Curse

Dac Vin · Aug 18, 2005, 01:14 AM // 01:14

"That wasn't funny!" said Dac with a small smile. After all, he wasn't even spying on them; just passing near was enough to trigger a spiritual reaction...

Dac quickly passed them to avoid another slap and quickly resumed his job. Which was: Help Malikai with his elementalist training. Or more precisely, show him the power of Earth and Water...

Link Ironhammer · Aug 18, 2005, 01:25 AM // 01:25

Hey um dac where is the group heading from ascalon?

Dac Vin · Aug 18, 2005, 01:33 AM // 01:33

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Originally Posted by Link Ironhammer

Hey um dac where is the group heading from ascalon?

Deep in Charr territory, what else?

Link Ironhammer · Aug 18, 2005, 01:46 AM // 01:46

lol ok

Dac Vin · Aug 19, 2005, 03:25 AM // 03:25

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Originally Posted by Link Ironhammer

lol ok

No problem! Hey, someone continue this please, we've been one day without update!

Storm Crow · Aug 22, 2005, 10:54 AM // 10:54

wow, many days with no update.....it's geting annoying so Ill post.

Oh, and to those of you who care, big twist coming...
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What sounded like the muffled clink of glass against glass came to Alicia's ears. She sat up and pushed back a lock of hair that had fallen in front of her eyes. She saw what seemed to be someone hurriedly packing vials of things into a bag. The new dawn only gave enough light for an outline of the person against the pale sky.

She looked around. Everyone seemed to be in their proper place. To her right Sanjinu was snoring, the pillow she had placed over his head still there. Omega was lying across the drivers seat of the wagon. Dac was somewhere in front of her, for she could see Mali once again laying on his chest. The one person that was nowhere to be seen, was Vantie.

She ran her hand back through her silver hair and got up, yawning and rubbing her eyes. She picked up the blanket she had slept under and wrapped it around her, the night's chill still clinging to the air.

Vantie had by this time, gotten all his vials into his bag. Things with names such as Deathly Swarm and Putrid Explosion. Also, packed away in other bags, were marks, wells and signets. These were such as Mark of Pain, Well of Blood, and the elite skill known only as the Plauge Signet.

She knew what he was going to do. And she had every intention of stopping him.

She too started gathering things. Mainly fire magic skills that were kept away in the deepest parts of her mind were now rushing forth. Incendecary Bonds was first to come. This would surely disable the army, for this fire had no end to the victims on it's list, it simply spread until it could spread no more. Throwing on more fire power with Immolate and multiple Flares could take out one beast in a matter of seconds. Top that with both Fire Storm and Meteor Shower and those Charr would be falling three and four at a time.

The Geomancer's part of her training also set forth in her mind. Earthquake and Aftershock are a great pair, along with Grasping Earth, those nasty things wouldnt be able to get away from her Meteor Shower. Also bringing along some Wards would be a good idea. Ward Angainst both Foes and Melee would slow those beasts down a bit. Throwing some armor into the mix with Kinetic Armor and Armor of Earth would work great.

She came back to the present not a moment too soon. Vantie was leaving. She grabbed the bag packed with all her spells and such and ran off after him.
He was not going alone.

She caught up to him and grabbed his shoulder. He looked at her, regret growing in his hazel eyes.

"I thought you might like some company." she said, not taking note of the look he was giving her.

"No." he said, "I'm leaving. For good."

"Why?" Alicia said, a slight pain had again caught her chest.

"Everyone here doesn't know who I am. Me. They can't seem to get past the fact that I am a Necromancer. You've seen Sanjinu. He loves you, and he hates me for loving you too. In fact, I believe he even hates you for loving me. Omega doesen't ever seem like his usual laughing and joyus self when I'm around. Skry could care a whole lot less than what he does. Dac is too busy playing with Mali to care. Mali, my own son, is scared to death of me. I can't stay."

"But what about me?" she asked, tears welling in her eyes. "I care. I know they don't see you for who you really are, but that's just because they're too shallow to get past the looks and the reputation of Necromancer's. I don't want you to go."

"I must. These people don't and WON'T see me for who I am. They could care less if I live or die. I'll give you a chance to change my mind. Give me five good reasons not to leave."

"You can't go. For my sake. Before you came back the only thing that kept me from doing something horrible to myself was the fact that I knew someone cared. Sanjinu was the one person who was my friend. That's the only reason I'm here today. When I left that night to go find the fallen man in the forest I was alone. He wasn't thinking of me and how I'd do out there by myself. That same pain that was inside me then, is inside me now, wanting to just take over. But I know you care, that's what's surpressing it. Before anyone cared I would just start to freak out and on occasions, cry for no reason whatsoever. But then there was you. YOU are what held that back for so long. If you leave, I might just go find a cliff to jump off of or some other thing like that. The only reason I haven't is because I know you care. And because I- I look at you and I'm home, an- and I know someone cares that I'm here. And I dont want that to go away." she managed to choke out between sobs and bursts of tears.

She dropped her bag and fell to her knees, still crying. Vantie also dropped his bag. He reached down and pulled Alicia to her feet. She continued to cry and she fell against him. He hugged her and shushed her, patting her head and gently rocking her back and forth.

The dawn had now broken into daylight and the others were up. Vantie looked over at the camp. Everyone was bustling around, picking things up from he night before. They seemed not to notice that both he and Alicia were gone, wich was surprising to him, as she usually made breakfast. He liked that they weren't on guard this morninig.

Alicia had stopped crying and was now just letting him hug her, not caring that the others were up and most likely gawking from camp. Vantie, unfortunately, had noticed this.

"Come on." he said, "Get your stuff."

She looked at him with that odd cross between confused and understanding.

"We're leaving." he said and smiled that crooked Necrotic smile...

Dac Vin · Aug 22, 2005, 03:43 PM // 15:43

Another short post for me. I will update with a longer one later...

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"Forgive me, Damian..." That message had been printed in Dac's mind ever since he woke up. And when he realized both Vanatiel's and Alicia's dissapearance, he had no doubt from the meaning of that phrase...

The only two persons that weren't affected by the sudden leaving was Omega and Skry. Sanjinu and Malikai had lost Alicia, and he had lost Vantie. The moral was at his lowest...

"We continue, Dac?". That was Sanjinu.

"Yes we do" Dac said. "They will realize their mistake in du-"

Dac suddently stopped. Don't say those words again, Damian! he thought...

"...I mean, I HOPE they will come back..."

a_scrawny_gnoll01 · Aug 23, 2005, 11:30 AM // 11:30

"Hope, humans?" The voice rang clearly in all of their minds. It was the unmistakable droning of the shadow that clinged with their every step. This time, however, the voice appeared to be provoking, as if tempting a fight. "Hope still lies as your greatest strength, and, your greatest weakness. Chose when to hope, and when to act, humans, for this is my final warning."

"You feign to know nothing of your fates, you hide from them, ignoring them, fools! You sit here with hope, praying to your long abandoned gods who care nothing of your trivial lives; hoping that everything will fade away in 'due time'."
The shadow's voice throbbed with violence at this point, thrashing out with no remorse to those caught in its gaze.

Dac's face narrowed, starring down what he could not see. "And you claim to know of our fates, being?!? What have you done with us but interfere and set our fates to your bidding?" Dac's figure retorted in anger, wildly throbbing with useless strength.

...the shadow's voice did not return, yet, the party knew what it was trying to tell them.

Dac Vin · Aug 23, 2005, 07:55 PM // 19:55

Who are they to tell me what to do...

It was no longer hope that Dac had for Vanatiel and Alicia. The shadow had done it's effect, though not in the way she would have expected it...

"So be it" he said. "I swore not to do this again, but now I don't have the choice..."

"WHAT? You mean, spy on them like before?"

"Yes." He then sat down and started his familiar ritual. "I'm going to find them, then hunt them down!" Then his soul left his body. A few minutes passed before Dac came back.

"Hop in the caravan right now, we're going" he said. "We don't have much time..."

Storm Crow · Aug 23, 2005, 08:38 PM // 20:38

Dac continued to trace their path through the wilds of Ascalon, Alicia felt it. She put a hand out to stop Vanatiel from going any further. The energy was following them. Slowly she turned around and gazed at the spot, just as she had done before. Again she reached her hand out, but this time not to slap the energy, but to capture it. She closed a hand around the energy and spoke to it harsh words.

"It is impolite of you to spy on us, Dac." she spoke to the energy, "You promised you wouldn't do this again, and you broke your word. Now you must pay the price."

With this she once again withdew her wand, and the dorment flame once again singed Dac, although much more severely than before. But it didn't end here. She removed a glass vial from her pocket. The glass was infused with a black dye, making it as dark as a midnight sky. This she filled with the poisoned water Vantie had kept from the bogs they had passed through on their way to the Shiverpeaks. And lastly she forced the energy that was Dac's spirit into the vial, corking it once she succeded.

"And there you shall stay until I find a place to break this vial." She said putting the spirit-proof vial in her pocket.

The poison slowly ate away at the captured energy, Dac not being able to draw it back for it was both corked and black.

For about three quarters of an hour they traveled, Dac not seeing, nor hearing anything they passed, or any word they spoke. The vial was finally smashed, being dropped from one of the many jagged cliffs onto a rock that broke the surface of the bubbling tar...

Sanjinu Dalsworth · Aug 23, 2005, 10:05 PM // 22:05

(Guys I am gonna leave this fourm...a sad day but I have...lots of things coming up but i will post my thoughts every now and then but wont rp. So if one of you want my character take if one of you wants to kill him so be it. I am done with this, it was fun but Alicia has total command until doomsday.So I will read the story and maybe copy it to my computer.Have fun I will see you every now and then but g'bye for now)

Dac Vin · Aug 24, 2005, 04:50 AM // 04:50

Finally freed from his cold prison, Dac looked around. But, alas, he could not recognize where he was. Nothing, excepted for both Alicia and Vanatiel, laughing atop the cliff.

But somehow, Dac was laughing, silently. Without knowing it, Alicia had done what he always tried to do, but always failed. Alicia had effectively cut the ties that held Dac Vin to his mortal body.

And by the same, Alicia had just "killed" Dac Vin. Now all that remained was his soul, a restless being...

Remember the druids of the Maguuma...

...And finally one with nature.

"Hahahahaha..." He continued his laughter as he floated up the cliff, to meet his "friends". "Thank you, Alicia! Thanks for freeing me!" Then he reached the top.

But now Alicia wasn't laughing anymore. She reached for another vial, but before she could grab it, she felt Dac's "hand" on her throat, slowly choking her...

"You could fall at any moment, you know. How about we celebrate my freedom down there?"

And on these words, with the new found power of earth and ether, he slowly dragged Alicia near the edge...

"...Dac, no! Please... NOOO!!!!" Without hesitation, he sent Alicia flying down the tar pit, her scream cut short by the blurp of her body being eaten by the tar. Dac waited a few second, just to see her come back to the surface, gasping for air then falling down, over and over.

"Damian..." Vanatiel said, calling Dac by his real name.

"You know what pushed me to break my promise, Vantie. You cannot escape fate, and you know that well. Yet you chose to do it..."

"But..."

"Grenth is very proud of you, coward! now excuse me, but I must leave you to get back to my body. You see, I still like that mortal coil, but now it's for possession." Dac turned his "back" on Vanatiel. "Have fun! Oh yeah, don't forget to save Alicia before she drown down there!"
And then he "ran off", the power of earth now guiding him toward his "corpse"...

OOC: Remember: Not evil, just misunderstood!

Storm Crow · Aug 24, 2005, 08:48 PM // 20:48

"Mark my words Dac Vin," Vanatiel said, glaring back at the energy, "I shall have your head for this!"

He turned his back on the spirit, knowing both that it would not survive the trip back to its body, and that Alicia had to be saved. Upon thinking this he dove off the cliff, having no care in his own safety. He managed to pull her out, just before her hand slipped under the thick, bubbling tar.

By this time she was nearly unconcious, the black tar pulling her down and not letting go. And it was still pulling on her, as it stuck to every inch of her armor, and in her hair.

Slowly she regained her normal breathing rate as the tar somehow slipped off where it had stuck itself in her hair.

As she managed to get her eyes open she looked around. Her boots and gloves were sitting a little off to her left side, the tar succesfully cleaned out of and off of them. Her vest was lying under them, that also being sucessfully cleaned. And she herself was being supported by Vantie's knees. She felt something warm slowly running down her neck and more of the weight of the tar slipped from her hair.

After another minuet or so of the warm water running down her neck and the weight slipping from her hair Vantie had finished. She had gotten her vest and boots on and was just pulling her right glove on when she looked up at him as if she wished to say something. He put a finger to her lips and told her to rest.

"The rest will be coming soon." he said, "and as I intend ro keep my word, we will need our strengeth to get rid of Dac."

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Storm Crow · Aug 25, 2005, 12:00 AM // 00:00

bump!

Dac Vin · Aug 25, 2005, 12:37 AM // 00:37

..It was true that Dac would not go back to his body. The truth is, he didn't need it anymore... The advantage of being a free spirit surpassed by far what he had when he was mortal. One of them, was the ability to renew itself and create a new body for him...

But that would be for later, when the Charr, and hopefully those heretics known as Vanatiel and Alicia, would lay down in a pool of their own blood. Now, Dac had to take care of the Charr, chase them from Tyria, and rebuild Ascalon...

"They buried your old body already, my friend..."

Dac immediatly saw the one "Shadow". But this time, he could see what he was: A free spirit, just like him.

"Do not think about your old friends anymore, Damian. You are now nothing more of an enemy greater than the Charr to them..."

"Excepted for Malikai", Dac said.

"Mali is a different case. You see, this children could see through this web of deception you had over you. He could see who you really were, he could see that behind the illusion hid someone who was just like him, but older..."

"Just like me? But-"

"It's true, Damian." The shadow paused for a while, before continuing his speech. "Do you remember in Lion's Arch? When you taught him how to read one's feeling?"

"Yes I do."

"Well, let me teach you something. For an adult like you, you can read their feelings, pain, pleasure... But childrens blessed with this skill see something else. When Mali tried to read Vanatiel's feelings, all he saw was pure wickedness. For Alicia and the others, the wicked was inside, but in a way lesser quantity..."

"And me?"

"You were just as wicked as the others, Dac. But Mali could sense the struggle within you. He knew you were fighting agains't wickedness, and he knew that when he would become an adult, he too would be wicked..."

"...So that's why he came for me. To learn how to fight back, to stay a children forever..."

"Exactly." the shadow said.

It was at this moment that it started to rain on the two spirits. But it wasn't the normal tar rain that permeated Ascalon's clouds since the Searing: This rain was clear, clearer than all the rains in the world...

"I see you already started your work, Damian. You may have lost all your friends, you may have lost all trust in them, but you know what you have to do..."

"Rebuild Ascalon..."

"Right. Do not let your hatred against your friends blind you. They just don't know who you really are..."

And on these words, the shadow dissapeared into the land, watching Dac's every move.

And thus Dac headed north, into the heart of the Charr, and far away for his friends. He could not care anymore though: Every second in his spirit form made him stronger, pulling energy from his surroundings, and Charr unlucky to cross his path...

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OOC: I'll be gone for a while, so don't worry if I don't update much about our new "villain". (Remember, not evil, just misunderstood...

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Link Ironhammer · Aug 25, 2005, 02:50 AM // 02:50

srry that it has been a while since i last posted.. i just started school!!!

Mali couldn't believe that everyone around him was dissappearing, all he had left with him were Omega, Sanjinu, and Skry. Mali, now 10 yrs old and 2 months away from becoming 11, had become a pretty good elementalist, now he was getting lessons from Skry on how to be a ranger. "Why would my own mother abondon me?" he thought. "Its Vantie... I know it is." He wished that Dac would find him and take him to Vantie so he could..kill him. "No, she did it on her own she thinks he is so charming. That is fine with me I don't need her anymore." "Dac why, why did you leave me??"

OOC: Sorry about the huge advance in age, I just thought he should age some, so he could be.. more mature. This is getting really good. I can't wait to see how it turns out!!!

Barkroot Bonecrunch · Aug 25, 2005, 02:22 PM // 14:22

Name:Whipped Cream
Age:10

Race

warf
Gender:Male

Bio:Whipped was raised at Thunderhead Keep and had a normal life with a normal family, one night while Whipped was in bed the, Stone Summit attacked Thunderhead Keep and bundled Whipped into a cart.They took him down to the mines and drugged him to join the Stone Summit and they trained him to use an Double-Bladed Axe. He now fights for the Stone Summit slaughtering inacent civilians never knowing what hes doing.

Storm Crow · Aug 25, 2005, 08:14 PM // 20:14

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Originally Posted by Barkroot Bonecrunch

Name:Whipped Cream
Age:10

Race

warf
Gender:Male

Bio:Whipped was raised at Thunderhead Keep and had a normal life with a normal family, one night while Whipped was in bed the, Stone Summit attacked Thunderhead Keep and bundled Whipped into a cart.They took him down to the mines and drugged him to join the Stone Summit and they trained him to use an Double-Bladed Axe. He now fights for the Stone Summit slaughtering inacent civilians never knowing what hes doing.

Im sorry. We have no room for people of your type. Please move on.

hawk3y3 · Aug 26, 2005, 12:16 AM // 00:16

Hey i was just wondering if u could have a monk on ur side for this story. i read the rules im just wondering. ur story is awesome too!

~Eric Kasus~

Storm Crow · Aug 26, 2005, 02:12 AM // 02:12

we might later. you could come in with the cahrr army or something. on with my post!
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There was no word from the caravan for over five days. Vantie and Alicia kept themselves busy killing things and making camp for themselves. But on the third night, something strage happened.

The moon rose full and clear. The night, otherwise, was cloudless and starless. Vantie had extinguished the fire early, as they usually let it burn out overnight. When the moon was overhead, he woke Alicia.

"Come now, we must do this before the moon moves any further."

There was a pitch black candle burning where the fire usually would. Vantie's hands were bleeding. Vantie sat on one side of it and directed Alicia to the other side. Then he reached across the candle and took her hands. Using a crudely made and ghastly looking knife he slit her hand as well. They held hands and then they were centered over the candle, so as the blood dripped down into the flickering light of the flame. They then sat and cleared their minds of all thought. The words came to them in a dream like way.

'In the darkness
We find light
We find shelter
In the night

Shadows many
Brightness none
Grenth is master
We are one

Together, difference
There is one
But we together
Can't be won

Bone minions, fiends
The people think
But in reality
They're the link

Death is pleasnt
Life, a curse
As we chant this
Verse by verse

Grenth we call you
Your Children cry
Our existance
Is a lie'

They chanted this until the light of the candle had dissapeared, at wich point a few drops of the poisoned bog water, and a few other things from one of Vantie's bags were added to the wax and blood mixture. Again the chant was called until the flame was put out.

At this point the was was kept melted by a steady Immolate by Alicia while it was sectioned off into four parts, each of them taking two. This was poured onto their still bleeding hands to seal off the wounds.

"What exactly was that for?" Alicia asked as she was peeling the last of the hardened wax from her hand and melting it back into the candle.

"This candle is made from the pure essence of Grenth himself. You see, the wax was origonally pure white, but to every Necromancer he gave a scar to, he added their blood to the candle. Over the years the candle wax turned to red, and finally to the pure black it is now. This was his way of keeping track of how many children he had, be they alive or dead."

As he was done with it, it was passed to me. It was his last gift. You may now call to Grenth for any reason, but only in dire need. He shall do what you ask, but you only have a maximum of five favors."

"I see." She said and yawned. The dawn was approaching. She had to get some sleep for she had a long day ahead of her...