Post by Echo on Jun 19, 2013 0:37:57 GMT
It's more common now than it used to be.
There was a time when people joined freely, but the new management seems to have a nasty habit of locking people up for a while.
Having said that, there was one Quester that Lexi knew, centuries ago, another Vampire. Her name was 'Flame'; at least, that's what everyone called her. She was a Vampire, but she had strange fire and shape-shifting powers. My guess is she was some kind of crossbreed hybrid too. She ended up ruling Level Six of the Underworld! Anyway, that's off-topic, sorry!
From what I've heard, this 'Flame' woman used to be the leader of some kind of Underworld Gang. Ruthless killers, they were! She killed a Quester who'd been sent to spy on them. Interesting fact: she actually ended up becoming good friends with that Quester's daughter. Off the point again, I know, sorry. Anyway, the QA captured her. The rest of the gang fled, but it was her they were really after anyway. She was in solitary confinement for two centuries! That was under the old management. Back then, they toyed with memory spells as a way of conditioning the violence out of people. It never really went too well. In this case, they made her normal enough for a while, but when something got her angry, she went into a murderous rage! The best part? She forgot about it afterwards! There were just these huge gaps in her memories! Sad, huh? I'd have loved to have tried my powers on that!
Anyway, new management had her killed. Pity really, she'd become a lecturer at the Uni by then. From what I hear, her last lecture was her life story, and she was dying the whole way through it. I've met a couple of the Questers who were students in that lecture, and they have some really vivid memories! She came bursting through the doors with an arrow stuck in her leg and she put up all this shielding around the room, and there was hammering on the walls and doors and windows for the whole lecture, but no-one ever got in! And the whole time she was reassuring them that security would be here in no time, but security never showed up. She did the whole lecture, and it was one of those horrible long ones, but it was all about her, which she'd never done before, and then she made them all leave by the back exit and get as far away as they could. Then apparently the whole room exploded!
They caught the assassins red-handed. They were just sitting in the burned-out room crying. Turns out they were her parents! None of them had realised until it was too late! Makes you wonder, doesn't it... Did HQ know?
Legend has it that her spirit or her soul or whatever is still hanging around, travelling through the worlds, doesn't need the portals anymore. Maybe she's still there, ruling Level Six from behind the scenes... Who knows...
Anyway, all that was a little off-topic, but my point was, Nabarl, that HQ putting people on probation before they become Questers has always been a thing, but it's been getting more frequent since the management change.
I shouldn't worry, clearly there have been worse cases than yours in the past.
-Emilie
There was a time when people joined freely, but the new management seems to have a nasty habit of locking people up for a while.
Having said that, there was one Quester that Lexi knew, centuries ago, another Vampire. Her name was 'Flame'; at least, that's what everyone called her. She was a Vampire, but she had strange fire and shape-shifting powers. My guess is she was some kind of crossbreed hybrid too. She ended up ruling Level Six of the Underworld! Anyway, that's off-topic, sorry!
From what I've heard, this 'Flame' woman used to be the leader of some kind of Underworld Gang. Ruthless killers, they were! She killed a Quester who'd been sent to spy on them. Interesting fact: she actually ended up becoming good friends with that Quester's daughter. Off the point again, I know, sorry. Anyway, the QA captured her. The rest of the gang fled, but it was her they were really after anyway. She was in solitary confinement for two centuries! That was under the old management. Back then, they toyed with memory spells as a way of conditioning the violence out of people. It never really went too well. In this case, they made her normal enough for a while, but when something got her angry, she went into a murderous rage! The best part? She forgot about it afterwards! There were just these huge gaps in her memories! Sad, huh? I'd have loved to have tried my powers on that!
Anyway, new management had her killed. Pity really, she'd become a lecturer at the Uni by then. From what I hear, her last lecture was her life story, and she was dying the whole way through it. I've met a couple of the Questers who were students in that lecture, and they have some really vivid memories! She came bursting through the doors with an arrow stuck in her leg and she put up all this shielding around the room, and there was hammering on the walls and doors and windows for the whole lecture, but no-one ever got in! And the whole time she was reassuring them that security would be here in no time, but security never showed up. She did the whole lecture, and it was one of those horrible long ones, but it was all about her, which she'd never done before, and then she made them all leave by the back exit and get as far away as they could. Then apparently the whole room exploded!
They caught the assassins red-handed. They were just sitting in the burned-out room crying. Turns out they were her parents! None of them had realised until it was too late! Makes you wonder, doesn't it... Did HQ know?
Legend has it that her spirit or her soul or whatever is still hanging around, travelling through the worlds, doesn't need the portals anymore. Maybe she's still there, ruling Level Six from behind the scenes... Who knows...
Anyway, all that was a little off-topic, but my point was, Nabarl, that HQ putting people on probation before they become Questers has always been a thing, but it's been getting more frequent since the management change.
I shouldn't worry, clearly there have been worse cases than yours in the past.
-Emilie