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Post by Twilight-Claw on Aug 21, 2019 0:27:50 GMT -6
With the book she recently bought going on about magic and their secrets, she had seen one passage that interested her the most. The creation of nodes, or at least the ingredients needed for it, the consequences should one try and fail, and where one should head to as the closest location for when one should try. There was even a passage about the gods and spirits in there that said they will help somehow, help how? She hadn’t seen much details about the progress one will go through, but the vague notes about it didn’t scare her off to at least try and attempt it. To never try will just mean one is afraid too much of the failure instead of confident in the success they could get with their attempt. Though, when she looks at the temple and how ominous it appears, she wonders if that too shouldn’t have been in the warnings. The polished black stones might be decorated with pale gold engravings of beasts she might or might not have seen before, but added together with the strange statues it gives her a vibe of foreboding, one that says she has to tread cautiously lest she does something that will bring her misfortune.
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Aug 21, 2019 0:28:11 GMT -6
Still, she steps forward, even knowing there is going to be sense of danger against her with the actions that she will take today. At least she made certain to double check on what she brought along for this trip, taking heed of the warnings made in the book about doing it improperly. Climbing the steps slowly as she made certain not to fall on the uneven steps, she noticed that they each seem to depict something, each telling a story of what seems to go on about the temple from what she can tell. People sacrificing their own kind, or creatures. People praying to the gods of this world, known and unknown. And.. The creation of nodes? Is that what she is seeing? Slowing down even further till she stood still on the stairs she took to reach the top, she sees it, it is the actual instructions that were lacking in the book itself. She tries to memorize the steps as best as possible, none of it looked vague with what is described, and none of it was actually all that difficult looking to accomplish this. She was only uncertain about what the last couple of pictures could mean where something see-through seems to be touching the person with the knife and then the ingredients. Still, with these instructions she knows can do it!
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Aug 21, 2019 0:28:37 GMT -6
After that, when she is certain to have the instructions engraved into her mind, she continues further with more confidence, only making sure that the stairs that depict the trials people went through wasn’t depicting anything new about the progress with the creation of nodes. It didn’t, some of it even repeated itself while she went to the top of the altar, describing only the parts she has already seen and memorized as best as she can. This will either be a hard trial or an easy one where she hopes the gods and spirits will favor her enough to allow it all to happen. When she reaches the top, she sees in front of herself a rather simple slab of stone with in each corner four piles of sun stained bones surrounding the altar and in almost the middle a dagger with some strange designs on it, she knows thanks to what was on the stairs depicted that this is the altar. This is where she will need to act on her desire for it to work. But does she need to pray to the gods, spirits or whoever helps her in the progress? She doesn’t know. Especially as today she would be using crystals that are hard to define which god it could be related to, should it need to happen. That the slab of stone in front of her is coated in old blood, she tries to ignore as best as she can while taking out of her coat the needed ingredients one at the time. Today it will gain another layer of new blood with it.
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Aug 21, 2019 0:29:35 GMT -6
She first takes out the mind crystal from her coat, its oval shape allowing it to move only to the right or left should it roll. She places the mind crystal in the center of the stone slab, letting go slowly as she makes certain it isn’t going to roll off the altar. That would be a disaster should it happen the moment she begins the ritual and can’t stop lest she wishes to die while doing so. When it didn’t move from its spot, she lets out a sigh of relieve as she takes out of her coat the three crystals she brought along. She had cleaned up all the crystals with fresh water and a soft rag to make certain no dirt could hurt the process, just in case. Placing it around the oval mind crystal to form a triangle, she holds her hand near the crystals for just a moment longer, watching it, waiting to see if one tries to roll away. When this too stayed put, she retreated her hand. She wasn’t certain, but the atmosphere seems to press on her, making it almost feel harder to stay standing before the altar, or breathing as easily as she did before. Now, what was the next step again? Ahh, right!
Taking the last ingredients, she brought along with her from her coat she stares at the handful of berries in pink, purple and blue. Usually she just sells these berries, or stores them up for later trading instead of just tasting what they are like now and then, so she doesn’t know yet what their taste actually is. Not that it would matter in the long run though, it could taste like something rotten and she would still eat it if it means the progress will be success in the end. Bringing the berries one after the other into her mouth and chewing on it slowly, she tries to memorize the taste of them as best as she can, knowing she will hardly take the opportunity for it again in the winter season when its best to just harvest them for next time again. It has a rather sweet taste, refreshing, but when she swallows it down, it felt like bitterness took ahold of her taste buds when it came afterwards. She wrinkles her nose up almost immediately at that. Yet, she could tell after swallowing it, something was going on in her body. New energy that came to all her limbs, prickling the skin wherever it went in search of something.
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Aug 21, 2019 0:30:07 GMT -6
She didn’t wait to feel the energy running across and inside her body for long. Instead she grabbed the strange knife, wondering for just a second how much blood this will involve before just doing it, and silently starting to pray in her mind that the gods and spirits involved in this progress will be pleased with it. Nicking her left pinkie at the meat part but not quite the tip to make the incision, she uses on the same hand the ring finger and thumb to squeeze the blood out, making sure it lands on each ingredient, even making another incision again on the same finger to let it drip some more on the hollow crystals each and the oval stone in the middle of them, letting it almost gleam in the dark red blood where the sun shines upon the droplets. “Let it work, please, let it work.” She mutters almost to herself as she lets go of the knife, allowing it to clatter on the altar where she can easily see the stone slab is taking in the fresh blood given as well, both from the knife, the ingredients where it slowly drips down on the stone, and the blood still dripping from her finger. just far enough from the crystals that they lay undisturbed by the action while she kneels in a moment of weakness as a pulling in the chest starts to form.
‘Is it working?’ She couldn’t help but think as she is starting to feel lightheaded and in pain, looking down at the ground for just a moment before the stone slab, and then looks up with glazed pain filled eyes as she starts to feel it in a way she never felt before and stares at what she sees beyond it, three beings clothed in red, still as a statue but likely not actual ones as they had allowed her to do what she came for. She had known they were there all along, but with how they showed no sign to acknowledge her presence nor whether they had approved of it or not, she had ignored their alien visage for what she came for all along. Would they punish her for it now by making sure she’ll fail to create what she desires? Or allow what she is feeling inside her chest to continue as their retribution? The final ingredient she hopes the gods and spirits of this world would gladly rip a small piece from? Just so long as it will be a success? It wasn’t just the physical pain she feels or perhaps better to say the pain of her soul, inside her mind she felt like she was getting pulled down into a pit of darkness as well, something she knows when it happens, she will find herself somewhere else again when it has taken over. Somewhere safe and away from all the pain she feels. “Please.” She says one final time before the pain took over completely, allowing her mind to get dragged into that pit of darkness, while her body, perhaps her very soul knows in that moment nothing else but pain...
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Post by Renathan on Aug 21, 2019 2:10:49 GMT -6
Hollow Node - Success! Next Attempt - 08-21-2020
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