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Post by Thane on Jul 28, 2007 10:04:55 GMT -6
Thane's ears perk up to the clockwork gizmo in Regent's hands. As the device comes to life he is curious about it and he stands beside Regent and watches it scurry about the wreckage, stopping once and a while to examine a piece of broken stone with its mechanical mandibles. Then only to discard it and continue its frantic search. "What is that thing, Chancellor?" Thane blurts out in his curious wonderment.
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Post by Admin on Jul 29, 2007 11:01:15 GMT -6
Regent's eyes roll toward Thane with a quick snap. "That m'boy is the latest contraption I had commissioned from Brimstone. It is a probe of sorts, self animated with some magical accoutrement's I installed personally to seek out mystical items and objects otherwise of unnatural forces." Regent watches it with great interest as it scurries about the rubble. it stops and tries tugging at an object lodged in the rubble to no avail. A mechanical mess of squeaks and chirps emanate from the little mechanoid as it curses the huge stone preventing it from retrieving its sample.
Regent's eyebrows raise. "It appears to have found something of interest... Thane could you please assist it in removing that large column off of what ever it is that it has found." Regent extends his hand pointing to the stone for Thane to remove.
Regent could have moved it easily with his powers of the elements, but what fun would that be to Thane. After all Thane could use the distraction to keep his mind working and off his traumatic experience that scarred him here.
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Post by Ciel on Jul 29, 2007 11:31:26 GMT -6
Ciel meanwhile was looking through the goggles, looking almost like some huge manner of bug.She moved them towards the heap of rubble that the bot was searching. And she gasped, excited.
She saw a faint glimmer in the rocks of the pile and fiddled with the dials on the side, to look closer. What she saw was a huge mass of frantically moving rainbow colored lights. (At least she thought they were lights, the energy was shiny.) They throbbed and moved with energy, the levels going up and down...
The energies seemed to be moving, changing. She glanced in another direction and could swear she saw it slither to a new location in the rubble, as if it were morphing and moving. Al of a sudden, it disappeared for the briefest of moments. She half-squealed, bringing the goggles to Regent. "Chancellor, I have seen something move!"
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Post by Regent on Jul 29, 2007 14:08:33 GMT -6
Regent automatically extends his dark hand to Ciel obviously wanting the oculars. "What did you see and where was it located?" He asks with a look of urgency in his sparking eyes.
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Post by Ciel on Jul 31, 2007 1:06:03 GMT -6
She was very excited. "I saw a faint glimmer in the rocks , there." She pointed exactly where she saw it the first time. "I saw a huge mass of moving rainbow colored lights...they moved with energy... going up and down all over...the energies seemed to be moving and changing."
She smiled and continued. "I looked in that direction," she pointed a bit off," and I could swear I saw it slither over to that spot... as if it were morphing or something...and it's disappeared for a little bit, but it will re-appear, I am sure of it!"
Ciel was almost bouncing as she finished. She looked to Regent and handed him the goggles.
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Post by Regent on Jul 31, 2007 12:41:39 GMT -6
Regent snatches the goggles from Ciel and quickly places them to his eyes. He scans frantically at first but when he can only see the bot and then Thane enter the vantage field. He hands the goggles back to Ciel with clear disappointment on his face. "Keep searching Ciel, It has faired not a glimpse for me, perhaps it is simply shy." He turns again to the rubble and stands silent.
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Post by Thane on Jul 31, 2007 13:01:18 GMT -6
Thane approaches the bot in the rubble pile and it scrambles futilely trying to retrieve the sample it has found. As Thane steps beside it the little bot stops and looks to Thane. A horrible batch of squeaks and clicks burst forth from the bot as it looks at Thane and scrambles more to free the sample.
Thane laughs at the bot as he takes hold of the huge stone blocking the object. "Calm down. I'll help you. Just give me a second to get under this..." Thane grunts loudly as his claws dig into the stone and he strains all of his power into lifting the stone enough for the bot to reach the thing it can't wait to sample. The column shifts some and the bot becomes visibly excited as it tramples in place looking at Thane and then the stone repeatedly as it impatiently waits for Thane to move the blockade.
As the stone rises and Thane is able to free it from the ground, the little bot squeals in delight as it scurries under the rock before Thane had cleared it safely out of the way. It snatches the sample and scurries out from under the rock and tries to scramble about under Thane's feet to get past him. Thane barks as the stone topples over and slams the pile beside him. Thane winces from him not getting a firm footing due to the bot rattling the hound's concentration from being under foot. "Little pest, trying to get us both squashed!" Thane growls as he shoves the stone over the top so it won't slide down and land on top of him. He settles down on the rubble huffing and puffing as the bot scurries to Regent excitedly chirping and squawking. "Your welcome, you little..." Thane huffs and he rests his head back on the stones to regain his strength.
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Post by Ciel on Jul 31, 2007 22:44:57 GMT -6
Ciel took the goggles back, clearly confused. "But Chancellor...it was there..."
She looked almost crestfallen as she tried again and saw the same thing, but in a very slightly different area. "I swear to you Chancellor, it is there..."
She holds the goggles out to him. "Please,look."
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Post by Regent on Aug 1, 2007 12:22:45 GMT -6
Regent turns again to Ciel at her insistence to the object she is seeing. He plucks the goggles from her hand with less excitement than before. He moves the lenses to his eyes as the little bot comes scrambling up to him and begins poking at his feet for him to see what it found. Regent continues to place the goggles to his eyes but the persistent little bot keeps prodding enough for Regent to become slightly agitated by it's insistence.
"Hold!" Regent barks out to the bot as it stops dead in it's tracks. Regent sighs a bit as he is now free to look through the oculars undisturbed. He scans more thoroughly this time as he looks deeper into the room. He turns side to side as he scans slowly, patiently. He stops for a moment like he sees something. He quickly pulls away the goggles and he looks at the dials for a moment. He clicks and adjusts the lenses and then he continues his scan with more enthusiasm. He looks straight ahead of himself this time as he begins to walk toward the flickering mass. "Ah there you are my shy little sparkle. Let's get a closer look at you." He says as the goggles come down and he hands them back toward Ciel.
He reaches into his bag again and this time a full helmet of ocular scanning equipment is produced. Regent places it on his head and then the large eye pieces slide into place with whirring motion and a sharp click. The oculars are moving on their own volition as they focus automatically on the spot a few feet before Regent. His new headgear makes him look like a mad scientist as he stands hunched over looking at the invisible object. He reaches out with an odd probe like object that spins slowly in his hand and he moves it slowly over the spot he is looking at.
"Hummm, what an odd reading. I can honestly say I've seen nothing like it before..." He removes his helmet and he looks back at the bot sitting very still where he left it. He returns back to take the sample from the bot it was frantically trying to show him before. "Lets have a look at what you couldn't wait to show me." Regent kneels down to inspect the fabric it holds in its metallic mandibles.
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Post by Thane on Aug 3, 2007 16:45:22 GMT -6
Thane watches Regent from his resting point. He sits up to climb out of the rubble. Thane reconsiders climbing out, instead of spending so much energy the hound crouches and with a mighty leap he clears the rubble piles easily and lands beside Ciel with nary a sound. Quite the opposite of what one might think, considering most creatures his size would crash to the floor.
Thane stands again and looks at Ciel. "What is it you said you saw?" He says looking at her questioningly with his red eyes searching hers as if the answer will appear in her sparkling green orbs.
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Post by Ciel on Aug 3, 2007 18:09:57 GMT -6
She looked back at him, still looking as though she might cry if he made as if not to believe her. "I saw a glimmer in the rocks...it was morphing and moving, but it was there."
She crossed her arms carefully. "They were many colored. I...I know what I saw..."
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Post by Regent on Aug 4, 2007 17:24:40 GMT -6
Regent takes the material and runs his eyes over it very carefully. The fabric is one of holy vestments. Angelic host garments. This confirms that a powerful angel was responsible for this mass devastation. Regent looks to Thane and Ciel talking. They don't know how lucky they all were this psychotic angel didn't bring the whole tower down on top of them all. Regent's face twists in disfavor to the find and he calls out to Thane.
"Elite... Will you come here please? Bring Ciel too she could benefit to see this as well." He holds up the cloth to Thane. "Look familiar? If this is what I think it is, you two are lucky... very lucky to be in one piece." Regent sighs heavy as he looks to Ciel. "This is a tunic sleeve from the high legion of the arch angel. By the color... I believe it to be specifically one of the branch of justice and punishment. Whoever it was after defiantly made some foes best not to tangle with."
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Post by Thane on Aug 4, 2007 17:40:54 GMT -6
Thane nods to Ciel and her answer. He has see many things in his service to the crown, but never things of such description. he was about to speak to her when Regent calls him over. Thane nods to Ciel to be sure she knew regent wanted them both and he walks over to him.
Thane recognizes the scent from the holy cloth as it burns his nostrils and memory. His eyes narrow as the flash backs he has grappling this foe knowing full well he had to protect his master to the death if it was to be.
Only now do the angels words make since to Thane. Punishment... Thane is full familiar with the topic. It can twist ones ideals if you let it control you. This psycho definitely let it fuel him, it made him stronger but reckless. Bent on his mission to pure manic obsession to claim the General's head. His obsession made this foe nearly unstopable... nearly.
"We told you it was a powerful one... I merely suspected arch angel but it was all speculative... now it all becomes clear... what he wanted... and he wasn't going back."
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Post by Ciel on Aug 6, 2007 23:17:42 GMT -6
Ciel's eyes got wide as she walked over with Thane and heard the Regent's explanation.
"He was...angels...hmm..." Ciel tried not to let the two see her visibly shaking, but ti was almost impossible. She got closer to Thane without seeing that she had.
Angels were scary enough, but a psychotic angel bent on his own destruction? Infinitely more frightening.
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Post by Regent on Aug 9, 2007 9:44:17 GMT -6
Regent notices Ciel involuntarily scoot closer to Thane as if for protection while she was visibly shaking.
Regent looks to Thane after he speaks of this angel not going back after his mission was complete. "How is it you have come to this conclusion Thane? Angels of punishment have strict orders to return with their quarry, no exception." Regent looks puzzled and shakes his head 'no' at the hound.
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Post by Thane on Aug 9, 2007 10:17:49 GMT -6
Thane looks upset at this challenge to his word from Regent. "I was here, I witnessed much before I was wounded and stuck to the wall." Thane crosses his hairy arms. "He was standing... there." Thane points to the only place of the rubble that had a clear floor. "I was treating Lord Kahn there... after he had been burned by the flame of the blade." Thane walks over to the spot where he stood.
"I remember hearing the General and Rashiel clashing wildly behind me and it was the sound of rending flesh and cracking of bone that caught my attentions." Thane turns as if he can still see the battle through his minds eye. "It was then when Rashiel had mutilated himself and removed his own wings before the General... is when it hit me. Something Rashiel said that seized my attention. Something that shall remain with me for the rest of my days."
Thane looks to Regent half lost in thought. "He said: 'I have spent over two thousand years trying to hide my secret from an all knowing, all seeing being. You wouldn't be very sane either.' " Thane says when he turns away from Regent. That is when I was overtaken by the smell of blood and I lunged him from the rear and brought Rashiel to his knees on the floor before Zarek... There." Then Thane suddenly leaps as he did before, and lands in the spot where he had throttled Rashiel before Zarek.
"It was here were he ran me through..." Thanes eyes look up at the spike where Zarek was impaled. All that remains of his General is a stain of blood beneath a half inch of dust. "I still smell his blood, his rotting flesh remains..." Thane says as he turns around and searches the rubble. Dusty feathers lay about undisturbed and the scent of decay strong. Thane spies the discarded wings under a mass of stone and debris. "There..." Thane says as he stares at the twisted wings crushed and disfigured beneath the rubble in a pool of dried blood and thick dust.
"That is why I know Chancellor... I know he wasn't going to return because he made that very clear to us all."
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Post by Regent on Aug 12, 2007 9:49:00 GMT -6
Regent places the tattered material into his bag. He looks up to Thane pointing at the wings in the rubble and speaks. "Well this angel certainly had the wish for death, had he succeeded and not returned he would have been banished anyway and become the hunted himself. Likewise had he failed and managed to return... same result."
Regent holds out his hand for Ciel to take it and as he grasps her hand they both begin to lift weightlessly into the air. Regent glides over the pile of rubble to Thane and sets down softly as not to disturb a single grain of dust. He sets Ciel down to be seated on the large broken column lying beside him.
"Ciel my lovely, please view those discarded wings and tell me what you see. Regent orders softly to Ciel as he rummages through his bag yet again.
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Post by Ciel on Aug 13, 2007 15:01:28 GMT -6
Ciel nodded as she sat and looked down at them with the goggles. She saw the same energy that she had seen before. It would have been ultimately beautiful to her if she had not been so frightened of it.
She nodded again to Regent and let the goggles sit on her lap. "It is the same thing that I have been seeing Chancellor. It is there, in the...the wings. Or what is left of them..."
She shifted on the rock and and tried not to look so uncomfortable. She couldn't help it really... she was in the very same room that her beloved queen had been taken from her , and so many lives had been affected. She felt disheartened suddenly as she sat there. She only hoped that Regent knew what he was doing.
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Post by Thane on Aug 15, 2007 12:01:14 GMT -6
Thane stands silent with his arms folded across his chest. He watches Regent with minimal interest as he fumbles through the bag again. Thane shakes his head thinking that this jaunt down memory lane has wasted enough time.
What the hell are they doing here? Thane's patience is beginning to crack as his lack of understanding is swelling the hate and anger he felt before inside his heart during the battle. Regent had better get on with it if Thane is not to become incapacitated with disillusionment and shoot off at the mouth what he is feeling about all of this.
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Post by Regent on Aug 15, 2007 12:19:05 GMT -6
Regent pulls out a very long and unwieldy device from his bag. the contraption is telescoping as he yanks on the extendable lengths of the device to their full ends. He opens several compartments along the base and drop out a tripod of sorts and he places them on the ground before him. Regent looks preoccupied in his device but he can since the unrest in his subordinates minds as he hurries to set up his device. The last bit is in place and he sets it squarely on top of the configured unit.
He looks to Ciel and smiles. "Now lets see if this was worth it's weight in gold..." A flip of the switch and the machine powers up with a low hum that raises in pitch to a pulsating throb. Regent lets the device run for a moment and looks to Ciel again. "Look again Ciel... Tell me what you see now." The machine begins to emit a pulsing light of various color and intensity. Some become a cornucopia of laser lights like a Pink Floyd laser light show, others are as soft and subtle as the last remnants of daylight at the break of dusk. With the light sound waves bounce erratically from surface to surface raising and lowering in frequency but not enough to really hurt Thane's or Ciel's sensitive ears.
Regent smirks bit as he can feel the energy of the machine pulsing around him. Surely this will show the portal entrance where the time-space fabric has been rent. He awaits Ciel and her report on what she is seeing.
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