« Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Next » Reply Share Thread Facebook Twitter Tumblr LinkedIn MySpace Email Go to Previous Thread Next Thread Please make a selection first Author Topic: Rips and tears (Val/invite) (Read 1,377 times) Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 5, 2016 2:07:01 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Jim?" He blinked. It was a pretty common name so just saying the first name didn't do much unless... "Wait. Clavish? Like. Empire dude!?" Jesus. Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 5, 2016 2:34:13 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Clavish, yes, Empire, no... 'Cause the one in the void was there for a long while, even if time was wonky there. From what little I know of Empire Jim, the Jim I know would have to snap a whole lot to become that. And come back from the void after being there a really long time." Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 6, 2016 23:46:43 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "You lost me. Care to explain?" Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 7, 2016 1:30:58 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "The Jim I know died, and didn't come back. Or, in a way, COULDN'T come back, since he was in the void and not one place or another. Limbo." When Jim "returned" from the dead, she was in Paris investigating. "I never got the chance to meet Jim from the Empire, but since he's so different from the Jim I know, my guess is he's from another dimension. I've been to several of them, met counterparts, learned of some that wanted dominion across space and time. Wouldn't know what he'd want here though. Been too busy to keep up." Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 10, 2016 0:46:23 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Well, if he isn't your Jim. And is from another Dimension what is he doing here instead of where he's from?" Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 10, 2016 2:04:05 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Maybe he can't go back. Perhaps he found something he wouldn't find in his own dimension. From my experience with immortals, he's probably occupying his time with some hobby or other. Short term goals." Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 10, 2016 19:48:51 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "I think if he is working with the Empire like reports indicate it's gone beyond a hobby. Ruling and terrorizing a continent isn't exactly like collecting stamps." Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 10, 2016 21:58:48 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "You got a point there..." Gengar floats by, sticking out its tongue for attention. Valencia reaches out to pat its head. "So what has he been up to, exactly?" Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 16:54:41 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Eric shrugs. "Hell if I know? And that's scary as shit. All I know is that apparently he is running Turkey? But information beyond that seems pretty sketchy. Though I heard he was in Chicago not long ago, though the team sent to bring him in failed." Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 17:37:36 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Have you met him though? What's he like?" Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 17:38:38 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top He shook his head. "I wasn't on that mission. But from the little I heard, he isn't someone you want to meet." Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 18:06:16 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Haha... That's a lot of people out there..." And they all have or had different reasons why you wouldn't want to meet them. "Anyways, on the matter of your ability... Or at least the void I visited. It's an unusual place. You had to do a lot of unconscious or abstract thinking to allow yourself to do anything there beyond floating. Diving in and out of it via death and revival was little different from instinctively swimming to the surface of a pool. The Jim I met there spoke in another color while trying to figure out how I did it. He changed in size, changed perspective..." Gengar gives Valencia the book it ate. "Now that I think about it, I wonder if what you do is a physical version of accessing the void. The reality we feel is the top or bottom planes of the fabric. The Nexus is on the other side, and the edges of the fabric are the void. The space between dimensions." Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 18:10:33 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "That's kind of what I was thinking. Like, if we are in this reality. But there is another reality that we will call Reality B. The Nexus is what connects those two places. However I always thought there was something else. Something more akin to the classic Greek Chaos. The Nothingness where Everything sprung from. Something that connects us to the Nexus." He hesitated before waving his hand and two portals would appear on either side of Valencia. She'd feel the air and world around her violently rip apart. "Like this. How many portals do you see?" Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 18:15:21 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Valencia winces hardcore. "--Two." She looks through the portals. Cautiously, as if to avoid falling through. Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 18:23:36 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top She looks through one and out of the other! Eric shook his head. "Just one. Two sides of the same coin. And so it is when I open up portals to grab objects. But I normally don't feel anything but the object when I do. Where with this, I can reach through one and poke you. So to me that always said to me that the portals were creating the items, rather than me stealing them. Or if not the portals, wherever I opened them up to..." Could it be her void? He'd close the portals and she would feel reality mend itself back together, though much weaker and stretched thin where the tears had been. Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 18:43:08 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Hmm..." Her poor library is gonna have these "portal scorch marks" now... "So the portal themselves are the planes, dimensions, not necessarily what's on the other side?" Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 18:49:32 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "I don't know. I don't exactly have someone that can show me the ropes, so I'm just kind of figuring it out as I go along. I don't think they are the dimensions themselves since I can get to the Nexus. So I mean, they are probably doorways. But there seems to be a difference between the type of portals I can make? I don't know." Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 18:52:19 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Valencia closes her eyes and feels out the weakened patches of reality. She's trying to feel, smell, hear anything familiar about it. More specifically, what's on the other side of the proverbial wet tissue paper. Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 18:56:15 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top The ones that he just opened just feel violent and painful. There is a faint smell of something familiar, possibly the void from the portal that he pulled an item out of for her. However all of the portal residue and Eric himself just reeks of wrongness and death. Something that doesn't belong. Something that shouldn't be here. That should not exist, or does not exist. Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 19:03:46 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top She withdraws her hand in pain. She opens her eyes and shakes her head. "Only a bit of it is familiar. You and the portals are a lot alike. Makes me wonder if you came from somewhere else, to put it one way..." Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 19:06:47 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Like not in Chicago? Cause yeah, But I'm American if that's what you are worried about." He wasn't a spy or anything.... Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 19:11:14 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Were you born with your ability? Or how did you get it?" Hopefully this doesn't come across as too weird. Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 19:14:55 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "I was born with it. But so were a lot of people!" He was starting to get a little defensive and feeling put on the spot all of a sudden. Back to Top   Eric ๖ۣValencia Tiao Hero Miss Fortune Now what? [send pm] Joined: June 2009 Posts: 7,082 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 19:26:26 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Not everyone's born with a power like this. Of course, powers do manifest in weird ways. I'm trying to figure something out... Don't worry, you're trustworthy. I'm just baffled by how you emanate this presence that's similar to your portals. I don't think you can feel it." Back to Top   Eric Phillips Hero Intelligence A man of many hats [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 5,490 Rips and tears (Val/invite) « Mar 18, 2016 19:29:53 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top He raises an eyebrow at her, not quite following but wanting to hear her out, even if he still felt a bit put on the spot. "What presence?" Back to Top   Eric Reply Share Thread Facebook Twitter Tumblr LinkedIn MySpace Email Go to Previous Thread Next Thread Please make a selection first