INTRO LOG #2

[abraxasmods]

Intro Log #2

It has been two months now since the initial group of summonings first took place. Castle Thorne, or at least the part above ground, is buzzing with a vibrant air of hope following the 'success' at the Singularity. Eager smiles and excited chattering are to be found in nearly every corner of the castle and surrounding town. The honored guests may find grateful looks turned their way more often than not. A new and brighter day seems to be dawning on the kingdom.

In the dungeons it's a different story entirely. The mood is somber and uneasy. The prisoner taken for trial has yet to return, and no word has come regarding her or her fate. There has been no mention of any further trials as of yet and guards seem to have little patience for unruly behavior or even conversation. Some seem to not even look at or acknowledge the prisoners at all.

[ Feel free to continue threads from the TDM here or start your own! As cell and room assignments will be short-lived due to this month's event, you're free to assume whichever cellmates and roommates you like instead of officially signing up as long as there are ICly no more than four people in a cell or room at once. ]

Comments

[wiedzminka]

"They want us to control it for them," Ciri surmises quickly enough. Geralt had told her what he knows, but she is interested in hearing it from others as well -- not because she doesn't trust Geralt's word, but simply because there is value in hearing what others know and gathering as much information as is currently within her limited scope.

"I don't suppose they've mentioned what they wish to do upon harnessing such an immense power? Considering what a sharing mood you say they've been in."

There are many questions she could ask about the Singularity itself and what is meant by it being at the center of all worlds, but her elflike companion is hardly going to know, and she has no interest in revealing her own knowledge of other worlds to a stranger. Still, it is something to consider: is the Singularity a portal, then? An immensely powerful one? How have the mages here, like Ambrose, figured out how to drag people out of their own spheres, and is that magic related even though they can't access the Singularity?

Frustration leaves her shoulders tense and mind spinning, knowing there's nothing she can do while locked up in here. Wondering if the Singularity holds any significance or relation to her own powers, still so difficult to understand or control.

Does it explain how these Thorne mages were able to lock even her abilities away, where she can't even feel them, as though something in her very existence has been scooped right out?

These aren't questions she wishes to ask, though. If the elf is volunteering information on this other 'realm,' then that is what she focuses on.

"How do you mean that it... pulled you in from a distance? It took you to another world, away from here?"

[coerthantorment]

"Thorne, at least, seems to believe that the Singularity has no capacity to regulate itself, and would thus prefer to take control of its power." Which may seem reasonable, but only if you're someone with more faith in mankind's ability to handle vast amounts of power responsibly. "They cannot do this themselves, so I can only imagine they intended to do it through whatever loyal servants they manage to summon. Or, perhaps through the manipulation of unwilling slaves."

There must be a reason they allowed the prisoners to partake in its presence. He can see little benefit to allowing so-called 'threats to the realm' a connection such power, otherwise.

"Then it would just be a matter of stamping out those that would oppose them, of course." He says it with the grimness of someone who has seen similar many times before.

"As for that... other place. I could not tell you with any certainty 'where' we were in the grand scheme of things. Twas as if the wastes around the Singularity had been taken to another world, where it was all there was or had ever been, divided along the same threshold that the locals cannot cross. Our bodies were seemingly frozen for the full duration, returning in the precise state we left. So 'tis possible that our bodies never went anywhere at all... that the Singularity's realm was something experienced by the mind and soul instead."

"I can confidently say that physical rules no longer applied. I was dealt fatal blows in that place, and yet no amount of injury could claim my life."