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Egan_BW

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Revenant
« Reply #210 on: October 31, 2021, 02:50:25 am »

[Manipulation + Necromancy: 15]
[Feral Dreadknight Determination: 14]
The halfdragon lashes at his targets with dark energies, seeking to latch onto their souls and tear them away. His tendrils of Arosh manage to dig deep into the first Dreadknight and pull viciously at it, but the creature resists admirably, staying together and preventing Necras' attack from moving on to the other two zombies.

However, the uncoordinated undead are unable to push forwards and attack while being under magical assault, so the revenant uses his black dragon heritage.
[Strength + Caustic Dragon Breath: 10]
A deep inhalation, a gathering, and a second of aiming his open mouth at the enemy and Necras expels... some underwhelming fumes and droplets. Still, the enemy is just advancing slowly so he focuses and tries again, this time spewing an impressive cloud of nasty sizzling chemicals laced with Arosh, causing the frontmost Arosh shadow to dissipate to his senses. The halfdragon's neck sweeps left then right, eliminating the other two as well.

It's quiet again. Light breeze coming from this way, must be a way outside.



Moldbin hovers around. There are... basically not animals around, as far as it can tell. Besides those inside.
[Observation + Curiosity: 15]
He finds it rather natural to listen into the song, to the point that it finds itself among the other animals. Though they pay him little mind. The lady up front, her song doesn't really make sense in words, but still conveys a meaning... Not a meaning which particularly belongs to some simple woodlands creatures. Perhaps the congregation of animals aren't what they seem? Perhaps that's why Moldbin feels perfectly natural sitting amongst them?

The song seems to convey some plans or directions, but is... apathetic or playful about them, as if they don't actually matter. The song is about this building, which was once the seat of some powerful humans. Very briefly, before it fell back to the wilds. This is amusing. It's an appropriate seat for a Fae Monarch.

Hrm. As far as Moldbin can tell, this is the present, where it's sitting in a room full of possessed animals attending the court of a very dangerous being. Can't back out of it using Prediction, it seems. At least all of these creatures are treating it as one of themselves for now.




Spoiler: Henric, Wraithmaker (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Moldbin, Incarnation (click to show/hide)

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Re: Revenant: that I was one more given flesh. flesh. flesh.
« Reply #211 on: October 31, 2021, 05:41:46 pm »

What do I know about the fey?
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Re: Revenant: that I was one more given flesh. flesh. flesh.
« Reply #212 on: November 01, 2021, 05:07:02 pm »

What do I know about the fey?

You've never encountered such a thing. Nor have you heard stories, since sharing complex information like that is an advantage not available to crows. You get the feeling that this thing is very dangerous, but not hostile, exactly.
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« Reply #213 on: November 01, 2021, 05:19:44 pm »

Shalva and Henric manage to pin down the nominal leader of this village, a lanky old man with a long silver beard named Alard.
[Influence: 8 & 8]
...Though the old man isn't outright hostile, he doesn't seem particularly thrilled about the idea of keeping walking corpses around. He promises to ask around and find something for you two to do to help which isn't in the village, if you like.

[Quest availability: 6]
When Shalva asks what kinds of tasks that might entail, the man's face looks blank for a couple seconds.


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Re: Revenant: that I was one more given flesh. flesh. flesh.
« Reply #214 on: November 01, 2021, 07:55:28 pm »

nekras follows the breeze and, when he gets outside, looks around.
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Re: Revenant: that I was one more given flesh. flesh. flesh.
« Reply #215 on: November 01, 2021, 07:55:43 pm »

If nothing else arises, Henric makes himself useful by carving intricate wooden charms for the villagers, designed to protect them from the ravages of illness and misfortune.

Henric has no particular evidence that such objects would not work. He does seem to be some kind of magical being, after all.
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Re: Revenant
« Reply #216 on: November 01, 2021, 11:20:30 pm »

Well, here goes nothing.

Ask the fey a riddle.  "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
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Re: Revenant
« Reply #217 on: November 05, 2021, 01:58:26 am »

Shalva will thank Alard for promising to find some task outside the village for his undead guests.  Then, she'll find some secluded space to meditate and consider things, alone.  She'll experiment with her undead body somewhat; is her head detachable?  Could she use her own skull as a medium of prayer to pray to Samsaa more properly?  If not, she'll have to go hunting for a snake of some kind, killing it by the most sacred option available: strangulation.  Not ideal, but a snake would do, and it's not like there's going to be any other lamia skulls available.

She'll also spend some time alone thinking about what's happened to her, and what she wants, but that's more just IC introspection.  Not an action.

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« Reply #218 on: January 07, 2022, 08:44:30 pm »

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"

The 'human' at the head of the hall halts for a beat. Staring directly at you. The entire hall is silent.
Then the leader gestures wordlessly towards a deer to her right, which blossoms out with wind and rustling leaves, assuming an ephemeral torso and arms.

"Each heralds madness in men, do they not?"



Necras finds the exit to this dungeon; just a constructed stone staircase leading to a foot a topsoil which he pushes through, only for it to reform into the ground behind him, leaving no sign of the underground structure.
He emerges somewhere in a wood, into a cool day, intoxicatingly awash with Arosh. And filling that wood is an intense blaze, the orange chaotic light of countless flames. Flames which he finds greedily gobbling up Arosh.

Necras encounters a mob of anomalous, flaming zombies pressing through the forest.



[Determination + Woodcarving: 12]
Henric spends his time being carted around by Shalva with grabbing wood scraps from the ground under his wheelbarrow and carefully carving them into charms. The charms have no apparent effect to them, but are warmly reassuring in a way. The villagers he gives his charms are somewhat grateful, seeing them as perhaps slivers of old wisdom.

Meanwhile, Shalva mediates on her new nature, having pushed Henric out into the woods to a quiet spot near a creek.
Her head is certainly not detachable without some amount of sawing... or waiting for decomposition to do its work. However, looking inward to her Arosh structure, Shalva sees no reason why she couldn't survive without her head attached. Indeed, it seems as though it would remain somewhat functional as long as the underlying spirit maintains contact with herself. Whether or not the skull being used would thus still be 'alive' ruins the ritual or not will require additional soul searching.
[Observation + Stealth: 14]
While sitting in peace, Shalva notices a little serpent sunning on a rock next to her. She immediately snatches it up and asphyxiates the creature.




Spoiler: Henric, Wraithmaker (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Moldbin, Incarnation (click to show/hide)

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Re: Revenant
« Reply #219 on: January 07, 2022, 11:57:19 pm »

Mrush'shalva will decapitate the dead snake with a solid bite, then eat the body raw.  The head will be carefully stripped of skin and flesh, leaving just the skull... and then Shalva will pray to Samsaa, asking to be lead to more undead.  Dangerous undead, in particular; ones that the world would be better off for their removal.  Hopefully their destruction will heal Henric, and strengthen Shalva.

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« Reply #220 on: January 08, 2022, 12:17:15 am »

"Why yes indeed.  One heralds madness and one maddens heralds.  A fine answer.. although not the only one.

Mayhaps it should have been a crows nest.  Then one is for ravens and one is for ravings."

"I'm afraid you have the better of me right now.  I am Moldbin, once a bird, but I now know not what I am.  Who is it that I have the advantage of conversing with?"
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« Reply #221 on: January 11, 2022, 03:25:50 am »

Shalva pierces through the snake's neck and pulls its head off- with some difficulty, her teeth are intended for killing more than for cutting or tearing- and sends the headless morsel down her throat. It makes an odd sensation, not entirely welcome: the matter isn't pushed down, just sinks limply, further into her still corpse.
[Agility + Prayer: 9]
The stripping of the skull proves more difficult, without the proper tools...
[Observation + Prayer + She's Watching: 14]
Still. The air is still. Shalva shivers her cold bones, faintly aware... of...



"Very well. I am the rustling in the leaves, blowing through furrows, whistling innocuously so that the thinking creatures of the world may hear. The apes, they bear the capacity to understand, yet they do not. Amusing, is it not?"

The creature grins wide, then suddenly looks off into the distance with a frown.
"Ah, perhaps I'm not the only one. That thing is doing it now, too. How dismal!"
It looks back to you with a slight formal bow.
"Forgive me, I must remember to clarify before you speak again. You stand in Our Court, and here we do not Play without a Stake. I'm afraid that you owe us One Favor for your transgression, issuing a Challenge before Our Court without specifying the Stake."
A silvery ethereal coin appears between its fingers, which is tossed in your direction.




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Spoiler: Moldbin, Incarnation (click to show/hide)

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Re: Revenant
« Reply #223 on: January 11, 2022, 09:06:16 am »

Henric observes Shalva conducting the ritual, and tries to figure out what is happening.
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« Reply #224 on: January 12, 2022, 01:45:25 am »

"There are only two stakes that come to mind.. Knowlege, or Power."

"If the chosen stakes are knowlege, I can peer into the future to let you know of things yet to come.  If Power is chosen, I can stake this body.

"I can stake either one or both.  The choice is yours."
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