I8DT - A smile and a friendly face

by **The Book of Sins** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:51 pm

A broad smile spread across the little man's features as Victoria spotted him. Perhaps a little too wide.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:57 pm

"What's the matter?" she asks, looking over her shoulder to see what Vickie is looking at.

by **The Book of Sins** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:06 pm

The man's smile didn't falter, though he did offer the sphinx a 'tip of the hat' gesture.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:08 pm

"Is that..."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:09 pm

"...Creeping me out."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:21 pm

"Why is there a midget in a suit staring at us?"

by **Victoria Valentine** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:22 pm

"Do you want to put down money on whether or not it's a bad thing?"

by **The Book of Sins** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:22 pm

The little man reached into his coat pocket, and drew out a black envelope.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:25 pm

"Like it could be anything else..." she mumbles, certain words of warning ringing in her ear.

by **Victoria Valentine** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:28 pm

"Part of me says we keep rubbish like this away from the middle of the campus. Another part of me wants to say 'if he wants to talk, he comes to us, not the other way around.'"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:39 pm

"Would be irresponsible to let these things roam around freely, wouldn't it?"

by **The Book of Sins** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:46 pm

As neither of them was approaching him, the little man simply shrugged, and put the envelope away. His grin still fixed, he casually walked behind the tree.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:48 pm

Fully expecting him to be gone Nailah takes a couple of steps to get a better look behind the tree.

by **Narrator** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:50 pm

Indeed, there was nothing behind the tree.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:54 pm

"That's bold. Middle of the day, out in the open..."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:55 pm

"In the middle of a campus where only two people might know what it was and odd sights are seen every day? Not all that brave."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:58 pm

"Not because it'd be dangerous for them. It's just impudent."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:12 pm

"True. Now where the bloody hell did it go?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:25 pm

"Well let's see if we can't find out." she says, spreading her hands out in a circular motion before bringing them together in front of her, mumbling. "Aqi-k em mehit khent-ek er se-mesert em neter-khert."

by **Narrator** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:31 pm

The magical landscape seemed... porous. Not like a sponge, but more like something that had been burrowed through, forging connections to other areas that were slowly healing. It wasn't like ley lines, as those would be a presence of new energy flowing. This was more... an absence. It felt unnatural, but was subsiding.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:34 pm

Nailah shudders.

"Whatever it is, it's unnatural and it's been here for a while..."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:38 pm

"We should've moved faster," Victoria said simply. "Now we don't know for sure what it wanted." She did, however, have a good guess.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:42 pm

"You think it would have told us?" she asks, a little absentmindedly while she's still trying to feel out where the thing hopped to.

by **Narrator** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:46 pm

It was hard to tell. Some of the burrows seemed less than stable. They all seemed to branch out from one larger one that just seemed to reach... beyond. In a straight line from that one was an older one, which was beginning to clear up, but headed towards the student dorms. This seemed to have been the original destination of the larger tunnel, but more burrowing had widened it out, prior to branching out into fresher ones.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:51 pm

Nailah turned and took a couple steps towards the dorms, narrowing her eyes.

"Third story, 6th window from the right. Do you know who's dorm that is?" she asks, looking up towards a window with curtains that would look very familiar to Victoria.

by **Victoria Valentine** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:39 pm

"Oh bloody hell I am FUCKING TIRED of all these magic beasties heading for my room like my wards aren't fucking there!" Victoria spat.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 4:39 am

"No. No no, that's not where it went. But something did not too long ago.... Though it sounds like you already knew that."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:10 am

Victoria swallowed and nodded, scowling up at her room. "I had... more than a few little incursions of things that were... more curious than was healthy about Vivien. One thing got in, not sure what it was, and then... after I shore up my wards the N'Garai came knocking to try to get in. One of Chthon's other nasty little creations... hell. If there's even remotely a chance that I'll get to give that bastard a bloody nose, I'm in with this mess."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:18 am

She nods. "Time to drive those damn things back where they belong and make sure they stay there."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:22 am

"I wish to hell he wasn't a god, I'd just bring that blasted mountain down on top of him," Victoria said darkly, before shaking her head, looking away from her room.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:24 am

"This is about more than just hurt pride, is it?"

by **Victoria Valentine** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:33 am

"Pride?" Victoria gave Nailah a disbelieving, almost insulted look. "Oh, they took much more from me than pride. But no... this is about the fact that some things need very, very much to not be in this world. This is about creatures destroying lives, families, childhoods, souls, and the fact that someone has to make them pay for it." She unconsciously glanced to where the dwarf had been. "And it's also personal. But that isn't a bad thing."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:42 am

Nailah nods, deciding not to press the issue of just what Victoria is talking about. Not that anyone should need particular reason to fights these unnatural beings.

"Especially when there aren't many who can stand up to them."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:52 am

"At the very least we can be somewhat sure that this isn't going to involve one of the big names in our world this time. At least except as a third party that we can apply the whole 'enemy of our enemy is our friend' idea to until these bastards are taken care of."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:57 am

"We're probably not the first to try and 'take care' of them, so I'm going to settle for containing this as much as possible..." she says a little morosely.

by **Victoria Valentine** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:59 am

"That's all we can hope for," Victoria said. "The Darkhold can't be destroyed. The book itself was destroyed, but the pages are the scrolls set down by Chthon, and nothing can destroy the knowledge of an elder god. And Chthon... well, the greatest sorcerers of the day, possibly of all time, tried to banish him back in the days of Camelot. All they could manage was to bind him under Mount Wundagore."

"Now, his little followers? That's another story."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:11 am

"I'm with you, though I'll tell you the same thing I told Mister Hall. Don't let this get away from you and turn into a personal vendetta."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:17 am

"Going against an elder god for personal reasons would be idiotic. The personal satisfaction I'll get from this is just a happy bonus."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:21 am

"Good. I'd rather not have to worry about that."

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