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originally posted in:The Roleplay League
12/25/2015 11:11:28 PM
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Switch walked over and sat down besides Aries, as he looked out over the distant mountain ranges.
S: "Trying to go out on a high note, are we?"
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" Does this look like a high note to you?" He coughed again, blood oozing out the corner of his mouth.
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Edited by Moot: 12/25/2015 11:24:41 PMS: "I'd certainly think so. If you think about it, there could have been far worse ways to go for you, considering the enemies you made"
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" Going out to one of my enemies.... Is going out on a high note..... This is pathetic."
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Edited by Moot: 12/26/2015 12:07:08 AMS: "heh. I'll say... He continued to look out at the natural landscape, as the sun began to set, flooding the mountains in orange light. S: "it's called sympathy. Take it while you still can..."
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A," I have no need for it."
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S: "you never did. Truthfully, you don't need anything anymore"
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" Do yourself a favour..... The Light, and the Darkness. It can all go to hell. Everyone is being used these days."
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S: "what do you mean? You're saying that we're all pawns in some messed up game?"
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" Like I said before. All of this..... Is just one giant chess match. The Fallen used to serve the Traveller.... Did you know that?"
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Edited by Moot: 12/26/2015 1:06:09 AM"Yes, I do. Turns out you can learn [i]a lot[/i] about the Eliksni from Variks if you get him drunk enough" Switch chucked to himself a bit. "I'm aware of how the traveller once came to the Eliksni in a time of need, and uplifted them into a golden age of their own. The traveller, or the great machine as they called it, birthed the servitors. They sustained and empowered the Eliksni by generating their life-giving ether; vital to their survival" "And then came the whirlwind. Your master, the darkness, descended upon their kind and forced the traveller into abandoning them, leaving their whole civilisation to crumble and fall into a dark age of their own. And thus, the Eliksni became known as the Fallen. Even today, they battle against us in a vein attempt to retake the traveller for themselves" "And I know what you're about to point out next: how the traveller did the exact same to us. It came to uplift us, only to try and escape the darkness the moment it entered our system. The only reason the traveller remains in this system, is Rasputin. That's all. All it took was for one warmind to cripple the traveller to the point of immobilisation" "Without Rasputin's intervention, neither you or I would exist"
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" Is that such a good thing? If I didn't exist, a quarter of the city would still be here. Dark Guardians wouldn't exist. The Traveller doesn't fight its own battles. It forces others to do it. That's why there are Guardians."
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Edited by Moot: 12/26/2015 1:27:41 AM"And yet, as you say that, those are words that come from someone who fights on behalf of the darkness, talking to someone who fights on behalf of the light. Sooner or later, you realise that both the light and darkness are the same, in that they use others to fight their own battles. Perhaps this is indeed just one large chess game..." "And yes, sometimes I do wonder to myself if Rasputin really made the right choice to keep the traveller here. But it's not worth arguing over anymore; those events happened centuries ago, and what's done is done"
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" So why are you here....? Shouldn't you be with everyone else celebrating?"
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"Celebrations can wait. This however, cannot. I think it's wrong that you should die alone and filled with nothing but regret, even after everything you've done"
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" I regret nothing at all. And I'm not alone. The voice won't go away until I do."
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"Really? No regrets at all? You don't regret killing all those innocent city dwellers? Not even a bit?"
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" Who said they were innocent? One guy said I could kill his wife and children if I let him live. Another shot his girlfriend in order to please me or something. Innocence doesn't exist in this solar system."
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"Indeed. It never did" The light in the sky was beginning to go as the sun began dimming and contacting the horizon's edge. The entire sky was a blazing clear orange colour, and the first bright stars were beginning to appear.
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" Well. Looks like my time is up." He put his helmet back on, and through some miracle managed to stand up. " Do I look ready for what comes next?"
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Switch stood up in succession and stayed besides Aries. S: "If you're asking me wether you look ready for death or not, you already look dead"
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Aries chuckled, painfully, and walked along the edge of the cliff. " I suppose this is how it ends.... Finally." And with that, his heart stopped, and he fell of the cliff and plummeted to the ground.
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Edited by Moot: 12/26/2015 4:28:04 AMSwitch watched Aries as he fell over the cliff edge, but he didn't even flinch as he plummeted to the ground. He just looked distantly onwards into the blazing horizon, with nothing but pity in his eyes. Walking over to the cliff edge, Switch reached over to his left arm and removed the bond he was wearing. The bond was unlike any other, and its design and markings bore striking resemblance to that of hive constructs. It had been given to him by Garuud, and its purpose had been to allow Switch to effectively channel the light while still a dark guardian. But now that he was cleansed, he wouldn't need that ability anymore. Switch took the arcane bond in his hand and tossed it over the cliff edge, watching as it descended through the air and quickly shrank from vision into nothing, becoming entirely swallowed by the dark of the young night sky and the deep black of the valley. Taking in deep breaths of the cold clear air, he sighed. "... All ends are beginnings..." Switch waked away from the cliff edge and back to where Aries had been sitting down prior. The specific area still had a few puddles of blood remaining, slowly draining into the soil. Switch knelt down and picked up a small blood-stained shard of Aries' armour from the ground, and although he could still feel the lingering taint of darkness shrouding it, he felt oddly drawn to the shard rather than repulsed. He placed it in a pocket and summoned his sparrow, preparing to leave for the camp.
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At the camp, the Guardians were celebrating their victory, and toasting to the dead. James, Lakir, and Lake were just outside of the camp, sitting on a small outcrop of rocks. They each had a drink in their hand.
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Switch arrived back at the camp to be met with the bustling sound of cheering and the clinking of glasses. He hoped off his sparrow and walked over to James, Lake and Lakir after spotting them in the distance. He remained stone silent.
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They were all silent. After a while, Lake broke the silence. L," So what now?"
