Swan Song

[Hephaestus 1317]

A hearty thanks to all who made this character possible;

 

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I

 

THE BUTCHER OF BURON

 

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a93_5AXZx18

 

“Vlad, by the grace of God, the Duke of Upper Adria, Lower Adria, Khagan of the Turkin, to Otto, be this bill written and delivered.

Father, I have entertained a delegation of wisemen from abroad, Radŭ and Bogdan among them, eager to plumb the deepest gorges of their knowledge and share with them morsels of my alchemical expertise I had discovered to yield most excellent results and products. Mastery over the dual living and dying were chief among our fantastical endeavors. We did not then portend the prophetic import of a thing quite as cut-and-dried as the twitch and judder of a lark’s foot.

My zeal for dogmatic rituals and litanies for summoning was invariably ebbing with every pursuit, with the failure of nigh-each of our attempts. Suffice it to say, possessed as we were by things from unnamable spheres, we could not rid ourselves of curiosity; vying to bask in our successes, many and plentiful. Prodigious counts of flesh were heaped upon one another, two by two, amounting to a lock in the network of aqueducts atop which our manor has been raised. In this mire, we observed wretched things — fusing together in the filth of Dobrov’s underbelly. Yakov returned to Powys, intent upon pacing the pews of their synagogue. We cried.

But, Father. We were not aided by the divine. We made plans. And God laughed.

May you be in His governance. Vladislav, written on the road from Woldzmir, to New Esbec. Bendithia Due. 1802.”

 

 

1849

LIGHTLESSNESS pooled in the bowels of Heith-Hedran; the tendrils of Rh’thor vying outwards from the reaches of the physical sphere, into the dankest cavities of the Abyss. From then on, the fabrics of the mortal coil were sundered from the very seams, as the cogs of all logic were ushered to a standstill. Death had been bypassed, wrenched, and rent; bent from the very flanges, and made mockery of. A lure was cast into the recesses of Ebrietas, the cache of all those woeful and remit from the waking world, and from that strait of pity and anguish, was a pygmy; no elation; no despair. It teetered on the edges on the fringes of Heith-Hedran, ready to be estranged from that sea of indignity and undeath at a moment’s notice.

 

FROM the ranks of the de-ceased, the furtive spirit was plucked — at first, only a follicle of its prior being. No more than a morsel of a soul. In the subterranean bosom of the earth, remote from any Man’s bounty, the tapestry which was the material world was riven; cloven from the sutures, as the influence of Heith-Hedran was usurped from the strait which was the False Sea, a lough on the fringes of Rh’thor which drove all to atrophy and disfigurement. And, from death’s cold clutches, the pygmy was estranged, entrusted into the hooks of two Yultharan laymen, versed in the base ways of those who walk with their backs crooked and faced away from God. That evening, a vibratory resonance thrummed throughout Petra Turris, the final foothold of Rh’thor, sending it into quiet trepidation, from the helm down to the hooves.

 

QUIET, dulcet glossolalia crescendoed through the tabernacle of the necrolyte gorge, as the duo spoke in tongues. Sinew and cartilage had prior been strewn at the centre of Heith-Hedran, a lesion in the fabrics of life itself. Incredulous lies were exchanged between the basest warlocks of the earth’s underbelly, as the undead were raised from the recesses of the world, unfettered. They had since relocated the pygmy spirit to a cadaver, nigh-palpitating as innumerable spoils of tendon and cartilage agglomerated into the maleficent carcass. The undead thing had begun to burgeon, which was before only a manikin, sprawling out from the centre of its being and fast-expanding to fit the mantle of a full-sized man. Rabid and voracious was the undead, in the beginning. And then, it took sight of the world and vistas which stretched out before it. Before him. His ears became manifest, and he heard. His eyes became manifest, and he saw. His mind became manifest, and he thought.

 

THOSE invocations which prior belted throughout the subterranean depths of Petra Turris were nigh inaudible, as the aberrant thing found its way onto dual feet. The smart from the below-ground pressure had since inspired dew and teardrops to well and coalesce in his eyes, saturating the glassy surface of his aureate iris’ with a gauzy, salt-swept crust. Those acolytes, crested from head to heel in bone, unburdened by cartilage nor flesh, scried into his eyes. There was a bleating silence. A loud quietude. An unnerving inability to express any caveats. And then, the undead thing blinked. Pop… Pop… ! The popping of his joints found ample resolve all throughout the breadth of the underground, sending a grating shrieking, reverberating in the bosom of any mere man’s ear.

 

IT takes a village to raise a child, it was said of old. But, in that moment, it took only the wicked spirits of the basest lords who had shed light upon the face of the earth, to raise a dead man walking. The living-dead peered outward into the world, like a fledgling lark, privy to the many occult incantations told on that eve. Long, black tresses, made glossy and sebaceous from a lifetime of failure to condition oneself, reaching out in tendrils down the centre of his back. The necrolyte panned his cataracts once. Left. And then, right. No tangible sentiments had become streaked across his countenance, only disparity. A mutiny had occurred upon him, in the moment prior to then. And, anguish weighed nigh upon the bosom of his spirit. This was a tragedy. His eyes fixed ‘pon Ostromir the Greater, who stood nary even five steps forward from himself. The relic called out to him, in concert with the second:

 

“Why do you consort with us, Vlad? Dining with we dead men — it is curious.”

The glint of the dead-man-walking, Ostromir’s, irate eyes, vacuous save for only concentrated modicums of viridescent fire and fry, caught the necrolyte. He had estranged him from the cool clutches — surely, he’d the authority to question. “Who has dealt unto you the displeasure, and unto us, the labour? You are aware, then, they who are fated never to die, need not be careful to inquire into which place Death shall usher them, but what death they are to die to.”

 

“Felled. And, at what cost? I have been thought a two-trick mage, Prophet. Now, I forsake these sixty-six years which have passed me by?”

 

“These were sooner your first sixty-six years, than they are your last, Vlad.”

Reticent, the second necrotic was lulled into the corners of Petra Turris’ tabernacle: biding time in the basest shade of the necrolyte synagogue. It proved taciturn understanding of labour and empathy — presenting a shape and logic that could not be matched to Man’s in the least. This was something created outside of God’s better wishes. A puppet, spun from the fellest fibers of the mortal coil.

 

“Keep to yourself. I, alive, and washed ashore, with bones and stones all sore, fashioned the pulp of your spirit from my labouring hands. From dust you were made and to dust you will return.”

 

THERE it had come again, the same silence which seemed to seize the throes of time itself, save only hushed postulation under the shade cast by the Black Sun, which loomed like a colossus at the grotto’s marquee ceiling. Each of the three leered into the chasm in the centre of the recess. And, each felt its dread as it sent a reverberance through their defiled, maligned bones: and, it leered into them. They had felt, then, agony and reverence in equal gusto, sending outward their aerosol mist of blackness, endeavoring to seal and mend those lesions which had since saturated the physique of Vlad, the Count of Goza. He felt all around his throat for a relict talisman worn once in a life unremembered, lost to all save himself: the count felt nothing.

 

MARCHING was then audible, in the catacombs of Petra Turris, a tell of the trio who had made route to the throne hall, in that moment. Of the litter, only the greater of the warlocks had obliged to retire themselves; the archlich to the cathedra; and the alchemist found solace in the modest, demure of the three seats. The living-dead fixed himself fore the maroon dais, bulwarking the former-men in the brimstone and basalt from the Abyss-Fire of its flanged plate accoutrement: shrouding them, that no soul could have borne witness to their exchange. Vlad proceeded, his grovely murmur low and poignant:

 

“I have seen, on this day, the crudeness of Men. The roughness. The greed to make pride of their… false justice. My discontentment swelled, Otto.” But, with the drop of a hat, it looked that the lich receded into the asphalt throne. Surely, it had not been a figment of the count’s thinking?

 

“How shall you look this time, alchemist?” A third intonated from the hall’s alcove.

 

THE rind of a tome, once consigned to oblivion for merit of its pure age, had managed itself into Vlad’s furtive clutches. The leaflets and pages of the chronicle were fast-unfurling, eyes tracing over the innumerable glyphs of the legendarium. Stanza to stanza, letter to letter. He returned:

 

“Dark, I think, that I might diffuse the scent of cardamom and clove. What is it to you, stalker? You think because you are not in your skin, that all is forgiven? That you have borne powers relegated to you by God, since you were raised? That you can aid in this endeavor?”

 

Low susurrations growled in retort, “It shall be seen to.”

 

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II

 

THE RH’THORAEN RECEPTION

 

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLg_wp0IXoI

 

“Ready the waterskins. It will be a tenuous trek.”

 

“Especial lord Louis de Savoie, Dog of Drusco, I recommend myself, Vlad of Woldzmir, unto you, my good lordship, beseeching you will find not displeasance as I here say…

The bannermen of my home, opulent and known-well, have tired of the conventional extravagance. I employed a particularly unsavory, motley band of mariners who had, par for the course, increased their tarrifs to combat my intense condition of secrecy. A discrete system of pulleys proved plenty to hoist a ramshackle jetty from a shantytown on the fringes of your royal domain. The bastards objected to my initial wager, like a mad litter of errant mites, opting better to parlay, sleeping off the alms and revelry predicated by my haps. And, when night came, I hexed their anchors with each twisted invocation I ever could consider, weighing unto it the load of my contempt for their crude extortion.

Waifs slept on the bank which our dingy toppled, and our oars ploughed, and in precocious, child-like wonderment, I indulged my prey. Brackish waters, astoundingly, presented a tribulation in our odyssey, as I tightly fastened myself to the ship’s helm, and fettered my prey to the gaudy idol at the head of our argosy. There was no siren, as was told of old. It was a Redfin Pickerel.

We found foothold in the sands of Petra. Interestingly, the days here were thrice shorter, as assumed by a thorough assessment. Tight-lipped and terrifying at first glance, we had made the company of southern slavers — wanton captors, they were. They presented a people, not of carnage, but of saturnalia and yuletide. We quaffed all manner of herbs and concoctions, and mead and ambrosia. Come what come may, to reassert our rule, I prayed that the unscrupulous mariners would apply force and go forth with their proceedings. I will have you notified of further developments. I have neared Savoy.

I am your man and ever will be, and pray that you shall return word of your welfare. Vladislav. Written from beneath the springs of Petra. Bendithia Due. 1845.”

 

1845

THE smart from bismarck weeds bred teardrops in the eyes of Vlad; staining the corners with pinkened tendrils which would vie to their centres. His pallid port-wine marks had since been griddled by the summer swelter of the sahara; made all the more vacuous and unwitting, in his throes of breathlessness by the cloying stench of cordite and smoking asphalt. For, now three long months, his motley gaggle of seamen and mariners had skirted ‘round the fringes of a Seyami campsite, a tribal fief which pledged itself to slavers and slaves in equal allowance. They had made acquaintances with the sonar-ping of skulking bats in the night. The contingent put stock in the minarets of the desert-bound: lengthy spires mounted upon masjids, the synagogues and temples of the people mottled across the arid wasteland.

 

THERE were seventeen men, and fourteen less women — three, — and to each was assigned a duty. Palanquins were borne on the back of Adéwalé, in Meszair, a bondslave and hierodule in the temple of Koszeg, the oldest of the gaggle at sixty years of age. He served as the crew’s quartermaster, and the chief grifter of the litter. He counted bonds and cheques, and shekels and widow’s mites. Often as was not, a lack for humility and poor haps drove the former-slave to the abhorrent practices of swindling and chiselling. It is assumed that the greater part of the will and inheritance relinquished to Vlad by Otto Carrion was heaved on the balance of Adéwalé’s calloused hands. This swindler burnt grapes and spirits, where else was not present.

 

THEN was Laureano Pasqual Aleghieri, a stonemason whose family had settled themselves in Terrazza della Onnisciente, in the recess of Varendoz. A brawn in nigh-every sense of the term, the seaman was the crew boatswain, delivering parcels and provisions to and from ships and ports. He was second then to only Captain Barnim Dijkstra, from Banard, the de-facto head of the mariners. For, stout and no taller than four-feet, at the most, though he was, the seas knew no fiercer foe. The Fiend of Feingard, as the captain was known, had adopted the thrumming of the banks as a second tongue. An undertaker, in his fatherland, appalling tales of his exploits in Aeldin ran amuck from bunk to bunk, in the dingy’s ruinous cabin; a man versed in occult proses, who had wagered with fiends of the night for his unmatched, depraved steering. Be they true or not, he was no regular man, either way.

 

YOUNGEST of the pack was Lanfrid-Piers Cadwallader, a cook of demented designs. Often did he and Vlad consort in the latest hour of the night, fashioning cryptic conditions and contrivances from their crudest intentions. In the dune, in fact, yoked by the whipping sands, their trials for transmutation were imperative. The young, toothless miscreant boasted an uncanny knowledge of wicked goetia and alchemy, though furtive and not yet trained in the elements he was. They carved men from stone, and sought to indulge gratuitous rites and sacraments of alchemical malpractice. But, when interest ebbed, Vlad buried him below the blockades: cast him aside.

 

“Where is he?” 

Mathurine, a handmaiden aboard the argosy prior, croaked. It had been two days since then, since Lanfrid’s departure. Starvation’s melody purred beneath the feet of, now, eighteen men and women: stomachs thereon vacuous, desolate. The last of their alms had been stripped from their safeguard by marauders with flanged maces and headwraps under which only their eyes were borne. The boatswain, Laureano, made his leave only before Lanfrid, to barter and parlay with the marketeers of a commune not far west. Unbeknownst to the pack was what beast made carrion of him. “… I hunger.”

 

“The world stretches further out, in this region. Pasqual shall make amends in little more time, trust and believe. Quit your yapping, *****-dog.” The irate count, Vlad, beckoned forth a skewer, to which the last morsels of meat clung; dangling it lame near the fireside.

 

“Not him. The boy — the cook. I cannot hear his rabid groaning anymore, the poor whelp.”

 

“Mrm…”

Silence. There was not a whine, save the spittle and smart of the fire. Broiled strokes across the skin of those wretched sailors, and their imminent scurvy had inspired a disparity upon each of their fell spirits. Vlad’s hand yoked his gunpowder-leaden mouth, tentatively gnawing at the gristle of his fingers and the excess of his nails. He peered unto the blockades leftward himself. ‘He is there, below the blockades,’ the flitting dialogue was relayed through his mind. Fervent attempts to shroud the smirk which had formed along his chops made for failure. “You are dull swindlers, the lot of you. Do you know any shanties?”

 

PADRAIG Doyle mustered together a slur of half-inebriated interjections. He pressed his clutches to freeze just above his breast: bridling his laboured croaking from imposing any further damage to himself: “In Venclair, we sang an 'earty couple — aye.”

 

“You spend your days thrashing weighty oars on the backs of sirens. Sing for me.”

 

EVENING soughs sent their baritone caroling and chorusing into a crescendo throughout the night: poignant chanting evoking the shreds of resoluteness and fortitude in the vacuum left in their souls which prior could not be filled.

By dawn, only one of the departed mariners had returned. And, it was not Laureano. Relieved of his tissue and tallow, two-tonnes of bone and cartilage, walking, braying, spasmodically squirming, had made route to the camp. The goety skeletal animation tore their bosoms open asunder, and took from them their skin, and made lesions in them so dank and so foul, that one could not make front from back, nor face from behind.

By God,

It was Langfrid.

 

 

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III

 

CHILDREN OF THE CROW

 

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe9HoyiIy-U

 

“Leave him in binds. Watch him bleed.”

 

“To Fyodor Ostrovich, and courtesans, in his dwelling in Woldzmir, be this written & delivered.

It is of my hopes that you are in fair tidings and governance, Fyodor. Pilgrimage has proven a tenuous feat, but no matter. Simple folk are, by design, loquacious, and those of Dobrov are no exception. I surmise, it should be not long before hearsay of my morbid knowledge and secretive exploits shall begin to haunt local legends.

The wild whispers of iconoclasm and devilry which have been spilt from lip to lip grow intolerable, and shall crescendo the rabble into a fit against my genius. Wide-eyed and eager to end the general air of rebellion which has inspired domestic disturbance, my collection of hardened fiends were instructed to act against the treachery and do as they would.

They were quick to oblige, suffice it to say. Ire turned to awe, as demonstrations of my barbarity and brutality were held in the plaza. The noisome Woldzkiy population, once stacked so many, has shown more manageable numbers. I hope this shall not interfere with anything.

In witness hereof, I set my seal in Providentia. 1813.”

 

 

1849

HEMP fetters kept the Butcher of Buron, Vlad Carrion, in bondage. Voracious murmurs sounded throughout the arcades of the Savoyard bastion, a foothold for justice in the face of goetia and dark magicks, doubtless. The butcher wept, but did not weep, in his gently purring, gently humming alcove of the building’s stockade. A contingent of Freymarkish and Hanseti combatants bulwarked him from reaches left to right, two beast-fellers — Hexers — propped before him. Innumerable lacerations had found resolve across the breadth of his anorectic frame. His ebon tresses were burnt brittle; and, eyes borne within sunken cavities; cheekbones cinched. If ever were there a feckless, hapless beggar — it was this man, surely.

 

IN that moment, he did not worry, though flitting fear had streaked about his features: gnarling his countenance. The sentinels peered out from beneath the threshold of the portcullis, at the taciturn relic — Job of Adria, supposedly Vlad Carrion. This was no mere punishment: it was pageantry, and pride, and pomp, as rowdy bacchanalia sounded in the distance, the spittle from those torches producing a grating sibillation in the ears of any mere passerby. The filicide obliged by Vlad, the Bastard Butcher, would surely be penalized, on that eve. Where pitchforks rang out in bimetallic clashing and clanging, an altercation was nigh waxing. Who among the gallant sirs would take the base kinslayer — Vlad Carrion, or, Job of Adria, apparently — between the Haensemen and those who were owed accolades for their proficiency in making roadkill of aberrant beasts.

 

“Beast-feller, do you hear that?” 

The contralto susurrations of Job sounded in the ear of the lesser Hexer — Oscar of Corazon. Drip… Drop… — like molasses, a surplus of his lifeblood saturated his breast, trickling down in many a vermillion tendrils.

“More blood soaks the soil. It feeds the evil they are in, beast-feller.”

 

OUT before him, the vista stretched of carnage and incredulity, sending a vibratory chiming all throughout his ear. With the tolling of each furtive moment the horsemen argued between one another, they allowed the supposed necrolyte all the more time to formulate some dastardly designs. Occult exploits, and wrongdoing. He laboured against those manacles which restricted him in place — no luck. All the while, he postulated a notion in reticent, albeit vexed, consideration: Father lived two more years than I, sixty-nine. The cacophony of radical bickering proved to faze him only then, as the greater of the Hexers — Edmond — recoiled some nugatory count of footsteps: facing the butcher himself.

 

A FLOURISH presented in the Hexer’s taciturn clutches to the silver sword’s hilt. Hexers do not kill Men, or so thought Vlad — or Job, rather. As the horseman before him bridled his stature, fashioning his arms to a relative angle to cleave Vlad’s head, the Carrion did not think yet of what would await him afterwards. Nor did he consider how much it would hurt.. He only pondered how long before it would have happened.

 

Swipe. And then, his head was liberated from his shoulders.

 

And the Butcher of Buron was no more.

 

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGkGNCUQtWY

 

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IV

 

EPILOGUE

 

IN the recesses of the study in the Kremlin Anavet, in Woldzmir, a layman might have made note of a tabloid from the year prior to the Butcher of Buron’s formal murder. The blurb read:

 

“VLADISLAV O. CARRION, B. 1782 — 1848

 

Coroners of the right especial house of Carrion regret to make it known that on this day, the Third of Sigismund’s End, the year of Eighteen-Forty-Eight, Vladislav Ostrobor Carrion died, in his residence in Freeport.

 

The very image of his father, Ostromir Carrion, in all feats, the lord proved a well-beloved casanova and prodigious scholar in the niche spheres of alchemy. Much on par with his fondness for the finer things in life, he paid his due and met his end bathing. A failure in the aqueduct network below the residence exerted the tub beyond its intended capacity, detonating the washstand and the lord altogether.”

 

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Spoiler

The first two 'parts' of this post are not public IC knowledge, save for @Lhindir_ and @Lockages.

 

Spoiler

I'm unsure just how long this post already is, so I'll keep what I have to say here as short and sweet as I can.

 

There's far too much I'd like to say here. I absolutely loved playing this character, and think I owe it all to @Lhindir_ for giving me the opportunity to play it at all. I've met so many people who I feel honoured to know as my friends today, just by having played the character, so it is something of an understatement to say I have had more fun playing this character than any other, in my years on the server.

 

Many thanks to all of you who helped foster Vladislav with me. I'm sure this won't be our last time story-telling, the lot of you.

 

@Maclunkey

@Bones

@Goon

@Kujo

@Nozoa

@Proddy

@Security_

@champ

@Eryane

@JoanOfArc

@yandeer

@Sorcerio

@bickando

@Radzig

@Fie

@wan

 

No Seven Skies comments, please. He is not there (:

 

 

[oliviaaaahr 138]

A raven-haired dame's gaze is locked beyond the panes of her window. Her fingers drum 'gainst a half-written letter, unsent - as she ponders recent news.

 

[reserved]

[Melpomenne 1553]

Spoiler

 

I'll miss Vladdie so much.

 

 

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TO AND FRO, a juvenile Crow undulated atop a primeval pew, fissured with age, moreover aeons bygone- droning shrill whimpers with each oscillation East and West respectively. Amidst her staunch malaise, MAGDA CATALINA BARROW regarded the leagues of viridescent provinces, scrutinizing the deadened pastures idle fluctuation thence the strident flurries o’ billowing wind.

 

Vice- construed of besmirched predilections opting a credulous prying, eschewed only by the antediluvian patriarchs; the child hastened her quavering sojourn in the dismally sodden space. Her survey steadfast, a prodigious tree even demurred against the unremitting gales, incessant. Such a formidable phenomena, to fleetingly subjugate the grand thing. Forsooth, her reticent rationale was hindered, whence the adjacent lodging, a rancid sweat ensued- hearkening her heed and impiety. Cacophonous and morose hubbub augmented from each instant, portending a cataclysm only disjoined by that integument door she daren't egress.

 

Alas, her untactful serenity below was transient as the tempest afar, nor the chthonic dripping subsided. Antecedent to her foolish fortitude regained, the presaging impressions birthed a Mephistophelian culmination at the zenith of aghast wonder. A torrenting flood, by those cadavers underneath, inciting sullied water percolating under the door’s crack, inciting a caustic demise the girl was unbeknownst to.

 

-

 

‘Twas a disquiet cerementing her very iniquitous being, borne by Casanovan misdeed- a misbegotten bastard parallel to her forebearer hitherto: the wicked Lord himself. Thus, akin to the nomadic air, her careening too precipitated a discordant fragmentation. Debris, timber, betwixt her mass and the floorboards erupted and splintered: the seat’s woe ushered its suicide.

 

No more, was such malignance she’d never discern now. No more, was her father she’d descried shortly. During the luminous petrichor of the still terrain alongside the quietus, the daughter stood from a displaced disposition thither, sealing the rustic aperture ajar evermore. The room befell quietude, as did the Ruskan environment liberated. NONETHELESS, Magda lingered to burgeon a priviness one day

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[Proddy 2246]

Spoiler

 

 

As far south as south can go, in the lands of eternal sand and blistering sun, a lone figure trudges through the Oasis. Whistling an ominous tune as he presses forth, he juggles a skull up and down in his left hand. His feet guide him ever forth 'till at last, he reaches a cliffside.

 

Craning his neck, he peers down... down and down... he stares to the abyss, and the abyss stares back. Word of Vladislav's death had made him wistful, mournful even. What was a Mad Dog without his Beast of Buron? And to perish in such auspicious, unfortunate circumstance... he was destined for so much more. The Lord Drusco tosses that skull up one last time, letting it land upright in his palm.

 

"Much obliged, my good friend. I thank you for teaching me how to be free."

[Quantumatics 547]

The Hexer known as Edmond of Sava lofted himself from the rain-sodden ground upon which he had tenured a linen rag. He proceeded then to envelop it about the severed head of the Butcher of Buron, clutched by the beast-feller within his off hand by a clump of the unkempt strands of wayward black hair that had constituted motif throughout the alchemist's many forms. "May you torment no longer," he'd utter then as the cambric was lifted to slowly obscure the destitute and exanimate features of the pockmarked visage. Thick string was wrapped about the neck of the flax fabric receptacle as its straw-colored hue was soon tainted at its base with crimson.

 

"Let's hope your rest endures."

Edited December 2, 2021 by Quantumatics

[Nectorist 7422]

"Sorry I was late Franz, I was doing stuff," said Vladislav.

 

"I'm stuff," said the pile of necromantic lifeforce amalgamating upon a table in the corner of the lab.

 

"Oh my God... lab materials... noo!!!!" Said Vladislav.

 

"Hahahaha Vladislav you are defying the will of the Creator," said Franz.

[doreebear 601]

A small vasoyevi could be spotted by her friend's side, getting word of Raevir's death. The woman produced a strained grin while dropping her head once. As she saunters down the steps, she mulls over all the awful interactions she's had with such a man. "I hope he found peace. . "

[Security_ 1074]

From tombs long clandestine, within the twisting depths of the blighted arcades toiled a fleshless thing. A mirror, ancient and greater than any in the land cast a pallid beacon of waning sapphire light, illuminating the sunken features of a skull; hollow, and deathless. Souls passed the face of shattered glass harbored by the soothsayer, coaxing the spirits’ path. Some told of the checkered King, others whispered the sleeping Prince, familiar and alien crossed his endless sight. A particular few languished words unspoken of one kin to Carrion, of Rh’thor, One of Man returned to the eternity, absolution.

One never did cross the harrowed looking glass, for the wastes could never take a soul so black and twisted.

[Nozgoth 2897]

"Not a tear left the eyes of Saevel, for the black ballad was over now. The whispers of the water would soon drown out even the march of war and all but the crow's calling. And in the deepest recesses of the mortal mind there slept soundly a weeping, broken thing... yet he was no-longer present, how could this be? Saevel did not understand, nobody did."

[JoanOfArc 4586]

Father Dima, though a man who never really understood the toil of his half-brother in his mortal life, understood the man in the immortal one. Perhaps his brother's sins were countless, but the priest knew God's mercy was eternal. As the man faded from the priest's view, whether to be sent off to the void or live as another, the priest prayed for the Lord's mercy on his brother's sins. For God was eternal and merciful, especially to those who had the worst lot in life.

 

"Find peace, brother. I shall love you here as I did below."

[_Sug 2555]

On 12/1/2021 at 6:40 PM, Hephaestus said:

“Beast-feller, do you hear that?” 

The contralto susurrations of Job sounded in the ear of the lesser Hexer — Oscar of Corazon. Drip… Drop… — like molasses, a surplus of his lifeblood saturated his breast, trickling down in many a vermillion tendrils.

“More blood soaks the soil. It feeds the evil they are in, beast-feller.”

Into Quiet, So Was the End.

For, it was not so long ago that the young boy-hexer has seen one Job of Adria meet his end. Contemplation over the days events crept into his forlorn mind as the boy had only taken the life of best before, not man, nor even witnessed the folly of life's demise. Thus, did the young boy venture into the cathedral in the center of Luciano and allowed knees to hit the ground beneath the pew he had situated himself in. He knew Job of Adria to be religious by nature and although he himself could find no GOD within his line of work, nor in his heart, for the first time he prayed, prayed for one Job of Adria, prayed into the quiet, so was the end. So did he continue to live in his own personal hell on earth, envious of Job's slumber. Envious of quiet.

Edited December 4, 2021 by _Sug