ROLEPLAY HQ - deal-with-a-god

TW: Dark themes, violence, language, supernatural horror

It was midnight, the candle flames flickered around a 28 year old woman as she hummed, drawing on the multiple papers that scattered on the floor. She was ignoring her grandmothers warning, but Alex couldn’t stand the disappointment from her parents anymore. She muttered softly under her breath. Chanting the incantation as she focused on what she wanted. A particular demon who owed her family a favor, yet in her own world, the ringing of her phone made Alex jump. “What do you want.. Mhm.. Yeah yeah. No I’m not doing anything stupid. Look he can come by tomorrow, yeah, alright. Bye.” Finishing the call, she looked back down at her work on the summoning circle. Of course, it was her mistake seeing that during the call, she had made a mistake in it. She places her hands on the circle and activated it. It glowed, the little magic she had activating it, and it did summon something.. Something she wasn’t prepared for. @𝘝𝘖𝘟𝘌𝘛 !

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. ❞ ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ ─ The floorboards trembled as a ghastly smoke emerged through them. The wisps intertwined with each other until the summoning circle was completely filled with the odd, shadowy substance. Within seconds, the room, or wherever they were, was getting darker and darker even with the sun's efforts. Only the circle and Alex was illuminated, while the surroundings were in complete darkness. The candles died. ─ Whispers began to mutter all around the woman, the creatures of the one who was summoned. They had hidden amongst the shadows, glowing white eyes glaring at the human. He was everywhere. The powerful presence was certainly not of a demon's. A much more looming feeling would engulf the girl, for Sombrax was brought into this mortal realm. A God, who much preferred to be holed up in his realm. Suddenly, an echoey voice rang out, the source of the voice not to be found. Rather, the voice came from all around her. "ＷＨＡＴＩＳＴＨＩＳ？" ─ Sombrax hadn't been summoned in a very very long time. It was rare, something not a lot of humans could do. The entity could sense that he was in a sort of human world, but not of his own. They were in a foreign universe, it seemed. How peculiar . . . Well, Sombrax decided it was time to leave. The Shadow God tried to escape the room, to shoot up into the atmosphere and travel between the dimensions, though none of its shadowy branches could leave. Sombrax was tethered to something. Did this human trap him? Impossible. For now, the God waited calmly for the other to answer, the whispers growing louder as the entity grew some of his worries. For now, only the shadows around Alex could be seen, no hint of a figure. ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ ⤷ @Sad Boi Micha

Well shit. When Alex wanted to summon something, this isn’t what she was expecting. She was now frozen in place, staring at the shadows eyes wide. “Oh.. my god.” She couldn’t say anything else as she got up, coming close to the circle, but being careful not to break it, after all should the summoning and deal go right, this entity shouldn’t be able to even hurt her. “I uh. You’re not the demon named Jericho. Are you.” @𝘝𝘖𝘟𝘌𝘛 !

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. ❞ ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ ─ Luckily for Alex, Sombrax wasn't much of a temperamental god. And they could tell that this mortal really just made a mistake. A very inconvient mistake for him, but a mistake nonetheless. There was nothing she could really do to them, so the God presented a physical form. "Not a demon. I am called Sombrax, God of the Shadows." ─ The way the voice spoke was like it was carved in stone, like it was alive for millions of years. It was a masculine, American accented, but distant and mysterious. The shadows collected into one area right in front of Alex, where many eyes formed in the shadow-like blob. It was one of his more truer forms, one that humans could comprehend, but showed the very nature of his being. Sombrax spoke calmly, but they did have a mildly annoyed tone. "I assume you have bonded us together. On what terms?" ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ ⤷ @Sad Boi Micha I'm dming you a pic of his form currently

“Well.. I was suppose to summon the demon Jericho, he’s been aiding my family for years, and was suppose to help me with helping my powers grow.. I guess I messed up the circle.” Alex was slightly terrified at this, she knew trapping a god was bad, especially for someone like her. She walked to the circle. Bending down and snatching a piece of paper that made the circle. “Okay.. Now you can freely move around but, I am so sorry.” She grabbed one of her books. Sombrax didn’t sound familiar so what was going on? She didn’t have enough power for this. How the hell did this happen. @𝘝𝘖𝘟𝘌𝘛 !

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. ❞ ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ ─ Sombrax could only stare, figuring out the girl. One of the wisps of shadows emerged from the surrounding darkness to wrap itself around Alex's arm, snaking its way until it fully wrapped her entire arm. ─ The feeling of the wisp was not solid. Rather, it had a chilly temperature and felt like steam hitting a person's skin. Sombrax then knew why this had happened. He retracted the shadows back to the abyss. "Your bloodline. They are powerful magic users . . . " He mainly was speaking to themselves, the god feeling the binds loosen around him. But he still could not leave. For the god could practically feel the pressures of those above. New gods. Not the ones he was familiar with, but of an entirely different universe's. So, Sombrax merely stayed where they were. ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ ⤷ @Sad Boi Micha

Alex shuddered as the wisp wrapped around her arm. She stayed calmed, she eyed it suspiciously, but didn’t dare utter a word. When it retracted she looked at the god and sighed. “Yes.. It is supposedly a family birthright to magic. However. The power to summon a god, much less from another world it seems, taken it all out from me.” She sat down on the couch now, opening a heavy book on her lap as she grabbed a pen. It tapped rhythmically on her chin. But despite trying to seem okay. Sombrax could tell she was exhausted. Drained from the spell she had casted. “I shouldn’t have been able to do this.” She muttered slightly. Before gently closing the book. Alex leaned back on her couch. Her hair covering her gray eyes now. @𝘝𝘖𝘟𝘌𝘛 !

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. ❞ ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ ─ Perhaps they should have made the environment less . . . gloomy. Sombrax inhaled all of the shadows that made the room dark until only their shadow figure remained. Yes, the girl was certainly tired. Rightfully so, such power to summon a god. Fortunately, this god had something most gods did not; empathy. They reverted themselves in a human form, hopefully more comfortable for the human to look at. ─ With the wraps of darkness circling Sombrax, it eventually formed itself into a humanoid shape. Then he gained flesh, hair, a masculine body. The shadows unravelled himself to a well-dressed man in a long black coat with a matching black suit. He had pale skin, dark hair, and abysmal eyes. An attractive man for this world. Because of Alex's background, she would see him as a Caucasian man. "You shouldn't have . . ." ─ He repeated, pacing around slowly with his arms crossed and a mildly fearful expression on his face. His voice was quieter, a regular human voice, not the echoey kind he normally possessed. Backed into a corner by these stranger gods. They don't want me here. But how would they find a safe journey back home? ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ ⤷ @Sad Boi Micha

Alex looked up at Sombrax, her movements slow. She wasn’t scared of him, though her mind whispered that she should at least be careful. “I’ll try and get you home but, the problem is it will take time, and energy.” She stood up, taking her glass to the kitchen, avoiding the mess of the now broken summoning circle. Her headache was now subsiding, and Sombrax finally saw her apartment. It wasn’t messy, if anything it felt like home, a wooden bookshelf filled with different books, ones of myths, fantasies, and arcana. There were a few hanging plants that decorated the living room, although they seem fake, just for the decorum. “I’m guessing the tether isn’t helping either.. for now you’ll need to stay with me. My wish for a roommate was not like this.” She said it halfheartedly. Alex meant it as a joke, but right now she was going to head to bed. “You can use the spare bedroom. It’s not much, but I hope it will be okay.” @𝘝𝘖𝘟𝘌𝘛 !