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Karin has a bad dream and experiences the strangeness of an ill Alvadas

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Considered one of the most mysterious cities in Mizahar, Alvadas is called The City of Illusions. It is the home of Ionu and the notorious Inverted. This city sits on one of the main crossroads through The Region of Kalea.

An Eldritch Way to Start a Morning

Postby Karin on September 3rd, 2015, 9:23 pm

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3rd of Autumn 515AV, Karin's Home

The girl was laughing. Her hair was drawn back in platinum pigtails, and the waters around the boat were busy with her friends. She could hear seagulls. The sunshine was bright, and her friend, she couldn't remember her name, was dunking her underwater playfully. "Say no, say no," the girl was saying in a singsong manner. "Come play with me!" The pair swam together, and in the water were schools of fish, but a darkness fell over the sky, and the girl felt a pair of cold hands enclosing around her chest. "It's time to go Karin." The girl was lifted out of the water, and darkness fell, with storms and rain and horrible shadows lurking in the darkness and−

Karin woke with a start, a sheen of cool sweat glazing her brow. It was early morning, probably not even past the fourth bell. Outside, the darkness was complete. The girl propped herself up on her elbows, rubbing her eyes with a large but quiet yawn. What a weird dream. Although... I can't properly remember it. Hmm. She wasn't a very heavy sleeper, so having woken up at such an early hour meant that she was likely to stay awake, even if she wanted to go back to sleep. She flopped back down onto her bed sheets, vaguely noting the cool damp of the sheets, soaked as they were.

She'd been tossing and turning whilst she was slumbering, and the sheets were tied around her legs, so she untangled herself with a sigh. With the sheets settled once more around her, she rather unenthusiastically tried to snuggle back down into bed, but sleep suddenly felt rather unappealing. There was something about the dream she'd woken up with that lingered on her, and didn't exactly encourage sweet dreams. The girl shuddered a little. The sheets were now too cool against her too warm body, so she took them off completely, stretching her arms above her head before curling up on her side to get comfy and warm again.

And it was only then as she switched to lie on her side, that she saw the shadow on the wall. She stopped breathing in shock. There's... a person, somewhere. Her dark eyes were open wide, sleep all but forgotten as she watched. The shadow was flat against the wall, and it was lurking almost ominously over her parent's bed. As she watched, the shadow drifted slightly to the left. The girl of course automatically went to look through the window, standing on her bed and peering through the grimy panes.

But there was no-one out there. Which just made everything worse, because it just meant that there was a person inside the house. Even though she'd be able to see one if there was. Ack! Karin felt a little spooked. She didn't even think that it could be one of Alvadas's illusions. She'd had a few weird ones that had entered the house in the past, flowers growing out the ceiling and all the spoons turning to putty were a few notable examples, but they happened so infrequently that she didn't suspect it in this instance. Her mind flashed through all manner of the arcane and eldritch, ghosts and Zith and all the creepy-crawlies that she'd been scared of in her youth. But she dismissed them quickly, knowing that as she was older now, these kinds of things weren't supposed to be scary, at least not in this capacity.

Cautiously she watched as the vaguely human shaped shadow stretched out across the wall, and drifted up towards the ceiling. She partially closed her eyes and tried to look at the thing sideways through slitted eyes. It didn't appear to notice where it was. So she waved a little cautiously still, and waited to see if anything would happen.

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An Eldritch Way to Start a Morning

Postby Karin on September 12th, 2015, 7:42 pm

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Moments passed. Nothing happened. The shadow was now drifting across the ceiling, looking for all the world like a human spider. The girl, sitting hunched on her bed, was trying her very hardest not to get freaked out. But it was hard, especially when this nameless, featureless shadow was invading her home.

Without letting her eye leave it, she patted her hand around the edge of the bed, trying to find something with which to poke at the ceiling with. Unfortunately, she couldn't find anything, only a length of rope... and a spoon. Anyone watching would be able to see the idea slowly creep across her brow, the way her confusion and anxiety shifted to become focussed and alert. Like a hawk, her eyes trained on the shadow. Slowly, cautiously, she fumbled with the spoon, feeling the wooden handle rough in her hand. She picked it up in her right hand, took careful aim, and... Fire!

The girl's aim was terrible, and she missed the shadow by what seemed by miles, only serving to make her parents stir in their sleep at the clatter. Oh, Ionu petch it to shyke. She glared fearfully up at the ceiling, waiting with bated breath for the wraithlike shadow to notice her, attack her, but... Still nothing. What a mystery. With a little less care, she stood up, her sheets tumbling down beside her in a ragged heap.

Dressed in only her nightclothes, she reached as high as her tiptoes allowed, stretching to touch the grey, shifting shape. But as soon as her fingers reached the outline, it drifted off, away, and disappeared through the wall. It was only then that the girl realised that it might just be another of Ionu's illusions.
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An Eldritch Way to Start a Morning

Postby Karin on September 24th, 2015, 5:17 pm

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A deep, drawn out sigh passed her lips. She was tired, cold, and had just been freaked out by nothing. Her options now were either to go back to sleep, which seemed like a nice idea, but quite unattainable. Or she could get up and go out, and see if she could follow the illusion. That option didn't seem likely either, but it was slightly more so than the first choice, so she got out of her night-clothes and into her regular wear.

A few chimes later, the girl was outside in the fresh, crisp morning. She wasn't really sure what she wanted to do- she'd done a quick survey of the street near her house, and there were no shadows, of real people or illusions. Rubbing a hand over her eyes and through her hair, making it stick up at odds and ends with her face, she decided there and then that she would try and find a nice place to sit down, somewhere green, somewhere fresh and natural.

She wandered. Her brain still wasn't in gear, and so she wasn't really thinking of anything. She saw the occasional shadow dancing across the walls, or 'walking' across the street, but she didn't give it much thought. A sense of weariness, of tiredness clung to her bones, and her feet dragged sullenly against the street cobbles.

It was a lot less disorientating this morning, and so Karin felt safe to pitch herself down at the base of a tree whose trunk was scratched with deep cracks of bark, and stretched thickly into the misty morning sky. A pile of last years autumn leaves lay to one side, and she plunged her feet into them, noticing distantly the way they crinkled.

Without distinctly placing her finger on it, the notion that Alvadas was somehow sick lingered at the back of her mind. She wasn't completely in tune with the city, but she had lived there for such a long time that she couldn't help but notice, even if it was only slightly.

She stayed that way, her back pressed against the tree, her feet in a pile of leaves. Syna rose without her noticing, and the morning fog dissipated quietly. With a start, the girl roused herself, realising that dew had started to form on her as she dozed. I was dozing? That's... weird. She stretched and yawned, standing up with a wince as she knocked her elbow against the giant tree behind her. The tiredness of the city had seeped into her, she couldn't seem to shake it.

A shard of Syna's light pierced a cloud, and hit Karin square in the eye. The action of it made her blink with a frowning face, nose and forehead and lips crinkled up into a face which strongly resembled a gargoyle. But it served its purpose- she felt like she was a little more awake now. A yawn passed her lips again, and she stepped away from the tree, taking a little comfort from the feel of the bark beneath her fingertips as she pushed herself away. Time to get moving.
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An Eldritch Way to Start a Morning

Postby Sayana on October 24th, 2015, 4:23 pm

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Comments: Nice thread. You certainly captured the spooky feel of the shadows in the city. I quite enjoyed the read.

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