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"You? You are the darkness beside me? Don't make me laugh. You cannot be me, for I am the darkness, NOT you. Let that be clear now, lest I smash you away from existence right now...if such is possible. I know beings like you, you can be very hard to dispose of. But surely a being that claims to exist within darkness itself, that which I have primordially embodied, and NOT YOU, can be affected by me..."

Yeah, he was feeling pretty miffed by this guy, alright. And Vas thought he himself was pretentious!

(I apologize for my long absence. Been a weeee bit busy. I'm also assuming that the conversation between Vas and The Shadow is being held in private. If mistaken I will edit.)

Blake was a bit shocked at the idea of having to eradicate entire planets,which showed on his face, but he could also understand how some species would only blindly wish for the destruction of others. As long as he wasn't just wantonly destroying people and only those that threatened him and his new home he was relatively alright with it.

Shaking his head to clear any confusion that may still be on his face he noticed that Vas seemed to be a bit distracted, and also a bit annoyed.

"Forgive me if I seemed to be a bit hesitant, I just had to come to grips with the idea. I will do what needs to be done to ensure our safety. Is there anything I can do for you at the moment?"

I am obviously distracting you from your... Activities... Please, don't allow me to keep you any longer. By all means, tend to your... Friends...

And with that, the presence was gone. Vanished, poof.

Of course he was still technically there, being the embodiment of all darkness in the universe, but that's for some other time. For all intents and purposes, Shadow had nothing to do with Vastator Inanimentum and his evil shenanigans... For now.


(Sorry for the late reply. IRL stuff and... Stuff to attend to.)

Meanwhile, the older and primordial embodiment of darkness and non-existence turned back to his new human minion. He smiles a bit, already thinking of ways to use this new turn of events to his advantage.

"I apologize, I had a private mental conversation with another being who interrupted...a being much like myself, in fact. Hrm...I kind of like him, now that I think of it. But the importance of that is naught compared to why we are here: for you."

He sat back on his throne and struck his best Slouch of Villainy, whilst quietly chuckling to himself. What a day this was shaping up to be!

"As of now, you may go to the tower and familiarize yourself with my strongest minions, the Tenebris Dominorum. I've already told them of your arrival, and I'm quite sure my demons have been talking of you for quite a while now. 'Tis not often that humans are directly introduced into my services. After that, little else remains for you to do here...mayhap you could go and eke out some revenge against your lifelong pursuers whence your business here concludes for this eventide?"

[Time for me to come back in? Just want to be sure.]

(I know that of course, I am just excitied. )

"It seems that would be the best course of action then," replied Blake while bowing. "Once again thank you for your hospitality and giving me refuge. After I familiarize myself with your minions a bit I believe paying those wretches from my old home a visit would be a good place to start."

Blake turned around and began to walk towards the exit portal with some minor trepidation. The transports themselves were becoming less taxing, but he was a bit apprehensive about the creatures he'd be meeting. He hesitated at the portal for a moment before walking through, thinking that no matter what he encountered they would either not bring harm to him due to his new status, or would simply get a taste of the new power he had begun to have an itch to try out.

"Thank you for the instruction, I had assumed that they'd be waiting for me at the exit. I'll make sure to ask for any other instructions concerning your domain should the need arise. Might there be a method of contacting you if I have any other questions, or can I trust your subordinates enough to not try anything foolish?"

This last question was punctuated by a flare from the fire he'd seemed content to cloak himself in.

The god snapped his fingers, and several screens appeared behind him, right from thin air. These were linked to several surveillance devices throughout the tower. The whole system was designed by Obscuro, fittingly enough.

"Worry not. I have my ways of overseeing activities, no matter where I am. If they try anything, know that several consequences will befall them."

In Rashinnu's chamber, it was almost completely black and was decorated with torches of black fire. There were a few perches shaped like red feathers scattered in the walls and the flames themselves had flame shaped cravings covering them. There was one large window on the south wall from which she coul leave the chamber by. In the center was a silvery nest craved from tantalum and in the middle of this nest was Rashinnu. The phoenix was currently incubating her egg that Vastator had been gracious enough to bring back from the dead. It had been an act that had won him unmeasurable loyalty from the dark fire bird.

Suddenly Rashinnu heard a psychic message from Vas which she immediately replied mentally to.

"Very well. No harm shall come to him from me aside from that which he has brought upon himself. By this I mean, he will be safe from me as long as he doesn't try to harm me, or more importantly my egg. Should he be idiotic enough to try to harm my egg...let's just say what I did to that warlock will look like divine mercy."

With that she moved off her egg and gave it a look of intense longing. It had been over a century since the small egg with it's pattern of almost living flames had held life in it which made parting even temporarily with it difficult, yet it had to be done. She quickly used her beak to pluck some down from her chest, made a pile of it and then gently set the egg atop the pile. She then breathed a stream of fire of a precise temperature onto the egg which her down caught hold of and held tight to. Those flames would not being going out anytime soon so her egg was in no danger of growing too cold.

Finally she took to the air and flew out of her chamber in search of the others.

(Long story short, Vastator here found Rashinnu destroying ta castle, no not the one in this thread. He was impressed and propostioned to her. Rashinnu being a monster accepted. Outside the base, Vastator learned about her history and brought back her egg. In return her won her considerable loyalty and a gift from her. As to what that gift was, I'll leave that up to GrandFinale to either spill or keep secret. So there you go)

(Whoops fixed.)

With Vas's final bit of instruction Blake stepped through the portal.

This trip was nowhere near as bad as the previous ones and he suspected that he was either gettung used to them, or the change to his condition had made it easier to withstand the jumps.

Shaking off the mild disorientation that occured Blake proceeded to look for the door he'd been instructed to find. Once he found it he walked over to it and knocked, stating that he had been sent by Vas to familiarize himself with the beings he'd be working with.

(Sorry for how long it took to respond. I know I hate it when things get delayed, and I hate to be the cause of it. I'll bee keeping a closer eye on this.)

What could only be described as an golden, aquatic being with six feathery wings grafted onto it (four gold, two black) and an unnatural-looking mouth and tail was floating DIRECTLY BEHIND BLAKE as the human emerged. Seemed Blake wouldn't even need to knock. The insanity effect that Blake experienced when in the presence of Vastator in his true form exists here as well, although it is less severe with this one. It's effect will diminish the lower on the power ladder Blake goes. In fact, he may be eased into getting used to this as his exposure increases, given how he had a bit of it with the big guy himself but it stopped before any big effects could manifest.

"So you've spoken with the Master, no? I overheard you conversation with our king, and I am greatly satisfied with your decision to join us! We've recently received another recruit, as he may have mentioned..."

He shook his fishy head a few times and flapped his wings a bit. Those appendages seemed to function more like arms than wings for this particular abomination, which fit seeing as he has no arms or fins naturally, and can float under his own power.

"...oh, my. Excuse me for forgetting introductions, young one. You may address me as Obscuro Veritas, but you have no idea of knowing that is my real name."

As to be expected, he's lying about that last bit...at least, somewhat. Every good lie has hints of truth: that is his real name, in a way, but a running theme with all of the Dark Ones is that their usual names are merely approximations of their true, unpronounceable names. Vas himself is the exception, his real name is close to the word 'Void'.

Blake jumped a bit at being caught off gaurd by this creature and his fire subconciously responded by flaring up before he got control of himself. He was less surprised by its appearance at this point and more shocked at its proximity.

Blake distanced himself from the creature a bit while it spoke. At least its voice didn't seem to have the same grating quality to it that he had had to endure in Vas's presence.

"Er, it's nice to meet you? Obscuro, was it? As you probably already know my name is Blake." He finished this statement with a bow, but was doing a horrible job at concealing his curiosity. While he wasn't overly shocked at the creatures appearance, he was certainly curious as to what exactly it was.

"Sorry for my reaction earlier, I just wasn't expecting anyone in such close proximity. I don't take particularly well to surprises and I certainly hope that didn't cause any harm." He finished that last bit with a slight chuckle and a bit of a sheepish look.

"So it would seem we're to be working together? Anything I should happen to know?" He deicided to keep the idle curiosity about what was mentioned about Obscuro's name to himself as well as what exactly he was in the first place. He'd rather not seem rude and decided it wasn't best to anger anyone around here.

"Then working with me may not be the most plesant experience for you. Me and my cohorts tend to try and surprise each other. It's fun, admittedly."

Chortling some, he began hovering about the room slowly, inspecting the integrity of this section of the building. He nodded a few times, continued on with this for a bit, and returned downward. He had been checking the equipment he had set up for surveillance within the building, making ssure it was all in order. They may be gods, but these guys still don't know everything, and this can help conserve some magic power.

"There's not much to know. Most of us except the phoenix that recently joined us are embodiments of particular aspects of existence. For example, I am the embodiment of lies. Vastator himself is anti-existence, void given thought and form. That phoenix I mentioned is herself a lesser embodiment, one of fire. You understand this theme we have now, no?"

(TTTT.TTTT I wish you guys would have poked me! I have been waiting for ages.)

Rashinnu had been sitting on a small perch that had been made for her and had been staying silent. Partly out of respect for her godly comrades and partly because she had no interest in speaking to the human. if she could avoid it. Oh she would keep her word not to harm him, but she hadn't given her word when it came to anything else.

So for now, she was chose to ignore him and instead watched the other members of the Tenebris Dominorum. Rashinnu was paying particular attention to Interitia Cruciatu with whom she felt a potential kinship. After all she was the embodiment of torture and was somewhat vampiric like. The wicked phoenix hoped that elder female would be willing to help her refine her own torture methods. Oh she suspect that she would have to pay a price for such esteemed tutelage, but their was little that the dark bird wouldn't pay.

But for now, she was going to wait until the loathsome human departed before introducing herself to the others.

(Rashinnu hasn't yet made introductions either since she was busy tending to her egg as well as her chamber. I also assumed that Vast told her something about the other members of the Tenebris Dominorum, hence her knowledge of Interitia Cruciatu.)

((There's a dedication plaque on the ground floor, at least. Lists all their names and what they are. OOPS, LOOKS LIKE BLAKE FORGOT TO LOOK AROUND ENOUGH /dies))

Speak of the devil, she's making some rounds now! Interitia was busy crawling on the ceilings towards her room, multiple dead bodies clutched in her mandibles (did I mention she's a giant spider /SHOT). soon she entered back into her darkened room to return to being a part-time recluse. /BADUM TSSHHHHHH (she is really active though, dun get me wrong) She is on the 150th floor, as per usual. Notable is that one would hear a lot of popping and cracking sounds as of now if they were at her door.

"Yes, I believe I have the gist of it. You all are a rather interesting lot."

Blake chuckled a bit. "Also, it's not like I have anything against surprises, it just doesn't tend to end well for people." To emphasize this point he produced a couple of 2 foot blades of high intensity fire and few longer tendrils of fire from his back.

While he was doing this he was surprised to feel a bit of a, for lack of a better term "tug" on his abilities. After the brief display he extinguished the flames, settling back into his passive fire armored appearance and looked up to see the phoenix sitting in the rafters.

While he was curious he was starting to get a bit of an itch to pay back the people who had been hunting him in his realm. He was a little surprised by the sudden violent urge but just shrugged it off as wanting some long deserved payback.

"While this has been interesting, let's move on shall we?"

"Yes...well, you've met one of us now, at the very least. I choose to not hold long conversations in my leisure time, so I wouldn't mind if you left to meet the others."

He slithered through the air back to the doorway to his lodgings, and it snapped shut as soon as his form made it through the opening. The elevator had, oddly, remained closed and locked for this whole duration, but the doors opened without the slightest hesitation as soon as Obscuro had left. The what seemed to have been a large blast shook the entire tower, and Obscuro could he heard shouting before the audible report of a teleportation spell rang out.

Fifty floors below, it turns out that Cruentum had gotten a little too wild when practicing on one of his infinite supply of dummies. He had loosed a shadow flame blast at it and misjudged how strong it should be, and ended up blowing a large hole into the tower. It's a wonder the entire structure didn't collapse right then and there. After a fierce tongue-lashing from the second-in-command, Cruentum gathered together a large repair squadron of inanis demons which rode in large flying repair mechs (yeah, they have those) and, morose over this incident, set to work. Ironically, it seems Cruentum, the resident embodiment of war, is in charge of repairs and more minor variances of such activities.

Blake swore as he dropped to a knee from the violent shaking that took hold of the tower. His flames had reflexively intensified as a protective measure and he had to calm himself to get them back under control once he realized he wasn't in any danger. He stood back up in a small circle of reddened stone and looked at the elevator.

He knew the explosion had to come from below since he was at the top of the tower and was definitely a bit worried about using that method of transportation given what just happened. He decided it may be a safer bet to take stairs, and since he was descending figured 50 stories wouldn't be very difficult.

Walking to the entrance to the stairs he stopped and looked up at the phoenix. "Any idea what the blazes that could have been?"