~ The player and Gabrielle reach the town's central fountain ~
Gabrielle
- Looking at the fountain, "Hm. This is a nice touch. The exact
center." She sits on the edge and smiles up at the player, "Been a
while." Distracted a moment by the touch of the stone, "Okay
! So before we start, I need to ask. Why are you here ?"
~ 1 - I want to kill.
~ 2 - I want to learn.
~ 3 - I want to explore.
"Well alrighty then." She stands and smiles, "And good luck with that. Let the games begin."
She turns away with a single step and is gone in a flash to the sky as it's grid-work crackles to the corners of the skybox.
('Lonely Cinderella' by Herosyn)
~ the song begins over the buildings' final settling ~
~ The Learner's Tale ~
(0:30)
Credits
roll as the rest of the citizenry dances out from their homes, shops, and
alleyway mists and into a vibrant city while the player explores the town
for the first time.
A
clearly faux overtones which near
modern in antiquated materials. Some are more notably gothic, their
eyes pierced with pointed smiles, the nobility excess lingering the
manor at the far end of town.
They
don't sleep like the others but only frolic through the night providing
the only twenty-four hour entertainment, unleavened by any duties at
all. Found otherwise around the theater (scripted classical
performances), and
the chapel which never seems open.
~ But notably never the pub.
Player wanders the streets through the credits, with no
local money having been earned or found. Even the muggers in the
alleyways haven't mugged anyone yet, they've just spawned but that also
means they haven't spent their bullets yet either, and they're hungry.
Everyone is.
Horses and carriage start mingling among to load for the docks.
(0:40)
An out of control early car careens through the crowds and they twirl aside.
(1:01)
The airships begin peaking over the buildings forming their lanes of sky traffic.
(2:08)
A
madman's eyes, an airship laden with more hanging off the ship to the music, tries over the city wall,
taken down in a heavy burn arrow barraged from the parapet launcher.
Burning into the ground, police rushing to run the survivors down as
they tear mad dancing through the populace.
~ A man from the crowd is dragged to the alley by prostitutes.
(2:16)
Teeth grow in the alleyway to feast while the rest take the cash.
(2:18)
~ The dancing madmen are thrown cartwheeling back over the wall.
The
last touches of a
'balanced world' settling in with dancing streets-weepers, the rest to
their days, shops and shopping, before everyone snaps to normality. ________________
The Learner's abilities are gathered mostly in the prologue from pages found to the grimoires, but the electrical
enhancements have a different effect in modern environments with
advanced electrical grids.
Replacing the Gecko-Gun is the ability to
pull wires, pulling the Learner toward the heavier cables in downtown's
modern architecture while tearing the wires from the wall by the
resistance of mass.
This disrupts all electrical in the vicinity,
shredding the outer walls of the building or halls, and the grids
they're torn from.
The Learner can as well transmit through the
wires to a visually seen or marked location, so long as it's on the
same grid. Seen as a transmission of information, and can include
across the sky as lightning.
Once this power is achieved at the
end of the prologue and brought into a modern world, it becomes
extremely destructive by nature. At that point I'd just give the Gecko-Gun to the Killer because awesome.