Colenso Rivers

@@Yoshikupo, After finishing one blossom, he set his utensils aside and addressed Veronica, "Main Dismal? It is clear to me that you know nothing about the your enemy. After you leave here, I suggest you return to the Radiant lands." His tone was a tad condescending. "You are lucky, though. Coming across a Dismal who would take those whom would love to see him dead into his home, I guess that's where your hand lays." Chainstruck took his cane and stood with considerable effort before saying, "Meet me in the foyer when you are finished."

Colenso awoke with a silent start, looking around for a moment in a fearful panic before he gained his bearings by the voice of Flowing Tide. He kept his eyes on the major for a moment, before looking away in shame of his fear. Climbing off his bed, he went about his morning routine, except he was unable to put on the thoughtless smile of norm. The voices surrounding him were drowned out by the cries still burning in his mind. Just a hellish tinnitus. (sorry, small post.)

@@Yoshikupo, (He never mentioned a curse) When being pat on the back, he winced in pain and involuntarily dropped his chopsticks. That very same moment, clanging metal rapidly grew louder from outside the door until the amethyst knight passed through and took on a stance, ready to pounce on the radiant closest to Lucian. As soon as the knight passed through the door, Lucian raised on hand in front of him and said, "Cease. It's okay, I only had another surge. I'm fine." The Knight hesitantly took a more relaxed stance, but still stayed in the room as Lucian added, "I am Lucian Chainstruck, third born son of Rayleonard Chainstruck. And my friend here," Gesturing to the knight, "Is the Amethyst Blood-letter, but we now just call her Abel." He seemed awfully disinterested in the matter, but felt like he had to pipe in, "And every time the Radiant form a stronghold in Dismal territories, Helstrom gathers chimeras and stronger Dismal and tears your walls down effortlessly. No offense, but you could barely hold your own against Abel here."

@@Yoshikupo, For only the most brief of moments, his eyes widened before he answered, "No member of my family, ever since we took the name Chainstruck, have experienced the physical effects of aging." The blooms were cold, light and crisp. They were sweet and acidic, but only subtly so. Although they didn't much fill one up, they were definitely vitalizing.

@@SilverHeart,@@Once In A Blue Moon, When Silver mentioned the risks, it brought him back a step. Perhaps it could sound like they wanted to venture out there. He shook his head and answered, "I never said anything about going out there. I haven't anymore desire to do so than anything else. It's just a theory, a thought." Trying to reassure Silver. Then Cat began about the pro, obviously having a desire to travel out. Actually, seeming driven to do so. He carefully stepped around the outcrop, "Not without authorization." and in front of Cat, adding, "You seem to forget, so let me give you a little reminder. Once you became a cadet here, you gave up your freedom. You have responsibilities, and one of those is to obey orders, another is not to just to become a deserter." He was taken aback by his condescending tone after a moment and took a couple of nervous steps back and a more reserved tone, "Sorry. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we've invested so much in this place, this purpose. Maybe we'll get lucky, and they'll send us out, maybe not, but either way we will be doing what we can to improve the Valley."

@@Yoshikupo, Lucian pulled his chair back with considerable trouble and took a seat, then set about showing his guests how to use their utensils. Before, however, he removed his face mask, revealing a pale but strangely young man, about nineteen-ish. Not someone whom would hobble around like he did. One was a metal index finger glove that fit over well enough. It had a blade on the pad and point of the finger, creating a claw. The other utensil on his left hand were basically chopsticks. First, he held down one of the petals with his chopsticks, then he slid his bladed claw over the base of the petal, severing it. After, he picked it up in his chopsticks and placed it into his mouth. From the mere moments his mouth had been open, it could be seen that he had carnivorous traits.

@@Yoshikupo, Lucian was finishing up the table setting when the knight closed the door behind the guests. He listened to their banter while patiently setting the table. In the middle of their discussion he piped in over them, "You are my guests, and I will to the best of my abilities serve all my guests as well as I can." There were eating implements unseen by the Radiant, and each plate held three beautiful and shimmering blossoms of light and easy colors. Ten plates were set. Afterwards he bowed at the third seat on the left side and nodded again, "Dinner is served. I apologize, I didn't quite know how many guests I would have."

@@Yoshikupo, He added as she moved the barricades with all the humor his tone could muster up, "Yes, I see you took some liberties with the furniture placement." And to her comment about the chimera, he answered more critically, "Only the weak." On Banner's way out, the mantis chimera was carefully climbing back onto its lookout. The moment she left he turned towards the left entry and said, "Prepare the rooms to the dest of your abilities, you know, if anything dust things off." Then turning to his knight whom gave off a feminine sigh, "I know. but you know I can't do things myself, not anymore, and it's just the two of us." Then turning away, he said, "I'll set up for dinner, if you could also prepare heat for the Manor." They both went about their work, Lucian getting his only form of sustenance ready and the dinner table set, lighting candles around the house while the knight made the the place livable by setting fires in the fireplaces and cleaning things up. She was quick, but she obviously hated menial labor like this. By the time the Radiant made it back, the mantis chimera had taken its place back as a manor ornament, and Lucian was almost done with his task. The knight answered the door, opening it and stepping aside silently.

@@Yoshikupo, He had something acting as a cane, appearing to be made out of bone and ending it a wicked sharp tip, could be used as a viable weapon as well. He stood in silence before saying aloud, "Cease." Upon the demand, the knight calmed, pulling in its chains and taking on a more relaxed stance. The sable figure started for the stairway, continuing, "If I was whom I was formerly, I would have your heart on a plate for dinner for such an insult, intentional or not." Reaching the stairs, he seemed to rely heavily on the rail for support as he took it step by step. "But you are right, there is no pride in this Manor any longer. The name of the house is for a family long ago, now we are the fragile remnants." Making it down, he untucked the cane from his armpit and passed by the knight, whom knelt to it's master. When the figure stood not but ten feet away from Banner and came up with a deep nod as his best bow, "I, Lucian Chainstruck, invite you and your allies to seek comfort in my home, until you desire to leave."

@@Yoshikupo, It dashed in between her and the staircase as the chains reared back for a strike. It was much more agile than it seemed, but then again it wasn't a hulking mass. As it was about to strike her during her advance, a voice, male, frail and young, called from upstairs, "Protect," A figure wreathed in black, only crimson eyes revealed hobbled in sight from the second floor. The knight's chains immediately extended out towards the wall, daring her to go any further, and readied it's thresher arm in a challenging stance. The voice continued, "A Radiant?... Are you here to slay me?"

@@Yoshikupo, The mantis was about to strike, but abruptly stopped in mid strike when she passed through the doorways. It was far too large to fit through the doorway. The entry was dimly lit through the obscured windows. All noises reverberated and echoed throughout the mansion. From behind her, between both doors underneath the stairways creaked a black and violet suit of armor. A red lash mark glowed on its semi damaged and torn form. The violet form wore a slim suit. It's right arm consisted of a mess of blades, reaving talons, razors running up the fore arm and even a wrist blade. The left arm was clearly meant to be something that it clearly wasn't, through punctured holes in the armor were a multitude of bladed chains with piercing tips, all prehensile and moving with clear sentience. There were about seven of those chains. Its red eyes glowed to life as it began its slow and deliberate advance on the intruder, one whom never so much as seen a Dismal before.

@@Yoshikupo, No signs of life came from the mansion. A giant, glistening and rich looking statue of a wicked praying mantis stood atop the structure as if, like a gargoyle, keeping guard. Vines and blooms grew upon the outside of the structure, giving it a natural flare, but this building, onyx and crimson, gothic style, obviously once belonged to Dismal. It was unusual to see a standing structure in the Dismal lands. The Radiant always thought the Dismal weren't capable of it. As Banner peaked into the manner through the door, a crash suddenly shook the earth from behind, kicking up dirt and plant life. It was the mantis, no statue, but a dangerous chimera. Its forlegs were like razor-sharp scythes, silver saliva flowing from its ornate maw.

@@Love Doctor Blaze, Dead already. Dangit, that sucks.

@@Once In A Blue Moon, As the kept a quick stride to follow Cat, Colenso couldn't help but to think to himself Wow, I thought she was exhausted. But then again when one is doing what they love, they tend to get excited for it. They stepped into the night, the cold nipping at Colenso whom happily shivered and always found he had a positive relationship with lower temperatures. The dark was almost too much, but almost wasn't quite, and he did as Cat asked, pushing through the bramble and undergrowth and out the other side. As they moved deeper into the night, Colenso was thinking of the moon, and the stars, and the discussion they just had with Avidity. The sky radiated with such pale moonlit beauty, the stars like shimmering gems against a black velvet bed. They stepped out onto the stone as Colenso thought, If it was as great and beautiful as they claimed it was. As this... Would I give up the existence of everypony here, and mine as well to get a future in which Equestria didn't fall? The question was hard, but he came up with an answer as soon as he asked it, and it was enough to bring the shine of tears to his eyes and take away his common thoughtless smile. Cat snapped him out of it, and he quickly wiped one of his forelegs across his eyes to collect the tears. He looked over at the binoculars and nodded, adding, "I wish I was as skilled at math as Alto." Even though he didn't understand a single thing about mapping or figuring out where he was, he appreciated her passion for it, it was very complex work. The mountains, landmarks and stars. He really liked it here. Just a wandering mind again, he had to stay on topic, keep his focus. It would be rude of him to feign interest. She began to mention the world being bigger than what they knew, and broke out into a little diddy before recovering in an embarrassed fashion and continuing the point. He was well known for long periods of silent listening before responding. This was no exception. After she finished, he looked to her and commented, "You have a habit of impressing the hell out of me, Carto." Gesturing to her things, "I mean, look at all this. Patience, everything having to be just exact. The skill required for any cartography is intense. This is your passion too. Sometimes I find admiration in unexpected ponies, but you aren't unexpected." He realized that it could have been misconstrued as affectionate banter, but he hoped she only took it at face value. He had no interests. Then, turning his eyes to the sky, he took on a more intellectual tone, "You're not the only one that doesn't believe the world is as small as they say. Gravity dictates it cannot be so. The farther anything is from the center the more outwards the tilt of it's stand would have to be in order to stand at all. And fall into what? If the world just had a cliff, we would gravitate towards it's other side." Down to the ground, "You're right. It doesn't add up. It never has. I could just never do the math myself before."

@@Yoshikupo, Okie dokie, I will whip up the roleplay. @@Yoshikupo, Okay, link is up m'dear. post when ready.

The "war" between the Dismal and Radiant. How long has it been, hundreds, thousands of years? Yet still, they are in a complete deadlock. The Radiant outnumber the Dismal two to one, but the Dismal are the only ones that can claim the power of the Chimera. With a new wave of lower ranking Radiant is being sent to the Dismal territories, there were those Radiant whom were rejected from participating, either because of their lack of skill in combat, or them being looked at as the Radiant least holy. There are those whom would not be kept down though, so Banner of the Radiant order, one whom had been denied the blessing to invade, scrounged up those whom wanted to serve the Radiant but had been denied. With them, she planned on taking a piece of the Dismal territories, something never done before by cunning and foresight. So she ventured into the Dismal territories and set up camp in a relatively tame area outside one of the frigid jungles. They hadn't found any trouble, not yet, but they all knew that the Dismal were as wild and evil as their lands, and they could be under attack at any moment, from any direction. Banner alone went to scout out the forest, foolhardy but necessary for their advance. https://mlpforums.com/topic/153297-the-forsaken-family-1x1/#entry4572419

@@Yoshikupo, I wasn't hinting at anything, I was just telling you what regularly happens in this world. You can take any appropriate path, even if it stands out from the usual path.

Let's just get back on track m'dear.

@@Yoshikupo, I should probably have put more information about the world down. The mansion is lost in one of the "cold jungles" of the dismal continents, as they were a dismal family. The radiant have conquered other continents and reside there. The Radiant live in highly tamed areas, their wilderness buckles to their whims, and great cities and fortresses have been built to reflect there steadfast honor and sense of order. On the other hand, the Dismal live wildly, and are described as nomadic, lost or wanderers. There lands are entirely too difficult to tame and only those of great power or numbers tend to form stationary establishments. From history certain laws remain true. The dismal are far to disorganized to tear down that which has been established by the Radiant. Their walls are impenetrable. On the flip side, thousands of times over have the Radiant attempted to try to form a foothold in the Dismal territories to only have them and their work become nothing more than dust in the wind. General rule of thumb, only small groups of delusional or crazed dismal attack the Radiant. However, the upper echelons of the ranks of the Radiant are quite confident, always underestimating the power of the dismal, and send waves after waves of Radiant to establish strongholds in the lands of the Dismal.

@@Hederik, "Yeah, well in order for a great kingdom like Equestria to simply vanish like it did, something must've happened. Maybe that's why we don't have anymore information." Then he looked over to Cat and added, "Well, I have a friend waiting on me. I just wanted to thank you and bid you farewell for now mam." @@Colenso Rivers, @@SilverHeart, He trotted over to Cat after his goodbye with Avidity and shook, "Let's get going, I'm really excited." He noticed Silver a moment after and stood aside, asking politely, "I do hope you come along with us, if that's what you were asking before I interrupted? My apologies..."

@@Yoshikupo, Okay, when you're ready dear!

@@Yoshikupo, Unfortunately it is humanoid.

Want me to talk to dusk?