gefion_fortress - Profile (original) (raw)

on 9 May 2007 (#12904075)

Gefion fortress
RP Info
Somewhere in the depths of space and time, an experiment is underway. A people of great magic and technology are building a new city, in a new world. It's a strangely organised place, with sectors and sections that divide the rich from the poor, the clean from the dirty, the holy from the sinful, like a little box of jewelry or a grand game board. But though odd, it is a generally peaceful place, and travel between the walled areas is as simple as walking under one of the delicately carved archways and across a gently curved bridge.After all, Gefion is a city of water. It stands over an endless sea, surrounded on three sides by rolling waves. Grand canals separate the city's sections, smaller ones serve for all but the major streets, and boats are the main route of transport.Despite all of this planning and building, however, the architects of Gefion were left without the one msot essential material to complete the city. People. Thus, they readied and dispersed more than half of their number throughout space-time to harvest souls both living and dead. These are brought to live within the tall walls of the city, each given a home, a pouch of Gefion currency, and a scroll that shows anything anyone in the town writes in it, and is infinitely long despite seeming a mere dozen inches. They are told that they are visitors--guests to fill the walls until the proper inhabitants can be brought to the city. But this is a lie. Anyone taken into the walls of Gefion is trapped until death or the descision of the Architects to remove them. Each person must live their lives as a normal person, not being given things for free, but being forced to work according to their social status. But at least it's a fairly normal life... right?Some would say so... until the monsters come out at night. Across the great, wide canal that marks the fourth side of the city lies land, and a castle with dark windows, in which little ever seems to move. It casts a constant shadow on the city, and though harmless during the day, after sunset the doors creak open, and from them pours a host of shadows on infinite shapes that feed on the pain and terror of the people in the city. On normal nights, very few cross the Great Canal, and the people have only to worry about the endless howls and inhuman chatter of the beings across the water. But on full moons, the hosts swarm over the Castle Bridge into the streets to attack anyone who ventures out of doors, or is foolish enough to open a window. Most of those they find are wounded, left in pain for a short while and then abandoned. A few are killed. And a select number, for reasons unknown, are taken to the castle, where they experience horrors unknown, and are returned at sunrise with no memory of the night except for nightmares they can never recall when they wake, and the ingrained knowledge that they have undergone something truly horrible.Anyone that recalls their dreams is immediately silenced. The whole city knows when it happens, because a giant shadow like a horribly put together dragon emerges from the castle and snatches away the offender, and they are never seen again.Somewhere in the depths of space and time, a city is so much more than it seems...
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