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Tweak says, "I ate it"

The Judges Of Sabra La Tau (sabra_la_iudex) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2010-12-19 12:03:00

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!history, allen walker, claude c. kenni, edward elric, excel, gokudera hayato, howard link, johnny rayflo, kiryuu zero, lady, minami ikki, nakayama yayoi, rabi, sumeragi kururu, syaoran, wanijima akito, yamamoto takeshi, yuffie kisaragi, zexion, {gaara}, {kokuto mikiya}, {lenalee lee [1]}, {rezo the red priest}, {tsuchimiya kagura}, {uruki}, {zim}, {{{akatsuki chika}}}, {{{bianchi}}}, {{{date masamune}}}, {{{frey wilhazen}}}, {{{geddoe}}}, {{{leonard 'bones' mccoy}}}, {{{marla mason}}}, {{{toboe}}}, {{{zelgadis greywords}}}

Who: Everyone
Where: In the Sacred City
When: King’s Year 199, Mid Winter
What:

[It had been a slow start through the fall. Nations full of people needing to settle and find shelter. And many despaired... how could such an enormous project be completed by the end of a mere two seasons when most were still milling about supplies and accommodations?

But as they do, gears shifted as the temperatures rose... as night became a nostalgic memory... Natural ingenuity blended with mad genius with simple practicality and by early winter, the great keystone... a project of masonry that had taken nearly as much time as the construction of the great stone walls themselves was complete and secured into place for the rest of the walls to be completed around it.

Construction had slowed ... even with ants to carve and carry, even with machinery of steam and clockwork and nearly a quarter of the world in labor.... the hours that COULD be worked became less and less... and working became less of a normal function and one of devotion, heroism and madness.

But today.... the last blocks had been placed, the keystone was in place and ready... Since last night the world has been thrown into blessed darkness. The air is uncomfortably warm, but no longer scalds to breathe, and the light comes from torches and magic.

Today, many people have gathered below the keystone, eyes turned upward.

Today, the supports are removed.]

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	akin2squidrats 2010-12-19 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	[helping with the barricade, but trying to reach out and calm whatever it is outside... or at least find out what it is] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sabra_la_au 2010-12-19 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	[There's no one type of mind outside, from enormous to small, from intelligent to those merely driven by madness and mortal terror, ... Outside there is only flames, the great sky opened at once, and a terrible flash is blackening everything that had been green, burning flesh from the bones.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	akin2squidrats 2010-12-19 08:30 pm UTC (link)
	[well, dumb idea] They're dying out there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	howltoremember 2010-12-19 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	Can't we do anything for them?! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2010-12-19 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	Not without dooming ourselves. Terror makes beasts of them all... ...help the builders as you can, you too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	howltoremember 2010-12-19 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	But-- ah. [shakes his head] Be safe, father. [going to help the builders then] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2010-12-19 08:42 pm UTC (link)
	just nods, and turns back to his task. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	akin2squidrats 2010-12-19 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know. IF we open the door, we'll be roasted. They're... everything's in flames. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	howltoremember 2010-12-19 08:42 pm UTC (link)
	We can't. We can't open the door. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	akin2squidrats 2010-12-19 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	There's nothing we can do for them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	howltoremember 2010-12-19 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	[so numb] We have to help the builders. [going to join the Cepheans in their efforts to barricade the door] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	akin2squidrats 2010-12-19 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	[helping to scavenge supplies] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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