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*UPDATE* The Sign-up thread has been removed. We'll have to post the profiles on this thread. But maybe you should copy it as a signature or in your personal profile, too. *UPDATE*

Build your character and use original 3d6: http://www.pathguy.com/cthulhu.htm

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I remember the day the sun was ripped from the sky...

I recall the tragedy...

The terror we'd seen when the malign powers came from both depths and heights from their domiciles of the cosmos. Such as it was when the gods came to our land of Equestria and beyond our borders. Such as it was they would take our matrons like savage winds ripping swiftly across the landscape and into grim fate. Yay, those terrible days when the gods arrived!

The madness on the faces of all who bore witness was like an infectious plague as the Great Old Ones with the Deep ones gripped not only our minds, but our very way of life as we had known only for a brief time....

((Tread carefully, this RP I on thin ice when it comes to forum rules))

((It's gonna be more like the Woman in Black. Lots of terror without having to use copious amounts of blood to scare people))

((How do you want this RP to begin? We have a setting, but theirs no hook for characters to become introduced))

((I edited the first post with a link to a Call of Cthulu character builder. I'm gonna build mine and then we'll begin.))

(first of all, I've wanted to do an rp like this for a long time, so thanks for starting one :)

second, regarding the character generator: I have no idea what most of the choices are for, since I never played Call of Cthulhu. What level do we start at, which are the magic classes, and other things you might want to mention)

Better yet character builders are just gonna complicate things. Everyone gets 100 pts to alot between eight stats. and give a backstory with a short bio and your character's alignment.

STRENGTH - 12
overall strength and adds to combat damage after dice roll. Allows player to perform physically daunting tasks.
INTELLIGENCE - 14
Learning aptitude, ability to read, conversation and ingenuity. facilitates the use of black magic
WISDOM- 16
overall spiritual knowledge, adds to mana, and sixth sense. facilitates the use of psychic abilities
DEXTERITY- 09
Accuracy and attention to detail. allows users extra rolls of 1d6 in combat and facilitates lock-picking
ENDURANCE- 14
Resistance to damage and Agony from critical strikes as well as hunger, cold, fatigue and heat.
CONSTITUTION- 12
Resistance to poison, sickness, and
AGILITY- 09
overall speed and ability to move quickly and silently. Facilitates theft, stealth, and acrobatics
STABILITY- 12
overall sanity. after reaching zero the player loses control of the character.

Lumine - Benevolent Neutral

Lumine served as a cleric before the invasion and lived a humble life in his vicarage until that day. Fortunately, he lived away from mass cities and coastline which gave him time to fortify himself in his home as he went about his usual study of holy texts and even researching anything he could find regarding occultism and everything to do with the the invading creatures, especially Cthulu, Dagon, and Nyarlahotep. All the while he was able to tap into the his minds greater potential and sharpen his psychic aptitude and was able to sense and converse with spirits while sensing other's presences. Still, he needed to further enhance his abilities if he was to try and defend himself against these wicked gods and their minions. (Knowledge of religion and occultism with Dead Speak and Sense)

((Are we following D&D style classes, or just making stuff up?))

(I think you should make a sign-up thread with the character creation explained there)

Quote from: annosrules on 2015 Apr 29, 21:44:51
((Are we following D&D style classes, or just making stuff up?))

Were just gonna improvise. But, I'll make a sign up thread.

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Post Merge

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I'll start the game when we're ready... anyone else can jump in as we play along.

((Lumine))

Lumine had rushed home a quick as he could caper as the ill yellow of Luna's previous domicile sailed across the skies. The cleric had lost track of time when he was about and now had to make haste before the Night Gaunts would seek him out. Their cries could be heard hither and thither as he'd tried ever stealthily to get to his cottage in the woods in the ebon sea of shades from the night about him. However, being a clairvoyant, he was able to sense them and track their movements about the dark... although 'twere laborious to say the least. In trying to preserve his mana, he used it in short bursts much like that of a Radar system, which in and of itself wasn't too effective where his Dead Speak ability allowed him to hear and talk to the dead who would guide him to safety... that is if they were of the amiable kind.

But, somewhere he'd heard a horrid screaming followed by the inequine wails of the Night Gaunts...

((mana 16-4=12))

(Hmm, I'm not completely clear about things, but I'll try to manage it. Also, I need to read more of the Cthulhu Mythos)

Book Keeper paused her walk amongst the dark forest. Ever since the the Great Old Ones had returned, she had done what she could to find more information about them. Her hopes lay in the direction of sending them back to the void whence they came, but progress was slow, too slow to be of any help during her lifetime.

Those screams...she shivered at the implications. Night Gaunts. She was pretty capable of protecting herself, but that didn't mean that she didn't fear for her life. She was about to move, when she felt the faintest touch of mana upon her skin.

Somepony was out there. If there were Night Gaunts involved, then it was someone living...and more likely than not, someone who needed help. She quickly hurried away towards the source of the mana she had felt.

Against Lumine's better judgement he rushed toward the screaming...

Lumine would natrually avoid conflict all together, but something drove him towards the horrid noise. He'd dashed over creeks and through thickets to find this distressed victim. Whether it was from knowing there was life out there, or the need to save a life... he was unsure; yet, as he galloped on the wings of the wind voices urged and pleaded with him to reconsider.

Book Keeper's cloak trailed behind her as she galloped through the woods. She hadn't felt any mana pulses recently; all she had to go on was the general direction of the pulse she had felt. For all she knew, the creature that had emitted it was going in a totally different direction, yet she kept going forward, hoping that she would reach it in time.

Lumine ran fast enough that all became a blur until he'd collided with something that had let out an anguished gasp.

Book Keeper galloped headlong into some other creature, and let out a gasp of pain; she saw stars for a moment, before colliding with the ground. As she picked herself up, she shook her head to clear her mind, as this was not the time or place to let her guard slip. Her vision went back into focus, and under the dim light of the moon, she saw figure garbed in what seemed to be a cleric's robes.

"Hey! Are you alright?" she asked, keeping her distance. In these dark times, it was better to be safe than sorry.

Lumine was dazed as a shape called his name. His ears rang from hitting his head against the ground while his vision blurred as he'd staggered about.

"Are you alright?" Book Keeper repeated. She slowly removed her rapier from it's sheath, in the event that she would need it.

(btw, what race is your character?)

((I'm an earth pony, but with psychic abilities))

"...home" the groggy pony replied, "I must get home."

Book Keeper hesitated for a second more, then moved to help the creature, who seemed to be a male earth pony. There was a limit to how reasonably long she could wait to see if he was a threat or not. She levitated her rapier with her telekinesis, leaving both hooves free, and carefully lifted the pony to his hooves.

"So, you need to go home, huh? Where's that?" she asked.

The Earth pony was very disoriented, but he'd whispered in the other's ear. "Twenty acres north of the Mirror Pond...".

Book Keeper nodded, then shut her eyes for a few moments to try and place the general area that he was referring to. She spent a few more moments memorizing the path to the location from where they were.

"Alright," she said. "Let's go." She helped him along as fast as she could.

Lumine tried his best to keep up as he'd slowly regained his composure. But then, they heard the wings of the Night Gaunts a short distance away.

"I hope you can defend yourself," Book Keeper said worriedly as she dragged the earth pony along, looking in all directions. "I don't think that I can defend the two of us properly."

She had her rapier ready, and she mentally prepared one of her favored spells.

(careful, we must stay in the rules X3)

A sole earth pony watches the duo from a distance, unsure of whether he should risk helping them out, or take the safe route and ignore them like he did so many others.

The cleric saw the withered face of a young, lost filly from long ago appear from between a set of rocks only to disappear back into the darkness with her sad, empty eyes as if lead them to a safe haven. He couldn't feel any sense of malice or deceit and then stopped his companion dead. "There..." he'd pointed, "there's a cave where we may hide from the beasts."

Book Keeper nodded, then dragged herself and her companion to the cave.

Once inside they waited for the Night Gaunts to leave. Lumine had come to and was able think and communicate transparently. "Who are you and why have you come to this forest? You realize it's dangerous this time of night, right?" he inquired.

The pony continues to watch where the two other ponies went, still debating his course of action.

"I'm looking for something," Book Keeper said evasively. "Sometimes that means going into dangerous places."

She turned her attention to the outside.

"What about you? Why are you outside at such a dangerous time?"

Lumine shook his head in anguish and batted his eyes. "I was out foraging and I felt tired at some point; then a negative entity had put  me in sleep paralysis and left me a hypnogog for hours before it had left." The cleric could not shake the migrane that burdened him as he'd tried to tell his story. As it was he'd spent some of his mana trying to detect the Night Gaunts in conjunction with the heinous impact of his head against the ground.

"When I'd come to, 'twas near the hour of darkness and I was some miles from my home when I'd sought to make haste for my cottage; yet 'twould be futile as the Night Gaunts would come out for their nightly hunt."

Blaze could no longer ignore the loneliness he had been feeling since the start of the apocalypse. He no longer cared if it was the safest course of action, and he bounded down his hill and towards the cave.

"Maybe you can-" Book Keeper broke off as the sound of hooves reached her ears. She readied her rapier and prepared a spell.

"Somepony's coming!"

Blaze enters the mouth of the cave, not saying anything in case it would attract more monsters.

Lumine wasn't worried at all as he could sense positive energy as well as feelings of indecision and desperation.*

Whomever you are, come in as you are among friends.

"While it's good to be open to trust in these dark days, it is wise to not let oneself become trusting. Nonetheless I am thankful for the gift you give to me." Blaze says, slowing his dash to a trot as he approached the group. Initial reactions have spoken well on behalf of these two, but appearances alone aren't deserving of trust.

Book Keeper lowered her rapier, but did not put it away.

"Who are you?" she asked the newcomer.

"I should like to ask the very same question of you," Blaze says with a pause before continuing on to say, "But since I am the guest I shall divulge my identity first. My name is Blazing Legend, Cartographer Extraordinaire."

"I've heard of you," Book Keeper said, eyebrows raised. "You're the cartographer responsible for the high-quality maps of Equestria, aren't you?"

(I hope that it's alright if I take a tiny liberty X3)

"Aye, and may Celestia Read the forum rules. me to Tartarus for ever thinking that a widespread publication of my masterpiece would help the world. Indeed, it's turning out to be the end of it," Blaze says with a tone of utter self loathing.

"Surely you can't be serious!?" Book Keeper said with a mounting realization of horror.

"What reason do I have to lie about it? I knew the locations of countless dangerous and evil objects and places, and I published them along with a map! Blaze exclaims, clearly speaking from the maelstrom of thoughts and emotions occupying his troubled mind.

I've felt the presence of some auspicious objects, and some of which seem to be linked to these transdimensional beings. It must be quite a daunting task with Night Gaunts, Fishmen, and other horrid creatures out there. I think they've some ability to trow the mind into madness, the gods especially.

"I'll help you if I can, I'm tired of running from this," Blaze says confidently.

((Just an FYI, Blazing Legend might, and is probably, not the cause of the apocalypse, but he believes he is.))

You're probably not the only one who's been running from all of this madness. However, I felt it was on me to try and stop them from furthering their cause. I don't know how we'll restore the royal blood lines as Luna and Celestia are gone and The Six have vanished. Even if we don't win this... we will atleast have stood against them with dignity.

"So what is it you're looking for?

"Perhaps where this had come from." the cleric said as he produced a statuette from his saddle bag. It was that of a seated biped with it's upper extremities gripping the legs with it's five appendages while a set of wings covered it's back. The creatures head was possibly the most hideous of the sculpture as it resembled an octopus with a set of large eyes that crowned a set of tentalces. "I've looked to some texts and they say this is the one they call Cthulu."

"The name rings a bell, but I cannot say that I know the origins of that artifact. It may not even have come from equestria at all."

"No. It's not native to Equestria at all," Book Keeper interjected, eyes wide in recognition. "Where did you get a hold of that?"

I'd found it in the old ruins of the Diarchs' castle down in vaults. I thought that perhaps it was there I would find something that the princesses had held there with some kind of information. I'd found this statue along with some cryptic texts that I'm still deciphering to this day while I try to enhance my psychic powers.

"I was wondering what the purpose of that empty vault was," Blaze reminiscences, indicating that his own exploration of the castle must of happened after Lumine's own.

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn," Book Keeper murmured the dread chant of the Great Old One. "But he's no longer dreaming."

"What in tartarus was that?" Blaze says, visibly frightened by what Book spoke.

"It's a chant used in rituals by cultists of Cthulhu," Book Keeper told the stallion, grimacing. "Roughly translated, it means: In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

"You are dabbling in something that only the mad have any chance of comprehending. Be weary, lest you join their rank," Blaze warns Book with a tone of furious disappointment.

"I have my reasons for doing so," Book Keeper responded in a hard tone, looking him in the eye. "And don't take me for a fool unaware of the danger this presents."

"Oh I know you're aware of the danger. You continuing with knowledge of it is what makes me think you a foal."

"And it's attitudes like yours that will keep Equestria a dark, twisted world," Book Keeper retorted, starting to feel angry for the first time in a while.

"So if you can't beat them, join them?" Blaze responds.

Book Keeper forced herself to calm down. "You're welcome to believe what ever you wish," she answered him in an icy tone, "but you're reading things that aren't there."

She hated that the situation that had resulted from that day had forced her to become this way. In another world, she would have responded quite differently.

"Being accused of insanity by a Cthulhu worshiper? How ironic," Blaze mocks angrily, unable to restrain his accumulated emotions.

Book Keeper's reign on her temper instantly vanished.

"How dare you accuse me of such a thing!?" she very nearly shouted. "You know nothing about me!"

She could dimly feel her trying to calm her down, but her attention was focused elsewhere.

Blaze calms down, becoming bashfully angry,  and goes quiet.

"..." Book Keeper fell silent. She found herself drawing back to the old mental exercises that she had been forced to learn.

'One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. One fish, two fish...'

Lumine had to quell this conflict. First and foremost, being a cleric it was his job to keep the peace; but secondly, he knew that if they were to succeed in this that they needed to work together and not resort to fighting amongst eachother. "Everypony stop..." he spoke suddenly, "this is not how we're going to win this. We need to focus on what's at hand instead of bickering like this and Blaze you seem to have knowledge of the Great Old Ones. Could you help me in deciphering an ancient text?"

"I'm afraid not, my knowledge on the Old Ones is quite limited. Though 'she' probably can," Blaze says with emphasis on 'she', showing a disliking of Book.

"I'll do what I can," Book Keeper said, giving the stallion a Look.

We'll need rest here for tonight. Come morning, we will to my cabin.

"Agreed," Blaze replies, almost instantly.

The cleric waited until all were resting and before saying his usual prayers before rest. But, something occurred to him... where do the prayers go since the death of the Princesses. Twilight? Sunset? any of The Six? But he had to put those thought out of his mind. Doubt would only lead to defeat... he needed only have faith. With that he'd fallen asleep until first light of day before any had awoken. "Even if we don't win this..." he said to himself, "perhaps others will find the courage to fight."

Blaze seemed less like he was sleeping, and more like he was meditating. Denying his mind the rest that was given so sparingly to his body.

Book Keeper simply slept, though it wasn't a peaceful sleep.

Lumine could sense Blaze was depriving. As he'd focused upon his mind he penetrated the very thoughts of the scholar. 'It isn't wise to be so under-rested. Sleep as you will need your strength.' he thought.

Blazes mind is flooded with maddening sensory inputs as his earth sense is in full power creating indiscernible information that only his highly disciplined and trained mind could possibly decipher and read as it truly is. This same discipline and extreme focus allows no other thought to reach into his conscious mind, making Lumine's words fall on deaf ears.

Lumine, being an especially studious master of mind linking, pressed on in his efforts until he had finally broken through the blockade of his psychic defenses. 'Blaze, we're going to need as much of our strength as possible... you must rest friend.' he asserted.

((You do realize that you just tapped into the maddening amount of incomprehensible information that would drive a regular pony insane I was talking about?))

Blaze gave no reaction and just continued his meditation.

Soon afterwards, Lumine could see a myriad of images flash before his very eyes. The visages of vile monstrosities, cognitions of bloody rituals, and occult symbols assaulted his mind while giving him a migrane headache of which could be comparably reminiscent of serious head trauma according to Lumine. This dark parade of maddening visions was instantaneous, yet had felt drawn a little more prolonged. When all had settled he suddenly felt as though the very knowledge he'd beheld of Blaze's mind suddenly became his own; initially had brought a sudden rush of joy as he now had better understanding of what he'd studied all this time... but something told him that perhaps it could all be lies or perhaps what he'd known all his life could potentially be all lies or both. "Cease Lumine..." he'd uttered to himself, "this is what they want... to be mad and depraved. Just have faith."

Roll(1d6)+0:
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12-5 Stability = 7 Stability

Book Keeper snored loudly, then turned over.

Lumine eventually fell asleep although still shaken up from his experience. Morning would come with the sun covered by the gloomy haze as it had since it's keeper had perished, but 'twas better than the ferrous veil of heavy clouds that would swallow the harbinger of dawn. The holycolt waited foraged some wild strawberries nearby while his companions still rested.

((Hey waaaah, did you not like it over at EQF? I hadn't seen you over there))

Book Keeper woke, yawning heavily; she stretched a bit before getting up. She noticed that the earth pony that she had saved the night before was missing, and left the cave to search for him.

(will message you about this)

(Awaiting message.  :/)

(I meant for thexcrimsonxghostie :P)

(Feeling excluded  :c)

(sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel that way :()

(*sigh*, my dry humor and casual sarcasm fails me again, I really don't feel excluded, though Blaze might be quite surprised to find his latest companions missing after only the first night.)

((me or blaze?))

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Post Merge

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((Sorry guys didn't mean to leave you guys hanging))

Lumine was outside and he'd etched some symbols into the dirt with a stick. The very symbols that he had seen in his vision from Blaze's mind. He kept going over them trying to decipher their meaning but could only read so much of it. Something involving dissociated knowledge and a new dark age. Whatever that meant, perhaps it was a prophecy of some sort... the advent of the worst that was to come perhaps? He looked up...

"Is that you Book Keeper?" he asked almost in a monotone.

Blaze stirred from his sleep, disappointed in finding that the two ponies had left him, though thankful that they left him his supplies. So he packs his things and heads for the mouth of the cave.

"Yes,"  she yawned, stopping next to the cave. She noticed the symbol he was drawing in the dirt.

"What is that?" she asked him, frowning a bit.

There at the mouth of the cave Lumine was hunched over the words he'd written. Even a semi-literate could look upon the inscription and know that such calligraphy was a far cry from Equestrian, even from days of olde. Rather, they had seemed much more archaic, yet all the more advanced than any tongue. "Some sort of Yithian prophecy..." Lumine murmured, "It isn't too clear. However, the dissociated knowledge it speaks of may provide us a clue that may cease this new dark age, perhaps?"   

"What in tartarus at you doing here? If you want to draw on the floor,you could at least do I in the cave where you wont be spotted," Blazing yells at Lumine from with the cave.

"I'm afraid whats done is done and cannot be undone." Lumine replied, "Perhaps you can shed some light on this?"

Blaze looks at the dizzying array of symbols, and ponders for a moment over their meaning, but couldn't conceive one. "I have no idea what these are, but I can guess that they don't testify well for your sanity."

"They came from inside your mind... remember?" Lumine recalled.

"From inside my mind?" Blaze questions.

"Then you should be able to identify them," Book Keeper interjected, trying her hardest to keep the sarcasm from out of her voice.

"Must I repeat that I have no idea what these symbols are?" Blaze asks rhetorically.

"Then surely you'd seen them somewhere." Lumine asserted, "How else could they be from your memories?"

"Wait, you read my mind?" Blaze asks as he begins to realize the context by which Lumine is working.

"I have spent time exercising my mind to read other's dispositions as well as their thoughts." Lumine explained. "I can sense the presence of those who are living and dead while also being able to see and converse with spirits. However, I hadn't intentionally... rather it seemed like your mind had pulled me in and thus I'd seen what our were reflecting upon. But, we've spent enough time here, so let us now head to my cottage that we may better get organized."

Lumine lead the way to his humble vicarage in the forest. Peaceful as it were in the dark forest's clearing; the azure pond, exquisite flora and images of the diarchy with his sustainable garden served as a most diminutive oasis amidst the grey and the shadows at it's borders. The stone cottage was frigid from the inside as the hearth was only soot and ashes from being without a fire, of course. Thus he'd gotten a fire going before hanging his cloak upon a nearby chair where he'd kept a desk and shelf full of ancient scrolls, holy books, and even inspiring literature from those long passed. However, all about the desk were parchments and some small fragmented tablets of Eldritch origin which he'd spent time trying to translate by way of spirits and texts.

"Well if you can only read thoughts while a pony is thinking them, when did you read mine to find such alien symbols?"

Book Keeper recognized many of the works on the cleric's desk, but she wasn't sure about the fragments. She went to take a closer look at them.

Then a thought had occurred to Lumine. "Then those thoughts were not your own, but of another." he deduced, "Somepony or something could have been trying to implant those thoughts in your mind through thought transference or even by some power of inception."

"Or you could tell me the exact time that you started trespassing in my head, and I can shed some more light on the situation by having some actual context to go off of," Blaze shouts in frustration.

Book Keeper glanced back at the pair, then returned her gaze to the fragments. She picked one up, and started to decipher it.

(well ghostie? wat it say?)

"Last night... possibly 'round midnight." Lumine replied. He then spied Book Keeper as she were moving pieces of the tablet about. "No! I've spent sleepless nights trying to arrange those!" Upon reaching the desk he'd noticed that she'd managed to arrange them perfectly. As of which a message them flooded Lumine's with images of Celestia and Luna's futile final stand against the Eldritch Abominations before showing an image of a dark crypt with two sarcophagi.

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die." he said.

"Well at midnight I was surveying the area," Blaze replies earnestly.

"The Princesses!" Lumine cried, "They are not dead, but asleep! They're waiting to be awakened!"

"How do you know this?" Book Keeper asked the cleric. "Did you have a vision about it just now?"

Lumine regained his composure as he'd felt rather shaken by the sudden flash of the images before his mind's eye. His eyes filled with tears and head full of anguish he took a deep breath. "I'd seen their graves... the graves of the Princesses!" he declared, "They must be resting in a deathly sleep being in a state of suspended animation for I recall as the bards have sung that they were taken from the battle after succumbing to fatal blows by the Eldritch invaders. Somepony must have put them in that state to keep them alive."

"And you expect us to be able to raise the near-dead?"

"If they are on the breadth of death, then they are still living. Are they not?" Lumine retorted.

"Yet do you believe that we can revive them?"

"If it can aid us in our fight, then perhaps it's worth it."

"Our fight? I don't know about you, but the last time I checked the Elder Gods left the princesses six feet under, and you're wanting to fight that?"

"It's worth checking out, at least,"  Book Keeper interjected. "If they really ARE alive, then this could be our only chance to restore Equestria to its former self."

"Yes, but none seem to know where the Princesses are being kept." Lumine said. "Save for those who were her most trusted and that would have to be one of the Six."

"And just who are these fabled six of whom you speak?" Blaze asks with a hint of skepticism.

"Could you be referring to the bearers of the Elements of Harmony?" Book Keeper asked the cleric.

"Yes," Lumine affirmed, "The keepers would be the only ones who know where the princesses are kept. The last any have seen of them was in the heat of battle... from which they'd vanished like a will o wisp."

Outside, something or somepony crashed on a tree... Yes, we can heard that crash.

Book Keeper was about to respond when a loud crash from outside interrupted her.

Something's here!" she glanced in the direction of the noise, eyes narrowed.

That's a white unicorn mare with black mane who's crashed on a tree, wearing a cape and socks. Her top hat and her rod fells on the ground. "Aïe..."

((Something to know: We can't sense her magic for a certain reason.))

Lumine was shocked as to how his power of sense had been blocked, but in the end that was the least of his concerns. He'd opened up a closet containing his vestments, but also hidden his armor. He'd quickly suited up in his chainmail shirt and hood before fitting on his boots. He'd raised his front hooves to fortify a barrier around the whole company for whomever would seek to intrude. The door knob began to turn...

"State your business!" Lumine announced.

She heard something as she jumped off the tree to take back her top hat and rod and she hides behind the tree. "Ouch... next time, we should be more careful when we teleport..."

"Once again... state your business or please leave lest we do what we must." Lumine asserted.

Book Keeper raised her right eyebrow at the white mare's antics.

"You're not fooling anypony!" she called out to her.

She wears on her top hat and looks at Book Keeper, just don't know what to do.

Lumine relaxed at the sight of the two ponies, however he still wouldn't let his guard down just because of equines. Especially, all due to the fact that he was unable to sense their motives. According to his knowledge they could have been agents of the Great Old Ones. "Who sent you?" The cleric demanded.

The mare don't really understand just said. "Who? Me?"

((Who is that "they"?))

"M'lady I've been speaking to you since you've infiltrated my place of sanctuary." The cleric said as he opened a window to address the intruder. "Again... who are you and who sends you?"

"Um... I'm a magician and... I teleported without knowing where just after I got attacked by some kind of monster... no one sended me... I'm so sorry for the infiltration! >A<" She said.

The cleric relaxed, but was also put off by his own actions. "Forgive me friend, I normally can sense others' auras and read their thoughts but you'd caught me by surprise." Lumine pleaded. "We've been getting ready in our fight against the Eldritch abominations. But, first we must seek out any of The Six we can."

"The Eldritch abominations?" she questioned. "There's really a lot of thing that I don't know... and yes, I forgive you."

Book Keeper stuck her head out of the window.

"You can come in, if you like," she told the mare.

"Oh, yes. Thank you!" She walks awkwardly toward the entrance. "Ugh... it's not easy to walk with my back-leg in this condition..."

"I'll help you."

Book Keeper left the window and exited the cottage. She moved to the mare and helped her inside.

"Ah, thank you." ((you can ask why she wears socks if you want.))

"Madam are you cold?" Lumine asked as he motioned toward the visitor's socks. "I've the hearth afire and it's quite toasty in here."

"Um... I'm not so cold, it's just that I..." she realizes after that the cleric asked because she wears socks. "uh..."

"If you care not to answer it's fine... it's probably not my business." Lumine replied. He continued to gather supplies with some of his scrolls and holy tomes. He'd also packed some mana potions, healing elixirs, and antidotes with food to sustain them.

"Well... I got hit by a beam on my back right leg... and I wear socks for hide it..." she said.

The cleric went to a cabinet where he'd grabbed some salves, poultices, tinctures, and ointments. "Show me," Lumine insisted, "I should have something that could help you."

*sits down* "Uh, it's not really a 'normal' beam..." She takes off her sock and shows him her 'turned to stone' leg... "I don't know if you have something for this... and I should be more careful..."

Lumine looks upon the petrified limb and takes out a scroll which he lays onto the floor. After placing both hooves upon the leg he then recites an incantation as he begins his healing meditation. Slowly, the leg begins to turn to flesh although completely bare of fur. With that, the scroll had vanished into a pile of ash on the wooded floor of the cabin.

"That should do it, you might feel a little stiff in that leg until you regain your natural gate." Lumine professed

The mare is interested on how Lumine cured her leg, she say: "Thank you! I do like to learn how you do this..."

She wears on again the sock and notices Blaze. "Um... Hello, mister. X3" *Turn back to Lumine* "What are you saying already? Ah! The Six! Are you talking about the Element of Harmony?"

"Hello," Blaze replies in an awkwardly dry tone.

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The mare is interested on how Lumine cured her leg, she say: "Thank you! I do like to learn how you do this..."

She wears on again the sock and notices Blaze. "Um... Hello, mister. X3" *Turn back to Lumine* "What are you saying already? Ah! The Six! Are you talking about the Element of Harmony?"

"The Six as in The Keepers of the Elements." Lumine elaborated. "Others have claimed to have sighted them since the gods had taken over, but none are too certain as to their whereabouts. However, I may have evidence that perhaps that all, if not one, are hiding out somewhere in the icy north."

The mare slowly gets up on her hooves and say. "So... you all are here to find where are them? If it's the case, I can maybe help you." It's would be difficult to know that she's a unicorn since she hides her horn with her top hat...

"The North? You're going to need maps, and knowledge about traversing the mountain passes," Blaze says out loud, though not really to any specific pony.

"Well if it's knowledge you need, then I'm your mare!" Book Keeper said brightly.

"Very good... I'm already well prepared for our journey, I 'll give you time to gather whatever you may need. " Lumine declared. "What's mine is yours."

The mare was silent for a moment before realizing that she forgot something. "Ah! My saddlebag!" She runs and went out of the cottage but then... she slipped and falls on the ground. "Ouch... looks like it's not my Lucky day..."

Blaze sits down and closes his eyes, his mind drifting off to the frigid north.

Book Keeper took a few moments to retrieve the relevant information, then waited for the mare to return to the cottage.

The mare gets up and run toward the tree where she crashed and she walks up the tree... wait, how she do that? ... Oh well, she found her saddlebag, still on the tree, relieved that it's didn't disappear. "Oof... Good, it's still there." she takes back the saddlebag, jump down on the ground and come back in the cottage.

Blaze seems to be well invested in whatever meditative state he was in, not making a single movement and breathing at an almost unnoticeably slow rate.

Lumine is curious as to what could be going on in Blaze's mind; however, he recalls what had happened when he had tried to tap into his mind. But, rather than see into his mind he decided he could perceive his thoughts. By tapping into his energies, Lumine began to feel his thoughts in his mind. He made it a point not to force communication and only "listen".

Blazes thoughts are a flurry of geographical information, with various measurements, shapes, and speculations all going on at a break neck pace. While it is impossible to be sure, the information Blaze is processing seems to be pertaining to a location with high heights and steep angles.

"So, are you ready to hear the information?" Book Keeper asked the other mare as she reentered the cottage.

"Huh? A information? Why not? I really need some information before I make some mistake." She said as she's looking in her saddlebag.

Lumine was pretty good at multitasking and thus retained his focus on Blaze's thoughts while listening to Book Keeper and watching her lips closely. All the while he perceived too many mathematical figures with latitudes and longitudes down to degrees, minutes and seconds. Before his was cleric, Lumine had been a monastic, even as a colt. Although he'd received his education in a religious academy like all foals seeking holy orders, he'd never gone to any higher institutions... not even community college. So, all the trigonometric formulas that accompanied other complexities eluded him. But pick up on the words glacier, tomb, and Sombra... such word made his blood run cold.

"...and that's how you get through the pass," Book Keeper finished. "Any questions?"

Blaze opens his eyes and his thoughts seem to snap back to his surroundings, though many measurements still fly around in the background. Hearing Books plan, he replies, "Yeah, how do you expect to get around all of the avalanche hotspots and crevices that have been appearing ever since apocalypse?"

"Aye, to reach that pass there is a steep face... or rather, a wall." Lumine interjected. "Perhaps it would be safer if we went by boat through the caverns beneath to reach Sombra's tomb?"

"I don't do boats," Blaze replies with a hint of fear and anger.

"Wait... Sombra's tomb? Don't tell me it's something with the King Sombra..."

"What better place for a Keeper to hide from the Elder gods than the tomb of Sombra, himself?" Lumine retorted. "Blaze you just stated your concern for the hazards about the pass, so it could be said that the caverns may be our safest route as we would also be out of the elements and the gaze of many of the gods' minions."

"Well you can go through that deathtrap of a cave by yourselves, I am not stepping on any raft you put in those waters."

Book Keeper looked at the brown pony curiously.

"Do you have aquaphobia?" she asked him.

"I don't know how much you know about me, but this cartographer likes to keep all four hooves on the ground," Blaze retorts.

He picks up on a stray thought from Blaze, or rather a memory of from his foalhood. Suddenly, Lumine began to gag and gargle as he'd seen images of young foal who'd been thrown in into a pool. He thrashed about on the floor huffing and spitting intermittently in unison with the child pony inside his thoughts. At moments of resurfacing he could see a stallion shouting and even mocking the young one, screaming to kick with his legs and take a breath.

Despite his efforts he would only choke on the chlorinated liquid that stung his eyes and filled his ears. Upon reading the lips of what was assumed to be Blaze's father, he saw insults to Blaze's stallionhood as well as his physical strength. After the memory had subsided, Lumine sat up teary eyed and coughing profusely before finally regaining his composure.*

"Somepony in your family was a swimming coach for a collegiate team. He was not a stallion of patience and treated you much like his swimmers, it was his idea that you were to learn as he did in his youth. Thus, you never lived up to his expectations in his eyes. My friend... these memories that scar you will only hold you back in life and bring about many demons, lest you face them... and with dignity. But, that lies on you to do so whenever you're ready. Just know that, there are others who are no stranger to abuse from those close to us." Lumine's clairvoyance was always good in helping him help others, but sometimes he would regret having to see the misfortunes of others as it would occasionally add to some of the demons he struggled to carry himself.

(Um, Blaze doesn't dislike water, he dislikes seafaring because it blinds his sense that allows 3D perception of the landscape along with measurements and whatnot. It's very uncomfortable for him to have sense deprivation for this sense)

((well... can that kinda be part of it somehow?))

((I'd prefer not, it's nice of you to write something that detailed, but it is my character))

"So, let us gather whatever else we may and if need be, what's mine is yours." Lumine said.

"Why won't you take a boat?" Book Keeper asked the brown pony,  more curious than before. "It currently stands as a faster and safer route,  so why not take it?"

"I do not have to explain my reasoning to those it does not concern, I'll take the path I'm most suited to and ensure you aren't pursued by creatures crossing the mountain," Blaze says with outright annoyance.

Book Keeper snorted. "Does not concern? If we're going to be working together, then it most definitely concerns us!"

"Well if you want to know so much about me, why don't we have a confessional and get all the skeletons out of the closet before we begin working together, or you can respect my privacy and we can get this mission underway."

Lumine was ready for the journey and waited on his companions to ready up for their departure. It was his hope the princesses were still alive and only in the throws of a deathly sleep. From the vision of the Yithian prophecy to the writing on the tablet he began to question his sense of reality at times. Were the visions even real premonitions? Were they a product of his devotion to and drive to restore Equestria? Lumine sat and went over some texts trying to piece together anything that could point to the success of their mission.

"There has to be something... anything." Lumine whispered to himself, "Even so, if a few can stand against the gods, then perhaps many will follow."

"Takes more than a scholar, a priest, and a cartographer to rally a people against gods," Blaze says pessimistically.

"You're right..." Lumine said as she stood, his armor scraping and ringing. "It takes great faith, courage, and sacrifice." Much as Lumine was one for positivity and hope for the future... he was only mortal. Of course, he would wonder exactly how they were going to stand against the ones who'd driven many to madness from being gazed upon. Then it had occured to him, even if they were victorious, to what would it cost them their sanity?

"Are we ready to depart?" Lumine questioned.

Book Keeper nodded. "I'm in."

"Ready as always," Blaze says half-heartedly, these words being spoken so often that they have long since Los the adventurous charm of his past.

"Um... I think I'm Ready!" says the white unicorn as she's looking in her saddlebag.

"All right," Lumine slung his saddle bag over himself. "Let us depart for Canterlot, hopefully we can find safe passage to the Crystal Empire from there."

"Oh um... I forgot to ask your names... sorry for that."

Book Keeper stood still, completely gobsmacked.

"Oh, wow, I don't know how we didn't around to that," she face-hooved. "I'm Book Keeper, the best knowledge broker in Baltimare!"

She struck a pose while saying this, remembering the days when that was all she was.

Blaze answers in a bored  tone, "Blazing Legend, Cartographer Extraordinaire."

"I am Lumine... cleric, clairvoyant, and seer." Lumine declared with a bow. He'd opened the door to the grey world outside as a storm began to brew overhead. "To Canterlot we go..."

"hmm... right. here we go." *sigh*

The company set forth towards the Equestria's capital. They could not travel by trains as many ponies once had before as there was the great possibility that few ponies knew how to drive them. Also much of their technology had been destroyed in the war with the gods. While trekking through the shadows of the forests, Lumine could see the many souls of those who'd died succumbing to the perils of the Everfree Forest. 'Twas those same dead who guided the way to safety.

"Stay close..." Lumine commanded, "The Everfree Forest can be quite hazardous, but here is probably the most dangerous. If nothing delays us we should leave this place by nightfall before the Nightgaunts begin to emerge."

"Please, I practically grew up in the Everfree Forest. I'll get us out before sundown," Blaze said pridefully. It had been a long time since he'd traversed the Everfree, but he was sure that he could prove his claim, as long as the others could keep up that is.

"You can never bee too careful in these woods." Lumine replied. "Every twist and turn can lead to your doom and nothing ever remains the same in this place."

"Do you not trust me in my area of expertise?"

"I'm sure you're very well-rounded in your field my friend." Lumine rebuttled. "But, these woods have claimed many unwary travelers as this place can take quite a toll on one's stability and have been known to drive others to madness before succumbing to fate." With that Lumine eyed the apparition of an emaciated filly swaying about with eyes seemingly betwixt coal black, sunken eyelids. Her eyes widened and her mouth gaped out out of joint as if she were trying to scream. There came a stench of sulfur and smoke from the distance along with barking, which meant only one thing...

"Hellhounds?" Lumine's voice had cracked, "We must hide.. if we behold their forms we will surely be sent to an early end."

The ghost floated backwards as if telling them to follow. "Run..."

Blaze breaks out in a run, his experienced steps each finding there footing, and his head and body easily dodged the brush and branches.

As soon as Lumine said to hide, the mare disappeared immediately. Where is she?

Book Keeper immediately bolted in Blaze's direction.

Lumine goes after them while the spectre follows behind. At some point the little one went out in front and began to go another direction alien to their trajectory. Lumine grabbed the two in front and while calling for unicorn to halt. He then pointed in the same direction as the soul that had gone ahead. "That way... she will lead us to saftey." Lumine whispered among the distant rabble of the infernal beasts.

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Post Merge

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"Hurry" Lumine cried. He sped off to follow the spirit ash she led the way to a safe haven from the hellhounds that now seemed to be hot on their trail.

If you hear and look carefully, there's leaves on the trees shaking. Seems like that something is hidden on the tree and follows the soul.

Lumine focuses and drowns out the sound of the hell hounds and hears the tinkling of little bells within the leaves. "Soul bells!" he gasped, "Under the tree! The bells ward off evil."

Blazing Legend makes a daring leap to the cover of the tree. "Who in their right mind would leave soul bells hanging around?" he questions openly.

Book Keeper ran to the tree as fast as she could.  "Somepony who wanted to make a small haven, perhaps," she answered Blaze.

"If there's one thing I learned, it's that if it seems to good to be true, then it probably is," Blaze answers pessimistically.

Lumine could hear the snarling Tartarosian canines approaching. "Do not open your eyes!" Lumine commanded, "no matter what happens do not look at them for any reason!" Lumine jammed his eyes shut as he heard the sizzling foot falls of the hellhounds' paws as they progressed towards them.

Book Keeper was confused by Lumine's command, but she shut her tightly anyways.

Blaze ignores Lumine's warning and stands firm, staring hatefully at the hellhounds.

A great wind rushed through the trees as the song of the soul bells had gently rang through the leaves. With that, the hellhounds could only retreat and Lumine listened for their voices to recede into the forest. Then silence had taken over. "Okay, we're safe." Lumine whispered. Upon opening his eyes he saw Blaze standing before them all as though he were ready to strike only moments before.

"You looked at them!" he cried, "You looked at them and now you are cursed..."

Blaze turns around and faces the rest of the party, his expression being of determined anger.

Book Keeper frowned.

"My information was inaccurate," she murmured thoughtfully,  turning to face Blaze. "I would like to know why you did not heed Lumine's advice."

"Because I'm sick and tired of running from these things. Besides, we have these protective bells don't we?"

Book Keeper face-hooved, and then she face-hooved again.

"Most protective magics focus on a particular area, and do not serve as a catchall for every possible threat. So while these bells kept them from attacking us physically, apparently a mental barrier wasn't included. And it appears that you are now cursed."

"You will be taken before your time friend... and most unexpectedly. I'm afraid there is nothing that can be done to dispel it either." Lumine added.

"So be it, I was just going to die unexpectedly and before my time anyways," Blaze says before stomping off in the direction that the party was headed.

We hear a *crack* on the tree then the mare falls on Lumine. "ouch... hmm?" And she didn't know it. Thank you tree, we should be careful with our weight when we are on a small branch.

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We hear a *crack* on the tree then the mare falls on Lumine. "ouch... hmm?" And she didn't know it. Thank you tree, we should be careful with our weight when we are on a small branch.

"Madam... I'm afraid I'm not the tree." Lumine responded. He then picked her up as they continued on their way from the Everfree forest. They'd left the heart of the dark wood, to where the trees began to clear a bit. Lumine still thought about Blaze all the while. There was no telling how or when he would die, and none could out run the reach of the reaper. For all he knew he might wake up and find Blaze simply lifeless upon the ground cold as stone.

As others carried on he felt sorrow for his cursed companion. It was right as the evening mist began to rise that they had reached an old town. According to a splintered and rotted sign they were in Ponyville; once a beautiful, small, and lively town was a shadow of it's former glory and rife gloom and shadow as it had appeared abandoned. Yet, Lumine sensed it was not uninhabited. "I can sense others still living in this desolate place... hidden." Lumine observed.

The mare is speechless when she sees Ponyville... "... how... how could this possible? And when all this thing happened? How much time did I left Ponyville? I... I remember nothing... all I remember is just..." Well, she hides her face with her hat. What did you expect?

The cleric looked to his saddened ally. "You must have been gone quite awhile as the gods had done this years ago during the invasion and many have gone into hiding since then."

Blazing yells back to the party from a sizable distance away, "Are we going or not?"

"Then keep up my good friend." Lumine called. Lumine looked about until the apparition of an elder pony pointed to the old castle. Once a symbol of grandeur in that little town was now reduced to ruins overgrown with ivy and cracked masonry. "Twilight's castle... I doubt she lives there now, but perhaps we may find some information since she kept a pretty extensive library."

((Lucky, we are really in this time line.))

The mare looks around while following them, she remember thing. "This hospital... It's where I wake up and the first thing that I remember, but... I remember nothing about my past... I opened my eyes, the Elements of Harmony are there, worried about me and the doctor that walked into the room saying that I lost my memory... :c"

Book Keeper, knowing how awful that could be, walked over to the white mare, and gave her a hug.

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((Lucky, we are really in this time line.))

The mare looks around while following them, she remember thing. "This hospital... It's where I wake up and the first thing that I remember, but... I remember nothing about my past... I opened my eyes, the Elements of Harmony are there, worried about me and the doctor that walked into the room saying that I lost my memory... :c"

"I'm sorry you had to experience that." Lumine sympathized, "To lose one's memory sounds as close to a grim fate as any... like a living ghost in a world full of phantoms with faces one cannot recall. I pray you regain whatever memories you've lost... for now let us into the castle, but be on your guard." Lumine then walks into the darkness of the main entrance with mace drawn and mind focused.

Blazing legend is mentally scanning the landscape for any subterranean movements, as well as obvious places to avoid such as cave systems and dead-fall cliffs.

The mare hugs back. "Thank you for the hug." *To Lumine* "Well... AppleJack, the Element of Honesty, said it's better if I don't remember... I surely did something bad, really really bad to make her said that... :s"

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Blazing legend is mentally scanning the landscape for any subterranean movements, as well as obvious places to avoid such as cave systems and dead-fall cliffs.

Right before they'd entered the castle Lumine seemed to have lost control himself and then gripped her front hooves. With eyes wide and frantic he sudden began to take on a bit of an interrogative tone. "You've seen the Princess of Honesty!" he snapped suddenly, "Where did you see her!? Where can we find her!? I need to know!" The poor mare appeared to be increasingly frightened by this sudden change in Lumine's mood and actions.

"P-Princess of H-Honesty?" Say the mare really confused when Lumine considered Applejack as a Princess.

"Calm down, you're scaring her!" Book Keeper chided Lumine.

Lumine immediately let go. "I'm so sorry... let's search the castle for some clues." He led the way into the dark hall of Ponyville's former symbol of granduer. 'Twas here that Princess Twilight oversaw Equestria looking for any potential friendship problems on a magical map at her round table. According to Lumine, said map would have been of great assistance... that is if it were still there, or course.

((Yeah, about the Princess thing... I figured we could so something to where they've all become Princess with their own domains until the war with the gods.))

((They all become Alicorns Princess?... H-how many years...?))

"I... got a question. H-how many years is passed after Princess Twilight have her Castle?" Ask the mare.

Lumine kept walking into the darkness as he dipped a torch in a barrel of oil and lit it with a flint. "I was a fresh neophyte who'd just reached stallionhood." He declared, "Nearly a decade ago, on a day like any other, the sun still shone while the sky turned black as I watched monstrosities emerge from above and crawl out of the seas. I watched as ponies went mad through this whole ordeal, but the Princesses tried what they could to fight back against them only to suffer defeat in a matter of two days. As for the Princesses that remain, they ran and hid; but if you've found Princess Applejack... then they have not abandoned us."

Lumine heard a noise shuffling in the darkness of castle. Much to big to be a rodent but not quite so big... still he wasn't about to take chances. "Keep your wits about you... something knows we're here." Lumine warned.

"Well maybe they wouldn't have if you hadn't been giving a running commentary and lighting torches," Blaze responds in frustration. He continues to say, "I don't need the light to see, so I'll scout out ahead. Alone."

"No!" Lumine snapped, "We stay together. The worst thing we can do is stretch ourselves too thin and risk being picked off for there's no telling what resides here. You've already beheld the hellhound. Do you really wish to die so soon?"

"And a flock of sitting ducks is the better option?" Blaze says skeptically.

"A... decade ago?" she looks down and flattened her ears, now she understand all the change during her absence.
Where was she when all those thing happened?

There came the same noise from earlier. Lumine homed in on it's energy and discovered it was quite fearful, though large in stature. Judging by the energies he was picking up, it didn't seem malicious. But an animal will fight back in the face of fear. "I don't think it means us any harm, but we must not startle it too much lest it seek to defend itself. I believe there is a library... watch your backs." Lumine commanded.

((Um))

As soon Lumine said to watch their back, the mare suddenly look behind.

Lumine, with the rest of his company, proceeded through the cavernous halls of that old relic that once stood prominently in Ponyville's center. The old statuary cast stoic expressions from the dark like ghosts from an age of glory turned dusty and tarnished like decayed in a crypt only recently unsealed. A joyous network of laughter and festivity became a labyrinth of desolation and mystery as they went about finding the library. Lumine noticed that the creature began to encroach on them little by little from round about as if examining them or perhaps sizing them up for a desperate attack  as they'd finally reached the library.

"Let us be quick about finding whatever we can and then leave this place." Lumine drew his mace as he looked about. "For I fear we be over staying our welcome."

Blaze followed with caution, scouting the landscape ahead and periodically checking the ground underneath the group for tunneling creatures. The low-light conditions don't even faze Blaze, as he sees the ground far better than any eye ever could.

Lumine carefully searched shelves and pedestals for tomes that could provide clues for their quest, but wasn't having much luck. "Anypony having any luck?" Lumine called.

The mare just walks around, lost in her thought. Without watching carefully, she bumps her head into a bookshelves and faint.
A book fall on her. With luck, it's can be that book.

Lumine runs over to see what's the matter. He find's his comrade appears to be incapacitated and revives her with a vial of smelling salts. He looked upon the book that had fallen to discover that it was a decrepit tome written in an ancient Equestrian dialect from a time before Discord's reign. It contained information about "The Great Old Ones" and their barbaric rituals. The book may not have given them information on how to combat the vile creatures, but perhaps Discord himself may have defeated them once.

According to memory, Lumine recalled Discord having disappeared some years before the great calamity. Everypony and every thing else, thought he was blubbering mad gibberish and being maniacal when he one day started going around and declaring a beast was awakening from the cosmos beneath the sea... saying the off worlders would return from the skies and to prepare for the coming battle. Of course, who would believe an ex-god of chaos who had been reformed by the Princess of Kindness, Fluttershy. Although, there were a movement of ponies who would join him in a sort of upstart cult whom the Diarchs did banish from Equestria to Terradraconis, even he said until he was literally blue in the face that he sought not to overthrow them, nor was he seeking patronage  as he did serve the Princesses.

"Of course, Discord had of fought them... but is he still alive?" Lumine thought out loud.

Suddenly a voice came from the darkness. It came from a fully grown dragon that emerged with a metal encased book. The purple dragon's scales were cracked and covered with dust and cobwebs much like the green spines on his back and head. His eyes glowing, though blood shot and filled with despair. The dragon, called Spike, told them the book had once belonged to Princess Twilight before she'd mysteriously vanished.

((Seriously? Why this RP died? I guess everyone is busy at this time.))

The mare waked up by Lumine, she shakes her head and it's seems like that bumping her head into the bookshelves remembered her something. Now she's in fear. "It is... me...?" that's all she said for remembering what happened.

Lumine shook his head. "What do you mean?" he asked.

"Many thanks spike," Blaze says with humility to Spike, who had graciously offered up information.

"I... I remember something but... I never thought about this."

While Lumine talks with the shy mare, Spike recalls Princess Twilight telling him she sought to find her friends and then try to have Discord aid them. She said she sought to gain entry to Discord's realm of chaos, but knew of only one place one could do so. Yet, none have ever really found it as it was pretty much a thing of myth. Apparently the book that fell from the shelves would also bear some information.

Upon hearing the mare speak of this memory Lumine decided to put his hooves to her face. But upon doing so saw only silhouettes, like shadowponies almost and sounds were all garbled. His eyes rolled over in his head. "What am I seeing, friend?" Lumine asked, "It looks like one has cursed this memory."

(sorry for the lack of posts, I'll try to be better about it :c)

Book Keeper was meanwhile examining the books on the shelves, looking for a a second or two at each page before moving to the next one.

Lumine focused all the more but could barley make out any speech or faces. "Indeed, this memory is cursed by an outside force." Lumine observed, "somepony or something doesn't wish for for you to recall what happened."

"I know... Princess Twilight really make her success to hide my memories but... I wonder why she hides it."

((Twilight hides the memories of the mare trying to destroy Equestria and being stopped by the mane 6. That's why Twilight hides it. But another memory is there that Twilight didn't hide it well. I will not say it what.))

"When did you encounter Twilight Sparkle?" Lumine released his hooves from her face. Meanwhile Spike looked up as a smile suddenly flashed across his face. All the while being frantic asking a barrage of question as to whether she was still alive.

"Well... a days or a week after she get her Castle?"

"Oh, so that long ago..." Lumine fell silent afterwards. Spike couldn't quite recall ever seeing her when Twilight had been given this castle. was this pony part of secret meetings perhaps?

"And people wondered why I wasn't a huge supporter of the royal family," Blaze says to himself.

"That royal family had protected us ponies from many threats, even when the gods had invaded our world. Perhaps if they'd listened to Discord then maybe we would have been prepared, but even so the sisters fought to the very end against the elder gods!" Lumine interjected. "Surely Discord is still alive and can help us."

"Discord won't be found, unless he wants to be found. Not to mention how much of a wild card he is."

"That was one of the first things that I tried to do,"  Book Keeper interjected, still reading pages, "but nothing worked."

"If I'm not mistaken he can be summoned." Lumine recalled, "It's a long and very drawn out ritual that requires all participants to fast and have nothing to eat until the ritual is complete and it cannot be stopped or postponed for any reason. But when completed Discord must show himself as he is bound by it!"

"And how do you propose we accomplish such a feat with only scavenged resources and memories of myths to go off of?"

Lumine then opens the book from the shelf to a page depicting the ritual. "All I need is some black soapstone and a suit of raven's feathers with red candles. We also need a cauldron filled with Seer's Sage and keep it burning steady."

"Seer's sage shouldn't be too hard, but I don't know how we'll be able to collect any raven feathers or red candles within a timely manner."

"I once had to learn how to make candles from bees wax and these ones requires incense known as Dragon's Blood to give it the color it needs. Raven's feathers are going to be the most problematic, lest one of us knows where to find a whole suit."

"owch... my head... I somehow remember somepony..." She whispered to herself while putting a hoof on her head.

"Is it one who can help us?" Lumine asked.

"I'm not sure that attempting to call Discord would be a wise idea." Book Keeper paused from her book reading to address the others.

"He would know more of these eldritch fiends than any of us. If we could summon him then perhaps he may be able to atleast give us some information." Lumine contended.

"If you can find the materials, than I'd be willing to partake. Not like we have much left to lose nowadays."

"Right, but it seems like our friend here might know where to find the raven suit." Lumine gestured towards the one still holding her head in anguish.

((Guess what? I can't find the sign up for this RP. It's removed from the "Roleplaying Thread".))

((We'll have to post the profiles on this thread. But maybe you should copy it as a signature or in your personal profile, too))

"Mrs. Aded... this person you recall. Can they help us?" Lumine persisted.

((Sorry for this long late reply))

"I don't know if she can help us or found her... And I forgot where is this "base" is..."

"Okay," Lumine looked to all present. "Until we have the materials to summon Discord we still have our primary objective... finding the other Princesses. Twilight will have to wait as she may be currently residing in Discord's world. Now Anded has seen Applejack so she would be the one to start with."

((Oh shoot, I guess this RP died on me because of my awkardness...))

((No I guess nobody wants to play anymore.))

((I'll continue with it, I just don't know how))

"Now Anded... you say you met Princess Applejack." Lumine asserted, "Where last did you meet her?"

((??? I'm not sure if we walked to Zecora's home or not yet and plus now I'm lost when you said they are already next to that cyborg zombie like pony...))

((Anded said she'd knew where to find Princess Applejack right?))

((Did she? Because I didn't used this character yet in this RP... the one who's with you is nicknamed "Joy". Not "Anded"))