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An old man stood in front of an eye embedded in a wall. The eye was tall and thin, and opened from left to right instead of up to down. This was one of, if not the lowest level of the house, and it showed. Water and mold covered the walls, small bugs crawled swiftly along the edges, and only a single lamp flickered quietly on a table. The old man sat at a chair in front of the table and began to speak.

"Hi."
the Eye glared at him.
"Now, don't be like that."
it stopped glaring.
"Well, i'm pretty sure you know what i've been up to."
the Eye appeared interested.
"And you know what? I've been beat."
It opened wide in astonishment.
"Yes, you have beaten me. So I went to plan B."
the eye narrowed.
"Yes, that plan B. Now, let's just see where they all are..." the old man snapped his fingers, and a laptop computer appeared on the table. The Eye looked at it curiously as the man opened it up and went to a map program.
"Hmm? Oh, this thing? It's an invention from the other world. You might want to keep up with the times."
the man looked over at the map for a brief bit. His jaw dropped.
Wha..what? they were all supposed to be in the garden? instead the blacksmith, healer, and gunman went to a balcony outside the Paladin's HQ in the center tower and the two mages went to a more decreipt, ruined section. Well, at least the archaeologist arrived on target. wait...
"You! You did this!"
the eye looked around the room innocently.
"You [censored]! Well, if that's how you want to play, then fine. Good day, sir!" the old man snapped his fingers again and the laptop disappeared. he walked out of the room and faded out of existence.

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The old man appeared in the same room as Christopher and Jaxin. He looked over the two unconscious boys. here the room was well-lit, but vines covered every surface including the inside of the doorway. The door was missing, probably plundered.
"hey! wake up!"
as he spoke, he sent a telepathic call out to Kat, his aide.
Kat! go to the central tower, find the balcony with outsiders on it! I fear that the paladins may do something rash...
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Chris started to stir a bit "mmmm....ugh..." He flopped over to see an old man appearing right by him "GAH! wh-wh-wh-who are y-y-y-you?" Chris said stuttering very heavily. He looked around seeing an nearly empty room with vines covering what seemed to be a door behind "wh-wh-wh....where am I?...."he was scared out of his wits What just happened....last time I remember, I just got denied my last job application.....and now I'm stuck in a PRISON....crap...why does this day get worse?

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I smell....flowers.... Brittny regain consciousness as she felt the sun shine upon her body. She peaked one of her eyes open to see herself surrounded in a garden and then closed her eyes once again ...what...what just happened....I was just at my advanced writing class last time I remember.... She sighs and relaxes " this feels nice...." She falls asleep

((It was you that stole one of my eggs CMB. I'm gonna kill you))

Wik started to regain conciousness. "Urgh. My head." he says as he grabs his head, trying to not think about the immense pain. He looks around and realizes that he doesn't know where he is. "What the..."
All the architecture looks familiar yet different. Familiar in the sense that it's like what he normally sees, bar some buildings, yet different in that it's completely foreign to him.
He springs to his feet incase of an attack and instantly comes to regret the action. His head starts throbbing even harder, as if it's going to explode. "Push through the pain."
He looks down and sees two other people "Who the [censored] are they? Meh, one way to find out."
He lifts his leg and gently pushes his foot into their hips, one person after the other.
I hope they wake up so I can figure out who they are and where we are.

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Liz walked slowly and with a purpose. She was headed to find Sofia.
We may have different beliefs but I still like her. She's a nice person.
Shaking these thoughts from her head Liz looks around the HQ building.
Usually she's around here somewhere. I need to find her because we have some important business to attend to.
She walks into another room and goes to sit down and eat.

((She's in the mess hall/lunch room/whatever we're calling it))

Hum, drum, boil and Tum, time to make some fun with some. Kat thought, not entirely sure if the Architect would be able to receive thought messages as well as give them, but not really caring. She had been created by his exceptional mind, but he was pretty much still a mystery to her.

She hopped off the ledge that supported her and flew from one rooftop to the next, perching at last on the designated balcony, peering at the three figures before her. One was awake and poking the other two with his foot. She cocked her head at him.

Coming around Faith opened her heavy eyes and found herself starring up at the balcony of a strange building. Sat on top of it was the strangest little cat she had ever seen. It's white coat seemed to glimmer ever so slightly and it's large over sized ears and point out from the side of it head.

Where was she? how did she get here? The last thing she remembered was being on a school trip and now...

"Kitty?" She said out loud while still laying flat on her back starring at the strange cat.

Jaxin awoke to see his cat Kiki standing on his chest licking his face. "Kiki, you'll all I need." He raised one hand to pet her head which she in turn rubbed up against him. Looking up he was no longer in the ruined chamber that he had been exploring but in somewhere else completely. The he head the voice of some old guy, and perking his head up he looked at him. Kiki did the same. The two of them just looking up at the old man. Jaxin leaned up into a sitting position and Kiki went to sit in his lap, he started to look around. He was in some sort of room with a lot of vines growing around. Kiki mewed a few times rubbing up against him. "Kiki its alright, I'm right here." Looking back up to the old man he rudely and sarcastically commented, "Hey, geezer, where are we?, and who are you?" he sat there petting Kiki waiting an answer.

Sofia turned the tap on a shower in the dressing room. All around her other girls and women were getting dressed and ready for the day. You could have mistaken it for any regular locker room, if not for the swords and armor in racks by the door.

Sofia finished up, dried off, and put her clothes and armor on. She grabbed her weapons as she walked out the door and headed for the mess hall.
Alright, my shift's starting up soon, so I better get a bite to eat..

Sofia came into the mess hall, which was crowded (as always). She grabbed some food and looked around for any familiar faces, and quickly spotted Liz. Sofia walked up to Liz and sat down at the same table as her.
"Hey. It's kinda noisy in here, don't you think?"

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"Great. Listen, i'm the architect. I built this place, and I need your help to save it. This building, this house, is the home to hundreds of people, all blissfully unaware of the silent doom that approaches. There are others whom I contacted, Wik, but you and Jaxin over there had the misfortune of you flightpath diverted by the force that I need you to fight. I intended for you to end up in a nice garden;instead you ended up here. Didn't mean to take your cat, though."
the old man thought about it for a bit, trying to find a good example to explain his purpose.
"You know the chronicles of Narnia? Yeah, it's kinda like that. Except... well, we'll get to that part later."

Strear swam in the space between sleep and wakefullness, his senses still dormant from him but for thought and feeling, one of which told him that something was prodding at him, the other allowing him to think rather macabre thoughts about dispelling whatever it was that was poking him. After a few seconds his consciousness fully returned, and Strear saw a brown shoe poking at him. He said in a still half-sleepy voice "please stop doing that.... wait..." and for the first time Strear became fully aware that he was lying on solid ground, and that he felt the wind. "wow...." Memories of the castle in Ireland flooded back to him, and again he felt the pain which had struck him so suddenly then. "Where am I... and who are you" he asked the other two figures.

((she's a small fox..... her name is Kat.))

"Cats may purr and scowl, but instead I sneak and prowl." The little white fox spoke, righting the alignment of its head, hopping off the ledge and walking up to Faith.


"You couldn't be in a situation any stranger, but for now, you three are in danger." she said sing-songingly.

Staring unbelievingly at the small white fox, Strear thought out loud "someone in that castle spiked me, didn't they? That is the only logical explanation to why a %$##@ing FOX would be making rhymes." Strear quickly put on his usual glare and said "this is the last time I visit Ireland."

"Bingo! Congrats! he got it right! For I am a fox: I stalk the night." Said the little white thing, hopping around in a circle


"But fear not, for I do not lie, if you stay here, you will likely die." it stopped its little celebration to look at them all.

"You will find a lot of things strange, I fear, for things do not work as you think in here."

Still trying to cling to his only rational thought, Strear said "whoever spiked me really knew their stuff. I's almost swear that there is an actual fox not only talking, but talking in rhymes that make no sense. I'm going back to sleep until this wears off." So Strear sat back down and tried to drift off again.

Jaxin looked at the old man confused, was he really serious, he had to be insane or something, or at least incredibly stupid. No one least of all an old man could of taken Kiki from him, not even from his cold dead corpse. The last time anyone had messed with her, Jaxin had put them into a coma.

"Assuming what you say to be true, why would I care in the least what happens to people I don't even know." Jaxin had a sort of half smirk as he looked down at Kiki who was now curled up in his lap but paying as much attention to the old man as much as Jaxin.

"And the chronicles of Narnia? come on seriously...." Jaxin was trying to stand, picking up kiki and putting her in his hooide she just hung there in front of him holding onto the collar with her head poking out. "Give me one good reason why I should help you at all. " Jaxin just stood uneasily, as he still had yet to regain all of his balance. "And by good I mean something thats tangible and not worthless."

Hearing the word die, Faith bolted upright and then scurried around the floor fo a small distance caming to a halt in front of Kat. She knelt in front of the strange creature and looked down at it.

"What do you mean die!" she exclaimed in a panicked fashion. "What's going on?"

"Out of the goodness of your heart, I suppose. And if you want a good reason, there's plenty. For instance, if you don't help me you will end up either dead, insane, transformed into a beast of chaos and destruction the likes of which this world has never seen, dead, eaten, dead, alone in a desolate wasteland, dead, dead, or all of the above. Also," the old man smiled here maliciously, "I never said you had a choice. But time is money, and as I speak the thing that threatens us all is freeing itself. Hurry up with the questions, I have to go restrain it."