Topic: The Library of Dark Lore (open to all)

Saga de Deso

Date: 2009-04-26 10:53 EST
The library loomed like a dark beast, gaping maw the door of entrance... those shrouded windows the all seeing eyes. Deep in the shadows of the forest the Library rested on the grounds of Dark Lore castle, silent and still. As if waiting to devour it's next guest... or victim.

Once the great black doors creaked open one would be assaulted by the scent that Time would carry. The ancient nature of antiquity. The quiet hush that all libraries would carry if not... for that subtle aura of power that would cling and clutch to every corner and crevice.

Every book one could imagine when it came to the topics of legend and lore, nightmares and horrors, magic and power filled the shelves. Many penned by the curator herself.

Infamous books were whispered of existing within that great building. The book of the Dead and the Index Book amongst those prized possessions. Nothing was out of the question when it came to the books that could be obtained or come into the possession of the Dark Lore Library.

The invitations had been sent, the messages had been left in subtle places for the unaware that sought the answers they feared to find...

The Library of Dark Lore was officially open.

Longcoats and Tophats

Date: 2009-04-27 10:48 EST
Luck would be on Scherzo's side with his coming to Rhy'Din. Invitations found, and accepted. Sporting long coats, top hats, and a myriad of odd accessories, the dark half of the trickster twins set off.

Vibrant and intense, the yellow gaze was, perusing over the outer walls of the dark edifice before him, studying intently, before making any further decisions.

Then, a click and clack of dull dress shoes moving against hard ground issued, a familiar sound, one that was often heard assaulting the pleasant murmur of the city and its citizens, with the joyful company of the trickster coming in its wake.

Scherzo was a trickster of a different sort; of angry men and hurt women, in and out, the troubles that so overwhelmed the good, of the dark thoughts that forever plague the minds of humanity, the famine that taunts the poor, and the gluttony that fattens the nobles.

The dark feeling of such a library was not lost on the man, so attuned to the decay of the world, if anything, such an awareness only sparked his usually dismissive interest all the more.

Imagine, if you will, walking into a city full of both joy and pain, strife and pleasure, to have the scavenger birds dropping cards into your hand. Who wouldn't take such an invitation?

The card in his hat, was hidden behind a second one, the invitation, the card dropped by the birds, it seemed to best place to put it.

Fingers were long and nimble, dexterous and precise, curling forward, inching along the great doors of the library, to give a gentle push. The creak that groaned in protest assaulted his keen ears, just as the scent of time's work hit his other senses. Decay; so familiar.

Saga de Deso

Date: 2009-04-27 18:34 EST
There were no locks, no chains to bind the doors of that dark edifice. All hours open like a private allure of the macabre. A teasing treasure for the dark souls.

Like a haunted house that had been in lock down the library cried and groaned, moaned and occasionally would shriek. The curator herself watched with dark eyes, obsidian mirrors dark pools to offer the straying shivers of color.

Twilight and Midnight. Dreams and Nightmare landscapes. Time was something she held in her hands as a precious jewel. Shadows would not part to allow her revelations, nor would there be a parlor trick to twist and corrupt the mind.

The Seer was simply there, like Dark Alice had found her way -out- of the looking glass and didn't need a looking glass any longer. Wonderland corruption that was the life Saga was introduced to.

"Greetings and Salutations. Welcome to the Dark Lore Library, feel free to look around... or if there was something you were looking for?"

Voice sin and seduction. A sound that manipulated and twisted the air in sweet promise of utter bliss or the utmost torture depending on the date and time.

Humored at the moment she seemed, sinuous form seemingly coiled around the corner of the shelf of books she peered around. A smudge of fingers against her skirt as if those ancient tomes left an imprint on her spirit that she never could detach from.

Longcoats and Tophats

Date: 2009-04-27 19:15 EST
Heard and noticed she was, but left alone, even after the offered words of greeting as the Trickster continued inside, passing the threshold of dark doors to let them close behind him.

Eyes were heavily lidded, a look of dismissive and bored indifference portrayed on the porcelain white of his face. One hand had fingers curled into slim fitting trousers' pocket, the other pulling in an absent minded manner on a small chain that hung randomly from ever dark and intricate clothing.

It wasn't until after Scherzo had given the immediate area a sweeping inspection of a purely visual level, that the other was acknowledged.

"Nothing," he drawled, so apparently uninterested in everything. "Where am I?" he knew the name of the building, but he knew not its purpose, and had little knowledge of the area in general. New.

It wasn't until the question was asked, that he offered the woman the inspection he'd given the room. Eyes set on her, bright with the yellow intensity of the sun, all that sense of indifference and disinterest disappearing with the sight of such an alert gaze.

Up and down, once then twice, he looked what he could see of her, over. "You're the proprietor?"

Saga de Deso

Date: 2009-04-29 06:00 EST
"I am." When he spoke she parted from her peeking regard from around the book shelf to step fully away from the shelf and into the center of the library.

Bare foot her steps never would make a sound. "For the most part." Details Details. She left out the whole ridiculous ordeal of being bound her like an exquisite pet for Seirian's corrupted mirth and need. Saga's 'mistress' per se was a furiously jealous creature who was obsessed with her 'collections.'

Arms folded over chest that was ensnared and claimed in straps of leather and silk that seemed a mocking of bondage as she met those twin yellow suns with the swallowing darkness of her own oil slick depths. Pale flesh was taut and sinuous as a snow leopard's forging, mane of snow and soot a crazed tousle to her hips.

Ever exposed that strange jewel that winked in navel, the bone hilt of hips before disappearing into wisps of fabric that resembled a skirt. Lips touched into a smile that was near razorblade sharp. A flash of the straight row of teeth.

"This is the Library of Dark Lore where you stand. An answer to nightmares and fears, revelations of twisted fantasies."

A dismissive wave, a click of silver adorned fingers clasping together as her hands twisted like broken winged birds before her.

"The rest of this place... is Rhy'din...enjoy what of it you can." Dry at best that remark.

Longcoats and Tophats

Date: 2009-04-29 09:47 EST
"Lucertola, find," he commanded. In response, one of his vest's many pockets opened up, and a small lizard poked its head out, blinking slowly at the woman, who was new to the tiny critter. Then it crawled up, and hopped onto the ground, to scuttle off in a random direction.

"Reminds me of home," he mused, which was a rather false statement. Home was a place of white and grays, test tubes and chambers, experiments and calculation, biological warfare. No, this place very much touched his own sense of being, held a remarkable resemblance to the inner workings of his mind.

"Lizard lizard, was lost in a blizzard, blizzards kill, little lizards, but this little lizard, walked into the blizzard, protected, as if by a wizard," often, he'd break into rhymes, often pointless, badly composed, and nonsensical.

As he waited for the critter's return, fingers curled inward and outward, skin stretched taught over skeletal digits, emaciated he seemed, underfed for many years, like a caged and starved pet just recently set free. The only difference between him and such a creature, was that he wasn't eating anyone.

Finally, after moments of waiting, the little lizard returned, scuttling along toward it's master.

"Come come little lizard, run run, fast, like sister, careful should mister find you, and trickster bind you, for with you rests, sister's mister," by the time he'd finished, the lizard had crawled back up his leg, perched on his shoulder, and seemed to whisper into his ear.

A thoughtful purse of lips signaled the departure of whatever odd sense of glee he'd felt at discovering the place, eyes were again heavily lidded with conveyed disinterest. "Rest well little lizard, I'll protect you from that wizard," he murmured to the lizard, whom crawled back into the pocket on his vest, and disappeared from sight.

"Lucertola cannot find it," he said aloud, as if she'd know exactly what he was talking about.

Saga de Deso

Date: 2009-05-01 06:37 EST


"I am certain that this place reminds you very much of home."

Her voice tranquility edged with the dry leaves of sarcasm. She took to leaning as she regarded the strangely hatted fellow.

Oil slick eyes tracked, those strange colors of amethyst and sapphire hunted and prowled after the lizard.

Those silver adorned fingers scratched along her jaw. A delicate touch along her flesh as she listened to the rhyme.

Oh this one had hit his head hard.

Never the less, stranger people and creatures had she existed in the presence of.

"What you stop seeking you will find if you let it come to you."

So she spoke in riddles for him. Intertwined those words around her tongue like a lapping creature in shadows. A feline with cream.

Her smile was like that of a cat that found a canary and snapped it's wings with dainty cruel teeth.

"Now then. Was there something that you needed?"

All things for a reason. Everything for a purpose. They just didn't end up in the library because it looked disturbing. This she found was more and more the truth these days.

Longcoats and Tophats

Date: 2009-05-02 12:10 EST
"No," was the simple answer as he continued forward, walking toward nothing in particular as his eyes perused the many things open to sight.

"Well...nothing that you have, the masters, they have no works here, the creators haven't come. My brother doesn't know of this place, he's not left his mark, you don't have him," he assured himself, rather than informed her.

"But," he paused, turning those sunlit orbs to her. "I'm sure you have something worth finding here," as he turned once again, drawing his sweeping gaze about the chamber.

"Trickster Trickster, he's looking for Mister, the Mister who created, the twin Tricksters. Trickster Trickster, followed his Mister, and Mister told Trickster, to kill, his favorite Sister," he rambled on as he came to a halt, head canted to the side in a manner mirroring that of a curious cat.

"High and low, dark and cold, the world runs beneath me. The lies the strife, the hate of life; Tricksters are born, Tricksters are sworn, living and dying, fighting and crying. They know no freedom, dream of no peace, serve to the end, to give the master's, their Piece."

Saga de Deso

Date: 2009-05-05 06:09 EST
A collector of sorts, that was what the Mistress of Twilight and Sin was to Saga. The rhymes that twisted through her senses as the man spoke were pieced together. Unraveled.

"Seeking to find then."

A murmur, a low incantation of breath as she listened to his claim, death. How many times had there been a moment where Saga had to choose death for others?

Her gaze flicked down the dark aisles, resting on flickering oil lamp and those dim lights. At one point she was certain the one that kept her here had been sane and exquisite. A respected and beautiful source of evil was Seirian.

Something though had changed Seirian and drove her to madness... to collect. Sick traps she had bound them all in? How many lives and names had Saga carried before being trapped by that crazy Fae?

A look back to the hatted one, those oil slick eyes vividly intense then as if lit from behind with black fire and midnight claim.

"Perhaps it is time for a Trickster to stop following a Mister and instead make his own twisted path."

Longcoats and Tophats

Date: 2009-05-05 09:09 EST
"We are Scherzo Giullare and Lucertola," he informed the woman as he stopped, and snapped that sunlit gaze over to her, that feigned disinterest gone in the brief moment. "We are looking for my brother, you do not have him," he stated, rather than asked.

"This place, it has secrets," again, a statement, more than a question. "I need them, to find him, it must be done," he wouldn't say why he needed to find his brother, he didn't know. He just, had to, had something urging him onward.

"He's taken the trickster path, that I cannot follow, I have to find him, we must meet," like a broken record, he continued to rant about his search.

Saga de Deso

Date: 2009-05-10 14:18 EST


"You may call me Saga. It is a pleasure to make your aquaintance."

She left the remainder of her name off as it was never her true name.

"I have a sister myself or I did once. She was not my true sister... but she is like the moon in her ways... beautiful. The light compared to what I am."

Revelations made though she was rare to speak of the angel she had claimed as her sister when her life thread had twisted and taken a new path. There was also the De Deso clan where Saga had been viewed as the Ice Thorn in comparison to her sister of the Flame. Then there was Oblivia the lollipop toting she demon... and the rest of the clan.

Saga if anything knew much about family though she never spoke of it. Instead there were bonds now. The Hunter, the Killer, Stormy, and even that dreadful Rook all shared a strange connection. Understanding was feasible when it came down to the core of all that the Seer was.

"Perhaps you should check the Index Book... he might be there..."

Offering guidance and suggestion. Seek and you shall find.