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savetheearth2013-04-10 07:56 pm
scramasax) wrote in savetheearth2013-04-10 07:56 pm
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Does anyone know this story?
A Roman soldier travels to a desert ruin, questing in search of a supposed artifact carrying otherworldly power. He finds the artifact, but as soon as he touches it, the god whose power it holds possesses him. Borrowing its unnatural abilities and turned immortal, he begins preparations for a ritual to summon that god onto Earth.
A thousand years later, a slave dancer in a temple in the forest is left alone and desperate for adventure, and explores. A secret passage takes her to the place where the temple's deity hides, and where she is given another artifact that she is told she needs to hide from the deity's enemies. Somehow, the artifact is magically absorbed inside her. Before she can go back to the surface, the soldier appears and demands to know where the artifact is. When she can't answer, she is killed on the spot.
[A short horizontal stroke.]
That doesn't sound like the end, but that's all that I know. I've tried to look it up in several places, but I haven't seemed to have found anything at all.
I know that it probably doesn't seem important. However, it feels important... I remembered it just after watching what happened on April 5th, though I can't remember where I might have possibly heard it or read it.
Thank you.
[He starts to sign his name - but no further than "Anth" thinks better of it on remembering Davin's propositions and rubs it out.
After Capt. Mass responds, he reconsiders again and signs "Anthony J."]
A Roman soldier travels to a desert ruin, questing in search of a supposed artifact carrying otherworldly power. He finds the artifact, but as soon as he touches it, the god whose power it holds possesses him. Borrowing its unnatural abilities and turned immortal, he begins preparations for a ritual to summon that god onto Earth.
A thousand years later, a slave dancer in a temple in the forest is left alone and desperate for adventure, and explores. A secret passage takes her to the place where the temple's deity hides, and where she is given another artifact that she is told she needs to hide from the deity's enemies. Somehow, the artifact is magically absorbed inside her. Before she can go back to the surface, the soldier appears and demands to know where the artifact is. When she can't answer, she is killed on the spot.
[A short horizontal stroke.]
That doesn't sound like the end, but that's all that I know. I've tried to look it up in several places, but I haven't seemed to have found anything at all.
I know that it probably doesn't seem important. However, it feels important... I remembered it just after watching what happened on April 5th, though I can't remember where I might have possibly heard it or read it.
Thank you.
[He starts to sign his name - but no further than "Anth" thinks better of it on remembering Davin's propositions and rubs it out.
After Capt. Mass responds, he reconsiders again and signs "Anthony J."]
( audio ) late reply but i was waiting on an echo approval!
...Artifact carrying otherworldly power... possesses him... summon that god onto Earth...
Killed.
It happens again. The panic that surfaces when everything he feels that makes him himself empties away, and a pulse sweeps through him, a heartbeat. A name bursts into his mind. A name to put to an object he craves in all his bones to find, to chase.
Laplace's Box.
It takes several moments to calm himself after the occurrence, wanting to respond in kind but finding that he's still trembling too much to do so. So quietly, he opens up an audio channel, trying to make himself sound more steady than he actually feels. ]
I work at the library and I've never heard of it. If you can't find anything, it must be special to you. Like these things we can't keep ourselves from experiencing.
But... there's something familiar about it.