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Post by Miranda V on Dec 10, 2019 1:39:44 GMT -5
Off to the outside of the forest, the ground begins to quake and nearby trees start to age and grow rapidly. Older trees turn to ash and young saplings spring into massive fully formed trees almost immediately. Loose dirt starts to rise into the air as the gravity starts to dissipate. A small rabbit running by begins to fly into the air still moving its legs frantically in an attempt to run. A creepy buzzing noise can be heard at the epicenter of the phenomenon.
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Post by Nova Black on Dec 10, 2019 11:45:52 GMT -5
Rune halted just as Nova heard the strange sound. "What's that?" she asked her Percheron. "I have no idea." came the honey-smooth reply in her mind. About that time they felt the earth vibrate and saw strange things a distance off. "What the hell?" asked Nova to no one in particular. "Let's go, Rune. If we don't know what it is we can report it to Nicolae and he can take over from there....but right now, we gotta see if anyone needs help." the horse snorted and pinned her ears back as she raced, full gallop to the strange sight.
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Post by Nicolae Falcon on Dec 10, 2019 16:51:43 GMT -5
Nicolae found himself at the edge of the town facing the dense forest. Looking around to see if anyone was around, he removed his shirt and allowed his wings to manifest. His angelic wings looked everything but that. His wings weren't the pure white that was know of angels, Nicolae's were coal black and raven like. Stretching his back and unfurling his wings, he looked up to the sky and kicked off. It had been awhile since he had flown. Nicolae did a few circles low to the tree lines to avoid being spotted. Content, he returned to the ground. He took a moment and stroked his wings before allowing them to absorb back beneath the skin behind to terrible scars.
"Let's have some fun," he said to himself. With that being said he clapped his hands. In that instant the wind began to swirl around him. Nicolae greeted the element like and old friend. "Let's see if I still got it." Nicolae said as he threw his hands out. As he did the wind around him shot forward in a vortex. "Bring me a sight," chanted the mage. He stared into the vortex and began to seem images. Nothing really in particular, just images of the townsfolk as they began to wake. With another clap the wind returned on its normal course. He thanked it as the stirred up leaves began to fall. As he began to summon fire, he heard a loud bang, breaking his concentration. With worry on his mind he unleashed his wings again and took flight towards the direction of the noise. Something wasn't right.
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Post by Miranda V on Dec 11, 2019 23:54:21 GMT -5
Small discharges of electricity are seen moving from the edge of this sphere-like shape where the phenomenon seems to be taking place occasionally aching in a purple lightning bold towards the epicenter. The humming noise begins to draw to a higher pitch till no longer audible to humans. It is at the point the rabbit hits the ground and runs terrified as the gravity increases to normal levels and then beyond that. The ground at the center begins to compact forming a small crater of dense earth destroying the grass and small trees. Whereas the limbs of smaller trees and all the nearby leaves fall to the ground crushed under the there new and unnatural weight.
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Post by Nova Black on Dec 12, 2019 12:00:22 GMT -5
Rune skidded to a halt as they drew closer. "I don't think we should go any further...look at the trees." Nova nodded and stood in the saddle to see if there was anything in particular causing it. When she couldn't tell, she looked up in the sky and looked around. "Well, good news is, we don't have to go back to get Nicolae. He's on his way...unless that's a huge ass crow." Rune snorted. Obviously not happy with Nova's attempt at humor.
Nova dismounted and started to walk towards the epicenter when Rune charged in front of her and pushed her back. "No!" she said sternly. "I'm pretty sure it will kill you. We wait for Nicolae." Nova took another step and felt herself get heavier and heavier until she back tracked. "You're right" she said. "He better get here quick. This is unnatural, even for Mistfalls."
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Post by Nicolae Falcon on Dec 12, 2019 16:40:22 GMT -5
Nicolae looked down and scanned the ground as he flew over. As he looked around he noticed a spot of bright green moving fast through the forest. Nova! he thought to himself. The half-angel was elated to see his new partner-in-crime. He closed his wings and began a dive, opening his wings right before impact. "Nova! Rune! What is going on?" he asked hastily. He grimaced as his wings began to fold back into his skin. "I heard a crash. Are you all hurt?" A million questions blared through his mind. Nicolae centered himself and called on the wind. "Show me what is going on," he told the element. He could feel the wind racing off towards a peculiar area in the woods just ahead. Soon the images would be back and he could start the investigation.
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Post by Nova Black on Dec 13, 2019 10:50:09 GMT -5
"Nicolae! No, we aren't hurt. But this is so strange. The air is so heavy here I can't walk." She looked around and watched as he sent out the wind. "I hope no one is hurt. This is so weird." she reiterated. Gingerly she reached out her hand in front of her and watched as it was pushed to the ground against her will, making her take a knee as it did so. She struggled to pull her hand back and frowned, knowing there was no way she could go further until this thing let up. The only thing either of them could do now was wait on the wind to see what it had to say then go from there.
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Post by Miranda V on Dec 13, 2019 20:56:22 GMT -5
The wind answered the call moving through the forest with great speed most of which had the sense to move around this odd disturbance. That which did not was destroyed by purple looking lightning which starts sticking the middle at a moderate and slowly increasing rate.
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Post by Nicolae Falcon on Dec 26, 2019 17:48:36 GMT -5
"Nova please step back. I don't like the way this feels. Come back to where it doesn't feel as strong." When Nicolae noticed that she wasn't moving he send a ripple through the earth to toss her back. He manipulated the loose earth into a lasso and secured it to Rune so he could pull her close. "Sorry for the bind but I want you all to be safe." After they were both safe he dissipated the magic he had summoned.
Nicolae felt his wind returning. He held out his hands and the wind stopped before him and played the images it had gathered.
Purple Glow. Lightning. Destruction.
He shivered. He had never faced this before, but he felt like it was building to something.
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Post by Miranda V on Dec 27, 2019 3:05:21 GMT -5
The lightning continues striking the center slowly forming an outline of human women than suddenly a burst of static-filled air shoots out in all directions and there she stands in the center of a small crater. A woman dressed in a sleeveless shirt and leather miniskirt her short blond hair slightly burnt at the ends from the massive amounts of electricity around her. She holds some strange object in her right hand reminiscent of a crossbow but without a bolt and made entirely of a shiny grey metal. "That was a hell of a trip" looking around she sees that she has drawn some attention. "Sup"
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Post by Nicolae Falcon on Jan 2, 2020 20:39:46 GMT -5
"What in the world?! Who are you?" Nicolae became defensive. He extended out his hands and summoned a wall of fire to protect him and his companions.
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Post by Miranda V on Jan 3, 2020 0:50:36 GMT -5
Rolling her eyes at the extreme response she walks up to the fire and holds out her hands to warm them. Mom's notes spoke nothing of the jump being so damn cold or there being so much static. "My name Miranda Vandavill and you would be the mighty fire starter I presume. Pyromancy in a forest might not be your smartest play a binding spell would be less dangerous but than I would still be cold so hmmm thank you I guess."
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Post by Nova Black on Jan 8, 2020 20:14:02 GMT -5
Nova looked at the woman then at Nicolae and Rune sniffes the air. "That was quite a show" she said and smiled, her fangs fully on display as she did so "my name is Nova" she said kindly. "What brings you here in such grandeur?"
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Post by Miranda V on Jan 9, 2020 1:29:56 GMT -5
She looks across the flame wall to Nova with a smirk. "It's nice to meet you, Nova. I would shake your hand but it appears I've been a bad girl and have to sit in time out for a bit." She rolls her eyes before looking to the man that placed the wall. 'At least he didn't try to make me pay for the wall' she jokes to her self. "I suppose I should apologize to some degree, I used a device to get here and have no idea of anything that happened before I showed up." She looks at her surroundings realizing the damage that was caused. "I suppose I can see the need for the fire alarm, but I assure you that I'm a good girl." She looks back to Nova "most of the time"
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Post by Nova Black on Jan 9, 2020 5:58:11 GMT -5
Biting back a smile, Nova decided to give this girl a chance like she did most people. Looking in her eyes she saw mischief but maybe not so much anything evil. Rune sniffed the air but kept quiet as she gazed at newcomer.
"Nicolae," she said quietly to her friend, "she hasnt really done anything threatening other than showing up. Put the wall down. It will be easier to talk." Shr gentlt touched her friend's arm. "Please?"
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Post by Nicolae Falcon on Jan 9, 2020 13:30:23 GMT -5
"I apologize," said Nicolae lowering the fire, "Given the circumstance of your arrival, I do believe my actions were just." He looked the girl up and down. She was fairly attractive but in a weird way. Clothing and such seemed from another world. "I am Nicolae Falcon, you have arrived here in Mist Falls. Welcome." He walked up to the girl and offered a hand.
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Post by Miranda V on Jan 11, 2020 10:33:57 GMT -5
As the flames lower she steps forward she shakes the man's hand, her touch still icy cold from the jump. "It is nice to meet you. Again I did not mean to cause any alarm. I'm not sure what all the device did when it brought me here but looking around it musta been a hell of a trip" she stares off into the distance for a second as all color and expression leave her face. ”did you just call this place mist falls...not misthaven?" She begins to tremble before breaking free of the handshake and sitting down so that she does not collapse. "W...w...who is the Mayor here?" she asks half sick afraid of the answer she is about to receive.
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Post by Nicolae Falcon on Jan 11, 2020 11:57:53 GMT -5
Nicolae watched as the woman's demeanor changed. "Yes this is Mist Falls. Our mayor is Taos. He is a wonderful man." Nicolae paused for a second. "Are you ok miss.?
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Post by Miranda V on Jan 11, 2020 13:12:36 GMT -5
She almost seems to turn green as her world starts to spin. "I can't go back" she whispers almost in tears. "This is not how it was supposed to be" she wipes her hand over her eyes and forces her self to her feet. "The jump was supposed to take me back in time two years, just before my family died. It seems that I went back closer to 730 years instead of days". Her life as she knew it was gone. Her loved ones her friends every one everything, gone. She reaches to her neck and pulls on a chain with a small old key on it. The key was old by this times standards even. She held it tight in her hand. At least she still had the key. " I'm sorry i feel lost. Is there a place I can rest nearby. I have a lot to process and I'm sure you have questions, i know i do."
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Post by Nova Black on Jan 12, 2020 13:52:00 GMT -5
Nova smiled and replied before Nicolae, "you're in luck. You were found by the inn keeper. Nicolae makes the best comfort food. And Rune is more than happy to give you a ride." Rune snorted in affirmation. "Please," she said and led the horse around, "get on and we will take care of you."
She gave Nicolae a sad and lost look before her smiled returned and extended her hand to Miranda. "We will help you."
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Post by Miranda V on Jan 12, 2020 14:41:06 GMT -5
She slowly steps toward the horse extending her left hand open towards the nose of the horse. Looking it in the eyes "I'm going to trust you and I like you to trust me as well." She stands there for a moment giving the horse a chance to sniff her while fully aware that the horse could take her fingers off it chose to. "Alright, now we can go." She tries to focus on the moment and not think about her loss. "Here I go turn the page" she says quietly to her self before walking to the side of the horse. "If you are sure the three of you don't mind. Thank you. Let's go." She reaches out for novas hand.
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Post by Nicolae Falcon on Jan 13, 2020 10:44:48 GMT -5
"Those who seek it will always find help here at Mist Falls." Nicolae assisted Miranda onto the horse and gave Rune a loving pat. "You are truly beautiful my friend. Take her to the Inn. Nova and I will be right behind."
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Post by Nova Black on Jan 23, 2020 10:33:53 GMT -5
Rune nuzzled Nicolae's hand and looked at Nova, "I will keep in constant contact. Don't be too far behind little one." she said lovingly and nuzzled against Nova and she reached up and hugged her huge Percheron around the neck. "We won't be." she said out loud. "Be quick but be safe. We will be with you soon."
As the two started off at a slow trot, since Rune wasn't sure the woman could ride or not and she was trying to be considerate taking in mind all the things the woman had just been through, Nova looked at Nicolae and put her hands in her pockets. "Well old friend, what are we gonna do now? She seems like something...someone, rather, that the mayor may be interested in. But I think that might be a little much for her right now." she ran her fingers through her hair and sighed, "What do you think?"
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Post by Nicolae Falcon on Jan 24, 2020 14:32:21 GMT -5
"First, we should tend to what needs she has. She does seem distraught. We should still keep an eye on her." Nicolae thought back to the influx of visitors the town had gotten here recently. Someone was bound to cause trouble. "For now we need not bother the mayor, but I do agree he would be quite interested in this girl." With all of that said he turn toward the place the girl had been standing and investigated it. He felt out through the earth with his power. Nothing really stood out. He looked at Nova, "We should catch up with them."
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Post by Miranda V on Jan 24, 2020 15:37:07 GMT -5
Between her equestrian knowledge only going far enough to make her mostly shore that this strong, majestic and beautiful creature was, in fact, a horse and the fact that her world had just imploded in the worst way possible she just laid across the horse holding on to its neck and only after she is ahead of the welcoming party does she finally allow her self to break down. Her strong, tough girl facade begins to fade as she sobs. Suddenly she felt like a little girl again just wanting someone to tell her everything will be ok. "Please don't let anyone see me like this. It's bad enough that you are seeing it" her voice sounds as if just whispers and seamed to originate from right beside the horse's ear.
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Post by Nova Black on Dec 19, 2020 15:34:49 GMT -5
Rune flicked her ears and snorted as she slowed her pace. "I understand" she thought but then realized the girl probably couldn't hear her. They plodded along and Rune stopped at some grass to nibble as she went, giving the young girl time to collect herself...
Nova inhaled deeply and nodded. "They're not making good time." she commented and frowned. "I reckon if there's nothing here we should catch up." She scanned the area with her human eyes first then again with her vampiric ones. "For someone who fell from the sky or whatever, there's nothing here in way of clues as to where she came from." She blinked and looked at Nicolae. "So...what? Warm food and a warm bed for the time being? Give her time to come to us?"
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Post by Nicolae Falcon on Dec 20, 2020 16:24:33 GMT -5
Nicolae surveyed the scene again. This was truly one of the strangest arrival he had ever witnessed. Once he determined that the scene before him was safe, the Nephilim looked to his companion. "You are learning quickly my young friend. We will make a healer out of you yet." joked Nicolae with a smirk. Putting his arm around Nova the began to follow the path the Rune had took with the new arrival. "Something in the wind tells me that this story is far from over. Until we know more I want to keep a close eye on her." Even though Mist Falls was welcoming to anyone seeking asylum, this girl had his nerves on edge.
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Post by Nova Black on Dec 20, 2020 16:39:32 GMT -5
“Oh, yes” laughed Nova as she wrapped an arm around his waist. “Who needs leeches when your healer is a vampire?” They walked along until they spotted a dot of grey up ahead. “Told you they weren’t making good time.”
Quietly she reached out to Rube to see what was up and all she got back was “keep your distance. She’s hurting.” Nova relayed the message to Her companion and they slowed their pace. “I feel she’s lost everything. We must be quite the sight for her. The nosey part of me wants to follow her around but the logical me knows that’s a bad idea.” Sighing, she gazed up at the angel. “I will make up a room for her when we get back. One facing the falls and an extra comforter. Poor thing must be in shock.”
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Post by Miranda V on Dec 21, 2020 13:34:24 GMT -5
Miranda set there for a moment broken and weeping until there was nothing left. She was tired, hungry, weak, and drained. "Life is too short for this. Lord know the effects the jump may have had on my body" she collects her self for another moment. "Fake it till you make it I guess. So my beautiful and powerful new friend. What can you really do? I need to run from my thoughts." She hangs on tight. "Hears hoping the mechanical bull at frontier bobs pub and grill moves the same way as a real horse"
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Post by Nova Black on Dec 21, 2020 14:01:04 GMT -5
Rune lifted her head and pinned her ears back. "She wants me to run."
"Well," thought Nova, "Run. You know where you can go." She watched the horse prance a little as she told Nicolae what was going on. "Don't worry," she told her friend as she saw his worried look, "They'll be fine. I'm sure they'll end up at the tavern before long. But right now, I think she's trying to run from her memories. I used to do it all the time."
With the clearance to run, Rune started to trot a little, realizing the girl really had no idea how to ride a horse, then started to pick up pace keeping an ear out to make sure the girl wasn't going to fall or asked her to stop. "We'll be at the falls first." she told Nova as she took off, gliding over the ground rather than running across it, her hooves barely making a mark on the ground. Nova smiled at the sight of little sparks shooting off as Rune tried to control her gait.
Back down the path Nova again relayed the message yet again then said, "Let's go back to the tavern and get ready for her when they come back. Rune won't miss a meal so they'll be back in a couple hours." Nova watched the dust raise from up the trail and sighed remembering the first time she was on Rune and giggled. "If she doesn't watch out Rune is going to end up going full speed and we'll be finding her thrown off up the trail somewhere."
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