The Human Shrine

[Illidan]

Illidan smiles happily.

"Let us go to the Thai Krathong, it is my favorite resturaunt here in Moscow. I love Thai food."

Illidan begins to beam with a new found happiness as he leads Kassenia out the door.

"Kaieka was a dear friend of mine, but in the end there was no attraction, only a geniune desire to help her. I will do the same for you."

[Gen. Vlad Kolov]

(The effect of vaporizing half a continent is however. I agree that this is ultimately up to Bassarov, but I would say save the trouble of waiting and simply change it to leveled the continent instead of destroying it.)

[Satsujin]

((I have deleted the post. Those that saw it, pretend it didnt happen. Yet. I will get it either approved or rejected by Bass before I repost it in light of Vlad's valid points.))

[Kaschei]

((The surface and landscape features can be destroyed, however refrain from the entire land mass itself. Great Lakes, mountains, whatever, give the US a face lift, but don't destroy in a way that would affect the rest of the world))

"That is very interesting, Tsubaki. So you are a serpent dragon. Machiavelli is a dragon as well. How nice it is to work with your kind, far better than fellow humans."

Kaschei goes to his spell book shelf.

"Feel free to borrow any of my spell books. I wrote many of them myself. Perhaps you will learn something new."

Kaschei is in a friendly mood since revenge is so very near to him.

[Satsujin]

((I had made it so that only the US from the Rockies west was obliterated. I didnt intend on 'removing' the continent from the face of the earth. The other 2/3 of the US was leveled by the winds created by the black hole. So it is acceptable the way it was then?))

[Surma]

Surma looked at the the attack of Jumala Obsidion. Surma realized it was the same attack that killed Lazuli and Sorodonyx. *NO I HAVE TO.... ESCAPE THIS.. I CAN'T HAVE THIS HAPPEN TO ME.. I WON"T HAVE THE SAME DOOM AS THE ONES I WAS CREATED TO REPLACE!!* Surma took hold to the ground. Surma bent. He dug his fingers from his left arm, into the ground and covered his face with his right arm. The attack tried to suck Surma up. It than tried to obliterate him from existance. "TOO... STRONG..NEED TO... POWER UP.." Surma took grip of the ground with his dug fingers. The ground was cracking. Surma powered up. He felt more tolerant to the attack. Surma moved his eyes to his barrier and the people in it. The barrier that covered Toivo Lemm and Tathi, took it's toll. It was about to break. "HANG... ON THERE YOU GUYS..." Surma tried to look through the attack. The attack was incredible. Surma continued to bare the attack. Once the attack stoped, Surma took his arm away from his face. peices of Surma's face was gone. Surma's face was soppose to show nothing but skeletons, but it had skin. His hair was soppose to be white, but the strands showed Crimson. It was as if, he shed some of his skin and dyed his peices of hair crimson. Surma stayed on the ground. He kept his head low. No one could see his face. All they could see was white an crimson hair. "I-incredible.." Surma murmered.

((I hope so.. I wouldn't wanna see this post go to waste.))

[Satsujin]

((Thank you Surma. I hope so as well.))

[Kratos]

They're hoping to defeat the communists in this dump? The emperor could send half a regiment to defeat this ragtag group. Not to mention it was far too easy to find.

Kratos walked through the columns a pair of soldiers stopping him as he looked at them slightly. "Stop!" His eyes rolled slightly. "I'm here to offer my services to your 'leader'." He brushed past the soldiers, who were still blinking in surprise. "H-hold on!" He brushed them off, walking still through the garden now, it wasn't kept, which was disturbing to him.

He pushed open the red doors, walking slowly. Obviously they are on the top, or bottom floor. He looked around for a staircase, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword.

He continued walking, looking through doorways. "This place is a bloody maze! How am I suppo-" He cut off, stopping in his tracks, he looked through the door and there she was.. but.. it couldn't be.. Light.. Alex..?

He walked into the room slowly, it couldn't be her.. but.. the height was off., but.. the same hair.. figure.. "Alex..?" He said slowly, he hadn't even noticed he was standing right behind her. He looked around swiftly and noticed he was in what seemed the cafeteria or kitchen perhaps.. He waited for Mazuras response.

[Gen. Vlad Kolov]

(this is precicely what I referred to. Now why don't we leave it for now and let Bassarov figure that out next time he gets on.. I don't mind a crater 1,000 miles across but the 100 miles deep is the problem. If you could make it less deep, say five miles it would be acceptable.)


"Allright, come with me." I lead him to the holochamber. In the center of it is a large octagonal table, about ten feet across. "Red, bring up a profile of Helsinki, 1:100,000 scale." A representation of the city appears an inch above the table. It is a perfect representation of the city in it's current condition. There are several ghostly circles projected within and without the city, all centered on the heart of the city. "Is this acceptable?"

[Johnathon Ross]

((... hmm, actuall the generators in gears are relatively small, but almost all of them have unlimited amount of energy since they get their energy directly from a universe full of it, known as the zohar universe. just all of the gears in xenogears use fuel also, and yes, you are right, the year in xenogears is about 1000, but still, that is on another planet, the technology they had was not very well developed and most of the advanced stuff they had they found in the ruins. so techniqually they would have been behind us, even though the years where ahead of us))

i put my my arms to plot the thingypit as i get blown back through rows of buildings. "d**n it...". i look out through a hole inbetween the arms at his gear. "there has to be a weakness....". i use the boost to cause militek to do a flip and land on its feet, also making it skid back a few meters before stopping. ".... well, i cant attack him head on, so i guess i'll have to go on defensive for now...". i get up and turn slightly, putting up my arms to get ready to block his attacks. "d**n it...".

[Zhuge Liang]

"Much better," I reply. "I still marvel at the wonders of technology. If only I had had such inventions in my campaigns. Ah well, to work."

I study the map.

"Do you know where the rebel base is located?"

[Aristarchus]

"It is a pleasure to meet you again, Hayven and Yoko."

-I shake hands with both

-Cathie appears shy in the presence of the other fairy.

-I watch the fight between Lucky and Michael and ponder if I should step in and help

-It appears that Lucky is doing well.

[Satsujin]

((Oh well. I will just change it for the sake of ease. For those that did not see the post, it was on the last page of this thread, but was removed for further consideration. Surma's above post was in responce to this post.))

Satsujin's dragon-like face does not change at what she says as he continues to build power.

"Hell for me, is not hell for you. We shall not meet in hell..."

Satsujin builds more power, a black sphere starting to flicker in and out of existence between his outstretched hands, still pointed forward and down at Louhi. Satsujin's body starts to change, growing smaller and smaller as his huge dragon form reverts back to Satsujin's normal appearance. He was diverting all the power the Lord of the Abyss had at his disposal...
The black 6 inch orb between his hands start to remain in this plain of existence longer and longer as Satsujin started to strain with the power he was trying to control. Black lightning shot from the orb, wrapping around his body, streaking up to the sky, and striking the ground as they blew holes the size of small buildings. The strain on Satsujin was not visible. His teeth were showing as he clenched them together, his body started to shake as his muscles strained to contain the attack, and Earth too was feeling the effects... The entire Earth was shaking violently, pens vibrated off of tables on the other side of the planet, tsunamis started to wash up on all the major continents, destroying seaside cities with 100-foot waves.
Satsujin finally brought the sphere into this realm as the earth below him was ripped up, pulled toward him by some unseen force. Satsujin almost screamed in agony as his back contorted, yet never losing his control of the orb. Behind him a black tear in the universe formed, light being bent inwards along the event horizon. It was a miniature black hole... Satsujin's back started to stretch and bend, streaming backwards toward the rip in existence like a wisp of smoke. The wisp that was Satsujin's back finally made contact with the black hole, and they fused. The black hole was actually a direct connection to the Void itself, and now Satsujin was directly connected to the very source of his power.
Satsujin's eyes flared with darkness as black fire burned from them, licking at his eyebrows and hair. His strained expression turned into an evil grin, yet not his psychotic one... This was the same grin he had become accustomed to when he murdered his siblings long ago. Satsujin's fingers strained as he finally realized it was ready. He spoke in a broken, strained voice.

"Louhi... Meet the true master... of Darkness... Meet the VOID ITSELF!!!"

Satsujin let out a scream as he released his control over the power he had spent building. The connection to the Void itself acted in a way that proved why they had been dubbed black holes. It immediately began to suck everything into the abyss with incredible force. All across the US from Satsujin's back on, the citizens found themselves in the middle of winds up to 300 miles an hour. Houses were ripped off their foundation, skyscrapers were toppled over, and people flew into the air, drawn half a continent away to the dark orb that was their doom.
At the same instant, the orb Satsujin had been holding bulged slowly as the black lightning streamed across the ground, tearing huge scars in the earth. Finally it burst, a huge beam of darkness grew outward exponentially, consuming Louhi, and the ground in the darkness of the attack. The attack widened as it grew further from Satsujin, finally reaching 1000 miles across as it streaked across the western half of the US, scouring the surface of the earth to bare rock and leveling the Rocky Mountains... It reached the Pacific Ocean and finally streaked off into space as it could only travel in a straight path. The huge beam of darkness had wiped clean the entire western United States.
The dust cleared around Satsujin, revealing him still floating in place, panting hard, his hands hanging limply at their sides...

[Gen. Vlad Kolov]

(Perfect.)

"Yes. Red, shift center datum to current location of Valodya Bassarov." The dot that the circles are centered on moves to the location of the rebel base. "Here is the base. As you can see it is not much more than a ragrag collection of buildings."

[LuLu]

I look at Linnea..........."I must go before find me missing. Oh and if you find a Bassorav......tell him LuLu is looking for him. Thanks."............I left without another word.