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Public News Post #7154

Halo, Zero, and what's been happening

Written by: Archmage Eternal Rivalyn, Wielder of Silver Fire
Date: Wednesday, November 1st, 2000
Addressed to: Everyone


This is pretty long
Alright this is a post about the previous events cause everyone is asking. This isn't totally complete or even exactly accurate, but it reflects the events well enough to be told.
To surmise what happened before I came into the story, Halo is apparently possessed. Aldair and Aurora can't help him, he's wearing Fullplate of the Morningstar which he can't remove and burns his flesh at the touch. This entity that possess him speaks of the Morningstar, the Seed of Chaos, and His role as a Messenger. In a show of his power, the entity forces Halo to gouge out his own eyes, and to sever his own arm. Then both Halo and the entity leave due to their failing powers.
Others join Halo as he reappears later at the Crater, site of the Morningstar's destruction, where the seed of chaos lies. The entity possessing him speaks again, and then it leaves him, saying its powers grow weak again. Halo speaks of a limbo, a true blackness where this messenger is. He reveals that it is not immortal however and asks for the orbs that the being uses to possess him be removed from his body.
After killing him, I remove the orbs from his decapitated head and allow Shine to bury them, and he takes Esque with him to bury it as deep as possible. However, Zero follows them and steals the orbs from their burial ground and flees to his Master Crystal. There he swallows one, and Mistral and Skarash go to attempt to reason with him.
Zero again flees this time away from Ashtan, however Halo encounters him and in a rage slices the orb away from Zero. This leaves Zero with one in his stomach and Halo now holding one. Thus a chase ensues as everyone rushes to find Zero.
After afflicting him with transfix and delphinium, we try to decide what to do, meanwhile Halo pops in so we give him the same treatment. Scherezhade (sorry) rashly decides she must attack Zero and thus everyone else falls into line and destroys him. Thus we kill Zero and Halo, and retrieving Halo's corpse we extract the orb from it. However someone steals away Zero's corpse before decapitation and resurrects him in the flame.
Thus begins a whole new problem as he holds the grace of the gods and thus none of us may touch him. Using his pride as leverage, we finally kill him once again and I am pilgrimaged to Nirvana where I bury the twin orbs, and then I dispose of the tainted bodies.
Unfortunately Zero seems to still be afflicted and asking for Shine, he requests a crystalforest. Using a spire from the forest, he punctures his eye and withdraws it from his head. Again Scherezhade goes off killing after warnings not to, and thus after she kills Esque, Zero has a body available which he uses for sacrifice in his supplication to the messenger. A new blue orb takes the place of Zero's previous eye, and the rest is as he tells it.

Penned by my hand on the 6th of Chronos, in the year 261 AF.


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Public News Post #7154

Halo, Zero, and what's been happening

Written by: Archmage Eternal Rivalyn, Wielder of Silver Fire
Date: Wednesday, November 1st, 2000
Addressed to: Everyone


This is pretty long
Alright this is a post about the previous events cause everyone is asking. This isn't totally complete or even exactly accurate, but it reflects the events well enough to be told.
To surmise what happened before I came into the story, Halo is apparently possessed. Aldair and Aurora can't help him, he's wearing Fullplate of the Morningstar which he can't remove and burns his flesh at the touch. This entity that possess him speaks of the Morningstar, the Seed of Chaos, and His role as a Messenger. In a show of his power, the entity forces Halo to gouge out his own eyes, and to sever his own arm. Then both Halo and the entity leave due to their failing powers.
Others join Halo as he reappears later at the Crater, site of the Morningstar's destruction, where the seed of chaos lies. The entity possessing him speaks again, and then it leaves him, saying its powers grow weak again. Halo speaks of a limbo, a true blackness where this messenger is. He reveals that it is not immortal however and asks for the orbs that the being uses to possess him be removed from his body.
After killing him, I remove the orbs from his decapitated head and allow Shine to bury them, and he takes Esque with him to bury it as deep as possible. However, Zero follows them and steals the orbs from their burial ground and flees to his Master Crystal. There he swallows one, and Mistral and Skarash go to attempt to reason with him.
Zero again flees this time away from Ashtan, however Halo encounters him and in a rage slices the orb away from Zero. This leaves Zero with one in his stomach and Halo now holding one. Thus a chase ensues as everyone rushes to find Zero.
After afflicting him with transfix and delphinium, we try to decide what to do, meanwhile Halo pops in so we give him the same treatment. Scherezhade (sorry) rashly decides she must attack Zero and thus everyone else falls into line and destroys him. Thus we kill Zero and Halo, and retrieving Halo's corpse we extract the orb from it. However someone steals away Zero's corpse before decapitation and resurrects him in the flame.
Thus begins a whole new problem as he holds the grace of the gods and thus none of us may touch him. Using his pride as leverage, we finally kill him once again and I am pilgrimaged to Nirvana where I bury the twin orbs, and then I dispose of the tainted bodies.
Unfortunately Zero seems to still be afflicted and asking for Shine, he requests a crystalforest. Using a spire from the forest, he punctures his eye and withdraws it from his head. Again Scherezhade goes off killing after warnings not to, and thus after she kills Esque, Zero has a body available which he uses for sacrifice in his supplication to the messenger. A new blue orb takes the place of Zero's previous eye, and the rest is as he tells it.

Penned by my hand on the 6th of Chronos, in the year 261 AF.


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