A little snippet of Stream of Eternity
Here's a little excerpt of what I've been working on as of late. I've been writing out Stream of Eternity as a story in my spare time, with the intention of eventually making it into a full-on video game. This snippet is mostly Omnis-centric, and is a little long, so I'm putting it under the break. I'd really appreciate hearing any thoughts and comments any of you have on it.
A horn blares. Yellow-capped lights on the wall rotate and swirl. Sitting in a throne made of steel slabs, a gargantuan automaton looks up with mild interest at the flashing light. Another delivery of leftover or destroyed parts, most likely. Nothing too interesting. To be fair, there hadn’t been many interesting deliveries since he had crushed the laughable resistance force. Although it had been so entertaining for a time afterwards, it had also depleted almost all of his potential subjects. Without any subjects to work on, simple machinery creation was almost boring. Almost. Without warning, a blast from further away in the factory shook the room. The automaton stood up in surprise, towering at 50 feet tall. Who would be foolish enough to directly attack his factory headquarters? The automaton opened one of his hands wide, and a bright white light emerged from it. Whoever it had been wasn’t going to last very long. The automaton was just about to leave the room through a set of two mammoth doors when a much smaller being entered the room and knelt down on one knee, crossing a metal arm over her chest.
“My lord, there has been a slight disturbance, but it has been resolved.”
“How much damage was done, Viridia?”
The cyborg woman looked up, exposing a half metal, half flesh face. A skeletal grimace adorned the metal half, and a cold, unfeeling expression the other. “The only damage done was to one of the outermost exhaust pipes.” Viridia motioned to the door, and two automatons brought in a white-skinned, winged being. “This lapusus was found after the blast. We believe that he clogged the pipe somehow and caused it to burst by overpressurizing it.”
The gargantuan automaton extended out his glowing hand towards the lapusus. A ring formed around its body, and as the automaton brought its hand closer to its chest, the comparatively tiny lapusus was unwillingly moved in front of the automaton’s face.
“Speak, creature of flesh!” The automaton thundered. “What is your intention?”
The lapusus spit at the much much larger face of the automaton. “You may have captured Viridia and made her one of your own. You may have destroyed nearly all of our forces! But you will not stop the resistance! Ambyre will gather a resistance force multitudes stronger than the one that leveled your metal slaughterhouse all that time ago! Your reign will end, Omnis!” The lapusus, now finished screaming, let out a blast of cold air from its mouth aimed at Omnis’s face. The breath of ice simply disappeared as it touched Omnis’s face, not phasing the deity in the slightest.
“Viridia, take the others and leave. I believe we have another specimen.”
Viridia bowed again, and followed the other two smaller automatons out of the room, her iron wings scraping against the doorframe as it closed behind her. Omnis walked over to a nearby wall and pulled down a workbench, and at the same time commanding the lapusus’s white prison to bring him down on top of the bench. The white ring split into six smaller ones, tying down the lapusus’s arms, legs, and wings. Omnis reached to the side of the steel workbench, and detached a number of huge metal tools from the wall. Picking up a rotary saw, the deity looked down at the terrified lapusus, desperately struggling in a futile attempt to get away.
“Do you believe yourself to be a fighter, creature of flesh?” Omnis asked. The lapusus looked up at Omnis’s face, a look of horror in its eyes, and timidly nodded.
Omnis smiled cruelly. “Then for your kind, I may have to be more “creative”, so to say.”
Viridia walked away from Omnis’s throne room as screams of pain and the sound of the rotary saw echoed through the hall. Cold expression unchanged amid the horrific sounds, she pushed open a door at the end of the hall, and walked out onto a steel scaffold. She looked out onto a sprawling factory, miles and miles long. Spreading her wings, she lifted her metal frame off the ground and flew off into the rest of the factory. After the minor distraction, inspection would resume. Omnis’s head factory needed to be functioning at maximum capacity.