Now, Let us attempt to get back on track by starting properly. Amidst an otherwise uninteresting and uninhabited land, seven clear areas side by side, each the size of at least a city, inhabited the emptiness.
The first one towards the Northeast, containing many metal buildings, great and massive, each the size of at least two villages, filled with odd devices that at the moment patiently slumbered, waiting for the moment they would be awoken to construct many a great, powerful, and horrible thing for their owner and operator. While the distances betwen these were great and would normally take many hours to go from one to the next, a complex series of high speed rails with carts filled with materials, or occasionally, passengers, would zip to and fro when commanded, turning trips of hours into mere minutes.
This mad man who created and operated them was none other than a member of the infamous group Chaotic|Nonsense, known to those outside of the group as "The Creator", and to those inside as 'Al' from his username 'YourGreatestAlloy'. Standing at a somewhat humble Five Feet Six Inches/One point six Meters, with metal plates of varying size and color patched onto and into his chest, back, and about his body, scars poking out from just beneath, and his left arm from the shoulder and down made entirely of metal, with unkept light and dirty brown hair, gone somewhat bronze from leftover residues of metal while working. The sight of him alone was something that filled many with some relief, as he alone never terrorized a village without some metal demon at his beck and call.
To the Southeast lies a mostly empty, rocky land, with many entrances to underground mines and tunnels. The aboveground houses many craters and scorch marks, and strewn about lay large weapons of war, catapults, ballistae, and such, as well as remains from fired rounds and previous battles. The tunnels were a labyrinth, winding and twisting wildly and unexpectedly, going deeper and deeper, the light soon leaving as no torches dare lit the tunnel, the air becoming harder and harder to breath as the residues of minerals and dust clogged the lungs. Not even to mention the seemingly random tracks, supports that only barely kept from a cave in, and after a certain point, all paths seem to go back to another you've been to before, and all sounds echo back discontinuously.
Living and enjoying their time in this area was another member of Chaotic|Nonsense, practically the snout-nosed mascot of the group, He was Known to those outside the group as "The Challenger". To those inside the group, the Kobold was Known as "Boldy". Yes, he was a Kobold and had the traits of one, standing at his full height of Four feet ten inches/one point four Meters, rough and pale pink skin, eyes more attuned to seeing in even the most pitch black than light, his half foot/tenth of a meter long muzzle ending in a snout, leading to his lungs adept at handling even the most toxic and inhospitable air, and his exceptional sturdiness, all from the races history of growing and adapting to life underground.
Next, to the South lies a still mostly empty land, but in a very different way. This emptiness wasn't the emptiness of the wilderness or desert, where there was simply no sign of civilization to be seen. This was perhaps a worse emptiness, where a husk still remained, but with nothing left, a hollow emptiness haunting the land. In this land was what appeared to be a great capitol city with many buildings, jewelers and market stands, inns and taverns, all in well kept condition. Yet not a single soul could be seen, heard, or for those who could, be sensed to have ever been in the otherwise grand capitol city with immensely tall smooth walls surrounding it to the South, West, and East, with only one exit and entrance to the North. The only other oddity, was that in the center of the town there stood an archway, made of stone and engraved with runes, infused with magic to the core.
This land was overseen by a member of Chaotic|Nonsense whose exsistence was rumored, but there was no mass agreement on whether they actually existed or not. Those that believed he existed called him "The Observer". Of course to those in the Group, they knew he existed and they knew him as "Kelly". This was in reference to the fact that he is in fact, a skeleton. No glowing anywhere, nothing that obviously put him apart from any other average human skeleton, aside from the whole, walking around, talking, and being way too good at being stealthy, those were important.
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Next to the Southwest grew a large forest, rivers winding through and the sound of bird calls was clear on the wind. In this forest, the plantlife varied from place to place, and it was inhabited by many animals. However, among these animals were a handful of animals of importance, from griffons to drakes, each and every one of which has two things in common. Firstly, they all shared the same design brand somewhere on them, much alike cattle or other farmstock, and secondly, they all obeyed the master of the forest, the one that gave them those brands.
The master of the forest was yet another member of Chaotic|Nonsense, this time being known outside the group as "The Enforcer". He himself was a simple person, standing at a decent six-foot five-inches/one point nine meters with medium length black hair, blue eyes and a simple, if masculine, face. He made absolutely no effort to cover or care about his pointed ears, pretty much the only thing showing the fact he was indeed an elf. To those inside the group, they simply knew him as "Pat", and his animals as "Pat's Pets".
Next to it at the Northwest was another area, of many smaller buildings, being only manor-sized on average. While not all in use, the ones that were in use towards the center contained a great wealth of many items, each house organized to a particular type of item, organized more and more the further in one went, as well as finding things of greater value. An example would be, weapons contained in the outside houses would generally be weaker, looted off of fallen novice adventurers, while those towards the center would often be more powerful and well made weapons with enchantments. These and much more are collected and managed by the creature known as "The Hoarder".
This creature is our next member of Chaotic|Nonsense, and is known to those inside the group as "Gimme". He also happens to be nine feet three inches/Two point eight meters at the moment, with arms whose fingertips reach to his knees standing up. He wears at least one layer of chain mail at any given time, and always carries around a massive sack, which rolls out to be large enough to contain Gimme himself. The reason I said 'at the moment' earlier, to explain, is due to the fact that he is a troll. You see, Trolls, aside from their somewhat varied skintones, Gimme's being a jade green, are most known for their immense appetites, impulsiveness, and their incredible variances in size. What is less known, is that all of these are brought on by the fact that after a very young age, all trolls are naturally in a permanent state that is very comparable to puberty, where their bodies keep on growing, albeit quite slowly. This leads to a need for more food to facilitate that growth, and as such an increased appetite, as well as the other symptoms due to this Puberty-Esque state.
To the North a truly massive castle loomed, threatening to blot out the sun with its immensity. Its walls going up to where the areas next to it ended, and its main body starting from the walls being tiered, as though a wedding cake, forty-five floors per tier, the bottom tier the length and width of an entire city, rivalling the size of the capitol city husk opposite to it, the upper tiers coalescing closer than the last.
At the topmost floor of the topmost tier, still reaching the size of one of the factories to the east, there was the living place the man who overlooked not only this area consumed by the castle, but the honorary leader of Chaotic|Nonsense himself, and the one rumored to be the most powerful of them. To those outside the group, he was known as "The Eradicator". To those inside the group, he was known as "The Emperor", mostly shortened to "Emp". He stood at a simple six feet/one point eight meters tall, with short brown hair, and brown eyes. If not for his Incredibly colorful, gaudy robes and hats he always wore, he would be a plain, average human man.
To the center of all these, connected to them all is a simple meadow, otherwise completely uninteresting save for two things. Firstly, in the center lay a ring of rune-etched marble, twenty feet/six meters in diameter, from its inner edges a whirlpool of what seemed to be pure magic spiralled downwards, beckoning to any who see it to jump in. Secondly, just above this whirlpool, held up by six stone pillars and accessed by six railingless stone staircases, was a circular platform the same size as the whirlpool and just above it. On this platform was a circular table just above the center of the whirlpool, with six chairs surrounding it. Inside those chairs, the members of Chaotic|Nonsense sat, and had their first meeting since their imprisonment three days ago.