nextgen_asgard (nextgen_asgard) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-02-11 01:09:00

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aridis, asleif, halbjorn, inactive - danielle hrimharisdottir, inactive - moira hrimharisdottir, npc - douglas hrimharison, npc - hjordis volstaggsdottir, npc - skari thorsson, plot-"the encroaching darkness", svalin, vincent vernard

The Raging Battle
An eerie calm fell over Asgard for a few brief moments. The forces of dark were outside of the shield over the city and were still. Inside the Asgardian warriors waited for the moment when the shield would come down and the battle would start. They were warriors, men and women, caught in an endless struggle against the dark forces that were camped outside the walls.

This would be another battle in an almost endless series of battles. Two forces locked in a constant struggle until the day the last battle came and all would be decided. Today was not the day of that last battle, but it was a day of battle.

The warriors inside the shield had taken up their proper places and waited for the shield to come down. The warriors armed with swords, shields, axes and other weapons were on foot and horseback. Beserkers waited to unleash uncontrolled fury upon their enemies. Magic users stood perched upon high battlements waiting to unleash their spells upon the enemy. Archers also lined the battlements, waiting to rain a storm of arrows upon their foes. Valkyries waited to take to the air to strike at their enemies from above. The battle commanders paced the upper battlements looking out at the forces, dark and light, below them.

Everything was still. Man, woman, horse and enemy. Not even a breeze blew.

The shield came down and chaos erupted.

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Re: On the Sorcerers' Tower

circle_of_seven
2010-02-15 09:05 pm UTC (link)

Being an enchanter himself, he quickly recognizes the flavor of the magic, to a degree. He or she is definitely an enchanter and illusionist - but using ancient fey magic, strong, wild and raw, not the disciplined study of most sorcerors - and whoever it is is good, and of fey and Asgardian blood, the sorcerous rites flowing naturally through them.

The ritual is no brute force structure, its as delicate and finely woven as a tapestry, each thread put in place just so, carefully arranged not only for effect, but so that there can be no idea what attacking of unweaving any particular thread might do, either to the spell, the caster, or those trying to unweave it.

As to the Asgardians - once Aslief steps in, they fall in line well. They're disciplined and used to working together for the defense of the realm. But they're not about to follow Vincent or what he says needs to be done any more than they would anyone else they don't know or trust who shows up and starts giving orders. The daughter of Thor has no such difficulty, and under her guidance, they have the raw power they need - the question is just directing it.

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	Re: On the Sorcerers' Tower godlierthanthou 2010-02-15 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	Tradition was going to get the Asgardians killed one day, Asleif was beyond certain of it. She did not, in fact, even have to be certain. Ragnarok was in their blood, as was a cycle of forever repeating without learning anything. "Quite complex," she said to herself, as she examined the nature of the spell. "I do not think we will be able to stop it from here." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: On the Sorcerers' Tower

nextgen_asgard
2010-02-15 09:55 pm UTC (link)

Aslief also has the advantage of knowing Vincent. Were she to voice her thoughts, they may well ask her how likely it is that she would immediately jump to obeying anyone who shouted orders that she didn't know and trust already.

They do, however, trust her. Her blood assures it.

"There ist no choice, m'lady. The legions broke for a time, the enemy ist right at the walls. Going down there wouldst be death. We must guess as best we art able. We hath trust in thy judgement, and wilt give thee the power thou needst to conduct the rite."

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Re: On the Sorcerers' Tower

quitethecharmer
2010-02-15 10:14 pm UTC (link)

"I am at your command, Lady Asleif." Vincent speaks calmly, eyes shut as he tries to poke here and there within the enchantment. This spell reads like a booby-trapped information network. He clenches his jaw as he lowers his voice so that only she might hear.

"Let me take the brunt of any feedback. This is going to be... problematic."

Taking whatever energy of hers or the others' she can offer, he stabs at a thread, aiming to tear it loose, as he goes with the most thoroughly calculated risk he can comprehend.

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	Re: On the Sorcerers' Tower circle_of_seven 2010-02-15 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	Picking up on what's happening to her spell, Alfrun and her own collection of casters work to fight it, trying to weave the blood magic together faster than it can be unwoven, beginning an intense and powerful contest, back and forth, weaving and unweaving the threads of the complex spell. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: On the Sorcerers' Tower

godlierthanthou
2010-02-15 11:22 pm UTC (link)

Asleif nodded to herself, following the weave and flow of power. There is magic other than that of Asgard here and despite her time in the realm of mortals and with other spell-casters of the Defenders, she has truthfully spent little in study of magics other than her own.

But she knows enough.

She gathers her own magics together and unleashes her most powerful enchantment breakers.

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Re: On the Sorcerers' Tower

nextgen_asgard
2010-02-15 11:34 pm UTC (link)

The rest of the sorcerors follow her lead, throwing their magical might behind her work while Vincent guards her. The threads slowly unravel while others reform, fighting back and forth for some time. Both sides throw more and more resources behind the work, engaging in an epic battle of wills, leaving the novices on both sides exhausted, or even passed out from effort and mental exhaustion rapidly, and fatiguing even the most powerful quickly.

As a thread is severed, there's a massive backlash, chaotic magic washing over Vincent and several of the Asgardians. Two of the lesser mages next to Vincent are consumed in magical fire. Another drops into a coma.
Vincent is awash in magical fire for a moment. Intense pain strikes all of his nerves at once, and there's a sensation like raw knowledge being brutally torn from his brain.

And then the ritual, and the backlash fade, leaving Vincent unconscious and with a long, jagged scar along the left side of his face. Very few of the mages on either side leave the encounter unmarked, but for now, the contest is over.

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	Re: On the Sorcerers' Tower circle_of_seven 2010-02-15 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	Alfrun reels back from the explosion, cursing in the tongue of the dark elves. Her side, too, has lost many of its mages to the contest, and most are exhausted. "The circle is broken. Demogorge, go forward, you shall have to consume them without the enchantment." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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