Amid a glittering cascade of jeweled light, new face arrives in the Club called Blaze. The woman stands roughly 5’9” tall, and is dressed in a white gauze sari, highlighted with a pale blue wrap. Her long honey blonde hair cascades over her shoulders to fall down her back. On her forehead she wears a circlet of gold, capped with a single blue gemstone. Her beautiful face is creased with apparent concern as she surveys the people there before purposefully striding towards a group of GoL members who are sitting together conversing quietly. She stands quietly outside the group until a lull in the conversation allows her to interrupt. She speaks softly so as not to be overheard.
“Greetings in the name of the Light. My name is Kole; the Crystal Keeper, and I would speak to you privately of a matter of great import. Is there somewhere here that we can speak without prying eyes and listening ears (nodding towards the various members of the MoE who are milling about but paying her little attention at the moment)?”
Kole gestures towards one of the larger private rooms, then makes her way to it and enters, allowing the others to follow at their leisure. The Guardians of Light, figuring that since the club is considered a Haven from the inter-coven fighting as well as the fact that they outnumber the woman considerably, choose to follow her. If there is something is something to what she has to tell them, then good, they will be warned. If this is some sort of trap, then this Kole will find out just how dangerous a room full of annoyed Guardians is.
By ones and two’s they make their way into the room. When the last of them enters, Kole shuts the door firmly behind them and holds up a crystal to the doorway, causing it to glow a pale gold around the door jam. She turns to them, looking over those who have joined her.
“My time is short, my friends and I have a great deal to reveal to you. If there are any among you who are skilled in determining truth, I ask you to use your powers now. Every word that I have come to tell you is true.”
“Long ago, so far back in history that their full origins are lost to us, there came to be a set of 6 gemstones of incredible power. Each controlled an aspect of the universe, Mind, Time, Space, Reality, Soul and Power. Alone, each of the Gems gives mastery over its sphere of influence to its bearer, together though, they would grant the power of the Highest One to the one who wields them. After many altercations among the forces of Light and Darkness, the Gems were hidden away from the world. For countless years, the gems have remained safely hidden from all except the Crystal Keepers. We were charged with the task of making sure that no one and especially none of those who are dedicated to evil’s dark pathways, would ever be able to find the Gems and until just days ago, we had managed to perform our task with little interference.”
Kole pauses in her tale, to look over her audience. It was imperative that they believed her.
“One of the Masters of Evil found the location of one of the Gems and slaughtered its Keeper, stealing away the Gem for his own dire purposes. With his dying breath, the Keeper cast a failsafe spell to banish the Gems from the Earthly plane. The Keepers believe that this Ikaris is planning on reuniting all the Gems and gaining untold power in the process. I need your help to recover the Gems so that they can once again be placed in safekeeping. Will you help me and save the world?”