Signs and Portents

[Skirwan]

(That one was so uncertain that we got 2 messages, the first one being: " • Thetimeisnow!IthasBegun!"*The\sleep " )

Are you sure that wasn't a message from the harbinger of confusion? <smirk>

No, I sign all my messages.

[Kalypso]

Could someone please give an update? I came out of the library at the tail end of something going on in the valley last night, but missed the festivities.

Also, I would be very grateful if somone would be so kind as to /alert those of us in the library when these things happen. In a few cases I was sitting just inside the door studying something trivial, while a battle raged just outside the door and I had no idea.

[Cinnamon]

And could someone find me a home and a job on the West coast so I can participate?

[shiner]

me too. I prefer someplace warm and a nice big salary please.

[Gremlins]

Completely OOC but anyway…

me too. I prefer someplace warm and a nice big salary please.

Add me
And not too much to do so that I can clan instead of doing something useless...
The solution I've been using is to actually sleep before (since 4am is sort of early) but that's only because I was out during the second and found out that they were occuring at about the same time each day...

And for info, Illora is editing the first post with all the info we have so far (thanks to her even if that screw the way I'm usually reading stuff here).

[Kalypso]

Oh, oops. Thanks for pointing me to the updates.

[Althea]

A few days ago, I returned to town to find many rats attacking, which were surprisingly resilient and hard to kill. They were reinforced by apparent Valley rats, which slaughtered like ordinary rats but still hit very hard. Several fighters pursued the rats to western beaches, where they killed a certain one. This message was heard by those nearby, and all in the lands felt a wave of confusion.

•The First among the heralds sought
* An ear receptive to its word
* But would the witness give his ear
* to the confusion to be heard?

Later, chiggers were reported in north town and farms. These chiggers bit hard, just like the rats. They were reinforced by purple chiggers, and later huge purple chiggers. After pursuing them east into the eastern north farms, Creed was attacked by a yellow chigger. Killing it yielded this message:

• The Second of the heralds brought
* A portent filled with dire distress
* But would the witness shun advice
* And seek instead a nescient bliss?

All in the lands felt a wave of distress.

Today, we just finished repelling scavenger birds from the Junkyard. First they were small, then they were large, and then there was a red bird like a bloodhawk. Everyone in the lands felt a wave of pain, and the message everyone nearby heard this time was:

• The third of heralds raised its horn
* And blared its bodement pure and plain
* But could the witness understand
* If never comprehending pain?

Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
Tomorrow brought: (compiling all messages)

Starbucks (silver starbuck, University snell of east forest)
• With vile contempt and opened scorn
* The Fourth of heralds' threat was made
* But would the witness hearken or
* fear an omen thus conveyed?

Tors (ivory tor, Old Bear Caves by River Tunnel)
• The Fifth of heralds held its tongue
* Enduring torment of the sword
* But did the witness heed this deed
* Or had this presage been ignored?

Rockodiles (young andvari, Kitty Beach)
• And as the witness fell among
* The brethren of the herald Six
* Had some misgivings still remained
* For suffering thus one inflicts?

Slugs (pale pink slug, Lily Pond)
• And as the witness cried with grief
* The seventh herald's grin was grim
* For now the witness understood.
* The time was ripe. It could Begin.

Snakes (pink winged snake, Greymyr Valley)
• The Eighth of heralds hurled its spear
* With barbs malicious shredding skin
* The witness shrieked in agony.
* The time is now. Let it Begin.

Noids (small blue arachne, Spider Caverns/Baby Noids)
• \"The time is now! It has Begun!\"
* The herald Ninth addressed its horde
* The witness felt uncertainty
* For now the witness was ignored.

Panthers (black housecat, last snell of Valley before exit cave)
• A thunder bellowed from the Tenth
* Of heralds calling forth the storm
* Agape with bleak anxiety
* The witness watched the horror form.

Just putting this at the end of the thread as well. Thanks for the updates, Illora

[Illora Mone]

Eleventh: Ferals, Feral Den.

• And as the legion congregated
* The eleventh herald called
* For throats that spewed hysteria
* To swallow sun and moon and all.

[terise dumiroir]

Also, I would be very grateful if somone would be so kind as to /alert those of us in the library when these things happen. In a few cases I was sitting just inside the door studying something trivial, while a battle raged just outside the door and I had no idea.

Seconded. Many times I have checked The Informer and assume that there is nothing occuring, only to find later I have missed most interesting events.

[Illora Mone]

I put up two statuses this harbinger, and have done so on a few others.

[Cinnamon]

Fucking Pengy-esque bullshit.

[Fogtripper]

I am torn between anticipation of what this is all about, and the feeling that the number of these things is making them less dramatic.

[Kerrah]

I am torn between anticipation of what this is all about, and the feeling that the number of these things is making them less dramatic.

I'm about 90% certain that this is all a build-up to the 520th Chaos Storm. Sure it might go beyond that, but I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if the culmination was an event that coincided with the storm.

[Phroon]

Eleventh: Ferals, Feral Den.

• And as the legion congregated
* The eleventh herald called
* For throats that spewed hysteria
* To swallow sun and moon and all.

What time (OOC) did this one start? Phroon was tired when the Herald seemed 40 minutes late.

[Samwise]

• The Twelfth of heralds was the last
* To leave and silence filled the air.
* The bridge was crossed and now alone
* The witness wept with great despair.

From RC.