Hey, I thought I'm the only one who brought Lewis Carrol here.

Auger is, for the most part homeless XD. If he had found out that they were Channelers, what Auger would've done was to offer his services to them, as an escort to wherever they were intending to go (in this case, Almire). If Auger's dialogue could be changed, that would be great.

By the way, good luck trying to decipher Auger's Gremlin Chatter XD. Thinslayer, tell me if I should keep it like this, or make Auger speak better Isoran.

Auger

One of the three figures had spotted the Gremlin, and raced up towards him. It was a female, Isoranoid being with wings "A Valkyrie..." Auger thought. She wore Angelic Raiments, and a Violet Chapeau. She examined the Gremlin closer, as if she was suspicious of something, before extending her hand in greeting.

"I'm Vaelyntine! We just escaped some Hunters and one nasty-lookin' creature. Who are you, and why are you here?" She asked. Auger was about to respond when the other two showed up. "These two are..." Vaelyntine continued. "Topoyozada and Raechal. And you might be?" One of the Isorans said ((NOTE: Knight-Of-Vanaduke never did say what top looked like XD. Oh well, we can edit that later))

"My name iz Auger." The Gremlin said in a raspy, accented version of Isoran language. "What do you want with us?" Topoyozada asked. "He's quite rude isn't he?" Auger thought. "I meen no harm." The Gremlin said, noticing the Isoran's hands start to glow. "They're definitely Channelers..." Auger thought.

"I am merzenary. I guard yoo for small price, if yoo interezted." He said. Auger was serious when he said small price, he knew that Channelers and Exiles were usually poor. "I know wat Channelerz arr. I helped zome befoor. I do not keel Channelerz." The Gremlin continued, trying desperately to gain their trust. He was completely aware however, that the language barrier between their races was not making things any simpler.

Iris knew that she wasn't herself today, she haven't been able to do some of her 'little experiment' since last month due to her crisis of crown. However, she forced herself to continue reading even knowing that she couldn't.

"-Slightest effects of internal freezing would caaaaause oh my god I can't do this!" Iris screamed as she froze the book with her right hand, she then proceeded to throw it across the room resulting millions of ice shards scattered all over the wall. "If this keeps up, I won't hesitate to use my friends as an experiment!" Iris thought to herself as she stormed out of the room, the cold breezy wind touched her cheeks as she entered the Garden, a large open space with a small replica of Haven's fountain and an addition of decorative plants and flowers arranged neatly around the benches.

"What's wrong Iris?" a knight approached her, he was carrying a sleeping Wolver pup on his arm and could notice that it had grabbed the attention of Iris. "Before you think about anything, I won't allow it to be used for your personal hobby," the knight continued. "And I persume that you will be taking care of it?" Iris asked as she strokes the Wolver gently with her fingers, "Don't worry, I have no intentions of doing experiments with this little one... Maybe until it is older..."

The knight laughed and patted Iris' shoulder, "I'll take that as a warning... Oh and if you're that desperate, you can always get in contact with him..." he smiled and stroked the Wolver's head. "Who is this 'him' you mentioned?" Iris asked the knight.

"Auger, a mercenary who is reliable and always gets the job done... Luckily he is known for giving less charges for us Channelers, knowing our financial issues," the knight answered Iris, "Tell me Iris... You have financial issues yourself right?"

"One must first know their flaws before pointing at other's," Iris huffed and crossed her arms. "What?" the knight asked in confusion, Iris smiled and pointed at the knight's arm- which is now wet from the Wolver pup's pee. He let out a silent scream and rushed inside with an embarrassed look on his face.

"Auger..." Iris repeated the name, "Maybe he might find something interesting on his journey..."

With those words, Iris reached to her HUD link and sent Auger a message:

If you managed to find something interesting, or perhaps anything (preferably a fresh corpse). Bring it to me, I will be at the base for now.

-Channeler.

Second entry, sorry for the holdup and the length of it.

(Amaranth)

I put the back of my hand on to my forehead, seeing if I had Overheated. My skin was blazing hot. I start feeling a little tired... but I have to catch up with those people, I want them to be my friends...

I rummage around inside of my bag, but I can't find anything other than a bottle of expired medicine and a chunk of bread, the latter of which I eat to try to help the hunger pains I also had.

"Hey! Wait up!", I call out to the figures in the distance. I run a little faster, and I seem to get closer with each step. Within five minutes, my fever intensifies. I fall on the ground, panting and trying to catch my breath. It feels twenty times hotter than the summer night that it is. I knew I shouldn't have used my Channeling so much.

Raising my shaking hand towards the sky, I put my first and index finger together, creating a flare of white light with the last of my strength, which stays in the sky, and sends a shockwave throughout the area. I fall back down under the wildflowers and grasses, the Overheat getting to a point where I find my eyes being unable to stay open. My body relaxes as I drift off into a feverish sleep, breathing heavily.

I hope somebody can find me.

(Gremlin language = Jager language)
find it here
If you're willing to do a bit of reading that is.

Zero

I scowled at the firing range. I had been aiming for the dummy's eyes, but got him in the neck. It was probably the worst shot I had fired in over a year. I turned on my com unit and searched through the radio stations for my favorite song- and pouted when "Rabies" by Justin Greaver started playing. I sighed, thinking of how easily the Channelers had slipped through my grasp. I nearly caught one in the head, but missed. I frowned; my killstreak was ruined.

Suddenly, a signal picked up on my com unit, interrupting my thoughts. "Zero, are you there?" it asked. I snarled. Oh great. Him again. I picked up the call and responded with a hiss, "Yes. What do you want, Enforcer Tyrell?"

"Hey. No need to be snappy, Zero. I actually think you'll smile when you hear this." The Enforcer replied. He seemed quite excited, and I didn't like it.
"Is that so?" I inquired. Tyrell said in an excited voice, "We've found a Channeler GOLD MINE." My eyes widened at the prospect, and i listened closer. "Yeah. That caught your attention, didn't it? Well anyway, we can't risk bringing the entire group of forty Morai, you'll end up being spotted right away."

I laughed. Apparently, Tyrell didn't know about Syphon's little... Anger problems. I cut him off, "Syphon's already taken care of that." I heard Tyrell start to say something, but he finally realized what Syphon had done. I casually inserted a new magazine into my Antigua and said to Tyrell, "Don't worry, I've got this." I smirked and announced to the group that we were going to Almire. And once we got there, blood would wet the steps of Vanaduke's kingdom. I smiled a sadistic grin, licking my lips and savoring the feeling of ripping through flesh.

The Hunt was back on.

Since this is your universe, Thinslayer. Can you tell us about the scenery in between The Imperium and the Almirian border? Will it be plains all the way through, or will there be mountains and forests as well? Or will you just give us creative liberty?

And if I may make a suggestion to your story proposal of Auger and co. Why don't we say that Auger said: "Wee shud meyk camp in tha neerbai forezt. No won find uz ther." :). What do you think, Thinslayer and Knight-Of-Vanaduke? I think it would make more sense, seeing as two, hostile nations would probably be far away from each other, otherwise there would be constant war in the areas between them.

Oh and Thin, thanks for taking the time to compliment us (although I am very prone to typos when typing directly on the forums, as you may have noticed XD). It's nice to feel appreciated :D.

Wow, thanks for the compliment, Thin. I feel all fuzzy inside now :3

I would like to have everyone re-avert themselves to Return to Cradle eventually, because as it is, the forum so far has been dropped from a mountain and killed off, because none of us have posted for a while over there.

I would suggest that once we make a post on either forum, we go and post again on the other.

I'm not so sure if I would call Auger's accent German... Just think of it as a raspy voice with growls, along with strong "R's" and his "S" is replaced with "Z". He also makes the occasional "Gremlin sound" you hear when talking to Gremlin NPC's in-game, or fighting them in the depths.

@Liminori: Well, my character in RtC is KO'ed, and my other character can't do much of anything other than heal (which I've specified to Gzilla, he can use to continued Axis' (in RtC) storyline). So, I'm really just waiting on Kaijuhunter and the others to make something happen. I'll probably post once the story reaches the Denouement stage.

Although if possible, I'd like to write an epilogue for RtC once it ends. The other roleplay I ran never got that far, and I'd like to see how the characters react to it's ending :). Something just doesn't feel right to me about leaving a story hanging like that, even if the ending can already be deduced, you know?

@Thinslayer: What if we put the protagonists POV in one part of the chapter, and the antagonists in a 2nd part. That is, if you want to keep everyone's POV in the story. Alternatively, you could write it from a Third-Person Omniscient POV. It will require a lot of extra work (such as reading all the proposals and then putting the events together, while leaving out certain details that might derail the narration (ie. If you want to write the story starting from Top and Vaelyntine's POV, you may need to leave out Auger's entrance). Another suggestion is to, still keep writing in Third-Person Omniscient, but make a ONE chapter for each group of players that are together. Then, each character will have their own chapter if they are alone.

The current style isn't so bad though. Have you heard about the old books "Noli Mi Tangere" and "El Filibusterismo"? Each chapter of that book focuses on a single character, and then changes to the Third-person POV of a different character on the next chapter. Of course, the scenes were much longer in that book.

So my final suggestion would be... Each character gets a chapter for their own (ie. 1st Chapter belongs to Vaelyntine, Top, and Raech. Then 2nd Chapter goes to Auger. And then the next one to Syphon.) Once all the character's have their own chapter, the cycle will return to Vaelyntine's POV in the following chapter. Then, each character's chapter will be edited, until they reach the end of their scene (Example: Auger's first chapter ends after they begin the journey to Almire. Vaelyntine and co. can also end their first chapter there.). Each char's 2nd chapter can then begin in the same cycle as before. However, you can interchange this if you want to, Thin. In whatever way you believe will be best for story-structure.

EDIT:Another thing to note, is that whenever an action done by a certain character has already been specified in a chapter that includes the, it doesn't need to be repeated in other chapters. Just put the action in whatever chapter seems most fitting.

Auger

"Thee border iz not faar frum heer. If wee trravel now, wee be ther beefoor zunrize." Auger told them. While the group walked through the plains, they suddenly felt a shockwave ripple through the earth beneath them, shaking the grass and themselves. "What was that?" Auger thought. The Gremlin turned around and saw a white flare shoot up in the sky. "A Channeler Flare? What is that Channeler thinking? He'll have the entire Imperial Army on him within the hour..." Auger thought as he began heading back. With Vaelyntine and the others following suit.

The Gremlin spotted two female Isorans, one on the ground, wearing a purple Dusker coat and Kat Eye hood, and the other, wearing an Angelic Raiment and glasses, forming an ice ball in her hands. They were surrounded by Imperial Strikers, brandishing Punch Guns and Hatchets. Auger thought it was time to intervene.

The Gremlin drew his Winmillion blade, and launched several energy knives at the group of Strikers. One of them was hit in the eye. "ARGH!" He screeched as he knelt to the ground, clutching his wound. The other 2 knives missed however. "Herlp me!" Auger told Vaelyntine, Top, and Raechal as he activated his cloak and prepared to move in on the Imperial soldiers.

Updated Lyra's path.

In Auger's latest entry, he states that he saw Amarantg with her Kat Hood on. However, this is inaccurate, as in Amaranth's first entry, she put her hood in her coat pocket. So she no longer has her hood on, and looks like a girl with short, white hair.

Just wanted to point that out before anyone else noticed :3

Also, thanks for the positive feedback, Thinslayer :D
Alsoalso, I think it's really interesting and mysterious how there's a being higher than the Finder. So that brings up the question... who exactly is he?

Did Auger get stabbed with his own energy knife? How? And the official chapters of Auger and Iris are contradicting:

Auger's POV: He hits one of the Strikers, but misses the other two
Iris' POV: She deflects all of Auger's knives and stabs the Gremlin in the shoulder with it.

So... which timeline of events are we following?

Updated my story.

((Oh dear, it seems that it was my fault... I thougt that the knives were the ones which hit Auger... Anyhow, yes, I actually meant that Iris was helping Auger... Not the knights ._.

Sorry about that... Can you please edit it Thin?))

It might be better if The Finder went first to the Forest of The Dead, instead of straight to Almire. It'll give opportunity for character development for her and Equinox and Alice.