Atonement

<MissionControl> > Pandemic is in her office, whatever that might be within her realm on the bank of the styx, when a rumble runs through the ground, her innate senses picking up a disturbance in the composition of her domain
<Keet> o.o
<Keet> <panda gets up and she inches to the door, looking out at what was disrupting her job>
<Keet> <panda> h-h-h-hello?
<MissionControl> > She looks out at the vast plains and stacks of bones that make up her realm as the skeletal, vulture-headed Vanth entities that compose a faction of her otherworldly servitors rise up, skeletal wings unfurling and scythes bared as they flock towards a sudden clearing in the thin fog that suffuses the place, centered around a floating earthberg dominated by a massive mansion. As she peeks out, a black-feathered bird wearing a plague doctor mask
<MissionControl> flaps up before her and twittersalarmedly
<Keet> <panda> c-c-calm down and sp-speak slower p-please, I c-c-can't understand you wh-when you talk s-s-so fast {I'm s-s-s-sorry}
<MissionControl> <Nosoi spirit> Just thought you ought to know, Charonus Pandemica, there has been a rather sizeable disturbance  in the grounds of Supreme Judge Edgar
<MissionControl> <Nosoi> I believe several of the souls being judged there have been attacked. No need to fear, though. The Vanths are in control, and Judge Edgar is more than capable of protecting himself
<Keet> oh...wh-what attacked them?
<MissionControl> <Nosoi> We have yet to find out. It would seem that it is not the usual disruptors to the Flow
<Keet> oh...c-can you keep m-me informed please? I w-want to help if n-needed
<MissionControl> <Nosoi> Certainly, madame most esteemed high Charon of the Styx Pandemic
<Keet> ...j-j-just pandemic, o-or panda please ^^'
<MissionControl> <Nosoi> Yes your prime magestic arbiter of the end of all life and the director o those that pass on to the eternal afterlife Panda ^ >^
<Keet> --
<Keet> <she groans, hanging her head. No one could say that the Nosoi didn't have a sense of humor. She had learned they had a GREAT sense of humor, making her laugh, groan or hang her head in disbelief many times. She was, admittedly, usually the butt of their jokes, but never in a demeaning or insulting way. She pats him on the beak>
<MissionControl> *THOOOOM*
<Keet> <panda> thank you s-s-s-so much --
<Keet> O.O
<MissionControl> <Nosoi> SQUAWK 0 >0
<MissionControl> > A black blast suddenly thunders down from the earthberg above, crashing into a monumental bonepile and sending it's macabre composition flying out in a tidal wave, a few solemn spirits on the bank of the styx drifting up off the ground to rise over the wave of ivory. The flcok of skeletal Vanths above turns as one, heading back towards the main riverbank while a dark, ethereal shape rises from the bones around it
<MissionControl> [ http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/008/2/4/to_flit_by_by_facipoly-d4lr3a7.png ]
<MissionControl> [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJieubzCCo ]
<MissionControl> > With a swirling, graceful air, it stands up, it's silhouette shape stark against the piles of white and grey dirt around it. It's tendrils snake out, lifting into the heavens and branching out like a tree as it raises it's two main arms wide, one holding a pure, golden object that is too small to make out from this distance, even with her enhanced eyesight
<MissionControl> [ ~ M ~ Y ~ S ~ T ~ Y ~ R ~ I ~ O ~ U ~ S ~ ~ ~ E ~ N ~ T ~ I ~ T ~ Y ~ : ATONEMENT ]
* You are now known as Atonement
<Keet> ...
<Keet> <panda steps forward, placing her oar on the side of the door to her office. She rubs the Nosoi's beak
<Keet> <panda> g-go, don't r-r-risk yourself. G-get the souls t-to safety and the o-other nosoi
<Atonement> > As Panda watches the strange being sway and branch out overhead, she feels her skin crawl. Se can feel that her realm is being permeated by a being that is inimical to the workings of a sane and logical cosmos. The back being seems to look at her with its eyeless, umbral face, cradling the golden thing in its hand closer to its chest
<Atonement> <Nosoi> Y-yes ma'am!
<Keet> <panda starts trotting towards atonement, her hood tilting back as her glowing green eyes wheep a curious emerald fog. She stands her ground, though her legs are shaking a bit as she speaks to the creature>
<Keet> <panda> U-um, hello! Uh, wh-why are you h-h-here?
<Atonement> > Te crow being flutters off, a great squawking horde of her nosoi lifting up from the bone fields. Her Vanths crash int othe branches of the black thing, it's tendrils ensnaring them and plucking the skeletal fliers apart, stealing away their scythes as well. Atonement looks across the vast field at Panda. It nods calmly to her, before it's head suddenly jerks to the left. The golden thing in it's hand is drawn into it's chest, the shape of the
<Atonement> object oddly visible even within the opaque shadows of the being as it shoots down through the shadowy thing's feet and into the earth, travelling along in a flash before it rises up, another body forming around it to hold it while the old one goes limp and lims down into a simple branch junctio nfor the forest of dancing tendrils above
<Atonement> > The being is now before one of the grim ghosts awaiting judgement, and waves it's hand, the spirit approaching the shadow being
<Keet> ...
* Atonement strokes the shade's face, before placing the golden object in its clutches against the spirit's forehead, a sharp, shrill scream of utter agony ripping through the boneyard as the aether composing the specter is violently ripped apart in a display that pandemic's inherited title and knowledge instinctually equates to the metaphysical version of murder via skullfuck
<Keet> ...
<Atonement> > A thin, red cloud hovers where the spirit once was, vague faces of malice drifting across it
<Keet> <panda is in the air, a howl of rage filling the land of the dead as her cloak explodes from her body. She raises her hooves and a GIANT sword begins to crackle into existance, a glimmering black blade adorned with moaning, screaming faces and leering eyeless skulls. Crackling with green energy, she swings the weapon down with murderous force, her body starting to armour up as black full plate forms o
<Keet> ver the ferrypone of the dead.>
<Atonement> [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueJztqUPRtA ]
<Keet> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDNbqdSv_4M
<Atonement> > The black being reels back in what appears to project aghast shock as Pandemic tries to strike it. With a quick motion, Atonement flicks the golden orb in it's clutches , the black boughs of the shadow-tree above snaring down to gently wrap around Pandemic's blade, most of the strands easily sliced through, though slowing the swordstrike down enough to allow several dozen of her Vanths' scythes to be brought down from the boughs above, swinging in
<Atonement> and hooking Panda's blade, their adamantine blades withstanding the strike
* Atonement 's other, less occupied branches begin slipping down, taking the hooves or hands of other specters and guiding them with gentle care towards the black entity and her shining, eye-burningly beatific orb
<Keet> <panda lands, a black cloak finallizing her appearance, a whirling raiment forged of wraithlike shadows and smoke. She swings the blade again, the collosal sword now whipping around to strike the orb as she adopts her true form
<Keet> [Guardian of the Fallen: Death Knight Pandemic]
<Keet> http://deculture101.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/wowa304q5pcd6vcun.jpg
<Atonement> > The orb is reabsorbed into Atonement's chest as a dozen new scythes swing in to catch her blade, the edge of her sword slicing through their adamatine as her mantle as Charon easily crushes the psychopomp wardings on the weapons. Even so, the shadow manages to draw the orb away, the death knight's blade swinging through the shadows of the creature and severing a fair number of nw branches her relocation had birthed. She watches as the ground of
<Atonement> her domain rises like the burrowing trail of a subterranean beast, the globe rising up and remaking a new Atonement that raises the orb as three more chosen specters drift closer and touch the aura of radiant glory, their cries stinging Panda's ears as they too are blasted away into red, shifting, malignant clouds; like the blast shadows from nuclear explosions
<Keet> <panda's back erupts, a wall of whirling sickles whipping around to the creature, the long black chains attached to them yanking back, dragging the creature towards her this time. She hoists the black blade, the wraithblade crashing down like the axe of  an executioner>
<Keet> <panda> DIE AND BEGONE!
<Keet> (ah, much better image of panda the death knight)
<Keet> http://www.gandex.ru/upl/oboi/gandex.ru-26_2415_wow-lich-king.jpg
<Atonement> > Just as before, the sickles cut into the shadowy form around Atonement while the golden orb escapes, the shell of the shadow looking up at her with a questioning tilt of it's head before it is shorn in twain. A bonepile nearby erupts as a new body takes shape, the massive wall of skeletal remains hsifting out hard as a thickening of the shadows around it takes place, the being rooting itself firmly as it grows into a towering shape, more and more
<Atonement> resembling a tree rather than a being. The countless souls are drawn towards it faster, the golden orb extended out on a long tendril and whipped around, a secondary spire always keeping the ball attached firmly to the ground even while it's main tether smashes it across the specters, blasting them away one after another
<Keet> (okay, can I actually do anything about this? Am I just waisting my time?)
<Keet> (If I am needlessly drawing out the scene then I would like to continue with the aftermath, no point in flailing about)
* Keet is now known as Pandemic
<Atonement> (Aaaah, just PMed you; [DISCLAIMER: I am not godmodding here, and I want you to kill this thing, because it is AWFUL. There is a way to kill it] )
<Atonement> (Iffff you want to we can skip this little battle, I was just waiting to see if you could figure out it's weak spot, but if this is boring by all means...)
* Pandemic smashes her sword into the ground and a wall of spectral ice explodes forth from the ground, jutting out like a thousand glistening spears at it forms between the spirits and the creature, creating a physical barrier to stop the departed from losing their souls.>
* Pandemic then whips the blade across the ground, sending an arcing scythe of ice spinning towards the tendril keeping the orb aloft
<Atonement> > As Pandemic's ice explodes up from the ground, the veritable orchard of shadowy 'tree trunks' scattered about the field of battle suddenly wither and crumple, a clatter of thousands of dismembered Vanths echoing as they begin to pull themselves and each other back together. Atonement lets out a soft gasp, it's very first sound, as it wavers and flickers in apparent pain, the golden orb drawing back slowly, barely dodging the ice scythe as it
<Atonement> bisects it's upper body, the last of it's branches shimmering away as the shadow entity is suddenly confined within the icy walls
<Pandemic> ...
<Atonement> > Even so, a few new shoots of darkness start to poke up from the top of the icy wall, spreading over it like kudzu as the tenacious being fights back, it's motions definitely slowed. Finally, The Vanths stand reassembled, and look to Pandemic for orders, their avian skulls staring at her blankly as thye rub the edges of their scythes with anticipation
* Pandemic leaps into the air and she hoists the blade, falling silent as her burning blue eyes flare, her ice blade shimmers, a sheet of frigid cold passing over it before she slams down, this time the ice races up to greet the tree's roots, and like the kiss of death, freeze them solid. Clamboring over the wooden protrusions as it encapsulates the being, an icey prison of slow creeping death to capture the spiritual predator
<Atonement> > Pandemic's sword pierces right into a root, a crackling sheet of ice forming over the being form base to branches as it writhes in place, it's shaows fizzling away within, leaving beautiful tunnels in the afterlife-ice. The goldeon orbs remains suspended within the frost
* Pandemic points at it
<Pandemic> Destroy it
* Pandemic 's voice is hollow and as cold as a starless winter night
<Atonement> > The Vanths swing and slice, cutting the ice away and letting the orb fall, several vanths raising their arms up as a pillar of stone rises from below to catch the thing. Ten of their number arrange themselves around it, bearing their scythes back over their shoulders before swinging down at it
<Atonement> *crrrrunch*
<Atonement> > Their scythes strike down, and the rock pillar below fractures and splits, falling into pieces as the orb it once held drops down in the small earthslide, rolling across the ground and comign to a stop at Pandemic's feet, it's glorious glow extinguished
<Atonement> [ http://golubaja.deviantart.com/art/Julian-Orb-102655497 ]
* Pandemic slams her blade into the orb, encasing it in a prison of otherworld cold
<Atonement> > The blade slams into the thing, neither sword nor orb budging as it is wrapped tight in it's permafrost coating
* Pandemic lifts the orb
<Pandemic> check on the souls, try to reconstitute the dissolves spirits ,find out what did  this. I need answers
* Pandemic is eerily calm as she holds the frozen globe
<Atonement> > The Vanths nod, moving to the gloating red clouds and taking out small jars, gently ushering the malignant things into them for analysis. The orb within shimmers, and Pandemic's enhanced eyes peer in, examining it's surface and zooming in to look at minutely complex forms represented in spirallin fractals and combinations, their dizzying dimensions descending down, inwards, inwards, until her eye catches a point, and the plummeting descent into
<Atonement> complexity seems to shift into a strange internal gr-
<Atonement> <Nosoi> Miss Pandemicus maximus?
<Pandemic> ...
<Atonement> > Pandemic's mane is gently stroked through by the plaster beak-masque of one of her jovial crows, it's attention waking her, her eyes feeling alarmingly dry
* Pandemic 's armoured form dissolves and she looks at the nosoi
<Pandemic> uh y-y-y-yes? {s-sorry}
<Atonement> <Nosoi> The Viduus division has analyzed the remnants of the spirits, and has asked if you would like to hear the results. Also, reconstruction has almost been completed. All it took was a little earthworking, so it only cost us about an hour or two to fix it all... are you quite well? You have been... focused for quite some time
<Pandemic> ...uh...h-how long have I b-been here n-nossy?
<Atonement> <Nossy> Four hours, great and powerful Pandy
<Pandemic> ...uh..th-thank you um...
<Pandemic> ...
* Pandemic looks at him
<Pandemic> ...are all m-my nosoi o-okay?
<Atonement> <Nosoi> Yes ma'am! That being seemed not to care about us! In fact, it did not damage the Vanths either. It merely disassembled them ^ >^
* Pandemic sighs in relief, her face lighting up a bit
<Pandemic> g-g-good
<Pandemic> ...t-take the day off, g-go home. I w-will finish up here
<Atonement> <Nosoi> ... d-day off? o >o
<Atonement> <Nosoi> ... ^ >^ ~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3
<Atonement> > The Nosoi swoops up and shoots off before Pandemic can change her mind >.>
* Pandemic sighs and she looks over the devastation. She then gets to work, restoring her realm to the way it should be, collecting the lost, assembling the vanth, and reforging the landscape through her own abilities as they will allow. It is a bit snowier then usual, but she does her best, grateful for unlimited endurance
<Atonement> > Before too long, everything is back in order, the attack naught but a faint, horrid memory
* Pandemic then heads to her office and she faceplants into the table, unconcious from the effort. The orb resting in her hooves, the souls jarred for analysis and recovery, the ferrypone now quite spent
<Pandemic> zzzzz
<Atonement> > End scene ouo