The Way Forward

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The Way Forward

Justor took a deep breath. "So, I am going to ask this question again, and I would prefer it if I got a straight answer instead of a deep epithet from Noah here. Where am I?"

"Exactly where I said before, Justor," Alsifar said, "You are - "

"Where I need to be, yeah. Is that the only response I am going to get?"

"Pretty much, yeah."

Amorak stepped forward. "You are on my home world. I have lived here all my life. It has never really had a name, because I never thought it needed a name. Although," he added, glaring at Alsifar, "due to recent events, I'm not sure it's still the same world I know."

Alsifar laughed. "Oh good, you are starting to show some sense of humor! I was beginning to lose hope in you."

Amorak merely rolled his eyes and walked back to the fire, where Elsteba and Jacob were talking with each other in muted tones.

"...pretty sure that's why he's here."

"Jacob, are you sure? He said it malfunctioned, glitched and sent him through a rip in space. How can we use something like that?"

"I can tell he's the kind of person who lives and breathes technology. I'm pretty tech-savvy myself. If we work on it together, I know we can fix whatever problem is bugging it."

"And then what do we do?"

"We can - "

Jacob looked up and saw Amorak sitting a few feet away and stopped talking. He merely stared at him with a look that contained feelings which Amorak didn't understand, but made him feel like he had intruded at just the wrong moment.

Elsteba turned around to face Amorak. "So how is the newest member to our team of outcasts?" she asked.

Amorak shrugged. "He enjoys talking my ears off, so I'm sure he will be welcome with the rest of you."

"Hey Amorak?" Jacob said, "Can you go tell him that I want to see this device he said brought him here first thing tomorrow?"

"What am I, your - " Amorak started to say, but Jacob shot him a glare that issued a challenge. Amorak thought about it, then decided it wasn't a challenge he bothered to accept. "Sure. Whatever."

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The Steward said...: i "referbished" the Post called "the Quest" Everyone needs to go Back and Read it. If you have any thing you need to add to it to make it better Please do so just let me know what you add.

-Since when is Jacobs Watch Broken or unusable???, we need to Check with Jordan to but i got the impression the IDMTM was left in his world sorry Just confused-; April 2, 2009 at 7:56 PM

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Cast List. (feel free to edit as you see fit, and to add characters i might have missed.)

Main Character List (put up for the conviniance of the readers and the writers so we all know what we are dealing with).

Elstaba: a girl from a world completly devoid of plant life, that is all steal, plastic and which has an extreamly high level of technology.

Jacob: son of Dr. Henry. He has two companions Gammon, and Athena whos personalitys are patterned after real historical figures from Jocobs peoples historys. is extreamly skilled at useing his hover board, and is trained to use computers and some weapons. he has a "watch" thing that glows blue/green and can produce phisical objects along with Gammon and Athena, giving them phisical forms.

Amorok: a young man who is considered the "key" to the Umberings prison and who is very torn up about it.

Dr. Russel: a slightly mad sciantist who worked closely with Alsifer in finding the Parts of the Solarus and in fighting the umbering on his own world.

Alsifer: a super powerful being, who while not all knowing can with the use of his machine/space ship see any where at any time, though this is still limited as he cant watch every place at every time. His race is directly oposed to the umbering (ether becuse they created it, or where its natural oposits in the evolution of existance. This is to be determined by the authors at a later date) of which he is the last known one.

Gammon: a "Computer Program" named after a great warrior from the historys of Jacobs people. He has always garded jacob, and Dr. Henry, given phisical form by a type of holographic device that ran threw out Dr.Henrys tower back on his world, but now is confined to that of Jacobs watch which gives him a limited ranged of about a mile in which he can project him self as a phisical being. He is "in love" with athena, as the two are essentialy the only two of their own AI type race.

Athena: Also a "computer program" and also only made real threw a type of physical holographic projection. named after the godess of war, but suposedly named after a great scholar and female general from jacobs peoples historys, her personality is that of a prudent intelectual and is very rational. However she can also be very loving and motherly prone to strong emotional out bursts should somone try to harm somone she has "brought under her protection" so to speak.

Jestor: some mathamatition/ wizard person jordan threw in... though we could use him interestingly if we decide to.... hum.... His personaity is some what eccentric and perhaps much like a mad sciantist.

Mr. Schellhous : the principle of Elstebas school and is in cohoots with the Umbering, or one of his Unberling creatures.... Unknowingly of course, he simply thinks that he will be able to use the Umbering as a source of power and he will get somthing like the nobel prize or somthing for some major sciantific brake threw... we dont quite know yet.

The Umbering: a dark and brooding preasense in the void of the "place between places" which is his prizon. he was locked away their by Alsifers people at great personal expence to them, for they were its mortal enamys. There are two possable theorys that we are working on about the origens of the umbering. 1. that it was simply the creature that would go from existance to existance devouring them all up once they were all used up and all life was extinguished. Existances garbage disposal so to speak. and that alsifers people found out about it and were very much interested to learn more. As the Umbering become more familiure with them it started learning and so for and so on and so eventualy the Umbering came to their existance trying to find some new and more taistfull food, and alsifers people didnt realy like that so they fought one another. And now knowing what they had unleshed upon existance Alsifers people locked it away as quickly as they could fighting a war in which many of them died. 2 the second idea is that Alsifers people actualy created the umbering as a mind link between them all. But what they thought would turn their people into a great and all knowing force actualy slowly turned into a dark and evil force that wanted to consume everything in existance and make it part of the collected (kinda like the borg exept that this one was an accident rather then a weapon purposfuly created) and that those of alsifers people who servived fought back hard. But the amount of them that was left was few, not enugh to sustain even their long lived race givin the fact of the war, so they eventualy all died off, leaving alsifer as the watcher. To find and bring to gether the right people at the right time to ether destroy the umbering there by freeing his people from its collected clutches, or by simply locking it away perminently which would NOT be the one that alsifer would choose.

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The Way Forward

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Cast List. (feel free to edit as you see fit, and to add characters i might have missed.)