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You awaken and find yourself in the middle of a dead forest covered in a light fog. The sky above you is dull and gray and you hear the sound of Ravens Cawing as they fly overhead. In the Distance you hear the faint knelling sound of a funeral bell. You feel more light headed as you become more awake and aware. If you are a being with special abilities or powers, then you feel as if your abilities and/or powers are weaker than usual. You also have the feeling that something is watching you, but what exactly?

(All beings are welcome to join and the number of beings is not limited. However, any combat scenarios will be handled through free role play. Which means no god modding, meta gaming, ect. Basic rules of mutual respect apply.)

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Erica got up slowly from cold grey ground and looked around with almost closed eyes as she pushes her small glasses up on her face. Her long sleeve blue shirt and black pants are a little dirty but not that bad. "I must have messed up the jump" she thought as she looked around. She heard the funeral bell, but she doesn't know where it came from. She put her hand on her head in response to a slight headache, she starts to wonder this dark mysterious forest. "Let's see if there is any living beings in this dead land" she said to herself as puts her leather bag over her shoulder. Before she started to walk in looking for life, she looks at the Ravens and said with a smile "Never more" quoting an ancient book known as the "Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe

A short distance ahead of Erica Codsworth stood an odd and humanoid shaped figure. It looked to have its back turned to her and was slightly hunched over as if it were tired and looking at the ground. The figure stood there for a few moments before coughing loudly and collapsing to its knees and finally falling to the ground.

The Ravens flying overhead started to land on the branches near the figure, cawing loudly...it was almost as if they were cawing at something coming. The questions is, What will Erica Codsworth Decide to do with what is developing around her?

Erica seemed amazed by the figure in front of her. She took out her pen and small notebook and slowly approached the fallen figure. She made notes in her notebook as she approached the figure, wrote down estimated height, weight and description in Dendrilic script, which is just a bunch of dots dashes and lines. She soon approached the behind of the mysterious being. Out of curiosity she hunched over and went in to poke the back of the being with the clicker part of the pen to see what it does.

The Ravens around Erica Codsworth grew silent as she poked the being with her pen. The being suddenly vanished into a thin veil of smoke. The Veil of smoke, oddly enough, started to move around as if it were a sentient being and it moved towards the right a little ways until it stopped near and old cobblestone pathway. The Ravens began to caw as the took flight once again, following the veil of smoke as it moved and landing when it stopped. It almost seemed as if the veil was waiting for Erica to follow it.

Erica saw the veil move around, she took more notes down and tried to observe its movement. She saw that the view stopped on the cobblestone pathway. "Oh, look a path" she said to herself as she soon got on the path itself. "Lead the way mysterious being" she said as she looked at the ghostly veil with eyes that speak the quest for knowledge

The veil of ghostly smoke moved along the path for a ways, leading Erica on to what was an uneventful journey. Little did she know however, that something was about to happen. Suddenly the ghostly veil grew sporadic in its movements and it started to jerk around violently until it suddenly shot into the ground at the left side of the pathway. Out from the spot where the veil went in to rose an old victorian light post and the veil itself was the source of light. The light then changed into a purple flame. Everything around Erica grew silent except for the faint funeral bell in the background. The silence was unnerving and eerie and lasted a few minutes.

The silence was abruptly broken by the moaning of a sudden mass of spirits, ghouls, ghosts and undead that were slowly traveling down the cobblestone path towards Erica. Yet the spirits seemed to ignore her as they passed by her, seemingly unaware of her presence. What would Erica Codsworth do now?

"Hmmm intriguing" Erica said to herself as she saw the spirits walked pass her as she wrote more down in her notebook. "This couldn't be the Undead Dimension, the entire area is wrong, the dimension is has a purple tint to it not a grey tint" she pointed out as she flips through the pages of the notebook. "Did Lord Peter, expand his domain without telling me?" she questioned herself. "No he wouldn't do that, he's not that kind of man" she reassured herself. "In Lord Ova would do that with her Dark Dimension, but the presence of the undead tells it's not her doing" she continued to talk to herself as she wrote in her notebook. She moved pass the undead unfazed by them and got closer to the Victorian lamb post and examined the purple flame and wrote more down in the notebook. "I wonder is there anyone I can talk too" she asked herself as she looked around. "As the old saying goes, the truth will set you free" she quoted as she continues to look around.

As Erica got closer to the purple lamp post, a very specific entity came closer to her. The Spirit of a Dendril was floating closer and closer to her and as the Spirit Dendril got closer, the rest of the spirits who were traveling on the path all turned to face her, stopping in their tracks. After a moment of staring and silence, the spirits all pointed at her and came closer and closer to her, eventually surrounding her. Yet they did not touch her, they only stood around her, pointing at her with solemn faces.

Erica observed the spirit and she thought to herself "Interesting, Dendrils are a parasitic race, so by biology standards she is not part of the living, but they do have sufficient intelligence" She wrote more down in her notebook and took into account all the spirits that surrounded her with pointing fingers.

Erica thought of an idea to see if the Dendril spirite is real. She looked at it and spoke to it in Dendrilic language. "Kee na dee fee ka" she said to it seeing if it would understand her order(Who's in charge here?-translation) or proving that it was only illusion by some entity that hasn't shown itself yet.

The Dendril spirit faded away with the spirits surrounding Erica Codsworth and formed a very thick fog. A small black mass formed at on the ground a few feet in front of Erica and slowly that small mass grew and arose from the ground into a larger black mass. The fog was then absorbed into the black mass and from the back of the black mass sprouted many black tentacles. The black mass then seemingly melted away to revile a woman with short black hair, white glowing eyes, a pale complexion and a slender figure. The black mass melted to her feet and formed a circle and out from the circle came black hands. Three orbs also floated around the woman.

The woman looked to Erica and began to speak.

"I am in charger here my dear, and you are most definitely not in a realm of either Lord Peter or Ova for this is my realm. This is the Under-Realm my dear, the realm where the undead doth dwell. The Realm of spirits, ghosts, ghouls and all other super natural creatures. I am Vivika, The Living Embodiment of Darkness, The Bearer of the Multiverses sorrow, The Benevolent Death. Now, curious one, I sense that you have many more questions for me, seeing that you are one who seeks knowledge for the sake of knowledge. OH, and in case you are wondering why you are here...well you should take a look at what you have done prior to being here. Did you not listen to your gut instinct?"

Erica felt proud that she was able to finally found the person in charge of this gloomy realm. For s moment she knew so could change to her armored self but decides not, giving the impression of a weak dimensional traveler. "I do have a few questions for you, but I do think why I ended up here" she said looking up in the sky, looking at athe grey eerie sky in thought. "I merely messed up the jump from one realm trying to go to the mortal realm to enjoy my vacation...I think I may settle my vacation here" she said as she turned around and looked at the scenery almost forgetting about Vivika. She returned to back from her mind wondering and turn to Vivika with notebook in hand and asked "So oh great powerful Vivika how did you become what you are today?"she asks trying to flatter Vivika

"First of all my dear, you will not be needing a notebook for what I am about to tell you, so if you would not mind, please place it back in your bag or pocket?" Vivika asked with a kind tone, presenting herself as a reasonable individual. "Oh and you are in virtually no danger here, that is only if you prove yourself to be a being of evil or attack me for some reason." Vivika floated closer to Erica and grew very serious. "Those who attack me are doomed to dwell this realm as my servant for all of eternity." Vivika laughed as she floated back to her original position. "Although I do not sense that you are a being of Evil. So you should fair well in my realm."

"Well I am fair with my friends as well" she replied as she put away her notebook back into her leather bag. Erica enjoy seeing a enjoy seeing an individual who looked like a bad person tend to be good person. "You do remind me of a friend of mine" she said as she pointed at Vivika inquisitively. "So what happened to you that became you?" She asked trying to find out if she would be classified as a Dimensional Lord

(Sorry for taking so long, I will get back to you on Monday after this weekend.)

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"Well my dear, it is a long story but I shall share the short version with you. I had a very hard life prior to gaining these powers and that very hard life lead me to join a cult when I was sixteen. While I was in the cult I learned many things, including a very destructive Spell. Well, at one point I attempted to use that spell and things did not go so well for me. I died, but before I died something happened. I saw a flash of white light, whiter and brighter than anything anyone has ever seen. I woke up in this realm and saw that I was different. I had powers and Dominion over everything in this realm. I soon learned that I was the Living Embodiment of Darkness, The Bearer of the Multiverses Sorrow, and the Benevolent Death and from that point, I have been doing what I do ever sense. I still have no clue as to how I received my powers but I believe it has something to do with me and God."

"Hmmmm" Erica pondered as she looked at Vivika and listen to her story. She squints her eyes a Vivika in suspicion and asks "May I consult my notes for a minute...I may have an answer on what kind of being you may be" she put her hand into her leather bag started to fiddle around with her hand to find the book she is looking for.

Vivika chuckles to herself briefly. "My Dear Erica, I am a Human being who has been gifted powers, nothing more, nothing less. It is a simple as that. I am not a...Dimensional Lady. In fact, I defy most titles any how. So, I wonder, do you consider yourself to be good or evil?"

She stopped fiddling with books and did not take any out and replied "You mean used to be human since you died, anyway, okay so you are not a Dimensional Lord, yeah the Lord is the title no matter if you're male or female...I don't make the rules" she smiled softly at Vivika, but then returned to her unemotional face and said "I'm not good or evil...I am neutral"
"I have done things for the sake in keeping Time and Space in order. Yes I have done evil deeds but I also have done good deeds as well" she explained honestly to Vivika. "So since this realm is yours I see no need to his my true identity anymore and plus you may already know so here it is...I am Lord Erica Codsworth, the Dimensional Lord of Time and Space and considered as the Supreme One by an alien species known as the Dendrils" she greeted formally as she bowed forward at Vivika