[center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/7f28c785-bb7c-4826-8dbd-4f45a4e28f0c.png[/img] [color=Peru][b]The Great Artisan, Divine Mason, Builder of Civilisations Level 5 God of Crafting (Masonry, Carpentry, Smithing, Alchemy, Armaments)[/b] 26 Might & 2 Free Points[/color][/center] It was the day that the stars fell from the sky, and Vetros burned. Dark smoke blackened the sky, and people ran in terror as star-fire rained down upon them. With a thunderclap, Teknall appeared within the city, clad in his Mirror Armour. He raised his railgun above his head and discharged the weapon with another thunderclap. A realta flying above was struck by the bolt of adamantine and exploded into a shower metal fragments and limbs. Before Teknall was the Temple of the Bond, burning to the ground. [color=Peru][b]"Damn it!"[/b][/color] He had been too late to save the temple. Teknall briskly walked into the temple, unfazed by the flames, smoke and falling rubble around him. [color=Peru][i]Where is she? Where is she?[/i][/color] He couldn't find Yara anywhere. He could identify all the burnt remains as not being Yara, yet he could not find her among the living either. Perhaps she had fled, but his Perception reached for two hundred kilometers and he still couldn't find her. Teknall ran through the temple grounds, moving faster than mortally possible, phasing through walls, searching. [color=Peru][b]"Yara! Yara!"[/b][/color] He hadn't identified Yara as a god on sight, which suggested that Belru-Yara was good a concealing herself from divine detection. So perhaps his Perception would not be able to find her while she lived. He hoped that was the explanation, and that wherever she was she was safe. He came to the library. The rest of the Temple was deserted or razed, and this room was soon to follow. The fire had caught in the roof, and some of the bookshelves were already ablaze. [color=Peru][b]"Yara![/b][/color] he called out as he ran into the middle of the library, checking to see if Yara was hiding here. Once he was satisfied that Yara was not there, Teknall turned his attention to the burning library. The Temple of the Bond was as good as gone. The priestesses were scattered, numerous dead among their number. The school had been reduced to ashes. These books were the last of Yara's legacy in Vetros, and soon they would be destroyed as well. Not if Teknall had anything to do with it. The Divine Mason brought his arm up, then in one motion closed his hand into a fist and brought it down. The roof of the library promptly collapsed and buried the books and scrolls under a layer of rubble and gravel, smothering the fire and protecting the writings from further immolation. The writings could be recovered by the Vetruvians and the knowledge within would not be lost. Teknall walked over the rubble of the library back towards the temple buildings. As he walked he raised up his railgun and blasted a realta which was scorching the docks. Then he stepped through a wall and was in the Miracle Room, which was thoroughly ablaze. There was no sign of Yara here either. On shelves were bottles of various strange and wondrous substances, collected from far-off places. If Yara was not here to save them from the flames, Teknall would do it himself. He scooped up what hadn't been destroyed by the fire and deposited it in his apron pocket. He made sure to leave enough of his divine essence in that spot so that Belru-Yara would know he had been there if she ever returned. Teknall stepped back out through the wall and surveyed the scene one last time. Ventus and his posse of elementals were closing in fast, as was Heru with the King's Law. They would deal with the realta here. Teknall had the rest of Galbar to save. With a pop, he disappeared. [hr] [center][i]10-20 years later[/i][/center] The ground was black and twisted as far as the eye could see, as though it had been molten not long ago. A glossy sheen coated all the rocks, the result of vapourised matter having deposited on the ground. In this landscape stood a three metre tall many-limbed robot, from which a blinding white cone of incandescent flame issued forth and consumed a crystalline forest. The forest was dwindling rapidly, surrounded on all sides by the scorched and barren landscape. Yet before the robot completely destroyed the forest, it halted. Nearby Teknall materialised and approached the last of the Acalya. From his satchel he removed a jar. He reached up and snapped a branch off the nearest Acalya tree, placed it in the jar, screwed shut the lid, then replaced it in his satchel. As he put the jar away, he noticed another item in his satchel. A vial of sickly green venom from the Venomweald writhe, a vial which Teknall had taken from Yara's abandoned collection. He still hadn't discovered what had become of her, but he hadn't forgotten her. The sample collected, Teknall stepped back and Goliath's flamethrower roared back into life. The last traces of Acalya on Galbar were vaporised, the only remains being the thousands of square kilometers of once-molten ground marking where the planet had been cauterised from this infection; in time that too would heal. Task finally completed, Goliath's jetpack ignited and lifted itself up into the sky and into orbit around Galbar. [hider=I don't think I've written a post on such short notice for a long while] [u]Scene 1: Vetros during the Blinding Purge[/u] Teknall appears in realta-killing mode. He notices that he is too late to completely save the Temple of the Bond. Teknall can't find any trace of Yara, even among the ashes. He eventually decides that the most likely explanation is that she has fled and her high Concealment score means he can't detect her. Teknall manages to save the books in the library, by burying them in rubble before the fire can consume them. Teknall loots Yara's abandoned collection of exotic alchemical ingredients from the burning Miracle Room. He leaves a divine mark in case Belru-Yara ever returns. [u]Scene 2: 10-20 years later, the scorched landscape where an Acalya forest once stood.[/u] Goliath has finally reached the last of the Acalya. Teknall collects a sample of Acalya, just in case it is useful later. Goliath destroys the last of the Acalya then returns to orbit. The extinction of the Acalya has finally been made IC canon. Teknall hasn't forgotten Belru-Yara. [i]No Might spent[/i] [/hider]