Visage
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Post by Visage on May 30, 2004 0:23:21 GMT
[ModNote: Continued from Waking up.] *The crowd flows through the streets, tearing up all in their path. People are dragged out of their houses and pulled into the streets. The few goblins and more obvious opposition henchmen found are swiftly clubbed to death* *At the back of the crowd stands Rob, watching the carnage, and the streets running red. The sky is darkening... and in the torchlight, Rob's shadow dances and flickers against the sky, curling into demonic shapes.* *Quietly, he laughs*
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Post by ringmasterrob on Jun 1, 2004 21:17:02 GMT
[ModNote: Continued from The Last Deal.] *The real Rob, accompanied by Tom, has arrived on the edge of the Village, the witch hunt is getting worse. There is only one way to get through the furious mob, the RIOT spell. Rob turns to Tom* Rob: Well dear Hobo magician, this is it, should anything go wrong I shall most likely be lynched no matter what you try to do, Visage has the power and influence I used to and I don't know as I can stop him. Once more into the breach. *Rob speaks in a clear voice* SPELLCASTING "R-I-O-T" *The frenzied mob suddenly begin getting even more loud, several of them begin shoving each other and then hitting, before long a full scale brawl has erupted. In the midst of this riot Rob simply walks through the middle of them, accompanied by Tom. The fake Rob has not quite realised what is going on, this had bought Tom and Rob time as they grow ever nearer to him.*
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Visage
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Post by Visage on Jun 1, 2004 21:29:24 GMT
*Visage surveys the crowd, revelling in the chaos which spills around him, the hatred and violence that is errupting from the minds of those he has poisoned with fear and hatred.*
*Then, when Rob and Tom are almost upon him he feels it, that strange, sickening feeling that Rob always felt around him*
So... Ringmaster, you've turned up for the show.
*He nearly does not spot the Ringmaster until too late, but the Hobo magician's distinctive attire gives them away. In a great voice he cries*
Friends! The creature is within our midst, and it has taken on a terrible mockery of my own form.... take it and bring it to me!
*For a moment he pauses, waiting for them to react, and finds to his amazement that nothing happens. Then he laughs again.*
Not as powerless as I thought, eh Ringmaster? That's good... but every magic has limits...
*Visage snaps his fingers, and three figures next to Rob and Tom collapse in flames, their screams echoing around the square.*
Immolation, ex-Ringmaster! *Visage steps towards the figures, and with a snap of the fingers Rob's hood flies off to reveal the aging Ringmaster* I warn you magician, old man *he sneers at Rob* I have placed my glyph of immolation on every one of these people. How many more must go up in smoke because of you, Ringmaster? How many lives are on your conscience?
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Post by ringmasterrob on Jun 1, 2004 21:32:32 GMT
*Rob cries out with pain at the sight of the people's demise.*
Rob: Visage! What are you? Why do you do this to innocent people?
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Post by Tom Troughton on Jun 1, 2004 21:36:17 GMT
*Tom looks around Coldly as always seemily emmoitionless and un-careing. His eye's appering to be thoses of a man with out a soal.*
"Hmmm. And how much Blood is on your hands Visage?"
"I dought very higly Rob's hands are as stained as yours."
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Visage
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Post by Visage on Jun 1, 2004 21:52:07 GMT
*During the following dialogue the RIOT spell wears off and the crowd gather, amazed at what they are hearing?* My hands, hobo? MY hands.... *Visage seems almost thoughtful* What an odd notion.... I suppose technically, not much of a one for blood, I prefer the bludgeon, or the neck, of course... Do you want to know the real reason... you see, hobo, I delight in death! And why shouldn't I, since I was denied any kind of real life... *Visage's features once again dissolve to the grey-robed figure they have come to know, one or two of the crowd rush forward, the glyphs on their forehead pulse and they collapse into ashes, the others keep their distance. Visage's voice is louder than before, although still holding a chilling calm. It is oddly familiar* Don't you see? Don't you, no of course you don't... You wouldn't remember, such a simple thing to you, the creation of a half-life, the damnation of a new soul... Shall we see what happens when the masks are dropped? *With a florish, Visage pulls back his hood, and his grey cloak flies back into the air and dissolves. For a moment there is utter silence, for the figure that stands before them is... Ringmaster Rob* *Then the second Ringmaster's skin shriks on the bone, turning a horrible, deathly grey, his fingernails twist into talons, his robes become tattered and freyed, and his eyes.... his eyes are gone, there is nothing there but ragged patches of darkness* It's truly terrible being a shadow of what you could have been isn't it Ringmaster... isn't it Daddy? What more could I do? You certainly didn't create me for life, I couldn't even touch anything, couldn't have any emotions without knowing that they were really yours.... How does it feel to lead a second-hand existance, Rob, know my pain.... * An illusion appears before him of Rob casting his DOUBLE spell, of Rob's double being captured by Scareye, of that double being filled with darkness...* Oh yes, I didn't want to be in Scareye's pay, but he gave me what I wanted, you see, he was a better father to me than you ever were! He gave me a life, a purpose.... he gave me a NAME... So, in the final assesment, daddy, who is really the more guilty? Look upon your other self, your Doppelganger, your creation.... *Looks at Rob's aged form* Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him?
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Post by ringmasterrob on Jun 1, 2004 22:01:01 GMT
*Rob is filled with a sudden realisation, his greatest fear confirmed. Visage's creation was a result of his carefreeness. This is all his fault, his wrinkles grow more and he vomits yet again. Several clumps of hair fall out*
Rob: Damn you ! Damn you *Rob's eyes stream with tears*
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Visage
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Post by Visage on Jun 1, 2004 22:08:53 GMT
No father, damn YOU!
*The blow is powerful enough to knock Rob down. His tears now stream down the three diagonal cuts left in his cheek from Visage's talons.*
*Visage stands over him, his formerly calm voice now contorted with rage, his demonic features, so like Rob and yet unlike, twisted*
In the final assesment, who can they trust? Who would you trust hobo, Frankenstein or his creature? Who really is the monster? Why should I have any morals? Or didn't you think that was necessary for a spell you could dissolve at any moment?
Well the end has come for you! I have a name, and I... VISAGE... shall take what is left of your reality... I shall become you, and you will finally experience living death....
*He lunges for Rob's eyes*
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Post by ringmasterrob on Jun 1, 2004 22:11:16 GMT
*Rob pulls out the coin not thinking of himself but of the people he will save, it goes through Visage, temporarlily making him what he once was, Rob holds in in the centre and feels as Visage's power is sapped away, but he cannot feel his own power returning. It is merely staying withing the coin, he watches Visage dissolving and weakening in front of his eyes*
Rob: Goodbye 'son', you will no longer harm these people. Even if I die with you I shall see to it!
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Post by scareye on Jun 1, 2004 22:13:22 GMT
[ModNote: Scareye was last seen in A Vital Message For Nesty.] *Scareye watched with triumph as Visage was about to achieve victory, suddenly his pleasure turned to horror as Rob shoved the coin into Visage. Scareye watched his servant's power ebbing and his plans falling to ruins.* Scareye: Visage you fool, how can you have discarded that coin, you should've destroyed it. Your help from me is gone, become what you once were a mere shadow!
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Visage
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Post by Visage on Jun 1, 2004 22:14:26 GMT
*Visage screams, an unearthly scream as Rob's stolen power leaves his body in so many sparkles of energy which fill the air with buzzing power.*
*He tears himself away from the coin, a great hole in the centre of his body from which his essence unravels like wisps of smoke...*
My lord, my lord! Save me, save your servant!
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Post by ringmasterrob on Jun 1, 2004 22:17:55 GMT
[OOC: I must go now so after this post consider this a time out, I don't even have time to switch accounts]
<Scareye> Scareye: Help YOU? Visage you failure I shall destroy you!
*Visage dissolves in front of the eyes of all watching, his influence lifted from them all*
<Rob>
Rob: It is done, what I came to acomplish is done yet I still do not have my power. Perhaps I am cursed to go without it forevermore. Or whatever is left of forevermore. Goodbye Visage, you were a truely sadistic killer. With Visage and Deal gone perhaps Wolfenden shall be calmed for now, eh Tom?
*Rob wipes his eyes and begins examining the coin in an attempt to get it to work*
[OOC: TIME OUT, until midday tomorrow]
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Visage
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Post by Visage on Jun 1, 2004 22:20:32 GMT
*Visage hears Scareye's response and his face screws up with rage...* No, will everyone abandon me? Will nobody help? Will you abandon me, father... help me! *He holds out his hand to Rob, as he does the flesh shrinks on the bone and evaporates into smoke, leaving the bone grasping the air before it too fades away... There are tears of rage, frustration... and grief in Visage's awful eyes...* No.... no.... someone, anyone help me! *He fades and fades* I want.... I want.... to live.... *The smoke blows away on the breeze, the glyphs fade from the people's foreheads. Visage is no more.* [ModNote: More about Visage would be revealed in this thread, preceded by a series of events that begin in this thread.]
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Post by Tom Troughton on Jun 1, 2004 22:30:46 GMT
(OOC: Rob allowed me this post, but it is to be the LAST, till midday.)
*Tom watched the scean unfold.*
"Goodbye Visage. Go join Deal and keep him company in Hell."
"Just like Edward only at the end do you finnaly Understand. The wages of Sin is death."
"And so as Edward Deal finaly re-paied His Deal with the Devil at Dunnfalls, so now you pay yours."
*A Cold smile passed over Toms face.*
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Post by ringmasterrob on Jun 2, 2004 11:59:33 GMT
[OOC: Time in for this one post but after that this thread will end and I shall be creating a new one for resuming at 5.15 ish. Please don't reply on the new thread until then]
Rob: indeed, looks like things have finally ended for our two great villains. Shame my lack of power won't leave me around long enough to see a more peaceful Wolfenden. He flicks the coin desperatly to get it to work.
(Continued in 'The Parting")
[ModNote: The Parting has now been merged with The Witch Hunt, as they were essentially two halves.]
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