Elysium's Multiverse

Chapter 139

Chapter 139

Chapter 139

Riven yawned on the bed, still unable to take his mask or Gluttony-modified Chalgathi items off much to his irritation, while replaying the recorded scenes over and over again. “What a two timing cock sucking mother fucker.”

Azmoth grunted his acknowledgement from inside the small hotel room, barely small enough to even fit at all while hunched, and the sound of giggling in the shower nearby caused Riven’s eye to twitch. Somehow the water was still running here, and Riven was really fucking pissed that he wasn’t able to enjoy a hot shower right about now because he was stuck in this evil contraption encasing his body.

He glanced over to where Fay peaked out, long white hair dripping wet, to wink his way while wringing water with her hands onto the floor. “Stop getting so worked up about some human spreading lies. They’re rather good at that kind of thing, and you’re an easy target. How about you relieve some of that pent up stress and come join me, hmmm?”

The sky-blue woman stepped out of the bathroom, spreading out her wings and raising her chin and crossing one leg in front of the other while putting her bare body on full display for the first time since Riven had contracted her. Riven had done a pretty good job at ignoring her teasing up until now, but he nearly died of a nose bleed and coughed back a quick retort. Despite all the previous banter, she really was incredibly pretty.

Azmoth’s head turned, a growl echoing through the room as the hellscape brutalisk pointed two clawed left hands at the dripping wet succubus with intent. “I will catapult evil succubus out window if tempt Riven. Riven not simp, I smash succubus if try!”

“Oh come on!” Fay said with a brilliantly white smile, bouncing on the tiptoes of her feet on purpose while smirking Riven’s way while she - for the first time ever - had Riven’s undivided attention due to the shock-and-awe tactic she’d just pulled. “Don’t be such a buzzkill Azmoth, it’s not like he can even take the suit off anyways - I’m just teasing!”

Azmoth thought about it for a moment, cocked his head, and settled back down with a nod. “That true.”CHeCk for new stories on no/v/el/bin(.)c0m

“What a walking talking chastity belt...” Fay rolled her eyes while muttering, checking for Athela and seeing she still wasn’t back - only to put on a seductive grin and waltz over to Riven on the bed. Casually swinging her bare legs over the motionless vampiric warlock who continued to stare with his hands behind his head and notification screens buzzing in front of him - she swiped a hand through the cortex prompts to dismiss them.

“Hmmm...” Fay muttered with a chuckle, aggressively pinning Riven’s left hand when he reached up to push her off. Her smile grew, and she pushed her face closer to his and flexed her toned abdomen while clenching his hand in excitement. “I’d been under the impression that you may not like girls... but I see now that isn’t the case...”

Hand trailing down to where she was straddling him, she came to a stop just below his stomach to a growing bulge. Her smile faded, her eyes softened, and she took on a serious look to retract her hand. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart for getting my brother out of there. It means a lot to me, what you did, and most warlocks wouldn’t ever even consider it unless it benefited them. When we get back to Brightsville, I’d really like you to meet him... So again, thank you.”

Riven, who still wore the porcelain mask that hid all his expressions, was suddenly very thankful for the item that hid the complex series of emotions crossing over his features. “You’re welcome Fay. Though I have to admit, you’re a bit mean doing this to me.”

Fay’s smile returned and the succubus let out a singsong laugh, caressing his chin with one hand before sliding off and laying down in the crook of his arm with folded wings. “It’s rather fun, knowing you can’t do anything about it. However I don’t believe you even would if you could. Would you, Mr. Chastity? You’re too righteous to use your demons like that aren’t you - Mr. Highschool Hero? God forbid you take a willing servant because of that power dynamic you keep talking about!”

Her narrowed black eyes looked up teasingly, pushing her soft chest into his side, and one hand settled on his rib cage to play with the carnivorous teeth that randomly shifted with occasional low hissing sounds.

He paused in his response, thinking it over, and didn’t reply for almost twenty seconds. “I don’t really know anymore. Maybe I would do it.”

Fay’s eyebrows lifted in surprise, and genuine shock was evident underneath her small black horns when her mouth started to drop.

The door swung open, and Athela barged in from the night with a cackling laugh while in her spider form. She wiggled her two front arachnid feet in front of her, bags of groceries in either foot, and screeched out her victory. “I AM THE ONE! THE BRINGER OF ALCOHOL, THE TYRANT OF THE CHICAGO GROCERY STORES, THE STOMPER OF BABIES! I-”

She quickly shut up when she saw Fay laying there on the bed next to Riven, and she dropped the grocery bags with a thud. “You’re in MY SPOT BITCH!”

With a screeching lunge, she transformed into her humanoid arshakai form mid air and landed on top of Fay before roughly and playfully flinging her off the bed. “BEGONE!”

Fay crashed against the wall and scowled, rubbing the back of her head with visible irritation and extended fangs that she rarely put on display. Her shoulders heaved in scarcely seen rage, and her right eyebrow twitched. “You can have the OTHER side Athela, I was there FIRST!”

The succubus launched herself back, putting all of her meager strength into a full-facial slap that cracked across Athela’s cheek with a surprised yelp from the arachnid woman. “Don’t be such a JERK!”

The audible slap was so loud that it caused a brief moment of silence, with Fay breathing heavily and glaring at Athela with almost murderous intent to the surprise of everyone.

The Unholy Foundation Pillar, with the major sub-pillars of Blood, Shadow, Death, Infernal, Depravity, and Chaos.The Holy Foundation Pillar, with the major sub-pillars of Light, Heaven, Grace, Moon, Sun, and Judgement.The Fae Foundation Pillar, with the major sub-pillars of Volcano, Storm, Ocean, Glacial, Swamp, and Forest.The Archaic Foundation Pillar, with the major sub-pillars of Arcane, Void, Metal, Illusion, Alteration, and Time.The Harmony Foundation Pillar, with the major sub-pillars of Body, Mind, Primal, Chi, Karma, and Zodiac.The Machine Foundation Pillar, with the major sub-pillars of Hacking, Armaments, Integration, Mecha, Interweb, and Sci-Tech.

“Alcohol not work on Azmoth, just taste gross.” Azmoth stated with a shrug, noting how Riven was motioning towards one of the vodka bottles that’d been drained. “Disgusting.”

Riven spluttered a laugh, resting on his elbows and kicking his feet out. “Well I suppose it isn’t for everyone.”

“Did you try again?”

“Try what?”

“Upload images to forum.”

The vampire sighed, then pulled up his notifications again. “Yeah, but maybe I’m missing something. Let me try again.”

[Welcome to the Panu Cortex!

Here you will find forum categories and branching categories that you can scroll through subjects, post your own topics, acquire or share video feeds, create enemies or alliances in, and even bargain for goods here like a marketplace. Be warned that each of these have strict sets of rules, and you will receive a notification if your content is prohibited as it is denied entry. Most prohibited material from being made public involves key events in the world of Panu or even in your local area, secrets of Panu that the Elysium Administrator wishes to be found rather than publicly exploited, information released too early regarding worlds outside of Panu, and spam content. Video feeds can only be uploaded by request. You must ask the administrator directly for uploading content, and may or may not get your request recognized. Sometimes the administrator may also post video content even without an express request. In order to request video uploading, just mentally think of the time and place you want to upload and wait for a response.

Please note that restrained or imprisoned personnel may not access the forums of Panu’s cortex. Forums extend to only to places you have visited and guilds you have joined before with the exceptions of the main page discussion board and the world quest message boards- both of which are world-spanning and more heavily moderated. No forums outside key areas visited and guilds can exist other than Global Forums.

Feel free to select from one of the already categorized subjects, or you may use the search function for more in depth selections of guild forums. Your options are as follows:

Main Page & Announcements (Global)Power Ladders, Guild & Individual (Global)World Quests & World Quest Ladders (Global)BrightsvilleDeepnestChicago

NOTE: Continental differences along Panu have been detected in optional selections. To acquire access to continent-wide forums or map-sharing specs, please visit more locations along the continents you have traveled between.]

Riven frowned, already knowing this probably wouldn’t work due to earlier failures, but hey - maybe persistence was key.

[You have failed to post in Brightsville’s forums. You may view these forums, but are too far away to add any content yourself.]

[You have failed to post in Deepnest’s forums. You may view these forums, but are too far away to add any content yourself.]

Riven’s grimace grew harder, seeing a couple topics on Allie’s war, the integration of more elvish slaves, the acquisition of a new elvish town, talks on the purging of the prison back in Brightsville with public beheadings of the inmates there, and large rewards being posted for any information on Riven’s location. A public notice had been set up with details on how he’d disappeared, with massive sums of Elysium coins concerning clues that led to his finding.

Allie must be pretty worried because he hadn’t used the guild hall’s teleport home option after being swept away. He wanted to reach out and let her know he was ok, but that wasn’t really a thing that was available to him. He had to wonder just what she thought, and wondered whether or not she’d banished the Blood Moon Requiem from their planet after this other mishap that’d happened on their turf for the 2nd time. No doubt she had serious suspicions about them, but at the same time that could also mean she would keep them around to try and peel whatever information she could off of the people who’d been there when his Chalgathi artifacts had mutated.

He went back to Chicago’s forums next, and again tried to upload footage from his own memories. He concentrated hard on recent events, trying to display the thoughts and images flashing through his mind, only to scowl in irritation at the next pop up concerning his attempt.

[Your request for uploading video content has been denied. Reasons for denial: Lack of control over this area. Conflict of interest with parties holding control of this area. Lack of defined footage.

For higher success rates concerning uploading video content, please review the following: Gain control over this area. Destroy conflicting interests holding sway over this area. Attempt to ask the administrator directly for pre-approval of an event, or approval to record an event prior to event happening, providing defined footage and less strain on the Administrator’s systems.]

Riven’s glare circled back to one of the forum topics with news networks blasting him as the villain who’d killed Senator James. Knocking his knuckles against the side of his porcelain mask and adjusting his hood, he continued to stare out across Chicago towards the downtown area where city lights illuminated the tall, steel buildings across the backdrop of the ocean and night sky.

“This is bullshit.”