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Post by Viviana on Sept 18, 2008 11:30:44 GMT -6
[glow=purple,1,800]Viviana smiled, letting go of Visignis and taking a step back. "It's nice to see you, too." Her smile quickly faded as she thought of how she had met Visignis, and how she had died.
"I'm not sure I even wanna know," she asked quietly, "but has there been any sign of Alginax? You know, since the universe started falling apart around us?"[/glow]
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Post by Visignis on Sept 18, 2008 11:35:07 GMT -6
[glow=orange,1,600]Visignis shook his head. "No, no sign of him," he said. "At least not yet. Let's hope for the best," he said, crossing his fingers and smiling.[/glow]
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Post by Viviana on Sept 18, 2008 11:37:40 GMT -6
[glow=purple,1,800]Viviana smiled, crossing her fingers after seeing Visignis do so, when she noticed something unusual.
"What the hell happened to your hand?" she squawked. "I can see right through it! It's all fire! And your bracer looks different, too."[/glow]
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Post by Visignis on Sept 18, 2008 11:42:17 GMT -6
[glow=orange,1,600]Visignis looked at his hand. "Oh, that," he said nonchalantly. "Taelyrn cut off my hand fighting Baalaose, but it's okay. I fixed the bracer, and now I can do this," he said, reaching across the basement to his bar.
From 50 feet away, Visignis was able to pour two fingers of scotch into a glass and drop three cubes into it. The cubes were melting a little faster than usual as he grasped the glass, the bracer rings clinking together as he retracted his hand.
"Cheers," he said, taking a sip.[/glow]
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Post by Viviana on Sept 18, 2008 11:45:07 GMT -6
[glow=purple,1,800]"Cool," Viviana said, stunned for a moment before snapping back to reality.
"Wait, what do you mean, cut off your hand? You say it like the guy ordered a pizza. And who's Taelyrn and Baalaose? Why isn't your hand of fire melting that glass?"
Viviana sank into an easy chair. "Everything made more sense before the sky started falling," she sighed as she leaned forward, took Visignis' scotch, and downed half of it in one gulp.[/glow]
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Post by Visignis on Sept 18, 2008 21:41:35 GMT -6
[glow=orange,1,600]Pyrodeus looked down at his empty hand. "I thought you were a wine drinker," he muttered as he made himself another scotch on the rocks.
"Taelyrn is a man who helped us fight Baalaose," Visignis told her. "Except he's not a man now, he's an angel. A Warrior Angel, in fact. Anyway, he cut off my hand in an attack against Baalaose that went awry, slicing my bracer in half in the process."
Visignis sipped his scotch. "I went to my father's Forge to repair it, and when I did I modified it to do this," he said, his hand stretching out 3 feet in front of him, then retracting again.
"As for your question about the glass, that's another thing I built into the hand. See how there are no flames coming off of it right now?" he said, looking down at his hand. It was glowing a fiery orange, but there were no licks of flame to be seen.
"When I modified the bracer I gave it the power to make me this hand," he told Viviana. "I've got enough control over the fire energy in it to either make it work just like a regular hand," he said, moving his scotch to his left hand as he touched the wall with no ill effects, "or your average burning appendage," he said, the hand now erupting into flames. He touched the same wall, this time starting a small fire which he ground out with his forearm.[/glow]
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Post by Viviana on Sept 18, 2008 21:53:32 GMT -6
[glow=purple,1,800]Viviana stared at Visignis, one eyebrow cocked, mouth just slightly open.
"Okay, that answers the hand question," she said, returning to normal. "But it raises a few others," she said, walking toward Visignis' wine cellar.
"You still haven't told me who Taelyrn is, besides a guy who's not a guy anymore," she said, grabbing a wine glass from behind Visignis' bar. "You also haven't told me who Baalaose is, or that your dad has a forge on Etrah..." her voice trailed off as she tossed the wine glass behind the bar. It promtly shattered, and she tugged the cork from the bottle with her teeth before drinking straight from the bottle.[/glow]
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Post by Visignis on Sept 18, 2008 22:17:47 GMT -6
[glow=orange,1,600]"Well, since you're done with this," Visignis said, snatching the remainder of his first drink from where Viviana had set it.
"Anyway, sorry for the confusion," he told her, pouring the scotch and ice cubes into one glass. "Five cubes," me muttered, grasping two of them from the glass. Holding them in his hand, he retracted his hand into his bracer, where the cubes instantly melted, then became steam.
"Ooh, Viv, check this out," he said, holding his arm in the air. He pumped his arm twice, steam escaping from the end of his bracer in a sound nearly identical to a semi truck horn.[/glow]
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Post by Viviana on Sept 18, 2008 22:22:52 GMT -6
[glow=purple,1,800]Viviana shook her head, but couldn't hide her smile. "I can't believe it," she said. "8,000 years old and you still haven't grown up."
She then glared sharply at Visignis. "And don't call me Viv," she said, still unable to wipe her smile away.[/glow]
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Post by Visignis on Sept 18, 2008 22:38:47 GMT -6
[glow=orange,1,600]Visignis smiled back. "Course not," he told her, his eyes meeting hers.
"Anyway," he said, snapping back to reality, "Taelyrn was a human man with two souls. How he got the other one, I'm not entirely sure, but it did give him some pretty impressive power."
"Baalaose was an undead human with a powerful charm from hell, gone berserk and fused to his being. It allowed him to literally suck the life out of anything, along with any magic attacks. No matter what we threw at him he either ebsorbed it, or pulled life force from other places and repaired the damage."
"Messanger, a vampiric fighter, gave his life to knock Baalaose's heart from his chest, but even that wasn't enough. Taelyrn also gave his last breath in the fight against Baalaose by self-destructing both his souls. The soul bomb was too much, too fast. Baalaose's heart was destroyed. As a reward for his bravery, and in need of a Warrior Angel opposite Tresdos, God made Taelyrn into the Warrior Angel of Light. Tresdos, by the way, was a fallen angel who took over the Warrior Angel of Darkness' power."
Visignis took a drink of his scotch. "Of course, most of that story I heard after the fact. When Taelyrn cut off my hand, I passed out from blood loss and shock. Messanger stopped the bleeding, and definitely saved my life."[/glow]
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Post by Viviana on Sept 18, 2008 22:43:29 GMT -6
[glow=purple,1,800]Viviana listened intently. "Wow," she said. "So there are two new Warrior Angels, and both of them used to be human. I'm sorry to hear about your vampire friend, by the way," she told Visignis.[/glow]
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Post by Visignis on Sept 18, 2008 23:02:07 GMT -6
[glow=orange,1,600]Visignis nodded. "Yeah, me too," he said.
Suddenly, his eyes went wide. "Viviana, I have to go to the Forge," he said. "I came back here to get these refugees medical attention, and then that robot showed up," he said. "We've already dawdled too long, there might be more on their way."
Visignis leapt to his feet. "Keep an eye on them!" he shouted as he rocketed up the stairs, out the front door, and toward the Forge.[/glow]
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Post by Viviana on Sept 19, 2008 0:01:36 GMT -6
[glow=purple,1,800]"Keep an eye out for what?" Viviana shouted, but Visignis was already gone. She checked her guns to make sure they were all loaded, took another pull off the bottle of wine, and sat in the chair waiting for something to happen.
After all, she thought to herself, if it can rain angels, the dead can rise and steal life, and new Warrior Angels can just pop up, then something weird is bound to happen.[/glow]
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Post by Pyrodeus (NPC) on Sept 19, 2008 0:04:38 GMT -6
[glow=red,2,500]Pyrodeus and Visignis appeared outside the mansion. Pyrodeus promptly threw a white-hot fireball upward, propelling it a mile into the air before causing it to pop, giving off light easily visible from ground level.
"Okay, where is everybody?" Pyrodeus asked.[/glow]
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Post by Taelyrn on Sept 19, 2008 0:10:33 GMT -6
[glow=white,1,500]Taelyrn flashed into being near Pyrodeus and Visignis., The signal had both clearly shown where they were, and given off enough light to speed up his reformation.
Taelyrn shrugged his cloak back over his shoulders, hiding his wings from view. Part of him almost felt watched, and he felt as if it might be a good idea to conceal them.
"Lead the way, Visignis."[/glow]
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