08-10-2017, 08:57 AM
The rolling fields of false life and corrupted facsimiles of the actual Camelot stretched away. As if Camelot had been shrunken down, scaled to a smaller area. A deep, bowl-like valley, ringed by mountains rising at the perimeter. Dark clouds, of ugly purple and green colors, swirled about the peaks, and reached inward toward the center here and there. Lightning flashed among the clouds, and in the sky overhead, bright white and clear, though no thunder followed after it. Rain seemed to threaten, though there were no major cloudbanks to be seen; just the swirling red-violet haze of the sky, dotted here and there with blue and green pinpricks of light, mockeries of stars.
The land itself was similar. Grasses and plants covered the ground, though they were dense, tough, ugly things. Hard-packed, clumped together into slippery, rubbery bundles of dark green leaves and vines, shot through with veins and streams of pulsing violet. The trees, when they were present in patches, were tall and gnarled, unnaturally thin with drooping branches and needle-like leaves. What little wildlife there was was skittish, hiding and scurrying away from sight, into holes in the ground or into the trees. No sign of birds was to be seen anywhere.
Here and there, paths did stretch across the small dark verse. Roads and well-trod footpaths, cutting through the dense shrubbery and grasses. In the distance, a large cart could be seen trundling along one of these paths, heading for one of Nebula's outpost castles. In another direction, there could be seen another of their larger castles, for manufacturing and distributing their darkchips, with smoke pouring out of it, one if its towers laying in ruin and a great deal of frenzied activity swarming about it. Further off from that castle, was another one, smaller and looking more akin to an outpost than a true castle, but lying smashed and in ruins, with no traces of activity about it.
And elsewhere, in the center of the verse, there stood a jagged cliff of dark stone, atop which was perched another castle, this one seeming highly fortified, ringed with walls and gates offering only one easy path up to it. In the tallest tower, a huge, bright blue flame burned, as if a beacon, shining through the windows there. The lair of the master of this realm, no doubt.
It was all only a matter of where the group here to liberate this verse from this invasive force would head first.
The land itself was similar. Grasses and plants covered the ground, though they were dense, tough, ugly things. Hard-packed, clumped together into slippery, rubbery bundles of dark green leaves and vines, shot through with veins and streams of pulsing violet. The trees, when they were present in patches, were tall and gnarled, unnaturally thin with drooping branches and needle-like leaves. What little wildlife there was was skittish, hiding and scurrying away from sight, into holes in the ground or into the trees. No sign of birds was to be seen anywhere.
Here and there, paths did stretch across the small dark verse. Roads and well-trod footpaths, cutting through the dense shrubbery and grasses. In the distance, a large cart could be seen trundling along one of these paths, heading for one of Nebula's outpost castles. In another direction, there could be seen another of their larger castles, for manufacturing and distributing their darkchips, with smoke pouring out of it, one if its towers laying in ruin and a great deal of frenzied activity swarming about it. Further off from that castle, was another one, smaller and looking more akin to an outpost than a true castle, but lying smashed and in ruins, with no traces of activity about it.
And elsewhere, in the center of the verse, there stood a jagged cliff of dark stone, atop which was perched another castle, this one seeming highly fortified, ringed with walls and gates offering only one easy path up to it. In the tallest tower, a huge, bright blue flame burned, as if a beacon, shining through the windows there. The lair of the master of this realm, no doubt.
It was all only a matter of where the group here to liberate this verse from this invasive force would head first.
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