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slash discord. Thank you, Joy and So, I was thinking that perhaps
maybe one of the best you for it would be to create an army loyal
only to me and you. Maybe anomy of sentient cross boat. No,
no, with the goop with all of the group. Oh h, you
are possible to smear it on the crossbows and then perhaps animate them somehow appendages
of some sort. Do you have the ability to animate? Well? No,
but the group might. Who knows what secrets the group might unlock?
I suppose, m have you got any tea? Oh? Yes I do?
If that? Yeah, what else do you think we could do with
some sentient group? Could give it a little name? I suppose maccone yes,
ah, I am unsure of what is happening here, not not You're
not the group not not but the group or the group. Mh Do you
mean our friends or the the humans the friend? Yes, our friends.
Oh, I don't know. They were talking loudly amongst each other and having
relations, I think, right, I am worried. Yeah, I wouldn't
be worried. It's a courting thing, right, No, male evic yeah,
and even our celia. You do not notice he is pizfesssed or something.
I assumed it was the spirit of courtship what possessed him? No,
no, no, no, there is a being of some kind. It
is malevolent hair best Oh, I just thought it was, you know,
horny. No, I uh, I don't know if I can trust him
anymore to keep us safe. Well, well, if you don't trust him,
I won't trust him. Do you not remember when we were in the
well? No, you weren't there. You weren't there. No, I
was conducting a very important burial. You were the only one. In fact,
he almost let us silly and you are a die oh willingly disappoint thing.
It was not malvic, but it was whatever it's influencing him. M
m, well, what is influencing him? You don't know a dragon,
a demon, blackmail, no, a being er? Well, maybe blackmail.
It could be blackmail, but what could you blackmail Melevic for what secrets?
Mighty hold? He was looking for his brother, maybe family. Maybe
hmm. Could be he spoke of vengeance, but of what I'm not entirely
sure. H it is feeding off his anger. He does have anger.
He's also not courting the others I have been courting. Yeah, maybe I
am unsure. It's just the smell, you know, the courting smell constantly.
Chamellion smelled for that. I apologize, that's just smelly, that's all
constantly. I don't know. I always just assumed you was courting them both,
and that was why there was older this this much drama. Yeah,
I am and sure of the ways of courtship attempts. Uh, but be
heard the old god a run. I mean it. I will know how
safe it is anymore the father and deeper we get here, the worse he
gets. Will Your insight has never led me astray be four, so absolutely,
I will trust you. I can't take any stick with him, that
is my one Requestee responds poorly, No, I won't be antagonistic mischi anyone.
I'm a perfect angel. Hm yes h h corn I had a question
unrelated, what yeah, what did you think of the mosquito witch? The
mosquito witch my patron? Yes, oh, yes, the patron. I
thought that was lovely. All the vitriols and potential symbols delighte. Really you
do not seem my choices as for ones, No, of course not.
M hm. I am on team lizard. Ah ah Uh, I am
glad. I am. I do not have a patron of my own necessarily,
but I support yours. How many do m hm? That is hm
hmmm. I'll say the next time, though, that you summon her.
You could put in a good word for a couple of symbols. I didn't
need to do a ritual soon. But uh, the fluid samples lacking.
She consumed everything mm hmm. Mosquitos are known for their saliva. The little
bits of venom could be useful as a healing reagent to keep the blood flowing.
True, but she does not manifest physically for me normally, and I
will be honest, I would not ask that of her. Certainly, maybe
she has some friends, Oh, she has many, I'm sure the insects.
It's a mosquito, which would know what best to do with all of
this goop. Perhaps I was going to ask her a few things about Malevick
if possible, I have some ideas that may help him. Well, if
there's anything I can do to help facilitate your communion, I'm happy to help,
all right. I appreciate it, Karon, And if you need help
with anything, I am always available. Just keep delivering me these insights on
the others. Because I've gone for weeks now, perhaps months, maybe ever,
thinking this was all an elaborate courtship, and here I am finding out
it is much more belevolent in nature. Yes, just beyond your guard and
m think of ways that may be able to help him. I will.
I already have some ideas. I do too. Are you all right?
Oh? Yeah, it has terrible effects on people. No, I'm fine.
I just got some incredible material, this biological mass of heaving, pulsating
goop. I'm honestly having the time of my life. Did you hear the
little chirping noise? It made adorable? I think you should bottle that more
tightly. It one's out. That is why you should bottle it. More
tightly. Perhaps perhaps you are right. It's too dry here. Mm hmm,
it is dry. Skin is flaking. You didn't look into that mirror,
did you? What mirror? Never mind what the others looked into the
mirror? Too? Right? No? What ma karoon? What are you
speaking of? Nothing? Just that there was a mirror and it sucks.
Just wanted to make sure no one was peering into it, and that is
why there is so much drama. Where is this mirror that sucks? I
think it is with Jada? Okay, all right, as long as you're
all right, No, I'm fine now, just don't think into it.
I will not thank you for the warning. I need to set up for
my communion, all right. Sure do you want them to help? Ah?
I think it is the thing I must do for to a pizza.
But I will be within the ear shot. I do not wish to a
distance far. All right, I'll just be walking around within ear shot,
all right, I will. It will take about an hour if there is
any emergence, see, do let me know, all right, and I'm
going to stand up and I will be taking a quick look around the camp
perimeter. Do I see anything interesting? Uh? You can make a perception
check for me. All right, perception check, I perceive twenty four.
So the camp is pretty well maintained. There are several members of the of
the Reclaimers as well as Sakawachi's group that's you know, stayed behind basically or
returned after you ventured out earlier with you, and they've been doing a good
job maintaining the camp. They've been doing scouting and stuff and just kind of
making sure that it's reasonably safe. When you look around, I think you
just kind of reaffirm these things, like it's just like, oh, yeah,
there's you know, Denigi is checking in with Ulukuk and Numa and the
other reclaimers and whatnot. And obviously they're just kind of coordinating and checking in.
The humans are making mouth movements at each other, screeching, I understand.
I think you can probably hear in the distance though, the sound of
some kind of large creature. There was there was a very large roar that
happened in the distance. It sounded horrible and menacing, and that sounds and
you can definitely hear the sound of like crumbling rubble. Yeah, I'm not
going over there. That sounds dangerous. It's definitely from the direction you came
from. Absolutely glad I left one hundred. That would be setting up the
altar for the lovely little Goat Demon. Okay, since I was asked to
give more the Goat Demon, I'm sorry say that. Say that one more
time? Uh them? Yeah, yeah, the brimmeraq as. I have
one of their entire bodies put in my bag of holding. Working on very
little sleep today, folks, so there might be a few, may be
a few devil checks today. I'm okay with that. So yes, you
can absolutely make a religion check for me or in occultism like I've been doing
occultism. Yes, thank you, twenty four I'll take it. Twenty four.
Fine again a rash talk. When you set this up, you know,
night has basically fallen at this point, and uh you've lit your blood
candles you you know, it has that coppery sort of smell. There's like
a a strange feeling obviously because it's very dry here, which is you know,
uncomfortable for you, and the the wind is probably really annoying as well.
It's gusting through here periodically. It's probably like put out the candles a
few times, driving you insane. But Eventually you get everything lit, you
get everything prepared, and it doesn't take much a rash talk before you even
start to really feel yourself, like get into any sort of trance or any
sort of preparation. You feel the presence of the mosquitoes sort of stirring underneath
your clothing, and swarms begin to emerge from your sleeves and you can see
them begin to swirl all around you. Several of them begin to immediately head
towards the dead body of this creature and begin to devour the blood. As
this happens, there is a frantic nature at first. Bugs quickly and very
frantically begin to devour this corpse. And there's something in this that tells you
that the hunger has been sated for a little while at least, and this
is a good meal. There is a feeling of contentment here. And I
think, uh, Karun, if you're I don't know if you're watching all
of this happen, because you said that you were in nearby, right.
I have set up a hammock in the trees and I'm just have a little
bugnet on the line across it, and I'm just hanging out in my little
hammock watching it unfold from a distance. Yeah, it's a good thing that
you've got. Like a you said you have a bugnet. Where did you
get a little net? I just have a lot of netting. It was
for catching fish, but I have it still. Okay, so big holes,
you know, yeah, holes, And I have a little guide lying
across the hammock on the top and have just draped it over. Huh okay,
give me a crafting check, all right, twenty four huh okay.
Yeah, there's mosquitoes that are definitely getting through for sure. They're just like,
I mean, this isn't a proper mosquito net, you know, like
there's they're very tiny holes in those mosquito nets. I'm trying desperately to put
them in vials. They keep it escaping me. Yeah. It's like whenever
you try to actually squash a mosquito they managed to avoid your hand before.
Don't squash them at all. I'm just trying to capture them and uh yeah,
uh let's see. Failing you get four really good mosquito bites. Ye,
I won't feel them for another like four hours with I feel them now.
Oh no, you don't know. I mean after you wake up,
You'll you'll find out. I just want to You're gonna You're gonna have four
like prominent mosquito bites someplace. What does a what does a bystander in the
bushes see from this? Listen? I imagine like a rash stock, like
anybody that's been traveling with you, guys, because you've have been traveling with
the Reclaimers as well as Sakawachi's companions for a while. Now. I mean
it was eight days of travel to get to Demora, uh from the from
Valmar's Borough. So I imagine that you've done this a few times, a
rashock uh with whatever kind of creatures you may have found. Yes, I
do recall at one point I had asked Malavik thing to provide me unlet right.
So if that is the case, then I think everyone it's pretty creeped
out by this ritual and generally stay away, especially like if they notice that
the candles are blood candles, uh and there's that smell of blood. Yeah,
they generally stay away. So the the anybody that that Caesar Rostocks setting
up this ritual, they just stay clear. They don't really have any desire
to be around them. Any mosquitoes kridan and riches down into the alchemy.
Beg unlocks a little, just a little, still, take some little nips
off a little. Okay, a people will start dilating vascular action. You
haven't said anything to a rash talk about what you heard in the distance,
right, No, I haven't said anything. Don't want to interrupt. We
left there, I'm not going back, So I'm just gonna sit here and
watch those off perhips. Feeling really good right now, okay, don't want
to let that go to waste. Very well. So then a rash talk
will say it's going to take you like, probably an hour or so.
That's usually how long it's taken before. Yes, very well. Meanwhile,
back with our other group, I should say, with a certain member of
the other group, the wood has sort of crashed as malvic has fallen.
There's dust, debris, and viscera, probably all about you Malbec Malvick at
the stones and brick of the tower of sort of half collapse more as well,
there's debris and rubble falling. There's a slight ringing sound as well.
It's not an explosion that happened, but the collapse of these things was so
loud that it's probably been reverberating a little bit through your head. I look
around from eyes around you, but my vision won't it just quickly? Ah?
I did, No, it's still see what's going on? I tried
to scream out both or so you're inya, but I like I can't speak
outside of my head. H Uh, you are still alive? Ah,
doesn't feel like it. I'm assuming that thing is dead when you first encountered
it. But day may come here misled me? Where's the power? I
have not misled you. I have never lied to you. Fine, fine,
you never lied? Now? What that wasn't metallic? No? But
it needed to be put out of its misery. Why do you care so
much? It was already dead. It was on his last leg to begin
with, right undead. But that is not the reason. Malevic oh,
these redults? Tell me? Did you not notice? Could you not see?
Or did you rage? Blind? You? Yet again? Nostan,
I see it was discussing blighted. It is consuming NonStop. What was I
to look for? It's barely notice. I recognize the wounds, the slashes
upon it. Yeah, I added to it as well, it would inflict
that those wounds. There's this dragon, always undead. No, like all
creatures that become undead, they were once living. This creature human salient.
She was a black dragon. Mm hmmm, one of the chromatics. And
then what does he have to do with me or you? Dragons? Us
is a sot all around here that is hidden, hidden in their holes.
The wounds on this creature m hm, close your eyes, malevich see them?
Mean your memories? Surely they have been burned in there. Mm hmm.
The slash is done by normal weapons, deep colorizing wounds. Killing a
dragon is no easy thing. A strong creature or a strong person thought,
this creature she died at your father's had Why why is he going around killing
his own kind? He assumed the form of human, he says, I
was told beautiful in nature. Everyone was attracted to him. He had a
scent about him. It blocked the bloodlust from him. I don't know,
don't understand why he even god with my mother to begin with? What he
was hiding from running from normally dragons of his caliber from what I hear,
proud or where egotistical sate it. But this one he was adored by all
around him. And I don't understand his motives, but I hate what he's
done to me my life, and no one can seem to track him.
You seem to know awful lot about him. What is the connection with him?
Is he one of your mini sons? Figures, that's why you're interested
in me of all people? Ok, there is a relation, but that
is not the reason mallowing? And what is it? Where is he?
We must learn more of Oh, y'all crust the name? What is his
intentions? We must learn more? The last I heard Yemen Salian came to
do Mora over a century ago. In that time, your father killed her.
I don't know why, but one must assume that well, it may
be related to something Yemen Sallian carried. Where were the slashes across suggess the
belly? Perhaps a closer look is required. You see a moment of shock
and fear come across my eyes as else bury myself in anger and try to
pull it down. He's riddle. I'll open my eyes suddenly and I'll shoot
up. That's waking from a nightmare, and I'll look around, see my
breath run over to the corpse, right, Just please catch me, I'll
catch you, don't worry, and I'll again to look over the corpse,
but extreme detail, frustration. I don't even hear the others around me.
Nothing matters right now? Well, rest place, I go to the biggest
gouges stripped away. You see your strikes, you see strikes that look familiar.
Please make a perception check or investigation, or I would say warfare if
you have any lore on warfare. I'm gonna go with reception and I'm gonna
reroll that. Oh my god, sixteen getting rerolled. Mh she was sixteen?
All right? Then? Can't quite recognize it. You notice that ar
Celia and Yara are sort of like approaching you nearby? Melvic, Manama thunning.
I'm just kind of tearing through the corpse area to clean up around it,
pulling the wood away from it. Manvik, what's this wrong? Are
you all right? Yeah? None of this makes sense. It's just frustrating.
Melvic. There's a pile of meat there. What the hell does this
creature wants you to see? Manavic, I'll uh kind of ignore the others
for a second and close my eyes and talk in my head. Was it
this? Was it? What I think it is? Was my mother?
Not really my mother as I planted. Now, uh open my eyes.
I'm like, oh, malvic, are you all right? Uh? Uh?
You were? You observed critious? Very well? Yes, yes,
the initial slashes, the big outs. The thing was it? Where was
it? What area? Someone talks about someone in a chess the gas is
what would have killed this dragon before? Mana? What are you trying to
figure out? We can help you. Where the where the biggest wounds before
we got here, when we got here, yes, killed it, yes,
not not us before you know medicine, You know medicine. Here track
the chess. Typically there's two poinson a dragon that's very vital. It's the
chess portion where most of the organs lay, and right below that is with
the sack. Are you are in the way. I must take a look
and i'll pull her clothes there I can't tell. Taking a look at this
creature, might I perchance to be able to ask obtain what did it?
Ye? So you can make a warfare. I think you have lore for
warfare. If I'm not mistaken, you can do that. I have warfare,
and I have medicine. I don't think you listed medicine, so yeah,
I'll take medicine. It's going to be harder with medicine, all right,
you know what, I'll try warfare. Okay, it's a nine difference,
but we'll see twenty seven. Okay. The wounds on this creature,
there are there were many pre undeath. This creature had been in a knockdown,
drag out battle with something and from what you can tell, there was
a bladed weapon. This looks like it was done with a sword of some
kind, probably a great sword. And you can tell that there are there
are other smaller wounds, claws and such strange wounds on this creature, just
covered in wounds again before it became an undead. There's a lot of mass
to this creature, so there's a lot of wounds here that have been accrued
over time. But the big thing that you notice here, Yara, is
that the the normal breath lands that would be in side of a dragon have
been removed. And this is a black dragon, and I don't think you
know much about dragons, but you can see that there's there were like some
pretty clear cut incisions that were made in the neck and like above the collar
bones. Did it seem precise, yes, well, it was this jaw
missings well, there are lots of wounds Malavik, but I think I think
perhaps it was killed. For the other dragons we've seen, they've had glands
yet did they not? And I point to where they are missing an important
part of in their breath, weapons, accumulation of chemicals, mixtures. Depending
on the origin of the dragon. What does a black dragon do depending on
the situation, depending on the type of dragon WHI originated with. The blacks
are very rare. M they can be poisoned, they can be blight it
can be very inconsistent. But they are rare. They're extremely dangerous in their
prime. Because surviving this fight was a miracle in itself. But I believe
that it was far too injured to do the damage that it should have.
Why would they do this? Well, you see those wounds there that looks
like something a very large sword would do, and these smaller ones are claws
and whatnot. It's many scars. Why would he take our glands? Most
certainly on purpose, with how precise it was alchemy. Perhaps we'll grab your
and bring her very close. I don't know what's going on here, but
I I fear something's growing a lot larger than then we can you can come
up with there's no telele when that's happened, that's gonna be in this centuries
ago. But I have a feeling that my feeling that my father I have,
I'm going to do with this whole thing, and I'm questioning a lot.
I'm questioning my words, and like why I exist? Did you know
this dragon at least said the sentence for me? But it could have been
my father? Simple? Why would I notice it for so long? Well,
tell me about your father, your father. If it is not,
I don't know much about him. It he's I did not know dragons could
take human form, but from what I was told, he was a very
beautiful man, something that attracted many people around. And don't even understand why
he'd laid with my mother to begin with, or if he even did that.
I don't even know anymore if she was human or she wasn't. I
it all doesn't make sense, And now my memories are all chopped. I
don't even know what to believe anymore. Sometimes when I close my eyes,
I see blood's on my hand. I see a corpse of my mother there.
The visions of my brother are becoming foggy. I don't even know if
he exists anymore, Malavik. She and I pointed down to the dragon.
She was something to him. I just feel it. He'ser is, He's
a red He's a red dragon. But only explained my relations all right,
But why would he take you in form and hide? What is he scheming?
What does he have to do with any of this? Why would he
mutilator? Yes? Why would he mutilator? Well, perhaps it was only
for the glands. Perhaps it was revenge and it was easy prize after taking
such revenge. Dragons are privacages. A mutilating its own kind, no matter
how much dis hatred of the lee, it's a quick death. Leave and
go on about your business. This was something else entirely. You can also
tell that the wounds here with the twenty seven, it's probably just barely something
you might notice. Uh, dragon was heavily injured before it was done.
Dragon had been through some kind of fight before whatever killed her. Oh,
so it seems as though the killing blow is different from the damage that was
done from a different source. Yes, Malevic, you recall these winds,
I pointed out. Mm hmm, you said you said they were rashi.
Yes, I don't know the anatomy of dragons, but they it appears that
she was in some sort of a very very very horrible battle prior to whatever
killed her. The killing blow. Here, it differs. Something weakened her
and someone then took an opportunity to strike. Or perhaps it was mercy.
No, mercy doesn't consist of mutilation. He turned on her. Well,
there's a multitude of things that could be at play here. I mean,
if I had something useful on me, I'd want you to take it if
I died. Horrible as that sounds, I mean, I could be completely
incorrect, but either this person took advantage or they felt sorrow. I do
not know. No, I don't even know why I am feeling emotionally tired
to this. I just one answers, Oh my life had been asking why
me constantly and consistently. Nothing added up. All my memories, the older
I give feels like they keep changing. I don't know if they're preconsiming visions
or things that could have happened, or things that happened. I do know
that I don't try to reach back out to people that I've dealt with in
my beast. My brother just up and disappeared. But what if I never
had a brother? You have a brother, Malvic. Even doctor Riddleson talked
about him. He said that he knew what had happened. But is he
really my brother? You know? He never quite looked the same as me.
I never noticed, how I think about it, I didn't notice any
differences in him and my mother. No horns, no tail coloration, was
a little He's a little bit more maybe doctor skinned. But other than that,
my mutations are coming of age. Happened quite quickly. His never really
took off. Is he your full brother? I honestly don't remember. He
was just around. I can't remember. I don't know why I can't remember.
Was he older than you, yes, older your memories of him?
Was he older, as in a few years older than you? Or was
he a full adult when you were in your youth? No? An adult?
No? No adult? Maybe like five or six years difference. Maybe,
But then again, I could be my mind playing tricks on me once
again. What scares me most some I'm starting to feel like I don't care
where he is. I don't feel any pain if he's gone, not fel
anything. The only thing that is on my mind right now is I need
more power? I need a lot more power to be able to deal with
a man that does this, to find out where he is. We're weak,
are ruh. We're going to get the power that's far beyond our thinking.
We need more power, you are, it's malefct. The things that
drive us to do, the things that we are seeking to do, are
part of that power. You wishing to be reunited with your brother, and
that is power. I don't want that anymore. I don't think. I
don't know. M hmmm. Is that you speaking? Or is that there
are there's power here somewhere to raasiess power? Yes, there's power here.
You are both of us. You have to find it. That's what's going
to bring your sister back. That's what's going to give me answers you mean
Sallian would not have a small hord h none of it. You're right.
They just played over what's going on? H O they You and I have
to find more power together. Yes, that's it here in this place.
I will not leave until we find it. Are you with me? Malvik?
Do you want your sister back? Yes? And no. Of course,
the power to take down a god, even if need be that's what
we need to be able to do. We need to do. We do
not know? You said you trusted me? I do? I do?
Then be with me and we find he answers, But we cannot tell everyone.
There are those that will try to stop us. Malavik back up here,
please one moment. Why would we not tell the others who are also
a part of our strength? And guys they do not trust us, they
are not here. The ones that trust us are here. You are say
they give me? If I see the looks they give me, malise,
I try to play along with their games? Are Malavik? Is not that
they do not trust you? Yeah? I'm sorry I used no words incorrectly.
I want to keep them out of danger. Think about how many times
have been in medals. Who always has each other's bags? We all do,
and I mean a rash talk. Yes, always attempting to immobilize enemies.
He's even utilizes magics to pry you out of a creature. Yes,
I agree. But when it comes to the idea of a siphoning more power,
even no matter the source, do you believe that they will be on
our side with that? I think that we all want the means to stop
with Soyer or whatever it is that is causing what happened and what is happening,
what is in motion at the moment? Are you with me? Are
you not? Can I do some sort of insight check perception? Yeah?
I think what I'm mostly looking for here is if this is purely Malvic talking.
And I guess also the whole switch up that he just did with regards
to I just want to protect them, So you said perception, Yes,
twenty nine, Malvic, you can tell Yara what you think that you would
notice from you. You do notice a slated look, I exclazed over.
There's no life in them like they used to be. Conflicting emotions, pain,
anger, suffering, anxious, anxiety. But the hunger is there,
pure hunger, not threatening towards you. You're silent. I guess that's your
answer. No, Malovic, you cannot just drop something on someone and expect
an answer immediately. How about this mm hmm. Maybe at the time there
is a tale and the coming of the age of a chosen child. Of
such these things the gods mix and play with their playthings of Valarian or any
other worlds where they create these little beans of it that are not exists benef
of them. Immense power lies within these beings. I've heard that the coming
of age happens in a tip of scale, can throw the world in chaos
or peace. I don't know if that's me, but I feel something growing
inside of me. I feel a hunger I cannot be seated. But I
also have the longing for those around me to join me in the conquest this
land, this corrupt, the people in it unworthy. But then this other's
like us, with a deeper purpose. It will take power to get it.
We must do everything in our possession to give that power, and then
what we do with it defines well, Gallerian will go, I'll find you
taking back your sister. Oh, that sounds enowful, like like a lot,
like trying to become a god, which is something that we aren't supposed
to want. They are supposed to want to make other people into puppets,
are we not That's not the case, and make others independence Manovik. Who
are we to decide who is worthy and who is not worthy? Who we
decide who is evil, who is not? Who we decide who chooses to
live or die? Or it's at the moment where survivability comes down to an
instinct of conscious action in the moment of but we have to have the power
to do so. Manivik, I am a protector, not a conqueror,
and with more power you can become an even better protector. Right now we
are nothing, he barely scrap by. The others have to understand it.
They won't listen to me about it. But what about you? You're great
at convincing this place. We're here for a reason and is not for some
god living god person. More than that, these visions that we keep seeing,
we're Why is it always us? I do not know, but it
is us? And we we have this ability to protect people, to protect
this world? Yes, sure, why would we? Why would we destroy
it? Why would we raise places with children, with people that you could
easily have a conversation with to try and change their mind if they're doing something
evil? Then what if they don't change their mind? Then what? And
none of it? We have justice systems in place, yes, but we
need everything has an execution exploration date. If we had the power to change
the course of everything here, wouldn't you want it? You keep your beliefs,
your opinions. I'll agree with you. Sure. If one way doesn't
work, then there's another. We need to not leave this place until we
find it. That's all I'm asking. There are answers here, can feel
it. I am not opposed to us as a group. I need you
finding some sort of means to defeat the evils in front of us. But
Malevic, you made me promise that if you lost yourself that I would take
your life. You are not yourself right now. I am completely myself.
I want to be complete. You have a passenger. There is someone else
in there with you as much more than that. Well, then enlighten,
because that is all I see. I see someone who is obviously being manipulated
by some force that I cannot control, that he cannot control. I see
someone that loves me, that loves our friends, but because of this passenger
decided to forego even attempting to help us in combat previously. I see someone
who had laughter and smiles in their life devolving into this creature that wants to
destroy everything that is not you. It's reasoning mine everything. Okay, let's
slow down, let me think, let's break this all down. There's a
connection, here's somewhere between me. Unfortunately, this creature and my father.
My memories are all starting to get dumbled up. One thing I could say,
you are whatever is happening in my mind. It's always told the truth.
There was always something there every single time. Did not leave me astray.
Ever, and as much as I hate to admit it, never turned
his back on me. Manvick. That is because when people want something from
you, they will pretend to be there for you. They will use you
up, they will help you while using you up, and they will leave
you out to try. When someone manipulates the way that you think in such
a fashion that you your personality entirely shifts, that you wish to harm people,
to destroy people who do not align with your own belief No, it's
more like how to destroy anybody that will put on to you or any of
them. I believe you gave me some insight. I do speak of power,
and we do need it, and it's probably in a different sense,
but we have some kind of power with us, you and I especially,
We have gods of god like creatures deities that need us. That's power in
his own Yes, that's there's a reasoning that they they they chose us,
that they need us, think about it. Can you use this to I
invented A deal is made both sides of a coin, and it's not just
one sided. If you find yourself when you gave in a little bit to
your deity, or if you ever did, did you find more answers?
Yes, But my deity is not asking me to wipe out people, not
asking me to go on some crusade against people who disagree. I can be
misunderstanding, so I need to give in a little bit to get more answers,
just like you did. They may not be asking for something aggressively,
passively, or on your side of things. I believe me and you are
cut from the same fabric. That's why I am talking to you. Arcilia
has a connection with me, but I don't understand it. She knows the
real deal behind it is more of a burst of emotions, overwhelming, hitting
her left and right, and she's trying to understand it. Of over me
and you. I believe that you would know something a little bit more.
You do not need to let your passenger control you. That is my point.
If you want to know something, I don't think I'm letting them control
me. I think a part of me wants to feel, that wants to
fill that fire, that that bloodless when it is geared towards the right people.
I would do anything to protect you, even if that's in the passenger
seat, if it's a savior, Malvic, you asked if I trusted you?
Do you trust me? We would not be having this conversation if I
did not. I've given you more than I've given anyone, more than I
wanted to give. Then just know that I am trying to protect you from
whatever power this passenger is offering you. And that is all. Mhmm.
Yeah. I have to walk in circles, circles and circles. There is
power here, see it in Sallion's hoard. It must be around here,
somewhere. We need to find a power and then I will let you guide
me. Yes, before I make decisions, I'll do everything that I can
and come to you. Right now. Is power and it's here somewhere.
Every dragon has its pride stake. You know that a horde of some sort,
right, I need to find it. I need to find it.
I think I may have some answers. That is fine. Are you with
me? Manovic? You never answered yes? Can we give my grappling hook
first. Yeah, I take a brief moment to stare in our eyes to
see if there is any kind of regret. Would you say perception check?
Mm hm oh seventeen Yahra, it's up to you what Alvic sees in there.
So can you just outline the question for me a little bit better?
Like I want to know if there's any deception there or like quick to answer,
but no truth behind the words. No, she's with Melvic. Mm
hmm. I'll smirk and stand up. Off of my hand. You just
stand up, I'll take it and I'll tighten my grip. I will not
see how I'm coming to you all the others and I will not see how
I'm come to us see you. That means i'll do anything. Okay in
mind, then I'll let go, and then I'll walk over to go get
the grappling. I don't have too much trouble. The grapping hook probably fell
when the floor collapsed, so it's just like amongst the debris. Takes you
a minute or two to find it. It's really not too hard. Yeah,
I'll say, yes, there have been some things, sad things that
up into this dragon, but every dragon has a ward of some sort.
If it's too here, we need to find it. Do you think it's
in this tower someplace? Possibly? If we don't find it in the tower,
I think we should head back to camp. It is night now,
there's so much we probably should stay in there. The others are probably worried
though, shoveling at night. If you want to well, we know where
we need to go. We can go quickly and now let us look around,
shall we? Yes, I need to find it. Okay, somebody
take the lead with a perception check. The others can help. Thirteen I
have a twelve. Okay, Celia is probably the person to do it.
Let me see she is. I guess she's got like an eighteen or something.
What let's got a high perception? Let me see, Oh she's got
thirteen, I'll say so. Perhaps malaviklits it. Okay, all right,
I don't take that help twenty one, hey, Orcula gets twenty three and
eighteen from you are okay? Uh? So there's a lot of debris here,
a lot of rotted wood, and you know, there's like a collapsed
staircase and part of the walls collapsed. There's a lot of sorting through debris
and stuff. Roll me a D four please, Melovick, Sure, my
favorite one. Okay, it's a good thing. In this case. It
takes you about an hour to look through stuff. And then you look at
yeman sallion, the zombie dragon. Where would a zombie dragon keep its hoard?
Then the pollokorpses on itself, perhaps inside mhmm. I'll just kind of
break off from your walk towards the dragon, fall to my knees, and
then just mechanically just started ripping that flesh. I mean, I'm all of
in it, all over me, diving in me a survival check. You're
good at those, Come on, I believe twenty six. Smell is not.
Yeah, there's probably a few moments where you wretch and it's horrible.
Uh there's I mean it's so bad. It's the worst smell you've ever smelled.
Ah. But you find the stomach of this creature and it is bloated
and filled with something. The worst spot you hear like coins rattling. I'll
take the hatchet and I already know what was about to come. And you
hit a stomach that's been bloated, it's just gonna gastric stuff. It's gonna
pour all over you. I'm going to probably call to Yara and saying,
do you have anything that can shield me? I have a feeling that whatever
she spewed long ago, it's still trapped in there acid maybe just you from
acide. Well I don't I've called anything like that. I'll cock my head
and I'll take the axe and raise it. Oh please cover your mouth,
take the stomach out, don't. Yeah, I hit it good sergically.
Oh god, I'm alevig baby, I'm like that answers the question. Oh
man, yeah, it's a horrific thing. What's the damage I take?
Make a fortitude save for me? Please? Oh I'm good at those.
All right, that's actually a create because I create everything. Now that I
is a master. If it's a success. If it's as if success,
I create everything, it is a success this time. Uh yeah, a
fortitude save. Actually, let me double check. Hold on might be really
close. It is really close. Stepped on it, so it's yeah,
it's okay. So the difficulty is actually twenty six on this. Unfortunately you
didn't wait for any help and uh yeah, let's see. Oh boy,
wait, if I'm mastering, it isn't a regular success to success. It
wasn't a success, it was a fail. You need to get a twenty
six. He rolled the twenty five. Thought, yes, it's only for
successes. It's the same thing for my master and will right well, rerolling
in THEO. There you going et six. Wow, okay, you're still
going to take some damage here becaustical success. Oh right, critical success.
I'm sorry you don't. You don't take that at that point, I was
just taking apologies critical success. Malevich. You know something bad is about to
happen. You just close your eyes, hold your breath, and swing with
your hatchet with dragons always ending. It's just all god, it's so horrible,
sludge like it just pours out with piles of gold. I'll just swish
it out of the corpse. I just didn't wanted to get on them.
It's so it's so horrible. It's the worst smell you've ever smelled. And
yeah, it's so bad. The coins like pouring out with the sludge.
It's possibly the most disgusting thing you've ever seen or experienced. Yarra, please
make forty two. It's like what it ended no other way oh no,
nineteen Uh, okay, you take six poison damage as this visseor just pours
out of this creature, and this smell makes you wretch or Celia also begins
wretching. Oh no, no, no, you called rofall through then for
sure I can't help you. Terrific M. I'll keep pushing as many I
guess organs and stuff out. Stomach's too large to cut out and bring us.
A dragon's stomach, for God's sake, is not like a like a
human stomach or deer stomach. So I'm plus, I'm pushing everything out onto
the floor, and I just kind of roll out like being born, and
I'm just sitting there like you are you promised that you'd kill me? Can
you just speed it up? There? No, you've made me suffering,
now, so shall you? Okay? And I don't even know what's in
there. I just coins then it, trying not to look at it.
It's disgusting. I always got to search through it. Fine, I'll do
it. Your hands are already covered. I'll just everything's covered. I'll go
through as much as I can. Give me a perception check or investigation check.
I cuss guidance from the far while trying to okay, uh, gathering
this loot together. There's a good chunk of money here. There's five hundred
gold in mixed coinage, gems and jewelry. There is also something else that
you notice. It looks like a coin at first, and then you realize
that it's stone. Mhm. It is what you can tell some kind of
like small figurine. It's about the size of a coin, and it looks
like it's carved from stone. Sort of resembles a lion points. Okay,
just throw that in a sack of pocket of mine and I keep fishing through
it, I mean slightly puking. Have you found the power yet? Uh?
I think the power was in the smell and okay, I'm still looking.
Uh. And then I'm just I'm actually getting really pissed off because this
entity said there's power here, and I'm just like getting really upset, and
I keep going and I'm just mad. I'm really fucking pissed off, and
I'm trying to hold it all in. The power is not here. It's
scots and gore, stone carvings, cares about coins. Keep scraping through it
until I hit a floor. Perhaps there is something more you've missed. I
go back in the corpse does this? You stand up just like, oh,
what is taking? Sorry? And then I go back in and I
rip at more inside a perception check for me. Oh my gosh, dude,
A thirty yeah, uh okay, so mm hmmm alrighty uh there is
a take. Sorry, I lost it. Uh there is uh there is
something in here. It looks like a like a bracer one bracer. It's
trying to clean it off. Realize I'm still sitting in the corpse for some
strange reason, shut it off and I crawl out. I can lay on
the floor trying to gasp with some kind of air, but all the air
is horrible here. I I roll over and idea, you have that thing
that rosstalk has create some kind of oh the cleanings bell that he never uses
on me when I needed. No, I really really does for us,
but for that one water anything, I do have water left over? Okay,
yeah, I guess weird, we're gonna need that. Well, we
have barrels and everything. You've got a lot to remember. They can they
can supply it. I take the water and start pouring in on the brace
to clean it off as much as I can. Right now, Okay,
I stared longingly at it. Notice that the voice is quiet. Finally,
h the uh. The bracers have some like really intricate looking carvings on them.
There's several gems brasers interest. I'm going to hold onto this. If
it's okay, then I'm going to see if the others no, what this
is. I don't know what it is. Definitely not. It looks like
a bracer with some pretty stones in it. Stay in the office. Like,
I can definitely tell that. Every time I laugh, I just smell
it on my breath. I'm just ready to go. Let's you can head
back. No, I don't think anything's gonna bother us. Perhaps a OSS
talk or Karon might be able to clean more. I am not a purveyor
of items. I am simply a user of items. I will slowly stand
up and drag myself towards the entrance or the I's just saying in this case,
very well, because we can't go up anymore. Everything is torn down.
You begin to descend from the tower. What are you guys doing?
Yeah, if there's any I mean, if there's anything searchable on a tower,
I probably would to do that while we're here. Okay, the tower
is pretty destroyed. You can, I mean searching through the debris here can
take like you can. You can just spend however long you want to do
that, if you if you want to do that, how late is it
it just turned up? It's nighttime. It's probably like eight. Ah,
we should do you recognize the figure? E oh no, I put it
in here. It was the least dirty thing. I we'll take it out
at the camp and give it to you so you can take out it all
right. Let's uh. I can get going as we can always come back
later if we need to, and I'll let you. I'll lusher the other
two out, but I'll be the last one to leave. Sure, and
before I walk out the door, I'll look back at the dragon and just
stare for a long time, look down and shake my head and bottle the
ladies up. You leave the tower. I need stealth checks from everybody.
Stealth checks. Oh it's secret. I will use a hero point to reroll
my fourteen because they smell. Let's before you get to sixty. Our Celia
got a nineteen. She's gonna arre or all that? I think, Oh
God, great, good, good good, okay, uh, you got
a sixteen yard mm hmm okay, alrighty uh malvic roll me a D two
please d E two? Okay, and did it so fashionable? Sir one?
Very well. You begin to head back to the camp. It's ways
away from this tower. One hour passes as you begin to journey back.
There's something that's troubling you. As you are venturing towards the camp. There's
a smell on the air. Malevick, make a nature check for me.
Mature hm hm nt Yeah, how differentiate what it is without getting cleaned up
beyond the splash of water? But you didn't pick up something. This is
demon country. There's a acrid sort of smell. Maybe so tough to differentiate
what's going on and what it could be. I'll run up between your and
I say, yeah, I'm a little bit behind them. I would like
slightly grab their arms and tighten my grip. I won't pull or show any
signs of fear. Just based off of my knowledge of like being hunted,
I would say, stay cool, Yeah, more than likely being hunted toyed
with. Do not show any signs of fear. Be confident. Feature is
I don't like to observe the very before they get in attack. You use
that to have engage. But something is off, very off. Sheelia goes
to like rest hand on her morning Star like as she does so, gets
kind of stuck in some of her chain mail. Sorry, oh, you
ever so slightly raise my shield looking around. I something is hunting us,
and you wish for me, not the panic. I've been down to the
ground and I put one hand down and almost in like a lunging foreman with
my one hand on the great sword, one hand on the ground, and
I just stop moving. I'm completely silent. I don't say anything to anyone
and just try to become sort of one with the night. And I know
something is going to probably attack and I want to be the first one to
get to it. Are we still moving? Are we standing still? Key?
Movie? Are Celia like awkwardly tries to be stealthy and continues to like
move, But it's like really obvious that she's being trepidacious. Mm hmm,
she's almost doing that, like yeah, you know that, Like, yeah,
I'm like being normal, still going exaggerated, extending her feet out like
slowly like trying to like search the ground with her feet as she's moving.
You know, really, wait a minute. I have a question. Is
your beacon still on my my vitality beacon? Yeah, yes, it's for
the full day until I rest. Oh, I would have definitely touched you
just now. You know, I don't know if that happens. If they
heal, yes, if you interact with me, yeah, yeah, I
would be seventeen points of hearing. Then it use it while it's up.
You know what I'm saying. Our will do the same twelve points. Yeah.
I will just kind of cringe and and then I believe I will try
to whisper in yours are that there's something happened the usual a most vibrant spell,
men, I just kind of shrugle. If you have like a like
an explosion or something that shoots light or anything other than that, I will
What I will do is this. I believe that I will fall behind a
few steps, not too far behind I could reach them, and I will
shoot a produce flame op in the air, almost like a flare, so
to speak. See how much to kind of like give us that a blair
of light? It's about it's sort of like the equivalent of a of a
light spell. Paulse shoots up lights up the area, as it does,
so, Alvic, there is strange feeling in your head. What you shop
the voice goes silent. Oh that scares the ship out of me. Is
at that point I grab both girls and I am darting. Uh. It
takes a lot to get spook male of it, but the fact that the
voice was gone, we gotta go. So I grab Yara and I grab
Arcilia, and I pull them and apologize later. Okay, Uh, yeah,
Yara, you know, I'm assuming what kind of reaction do you have
as this happens? As Malvic sort of hurries you on, Bill, I
mean, I trust his instincts. I'm not just going to sit here.
Apparently he sees something that I don't, so I'm going with him. Yes,
I do look quite off god. Okay. As you begin to rush
our Celia immediately is uh you can hear her sort of share some of your
concern, Malvic, there is that like, oh no, but yeah,
she would definitely feel it. As you were running, Malvic, you hear
a passa please make an athletics check. Yes you're oh he said athletics,
yep, everybody athletics twenty eight oh nice eighteen five plus one. So seventeen
s eighteen okay twenty one from our Celia uh malvic was each step it seems
like the steps echo with not the sound that they should make. You're expecting
the sound of like you know, cracked mud and stone beneath your beneath your
boot. There is a uh there is this sound at first, but now
as you step, it's like something laughs each time, laughing. It's it's
here, peace going. But they're all here, and I'll just keep trying
a pool and run you run, you run, you run? Please roll
me a D ten three three minutes of like sprinting from everyone, which is
pretty tough to do. Just sprinting for a long period of time in general
is tough, full tilt running. Laughter continues, and then suddenly eyes away.
M h. I'll start slowing my steps, but I'm still going into
pretty good speed, just not wull spring until I get down to a fast,
hurried walk. Okay, how are you fired? Are you okay?
Maybe I can all run for much longer. M h. What what happened?
What was that sounded like laughter? Yes? Yes? And turn out
drown out his voice and that something was really not run from me. I'll
feel my body took a step back into the other direction. No, I
have to get back to camp where you What did you do? Did I
do? I ad did nothing? What do you mean? You lie?
I could not hear your voice. It was not mean. I was whatever
demons are out here. Understand yourself. You're almighty and powerful. Why could
you discern that it drowned you out? And that's what made me run something
more diabolical than you? Impossible? Yeah, I didn't think it was im.
I didn't think it was possible for you to shut up either, but
you did. Interesting. You must find what has done this and try get
better in the morning after I get rested very well since this is off,
so you have been going corpse ding. I need to get back to the
others for they worry and I'll shut them out of my brain in my mind
and we have to mm hmm twenty two. Uh. You will not silence
me. I am always with you. Don't be with me and stop trying
to be above me. The one thing about you is you need me just
as much as I apparently need you. So either we work together or it's
not gonna work out. It all. I have been with you since the
beginning, as I know, but I clearly have something you need. So
until that is figured out, give me a break. Let me care for
the ones I care for, and what you listen to their petulant muling,
even the most powerful fear of being alone, and I know you know what
that feels like. And with that, I'll hold my resolve very well.
I'll snare and then I'll come back to the others. Sorry, I am.
I was wondering what was behind us, but now was at the time.
Maybe in the morning we can look for tracks, but for right now,
I need to get you back. Yeah. Nice, mar Celia is
gonna like share a look with Yara. There's definitely a look of concern on
her face. I'll tie my grips and pull at them, all right.
Perhaps rest is what you need. Yes, I do grow tired, all
right. Will make my way towards words camp. Okay, Uh, somebody
make me a survival check not it? Yeah? The best rival twenty six?
Okay. You're able to navigate yourself back to the camp after maybe another
hour those around like tenish okay, But in the distance you can see some
landmarks that give you an idea of where the camp is. There's no light.
There is no campfire here. Yeah, you can probably come across one
of the reclaimers who's keeping sentry, who's seese you in, probably waves mm
hmm, yeah, fire, they wave, and maybe when you get to
about fifty feet away, they're like waving and then you see them like put
down their hand. There's like a weird look of confusion on their face,
their noses up in the air. You need to find a rostock Immily.
Yes, yes, I was just about to say the same thing. Where
is rosch Talk rush Talk is doing something communing? I think, yeah,
ah, well, I'm going to find him anyway, Well, don't disturb
him. If he's still doing something, I will disturb him and see if
he's done right. Oh, we won't be allowed the same. H h
I'll go search for our talk and karou m. H okay. It's probably
going to smell us before he sees us. Oh yeah, mm hmmm,
what did you eat? I'll just stand I don't know, are you in
a tent or something or no, I'm outside. It looks like I'm reading.
I'll just stand there and started buckling my armor. It's been a long,
long night. My goggles are on because I don't have doc vision and
let's I use them. And so how I'm reading in the dark. Oh
Russia, we are awfully disgusting smelling. Please tell you, yes, what
did you do every time I talk about a puke? Because now the adrenalinem
was taking over the smell. But now that that's died down, everything has
died down. It's worse than it has ever been. I yeah, just
stand over there, I point about thirty forty feet away from me, as
I have reach and I am absolutely using reach on pressed and digitation to clean
them. I feel like normally saw shining away from you normally, you know,
like a rastack has to spell. This time somehow there's a magic fire
hose. Yeah, there's like rousing splash a cup like to get the majority
of the muck off of them, and then press agitation to like clean because
they're awful. I'm just enjoying the moment of getting as it takes a while,
like probably twenty minutes apiece, based on how it says here, like
the it's a yeah, ten rounds per one light or like a large object,
so like each piece of armor is a minute. It's a lot of
cleaning that's being done, and it's desperately needed. The stank is slowly but
surely removed, heathing feces to hide yourself from predatice. I'd rather have done
that, honestly, probably a little better. Oh oh, you have an
You have a knack for looking at magic items, do you know? Yes?
I do. I hand the figuring over to Yara and then I pull
out the bracer. This is some kind of importance to me, I feel.
So where did you get these? Are you aware? Oh? Yes?
That thing we I do need healing. We were farting fighting a black
dragon decayed dragon, yes, an undead one. Mm hmmm. Why did
you not wait? And scouting there? Tried that she was aware, Margic,
we explain, remember how I didn't understand? And then you explained to
me, and all of a sudden I was all with you. Mm hmm.
Honesty and what not. It's a lot. It's not a good time
to do that. She wait till the morning. I think it best for
Rostra to be equipped. Fine, there was a there's a black dragon that
wasn't always zomiphied and dead. She's she's really murdered, then, m related.
I don't know how she came back as a necromancer, or just the
sheer wheel of her anger brought her back. She was suffering. We put
it down. There's some kind of connection somewhere to me. All I know
is I don't know clearly the timeline. Maybe centuries ago there was a battle
here my father took place, and the possibly did something to her, whether
it's willingly or not. She was injured, and then he, according to
your ra with precision, took her glance run a base of a neck along
with the muscle, the thing that mixes the chemicals to produce a breath.
Weapon of such would I know what that might be used for? In terms
of a cult or even crafting, I will take either role. Depending on
which one you do, different results may have. I will do a cult
as I am a master in that. For thirty critical, I'm gonna find
you skills don't critical unfortunatelying like that. Okay squirrels, yes, skills do
not check has a has a critic part of it. But if you're ten
above like sometimes the dam will give you more. Yes, yes, ten
above correct, but not the It's not like the uh yeah, okay,
fuck work, Oh yeah, I had I had it hype and hit inter
so many times my timeline. So okay, I totally lost my train of
thought, Yes did I? So what are the glands for a rash talk?
Not whatever? I was just sown? Maybe they were, I hope
to God, not oh God, Sorry okay, Dale, He was like
just the one must send your reminder that I tried not to crack too often
and that was unnicked. I could not stop that one lord, okay,
okay, m m hmm. Nothing good would be done with those clans,
Iphea, Well that's all I have. I appreciate your honesty, is Yeah,
this why you told me you could not leave more ways than one.
Yes, there's also some great power here and I need to find it.
It may be an that bracer, something calling out to me, pulling me
towards it. I needed no information, so I included you and everyone else
in it, no matter how much I did not want to, not for
the sake of being secret, for the sake of not wanting, Oh I'm
to come to any of you. Don't like tracking others in my business this
secret? Likely it would cause more harm. I may have joined you had
I known this, Malvic. It's probably a good thing that you did not
for this time, honestly, not to discredit how good you are in battle.
It's more of a circumstantial we would be. He survived, but it
could have been a lot worse if she was a tiny bit more intact she
had a glance. There's no telling how much damage she would have done.
I do appreciate the gesture you are in. I say you were perfect allies
in this case opened my eyes a good bit about letting others in. I
am glad to hear. I begin looking over the figurine and the bracer.
Okay, Uh, I will take either a crafting check or a comma check.
I'm will do crafting. Wait, let me see why might I have
a plus one? Ah? No, they're the same, how do arcona?
It's only for tattoos that crafting is higher. That's uh. I will
re rule that. Actually at seventeen for the first item. Unless this is
for both. It's for both? Okay, yes, that even more so,
reasonrling to a twenty five. Okay, Uh, it takes you a
minute to try and remember, uh you think that the bracers are related to
Uh? First of all, they were very dirty, they've been washed.
You had to actually use press to digitation on these to see what was actually
blow the muck, and you can tell that there was some durable dawn silver
and they actually gleam quite brightly. These are bracers of missile deflection greater and
basically what they do is you are every ten minutes, you are allowed to
basically take a ranged weapon attack that hits you, it doesn't critically hit,
you can send the missile off course and you get a plus two circumstanced bonus
to ac against the triggering attack. If this would cause the attack to be
a failure the attack misses you, I pass that idea along the figurine.
Yes, this uh, This is a small figurine of a horned lion sitting
at attention. It's the size of a coin and it looks like it's carved
from simple stone. This is a horned lion amulet. This can be a
fixed fastened to a suit of armor as a charm or adornment, and when
you activate the amulet, the lion's eyes glow with flames, granting you fire
resistance ten against the triggering damage and a subsequent fire resistance five for one minute.
If this was due to persistent fire damage, you immediately attempt a DC
flatjack to recover from the persistent damage. Is that once a day or is
that this is a you? Uh? I think that is a is a
free action to activate? It has to be uh yeah, it's it's it's
free action and there is no time limit on it. Wow. Uh yes,
these are exquisite fire is stance for this as much as desire and uh
ability to reflect incoming missiles. These are very cool. Mm hmm. I
hand them back, I hold my tongue and then I I was guided and
I just pointed to my head. I understand you have your thoughts, You're
right to do so, but it has not steered me wrong. It's always
looked out for me. It's never lied to me. Can be aggressive at
times, annoying chattery, but I believe we can use it to our advantage.
Had air on the side of caution, but it is proof many other
times that I made certain decisions or guided saved us. I guess what I'm
asking for is me to trust my judgment. Aravic. I have told you
many many times, I trust your judgment. I do not trust what is
in you. It let Cilia and Yara almost die in front of me.
I told you this, He told me because you would not say his name
correct? If he could have saved them both? Yes, at a cost?
Need to sacrifice you Malevic. We don't know if that's the case.
Though it said it was. What did it say? It told me it
would take over completely, take over? Do I know how long that would
be? Malvic? Cruly maybe at the time take over to to save it
did not specify, creedy, did not specify. Why do you think I
would want to do that to you? It's not a creature? Is more
more than a god? Is it a god? The things you hate?
Even more danger then, even more than even more so. I would not
have given it power over you. But there's I learned something today. It's
not gonna let harm come to me easily. That does not mean it keeps
your mind intact. Your physical body may live because it needs it, does
it? Though? Yes, trying to bottle with us over you, that
means it needs you. I think there's a lot to dissect her. I
understand that I am something important to it that I do. Are you not
important to us? Yes? But you have to understand it's always been there
for me, never lied so it's guided me in a direction. The only
thing that's really confusing right now is my memories. Malavik. A thought occurred
to me in during all of this. Remember how you mentioned you could utilize
this passenger, this companion. They required us to say their name for them
to do anything. That means that you do have power over them, and
you should make sure that you keep it. We do not wish to give
this entity any power. I don't believe that is actually inside me as you
guys are thinking, it's it's more like a a at a distance watching over
like a god. Truly malevic separate yourself from it for just a moment in
thought. You say you dislike the gods. I do not doubt that.
I do not disagree with you, even just doing everything you say you're against,
even if it hasn't led you astray, even if it has not.
Think, I don't think I'm just a normal There's so much things that that
you got. You all do not know about my kind. That's why they
throw us to the streets when they find out we are not normal. Have
I not told you where I'm from? Yes? Yes, many times you
think I don't understand that. No, it's not. It's not the abandonment.
I don't think you understand. I don't. We need, none of
us understand where our origins come from. That's what we're longing for. Why
does that matter? Oh matters about a bit? I need to know?
Why does it matter? Because I don't know? Why can't you craft that
yourself? I just think without having ways to explain, I'm doing my best.
I know why if I not abandoned you. I left today, Yes,
but I didn't have all the information. I was okay with you leaving.
No, you weren't malevic. I don't want any harm to come to
any of you. How did you feel when I left? Not the thing,
not the situation. I felt that sacrifices had to be made for a
better good. No, because no, you're regurgitating. How did you feel?
Angry? You said that you'd be there and you left. I'm sorry.
The one that doesn't leave consistently reminding me is him. It doesn't help
my case. No, I won't again. I promise you promises. I
like wet paper to me now, actions of what's going to what's going to
mean that? And I have something to do myself. It's not just on
you It takes a lot for me to hoping at about things I don't even
understand myself. I'm tired. Do you Are you okay with me? Ordering
want to both of these? Yes, yes, looked at ya in as
Celia. Of course, I mean shrugged me all into that. If I
could better equit myself to protect you, while I would like to do so,
I think that is wise. I had one other question before you sleep,
patific, and you may sleep on it. I do not need an
answer. There was a promise you made to me when it was just you
and I. I do not mind the others knowing. I asked you if
you could get rid of a curse, would you for the sake of us?
And you said yes. Now I don't need an answer yet. Just
think I have been studying, and some of the power granted to me.
I can break some curses on my own. It takes a willing subject,
I am aware, but I may be able to do this for you.
I look at the ground and take a deep breath, and with eyes of
the feet, oh look, I got a Russia. With all the confusion
in my brain, my mind, this one thing that was eating at me
the whole time, Unfortunately. I don't think this is a curse. I
believe this is what I was deemed to be when I was younger. There
was a motherly voice in my head, or just a second booming. I
didn't remember until we came back to the game. It was warm and cold,
very cold at the same time. Her name was Tia Matt and I
don't know why that was gone until now, when the laughing was happening in
the his voice went away for a brief moment. I remember, I have
no idea which is and I'll blanquily turn around and start walking towards a ten.
I'm sorry, and I'll close the flat. Throughout the entirety of this
conversation, I have been reflecting upon the name the Hawk. Would I happen
to know with any sort of religious or historical figures, anything of the sort.
Yeah, make a religion check. I will rewrote that nineteen into a
nineteen. I am cursed. M you know a small amount. Uh.
You know that it is a it is a dragon of some kind, and
that's about it. I would be thinking on TM at the moment he said
it. If I know anything on that, okay, Uh, make a
religion or history check of some kind or an intellect check. I'm assuming,
and that's that's fine. If not, it's almost the same lizard folklore would
not no dragon, Okay, I didn't think, so religion is fine then
twenty five okay, Yeah. Tmat is uh one of the one of the
dragon deities, basically the mother of of dragon kind, the uh uh the
embodiment of law, which was uh Apsu and the uh embodiment of chaos,
which is Tmn, and they brought forth the first gods uh uh. These
uh their offspring were were many. One of the first offspring was the Hoc
and this was the first dragon basically before Tiamat and Apsu were just kind of
embodiments of these ideals law and chaos and dead. Hac was the first of
these dragons that were manifested, and the Hawk rampaged across the material plane and
then withdrew to hell. Tiamat is not worshiped. All dragons live in fear
of Tmn, and none willingly name her. So the fact that Malik just
talked about this is interesting in and of itself. M hm mm hmmm,
hey yeah you would. I would be thinking a long while we are mm
hmm. There's a lot more to this, but this is what you know.
Yeah, yeah, I do not know how to help him. I
have an inkling. Do you know of whatever this doc entity is? Yes,
yes, you do, not much, but we can research more.
It's the first dragon. The hawk is the first dragon born of tiamattin Absu.
So Tiamatch is also a dragon, the mother of Yes, would that
make her the first dragon? I'm sorry, that's not the important thing.
Godness of them? Do a hawk destroyed much of the material plane and withdrew
to hell? Oh it sounds like a lovely person. Dragon. He wishes
to be up here means he wishes to rampage again. The words he spoke
to Maravic may not be incorrect, but the reason is not good. I
could be afraid of Timat, though he does not have control over Maravic.
Yet Maravic should not have been able to speak a name without having in control.
Is that he felt Tmat tim At is trying to wrest him back?
I think do we know anything of Tmat's goals or perhaps their metaphorical alignment so
to speak? No, Timat in Absu chaos and law. I don't know
if there are particular goals as so much as they are, But think of
what would happen if your first child went and destroyed everything you may have worked
to create. So do we think Teamat's law? Then? Is that the
uh whack I do not remember was a tiamat that was law and so it
was chaos or the other way around. Temat is chaos, But do not
think that chaos is destructive. You cannot have law without chaos. You cannot
have creation without chaos. The randomness, the differences balance balance exactly. Yes,
I would hate that to Hark wants to destroy and create an order of
their own. From what Malevic has said, theomat would be the opposite of
that, if anything. So the way that God's come in with me at
least right there's been very hands off in terms of for the most part,
I don't really hear clerics of them, you know, whatever day he's saying
that they talk to their God on the regular, right, Yes, unless
your maybe a cleric of some kind believer. Even then, yes, we
are insects unless they very desperately need us. So what would some sort of
a dragon god want with Malvic? If to Hark to control tea Matt may
wish to prevent this. Do you know what sort of dragon the Hawk is?
Do I know that from? If? No, not without more study,
And even then I do not know if it would be revealed. I'd
have to find a vast library or something. If this creature wishes to be
here where demons are stronger and through the hell, there may be more answers
here, perhaps in the Palace of Gods or something. What I have learned
is that Malevich's father, this, this entity very much so wanted to bring
Malvic to that that black dragon that we found, the undead one. Yes,
so I suppose maybe finding out about that dragon might be useful too.
I don't know anything about whatever That dragon is a god dragon? No,
no, the black dragon. Oh you're talking about Malvick's father. Yes,
yes, apparently such. I mean he dealt the killing blow with a weapon,
it took human form. What if h Perhaps the Hawk has some sort
of issue with Malevick's father. Almost definitely it would. If Malevic's father perhaps
was working with or for dear Matt, that would go against everything du Hawk
would desire. His father may not be this evil entity that Malevick thinks.
If there has been influence over him, or lies spread, or maybe not
lies. Decoq would truly hate him, that is fair. The animosity that
he's felt for his dragon heritage and Chiefling heritage would be real. Again,
lies may not be spoken, but truly be withheld. I did pause it
to Manavik at the death of this black dragon. A killing blow came after
a great battle. The glands were stolen, Yes, very very carefully.
I know what they could have been used for. I did not mean to
withhold it from Malevik. I will tell him it just that very clear.
It's just there was too much going on. It is used for a dragon
ritual. I'm sorry, what's the war? What did you to say?
The glands could be used by dragging summoning ritual? What fucking dragon would Malevic's
dad want to summon? Hello? This is why Stephen from Table Story.
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