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4 months ago ::
Jan 29, 2013 - 6:30PM
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For in life, comes death, and yet from death new life rises. Titles are meaningless, yet oh so important to those that hold them.
Zebus draws a long curved blade of shadow and death. Pointing the tip at Leaf's spear, the two spark- interchanging as the energies clash between them. We have the fires of passion, and the chilling calm. You say life is the strongest of all things, but I believe otherwise. Death will come. It is a certainy, and when life fades I will be there. The souls of the parted will pass, and from the great beyond, they will rest before returning to life once again. I refute your claim as master. As the weapons meet in the middle, the energies continue to clash growing larger ever so slowly AP
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4 AP Create greater plane: Zebus creates the twisting nether, also known as The Great Beyond, through the energies pouring out from him by his edict.
1AP Donate to Ascend god through conflict with Leaf (if so desired)
Non-AP: Life/Death cycle starts here! (can be changed via more fluff or use of AP)
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4 months ago ::
Jan 29, 2013 - 8:39PM
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May 28, 2008
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Agni backed away from the blossoming of a heat very different from his own, the heat of conflict, and immediately felt the chill of Pruinus behind him. Shying away on a diagonal, Agni floated slightly away from everyone, watching as Zebus and Leaf crossed blades again and again. Stone cracked and scraped against itself as the God frowned.
This will not do, ColdMother. The Flamelord rumbled. We must separate them somehow.
Agni opened his mouth, and Magma flowed from it, coursing downwards and forming itself into a sword of molten rock, which glowed brightly against the darkness of the night.
I have no Hands. You will have to do this.
Agni willed the sword towards Pruinus, and watched as the heat of the sword cooled as it left him and approached the chill of the ColdMother. Eventually, just before it reached her hand, the sword cracked and broke to pieces, tumbling down towards the chaos below.
Agni watched the pieces fall for a moment.
Must you always be so Cold? It is inconvenient, ColdMother.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 29, 2013 - 9:33PM
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Jan 20, 2013
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Leaf sighed and lowered his spear. "Without death, life is eternal. Without life, death is an empty concept, devoid of meaning. As your own master, what will you do, where will you go? Will you bring death to the barren stone? Or will you be lower than a thief and try to steal what which was freely offered to you?" "Or yield, and have a purpose."The god turned away from Zebus. He had no fear of the other god, for death had rejected its own claim on life. Instead he turned to Agni. "A wonderful creation. Marvelous. Does it just go the once, leading the way, or will it return? Does it go around the world, or does it go back and forth?”
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Non-AP: Leaf removed life’s role from the Life/Death Cycle. Or will this require the expenditure of AP?
I’d love to take you up on the ascend god AP offer, Joran, but doesn’t seem right for the story, just yet.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 29, 2013 - 9:40PM
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And just like that, the fighting was over. A very one-sided over, as it appeared that Leaf more or less simply walked away. Agni found that rude.
It goes around this thing beneath us that lacks and form or structure. An orb of Chaos is not much to be inspired by, Master, but I have lit it and heated it just the same. If you will wait a while, it should reappear.
I take offense with your action just now, Mighty Tiny One. You have insulted your foe by turning your back on him. Apologize.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 29, 2013 - 10:00PM
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Jan 20, 2013
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"Very excellent. Might I honor it? I would have life grow and bloom in its presence, and reach towards it to praise it."
Leaf glanced over his shoulder at Zebus, but he spoke to Agni. "I would agree with you, but he is not a foe. I offered him the chance to have death be a part of life. He takes offense at my offer and wishes to fight. If he wins, then death will have no part in life. What will be left to him? What will death do, if it doesn't end life? If he wins, he ruins himself. To be a foe, he must have a chance at a desireable outcome."
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4 months ago ::
Jan 29, 2013 - 10:04PM
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May 28, 2008
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You may, but stop changing the subject. It does not matter if you find it reasonable for him to be your foe. He considers himself your foe, and that is enough.
The flames within flared.
Apologize, make recompense so he does not continue to strive to destroy you. I like this idea of your creations worshiping me, and would hate for anything to happen to them, flammable as they are.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 29, 2013 - 10:10PM
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"You changed the subject first." There was a mischieveous grin on Leaf's face as he said that, but his looks turned grim as he went on to more serious matters. "I value you, Agni, and I wish to please you as far as is in my power. But what recompense might I make to that one? What can I offer him that he has not already rejected?"
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4 months ago ::
Jan 29, 2013 - 11:18PM
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You wish to dominate that which is, in essence, your opposite. I respect this, for strength is better than weakness. But his argument is just as valid as yours. You are willing to give him leave to have death fill the spaces between life. He counters that he will give leave for life to fill the spaces between death. Are these not the same argument, merely out of phase of one another?
Agni's gaze caught up Zebus as well.
You have had a misunderstanding, and want the same thing. Zebus, apologize for attacking, and Leaf, apologize for treating Zebus as beneath your concern.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 3:54AM
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Sheathing his sword just as quickly as it came out, Zebus takes a step back.
You do not consider me a foe, yet we cross blades. You did not wish to attack me yet you drew a weapon on me first. I do not wish to destroy him Flamelord. He will prove useful in the future, but I will not acknowledge him as my master either. For now we are equal in strength. Just know that one day it may not be so.
Pulling out a cup of tea from nowhere, Zebus takes a sip while thinking.
You said you offer me purpose, yet I already have one. You claim to freely offer something, yet you cannot offer life to something not living, for that would make an unlife, an abomination. Remember, there are more than one way to win.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 4:20AM
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Pruinus thought she heard something... other for a moment. Then the sound faded away and her attention drew itself to the conflict arising between Leaf and Zebus. She turned herself to the fragments of the sword crumbling. With movements both akin to a bird desperately evading its predator and a dancer performing a complex routine, she flung her weight through nothingness and dived towards the crumbling fragments. As she was face-level to them, her mouth exhaled that same icy white haze amongst the pieces, creating a zigzagged bridge between the pieces, forming a unconventional sword. Cold Ice, Intense Magma and a third, more neutral substance composed the sword. Floating back upwards, she held the sword outwards threateningly not at Zebus or Leaf, but Agni. "You said you respect my directness and you shall have it. I am unconvinced that Life and Death should be allies. What would be more benefical to life, to hate and strive against death, or accept it as a fate set in stone? I see the need for both life and death, and for myself to play my part in.both. Yet I am unconvinced the two need to accept each other as such."She released her grasp of the sword and allowed it to float back to Agni. He played his part in its creation and despite the seriousness of the situation, she would not fight him with his own work. ---AP - I donate the necessary AP needed to create Onus as part of my actions, sharing the effort with Agni.1 AP Donated, 6 Remain.OOCSpoiler:
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The beginning where Pruinus hears something is meant to be a reference to Primal Spirits awakening in the world as the last tiny remains of The First as it is a domain I wish to claim soon. However, any other suggestions of what this could mean storywise (Perhaps other gods whispering to her) are very welcome.
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