Created: 2006-04-16 23:15:04
Game: unity
Faith: Barnabas
Death.......A word we don’t face until we have to, but I have seen Death. Not that of men or the loss of a loved one, although I have seen those terrible things too, no I have seen Death standing before me and I truly knew terror.
It was a spring day, a beautiful spring day, the sun was high in the sky and the land was ripe with new growth. Men and women from my village were working the fields. I still remember it like it was yesterday………
If only I could drink enough to end that memory.
I was sitting on a grassy hill just above the village painting a picture of the village and its people working around It.
You see that’s what I was, a painter.
When I heard the far off sound of thunder. I should have known something was wrong for there was not a cloud for miles in the bright sunny sky. I ignored it at first thinking it was nothing, but steadily it grew closer and closer. It wasn’t long before the people in the fields noticed it to, every where people stopped working and listened. The sound went on for what seemed hours, growing closer and closer, but it couldn’t have been but a few minutes. Then suddenly from over the hill behind me the dragons appeared, hundreds of them, they flew so low to the ground I could almost touch them as they passed overhead. They flew with such frightening speed they laid the tall grass and wheat in the fields down in their path. I was blown to the ground as they passed by, I looked up to see others that had not yet ran were also being blown over in the fields.
I raised myself up to my knees before I heard the sound of crashing hooves behind me and then I saw them. Row upon row of mounted troops, they crashed down on me and I thought that moment was my end, but they broke around me like a giant wave on a single rock and ebbed around me on down the hill towards the village. I watched helplessly as they ran down or slaughtered every man they came across, soon they were through the fields and into the village. I watched as houses caught fire and listened to the screaming of people.….People I once called friends, neighbors.
I sat there on my knee’s watching the devastation. The once fertile fields were nothing more then muddy spaces where bodies laid now. I could see the village burning almost all of it in golfed then I felt something, someone was beside me....
I looked to my right and there it was, the blackest horse I had ever seen, it must have been the size of a warhorse. Sitting on it was a man, possibly slender and maybe 6 foot but it was hard to tell. It was so hard to focus on him. He wore a black full-length cloak or possibly a robe with a large hood that hid everything about him. I was afraid at first, afraid he would notice me and order his men to come back and finish me to. But soon my fear turned to anger and I stood up and shouted at him.
How dare he send his men here to kill innocents, how dare he butcher and murder those that could not hope to defend themselves.
I made it about that far when I heard voices behind me lots of them, I spun around to see the Lord sitting upon his horse with what looked like some generals and a few messengers running back and forth with orders. The lord did not have the pleased smile on his face one would expect from a butcher, no, he looked sad, and tired like maybe he had seen to much blood shed this day. I noticed he wore the crest of Barnabas and I knew why on this day his army’s fell upon my peaceful village. I stood there for a moment contemplating what had befallen the poor people of Leto in the village when a strange thought hit me. Who was standing beside me?
The realization hit me all at once and I knew what it was sitting there what it was in all its awfulness. We hear stories of death, of the terror it brings, of the pain and suffering and in that moment I was standing beside it. I fell to the ground with a whimper. All the energy gone from me, I kicked and a trashed backwards trying to get away from this thing when suddenly he turned his head towards me like he had just noticed I was there. It froze me there. I tried to turn around and get up to run, but I just couldn’t find the strength. And then he spoke. It was not the scratchy wicked voice I had expected, it was almost pleasant but not quit, more neutral and old….so old. I will never forget what he said to me.
Today is not your day mortal.
So matter of fact, with out any emotion. I stopped and looked at him more out of morbid curiosity then anything. The hood was so dark like a pit. I could make out the soft blue glow that must have been his eyes, not intense and not the demon red I had so long heard. As his head tilted a little more the sun shined for just a second across his chin. It was flesh, pale though, like the sun shined on it but never really touched it. And then he turned back to the village and his great horse started to walk away. Then he paused and turned back to me. He cocked his head only slightly as if puzzled and then spoke to me again.
You are the only mortal to ever notice us follower of Leto. For this I will grant you the question you asked earlier. We do not bring anything that is not supposed to be, we do not decide who lives and dies, that is beyond us. Good and evil is a mortal concept and we have never been mortal. We bring forth that which has to be.
He started to turn and leave again when I in spite of my better judgment shouted out.
Who was he or they to decide who lives and dies.It was not fair.that I was still here when so many others had died.
He stopped again a few feet away, when he spoke there was no anger at being questioned, there was no emotion, no he just sat on that massive black horse for a moment before speaking.
You are alive today because your path has not yet been walked. Who do you think it was that broke the army’s around you, or the reason why your only feet away from the lord of that army yet are still alive. Death only comes to those whose time has come. Not everyone in that village has died on this day, some will live on as you have, others will die in the night as pestilence and famine come to do there deed. This is all that can be said.
With that he just turned and rode off without even giving me a glance. As he made his way down the hill towards what once was my village I seen others like him but not like him. One moving amongst the dead and dieing, one moving across the once lush fields that was no more. I ran then, I ran so hard I thought I would die from exhaustion and he would come for me. I spend my time waiting now, waiting for the day when the army’s of Barnabas come through the next town or village I am in and for that day when its
"My day".
GM: Death
AGM: Bringers
Squad Leader: Doomsayers
Full Member: Founder
Member: Trusted Member
Newbie: New Member
This is a new guild.
While we are not an invite only guild we do require some things of our members
1. You must have ICQ or AIM or are willing to get it
2. We expect any new members to respond to the GM/AGM before being allowed into the guild
3. If your are looking for a guild that is honorable all the time, this is not the guild for you. While we will treat others as they treat us and strive to fight with as much honor is possible. We will act with in the bounds of our story line and act accordingly to the best interests of our faith and our Charter.
4. The posting rules for the forums will be posted a little further down but there are some things we ask of our members when they are representing the guild with its tag. We will never tell you what to say nor will the GM or AGM’s of this guild stop you from having an opinion but we do ask that you remember the guild concept when you are posting. This guild is nether good nor evil, there is no such thing as right and wrong.
5. If you have gotten this far your ether bored or you have probably atleast read the charter. Reading the story and the rules is mandatory,(unless your Kwaiq) if you have just skimmed it re-read it and make sure you understand what this guild is about before you click apply.
RANKS
There are 4 ranks in this guild
Death
The GM is the leader of the Order and the ruling power. He has final decision on all matters brought up in council and is the highest Authority with in the Order
Bringers
The bringers are the AGM’s of the Order, they have nearly the same power as the GM and act as a council to the GM. They can deal peace, they can speak for the Order in all matters. In cases of attacks AGMs can lead the guild until the GM can be contacted and in the GM’s absence can act as GM’s themselves. They are also responsible for selecting a new GM in the event that the current one must step down.
Doomsayers
The Doomsayers are fully trusted members, they have full privileges with in the Order. They are also responsible for selecting a new AGM in the event that one has to step down
Founder
This is a unique position in the fact it is reserved for the one who came first. The creator of the order. This carry’s the power of an AGM rank, but is not subject to any restrictions in this charter. The Founder is free to edit and or change anything he sees fit at the end of each age. This position will only be filled when the Founder returns, until that time it will remain vacant.
Promotions will only be given in the event an AGM or the GM steps down.
In the event that an AGM steps down the Doomsayers will hold a vote to replace the said AGM. Candidates must be nominated by a Doomsayer and seconded by another. The standing AGM’s can refuse a nomination but it requires 2 AGM’s to do so. AGM’s can not refuse a candidate that has been nominated then voted in as an AGM. The GM will oversee the voting process and select a time and date of start and a time and date for ending of the voting. The GM is soully responsible for providing a way for nominations to be taken and judged and for voting to take place.
If in the event the GM can no longer perform his duties and becomes inactive the AGM’s will decide a replacement. At their discretion. The only guidelines are that 2 of the 3 must agree on a candidate. Any CO-GM at the time will automatically take the GM’s spot, if more then 1 CO-GM is in the guild then the AGM’s will decide with a majority vote which CO-GM takes over the GM spot.
Rules for Tempers Ball
Do not make an ass of yourself.
Do not post accusations of cheating
Do not post bug reports.
Do not post kingdom numbers or names.
Do not post redundant messages (no spamming).
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