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Edge [MAGNETO | Erik Lehnsherr] (xceptional) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2011-11-22 20:45:00

Entry tags:

!days 290-299, akane 'june' kurashiki, aoi 'santa' kurashiki, charles xavier, chrome dokuro, erik lehnsherr, ~the gentleman

Who: Erik, Charles
Where: Lepus
When: Day 291, early evening
What:

[There is no flavour text I can write by now that makes any of this new or exciting. Except that Erik has a bag with him this time. What a twist.

Knocking at the tower door!]

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	xceptional 2011-11-22 11:43 am UTC (link)
	I'm glad it suits. Good evening. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	knocks_twice 2011-11-22 11:48 am UTC (link)
	Good evenin' And a right pleasure to make your acquaintance too. Round these parts I'm just known as the Gentleman. [Takes a deep sip, holding the liquor in his mouth for just a moment before swallowing it with a sigh.] Must be Soldier's, kid always did know a perfect mix of a good burn and taste. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xistential 2011-11-22 11:50 am UTC (link)
	I'm Valerian of Lepus. As for the drinks, you'll have to thank Edge. Though he doesn't quite have the nose for it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xceptional 2011-11-22 11:54 am UTC (link)
	[hrmph. maybe I won't give you any after all.] Yes, well. We didn't have anything quite as strong as what you gave me last time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	knocks_twice 2011-11-22 11:58 am UTC (link)
	[The man gives Valerian an amiable grin.] Good t'meet you. I bet you fancy them delicate spirits, right? [And then a slight nod at Edge] A bit of a favorite of mine, from quite a lovely lady, made it even a bit more delightful. Though I must say, you are looking a fair bit better than last time I saw you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xceptional 2011-11-22 12:03 pm UTC (link)
	Much better. And interesting as the whole experience was, I can't say I want to repeat it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	knocks_twice 2011-11-22 12:06 pm UTC (link)
	You aint that kinda type, but that's why we're talking again. You thought much on those words we passed back and forth? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xceptional 2011-11-22 12:12 pm UTC (link)
	I did. I think the path is heading for a dead end. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xistential 2011-11-22 12:15 pm UTC (link)
	And we need to secure a way out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

knocks_twice
2011-11-22 12:19 pm UTC (link)

[He takes another sip, leisurely.]

Your lives don't end here, or at least, they aint supposed to. Quite a bit of time to both of you... now I aint saying time or fate is a fixed thing.. that all depends on the world and the rules it got wrote by. Yours is pretty fast and loose as far as that thing goes, let me tell you, but I aint all that fond of these shenanigans this children have been pullin'

Been making me late or early all over, causing all sorts of havoc.

So as it were, I can't say I'm on any particular side so much as seeing come to a proper conclusion.

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	xceptional 2011-11-22 12:26 pm UTC (link)
	Time is the problem. As far as I can tell, ours might have just got cut short, if there was that much left to start with. I'm not going to do nothing about it and just hope we can last until our time to leave comes. I think that door just closed. We need to act. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xistential 2011-11-22 12:28 pm UTC (link)
	[playing good cop] It's not about sides. As Edge said, time is running out, on both sides. And our side has been losing ground, quite literally. But if you could share your conclusions with us, we will make the most of it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

knocks_twice
2011-11-22 12:38 pm UTC (link)

You're right, if it were about sides, I wouldn't be here. I aint fond of taking none, though I think you are looking a little narrow like if you suspect there's only two.

As far as a way out... it aint gonna happen if the King gets his way and starts himself a new cycle. The only way you got in front of you is forward.

But... either of you fancy hearing a story?

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	xceptional 2011-11-22 12:44 pm UTC (link)
	[sucks in a breath at the mention of a new cycle. that means the old one, this one...] I've always gone forward. I won't change that now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xistential 2011-11-22 12:46 pm UTC (link)
	[puts a hand on Erik's shoulder, reassuringly] We've made our choices. And I, for one, would never turn down a story. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	knocks_twice 2011-11-22 12:55 pm UTC (link)
	[He lifts a glass to them.] Well then, settle in, I've a mind to ramble these days. And best be taking a drink yourself, aint nothing but self conscious to be the only folk partaking. There's a story, long since from the lips of anyone who used to know it here, of a son of the gods and man, known as Justavi the Godslayer. Sounding about up your alley? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xceptional 2011-11-22 12:56 pm UTC (link)
	...I'm listening. [picks up the other glass.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xistential 2011-11-22 12:58 pm UTC (link)
	[grabs his own, raises it as a toast before sipping] Perhaps. It's hard to say. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

knocks_twice
2011-11-22 01:14 pm UTC (link)

Aint it? I'll let you be the judge of it. All I'm doing is a bit of entertainment for the hospitality.

Now they say Justavi's mother was so beautiful she charmed the very gods from their lofty perch and dallied once even with Regelus. The union was fertile and the child born was usually strong, with a voice that commanded, with a word, the minds and hearts of men.

Now there's a whole bunch of legends of what he did, many of em more imaginary fluff than any truth, but one of em, mind, was a thing that happened.

It was in his 20th summer, he wooed an exotic young woman who had a chance t'travel through the great cities of Cygnus. She took him in and warmed his covers a night, and disappeared.

It was that morning after he saw upon a tapestry the fibers twist and become the visage of a terrible beast, and knew with some fear, that it was his child, yet unborn from the mother of all monsters.

It was a decade past, that he began to hear of a creature made of dark and with language - words that pierce and command men to walk into its mouth itself.

They'd said it was a terrible creature. They said it was of hard scales that no sword wouldn't shatter on it. It was of such force that magic and prayers were naught but a breeze, rustlin' its feathery hair.

They'd said it been eating the spirit of the forests, and would soon be a god, and after that, weren't nothing that could be done.

[He takes a moment to sip the drink in front of him, and holds out the empty glass, tilted slightly.] Mind a refill?

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	xceptional 2011-11-22 01:20 pm UTC (link)
	[snatches up the bottle and obliges him before knocking back some of his own.] Born from a monster, hmm... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xistential 2011-11-22 01:21 pm UTC (link)
	But... something was done. Correct? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

knocks_twice
2011-11-22 01:37 pm UTC (link)

Thank you kindly.

Naturally. Stories of the like rarely end there...

He went out himself, wanting to know if that face were that of his child and then needing, after to take the responsibility.

Walked right up to her, and spoke, all the strength of his voice in his words, and she replies, the roar echoing over the hills shaking him in his place. They say it lasted some three days between them, a battle of wits and will, where he just barely held onto his life, keeping himself from walking into her open jaws...

In the end, he had to flee, not a single strike done to her, but he had tricked but one single piece of information from her... what she were still scared of, even as a god.

Now, there's a big long bit here, a bit of wrestlin' with morality, chattin' on with the various gods and finding him bits of magic that would keep him safe from the hottest of fires, I aint gonna get into it since we aint got none of those about anymore.

But it were in the end, that he stood in front of the most ancient dragon, sitting high above the planes of Canis, in a woven cloak of harpy hair of Lepus, and surrounded by the feathers of the firebirds of Corvus, and bearing a sword wrought of Pavonian steel and Cephean forging, he begged of the dragon for his fire and rage, the very essence death itself.

He stood in that blaze for nearly half a minute, the ground crumbling down beneath him until he stood at the bottom of what would later be the greatest lake of the region.

And the sword, it glowed, full of the power of the dragons, and blessed by the eldest of them. So much power within it there weren't to be another of it's make for thousands of years.

I'll skip forward a bit, since those journeys back aint never quick things, but when he cornered her back in the swamp, he told her, he had forged of a weapon that even she should fear.

She laughed and told him it was too late, and soon she would feast upon the king of the gods himself soon.

Now here's where the storytelling gets all fancy and tricky like, and a proper silvertongue'd have you right wrapped up in the deception, but we WERE just talkin' bout time, yeah?

She pricked her finger, just a touch on it, and bled away entirely through that tiny cut. He took off her head, much like the scales were butter and returned it to the kingdom, to be the next ruler of Cygnus, and a holy man besides. Start of a monarchy and all that.

Not the most useful of a story for thems without a dragon, or for thems that can't stand in the middle of a dragon's fire.

Course, now if you had someone who could charm a crazy lady dragon, and one who could keep a slab a metal big enough in the air.. and not be in the same place... I wonder if it might work out just fine.

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	knocks_twice 2011-11-22 01:38 pm UTC (link)
	Course, there's the forging part, but I figure yall have figured that much out, what with the forges about. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xceptional 2011-11-22 01:44 pm UTC (link)
	[silent for a moment.] You know, I haven't done any forging in a while. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xistential 2011-11-22 01:46 pm UTC (link)
	[nudges Erik] Now's not the time to be showing off. Thank you, Gentleman. It was a most compelling story. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)