Halloi (Helo), and Be welcome.
This session happened on August 24, 2011. We were talking and drinking for too long, and so the real play was a bit short in time. I think it's tremenduously important to discuss with my players about their character's past, and about things not so important to the actual play, but which will indeed be important in the future, when that comes to the right time to talk about that.
About the Music :: I do not intend any offence to anyone's right, and I do not really own the music I suggest my readers listen during the Story; the suggestion is in honour to the musicians who created those beautiful songs, and I explicitly want to thank you very much.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_dtmBchdY4
(On the last Session,...)
The young Eryck looked Byènc, a white gorgeous girl.
He was just trying to keep her face on mind, and he knows she knows that. In his mind, he thinks she keep reading everyone's mind, but he's not sure it really happens.
- Hey, I'll have many things to do this week. So,... we can see each other next week?
It was more than he expected. He went home with her face on his mind. Her secret's safe. The safety, and sensation of safety he sensed when she was on guard, and prepared to one more week at the Academy. A different one. One in which he'd be studying Starship Piloting together with the basics on his new secret study, on which he thought would be special, from the basics, or he'd be in danger, again.
(End of Session)
What happened to the invader man? Who was him?
Some Talking #01-1 Solo
Eryck thought he's going to have a normal week at the Academy Base of Ryklant, as a plain thought, but then he went to classes on monday.
Although his abilities on math and calculation were great, he can't help himself.
He catches himself thinking about the skeighta girl, all the time, and he only forget yet still thinking about her when studying elementalism, alone, at the new appa.
Tuesday happens to be different.
He thought two students were following him, for no reason.
A boy from the Battle Programming club, and an older woman which is already an official, and helps the navigation master with huge number of other race's Protocols.
Again at home, he tries to create winds, but nothing happens. He can only feel the air in the place, what's said on the databank to be the basic skill.
Then, Wednesday becomes a strange day.
Strangers gaze him, wherever he goes, and even some officials seem to want to have a good look at him. Nowhere to hide, he keeps the study of Protocols up, which is his worst matter.
On the way home, he thought he sees an older man from the Academy, but as soon as he tries to look again he's just vanished.
He learned from the databank the basic knowledge of elementalism.
Only on mythology the knowledge of this magic was common, and that's a strange thing. That caused the other races, the major races rakma, jackal and ly'ène, to warn the race ikka to stop their experiment with monotheism with this world, at least while they study elementalist magic. The ikka rejected the advice. What happened was that part of those incredible action of the nobles of Akkoya, when they gathered all that was magical and those who did magic to say they needed to become secret societies. There was a final war, and the elementalist practicioners won over the religious monotheists. So, winners, they listened to the nobles with anger, but the most important elmentalist from the mythic eras, Torièn, called their attention to the fact that the common people fear magic. That was the essential and most important argument to turn just everything into a secret.
It is said Torièn is indeed still alive.
His mastering of all elements makes him essentially immortal.
"Now, that's interesting,...", Eryck thinks, impressed.
Thursday he was sure there is something going on, and he just can't avoid many strange people looking at him, or even talking with their right hand on the side of their mouth, even alone.
That was clear, and no one was hidding anymore. They follow him, and simply vanish when he looks again, in any atempt to talk to them.
He could not stop it until the next day, Friday.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjTkxMAeFcc
There's an older boy, the best astrophysics student, Býl, who was looking strangely to him yesterday, and Eryck found him in the corridor.
- Did you lost something? It's not just you, Býl. There's a lot of people looking strangely at me - Eryck could not find a better way to talk about it.
- I think,... (he made a soft noise with his throat), that when we have a strong vocation to what we are doing, everyone notice.
- What do you mean with that? Be direct and clear.
- Well,... what are you thinking about it?
Eryck could not help thinking about his elementalist studies.
- That's precisely this, Eryck.
"Everyone read minds, now?", he forced himself to think as an answer.
- I think everyone has the right to think you're special, and you are, but it's just something new. The news get old very fast. I think during the next week this all will be over.
A man called Býl from the other end of the corridor.
- I have to go. See you later.
"How did they found out about this? Byènca's too solo. The older biker, or they read my mind, and the third's really the most probable", he thought.
- You're annoying, you all. Nothing new can happen into our lives, and you all gets busy to know what's new about that person over there. So, that's it? - he just asked looking a woman who was looking at him, from the other side of the corridor. ("Me", he forces himself the thought).
Eryck looked everyone, as a mad man. The only official on the place, and older man with white hair laughed high, as it was a response to his sudden weirdy way.
"Oke,... I need to find out how to protect my mind", he concluded in silence.
(The first annoying Dream)
Once Eryck helped himself on the Academy's restaurant food, he sitted in a corner. Everyone's looking at him, as he was a stranger from other world. He starts eating, looking madly to the people there, but then, he choked, and soon he could not breathe. It was poison, he can feel. He'll be dead in a moment. He can't breathe. Eryck tries to find the magic words to breathe, but he can't speak.
At the moment he's going to die, he wakes up.
Sweating, and trembling.
- It's the second time they try to kill me while I'm sleeping. If it goes this way, I won't live more than a month - he says, breathing fast.
He looks to the Pk, and it's 08:09 on the morning.
It's Saturday, a sweet relief.
(In her special magic place they talk)
The young navigator jump on his skyboard, and goes to the gatherplace.
By the time he was just getting there, he had an idea, and he tries to fly using the air element, and it really happened. He gets off the board, a measure, and he then falls and tries to hold on the board. "Wow! Shit!" he shouts, holding the backside of board really fast and strong.
- Whose was the idea of trying to fly,... flying? - he mumbles.
Minutes later, Eryck gets to the gatherplace.
Seeing Ryklant from above finds absolutely no words to describe. The Office Tower, at the mountains, is the tower control for aerial move. Of course you have to take much care if you're near an aerial via, but most of the time, people want to stay on the ground. The mountains circle the central area and separe it from the westside, where the belvederes show the plantation areas, with more than a hundred farms. Farms handled with worker droids. The south is where you can find the Neighborhood Twelve, and the Hangar Twelve, in which every single ship must take time to sign papers, and do Protocols. At north and northeast, a middle mass nighborhood. Going northeast, from 150 great measures through a thousand great measures, a shadow under the sky, a region of ruins, old ruins, most hotels and touristic areas today. To the very east, the Inner Sea. To the southwest, the Sea of Fish, the first place to consider democracy during the mythic eras of the past.
Then, Eryck understood how he could do magic.
The heights are the natural ambient of Air/Winds, his element. It was a bad idea to try that, but now he knows once more that this all, for all that matters, is not a dream.
Byènc came, but she was flying too high, so he gets up the board and goes up.
"Is she hiding? What from?", he thought.
He came to her in there, and called for her, but she didn't stoped. Byènc went higher and higher, so all he could do was follow her. His legs were freezing, passing through the level of clouds, but she didn't stoped until they were really upside the clouds, where a neverending peach sun heats up everything. Then, Eryck saw happy that his skeighta's suit could handle those temperature changes, and soon look at the clouds, and they're like a tapestry, an infinite tapestry.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfrgI87NdNs
She stoped, and waited for him.
- It's beautiful. What happened,... you seem not to want to be tracked?
- Yey, right. Good morning - she answered.
- Good morning. What happened?
- You tell me. How was your week at the Academy?
- Everyone looking at me. Even the best students in the House.
- And did you understand what happened? - her voice is sametone, as always.
- Somehow, yes,... I'm not sure if someone spread the word, or they've read my mind.
Byènc stays in silence, for a long minute. He starts to think "How can I protect my mind?", and so she breaks the silence.
- You're right. You must worry 'bout that, but they don't wait for you to protect yourself. The only ones who care too much for protection are two, we independents, or the guilty ones.
- So, what the pèssec should I do 'bout it?
- Have you seen something different? Unusual?
- I think the ones who saw something abnormal were them. By side, noth.
- Well, Eryck, I have to say,...
- I know. The Academy of Magic, Politics and Power. It's part of the Mythology. And everyone knows. How comes I did not know about it before?
- Yes. You're now studying in a different Academy, even if it's the same. It's like the Mythology, really. You're right, and it's all in the media.
- How could thèy notice me?
- Your aura.
- What?
- I can see your aura, but only in attune state.
- Attune state?
- Do you remember the village? That's it. Let's go down, then.
- Why? Why did you came here to talk?
- Orbes.
- What?
- It's a magic focus. You can see anywhere, once you know where is there.
- I doubt someone know this where.
- Me too. I came here to tell you one thing.
- Tell me. I'm here.
- You have your lessons, right? Go straight to meditation teachings. You must control your mind. You think too loud, what's normal, but that's my words on that. You must learn meditation.
- I "think" too loud?
- Telepathy's also a passive power. Dunno how it works with magic, but I believe it's the same. We telepaths listen to everyone's plain thoughts, all the time, but we need much training to read deep thoughts, and the systheme, which is somewhat near what phenomenologists says deep counsciousness is like. We need control. And control's only got with much training, and pain.
- I didn't know it were just alike.
- I'm from Tanahta, and there things are a bit different. We, independents, we are the major force, and all Traditions must adapt to that. We learn with pain, and by the needs of the moment.
- I study in an Academy of Magic, and,...
- Hey! You can't say that in there - she was afraid, "What's she affraid of?" he thought, trying to test how to hide his own thoughts.
- Wouldn't it be easier if I took magic classes in there?
- I don't know. I don't understand what is an Academy - she says.
- How did you know I had an atypical week?
- I deduced. This is the most important Academy on the Alliance of the Three Races.
- You mean,... Academy of Magic? I didn't know that.
- Well, this is all I can tell you, right now.
- All you "can", or this is only what you know? - he suggested.
- Wrong,... (she paused), wrong knowledge at the wrong moment. Do as I tell you, and study meditation tricks, as to empty your mind. Let's go.
Down is always more about skeighta feelings than up.
They drive west. There, they see the huge farms on the ground. All with patterns of plantations, on uncountable hills, with uncountable water pools.
(End of Session)
I hope you're enjoying your reading, and,...
... Stay Plugged.
Monday, 19 September 2011
The Horizon (#03-0)
Helo, and Be welcome.
This is my adventure Story #03 Solo.
I had to chose very well a player to play these most hard and tough parts of my fiction, which will most be played during daytime. So, here comes the advice.
This Story is intended to a mature audience.
Please, relax and be ready to read a tough Story, in which pain and suffering, dubious events, death and psychological suspense gathers.
About the Music :: I do not intend any offence to anyone's right, and I do not really own the music I suggest my readers listen during the Story; the suggestion is in honour to the musicians who created those beautiful songs, and I explicitly want to thank you very much.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfWA4A39vAc&
Story #03 Solo
The Phenomenologist (Chapter One)
Doctor Twistan Hyddeg woke up in the morning, in an usual day. It's friday. The wallclock shows nine o'clock in the morning, and he's inspecting his collection of dead bugs and insects, a breeze enters from the window, a natural wooden window which only can be found in this so rich neighborhood.
The Hyddeg Hospital's located at the west and south Tol Rim, the biggest city in Akkoya.
Akkoya's a central world, capital for the ejik races, and member of The Alliance together with the other two sister races, ikka and korochi.
This is a very common and usual morning Friday at the mountains.
He passes the day investigating pacient's files. Comparing the stats with other hospital's statistics, to decipher other physicist's methods. By three afternoon, he had to see a pacient who was crying, but the pacient could not say a word on what he was really feeling. So, Doctor Hyddeg ordered the nurse to sedate him, and take blood to make exams to see if he can find the real problem.
The nurse knows Hyddeg's the best, and he knows he can find very subtle diseases by exams, by every medical and phylosophic methods, things no other doctor can do.
Well, he knows also that Hyddeg keeps this and other things as secrects of the business.
To work in Hyddeg's Hospital, you have to become as family. Every three doctor assistants, a woman in special, a very good neural linguist, is second in command. All twelve nurse, men and women, and the ambulance driver, they are all family.
It has to be this way.
Hyddeg takes the pacient blood and put into highly expensive devices. They're the most precious technology the empire can offer, and go back to his office.
Hyddeg's Hospital only take cases when they're lost.
And then, he receives a call.
The Horizon (#03-0)
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRU8jAn6Kjc
It's a couple, a man speaking and asking him to go their house. He says it's not a practice from the hospital, and who's the pacient. The man says they have a child, but it's not him, so as they could not explain what the problem is, or even what's their urgency, Doctor Hyddeg agree to have a meeting on the next morning. He passed the rest of the day analyzing stats, from Melch Lemetian, and Kora. He sometime later got to a conclusion, the korochi race knows much better than ikkas, how to deal with major demented lost cases. Stats show it all. Races are so distinct, it makes impossible to define everyone's method.
(Dreaming)
Twistan dreams with many many places, crying blood from the walls.
He just can't count how many, and as soon as he tried to do anything counscious on the dreaming, he was in front of a sea wall, and talking with a fish.
So, he wakes up, and it's six in the morning.
(Day two)
At the time of the meeting, nine o'clock, he gathered with the man and woman.
They look simply disturbed. Paranoid, maybe. The man looks to his wife, who didn't say a word, all the time, and so they explained it's their house.
The housekeeper's left just yesterday.
- It's the house. It's bleeding. Bleeding from the walls.
Doctor Hyddeg listens to them. He says it's not a practice from the hospital, but this is maybe an exception, and he will go and see.
"Interesting,...", Hyddeg thought in silence.
Saturday, 14:02, Mountains of Tol Rim
The house is a small one, well, at least a small house in this area. Mostly houses in here are huge mansions, a huge number of manors, and a few very very old castles. The Zealot Wars destroyed most of the castles on Tol Rim, but some of 'em are still alive.
Doctor Hyddeg's with a nurseman and the ambulance driver. The driver stays in the car. When entering the house, he notice it's reconstructed from two possible older constructions at the same place.
There's a garden in the front, and an old tower on the left.
Doctor Hyddeg takes a picture of it.
He can see a workshop on the right, by the garage, eight cars, and the house is two floors high. He sees a camera on the highest tree, and no pets.
- Helo, Doctor - says the man - We're happy you came. Come. This is our son Fyl, he's ten. You probably want to see,so please, this way.
They went up the staircase on the starting left of the front corridor, to the second floor, and the man's nervous, same way he and his wife were on the meeting.
- Well. This is it. (says the man). Room number five - and he opens the door, slowly.
So, the door make a noise opening, to reveal a room covered in blood. From up til down. Every wall's bleeding, and the man swallowed with some disgusting traces on his face. Doctor Hyddeg looked it from out, and started to think how to deal with this, the best way possible. Then, he asks the man to wait down the entrance hall with his family, while he examines it, and sent his nurse with him.
As soon as they went away, he started to analyze the phenomenon.
The second floor has twelve rooms. There's a study office in front of each room, except for the first and second, for the first is an internal veranda from which you can see the entrance hall, the tea room on a side, a door the other, and so the entrance door, and the second's the staircase.
Doctor Hyddeg look at the room, turning his detection on with a thought.
He sees no magic in there. No signs of rituals. He touches the door, and feels nothing. There's a strong smell of rust, so it's probably blood, really. There's need of oxigen to do it, so it may be a presence, but no presence do this all by itself, he remembers studying this long ago.
Entering the room, he turns off detection and concentrate in diagramation, and prepares his component to be used, if needed.
There are drops falling, but furniture's not bleeding.
Closed the door.
Stoped by the centre of the room.
There's no geometric pattern.
Doctor Hyddeg puts his hand onto the blood, and entered attune state. He immediately sees, once beyond the fog, a large heart upside the room. It has no connection to the house walls. The heart's bleeding, so the blood on the walls are in fact part of a presence. All common phenomenologists would never see it, and presences would keep seen as improbable to every one of 'em, because they can't see this beyond. "Interesting,...", he thinks. He looked to the tower, opening the fog. It's a necropolis, being an old ruin it is. Right oke. The tower's grey blue. He looks to other places looking for blood, and he finds a media room, down the corridor, with blood on the wall, and so he looks to the boy. There's apparently nothing wrong with the boy. He tries to detect the blood and it's ejik, so he gets out of attune and clean the blood off his hands with a lone thought.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8cNHnLXeA
- And? What do you think, Doctor? - says the man - Do we need to move out?
- It looks like a phenomenon - says the phenomenologist - I don't want to frighten you, but I can't lie to you and I must say I'm curious.
He waited, to see their reaction.
Everything may be important, so he asks for a blood test on the boy. The family agree, and the nurse takes it with maximum experience.
The blood put onto a special sensitive bar, Hyddeg touched it.
Detection says the boy has a blood deficiency and he's probably become diabetic in ten years. He keeps the information, and let the nurse says the analysis. Normal. It's not the same blood type as the walls, so the family comes to be a bit more easy now. He orders the nurse and he makes intelligence tests with the boy, to reveal he's a very good mathematic type intelligence.
Hyddeg calls the man to the garden.
- I'll get the case - says Doctor Hyddeg, observing the man's reaction.
- Ohe. Thank you, Doctor. What do you think?
- I don't give conclusions without knowing what it really is. I need you to go to a hotel. Your family will probably agree, and your son looks normal. I need to make some questions to him, and I need your permition. It helps him to answer.
- Of course. You'll have it.
- Good. Let's go.
Back inside, the man explained his son he needed him to answer some questions.
- Nurse.
- Yes, Doctor.
- Take notes on him. I need not what he's saying. I need his reactions.
- As you wish, Doctor.
The boy sitted, his family on his sides.
- What's you name?
- Fyl.
- Good, Fyl. I need to ask some questions. Do you understand?
- Yes.
- How old are you, Fyl?
- I'm ten.
- When was the first time you saw it?
- I was studying, and so I went to bed and a drop fell on my pillow.
- And what did you do?
- I,... got to call my mon.
- Loud?
- Yes.
- When did it happened?
- One week ago. One week and one day ago.
- Did someone else saw it?
- My babysitter, I mean, our housekeeper. She's left yesterday.
- And where did you sleep the next day?
- On room eleven.
- Did you sleep well? Did you had any dream? Tell me.
- I dreamt I was a fish.
- Do you like pets?
- We had a cat, but it died five years ago - "Hmm,... he knows what's to die,...", the Doctor thinks.
- When and where did it happened the second time?
- I was studying, and it bled in front of me.
- So, you felt no fear?
- No. Well, not the second time.
- And then, where did you sleep the next day?
- My parent's room, room twelve.
- And it was oke?
- They said it was safe, so I was not worried.
- Why the housekeeper left?
- I think,... she was really affraid.
- Did you know what it all was, or your parents explained to you?
- No. No one explained. I didn't know what it was.
- And the third place?
- It was at the media room. I was seeing a movie, and so I looked back and it was bleeding.
- Why did you look back?
- I don't know. I just looked, and runned away.
- Why?
- Because it was blood.
- How did you know?
- I don't know - he was a bit nervous, notices Hyddeg.
- Now, Fyl. I need to ask you not to touch your family, while I make questions. Stay quiet. Oke? (he nodded). Yes. I need you to close your eyes, and describe the third time. Exactly what you saw, step by step. So, now close your eyes, Fyl. Did you felt smoke sign. Any smell?
- No.
- Tell what happened.
- I was,... watching a movie,...
- What movie?
- One with a cat. I don't know. I just looked back and runned away.
- Why did you run?
- Because it was blood.
- Why did you look?
- I don't know,... because I was affraid.
- Why?
- I,... was affraid of dying.
- You can open your eyes, now. Get closer to your parents. Right oka.
Doctor Hyddeg takes this special case, April 2.056, Akkoya.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=bf__T33gLu0
He explained the man he's going to need a databank with all the information which could be necessary to do the investigation. The family moves to a hotel, and by night, Doctor Hyddeg was in charge of the house. The man had give all the house codes, and keys.
The way back, going to the hospital, Hyddeg asked the nurse what's he noticed.
- The boy's too concentrated for his age. But as you asked for my personal opinion too, I'll have to say I think he knew what it was before looking to it. Well,... I'm a caretaker, not a doctor.
- No, no. It's good. You're going to make a comparison with two records I'm going to send you. No, no. Better. You're just going to make a record with this you took note.
- Yes, Mal-ec.
Before going the house, Doctor Hyddeg talks with the woman doctor, his sencond in command.
- I'll let you on the command, Doctor.
- Yes, Mal-ec. We'll be here, if you need anything.
(Day Two - Nighttime - Saturday)
At 17:45, Doctor Hyddeg assumes the house.
He saw the man, wife and boy leaving their home, at the time dusk came. Night is a step ahead. For a moment, he stays in there, and looks to the house.
It comes the night.
The house's a sinister sight, knowing and not what's inside.
Twistan carries a wheel bag and uses a white coat. He remembers the words he just said the family, "I'll let you know", but he had to say that.
- Pe-kay. Start to record everything.
- That will exhaust memory in about five days, master - says the computer, in a serious man's voice.
- I know. At least, I'll have to be happy for being a doctor and have the best computer the Alliance can make, so thank you. And start recording everything, as I said.
- Yes, master.
The house owner said there's not a room he cannot enter, he thinks.
A somewhat cold breeze passes through the garden.
By entering the house, he lighted the entrance hall, and went to the tea room and lighted it too. First, accomodations. And he goes upstairs. At the fifth room, he stops. No sound. The room twelve's clean, but a number of pictures, all digital, stant in the study table. He don't need this displays, and turn 'em off. Put the luggage on the bedside, and remembering all he just saw, using diagramation. With the power on, he walked the second floor, to notice the room five study room is just upside the media room, and this is what he knows now.
Doors one to four, nice places to keep a sick person. Door five, nice place to a single, and terrible place to a couple, and he can imagine why. Nothing on door six. Door seven, all that was good has ended as the day after a party, but there's no nice sensations in there. Doors eight to ten, complete normality. Door eleven, getting out of the stress situation. Door twelve, balanced energy, but it's not the perfect place for a couple, for it involves negative emotion energies.
At the end of the corridor, the bathroom, normal, and the sideroom, normal.
He turn off diagramation and goes to the window. So, he sees the suite is built upside a ruin, and goes to the other sideroom with relaxing ambient, to see it's also upside a ruin, so the bathrooms one and two at the suite are all an old ruin, same as the tower.
- Pe-kay, open a hologram of this second floor - and he explains all he understood to the computer, and asks it to analyze throughout the walls.
- There is conduit energy on this wall, between here and room eleven. Room five, also. In here, there is the same matter, but more insubstantial, down the bed.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5absmIJN24
He takes it, and put into a flask.
- Mark room five as evidence one. Study room five as evidence two. The media room as evidence three. These places where I can find conduit in formation, evidence four. And let's start to look for evidence five.
There's a pool, seen from the suite, and there are engeneering, math and art books on the shelves, and just to remember only collectors have books.
He walks outside, at the back and side garden.
There's a very old tree, a stone wall the same type the tower, and a circle stone garden.
"I like this stone circle,...", he thinks.
Gettinf to the stone garden, a circle with rocks, he touched it and imediately saw himself being burnt into a fire, in a similar way monotheists used to burn people who used to do magic. He thought himself screaming magic words, which had no effect.
He stand up again, and listen to his Pk voice.
- What happened? Your blood pressure's down. Starting to get back normal, now.
- Someone being burnt - he says in low tone, the face frowned.
It's 20:09 now, and he decides not to enter the tower, right now, and he needs to see the office first.
- Mark the stone circle as evidence five. The tower as evidence seven, and the wall as evidence six. I don't think we're going to need more. Actually maybe,...
Twistan Hyddeg started to get really happy, at this very moment.
The stone wall is 13 normeasures wide, in contrast with the 17 normeasures for the tower. He went back the entrance hall, passing down the back entrance to the house, down the sideroom upstairs, and opened the office, to notice a miskarke flying squirrel, stuffed. It had the name of the family founder, Mýlwyèc Teatwýn, year 302, and so this is coming to be a very very interesting investigation. Asking the computer, who has now the databank on the family, the Pk says Mýlwyèc was an astrophysic navigation and old starfleet engeneer, and he has the habit of travelling ruins and old temples. "Very interesting,...", he thinks.
The new parts of the construction are 150 years old.
He goes to the tower.
The tower entrance is at the office, finally found. The old trick of a book giving passage to it,... There's no door, but the self which gives passage moving left ("Northeast", he thinks, "Ryklant? Abbas, maybe"). There are no middle parts on the tower, which should be it's seven floors. It's 21 normeasures high. Trying not to fall, he walks the side staircase up there.
There's a circlet, where to put a bell at the top and middle.
And no way to come there.
He looks down and sees a cat, watching from down. "He'll disapear, if I go down,...", he thinks and ignore the cat, to investigate the place to put a bell. It would have been a huge bell. Bronze, probably. He asks the Pk, and it says the family had a black cat, and it's name was Babbèc (my friend, in Oka). There are 17 windows at the tower, he starts to calculate metaphysics. He looked and the cat disapeared. Right. He gets down, and sees a window at the base, which goes front to the circle stone garden.
"It's a gear", he thinks in conclusion to all that.
He stays by the entrace, and enter attune state, to have the feeling this is infinite up and down, so he gets back and close the shelf passage.
He went to room five, with a bucket, and collected the blood.
Back to the tower, up there, the blood proved to be the oil to the gear, and he says to the Pk to play the loudest sound he could give of a bell, thirteen chimes. Nothing. "This is not the way to do it", he concluded. So, he gets back and get more blood, goes to the outside walls and start to calculate again. He's pretty sure this is it, but he must calculate precisely.
Tower, 17 m,... heart, third floor, invisible,... 9 m,... 5 and 9 are together,... secret is heart,... 5 from the room, 6 the stone garden, 11,... room 11,... it comes here by an hour,... tower, 7 floors,... it comes from here, it goes here,... if 9 is here, 8 is the tower diameter,... right,... 17,... so, the wall's connected to the heart, but it's invisible,... it's missing something in the tower,... eight o'clock,... ritual's on 6,... so 4,... so 1,... it's probably activated at eight o'clock,... can't see a day of the week,...
He levitated the blood and put it to the wall, equally.
So, walks nine normeasures off the wall.
Geometric forms started to appear on the wall, so he turned diagramation on. He interpreted the lines, and came to the conclusion all parts must be connected to the portal to open.
"A Trade Network group would try to destroy this all,... how could they do something like that?" he thought, almost feeling anger.
He came to the conclusion the house would come alive.
- How,... - he started - do I do to complete the Ritual? And I'm here to create you, and not to undo the Ritual.
The wall lines answered all parts of the house must be put together. And if the ritual's done now, the house would be incomplete.
- How do I complete the Ritual?
The lines indicate a date, long ago, when the sacrifice has been done, and eight more years are needed to complete the Ritual. The life and diagnose can be activated, and the native family will give the house it's personality, but only do that if the family has the proper desired personality.
- How do I do the connections within the house?
The lines indicated a series of sacrifices, of naemons, a mythis legend of animals who played the part of a familiar, a magic animal bounded to the caster.
- Cats? Cats will do it? The sacrificed cat still stays in the house?
The lines indicate yes, and they'll become naemons to the house, to protect it.
- I'm here to activate the Ritual, and I'm not in the Ritual. The other places, I already know they exist, I need to know where they are. I'll do what's needed, and I want knowledge in exchange.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EQ6eHeBrhM
The lines explained he can learn how to accept a naemon.
So, the lines disapeared, gradually.
Doctor Hyddeg stays at the gardens, thinking. Cats are easy. A bell, a large bronze bell, will be much more of a difficult task.
He goes the tea room, and make tea before going sleep.
(Day Three)
Doctor Hyddeg has a dream.
He dreams being awakened into the house. He sees may people, faceless, into each room he enters, and feels they haven't given a face because the native family hasn't been chosen yet. He remembers a legend. From the old Akkoya's mythology. There was a race of castles, called castlepeople, but he also remembers this is only a legend, a legend that maybe make much more sense now. Also, the spirit race, called naemons. They're another legend, dated back five thousand years in the past, when all naemons died. He knows, as a phenomenologist, this is a huge and very common legend, which goes from galaxy to galaxy, through time and space.
Then, he wakes up, take a shower, and have breakfast.
Room 5 is still dripping blood.
His driver came twenty minutes after he called him, saying he needs to go downtown Tol Rim. While waiting, he searched for blood and houses on the network. Nothing. Lucky him, who knows not all data's stored forever, for the space needed to do that would be so expensive, it would more easy to have a fighter race and start to conquere the whole universe.
He goes downtown, and buys a cat, with much care, to sound he needs a new friend. He just convinced himself, before doing that.
The medic in chief passes him all reports, and it's all oke.
He starts to analyze all his better options amongst his pacients. He has one, he's studying magic resistence, with not much advance, for he's the highest magic resistance level, ejik, male, 29, a perfect psychopath, with dreams of power over the people, wasted in here by his family influence; they pay well. He's a flawless profile. Doctor Hyddeg writes a letter to his family, saying he's much better, and living at the hospital won't do any more good to him, so he needs a normal life, of course with the hospital's help, and family's really needed. He says the house must be near the hospital, to make it easier.
Also, Hyddeg writes a message to the house owner, saying it's better if they move on to another place. They can still live at that house, but as the family has a child, this can be no good. He added he hope they understand he's only a doctor, and as a doctor I hope all my pacients have the more normal life possible. This is the complete diagnostic, and the honoraries will be sent in another message.
Now, the most terrible thing, he needs to wait.
Sometime later, he receives a message, saying "We thank you very much. We decided to sell the house, because our son desearves a normal life. Thank you; Dul Teatwýn", and that's going the right way.
He went to have his lunch, normally, and that afternoon came the answer.
"We found a buyer, and we'll buy a better house. Dul Teatwýn", he sent a high honorary for the work, eight thousand credits, and a few hours later, almost night, the confirmation he was waiting for.
"Helo, Doctor Hyddeg. We bought a house near the hospital. Here's the address. We have not gone to visit yet, but you can have the keys as soon as our agent can give it to you. Could you move my son to the new house, because we're only be able to visit him the next week? Thank you. Duke of Mellaton", and his immediate thought was a very well hidden one.
"That's very good. That's why the military brought you here, my dear chosen one,... It's very good to know I have a Duke in my hands,...", and he didn't show the smaller reaction to that, as always.
He just writes a very good answer and sends it.
Then, he sends a messanger speederbiker to get the keys to the family, and waited, while preparing the pacient with his special blood magic, to make him completely normal for two weeks. He'll need the normal him, to make the house have the perfect personality.
By dusk, the keys got back to him, and he ordered the nurse to prepare the pacient.
One hour later, he, the pacient and a catling came to the house.
He prepared the native occupier, with drugs. Waited until 19:30 to go the wall outside, with blood taken the same way before. Than, followed the instructions on diagramation. He put the pacient to sleep on room eight, for he knows no phenomenologist will look in there, after looking the numbers into the house. Then, he looked to the catling, and with a knife he made the sacrifice. The cat got fire, inside the circle of stone rocks, and he lost physical form, as soon as the sacrifice was complete, vanishing together with the indigo fire. He immediately feels a difference, but had to go room number 5 to notice the house has a slight breath, very calm, like it was sleeping. He made his room twelve, and prepared to sleep, having some tea with cookies.
(End of Session)
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How many more houses as this one are there to be found?
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Story #03 Solo
The Phenomenologist (Chapter One)
Doctor Twistan Hyddeg woke up in the morning, in an usual day. It's friday. The wallclock shows nine o'clock in the morning, and he's inspecting his collection of dead bugs and insects, a breeze enters from the window, a natural wooden window which only can be found in this so rich neighborhood.
The Hyddeg Hospital's located at the west and south Tol Rim, the biggest city in Akkoya.
Akkoya's a central world, capital for the ejik races, and member of The Alliance together with the other two sister races, ikka and korochi.
This is a very common and usual morning Friday at the mountains.
He passes the day investigating pacient's files. Comparing the stats with other hospital's statistics, to decipher other physicist's methods. By three afternoon, he had to see a pacient who was crying, but the pacient could not say a word on what he was really feeling. So, Doctor Hyddeg ordered the nurse to sedate him, and take blood to make exams to see if he can find the real problem.
The nurse knows Hyddeg's the best, and he knows he can find very subtle diseases by exams, by every medical and phylosophic methods, things no other doctor can do.
Well, he knows also that Hyddeg keeps this and other things as secrects of the business.
To work in Hyddeg's Hospital, you have to become as family. Every three doctor assistants, a woman in special, a very good neural linguist, is second in command. All twelve nurse, men and women, and the ambulance driver, they are all family.
It has to be this way.
Hyddeg takes the pacient blood and put into highly expensive devices. They're the most precious technology the empire can offer, and go back to his office.
Hyddeg's Hospital only take cases when they're lost.
And then, he receives a call.
The Horizon (#03-0)
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRU8jAn6Kjc
It's a couple, a man speaking and asking him to go their house. He says it's not a practice from the hospital, and who's the pacient. The man says they have a child, but it's not him, so as they could not explain what the problem is, or even what's their urgency, Doctor Hyddeg agree to have a meeting on the next morning. He passed the rest of the day analyzing stats, from Melch Lemetian, and Kora. He sometime later got to a conclusion, the korochi race knows much better than ikkas, how to deal with major demented lost cases. Stats show it all. Races are so distinct, it makes impossible to define everyone's method.
(Dreaming)
Twistan dreams with many many places, crying blood from the walls.
He just can't count how many, and as soon as he tried to do anything counscious on the dreaming, he was in front of a sea wall, and talking with a fish.
So, he wakes up, and it's six in the morning.
(Day two)
At the time of the meeting, nine o'clock, he gathered with the man and woman.
They look simply disturbed. Paranoid, maybe. The man looks to his wife, who didn't say a word, all the time, and so they explained it's their house.
The housekeeper's left just yesterday.
- It's the house. It's bleeding. Bleeding from the walls.
Doctor Hyddeg listens to them. He says it's not a practice from the hospital, but this is maybe an exception, and he will go and see.
"Interesting,...", Hyddeg thought in silence.
Saturday, 14:02, Mountains of Tol Rim
The house is a small one, well, at least a small house in this area. Mostly houses in here are huge mansions, a huge number of manors, and a few very very old castles. The Zealot Wars destroyed most of the castles on Tol Rim, but some of 'em are still alive.
Doctor Hyddeg's with a nurseman and the ambulance driver. The driver stays in the car. When entering the house, he notice it's reconstructed from two possible older constructions at the same place.
There's a garden in the front, and an old tower on the left.
Doctor Hyddeg takes a picture of it.
He can see a workshop on the right, by the garage, eight cars, and the house is two floors high. He sees a camera on the highest tree, and no pets.
- Helo, Doctor - says the man - We're happy you came. Come. This is our son Fyl, he's ten. You probably want to see,so please, this way.
They went up the staircase on the starting left of the front corridor, to the second floor, and the man's nervous, same way he and his wife were on the meeting.
- Well. This is it. (says the man). Room number five - and he opens the door, slowly.
So, the door make a noise opening, to reveal a room covered in blood. From up til down. Every wall's bleeding, and the man swallowed with some disgusting traces on his face. Doctor Hyddeg looked it from out, and started to think how to deal with this, the best way possible. Then, he asks the man to wait down the entrance hall with his family, while he examines it, and sent his nurse with him.
As soon as they went away, he started to analyze the phenomenon.
The second floor has twelve rooms. There's a study office in front of each room, except for the first and second, for the first is an internal veranda from which you can see the entrance hall, the tea room on a side, a door the other, and so the entrance door, and the second's the staircase.
Doctor Hyddeg look at the room, turning his detection on with a thought.
He sees no magic in there. No signs of rituals. He touches the door, and feels nothing. There's a strong smell of rust, so it's probably blood, really. There's need of oxigen to do it, so it may be a presence, but no presence do this all by itself, he remembers studying this long ago.
Entering the room, he turns off detection and concentrate in diagramation, and prepares his component to be used, if needed.
There are drops falling, but furniture's not bleeding.
Closed the door.
Stoped by the centre of the room.
There's no geometric pattern.
Doctor Hyddeg puts his hand onto the blood, and entered attune state. He immediately sees, once beyond the fog, a large heart upside the room. It has no connection to the house walls. The heart's bleeding, so the blood on the walls are in fact part of a presence. All common phenomenologists would never see it, and presences would keep seen as improbable to every one of 'em, because they can't see this beyond. "Interesting,...", he thinks. He looked to the tower, opening the fog. It's a necropolis, being an old ruin it is. Right oke. The tower's grey blue. He looks to other places looking for blood, and he finds a media room, down the corridor, with blood on the wall, and so he looks to the boy. There's apparently nothing wrong with the boy. He tries to detect the blood and it's ejik, so he gets out of attune and clean the blood off his hands with a lone thought.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8cNHnLXeA
- And? What do you think, Doctor? - says the man - Do we need to move out?
- It looks like a phenomenon - says the phenomenologist - I don't want to frighten you, but I can't lie to you and I must say I'm curious.
He waited, to see their reaction.
Everything may be important, so he asks for a blood test on the boy. The family agree, and the nurse takes it with maximum experience.
The blood put onto a special sensitive bar, Hyddeg touched it.
Detection says the boy has a blood deficiency and he's probably become diabetic in ten years. He keeps the information, and let the nurse says the analysis. Normal. It's not the same blood type as the walls, so the family comes to be a bit more easy now. He orders the nurse and he makes intelligence tests with the boy, to reveal he's a very good mathematic type intelligence.
Hyddeg calls the man to the garden.
- I'll get the case - says Doctor Hyddeg, observing the man's reaction.
- Ohe. Thank you, Doctor. What do you think?
- I don't give conclusions without knowing what it really is. I need you to go to a hotel. Your family will probably agree, and your son looks normal. I need to make some questions to him, and I need your permition. It helps him to answer.
- Of course. You'll have it.
- Good. Let's go.
Back inside, the man explained his son he needed him to answer some questions.
- Nurse.
- Yes, Doctor.
- Take notes on him. I need not what he's saying. I need his reactions.
- As you wish, Doctor.
The boy sitted, his family on his sides.
- What's you name?
- Fyl.
- Good, Fyl. I need to ask some questions. Do you understand?
- Yes.
- How old are you, Fyl?
- I'm ten.
- When was the first time you saw it?
- I was studying, and so I went to bed and a drop fell on my pillow.
- And what did you do?
- I,... got to call my mon.
- Loud?
- Yes.
- When did it happened?
- One week ago. One week and one day ago.
- Did someone else saw it?
- My babysitter, I mean, our housekeeper. She's left yesterday.
- And where did you sleep the next day?
- On room eleven.
- Did you sleep well? Did you had any dream? Tell me.
- I dreamt I was a fish.
- Do you like pets?
- We had a cat, but it died five years ago - "Hmm,... he knows what's to die,...", the Doctor thinks.
- When and where did it happened the second time?
- I was studying, and it bled in front of me.
- So, you felt no fear?
- No. Well, not the second time.
- And then, where did you sleep the next day?
- My parent's room, room twelve.
- And it was oke?
- They said it was safe, so I was not worried.
- Why the housekeeper left?
- I think,... she was really affraid.
- Did you know what it all was, or your parents explained to you?
- No. No one explained. I didn't know what it was.
- And the third place?
- It was at the media room. I was seeing a movie, and so I looked back and it was bleeding.
- Why did you look back?
- I don't know. I just looked, and runned away.
- Why?
- Because it was blood.
- How did you know?
- I don't know - he was a bit nervous, notices Hyddeg.
- Now, Fyl. I need to ask you not to touch your family, while I make questions. Stay quiet. Oke? (he nodded). Yes. I need you to close your eyes, and describe the third time. Exactly what you saw, step by step. So, now close your eyes, Fyl. Did you felt smoke sign. Any smell?
- No.
- Tell what happened.
- I was,... watching a movie,...
- What movie?
- One with a cat. I don't know. I just looked back and runned away.
- Why did you run?
- Because it was blood.
- Why did you look?
- I don't know,... because I was affraid.
- Why?
- I,... was affraid of dying.
- You can open your eyes, now. Get closer to your parents. Right oka.
Doctor Hyddeg takes this special case, April 2.056, Akkoya.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=bf__T33gLu0
He explained the man he's going to need a databank with all the information which could be necessary to do the investigation. The family moves to a hotel, and by night, Doctor Hyddeg was in charge of the house. The man had give all the house codes, and keys.
The way back, going to the hospital, Hyddeg asked the nurse what's he noticed.
- The boy's too concentrated for his age. But as you asked for my personal opinion too, I'll have to say I think he knew what it was before looking to it. Well,... I'm a caretaker, not a doctor.
- No, no. It's good. You're going to make a comparison with two records I'm going to send you. No, no. Better. You're just going to make a record with this you took note.
- Yes, Mal-ec.
Before going the house, Doctor Hyddeg talks with the woman doctor, his sencond in command.
- I'll let you on the command, Doctor.
- Yes, Mal-ec. We'll be here, if you need anything.
(Day Two - Nighttime - Saturday)
At 17:45, Doctor Hyddeg assumes the house.
He saw the man, wife and boy leaving their home, at the time dusk came. Night is a step ahead. For a moment, he stays in there, and looks to the house.
It comes the night.
The house's a sinister sight, knowing and not what's inside.
Twistan carries a wheel bag and uses a white coat. He remembers the words he just said the family, "I'll let you know", but he had to say that.
- Pe-kay. Start to record everything.
- That will exhaust memory in about five days, master - says the computer, in a serious man's voice.
- I know. At least, I'll have to be happy for being a doctor and have the best computer the Alliance can make, so thank you. And start recording everything, as I said.
- Yes, master.
The house owner said there's not a room he cannot enter, he thinks.
A somewhat cold breeze passes through the garden.
By entering the house, he lighted the entrance hall, and went to the tea room and lighted it too. First, accomodations. And he goes upstairs. At the fifth room, he stops. No sound. The room twelve's clean, but a number of pictures, all digital, stant in the study table. He don't need this displays, and turn 'em off. Put the luggage on the bedside, and remembering all he just saw, using diagramation. With the power on, he walked the second floor, to notice the room five study room is just upside the media room, and this is what he knows now.
Doors one to four, nice places to keep a sick person. Door five, nice place to a single, and terrible place to a couple, and he can imagine why. Nothing on door six. Door seven, all that was good has ended as the day after a party, but there's no nice sensations in there. Doors eight to ten, complete normality. Door eleven, getting out of the stress situation. Door twelve, balanced energy, but it's not the perfect place for a couple, for it involves negative emotion energies.
At the end of the corridor, the bathroom, normal, and the sideroom, normal.
He turn off diagramation and goes to the window. So, he sees the suite is built upside a ruin, and goes to the other sideroom with relaxing ambient, to see it's also upside a ruin, so the bathrooms one and two at the suite are all an old ruin, same as the tower.
- Pe-kay, open a hologram of this second floor - and he explains all he understood to the computer, and asks it to analyze throughout the walls.
- There is conduit energy on this wall, between here and room eleven. Room five, also. In here, there is the same matter, but more insubstantial, down the bed.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5absmIJN24
He takes it, and put into a flask.
- Mark room five as evidence one. Study room five as evidence two. The media room as evidence three. These places where I can find conduit in formation, evidence four. And let's start to look for evidence five.
There's a pool, seen from the suite, and there are engeneering, math and art books on the shelves, and just to remember only collectors have books.
He walks outside, at the back and side garden.
There's a very old tree, a stone wall the same type the tower, and a circle stone garden.
"I like this stone circle,...", he thinks.
Gettinf to the stone garden, a circle with rocks, he touched it and imediately saw himself being burnt into a fire, in a similar way monotheists used to burn people who used to do magic. He thought himself screaming magic words, which had no effect.
He stand up again, and listen to his Pk voice.
- What happened? Your blood pressure's down. Starting to get back normal, now.
- Someone being burnt - he says in low tone, the face frowned.
It's 20:09 now, and he decides not to enter the tower, right now, and he needs to see the office first.
- Mark the stone circle as evidence five. The tower as evidence seven, and the wall as evidence six. I don't think we're going to need more. Actually maybe,...
Twistan Hyddeg started to get really happy, at this very moment.
The stone wall is 13 normeasures wide, in contrast with the 17 normeasures for the tower. He went back the entrance hall, passing down the back entrance to the house, down the sideroom upstairs, and opened the office, to notice a miskarke flying squirrel, stuffed. It had the name of the family founder, Mýlwyèc Teatwýn, year 302, and so this is coming to be a very very interesting investigation. Asking the computer, who has now the databank on the family, the Pk says Mýlwyèc was an astrophysic navigation and old starfleet engeneer, and he has the habit of travelling ruins and old temples. "Very interesting,...", he thinks.
The new parts of the construction are 150 years old.
He goes to the tower.
The tower entrance is at the office, finally found. The old trick of a book giving passage to it,... There's no door, but the self which gives passage moving left ("Northeast", he thinks, "Ryklant? Abbas, maybe"). There are no middle parts on the tower, which should be it's seven floors. It's 21 normeasures high. Trying not to fall, he walks the side staircase up there.
There's a circlet, where to put a bell at the top and middle.
And no way to come there.
He looks down and sees a cat, watching from down. "He'll disapear, if I go down,...", he thinks and ignore the cat, to investigate the place to put a bell. It would have been a huge bell. Bronze, probably. He asks the Pk, and it says the family had a black cat, and it's name was Babbèc (my friend, in Oka). There are 17 windows at the tower, he starts to calculate metaphysics. He looked and the cat disapeared. Right. He gets down, and sees a window at the base, which goes front to the circle stone garden.
"It's a gear", he thinks in conclusion to all that.
He stays by the entrace, and enter attune state, to have the feeling this is infinite up and down, so he gets back and close the shelf passage.
He went to room five, with a bucket, and collected the blood.
Back to the tower, up there, the blood proved to be the oil to the gear, and he says to the Pk to play the loudest sound he could give of a bell, thirteen chimes. Nothing. "This is not the way to do it", he concluded. So, he gets back and get more blood, goes to the outside walls and start to calculate again. He's pretty sure this is it, but he must calculate precisely.
Tower, 17 m,... heart, third floor, invisible,... 9 m,... 5 and 9 are together,... secret is heart,... 5 from the room, 6 the stone garden, 11,... room 11,... it comes here by an hour,... tower, 7 floors,... it comes from here, it goes here,... if 9 is here, 8 is the tower diameter,... right,... 17,... so, the wall's connected to the heart, but it's invisible,... it's missing something in the tower,... eight o'clock,... ritual's on 6,... so 4,... so 1,... it's probably activated at eight o'clock,... can't see a day of the week,...
He levitated the blood and put it to the wall, equally.
So, walks nine normeasures off the wall.
Geometric forms started to appear on the wall, so he turned diagramation on. He interpreted the lines, and came to the conclusion all parts must be connected to the portal to open.
"A Trade Network group would try to destroy this all,... how could they do something like that?" he thought, almost feeling anger.
He came to the conclusion the house would come alive.
- How,... - he started - do I do to complete the Ritual? And I'm here to create you, and not to undo the Ritual.
The wall lines answered all parts of the house must be put together. And if the ritual's done now, the house would be incomplete.
- How do I complete the Ritual?
The lines indicate a date, long ago, when the sacrifice has been done, and eight more years are needed to complete the Ritual. The life and diagnose can be activated, and the native family will give the house it's personality, but only do that if the family has the proper desired personality.
- How do I do the connections within the house?
The lines indicated a series of sacrifices, of naemons, a mythis legend of animals who played the part of a familiar, a magic animal bounded to the caster.
- Cats? Cats will do it? The sacrificed cat still stays in the house?
The lines indicate yes, and they'll become naemons to the house, to protect it.
- I'm here to activate the Ritual, and I'm not in the Ritual. The other places, I already know they exist, I need to know where they are. I'll do what's needed, and I want knowledge in exchange.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EQ6eHeBrhM
The lines explained he can learn how to accept a naemon.
So, the lines disapeared, gradually.
Doctor Hyddeg stays at the gardens, thinking. Cats are easy. A bell, a large bronze bell, will be much more of a difficult task.
He goes the tea room, and make tea before going sleep.
(Day Three)
Doctor Hyddeg has a dream.
He dreams being awakened into the house. He sees may people, faceless, into each room he enters, and feels they haven't given a face because the native family hasn't been chosen yet. He remembers a legend. From the old Akkoya's mythology. There was a race of castles, called castlepeople, but he also remembers this is only a legend, a legend that maybe make much more sense now. Also, the spirit race, called naemons. They're another legend, dated back five thousand years in the past, when all naemons died. He knows, as a phenomenologist, this is a huge and very common legend, which goes from galaxy to galaxy, through time and space.
Then, he wakes up, take a shower, and have breakfast.
Room 5 is still dripping blood.
His driver came twenty minutes after he called him, saying he needs to go downtown Tol Rim. While waiting, he searched for blood and houses on the network. Nothing. Lucky him, who knows not all data's stored forever, for the space needed to do that would be so expensive, it would more easy to have a fighter race and start to conquere the whole universe.
He goes downtown, and buys a cat, with much care, to sound he needs a new friend. He just convinced himself, before doing that.
The medic in chief passes him all reports, and it's all oke.
He starts to analyze all his better options amongst his pacients. He has one, he's studying magic resistence, with not much advance, for he's the highest magic resistance level, ejik, male, 29, a perfect psychopath, with dreams of power over the people, wasted in here by his family influence; they pay well. He's a flawless profile. Doctor Hyddeg writes a letter to his family, saying he's much better, and living at the hospital won't do any more good to him, so he needs a normal life, of course with the hospital's help, and family's really needed. He says the house must be near the hospital, to make it easier.
Also, Hyddeg writes a message to the house owner, saying it's better if they move on to another place. They can still live at that house, but as the family has a child, this can be no good. He added he hope they understand he's only a doctor, and as a doctor I hope all my pacients have the more normal life possible. This is the complete diagnostic, and the honoraries will be sent in another message.
Now, the most terrible thing, he needs to wait.
Sometime later, he receives a message, saying "We thank you very much. We decided to sell the house, because our son desearves a normal life. Thank you; Dul Teatwýn", and that's going the right way.
He went to have his lunch, normally, and that afternoon came the answer.
"We found a buyer, and we'll buy a better house. Dul Teatwýn", he sent a high honorary for the work, eight thousand credits, and a few hours later, almost night, the confirmation he was waiting for.
"Helo, Doctor Hyddeg. We bought a house near the hospital. Here's the address. We have not gone to visit yet, but you can have the keys as soon as our agent can give it to you. Could you move my son to the new house, because we're only be able to visit him the next week? Thank you. Duke of Mellaton", and his immediate thought was a very well hidden one.
"That's very good. That's why the military brought you here, my dear chosen one,... It's very good to know I have a Duke in my hands,...", and he didn't show the smaller reaction to that, as always.
He just writes a very good answer and sends it.
Then, he sends a messanger speederbiker to get the keys to the family, and waited, while preparing the pacient with his special blood magic, to make him completely normal for two weeks. He'll need the normal him, to make the house have the perfect personality.
By dusk, the keys got back to him, and he ordered the nurse to prepare the pacient.
One hour later, he, the pacient and a catling came to the house.
He prepared the native occupier, with drugs. Waited until 19:30 to go the wall outside, with blood taken the same way before. Than, followed the instructions on diagramation. He put the pacient to sleep on room eight, for he knows no phenomenologist will look in there, after looking the numbers into the house. Then, he looked to the catling, and with a knife he made the sacrifice. The cat got fire, inside the circle of stone rocks, and he lost physical form, as soon as the sacrifice was complete, vanishing together with the indigo fire. He immediately feels a difference, but had to go room number 5 to notice the house has a slight breath, very calm, like it was sleeping. He made his room twelve, and prepared to sleep, having some tea with cookies.
(End of Session)
Some Considerations necessary
How many more houses as this one are there to be found?
I hope you're enjoying your reading, and,...
... Stay Plugged.
Saturday, 17 September 2011
Nimbus of Tomorrow (#02-2)
Halloi (Helo), and Be welcome.
Welcome to Kalaummuklutwe, also called by the nickname of Akkoya. A capital world, where the ejik races have their central order.
This is a Story adapted from a story played, and so written in here under Creative Commons.
Please, leave a comment if you want, and let me know if you used any of my ideas in your games. That is the essential idea of using Creative Commons. We can use each creative works we want, and so melt them into a new campaign, setting, or else, and our RPG story will be much more meaningful, to ourselves and to the groups we master those stories.
About the Music :: I do not intend any offence to anyone's right, and I do not own the music I suggest my readers listen during the Story; the suggestion is in honour to the musicians who created those beautiful songs, and I want to thank you very much, for posting these great songs.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79KsJxiIEs4
This session runned on July 31, 2011, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
A Brief Log
Ryklant is a large city, with high tower buildings. Most of the population works on the two major business, the Media, and the Academy Base of Ryklant (ABR), both runned for the last two millennia in accordance with this being a main capital world within the Alliance.
Although Ryklant is huge, with more than 15 million people in the urban area, Tol Rim in the west is bigger, and the East Aglomerate is much more.
This is the main capital for the Academy.
The eastside is a military training base for the Academy, and it contrasts with the mountains in the west and central regions. There is a huge area, in about eight hundred kilomeasures to the northeast, which are ruins, necropolis, all related to ancient history, and mythology.
The north area's full of life, and it is alive all day and night.
So, we come to the south to see the major Media corporation areas, which gathers the seventeen major corps within the business.
There are many problems in the south area. Those includes drugs, trafic and prostitution, but the media corporations do nothing to deal with it properly.
Main central area's full of life, the whole year, and that's where solstices and equinoxes are celebrated.
So, I welcome you to enter this capital city.
Hope you enjoy your stay, and leave a message in our space.
Nimbus of Tomorrow (#02-2)
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JATGmvJT5qY
As soon as Borttom parked the car, he and Takket stoped to see the maps. There's an holographic map on the parking space. Also, they need to wait for Tul, to enter the area of ruins and ancient castles, monasteries, some still in use today, and the endless hotels starting here and ending northeast Tachize. That's what is shown on the holograms they're looking at.
They listen to a noise, and Borttom sees Tul, but he stoped.
Borttom then looks Takket, and his eyes are black. He knows what it is. Takket's having a vision, something he himself have had so many times.
Takket sees the nobleman they saved, saying what happened to someone else. Then, he sees himself and Borttom invading a mansion. There's a noble and his granddaughter they need to save, but all droids of defense are off, and he sees a number of combat situations with spirits. It seems the spirits are trying to kill the man and the girl. So, all images desapear, and he sees a meeting. Many noblemen are present. There's a dim light, and there's a woman smoking cigarretes on the corner. The nobles want to know how they know what's going to happen, and Takket and Tul decided to let that be explained by Borttom. Their group is five, but he can't see the other two, as they're just back of him, and in silence. It continues, to a terrible omen. He's wearing poor clothes, and fetters (grilhões) made of a strange pale white metal, with indigo symbols, from which comes the only light in there. He's tied in. A prisoner, with no chance of freedom, or hope in the future.
Then, he sees himself as on being at the right side of a throne. He's skin is black, with symbols on it, indigo, and he's holding a wondrous staff of power. It's made of a cristaline substance, and there's a blue jewelry on the top, his clothes are silk black.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekPyC8DGQ-k
He senses his decisions define if one live or die.
The person (he can't see) sitted the throne emanates particles of darkness.
Borttom and Tul see a pearly aura around Takket's head and shoulders.
And then, Takket comes to himself.
- You had a vision - says Borttom - I know how does it is like.
- Yeah,... ohe - answer Takket, but his voice carry a different tone from the usual happy tone he's always used.
"Is this the future?", he thinks, confuse.
When Tul was to say something, hiw Pk made a sound (tut-tut) and he had to let the other two. "I have to come back, but I'll be back as soon as I can", he says. Borttom passes his Pk contact to him, and they see the korochi going the trees, from where he came before.
- Get up the car, Takket. We're late - resumed Borttom.
(At the Ruins of the Mythic Era)
Along a main road, there stand a huge number of castles. Each and every one used in centuries of movies, for the media business. All usually hotels. The enormous number resembles Borttom of the Independent Ducat, a region northwards from Tanka, his place, a huge City State in central Tanahta. But in here, these castles are more of what expected in movies. They're all too old, although in very nice state, all rich in details, like in canvas, or the dreams you have when you dream too deep.
There's an airway in the west from there.
They feel the Inner Sea's maritmic breeze in the dark of the night.
Some time later, they enter a huge forest.
Here, the lights beside the road all end, and the night is only house to the headlights and the small car noise, like an annoying bug in that dark forest. Borttom notice he's really had no vision yet. This means he's on the right way, he knows it. He sees the enormous trees like they were going to get the car and crash it in small pieces, so as a very experienced bogling, he turns on the defense mechanics. Not to use, but to be safe. It's also becoming even darker than usual in the forest.
Not long later, they get beyond the dark forest.
- We're here, capt'n,... - says Borttom, and he parks the small car.
At the end of the road, essentially.
Takket gets to the ground, and starts to look. It's a huge valley, and the small man gets off the car. They stay in silence, watching. There are no roads. No lights. Not a lonely house, or fire. They're on the entrance way, down to the southwest. There's possibly a way off, on the other side, through the valley and northeast. A mountain covered with eternal snow's on the north. A small village in ruins, on it's bank, and from there another valley, but only a smaller one.
There are maybe a hundred temple ruins, on the north of the calm lake.
Also, they sensed death from the ruins of a prison to the left, and goosebumps coming from every place they can put their eyes on it.
- Unidentified life form located, range eight hundred normeasures - says the car.
- Is it,... (Borttom calculates), on that ruins, of a village?
- Precisely - answer the car.
- Call a spirit, Takket. We need to talk with them, first, you know.
- I'll do it, now.
Takket invoke a spirit, and a hyena appears. It's an orange skinned hyena, with white eyes, and it appears at the very moment he entered attune trance to talk.
"Unusual,...", he thinks.
- What is it, on that ruin of a village?
- There's a smell, (answered the hyena), of ambar and iron. It's a female. Too much energy in here, and no true energy. I'm hungry.
- How long is she in that place? - asked Takket.
- Four hours (it's spirit speech, but the hyena's pretty clear in her voice).
Takket gave true energy to the spirit, and it answered thankful.
- It's a child - and the spirit, ("A naemon?" thought Takket), was gone.
The wizard turned to talk with the small man, getting off the trance state, and looking to the direction of those village old buildings.
- There's a smell of iron and ambar, and it's a child we're looking for, Borttom.
- I knew it. Wait.
He turned his elektra powers and feels the ambient.
- It's true. There's so much ionic particles in here, we could fire the place with a thought. Car, wait here. I'll be back as soon as I can. (the car assumed standbye). Let's go. - he says to Takket.
A few minutes later, they got to the ruins of a very old village.
There's not much more than it's foundations, a low wall here and there. A sense of old is present. It's dark, and Takket goes in the front, while Borttom waits. In the thirteenth wall, he listen to a little noise, and he looks for the person he's looking for. There is a small girl, undressed and squeezed in the corner, so he come closer, being careful not to act too fast, to talk with her.
She doesn't talk, so he takes off his coat to give the girl.
The small girl takes the coat, and dress the same way as he was using it, that is, just over herself, but soon she's again squeezed into a corner.
With care, Borttom comes trying not to make too much noise.
They listen to a noise in the other corner, and,...
VVvvvaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh,... - the girl attacked something in there.
It was a ratling, now totally toasted, by a frozen fire, of ambaric orange energy, and Borttom started to analyze what the hell was that.
Then, Takket feels her powers could kill them, in a blink of an eye.
- Helo - says the wizard - I want to help you. This,... are you hungry? (but she didn't move). This,.. (he ask Borttom to give his "ration"),... Look. You eat this way. (and he shows how to unwrap the cereal bar, and eats, to make sure she sees him eating - and it worked).
Her move was so fast it almost hurt his hand.
She smells the bar, before eating. And she made a noise, as a "Hmm,...". They can't see her face, because she's wearing the travel coat over her head, but she ended eating, and went again to the same position, squeezed in that old ruin wall's cold corner. "Is it good? Do you want some more?", asked Takket, but she didn't looked to the food, they feel she's in complete shock, and so Borttom understood.
This girl was born in here, same way he was born. The same way a poltergeist is born, to become a bogling, just as a simple manifestation.
- Helo. I'm Borttom - he comes closer - I know what you're feeling. I was born the same way you. I remember, as it were today. I'm here to help you.
Borttom makes silence, waiting, and it worked.
The girl so looked to him.
(At the Korichi new village)
As soon as Tul got to the village, the oldest man was waiting.
- What happened, oldest?
- Have a sit - says him - We have a situation. The four youngsters you see (he pointed the corner), they experienced something unusual.
- What happened, I want to talk with each one separatedly, oldest man.
- Use my room, fixer - says the oldest.
- You, - he points, heading the room - come first.
After talking with the youngsters, no one older than twelve, he concludes he must call his tribe oldest and master, because this is weird enough.
Tul told the youngsters to stay on the place, and called his master.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnNxcEAgtRg
- Yes - he listen to his master's voice.
- Master, we have a situation. I'm on the settlement you've sent me to. There is,... there "was" a huge alignment today, and I'm investigating.
- I know - says his master - What happened?
- Four youngsters saw the nothingness. They felt they were in the spacetunnel, and they know the feeling, as they travelled the galaxy to come here. By their description, I can say they saw the very same thing. It's a crashed, I mean, a wrecked ship, in the nothingness.
- That's good you called, Tul. I'll have to investigate this, and my seer just told me you'll call again today. Let the youngsters go home. The visions will, and so take much care, tonight.
- Yes, master - and he ended the call.
When the youngsters went home, he says good night to the oldest man. He's waited, and by his master's voice, the other two may need him, immensely.
(At the Old Ruins)
The young little girl looked Borttom.
Borttom and Takket just stay there, looking her and offering a cereal bar from time to time. She doesn't looks like speaking, and the small man considers the option she doesn't know how to speak. He knows. He was born in a very similar situation, long ago, in the world of Tanahta. He remembers he attacked everyone, until the oldest agent, who was called 5B, could explain to him he was safe.
So, carefully, Borttom says he'll make a fire, and says they'll camp to Takket.
Of course, the little girl squeezed by the vision of fire, but soon she was curious about it. The small man tries to explain the fire is hot, calling her.
She crawls to the fire, and tries to put her hand on it.
- Oh-oh,... take care - says Borttom - The fire can burn. It's hot.
As he speaks this, she put her hand in the direction of the fire, feeling the heat, and so she pointed out in the oposite direction, and the ruin walls behind them freezed. A small crust of ice appeared in the walls, while she pointed that direction, and so she looked to the fire, again.
Takket frowned to the icy crust, and looked to Borttom, but decided not to talk.
"This is a tremendous power,...", thinks the wizard in silence.
Borttom's sure she knows they're not here to harm her, but then he remember Tul. The korochi will come, and he needs to talk to him before, not to frighten her.
It could be really dangerous.
- Takket - he says - Take much care. I need to go my car, and talk to Tul. What is this noise?
- What noise? Yes, I can listen. It's coming from - and he looks - up.
Both look to the sky, and there's no star on the sky.
They see a huge cloud of black birds, covering the night up them. It's making a little noise, as their thousand wings flap in counterclock flight.
- I'll be back in a minute, Takket.
- Oke. I'm in here. Take care the way back, when Tul comes.
- Right. I'll remember that.
Borttom waited before teleporting to the car.
Flying, inside a bubble of swarf, Tul noticed he hitted birds, so hitted many more birds, and so stoped. He looked the direction around the coordinates given by Borttom's Pk computer, and sees an immense cloud of birds, black birds, flying in circle, over a valley.
"Easy to find", the korochi thinks, and comes a bit more slowly now.
When he went down, just by Borttom's side, he sees the small man inside the car, looking for a number of diagrams and tables, and statistics on various screens.
- What's happening?
- Well, Tul. A girl just born eleven. She's with Takket, on those ruins by the fire. The place is full of ionic energy, so take care.
- Who's she?
- That's a good question. I think she was an effect from the alignment. I was born in a very similar way, and she's probably afraid of everything. I guess she's a psionic, and she's just awakening. You must know, as a psionic, the danger we're into, now.
- Hmm,... Yes. She can blow everything.
- Exactly - says Borttom.
- She's with Takket, by that fire over there.
- I'll call for help.
- Do it. I'm not from this planet, and you probably know much more than me who to talk to.
- I'll call my master.
Tul walked some ten normeasures, and explained the situation to his master. The elder says he'll sent help, and the man will be using black robes and a turban.
In the meantime, Takket was only trying to give her cereal bars, and stay calm.
Then, Tul comes to the ruin to talk with the little girl.
He tries to not make so much noise. Stoped on the entrance, until see she noticed him, and so walked to sit on Takket`s side.
- Helo - he focused his mind to get read, and she looked him.
It`s not as telepathy, but it`s the most he can do.
- Helo.
Her voice, in his mind, was so high and loud he almost fainted. Takket saw a small line of blood coming from Tul`s left ear, but decided to say nothing.
- Don`t (he focused again),... don`t say anything more in my mind. Please. It,... hurts.
The girl looked confuse.
- I want you to know we`re here to help you. But don`t say anything, yet. I have to go, but I`ll come back.
So, the little girl looked to understand, and he stand up to go back the car.
Minutes later, Borttom and Tul listen to a sport car coming. It came through the dark forest, and stoped at a near distance.
The man leaves the car and come to talk.
At the same time, a ship stoped in mid air watching them. A military six boxes ship, but the man looked at the ship and started to talk.
- Do you have open channel into you car?
- Yes, I do - answers Borttom.
- Open a channel with that ship over us - says the man.
Borttom did this, and the ship called back.
- Leave this place, immediately - says the man - This is an Intelligence affair. I call the Protocol Eleven on your computer. Code Yellow. You must leave now.
Borttom didn't understood right away, but he saw on the screen the answer "Copy", and the ship started to move upwards, going away.
- Situation? - asks the man to Tul.
- A little girl. We think she was born by the alignment. She's a psionic. She's awakening. I have,... talked to her, but she has a tremendous power. I asked her not to talk in our minds, until you come. The valley`s full of ionic energy, so we must take care, or it may explode.
- Let`s go. We need to calm her, until the awakening ends - says the man.
He`s probably a korochi, thinks Borttom.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ8366kq9mk
They came silently, but stoped by the entrance. She saw `em, and so they entered.
While the korochi talks with her, in telepathic bond, Borttom called Tul and Takket`s attention, so they let the man talk to the girl by the fire.
Outside the ruin, but still on the village, they talk.
- What do you think, Borttom?
- Well, Tul. She was born in the same way I was born. I understand her.
- Your ear bled - commented Takket.
- That was a "Helo". She doesn't know her power - concluded Tul.
- I haven't had more visions. That means we're on the right direction in this all.
- Well, Borttom. I sense you have more to say.
- Yes, I do. Besides I having no more visions, this can mean the oposite side on the planet was the oposite of her, I mean, something surely happened on the other side.
- Whatever it was, it has already happened - concluded Takket.
- Yeah,... (Borttom sighed),...
- You look deserted, by my affirmative.
- Whatever the other side is,... (Borttom stoped, thinking),... it's her oposite.
- Let's not talk too much about it, right now. Could we?
- You're oke, Tul - says Takket.
- I need to think. Shit. I need a piano, and there's no on ein in here.
- You play the piano, Borttom? That's nice.
- It's not, Takket. Believe me.
- Takket.
- Yeah, Tul?
- Just come with me. Let's let Borttom think.
- Oke.
Tul and Takket went to a walk.
The village ruins are on top of a hill, by the icy mountain, and there's another valley on the side, back of the other smaller mountain where they can see an ancient prison. They sense death coming from the prison. Tul levitated five small iron arrows, and sent in medium speed, but the arrows simply vanished when they entered the other valley, so he come to the conclusion this is not a way going there.
He stops to sense metals, and there's a medium size metal object down the end of the village.
Tul murmured "Come" to the wizard and they went that place. Coming there, the psionic started to take off the earth in there to bring the metal thing up. This could be used to protect them, in case she just explode everything, but then he looked to the object.
It's a metal coffin, locked with silver coffin nails.
He immediately started to dig, deeper, to put the coffin back there the fast he could. So, he put the earth all back, and looked to the wizard.
Their eyes agree it's better burried deep inside the earth.
Borttom concluded the ship came to see the exact same thing they came, but they came first. The little girl, as have said Agent 16B, is also maybe an efect of a mythology effect. He then came to the conclusion his visions will give a bit more, as soon anyone take a move, during the Event. He'll have to wait. Then, he goes to the fire, to stay by the girl's side, and meditate with no thoughts in mind. He remembers he saw in his visions a dubious image which could be an ikka, or an ejik girl. Both would be blame for the whole Event. There's also something about demonic things he couldn't see exactly what they'd be.
Minutes passed, and the korochi man then turned to Borttom.
- Take care of her. I'll go my car, and come back.
- Safe and sound, man - he replies.
The man soon was back, with a barbecue kit.
Takket started to like him, as every wanderer like people who gives them food. Soon, there was meat on the fire, and they were all together, waiting.
So, long minutes later, they all sensed her presence, and look to her.
- Helo - she says, for the very first time.
- That,... (starts Tul),.. is much better. Helo.
She starts to eat, and she likes the food much more, now.
And so, the black birds start to go away. None of 'em got down. They were like flying around, in counterclock direction, and soon only a few birds were seen.
Day started to come, and the little girl was just amazed by the dawn.
- Now, (says the man in black robes and turban), I'll teach you how to dress yourself. I'll show you in my mind, so go to that corner back, please.
She took a bag with the clothes, but didn't move to that place he pointed. She just thrown the coat on the ground and dressed herself.
But then, she looked to the coat, and got it from the ground. She handed it back to the wizard.
- Ohe. Thank you - says him.
Minutes were passing, and they stay in there, eating. At some point, she yawned and lay on the floor. The wizard took his coat off again, and put as a pillow to her, down her head.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ElMQqkeJg
They all sensed, at the same time.
All the danger was gone. The awakening ended.
- Come here, you all - says the man, pointing outside and off the fire.
They all came to talk, now it's all safe.
- Greetings. I'm Agent Aut, and I came here by a call Tul had made, to one of our elders. You did well, taking care of this little girl.
- Nice to meet you. I'm agent Alppa, Tanahta's Regence - says Borttom.
- I see. Now I understand. You're investigating the alignment so, probably, Alppa?
- Ah,... the whole Event, basically. That's how I know Tul, and Takket, but you seem really prepared to anything, so what you think is the next step, Agent?
- Well, Alppa. (he stoped to think). You're the closest thing she has as a family.
- And that means?
- That means the korochi race will provide you all we can. Do you have a quarters?
- No. I've got to the planet just yesterday. Takket's a wanderer.
- I'll arrange a small castle, here in the region of ruins. This will make her feel home, in a way. Are there anyone else with you?
- I have only an immediate, on my ship - says Borttom, and Takket just shook his head.
- Is she an ejik, Alppa? - asked Aut.
- Call me Borttom, please. No. She's not.
- I'll give a defese droid, to the castle, and I'll chose an ejik psionic woman to help you all. She needs to learn the ejik culture, as she looks ejik. I'm sure she's not, but no one else will notice. I'll send a van here, and it will come in less than an hour. The van will take you to a safeplace, and then to the castle next, but you need to take much care, even if she looks to like you as her family. Do you understand?
- Yeah - says Takket.
- Yes, Agent - concluded Borttom - We'll be waiting.
- And you, Tul. Explain basics on concentration, and how to calm her mind.
- I'll do it - says the korochi psionic.
- Is she a legend, Agent? - Borttom asked, and the agent stoped to think about that.
- Probably, Borttom. And a gallactic legend.
- That explains everything. Thank you.
- I'll get back to you by tomorrow, at the safeplace castle.
That said, the Agent let them with the little girl.
So, they eat what's left, getting ready to go, and see beautiful nimbus clouds until the horizon.
An hour later, the van came and Tul was going to move her with telekineses to the van by the entrance of that valleys, but they listen to her voice.
It's a hiss. A language each of 'em didn't wanted to listen to, now.
She's talking while sleeping, in Snake language.
(End of Session)
Some Considerations necessary
Here ends the first part of this Story. The introduction part. The group gathered around the Event, but as they salved the duke on the unknown ritual he'd get killed, there's no certainty about what will happen next. Of course, they'll need some time to think.
Let's get now to other stories needed to understand all this.
I hope you're enjoying the reading, and,...
... Stay Plugged.
Welcome to Kalaummuklutwe, also called by the nickname of Akkoya. A capital world, where the ejik races have their central order.
This is a Story adapted from a story played, and so written in here under Creative Commons.
Please, leave a comment if you want, and let me know if you used any of my ideas in your games. That is the essential idea of using Creative Commons. We can use each creative works we want, and so melt them into a new campaign, setting, or else, and our RPG story will be much more meaningful, to ourselves and to the groups we master those stories.
About the Music :: I do not intend any offence to anyone's right, and I do not own the music I suggest my readers listen during the Story; the suggestion is in honour to the musicians who created those beautiful songs, and I want to thank you very much, for posting these great songs.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79KsJxiIEs4
This session runned on July 31, 2011, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
A Brief Log
Ryklant is a large city, with high tower buildings. Most of the population works on the two major business, the Media, and the Academy Base of Ryklant (ABR), both runned for the last two millennia in accordance with this being a main capital world within the Alliance.
Although Ryklant is huge, with more than 15 million people in the urban area, Tol Rim in the west is bigger, and the East Aglomerate is much more.
This is the main capital for the Academy.
The eastside is a military training base for the Academy, and it contrasts with the mountains in the west and central regions. There is a huge area, in about eight hundred kilomeasures to the northeast, which are ruins, necropolis, all related to ancient history, and mythology.
The north area's full of life, and it is alive all day and night.
So, we come to the south to see the major Media corporation areas, which gathers the seventeen major corps within the business.
There are many problems in the south area. Those includes drugs, trafic and prostitution, but the media corporations do nothing to deal with it properly.
Main central area's full of life, the whole year, and that's where solstices and equinoxes are celebrated.
So, I welcome you to enter this capital city.
Hope you enjoy your stay, and leave a message in our space.
Nimbus of Tomorrow (#02-2)
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JATGmvJT5qY
As soon as Borttom parked the car, he and Takket stoped to see the maps. There's an holographic map on the parking space. Also, they need to wait for Tul, to enter the area of ruins and ancient castles, monasteries, some still in use today, and the endless hotels starting here and ending northeast Tachize. That's what is shown on the holograms they're looking at.
They listen to a noise, and Borttom sees Tul, but he stoped.
Borttom then looks Takket, and his eyes are black. He knows what it is. Takket's having a vision, something he himself have had so many times.
Takket sees the nobleman they saved, saying what happened to someone else. Then, he sees himself and Borttom invading a mansion. There's a noble and his granddaughter they need to save, but all droids of defense are off, and he sees a number of combat situations with spirits. It seems the spirits are trying to kill the man and the girl. So, all images desapear, and he sees a meeting. Many noblemen are present. There's a dim light, and there's a woman smoking cigarretes on the corner. The nobles want to know how they know what's going to happen, and Takket and Tul decided to let that be explained by Borttom. Their group is five, but he can't see the other two, as they're just back of him, and in silence. It continues, to a terrible omen. He's wearing poor clothes, and fetters (grilhões) made of a strange pale white metal, with indigo symbols, from which comes the only light in there. He's tied in. A prisoner, with no chance of freedom, or hope in the future.
Then, he sees himself as on being at the right side of a throne. He's skin is black, with symbols on it, indigo, and he's holding a wondrous staff of power. It's made of a cristaline substance, and there's a blue jewelry on the top, his clothes are silk black.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekPyC8DGQ-k
He senses his decisions define if one live or die.
The person (he can't see) sitted the throne emanates particles of darkness.
Borttom and Tul see a pearly aura around Takket's head and shoulders.
And then, Takket comes to himself.
- You had a vision - says Borttom - I know how does it is like.
- Yeah,... ohe - answer Takket, but his voice carry a different tone from the usual happy tone he's always used.
"Is this the future?", he thinks, confuse.
When Tul was to say something, hiw Pk made a sound (tut-tut) and he had to let the other two. "I have to come back, but I'll be back as soon as I can", he says. Borttom passes his Pk contact to him, and they see the korochi going the trees, from where he came before.
- Get up the car, Takket. We're late - resumed Borttom.
(At the Ruins of the Mythic Era)
Along a main road, there stand a huge number of castles. Each and every one used in centuries of movies, for the media business. All usually hotels. The enormous number resembles Borttom of the Independent Ducat, a region northwards from Tanka, his place, a huge City State in central Tanahta. But in here, these castles are more of what expected in movies. They're all too old, although in very nice state, all rich in details, like in canvas, or the dreams you have when you dream too deep.
There's an airway in the west from there.
They feel the Inner Sea's maritmic breeze in the dark of the night.
Some time later, they enter a huge forest.
Here, the lights beside the road all end, and the night is only house to the headlights and the small car noise, like an annoying bug in that dark forest. Borttom notice he's really had no vision yet. This means he's on the right way, he knows it. He sees the enormous trees like they were going to get the car and crash it in small pieces, so as a very experienced bogling, he turns on the defense mechanics. Not to use, but to be safe. It's also becoming even darker than usual in the forest.
Not long later, they get beyond the dark forest.
- We're here, capt'n,... - says Borttom, and he parks the small car.
At the end of the road, essentially.
Takket gets to the ground, and starts to look. It's a huge valley, and the small man gets off the car. They stay in silence, watching. There are no roads. No lights. Not a lonely house, or fire. They're on the entrance way, down to the southwest. There's possibly a way off, on the other side, through the valley and northeast. A mountain covered with eternal snow's on the north. A small village in ruins, on it's bank, and from there another valley, but only a smaller one.
There are maybe a hundred temple ruins, on the north of the calm lake.
Also, they sensed death from the ruins of a prison to the left, and goosebumps coming from every place they can put their eyes on it.
- Unidentified life form located, range eight hundred normeasures - says the car.
- Is it,... (Borttom calculates), on that ruins, of a village?
- Precisely - answer the car.
- Call a spirit, Takket. We need to talk with them, first, you know.
- I'll do it, now.
Takket invoke a spirit, and a hyena appears. It's an orange skinned hyena, with white eyes, and it appears at the very moment he entered attune trance to talk.
"Unusual,...", he thinks.
- What is it, on that ruin of a village?
- There's a smell, (answered the hyena), of ambar and iron. It's a female. Too much energy in here, and no true energy. I'm hungry.
- How long is she in that place? - asked Takket.
- Four hours (it's spirit speech, but the hyena's pretty clear in her voice).
Takket gave true energy to the spirit, and it answered thankful.
- It's a child - and the spirit, ("A naemon?" thought Takket), was gone.
The wizard turned to talk with the small man, getting off the trance state, and looking to the direction of those village old buildings.
- There's a smell of iron and ambar, and it's a child we're looking for, Borttom.
- I knew it. Wait.
He turned his elektra powers and feels the ambient.
- It's true. There's so much ionic particles in here, we could fire the place with a thought. Car, wait here. I'll be back as soon as I can. (the car assumed standbye). Let's go. - he says to Takket.
A few minutes later, they got to the ruins of a very old village.
There's not much more than it's foundations, a low wall here and there. A sense of old is present. It's dark, and Takket goes in the front, while Borttom waits. In the thirteenth wall, he listen to a little noise, and he looks for the person he's looking for. There is a small girl, undressed and squeezed in the corner, so he come closer, being careful not to act too fast, to talk with her.
She doesn't talk, so he takes off his coat to give the girl.
The small girl takes the coat, and dress the same way as he was using it, that is, just over herself, but soon she's again squeezed into a corner.
With care, Borttom comes trying not to make too much noise.
They listen to a noise in the other corner, and,...
VVvvvaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh,... - the girl attacked something in there.
It was a ratling, now totally toasted, by a frozen fire, of ambaric orange energy, and Borttom started to analyze what the hell was that.
Then, Takket feels her powers could kill them, in a blink of an eye.
- Helo - says the wizard - I want to help you. This,... are you hungry? (but she didn't move). This,.. (he ask Borttom to give his "ration"),... Look. You eat this way. (and he shows how to unwrap the cereal bar, and eats, to make sure she sees him eating - and it worked).
Her move was so fast it almost hurt his hand.
She smells the bar, before eating. And she made a noise, as a "Hmm,...". They can't see her face, because she's wearing the travel coat over her head, but she ended eating, and went again to the same position, squeezed in that old ruin wall's cold corner. "Is it good? Do you want some more?", asked Takket, but she didn't looked to the food, they feel she's in complete shock, and so Borttom understood.
This girl was born in here, same way he was born. The same way a poltergeist is born, to become a bogling, just as a simple manifestation.
- Helo. I'm Borttom - he comes closer - I know what you're feeling. I was born the same way you. I remember, as it were today. I'm here to help you.
Borttom makes silence, waiting, and it worked.
The girl so looked to him.
(At the Korichi new village)
As soon as Tul got to the village, the oldest man was waiting.
- What happened, oldest?
- Have a sit - says him - We have a situation. The four youngsters you see (he pointed the corner), they experienced something unusual.
- What happened, I want to talk with each one separatedly, oldest man.
- Use my room, fixer - says the oldest.
- You, - he points, heading the room - come first.
After talking with the youngsters, no one older than twelve, he concludes he must call his tribe oldest and master, because this is weird enough.
Tul told the youngsters to stay on the place, and called his master.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnNxcEAgtRg
- Yes - he listen to his master's voice.
- Master, we have a situation. I'm on the settlement you've sent me to. There is,... there "was" a huge alignment today, and I'm investigating.
- I know - says his master - What happened?
- Four youngsters saw the nothingness. They felt they were in the spacetunnel, and they know the feeling, as they travelled the galaxy to come here. By their description, I can say they saw the very same thing. It's a crashed, I mean, a wrecked ship, in the nothingness.
- That's good you called, Tul. I'll have to investigate this, and my seer just told me you'll call again today. Let the youngsters go home. The visions will, and so take much care, tonight.
- Yes, master - and he ended the call.
When the youngsters went home, he says good night to the oldest man. He's waited, and by his master's voice, the other two may need him, immensely.
(At the Old Ruins)
The young little girl looked Borttom.
Borttom and Takket just stay there, looking her and offering a cereal bar from time to time. She doesn't looks like speaking, and the small man considers the option she doesn't know how to speak. He knows. He was born in a very similar situation, long ago, in the world of Tanahta. He remembers he attacked everyone, until the oldest agent, who was called 5B, could explain to him he was safe.
So, carefully, Borttom says he'll make a fire, and says they'll camp to Takket.
Of course, the little girl squeezed by the vision of fire, but soon she was curious about it. The small man tries to explain the fire is hot, calling her.
She crawls to the fire, and tries to put her hand on it.
- Oh-oh,... take care - says Borttom - The fire can burn. It's hot.
As he speaks this, she put her hand in the direction of the fire, feeling the heat, and so she pointed out in the oposite direction, and the ruin walls behind them freezed. A small crust of ice appeared in the walls, while she pointed that direction, and so she looked to the fire, again.
Takket frowned to the icy crust, and looked to Borttom, but decided not to talk.
"This is a tremendous power,...", thinks the wizard in silence.
Borttom's sure she knows they're not here to harm her, but then he remember Tul. The korochi will come, and he needs to talk to him before, not to frighten her.
It could be really dangerous.
- Takket - he says - Take much care. I need to go my car, and talk to Tul. What is this noise?
- What noise? Yes, I can listen. It's coming from - and he looks - up.
Both look to the sky, and there's no star on the sky.
They see a huge cloud of black birds, covering the night up them. It's making a little noise, as their thousand wings flap in counterclock flight.
- I'll be back in a minute, Takket.
- Oke. I'm in here. Take care the way back, when Tul comes.
- Right. I'll remember that.
Borttom waited before teleporting to the car.
Flying, inside a bubble of swarf, Tul noticed he hitted birds, so hitted many more birds, and so stoped. He looked the direction around the coordinates given by Borttom's Pk computer, and sees an immense cloud of birds, black birds, flying in circle, over a valley.
"Easy to find", the korochi thinks, and comes a bit more slowly now.
When he went down, just by Borttom's side, he sees the small man inside the car, looking for a number of diagrams and tables, and statistics on various screens.
- What's happening?
- Well, Tul. A girl just born eleven. She's with Takket, on those ruins by the fire. The place is full of ionic energy, so take care.
- Who's she?
- That's a good question. I think she was an effect from the alignment. I was born in a very similar way, and she's probably afraid of everything. I guess she's a psionic, and she's just awakening. You must know, as a psionic, the danger we're into, now.
- Hmm,... Yes. She can blow everything.
- Exactly - says Borttom.
- She's with Takket, by that fire over there.
- I'll call for help.
- Do it. I'm not from this planet, and you probably know much more than me who to talk to.
- I'll call my master.
Tul walked some ten normeasures, and explained the situation to his master. The elder says he'll sent help, and the man will be using black robes and a turban.
In the meantime, Takket was only trying to give her cereal bars, and stay calm.
Then, Tul comes to the ruin to talk with the little girl.
He tries to not make so much noise. Stoped on the entrance, until see she noticed him, and so walked to sit on Takket`s side.
- Helo - he focused his mind to get read, and she looked him.
It`s not as telepathy, but it`s the most he can do.
- Helo.
Her voice, in his mind, was so high and loud he almost fainted. Takket saw a small line of blood coming from Tul`s left ear, but decided to say nothing.
- Don`t (he focused again),... don`t say anything more in my mind. Please. It,... hurts.
The girl looked confuse.
- I want you to know we`re here to help you. But don`t say anything, yet. I have to go, but I`ll come back.
So, the little girl looked to understand, and he stand up to go back the car.
Minutes later, Borttom and Tul listen to a sport car coming. It came through the dark forest, and stoped at a near distance.
The man leaves the car and come to talk.
At the same time, a ship stoped in mid air watching them. A military six boxes ship, but the man looked at the ship and started to talk.
- Do you have open channel into you car?
- Yes, I do - answers Borttom.
- Open a channel with that ship over us - says the man.
Borttom did this, and the ship called back.
- Leave this place, immediately - says the man - This is an Intelligence affair. I call the Protocol Eleven on your computer. Code Yellow. You must leave now.
Borttom didn't understood right away, but he saw on the screen the answer "Copy", and the ship started to move upwards, going away.
- Situation? - asks the man to Tul.
- A little girl. We think she was born by the alignment. She's a psionic. She's awakening. I have,... talked to her, but she has a tremendous power. I asked her not to talk in our minds, until you come. The valley`s full of ionic energy, so we must take care, or it may explode.
- Let`s go. We need to calm her, until the awakening ends - says the man.
He`s probably a korochi, thinks Borttom.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ8366kq9mk
They came silently, but stoped by the entrance. She saw `em, and so they entered.
While the korochi talks with her, in telepathic bond, Borttom called Tul and Takket`s attention, so they let the man talk to the girl by the fire.
Outside the ruin, but still on the village, they talk.
- What do you think, Borttom?
- Well, Tul. She was born in the same way I was born. I understand her.
- Your ear bled - commented Takket.
- That was a "Helo". She doesn't know her power - concluded Tul.
- I haven't had more visions. That means we're on the right direction in this all.
- Well, Borttom. I sense you have more to say.
- Yes, I do. Besides I having no more visions, this can mean the oposite side on the planet was the oposite of her, I mean, something surely happened on the other side.
- Whatever it was, it has already happened - concluded Takket.
- Yeah,... (Borttom sighed),...
- You look deserted, by my affirmative.
- Whatever the other side is,... (Borttom stoped, thinking),... it's her oposite.
- Let's not talk too much about it, right now. Could we?
- You're oke, Tul - says Takket.
- I need to think. Shit. I need a piano, and there's no on ein in here.
- You play the piano, Borttom? That's nice.
- It's not, Takket. Believe me.
- Takket.
- Yeah, Tul?
- Just come with me. Let's let Borttom think.
- Oke.
Tul and Takket went to a walk.
The village ruins are on top of a hill, by the icy mountain, and there's another valley on the side, back of the other smaller mountain where they can see an ancient prison. They sense death coming from the prison. Tul levitated five small iron arrows, and sent in medium speed, but the arrows simply vanished when they entered the other valley, so he come to the conclusion this is not a way going there.
He stops to sense metals, and there's a medium size metal object down the end of the village.
Tul murmured "Come" to the wizard and they went that place. Coming there, the psionic started to take off the earth in there to bring the metal thing up. This could be used to protect them, in case she just explode everything, but then he looked to the object.
It's a metal coffin, locked with silver coffin nails.
He immediately started to dig, deeper, to put the coffin back there the fast he could. So, he put the earth all back, and looked to the wizard.
Their eyes agree it's better burried deep inside the earth.
Borttom concluded the ship came to see the exact same thing they came, but they came first. The little girl, as have said Agent 16B, is also maybe an efect of a mythology effect. He then came to the conclusion his visions will give a bit more, as soon anyone take a move, during the Event. He'll have to wait. Then, he goes to the fire, to stay by the girl's side, and meditate with no thoughts in mind. He remembers he saw in his visions a dubious image which could be an ikka, or an ejik girl. Both would be blame for the whole Event. There's also something about demonic things he couldn't see exactly what they'd be.
Minutes passed, and the korochi man then turned to Borttom.
- Take care of her. I'll go my car, and come back.
- Safe and sound, man - he replies.
The man soon was back, with a barbecue kit.
Takket started to like him, as every wanderer like people who gives them food. Soon, there was meat on the fire, and they were all together, waiting.
So, long minutes later, they all sensed her presence, and look to her.
- Helo - she says, for the very first time.
- That,... (starts Tul),.. is much better. Helo.
She starts to eat, and she likes the food much more, now.
And so, the black birds start to go away. None of 'em got down. They were like flying around, in counterclock direction, and soon only a few birds were seen.
Day started to come, and the little girl was just amazed by the dawn.
- Now, (says the man in black robes and turban), I'll teach you how to dress yourself. I'll show you in my mind, so go to that corner back, please.
She took a bag with the clothes, but didn't move to that place he pointed. She just thrown the coat on the ground and dressed herself.
But then, she looked to the coat, and got it from the ground. She handed it back to the wizard.
- Ohe. Thank you - says him.
Minutes were passing, and they stay in there, eating. At some point, she yawned and lay on the floor. The wizard took his coat off again, and put as a pillow to her, down her head.
Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ElMQqkeJg
They all sensed, at the same time.
All the danger was gone. The awakening ended.
- Come here, you all - says the man, pointing outside and off the fire.
They all came to talk, now it's all safe.
- Greetings. I'm Agent Aut, and I came here by a call Tul had made, to one of our elders. You did well, taking care of this little girl.
- Nice to meet you. I'm agent Alppa, Tanahta's Regence - says Borttom.
- I see. Now I understand. You're investigating the alignment so, probably, Alppa?
- Ah,... the whole Event, basically. That's how I know Tul, and Takket, but you seem really prepared to anything, so what you think is the next step, Agent?
- Well, Alppa. (he stoped to think). You're the closest thing she has as a family.
- And that means?
- That means the korochi race will provide you all we can. Do you have a quarters?
- No. I've got to the planet just yesterday. Takket's a wanderer.
- I'll arrange a small castle, here in the region of ruins. This will make her feel home, in a way. Are there anyone else with you?
- I have only an immediate, on my ship - says Borttom, and Takket just shook his head.
- Is she an ejik, Alppa? - asked Aut.
- Call me Borttom, please. No. She's not.
- I'll give a defese droid, to the castle, and I'll chose an ejik psionic woman to help you all. She needs to learn the ejik culture, as she looks ejik. I'm sure she's not, but no one else will notice. I'll send a van here, and it will come in less than an hour. The van will take you to a safeplace, and then to the castle next, but you need to take much care, even if she looks to like you as her family. Do you understand?
- Yeah - says Takket.
- Yes, Agent - concluded Borttom - We'll be waiting.
- And you, Tul. Explain basics on concentration, and how to calm her mind.
- I'll do it - says the korochi psionic.
- Is she a legend, Agent? - Borttom asked, and the agent stoped to think about that.
- Probably, Borttom. And a gallactic legend.
- That explains everything. Thank you.
- I'll get back to you by tomorrow, at the safeplace castle.
That said, the Agent let them with the little girl.
So, they eat what's left, getting ready to go, and see beautiful nimbus clouds until the horizon.
An hour later, the van came and Tul was going to move her with telekineses to the van by the entrance of that valleys, but they listen to her voice.
It's a hiss. A language each of 'em didn't wanted to listen to, now.
She's talking while sleeping, in Snake language.
(End of Session)
Some Considerations necessary
Here ends the first part of this Story. The introduction part. The group gathered around the Event, but as they salved the duke on the unknown ritual he'd get killed, there's no certainty about what will happen next. Of course, they'll need some time to think.
Let's get now to other stories needed to understand all this.
I hope you're enjoying the reading, and,...
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