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The Abyss (NOW CLOSED)
Sat Oct 10, 2015 12:46 pm
It was quiet around the deserted center square of downtown Karakura, much to the surprise of everyone. It wasn't the kind of quiet that happened from the lack of usual populous, like with what happened when there were big events being held elsewhere. No, it was silent. Completely silent. As in there was literally no one in this section of Karakura. Why you might ask? Why, it was because of a small crisis that had quickly escalated into a massive issue. In the center of what looked like an old fashioned park, one that had probably been there for centuries, was a strange black hole. It wasn't the kind of black hole that pulled in an ate matter. No, it was more like a rift. A black, twisted, eye shaped rift that was about twice the size and width of a normal person. And around this rift? Pitch black matter that crawled along the ground and killed whatever it touched. It had been here for almost a day, and the energy was now stretching out across the park. It was threatening to crawl onto the pavement of the sidewalks at this point.
The Vanguard had let this rift be after examining it for an hour after it initially opened. The energy had only spread so far then, but now it was threatening to stretch even further. The nanomachines that were supposed to record data about why things like this opened only gave video feed on it initially opening before going dark mere moments later. They even looked inside the rift when it opened, but there was nothing there at all. Not any sign of life or energy that could mimic such. It was merely a void of emptiness and isolation. The only thing they could identify coming from this rift was the same black energy that was eating away at anything that stepped foot into the park.
The rift was near impossible to research by lesser members of the Vanguard. Whatever the energy that this rift was leaking was, also ate away at parts of those same members' bodies. They would find that their clothes would start to turn to dust, and the skin and flesh underneath would all waste away until there was nothing left but bone. They should have known, though. There were skeletons in this park strewn here and there, indicating that there were people who either tried to step in to see what was happening or there were people in here that got caught in the initial release of the rift. Regardless, this was an issue that was becoming worse and worse with each passing moment, and would have to be addressed more by anyone in some kind of power higher than just a member sooner or later.
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Re: The Abyss (NOW CLOSED)
Sat Oct 10, 2015 12:52 pm
Artist: Hanstone - Song: Prince of Partholon (Ch. 3 remix) - Word Count: 464
Rising from the ground in a thick muck of darkness, stood the Vanguard's Lord of Whispers. Despite the other chains of the Vanguard putting off this... thing... James could stand none of it. A black hole appears in downtown Karakura and the vanguard dismisses it? There was absolutely no way such a thing was possible. James zoomed his contacts in as far as they would go. Whatever it was, they were completely in the dark about it. From the distance, several skeletons and otherwise half eroded corpses lay strewn in plain sight, telling James that he would need some type of barrier to even approach it. Of course, with all of his clothing being enhanced by his own mana, it was unlikely that he would be stripped by this thing, unless it eroded mana as well. James would need to approach, but for the moment, he couldn't ignore the fact that this was probably a job for the Arcanists. But, wherever anomalies and relevant intelligence went, the Dimir were sure to be found.
There was no life energy in the immediate area, at least at the moment, so it was unlikely that the anomaly was placed by someone. Although James had seen a similar scene in his lifetime, with the Black World. If this anomaly were related to those, then perhaps the Vanguard hadn't taken as much care of the situation as they should have. Nothing in the reports showed anything out of the ordinary prior, in fact, nothing appeared to be going wrong until the rift appeared... It cut off the Yuudeshi network's nanites, which suggests some form of electromagnetic interference, but that was mere speculation. They could have easily been eradicated just as civilians were. As it stood, the Vanguard was losing hands to this thing. Hmph. James took it upon himself to personally get to the bottom of this thing. The first step, being to figure out it's weaknesses, then formulate a method of closing it. James was allowed a unique freedom when it came to his mana, and he doubted it would stand very well against it. Charging up a blast of pure, unfettered dark energy, James slowly walked towards the rift. He would attempt to fire it directly into the center of this Anomaly, testing it's resilience to his Master level magic ability. Of course, it was unlikely that even this rift into nothingness could hold up very well against it, and by all logical means, the energy orb should not decay in the slightest, given it's attunement with the element of darkness, and of course, it's master level energy.
If this was the case, James would be safe to pass through, but if not, he would need to formulate a barrier spell to ensure that it does not spread.
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