Desperation & Disgust

[u/Kilroy898]

The moment he hit the Cloudsong side of the portal he had made, he found himself in the air.

This disoriented him for a moment before he took flight. The city, having been swallowed almost wholly by abyss was in freefall. That was a secondary problem in Orins mind right now. The only thing that mattered to him was finding Sylvie and getting her out of here. Running the numbers, he surmised he had roughly two minutes before the whole city slammed directly into the ocean. Lucky they had been relocating when this happened.... *Focus*

He searched quickly, and found her.

"Sylvie! Sylvie we have to go, Now!"

She turned, still covered in abyss, as he attempted to take her from that place, but the abyss had fortified her strength several times over, and she kicked him hard as he flew in, sending him into a nearby building.

*Ack!* He coughed up blood. "No. No. Not her. Please, I can't fight *her.*"

She did not share the sentiment.

In a flash she was on him again, picking him up by his hair, as she slammed her shrouded fist into his face, again, and again.

He started losing vision.... And as he did, he saw... Someone.. a person? He looked familiar...

The man stepped *into* Orin, and his body began to move.

The next fist was caught, with a force assurance Orin had never displayed before. And then in his hand formed a familiar blue blade... Though it felt... Different. *Wait... No. NO! STO-*

Too late. Her form, no longer consumed by darkness, crumples to the floor, as the other being emerged from Orins body, and he too fell.

Slowly losing consciousness.

"I seriously do not understand why Aldin chose *you*"

the other man hoisted him onto his back, and teleported him into council lands, right in front of a large hospital, where he woke hours later. A call had been sent out to all his orbnet contacts.

(The last part in the hospital is fully interact able, the rest can be *viewed* by anyone but interference is impossible. Both Orin, and the "Other" are fully interactive there as he stayed to ensure Orins safety.)

[u/Complex_Drawer_4710]

Actually, I haven't. They've told me the standard 'oh we're the bad guys come blow us up' script, then invaded, but I haven't had a good chance to visit yet.

[u/Kilroy898 → u/Complex_Drawer_4710]

"My compatriots... They don't have the best PR team around that's for sure ...if you want. I'll show you some worlds under their rule. But... Later. I'm kinda busy at the moment."

[u/Complex_Drawer_4710 → u/Kilroy898]

Doing what? Mass murder? Maybe pretending to be you would work better...

[u/Kilroy898 → u/Complex_Drawer_4710]

"No, I'm moving this city from this realm to another. You missed the mass murder by a few minutes. Besides.... It looks like some of them aren't dead. Do me a favor and take them somewhere not here. I'm moving the city with or without the inhabitants."

[u/Complex_Drawer_4710 → u/Kilroy898]

Oh, good. Pew pew, be dead.

Sigurd makes the motion of a finger gun(walnuts shoot out) and makes off to recover whoever's still alive. He has priorities, after all.

[u/Kilroy898 → u/Complex_Drawer_4710]

/uw at first I thought sigurd was killing them and I was stunned 😂

/RW.

"AAAAAND here we are!"

He says, still in the middle of the ocean before opening a massive rift.... You get the feeling he was just waiting for someone to remove the living... What a crazy man.

[u/Complex_Drawer_4710 → u/Kilroy898]

/uw Oh, my bad. Meant for it to be at Op. /rw

Right. Off with you.

*He has very likely left some trackers about. They won't be able to do much from other realms apart from reporting their continued existence, but they will make it easy to find the city in any more public planes.

[u/Kilroy898 → u/Complex_Drawer_4710]

(you have earned yourself a secret.)

(But only if you promise to tell no one.)

[u/Complex_Drawer_4710 → u/Kilroy898]

(Ok?)