Bricksandparts Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) Johon stops in his tracks, looking back. "It was the least detrimental choice. I didn't realize just how potent it would be, but if It's that potenet, how do you know she wouldn't have committed megablocking suicide!? I'm not proud of myself for that decision, but someone please explain how it would have been any better than what we are in now?" Johon says, agitated. "I did this for her own good. Hate me for the deicison, but at least tell me what a better alternative would have been." Edited October 21, 2014 by Bricksandparts Quote
Emjajoas Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 "I don't even know what choices you were given, Johon," Mortimer barks, scowling at his companion. "If you want us to understand, explain yourself. Did you have to choose between a Love Potion and a Sadness Potion? Why even give her anything?" Quote
Bricksandparts Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) "There was sadness, hysteria, rage, love, depression, nervousness, despair, and regret. The Regret held the suffering's kin hostage, and we were forced to play his game. It's leverage. Karie opted for sadness, but..." Johon says, trailing off. "I gave her love. I thought, and still think, it's the least harmful. Sure, she might not even be fully functional, but had she used any of the others... ...She's been through enough." "I'm going to go fetch Karie and Masson. Hopefully they aren't already surrounded... or worse..." Johon says, rushing out the door. Edited October 21, 2014 by Bricksandparts Quote
Emjajoas Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 Mortimer grinds his teeth, sighing heavily through his nose. "Alright. I'll drop it. If you stand by your decision, I'll drop it." Quote
Zepher Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 Boomingham watches the exchange. "Looks like we did better than some of the others," he says with a sly grin. He shakes his head and sighs heavily. "Ah well. I don't want to go anywhere without Karie and Masson, be it time or place." But he rests his eyes on the time machine. "A little silly, that he explains how to time travel but not what it really does." "Do not meddle with this. It is dark dark magic." Quote
The_Customizer Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 "You had all those options and you chose love? I thought the only other option would have been sadness or depression, or suicidal. I'm pretty sure that rage would have been quite helpful, but since you made the decision on your own, I guess I really don't have a choice in that. You should probably go gather up the love birds, the sooner they get back the sooner we can continue on with this puzzle." Quote
joeshmoe554 Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 "I wonder if there was a time we could reach with those bulbs where this door wasn't built...?" "That sounds like the best course of action." Jeaux examined the device to look for markings on the various levers. Quote
Emjajoas Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 Mortimer walks up to the strange green portal, reaching out towards it. "Get the lovebirds back here. ...Someone has to go in first to make sure it's not a trap," he mutters, pressing his hand against the green anomaly. "Let's... go, then." Quote
Endgame Posted October 21, 2014 Author Posted October 21, 2014 QM Note: I need Kintobor to respond to a siequest one more time before we can proceed, (I need to keep this in synch) but you'll definitely get an update today! Quote
Emjajoas Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 OOC: No problem; wasn't quite sure what we were waiting on to proceed so I figured I'd try to kick things off. Quote
Endgame Posted October 21, 2014 Author Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) Johon returns with an exhausted Masson and Karie in tow. Both looked relaxed and refrshed, a hint of a smile playing on their lips, but also looked dishelved. "We're back. Now, I was told there was time travel here and such?" Following the instructions in the books, Jeaux pulls down four of the bulb's lever, and Mortimer activates it with the palm of his hand. The party is enveloped in a burst of green static, their stomachs lurching and their senses going hazy for a moment befor ehtey find themselves jolted to a different time period... They arrive, slightly queasy, but otherwise intact. They were now in the Shadow Citadel... Five hundred years in the past. The tower was still under construction, a gaping hole leading to scaffolding the spiralled up the expanse of the tower. Snow rushes in through the hole, piling up on the floo, chilling the heroes. The air ripples with the bulb's power... The bulb was now crimson, now able to return them to their present time. "Remarkable..." Alice, however, wasn't doing as well. "i feel sick..." Edited October 21, 2014 by Endgame Quote
Emjajoas Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 Mortimer staggers for a second, disoriented. "Everyone okay?" he asks, making his way towards the railing. Quote
Bricksandparts Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) Johon quickly grabs Em's shoulder, afraid the platform was weak. "Whoa, slow down. That thing breaks you'll fall down, down, down..." He says, checking the strength of the platform with an extended leg. Edited October 21, 2014 by Bricksandparts Quote
Emjajoas Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 "That... would be bad," Mortimer nods in thanks, glancing around the cavern. Quote
Zepher Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 Boomingham stares at the contraption. "What do you think time travel in the past is like?" he asks. "Do you think if we kill the Regret here he'll have been dead for five hundred years?" Quote
The_Customizer Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 "I am not sure how it works, but lets just hope that he dies in one way or another. Honestly, it may just be best to travel back in time before he was too powerful and kill him then, would make everything significantly easier." Quote
Zepher Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 "Yeah, how far back does this contraption go? Can we just pull more levers down? Does anyone want to give it a little test with me?" Quote
joeshmoe554 Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 "Given the warnings in the regret's notes, I think that would be inadvisable." Quote
Endgame Posted October 22, 2014 Author Posted October 22, 2014 "Yeah, how far back does this contraption go? Can we just pull more levers down? Does anyone want to give it a little test with me?" "From what I *wheeze* understood, these things are set only to send us to this time period, or the present..." 'Boomignham, I don't think I could handle a jump much longer than what we've already done, anyway... Does that mean I'm... Well, weak?" Johon quickly grabs Em's shoulder, afraid the platform was weak. "Whoa, slow down. That thing breaks you'll fall down, down, down..." He says, checking the strength of the platform with an extended leg. The scaffolding seemed rather sturdy. "I'm not surprised. The Regret doesn't seem to be one who doesn't put in a full effort, whether its construction or human genocide..." Quote
Kintobor Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 "I don't see the problem staying here if it means I get to stare into Masson's beautiful eyes longer." Karie says intimately. Quote
Emjajoas Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 Mortimer carefully steps onto the platform, leading the party forward. "Let's go," he mutters, still a little nervous about the slip into the past. Quote
Endgame Posted October 23, 2014 Author Posted October 23, 2014 "I don't see the problem staying here if it means I get to stare into Masson's beautiful eyes longer." Karie says intimately. "Focus, Karie, please. I have... Tended to your needs, haven't I?" Mortimer carefully steps onto the platform, leading the party forward. "Let's go," he mutters, still a little nervous about the slip into the past. The party cautiously ascends the scaffolding, the wooden bridge spiralling up the tower. While climbing, they see an odd sight: Primordial Oculoids, by the looks of things. Their eyes were glassy and almost lifeless, their bodies oddly shaped and lumpy. They drift through the air at a moderate pace, dragging a brick behind them - to be slotted into a building somehwere in the Citadel, likely. They hardly seemed sentient. "Looks like *wheeze* oculoids weren't always all they were cracked up to be." The party reaches the end of the scaffolding... Another time bulb sits in the corner, the incomplete wall exposing a critical fact: there was no way up for a non-Oculoid from here. A line of goopy mortar is lined on the floor. "What are we gonna do?" Quote
Emjajoas Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Mortimer takes a deep breath. "Forward seems our only option," he mutters, reaching towards the time bulb. "It's probably a trap," he adds with a shrug. Quote
The_Customizer Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 "Agreed, though risky, I do not believe we have any other choice, lets activate it once again." Quote
Zepher Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Boomingham glances around one last time at the falling snow. "This snow will have been melted long ago by the time we jump back to our time, but it feels mighty real to me now." He holds out his tongue and catches a flake... after a few moments of trying, of course. Those things don't happen miraculously exactly when you want them to. It melts. "Alright, let's go back home," he says ruefully, drawing his blade. Quote
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