[RP] The Apprentice

[Vilthis Trayus]

"To face Death without dying is the only way to come to know Me." - The Four Revelations of Dakkru

Prologue

Within the murky quarters of his safehouse illuminated only by a falka lamp on the desk, Vilthis immerse himself in his studies. Whilst recording his life work accordingly in his grimoire, a timely intrusion brought about his unhealthy obsessive erudition to a halt. At the door way of his quarters stands an imposing figure clad in dark leathers, his presence imposes an intimidating aura.

“My Lord…” Kovarks Berlos bows respectfully as he comes before Vilthis, the steadfast and unquestionably competent agent of the Trayus House approaches the desk. The diaboli’s distinguished service complemented with his pragmatic attitude wins much favour in the Trayus court.

“I believe this might pique your interest…” Says Kovarks as he brings a copy of the local journal detailing a young hoodlum of considerable notoriety making waves in Ojavedan slums.

Vilthis rubs his chin intently and grins as he assesses the information, occasionally reading out to himself the keywords in the article “Child… Arcane...Terrorised Residents…Extortion”

Vilthis looks up to Kovarks “Yes… A fascinating one this is” he remarks and folds up the journal, placing it aside neatly on his desk.

“Shall I see to this my Lord?” Kovarks inquires, awaiting the confirmation of his master. Being all too familiar with the work behind recent probing of potential candidates for his master’s agenda, Kovarks eagerly seeks to undertake another assignment.

“I shall see to this personally Mr Berlos, I could do with the exercise after such criminally long indulgece in my quarters” Vilthis replies, as he raise from his chair and dons the shrouding black robes hung on the cloak stand.

Kovarks bows without protest though surprised at Vilthis’ desire to personally undertake this probe. Left only to speculate what his master sees in this target, he watches silently as Vilthis leaves the quarters in his expedited but refined strides befitting a noble, leaving to track his intended subject...

To be continued...

[Vilthis Trayus]

Encounter in the Slums of Ojaveda



Though Midday, the Crystal hanging above glows dimly lending insufficient radiance to warm the populace of Ojaveda that cowers away from the freezing climate of the Dwanden month. The cold is the bane to the living, but indications seem to show he isn’t among so - not any more to say the least as Vilthis trudges through the cold alleys of the slums with no visible detriment upon him, shrouded modestly in only his identity obscuring black robes and his half plate beneath. The residents of this destitute district hurdle about a stove desperately, keeping it burning with whatever fuel they may gather as the bitter chill claw into the motley of races united by their common goal to seek warmth. It is not uncommon to see the landscape littered with the occasional corpse of the old, the diseased or the tender young unable to survive the harsh winter in these slums.

Vilthis approaches a local Dermorian woman hurdled by this heat source. Posing the inquiry about the hoodlum reported in the journal, Vilthis learnt more about this child whm goes by the name of Felear. His considerable notoriety and mischief made him easy to locate. By offering an octa, the impoverished woman was more than willing to lead Vilthis to where Felear haunts. Venturing deeper into the slums, Felear was readily in sight tending a small fire through the use of a fire glyph…



Vilthis whispers to a local, dismissing her whom by now was plague with a look of nervousness approaching Felear and hands her an octa before she quickly scampers away.

Vilthis comes before Felear sizing him up. Felear sits, expressionless, focusing on a glyph depicting what looks to be a flame.

“I'd have thought someone of your notoriety to be a little…older…" Remarked Vilthis whom was a little surprised to see Felear as a child younger than he expected.

Felear with his steely gaze still affixed on the fire glyph replies “"Older? What's my age matter? Don't play with fire or you'll get burned..."says Felear dismissively

Vilthis carefully observes Felear's demeanour and remarks "And the temperament of a fire too as they say..."

“They? So you've heard? I'm strong you know - One day I'm gonna buy a BIG house and make people work for me!” Says Felear ambitiously

Felear glances away from his glyph for a moment, "Waddya want anyway? You didn't come here to tell me that..."

Vilthis nods "No doubt...You harbour great potential...I have a proposition child..." Vilthis replies broodingly under his hood

Felear Denesel stands up from his comfortably nestled position amongst the crates “A proposition?”

Vilthis nods solemnly “...But first I must apologise...”

“Apologise for what?” quipped Felear with a suspicious tone

“For this…” Vilthis launches a psychic blow directed squarely for Felear's chest with sufficient force to push him against the wall

Felear gets flunged to the adjacent wall

Felear scrunches his face, "Oww! What was that for! You'd better watch it!”

Felear begins to focus a small flame in the palm of his hand but Vilthis makes no remarks or movements as he carefully studies Felear's potential.

Felear launches the ball of flame at the robed figure and smiles with content. “How did you like that? I can burn all of Ojaveda if you don't watch it!” Felear gloats

Vilthis lifts his grafted appendage out casually and consumes the considerable fire burst that had seemed to engulfed him earlier with a wind vortex "Good...But you lack focus..." Vilthis remarks

Felear feels his eyes widen as he watches a swirling vortex surround the mass of robes

Vilthis broodingly remarks, "I can help you..."

Felear crosses his arms and looks away, "I don't think so. You look worse than I do." The child ignorantly proclaims

Vilthis dismisses Felear's remarks casually "Such arrogance" as gathers the winds and directs it to Felear with enough force to catch him in the spinning vortex harmlessly

"Woah! Put me down!" shouts Felear as he got swept into to swirling winds

“As you wish....” says Vilthis as he dismisses the winds with Felear still in mid air

Felear falls to the ground with a thud, "Owww! That wasn't necessary!"

Vilthis looks down at the child taunting him "And I was expecting something more impressive..."

Felear at that moment instantaneously mirrored Vilthis’ spell exhibiting a tremendous learning potential

Felear laughs heartily, "How's THIS!"

Felear pants heavily after summoning the defensive winds

Vilthis watches Felear carefully noting a more focused power within him

“I don't know who you are but if you have money you'd better hand it over before you make me mad.” Says Felear whom has put himself in a better bargaining position

Vilthis replies patiently "You know I can offer you more than that child...I can teach you how to use your powers..."

Felear takes a step toward the robed figure, "I don't need help from the likes of you - I am Felear Denesel! I am a powerful Sorcerer and no one has ever beaten me…” he proclaims

Abruptly a squad of Ojavedan Guards appears from various corner of the alley surrounding Felear and Vilthis easily outnumbering them. The commanding officer Ahestid in clad in plain dress for undercover purposes comes forth and declares “And I take that as a confession of your guilt Felear Denese, stand down and be arrested"



Felear appears a little choked up as he quickly stuffs his no doubt pilfered glyphs down a pant leg

Vilthis stands stoically seemingly without response to the situation

Ahestid unexpectedly makes a corrupt proposition to Felear “Now boy...If you give me 6 circles...I just might forget i see you here…You and your associate here can go free”
Ahestid gives a sly grin “It's a win win situation, No?”

Felear says: “Seriously?” Says Felear in a surprised tone and gives a moment thought to the offer

Ahestid looks on impatiently “Well hurry up...I haven't got all day ya know!”

“Six circles? Do you not see where you are mister? I don't have six fleas for you.” Says Felear condescendingly

Ahestid dismisses the remark annoyed "Arrrgghh...It's the keep then you two"

Ahestid reachs out to put Felear and Vilthis in chains

Felear looks around and sees no chance of escape

Unexpectedly Vilthis elusively evokes an azure way persuasion at this critical juncture "You don't want to put us in chains..." directed at Ahestid

Ahestid falls under the charms and repeats albeit in a slurred manner "I don't want to put you both in chains..." the surrounding guards look on in surprise but dare not say anything for risk of insubordination

Felear looks back and forth at the two, jaw dropped in amazement.

Vilthis continues with his persuasion "You don't need the circles"

Ahestid parrots "I don't need the circles"

Vilthis continues with his persuasion "You haven't seen us and you will dismiss your men"

Felear thinks to himself silently, "How is he doing THAT!?"

Ahestid repeats the words hypnotically "I haven't seen you both and I will dismiss my men”

Ahestid dazedly walks away with his score of subordinates closely following suit confused, quickly vanishing out of sight as they made a turn in the alleys heading back to the Kore keep





Vilthis turns to Felear "That settles it..."

Felear looks to the robed man

Vilthis nods solemnly "Well I noted your unwillingness to learn...Very well…I shall leave you be then" and he begins to make his departure

“Wait mister!” shouts Felear

Vilthis halts at his step and queries without turning back “Yes Child?”

Felear hangs his head and frowns, "I could use some help you know... I wouldn't be in this dump if I were really powerful like you. I just use the little I know to frighten people into giving me food and trias."

Vilthis nods and turns around to face Felear with an expression of sympathy that is however obscured under his mask

“Will you teach me to be REALLY powerful instead of pretend?” says Felear looking up at Vilthis hopefully

Vilthis pats Felear on his head "He who knows he's a fool is not a big fool" he quips from memory what his mentor Giroum Duphra used to tell him under his tutelage

Felear blinks from the patting, "I'd rather not be called a fool, " grinning.

Vilthis looks on to the child, within him the infinite possibilities that would hold...and nods solemnly "My apprentice"

[Sarras Volcae]

[LOL! vilthis is a jedi  ]

[Phantomboy86]

Bit cliche, but eh, could lead to good things.

[Vilthis Trayus]

Well, I'm just following what the blasted panel on azure way says.

It's basically a sneaky and insidious energy, that can control the will, the perceptions and the intentions of any intelligent being. It's power comes from the deep knowledge of the mind and the way to influence it, but it relies also on mind potentials to influence the surrounding areas and objects, mainly all that is related to the air element.

Bit cliche, but eh, could lead to good things.

Well thats encouraging...It's not like this stuff for a living...Gee thanks...=/

[ncfbn]

It is pretty good!

The only thing is that it makes Vilthis seem too....epic...

[Vamese]

Well... Yes - Yes it does sound epic... There is no such thing as too epic in "role play". Epic, Great, Grand, Over-The-Top, etc., etc., etc... Whatever you choose to call this and/or any other RP'ed event for that matter - Don't you want it to be good? Or would you prefer mediocrity? Don't worry, I;m not going to be too defensive here but when Vilthis approached Felear with the concept I (as in ooc me) had just returned from a lengthy time away. I left because RP was starting to die off and returned to see it had only gotten worse - Then this idea. I liked it because it was grand scale and not another 10 minute run-in in the plaza or a mine. I DO agree that it is waaaay over the top and "epic" if you will... But the RP server needs a swift kick in the pants and this could have done it and done it extremely well. I did hear something that i didn't want to hear from a friend of mine who was unknowingly about to kill the appeal of it for me - Vilthis saying he was thinking of leaving PS. I don't know him very well but it was nice to see that someone had finally decided to at least try to pull off a grand scale RP which even took roots from past RP's in an attempt to keep the appeal of PS alive to those of us looking for a reason to want to stay.
Vilthis, for the record, I was impressed. You did a great job in planning, putting it together, editing, and finally presenting it to a community that just isn't ready for the transition from "Double Bogey" to "Eagle". I know for a fact that you are not the first to leave because of this lack of RP. I personally know of a handful who left quite some time ago. I am engaged to one, another is my best friend and the others are also good friends. I also know you will not be the last because if the RP server is a place where RP'ing (wether it is a great idea or a really bad one) is discouraged then I am far from proud to say it but I will be gone mere days after coming back.
I will stick around the forums and watch for good RP's (and because I have the utmost respect for the devs and will always follow their work) and will give support and props to any good ideas to and interesting past, present and future events.
I do hope to see a lot more RP and a whole lot more BIG ideas like this in the future (and from as many people as possible... if possible). Take care, keep it as clean as possible and enjoy. While these days may seem dark to a lot of us, I do have faith that the future of PS is a blindingly bright one. Kudos 

[Vilthis Trayus]

Thank you for the encouragement Vamese.

Relating to what justifies as what is defined by 'epic', It's easily arguable that my character has the stats and levels to pull that off without resulting in a cringe. [Azure.Red.Dark Maxed along with an assortment of combat skills]

Roleplaying is definitely the reason why I began playing planeshift over other MMOs. But as of late the community is just so unsupportive to what is suppose to be the paradigm of Planeshift. I had it with the trolls and I'm pragmatic enough not to get drawn into heated pseudo-intellectual debate about what RP should be; there is already plenty of sanctimonious self righteousness about this place (albeit with little credentials). If this community isn't for me, so be it. I'd personally not mind this being a pay to play game should RP be the paradigm for both the devs and the community(at the risk of sounding elitist, create a niche community whom are willing to pay for a RP driven environment). But as of late I'm dismayed. Planeshift without it's priorities in Roleplaying is just another game that does not top the list of appeal simply based on the mechanics. The community needs weeding. If paying to play planeshift does that, I'm more than happy to. Roleplaying is the biggest selling point of this game.

Still, the dev team deserve their due credits, this is a remarkable technical accomplishment for a free, volunteer based, independent project.

[Phantomboy86]

Dont think I meant cliche meant the whole thing was bad! Just that circumstance right there, young renegade gets picked up as an apprentice by some old dude with over the top abilities, is a cliche moment. The rest could be just the greatest thing ever or something, I dont know, cant judge.