A sly grin appeared on Eredale's face as the explanations were made. Oh, now he was going to thoroughly enjoy this. For the first time since arriving, he spoke, addressing the lady mage. "Can I have the technical details on the spell? The substance bind point is the body, if I'm not mistaken?"

Xavier looked at the shard only to shudder as his old memories of his slaughtered family and friends surged back into his mind. Though people can only see his face flinch. He then heard their plan of using the darkness of Nocturne to fight back the cloud of devouring shadows. He thought about having a piece of Nocturne inside of himself. It would not be such a burden. To think that he would move from obliterating bandits and ruthless raiders to powerful entities capable of eliminating an entire world.

"I am willing to proceed with this."

The robed mage turned her head to Eradale,
"The technical details are a closely guarded secret. All I am able to tell you is that it is based off a combination of blood, soul and mind magics. The piece you take unto yourself will never touch your soul itself, but it designed to effect your aura in such a way that it would seem that Nocturne has possessed your body in a sense. The bind point will be your body, when you leave the radius of the Nexus shard the spell will be broken. If you move to far from the shard while in the shadows, we cannot say for sure how long the creatures there will be afraid of you."

She places the box in the sand and take out the shard, holding it in her left hand she uses the tip of the shard to cut her right palm, almost immediatly the area around them seemed to lose all colour black fog seemed to seep from the shard into her palm but stops suddenly as she pulls the shard away.
Her voice begins to echo as she commands the Nexus shard, a howl emits from the shard, before she growls at Nocturne, bending his will to do as she wishes,
"You will obey!"
The colour returns to the area around them. her voice returns to normal as she silently holds out the palm that was cut by the shard,
"Please, place your hands upon the shard."

If they placed their hands on the shard a pinch of pain would be sent through the nerves of their arms, it would feel like a fist had just crashed into the side of their skull yet they would be powerless to move, Nocturnes voice would whisper in their minds,
"You have no power over me wench... These minds will fall to the terror of what awaits them within the shadowsss.... You cannot protect them. Mortal."
At that moment Firions voice would thunder through all their minds,
"I HAVE POWER OVER YOU FIEND."
Nocturne would howl in anger then become silent.

With that, they would be able to move once more, they would feel no pain or really any different at all. The mage however swayed on one spot for a moment before dropping the shard into the box and slamming it closed. She would then climb into the boat without a word.
Firion, who was already in the boat simple said,
"We leave now, get in."

Alexandria stepped forward first. she had watched the display with interest. Seeing how it didn't seem to effect the body that much anyway she figured that it was worth it to get into the shadows. She raised her arm toward the shard, and with one fluid movement cut into the palm of her hand. She felt the pain rush through her and when she was able to move she took a deep breath and grunted, holding back anything else she wished to do... she had to stay strong in this at all times... She clenched her fist and then let it return to her side as she looked around at the others, she hadn't really payed much attention to them yet but... well she was going to be working with them and probably putting her life in their hands at some point so she might as well get to know them. Once the hooded woman left for the boat after each person had performed the 'ritual' she turned to them with a kind smile, brushing some hair out of her face. "So anyone care if I ask who they are? I mean we're gonna be working together we might as well know some things about each other right?" she looked toward Firion when he spoke and shrugged, they could talk on the boat then. She climbed in, immediately looking sick, she took a position at the edge of one of the boat. It may not be a good idea to get near her during the ride...

Christina narrowed her eyes for a moment, taking in a deep breath before reaching out and firmly touching the shard after Alexandria. The minor pinch of pain was unpleasant but nothing major as Christina allowed her hand to drop back to her side as the second effect came in. This one hurt but no movement came from Christina, just a small grunt of pain as her eyes closed momentarily.

When the voice of Nocturne came through, Christina opened her eyes with a smirk. Straight away, she set about telling Nocturne who was boss with a couple of energy bursts in her mind, intending to stun him a little just to prove a point.

Christina then turned her eyes to the woman who spoke, a quick mental probe discovered her name and nothing more, "I don't really care what you do, Alexandria, just don't get me killed during all of this. Okay?" She explained, quite rudely admittedly, before stepping into the boat and sitting at the opposite end. Sapphire blue eyes scanning out at the surroundings.

Hearing the most important point, Eredale nodded, accepting the ritual. It appeared to be nothing special, at least by his standards. He felt numbness crawling along the right side of his body as he touched the shard, waiting for something to happen - his process took the least amount of time, facing the least resistance. The mage kept the grin all the while, feeling the new presence within him - it must have felt quite spacious in there, he thought. Compared to the natural pressure within the bodies of others, what the nightmare's incarnation would feel here, could be described as 'freedom', relatively of course. After all, Eredale had a debt before the ex-champion that he well remembered, even if the latter was unaware.

Hearing the swordswoman's question, he replied with a small curt bow. "Name's Eredale, pleased to meet you. Count on me for fire support."

Xavier followed along and touch the shard last and he felt very little numbness nor was there any chills or even pain. However there was a sudden creeping of fear which suddenly took his mind but it was quickly dispersed as he regained mental composure. Lightning glowed and crackled around him slightly along with his footsteps leaving frost. Stopping when Alexandria spoke, he replied. "My name is Xavier or what some call me, The Forbidden Storm. Please do be careful, I do not wish to see an Ionia such as you lost in this unfortunate catastrophe."

He walks onto the ship and floats to the top where he shall reside.

As soon as the last person was aboard, Firion hit his foot on the desk, almost at once it began to pull away from the shore. When he heard the others getting to know each other he simply remained silent. Until they proved themselves he saw them as nothing but walking talking meat shields to distract something in a fight. That is, until they prove themselves.

The hooded woman listened with intrest as they spoke. Perhaps she could learn something new? The box felt heavy in her hands, she could feel the presence of Nocturne howling at her from within the shard, demanding to be freed. The hextech engines in the back of the boat began to fire up causing the boat to almost fly over the water. They would reach the Noxian coast within an hour or two. She raises her head slightly to and looks around, she stops however when she if facing the rune mage.... Interesting.... She simply bows her head and remains silent as the Noxian coast appears as a speck on the horizon.

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Swain sits in his tent, the corpse of Darius lay out before him. The taint of the void had indeed taken over. No great loss, it was only the mind that was tainted, not the body. The body could still be used.

Swain looks to the figure standing in the corner of the room, his blade still carrying the blood of Daius on the tip.
"Is the delivery underway?"
Talon nods,
"They left but 10 minutes ago." Talon cleans his blade as he locks eyes with Swain, "Is this really wise?"
Swain simply stands and limps towards the entrance of the tent his cane sinking into the sand with each step, "The rose has done her job well, the paladin and his new found allies are insignificant enough that they will not cause alarm when they die. If it fails, it will not matter."
"And if they are succesful?"
"Then we take credit as their corpses rot."
"And of Nocturne?"
"He will go free."

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Alexandria ignored the girl, egotistical punk... She hadn't said her name which means the girl had read her mind, that wasn't something she enjoyed having happen to her... She bowed back toward Eredale "A pleasure to meet you Eredale, the name's Alexandria." She looked at Xavier when he spoke, seemed he underestimated her power... Nothing new to her anyway... As she made her way to the front of the ship she could feel the sickness coming on, this was going to be a painful trip to her. She leaned off the edge over the railing and stayed there, every few minutes a grotesque noise coming from her as she vomited into the open water below. "I hate transportation....couldn't we have just swam to Noxus?" she mutters to herself as she let her body hang over the railing.

Christina smirked as she 'heard' Alexandria call her an egotistical punk but decided not to follow up on it. Her experiences of working like this, unprotected, no chance of survival, no guarantee's. This was a normal job for Christina but the timing of it, it was far from normal.

Her attention turned to Eredale when Alexandria responded to him, taking in the blue of his hair and eyes, the fact that he was much, much older than he looked intrigued Christina immensely before she realised she had been staring, quickly turning away and now looking to Xavier. White hair this time but the lightning and floatation was most interesting to Christina, being able to levitate to a small degree herself.

Finding that sitting with Alexandria was going to be boring, Christina stood and slowly rose off the ground, eventually joining Xavier as she spoke through her mind,
"Interesting group this. An immortal or two, that girl and me."