Horizon Walkers (Game Thread) Dead

[IFS]

It was done before he could intervene, Janice was dead and her corpse looted. He could only hope that her demise did not affect this world as the injury of a goddess had afflicted his. The Stharn soon arrived, full of congratulations, and stole away the gauntlets. They were taken aboard some sort of ship and celebrations seemed to move into activity. Alex found it hard to care, or even pay attention to these happenings.

He had failed, there was no reversing that, no amount of medicine could wake the dead and even if he believed such a thing possible he had his quest to pursue. The gauntlets however remained, he set aside any feeling that the Stharn did not deserve something that belonged to the divine, his justification had to remain their utility. A weapon against his foe.

One was taken away and given to Zuria, using lightning to infuse it to her arm. He left the group before she had finished offering the remaining two to the others. Compared to the rest of the group he was relatively inconspicuous, and had plenty of practice at moving unseen, so stealing his way into the hold was an easy enough matter. He found someone inspecting the gauntlets, and a single swift blow left the man unconscious. Moving quickly he grabbed up the remaining gauntlets and ransacked the hold for what supplies he might need for his exit. Among other things he found a chart marking the location of a several horizons, which would be useful for the next step.

Pausing only to leave the man bound and gagged before he regained consciousness Alex stole away, finding a ship heading in a suitable direction and hiding aboard it. He doubted that he'd see the rest of the group again, though it hardly mattered. As for the spark needed to join the gauntlets to him, well that would not be hard to come by. Magic of course could solve the problem, but even failing that he recalled several methods scholars from his world had found to create sparks of electricity. None that they'd managed to properly harness for any particular means of course, but with sufficient equipment he felt he could manage to replicate one of the methods or the other.

As the ship left he wondered if he would see the others of the group again, it seemed unlikely and for most he couldn't really care. He had traveled with them too long as it was, and he knew that if he saw them again they would likely only remind him of his failure here. Sighing he slumped down against a crate and slipped into light slumber, there was little else to do while he waited for the ship to reach the horizon, besides he reflected he had not contributed to his journal in so very long.

 

[hiei82]

"I'm fine, I really am. It's just... been a lot going on, and all the fighting has been unusual for me, so I'm a bit tired." Des lied. Kes could see it in his face; or more accurately his orange tinted eyes. She wasn't sure why Des was lying, but it only served to make Kes more worried. "Never met someone who's eyes glow when their tired." Kes said, only to confirm she didn't buy his excuse but left it at that. He didn't want to tell her for at least the time and it was his business. If it became bad enough, he'd either solve it himself or ask for help.

"So, want to get on... land, sort of? I mean, I know it's a bad place, but the others are leaving too. Besides, we might find another portal soon, I don't really like it here. Nor did I think Janice deserved to die, not after I had paralyzed her. We could have just left her be, she couldn't move most of her body either way. I mean, I don't think you did anything wrong, but we should get going soon." he continued, drawing her support. It wasn't really land which made it somewhat annoying, but the larger ships seemed to be at least a little better than smaller ships so it'd be an improvement. As for the rest... well she'd talked it over with Zuria before.

As she got up to get off the ship, Zuria approached them. Apparently she'd been thinking about the words from the voyage. Kes listed to them. She didn't nessisarily agree on her definition of monster - she'd met plenty of people who'd earned the title - but the part about "thinking like a warrior" she could understand. "You should tell her like a warrior. This Shaman was afraid of the Mother of the Sea, we beat her, and now she should be more afraid of us. She orders all the slaves freed and she doesn't have to be afraid. She doesn't; well she'd better learn to swim." Kes said before making her way off the vessel.

On the way out she noticed Alex's absence. She honestly felt sorry for the man. He'd made good points about the Mother of the Sea, but they'd come too late. By that point, Kes had already unleashed her blood-rage and was beyond his reason. She wished the hunter luck on his travels and his hunt.

Once off the smaller ship and into the city, Kes turned to Des and spoke up. "So where to?"

 

[DarkRawen]

"Never met someone who's eyes glow when their tired."

"I'm sorry," Des replied, looking away, trying to make the hunger go away. He didn't like his eyes giving away his hunger, and he didn't want Kes to worry. However, apparently it was obvious. "It's... complicated, I'll explain later, okay?" He noticed Alex leaving the ship, wondering where the other was headed.

He didn't look like he took what happened to Janice well.

Alex had wanted to protect her, after all. Des hadn't intended for her to die either, but Alex might not see it like that. He might have thought Des paralysed her so that the other could finish her.

Perhaps I should apologize. If he hasn't left for real.

Following Kes off the ship, he ignored Zuria and her speech. He was still annoyed about how they had behaved, and how immature Zuria had acted, trying to teach him something. He understood that this was important to Kes, but he wanted to be distanced from it. Some odd woman had arrived too, but he ignored her, Des wasn't in the mood to socialize. Not even with a woman.

"So where to?"


"I don't know," Des said, and took her hand, softly. "Are you hungry? We could go eat somewhere, or find something fun to do. Of course I don't want to stay here too long, hopefully we'll find a way to go to another horizon soon. I'm sick and tired of being pushed around by the others, and this is a tiresome place," he admitted.

 

[Lunar Templar]

After Zuria and who ever she was talking to left, Lucia was left to her self for now, and with nothing else to do, or even a hint as to what was next, she decided to wander the market, starting with the child on the docks. She stopped and gave the beads a look, they weren't her thing but she had nothing better to do and she was kind of a sucker for 'using a child to help sell your crap' as a marketing tactic. She also thought it was a low way to go about it.

Still, it worked. She didn't actually have hair, but she figured so could string them together for a bracelet or necklace or something, not like the beads where hard on the eyes, and they where shiny, so she figured the 'dragon' part of her pertaining to 'shiny things' had something to do with it as well.

After that she just started wandering about the market, browsing mostly, and just looking for something interesting to direct her attention toward.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Kyras sat quietly in the ship as it moved. Saying little, trying to rest now that he was out of the cold, or as out of it as he could on a ship. The fire he rested near, he pulled heat from carefully. Letting the energy spread into himself trying to undo the damage done in the past day or so by the cold and what had come before that. He had seen the others act mostly the same as he had, keeping to themselves as the boat moved.

He saw the wounds on the others and as he drifted off contemplated if he should try to fix them. The way the cold had seeped into him, he would need to wait until he had rested, but he should offer. When he wasn't so tired he should offer.

He wasn't sure how long he had been asleep when he heard movement around him. It hadn't felt like long, and the others weren't there anymore. He stood up and made his way above as he could, Alex passed him as he walked, something looked on his mind and so he didn't bother to ask him what was going on.

He saw that they had arrived at a city of some sort, the one that Zuria and Janice had spoken of he assumed. The others were around the ship or wandering out. He heard talking and he saw a market of some sort apparently forming or opening around the ship.

Kyras stepped off the ship, unsure of where to go from here and walked into the market without purpose. He saw a few people around the ship that he didn't recognize but that was normal to him, wandering the horizons made it impossible to know most. With a lack of knowledge of his surroundings and nothing he saw to congregate towards he stood infront of a fire burning near one of the stalls. He stood infront of it, absorbing the heat of it. Leaving the flame an illusion in essence to others. The man who started the fire expressed confusion at the sudden lack of heat from it, but Kyras just stood there staring at it and warming his bones. There were plenty of fires in the city, it was safe to take one for himself now.

 

[hiei82]

"I don't know. Are you hungry? We could go eat somewhere, or find something fun to do. Of course I don't want to stay here too long, hopefully we'll find a way to go to another horizon soon. I'm sick and tired of being pushed around by the others, and this is a tiresome place." Des said while taking her hand.

Kes nodded. She didn't dislike the rest of the group, but she could understand where Des was coming from. After the whole affair with the Mother of the Sea and the radically different group from even one world ago, there was both little to tie her to the group and little reason to tie herself to the new group. Her debt to Zuria was repaid, so the only one she still owed anything to was Des.

Kes was partial to the idea of food, but she could still feel the city moving underneath her and so didn't want to risk it yet. "I heard on the ship that there's a number of Horizon gates in the city; we can leave anytime. Once the Shaman has freed the slaves I'm ready to go. As for eating... we're still on a ship." Kes said, letting the last point hang. "If you want to get something to eat I'll go. Is there anything you want to eat while we wait?" Kes asked, leaving the food decision to Des.

As they made their way into the city, Kes spotted a small girl trying to sell beads. Kes felt a little bad not being able to buy anything from her. Well, at least not at the moment. "Wait here for an hour and I'll be back with some coin." she told the girl before running up to the the shops.

What followed was a very brief experience of selling the stuff she'd taken from the soldiers on the previous Horizon. Mostly weapons. Kes wasn't exactly a good negotiator, but she was also not one to use a lot of money. So, after selling off all the material (save the goat-hide cloaks she'd made), she returned to the little girl and gave her a sizable bag of coins for a handful of beads.

With the remainder, she decided to treat Des to whatever food he wanted. Several hours later, Kes heard the announcement that the slaves were free. At that, she turned to Des and said "Ready to go?" When he was, they made there way to a Horizon Gate and disappeared.

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Kes Fin​

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Ai Start​

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Ai had been in the city for a few days. She'd rented a large room in a small inn where she could set up her alchemical equipment without difficulty. Aside from her usual concoctions, she'd only made and used a small number of elixirs and those had mostly been just to test the properties of materials she'd acquired. Thus far, no materials had proven helpful on her quest though one native herb had proven very useful for healing applications.

That herb was the main reason she was out and about. Ai had no real desire to celebrate the death of this "Mother of the Sea". The city had been "saved", but Ai wasn't convinced that was a good thing. Sure they had just ended the abhorrent practice of slavery, but the city was still highly questionable in its ways. Still, with the official end of slavery they could now make a trade deal with Xia. She doubted it would be as lucrative as the slave trade, but at least it was something.

Ai made her way to the main market at the center of the festivities. Around her were figures decorating and dancing and all together celebrating. She just walked over to a the herbalist's shop and placed an order for all the herbs she needed.

 

[DarkRawen]

"I heard on the ship that there's a number of Horizon gates in the city; we can leave anytime. Once the Shaman has freed the slaves I'm ready to go. As for eating... we're still on a ship."

"Oh. Right." Des couldn't feel the same weakness that Kes did on boats, but frowned out of empathy. "I had hoped you'd be feeling better by now, but I suppose a boat is a boat. Too much ocean, we should find somewhere sunny next time. Sunny and green," he said in an optimistic voice, smiling again. Then he listened to Kes as she continued.

"If you want to get something to eat I'll go. Is there anything you want to eat while we wait?"

"There's nothing I need to eat..." Des started, tilting his head as he thought. He did want to take Kes up on the offer, though. If nothing else, it would be a way to spend time. Besides, he did like food, even if he didn't need it the same way he needed vitae.

"However, I like the less filling stuff. Soups, and such, something light and easy. Could be a way to pass the time while we wait for this Shaman to free the slaves."

Hopefully they will, I just want the two of us to leave.

Des hoped they would be able to soon. Luckily, that's how it went.

He had mostly been looking at Kes while they were waiting for the news, following her around as she spoke to a child selling beads, sold some items she didn't need, and with Des mostly taking it easy. The news received were good too, apparently the mortals had decided to end slavery, which was good. If they could follow through, at least. He had seen many promises being forgotten and neglected, this too seemed like one that would not work out the same way as they expected. However, it was worth a try, and it made Kes happy, and that was enough for him.

"Ready to go?"

"Let's find somewhere nice," he replied, and took her hand, smiling as he examined her again. He had been thinking about asking if she wanted help with putting the beads into her hair, but had decided against it, the silence that had lasted was nice too. Just sitting next to each other, waiting, comfortable. Of course, there was something he dreaded as well.

"And when we're there, I'll tell you my little secrets," he remarked under his breath.

Hopefully she'll accept what she hears.

Because Des didn't want Kes to leave, ever. He squeezed her hand as they walked through the portal, never to return to this Horizon.

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

Three days ago... Out in the open sea, a couple of hours before dawn...

Strong arm, taught ropes, sea spray and swashbuckling. Captain Willy's fishing vessel was looking to have a promising catch this morning.

"Put yer back inter it, laddies!" Willy himself arred to his crew of six burly seamen as they heaved up nets from beneath the waves; nets filled to bursting with fiiiisssshh!
"What'em aye payin' ye for, HEAVE!"
With a mighty effort, the mound of scaled flesh rolled over the wooden railing with a resounding tumble of 'thuds'. Suddenly the air stunk like the putrid depths themselves.
"Arrrr..." said Willy. "Ye smell that boys? Thar's the smell o' profit! Pack it up; we're goin' home!"

There was a cheer, followed by congradulatory slapping of backs and shoulders. The crew set about barreling up their catch.
Two among them, Zeke and Errol, allied together against the same particular barrel.
"This is good, innit?" said Errol. "I never seen so much fish in me life. You think we might've got something bigger in'ere?"
"Nah mate." Zeke assured him. "You can feel it struggling when you get something big. This right 'ere is a ton of pure, unsullied- Gah!"

Zeke sprang away from the fish pile, grasping one hand tight in the other as if it had just been bitten.
"Wha's wrong?" asked Errol, halting with an armful of fish still pressed to his chest. Zeke didn't answer, but instead crept back to the fish pile. By grabbing a bigger fish, he was able to brush aside all the smaller fish, revealing the thing he had accidentally taken hold of instead of the intended fish...

"Is that..." Errol gaped, boggled eyes transfixed despite themselves. "Is that a hand?!"

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"Weeeell, in all me days on ther sea, aye do confess; ain' never see nothin' like thes befarrr..."

In the midst of these seven gathered sailors the eyeless corpse of a child in a nightgown lay sprawled, having been dragged out from their catchment and deposited on deck. Fish flopped about on the moonlit deck, forgotten in the face of this horrific new development.

"Whadda we do, Cap'n?" a young sailor named Kern murmered.
"Like aye says; never ben inna situation such as thes. Needa think fer a moment..."
"We have to get rid of it." Errol said, scared yet firm. "Throw it overboard! Hell, throw the whole catch overboard! This is a bad omen."
"The catch stays 'ere!" Willy growled. "Wee'll chuck tha garrrl, but first aye want someone ter check 'er fer valuables."
"No!" Errol insisted. "We mustn't take nothin'!"
"Shut yer mouth, Arrrrol, aye woon't stand fer mutiny!"
"Cap'n, please! This girl brings us nothin' but ill, I know it. Would you steal from the Mother of the Sea?"

The Captain took a menacing step forwards, preparing to admonish the seaman's superstitious insolence.

He was interrupted by a loud 'CRACK' from beside him.

As one, the seven of them turned to the corpse. It was hard to tell in the dark... But was that a twitch they saw?

'CLICK'!

All of a sudden, the girl's back arched, her sternum thrusting into the air as if something were trying to break free of her ribcage, prompting several alarmed cureses from those assembled as they stepped back knives in hand.
A spasm tore through the girl's limbs, beating them against the floor like those of a thrashing spider, before one swift jerk had her sitting bolt upright, head flopping promptly to the right in a series of teeth-jarring crunches.

"Sh-she's alive?!" Zeke panicked, gripping his hand as it burned with phantom pain and the memory of this thing's cold, damp fingers. None of them could tear their eyes away from the glittering dark sockets before them, twin voids oozing sea water. A third appeared, as her jaw descended into a sickening snarl.

The scream that followed stopped the hearts of the every half-dead fish on the ship, halting them in their flopping against the wooden deck. It was the broken fishermen who began to flop in their stead, minds reduced to a jellatenous mess of terror, ripe for consumption...

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Present...

Soon after the festivities started, an abandoned vessel was sighted on the horizon. Further enquiry found nothing on board but for a mount of stinking rotten fish; not a trance was found of the crew. This is because Gyda had eaten them all shortly after being picked up, and when the bording party showed up had managed to stow herself away on their vessel unseen.

It is in this way that she now wanders beneath her red hood through the streets of the floating town, listless and enraged after her banishment from Sommerdale.

 

[Josh123914]

Nettil wretched up the last of her meal into a tray, and doused the back of her head in icy water in an effort to eliminate whatever clung to her. After flipping some Holem currency at a waitress, she found a paltry single bedroom and nursed her throbbing headache.
"Where's the exit?" She whimpered. Looking out her wooden window and past many wooden buildings to see there were Horizons illuminating streets in the distance.

So, she lay in bed silently for a few hours, and only began to trek towards a Horizon at dawn.
Nettil spotted other strange travellers on the glorified barge, as well as a cavalcade of smelly fish that vendors practically threw at her in the vain hope she would buy them.
Others in this isolated town seemed to make it their life's work to throw slurs. After Nettil sauntered through two merchants who were bickering the way merchants do, one had the gall to call her an obscenity.
"***** thinks she owns the planks she walks on" a man with a heavy ridged forehead commented, to which Nettil responded; "You should be euthenized." One thing led to another, and away Nettil ran on another adventure.

Soon, she eventually reached a small empty wooden courtyard that had been built around a Horizon, of which a hewn bracken wood had been tapered around the translucent entrance, which was emanating strange lights as well as heat. Mercifully, Nettil could now strip off her many layers of cloaks and dresses, and back down into her emerald dress and grey-white underclothes.
Lifting her chin, she peered around for others on the boat that may follow her through.
"These people are supposed to be obsessed with Horizons, where could they be?" She asked herself.

 

[hiei82]

After leaving the Herbalist's shop, Ai finally had a new destination. She'd asked the herbalist where she'd gotten her herbs from given the lack of land. The herbalist informed her that while she grew many of her herbs herself in a special plot on the roof of the building, the species were imported from a different Horizon. A Horizon that had a gate in town.

Suddenly intrigued by the possibility of interesting plants for her alchemical usage, Ai hurried back to her Inn to pack up her supplies. A little less than an hour later of packing and she was ready to go. Following the directions the herbalist gave her, she quickly arrived in the plaza where the Horizon was located.

The plaza was largely empty save a few other adventuring types. Closest to the portal was a woman carrying a strange looking staff. Ai suspected it had magical properties of some sort. The woman began to speak, mostly to herself by the looks of things. "These people are supposed to be obsessed with Horizons, where could they be?"

"Enjoying the festivities most likely?" Ai offered and answer; mostly to strike up a conversation with the strange woman. Perhaps she had just come from the Horizon - in which case she could ask for tips - or perhaps she was headed there - in which case she could tag along.

 

[Lunar Templar]

"obsessed is a strong word" Lucia said as she walked up to the horizon, and the geomancer from earlier and some one else, her armor lightly chattering as she did. "That would imply I've some kind of attachment to them, and I do not, I just happen to not like 'where I am' to want to do more then visit." she continued as she came to a stop by the pair, giving the other person a light wave in greeting.

"Though in this case I almost wanna stay to see what they do now that 'the monster' is dead. But at the same time ... meh ... I'd rather move on and hope it's not a world The Dread Wyrm is tearing down cause some dumb ass woke him up ... or pissed him off."

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

At that moment, on the edge of their vision, a girl in a red hooded cloak drifted in through the courtyard entrance.

With a few small padding steps Gyda arrived in front of the Horizon, carefully avoiding the others present for now. She just stood, and stared into its transuniversal depths.

This portal was just what she needed! The first step away from this smelly fish land where the humans tasted way too salty, and one step towards finally returning to her home... Sommerdale.

She began to salivate at the thought of her native kin. They tasted sweet like gingerbread!

 

[Josh123914]

"Enjoying the festivities most likely?"
Nettil looked up at the tall lightly armoured woman. Nettil smiled and responded, "The slave owners probably aren't enjoying themselves. My name is Nettil, by the way."

Near the Horizon was a small hooded child, who just stared with an open mouth at the portal. Nettil was about to say something, but at that moment she heard a familiar voice.

"obsessed is a strong word; That would imply I've some kind of attachment to them, and I do not, I just happen to not like 'where I am' to want to do more then visit."
Nettil then crooked her head around to see Lucia standing right next to her. "Oh, good morning Lucia, I think I found a warm destination for us."

"Though in this case I almost wanna stay to see what they do now that 'the monster' is dead. But at the same time ... meh ... I'd rather move on and hope it's not a world The Dread Wyrm is tearing down cause some dumb ass woke him up ... or pissed him off."
"Agreed." Nettil stated, peering over Lucia's shoulder.
"Have you seen the others by any chance?"

 

[Lunar Templar]

"Unless she can come back from getting hit with a with a massive Lightning bolt and having her head cut off, then yeah, I'm sure she's dead." Lucia finished, the blood from the MoTS seeming to have stained her armor a bit, though as something tickled her nose as she answered, and turned away from the pair to sneeze lightning. Much her to annoyance, chalking to something it the air.

"Even if she can revive from that though, it'll take time to recover from that. There are few creatures capable of just shrugging off losing their head." Lucia added after she was sure another sneeze was not immanent.

 

[hiei82]

"The slave owners probably aren't enjoying themselves. My name is Nettil, by the way."

Ai looked at the slowly gathering group with an eyebrow raised. So THESE were the people who'd vanquished the Mother of the Sea. Even if it wasn't permanent as another had suggested, it was still an incredible feat. She hadn't heard the "Great Liberators" had been Horizon Walkers though it made a certain amount of sense. Horizon Walkers often had access to powers and resources alien to even the most powerful of beings limited to a single world. These new powers and resources were precisely why she'd decided to exit Xia.

Ai was drawn from her thoughts; she still needed to answer the one called Nettil. "All the better then. I am Jià... er Professor Ai Soong of the Xia Imperial Academy." She offered, stumbling slightly as she had to adapt her formal title to a more familiar, similar one for the non-Xian. "I take it your group is planning to pass through the Gate? If so, might I accompany your group until at least the next civilized Horizon? I've heard this Horizon is quite wild in nature. If it helps, I'm quite skilled in the art of healing and should be able to hold my own in battle."

Over Nettil's shoulder, Ai spotted a small girl staring into the Portal. She was briefly concerned for her safety, but didn't comment. Perhaps she was just some kind of short humanoid from a distant Horizon rather than the child she appeared to be.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

After an hour or what he thought to be an hour of draining the fire Kyras had begun to feel warm again or at least more so than he was feeling until then. Kyras wandered the market and as time passed ended up in a tavern and managed to acquire food and drink and he sat infront of a fire as he rested as he could. After a few hours he realized the others weren't in the tavern either. He thought he saw Nettil at one point, but he wasn't sure.

Eventually he left and went to look for them, finding some of the others waiting at a Horizon. It wasn't all of them though. The Dragon, Nettil... He didn't see the others. Some part of him realized as he thought about it that he had somewhat sensed at the docks that they were going along their own paths, but... the thought lingered that perhaps they would appear. Being the only people he somewhat knew since the escape, they wouldn't leave without saying something?

They wouldn't be the first though.

Kyras wondered why they were looking to leave already, but considered that they had the same thought he had which is that this place was a frozen hell. He looked at the other two and nodded, before looking at three others standing with them. The first was a woman from the docks that he had noticed earlier when he went to search for heat, the second was a woman that caught his eye a bit as her Aura gave off something odd, and the third was... something felt and looked horrible about whatever that thing was.

Kyras instinctively put his hand on Maiar's hilt and looked away from It, but kept It in peripheral view incase It did something.

 

[Josh123914]

"All the better then. I am Jià... er Professor Ai Soong of the Xia Imperial Academy. I take it your group is planning to pass through the Gate? If so, might I accompany your group until at least the next civilized Horizon? I've heard this Horizon is quite wild in nature. If it helps, I'm quite skilled in the art of healing and should be able to hold my own in battle."

Nettil shook her hand and smiled. "Glad to have you as a companion" she said, a little relieved the warmth was coming from someplace fertile.

She looked over to see Kyras and Lucia present, but no other familiar faces. "...Here we go." Nettil stated, brushing past the young hooded girl and taking the first step through the Horizon.

Rainforest of Fertility

Nettil immediately found herself in a dense jungle of vibrant fauna. Little streams trickled past and around large thick tree roots, their tall branching trunks blotting out the sky overhead. The air was moist, with a fruity smell seemingly omnipresent. Countless vines lay roped around in deep loops from one tree to another, but never quite reaching the damp, mossy ground.

"Well, this is my kind of world." Nettil said with a hint of excitement. "Ai, I aught to tell you here that I can bend plants to my will. With this in mind, well, why wouldn't I be elated here?"

And as she finished speaking, the group heard a loud bang and the rustling of leaves a few metres above them. Nettil peered up to find another Horizon dangling off the side of a large tree branch overhead. And it sounded as though something came through it.
Nettil grabbed her staff and aimed it at the Horizon.

"Hello? Who is there?"

 

[Lunar Templar]

As Lucia emerged into the new horizon, she was greeted with the sight of a lush green forest, a pond, and more forest. Not that any of that was a bad thing, it was nice to get out of the cold and back to some place warmer. She to made her way over to the pond but mostly to just sit down and wait for the others and what the plan was, if any existed yet.

As she waited though she simply soaked in the sights and sounds around them, to many horizons that she'd been through lately had lacked this natural beauty and she was going to enjoy it for, what would likely be the brief moment they would be able to.

 

[DarkRawen]

Iura had wandered off to quite the odd place. Peaceful. Overgrown by plants, as the portal he had gone through back home had been. Untouched by humans and their kind? No, that did not seem right. Abandoned was a better word for it. Eventually, he had found a hill.

It was there he currently sat now, watching. Resting, for the trip to the portal in his horizon had been long as well. For once, he had taken his helmet off, in order to make sure he could see everything around him. Not one, but two portals was within his view, his back turned to the door to his own world.

I wonder... will I find a purpose here? Or would it be better to move ahead?

He got no chance to consider it, as the portals suddenly became active, people passing through at least one of them.

"Hello? Who is there?"

Putting his helmet on and carefulky tucking his wings into his armor, Iura got up. How many were there? Iura raised his shield and sword, walking closer, carefully. He had realized that they weren't talking to him, but to people passing through the other portal. Currently unseen, Iura approached them.

"We don't mean any harm, just trying to get away from the people on the other side of the horizon. We aren't them."

"I greet you," Iura said, hoping not to startle them. "I am Iura, and I got here earlier through another portal... I thought this was an abandoned place."

After that, the angel kept quiet, letting those there focus on the portal. Iura kept his eyes on the portal, he was curious about both these people and those about to get there, a keen interest brought on by the belief that he would be alone for the duration of this world.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

As the others walked through the portal to elsewhere, Kyras looked around for a few moments waiting to see if anyone else would appear. But they didn't, and he was sure of his thoughts and so he stepped through to continue walking his path.

As Kyras arrived on the other side he felt a warm glow and smiled a bit. A green place. The first green place he had seen since the arena that wasn't a place of death. He saw a new person that Nettil was aiming her spear at, but she aimed her spear at just about anything that came into her view.

Without much thought of what was going on around him Kyras walked over to the water where Lucia and one of the new people were sitting around. He cupped his hands together and lowered them into the stream before raising them again still cupped. He stared at the water in his hands and just smiled.