The New Beginning(Vick)

[Malefic]

Winter 17, 512 AV

Malefic heaved a giant sigh, fiddling with his thumbs and awaiting the approach of a new master. His room was quite cramped. There wasn't anything he could do. And he was being watched, for sure. He had no chance to simply sneak out and do something entertaining, bound to his room by eyes invisible to him. Perhaps it was simply the building itself? He had heard once that the Citadel was in itself a single, massive, golem. He was skeptical before, but now he just wasn't quite sure. Malefic sat on the table, swinging his dead legs and whistling the usual eerie tune to himself through rotten lips. Perhaps he should get a new body soon. This current one wasn't exactly... "tip top".

He sighed once more, and stared out the sole window that was his only connection to the outside. Malefic was loosing patience quickly. Three days, and still no response? This was ridiculous. He continued the little game with his thumbs, awaiting his eventual master to step through the door.

[Vick]

“Master Vick, the day is now 17 in Winter of 512 AV. We have had someone waiting within a cell and you made a request Sir about needing help. He has been waiting for four days. Should I take you to him Sir?”

The female pluser said. She stood around the height of five feet with a few inches on her wearing a simple tunic that acted more like a dress since it went near her knees. No pants was seen as her bare feet stood out along the dusty ground. Her black hair was tied in a ponytail that went down her back as green eyes looked at the ground waiting for the young Master to reply his wishes.

“Come back within Five more days and tell me this again. He can stay within the cells and think. Besides I have work to do. Within 5 days I should have the energy to test them.” Vick said as he did not even look at the pluser as he was bent over his work table working on something.

He had just been given a skull that knew Projection. Vick was unsure of the skill they held with it but that did not matter to him as he took it and left his office skipping away holding it.

His basic plain grey tunic and pants stood out along the black robe he was wearing. Under his robes he held artifacts that gave him the power of flux as he used the power in his legs to grant him to move faster bringing him up to speed of a normal child skipping.

He pushed open the large door and found himself with the labs of the Alchemy room. With a simple order to one of the aides he had them turn the skull into soft clay for him and he took it back to his lab for work.

He was making shortcuts thanks to what he learned from Rayage and Thomas but he could just let others do the work so he could pay more mind to his creations. Thankfully this still held the bone that he needed just in a different form so he could make it more custom to his needs.

Vick molded the skull and broke it down and slowly made the skull into a amulet shape. It was like a large white coin as he made a hole in the center of the coin. Along the outer edges he made the circle for malediction and within the circle inbetween the hole and the outside edge. With skillful drawing he made the indents into the clay and told the story of projection coming easier and faster. With showing the information on what could be done.

How he told the story of projection that came easier and faster to the wearer, he drew a person’s astral body leaving and returning. With the focus and intent of it working better and smoother. He told the story of information as he drew little papers of information going into the persons head making them smarter from past masters and teachers of the craft.

This was a long shot but he was trying so hard to make this happen as he spent hours making the small events along the amulet. Even rubbing it out and redoing parts that he felt did not share his goal as he moved his steel carving pick slowly and with care to detail.
At last he was done as he heard a knock on his door. He did not say anything as the door was pushed open and the young female plusers voice filled the air.

“Master Vick, It now has been 5 days as you requested.”

Vick at last turned to her and slowly nodded. “Thank you. Take this to the Alchemy labs. Tell them to turn it into steel and bring it back to my office. If anything gets changed on this I will use you and anyone else in the labs as Malediction research. Do not let the designs change.”

Vick said as he placed the item gently in a small box that was lined with thick cloth and slowly gave her the box with care.

“Yes Master Vick, I shall do as you have requested.”

With that she left and so did Vick as he made his way towards the cells skipping and humming along the way. At last he came upon the cells and was told which room the person was waiting in.

Vick found the room and he stood in the doorway just looking at the other nuit. Vick was a child, red hair, green eyes dark purple lips and a black tongue. He just wore grey tunic and pants with badly made leather shoes as if he had them for many years but it was the state that everything was in. However he did wear a black robe that was from a bin that he could pick and chose from but all in all a child just was looking at the other nuit and said nothing.

[Malefic]

Nine days he waited. Nine. More than a week, he sat and restlessly paced the small cell, continually staring out the lone window. Malefic was becoming impatient. Extremely impatient. If the master didn't come soon...

He heard footsteps against the cold stone floor, and quickly gathered his wits about him. Based on the light sound of the footsteps, this master was probably thin and spindly. Or maybe just a master assassin that has nearly mastered stealth? No...no... He had listed no ability that would call for someone with a stealth mastery. Maybe it was merely a short person. But why choose a short body? The approaching person was obviously nuit...right? Oh! Maybe it's a...

Vick stood, framed against the doorway. A child... Malefic was a bit taken aback at first, but restrained his emotions from showing so. This was no mere child. A nuit. That means that the posseser of the child's body could be hundreds of years old, far wiser than a child. He sensed the presence of danger while near the unidentified nuit. Quickly and instinctively, his mind flashed through a series of possible maneuvers. How could Malefic kill him fastest? Which foot did he bear the majority of his weight on? Where did his eyes move, how speedily did he just enter the room? In an instant, all were considered, but no action was taken. Malefic resolved to kneel onto one knee before the child, assuming that maybe he actually was a master. His embarrassment would mean death for the child, should the child actually be a simple and weak kid. He masked all emotions from here on in. "Greetings, sir. I hope your day has fared well so far?

[Vick]

Vick did not say anything for awhile. Until at last he moved his dark purple lips and spoke towards the other nuit. "Follow." It was such a simple word as the young child turned around and started to skip along the hallways turning right and after a left before pushing open a door that led to a room that held other nuits and plusers working on different tasks.

It was a communal workshop yet none one looked at the young child who skipped inside with the other nuit behind him.

It did not take long for Vick to find the tools, he placed one set of carving tools and one set of surgical knives on a empty table along with four different items.

They were a rabbit head, snake head, cat head and a rats head. Not only where they the heads of the animals but they still had everything as if they were just chopped off from the neck. fur, scales, eyes ears yet none of it fazed the nuit as he turned to look at the other nuit.

"I was told you have no skill or are not talking of skill. I was told to use you yet I need to test you to see what you are worth. However I am far to busy to waste my time on someone with someone who does not prove themselves so therefore you are to spend the next forty days and nights inside this common lab. You will do clean the parts in front of you and figure out what to do with them. If you do not do this within the timeframe you are a waste of space and therefore I do not need you. If you do not make anything good the same is true. You are not to leave this lab until you are done and once you are you will flag down a golem and let them know. They will come and reach me. If you leave this lab I will have made my answer."

His words were firm as told the nameless nuit his orders. Malefic could have said no or done something else for he had freedom of choice. Vick did not wait for Malefic to ask questions as he turned and left him within the common labs and workshops.

OOC: You can either make solo threads to show the time or you can do the work within this thread. Vick will not check up on you but will come when you are done after the 40 days or the items are done.

[Malefic]

"Follow" the strange nuit child commanded. Malefic did so, rising up from his kneel and pursuing his new master down the hallways, and through the doorway into his lab. He noticed that the movements the child made were unusually fast and strong for a nuit. He moved like a normal child would. I wonder why...

The door was opened, and so did Malefic's eyes, but wider. He gazed around at the equipment, the countless possibilities granted because of that equipment, and the occupants of the lab. The younger nuit didn't seem at all out of place, judging by the lack of reaction from the working lab assistants. He was, indeed, the master Mal sought. His instincts then kicked in, and he checked all the exits and entrances possible, the estimated population of the lab, and what each individual's strength seemed to be. And then he was led to a table, surgical tools placed on it a moment later alongside the heads of four different species. The speech was told, and heard. The nuit pasted a smile onto his face, and bowed to his master. "Your wish is my command. You will not be dissapointed."

The younger nuit skipped out and into the hallway, to continue whatever task he was to attend to. Malefic peered down at the four specimens in front of him. "You will not be dissapointed, indeed..."

OOC: I'll start a solo eventually (Will call it "Four Minds Melded")