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Post by Morgenstern on Aug 12, 2013 14:25:16 GMT -8
There are groans in the dark, moans of the lost souls. Alive but dead. Where do we go, from where we've started. I remember entering the darkness that opened up within Coruscant Prime, and then nothing. My ship is no where to be seen, my crew lost. I am alone.
A man awoke, taking a deep gasp of air as he sat up at a cliffs edge. Unaware of his surroundings, after he stood up he noticed the edge of his heels just touching the edge. Startling him he nearly fell back down into the endless looking drop as his arms swayed out of control. He took a few steps away and caught his breath, the moment he awoke he felt as if he were suffocating, or surfacing above water and getting some air just in time. He leaned towards the edge and looked down but the fog was to thick to see threw, just like everything else in this area. The ground felt dusty, like kicking a burnt out campfire as the wood breaks apart and goes with the wind. Ash indeed.. He spoke to himself, rubbing the ash between his finger tips. Where am i.
He said, standing up then wandering into the fog. This place was like nothing he's ever seen before. It got much colder in the fog for some reason, and in this fog he began to hear things. He couldn't tell if it was the wisp of the wind or whispers of people near by. He grabbed the hilt of his Katana and slowly unsheathed it and held it out in front of himself, he could feel a presence. A dark presence. Something of monstrous proportions, slow steps in the ash that became fast pasted. He kept looking each way when all of the sudden something jumped out from the fog and lost its form just before it hit him, dissipating amongst the fog. This caused him to stumble back, but he fell back out of the fog feeling the dirt on his bare feet. He looked down to his side, the pieces of rubble laid all over the place. A shadow was seen casted along the wall of fog, he swung his blade around but there was yet again nothing. That's when he came face to face with a city of ruin...he shouted in fear at the sight of the screaming man, though he was already dead. He looked like a statue, until he touched his shoulder with the blade of his katana and the solid form of the man fell to dust.
Then those whispers again...one suddenly stood out which he could still barely pick out what it was speaking.
Come....find...me. Son...of the tyrant.
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Post by Morgenstern on Aug 13, 2013 16:26:44 GMT -8
Up ahead he spotted a bridge made of stone, it was a long bridge leading into the dark lands across the canyon the bridge scaled across. When he stepped out onto it the dust that covered the top puffed up like a cloud at knee level. He could hear something faint behind him, this sound began to Crescendo. Like a Symphony. The ground began to shake when he reached mid bridge, an earthquake? He thought as he focused on not falling off. Then there was a loud sound in the sky, something extremely scary. The sound of a horn, except it was everywhere. The sound of Judgement. The shakes became more violent upon the bridge, and he started to run.
The bridge started to fall apart, but when he looked back the broken pieces were falling...towards the sky. Whatever the hell was happening, it was catching up to him. He looked to his feet as he ran, the dust rising past him and the break in the bridge cracking faster then his running. A moment later he was skipping rocks as he ran, they were parting from each other. He ran from rock to rock in the sky and he was almost there, the last stretch. He jumped, then again and again. He ran across one piece and when he was about to take the last leap from the rock onto stable land, the sky became quite. Everything became still. Then everything suddenly fell and that last step for his leap was gone. He stepped into nothing and fell. The lands were close as his arms and legs swayed in mid air, he reached out for the edge, hit the side, but he hit hard. His head smashed against the side, his body went limp. He fell back into the dark pit and his body vanished beneath the dark, and he kept falling...his eyes opened a bit. The sky...what was wrong with the sky. As it turned red and begun raining blood. He hit ground, vines all over the place, thorned vines.
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Post by Morgenstern on Aug 14, 2013 10:25:02 GMT -8
James Theme
He awoke in a pool of his own blood, three inch thorns sticking into his back. Insects all over the place, his body ached and the moment he moved he begun screaming. As he struggled to stand he could feel the thorns sliding out of his body and the blood being released from each thorn hole in his body. This place was truly made for people to suffer, but where exactly was he? His face was pale, and around his eyes dark. Tired and exhausted, perhaps it was from the blood loss or the amount of pain he was currently in. Down here, deep down in the depths of this Hellish place, he is suffering. He began wondering how he would make it back up to the top, the rocky cliffs had those vines all over the side, besides in his condition he was climbing nothing. His clothes were ripped and to ruined to continue wearing, he tore of his shirt and fastened the belt around his waist which also held his Katana holster in place. Almost surprised he wasn't torn in two by the blade at his side on the way down..
Traveling threw the depths of this canyon was chilling, something echoed against the walls. He thought it was the wind running threw the canyon but it had more strength in the sound, he heard words but he couldn't pick out what was being said. He stopped at the sight of a tunnel in the mountain, grown threw with moss, smaller thorns and home to many insects. He looked around and cursed to himself when he came to a realization that this was the only way to continue threw this dark canyon. He became more motivated when he heard the sound of a menacing growl behind him...something was down here with him and he had no intentions to find out what it was. He began crawling inside, the sound of each crunch turned his stomach, bugs being squished all over the place as he moved. One leg at a time, one arm at a time. He stretched out his arm to continue crawling when a thorn pierced threw the flesh of his hand, the thorn had been covered in black goo, which now infected his hand. He slowly pulled his hand up when suddenly, something grabbed his leg and tugged on him, he was pulled back, the flesh of his hand tearing until the thorn snapped. He was let go for a moment and he crawled fast, threw the tunnel. He seen the light on the other side then quickly pulled himself out, little did he know that a hill awaited him. He hit the ground and begun rolling down it, his weapon fell out and followed behind him down the hill. He hit the ground and looked up at the Katana falling threw the air directly at his face. He rolled out of the way and the blade stuck into the ground.
He grabbed the hilt when suddenly something leapt from the hole, a shadow cat-like beast. There were even shadows spewing off its fur, its eyes blood red. It leapt off the hill as he stood up, moved to the side and swung down to his left as the beast missed him by inches. As it growled viciously it walked around and turned to him, growling again as darkness dripped from each corner of its mouth. Even when its mouth begun opening to prepare for its meal, he merely spun his blade in his hand then sheathed it. It took a few more steps until its head fell off, the body fell over onto the ground. A clean cut moving threw its neck so fast, it took a moment to actually come off. When he looked about his surroundings he noticed that he wasn't far from the surface anymore. The tunnel was straight threw the hill, and even though he rolled down the hill...he was somehow higher then he originally was? This place, something was wrong. Like the laws of physics did not apply. Then just as he begun walking again, he noticed someone up above step out of view at the last second and vanish.
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Post by Morgenstern on Aug 14, 2013 13:29:20 GMT -8
He reached towards the edge after climbing the cliff. He threw his arms up over and pushed himself up to the top, he was full of soil. His face darkened by the dirt, his eyes becoming bloodshot. He looked to his hand, there were black veins coming out of his wound just beneath the flesh of his hand. It didn't look good at all, he sighed then brushed himself off. The weather was changing quickly, the red skies returned to its grey look. The star he could see threw the clouds did not give off light, but a darkness. When he looked at the star, his head started to hurt. He fell to his knee's and held his hands against his head, the pain wasn't stopping. Amongst this pain, every now and then he could see something. Memories, something that happened just before he awoke on that cliff side behind the fog.
The memories came as a blur to him, he could barely pick out them as it flashed by. He saw himself sitting in a machine inside a giant ship...sitting in the machine chair he looked at the man standing across from him. A fifty year old man, that was Jacen Morgenstern. Finally... Morgenstern said as he turned around to the view of Coruscant prime. It is complete, its been so long. Lord Xsivious, your grandfather would be proud James..
Jacen said, there was no doubt that he was a changed man. Something had gone wrong inside his head, an obsession. The same obsession Xsivious had that drove him to a darker place, more sinister then the dark side. This is your destiny James.
The chair was the center of this room. It was within a larger machine, he watched the memory until darkness blocked his vision and the pain subsided. He removed his hands from his head, why couldn't he remember what happened then? What exactly was going on. What kind of destiny would be worth fulfilling to end up in a place like this....whatever destiny it was. This had to be some kind of punishment. After removing his hands from his head he noticed someones legs, standing in front of him. He looked up at a man, wearing a dark robe. Starring down at him under the hood that cast a shadow down over his eyes. Immediately he reacted to his presence as a threat, like everything else in these lands. He quickly got up, unsheathed the Katana and gave it a fierce swing at the mans head. That moment the mysterious man smirked as he closed his eyes and raised his hand to the blades edge of his left side just before it would cut threw him. The katana hit the mans hand, but stopped, like he was invincible. He opened his eyes, grabbed the hood over his head and removed it when he looked up to face James. I am Eos, lay down your sword and speak wanderer.
What kind of name is Eos? He thought as he slowly lowered the Katana but still held it in his hand. The man had blue tribal tattoos on his face, though he definitely looked human. Perhaps he was of no danger to him. Where am i...how did i get here?!
He said raising his voice, something else was not right here. Where did that city of ruin go he seen in the distance from the other side of the canyon before he fell in. It was no where to be seen, there was nothing but dark fields, hills, and mountains in the distance. You have entered the forbidden lands of Agriuetitum and beyond. Those who wish to leave are lost, those who accept that they are lost, will keep their sanity.
He didn't quite get what he meant, Eos knew he wouldn't He raised arm and pointed out into the fields. As he tried to look for what this man was pointing at he suddenly noticed people all over the place standing on the spot, looking towards the sky. These people were made of black shadows. Lost souls...tortured by time. Accept your fate before it is to late.
He thought about it and looked down thinking of what the man just said after taking a look at what Eos pointed out, he shook his head, after coming to an understatement with the one who calls himself Eos. Wait...i can't not look for a way out of here. If i give up I'll never get out of here!
Eos sighed, slowly lowering his arm and looking back to him.
If you try, you will be lost. You will become a lost soul...I hear whispers of those who speak in their dying moments. You must understand you cannot try, because failure is the result of trying. A wise one once said. ''Do or do not, there is no try.'' Heed this warning...before its to late.
He had a sudden flash of something that happened just before he awoke here. He could see himself again, within the machine sitting down in the chair. Pure light emitted from his open mouth and eyes, the force channeled threw him when suddenly the flesh of his chest cracked open and pure light was released from within. The superweapon of this giant ship lit up as light begun growing from within the ships superlaser. Witness the Requiem...as I fulfill my fathers last words.
Jacen said when all of the sudden the force powered laser mixed with particles erupted and released a magnificent blast of energy directly at Coruscant prime. James came to his senses and looked at the sky, taking a deep breath as he came out of that vision. The star is black here. It's black!...why is that star black..
Eos closed his eyes for a moment.
A long journey awaits you threw these forbidden fields...I'll guide you for i have much knowledge of this place. You will know answers in time young one...and soon. You'll be wanting to stay here..rather facing what's up there.
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Post by Morgenstern on Aug 16, 2013 4:27:27 GMT -8
He looked up into the sky and looked at the black glowing star, what happened up there and how did he end up here. He didn't feel dead at least, that was a good sign. Maybe he was just tricking himself into thinking he was alive, the odds weren't good. He looked at the one who called himself Eos, walking ahead across the field. Eos..Are you god ?
He spoke, startling Eos by this question. He stopped to turn around and reply to James, feeling he needed to hear something.
That is certainly an interesting question, but no. I am not this God you speak of. Don't go looking for one either, any sign of a God died long ago.
He said, thought about it then begun walking again. James stood there still thinking about what he just said, thinking of something else he caught up to Eos and started walking beside him. Eos did say he would guide him, even on the path to understanding. You looked then...in every corner of this world.
This made him chuckle.
I've looked, but gave up many years ago. Do you really think anything governs these lands anymore? This place is unlimited my friend, we are beneath the universe. The outer layer of it if that helps you understand more.
No doubt it is true that this is certainly a Godless land. He looked up, now he understood a bit more. He wasn't looking at the sky, he was looking up at the universe. He walked a thin layer of fabric, a torn and frayed part of the universe. A land as vast as the universe called Agriuetitum, or the Forbidden lands. Why is this place forbidden...actually, what is it forbidden to ?
James said just when he noticed a temple a mile ahead. Eos looked at him but he kept walking in the direction of that temple.
Forbidden to the living...this isn't Chaos or Harmony. This is Agriuetitum. Where souls come to die, you're lucky i found you this early on. There are very few who keep their sanity here, the open minded type. People who can accept what has happened to them.
The sky was becoming dark once again, its funny. It's only been hours since he got here and he's seen the sky change a dozen times already, he couldn't grasp his mind around what was happening but he had some sort of an idea. What's wrong with the sky...the days...the nights. Its all wrong.
He said, Eos smirked.
My friend, this place has only one setting, one clock. One planet has a time frame of its own, another has a differen't time frame. Galaxies could be thousands of years apart, now think of the universe as a planet but with so many time frames wrapped together. He looked at James. Since you fell in that hole...it's been four months.
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Post by Morgenstern on Aug 17, 2013 19:41:16 GMT -8
He could feel the four months mentally but it didn't exactly seem like that long, mere hours. He felt so tired but his body only felt hours of those months, he was stuck in reverse. He couldn't see the canyon's edge anymore, they've entered a part of these lands where the grass is a pale green. The stone rubble of the temple ahead had vines growing up threw it and the hollow winds whistled threw the structure giving it a soul, the moment he took a step on the grass covered stone step he could see now, he could feel something dark. Evil. Horrifyingly sinister. Though who's to say what's good and evil in this place. Everything was different here. What is that i feel... He looked to Eos. I don't want to go in there Eos.
He said looking at him with a worried look upon his face. Suddenly Eos's face distorted, a part of his face melted into pure darkness as if his jaw were hanging off, his eye widening with black. He begun hearing whispers, loud inside his head. He looked around and standing on the steps were more of those shadow people, their mouths dropping with nothing but black inside. He was scarred, haven't felt like this before. He planted his hands against the sides of his head then closed his eyes as he began shaking his head, he backed up and tripped on a rock. James fell onto his back and the shadows started to approach like they had a hunger for his soul. He looked up at them, seeing doubles, reaching down towards him until finally the doubles matched up to one single hand. Eos starring down at him with his hand out to help him up. James looked at him, returning to his senses and took his hand as he was helped up. What's happening to me?!
He said looking back at Eos. The mysterious Eos glared up at the temple with a sigh, he starred at James for a moment before he continued without speaking another word. Those faces were a horrible sight and something he would never want to see ever again. James looked at the temple ahead, hearing the wind howl inside. He followed Eos shortly after, moving up the steps and into the temple. He could see other people like him and Eos. They must still keep their sanity. All eyes were upon him now, as he followed Eos inside, he looked at everyone then caught up with Eos. Where are you taking me.
He said, curious of who these people are.
To see the Oracle of fate...
He said to James as they moved to the inner temple and began climbing a staircase.
Also, don't stare. She doesn't like when people stare..
Eos said to him. Stare at what? James thought then looked up threw the middle where the staircase went around up threw the building. As they climbed it got much more dark, more dim since there were no open windows up here, just candles. They entered threw a wooden door and there she sat on a round cushion, naked where she was. The blue tribal markings along her back almost looked like they were glowing. Eos didn't say anything, so James remained silent. She looked up from her meditative state, removed her legs from the curled state and got up. She stood up straight wearing not a piece of clothing on her body, now he understood why Eos said to not stair. At least he thought he understood until she turned around to look at James, except...she had no eyes.
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Post by Morgenstern on Aug 19, 2013 14:35:26 GMT -8
The Oracle turned her head towards James, she had no eyes but it almost felt as if she was looking at him. He felt her cold glare pierce his soul until she looked to Eos with a smile, Eos looked to her as well with a nod. You've brought me something interesting, Eos. As she stepped closer James noticed there were no eye sockets where there weren't any eyes, just darkness. I found him in the pit near the fog rift...i couldn't leave him down there.
She giggled when Eos said that, she looked at James and stepped closer when she placed her hand on the side of his face and smirked, she looked at him though she wasn't finished speaking with Eos about him. If you knew what he did...you would of..
James squinted his eyes, grabbed her wrist and lowered her hand from his face.
You know. I don't even know what happened to me before i awoke here.
She did know. He could see it in her expression, but for a second there James wondered if he wanted to know what he did up there. A feeling of dread passed him as she smiled then turned away, she looked at Eos again and motioned him to leave. He nodded then left the room, closing the doors behind him. It is Ironic compared to what I've told the others, they come to me for answers. I tell those who end up here what they need to know to stay sane in the lands. I do not tell them what they lost and what they left behind, but you...it's quite the opposite.
She said then turned around facing him again.
I would ask if you wanted to know what you did and what happened...but then the thought of what i did comes to pass.
James looked down for a moment and remembered those visions he had, the Requiem was a massive machine. Though he never did know what its purpose was, he had blind faith in his father like Jacen had in his father. Seems like the Morgensterns has some kind of disorder for that. He looked at her. I don't think i want to know. But...i have to know how many people i affected.
She smiled, there was something about this Oracle. She had a desire for darkness, evil, maybe she was the devil of these lands. She slowly moved closer to him and ran her hand up his chest until she reached the side of his neck. Trillions. She looked at him, he parted his mouth in disbelief. Did anyone suffer ?
It happened fast, no one suffered. She drew closer, pressing up against him to whisper in his ear. ...but you will.
He stepped back away from her then looked her in the face. He took a few steps back before he turned around and left the oracles chambers.
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Post by Morgenstern on Aug 20, 2013 14:24:25 GMT -8
There was quite a stir in the wind the past hour, Eos was with the Oracle standing to the entrance of the inner temple. James stood at the top of the steps looking out into these strange lands. He couldn't help but think this was all that's left to everything. It was only a matter of time until everyone here would go mad. Since he left that room he's been quiet, what did you tell him?
Eos said, still starring in James direction across the long hall until he turned to look at her. That...everything is going to be alright. She said until continuing again. I told him what he needed to hear, It'll change him.
Eos looked at her with a bit of curiosity.
Change him? What do you mean. You didn't send him to his inevitable doom did you?!
He said to her and starred at her until she smirked again.
I guess we'll see now won't we.
She motioned towards the entrance, where James had vanished. Eos looked at her again then left to go and find him, when he was leaving the temple he spotted James walking away with a good distance already behind him and the temple. where is he going... Eos said to himself with a sigh. He started to walk faster, to catch up to James.
As he kept walking James thought of this place, Agriuetitum. It couldn't be unlimited, if he could live forever in this place then who's to say he can't reach the other side? Maybe the truely lost one's in these cursed lands where those people seeking refuge in a temple, under the roof of a crazy woman. He stopped in his tracks and looked up into the sky at the black star, was that Coruscant Prime? He wondered, was that what he did on the other side. Trillions dead...trillions dead...trillions dead....trillions...trillions...trillions...JAMES!
He put his hands against his head and screamed as he fell to his knee's and broke out into tears, his hands touched the ground. Tears dripped from his eye ducts, and then...something changed here. He opened his eyes and he saw his hand in the wet sand, then the water rushing up past his hands until it rolled back into the Ocean. He looked up at the endless ocean ahead, where did it come from? Eos took a few more steps until he knelt down on one knee and starred out into the ocean himself. Quite brilliant isn't it James.
James squinted, as he thought about everything. He looked down at his hands and removed them from the sand before his finger nails were stuffed with sand. He stood up and took a deep breath, thought of that pit he fell in and how Eos saved him. Thank you Eos. I don't remember if i thanked you...but you should of left me down there.
Eos chuckled and shook his head.
You'll get use to that James. Your memory isn't good when you first get here..
He looked at Eos. What do you mean?
Eos smirked and looked at him.
You got yourself out of there, I watched a broken man, torn and frayed, climb. You reached the top yourself. I thought you to be dead, most men who fall into that pit end up as a pile of bones, the spawns of these lands are twice as bad as the one's from any of our galaxies. It left you alone.. James stood up finally and looked out into the ocean, this ocean was not here a few moments ago. Like rain forms a puddle, tears form an ocean. Though it wasn't that easy, Eos knew he was confused about all of this. These lands change...if you do not know how to maneuver Agriuetitum, you'll be lost forever. This place is unlimited like the universe, you can never know if your heading out or in. None of us will ever know if there is an edge, but one thing we do know is that, there was a beginning in the universe. So there is a place here where everything began.
Eos said, he could see the wonder in his eyes as he looked at him. James looked back to the Ocean.
Yeah...if you ever find it what do you expect to find there?
Eos shrugged as they began walking, the ocean vanishing like a mirage in the distance and the hollow familiar lands becoming like they were moments ago. Eos thought about it, maybe there was such a place out there. I don't know...God. He said with a sudden smirk that faded.
James laughed and looked at him.
God? If i find such a thing there I'm going to kick its ass.
He said when suddenly clouds formed up above and the that loud sound he heard when he arrived here appeared loud in the sky once again. The grand sound, the horn sounding all over the sky, almost to intense for the ears to hear. What is that sound!! James said, Eos looked up, then he looked back at James. You hear something James?
What..? You don't hear that!
Then, it stopped. Clouds became black in the skies and something was forming in the distance. Eos stopped him with his unsheathed sword, he starred into the distance when amongst the dust clouds he spotted the dark spawns of these lands racing their way. Oh no. They've found us... He turned around when suddenly it was nothing but cracked lands, dry deserted lands. It changed and they were being hunted.
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