[PK] Magnum Opus

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Coldplay - Clocks

 

Magnum Opus

 

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Cold seeped in and crept past the tattered rags, rags stuffed into cracks in the wall and shoved around the tilted doorframe in a desperate attempt to keep the cold out. Cold relentlessly sapped life from the hanging herbs and wilted the rosebuds into a dreary brown. Cobwebs streaked the dusty corners and hung in tattered curtains. The air echoed with the insistent, persistent beat of a clock. A multitude of clocks.

 

Ida Nightingale tugged a tattered woolen cloak tighter about her shoulders as she hunched over her mechanical creation in the corner. Withered, trembling hands meticulously adjusted and readjusted bolts and plates. Tea, untouched from the day before, had long since grown cold and abandoned. She wiped stray hairs from her forehead as she shuffled about the small workroom, rifling through disorganized shelves and barrels overflowing with mechanical components and wiring to find the exact piece she required. Scribbled plans and drawings smeared with ink outlined her plans - plans that were hardly followed. Gears wound in a slow, ticking harmony. Veins of leather snaked in and out of the metallic husk, seeking to bring life to dull steel and copper. The interlocked gears, metal plates, and leather veins of what was to be Ida’s magnum opus, her greatest creation, offered the prospect of life, but life itself evaded the mechanical husk.

 

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Ida Nightingale, tinkerer and alchemist by trade, lay amongst the dust and dirt of her neglected home, a blade by her side in a last attempt to transfer her soul to a body that would last longer than her flesh.

 

Tick, tock, chimed the clock, ‘til it wound to a screeching halt.

 

 

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[OOC: though Ida holds an Animati FA, she never learned the proper process for the machine spirit CA. Thus, speculating based on what she did know and personal experiments, Ida tried, and failed, to transition her spirit to a machine. 

She’s had a great learning journey and was a wonderful character to play, though her later years grew stale through my own inactivity. I figure a map transition is a great time for a send-off. Thank you to those who put up with her odd habits.]

 

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