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

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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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	vaticanpieninja 2010-12-19 11:19 pm UTC (link)
	[. . .] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vaticanpieninja 2010-12-19 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	[what are we meant to do with the rubble?] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-12-19 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	* idk but he's CHECKIN' IT OUT * (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vaticanpieninja 2010-12-19 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	[Well, all he can think to do with it is clear it out, so... going over as well.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sabra_la_au 2010-12-19 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	[You actually don't even get that far, but catch a flicker of white light to your right, near a few downed tents.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vaticanpieninja 2010-12-20 12:00 am UTC (link)
	[That's... very different from torchlight. Moves over that way to see what it is, pulling away the tattered cloths] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sabra_la_au 2010-12-20 12:18 am UTC (link)
	[As you do, half tangled in the pages of what appears to have been someone's letter - now torn and scorched from the forces of the evening - a symbol sits, glowing softly, shaped in the form of a single wing.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vaticanpieninja 2010-12-20 12:22 am UTC (link)
	[. . . crouching, one hand... lightly tapping the winged symbol before picking it up, the other gathering the letter to see if there's a name on it] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sabra_la_au 2010-12-20 12:23 am UTC (link)
	[There is not, it seems the writer has fled before finishing the letter. The symbol doesn't respond to the action, but feels cool in your hands as you hold it.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vaticanpieninja 2010-12-20 12:29 am UTC (link)
	[frowns at the tattered remains of the tent and wonders if he should leave this for whoever all this belonged to--though the light...] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sabra_la_au 2010-12-20 01:05 am UTC (link)
	[It does capture the attention, nicely. The light winking in and out almost playfully.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vaticanpieninja 2010-12-20 01:05 am UTC (link)
	[shakes his head and tries to reach for the feeling he felt when connected to the Oracle. The symbol is familiar after all; it's painted on many of Delphinus's smaller ships as a way to invoke protection and quick travel--] Messenger... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

sabra_la_iudex
2010-12-20 01:15 am UTC (link)

[As you touch the symbol and invoke the Messenger, He of the Wind, He of Communication, The Bringer of Wisdom, the symbol becomes hard to hold in your hands. You brush for a moment, a presence unimaginably larger than your own. For a moment, just a moment, your mind speeds up. Thoughts come and go at almost impossible speeds, you only barely know that you have had them, clever, quick, brilliant, before they are gone again. You find yourself, numb, reeling back.

And then its gone.]

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	sabra_la_au 2010-12-20 01:16 am UTC (link)
	[As the symbol of the Messenger is touched, around you, you feel the cool air move. A breeze blows through the area. In the ‘sky’ above, clouds begin to shape, and it takes on a healthy blue colour. The symbol itself is tossed up into the air and is then gone.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vaticanpieninja 2010-12-20 01:30 am UTC (link)
	Ah... May the progress made in this new city be to your liking... [aand catches his breath] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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