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Ciri shrugged, her face growing solemn for the first time as Lucifer as she nodded to him. "Not sure whether I'd consider that very stupid or very brave, but either way I wish you luck. As for the rest of you, no reason for us to tarry here any longer than necessary" She said firmly as she concentrated again and splayed her hands in front of her. "If you could all take a step back for a moment, I need to pull on a good deal more energy than I usually do when I do this if I'm going to take so many people especially if one's fourteen feet tall >_> so please keep your distance at the start. also.... something is interfering with my senses for this. my personal guess being the giant purple beam of desolation shooting into the sky." She added with a small grin. "But so this portal's going to be a blind jump to literally any world I can reach. Most of them support life, but, well... some will probably be completely benign and peaceful on the other side, and some might be less so. So just... be ready, ok?"
Her explanation and warnings given, she nodded again and gestured for the others to back up. Ruby obliged, heaving her sister onto her back with a grunt and stumbling slightly towards one of the walls with a concerned, scared, and worried frown. Needless to say this was a lot to be taking in at such a short notice, her sister hadn't woken up yet, and whatever had happened here... well there's a good chance she'd never know.
"Everyone ready?" Ciri asked, glancing over her shoulders as her hands began to glow far brighter than they had before. a tiny pinprick heralded the opening of the portal in the worl-
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Everything froze.
Their eyes, their hearts, the flickering flames around them, everything suddenly ground to a halt.
"This isn't going to work, just so you all know"
The air was frozen along with them, and yet footsteps echoed through the vast chamber from the door behind them all. The voice was ice cold, the amusement darting around the edge of it sharpening the words rather than giving them any warmth.
"She'd probably figure that out herself, if she wasn't in such a rush." A figure passed between Raime and Vash, paying the gunman and behemoth no heed as he strode towards Ciri. He was a gaunt man in dark brown leather, his boots almost up to his knees and his face as pale as death itself, save for the vague hints of a smirk on his lips. There was something about him that seemed familiar to them all, but in a way that their minds screamed they never wanted to remember. He moved to circle Ciri, stare full of analytical boredem as he spoke again. "Its subtle, but the edges of this world are very wrong. Its impressive how the work of just a few men and women could have such wide reaching implications. All this is happening because one man wondered, and his wonderings have whole worlds smashing together, their edges rubbing off onto his own. Thats all you are by the way. Shavings. Side effects of one man's questions. And despite that... you're the only ones who can do anything about it. A whole world will literally be at your fingertips in the end, to save, rule... destroy..."
He stopped his pacing and pivoted on his heel, facing the group with a calm smile as he clasped his arms in front of him.
"So lets see what you choose. But first you'll have to get there. So tread carefully little copies, if you want to save yourselves, miss Ciri, either of these worlds and your own. There are things far more terrible than you or even I that have been drawn to this, this tear in what is and what will be, and if you cross them callously, well..."
He shrugged and raised his hands to snap his fingers.
"You'll see what I mean shortly."
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-d's fabric. Ruby tried to speak up, to stop whatever Ciri was doing before the portal opened, to warn her about what just happened.
She didn't get out more than a "STO-" before dark grey tendrils of scaly flesh suddenly gripped the sides of the portal. Ciri's eyes flared wide, her hand tried once to gesture to seal the portal shut, and when that didn't work she reached for her sword. She all but managed to twitch her hand in its direction before the portal was rent wide open, and something flew out to skewer the girl almost half a dozen times, lifting her off the ground with a sharp gag that died in Ciri's throat as her head lolled back.
The portal was forced open farther, and the thing slithered out through the air as if it was water, Ciri limp on its talon'd limbs as its eyeless visage seemed to roam over the group. For now almost seeming to study them, no intent to strike save what it had already done. That was likely not true both ways.
It sure as heck wasn't true for Ruby, who's let out a choked gasp at her friend(?)'s sudden end before her slightly teary eyes narrowed in a surprising determined fury for such a small form as she reached for Crescent Ro-
Oh. Right.
Instead she made a mad dash for the doors so she could drop Yang off first. THEN she was gonna open up a can of huntress buttwhoopin on... whatever this was
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Chell (Canon)
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Chell looked confused, but, from what she could gather, it had been some sort of experiment, with time... It was still unclear how it had occurred or even how she had gotten here, but, she had a feeling the man standing in front of them, the one who had just snapped his fingers, would give her answers. She took one more look around at the flickering bodies before looking back at the purple "doom laser" if it were anything like a portal device, perhaps it at least took part of the responsibility of bringing them all here... But, why? Was it all just an accident? Or, was there some sort of purpose behind it? And... What did he mean about saving their home worlds? What in the blazes was going on here? That puzzled look remained on Chell's face as she waited to see what would happen next...
Then, she saw it; Ciri, she opened another portal, or at least it looked like one to her, this time an... What could only be described as an abomination; was it a tear in reality? Chell wasn't sure, but, she needed to act fast; she usually used her environment to her advantage in those testing chambers she had powered through, but, how would she do it here? Her gaze shot up towards that purple doom laser as she cranked up her aged, but, still fully functional portal device; Chell was going to attempt to redirect that "doom laser" with two portals, in an attempt to hit that creature with it. However, she needed to see if she could even make a pair of workable portals here, otherwise this could be all for nothing... But then again, if all else fails, she could try and risk touching that thing's body with the front of her portal gun...
@Schnee Corp Lawyer @OrlandoBloomers @TheSpringwoodSlasher @Saint Guillotine @El Tigre! @Jeremi @Atomyk @Klutzy Ninja Kitty @Krieg @CCC Kouhai @C.T. @Thuro The Assassin Potato @BarrenThin
Chell looked confused, but, from what she could gather, it had been some sort of experiment, with time... It was still unclear how it had occurred or even how she had gotten here, but, she had a feeling the man standing in front of them, the one who had just snapped his fingers, would give her answers. She took one more look around at the flickering bodies before looking back at the purple "doom laser" if it were anything like a portal device, perhaps it at least took part of the responsibility of bringing them all here... But, why? Was it all just an accident? Or, was there some sort of purpose behind it? And... What did he mean about saving their home worlds? What in the blazes was going on here? That puzzled look remained on Chell's face as she waited to see what would happen next...
Then, she saw it; Ciri, she opened another portal, or at least it looked like one to her, this time an... What could only be described as an abomination; was it a tear in reality? Chell wasn't sure, but, she needed to act fast; she usually used her environment to her advantage in those testing chambers she had powered through, but, how would she do it here? Her gaze shot up towards that purple doom laser as she cranked up her aged, but, still fully functional portal device; Chell was going to attempt to redirect that "doom laser" with two portals, in an attempt to hit that creature with it. However, she needed to see if she could even make a pair of workable portals here, otherwise this could be all for nothing... But then again, if all else fails, she could try and risk touching that thing's body with the front of her portal gun...
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