“Bite me, I dare you.  Turn around.  I have dignity unlike you three.” Alter hissed at them.  Agni snickered again and waltz over to the gods and turned around.  “Go ahead, I’ve got them under my Veil.” He responded. 

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It’s black.  It all went black, then shifted to white, then shifted to a bloodstained cube.  You saw Agni fall down then stand back up, then act like nothing happened, you see the same process repeat itself over and over again, like some sort of machine. 

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Agni is sitting down, at a rather ornate table with….Crimson?  But….Crimson is wearing a mask.  What the hell is happening anymore…?  You can’t tell depth, height or anything.  You try to make anything out but it’s just a vast expanse of white. 


“Come on, sit down you two.” Crimson beckons.

"Welcome to the Advent Pillar.  It's a Obelisk.  Safeguard really.  I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you two really fucked up." Crimson said.  Oddly enough, his voice and tone sounded perfect.  Like he wasn't sick at all.  "Oh, um, right.  You probably have a lot of questions huh.  Well for one, I'll say this, I'm not Crimson.  This is just a mask.  Well ok, it's technically Crimson's mask that I use on his behalf.  Name, you already know.  I'm Alter, specifically Alter Ego, I stand in place for the Kyng in Red himself." 

Agni passes a cup of some sort of dakr green liquid.  Likely a special tea, to Caligo and Aestus, and another cup for Alter who takes it and drinks from it.  "Oh, mint and lavender, nice.  A bit dark today though.  I assume you added the medicine to it?  Yes?  Ok, thanks at least." Alter said to him, Agni just gave a soft nod. 

"He's not lying.  You really did screw a few things up just now.  You're in the Advent Pillar.  In the courtyard of the Garcarnian capital, it's name is rough to translate, but it's called Iziet.  Praxis is here too, as well as Kani.  We're just keeping you here until we can clear a few things up.  Other than that, questions are all yours now."

"We'll, it's more like what was done to you really." Alter responded first, taking off Deceiver and setting it down on his cup.  He looks like like a splitting image of Crimson, aside from the lack of the Limiter and striking pair of eyes, in which his are a neutral grey.  "We're not too sure how or when it happened, but...well I mean, I can show you or *THEY* could.  Up to you." he said, almost...cheerfully.  Even Agni looked a bit excited.   

Agni chimed in before Alter could, telling the gods; "One thing at a time if you would please, my dear friends.  Settle on one, and we'll get to the other.  Which shall it be?  An explanation of what you did, or an answer to what Alter is.  You can't have either at the same time.  After all..." Agni paused, raising a finger, pausing for a moment as if listening for his voice to be called before continuing.  "...there must be Order in the world." he finished, following a deep rumble from somewhere within the Pillar and a deep cerulean mote of energy rising from Agni's cup of tea. 

Alter grabbed the mask from the table, putting it back on, his features almost immediately changing to which matches Crimson to a T.  With a small guttural groan as he stayed silent and waited for the gods to answer.  Or at least one of them to.  None of which mattered much at the current time.