Post by Serenity on Jul 15, 2013 15:14:57 GMT -5
Oh, you'll see
"The answer is quite simple here, gentlemen. How would one get all these nice shinies from here all the way to the sands? Magic?" Quick said with a grin, so sure of himself.
"Magic? What sort of magic would get you from here to there without anyone bloody noticing ya?"
"The ancient kind. Our bumpkins must have stumbled upon a treasure and taken advantage of it."
Quick walked over to one of the corpses, and bent down to rummage through the belongings. His back was facing everyone as it looked like he was searching for something specific, but Neko could tell at one point that Quick made a move for the card in his coat pocket. Clearly, he didn't want the others to know about the item she discovered.
"What I have here, gentleman, is a scroll." Quick said as he raised up a rolled up sheet of paper, his back still turned, "I'm sure it will answer the woes of our lizard folk."
Quick unrolled the sheet of paper, but none could see what was on it from where they stood. Then the Sellsword captain spoke aloud with a commanding voice,
"And so great King Solomon went through The Beyond, and so too was his kingdom swallowed by The Beyond, leaving nothing but the laugh of The Jester echoing across the great void."
As Quick finished what sounded like the recitation of an epic poem, or at least part of it, nothing had happened. Neko and the other merc captains looked around waiting for something amazing to occur, even a backlash of magical energy. The horses remained calm in their place and the other men of the caravan jerked their heads around at any little thing for magic stuff to happen.
"Well that was a whole lot of nothing," started a man we'll call Jesse for the sake of identity.
"Quick, show me that damned scroll-"
The sound of a thunder clap cut the Merc Captain Smitch off as he spoke, and the ground trembled. The horses began to buck with their drivers trying to calm them down as the world became dark all around them. It was if the sun was being forcibly blocked out as the clouds filled the sky and rumbled it with thunder.
For a single instant, all sound became mute. Then, in the next moment the door to the other side showed itself to them.
It was like a black pearl, massive, in the middle of the road. The surface of it was blacker than a starless sky, and its presence was most disturbing. The thing was present, yet, Neko got the strange sense that it wasn't there at all. As if the world was trying to reject its existence. It was a thing not of this world.
The area was still darkened around them, as if the gods themselves looked down at this moment.
"The answer is quite simple here, gentlemen. How would one get all these nice shinies from here all the way to the sands? Magic?" Quick said with a grin, so sure of himself.
"Magic? What sort of magic would get you from here to there without anyone bloody noticing ya?"
"The ancient kind. Our bumpkins must have stumbled upon a treasure and taken advantage of it."
Quick walked over to one of the corpses, and bent down to rummage through the belongings. His back was facing everyone as it looked like he was searching for something specific, but Neko could tell at one point that Quick made a move for the card in his coat pocket. Clearly, he didn't want the others to know about the item she discovered.
"What I have here, gentleman, is a scroll." Quick said as he raised up a rolled up sheet of paper, his back still turned, "I'm sure it will answer the woes of our lizard folk."
Quick unrolled the sheet of paper, but none could see what was on it from where they stood. Then the Sellsword captain spoke aloud with a commanding voice,
"And so great King Solomon went through The Beyond, and so too was his kingdom swallowed by The Beyond, leaving nothing but the laugh of The Jester echoing across the great void."
As Quick finished what sounded like the recitation of an epic poem, or at least part of it, nothing had happened. Neko and the other merc captains looked around waiting for something amazing to occur, even a backlash of magical energy. The horses remained calm in their place and the other men of the caravan jerked their heads around at any little thing for magic stuff to happen.
"Well that was a whole lot of nothing," started a man we'll call Jesse for the sake of identity.
"Quick, show me that damned scroll-"
The sound of a thunder clap cut the Merc Captain Smitch off as he spoke, and the ground trembled. The horses began to buck with their drivers trying to calm them down as the world became dark all around them. It was if the sun was being forcibly blocked out as the clouds filled the sky and rumbled it with thunder.
For a single instant, all sound became mute. Then, in the next moment the door to the other side showed itself to them.
It was like a black pearl, massive, in the middle of the road. The surface of it was blacker than a starless sky, and its presence was most disturbing. The thing was present, yet, Neko got the strange sense that it wasn't there at all. As if the world was trying to reject its existence. It was a thing not of this world.
The area was still darkened around them, as if the gods themselves looked down at this moment.