Assignment 1: Dome Entrance
(Ooc: Word count; 716.)
Wisp stared at the door for a moment, Why is there a… door here?
Her curiosity took over again, but she only walked halfway toward the door when she stopped. “This might be a joke…” She looked all around her, and listened. It was strange, just a breeze blowing the branches. No song birds in the trees, nothing else.
“Fine, I’ll open it,” she explained. Wisp slowly approached the door again, and gently pulled it open. She stepped inside, and immediately fell.
THUD! She had managed to land on all fours, but barely stopped her body from impacting the floor as well. She shakily stood up and immediately looked around the room.
The floor was marble, yet it’s accent color was a light gray and barely noticeable from the pale white base color. The ceiling appeared to be a perfect half sphere, which a gray triangle shaped mosaic circle in the center. The walls had stone pillars in each corner. modeled after the Romans, except the base cap and the top both held an intricate design of a loin’s head. The room appeared to be an octagon.
Most, if not all, of the walls held doors. The doors were made of wood, some held medieval style carvings of a lion or a dragon or a griffin, while the other five looked like a castle’s drawbridge. They were all in rich red-brown stain, the carvings were accented in a bronze metal circle. The three carvings each had one drawbridge door between them. The lion on the left, dragon on the right and the griffin in front of her. “Seems cold in here with all of this stone though,” Wisp shuddered.
Wisp finally noticed the desk, it had the same stain as the doors. It had the same lion head pillars supporting the ‘corners’ of the massive three and a half foot tall desk. The top was a gray and white flecked granite top, with a wave shaped edge going around it. The ‘corners’ was an illusion though, as the desk was a hexagon in the center of the room.
“No one even bothers to notice me first, do they?” The voice was in a strange, high pitch. It sounded more nasally, though.
She walked closer to the desk, and saw this gargoyle-type creature, it‘s head was barely noticeable from the granite top. The head of this creature was turned to the side, kind of on an angle as well. It’s glasses had black rims, yet looked way too massive for it’s head. Except for it’s nose. The nose was curved slightly and large, like a toucan's beak. The creature’s skin was the same as the stone top, and it was standing on a small wooden stool. The jaw was small, and had four peg teeth sticking out of it. It’s mouth was barely visible due to it’s nose.
“Why do I even bother being at this desk, when no one can see me,” it sighed.
It leapt up onto the top of the desk, causing Wisp to step back. The creature’s outfit was made up of a dark gray shirt, with a striped gray vest. While it’s pants were just dark gray fabric, draped loosely over it‘s legs.
The creature was actually two and a half feet tall, not counting the desk it was standing on. Looking right at her, Wisp saw it’s eyes. It‘s eyes were blank, no pupils or anything else, but gray. ”Yep, definitely a gargoyle stone-like look to it,” she thought.
“What are you staring at, child?!” Wisp suddenly wanted to jump back two feet, but did not.
“Anyway,” the creature turned away and looked at the lion carving, “ I am a Domerii. This is the Dome and it spans dimensions, and so on…” It rolled it’s clawed hand in a small circle during this. Wisp looked normal on the outside but inside was a different thing.
“That doesn’t help me at all! Acts like a jerk though…”
“Go through the dragon door, and follow the hall… you‘ll find someone to help you…” It turned it’s back to Wisp and hopped down behind the desk again.
Wisp weakly replied, “Uh, thank you.” and walked to the right, and opened the dragon door, it slightly creaking. “Still clueless though…”
Last edited by Wisp Quill; 02-22-2008 at 01:58 PM.