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Post by Ereshkigal on Nov 4, 2008 0:17:04 GMT -6
"Yes, fine. I'll handle it." She growls at the door and taps her foot. "Now go away." She goes so far as to make a shooing motion at the door, growling under her breath. Then she stalks back to the couch and leans on the back of it to look at Regent.
"So you were saying?" Ereshkigal sighs, her head hanging down between her shoulders, long braid pooling on the couch where Tenko promptly starts to chew on it.
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Post by Regent on Nov 4, 2008 12:20:24 GMT -6
The dark lord listens half heartedly till the mention of the Sub Basement. his eyes shoot to the door as the Queen dismisses the maintenance man with the cold shoulder.
"Oh, a place to conduct your training out of sight. I believe the answer may have answered itself... Come wit me highness."
He takes Ere's hand and lifts her gently from her seated position.
"Lets go examine this 'subbasement' for ourselves. A subterranean establishment may be just what we looking for."
Regent says with a look of excitement in his eyes. He waggles his eyebrows in anticipation to see this new prospect for himself.
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Post by Ereshkigal on Nov 4, 2008 18:02:42 GMT -6
Regent's antics bring a smile to Ere's face. She stands up and engages in a short tug of war with Tenko over her braid.
"Blessit! ow!" The little Pe'ri yelps as she finally dislodges the fox and flips her braid around her neck like a scarf. She smiles again, almost chuckling.
"So, brother, shall we portal, teleport, or take the elevator?"
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Post by Regent on Nov 5, 2008 0:00:55 GMT -6
Regent stares at Ereshkigal in mild wonderment at her question.
"What is an elevator My Queen? Will it take us to the sub-basement quickly?"
He asks with curiosity burning behind his eyes as he leads the Queen to the front door.
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Post by Ereshkigal on Nov 11, 2008 16:27:55 GMT -6
Ereshkigal, quirks an eyebrow at Regent in amusement, as she locks the door to her apartment behind them and starts down the hall to the simple brushed steel doors at the end.
"Don't get out much do you? An elevator is a human invention that allows one to travel up and down in a tall building without walking." She points at a discreet black panel with a single button on it.
"Push that."
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Post by Regent on Nov 13, 2008 10:45:27 GMT -6
"I know most of what is of wonder through my books, hearsay and topical conversations with travelers from this earth. The great achievements of the ages. Just enough to wet my pallet for knowledge and gear me to understand them all... better."
Regent says as he follows Ghostie down the hall.
"My education on the human world was neither complete nor of this century. In my defense, most of my concentration has been to prevent our own kingdom from destroying itself. I am no healer, nor was I designed for maintaining peace, only to serve as the harbinger of destruction. However, I adapt quickly, It has been very rewarding to learn more than I was created for. A mere month is all it would take to assimilate their culture, acclimate the tide of political power, and witness their darkest, deepest, desires... and that is all it will take. Then for them it would be too late. I would bring them to the brink and allow them to compassionately and completely annihilate one another. It is my destiny to corrupt and I do it through the baser instinct. I will undo the lessons they have been taught to repress and shun their inner demons. They certainly are inventive, they can either create or destroy, mostly they create things for mass destruction, mighty things to rival our even our power."
He muses his distorted reflection in the brushed steel doors as they stand before them. He grins as the speaks of it all. It is as if he is elsewhere for a moment. Living a vision in his mind how it will all end.
"Yes, they are wondrously inventive in their own selfishly, deceitful and greedy ways, are they not my Queen?"
He says with relish as he presses the little button with a flourishing flick of his wrist.
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Post by Ereshkigal on Nov 17, 2008 15:11:48 GMT -6
Ereshkigal listens thoughtfully to Regent. She head cants to one side as she watches him and her lips quirk, her eyes darkening as she considers the possibilities of the future. Tenko at their feet growls softly, her tail swinging in a wide arc.
"You know... you could be working to stop the very thing you were created to facilitate by helping me now. Maybe it's all supposed to end in a wash a screaming black madness. Maybe-" A loud bell chimes from the elevator and the doors slide open. Ereshkigal starts like some one waking from a dream.
"Blessit."
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Post by Narrator on Nov 21, 2008 10:18:51 GMT -6
The elevator light dings on for the down arrow. The doors slide open slowly to reveal the lavish elevator car. The glass rear overlooking the human city aglow in the lights of the night.
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Post by Ereshkigal on Nov 25, 2008 22:11:40 GMT -6
Ereshkigal steps into the elevator, and lets her eyes wander the night skyline. She presses her hands to glass, slowly focusing on her reflection as she studies the ghostly woman looking back at her. Her gaze narrows and then she sighs.
She looks over her shoulder at Regent.
"Coming, brother?"
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Post by Regent on Dec 3, 2008 13:13:54 GMT -6
The dark lord smiles at her softly. He follows her quietly into the elevator and stands overlooking the city through the glass.
"I don't suppose you would find it odd that I long for it... Though it is what I was created to do... However it may be that I am merely prolonging the inevitable, It is your wish. I am bound to obey your commands, Empress, though they may be contrary to my desires and directives.
He says softly as his smile fades away.
"I see it as a measure of control that allows for a more deliberate overthrowing of the world. What joy would it bring for it to end in an instant? There would be no time to revel in its destruction. Nor would we be able to devise its workings to destroy itself. I believe that was the design from the start, for them to bring about their own end. Through their own debauchery they fall from grace and are lost. By bringing about their own demise at their own hand... would that bring total victory."
He looks at her with a nod as the doors close behind them.
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Post by Narrator on Dec 7, 2008 11:20:28 GMT -6
The lift streaks down as the city becomes closer as they drop. soon the ground swallows the little car as all view of the city are lost in the sub basement concrete structure. The doors whisk open to reveal a broiler room and a myriad labyrinth of storage facilities and personal lockers.
The light is dim but the lights are stronger in the laundry area at the far side of the basement. Areas have been taped off where the construction is to take place and a curious flight of stairs make into the dark lower levels of the building.
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Post by Ereshkigal on Dec 10, 2008 13:36:19 GMT -6
The moment the elevator doors open up Tenko shoots out and is immediately lost to sight in the gloomy basement. Ereshkigal's eyebrows raise and she looks from Regent to the stairs and back again.
"I wonder where those go?" She can't help but grin a little at the prospect of exploring.
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Post by Regent on Dec 14, 2008 13:57:40 GMT -6
The deep recesses of the earth call out to Regent. He is drawn to the stairs like a sliver of steel to a magnet.
"Ah, that is a question I am more than willing to answer for you may queen. Shall we find out together?"
Regent's feet leave the floor as he glides over to the passage down the stairs. His body becomes an ethereal ash as he descends rapidly into the darkness.
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Post by Ereshkigal on Dec 24, 2008 15:41:12 GMT -6
Ereshkigal follows Regent on quick feet, her grin widening.
"Hey wait for me!!" She half-laughs chasing after him with Tenko yipping at her heels.
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Post by Regent on Jan 1, 2009 10:52:55 GMT -6
Regent flies down the dark passage stairs in his eager curiosity. He hears Ere's voice trailing off behind him as he slows and stops on the last stair. the small room before him leaves him with a bit of a letdown as he was hoping for something... more. Although with some help, it may be what he is seeking after all.
He flares to life as the flames of his hair ignite and brightly illuminate the darkened subbasement antechamber. He reforms into his regal state as he steps down into the little room as his face reflects his disappointment as he contemplates this little snag. He awaits patiently for the queen and her Tenco to catch up to him.
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Post by Ereshkigal on Jan 4, 2009 13:25:45 GMT -6
Ereshkigal pauses for a moment at the bottom of the stairs to take a look at Regent's change in appearance. The she looks at the small room in front of him and sighs.
"Yep, it's a basement."
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Post by Regent on Jan 18, 2009 11:52:25 GMT -6
Regent looks to the diminutive monarch with a raised brow. "Aye, however it can be so much more."
His form stretches across the room as his dark body snaps back before the far wall. His black fingers dance in the flame light while they trace invisible markings on the far wall. He steps back to look at his work and he nods his approval.
"Now what is it you see my queen?" He coos as he slides up beside her. His hands cup her face in ethereal tendrils of smoke and ash while the darkness with her is summoned forth by Regent's silken touch. The invisible drawings on the wall before them glow in the dark skrit of an ancient tongue known to her family eons before.
His voice fills her mind as the gentle whispers are as compelling as they are suggestive. "Let me guide your eyes and lift the clouds of limits from your mind. See with your new senses and make that which was, into the vision of your choosing... Let loose of what you know and see the world as you were meant to see it. Let the darkness flow with grace in an unhindered desire to destroy this basement, and use those raw materials, reborn, reformed by the void into something fit for the Queen of Darkness. Bid it do as you command and by it's power unleashed... so shall it be."
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Post by Ereshkigal on Jan 24, 2009 1:29:30 GMT -6
She hesitates fighting the darkness inside her for a moment, her eyelids fluttering as she wrestles it's desire for mindless destruction into her own for the deft hand of change.
Slowly Ereshkigal lets out her held breath and darkness flows from around her to fill in the letters on the walls, hiding and revealing their shine as the abyssal energy writhes along them.
"You know... a year ago I couldn't have told you what that said...." She says with a trace of humor.
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Post by Narrator on Jan 26, 2009 11:35:16 GMT -6
Small fingers of void streak off into the distance from Ere like the shadows from an accelerated sunset. When the void slams into the wall a cloud of black glitering dust billows back from the impact like rolling waves. The rebounding forces obliterate the wall and sends the remnants deeper into the earth as it carves out a twisted and monstrous cavern in its wake.
The billows dissipate as the dust settles on the cavern floor. The spongy dust glitters from the dim light of Regent as it refracts more and more till that small bit of light fills the entire cavern.
The sight is beautiful but something about it is disturbingly familiar, and very overwhelming.
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Post by Regent on Jan 26, 2009 11:59:45 GMT -6
Regent's hands lift off Ere's features softly as he views the expanse before them. He stares in awe for a moment and then he closes his gaping mouth to regain his composure.
"Well, there is certainly no doing anything half-way with you is there Highness?" He says with a smirk, standing at the edge of the little room overlooking the soft glow of the great chasm. "It occurs to me that constraint will have to be our first lesson objective."
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