Coquard Family/Lila
History
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Closing of the Xinjin Portal
Roleplay from Lila (3 hours, 45 minutes ago) Message sent to everyone in the region Xinjin (3 recipients)
Lila was tired. Two stints in the Nethworld prison, many days of travel, and she still wasn't nearer her goal. This time though... this time would be different. She was a commoner, but she had noble blood runing through her veins. Just because her mother cast her to the peasants after she was born, so she could still eat from her silver spoon, Lila held no ill will.
After waiting and resting, she was close. Tindle was only a five hours walk... then off to Xinjin for the third time. The previous two trips were lucky. The first she found an unique item that she was returning, so she was released. The second time the Incantrix was going to let her go again, but she slipped out of the cell in the night and never looked back. She didn't think the Incantrix would take kindly to seeing her now for a third time.
So it was now or never. Once she arrived in Xinjin, she looked for the portal. She stayed to the shadows of the night, making her way towards the eerie glow she could see in the night sky. The closer... the better. Lila could feel the magic radiating from the portal. Rumor was that a portal could be used to close the portal from the Netherworld. There had been talks about ones trying, but they were opening portals in other regions.
The sky was darker above the temple, the magic radiating from it almost threw Lila back. She knew Scab was somewhere, trying to distract them.... She grit her teeth and kept pushing forward. So many deaths, so many livevs destroyed. The last time she was imprisoned, she had heard there was a family member in there as well. She had never met Ravyn, but she knew the name. This was for everyone, family included.
Skirting around the outside, Lila continued to sneak in... Finally she could go no further. The power was too strong. Putting down her pack, she pulled the stones from it one by one. She pulled eight stones from her pack, with two extras for just in case. She had talked to many sages and wizards, and she was sure her chances were good. Placing the stones in a circle, she stepped inside, sitting cross legged on the floor, all the different gems and crystals she had collected in her lap. Moonstones, jade, tomes, she was going to try anything and everything.
Sitting in the circle, chanting the words the wizards and sages gave her, she hoped beyound hope this wouldn't be her final stand, but she hoped that if it was.... it would be for the greater good, and the Daimons could go back to the Netherworld where they belonged.....
Roleplay from Scab (3 hours, 51 minutes ago) Message sent to everyone in the region Xinjin (3 recipients)
DOMINA! INCANTATRIX! HEAR ME!
Scab ran to the top of every stone, every hill, every knoll, and shouted, again and again.
GREAT RULERS OF THE NETHERWORLD, HEAR ME! I AM BUT A PEASANT, A COMMONER BY THE NAME OF SCAB! I BESEECH THEE TO HEAR MY MESSAGE!
He watched Lila finish the ritual, and stand. He shouted again.
HEAR ME, OH SCARY DARK ONES! I OFFER MYSELF TO THEE! TAKE MY LIFE, AND DRAG ME FROM THIS PLACE!
He pissed himself, standing there yelling at the sky, beckoning Daimons to him... What was he thinking...
DOMINA! INCANTATRIX! HEAR ME!
Roleplay from Lila (3 hours, 36 minutes ago) Message sent to everyone in the region Xinjin (3 recipients)
Strange Lights (just in)
message to everyone in the vicinity of Xinjin A column of light shoots up into the sky from somewhere in Xinjin, and there is a strange humming sound. Nothing else seems to happen...for now.
The stones began to glow and shimmer in the circle, the power radiating from them was closing in on Lila. She stood fast to her ground, the words a constant litinay from her lips, her eys closed, she let the power wash over her in waves. When she tried to open her eyes, the light was so bright, she had to squeeze them shut again or risk being blinded. A loud humming in her ears turned into a dull roar, and still she stood her ground.
There was no time to run or hide, this was her stand. She could only hope that Scab would make it out safely, she should have known better than to let him tag along. He wanted to help, and she hoped beyound hope that she didn't lead him to his death. Lila didn't want to die, but she knew if she must, she would only want to sacrifice herself. The decision to come her was her own, based on rumors, but her own just the same. The prevoius two visits were scouting missions, and she found her target.
Perhaps if she lived to tell the tale, she could take her rightful place in noble society. If she didn't live to tell the tale, perhaps that alone would give her a noble burial. Her biggest hope was that this chance was not in vain. As the humming increased.... so did the speed of Lila's tongue, the gems in her lap trembling at the power that was being released, and intertwining with the dark power already present. All Lila could do was hold on to her thoughts... and herself.
Roleplay from Scab (3 hours, 28 minutes ago) Message sent to everyone in the region Xinjin (3 recipients)
Scab watched Lila, watched the portal lights shoot into the sky. The ground shook, and Scab pissed himself again, barely even registering that it was happening.
"LILA!" he shouted, but she didn't seem to hear him. He wanted her to run, to do SOMETHING... but she just stood there, fighting some unknown force, like an unseen wind was trying to blow her over.
He wanted to run, wanted to hide, but he had decided to tag along. He didn't know what madness had overtaken him, a madness which had driven him to hike for 16 straight hours into the heart of Xinjin after Lila. But why?
Because something drove him, something he could not understand, not describe... he simply felt it. He saw Lila, he heard her story, and he knew that he had to help. Something told him this might cost him his life, but so be it. If this portal closed, it would be worth his life, and the lives of countless other men, women, and children.
And so he shouted.
"DOMINA! INCANTATRIX! HEAR ME! I AM HERE WITH A MESSAGE. A MESSAGE FROM THE SCUM OF THE WORLD, AND THE GUTTER RATS AND VILLAGE SWINE! I COME WITH A MESSAGE FROM KINGS AS WELL, AND NOBLE KNIGHTS AND DAMES AND LORDS. I COME WITH A MESSAGE FROM EVERY SINGLE LIVING BEING ON THIS GOOD ISLAND!"
In truth, he wasn't lying. Every single person, from lord to gutter rat, had the same look in their eye. They were tired. Beat down, broken, and tired. And what Scab saw in those eyes said to him what their words never could - the Daimons must be stopped. This portal MUST be closed.
And so he shouted.
"DOMINA! INCANTATRIX! MY MESSAGE IS SIMPLE, AND MY MESSAGE IS SHORT! I COME TO TELL YOU THIS: TAKE MY LIFE, TAKE MY BONES AND MY BLOOD AND MY FLESH. TAKE IT ALL! BUT YOU'LL NEVER TAKE OUR SOULS!"
He ran to and fro, shouting, ranting... he vomited once or twice. And then he shouted some more. He hoped they heard him, over the roar of the portal and the magic and the connection to the other side of the portal. The other side.. of the portal!!
Scab knew what he had to do. He wasn't very smart, he knew, but he also knew that this might work. Or it might not. It might just shred him to pieces, or land him in a magic prison... he didn't really know at all. But he went for it nonetheless.
He ran. Straight at the portal.
As he sprinted at it, he angled left a few degrees so that he could run up a sharp embankment of rocks that hung slightly over the portal's edge.
He ran up the slope, bent his legs, and jumped out into the open air over the portal.
...everything went black.
Xinjin Portal Closed (42 minutes ago) message to everyone on Beluaterra
Lila had successfully sneaked into the Portal temple in Xinjin and placed a ring of portal stones, sitting within it with all manner of magical artifact and chant. The column of light had seared through the temple ceiling, knocking the bell and a daimon guard to the ground. Domina and Incantatrix had been amused by Scab's silly idiocy when the column of light arose their dissatisfaction. Scab had then jumped into Xinjin's Portal, only to resume consciousness outside Rueffilo's Portal. Lila now sat engulfed by the beam of light and humming, doing her best to remain focused upon her chant and not the roaring migraine in her head. Xinjin's Portal quivered.
As Lila chanted, the column of light fell back to the ground, and then found itself twisted and sucked into the Netherworld Portal like an arc of electricity. The temple ceiling, punctured by the light column, was now completely destroyed, providing an open-air experience for the temple. Lila was locked into a trance beyond her own will. Soon thereafter, the humming faded away. But by the time the humming had faded, Xinjin had turned into a whirlpool of magical energies surrounding the temple, both invisible and visible.
Daimons and undead were sent flying against their will, heard hooting and shrieking as they were staked by flying branches. Other daimons smashed against walls in Creasur as the magical hurricane grew to the regions surrounding Xinjin; they left an orangeish residue where they had splatted. Other daimons found themselves pulled back into the portal. Streams of colored air, blue, black, purple, and red, visible magic energy, were also pulled into the portal alongside invisible magical energy. Along their way, these colored magics attacked the daimons, wounding them, but seemed to ignore undead and human. In all the chaos, no one noticed Domina and Incantatrix wounded until well after the magic storm, which raged for several hours. In Creasur, Cacabula survived without wound, but raged at being caught distracted away from Xinjin.
Eventually the storm dissipated as the last tendrils of magic were sucked into the Netherworld Portal from Xinjin and surrounding regions. The column of light extinguished, releasing Lila from its trance. Her time sitting inside the portal ring within a column of light and humming had blinded her sight, whitened her hair to the shade of the purest snow, youthened her face 20 years to the visage of a young girl, and given her the recurring feeling she was missing some vital limb of her body - a pair of tusks.
As everyone stepped forth to assess the damage, it became clear that the peasants were no longer held in a brainwashed state by Netherworld magic. There was no Netherworld magic left in the vicinity, crippling their strength. Those in Xinjin gathered around Lila wishing to know where such a brave girl hailed from. As she answered Old Grehk still reeling from shock of her blindness, they declared their loyalty to Old Grehk, wishing to serve the realm that bore this brave white-haired girl. In regions surrounding Xinjin, panicked peasants declared the first realm they could remember as their lords.
Roleplay from Lila
Awaking to darkness, Lila felt around her. Opening her eyes, she saw nothing but darkness, though the rising sun felt warm on her cheek. Lifting her hand in front of her face, her fears were realized. Her sight was gone. Vaguely she remembered the white column of light, and closing her eyes against the brightness. Blinking her eyes thinking it was a dream, she realized it was in truth.
Pushing herself to her feet, she promplty tripped and went spralling on the floor of the temple. Feeling around rocks and pieces littered the floor, essentially trapping her amongst the rubble. Her ears strained for any sound, but it was eerily quiet. "Did it work?" she asked herself softly. She ran her hands over her own body looking for injury, but finding none.
Footsteps approached, and Lila shrunk back into herself, bracing for an attack. The vibrations heightened by her lack of sight, she waited and held her breath. Bracing for a blow from the Incantrix herself, she was surprised at the gentle hands that found her shoulders.
"My child, who are you?" a kind voice asked. "Lila.... " she shakily answered, finding her voice smaller than she remembered. "Where are you from? What family do you hail from?" the questions were quick, but asked kindly. "I'm from Old Grehk," Lila told the woman, allowing herself to be helped to her feet. "I am but a commoner," she truthfully answered, waiting for another blow. Commoners were not shown much affection, and it wasn't unusual for one to be beaten for fun.
"Today you are not a commoner Lila of Old Grehk, you have closed the portal here in Xinjin." The woman regarded the young one, her snow white hair and her sightless eyes. So unnatural, but so unique this girl would never be forgotten. "Come child let us get you cleaned up," she said, taking Lila's arm and carefully guiding her out of the ruined temple.
"I have to find my friend.... " Lila said, turning this way and that, still reeling against the loss of her sight. So many new things to learn....
"Calm yourself Lila... I'm sure they will find you...."
