[火] The Battlements || South Gate

[Lanfaer]

[火]____T h e____B a t t l e m e n t s____[火]
Guarding_____The_____Future

______________A r e a tab D e s c r i p t i o n ||
tab Where once the southern temple, the headquarters to Konohagakure's elite warrior monks, stood in all its golden glory now rests a grandiose complex wrought of black steel, a strange metallic material, and gold that glistens in the light from the magma around. The complex resides underground, reached through a large entrance found on the surface with a ramp leading to the location proper. Magma pools around the structure from structures hidden deep within the earth, somehow failing to interact with the metallic structure. The heat is enormous anywhere but on the path, as if the strange, brick-like structures somehow absorbed the cold and dispersed it. The southern gates are within the complex, hidden behind a bear of doors so titanically large it was difficult to imagine anyone could open it, but then, the fine gold, silver, and bronze it was cast from might well incite others to attempt it, for good or ill.
____The inside of the structure is strangely preserved, in more ways intact than most other structures of even older origins. Art decorates every wall in marble, with iron placements, colored in strange ways and choices, to tell the tails. Of all things these metals are not rusted, perhaps due to the lack of moisture in this parched place. The complex is large, and clearly still meant for the monks that once controlled it and walked its halls. Altars, built to resemble large anvils, dot many assembly locations, though each is marked off in steel in a grand circle that only those used to the forge would know is the safe distance one can sit without getting struck by stray sparks. What god was worshiped here remains unknown, perhaps lost forever in the sands of time.


______________P o i n t s tab O f tab I n t e r e s t ||
tab •The Maelstrom → The Maelstrom is a large chamber in the western wings of the complex, open on the west wall towards a massive pit of magma. Despite this there are no black marks from scorch, nor soot, as one would normally expect. What concerns those the most is the hovering glass shards that float throughout the air, though glass they may not truly be, for none may be broken. These objects take many shapes and sized but move quietly through the air in a large swirl pattern, orbiting the very center of the grand chamber where a single hole, no more than six inches across, leads straight down into darkness.
tab • Black Whisk → A strange structure hidden in the eastern wing behind a set of doors carved from one monstrously large ruby. Inside this chamber howls winds so powerful that just opening the doors could potentially flay the flesh from the bones of the unweary. To those who know how to defend themselves, they will find a blackness unlike anything else, a void of pitch that gives the impression of being watched. That is, of course, if one can get past the guardian of the door, a statue that stands in the way of the doors opening outwards, dressed in golden armor and with strands of some sort of metal filaments falling from its shoulders.
tab • Nirvana → In the innermost chamber of the structure exists a room where many forces, trapped in a zone of frozen time, have converged. Nirvana will always have one entrance but many exists. The residents of Nirvana have been warped into caricatures of their thoughts and desires. There appears to be a certain amount of politicking going on as different factions will actively avoid each other and attempt to recruit anyone who wanders in to becoming the same warped caricatures.
______________N e a r b y tab L o c a t i o n s ||
tab • Map pending
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______________D e f e n s e s // D a n g e r s ||
____ • The structure still contains many traps and hidden paths.
____ • Bubbles where time has not flowed for hundreds or thousands of years still exist inside. One should be careful when interacting with them as it is fully possible their actions will have consequences on the present.
____ • Undiscovered.

______________R u l e s ||
tab • When inside a zone where the flow of time has been altered, the poster should roll a d10 every post. On the post after they roll a 1 or 10, they are forcibly returned to their proper flow of time and the location of the time bubble shifts.
tab • Within Nirvana, a person’s desires fill their mind. Spending too much time in Nirvana can lead to physical changes in their body to help facilitate or become closer to the object or ideal of their desire.
tab • Residents of Nirvana can anchor a being to Nirvana, delaying the effects of their rolls if they have a 9 or 10, while maintaining eye contact. However, physical contact with a Resident when exiting will drag them along with the poster into regular time. This can have unforeseen consequences.
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______________R e s o u r c e s ||
tab • Temporal Iron [Durability 30] --- Mining 20 Temporal Iron is iron ore harvested from a bubble of frozen time. The iron does not degrade with time or exposure to elements, increasing the durability of objects crafted with it by 1.5x.
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______________C l a i m i n g tab R e q u i r e m e n t s ||
tab • Bring an end to the zones of frozen time.
tab • Close the Maelstrom and the Black Whisk.
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”Royal Taorito”

[Editorial Log]
[ZephyrsBlade] | [9/4/2018] | → [Updated to new format. Updated subsections for Rules, Resources, Defenses // Dangers, Claiming Requirements.]

 

[Lanfaer]

_______________Another Awakening... ||

tab For what seemed like eternity, but at the same time no time at all, Akira floated in darkness. He could vaguely recall himself, who he was, and what he was, as if a voice had guided him along that path to remembrance, but the voice itself faded away like it had never existed to begin with. All is at peace, at rest in the comforting embrace of the abyss, until a crack splits the air, resounding in the nothingness. With it came light and heat as it slowly spider-webbed outward. Then it shattered altogether and he was released from his prison, where he fell to the dry earth, strength not immediately returning to his limbs. This weakness would only last a brief moment before he was filled with energy that could have kept him going for what felt like days, fulling rested and at his prime.
tab The heat never quite faded, and in fact seemed to give the sensation one might expect from being within an oven set far too high for comfort. One could say it was silent here, yet the bubbling of magma and crackling of stone made the quiet rather noisy in its own way. Gas made it somewhat difficult to breath without tasting rotten eggs and char, and the ground beneath him warmed his flesh enough to make his blood race. How would our newest addition handle being dropped before the Palace of Hell?

Odoeb

 

[Barry_VII]

A k i r a
㊣ A monster redeemed by a crown of thorns
"The dark brings with it peace"

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xxxThe darkness was something he was used to, for it to shatter and to be thrown into the light was not. Slowly he would rise once the energy returned to him....however he could feel the pains of hunger already. Memory as to how he had gotten here was shaky at best, a vivid gap of time lost to whatever had occurred.

Besides just the pangs of hunger however the area he was in started to settle into his pained mind as Akira was set almost into a panic. The sheer heat, bubbling noise and cracking of stone. He thought to himself had he finally died, and been sent to be punished for his sins? Perhaps he would be stuck hungering for the rest of eternity as well.

Black nails steadied himself back to his feet and he grasped his stomach with one arm wincing at the pain. His head was swimming and he could tell he needed to feed soon. Being this low was very......dangerous. Not just for him but those who might be harmed by it. Now that he was standing up again he tried to take in his surroundings as best he could.

Lanfaer

ooc ;;

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"For those that cannot bare the light"
But is that enough to cover a life of sin?

Shinobi Informationxxxx

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Chakra 100/100 █ Stamina 100/100
Blood Points 20 / 100
Activation's / Jutsu Used ;;
1st ;
2nd ;
3rd ;
Status Effects ; None

Profile Link
Unique State ; True Ancestor
Class ; None
Affiliation ; None
Status ; Weak

 

[Lanfaer]

_______________Another Awakening... ||

tab The heat danced before his vision, twisting it and obscuring it in such a fashion that it would be difficult to make out even close up objects. Yet perhaps good for him was that the thing before him was large enough that only the details were obscured at best. Lifting his head and gazing about would bring to his thirsty attention what looked to be the ruins of a great palace or temple. It was at their feet hat he had awoken, the steps leading up along a rather steep incline that promised pain and torment to the thighs of those who braved their path. Statues dotted its layout leaving more credibility to the temple belief, especially when those that were any kind of intact looked to be praying with palms together or presenting something to some unknown target. The sky, perhaps? Difficult to believe given the stone revealed in the ruddy and smoky light cast from the hellscape about him. Still, a possibility nonetheless.
tab Behind him was another story, a path through the magma etched into an obsidian path where cobblestone had been impressed to allow for travel. This path snaked through the magma, leading further back and into the smoky, twisting air where the edges of another entrance could be seen, this one thankfully free of hell palaces. It would be a walk, and a hot one at that, but one that could still be made with the levels of stamina he currently held.
tab As his eyes swept about for purchase on something to eat something in the stones moved, something with scales, four legs, and a rather fond penchant for rapid movement. About the size of a house hat it appeared to be red and black in color as a form of camouflage that most definitely worked in some fashion as it was difficult to track.

Odoeb

 

[Barry_VII]

A k i r a
㊣ A monster redeemed by a crown of thorns
"The dark brings with it peace"

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With fire and brimstone around him his senses were nearly overwhelmed at this point at the sight of all of it. The palace, though perhaps tempting for some, was nothin more then a nightmare to him and Akira was quick to slowly take the other path that seemed to lead elsewhere which was hopefully away from this wretched local.

Lanfaer

ooc ;;

███████

"For those that cannot bare the light"
But is that enough to cover a life of sin?

Shinobi Informationxxxx

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Chakra 100/100 █ Stamina 100/100
Blood Points 20 / 100
Activation's / Jutsu Used ;;
1st ;
2nd ;
3rd ;
Status Effects ; None

Profile Link
Unique State ; True Ancestor
Class ; None
Affiliation ; None
Status ; Weak

 

[Lanfaer]

_______________Another Awakening... ||

tab Stumbling through the smoke and heat of the hellscape the once great predator of man found himself brought low by little more than an oppressive heat and some hunger. Or, rather, some terrible hunger, for the thirst was ever present. Before his eyes as he made his way up the pathway, black volcanic glass twinkling in the fire light, things moved with serpentine grace to hightail it out of his view. And yet some, as it ever was, were too slow to avoid his gaze entirely, instead revealing to him some sort of lizard that scampered on four legs as if their lives depended on it away from the immediate vicinity. Perhaps they felt the reality of a vampire like a cold breath upon their necks, a chill of the spine that promised anguish and death. Difficult to say, but as he stumbled to the end of the path and found it sloped upwards into a dark tunnel one large creature tripped and fell clattering to the ground, unleashing a barely-audible scream that bordered on a frequency no mere human could hear.
tab Best it was, then, that the predator was no mere human.
tab

Odoeb

 

[Lanfaer]

_______________Another Awakening... ||

tab For what seemed like eternity, but at the same time no time at all, Makara floated in darkness. She could vaguely recall herself, who she was, and what she was, as if a voice had guided her along that path to remembrance, but the voice itself faded away like it had never existed to begin with. All is at peace, at rest in the comforting embrace of the abyss, until a crack splits the air, resounding in the nothingness. With it came light and heat as it slowly spider-webbed outward. Then it shattered altogether and she was released from her prison, where she fell to the dry earth, strength not immediately returning to her limbs. This weakness would only last a brief moment before she was filled with energy that could have kept her going for what felt like days, fulling rested and at her prime.
tab Spilled upon the earth upon what looked to be a glistening stone ground the ambient heat might well have made her uncomfortable from the very beginning. Each breath was hot, dry, devoid of moisture, but leaving some semblance of a film upon the skin from pure perspiration, if nothing else. Yet what she might notice most was the sound of something moving nearby, something that caused a crunch of weight on rocks.

Novasse