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located in Earth, a part of Fading Light - The Last Darkness, one of the many universes on RPG.

Earth

Earth has been shrouded in darkness and now you are forced to cling to the last flickers of artificial light as you journey to safety in attempts to survive the harshest darkening ever.

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Character Portrait: Blake Riley Character Portrait: Mike Sanders Character Portrait: Samara Dougherty Character Portrait: Evelyn Mace Character Portrait: Nicole Demetrios
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Blake looked back to Samara as she spoke and gritted his teeth in guilt and self pity. "I don't like it either" he said curtly through the darkness. "But i've been through too many of these darknesses to try and be a foolish hero anymore..." He paused suddenly and reminisced about the loss of his fiancΓ©; "It's... Well... We can't afford to worry about those who refuse to listen" Blake said sternly, "I'd told the mayor of that damned town for weeks before the darkness... the jenny's around these towns are less than satisfactory..." Blake took a deep breath, pulled out his pack of cigarettes, lit one and inhaled deeply, settling his nerves. "Where we can, when we can, and if it doesn't have a 100% chance of killing us, we'll help those in need." Blake said trying to put on a warming smile. He shivered as a cool breeze picked up and his thoughts of Lismoore reentered into his head.

Screams and howls of the nightcrawlers filled the darkness and Blake shivered again, the blood curdling cries of the townsfolk behind them wailing in agony and uselessness, "If I thought I could save everyone... well I'd be back there in a heart beat... But as it is... I ain't got no weapon that'd even scratch the nightcrawlers much.. and we haven't got a helluva' lotta' time to waste around here." Blake took a puff and turned to keep walking, keeping his torch firmly facing forward and gritting his teeth once more as the nightcrawlers evaded the torch light and silently followed the group, the padding of their feet softly lingering behind them as the group walked.

Sometime passed as the group walked through the blanketed desert and no one had said much the whole time. Blake was growing tired already, the stress of the nightcrawlers that were following him was sending him unnerved. He tried to remain stedfast, but the reality that the damned beasts were only a few feet away, unseeable and sniffing about was creating tension he just couldn't shake. Blake turned in a circle and moved his torch across the ground in an angry swirl "Piss off you filthy night bastards!" he snapped, then stoppe to ashamedly look at the group. "Sorry... I can't stand them" he said with anger and guilt at his childishness, he began his pace again, "They never seem to leave... every year I always have a damned pack haunt me... it's like they play with me" Blake said in slight fear, "Every damned year... I think it's the same group too... it's like they're waiting." Blake didn't realise how open he was being until he saw the flicker of street lamps in the distance and quickly shook is makeshift get-to-know session from his immediate thoughts. "LISMOORE!" he sighed in relief, looking at the others with a weak, relieved smile, "Thank the heavens for that slice of paradise!" Blake looked to Eve and smirked and said quietly, "You can breath easy now... I've noticed you the whole way with that worried look". Blake looked to Nicole, Samara then Mike, "Well C'mon guy and gals, we gotta supply up an-"

Blake was cut short when his torch flickered out. Panic filled his gut instantly and his breathing stopped. Blake had taken a few steps away from the group and was just outside their light circle. "Oh jesus!" he hissed as he turned on his heel and dove to reach the groups light. Suddenly the snarl of a nightcrawler filled the air and Blake made the short jump into the circle just in time to miss the nightcrawler attempting to grab him. The beast however, kept going and lunged into the middle of the group, knocking them all down and separating them. Blake managed to roll into Eve and while her torch light kept them safe and the nightcrawlers at bay. "Are you ok?" he asked, "I'm sorry if I hurt you..." he apologised. Blake looked out into the darkness and saw Samara's light cutting the black, "Samara!" he shouted urgently, "Are you ok?" Then Blake realised, he couldn't see Mike or Nicole... "Oh shit" he hissed, "Eve, you need to shine your light around the area, Samara you too!" Blake momentarily, fiddled around in his pocket to retrieve the two spare batteries he had kept as back up, "Nicole, keep as quiet and as still as possible" he shouted into the darkness, "Mike, you too... Unless you can get your torch working again!". Unscrewing his torch head and unceremoniously dumping the wasted batteries, Blake quickly shoved the new batteries in and screwed the top on, "Ah ha!" he said in triumph as his torch lit back up.

Blake shone the light out to Samara and then into the darkness to find Nicole and Mike... His light flicked aimlessly across the ground, the nightcrawlers were hissing and moving about in a flurry, every few seconds Blake's light would hit a nightcrawler and the creature would howl in disgust at how sensitive it's skin was to light. "Eve, Samara!? Can you see them!?" Blake's light surveyed harder and faster but the nightcrawlers were moving too fast and he couldn't distinguish them from Nicole or Mike, "Jesus" he hissed, Blake looked across to Samara and though about regrouping, it was only about 15feet to reach her. The frenzy the nightcrawlers were in however was too erratic... the creatures weren't attacking those that held the light, and so far seemed to have not found Nicole or Mike, but when Blake tried to stand they hissed right at him and reach out towards him, making him sit back down and scan futilely for the other two. Blake looked to Eve, "Can you see anything?" he asked in hurried panic, once again searching the nearby area looking for Nicole and Mike.