the liberty to take the stones and a few of the logs, so it's more of a very badly made attempt at making a torch then a campfire). She laid on the ground, and didn't bother to get up. She just wanted to lay there, to forget the world, to forget her situation, to pretend that the world was just. . .normal. (Go make of this as you will. EDIT: Obligatory edit to fix a one word mistake.) Edited October 13, 2015 by Percival Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MenaAthena Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 (*stares blankly at Percival's post*I understood very little of that.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percival Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 (edited) (*stares blankly at Percival's post*I understood very little of that.) (Mission accomplished.) (EDIT: The point is that you're not supposed to understand, at least not now.) Edited October 13, 2015 by Percival Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentdarkness1 Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 (*stares blankly at Percival's post*I understood very little of that.) (Percy's character is the one who started the campfire, and that character has a book with arcane things going on. Hellish things) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percival Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 (Percy's character is the one who started the campfire, and that character has a book with arcane things going on. Hellish things) (No, that's Judas' fire, not Corthias'; her's dead.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer ImDaMisterL Posted October 13, 2015 Developer Share Posted October 13, 2015 (edited) (So the lesson is, truth hurts. So hide yourself in lies and deception because you won't be hurt or damaged emotionally as deeply as you would this way? Huh... I didn't like that lesson.) Edited October 13, 2015 by ImDaMisterL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battal Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 (So the lesson is, truth hurts. So hide yourself in lies and deception because you won't be hurt or damaged emotionally as deeply as you would this way? Huh... I didn't like that lesson.) (Some of Pecival's other lessons include "Sacrifice those who love you for your own personal gain" and "killing people is fun". If you want to be a respectable person, don't listen to Pecival's lessons.) "Sure! Let's go!" Vilsig says excitedly to Lefay, bouncing along behind her. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer ImDaMisterL Posted October 13, 2015 Developer Share Posted October 13, 2015 Some of Pecival's other lessons include "Sacrifice those who love you for your own personal gain" and "killing people is fun". (I thought those were yours...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidooop Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 (let's get back to the RP, eh?) Fid sits on the ground near the logs and pushes a button on his bat. It shifts and sparks fly out of the bat lighting the fire. "Y'know, one of my first prototypes involving this spark mechanic... Heh... it accidentally caught the bat on fire! Basically, I had to get a new house after that..." Fid says with an embarrassed tone in his voice. "Hey, if anybody needs to sleep you can go ahead... I can keep watch for evil creatures that want to kill us!"(Fid doesn't sleep very much so he can stay up at night) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MenaAthena Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 "Ppppfh, sleep is for looosers!" Mina states with a dismissive flick of her hand. "Besides, it's not even night yet. The sun hasn't fully set. And I'm hungry." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer ImDaMisterL Posted October 13, 2015 Developer Share Posted October 13, 2015 Mark looks at Mina weirdly. "Sleep is for losers? Says the girl that was sleeping in a tree in the middle of the day, eh?" He said playfully. "And now that you mention it, I'm a little hungry as well..." His stomach soon rumbled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidooop Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 "Hungry? I used to be hungry like you... Then I took a stinger to the knee!......" Fid pauses for a moment... his stomach growls.... "ok, maybe it wasn't such a bad injury..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percival Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 (I am a completely respectable child, Battal. Nothing is wrong in this cranium of mine. Also. . .) Corthias sat herself up, propping herself against a tree; she felt a pang of hunger course through her being, and she stared at the rabbit corpses next to the 'fire', and, for a second, was tempted to eat the corpse, rot, tendrils, and all. However, her mannerisms are much stronger than her hunger. She will not dare to stoop to that level of savagery. Brushing herself off of loose grass, she stood and grabbed a flimsy spear she made and her book, and wandered outside of the 'camp', looking for sustenance. (. . .she's going to be doing her own stuff. Perfect for a completely chance meeting.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer ImDaMisterL Posted October 13, 2015 Developer Share Posted October 13, 2015 "You know how to lighten the damp mood, eh?" Mark said, silently laughing at the joke. "Old, but classic. I had no idea you'd be someone to like such things." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentdarkness1 Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 (Looks like Corthias will be meeting a certain woodsman, then.) Lefay sighed and went to check out the fire, ignoring a hunger pang. She checked to make sure Vilsig was still following her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer ImDaMisterL Posted October 13, 2015 Developer Share Posted October 13, 2015 Mark picks the berries he had in his pockets and ate them all in one big gulp offered them to the others. He had collected eight in all, so they could get two each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidooop Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Fid quickly eats the berries to temporarily calm his stomach. He then turns to Mark and asks about that umbrella. "You seem pretty fond of that umbrella, is there a story behind it?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MenaAthena Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Mina takes the berries and starts eating them one at a time, keeping her rate of eating slow. "I've figured out that you tend to get more full if you eat slowly." she explains "It's like you're giving you stomach time to realize how much food it's getting. I think. I don't really know how it works I just know it helps for me." She pops in another berry. "I don't have much in the way of food myself, just some smelly purple meat from the wolves. It doesn't taste very good, but it's defiantly not the worst thing I've ever eaten... *shudder*" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidooop Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 defiantly not the worst thing I've ever eaten... *shudder* yeah... I DEFIANTLY ate L's flesh too... it wasn't a good experience... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer ImDaMisterL Posted October 13, 2015 Developer Share Posted October 13, 2015 (edited) (Glares at Fid)Mark looked behind him. "Nope, no story. But I found some rocks!" "Oh, this?" He held the umbrella in front of his face. "Heh... yeah... kind of... my mother gave this to me some days before..." he zoned out for some seconds. "It's just... really important to me." He clutched the umbrella harder, then sat down a few feet away from the fire, still clenching his dear umbrella. Edited October 13, 2015 by ImDaMisterL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blewcheese Posted October 13, 2015 Author Share Posted October 13, 2015 Alex graciously accepted the berries and downed them in one swift motion, then glanced at Mina. He chuckled, shrugging. "Oops." He then proceed to watch Mark as he explained the umbrella. "Why'd she give you an umbrella, though?" He asked innocently. "Do you not like rain, or something?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer ImDaMisterL Posted October 13, 2015 Developer Share Posted October 13, 2015 "I used to, but she... never mind." Mark shrugs it off awkwardly, and tries to change the subject. "What about this bat of yours, Fid? Do you play Baseball?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidooop Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 "I actually don't like baseball... I loved technology and engineering as a young boy and wanted to try my hand at inventing a cool multi-tool but all I had was a bat that I stole from... Somewhere... Soon after the slight interest for fun turned into a need for survival... I'd rather not go into details right now...", Fid says trying to play it off cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battal Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Vilsig is right behind Lefay, considering how easy it would be to drive his leg through her neck. S̢he͞ wo̧u͟l̷dn̛'t͠ e͝v̕e̵n b҉e ab̶le͞ t̨o s͜cream̕, t̶hę blo̵od w͘óúld ̛c̷ho͘ke he̶r̶ ̧out... He thinks, reluctantly not killing her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer ImDaMisterL Posted October 13, 2015 Developer Share Posted October 13, 2015 (edited) "Oh great, we all decided to be mysterious today." Mark said jokingly, then looked at Mina. "By the way, what were you gonna tell me earlier before we met Alex? It was about how you got here, eh?" Edited October 13, 2015 by ImDaMisterL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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