Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)
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				Title: <strong>Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Vergil1989</strong> on <strong>23-03-2012, 19:50:54</strong>
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				<div align="center">(http://stuffershack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Medieval-Fantasy-City-1.jpg)</div><br>Despite wanting the destruction of the world and all of the others for that matter, (a task made impossible for as long as Cosmos does not suffer a true death,) Chaos has set himself up a fortress for himself and his loyal supporters this latest cycle.&nbsp; Being well supplied and equipped for any siege the enemy might try to throw at them, Chaos has made it an impossibly strong fortress that few have ever breached.&nbsp; Every comfort is extended to his warriors but they are rarely put to use given the fact they are in the middle of a war.&nbsp; Even so, shops of all kinds, inns, bath houses, and more are all available for use here.&nbsp; When there's a lull in the fighting, this is the place that Chaos's legions call home until it's over, for better or for worse.<br><br>((This is where I want everyone to gather until the call to arms is officially given.&nbsp; Feel free to make up the city as you like but your side's GM has final say in anything important done here.&nbsp; Good luck to you all.))
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				Title: <strong>Re: Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>SargentToughie</strong> on <strong>24-03-2012, 00:41:47</strong>
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				A man clad from head to toe in black armor walked sternly through the hallways of the ruined castle. So Chaos really was serious when he said that he was giving Gabranth another chance then... Memories of his previous failures filled his mind, all of them hitting him at once when Chaos lost his patience with the judge and banished him to the pits of torment. If he now had the opportunity to make up for those mistakes and fix what he had broken, he would make sure to make the absolute most of such a chance. There could be no holding back this time, Gabranth would slay every last one of Cosmos' warriors and redeem himself, earning the privilege of having the memories of his past failures and torment taken from him so that he could start anew.<br><br>Until the time that he achieved that goal, he would take all of his rage and torment, and he would direct it towards those who fought under Cosmos' banner.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Vergil1989</strong> on <strong>25-03-2012, 02:02:18</strong>
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				It was then that a sultry sweet voice seemed to echo all around the former Judge, a low chuckle heard before the sorceress herself appeared behind the powerful swordsman.&nbsp; "Such rage untempered, and for what?&nbsp; Failure.&nbsp; Such a fleeting existence as yours Gabranth, yet here you are, forgiven but not forgotten by Chaos.&nbsp; I wonder how long you'll last this time."&nbsp; Ultimecia put a finger against the side of her lips, as if pondering just how long he would indeed last before cocking her head to the side.&nbsp; She was stunningly beautiful in a dark and elaborate manner.&nbsp; A very low cut dress that revealed her stomach, breasts to a degree, and neck line, a headdress with two horn like bands of hair sticking out on either side of her head, and two wings that fell down her back which in truth were not part of the outfit and did allow her to fly, but she kept them all the same furled for now.&nbsp; Strange tattoos covered her body which seemed to shine with a dark light.&nbsp; "And before you try to say something similar to me, be advised that you are still watched because of your past failures Gabranth, and attacking me will only see your return to the pits of torment from which you were allowed to crawl out of.&nbsp; If my words have stung, then I have done what I have come here to do.&nbsp; For me, time is on my side, but can the same be said for you?"&nbsp; She chuckled again, but was ready to disappear at a moment's notice should Gabranth turn his rage towards her.&nbsp; She had every advantage, or so Ultimecia believed as she looked out across the barren wastes that marked Chaos's realm.&nbsp; Cosmos had a base of operations across the world from here, but she wasn't too concerned about it.&nbsp; They'd win, as they had before, and this time, it would be for good if the Time Witch had anything to say about it.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>SargentToughie</strong> on <strong>25-03-2012, 07:56:43</strong>
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				Gabranth didn't even turn around as he heard the haughty and overconfident voice of the witch behind him. Still, he turned his head just enough to where he could see her out of the corner of his eye through his helmet. "Fly away, little bird. I'm in no mood to exchange words with the likes of you." Apparently when he called her a bird, he was referring to her wings, which were in no way shape or form attached to her clothing in any way. She certainly had some nerve to come here and start trying to provoke the rather rage filled judge. Still, he knew that the object of his wrath and vengeance would not be a fellow warrior of chaos, but rather the forces of Cosmos... It was one of their number that had caused him to spend so much time in those damned pits in the first place, with his only companions being pure pain and the thoughts of his repeated failures. All those times Gabranth had been fueled by overconfidence and certainty that he wouldn't lose to such a tiny petlike creature as Shantotto... Now all that was left in his heart was pure rage, unlike anything he had ever felt before.<br><br>It would be different this time, it had to be.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Revenent</strong> on <strong>25-03-2012, 17:18:06</strong>
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				"Being old is nothing to boast about," a soft, sharp voice mocked Ultimecia, the young Al Bhed male sitting on the floor at the side of the corridor with his back against the wall, tinkering with some little device as if he had been there the entire time. "I'm old. Very old. Too old. Been dead longer than I've been alive," he went on in a rambling sort of manner, eyes intently focused on the small, rusty piece of junk he was modifying, the reddish orbs mostly blocked by long strands of blonde hair that hung down to the bridge of his nose. His hood was up, though he was still in the mode of constantly wearing his claws since he had spent the last thousand years having them constantly as a wyrm, so when he went to scratch his nose, he nearly sliced the material. Finally, a grin came on his face as he appeared satisfied with his work, pulling out a small, glowing blue sphere and placing it into a slot on the device. A moving image appeared on the surface of the sphere for a few moments, but it was flickering, out-of-focus, and had no audio. His grin instantly falling into a scowl, Evrae took the movie sphere back out and stuck it into his pocket. "You should be more worried about fighting Cosmos than fighting each other. Just the other day, I saw a guy in a black coat walking around, all hooded up and not talking to anyone like he didn't want to be seen. I haven't seen him again since. Do you think he worked for her?"
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				Title: <strong>Re: Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Vergil1989</strong> on <strong>25-03-2012, 22:56:57</strong>
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				Ultimecia laughed lightly despite the insult that Gabranth had thrown her way.&nbsp; She didn't let it bother her considering the shell of a man she stood behind was nothing to her, and would remain as such until he proved otherwise.&nbsp; "You would do well to heed this 'little bird', as you call me Gabranth.&nbsp; Still, your words are hollow, as are you.&nbsp; What good is a man filled with rage when the object of his fury is nowhere to be found?&nbsp; Cosmos nor Chaos has ordered an attack, and if I remember anything from the last couple of cycles, Cosmos never orders the first strike.&nbsp; She merely defends against it, which is fine by me since it just gives us more time to prepare and to plan.&nbsp; Do not fail again Judge Gabranth, or it won't just be Chaos you need to fear."&nbsp; She warned, her eyes flashing dangerously as she brushed by the armored tank and shortly stopped as she saw the former dragon of Bevelle if the stories were true of their newest arrival.&nbsp; Her smile returned since it had disappeared when she had hissed her warning to the Judge, finding the young appearing Al Bhed quite intriguing as he tinkered with some strange device or another.&nbsp; "Age brings wisdom my young appearing friend.&nbsp; Age brings power to those that seek it as I do.&nbsp; You should know all about it if you're as old as you claim, former winged guardian of Bevelle, the home of Yevon that is the faith of your own world if the stories are true about you."&nbsp; With a wave of her hand the device in the dragon's possession was restored to what it had been once upon a time, Ultimecia having manipulated the time stream so that it was as if it had come off the assembly line.&nbsp; Although any work he had done to it was also undone, but it would work properly now, whatever it was.&nbsp; "Consider that a gift for what you just told me, wyrm.&nbsp; I might have a few ideas of who it is you speak of, but I'll need to look into it first."&nbsp; She purred, walking away to leave the two men to their own devices....for now.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Revenent</strong> on <strong>26-03-2012, 05:05:18</strong>
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				Wisdom? No, Evrae didn't consider himself particularly wise. It was hard to gain experience and knowledge of the world when you were a mindless, hatred-driven dragon, even if you had a whole millennium to do it in, or if you didn't spend that whole time caged. He didn't say of that to the sorceress, though. It wasn't her business. "Who needs wisdom? We're here to fight, not to share philosophy," the former wyrm mumbled, scowling as Ultimecia's magic fixed his movie sphere projector just as he was tinkering with it. He didn't say thank you or even look up as she walked away to go about whatever it was she had planned, but once she was gone, he set the device on the floor in front of him (after removing the sphere, of course), slammed his heel down on it a few times to thoroughly break it, and picked it back up to begin repairing the damage he had just caused. "She's wasting her time. That man's already dead. I made something to chase after him and kill him," he muttered, focusing intently on his repairs. It was anyone's guess whether he was talking to Gabranth, who he had barely acknowledged up to this point, or if he was just talking to himself.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>SargentToughie</strong> on <strong>28-03-2012, 06:19:21</strong>
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				Gabranth had apparently decided that Evrae was muttering to himself, since he simply gave the fallen Wyrm a single statement of acknowledgement before he began to walk away. "Too many snakes fill these halls, their conspiracies and greed will be the end of them someday, mark my words." Gabranth had noticed a common trait among many of the people who fought under Chaos. They all seemed to be creating some deeper scheme or plot to try and further their own selfish personal agenda. Unlike them, Gabranth was just here to restore honor to his name and prove that he was still capable of fighting under strained circumstances. In a way, he actually felt a bit of relation to Evrae, since like him, Evrae wasn't really here for any deep sinister reason, nor did he appear to have any agenda that he was pushing. He seemed to simply want to fight and destroy, which made him and Gabranth two of a kind. <br><br>Without anything else to say, he'd simply walk away and continue waiting for the inevitable moment when Chaos finally gave the command to attack.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Vergil1989</strong> on <strong>30-03-2012, 20:14:54</strong>
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				Ultimecia returned shortly afterward, seemingly in a good mood despite the dark tidings that surely followed in her wake.&nbsp; She honestly didn't care so long as she got what she wanted in the end.&nbsp; Squall's head on a platter would do nicely for a start, but that was for later.&nbsp; For now she wondered what it was that she had seen lumbering away from the black and barren wastes that marked Chaos's realm, heading straight for Cosmos's own lands if she had to guess since she wasn't aware of Shang-qing's involvement in all this just yet.&nbsp; She'd have to ask Evrae about it, and that was exactly what she planned to do as she appeared before the great wyrm, seeing what he had done after she had so graciously repaired his little toy.&nbsp; She shrugged and didn't think about it further.&nbsp; "Tell me Evrae, what was that giant machine I saw going towards what could have only been Cosmos's home?&nbsp; Was that yours by chance, my machine inclined wyrm?"&nbsp; She asked, cocking her head to the side in curiosity, eager to hear what he had to say for himself.&nbsp; Chaos might or might not be pleased by the sudden attack, depending on how things went
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				Title: <strong>Re: Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Revenent</strong> on <strong>30-03-2012, 20:42:22</strong>
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				Gabranth's words seemed quite meaningful to the young Al Bhed man, but at the same time, he found it hard to care what anyone else working under Chaos was planning to do. His own motivation may have been lacking in any discernible goal, but that just meant he would have less to distract him from the fighting, which is all he had become good at over the last thousand years (even though his machina-building skills had remained thankfully intact as well). With the armored man gone, he was happy to return to silently tinkering with his rebroken device until the sorceress with the big hair and the cleavage came back, grinning a bit under his hood as she mentioned his creation. "Oh yeah, he's going to go find that man in the coat and kill him. We can't have people snooping around our base, can we?" the blonde replied with a cruel chuckle, roughly snapping a bit of metal into place on his device. "He's a special model, too. Let's just say he won't arrive alone." He may have ended up upsetting Chaos if he started the war before the dark god was ready, but as far as he was concerned, waiting around just meant the "good" guys had more time to prepare, so he should strike as soon as he was able.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Chaos's Black Citadel.  (KH/FF IC Thread.)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Vergil1989</strong> on <strong>30-03-2012, 21:36:43</strong>
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				Ultimecia cocked her head to the side at what Evrae willingly told her and grinned when he finished, liking his style even if it did go against what Chaos might have wanted later on.&nbsp; She nodded since he had a valid reason for wanting to destroy the man that had been seen spying about their home away from home, and crossed her arms over her chest as she considered making her own move against Cosmos's forces at the same time.&nbsp; It would be quite fun to sow some chaos of her own, and if she managed to take a few of the would be heroes down at the same time, all the better.&nbsp; "I think I'll follow your example Evrae and plan a little surprise of my own.&nbsp; I need time to prepare, but I think I have the perfect creature in mind to lead them, should I be able to grab ahold of it and pull it to this plane of course.&nbsp; Until then, I shall see you another time."&nbsp; Disappearing as she had before, Ultimecia prepared for her own assault, researching fiendish beings from other planes until she found the perfect specimen from Chaos's massive library of dark spells, rituals, and more besides.&nbsp; Once she had what she needed, she disappeared to appear once more on Cosmos's borders....
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