[WoD] Heart of the Mountain: Houses of Thorns

[NovaPheonix]

[Looking back at the old RP, I realized we originally started it almost exactly a year ago, wow!]


Heart of the Mountain, A changeling the Lost Chronicle 


Chapter 3: Houses of Thorns 


Recap


Chapter 1 featured the introduction of our major characters: 


Johnny Farrell the occult magazine reporter whose family has a secret history tied to monster hunting.


Caeda Smith, a police officer who Johnny fell in love with who is still being held in the hedge.


Meila, A girl abused by the cult of the dark dragon who made her way to town and killed a dragon named James.


Michael, A mysterious ghoul working for Johnny's boss. 


Selene Hawkins, A changeling maid who is currently being held by Princess along with Caeda.


Anthony Turner, A samurai mage and actor who was moved to lyre to film a movie.


Chapter 2 moved the plot along in several ways


-The casino meeting took place, and the mayor seems to be siding with Madrix (Princess). There are clear plans to replace the old management. 


-The Mages recovered Meila's journal and James' pendant (which grants super-strength). She was assigned to the Mysterium leader and mage-ambassador with the Freehold named Thorn. Anthony was also forced to guard the temperamental girl while Thorn trained her to utilize her raw magic power.


-The Changeling Freehold, ruled by the winter queen, have taken Johnny into their custody to protect him from Princess while waiting for Caeda to return safe.


Chapter 3 will take place 3 days after the end of chapter 2. Here


-Caeda and Selene are about to be returned, dropped off in the freehold. Johnny is contacting Julia to explain why he has been gone and keeping her updated.


-Thorn is continuing to train Meila and Anthony, not knowing how prepared they will need to be for the times to come.


The characters have been given homes to belong to, but those homes are surrounded by thorns. What will happen? let's find out!


@Xistund


@Umbrie


@Karalexia

 

[Karalexia]

Meila rolled around atop a blow-up mattress that had been set up for her the day after she had arrived at the Mysterium. She hated how the mattress felt; it seemed both hard and soft at the same time, smelled weird and made an annoying, loud crumpling noise when she moved about on it. The blanket she had been given, was pretty warm though and the pillow was also nice... Still, she oddly missed her own bedding and felt a want for her room, back at the sanctum.


The room that had been set up for her at the Mysterium, was a small study room at the back of the library. In many ways, it was a vast change to the room she had come to know as hers, back at the sanctum, but somehow, it felt colder. To people used to comforts of modern living, the small study room would seem infinitely better than the dark and dingy confines of an aged stone room, deep beneath the earth... but to Meila, the room seemed lifeless and inorganic.


The floor looked nice enough, but the carpet was rough and scratchy to touch. White walls surrounded her on three sides of the room and were terribly bleak to look at, and the forth was entirely see-through, made of cold glass, held in place by sleek metal frames... and artificial white light illuminated the room from ugly rectangles on the ceiling. Her room at the sanctum was indeed dark and damp in comparison, but the stone slabs that gave form to the room, held a strange warmth and life that this place lacked... and her candle... It may not be as bright as these lights, but it held warmth and danced with life... and she missed it.


With a feeling of discontent, Meila finally found herself sitting up, sliding herself out of bed and stretching slightly, before leaving her room in search of Thorn and Anthony.

 

[NovaPheonix]

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