Dark Seeker's Paper Chase IC

[Dark Seeker]

No worries, I quite liked the overview you did.


Paul is glad that his budding art career is saved and throws himself into supporting and showcasing his works. But in his private time, he tries to capture the scene he saw of Emberhead in flames, fires raging down from the heavens while the Beacon was alight. It's very dark, (far more so than his average work), and he knows he will never share it with the public at large. But it is his way of coping with what he saw.

He enjoys his chats with Professor Meriweather, even if the man was rather cagey about his own past experiences. As for Professor Jones, he waves and engages in small talk with him whenever he happens to see him on campus.

When Meriweather invites him to this mysterious club, Paul heads off to attend it. However, doubt plagues him. He had a strong suspicion that the type of club he was being invited to join would allow him to dwell more deeply into experiences like the one he had had in Emberhead. And he wasn't sure he wanted to.

So Paul decides he's happy as is, and heads home.


Forgive me, couldn't resist. Here's what really happens...


But no, he had to know more. Part of it was curiosity, part perhaps loneliness. He wanted to know others had seen the things he had and emerged out the other side. But there was another part of him that realized he was doing this for selfish reasons. The art this experience had given him was some of his most expressive, and he knew this was in large part due to him having survived such a terrible ordeal. Not that he wanted to experience any more of them first hand. But if evil such as this was out there, real forces of unknown powers... he needed to know.

He knocks on the door.