CRESCENCIA
the oracle has fallen

SYNOPSIS: Cia watches, and is then burned by the Bear God's blood. Resentful and in pain, she then begins to collect crystals and stows them away in her satchel. She then turns to watch the Bear God, and a hallucination overtakes her mind.

The hallucination can be seen by anyone, but cannot be interacted with/interact with anyone. It may possibly serve as a distraction. The hallucination is a semi-translucent, opaque replica of the Bear God himself, and almost as tall. It stands, wounded, directly in the center of the clearing on its hind legs, staring mindlessly ahead. It then topples forward, mouth contorted in a death-gurgle, and crashes to the ground with no sound. Blood pools around the ephemeral replica, which then starts to fade away, piece by piece.

Cia comes out of her trance-like state, having slumped to the ground, and yells loudly at the Bear God, saying that he is not a true God because Gods do not die.

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It happened all so fast.

The attacks came in furious succession, and Cia's dull eyes stared in awe. To her, she had never seen such a large amount of beings fight together - in great unison - for years. There was something to be admired in such a feat, but at the same time it was daunting.

She was a new being in this hellishly weird land. This land that smelled of nectar and sweetness.. she did not feel welcome, so who was to say that she would not have this sort of anger turned against her? What would stop them? Her God was dying, mutilated and ravenous, on the soil of the Blood Falls. His blue blood and gigantic crystals littered the ground. Should they turn their anger against her... us?.. there would be nothing to stop them.

Lost in her thoughts, eyes glazed over as the battle roared on around her, she was unaware of the mutilation of her God. With His paw laying on the ground, limp and dying while no longer connected to His body, He poured blood and never stopped fighting. Unaware to her, the blood was horribly caustic... and splattered heavily across her neck and side.

With a horrific shriek, she reacted out of pure instinct; body heaved upwards and contorted as she bolted to the side and into the small cover of some trees. With her heart beat racing at a hundred miles an hour, the Oracle regarded the God before her with horrified eyes. It was like the final strike into the stone; she, the ever-faithful and constant Oracle for this massive God, was never regarded with so much as a second glance. There was no attempt to protect His Seer, no concern for anything but Himself.

Black tipped ears flicked back into her mess of a mane, sides still heaving and skin still burning. She'll be damned if she stands by and does not reap the benefits of the fate He had sown for Himself... and thus, she made her way around the perimeter, nudging small and medium crystals and shards alike into the pouch at her side. She collected as many as she could manage; surely, there was some benefit to them at a later time, if they did not disappear or dissolve like she expected they might.

Finally, her eyes focus on the God. Her mind is weak and confused, and there is some conflict in her resolve. Should she sever the final tie? Should she break the years of torment she endured, and attack a being she had previously worshipped?

Her mind, utterly overwhelmed and already weak, seemed to speak for her. Seized by a sudden, fierce hallucination, Cia's breath caught in her throat. Her whole body froze beyond her own control, muscles locking as wide eyes gaped open with a thousand-yard stare.

From her hallucination, from the shadows, from the ephemeral realm, her hallucination almost came to life. She was used to the visions - sometimes fierce and frightening - that she received as an Oracle and Seer... but this was nothing akin to those. Her vision was real... partially, at least.

In her mind, she saw what she thought His fate might be. But as her mind spoke to her of all the possibilities that might befall the Bear God, it was just as busy creating a semi-physical, ephemeral vision of her hallucination, projected for not only her to see, but all those around.

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Crafted from the shadows, an opaque form that still possessed an almost glow-like quality around its edges rose from the ground itself in the center of the clearing. It was a giant likeness to the Bear God, almost nearly as tall in height as the God Himself. It rose to its hind legs, its paw severed and other arm incapacitated and hanging limply at its front. Translucent blood poured from the gashes, wounds, punctures, and burns that littered its body. Nearly all of the crystals that were scattered across his skin had become uprooted or broken, and the same caustic blood that oozed out of his wounds seeped out from the broken crystals.

The eyes of this ephemeral hallucination were vacant, staring past all that surrounded him - even the actual God it bore its resemblance too and stood almost directly in front of. The shadow of the God swayed as it stood on its hind legs, body tipping one direction and then the next. For all its wounds, it was surprising that it even was able to stand..

But not for long. In the wake of its weakness, the shadow of the God tipped forward, falling into and through all that surrounded him and crashing into the ground, jaws agape in what would have been an otherwise hallow death-gurgle. There was no sound to the hallucination's crash, but the ephemeral blood pooled in thick, caustic pools surrounding the shadow of the former God, leaking out of every orifice.

Just as quickly as the hallucination appeared in its ephemeral form, so did it disappear. It faded in chunks, bits and pieces disappearing little by little, telling but one of the many possible tales of what may happen.

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Collapsed in a pool of her own sweat, the Oracle was slumped over near a tree, eyes glazed as the hallucination ravished her mind. Her eyes fluttered shut as the hallucination quelled and the ephemeral figure disappeared. Her coat was drenched, and her wounds stung.

Eyes drug up to the actual Bear God. "You are no god," she shouted at it, vocal cords straining to be heard above the madness. "Gods do not die!" Her chest heaved with the strain it took to take gasps of air into her tight lungs. "You lied to me!"

The betrayal that wrapped its iron-clad fist around her heart was choking.

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TEAM TIME GOD
She has not attacked, but her involuntary hallucination took on a semi-physical from that may (or  may not) serve as a mild distraction. Hallucination lasted 15-20s.

PERMISSIONS
Permission given to ANYONE (including the Time or Bear god) to attack/interact with Crescencia. Please tag me wherever necessary/mentioned.