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A Deep Darkness
Topic Started: Feb 15 2014, 11:59 PM (289 Views)
Smitejr

Cassidy looks down at the chasm before her, suppressing a gulp. She's done some impressive shit in her time, but this might just take the cake. Still, her hesitation is only momentary as she jumps down, pulling out a wind gem as she does so. Channeling magical energy through the gemstone, she uses it's power to push her further than her jump could take her, landing her clear on the other side. That accomplished, she pushes on forward, when the floor suddenly turns slippery and she has to claw the ground in order to avoid an uncontrollable fall.

"Well darn. I think I almost broke a nail there." She says to herself sarcastically, before looking at the new obstacle. Seeing another pit, she looks up, and sees an old, broken-down scaffolding. "Well, sure was convenient of whoever lived down here to leave these up." With a kick, she pushes off, grabbing a hold of a pole jutting out from the wall, and pulls herself up. Ascending up the scaffolding, she quickly scampers across it, barely trusting the old material with her weight for a moment.

None of this was new to her, exploring ruins was an integral part of her life. Not quite as integral as sneaking around mansions, but both tended to put food on the table. Still, as she triggered a dart trap that was in her way, she wondered about just what was going to be down here. The rumors alone were tempting, but when it came from a more verified source..well, how could she refuse?

As she rounded the corner, she found herself in a large antechamber, with a giant, ceremonial stone door in front of her. She's seen several of them before in other relic boundaries, and typically it housed an item the gods themselves would view as a treasure behind them. Grinning, she looks around, trying to find what would likely serve as an opening mechanism in the chamber.

Tracing her hand over the side of the door, she feels some indentations. Looking at them from a distance, it's clear that there are things to be inserted in them in order to open them. "A key, huh? Well, that's inconvenient." When she looks at it from a greater distance, she sees that a map is overlaid in the world, and each indentation has been marked to a specific ruin. "Hah! I've been to all these places!" Looking inside her little utility belt, she tries to sort the gemstones to see which ones came from what. "Hrm....I got this wind gem from that ruin in Africa..." Placing the gem in the indentation, the stone glows bright. "Hah! I was right!" With that, she begins matching stones to slots, filling out all five. And with that, the stone door begins opening.

Her awe at the situation was so much that it took her a moment to go about retrieving her stones.
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Cassidy got stupid. Even if he was tremendously powerful, even if he was one of the gods, who was HE to say what she could keep and couldn't? She'd stolen or found these fair and square!

"Undoing of humanity? Well, we've been doing pretty good with them so far, I think. Why don't you get everyone else to stop using the crap you guys left us, then I'll put mine back too, huh?"

With that, she picks up one last handful of gems and bolts.
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With a light growl, Perses dug a hand into the stone floor beneath him. Fissures ran through the ground, carving out a large chunk of earth. With both hands, he lifted the makeshift slab, Cassidy atop it, and tilted it toward himself. "I'll start with yours."
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Cassidy gives an eep, and hops off the slab. Flicking the wind gem out, she pushes herself through the air away from the titan. She did NOT want to get close to that son of a bitch, so she needed to make all her speed count.

"No can do, big guy. These are sticking with yours truly."

With that glib remark, she pulls herself around the corner, trying desperately to make her way out.
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"Tell me, mortal. Have you ever felt as though you bore the weight of the heavens upon your back?" Perses lifts a foot and stomps it down with tremendous foot, setting the entire chamber to quake. "Allow me give you a taste of their collapse."

Fissures pierced through the floor, the walls, the ceiling. From above, chunks of stone broke loose and rained down upon Cassidy. "Should I see fit, this shall be the fate of your kind's cities."
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Cassidy dodged around the falling rocks, slipping underneath a fallen column to get out of the way of a particularly large boulder. "And what, you'll do it unless I give you back your rocks? Not exactly the nicest god, are you?"

This was a quandary. If he actually did it, (And he seemed like a big enough asshole to do it if he didn't get what he wanted,) she wouldn't be happy. Reliquus was where she kept all her stuff, and there were so many people she didn't rob yet. "Can't you just leave us alone? Sheesh, I free you from your prison and this is all the thanks I get..."
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"I am the titan of Destruction. This is what the gods created me to do. I judge what I see and determine if it warrants destruction. I do have duty to the gods." At long last, Perses bounded forward, using his long, apish arms to move faster than he appeared capable of. "And I see fit to destroy you, purloiner of the gifts of the gods. As my duty commands, you will perish for daring to use their crystals for your personal gain."
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Well, that sucked.

"They weren't using it! If they cared so much, they'd have taken it with them!"

This wasn't good. The big guy was pissed, and he could make earthquakes. She'd been in one natural earthquake underground, it wasn't fun.

"Why the hell were you locked up, then? If they wanted you to do a duty, I don't think you'd have been lying in wait for a simple treasure hunter like me to find!"

Back to the scaffolding...shit this was going to suck. Hopefully it would hold up over one of this asshole's quakes...
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"Your kind sealed me out of fear. As the gods never awakened me afterwards, I assume this was shortly before they abandoned this forsaken world." Reaching a wall, Perses smashed a fist into it. The room quaked again, fissures splitting stone once more, this looping through walls through the entire underground system. He bounded forward again, his landings only increasing the quaking and cracking of stone. "You have no hope of escape, mortal."
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"...You know, that's a lot of your god's gemstones for them to be sealing y-" Her voice was cut off as she saw a boulder fall right in front of her, smashing a bit of scaffolding that would have been very convenient for traveling forward. "Well that's just not nice!"

Jumping from her scaffolding above the abyss, she twists around, and pulls out a fire gem, a good twice the size of the wind gem she had been using. "Now try this on for size!" With that, she channeled the magic and fired a burning blaze behind her, both hopefully impeding the Titan's movement and giving her an extra boost across the chasm. Turning back around, she grabs hold of the bottom rung of a wooden ladder, just above the bottom of the woodwork. "That was close." Using her wind gem, she boosts herself up quick, and keeps running. She didn't expect something silly like a bottomless chasm to stop that bastard for long.
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Perses skids to a halt and cuts his hands deep into the earth again. He flipped a massive slab of stone forward, creating a bridge over the chasm. Before crossing it, he stomped a foot down again, setting the ceiling to rain debris down upon Cassidy once more. After crossing the gap, he grabbed his bridge and hurled it after her.
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