forum The Great Four (CLOSED)

Started January 13, 2019 by @KoffeeOwl

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"I guess," James sighed. He was still mad at himself for sleeping on the job. He was the manager, he was supposed to set an example.

"So other than falling asleep, how was the rest of your day?" Sariel asked, scooting out from the middle of the sidewalk so that a small group of people could get by. It had since become considerably darker than it had been when he had left the subway entrance. He probably would have mentioned anything overly odd by now.

"It went by like any other day," James had a hint of relief in his voice, "No strange encounters at all. At least that I noticed, hey want another lesson in the strange tonight?"

With the last of what James said, Sariel stopped tapping his foot. "Yeah, but my apartment is probably a mess right now, it usually is when I get home." He said, looking across the street again. "I can always cut away whats at the door and in the living room." He added, only having thought about how the different rooms must look by now.

"Is it really that bad?" James asked him. Slightly curious as to why his plants would grow even if he wasn't present at the house. It made little sense to him.

"Yeah, I'm honestly thinking about getting rid of some of them, just so they don't break as many things. Maybe it happens while I'm gone because I've been around them for a long time or something." Sariel said, looking back over to James once he had finished talking.

James thought for a second, "Huh. I've never really heard of someone with that problem before. If I were you, which obviously I'm not, I would get rid of some of the plants just so they do less damage overall."

"That's probably what I'm going to do when I get there…So, is that where we're going still?" Sariel asked, repositioning the bag he was holding.

"If your fine with me tagging along," James gave him a little grin, "Then yeah we're still going."

Sariel gave a nod and started walking across the street, checking to see if James was still following. Not that there was really the issue of him falling behind. After taking another turn, a big blue-grey building came into view. "It's probably going to take a few minutes for me to get everything cut." He said, unlocking the door and opening it only a little at first to look in, before walking in fully. "It's not as bad as I thought it would be," Sariel said, looking around the living room.
In front of the door were the very ends of the few stems and leaves that had managed to get into the living room. The couch also had a few thin vines on it, though most of the plants were focused in the room in between the living room and kitchen.

James looked around the overgrown house. He leaned down and tried to feel some of the plants, "Wow. They really do grow without you here. That's… Interesting."

Nodding, Sariel grabbed a pair of sheers that he had left on the couch and began cutting most of the plants, leaving only one patch on the wall beside a table and a pot in the corner that held what looked like an aloe plant. A few minutes later, most of the plants crowding things outside of their pots had been reduced to a heap of leaves and stems beside his bedroom door.
Sitting down in a chair he had pulled into the living room, Sariel started talking again as Bamboo ran out of the bathroom to eye James, looking surprised that he was back. "So, I'm gonna try to throw those away," Sariel said, pointing briefly to the medium-sized pile of clippings and few uprooted plants, appearing to be some of the largest in the apartment. Laughing nervously a few times he added, "Maybe I'll tie them in a plastic bag just to be sure."

James looked to Bamboo and waved a little to the furry animal. He had watched Sariel do his work, "Or two plastic bags. Being extra safe that way."

"Probably," Sariel said, watching Bamboo dart around the furniture in the room. "Did you find out anything new?" He asked.

"Besides that you have crazy plants?" James asked, "Or about the four?"

Sariel smiled and pulled his feet onto the chair he was sitting in. "The four, or anything relating to that, really."

James reached into the bag that was on him and pulled out a couple of books, “Okay so these have information on the four,” he pointed out two books, “And the rest are just general information about the mystical side of the world.”

Leaning forward to look at what had been laid out, Sariel picked up one of the books that James had said was about The Four. Like most of the others, it looked to be slightly thin. Sariel flipped it open and looked over a few of the pages, seeing old art showing the four of them along with large passages about the picture. After flipping through most of the book, Sariel noticed that in the back were pictures of The Four individually along with stories about them.
Almost every passage mentioned that in most cases when they were first accused of causing all of the horrible things they were named for, each of them denied it as if they had no idea. There were, of course, the few that had existed over the years who were aware of what they were causing.
"A cat, a bear, an owl, and a mouse…? No one ever mentioned that," Sariel mumbled, still looking through the book. "Do you think it hurts when they do that?" He asked, stopping to look at a painting of The Four together as the animals that represented their disasters.

Hopefully, Desvelarse gets back on soon. I haven't even really seen them on other rps.))

"I have no idea," James sighed looking at the painting in the book, "I'm not one of them and so little is known it's ridiculous."

"Yeah, these are a little thin," Sariel said, looking at the other book that James had pointed out to him before. "I'm surprised you could find this much on them."He added, putting down the book but keeping it open and grabbing one of the books on magical species. Inside were things about plants, and creatures such as gnomes, fairies and even older, larger species like dragons.

"I did use to have access to one of the greatest libraries with subjects on them," James said with a slight smile. He picked up the other book skimming through it again, "I'm just happy I had this much information."

Sariel gave a slight nod, flipping through the book, which seemed to have a large section devoted to dragons. Stopping on a page near the middle, Sariel looked at a picture of what looked to be a furred dragon with scales spread around on its muzzle sitting in a lake. Below the image was the measurements, which read 29.5 meters from head to tail. Along with that, were the words extinct in 1750.
"I wonder where they kept them before they went extinct?"

"Lakes, volcanoes, caves, the Americas," James said listing off possibilities, "Anywhere that hadn't been vastly explored really."