Peace Corpse
Underlight - Current Beliefs
Currently Closed.
Plane: Valley of Totality
Belief: Opensoul
Practice: Banishment
Role:
Prime Artifact: Soul of Radiance
House Art: Radiant Blaze
House Roster
Advisor: Black Cloud
Rulers: Lu Chaos, Nathan, Purple Lace, Coraal
Guardians: Tamarisk, Elmer, Dakkoth
Initiates: Calabosh, Vill Valoran
Official Statement from the Peace Corpse
Fellow dreamers, brothers and sisters, salutations.
Once more the tides of conflict have shifted in our direction and the drums of war echo within ready earshot. The very real threat of Dreamstrike, that seemingly inevitable and consistently reoccurring malady, has fully returned and those who possess it have shifted their attention upon our City. It is with no small measure of concern that I recognize conflict as one of the most pervasive and unavoidable facts of dreaming life within this most fairest and wondrous of realities.
The citizens of this City are drawn from many different shards, and possess the variety of mindsets and personalities that truly define the diverse strength of this community. It is therefore natural that there should be a variety of sympathies with regard to the issues and circumstances of this most recent rise in aggression. Some will favor one mindset, others another. It will be easy to excite passions and extremely difficult to quell them. No matter the personal preference of the individual; all within our community will in some way be affected.
In light of these statements, in the first-hand witness of DreamStrike, and the loss which we have accordingly suffered as a result when Kor'pz fell; we dreamers of the Peace Corpse now find ourselves standing at a crossroads. Our past interactions with the dreaming community would lead many to rightly assume that a directed response to this incident should be expected. But I come before you today to state that this will not come to pass.
The costs of war can never truly be accounted for, and revenge is merely a confession of pain. It is in the understanding and acceptance of these truths that the Peace Corpse has chosen a different direction in which to proceed along our chosen path towards the realization of our aspirations.
As of this writing, the Peace Corpse will assume a position of neutrality with regard to the City and the greater community therein. We have learned that our involvement in the affairs of others comes often at great cost, and that some favors carry too high a price. We further recognize and acknowledge that such involvement with regard to interpersonal, political, and social situations has caused us to be derelict in the core duty and responsibility of all whom reside within our City: the enhancement and custodianship of the Dream State.
Continued involvement in the manner to which we have conducted ourselves in the past would prove fatal to our peace of mind and seriously stand in the way of the proper performance of our duty as a faction now fully devoted to the direct expansion, enhancement, and maintenance of the City itself, and prevent the Peace Corpse from holding ourselves prepared to perform the role of impartial mediation and promote the concepts of cooperation and accommodation, not as a partisan faction, but as friends and fellow members of the family that is the greater dreaming community.
Our stance of neutrality extends to all citizens of the Dreamstate in our belief that all beings, dreamer and mare alike, have the inalienable right to exist and dream in a manner that is conducive to the growth and evolution of all beings within the whole. And while we oppose the possession and use of the fel Art of DreamStrike, we will act only in the preservation and protection of any dreamer under direct threat of Strike in the form of restoration and non-aggressive support should these same potential victims not possess the Art themselves.
It is our hope that this latest series of conflicts comes to a swift and amicable close for all parties involved and that we can, all of us, come together with renewed drive and determination to form new and lasting bonds of friendship and cooperation for the betterment of us all. To create the brighter future that all of us should envision to share with those dreamers who come after us and, perhaps, permanently put to rest those underlying forces and concepts that continuously embroil us in those states of conflict and strife that undermine and make impossible a truly peaceful and productive dreaming existence.
Yours, with utmost respect and deepest sincerity,
Pa'uqo Coraal, Chaplain of the Radiance, Captain of the Peace Corpse
Order of Light VS Peace Corpse
Things have really heated up between the Peace Corpse and the Order of the Light in the last couple of dreams. It started with Tamarisk (PC Member, Former OoL Member) "Outing" Harkyn as a member of OoL, and Harkyn taking Tamarisk to task over revealing secrets that he was entrusted with, and trying to use them against Harkyn in specific.
So, Harkyn went to an event that Tamarisk was at and floated Tamarisk. Other members of the Peace Corpse joined in, and were also floated. Apparently, Dreiko and Flower of Cienn supported Harkyn (at least once other people besides Tamarisk, joined in).
So, in response... the Peace Corpse (Nearly their entire house, including several mostly inactive members) went up to the Order of the Light last night and conducted a ritual on the Maren Altar (What some call Chao Portls, or Chaos Portals). Moving it into the Orders Forward Vault and destabilizing the entire plane.
House Calenture members Uthanatos, Frey, Zenobia, and Arnaya investigated. The Peace Corpse confirmed that they had done something in retaliation for Harkyn's attacks, and after some time, left. Once they had gone, The Calenture Members set out the work of stabilizing the plane again.
Since then, several skirmishes between OoL members and the Peace Corpse have occurred, including one fairly substantial one in Threshold Pits between Tember and Harkyn of the Order, and Lu Chaos, Black Cloud, Dar'canon, Purple Lace, LadySilver, and Poppygirl (possibly a couple of others) which resulted at least 7 floats on Peace Corpse warriors, while only 2 on the OoL members.
It has been reported that Lu Chaos used an artifact known as the artifact, The Claw of Mork on Bladeslayer of OoL as well, sending Bladeslayer into one of the cities rifts for a short time and breaking the Claw.
Apparently the conflict's basis was that Harkyn went after Tamarisk on a personal level for one collapse, when other Peace Corpse members joined in. They too were floated, then Coraal apparently grabbed all the items fallen from the dropped members and wouldn't admit that he had taken them, nor give them to Harkyn who claimed victors rights to them. So now claims issue with Coraal for theft. While the Peace Corpse claims Harkyn's efforts to be completely unwarranted and blames the entire Order of the Light.
More to come I don't doubt
~Arnaya, Soulmistress
An Abjuring Evil Continues
As she floated before Dar'canon, Dina felt her anger growing. She would not be thwarted so easily, she told herself. It was about this time that Hammen, Coraal, Black Cloud, Lu Chaos, and the late arriving Em'et burst through the nearest portal. Dina was about to say something when she saw Dar'canon pull forth a very familiar looking mace from his bag and heft it onto his shoulder with two hands. "But how?!" she exclaimed. The reflection of the mace shined in her eyes and it did not take long for the others to realize what was happening. "No!" Em'et yelled, "I won't let you do it!" Lu Chaos seemed just as confused as he said, "Brother, put it away. What are you thinking?"
Dar'canon paid no mind to their pleading as he approached Dina slowly. The weight of the mace was clear in his step and his determination was clear on his, usually unreadable, face. Coraal quickly stepped between Dar and Dina. "Stop!" he demanded as he threw up his hands and stood bravely before the soul sphere. "She has done nothing to deserve this. The prime is safe and we can return the others to their respectful houses. Dina will pay for her crimes but not like this." His voice turned pleading as he finished speaking but Dar'canon's only reaction was disgust as he shifted the weight of the mace in order to free one hand. Once that was done he swooped his arm horizontally in front of him and some invisible force propelled Coraal out of the way, slamming him into the nearest wall. After hitting the floor he did not move. LadySilver who had came in unnoticed began to cry very loudly at this point, in fact it was better described as more of a wailing. Lu turned his attention from Coraal to Dar'canon with a deep growl coming from low in his throat. Black Cloud never left his side. All parties were on edge and the tension in the air was thick enough to slow ones movement.
However, what happened next, seemed to happen all at once and those in attendance have described the act as a movie. Lu released a chakram aimed for Dar and Cloud's chakram followed close behind. Upon impact, the mace was flung away but Dar seemed little more than jostled as he began firing off evokes. As effective as his abjuring was, it proved futile with Hammen and now present poppygirl keeping Lu Chaos and Black Could fully arted. Realizing this, Dar'canon switched to poisoning between firing chakrams but the combined might of the Peace Corpse was too much and his coherence began to falter.
As everyone thought the situation was almost under control, Dina soul evoked and restored herself before quickly joining in the fray. To this dream, the battle is referred to as the clash of titans and it lasted for 6 hours before Dar'canon finally turned on Dina whom had been assisting him against the Peace Corpse. Their abjuring each other allowed Em'et to paralyze them both and it didn't take long for the others to collapse the two of them.
Dar'canon and Dina floated silently and their fate was discussed. Lu Chaos was demanding answers from Dar'canon and Coraal suggested making Dina and Dar'canon both stand trial before the city. During the confusion Em'et had picked up the mace unnoticed and now stood before both Dina and Dar'canon. In one fell swoop he finished them both off before turning to face the room and saying, "Let that be an end to the soulmaster elites." The Corpse stood in silence. "You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
Also see:Lowborn, Highborn, and The Lightless
