Post by Kris on Sept 25, 2010 11:21:41 GMT -8
For thousands of years Bixby was the only place on earth that experienced Midnight, true Midnight. And while most people couldn't sense or see it there were a select few who could, people born in that split second of time that to normal people constitutes midnight. But to them, and to us, it's an hour of freedom and danger. Each of these people, whom I have called Midnighters, had their own special skills. Seers, Mindcasters, Polymaths, Acrobats, Metallurges, and others we don't even know the name of. Within the hour-long confines of Midnight reside creatures called Darklings, which Midnighters fight in order to protect humanity. Before Midnight the Darklings ruled, until man began to become more advanced. Darklings don't like change and after having the tables of hunter and prey turned on them they created Midnight and hid there, only awake for an hour each day. After that humanity forgot about their ancient predators and went on their way. All except the Midnighters. About fifty years ago strangers came to the sleepy town of Bixby, home of the Midnighters, and Midnight became a secret in the community. But one of the young Midnighters spilled the secret and the population of Midnighters was nearly wiped out. Two survived, if you can call it that, to my time. One by hiding away in a house that kept her Mindcaster powers hidden from both Melissa and the Darklings. Dess has one of her complicated names for it but I can't remember it, much less spell it. The other can barely be called surviving. The Darklings had found a way to communicate with humans and through this had some of the new-comers bring them a young Seer like myself. They melded her with a Darkling to turn her into something sickening but powerful. She was a Halfling, a fate I barely escaped myself.
Two years ago Jessica Day came to Bixby and shook things up. Outwardly she seemed the anti-thesis of Midnight, bright and easily popular. But that was because she was a new power, one never heard of before and never appearing in all the Lore I'd read. She was the Flame-Bringer. She brought fire, and technology, into Midnight. She was the Darklings' worst nightmare. Things changed quickly from there and on Samhain the Darklings made a move meant to turn humans into prey again. They tried to expand Midnight into an all-day thing. This weakened it's ability to stop fire and technology so that Jessica no longer had to be holding a thing for it to work. But we had a lot of work to do. In an attempt to stop it Jessica raced to reach a lightning bolt frozen to the earth when Midnight hit but didn't reach it in time. Dess' calculations were wrong and now Midnight rules across the world as Midnighters awaken. There is now only one hour in which humans are safe from Darklings, and that's High Noon. They're awake now during the Blue Time, and hunted ruthlessly by the Darklings. We're trying to keep up, and have opened an Acadamey in Bixby for that sole purpose. I only hope we're doing enough.
Written by Rex Greene for use in his introductory speech upon the opening of the Acadamey three months ago.
Two years ago Jessica Day came to Bixby and shook things up. Outwardly she seemed the anti-thesis of Midnight, bright and easily popular. But that was because she was a new power, one never heard of before and never appearing in all the Lore I'd read. She was the Flame-Bringer. She brought fire, and technology, into Midnight. She was the Darklings' worst nightmare. Things changed quickly from there and on Samhain the Darklings made a move meant to turn humans into prey again. They tried to expand Midnight into an all-day thing. This weakened it's ability to stop fire and technology so that Jessica no longer had to be holding a thing for it to work. But we had a lot of work to do. In an attempt to stop it Jessica raced to reach a lightning bolt frozen to the earth when Midnight hit but didn't reach it in time. Dess' calculations were wrong and now Midnight rules across the world as Midnighters awaken. There is now only one hour in which humans are safe from Darklings, and that's High Noon. They're awake now during the Blue Time, and hunted ruthlessly by the Darklings. We're trying to keep up, and have opened an Acadamey in Bixby for that sole purpose. I only hope we're doing enough.
Written by Rex Greene for use in his introductory speech upon the opening of the Acadamey three months ago.