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@rose-colored-fancy you know…I’m not even going to question that one

Sounds good!  I’ll probably drop him in with Misu and Qatar as well.  He’s from the same setting as Misu, but I don’t think they’ve officially met.  This is going to be interesting!

Also, I read your guy’s entry…never thought I would see a Kongar reference in the Character Castle lol!  I’m intrigued!

@emily-waldorf @rose-colored-fancy @denali-christianson I’m dropping my boy in!  For reference, he looks similar to my pfp minus the mask and moles (although he might have a respirator stored away somewhere – you can never know how bad the pollution’s going to get on any given day…)  I’m not quite sure what he’s wearing, but right now he’s bundled up for a biting, toxic winter in Spire 🙂  Fair warning, he’s not very well developed yet, so we’ll see where this goes!

Basil:

Basil drew his coat tighter around his shoulders, hunching forward against the driving wind.  Small flurries of ashen snow whipped and curled around his feet, twisting like shadows under the glaring street lights.  The air bit at his skin, pricking and buzzing like…

Oh no.

The air snapped and crackled, pulsing and throbbing with sickening intensity.  Basil winced as a blinding pain erupted in his ears.  Yeah I think we’re done here.  He turned, setting a brisk pace back down the street.  The air buzzed against his skin.  A deafening roar suddenly ripped through the air, twisting and rising into an ear splitting screech.  Basil sniffed.  No way I’m dealing with this tonight. The air sparked.  Basil’s heart jumped.  He’s noticed me.  He whipped around, pulse thundering in the back of his throat.  Fractals of blinding light splintered the atmosphere.  Basil ran.  Please Sasha I’m just trying to get home –

The atmosphere suddenly erupted in blinding light, and then…darkness.

Basil stumbled forward, blinking in the inky black night.

Is this another alternate reality, or have I gone blind?

A muffled voice echoed somewhere behind him.  He whipped around to see a faint light filtering through the darkness.  He blinked.  I guess I have to make it up there somehow.  He clicked his tongue.  Could be a trap, though.  Oh well. 

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The light was stronger now, although still faint.  He was in some sort of cavern, and the light seemed to be filtering through the roof.  Basil glanced around nervously as he picked his way across the floor of the cave.  The ground was smooth enough, but it was too dark to see much of the cavern floor.  I wonder if there’s bats in here.  His lip curled.  They’ve probably littered the whole ground here.  I’m probably stepping in all sorts of bat droppings.  He shuddered.  In that case, there’s probably all sorts of infectious diseases here, too.  I don’t like that.  Basil pulled his scarf over his nose, just in case.  I don’t like that at all.  In fact, this whole place is positively miserable.  And how am I supposed to find food here?  If I can’t find food, I’ll starve, and in that case I would have to eat a bat to survive.  And that is disgusting.  I would probably die of some unknown disease if I did that, so I’m definitely not eating a – Basil stopped short.  Four men stood in front of him, staring at him with some mixture of shock and relief, and perhaps a bit of disappointment as well.  Basil’s shoulders dropped in sudden relief.  He blinked, the slightest hint of tears pricking at the back of his eyes.

Basil tilted his head, carefully inspecting the group.  One man stood in the shadows off to the side, hands buried deep in his pockets.  Basil shot him an approving glance.  Good idea.  That’s exactly what I would have done.  It was too late to hide, though.  Two more men sat near a rock – one drenched, the other apparently injured.  The other man was…glowing?

Basil sniffed.  “You’re glowing.”