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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:56 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:06 am
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Adam held out a hand and summoned his scythe, before passing the long ebony-handled weapon to Dougal. “Enjoy.” Somewhere in the distance there was a sound of dual screaming. Adam flapped his wings a few more times to gain more height, and the scream was abruptly strangled off. From this height the contours of hell were more visable- rocky ridges and dipped caverns and canyons, and the ‘roof’ of the whole place could be seen a mile or two up in the air - a great rocky curve adorned with various stalactites and cracks. Far in the distance, if one looked along the edge of the roof, there was a circular hole of light just visable. “If anything comes for us, try to decapitate it. They don’t get up form that for a while.”
-- Natasha came running back to find Lilith and nightmare. She grinned, her arms and parts of her expensive dress covered in something else’s blood, and a triumphant look on her face. “So there you are! Sorry I had to dash off, but i saw a pair of oddly dressed demons that looked pretty suspicious. I followed them, and...” She pulled her hands out from behind her back and presented them with a thick book. “I found this. But it gets better, look at these.” From her other hand, she produced a set of small runes that appeared to have been painted on finger-bones. “I knew something was wrong, and then I find these demons - priestly demons with runes. Do you know what this means?” She gave a brief pause, but her excitement carried her into answering before they had much chance to speak. “It means the oracles were right! There is something going on, but it’s not just these modernised demons, no, they’re just part of it. Those demons I just killed have the runes because runes can answer any question you put to them. And then, they walk around carrying an ancient version of the ‘revelations’ text. It means...it means...”she began to drift off at the end, her countenance of glee drifting down into one of fear. “it means.... oh crap.”
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:29 am
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:08 am
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:15 am
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“Well, look.” Natashas said and sat next to Lilith, opening the thick volume over her crossed legs. “This is an ancient versions of the ‘revelations’ prophecy, written even before the Bible. I’ve only ever read parts of it, but here it says that the first sign of thepending...” she paused, running a hand down the odd foreign letters of the book with a frown “the pending apocalypse is the birth of many oracles. Now, that’s why I started to recruit more exorcists in a way: because as soon as these batches of oracles were born so too did demons get more active again. But I didn’t tae it as a sign, I just thought it was a frea of naure, it happens sometimes. Plus none fo the oracles have even hinted at apocalypse, they’re vauge.” She then held up the runes. “But the birth of apocalypses...then the appearance of the massive hellhounds we just fought and the ‘army’ of demons... they’re the first signs of a pending apocalypse - we’re being pushed into one!” She wriggled the runes. “These tell you an answer. You ask a question and it answers ‘yes’ or ‘no’ by how it falls. These priestly demons have been interrogating the book to try and figure out how to carry out a premature apocalypse, I’m sure of it. It explains why they’re trying to get the 12 pieces of holy items from Nikoli and the templars too - if they gain all the religious artifacts then they can probably force open the seals that initiate the apocalypse.” She leant back in defeat and ran a hand through her hair with a weak, almost hysterical laugh. “Or I’m being paranoid, your call. But i read a lot of this stuff in my life, and it’s not got to this stage before. I reckon that the demons want to start a new apocalypse because then they’d have the upper hand, it’d be on their terms, not God’s.”
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:55 am
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 11:47 am
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:15 pm
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“Well, if you take my head off in the process, you’re the one who’s dragging it and my body around until I heal.” Adam said with a smirk. At the mention of the demon he chanced a look behind him. Sure enough a normal demon was tailing them, obviously on the prowl for something to entertain him. Adam had come across him before, and knew well that there were probably another four of his friends nearby. “Ugh..great. It’s Gyithel. Hold on.” With that he tucked his wings in and plummeted down. The demon exclaimed and laughed and followed after, Adam spread his wings again and continued to fly, faster this time, keeping his attention on what he was doing and where he felt the demon to be. As predicted, another two of the demons appeared from above him - obviously having roosted in the cracks on the ceiling of Hell. He made sure he had a good grip of Dougal and jerked to the side, then to the other side, weaving through them. He continued towards the entrance of Hell - still achingly far away, but at least visible. Finally the other two members of the group appeared. “This is not going to be fun if we are caught, you realise this, right?” Adam said to Dougal with a nervous laugh, twisting again as one of them managed to get some speed and tried to grab one of his wings. It was obvious that Adam was barely repressing the fact he was frightened of them. He did another dive as the demons perused him, almost smashing into the ground below before he righted himself. One of the pursuers misjudged the distance and smacked into the ground with a sickening crunch. “And then there were four...” -- Natsha looked blankly at Nikoli and then gave another half-hysterical laugh. “Well that makes it so much better, thankyou. I’m truly at ease now.”
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:25 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:04 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:33 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:39 pm
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