The Ivilan Quest

[Evelyn]

The universe as you know it is called Alia Dimensi. The world as you know it is called Merolia. You're just a person living in a nice normal town - average for this world anyway. Alright, so it's underground. You've never seen proper, natural light in your life, and everyone says that it's a blinding, burning sensation 'above'. But you develop a sense of claustrophobia. All you know is that the surface is a paradise known to none - none so far. You gather a group of your 'friends'. But no one can have friends in these times. A darkness has overtaken the world. The forces destroy any town it comes across. It spreads a darkness that not even the most powerful light can penetrate. But - you and your group know of a solution - not definately, but at least it's a straw to grasp at. There's a library - a library with knowledge of over 3000 years. 3000 years of secrets, of files...but it's not public. It's protected, and you know that they haven't even thought of searching in there. You have a choice: stay and fade into the shadows as they overtake you, or fight against it. Break in. Find out the secrets. Or die trying.

You didn't know that this was the easiest part...this is only part one...

Alright! So I hope you've all had - ah - fun reading that intro. That's part one of this role play's plot. I'm sorry that you cannot control it, but we need something in place to keep it from getting extreme. So here are the rules - please read all of them, or I may be forced to change your character. And the plot line.
RULES
1) Make you character NORMAL. Or as normal as you can. Keep in mind that your character will have both an amazing skill and a fatal flaw. Your flaw must be really serious - the better your skill (you have two - they're related) (e.g. wisdom/intelligence, speed/athleticness, leaping/jumping, swimming/diving, weapon usage/fearless, etc. Even the most useless could become useful!) the worse your flaw.
2) Don't be OP. Need I say more?
3) This is not fantasy, so no angels/demons etc. Stay realistic, please, and try to only change what can actually be changed. No mythical monsters, PLEASE.
4) You're not the ruler of the land. In fact, the rulers may in fact be evil. So, no being a princess or queen or something.
5) YOUR SKILL IS REALISTIC. You cannot have 'control elements' or anything like that, alright?!
6) The 'friends' may not be actual 'friends'. Even though you will know because they've said it when they're role playing, act like you don't know, unless you actually spot suspicious behavior.
7) No killing unless its cleared with the other person and its reasonable. This is not the Hunger Games, people.
8) Don't go beyond the point where the storyline ends. I'll post the next part ASAP.
9) Although yes you should follow the plot, feel free to add in some events. So long as they don't go too off-track.
10) This is not a modern-day roleplay. You've got to think no computers, no electricity, no modern stuff. Just to let you know.
11) No asterisks. This will make many actions that could have been well described become terribly boring.
12) Your character isn't perfect. Just keep that in mind, please.
13) Do as much as you want, but make sure that you're not pretending you're someone else: wait for them to say what they want to say first.
14) HAVE FUN! (I couldn't end on 13 rules anyway. Not superstitious, but whatever)

ENTRIES ON THE ENTRIES THREAD. DON'T POST THEM HERE.

If this roleplay becomes confusing, PM me to request a forum thread to discuss. Probably unnecessary, but just in case.

[Evelyn]

QUICK REMINDER: This is slightly medieval themed, so please do NOT invent the iPhone 7. Or use words like: Yeah, oh my god, awesome...etc.

So...Bliss's Perspective:
Almost fifteen now. What an amazing time. Not. I sighed as I listened to the shouts of the man outside. I realized it was another failed escape attempt. There'd been more and more since the recent attacks of darkness. Indeed, the attack of the darkness was to be feared, but to cast everyone into a state of panic? Enough to leave the town for the Unknown Regions? But really now, nothing that concerned me too much. So back to my birthday. Honestly, I will never understand the point of celebrating. Why celebrate getting older, less impressive? Of course, the only present that I got was to visit this high-ranking family with my parents. Of course, it went as usual. Talk for five minutes. Attempt conversation, then reduce someone to tears. Honestly, all I'd said was that the stupid girl was wrong about saying that the creator of Merolia was an all-powerful force that had carved the tunnels and made them pretty. I'd just corrected her my saying, "Well, unfortunately you're not correct. In case you didn't already notice, there's a certain law in the universe that says that no force could possibly be controlled so accurately by man. In fact, we probably dug the tunnels and built the 'prettiness'. Mind you, she was the kind of girl that just burst into tears because she was wrong. Like so many people I'd met.
So now I'm pacing down this marble corridor. It's pointless enough, but it's just killing time. Ideally, I'd work on that map for escape I'd been working on. I didn't care about being alone. But then again, no one knew I was here. Except for maybe that horrible school. Just because I was a girl didn't make me any more stupid than any of the boys! It was only money keeping me there, really. No point trying to go. We've got more than enough money now. I glanced outside again, listening to the man babbling on about the outside of the town. Most of his speech was incoherent, but I made out a few words. At one point, I could've sworn that he glanced at me and shouted, "Anyone's that looking for trouble, you'll find it at that library!" Huh. Never heard of it. I made a mental note about it to myself. I frowned to myself. Even with a memory like mine, I'd never heard about it anywhere. Oh well, there was a law that permitted the searching for ruins and relics without official permission. Maybe that would work...I yawned and went back up to my father's study. He was never there anyway...he'd never find out what I'd taken anyway. The hourglass in the town squared only had a little sand left until the eight hours that made up the morning were gone. After that, we'd be expected to be asleep. What most called safe. But with these rumors about the darkness, nowhere could feel safe anymore.

[pinkycrystal]

Adesina's POV

The sound of the busy street sweeps in through my window on the third floor on our building. A man yelling at a milkmaid, men debating politics, people arguing over the prices at the market, you name it. Judging by the amount of sand in the timer, my parents would be in the faraway town if Hanmore now, perhaps trading with other merchants. As I glance out the window, I notice it is a bit darker than usual. See, we've never had proper light before. Some say there's another world above our Merolia. Another universe to our humble Alia Dimensi. They folk tales I grew up with all said it's a blinding sensation. Blinding, but happy, as if there were a better world above ours. Crime-less, pure immortal beings even. As I grew up my curiosity never ceased.

I focus back onto my latest creation, a device to make small things look big. I spent exactly one week, five days and two hours making this. If this succeeds it could be used to find that other world above. I would be famous. I don't care much about the money as my parents make enough for my life to be privileged. I just want to find the world above.

Just then, the device collapses. I sighed.

I've been inventing since I was exactly eight and three quarter years old and I am now exactly sixteen years, eight months, two weeks and four days old. Unfortunately, I am yet to have invented anything successful. I am known by others my age as the crazy mad scientist who will one day end up locked up for what I believe in. Not many believe in the world above anymore these days. After all, it's not like anybody will have a need to find it soon.

[Misha]

Kandi's POV:

I sighed, collapsing to the floor after working for 4 hours in the field. I lay there against the straw for several minutes before deciding to pick myself up. I looked down at my body to see another bruise appearing. Fourth one this week that is. I sighed once more dusting my body and taking a seat in one of our three stools. I looked around the house like I did every day. Most of it was empty, just three stools, one for each of us and a small plain table in the middle of the room. Sitting on the table was just a small sand timer.

Just like everyday I sat and imagined what life would be like if I wasn't raised in a poor family, how I wouldn't have to spend most of my childhood working 8 hours, give or take, a day. I looked back at the sand timer, fifteen minutes had passed. I took a deep breath, standing up from the stool and taking hold of my spade before heading outdoors again.

It doesn't matter that I don't have much money. At least I have a family. I sighed before placing the spade into the dirt and beginning my work once more.

[soccergirl2121]

Acanthia's Perspective:
I sighed as I plopped down onto my bed. Life wasn't the same anymore. All I do is sit inside and read all day, never anything else. Not that I don't like reading. I just like to do other things. I have to stay inside, everyday. Because my parents fear of the darkness that is supposedly coming. They scarcely leave the house, unless we need items. Such as food, clothing, or medicine. I only leave the house to go to Church with my mother and father. I just turned 13, which means now I have to help work around the house, And I have to learn how to sew as well. It wasn't fun like the other things I used to do before the supposed coming darkness. I got up and pulled out a book, sitting back down on my bed I began to feel sleepy. I fell asleep reading.

[Little Comet]

Leo's POV:

I heard some idiot outside screaming his head off at his cat. "What in blimey were you doing you stupid feline? Get your rear end back in this house right now!" I rolled over and stuffed my pillow in my ear to block him out. I really couldn't care less about his cat right now. As long as he doesn't pee in my face or break my precious toys, the cat can do whatever he wants for all I care.

Just when I was getting some peace and quiet, I heard some peculiar goat type creature making some very peculiar noises. This I could not stand. I leaped out of bed, swore a couple times at the goat type creature outside and put on my shirt and pants. Yes, the same ones I wore yesterday. What does it matter anyway?

I went down to eat breakfast but the rest of my family had disappeared doing something more important than waiting on me. Even my sister wasn't there. Probably off doing something very smart and sophisticated since she thought so highly of intelligence. I had none. That's just the way I came out.

The reason no one was down here was probably since it was noon already. I like to sleep a lot. My parents say I can sleep when I'm dead and I'm wasting away my time sleeping until noon but I like to dream. Dreaming is better than experiencing my normal life. I could dream of the Light. The Light that people say burns your eyes. I can dream that I battle the darkness that is coming one-handed and everyone loves me. No one loves me right now. It's nice to dream, though.

[Evelyn]

A/N: LC and I decided that (because the last post said that Leo was supposed to have a sister) my character was going to be his character's sister.
So...Bliss's POV:
Breakfast. Of course. I'd already forgotten about eating, and it was way past the time to eat. I stared at the blank piece of paper still hanging on the wall, the one he'd hastily tacked on a few days ago. Still empty. Of course, his excuse was that he had been away for a few days. Oh well. No one would notice if I was to steal some of his precious parchment to work on. Parchment was such a rare resource now, with the materials that had once been here now nearly gone. Whoever our ancestors were, they were only clever enough to bring down some materials with them. Not enough to sustain the growing population of the town.
Outside, the hourglass had just been flipped. The morning had ended, the afternoon begun. The marketplace was so busy, as usual. Some idiot was shouting at another. Didn't they know the news? Well, apparently not. At least they weren't worried about the darkness spreading. I thought of that girl I'd met a few days back. Kandi. She was almost my opposite. Her family was poor, but she had one. I knew where we stored the pots of precious metals, but I didn't know my family. Never mind my family, I didn't even know my own parents. Hardly my own sibling. Maybe one day I'd make more of an effort...if there was going to be one.

[pinkycrystal]

I went out into the neighborhood to meet up with a few old friends. Well, not really friends. More like runaway criminals I became acquainted with. Somehow they gained freedom again and became ordinary Merolian citizen but i never really understood how. Even so, it's good to have connections in these times, even if they aren't always reliable. I didn't get much of a decent conversation today. They just warned me about a foreshadowed darkness.

"A source of evil will be heading this way soon", said Ivonde, staring absentmindely into the distance. Ivonde was once a student of the same teacher I once had. She was very clever and somehow she figured out the art of divination. But because of her beliefs and the fact that others had viewed her as a threat she was locked up. But after five years of imprisonment her skills stayed sharp as ever.

"You shouldn't stay here", added Ivonde's cousin Ash. Ash had been locked up for a reason just as petty as Ivonde's.

Should I believe them? If I viewed them as close friends then perhaps I would. But during these days nobody can have true friends. Not everybody may be trustworthy. Without an answer, I quietly left.

(Adesina isn't exactly the brightest character.)

[soccergirl2121]

When I woke up I went downstairs to eat breakfast, and thn I went to my window to look outside. I saw a girl talking to a few people, some looking like the children I used to go to school with. Now I'm homeschooled and life is very lonely. I walked away from the window, sat at my desk, and began reading. I sighed. I wish life was like it used to be. There were happy faces and laughter and such. I'd have things to do other than read all day long. Nothing is ever the same anymore and probably never will be.

[Misha]

After what felt like hours of working I tripped and cut my arm across rake laying on the ground. I inspected the wound, it wasn't that large but bigger than any bruise or cut I've had. The red liquid dripping from my arm made me queasy so I ran inside to find something for it.

I felt a weird feeling in my stomach. The sort I get when I'm scared or uncomfortable. I took another look at the cut but it didn't make it any better. A lot of people expect me not to be afraid. They think quite the opposite. That I'm meant to be the scary one. With the muscular body and strength people expect it from me. Despite this I'm not that brave.

I entered our home and scanned around the room for something to treat the wound. I found an old rag lying on mother's stool so I ran and grabbed it quickly wrapping it around my arm. I winced as the cloth hit against the cut giving me pain.

I felt that pang in my stomach once more so I entered our second room in search of something to eat. I knew I wouldn't find much but "something is better than nothing" my father always told me. I found some bread and a bit of herbs, from harvest, on our other table. I clutched the food with my better hand and ate it ravenously.

[Little Comet]

My sister appeared in the breakfast room. "Oh, hallo." I said absentmindedly, fiddling with my breakfast and finally leaving it to rot on the table top, not bothering to eat it. "Anything interesting happening out there?" I gestured to the villagers outside, still yelling at one another. I swear I heard someone say something about "a moldy cheese" and "this fish is stinky."

[Evelyn]

"Leo!" I nearly screamed "What are you doing!?"
What was he doing? I didn't think that he would be stupid enough to ignore all the warnings about the supposed darkness arising. Didn't everyone know that supplies were so precious now, and not to waste anything? "And, about your question, I don't think so. Well, theoretically, probably. But it's not something you should concern yourself with. Not now..."
I left, unsure whether I should have said more. I'd promised myself that I'd make it up to the rest of my family later. Later...I didn't know when that was though. Outside, the marketplace was literally chaos. It was amazing that the room I usually confined myself to was so quiet. But for now, I had to concentrate on getting the supplies. And a map, if that was even possible. I'd tried making my own map of our town, but so far, no success. Oh well. Maybe by the time someone had succeeded, I'd either know the secrets of said library or be gone from the darkness in some way. It wouldn't take me. I'd go when I wanted to, no sooner, no later.

[Little Comet]

Bliss suddenly yelled at me. "What are you doing?" She screamed. I flinched, looking up at her angry and flustered face. She seemed on the tipping point, like she was about to fall off her cliff of sanity and dive right into a screaming pit of anger. "Umm...umm..." I looked at my breakfast and scrambled to put my leftovers into pots to keep the vermin out so I could eat it for lunch later. "Sorry...sorry." I mumbled, remembering how I was supposed to limit my use of supplies because of the darkness coming. She stomped off angrily into another room, her little room that she likes to sulk in, I guessed. I wonder what was so important that she was doing in there...

[Misha]

As I sat back on to my stool, waiting for my wound to heal a bit, I thought about the past day's events. Most were the same: work, eat, pray, not leave the house and sleep. However a few days ago I remembered about meeting a girl. She was about my age but obviously her family were wealthy. Her clothes were clean, and had small yet intricate designs on them. Nothing like my plain grey dress, filthy from the mud and dirt. For someone upper class she seemed kind. Most rich people don't give me a second glance and if they do they treat me like slaves.

We didn't really talk but she didn't seem rude or harsh. It would be amazing to have a friend like her. Experience life as someone with money. I'd love to sit on those chairs which have backs. Or to explore different rooms, sleep on a bed instead of the straw floor. The shouting in the market was still going on and I was getting a bit scared. Mother and Father said they would be home in 2 or 3 hours. I'm not sure how long had passed but it felt like more.

[Evelyn]

Maybe there was a horribly fine line between genius and crazy. I stared at myself in the mirror behind my door, already riddled with cracks, as if looking for imperfections, anything that immediately marked me as either one. My hair looked a bit of a mess, yes, but that was how I always looked. Id isn't particularly care about such matters. I pulled on an old, slightly dusty velvet coat and slipped it on. I ran my fingers through my hair and hoped I looked presentable. I took the little sack of silver coins that my parents had left under a loose floorboard and headed outside, hoping to be able to buy something...useful.
Although the marketplace was still chaotic, going straight to the storehouse was far easier. More expensive, maybe, but then again, money wasn't a problem. As usual though, the outskirts of the town were so cold, even with my coat on. I simply handed the man running the storehouse half the silver coins, and returned with a small bagful of food. Probably enough for a week or so. I wondered what made out parents disappear so abruptly. Were they, too, trying to escape the darkness?