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The Search for Elvarren

@Bishop I'm sorry but you're the one that's confusing me! You just added a whole new part to a post you had already posted. That's.. unorthodox in IC, to say the least. Unless you coordinated with the players that were already in that room? Why not save that for later for the sake of chronology?

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Up to you. My suggestion is; at the start of your post you greet her as she leaves the room. And once everyone else is gone, you do your thing!

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It's not night yet. When I mentioned as such it was a bit of an in-advance-fore-knowledge to give us a perspective on time, while the other players were still going to write up their first IC posts. However now that everyone has posted, Wind'll wrap it up, and it'll be night when she's done.
As for whether Horus gets the bed.. well.. Aries will have the last say on that.

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@Bishop There is hardly much more than what I had already mentioned in the first post. No basement. No second floor. If there were any i'd have said so, don't you think? As for searching... you'll find basic cutlery at the sink, a few dishes. In the other rooms old pieces of cloth, curtains, empty wooden closets with cobwebs. A lot of cobwebs. Nothing out of the ordinary. There are traces of this place once having been a hunting lodge; but the hunting equipment having long since vanished.

@Themerlinhawk I have a feeling it won't be tomorrow. But alas! You will always have a place here. Your character was already approved, so if in between any post you recognize a perfect opportunity to make an entrance; do so.

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Oh yes the voices are just terrible. I hope you get better soon.

Also Kaesar isn't annoying or arrogant, he is perfectly lovable! God, Pup, c'mon.

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^{(in unchronological order from the above post.)}

KAESAR

‘’Dusk! Hold up! You can’t just leave me here!’’

Kaesar gives chase out of the cabin to grab Dusk by the shoulder. And Dusk turns to him.
‘’Kaesar… Listen, I know you have much to ask, but it will have to wait. I can orientate much better towards the Perpetuals of other people not yet in our group, if I am decently removed from people like yourself. People likewise with Perpetuals in their minds. I hope you understand.’’
Dusk sighs.
‘’When I return, I will tell you everything that I presently know. But don’t raise your expectations up too high, for I do not know much more than you do yourself.
I’ll see you Thursday.’’

Kaesar curses inwardly. ‘’Damn him. How dares he bring me all the way out here in this shithole, and then not have the decency to take me along. I don’t like him with that smug façade of innocence. It’s obviously an act. He’s not really this nice. Cunt.’’

MAKE ALLIES.

A voice as a sudden and intense needle, piercing Kaesar's cognition from out of the great emptiness.
‘’Hrmm? You sayin’ something, Am?’’
THE WAR WILL SOON BEGIN. PREPARE.
‘’Soon? How soon are we speaking? …I guess I should get to know the other people in the cabin. Some of them looked pretty tough. Best is to figure out what their powers are.’’
As Kaesar beheld Dusk fade into the distance, he slowly returned to the cabin. He saw Luci walk in before him. Kaesar did not know much of him. They had both been here for the past 2 or so days, but never really talked. Why? ‘’Because he’s a creep. The way how he toys with metal is downright freaky.’’ Kaesar knows, in any case, that he is not the sort of guy he is looking for.

Walking inside, he suddenly got a bottle thrown at him. It was Mirage -- just the guy he was looking for! Kaesar only barely managed to catch the bottle – the games of basketball he once played now seem to pay off. Instantly annoyed, Kaesar hisses at him. ‘’Careful there.’’
Then, looking up at the rather imposing stature of Mirage, he proceeds to force a smile to form upon his lip. For surely it’s best to stay on his good side.
‘’…Thanks mate.’’ He opens the bottle and takes a gulp of the refreshing contents therein. Gotta make a good first impression. He then casts a polite smile to Kasey, and attempts to do the same with Horus, except that he seems a little… unapproachable. And generally creepy and extremely nervous. Ergo; no true warrior.

"Right, so what now?" Mirage speaks.

Ah. The only guy that seems competent.
Kaesar replies. ‘’I’m curious to learn what all your powers are. But I won’t ask for demonstrations… yet. Could have unpredictable consequences, I do believe. So I’ll go first.
My ability? I can shoot lazers from my eyes. No joke. It’s why I need to wear sunglasses. It’s a serious problem. Already killed a few people by accident.’’
Kaesar blurts these words with the widest grin while tapping the dark glasses perched unto his nose. He lies – this is not his true power. He does not trust these people into knowing his actual ability. Who can say whether any of these will turn out to be his enemy one day?
Kaesar proceeds to look around the group. ‘’How about y’all?’’

...A few hours later; assuming Pup has not set the cabin on fire....

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Night is falling – and with it an omen of darkness. The more observant & cautious among us might be able to make out faint noises coming from beyond the immediate bushes…

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I'll give you material to interact with even if it kills me.

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Rude.

@Themerlinhawk@Sam12435@Twilights Curse I hope to see something from you guys yet, before it is too late!

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‘’Time, but a passageway, a passageway... I am perpetual. The beginning of the end, and an end that never is.’’

‘’I don’t understand.’’

‘’…Perpetual.’’

‘’Is that your name?’’
No response.

DUSK

‘’My friends, I do not know much more than you do. But it appears that all over the world, there is one unknown word entering the minds of certain selected flock. ‘Elvarren.’ A word with a strange and hypnotic effect, a word that speaks to our instincts to search for it. And that is only the beginning, because the voice conveying to us about Elvarren gets only stronger and all the more impatient. It is my belief we are not suffering from schizophrenia… these voices aren’t delusions. They are sentient and external intelligence seeking to set us on a new path.
You have already heard them, haven’t you?
Their urgency is not unfounded either. There are men in grey suits after you. You might’ve already seen them. They started showing up across the continents about the same time people like us began to turn up with these abilities. There is something much greater at hand -- something happening to our world, but it is not yet ready to reveal itself… And the voice of Elvarren isn’t helping either. Nor do we know yet what Elvarren even is. But whatever it is; it is the key to everything. Yes. Everything. I believe this to be the truth. And so we cannot give up.’’

Dusk speaks to the people currently assembled. Ishalan, Mirage, Puppeteer, Kaesar, Quiet and Horus. Those are their new names, and let none think otherwise! They reside in an old and decaying cabin. Why has Dusk led these people to this place specifically? Mostly because there is a stove. Pretty outdated, looks to be made last century. But when you’re this far north, even during springtime, in this vast forested terrain… you will learn to appreciate such a thing.
The place is not very large. Upon entering you come into a living room; a couch hugging the right wall besides it, and an archaic refrigerator and kitchen sink in the corner. The head of a stag is mounted above the front door. At the back of the room are three doors. Two leading to separate bedrooms, and the middle door leading to a very small bathroom, with one toilet and an oldschool bathtub. No shower. And there is no running water either – it has to be fetched from the nearby river.
The right bedroom hosted only a single bed, with the unconscious Jay lying in it. The other bedroom was completely empty. Dusk only prepared three sleeping bags there. With one sleeping bag remaining for the right bedroom due to lack of space.

‘’All in all, we have one bed, four sleeping bags and a couch for one of us to sleep on in the living room.. That’s enough for six people. I’m sorry I could not prepare any more. I did not think I would actually be able to find this many of you. Please make due with what we have.’’
Dusk pauses for a bit.
‘’…I guess we will have to switch turns sleeping, eh? It’s up to you. I suppose since I’m the one responsible for you being here, I’ll be sleeping on the floor.
It is a time of great urgency for us. You need to keep low at all costs. I do not know if ‘they’ have followed us. But it seems they are capable of discovering people with our abilities even in the most unlikely of places. How? By what otherworldly means? I have no idea. Either way, I ask you all to please not leave this cottage, or at least as little as possible...
And if you do leave, inform me or Aries. I won’t ask more than to please be lenient with one another.

See this as an opportunity to really get to know eachother and maybe experiment with your talents… communicate with the voices in your head. For the coming days I need to leave you all. The Perpetual tells me more people have come to this continent. I need to find them and bring them here; before the Greymen do.
I like to think we are all part of the same brotherhood now. So while I am away; could you all prepare sleeping bags and rations to last us at least a few weeks? And be sure to listen to Aries… Just please don’t do anything rash or dangerous. Or something that makes too much noise or otherwise draw attention.
It is Monday. I will try to be back before Thursday evening.

Take care, everyone.’’

With those words; Dusk departs from the cabin once more. They had only been here for a day. Who is that guy, anyway? Dusk has an unexplainable calming effect on others. It makes you want to trust him. It might be his calm and friendly demeanor, or is it perhaps the mind-altering effect of his power..?