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An Emerald Awakening
Jul 1, 2015 20:00:33 GMT -8
Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Jul 1, 2015 20:00:33 GMT -8
An Emerald Awakening
A backstory to the events of Emerald Enlightenment
By: EclipseZwolf
Mastermind: Marakata Stein
The world has always been bereft with problems that define nations, communities, and people. The world and its inhabitants are forged by the events of passing time. This tale begins with one such problem, where time is truly merciless.
Once the world was a place of grand machines and an age of creation had brought about prosperity to the world. People lived carefree and happily without realizing the doom that awaited them on their current path. Their creations guzzled the energy of their world and steadily they realized that they would only survive for a little longer. The end of the world had come in the form of a total loss of all energy, but the people of the world were not going to die with a whimper. People the world wide began to research new energy sources as fast as possible in hopes of escaping their fate. Times unending march towards oblivion earned the ire of three individuals who also began research into a new source of energy, one to save, one to spite, and one simply because they could.
Lead among these was Aeturnus, a tall person whose presence dominated the very room. Working with him were two other important scientists and they were all further assisted by numerous others. This is the story of one of these three scientists and what happened to them during and after the energy crisis. The tale of Aeturnus will be told another day, today we will tell the story of Ms. Marakata Stein. Marakata was one of the major scientists who worked on the solution to the energy crisis, but is the least remembered of the three. Aeturnus, Marakata, and their third companion worked together to discover a new energy source. Together they managed to stave off time and save the world from the end.
Aeturnus was the one who made the final discovery of Blood Weapons and the energy source that was the solution, that he dubbed Aeturnums. At their discovery all of the scientists were elated, but it was only Aeturnus who remained that way as time passed. Marakata had felt joy at accomplishing such a difficult task, but with the danger no longer looming and scientists the world over calming down, Marakata found themselves unable to find another fulfilling experiment or idea to pursue. A time of relaxation was dawning on the world and any regular person would want to lay back and take a break after such a horrifying race against time. Unfortunately for us all, Marakata was not a regular person.
Marakata set off on new experiments immediately, but she could find nothing that sated her desire like the energy crisis research. While she rushed around the globe, Aeturnus discovered the side effects of unleashing Aeturnums and became "eternal" although he only informed those closest to him in the research team. Marakata was included, but only grew more manic at learning there was another discovery she had missed. It was in these days where Marakata searched desperately that it arrived. A letter, sealed with wax pressed with a seal shaped like an E. The letter was an invitation to a special facility to pursue research. A research to rival Aeturnus's own eternal state and Aeturnums.
This was a miracle for Marakata and she immediately seized the opportunity and rushed to the location specified. An abandoned mine, long stripped of its valuables, but now home to a very high quality facility. Deep in its depths did Marakata go before finding the immaculate structure made of some of the most expensive materials, all to preserve its scientific environment. It was here that Marakata met the person who sent the letter. Although to say they met them for the first time would be a falsehood. She met a man dressed in a large black cloak that concealed his face, but Marakata recognized the voice. Who it was and their motivations mattered little to Marakata, now that she had a chance to research something so interesting.
The project she had been invited to participate in was simply known as the T Project. The project was based on the idea that they could infuse a living being with something else, a material of sorts. The goal was to be able to grant someone immortality through something that already existed, an eternal state capable of matching Aeturnus. To most of the other employees however, the goal was just to mix non-living substances. The idea thrilled Marakata to no end, the possibility of matching something that was bottomless with something finite would be a true test of ability and an incredible discovery. If perhaps Marakata had been any less brilliant or any more careful, we would not be in the mess we are in today.
Marakata set to work immediately, taking full advantage of the fully staffed facility and her cloaked friend's resources. The first goal was to find an item or thing that would allow a person to become "immortal" when infused with that substance. Eventually it was settled that they would begin experimentation with a gemstone, as gemstones were the sturdiest of all the things on the planet, to break one would require immense force. Marakata chose an Emerald to perform their studies with; she thought it a fun little tidbit that her name was Sanskrit for emerald and had always wanted to do something her name could tie in with. Having decided on a material that would be used they moved to the difficult part of the project, finding a way to infuse a person or being, with something else.
Time would pass deep underground as Marakata researched. Days and nights, weeks and months, and finally years passed as Marakata researched. After what felt like mere moments to Marakata it was finished. The ability to infuse two elements, materials, or things. It was not some complex process, or yearlong fermentation. Marakata's brilliance turned this monstrous process into a single bottle. A clear liquid that somehow managed to glow like sunlight was passing through it all the time. The chemical would make new beings and substances merely by its presence. Named after both its ability and its maker, it was dubbed MAKE. The other scientists jokingly called it Mary Kate since it sounded surprisingly similar to Marakata and fit the anagram MAKE nicely. What MAKE literally stood for was Meta Atomic Kreation Engine.
MAKE triggered a reaction at the atomic level changing the atoms it affected by making them more "volatile" in that the next atom it came in contact with would merge with it. This meant that if a human body was affected by the chemical and then came into contact with an emerald, then the atoms of the body would take on the power of emeralds. What exactly this "power" would be had to be tested. The one downside of the chemical was that after an atom formed a bond, it was possible for it to be reinfused, meaning it would lose its current state and assume a new one which could result in random and dangerous events. There was also no known way to break the atomical merging and make it return to its original state.
This miracle elixir spelled a method of matching Aeturnus in his eternal state. Marakata was ecstatic at making this discovery and without delay began to experiment in the exact use of MAKE. Marakata had been so engrossed in her research that she had failed to notice that something had changed since the beginning. Her assistants had steadily vanished, pushed away by Marakata's obsession with research and unerring endurance, working for days and nights on end. Her cloaked companion had never spent a large amount of time in the facility, consistently moving between what he said were "other" research facilities. As Marakata began the research on the use of MAKE, she felt something she hadn't felt in a long time.
Loneliness
Marakata missed her research compatriots, but took the feeling as an opportunity. The final goal of the project was to infuse a human, so Marakata took to creating and experimenting on the next closest thing. This turned out to be the numerous marionettes that had be created to test a variety of things in the facility. As these experiments began, the cloaked man returned and asked for a sample of MAKE to take to his other research facilities and use. Marakata responded graciously, giving him a sample and the way to make more. She did not fear not getting credit or not making money, her only care was her research and the ecstasy of discovery. When the man left, it never crossed her mind that the loneliness had vanished while he had been present. It would be a long time before she would see another living human.
Marakata forged more marionettes and performed more experiments, finding that eventually the emerald would only penetrate the outside of the puppets and would only be infused in the areas where the puppet had come into direct contact with MAKE. Marakata discovered that if she placed one original emerald into the puppet then the puppets atoms would not reinfuse with something else at random, which was an important discovery, with Marakata tired of finding her marionettes partially made of rock, air, or wood. Thousands upon thousands of marionettes and experiments later Marakata's own mind would be lost in her obsession.
Marakata had believed that her research was all she needed and that her only friends needed to be the marionettes that had been created from her research. The loneliness had sunk in and changed Marakata even as she denied it. Her manic obsessions with her experiments and MAKE lead her to eventually believe she knew exactly how MAKE worked and mixed up a special version of MAKE and dropped into the mix a single rectangular emerald as its base. Her desire for research and experimentation had mixed with her buried desire for company into a single desire to be closer with her Marionettes. Her cracked mind made a connection that would turn into her own downfall. She would use MAKE on herself and become immortal with the gemstone marionettes that littered the laboratory.
She descended to the deepest experimental chamber in the facility and took her special MAKE concoction with her. There her fate was sealed as in a single moment she downed the potion and the emerald resting in its depths. Her obsession made her make the leap from working with inanimate to working with the living without any regard to her own livelihood. Perhaps her fate would have been different if someone had remained during her research and assisted, or it may have resulted in two people suffering her fate. MAKE worked faster than expected and unlike her tests with the puppets it spread entirely through her body in minutes with her living cells being a very willing transmitter of the liquid.
Her transformation... was not pleasant. Beginning with her throat and stomach her body began to take on the aspects of the emerald she had consumed. Imagine your very throat turning to stone even as your lungs still gasp for air, but the muscles that once answered that call find themselves unable to answer. It took maybe two minutes for her entire body to take on the green sheen of an emerald and cease all motion. MAKE had another flaw that had not been obvious when it was used, that the substances being merged could end up with one being dominant. The goal had been to grant a human the attributes of a gemstone and make them live forever. This goal had been met, but too well. Marakata was not a human with the attributes of a gemstone, but rather had become a gemstone with the attributes of a human.
Though Marakata was made of emerald she was not dead, her body that had ached for oxygen in those moments of transformation no longer needed it, and her mind still acted as if it were made of flesh and muscle. She found herself frozen in place, but capable of thought. Once the initial shock and attempted dissemination of the situation ended she attempted to leave the chamber. Her emerald mind sending commands to her emerald muscles, to move her emerald limbs. Then she learned two things, first was that her body responded extremely slowly, the emerald muscles would still move, but not well. Second was that the extreme friction generated by atoms and cells of emerald moving against each other generated extraordinary energy that was released when the emerald again came to rest and the moment of immovable and unbendable emerald transferring its momentum to something else. The result?
An Earthquake.
Not only did it take Marakata the better part of the week to lift one leg and set it down, when she set it down the entire building and earth began to shake and rumble as the incredible energy was shot down into the ground. Though obsessed with research and suffering from loneliness Marakata's mind was still incredibly bright and pieced together what was going on in record time. She realized that in attempting to move out of the building would result in the entire building being buried under the earth, the research it contained would be destroyed. This was a fate worse than death to Marakata who valued the research more than her own livelihood. As such Marakata decided to use her new bodily state to continue what research she could.
Frozen in stone, Marakata had all the time in the world to ponder her situation and the mysteries of the world. No matter how long she thought though, no one entering the facility and no path to freedom occurred to her. Hundreds of years alone deep below the earth served only to amplify that hidden feeling of loneliness in her mind and though her mind was made of unbreakable emerald, somehow... it broke. She reached out to those she had considered her friends and companions in her last human days, the marionettes and puppets. As it turns out, the emerald transformation not only strengthened her muscles, but her nervous system and she found herself capable of sending and receiving electric signals with her mind. She reached out with her mind for all those puppets and marionettes that had been partially turned to emerald by MAKE. There she made an interesting discovery.
She could use her incredible nervous system to convert the bodies of the puppets, converting the wood and stone used in their construction into makeshift muscles and gears that would move to electrical signals. Having found something to do while waiting for people to arrive in her emerald prison she set to work, indirectly adjusting the marionettes allowing her to move them like extensions of her own body, although she found her effective range still less than she would have liked. Unable to move the marionettes beyond the confines of the mine she was just as trapped as ever and waiting on someone to stumble upon the mine.
Centuries would pass before the mine or she would be discovered and by that point Marakata would be totally lost in her obsession for research and loneliness. If people arrived she would get her research out of the mine with their assistance, but she could use some new marionettes for her research. Her body had been the first of her experiments on humans, but perhaps she could have more than one. It was in this way that the loneliness driven mind of Marakata came up with her plan. When humans next arrived in her domain she would have at least one carry out the research, the others.... would serve to further her research and she would make a show out of their final moments.
An understudy in psychology and the effects of stress might make an interesting addition to her stores of knowledge.
A backstory to the events of Emerald Enlightenment
By: EclipseZwolf
Mastermind: Marakata Stein
The world has always been bereft with problems that define nations, communities, and people. The world and its inhabitants are forged by the events of passing time. This tale begins with one such problem, where time is truly merciless.
Once the world was a place of grand machines and an age of creation had brought about prosperity to the world. People lived carefree and happily without realizing the doom that awaited them on their current path. Their creations guzzled the energy of their world and steadily they realized that they would only survive for a little longer. The end of the world had come in the form of a total loss of all energy, but the people of the world were not going to die with a whimper. People the world wide began to research new energy sources as fast as possible in hopes of escaping their fate. Times unending march towards oblivion earned the ire of three individuals who also began research into a new source of energy, one to save, one to spite, and one simply because they could.
Lead among these was Aeturnus, a tall person whose presence dominated the very room. Working with him were two other important scientists and they were all further assisted by numerous others. This is the story of one of these three scientists and what happened to them during and after the energy crisis. The tale of Aeturnus will be told another day, today we will tell the story of Ms. Marakata Stein. Marakata was one of the major scientists who worked on the solution to the energy crisis, but is the least remembered of the three. Aeturnus, Marakata, and their third companion worked together to discover a new energy source. Together they managed to stave off time and save the world from the end.
Aeturnus was the one who made the final discovery of Blood Weapons and the energy source that was the solution, that he dubbed Aeturnums. At their discovery all of the scientists were elated, but it was only Aeturnus who remained that way as time passed. Marakata had felt joy at accomplishing such a difficult task, but with the danger no longer looming and scientists the world over calming down, Marakata found themselves unable to find another fulfilling experiment or idea to pursue. A time of relaxation was dawning on the world and any regular person would want to lay back and take a break after such a horrifying race against time. Unfortunately for us all, Marakata was not a regular person.
Marakata set off on new experiments immediately, but she could find nothing that sated her desire like the energy crisis research. While she rushed around the globe, Aeturnus discovered the side effects of unleashing Aeturnums and became "eternal" although he only informed those closest to him in the research team. Marakata was included, but only grew more manic at learning there was another discovery she had missed. It was in these days where Marakata searched desperately that it arrived. A letter, sealed with wax pressed with a seal shaped like an E. The letter was an invitation to a special facility to pursue research. A research to rival Aeturnus's own eternal state and Aeturnums.
This was a miracle for Marakata and she immediately seized the opportunity and rushed to the location specified. An abandoned mine, long stripped of its valuables, but now home to a very high quality facility. Deep in its depths did Marakata go before finding the immaculate structure made of some of the most expensive materials, all to preserve its scientific environment. It was here that Marakata met the person who sent the letter. Although to say they met them for the first time would be a falsehood. She met a man dressed in a large black cloak that concealed his face, but Marakata recognized the voice. Who it was and their motivations mattered little to Marakata, now that she had a chance to research something so interesting.
The project she had been invited to participate in was simply known as the T Project. The project was based on the idea that they could infuse a living being with something else, a material of sorts. The goal was to be able to grant someone immortality through something that already existed, an eternal state capable of matching Aeturnus. To most of the other employees however, the goal was just to mix non-living substances. The idea thrilled Marakata to no end, the possibility of matching something that was bottomless with something finite would be a true test of ability and an incredible discovery. If perhaps Marakata had been any less brilliant or any more careful, we would not be in the mess we are in today.
Marakata set to work immediately, taking full advantage of the fully staffed facility and her cloaked friend's resources. The first goal was to find an item or thing that would allow a person to become "immortal" when infused with that substance. Eventually it was settled that they would begin experimentation with a gemstone, as gemstones were the sturdiest of all the things on the planet, to break one would require immense force. Marakata chose an Emerald to perform their studies with; she thought it a fun little tidbit that her name was Sanskrit for emerald and had always wanted to do something her name could tie in with. Having decided on a material that would be used they moved to the difficult part of the project, finding a way to infuse a person or being, with something else.
Time would pass deep underground as Marakata researched. Days and nights, weeks and months, and finally years passed as Marakata researched. After what felt like mere moments to Marakata it was finished. The ability to infuse two elements, materials, or things. It was not some complex process, or yearlong fermentation. Marakata's brilliance turned this monstrous process into a single bottle. A clear liquid that somehow managed to glow like sunlight was passing through it all the time. The chemical would make new beings and substances merely by its presence. Named after both its ability and its maker, it was dubbed MAKE. The other scientists jokingly called it Mary Kate since it sounded surprisingly similar to Marakata and fit the anagram MAKE nicely. What MAKE literally stood for was Meta Atomic Kreation Engine.
MAKE triggered a reaction at the atomic level changing the atoms it affected by making them more "volatile" in that the next atom it came in contact with would merge with it. This meant that if a human body was affected by the chemical and then came into contact with an emerald, then the atoms of the body would take on the power of emeralds. What exactly this "power" would be had to be tested. The one downside of the chemical was that after an atom formed a bond, it was possible for it to be reinfused, meaning it would lose its current state and assume a new one which could result in random and dangerous events. There was also no known way to break the atomical merging and make it return to its original state.
This miracle elixir spelled a method of matching Aeturnus in his eternal state. Marakata was ecstatic at making this discovery and without delay began to experiment in the exact use of MAKE. Marakata had been so engrossed in her research that she had failed to notice that something had changed since the beginning. Her assistants had steadily vanished, pushed away by Marakata's obsession with research and unerring endurance, working for days and nights on end. Her cloaked companion had never spent a large amount of time in the facility, consistently moving between what he said were "other" research facilities. As Marakata began the research on the use of MAKE, she felt something she hadn't felt in a long time.
Loneliness
Marakata missed her research compatriots, but took the feeling as an opportunity. The final goal of the project was to infuse a human, so Marakata took to creating and experimenting on the next closest thing. This turned out to be the numerous marionettes that had be created to test a variety of things in the facility. As these experiments began, the cloaked man returned and asked for a sample of MAKE to take to his other research facilities and use. Marakata responded graciously, giving him a sample and the way to make more. She did not fear not getting credit or not making money, her only care was her research and the ecstasy of discovery. When the man left, it never crossed her mind that the loneliness had vanished while he had been present. It would be a long time before she would see another living human.
Marakata forged more marionettes and performed more experiments, finding that eventually the emerald would only penetrate the outside of the puppets and would only be infused in the areas where the puppet had come into direct contact with MAKE. Marakata discovered that if she placed one original emerald into the puppet then the puppets atoms would not reinfuse with something else at random, which was an important discovery, with Marakata tired of finding her marionettes partially made of rock, air, or wood. Thousands upon thousands of marionettes and experiments later Marakata's own mind would be lost in her obsession.
Marakata had believed that her research was all she needed and that her only friends needed to be the marionettes that had been created from her research. The loneliness had sunk in and changed Marakata even as she denied it. Her manic obsessions with her experiments and MAKE lead her to eventually believe she knew exactly how MAKE worked and mixed up a special version of MAKE and dropped into the mix a single rectangular emerald as its base. Her desire for research and experimentation had mixed with her buried desire for company into a single desire to be closer with her Marionettes. Her cracked mind made a connection that would turn into her own downfall. She would use MAKE on herself and become immortal with the gemstone marionettes that littered the laboratory.
She descended to the deepest experimental chamber in the facility and took her special MAKE concoction with her. There her fate was sealed as in a single moment she downed the potion and the emerald resting in its depths. Her obsession made her make the leap from working with inanimate to working with the living without any regard to her own livelihood. Perhaps her fate would have been different if someone had remained during her research and assisted, or it may have resulted in two people suffering her fate. MAKE worked faster than expected and unlike her tests with the puppets it spread entirely through her body in minutes with her living cells being a very willing transmitter of the liquid.
Her transformation... was not pleasant. Beginning with her throat and stomach her body began to take on the aspects of the emerald she had consumed. Imagine your very throat turning to stone even as your lungs still gasp for air, but the muscles that once answered that call find themselves unable to answer. It took maybe two minutes for her entire body to take on the green sheen of an emerald and cease all motion. MAKE had another flaw that had not been obvious when it was used, that the substances being merged could end up with one being dominant. The goal had been to grant a human the attributes of a gemstone and make them live forever. This goal had been met, but too well. Marakata was not a human with the attributes of a gemstone, but rather had become a gemstone with the attributes of a human.
Though Marakata was made of emerald she was not dead, her body that had ached for oxygen in those moments of transformation no longer needed it, and her mind still acted as if it were made of flesh and muscle. She found herself frozen in place, but capable of thought. Once the initial shock and attempted dissemination of the situation ended she attempted to leave the chamber. Her emerald mind sending commands to her emerald muscles, to move her emerald limbs. Then she learned two things, first was that her body responded extremely slowly, the emerald muscles would still move, but not well. Second was that the extreme friction generated by atoms and cells of emerald moving against each other generated extraordinary energy that was released when the emerald again came to rest and the moment of immovable and unbendable emerald transferring its momentum to something else. The result?
An Earthquake.
Not only did it take Marakata the better part of the week to lift one leg and set it down, when she set it down the entire building and earth began to shake and rumble as the incredible energy was shot down into the ground. Though obsessed with research and suffering from loneliness Marakata's mind was still incredibly bright and pieced together what was going on in record time. She realized that in attempting to move out of the building would result in the entire building being buried under the earth, the research it contained would be destroyed. This was a fate worse than death to Marakata who valued the research more than her own livelihood. As such Marakata decided to use her new bodily state to continue what research she could.
Frozen in stone, Marakata had all the time in the world to ponder her situation and the mysteries of the world. No matter how long she thought though, no one entering the facility and no path to freedom occurred to her. Hundreds of years alone deep below the earth served only to amplify that hidden feeling of loneliness in her mind and though her mind was made of unbreakable emerald, somehow... it broke. She reached out to those she had considered her friends and companions in her last human days, the marionettes and puppets. As it turns out, the emerald transformation not only strengthened her muscles, but her nervous system and she found herself capable of sending and receiving electric signals with her mind. She reached out with her mind for all those puppets and marionettes that had been partially turned to emerald by MAKE. There she made an interesting discovery.
She could use her incredible nervous system to convert the bodies of the puppets, converting the wood and stone used in their construction into makeshift muscles and gears that would move to electrical signals. Having found something to do while waiting for people to arrive in her emerald prison she set to work, indirectly adjusting the marionettes allowing her to move them like extensions of her own body, although she found her effective range still less than she would have liked. Unable to move the marionettes beyond the confines of the mine she was just as trapped as ever and waiting on someone to stumble upon the mine.
Centuries would pass before the mine or she would be discovered and by that point Marakata would be totally lost in her obsession for research and loneliness. If people arrived she would get her research out of the mine with their assistance, but she could use some new marionettes for her research. Her body had been the first of her experiments on humans, but perhaps she could have more than one. It was in this way that the loneliness driven mind of Marakata came up with her plan. When humans next arrived in her domain she would have at least one carry out the research, the others.... would serve to further her research and she would make a show out of their final moments.
An understudy in psychology and the effects of stress might make an interesting addition to her stores of knowledge.
