Martyrdom

[Phrost]

Phiounuse's legs became visibly weak as she advance towards the familiar, arcane circle. The light blinded her a bit. "The show must go on," she said solemnly.

[ValenMedia]

Much more suddenly than the darkening process, the lights regained their gleam, Xalem’s eyes showing. Although there was a certain allure as to the science behind his abilities, his interest in technical matters was never very strong. Xalem was certain that his engrossment in whatever it was Roo had to tell him regarding it was sure to wane throughout this discussion. While learning about his abilities proved a fascinating concept, and a great opportunity for the further enhancing of the utilization of them, he couldn’t expect himself to be able to focus much.

[HansTheHuman]

Rose and the dunmer lord stepped back while shielding their eyes. The circle shone in it's fullest brilliance. The amulet reacted with its own light. Rose was watching in awe with her jaw ajar, and Lord Rires Rosendoom wore an excited grin with a shimmer in his crimson eyes.
"Yes...Yes! I have found you! Ha-ha!" Lord Rires was beside himself in his excitement. He stumbled along the circular walls over to a table of magical apparatus. Fiddling around, as Rose eyed the dunmer with suspicion, Rires activated a dome of the circle's light around Phiounuse. The young Phiounuse cried out as pain pulsed through her. Rose snapped her attention to her sister.
"Phiounuse! Lord Rosendoom, what are you doing to her?!" When no answer came but the crazed laughter of Rires, Rose took action and threw herself at Phiounuse and pushed her out the dome. Rose was now under the grip of pain inside the dome. Phiounuse fell like a rag-doll to the floor, and the amulet closed.
"No! You won't ruin this!" Yelled Rires above Rose's screams. He swiped for staff and pointed it at the weak Phiounuse.
"The Hero must not live..." A fireball leaped from the crystal tip of the staff and punched Phiounuse through a window behind her. In her last moment of consciousness, Phiounuse saw her sister fall dead inside the circle before gravity snatched the small Khajiit from the fireball's momentum.
Phiounuse awoke, now back in the body of her current age, lying on her back on the stage with the audience applauding. The narrator was about to wrap up the final scene.
"In her cowardice, Phiounuse left her sister Rose to her doom. Using the incident caused by Lord Rires Rosendoom to escape with the mysterious amulet for herself." The audience erupted into a thunder of boos and hisses.
"But...ladies and gentlemen, here in this theatre, Rose shall take vengeance on her traitorous sibling. Enjoy the show..."
The audience resumed their applause as a coffin rose from beneath the stage, levitating in a vertical position. The coffin lid fell open and clattered on the stage floor. Inside was the body of Rose, Phiounuse's sister, her body pristinely preserved from Phiounuse's last memory of her along with the same age and apparel. Rose's eyes shot open and stared down at Phiounuse. As Rose's eyes connected with her, the whole theatre went grey and seemed to pause in time.
"Revenge hmm? Is that what your sister really would do? She even sacrificed herself to save you, why kill you now?" The voice that met Phiounuse outside the park reentered her mind. "This is a representation of your survivor's guilt. Face your guilt and defeat it, before it consumes you. Have fun with that and remember, prizes!" Phiounuse felt herself pulled upright into the air and stood on her feet to face Rose.
The colour returned to the theatre and Rose's body animated it self. The applause of the audience morphed into single simultaneous claps under a hypnotic tempo.
"Why sister?" The reanimated Rose spoke.
"Why did you leave me to die? Why did you...kill me?" Rose's eyes sparked with a mad light and she frowned aggressively at Phiounuse.
"You killed me! Now I will kill you!" Rose bared her teeth and claws and dived from the coffin straight for Phiounuse.

------

"Super-duper." Roo bounced happily on his legs as the light returned.
"You have proven you can adjust the intensity of light, that is how many photons pass through a certain point at a given time. But I want to see if you can adjust the frequency of the photons, which would enable you to unlock all the potential of the entire electromagnetic spectrum! Now I'm sure you wouldn't want to hear me explain all the details...so I'll sing them instead!" Roo took position in the centre of the lab and a background tune came to accompany his song.

♫ If you take a spectrum ♫
♫ Of multi-coloured light ♫
♫ And spin it round and round ♫
♫ You get the colour white ♫

♫ If you take a prism ♫
♫ And hang it in a window ♫
♫ It refracts the light ♫
♫ Into a dancing rainbow ♫

CHORUS:
♫ Light is electro ♫
♫ Magnetic radiation ♫
♫ In frequencies ♫
♫ Of every gradation ♫
♫ Some of them are high ♫
♫ And some of them are low ♫
♫ Everything from gamma rays ♫
♫ Down to radio ♫

♫ Ultra-violet light ♫
♫ Is invisible ♫
♫ But if you get too much of it ♫
♫ It can make you ill ♫

♫ If you can detect ♫
♫ Infrared light ♫
♫ It is possible you ♫
♫ Can see things in the night ♫

CHORUS

♫ If the power of X-rays ♫
♫ Is one that you own ♫
♫ You can see inside of things ♫
♫ Right through to the bone ♫

♫ Microwaves can make ♫
♫ Things get very hot ♫
♫ Up until the point ♫
♫ They go off with a pop ♫

CHORUS

♫ Gamma has energy ♫
♫ For ionising ♫
♫ If you are exposed to it ♫
♫ It can be agonising ♫

♫ Radio has the lowest ♫
♫ Frequency of all ♫
♫ If you can receive it ♫
♫ You can hear someone's call ♫

The music finished and Roo turned to Xalem.
"I hope that explains some things. Try adjust the energy of your photons to match the frequency of different types of electromagnetic radiation. Start off by producing a single colour from visible light."

(For an extra life for your respective characters, post a video of yourself singing Roo's song.)

[Phrost]

Her paw moved up, but not quickly enough. The two landed on the ground with a loud, sickening thud. The pressure of, what used to be, Rose crushed a rib inside the small Phiounuse. "Rose!" Phiounuse yelled out in pain, "Stop this!" Phiounuse threw her dead-sister off and reached for The Perforator, but it wasn't there. Phiounuse had to take the defensive. She stood, her side facing her opponent. "This is just a test," Phiounuse said to herself, "I must keep my nerves," she allowed her arms to fall limp to her side, "no matter how much it pains me." Slowly, Phiounuse began. "Rose," she said soberly, "It's me. Your sister. The one who let you die. The one who you sacrificed yourself for. The one who let you leave this world."

[duskskully]

Kyle was then decided to show Chops his new weapon. He then went to the atrium to find Chops. When he got in there he said,"Hey Chops, I just got the most greatest weapon ever." Kyle then looked at the weird people standing in front of Luke and Chops. Kyle then asked,"Ummm, Chops who the fuck are the new guys?" Kyle then started to scratch his had.
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[HansTheHuman]

Rose clambered back onto her feet. The sparking eyes in her head snapped focus to Phiounuse.
"I know. And I'll take you back to the void with me." She lifted her arms, locking them onto Phiounuse's throat. Claws out, she charged.

------

Chops twisted round before leaving through the door to face whoever called him. When he identified Kyle, he made a hurried reply.
"Ooh, simply grand. And those would be some last-minute recruits we've taken on board. Go on and introduce yourself. You may have to share a bed with one." Chops withdrew his head from the door and closed it.

[Phrost]

Phiounuse easily sidestepped and tripped her undead sister. "Come, now, Rose," Phiounuse said. "Being a street urchin with me has taught you better. But then again. You aren't really Rose," Phiounuse grabbed her sword from the floor, "are you?"

[thatfallout3guy]

Blade eyed the hand with both curiosity and caution, not sure what was doing this. After a bit of debate, his curiosity got the better of them, "Surely they wouldn't put something dangerous in our own rooms..." he said in a vain effort to try and calm his nerves.

Pointing the remote at the TV, he scrolled down to where the hand is. After clicking select, he waited for what would happen.

[HansTheHuman]

"I am Rose." 'Rose' said as she shakily lifted herself from the floor.
"The very Rose you abandoned as you fled with the amulet for yourself." Rose now stood facing Phiounuse, shaking and breathing heavily, those sparking eyes staring into Phiounuse's.
"Poor Rose." The demon audience whispered all together. Rose spoke up again.
"After taking care of you for so many years, this is how I am repaid. You stole the amulet we worked hard to find the money for. But even now, I still love you. So give yourself to death, and we shall be together again." Rose eyes were now tearful.
"Please...my sister..."
"COWARD!" A demon had stood up from its seat in the front row and hurled a glass bottle at Phiounuse. It hit squarely on the back of her head and shattered into pieces. The demon cackled madly and was supporting by the cackling of the other demons in the audience.

---

Just as it had occurred twice before, the TV spewed black liquid that flooded every corner of the room. The level of liquid climbed from Blade's ankles till it engulfed the top of his head. Blade felt the floor disappear and was falling. His fall turned to flight, and was headed towards an island floating in the void lit up by bright festive lights. As he flew closer, Blade saw he was nearing an amusement park. He was steered towards a path lined with wrought iron street lamps that twisted all the way up to the entrance to the park but didn't connect to anything else, it simply reached into the void. Blade was placed at the disconnected end to walk up the winding path as a dominating voice rang throughout this realm.
"Greetings Blade! And welcome to my park! Roll up to the entrance, I have a very special something prepared for you."

[thatfallout3guy]

Blade was startled to say the least. He he scanned his surroundings and tried to figure out what had just happened to him.

Hearing the voice didn't do much good for his curiosity, nor his state of mind, 'A hallucination maybe?' He thought to himself, 'But then who's amusement park is this if it's in my head...' Blade thought, trying to figure out where he was. Blade finally stopped, and let out a sigh. He walked towards the entrance of the park, not wanting to waste anymore time.

[lukuz13]

-Running his eyes over each of the new faces in front of him Luke was rather surprised by the sheer number of recruits they had found. Turning his head towards Chops Luke gave a grin and spoke.
"Wow, recruited this many? You guys must really be desperate and want to make sure we have backup."
"Or to make sure there is a replacement if one of us should parish..."[/i] Netreya said simply, in a sort of suspicious huff, stepping in front of Luke and fluttering his wings. "Regardless, we should introduce ourselves...to be polite. I am Netreya, King of the Cardinal Griffons."[/i] Netreya stated strongly, showing off the bright crimson coloration of his wings before turning back to step by Luke's side.
"And I would be Luke von Dash, the good King's faithful brother and friend." He laughed at the title he was attempting to make, his voice presenting a sort of mock royal tone. The tone garnered no laughter from the griffon who simply let out an exasperated sigh, and sat where he was, turning his head to the floor. "But ah...just call me Luke and him Netreya. It makes things much simpler."

[kain17335]

Taika looked at Luke, she thought she recognised him, just as she was going to say something she stopped herself, although she recognised Luke, she still didn't 'trust' any of these people, although Luke may be trustworthy if he is who Taika thought he was.

So, Taika kept to the back, away from everyone else, her hood now taken off to reveal her long black hair, although she did notice the shops that surrounded her.
Taika thought that she should check them out, and whatever 'currency' that is used in this place.

[Phrost]

"Come on, 'Rose'," Phiounuse said, trying to hold back as much emotion as possible. "Being alone in the col-" the bottle hit her, "being alone in the cold has made you more robust than this." Phiounuse looked up, trying not to look into the reanimated Rose's eyes. "And if I recall, I was the one doing all of the oddjobs, while you just sat back and watched!" Phiounuse bent over and gripped the hilt of her sword. "I think the truth is, Rose," Phiounuse cocked a smile, "you were always scared of me."

[arentheawesome]

Elrias had a hand buried in Drake's fur, gripping slightly for comfort. All of these new people. She hoped her first impressions on them wouldn't go over terribly.
When the man named Luke started to talk, Elrias took the opportunity to look over him and his... Griffon? He had interesting blond hair. Did he have to spike it every morning? And those glasses, were they just accessory? That coat must've taken a long time to craft, as well. What was it made out of?
At the tone of the man's voice when he introduced himself, the girl giggled quietly. Drake was watching the Griffon, in turn.
"You can speak as well? I've not met another like me." Drake's gruff, echoed mind-voice sounded for all to hear, mostly directed to Netreya, though.
Elrias grinned. "Pleased to meet you, Netreya, Luke. I hope we get to know each other, be it comrades or otherwise." She saluted with a cute smile.

[lukuz13]

Giving the...interesting looking woman a friendly glance Luke smiled happily, reaching out and grasping for her hand, pulling it forward just barely enough to place a kiss on the back of her hand.
"Pleased to meet you as well, I hope we grow to be more friendly as well....yes, otherwise indeed." Luke gave a sharp grin and a light chuckle to follow, causing Netreya to let out another audible sigh, turning to her...partner as well? A Drake even.
"That I can, Great Drake, hail to you, you must forgive the Arbalester...he is...very friendly."[/i] Netreya attempted to explain, fluttering his wings strongly, before cocking his head to the side. "I have not met many like myself either...happy to meet your acquaintance, may we work together well in the future."[/i] Netreya said happily to the Drake.