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For the keen-eared to hear, there's shouting and loud voices coming from the lab opening cut high in the side of the Jedi Temple. Those new to the area, or possibly GLADOSed for an extended period of time -- in short, those who haven't learned to tune this sort of thing out -- might even be able to make out words, if they listened.

"No! That was not a command!"

"Command entered! This section of the laboratory is now being guarded against all intruders."

"Oh, for the sake of--"

"Warning! Intruder, leave the premises or face the wrath of arcane fury!"

"...I'm an intruder. In my own laboratory. You've got to be--"

"You have ten seconds to comply!"

"End instruction! Keyword: Sielwode."

"Keyword override is locked out for protection. You have 5 seconds!"

A few seconds passed.

"Why does it always have to end like this?"

A moment later, flame belched out of the laboratory opening, as a low thump heralded the fireball's detonation. Another moment later, the elf drifted out of the cut and to the ground, waving away the smell of brimstone and scorched defective golem with a miserable look on his face.

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"It was possible to bear the blood without succumbing to it, but as soon as one's body started reshaping, giving one more power and less humanity, the evil nature invariably dominated." It might seem odd to others for good and evil to be discussed in such concrete terms, but to Aibghalien they were everyday concepts and relatively clear-cut, simply by the nature of his world.

"The Gorgon took advantage of an invasion -- which is itself an entirely other, if linked, story -- to launch one of his own. He had always sought more power, but this at last gave him his opportunity. He began cutting down other scions and stealing their blood, making pacts with demons and invaders, and even channeling immense amounts of faith and divine energy into himself, all for the purpose of becoming a god."

Celena listened with interest, so the change in shape may have affected the will of the one being changed to take on that 'evil' nature, "Hmm interesting then," she replied lightly giving him the chance to move on to his next topic on The Gorgon.

"Taking advantage of a perceived weakness..not an unseen tactic. Hmm I see, so the blood of Scions can be taken by other Scions to strengthen their own?" She asked as a clarification with a tilt of her head, "Did he come close to succeeding in his goal of becoming a god?"

"It can indeed. Kill someone by plunging a blade through their heart, and you claim a small portion of their strength. I have no doubt that the Gorgon had weapons forged of a rare metal that aids in this process, drinking even more..."

He exhaled, shook his head against the thought, and braced himself slightly. "Luckily it is not blood strength alone that determines godhead. He ascended to the plan of the gods, but we destroyed the greatest source of his power on in the land. That, fortunately, proved the tipping point in the war against him."

Celena dipped her head at that, an interesting if troubling thought, yet there were metals and items that could aid in the process of gaining power in that way. Curious.

She nodded without comment for a moment as he continued on, "Indeed? What manner of power might that be?" she asked with curiosity before nodding, "I gather he was defeated and stopped then?"

"A portal to hell," he said bluntly. "He'd cracked open the planar boundaries and let the strength of demons pour into our world to fuel his own ascension. We sealed it, and buried the energy deep within the earth."

For a moment he was quiet, remembering that moment. At the time, adrenaline and effort had pushed any real thought of what, exactly, they had faced from his mind, but remembering it afterwards tended to make it painfully clear.

"But the victory was ours. His own land, however, was still rife with corruption and desecration. I was relocating my lab to that location, since I could do nothing more to undo the damage without having immediate access to it."

Loud noises in the City [Open]

It's okay again. I'm enjoying this thread like whoa. :)

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