[center][hr][hr][h1][b][i][color=F5DEB3]Tartarean Strands: Chapter 1[/color][/i][/b][/h1][hr][b][i][color=F5DEB3]Date:[/color][/i][/b] D-Day of the Collide[hr][youtube]https://youtu.be/zzsrT-w8dX4[/youtube][/center][hr]
	Hello my darlings. Now that you are fully here, welcome to my world. In these lands you are not alone. Or perhaps you are. Perhaps you are more alone now than you ever have been. Strip away everything someone knows, everyone they know, everything they thought they knew and what is left? The very core of you. Will you actually embrace it? Let yourself feel it? Or will you just fall back and refuse to acknowledge it? Only time will tell. Eventually we all become the monster we swore we never would embrace. 

	Now that you are here, you need to be made aware of the instability of this world. World? Worlds? Hrm, hard to define. Well, no. I know what this place is. I have dwelled here since long before perhaps you even drew breath. It is my home. Defining it for you though? Oh, no Spoilers. First things first, Instability. Everyone is aware I like to shake things up. And now that all the starting guests have arrived, time to meet each other. Oh don't worry you won't meet everyone at once. Perhaps some of you will never meet. But for now... 

[table][row][/row][row]	Let the introductions begin. Below I am sure you have already scanned the list before reading this. It does draw your attention and now you have skipped back to read just what the hell. What the hell is this: Find your characters on the list below, check their location. Some of you have changed places. Some of you have not. Find who is where. Somewhere between your last post and your next you will flicker to the new location. No warning besides what is in the posts below. A toss of the dice, a flip of the coin, a spin of the wheel, a ~snaps her fingers~. Welcome to Thunderdome.[cell][center]PE Fade Between[/center][hr][list][*] [color=97e23b]Bart[/color][*] [color=007236]Mahendra[/color][*] [color=cca78e]Gio[/color][*] [color=9e005d]Constantin[/color][*] [color=82ca9d]Kyra[/color][/list][/cell]
[cell][center]DttS Fade Between[/center][hr][list][*] [color=F48CA7]Josephine[/color][*] [color=a187be]Elizaveta[/color][*] [color=39b54a]William[/color][*] [color=F7E2E8]Faye[/color][/list][/cell]
[cell][center]DtB Fade Between[/center][hr][list][*] [color=d6ff00]Mali[/color][*] [color=#9370DB]Nancy[/color][*] [color=6ecff6]Sophia[/color][*] [color=#7E5C65]Robert[/color][*] [color=cyan]Riley[/color][/list][/cell]
[cell][center]Soulless Fade Between[/center][hr][list][*] [color=b22222]Vlad[/color][*] [color=ff4500]Caesar [/color][*][color=#255DB3]Richard[/color][*] [color=c4df9b]Mosi[/color][*] [color=00BFFF]Lauren[/color][/list][/cell]
[cell][center]Plains between River & Cave[/center][hr][list][*][color=0072bc]Evelina[/color][*] [color=F5A4E3]Faith[/color][*] [color=99ccff]Andromeda[/color][*] [color=a0522d]Gilbert[/color][*] [color=9999ff]Virginia[/color][/list][/cell][/row][/table]
	[color=ed1c24]*Quick Note: From this post - all characters snap at once. So if someone is vanishing from your area, they will just flash out in the blink of an eye. New ones will appear in the blink of an eye. Check your locations, correct your headers. Go back through the previous posts if you are unsure what your location looks like. 

	When you bip - your character is only aware of the character listed for their zone. They won't know who just bipped out. 

	Also! Your characters will not know this is coming. They cannot sense it. Don't waste the rolls trying to get them to try to figure it out. Even a perfect roll they wouldn't know. Don't metagame saying they can sense something. They just haven't been there long enough to be able to feel it or sense it.[/color]

[hr][center][hr][b][color=F5DEB3]PE Fade Between[/color][/b][hr][/center]
	Now, Andromeda is thinking back on the things she has learned before everything happened and since they arrived. There is a lot of contradicting things and even those that aren't she is having a hard time putting together. Chalk it up to the scenery suddenly changing again, or a bad roll. You can blame me, my dice are rather fickle from time to time. 

	As the scenery changes and Gio checks to make sure they are going in the same direction he swears they are. Where he felt the pull for Nancy and Evelina seems steady even though their surroundings changed. Perhaps they just were in an in-between. Like the core of a portal when they landed and now that they have chosen a direction it has shown what that direction truly looks like. Masking the two areas with one that mirrors itself? Does take out the visual aspect of a choice or a destination. 

	Bart is keeping an eye and an ear out for things. Granted alertness isn't near as keen as the ability that Sophia has but it isn't bad for general things. He is pretty sure that nothing is coming at them right then. The area looks nasty enough but it doesn't look like or sound like anything is headed towards them. 

	Thing is, doesn't matter what any of them thought. Suddenly as they are walking Andromeda, Gilbert and Sophia vanish from sight. Where they were standing Mahendra and Constantin appear there standing. Kyra appears as well, sitting on the ground with an overly large wolf resting his head in her lap. 
	
[center][hr][b][color=F5DEB3]DttS Fade Between[/color][/b][hr][/center]
	Looking over towards Faye as she spoke, the Baron grinned at her as he popped his cigar back into his mouth and rolled it around between his lips. It wet the dried leaf holding the tobacco in place and he chuckled darkly. [b][i]"Oh Bebe' what humanity messes up fills this grand universe,"[/i][/b] he said as he pulled the cigar from his lips and the smoke trailed up thickly around him. [b][i]"Do you have eternity to share with me? Give me eternity and I will share more than you've dreamt,"[/i][/b] he added coyly. Faye thinking on these questions and what she has seen so far and what she has read she knows there is a lot of conflicting reading. Some say booze and tobacco could sate him, if he is one. If he is another the only thing he cares about are souls. Even others could just mean he is a general trickster. Others still could mean he is simply a welcoming guide to those that have died. 

	Oh Josephine was flirting with death as it were and it got the mans attention. Quickly turning his head as he walked. An arm slipped out and slithered over Josephines shoulder, pulling her close to him. his serpent gliding over his arm to his wrist. Its tongue flicking out, tasting the skin on the back of her hand. [b][i]"Oh I am sure you could Mon Cher. Nothing delights me more than hearing a woman scream."[/i][/b] His eyes darted over to Nancy and his grin grew wicked as his eyes flickered with a fire and the smell of something burning wafted to her nostrils alone. Nancy would sense that he is very much like her but there is something vastly different from him than her. It stings when she uses her skill on him, like salt on a wound.

	Blinking his eyes went to Mosi as he kept walking, pulling Josephine closer to him in the process. [b][i]"I would say yes but alas, you will not be with us long little one."[/i][/b] His eyes went up and he inhaled deeply before looking back to Nancy and then to Mosi and his grin grew even more, and a grunting chuckle left his lips. [b][i]"Perhaps I will see you again. Good luck."[/i][/b] With that Nancy, Mosi, Richard, Lauren, and Mahendra vanished. Veta and William appearing where they had been standing. [b][i]"New guests, how wonderful. Our party is getting much more intimate."[/i][/b]