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A~E Magnolia: Reworking


I'm not gonna lie to you. I didn't like this post at all.
The crappy barton town thread
Joseph Brown
It was a bizarre sight, a lone cycloptic figure standing on a stage before a group of other figures. The figure looked like a man in black armour, only instead of a face it had one large red eye. The stage wasn't really a stage though. It was pile of rubble piled together to make the figures soap box.

Its audience were a crowd of similar figures, all jet black with single eyes. They varied in size and build though and were all paying attention.

There was twelve of them, thirteen if you counted the one on the stage. Fifteen if you counted the two standing off to the sides of the main group.

"We have been given a second chance shadelords," The figure with the red eye began, "After our failure in the grand battle our master punished the absent shadelord with a voice and awareness. Somehow that punishment began to spread to each individual one of us. We are all now cursed with awareness, no longer in the blissful state of servitude we were before."

"But with this curse we are granted our second chance," Its tone was booming and its one eye was blazing, "We can use our new found intelligence to serve our master! Our master is weakened from the grand battle, but we are strong still. We can collect the keys that would lead to our masters revival!"

"A champion, a pure sacrifice and an infinite amount of energy created from mortal souls."

"Make haste and discover where we can find these. But be careful, we do not want our hiding place found before we are ready. This is why you must do whatever it takes to succeed. Kill any mortal, capture any soul, destroy any lives.

"That is all." The black armoured figure truly believed it was still in charge... But only time would tell what the other shadelords would decide.

((This is not meant to be responded too, it is simply the shadelord player's starting pistol.

With that said... Go.))


themightyjello
"Geeheeheehee..."

The sound of the Shadelord's laugh echoed in the empty halls of the third floor as Rho stared intently through a shattered window with its single, large, green eye. Rho had no other identifying features than this, a single eye in the center of where its face would be if it were a man, and a smooth, humanoid, jet black body.

Outside the building the glass was still falling, in a moment the diseased body of one of the former technitians in the factory would hit the ground three stories below with a sound that betrayed the frailty of his own bones. But for now, Rho was just content to watch as its toy fell gracefully through the air.

The eye contorted slightly as the corpse landed and the shattered glass rained down atop it, almost as if the putrid green eye itself was grinning at the sight of this. Rho shifted to the right a bit, walking like an insect across the ceiling of the hallway as it stayed in the shadow of the wall, avoiding the sunlight coming in through the windows. Rho bothered to expose its eye to the light only because it wanted to stare for longer at the broken body below it...

"Gehehee... Rho. Rho. Ghehehe... Rho."

The Shadelord reached out of the window with one of its limbs, which quickly twisted and reshaped itself into a long, black tendril which shot down the outside of the building and pierced the chest of the technitian that lay still upon the pavement. With one heavy backwards jerk, the tendril whipped the body up into the air, throwing it higher even than the third story that it had fallen from before... and then released. The corpse twisted and flipped like a rag doll tossed into the air, and then began to fall again.

Rho wanted to hear the sound that it would make this time.


Arcturus Highwind
Boats, flying? Swimming? Teleporting? No, Omega couldn't be bothered to use, or even think of such things. No. Omega had a much more easy route onto the island.

He picked out where Alpha would be, and walked in a straight line for the shadelord. Going underwater, walking among the fishies, walking up the other side, onto shore. Ploughing through buildings that he just couldn't be bothered to step around. Through the fence, leaving an Omega sized whole behind. He just kept moving straight towards where he felt Alpha, no matter what got in his way.

There was a lamp shade, on his head as a makeshift hat, and he was clutching to his chest, a small bag, the whole time during this straight little demolishion march.


Joseph Brown
Alpha was pacing in the courtyard, it was doing what it knew best: Planing, summoning and commanding. With the shadelords out and about it would not be long before someone found out the islands secret. Magnolia had to become defendable.
The shadelord began to clutch at the empty air in its hand. Alpha was concentrating, yes, summoning another minion. A puddle of dark matter formed a shot ways away, and slowly it formed a lesser shade. It was less than six feet and looked unarmoured humanoid with one red eye. Without any orders being given the lesser shade went off to work. It would join its newly summoned brothers as the workers and soldiers of Alpha's army... And the more souls that fed the twisted reactor in the subbasement, the more members the forgotten army gained.

It was beautiful in a way. An entire crew of cycloptic workers changing Magnolia from a place of science to a crude fortress... Speaking of crude fortresses, Omega was arriving.

"Report Omega," The Alpha shadelord turned to look at the gigantic being, "And explain the human items you have returned."


Arcturus Highwind
Omega dropped to one knee before Alpha, head bowed to him. The lampshade was falling forward, before his hand snatched up and grabbed at it.

"As... uh... the head talky guy related the orders, I have brought you the Lampshade and Pure Sugar..." he said, stumbling over teh words, very uncertain, as he held out his offering of a 5 lbs bag of pure sugar, from the label, now a bit soggy from his return trip, and the lampshade.

"And I will head out, kill Row, Signet, and Zi, as you desire."

Yeah, that was it, real smooth Omega. Remind him it was his orders, yes. That why you couldn't get in trouble if he got it wrong again. Yup, very smooth.
Sigma knelt at the peak of one of the more mountainy areas of the Island, the complex was quite close now. If he could get inside without alerting Alpha too much, then he could probably take hold of the some of the Shades and put his plans all to hell. Well... that was at least what he hoped as he waited for some of his other Followers to join him.

[Note: I am not attacking, just waiting and more or less just hoping for a random attack from some peoples.]
"The orders were not to retrieve human artefacts." Alpha began its scolding in the same steady tone, "Though they may be of use, they are not what we need."

"We need souls. More souls." Its red eye began to burn with passion, "The souls of fine warriors. They will fan the flames of the forgotten conquest. What we needed were a pure soul and a champion. Mortals themselves, not their artefacts."

Alpha began to survey the work the shades were doing. Silently, he sent commands to the shades, only Alpha knew what the fortress should look like.

"I do not recognise those names. Who gave you the command to kill them?" The shadelord looked back to Omega, "Chaos and general, not specific. Who told you I gave these orders."
"The shadelord... uh..." Omega paused, visably trembling before teh authority and power that he felt from Alpha, sure, he was bigger, but that didn't stop his respect and fear for the prime lord. No sir.

His mouth quivered for a moment, before his orange eye looked back up. "Pi. No... Cy... No... Si... yeah... Si. He gave me your orders. To guard the artifacts and bring them to you."

Fear was a wonderful thing for jogging the memory.

"And to kill... Ro.. and Sigma, and Xi."

Yeah, that was it. He breathed a sigh of relief, after the hard, hard fight to properly remember.

"So I am not to kill them?" he asked, confused. Well, of course he was confused. There was a lot of orders conflicting and rattling around in his head.

Shadowy Prophet

It was at about this time that one of Psi's eyeball floated by. Now that Psi had moved far enough away from Alpha to not be easily found, he had decided to let one of his minions go there, to keep an eye on things. And to act as a relay point, if Alpha needed any actual orders sent.

After all, he had to keep up the pretense of obeying.

It was with this that the eye wandered in at the tail of the conversation, allowing Psi to defend himself. If Alpha actually believed Omega rather than thinking him mistaken.
"No such orders have been given." The eye on the shadelord narrowed, "You will not kill fellow shades unless I tell you directly. No one else can give or relay that order."

"Pi..." Was the only word Alpha could concentrate on, "Shadelord Pi was not summoned with us. It is possible there are others like Omikron though."

"Go forth Omega," The grand shadelord pointed into the distance, "Slay many more mighty warriors, make them fall. I must ponder this new information about Pi."
"As you command Alpha," the hulk said, rising from off his knee, his hand clasped to his chest in a salute. He backed away from Alpha, walking backwards, until he was 20 feet away.

Then he turned, and ran, scared, yes. Happy to be spared. Hell Yes.

He followed his track back through the island, the hole in the wall, the buildings he ploughed through, even through the same track, along the bottom of the sea.
Theta stepped through the hole it had made in the wall of a split-level home in the residential district. Standing at "full height" it resembled the silhouette of an armored warrior, complete with grey sash over its left shoulder. Getting a closer look, one would see that Theta was nothing more than that: a three-dimensional silhouette with a sash and a single, cold, steel-grey eye.

It looked down at his latest victim. The man never saw him coming, even after the evacuation warning. Theta played back the series of events leading to this moment in its mind as it looked at the bloody mess of a man.

Theta had been freed, its lust for blood sending it straight for where it sensed the most life. On its way to the houses, the Shadelord didn't hesitate to kill anyone in its way. No contest there, out of all the Shadelords it easily killed the most people before and after the evacuation call.

None of these people were a challenge for the mightiest Shadelord of them all, and this included Alpha, Sigma, and the others; none held a candle to its cunning and prowess in battle.

All the other humans that got in its way made his journey to the residential area a long one. And, by the time Theta had made it, only a few stragglers remained. It took its anger out on them. This man, dressed only in boxers and a muscle shirt, had tried to escape from the torture. Theta couldn't understand why he couldn't have just accepted the torture as the mother and child had before him. They died in screaming and agonzing pain, so why couldn't this one?

The chase led to this split-level house, most likely the man's house. He had been running for a room with a bed, most likely his. But he never made it, Theta was sure make a wall out of itself just before the room. The man fell on all fours, where he belonged. Theta picked him up and stared at the man's scarred and tear-filled face. Never understanding why people cried, he smashed him through the wall to his right, which put the man in the room with the bed.

Still putting up a fight, the boxered man reached under the bed and withdrew a loaded shotgun, firing at Theta without hesitation. Theta felt the bullets sink into the murky black of his body, allowing them to pass through on the other side rather than keeping it inside of itself for fun. Instead it chose to swipe the gun away with an extended tentacle as an arm, another arm appearing at the same time and encasing its victim.

Theta then turned the tentacle into a device similar to a jagged cookie cutter. Keeping the victim covered, the Shadelord opened an area of itself near the man's heart, which was pulsing violently under his ribcage. It took little effort for Theta to get the cookie-cutter through the fragile bones and to the heart, the cookie-cutter changing to a new encasement around the heart, and promptly pulled the organ free from the man.

Theta's single eye showed no emotion, though, if he had a mouth, there may have been a smile. Maybe.
Theta tossed the heart aside, finding this having grown old. He needed a challenge, he had won the competition of amount already. Now he needed to ensure he still was the champion of the Shadelords. To do that, he needed off this damned island.

Leaving the split-level, Theta crossed to the residential wall, going over it with ease and heading towards the sea. His lower body changed to become more bouyant as he stepped into the water. He looked at his surroundings and Barton, slightly in the distance. He wasn't ready to make himself known to the general public just yet- he needed to reclaim his championship standing with a bit more subtlety.

With that he became nothing more than a black spot on the sea, moving quickly to Barton town to seek out the most challenges of all the Shadelords.
((Just making a post so that people can track me back here, and to alert people to our presence.))

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