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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (29th Oct 10 at 1:39pm UTC) | | The pendant shimmers as it gets closer to the vortex, and in response, the vortex expands slightly. Mariya is then engulfed by a ball of dark light that surrounds her, shrinking and disappearing into the vortex which shrinks back down.
On the other side, Mariya appears within a labyrinth with nothing more than a slight tingle from the trip. The walls are a dark gray, and nothingness tendrils run up the walls like vines. Ahead, a staircase descends into the confines of Xildus's mind. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (29th Oct 10 at 4:42pm UTC) | | Mariya pockets the pendant before she summons Ultima, and makes her way to the staircase, ready if anything should attack her.
Dante sighs, a bit angered, but waits patiently for Mariya to come out of the Vortex again. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (29th Oct 10 at 6:12pm UTC) | | As she descends the first floor of the dungeon, an voice echoes throughout the dungeon, and surprisingly, it's Shirma's.
"Every time the bell rings, someone forgets something else. It must be stopped!"
The echo dies down, perhaps merely a memory from long ago calling out. At the foot of the stairs, the labyrinth begins, and hallways branch off in every direction. The stairs disappear behind Mariya, and every path looks the same. One might find themselves lost before starting.
A Cactaur suddenly darts out of one of the hallways, firing a needle spray before running away. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (29th Oct 10 at 9:23pm UTC) | | | Mariya blocks the spray of needles from hitting her just in time, and notes what Shirma's voice has said. She stops on the staircase, so she can look over the maze, looking for an exit or some point where she might need to go, but sees the maze seems endless. She then steps of the last bit of stairs, watching them fade before heading into the maze. She makes her way threw, taking out the pendant from her pocket, wondering if it could help her threw the maze, or wondering if she could mark the walls so she wouldn't get lost. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (10th Nov 10 at 9:31pm UTC) | | Fortunately, it isn't necessary, as the next set of stairs soon appear in front of her. Upon descending this set, another voice speaks up, another female voice but not one that is known.
"I cannot let you continue; the bell will continue to ring, and this town will be doomed to a fate without memory."
On the next floor, the stairs once again fade away, but oddly enough, the walls seem more clean, as if the nothingness tendrils were not as dense. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (10th Nov 10 at 10:38pm UTC) | | | Mariya goes down the stairs, and looks to see if the voice was coming from somewhere. "Another memory?" Mariya questions. She continues, keeping up her guard. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (11th Nov 10 at 12:54am UTC) | | Aside from a few skirmishes, the path to the next set of stairs is uneventful. The next set of stairs do not provide a new memory, but one floor later, on the set of stairs after, another memory is heard but from a more sinister voice.
"Thank you, Chocobo, for freeing me."
Two more staircases later, another memory is heard, and it comes from a male character.
"Okay, let's go take down Raffaelo! ...Huh? What's wrong, Chocobo? Hey, what are you-" *SPLASH!*
As Mariya progresses deeper into the dungeon, the tendrils indeed begin to slowly disappear, the dungeon becoming clearer and more green. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (11th Nov 10 at 1:22pm UTC) | | | Mariya keeps going, staring to wonder what she had to do. She figured it had something to do with the tendrils, but was unsure what to do. Soon, she lets her keyblade disapear, but doesn't nessisarily let down her guard. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (12th Nov 10 at 4:00am UTC) | | As Mariya descends another staircase, the dungeon, as quiet as it was before, suddenly becomes dead silent. One final memory plays out, again the sinister voice:
"Fool! Even if you manage to defeat me, I will never completely disappear! I will become your worst nightmare, and I will haunt your memory forever!"
As Mariya reaches the foot of the stairs, the stairs vanish suddenly, leaving her within a large, dark room. However, as empty as the room seems, a dark presence can be felt. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (12th Nov 10 at 1:42pm UTC) | | Mariya summons her keyblade, and looks around, not liking the feel of the Dark presence.
Dante, meanwhile, is still pacing. "I should have gone with her." He says. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (13th Nov 10 at 2:58am UTC) | | Suddenly, an apparition forms within the darkness, and what appears is a demon that could only be described as pure evil. It lunges toward Mariya, clearly the "boss" of the dungeon.
Shirma shakes her head. "It wouldn't matter. The amulet only allows one to enter a mind's dungeon at a time. We can only hope that she can free your friend's memories..." | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (13th Nov 10 at 1:46pm UTC) | | "Alright, let's get this over with, shall we?" Mariya asks, summoning her other keyblade.
"I have a bad feeling, whatever is in there...it's not good. Powerful, and not good." Dante says. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (14th Nov 10 at 5:21pm UTC) | | | The dark apparition loudly shrieks, lunging at Mariya as a wave of darkness follows in its wake. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (14th Nov 10 at 11:49pm UTC) | | | "Ah futterwacken!" Mariya shouts, and dodges the Apparition. When Mariya lands, she quickly turns around attacking again, switching her keyblades to Eternity and Ultima. She figured light keyblades would be more effective. On her way to to the ground, she's careful the waves of darkness don't stirke her. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (1st Dec 10 at 4:39am UTC) | | | The dark apparition swoops around after the miss, now beginning to take an actual shape as it starts to resemble some sort of demon of darkness, and as it charges toward Mariya again, the darkness behind it seems to swell, becoming a monstrous wave that follows the apparition's charge. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (1st Dec 10 at 2:19pm UTC) | | | Mariya jumps over the dark apparition, but on her way down, one of thw waves strike her. She winces. Crap. Mariya thinks. She stands up straight, and aims Eternity at the dark appairition, and a beam of light shoots out of it. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (1st Dec 10 at 3:05pm UTC) | | The beam strikes the apparition which screams in agony, but it shakes off the hit as the darkness builds up again.
However, as the monster reels back for another hit, a Keyblade suddenly falls into the center of the arena, Xildus's Winner's Proof, and the apparition, seeming terrified of it, bolts toward it as if to destroy it. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (1st Dec 10 at 11:31pm UTC) | | | Mariya gets to it first, however, and swings it at the apparition. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (2nd Dec 10 at 5:27am UTC) | | The apparition is struck by the blade, and it shrieks horribly as it grasps at the cut in its side. A few seconds later, the true source of the apparition's agony could now be seen: a corrosive light begins to burn its way out of the cut, dissolving the apparition slowly from where the cut was made. The apparition shrieks louder, the darkness receding as it begins to fade away, and with one final shout of terror and pain, it lunges at Mariya but completely fades away in one final burst of light.
With the apparition gone, a final staircase can be seen underneath where it had been. At the same time that the staircase becomes visible, Winner's Proof disappears in a flash of light. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (2nd Dec 10 at 1:46pm UTC) | | | Mariya lets her kleyblades disapear, and walks down the stairs, still cautious. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (5th Dec 10 at 3:19pm UTC) | | | The stairs end at a catwalk, the walls in the far distance completely cleared of the nothingness tendrils; this is likely the deep subconscious of Xildus, a part of him that still exists from before his time as a Nobody. At the end of the catwalk, in the very middle of the room, a glowing puzzle piece floats in midair, perhaps the hidden memories of Xildus. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (5th Dec 10 at 6:55pm UTC) | | | Mariya approaches, and reaches out twords the piece. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (6th Dec 10 at 12:35am UTC) | | Upon touching the puzzle piece, it suddenly glows before fragmenting into many smaller puzzle pieces. These pieces then disperse wildly toward the walls of the room, where each piece seems to lock into a tiny hole in the wall. As the holes are filled, the walls light up, and as the walls light up to almost blinding levels, the puzzle pendant Mariya has shines brightly as well. Before the light envelops her, Mariya might have a chance of hearing a loud kweh.
In a flash of light, Mariya then finds herself back at the fountain, the dark vortex disappearing from over Xildus, although he is still within the nothingness dome from earlier and still hidden from view. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Past Searching (6th Dec 10 at 1:00am UTC) | | Mariya does hear the Kweh, and wonders what happened, if she was successful.
When she returns, she looks at the dome, worried. "Did It work?" She asks, unsure and worried. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Past Searching (17th Feb 11 at 4:18pm UTC) | | "I'm not sure..." Shirma says.
The dome of nothingness suddenly recedes, and an unconscious but otherwise okay Xildus is lying on the ground. | |
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