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……. A shudder runs through the forums as an appetite reaches with sudden ferocity out along the Ley Lines. Posts in progress in a dozen boards simply disappear and threads grown weak and dormant are rudely seized by the stark emptiness of the Hunger. There is no warning, nor is there even time to scream, there is simply the sudden and furious grasping of an appetite which consumes and is never satisfied. The boards shake for a few long and painful moments and then all grows strangely silent and still as the open seams of the Forums are closed once more and the silent seeking after life and power of the buried Hunger waits beneath the collapsed boulders in the ravine for another opportunity to feed.
Deep within the Forums, however, all is not so still nor so quiet. The shuddering has not stopped, for deep beneath the complacent posting of the first few pages of the boards a terrifying touch has been felt and entire threads have been lost despite the dutiful submission to Choc with which their posts were made. Fear takes root deep in the land of IronWorks and a whispering presence reaches across the Ley Lines to savor its taste.
Yes! ….. O yes! ……
Deep within the shuddering foundations of IronWorks, those trapped in the dormant and forgotten threads see their helplessness without knowing its cause and their voices lift as one along with the whispered murmurs of the restless dead in their haunting repetition of a single note:
DOOM!
And so it is that the second great blow begins to be struck.
ooc: It is possible that those characters presently within the Underneath of the Forums might feel the brief but terrible shudder that runs through the boards. The clock is now ticking ……
[ 09-14-2003, 05:15 PM: Message edited by: Cyril Darkcloud ]
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