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Disbina nods "I'm controlling the servitors but I have no experience of mass combat." She dos as you say and you see the robotic nights fall back. The mass of the tainted seem to press the attack. "Yes we need to get to the tower and clear the flying tainted from it" You can see a mass of tainted flapping around it top.
good then we go, she opens the door and it grows in size, ready for troops to head it.
The landscape shifts but looks like it sits, soon your at a large Buncker doors Disbina opens them and you see in side a wasted plan at night, a large battle is under way. 1000s of misshaped being are asolting a tower. Knight in white are fighting them, looking close you can see they are robots. There number is now few,
"Then we NEED to get to my tower, all our books and research is there. Somewhere in that it there has to be a means to found this taint. If you are with me then lets go, as one, to-giver, we have an army of taint between us and my tw..." She stops for a moment looking away. "They have started the attack, my other-selves are doing there best to hold them off with the towers defiances. But we dont have much time.
Now she seems in a hurry to get things done.
"Yes it can and there is no defense if it do's, but you need the power to do it and that is hard, 1st you have to know about doors and then how to move them. I'm using an old artefact made by one of my old compatriots. How he made it I don't know. Your world is in danger and you have no idea what to do about it, Trust me I know just how you feel."
"That would be the only one, they are very rear indeed. It's here because it can shift, go touch it, you can feel it's a mover. In fact its here because of you, I Dial'ed you up, One of me has a dial" The other Dibinas start to lead the other into the door.
Looks at Severus as he walks off. "You know I thought he would come, hold on" She splits and one of the Dibinas runs after the General. The other says, "So yes, I was going to do that anyway BUT you have to get me to the tower, I left it in a rush and did not leave one of my-selves there. Mistake that. So what's it to be stay or go?"
"in My tower, ithere may be a means, I have an old device, long proven for use but I could craft a door resonance amp from it, yes , if we linked it to a door it would give a simple value for gossamer content, a yes there is some taint and no, I could even make a simple location device from that, it would be crude but it would do as needed" She is off thinking, looking away, as if talking to others.
The lone Disbina looks at you all now as you work out what to do, "Severus I have no easy answers for you, but I don't I am just trying to work out what to do. I'm not the wise guild who shows up and leads you to self discovery in some mystical way. Nuuskin here asked me more than once what happened to my fellow Wardens guarding this part of the Stair. Truth is we where attacked, attacked after being invited to a friendly world that we felt was safe. To a wedding of one of our number. I was there in as many incarnations as I could. It was chance alone that I had one, off doing a dull take of decommissioning an old look out tower I one used. That and that lone slaved me, the last image that incarnation got off the others was utter darkness fulling in an instant. Then nothing, as if all life, communication every thing was cut off. That one incarnation and believe when I say I have never felt so vulnerable. Allowed me to re-manifest myself. Then as the last warder I slit my time researching would could have happened and in finding you. That research lead to my discovery of a device call the "Pinch" The event that whipped out most of myself and my fellows, was the total removal of a Gossamer back into shadow. Some thing I did not know was even possible until I made a tiny version, affecting only a tiny part of a Gossamer. Nuur has seen it in action. Even then it takes a great amount of time and power to craft, But to make one with the power eradicate a whole Gossamer. That's beyond anything I have ever heard of. I know you have questions and I wish I could supply the answers but I just don't have them. All I do know is someone attacked me and my fellows, they all but whipped us out and now this train has sprung up. I have no idea if what we are doing is the right thing to do, but its all I can thing of here and now. I joke I know I do, but its fear that drives it. You four, your my hope, Where we go from here is up to you, you want to stay then stay, you want to come with me and Tch'Chiana then come. All I know is an Army of taint is now out my tower, there I have defiances but they will not hold them off forever. I, we need to get there and wipe it out full, then in my tower I may have a means to make something to aid us detect the taint. Is up to you." She seems a little lost like no your seeing her for the 1st time, the single Disbina, alone, A woman worried and scared. She seems to be braver around her other selves, like she was putting on a show for herself.
There is another Disbina at the door,
She lwaits on you to open and pass the door.
One of the Disbinas gos over and punches the one that spoke, in the arm.
"Heartless Much!" Another one looks over at the two and then at the rest of you,
"She always like that, thinks its dark humour, stupid if you ask me" The one punched is rubbing her arm. The one who punched says "Yes and forgets others have FEELINGS!" The one rubbing her arm says. "I'm sorry ok, just thought, you know"
Another Disbina says, "As I said we can do things others find hard, like hold a number of differing points of view at the same time. His name was Thiol and he was a brave man, I for one am sorry he could not take the power offered, but we taked about the riks and I did agree to save his world even if he lost his life now or later, that go's for you all. Its in just as dire need as your are. As for the one who could help us, if and I mean IF he want's to be found I know where we can start looking. But right now there is an Army of taint on the march in Tch'Chiana" The Disbina that spoke hangs her head.
Thiol a tall blonde human male, about 40 years, healthy, ancient Grecian clothing and a gem like crystal over his third eye secured with a golden metal band walks up and places his hand on the orb, For a moment it is fine then you see shear power bleed out from his body, braking his skin apart as he scream in object agony. His flesh burns away, his bones blacken, then gem in his forehead shatters into nothing, a horrid smell fills the tent and all that is left is a wisp of smoke and dust. A Disbina Looks at what is left. "Four out of five not bad, more than I expected" She walks out the tent following her other selves.
any who touch an orb: knowledge pours into your mind, doors, straps, the stairs, you feel under standing more than know it, you know you can walk the steps now, you know you can open and close the mets doors that lead to worlds.
One Disbina is looking out the tent, another is sitting and drinking wine, while another seem to looking close at the Nuusk, "Detect no, not really, I can just act and do things other can't like look in a lot of places at once. But there is someone, if he is still there, who could help, if he's in the moor, but the journey to him is as dangerous as what we are looking to do now. After my hope is we can go try and find him. But for now" She send her orb to the side of each of you. "if you place you hand on the orb I can pass over what was passed to me, the ability to use doors and the stairs. There is no way to explain it, its something the gets imprinted in your very being. The good news is if you have to power to take it, you have a great gift, if not it will burn your very being out of existence" She smiles,
"It leeks from the doors, if you can find all the doors to a gossamer you, block them to taint, then wipe it out, you should be fine.[where going to have to make a device to hunt out doors, one of my old group could do it, but that was not my skill", closing doors how ever, I can do"
"Well its the true, would you have me lie to, you tell you, your the chosen ones. Some C**p like that, because really, if anyone's ego's that fragile this may all be to much for them. And will us fight them here stop them, I have no idea, I know more know their thinking than I do yours. I don't like to mess with the minds of others, not that I could. I believe your mind is your own. So a don't know, but last time a number a large number of Lords stood up to fight them, If they are attack in other places then there will be others like me, like us I hope." Another Disbina looks at Vance "Heros? I don't but much faith in Hero's, they always seem to let you down. But I do put faith in what I can do, I ask only that you do the same, after give yourself what titles you will. Like I said they call me the Splinted god, silly really, once you know the truth of things such pretense's to greatness seems just that. But its good to know your with me, I've been alone for a while and its get to you, If we could be heros just for one day it would help" The others Disbinas nod.
"That is the 1 million credit question, my hope is this, there using proxies and agents because they can not or will not engage in the fight here in person. In the war they did and I'm sorry to say, you and me would not have a chance in such a fight. Not as we are now, grate where the lords who fort then, now most sadly gone, they took them selves back into Gossamers or went stairs knows where. So my hope is this, we can I feel just about stop the enemy's minions attack your respective Gossamers. That gets use time, time to find help, out there on the stairs are old masters from the war, we go looking for one, or more that can help and train you. If the enemy is mounting a full on attack it will have its forces spread thin, the very size of the stairs dictates that. Here could just be a point off attack, or even better it's only point of attack, that would show them to be weak. But a lot is unknown. What I do know is if we do not act, then your respective Gossamers will be lost and used to fuel the enemy's war efforts. Even if we can't stop them compleatily just saving a single Gossamers is a victory in my book. " She looks at you all then at herselves, "Why only you, simple your all I could find in the time I had, and time is the point here, it runs the game relative Gossamer to Gossamers, right now an army of tainted is on the March, it made from taint from more than one Gossamer, Chiana, that army had humans from Vince's gossamer in it, and from others, posbly Nuusk's as well. There pooling for attacks, take over one then move on. Any who goin them do so, they offer them power and control, lords under there command. Me Ii was a socialist goddess, my views are nothing like thires , all races and members are equall under the law, a state should always be of the people, by the people and for the people. It's job and soul task is to represent thire views.by preposinal representation in a far and just democracy, that protects the weakest while overseeing the Essenes of the strongest. No being placing itself above another by might or right." Another talks "I came to aid, to offer help and I hope fine hope for the inhabitants of the threatened Gossamers," Another "From the outside, yes they seem unimportant to some lords of the stairs, but inside, each death, each loss is as real as any other. There is nothing sadder than seeing a dying child curl up and wait for death, just so the pain will stop. In all our power and ability if we stop seeing that, if we walk past it or disregard it, then what use are we?" Another, now you can see all are showing deep feeling of sorrow and compastion
A smiling Disbina, sorrow and pain gone. "Besides, don't you want to learn more, I can only teach you a little because that all I know, but if we holt them here I know where there is some one who can teach you a whole lot more."
Disbina points at Vance
She looks around "Where's Nuuskamuikkunen he's not come in the tent yet" One of the Disbinas gos to find him. Nuuskamuikkunen: When she gets to you your being worked on buy some docs.
As she works she tell what the others Dispainas tell the others.
The 1st Disbina says,
Anther Disbina "2: I know you Gossamers are under threat, why is any ones guess but ether because of you or something in your worlds has brought the Dwimmerlaiks out of hiding. I feel the attack one me and my fellow warders on this stretch of the stair and the attack on your are linked in some way. Then another 3: For now the Dwimmerlaiks are using known agents and Proxies, dos this mean they are still locked in what ever place they where flung after the war. Then the next "4; you need to save your worlds. Some have already, suffered others are only now being attacked, you need to be ready." Then the last coming into the tent, "The doors locked and closed,and you have to work as a team, you can't save your worlds alone, even then it's going to be hard, the enemy is cunning, and relentless. On
"Well lets start with the grand Stair, the place some of you passed into is a Metaphysical and some one would say in all but name physical if you a Metaphysical being such as my-selves and yourselves.That's really a relative perspective. It's an experience space that was created so far in the past no one I have ever meet truly knows. Some have lied and said they made it or others. But I have always find them to be full of Gwingo-poop. I think no one knows who made it, why or how it was made. Its just there always has been and some day always will be. Why you felt like you where walking over worlds is because that is just what you where doing. Your being was passing over a near infinite number of parallel reality's, but you will say you could see doors, passageways and gateways on out little walk down its steps. Some of the infinite number of parallel reality's are linked to the grand stairs. Why the are is a matter of what the stairs seem to want and what others with the Metaphysical ability's to odd, hid, remove and make doors has done." She stops and drinks more wine while another says "Now between the Doors and steps is the shadow, a formless mass from which, Gossamer worlds are formed. That's seems to be a excepted name form a single on of parallel reality's. Some are vast, some just a room, size, shape, laws of reality shift and change Gossamer to Gossamer, there are it is believed and infinite number of them after all. Now while inside a Gossamer world it seems as real and soled as this one, the forces that govern that Gossamer world are fixed for all be a very few. A few who have a Metaphysical comparability to forces outside the norm, powers and gifts that allow them to survive out side their Gossamer reality in the greater reality of Metaphysical over Verse. Skalin and me have been looking for some "Gossamer lords and ladys" that's the snazy name someone gave beings like you and me a long time ago. As a socialist I find it repugnant but its a norm. He was scanning you for compatibility to perfect norm, factoring in powers and ability's to a profiled optimum." she takes a drink and Then another Disbina carrys on "Now me, well I was like you once, happy in my world, getting buy as a goddess, made from faith and powered a trillion, trillion Galaxy's of followers. The master of all, until the enemy came and ripped my world apart. me with all my power was powerless to stop them. Only in the last days do outside help come, A band of fighters from the stair who had formed a door not under the control of the enemy. All far to late for my Gossamer but they did what they could. Some was saved, moved to a new Gossamer and empty one, I could have stayed there, started over, but I knew that who ever attacked my Gossamer would not stop, there aim was to rule every part of the Stair and all world linked to it." She stops and starts eating while another says "So I left my people and joined the fight. It was a long war and a close thing but in the end we won, the enemy was driven back, They say the Stair it self rose up to appose them and throw down back into Shadow, locked away where they could do no harm. But now, now they are back, how I know not, all I know is that they attacked me and my fellows wardens of this part of the Stair and wiped us out, all but me. I am not strong as lords of Gossamer go, but I have one power few if any have, I am very hard to kill." With the one Dispina seems to split and becomes two, two Dispina's and two Silver orbs. "Skalin show them the enemy" The new silver orb, shows a holo projection of a dwimmerlaik "They are called the Dwimmerlaik, they and there ruling familys seek nothing less then to rule all by any means. One of there weapons, minions you have seen at work here."
Disabin smiles and enters the tent, taking a seat.
She waits you come in and then says. 'Sorry about the rush, I did not have much relative time, things moved face once a found out the Enemy was making moves to remove you as a possible treat. All be Severus here knows that your reality's are just one of many, a countless number, and that give a means and knowledge ones such as us can Move past them to the grate Stairs and the worlds behind." She stands and salutes you with her wine cup. "I salutes loads and lady's of Gossiper, may you live long enough to know fully what that means and what powers lurk in you beings." She drinks her cup down then sits again. "Some of you may have worked something out, or had guess, your know this, your in war not of your making, and at stake is not just your worlds, not just that filth out there and its hunger to eat all, but much much more, at stake is the whole of creation, time and space." Another Dispain come into the tent, "Really do you have to be so dramatic, great steps, some times I sound like a stage ham. HAY! did you drink all the wine?" "Sush.. There just about to ask the questions, 1 danger says its who the heck are you any way?" "Your on" Says the other looking for more wine and a cup. "Bet they ask, who the enemy are" The both stop and look at you all waiting to see what you say. |
