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Sun 27th Apr 2025 03:32

Journal Entry #86: Fused and Strange Deals

by Aniks Aliforn

Having completed another life stage, that is what we're doing. Given the first room's fleshy wall and general shape, it was the start of life. We moved back to the crystal room from the classroom, then down the last tunnel that had yet to go through. Originally, a cold carved stone with a hole missing in the center was large enough for a person to step through. Now, with a swirling blue portal.
 
Having stepped through another portal, we were asked several small questions, most of them ethical, but I failed to recall most of them. We had a few questions we needed to ask each other. That one was a test of understanding, and I was paired with Azyel. It was surprisingly, Azyel and I agreed oagreedn a few of the topics or how to deal with a situation given to us, but noticeably, what we didn't agree on was more about the lines we wouldn't cross.
 
Given the Princess's view and her pregnancy, nothing struck me as out of the blue. It only made sense that we would see those themes as the Shard continued to warp reality around us.
 
What I hadn't expected was finding the unconscious bodies of our companions. Collecting our friends and companions, we went further into the depths of the ever-changing palace. If I had to describe the room, we had entered. It might have been the palace's dungeon or what had been the dungeon. The cold stone had a bluish tone to it.
 
Several doors were in this room, but looking inside. A stone table in each room, each custom fitted with neck and leg restraints, and handcuffs on the far back wall that could be pulled from the wall to the table. Collectively, I think we all knew what he had to do, but instantly putting the unconscious companions on those tables was a bit much. So we tested some things. It seemed the door would remain open as long as there was more than one person inside; the handcuffs on the wall would remain unless someone was on the table. So somehow I had been convinced by Azyel, which I should have known better, to be chained up on the stone slab.
 
Not the elf I would have liked putting cuffs on me.
 
That seemed to work. As soon as the door was shut, they couldn't hear me, and I could hear them. I assume they had placed their meaningful unconscious bodies in the other stone slabs. Leaving through another portal and returning to somewhere in the palace, I couldn't even communicate with Celuriel through our telepathic bond inside the room. It would have been nice to have some form of company…besides Silver. Who, upon realizing I was alone, was singing some traven tune. If the blade had not been indestructible, I would have melted it by now.
 
A voice whispered in my ear not long after I assumed they had left. It was a voice I had heard before; the Avatar spoke.
You're an interesting one, Pharasma's chosen. I like you. I want to see what you can do. Why don't you play with the others? We can show them what you learned here... later.
 
"Yes, as long as Celu is not hurt," I said to the voice, not really where the voice was coming from. There was a bit of glee? Interest in their next
Then play with them! Fight with them. I'll even give you a little secret that you're not meant to hear yet - she's lying about the loneliness.
 
At those words, I was back in the room where we had first seen the child Azsire with almost everyone else. Celuriel was gone for some reason, and the other didn't know where she was going. However, it looked like they were about to get into a fight. Peeking through the door, telling us about swarms and knights of stained glass. I cannot remember exactly who had peeked through, but they mentioned our friends were out there but different. Celuriel included.
 
With spells cast, we flung open and charged. My attention was immediately drawn to the ghostly elf shuttering and jerking around unnaturally. Like shifting in and out of time. Speeding up and slowing down with some ethereal grace. Fragments of crystalized time floated around her, showing moments of her life. I had flung myself over the stair, sword drawn.
 
The twisted incarnation of time that was my wife jerked their head my way as my sword swung at her. Fragments of time that floated around her slammed together to form her scythe. Each used a single hand as we swung. Blue sparks clashed as Silver met the scythe.
 
The false Celuriel placed a hand on my chest as our blades were locked, but I had felt some self lay against my arm, a ghost hand as the world went dark.

Continue reading...

  1. Journal #1: Welcome back to the land of the living.
  2. Journal #2: The Gods speak to us, sort of.
  3. Journal #3: Magic is kinda bullshit, stay away from Licia.
  4. Journal #4: The Prince is not a Prick.
  5. Journal #5: Introduction of Celuriel
  6. Journal #6: Everybody loves the bar.
  7. Journal #7: Getting to know the vampire.
  8. Journal #8: The Vetala [Text Roleplay]
  9. Journal #9: Undria
  10. Journal #10: We adopt or kidnap a child, still unclear on this one.
  11. Journal #11: Mirror World
  12. Journal #12: Recovery from the world.
  13. Journal #13: Dancing with Vampire and Political Problems.
  14. Journal #14: About Sir Pennswaggle
  15. Journal #15: This Temple is Odd
  16. Journal #16: The Half Elf Liese
  17. Journal #17: Warning Ashlyn did not help her.
  18. Journal #18: Priestess with the Silver Orbs
  19. Journal #19: Celu is reading romantic books.
  20. Journal #20: Demons, Dungeons, and Dragons OH MY!
  21. Journal #21: Regrets.
  22. Journal #22: Demon's Champion [Text Roleplay]
  23. Journal #23: Homecoming
  24. Journal #24: Castle Umbra and their Bloodwalker.
  25. Journal #23: The Grand Game
  26. Journal #26: All magic comes at a cost.
  27. Journal #27 The capital and asking for diplomatic immunity.
  28. Journal #28: Teaching Celu Undercommon
  29. Journal #29: Pray to Fate
  30. Journal #30: Mistakes we're made, Surprisingly it wasn't my fault this time.
  31. Journal #31: Why am I Orpheus?
  32. Journal #33: The 'safe' return of Eurydice
  33. Journal #32: Back from hell [Text Roleplay]
  34. Journal #35: Fey Friends.
  35. Journal #36: Life before The Lost Ones
  36. Journal #34: Her thoughts on life. [Text Roleplay]
  37. Journal #37: Departure
  38. Journal #39: The Apology [Text Roleplay]
  39. Journal #38: Black Marble floors and apologizes
  40. Journal #40: The Lost's One's Save Christmas; what's Christmas again?
  41. Journal #41: The Elder Sister [Text Roleplay]
  42. Journal #42: Dear Niks
  43. Journal #43: Family Matters
  44. Journal #44: The Samsaran and Her Dreamers [Text Roleplay]
  45. Journal #45: 3 Years well spent.
  46. Journal #46: Emperor Aneirin of Aletheia
  47. Journal #47: Matron Nivinle Alas'thil [Text Roleplay]
  48. Journal #48: Not Alone
  49. Journal #49: The Dark Spire [Text Roleplay]
  50. Journal #50: Death's Champion
  51. Journal #51: Desk Duty of the Spire [Text Roleplay on going]
  52. Journal #52: Longest Four Days of Our Lives
  53. Journal #53: Stolen Book [Text Roleplay]
  54. Journal #54: Basics to Necromancy, why is this even a book.
  55. Journal #55: Soul to Soul Talk [Text Roleplay]
  56. Journal #56: Gold is not what King’s Envy
  57. Journal #57: The Trail of the Sapphire Shrine
  58. Journal #58: The sign says it all
  59. Journal #59: The oldest sister
  60. Journal #60: A bartender once again.
  61. Journal #61: The Dreamcatcher
  62. Journal #62: Discussion and a price that will be payed.
  63. Journal #63: The Five Stages
  64. Journal #64: Ring of Amethyst and Diamond
  65. Journal #65: Clash of Ideals
  66. Journal #66: A Friend and A Story
  67. Journal #67: The Nature of the Shards
  68. Journal #68: Return of Black Marble [Text Roleplay]
  69. Journal #69: Broken and Forgotten Shades
  70. Journal #70: Forging Bonds
  71. Journal #71: The Haunted Fey Mansion
  72. Journal #72: Another Shard
  73. Journal #73: Dancing with Demons in the pale morning light
  74. Journal #74: The Succubus's Ultimatum
  75. Journal #75: The City of Twin Souls
  76. Journal #76: The Worry of a Barkeep.
  77. Journal #77: Have a Little Hope.
  78. Journal #78: Dreamwalker Jinne [Text Roleplay]
  79. Journal Entry #79: Maskerade in Masdarat
  80. Journal Entry #80: Gods of Time
  81. Journal Entry #81: Scribe of Time [Text Rp]
  82. Journal Entry #82: Patience and Grace
  83. Journal Entry #83: Between Stopped Time [Text RP]
  84. Journal Entry #84: Teaching Moments
  85. Journal Entry #85: The child from Jatta [Text RP]
  86. Journal Entry #86: Fused and Strange Deals
  87. Journal Entry #87: Hell [Text RP]
  88. Journal Entry#88: The Measure of a Life
  89. Journal Entry #89: Judgement
  90. Journal Entry #90: Terra Arcana and Memories of the Lost
  91. Journal Entry #91:  Shepard’s Champion & The Way
  92. Journal Entry #92: Goth Club & Whiskey
  93. Journal Entry #93: Shard of Grace
  94. Journal Entry #94: Dreamcatcher's Telepathic Bond [Text Roleplay]
  95. Journal Entry#95: Homebound
  96. Journal Entry #96: A spot of rest [Text Roleplay]
  97. Journal Entry #97: Heavenbound
  98. Journal Entry #98: Trek through the planes
  99. Journal Entry #99: Relaxing in Ironfalls

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