Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-26892768-20190520151915/@comment-26892768-20190521155151

Nimona looks at where Ghiaccio was once standing. "...in hindsight, probably should've seen that coming."

"I mean, it could be something else! Just idle speculation here!" Mayapple quickly adds, putting a hand on Hornet's shoulder. "I don't want you to leave if you don't want to, alright?"

Meanwhile...

Horace and Albus are standing in front of each other, arms outstretched - and as if on cue, a drained husk of a human falls into their arms. They look up at their boss, who is currently laying down on a glowing orange throne and licking blood off of bony fingertips.

...ah. Seems she's been busy.

''"Delicious..." ''She breaths out a sigh, content, before her expression shifts to annoyance. "Although, I haven't been able to keep track of how much prey I'm taking in thanks to this...tell me, boys, which one is this?"

"...the fifth guy, boss." Albus informs her.

"In the past half-hour." Horace adds, looking resigned.

"The past half-hour?" Eliza looks at the ring, her annoyance increasing. "I need to work on limiting the influence of this ring more...quite frankly, I expect better of myself."

"You don't say?" Albus glances in the direction of a certain hallway that seems to have had a good deal of traffic recently.

Eliza throws her head back, stretching a bit as she does so. "Really, it's quite fortunate that millenium of experience has made me privy to knowing when thoughts aren't my own...I hardly think a mortal could put up a fight against the influence of this."

She smiles a bit as she makes an orange nail file construct and starts to use it. "Although, despite the attempts to make me into some paranoid, hoarding recluse, I will admit that this ring has it's perks."

"The power of that ring is certainly impressive." Horace nods. "But...what do you plan to do with it, madam?"

"Hmmm...I'm not sure." Eliza starts to think. "Perhaps with this I could see about taking the Skull Heart for myself...or...hmm. I have been rather inactive in recent years, it'd certainly be-"

And then her ring pulses.

Eliza pauses.

"Oh? That's interesting." With a smirk, she gets off her throne and starts to walk off, dematerializing it as she goes.

"What is it?" Albus asks, looking rather confused.

"It would appear I'm not the only one with one of these rings," Eliza gestures to her glowing orange ring. "and we're being called to assemble."

"For...what? Some sort of meeting?" Albus asks, scratching his head.

Eliza laughs. "Oh, far from it. It's a contest of sorts - there's some artifact of great power where we're being called, and from what I understand...whoever gets to it first and keeps it will be able to rule over the rest, not to mention have power far greater than what we have now."

"Oh!" Albus grins. "Then I guess we're going on a road trip, huh?"

But Eliza, instead of confirming that, seems to think for a moment, looking over her two bodyguards. "Under normal circumstances, I'd happily take you, but...if these others have fallen to the influence, you'll most certainly be a target...but I think I have a solution for that."

Before either of them can ask, Eliza holds her ring out, and two beams of orange light shoot out, turning into twin sarcophogi that slam shut on Albus and Horace, trapping them inside as it begins to ominously glow. The screams of the two bodyguards are muffled as the glow intensifies, and then stops entirely, the constructs disappearing as the two collapse on the floor, knocked out.

''' "Albus Lupus and Horace TiColus of Earth, you have been taken by the Orange Lantern Corps." '''

With a wave of Eliza's hand, two orange duplicates of the two bodyguards, dressed in the same uniform as Eliza, appear by her side.

"Ah, much better!" And with that, Eliza opens up a portal and walks through, the construct bodyguards following.