The Watchers, Rise of a new messiah. Options

[Nicsp]

Adustio sat by the steps of the temple, waving a slow goodbye as yet another of his fellow Watchers slowly ran out of power, dissipating into nothing. Adustio let out a long, pained sigh. "Only five of us left now..." He muttered, gazing over to the remaining Watchers. "How did it come to this...?" He muttered again, the same sentence he had been repeating to himself several times ever since they were sealed in that necklace. Suddenly, a tremor started on the temple, Adustio held on to the steps and waited for them to settle down before he stood up. "What was that...?" He asked out loud.

In truth, that tremor was actually an earthquake in the outside world, an earthquake that had happened right where a small village resided. This small village had, unknowingly, been built right above the necklace's resting place. The tremor had, as well, set loose a few roots and stones, opening a small crater on the outskirts of the village. Fell pray to this crater two kids, twins, Cain and Alaine.



Adustio looked around, a bit desperate. "Can everyone hear that? Please tell me you also hear that and i'm not going mad." Adustio smiled weakly. "I think someone found this necklace...Finally..." He let out a short sigh of relief.

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[Sparrowsmith]

Aldous looked up, the grave lines of his face showing optimism.
"Should the necklace be received, we can ensure our own survival... and perhaps, in time, the resurrection of our brothers." He strolled methodically over to Adustio, the way an advisor might approach and emperor. "The future of our kind is unclear at this point, but one thing is certain, should we be given the opportunity to use our powers then it would be our duty to the entire world to ensure we exercise that opportunity... Whatever the cost." He sat down beside the Sun Watcher, staring out into the abyss that suffocated their prison.

[Ryuga]

With an abrupt interuption Mu's eyes snapped open. Well, not really. Mu had developed a habit of sleeping standing upright and his eyes open. Then again, he wasn't really sleeping. Gods did not need rest, but their powers did have a limit. When the first watcher disappeared, Mu had taken action to preseve himself for as long as possible. By putting himself in a near-state of stasis, Mu prevented himself from wasting away. Untouched by time itself. And now, he would be rewarded for it.
Uncrossing his arms, he approached Aduisto his voice booming "Fear not brother, for I also feel it."
Mu did a quick head count as he walked. One, two, three... four.

[Omnial]

With a creak and a snap, Garnyti started to walk over to his brothern. "Must be the truth, unless we all be mad," the tree like figuire spoke in a low scratchy voice, "But its probably just some lost creaton. Don't get your hopes up just yet." he stared up into the abyss, "Even if we do get out, who knows how twisted our beloved Primor has become due to our younger brother..."

[Ryuga]

"There's pessimism and then there's just plain dispairing Garnyti," Mu replied to his ligneous brother. "It may be as you say, but we will accomplish nothing by merely waiting." Mu turned to the rest of his watcher companions and spoke, "For many long years I slept, waiting for the day the hands of fate send something our way. My patience grows thin, and I do not wish chance to be the judge of our fates. We must proactively approach these events so that this creaton will release us from this prison."

[Sparrowsmith]

"Mu is correct" Aldous stated, refusing to separate his eyes from the encapsulating darkness. "though our powers are no doubt too weak to do anything substantial, in due time we can craft this lost soul into a mechanism of escape." The wrinkles of his face outstretched into smile "Optimism, brothers, is all we can possibly have right now. For I doubt we'll live for another chance."

[Nicsp]

Adustio remained quiet, his eyes closed but he nodded with each thing his brothers said. "It must've been at least a few thousands of years since our imprisonement. Primor has undoubtedly changed, as soon as we get the chance we should ask our host for information..." Adustio looked over to the big white sphere at the center of the temple. "Speaking of our possible host..."



As soon as Alaine started falling, the first thing she noticed was that, for some reason, it felt colder. When her back touched the ground was that she realized, weren't there steps behind her on the altar? Then why did just simply reach the ground now...?

More importantly...Why did the ground feel so plain even though she was in a cave, what happened to the dirt? As Alaine slowly opened her eyes, the first thing that came into view was the sight of a tall man with long blond hair and with small feathery wings popping out of where his ears were supposed to be. Alaine looked at him for a moment before screaming and desperatly trying to run off. She stopped suddenly when she realized that, wherever they were in, the place seemed to be...floating? She was shaking, she looked again over at Adustio and this time also noticed the other three men that were in there. She quickly tried to cover herself by hiding behind the closest tree she spotted.

Adustio put his hand on his chin, thinking. "A young human female..." He said before snapping out of thought and saying. "I apologize, no doubt you're confused about what's going. First off, my name's Adus-"

He was cut off. "PEDOPHILE! SOMEONE! HELP! PEDOPHILE!" Adustio dropped his head and sighed. "This is going to be harder than i imagined..."

[OOC: I hope the comic's quality is being satisfactory? I'm going for quantity > quality so...]

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[Naridar]

"Even if the one who found the necklace wants to help us,", Aphdeagos said, in a calm voice, seemingly unconcerned with the sudden change of situation, "we have to go against the full might of Livor and Angarius. He could not destroy us before, but who can tell if he's capable of it now. People believe in him and Angarius, and would gladly kill anyone who stands against them. I'd estimate the life expectancy of anyone carrying our necklace... at around five minutes. Our chance is less than one to a million. I say, why not try? Even if they kill us, we can still say we tried. Well, can't exactly 'say', but... you know what I mean".

[Ryuga]

OOC: Consider it satisfactory. For this type of role-play, I agree that the quantity is more important than quality. Though we can slow things down the instant we see a rather large drop in quality.

IC:
Mu was overjoyed. Fate had dealt the five of them the cards they needed to set this game into motion. Though the child before them appeared to be less than willing to cooperate.
"Miss," he began addressing the human. "No one has any intention to harm you. We only wish to know. I'm sure deep down you must have questions of your own such as, how you got here perhaps?" Mu paused to let the girl speak, but when no response came he gave a little chuckle. "Well, if you are so keen on not associating with us, than may I suggest you step away from what you think is a tree."

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[Nicsp]

Adustio nodded towards Aphdeagos. "You rise a fair point, we should try to maximize this girl's power before we put her against Livor..." Adustio turned back to Alaine. "...We need to actually get through to her first..."

Alaine had been pretty much ignoring what they all were saying, trying to force her eyes open as if trying to wake up from a bad dream. She then heard Mu's comments towards 'what she thought was a tree'. As head that, she slowly looked up to realize that the 'tree' she had been holding to had an humanoid form, most notably, it had the shapes for eyes and mouth, which glowed. Alaine's skin went totally white as she slowly stepped away from the tree, her legs shaking as she fell kneeled on the floor, tears streaming down her face. "I want to go home!"

Adustio sighed, he then slowly walked over to Alaine and gently tapped her head. "Like Mu said, none of us want to hurt you. Just answer our questions and then you'll be home soon, good enough? What's your name?" Alaine sobbed one more time, before cleaning her eyes with her hands. "M-My name is Alaine Heros..." Adustio nodded in approval. "Very well then, Alaine we have some questions for you, think you can answer then?" Alaine's cheeks were still slightly red from the crying, but she sighed and then shook her head. "Yeah okay..."

Adustio smiled. "Very well then...First..." He thought for a moment. "I take it you know about a man named Livor...Or maybe Angarius?" Alaine nodded. "Lord Livor...He's the immortal ruler of the world..." She said with a bit of a frown and not really seeing the point of that question. Adustio continued. "Do you know how old he is?" Alaine blinked a few times, suprised by the question, she scratched the back of her head and then started. "Well...No one really know his age for sure since he himself stopped counting it but...From what i hear he's over six-thousand years old." Adustio put his hand on his chin. "Six thousand, we've been stuck in here for that long...? Most importantly...How did Livor manage to keep Angarius preserved during all this time, even if they're both immortal wouldn't his body have alredy decayed by now...?"

While Adustio thought, Alaine rose her hand, as a student would ask a question from a teacher. "I have a question..." Adustio snapped out of thought and nodded. "Of course...Let's do it like this, an answer for an answer." Alaine nodded, happily, seeing it as a bit of a game. "Uhm...Where are we?" Adustio casually responded. "We're in a magically created fourth dimension which has that necklace you touched and big white sphere over there as gateways between one another." Alaine blinked. "What...?" Adustio sighed and then pondered for a moment. "We're in a magical place inside the necklace..."

Alaine responded with a simple short 'oh'. She then looked down and noticed she was still kneeling, she got up and casually dusted her pants. "All right, your turn to ask!" She stated cheerfully. Adustio frowned. "She's seeing this as a game..."

[Sparrowsmith]

[OoC: I think so long as the panels can convey the scenario then the quality isn't an issue. I personally think you have an eye for picking just the right shots. The whole thing flows quite nicely, and that's all that matters.]

Aldous at first stood in disbelief, optimism had turned into luck, they had a mechanism for the freedom of themselves and of the world. He decided not to waste a moment longer, he needed to know if she would cooperate. Approaching Alaine with certainty, he knelt down slightly and looked her in the eye, "Child, if you had the power to stop Livor, and free the world from his reign, would you?"

[Nicsp]

Alaine blinked in disbelief once more, she was about to open her mouth but then said nothing. "Well I..." The words were frozen inside her mouth, she took one deep breath and said. "I...I don't know..." She then frowned, realizing that really wasn't too much of an answer. "I mean...Admittedly i did hear of him doing some pretty rough things but...If Livor didn't rule Primor...Then who would...? I mean, after all, he IS God and who would reign if he wasn't here?" Alaine frowned, wrapping her arms around herself defensively. She then turned back to then. "My turn...Why would you want to take Livor down?"

Adustio had his hand on his chin again as he wandered around and thought. "No wonder some explanations are in order...Very well, Alaine, i'll give you the short version." Adustio turned to Alaine and started. "Livor isn't really THE God, more like A God. He is one of us, a Watcher, the younger of us, actually. Long ago he sealed us in this necklace and has been reigning the world himself ever since he put us in here. The seal also has been slowly weakening and killing us, so you can have an idea, there were over a hundred of us when we were sealed...We might be able to ressurect them though, through you." Adustio sighed as he looked around the temple, pratically deserted.

Alaine frowned, she was awfully confused by all that was happening, but considering that she was on a floating temple and had just recently tried to hide behind a living tree...Trying to understand everything around here was pretty much out of question, for the time being, at least. "I'm sorry..." She muttered, looking down. She gently brushed her light brown hair out of her face and then continued. "I...I can try to do what you ask me to in order to bring your brothers back but...I could be putting the whole human race in danger by taking down Livor."

Alaine stopped for a moment and sighed, there was too much being dropped on her at once, one moment she and her brother had tripped into a hole, the next she's talking to a group of Gods about taking down their youngest brother who apparently has been ruling the human race since...Well, since pretty much forever. That's when it occured to her. "One more question. My brother, why isn't here with us?" Adustio smiled weakly. "He wasn't the one to touch the necklace, him and...Well...Your body are still in the vault, you're probably just unconscious." Alaine dropped her head. "He must be worried sick about me...Uhm...Do you guys have any more questions...?"

[Omnial]

Garnyti let out a low growl, "Foolish Child, This is no game!" His glow slowly shifted to a red, "When you witness your kin die due to the actions of one who you took under your branch, then will you understand!" The wooden figuire staggered towards the girl and stood over her, "I understand your worry for your sibling, but our cause is greater, will you aid us? or not?" His color changed back to its normal green.

[Ryuga]

"Now, now Garnyti," said Mu as he lightly pushed him away from the girl. "You've endured 6000 years of imprisonment. There's no need to rush things now."
Mu turned to Alaine kneeling down so that they could see eye to eye. "I'm sure your brother won't mind if we borrowed you for a little longer." He took a deep breath before continuing. "How about you answer a more personal question instead Miss Heros? Are you happy with the world you live in?"

[Nicsp]

Alaine slowly stepped back away from Garnyti, her eyes widened as the tree towered her. "I..." She stuttered and gulped thin air, but then Mu intervened. Alaine looked at Mu, letting out a short 'hmm' to show that she was thinking. "Well...When you put it that way..." She pondered on it for a while longer and sighed. "I still don't really understand what's going on but...Okay, i'll help you guys out as i can. Livor's been bleeding the world dry for millenia, or at least that's what i hear..."

She stuttered for a moment, shy from speaking out her mind, afraid of the beings in front of her, but she finally managed to speak up. "Still...I hope you have a plan better than just simply bursting into the front door, guns blazing and hoping that solves everything. It's just...I don't want it to be a war or something. There have been revolutions against Livor in the past, all of them ended the same way, though..." Alaine frowned again, wrapping her arms around herself defensively.

Adustio listened in, his thinking expression never leaving him. Guns blazing...? What's a gun...? He wondered.

[Ryuga]

"Do not worry Miss Heros," replied Mu. "We may be gods, but 6000 years of imprisonment have put a toll on our powers. If we are to take action, we must do so with caution."
Mu turned to his four brothers nodding. It seemed that they had managed to get the girl to sympathize for there cause.
"One last order of business Miss Heros. Though my brothers and I are most overjoyed that you are willing to join our cause..." Mu's voice changed to that of a more serious tone, "We are going to swear to it. As regretable as it is, you are our only hope, and we cannot have you just ignore this whole conversation and leave the necklase when you return to your world."

[Nicsp]

Alaine blinked innocently. "The idea didn't even cross my mind, honest." She spoke in a serious tone, although with a bit of a frown. "Do you want me to swear to help you?" She questioned, dropping her head to the side in confusion. "I'll do the best i can, i promise!" She smiled cheerfully. "Is...Is this what you meant?" She smiled nervously, afraid of what Mu meant by that. "You're not gonna make some kind of creepy blood ritual on me, are you?" Although she was joking she stepped back a bit, realizing that, considering the circumstances, that wasn't really an impossibility.

[Naridar]

"No, none of the sort will be required." Aphdeagos tried to calm her down, "for the moment, anyways. We don't seek the death of anyone who doesn't oppose us. We only need to recover our strength to put an end to Livor's reign. Freeing you humans of being forced to worship something you don't want to comes from that."

[Ryuga]

Mu smiled at the remarks fired from both Alaine and brother Aphdeagos.
"Just as Aphdeagos says," he said, his voice softer this time. "We hold no intentions of performing any uncivilized rituals or infringing upon your freedoms. I merely want a promise that goes beyond just your word." Mu extended his hand, making a fist while keeping his pinkie finger outstretched. "Do pinkie swears still exist in your world?"

[Nicsp]

Alaine smiled cheerfully, she nodded in response to Mu. "Yep!" She stretched out her own pinky and swore with Mu, then saying the small poem related to it.

"Cross my heart
and hope to die
stick a needle in my eye
wait a moment,
i spoke a lie
i never really
wanted to die.
but if i may
and if i might
my heart is open
for tonight
though my lips are sealed
and a promise is true
i won't break my word
my word to you."

She then smiled cheerfully once again. "I didn't even know pinky swears where THAT old. Uh..." Her face then flushed red with embarassment and she shook her hands defensively. "N-not that i'm trying to call any of you old or anything!" Adustio chuckled some.