Alexia. I leave this one in your hands.Good. She's useful, you know.What?She's going to be useful to us a little longer, but...Your arm releases her throat, and instead grabs her arm. She has rather small arms, all things considered. She doesn't do a lot of heavy lifting, that's for sure. After Alexia is done, however, she won't be doing much of anything, you figure. She actually takes over for the talking, as your other companions are either unconscious or not present. First, though, Alexia begins to stroke and prod the rest of Francine's body, slowly touching her chest, before stopping at the side with a single finger, as if choosing something. You elect to wait and see. Francine is too out of it to see that you aren't the one talking. Alexia is mumbling to herself.
She puts the whole hand around the lithe body, and places the thumb against just below Francine's breasts. She squeezes quickly, and you feel something give just about instantly.
For going against our orders, we will take a rib. Francine yells in pain, flinching back from the sudden influx of pain. More out of reflex than anything resembeling resistance, her arm flies towards you. Alexia catches it without a second thought.
For threatening us, an arm.The demon hand goes to the elbow, places the middle finger above and the other fingers on the underside. Like one would crush a toothpick, she begins applying pressure. Slowly. Francine is screaming and crying at this point, mumbling incoherently as she tries to fight the intoxication while her body tries to keep her moving. In the end, in her growing panic at the increasing pain and pressure, her own escape attempt is what broke her elbow. With a sickening pop, her arm bends just a bit too far, and is left dangling, every minute movement causing more pain, a shard of bone visibly bulging under the skin as the skin begins to discolour, purple, swollen bruises will appear in short order.
And if I was not of two minds about it...She places the fingers around Francine's skull, her remaining arm clawing at the hand in desperation, her mumbles turning into shouts of rage and desperation. She's trying to struggle away, bit at the palm, anything to try and stop you. You feel sick, but Alexia is revelling in it. Increasing pressure around the other drider's scalp, the tips digging into the temples and causing trickles of blood of spill out as she begins to convulse and shake. Finally, Francine vomits. Whether from the drugs or pure stress, you're not sure. It's vaguely purple, you note. Then, just as she begins to scream in an uninterrupted final screech, Alexia relaxes her fingers. The crushing pressure lessens, and Francine looks at you with terrified eyes, crying and sobbing. It's... strange.
I would have killed you. But you are useful. You will be of use to me, but crippled. No more movements without help from others, not for a while. Depend on those you deem lesser than you. I believe you will find it... humbling. With a final flick, Francine is thrown against the wall, her arm slapping against it uselessly, causing another burst of pain. Francine collapses, clutching the broken arm, and you elect to start walking away, feeling a bit close to vomiting yourself. You... may have forgotten that Alexia is a sadist. Unfortunately, you are
not. Still, even if you plan on finishing Francine off, you need a bit of time to recover from that little ordeal. You eventually find yourself unable to stop yourself from dry-heaving. It's then you realize you haven't eaten anything in a long time. Fortunately, there seems to be some food with the refugees, guessing from the smell.
When you enter, you see your suspicions were correct, they seem to be roasting a few chickens over a fire. But where did they get those?
Where did you get those chickens?They went out to get them, obviously. The kid says, answering for them while turning one of the spits. He took no time at all to get comfy with them. He doesn't look at you while he talks, too intent on roasting the chickens evenly.
Hey, drider? We should have a quick chat. So I can thank you, and because of something else I noticed. S-sure, but what do you mean they "went out to get them?"They got concerned about food, went out, and then the other drider started doing things. Just came across some free-roaming chickens.Bunch of madmen... I thought there was enough food left!You keep people fed on oats and water, and they get antsy. Come on, now, you're like twice my age, and probably like ten times that. I'm not that old, and that's besides the point... Where is Yunikki?You see Sucy leaning against a wall, passively observing the whole place. She has a fireplace close to her, and Yunikki is laying down next to it, mostly naked. HEr deceny is just about all that was kept, and that's only barely. She doesn't look too injured anymore, but... she's still unconscious.
She's stable, now. Keeping her in bed for a while should be fine. I'll get some tonics at the ready to bolster her... Is Francine dead?...No.What Alexia did is none of my concern. I have the supplied needed for painkillers. I suppose I should start on the cast? Or were the limbs ripped off rather than broken? You look at her for a while. How did she know...
J-just broken. Guessing from the screams, however, not lightly. Good work, Sydney. I think she understood the point this time. ...Yeah. Sure.You stick around for a while as Sucy gets to work, closer to Francine. You've got a lot of things on your mind right now.
Basic Stats
Level: 13
Health: 35/75
Poison stings: 0/0
Restraint 3/3
Mana: 10/50
Items and equipment
Items:
410 gold coins
Magic Cookbook.
5 rations
Equipment:
Ram Dao
Scimitar
D-VA armor
Skills and spells
Magic:
Summon Tome: You can take out your piece of the Tome of Eternal Darkness from seemingly nowhere. Others cannot see the book unless you want them to, and it's still headache-inducing to do so.
Resurrect vermin: Allows you to resurrect very small creatures such as rats(invests 2 of your max mana) (no mana cost)
Resurrect average beast: Allows you to resurrect creatures such as dogs, cats and other similar-sized creatures.(invests 7 mana) (no mana cost)
Resurrect Humanoid: Allows you to resurrect humanoid creatures. (Invests 10 mana) (Costs 14 mana)
Reshape minion plus!: Allows you to majorly change the appearance of your resurrected minions.
Control Undead: Allows you to attempt to control an undead that doesn't belong to you. (mana cost of 2 per second, unmastered)
Minion Vision: Allows you to see what a minion sees. The minion must have eyes.
Disintegrate undead: Delete a corpse you currently control.
Animate Piece: Allows you to animate just a piece of dead tissue. It requires your constant attention, and cannot act independently. (Drains 0 mana)
Graft: Allows you to use dead tissue as a replacement limb. Requires a lot of mana. (1 per second) (average limb takes around 20 seconds to properly graft)
Gather Soul: Allows you to make a soul visible. You could try putting it in a flame of some sort to keep it around. (9 mana)
Soul battery: Allows you to use a soul-infused flame as a small mana-boost. This snuffs it out, however
Undead flashbang: Allows you to blow up a minion for a flash-bang effect. (9 mana)
Stitch: allows you to close a wound and stop bleeding as fast as you can stitch. Costs zero mana, but requires something to stitch with.
Siphoning Cloud: Breathe out a cloud that drains the life from victims and gives it to you. Adds a LOT to intimidation (4 mana)
Smoke Cloud: Breathe out harmless but thick smoke. (1 mana)
Deathbolt: A bolt that hurts the body's connection with it's soul. Causes minor wounds to appear over the body as it attempts to compensate (1 mana)
Doombolt: A more powerful version of the above (4 Mana)
Pinworks: You can apply spells into a bone spike, relative to the size of the victim. You can also make traps if you use an offensive spell. Allows creation of free zombies.
Skills:
Claws: Your arm has been replaced with a powerful claw. This is BOUND to you, and cannot be removed. Also, Alexia, your insane alter ego, lives in it now. She can decide where her face appears, at least, signified with a green ring.
Pride: You have a mind-controlling leech in your arm. This is so mindblowingly unethical/illegal it would put you in "kill on sight" status with a lot of organisations/people.
Broodmother: Once per day, you can sting something to create spiderlings, which are large, clever spiders that adore you by default. Your instincts cause you to be VERY protective of them. (not possible right now)
Crossbow usage: Novice
Adaptation: You regenerate mana faster than most
Gun usage: Novice
Oral Fixation: Can cast spells spells from the mouth.
Draining: Can drain blood using fangs.
Incredible experience in blocking and swordplay.
Climber
Crafty: Bolas
Cooking skill: Excellent
Corpse Cutting: Quite Decent.
Animal handling: inexperienced.
Necromantic knowledge
Soul Sniffer
I'm hoping this wasn't too titillating for you.