by Moran May 10th 2012, 6:34 pm
*double post because I can*
As some sort of crazy hyping campaign for my site, I now proudly present....
Mly's Quest! (Working title.)
Location: The Mlytorium, central island.
Mly sat in the small forest clearing, which was slowly growing as lumber was being harvested to build the first structures of the new floating Mlytorium. He looked carefully at the small chunk of the Archive of Fortitude he held in his hand. Just a few bits of non-essential information hidden within it, as he expected.
He sat it gently down upon the ground, held both hands over it, and began to focus. Seconds turned to minutes turned to hours. Until finally....
"Maximum Magnae Opera!"
Mly's entire form throbbed in agonizing pain from the sheer expended energy, as did the entire Mlytorium. Every island in the coalescing, floating archipelago quaked immensely and was thrown off balance for a moment. A few small bits fell into the sea to need inevitable re-collection.
A small crater was made, consuming the clearing and a bit around it, pulling up raw dirt and rock to feed the creation of the new item: the Mly stone. Just as quickly, the clearing expanded outward greatly as many of the small wooded area's trees were converted into odd wires of sorts to connect most islands in the archipelago together to the central island and the new, massive Mly stone.
Mly held it aloft as it grew to be almost the size of him from the frenzy of re-settling matter, watching as the strange, black tendril-like cables wiggled into it. Three greater cables formed and connected to the stone: One pointed north-ish to the cool, calm, and rocky Vexxia. One pointed a more southward direction, to the fiery-hot lands of Efhawe. The third and final extended toward the lush and tender continent of Tescia, the final point in the massive triangle.
But the three cables split outward, into twelve each, and weaved all through the islands, loosely connecting the vast majority of them, before finally extending outward to the open sky, down to the sea, and finally into the continents of Tescia, Efhawe, and Vexxia from their sides, beneath the waves. And at last, they all ran completely through the three continents to penetrate and tug at the thirty-six islands of the Faraway Ring. All the local world throbbed and quaked and pulsated as it was pulled, bit by bit, inch by inch, closer to the Mlytorium.
Mly at last collapsed, realizing his work was temporarily done. "Hh, hhh, hhaaah. ... " He could scantly breathe, much less think. "That should be enough to amplify it for now," his energy-drained mind thought before slipping into unconsciousness.
What is this mysterious "Mly stone," and what will happen to it for the sake of making a plot for this story!? Who am I and why am I hyping up the next episode!? All this and more may or may not be answered next time, on Dragon Ba--I mean, Mly's Quest!
