Re: The Wretched Rite - Round One - The Rose Ring
08-10-2011, 06:57 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by Ixcalibur.
Vera strode confidently towards her first opponent, the scientist with the plant growing from her back. This was it, this was the moment she had spent her whole life waiting for, the reason she had been in training for as long as she could remember. Part of her was eager to fulfil her fate, to just pull out her pistol and shoot Olivia dead where she stood, but most of her was keen to savour this moment. With a cocky grin she unsheathed her razorwhip and cracked it across the cobbled street. However she did not move to attack, instead pausing and savouring the anticipation present in this moment.
“I will give you a moment to make peace with your fate.” Vera’s voice was almost condescendingly kind, as though she was being almost unnaturally gracious by allowing Olivia just a few moments more before she ended her life. “If it helps I will not enjoy what I am about to do. I am merely an agent of fate.”
The words were just ceremony; she did not mean the words even as she said them. While she was elated to be finally carrying out her destiny she would admit that she didn’t particularly look forward to ending the life of another. Not because she felt sympathetic, it would be folly to feel sympathy for those damned by fate, but the actual physical actions of killing turned her stomach. None of this showed upon her face though, her smug smirk remaining in place as she readied herself for combat.
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Alice was keen to put some distance between herself and the water creature that had accosted her, to be honest she was keen to put some distance between herself and this whole unfamiliar town. She would have done so if she had any concept of exactly where she was, and how to return to a location that made some kind of sense. Instead she wandered the streets of the town, peering through windows at the slumbering people who lay within. She wasn’t sure how she felt just abandoning that water thing. It had been rude yes but on the other hand it was the only actually awake creature that she had encountered in this strange place. Then again perhaps that was all the more reason to avoid it. In the distance she could hear voices. She experienced the same moment of indecision; it seemed likely that these were the voices of those who had inflicted this unnatural slumber upon the town, and therefore made sense to avoid them. But on the other hand what the hell did that accomplish? Whatever was going on, she refused to hide from it. She would not cower in the darkness and hope it left her alone.
She followed the sound of the voices through an alleyway to where a human and a humanish thing were talking, the latter of the pair semi-submerged in a puddle of foul water. Past them, there was something small with semi-transparent cyan wings and a strangely shaped tangle of vines was spreading something on the wall of a building, and then watching as that wall slowly rotted away and collapsed. The discussion between the humans paused as they regarded the destruction caused by the plant creature. Alice’s instincts told her in no uncertain terms that approaching the group was a bad idea, but she had come this far. Part of her, part that she hated but couldn’t help but agree with, noted that they were not her fated enemy, they could not kill her. She emerged from the alley she had been covertly viewing the group from, and stomped towards them.
“Who are you people?” Alice demanded. “And what the fuck is going on?”
Vera strode confidently towards her first opponent, the scientist with the plant growing from her back. This was it, this was the moment she had spent her whole life waiting for, the reason she had been in training for as long as she could remember. Part of her was eager to fulfil her fate, to just pull out her pistol and shoot Olivia dead where she stood, but most of her was keen to savour this moment. With a cocky grin she unsheathed her razorwhip and cracked it across the cobbled street. However she did not move to attack, instead pausing and savouring the anticipation present in this moment.
“I will give you a moment to make peace with your fate.” Vera’s voice was almost condescendingly kind, as though she was being almost unnaturally gracious by allowing Olivia just a few moments more before she ended her life. “If it helps I will not enjoy what I am about to do. I am merely an agent of fate.”
The words were just ceremony; she did not mean the words even as she said them. While she was elated to be finally carrying out her destiny she would admit that she didn’t particularly look forward to ending the life of another. Not because she felt sympathetic, it would be folly to feel sympathy for those damned by fate, but the actual physical actions of killing turned her stomach. None of this showed upon her face though, her smug smirk remaining in place as she readied herself for combat.
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Alice was keen to put some distance between herself and the water creature that had accosted her, to be honest she was keen to put some distance between herself and this whole unfamiliar town. She would have done so if she had any concept of exactly where she was, and how to return to a location that made some kind of sense. Instead she wandered the streets of the town, peering through windows at the slumbering people who lay within. She wasn’t sure how she felt just abandoning that water thing. It had been rude yes but on the other hand it was the only actually awake creature that she had encountered in this strange place. Then again perhaps that was all the more reason to avoid it. In the distance she could hear voices. She experienced the same moment of indecision; it seemed likely that these were the voices of those who had inflicted this unnatural slumber upon the town, and therefore made sense to avoid them. But on the other hand what the hell did that accomplish? Whatever was going on, she refused to hide from it. She would not cower in the darkness and hope it left her alone.
She followed the sound of the voices through an alleyway to where a human and a humanish thing were talking, the latter of the pair semi-submerged in a puddle of foul water. Past them, there was something small with semi-transparent cyan wings and a strangely shaped tangle of vines was spreading something on the wall of a building, and then watching as that wall slowly rotted away and collapsed. The discussion between the humans paused as they regarded the destruction caused by the plant creature. Alice’s instincts told her in no uncertain terms that approaching the group was a bad idea, but she had come this far. Part of her, part that she hated but couldn’t help but agree with, noted that they were not her fated enemy, they could not kill her. She emerged from the alley she had been covertly viewing the group from, and stomped towards them.
“Who are you people?” Alice demanded. “And what the fuck is going on?”
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