The voice was trying to say "Corgi". You are a corgi. The brown thing is another corgi.

Try to make sense of what's going on.

>>300756
This is correct.

>>300764
>>300756

And you are both receptionists at a popular law firm.

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/01(Sun)16:58 No. 300775 ID: 856690
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You consider your existence, the very act of thinking makes something clear to you, know now you think in voices.
+ Lawdog (voice +1)
-The voice was trying to say "Corgi". We are a corgi. The brown thing is another corgi.-
(voice +1) -This is correct-
You are on the verge of deciding that you are a corgi, however, considering the brown thing is too large to be a corgi, you dismiss those voices as receptionists + Z (voice +1).
[Your voices are slightly more chaotic]

+ Anon44 (voice +1)

You try to make sense of what is going on.

...

Everything is clearer now, you can see better, a Nighom[human] is before you, she is a Erim, one of the main Nighom breeds of the land of Erimael, You appear to be in a vat of liquid... or maybe it isn't liquid, something with bubbles anyway.

The Erim is standing before us, arms crossed, she has violet eyes and jet black hair, it is long. She is small and dark skinned, she wears a orange robe and skull cap, many things are on the belt at her waist. You are in an alchemy lab. There are many strange and wonderful things, though considering you are new that is to be expected.

"Are you awake?" She asks, her voice coarse.

You still do not know what you are, or what in Relhs is happening.
[Voice; 4]

>>300775
Alchemy lab... We're a homunculus.

Try to respond in the affirmative.

-Alchemy lab... We're a homunculus- (voice +1)

-We hear, We are awake-

The Erim female smiles.
"Wonderful, I heard you, now... lets see..."
she fiddles at the bottom of your vat, you cannot see, as you try to you see that you are quite luminous. You feel you could change the colour of your luminessence

"That should do it"
MORE knowledge floods into your mind, it burns and sears and bubbles flood rapidly upwards.

"Couldn't complete your basic conditioning until you were awake, now, let us see, where to begin..."

"Of course! Introductions I am Defiu Unnad, you may think of me as your mother, I don't have a name for you only a number, thought you'd like to pick your own, I'm sure you're a bit confused by all this, feel free to ask me things while I work on you..."

She bends down, tinkering at your vat again...

What do you know about alchemy? What is Relhs? Ask her what you are, and what you were created for. Turn blue.

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/01(Sun)18:55 No. 300824 ID: 856690
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+Incoherent Voice (voice +1)
You think upon your knowledge of alchemy, it's fairly basic. Alchemy is the mysterious art of changing the state of things, generally by mixing them together with other things. making a fire from two pieces of wood can be said to be alchemy as can mixing the tears of a fire elemental with wood. It is the hidden art of action and recation. Generally only the more impressive stuff is called alchemy.

Your thoughts drift to thinking about Relhs, the realm of torment, were Vikkael is king, all in all it doesn't make for nice thinking matter.

-What are we?-

"What? Oh, sorry, how thoughtless of me, you are a Chorus of Whispers, A Jinnuos. Basically you are a construct of thoughts, voices. A Spirit of Wills, a guide."

-What were we created for?-

Defiu, stands up and stares at you as you turn a soft blue.
[You now have more Identity]
"You were made to guide..."
Defiu turns and points.
"That!"
What she points at is a vat that looks for all intents and purposes to be empty.

"Nothing really there yet, but I'm going to make a homunculus and you shall be it's guide and protecter, a blank sheet which you shall write on!"

Defiu explains she wanted you to to choose what kind of homunculus
She asks you to choose;
Gender
Male or Female?

Race (appearance)
Nighom;
(Erim, most common Nighom of Erimael)
(Driu, large, stong, black skin, sandy hair, gem like eyes, work slave race, common)
(Kiosa, average, black or sandy red haired, tanned-looking, blue eyes most are considered outlaws very common)
(Urtoan, red eyes, purple hair, petie, pigmentless skin, earth dwellers less common above ground)

Sioalf(elves)
Loirks(red elves, dragon blooded, red skin, black hair Very common)
Untai (dark-elves, dark-skinned, brown to black or white hair tall common)

Dwarves (Abharn)
Suface, Kelabin( Dark skinned,curly black haired, cone headed, not common)
Rock (Rocky skin)

Lizardpeople (Seehi)

Filias (cat people)

Those are all the races she has parts for. Though you can mix races, any more than two however will mean the homunculus will be viewed, detested and feared as a Tainted a cross breed of the races.

[Voice; 6]

"What is their task or list of tasks to be?"

Become a male lizardperson. Turn green. Ask why the homunculus needs guidance from you.

Lets go with Seehi gender doesn't matter to me.

Female Seehi. Ask her about why she is doing this.

Suggestion 2011/05/02(Mon)08:46 No. 300951 ID: 856690
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{Credit of cool pictures goes to those who made them, i.e. not me}

(joined voice, vote on gender tied, race consensus) -A male Seehi- (voice +1)

You turn green (new power 1/??)

"Huh, seehi eh?" Defiu responds.

She begins to dump things into a compartment in the bottom of the empty vat.

Incoherent Voice -Why does the homunculus need our guidance?-

(voice +1)-What is their task or list of tasks to be?-

+Deadbeard (voice +1) -Why do you do this-

She continues to work as she talks.

"Right to the big questions eh? The homunculus will be a blank state, you'll guide it... him as so as something can't just take charge of his body. This homunculus has a special task, which is why I need you to guide it, I'll tell you more once the homonculus is done..."

She turns a lever at the base of your vat, everything begins to go dark...
"For now, I need you dormant, you aren't quite finished."

You feel unsatisfied with her answers, she seemed unwilling to give much information. Further thought eludes you as you slip into unthinking oblivion.

"Why am I doing this?... I haven't any other choice..."

* * * * *

You wake to fire and destruction. The Lab is a swirling inferno, nearly unrecognisable.
The Lizardman is fully formed, Defiu smashes the vat open with a length of metal, she drags the body over to a strange circular device on a pedestal.
She turns to your vat and smashes that open too. Then she hobbles over to the pedestal. One of her legs is wounded, she is also missing an arm.

"I won't let it end here" She turns on the power, looking sadly at you.
"I can't come with you, need to stay behind... make sure HE can't follow you two, I'm sorry I couldn't finish you both"

Far behind her, you see a red robed figure, arms cloaked in flame, his shining white hot eyes pierce you to your soul.

His voice sounds in your mind, flame rippling behind the words "I see you... I will find you..."

The lab fades Defiu's sad smile, tears down her face, are the last thing that you see.

Your vision returns. You are in a small cave, there is an entrance close by, some light shines through it. The Lizardman homunculus is lying prone on the ground. He doesn't move. It appears he has not awoken.

You are mildly distressed and very confused. The Red robed figure was terrifying.

You recall that you were meant to guide the homunculus.
You could haunt him, (This binds you strongly, you can whisper to the host and
possess him (The body becomes yours, this is not nice and will in the end leave the body an uninhanbitable husk), or
connect with him (You will be able to whisper nothing more).
Or you could do nothing. There might be more ways of interacting... You are completely freewilled.

(Voice; 9)

Sorry, messed up that post...

Missing haunting information;
This binds you strongly, you can whisper to the host and use power through the host, or innate abilities, the host can ignore suggestions.

Possession; The body is yours, until it warps.

I suggest that we remain of seperate form until we must bond.

We should not TAKE the body as our own, not only is this not what we where made for, but two heads are better than one.

Let's explore around a bit...we'll think of something when he wakes up later.

Yeah, if we can communicate with the homunculus without bonding, I'd say stay seperate for now.

Otherwise, haunt.

Stay seperate for now and attempt to find other methods to communicate. If we can't, haunt it.

Lizards are not Kittens Insufferablemystic 2011/05/03(Tue)09:52 No. 301195 ID: 856690
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+Calimari God, +littlebeast, +DoubleU
(Voice +3) (Voice unison!) (Will up!)
You decide to remain unbound for the moment, you figure you'll think of what to do with the homunculus when he has woken up...

You decide to explore the cave...

It isn't very big...
It is very damp and mossy...
The floor is soft earth, a number of rocks are littered about the place.
There are some glowy mushrooms. They glow a faint orange.
A small purple crystal formation juts out, the light from the cave entrance is refracting off it in an attractive manner.
There is a exit, a pile of rubble makes a ramp to it, you cannot see outside the light shines through too brightly.

!

The Seehi homunculus begins to stir! He slowly unfolds, staying sitting on the ground and looking with wonder around him, the glowy mushrooms, the purple light caused by the gems and the light from the exit.

You almost feel as if you are watching a little kitten.

That is if kittens were large, brownish-yellowish scaled had the eyes of a lizard, had dangerous claws and were buck naked.

Well... the buck naked and dangerous claws parts fit... sorta...
Still for a Lizardman, he is kinda adorable. What with the green eyes with with childish wonder.
You also feel a sense of familiarity towards the homunculus.

Do you wish to disturb him?
Perhaps you want to scout the surrounding area?
Or maybe there is something else in the cave you wish to do?

Voice: 12

Little picture is mine this time, decided I'll try do some basic wee things in gimp

Go over to the crystals and match your color to theirs, and then do the same thing with the mushrooms.

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/03(Tue)12:03 No. 301217 ID: 856690
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First the crystals
(new colour! Purple Crystal) (new power 2/??)

And then...

MUSHROOM!!!! Insufferablemystic 2011/05/03(Tue)12:08 No. 301218 ID: 856690
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THE MUSHROOMS!
(New colour! Smolder MUSHROOM!!) (new power 3/??)

The homunculus seems not to have noticed your antics...

What now?

Float over in front of the homunculus and try cycling through the four colors. See if you can get his attention.

Disco is so dead Insufferablemystic 2011/05/03(Tue)14:03 No. 301246 ID: 856690
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OHHHHH!!!! YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!! (New power 6/??)
Freakout like a mage who's miscast a fireball...

Critically

Not a twitch...
Either he is a vegetable or he can't see you, wouldn't be that odd considering you are mostly magic.

Just as well he couldn't see you, that was really lame..., sides could've given somebody a seizure!

Can we pick things up? Draw in the dirt?

Unfortunately your abilities of interacting with the world are about as good as a Shade's, in other works you can't pick anything up, and you can pass through most objects. Part of the whole not having a physical body thing.

This might change in the future, but for now you're mostly whispers and spirit...

But you can always whisper...

Which makes your time at the lab even more mysterious...

poltergeist like stuff may be within your reach later, but now you are a weaksauce magic spirit.

Communicate with him. A simple "Hello. Do you have a name?" will do. Let's see if he's intelligent enough to comprehend.

>>301265
Whisper it to him. We know how to whisper, don't we? Turn the same color as him, maybe that will help.

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/04(Wed)05:42 No. 301395 ID: 856690
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You turn the same colour as him
[New colour; Darkgold scale]
DoubleU,Incoherent Voice -Hello? Do you have a name?- you whisper out to the Lizardman homunculus.

You are surprised as you hear the Lizardman's mind echo back in yours.
Who am I? I don't even have a name...
Where is this... What should I do?

It appears as though you changed what he was thinking about rather than conversed with him, you could try establishing yourself as a different presence...

You remember that you yourself have no name, you never even knew the number you were...
[New skill: Suggestion(Unconscious)]
[Congratulations! you can now redirect thought patterns of those you whisper to!]

Whisper to him to look for you.

Yay, extra level of indirection.

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/04(Wed)13:31 No. 301453 ID: 856690
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-Look for me-

The homunculus gets a feeling that there is another presence besides himself, however upon looking about and seeing nothing, he passes it off as nothing.

He goes over to the crystal formation, picking up a sharp and examining it.

Only haunting reveals you to beings that can't see spirits, and even then only the one you are haunting, you can whisper to anyone... but not communicate directly, unless the being is canny enough to work out they are being influenced

Whisper to him that he isn't alone.

Tell him we are his guide, but cannot manifest ourselves in a permanently visible body. Haunt him if he doesn't believe us.

we should make it such that he does not wish us gone. as we are meant to guide this one, we do not want him to reject us, after all.

(wisper) /We where made to share a mind, but *our* form is thought, while yours is body. We are here To help/

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/04(Wed)19:13 No. 301539 ID: 856690
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+Dhar, DoubleU, Calimari God
(Voice Unison) (Will up!) (voice +1)
-You are not alone-
This time the Lizard homunculus freezes.
"Who are you, that I cannot sss-see you?"
Conveniently for you, he also thinks the question, making enough of a connection that you can speak into his mind.

-We are a guide, we are magic luminous, we cannot be seen by normal eyes-

"What do you want of me?" the homunculus hisses, still wary...

-We were made to share a mind, but *our* form is thought, while yours is body. We are here To help-

He seems to think a while, unknowing that you hear all his thoughts.

Strange being this is, but I feel a... kinship... with it strange...

"Fine I sss-shall accept your guidance, I am confusssed... Sssso guide, what do you will of me?" he says, looking about the cave.

[New skill; Connection: Echo tap!, the third weakest connection!]
[New Skill; Whisper]
[You have formed a loose connection!]
[You have gained an Aegis! Nameless Homunculus!]

[Path missed: The Hidden Advisor]
[Unlocked: The Open Guide]
Reward: Useful info!
Homunculi have a worse reputation than Tainted, good reason too, as often evil beings possess newly made homunculi, as a fresh one has no soul. They slowly grow one. Apart from that many homunculi go insane!
Making Homunculi is not a game! :D

Aegis is a crazy word, so many meanings!Main meaning here is custody of a person

>>301539
Ask him what he remembers of his task. Turn red, then set your color to slowly shifting from red to blue, then back again, repeating.

>>301570
This, also peek out the hole and see what's outside.

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/05(Thu)14:33 No. 301690 ID: 856690
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-What Do you remember of your task?-

You turn red [new colour gained! Red] [New power 8/??]

The Lizard homunculus looks confused,
"Tasssk? What tassk, you ss-seem to know more of me than I do, I know nothing of myssself..."

This is worrying, did Defiu not even have the time to give him some directives?

You begin to shift from red to blue, and then back repeating...
[New theme! Onja Wave!]

!
[New Power 10/10! However, you need a {realization} of the power before you gain it. If you can come up with something I didn't think of that fits with the unlocking process, you'll gain that and the original power, if multiple fits are found one of your voices may count as inspired!]

You decide to see what is outside of the cave... You feel a strange tingling sensation as you move your head out-side, almost like something wishes you not to leave, the feeling quickly disappears.

What you see is... well put it this way, you're sure you aren't in Erimael anymore... not with the grasses and trees here. You do get savannas and prairies in Erimael... but not meadow like this and not trees like these...

Cri'Kigan...

The Pompously named 'centre' continent of the world of Kigan. You're... a long way from home. Some distance ahead you see a village, to your right, in the distance is a forest, anything else is too far to see. To your left ruins, you don't know of what...

You're pretty sure you aren't even in floodlands of Heirm, which is the tail of Cri'Kigan closest to Erimael.

[Path missed: Ow! What the?]
[Path missed: Standard solutions are Boring]
[Unlocked: Problem? What problem? requirement; exit the cave with no problems]
Reward: Hint!
Was it an accident ending up in this cave? Also; soft earth.

Well that's just great, we have no idea what we're supposed to do.

...um, powerup: change the color of other objects?
ooh, or change the material we're made of!

Anyway, consider the possibility that the circle of rocks around the homunculus is a portal.

>>301690
>[New Power 10/10! However, you need a {realization} of the power before you gain it. If you can come up with something I didn't think of that fits with the unlocking process, you'll gain that and the original power, if multiple fits are found one of your voices may count as inspired!]

I have no idea what this means.

Go back and examine the floor of the cave, since apparently soft earth means something.

>>301690
New Power: Our body is similar to a prism, we can now create illusions by changing the colors and brightness of light.

Investigate more about the cave, there might be something we missed...

The circular device Defiu put us and the Seehi on was some kind of transporter.

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/06(Fri)16:52 No. 301965 ID: 856690
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littlebeast, DoubleU
(+1 voice)
You direct the Seehi to look about the earth of the cave, you consider that the ring of stones that was around the Seehi may have been a teleporter pad.

You get him to dig away some of the earth, seeing as how, there might be a pad, as it turns out, instead the Seehi's claws hit against something.

A chest. It is unlocked and the Seehi opens it before you can react.

Inside is;
A steel short sword in scabbard, with a belt to go with it. A large cloak, a rucksack with dried meat in it. There is also a note, it reads thusly.

Do not trust Parumrir.
Erimael is in danger...

Well, that was spectacularly unenlightening, clearly Defiu was not expecting she wouldn't have time to insert directives, but she was expecting to be disturbed...

All the random colour changing you've been doing makes you come to a realization! You can use your body to emulate a prism, allowing you to create illusions by changing the colors and brightness of light.

At the same time you realize you can make a blast of quickly shifting and flashing colour!

[New power!: Pyscadellic blast
This makes a seizure granting blast of light, outside of haunting, it only works on beings which can innately see you, basically the thing looking at you will suffer an unpleasant seizure, doesn't affect things that don't see with eyes or with quick enough minds.]

[Mirage Prism; You can create non-magical illusions, they are limited to the kind of illusions which can be done via manipulation of light]

[There is another power you could discover, now that you know you can manipulate your body as light emitter]

[You Found a minor Secret!]

With that over, there hardly seems need to remain in the cave, what will you do?

Might be no new update until Sunday, Nephew's party Saturday

Ability: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (LASER)
Ability: Invisibility (to things that normally see you)

Tell your ward all that you saw since your birth

Ability: Visibility - Allows creatures that would not normally see you to see you as a projection on a surface. Also allows for projection of illusions by emitting relatively dim light directly into someones eyes.

C'mon Heads Up Display

>>301965
>>302481
Nevermind, didn't read the post.

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/08(Sun)14:11 No. 302516 ID: 856690
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+MrTT, +Shifter55
(+ 2 voice)

[Congratulations! You have gained an Inspired Voice! You can use these voices when trying to convince a haunted or connected character, basically it is an unresisted order you can give. There may be other uses]

Being able to manipulate the light your body gives off is fun, you concentrate, hard and you figure out how to fire a beam of light!
It doesn't seem to affect anything though... if only there was some way to manifest it.

[New power gained: Pure Beam!](For now it only affects non-corporeal beings.)

You apply another idea you thought of, and warp the light around you... becoming invisible! Or at least that's the idea, you'll need a being that can see you first...

[New power gained: Light of Shadows] (For now only works on beings with low magic vision)

[You are now a bit better at manipulating light]

You consider the usefulness of making images appear on a beings eyes...
[You are able create a illusionary vision aid IVA on anyone you haunt]
[New Skill gained, IVA!] Aww yeah!

[Mirage Prism, 10/10 15/??]

>>302451
You tell your ward all that you saw since your 'birth'

He clutches his head...
"I'm... a homunculussss"

You are worried he might do something rash, he doesn't look remotely happy.
A torrent of emotions cross his scaly face. Then he stands up, quite calm and punches the crystal formation, it shatters into pieces.

"I... what difference does it make? I am me..." a hissing laugh
"But who am I? An empty exissstence?, devoid of name and purpossse? No..."

He addresses the air before him, clearly meaning to address you.
"Hear me Guide unssseen! Will you guide me? guide me back to Erimael? To find my purpossse, to find that which I wasss meant to do? To accept it or reject it?"

"Tell me where to go"
He says as he makes a kilt from the cloak, using the cutting a hole for his tail, and securing it with the belt. He slams the blade into the scabbard.
"I will make a name for myssself! The Red Robed Mage will PAY!"

[Nameless Homunculus; has gained more identity, has become determined, has a {Goal}]
[Nameless Homunculus' {Goal} Return to Erimael and discover purpose]
[Nameless Homunculus has a nemesis; The Red Robed Mage]

[Path missed: No... No I'M NOT!!!!]
[Path missed: Reveal of Nature]
[Path missed: Who needs Purpose, We have adventure!]

[Unlocked: I, Homunculus. Requirement, Tell the Seehi he is a homunculus before exiting the cave]
Reward: Useful info
Homunculi often have a strange power, usually related to the materials used in their construction. Homunculi are the only beings more flexible in how they can affected by magic than Nighoms. The making of a Homunculus is both a mark of alchemical mastery and a utterly forbidden act, mainly forbidden for how easily it can go horribly wrong. Only the creation of a new race is more forbidden and a greater alchemical act.

[Unlocked: Homunculus' Vow of Vengeance. Requirement, hear the artificial seehi vow vengeance against the Red Robed Mage]
Reward: Hint
There are advantages to staying separate and advantages to haunting, neither will harm the host. Keep in mind a character's mindset when influencing them.

>>302516
Well, looks like there's nothing left for us to do here. Let's check out the ruins then.

Perhaps we should have the Seehi collect some crystal before leaving.

We should test how our light reacts to phisical objects. If it disapears on contact, or bounces of with no effect, or phases through.this could be important, for instance, if it bounces of, we can percieve invisible things in the real world by bouncing waves of our ethereal light off of them.
Also, how sensitive are we to our aura, and that of the seehi?

Ask,"do you wish for yourself a name, created one?"

both of them need a name. Before leaving the cave lets come up with names.

Well, considering we can emit colours and are etherial Spectrum sounds like a decent name for us.
As for the Seehi, I don't know - something associated with determination, returning to home, etc.?
After all, what's in a name?

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/09(Mon)17:03 No. 302857 ID: 856690
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(Voice unison!) (Will up!) (Your voices feel more harmonious)

"I will make a name for myssself! The Red Robed Mage will PAY!"

-You wish for yourself a name created one?-

"Yesss, I will earn a name! until then I am Nirdhar!!"

-Nirdhar?(Means; One who is driven) a fitting cloak-

"What of yourself Ss-spirit, what mantle will you take?"

What indeed?, you think of how Nirdhar does indeed seem driven now... What of yourself? A luminous being, emitting light that none but the magical can see...

Spectrum... a good a title as any...

-For now, I shall go be Spectrum-

Silence comes over you and Nirdhar, as you both reflect upon your new identities...

[Both you and Nirdar have gained more {Identity}]
[Various beings will no longer be able to control you simply]
[You feel more {whole}]


[Goodwill Bonus!] Thanks for sticking with me thus far!
You direct Nirdar to gather some of the shattered crystal, as he does so one of the pieces he picks brushes off of you. There is a pulling sensation, as you feel as if the crystal is trying to draw you in...

It stops abruptly... the crystal , being... saturated? The crystal is still purple but there is a shifting red-blue inside, you feel a bit of power from it and a connection... Nirdhar turns it over in his hands as if sensing something, but he sees nothing and puts it in the rucksack

Odd.

You put this from your voices, and decide to test your light on a few objects... The light seems to go through objects both rocks and Nirdar providing no resistance the light fades after a distance, loosing magical consistency. The remains of crystals however... consume the light... you find this a bit unsettling, but then crystals are known for their abilities of holding magics.

Speaking of magic...

You look at what little of your own aura you can see...
Blue-red light shifts and turns, weak, but a sense of... stability?

Nirdhar's is quite different
blank, empty, but flecks of gold in twisting emerald... The twists of emerald are all that exist in it and they seem very thin and brittle.

[Your magic sight is empowered!]
[You can analyse auras now!]

Nirdhar finishes putting the crystal shards in his rucksack, he seemed drawn to the ones you effected with your light.

You and Nirdhar leave the caves heading for the ruins, feeling unready to deal with the natives of this land.

[Death Missed: The Purple Prison]
[Path Missed: We are Monsters who need no Names]

[Unlocked: The Driven One: Requirement; the seehi homunculus gives himself a name before leaving the cave, Unlocking I, Homunculus]
Reward/Punishment: World Lore
Magic in Kigan is strange... in one sense it can be described as force of anticipation, make every thing look like fire will come from your fingers and it likely will... or not. Magic is animation, movement, when magic is drained from a thing it doesn't die it just... stops. Magic comes in three forms.

Heartflame: Wild raw magic from the centre of Kigan core, using this causes cancer of the spirit and one can easily get drunk on this power of creation.

Pollen: This constantly falls from the world tree Yaibggael (Yab-g-gale) who's leaves cover all but the lost ocean of Yuikna and whose root go deep into the Heartflames. The more pollen, the easier it is to do magic stuff.

Motes: These are what most spells turn into, a magic equivalent of ash. Though Motes are by far the safest and easiest to use.

Small Update coming after this, incidentally should I make a discussion for info dumping some world lore/answering question not pertaining to plot etc...?

A Ruin Stands Before Ye! Insufferablemystic 2011/05/09(Mon)17:51 No. 302862 ID: 856690
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You stand before the ruins, you have no idea what kind they are. You have a little knowledge of Leoni and Crikigan, and this looks older than the Great Paladin King Darleon... Which means there wasn't a chance Defiu would have put any knowledge of these places in your head. She clearly wasn't expecting you to be in Cri'Kigan...

So why did the teleporter send you there?

It is now dark and the light moon, Nanlach glows above, as do the lesser fruits of the great anchor tree Yaibggael. The Ruins stand before you, they are quite impressive for being so old, crumbled and overgrown. A shining sphere hovers between runed pillars, energy crackling between them and it...

There must be a reason this hasn't been disturbed.

Your Voices swirl as you consider what to do.

[Roll three separate 1d6, two encounters and one position, state whether encounter roll or position]

I don't know how to roll dice on here. I suppose I could roll real dice, though. That gave encounter 1 and 1, position 6.
Okay, this is obviously a magical thing.
...
TOUCH IT NOTHING COULD GO WRONG.

>>302946
DO NOT give horribly bad advice to a newborn as sarcasm, lest it be followed...

Do NOT touch it.

to roll type 1d6 in the email field
Rolling for encounter.

@author, can you clarify the 3 levels of "possession"? you made some corrections to previous posts and overall I am confused on which is which; and can we switch from being connected to haunting and then switch back without harming the host? if we know it to not be harmful to haunt, and we could go back from haunt to connected, then we could suggest to him that we perform short practice sessions where we try to haunt and he tries to push us out of his mind, to prepare against mental battle against a hostile unwanted entity.

@Nirdhar, you expressed concern before about being a humonculus, but do not worry. You are a person like any other. Humonculi are often feared, because they are born very vulnerable to possession by evil spirits. This is something I am here to help prevent, as you gain in identity you will lose that vulnerability, so when visiting towns you should try to make friends, learn things, find hobbies, motivations and desires.

[explain three levels of possession to Nirdhar]
[make practice suggestion if safe, if not, say we need to research it when we get the opportunity]

rolled 2 = 2

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oops, wrong dice syntax

rolled 3 = 3

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Encounter.

Take a look around the ruins, outside. Let's see if we can find another way to enter, or a device that controls the sphere somewhere...

There is a reason things covered in crackling energies remain undisturbed - all of these have to do with the extremely painful, and often fatal effects.
And with all those tendrils about I wouldn't want to get too close or the true meaning of pain may be revealed to both of you.

rolled 1 = 1

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well shit... ok so encounter rolls are a 2, and 3. location roll is a 1...
We are gonna die.

Implacable Slime appears! Insufferablemystic 2011/05/10(Tue)09:16 No. 302987 ID: 856690
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Sorry about not having the 3 levels clear, this update is in two parts again.

>>302962
-Nirdhar, you expressed concern before about being a homunculus, but do not worry. You are a person like any other. Humonculi are often feared, because they are born very vulnerable to possession by evil spirits. This is something I am here to help prevent, as you gain in identity you will lose that vulnerability, so when visiting towns you should try to make friends, learn things, find hobbies, motivations and desires.-

Nirdhar is quiet for a while, then speaks;
"You give good council, I thank you Spectrum"

[Nirdhar is now more sure of himself]
[Nirdhar trusts you more!]

You decide to tell Nirdhar about the different levels of interaction you can have with him.

You tell him about;

Connections: These come in two forms
Indirect: Suggestion, emotion manipulation and imitation of thought.
Direct: Thought sharing, telepathy

You can only have one direct link at any given time, to form a new one you must close the current one, the target must know you exist. You can gave many indirect ones simultaneously. Currently you are linked to Nirdhar. Any communication is done via {whispering}.

Haunting:
You draw close to a person, cloaking yourself over them, in effect, you become a part of their aura, you can only do this to a calm mind.
You can only stop haunting when the one you are haunting is calm.
You cannot whisper to anyone other than the one you are haunting.
When haunting, you only appear as an anomaly in their aura, only powerful beings or beings of a similar nature to you can see you when haunting.
The person you haunt can be empowered by you and you can use them as a conduit for your power.
The haunted remains in control of their body, and can only receive from you, they cannot take.
You make be able to draw an innate ability from the host, which you can carry with you outside of haunting.
Constantly switching in and out of haunting is likely to strain your spirit and that of the host. A day after haunting is safest to unhaunt.
If the person you are haunting dies, your spirit will suffer great harm.

Possession
This is fatal to the possessed, you can forcibly take a body, but doing this will mean you will destroy the body's spirit eventually. The benefit of this is it gives you a body allowing you to channel your power directly. The body however suffers rot from a foreign spirit residing in it and will break down after a time.

You assure Nirdhar that you will not possess him, as that would be in contradiction to guiding him.

Exposition end, sorry for that

You suggest to Nirdhar, that you perform short practice sessions where you try to haunt and he tries to push you out of his mind, to prepare against mental battle against a hostile unwanted entity.

Nirdhar decides that this is a good idea, and wishes to start right away.
Nirdhar's feeble walls offer little resistance and you find yourself in his mind, haunting him.

[Nirdhar has been temporarily empowered!]
[Nirdhar's abilities and traits and generally improved a bit]
[Nirdhar has gained a slight magic resistance, and weak magic sight]

[Bonus for author being insufferably mystic: Hint]
Hint: You were able to manipulate your own body somewhat while not haunting.

[Not great, but pretty bad roll activate: position: 1 or 6 Outside!]
You feel fear tear through Nirdhar's mind, thankfully you are strong enough not to get infected by it. Nirdhar runs heedlessly, terrified by what is now behind him.

Being as you are you can look at what is behind Nirdhar, in spite of being
anchored to his body.

You look, and wish that you hadn't.
[You have got to be kidding me roll activate: encounter: 2, Implacable Gelatinous Ooze]

An Implacable Gelatinous Ooze, this is bad, they are... well Implacable! To make matters worse, Nirdhar in his blind running has gone down an entrance to the ruins. An entrance which is now filled by the slimy nightmare. Nirdhar is still running, he has passed several forks in the paths. How the Relhs did that thing sneak up on you, it's massive!

[final part split for separate picture]

A challenger appears! Insufferablemystic 2011/05/10(Tue)09:59 No. 302990 ID: 856690
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You reach a large open space.
[Encounter roll: 3 :disposition disgruntled]
Nirdhar stops abruptly as a skeleton in reddish leathers points a metal lance at him.
And speaks in a dry, bone clacking ancient kind of voice.
-Halt!! Who dares to enter this place, if ye are bandits, ye'll find no base to make here, and if ye be treasure seekers, take what ye want from all but the bodies, then leave if ye can survive-

Pink lights in the skull's eye sockets flash menacingly.
-If ye be magi in search of secrets then I shall end yer life here and now-

The Ooze is coming down behind us, you have a bit of time. It is faster than it appears and it doesn't tire or get winded.

[Warning, most slime beings in Kigan do not have cores]

Oh damn. Tell him we've got a more important matter right now, and point at the slime. Maybe he's bros with this thing.

>>302990

Excuse us, creature of bones, we are but a creature lost, running from danger. We are not seeking to take what is not ours. We merely wish to save our live. We are deeply sorry for trespassing your domain, alas we had no choice with the monster chasing us.

I hope you understand that we cannot leave with the danger behind us. Would you be kind enough to allow us to look for another exit or help us with the ooze? We would repay you in any way we can if you would.

We are in fact none of the above. We are wandering if there is another exit or if there is no other exit is there a way back to the exit that doesn't involve going through the cube bearing down upon us?

Nirdhar, good first attempt at resisting haunting, you have managed to raise barriers to your mind. It shall get easier with practice and time.

Caution Nirdhar, you are chased by very dangerous slimes, they will surely kill you if they catch you.

I suggest informing this being that we are neither magi nor outlaws. That we are here by chance and wish only to escape the slimes who are chasing us. We shall abide by his rules and not disturb the bodies.

RailroadRailroadRailroad! Insufferablemystic 2011/05/11(Wed)14:54 No. 303402 ID: 856690
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>>303005

First you get Nirdhar to point behind at the Implacable Ooze.

The skeleton still pointing the lance at Nirhar looks.

{skeleton}:-Ye idiot! What kind of fool runs into a ruin when there's a slime behind ye!-

Before you can direct Nirdhar or he can do anything the skeleton grabs Nirdhar's arm and starts running.

{skeleton}: -It'll be after me aswell now! Come on!-

At your direction Nirdhar speaks.
"We- I am not a magi or an outlaw, I'm really much more interested in escaping from that Ooze"

{Skeleton}-Well big boy, I'm not so keen on the idea of slowly dissolving inside of that thing either-

"Wait so where are you taking us, me?"

{Skeleton}:-out of here... ah problem, That thing is gonna keep chasing us, and if I let ye out and I go to protect this place again, I'm gonna get eaten-

The skeleton stops running. An puts a gloved hand on hip. It shakes its skull, then points the lance at Nirdhar.

-This is all yer fault, You better think of some way to collapse this ruin, then that'll mean I won't have to protect it and it'll take a long while for the Ooze to escape!-

Well it appears you have been delivered an ultimatum.

I feel as though I have trolled and railroaded you horribly, sorry!

[Creative solutions to bringing down the ruins will be more likely to succeed, you can also roll a 1d100 for a plan]

(+1 voice)
Voice: 17
{You are currently haunting Nirdhar, you cannot depart because his raw fear of the Ooze is keeping you in. The Skeleton is unaware of your existence}

look around you, where are you right now and what is around you? are you in a tunnel? outside? are the walls made out of stone? wood? both?

Those crystals exist in the real world, yet absorb energy from us. Considering the fact that our light bypasses other physical objects, perhaps we could attempt placing crystal shards around the ruins, and using our LASER to overcharge them and cause an explosion.

Also suggesting we appoligise profusely for ruining this skelleton's protectorate, he seems like a nice guy, and after these ruins are destroyed (assuming he does not go unto eternal rest) perhaps we could convince him to travel by our side.

rolled 83 = 83

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Wait! If we collapse the ruins the giant sphere might come crashing down too, looks dangerous. How about using the Skeleton's lance as a baseball bat to, well, bat the charged purple crystals at the slime? Implacable or not, it's crazy enough to work! Also, ask Skeleton about the place and sphere.

>>303496
Interesting idea, take the explosion idea and just retool it such that the explosion is inside the slime rather then causing structural damage... that might hurt it...
but it might also fail horribly. I would still like to know what our surroundings are like.

I would like to point out that due to our exercises, we are currently haunting.
Some relevant info:

*The person you haunt can be empowered by you and you can use them as a conduit for your power.
*The haunted remains in control of their body, and can only receive from you, they cannot take.
*You make be able to draw an innate ability from the host, which you can carry with you outside of haunting.
*If the person you are haunting dies, your spirit will suffer great harm.

Ewwwww... Insufferablemystic 2011/05/12(Thu)17:19 No. 303735 ID: 856690
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>>303442
>>303428

You are in a PEAKSTONE passage way, it is very dark, you are likely to be eaten by a Implacable Gelatinous Ooze.

Nirdhar being as confused as his is, accepts your will without question.
"I apologissse for ruining your protectorate"

-I'm just curious as to how one of those monsters ended up here, it isn't a local-

At the speed of thought you relay to Nirdhar your incident with the crystals and your plan.
"I have a plan to take out that ss-slime, or a leassst ss-slow it down"

>>303518
>>303496

Nirdhar takes one of the crystals out of his rucksack. You try to focus your luminescence shortly before realizing you can't, your stuck in Nirdhar...

Since you are in his body though... you focus your light through Nirdhar's body. It works! Light flows from Nirdhar's hand and into the shard.
The light seems stronger somehow...
[New power 1/??]

You get Nirdhar to quickly tell the Skeleton the plan.
The Ooze continues to approach.

Cracks begin to form in the now blindingly shineing crystal shard.
"Now!" Nirdhar shouts as you continue to pour light into it.

*Twack!*
For having no eyes the skeleton has splendid aim.

*Sluuuuuurrrrooooppppp!*

Well, that was a disgusting sound... also the Ooze continues a for a bit...
Then there is explosion of crackling energy!

[Rolled: 83, very successful]

The Ooze is lining the walls, it appears to be on fire, and moving much slower, it is slowly reforming itself. It doesn't appear to have lost mass.
Yes it is still going forward, just slower... while on fire. Doing that trick again will likely slow it down again, but it seems it won't kill it.

-good solution short term, long term not so much- The skeleton remarks dryly, not the the skeleton could sound anything other than dry.

>>303496
"About that, Could you tell me anything about the sphere of power outside? what it is likely to happen to it when it comes crashing when this place is down?"

-I don't know much about the sphere, In life I protected the place and in death, well exist long enough and memory begins to get a bit fuzzy, we should be able to get away in time though... and I'm sure the sphere won't fall, whatever it does, it'll do it where it is-

The Skeleton shrugs, a horrible clakiting noise.

>>303442
You get Nirdhar to explain your plan of laying the overcharged crystals at strategic locations inside the ruins, thus bringing the whole place down.

-I've got something that might be a better idea, ye know those glowy pillars? well blowing them up should mess up the sphere, course I can just guide ye to the supports in this place, but I think that would make things a wee bit dicey getting out-

Your voices swirl as you consider what to do. Also, you feel a bit weaker, perhaps there is a better way to use your power through Nirdhar...

*The person you haunt can be empowered by you and you can use them as a conduit for your power.
*The haunted remains in control of their body, and can only receive from you, they cannot take.

Try to grant nirdir your powers rather then just using it through him, when he does use it, try to support him (further empowerment) to assist in the effort of using said powers and make it easier for him to do.

Could the sphere of energy zap the slime? it is a bit slower now, could you run around and be on the other side of the sphere? or how about just outrunning it?

Or maybe we should just go with the skeleton's plan, he knows the place well enough and if he says that is more likely to bring the place down... Also its not like we can do too many such blasts, we have a limited number of crystals and it was tiring to blow just one up.

Much later, lets try to make the crystal that trapped a portion of us in it into a psi crystal, an independent magic familiar... now time for it right now though.

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/14(Sat)18:25 No. 304266 ID: 856690
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You Focus.

"What..."

You feel the connection between you and him... how to do this?
It needs to be more than simply using him as a conduit, he needs to hold the power, to be a bringer of light...

Hold the power...

You feel it fade as it washes trough, you try to support it, you sense remnants of the power lurking in his hand, you try to grant power to them, expand their strength, anchor them.

Hold it.

*Vrrrtsccchhhh!!!*

Light bursts from Nirdhar's right hand, searing your magical senses...

"I HAVE THE POWER!!"
[Nirdhar has gained new power: Gyrluz/Claw of Light!]
[New power 8/??]

Nirdhar's eyes glow green. You hope he has enough power of his own to do what must be done, your exertions have left you weak, and distinctly tattered feeling.

The Skeleton steps back, wary, glowy eyes are trouble.
Skeleton: -Nice freaking lightshow, ye were so lying about not being a mage, well whatever, so we going to bring this place down or are ye just going to continue yer fun?-

You have an idea, you get Nirdhar to relay it.
"What if the Ooze was zapped by the ss-sphere?"

-Could work...-
"Great!"
-But, it's just as likely to make it magical, a Implacable Gelatinous Ooze is not something I want to come across, things are bad enough without it teleporting or spitting slime constructs!-

-So what is it gonna be? How are ye bringing this place down?-

[This is the last chance for coming up with different solutions to the Ooze problem, I'll be updating sometime tomorrow]
[Out running the Ooze is simple, but the skeleton doesn't wish to leave the ruins unguarded, fleeing from the Ooze would do that. You could try taking down the Skeleton and legging it, but that would be jerkish]

>>303808
[psi crystal, an independent magic familiar idea logged for use at a peaceful time]

>>304266
Well, that's it. Put some charged crystals at the base of the pillars, and detonate them when the slime passes underneath the Sphere. Let's just hope it doesn't get a major upgrade and bite us in the ass later.

ANTIMPAVAROAH! Insufferablemystic 2011/05/15(Sun)15:09 No. 304396 ID: 856690
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"Right, let's blow this place!"

Nirdhar runs after the Skeleton as it leads him to the surface. He seems to overflow with energy, even as you grimly hold your existence together.

The pale light of Nanlach, shines down upon you.

The Sphere hovers, energy leaping from it to the surroundings, crackling along the runed obelisks standing ominously beside it.

Nirhar pulls a crystal out with his left hand, it begins to charge as soon as it comes in contact with his light claw. Emerald shines within the sullen purple, cracks begin to form, then he throws at the first pillar.

the sphere, further charges the explosion, energy leaping into the crystal.There is a blinding vermillion flash, The obelisk at first appears unharmed, then the runes appear to lift off, the obelisk turns to dust and the glowing grass green runes begin to orbit the sphere.

One by one the obelisks fall, and the sphere... shakes, the green runes constricting it. The final obelisk falls...

The runes twist, then explode outwards the building underneath beginning to crumble, the sphere seems to crystallize, then cracks from all over it, and the pieces fall slowly downwards.

The Sky grows thick with storm clouds! Thunder booms!

"FREEDOM! AT LAST!!"

What appears to be a dragon made of wind, lightening and storms rises from the shattered crystal sphere.

"I ANTIMPAVAROAH, DAUGHTER OF THE ELEMENTAL OF WIND AND A ELDER DRAGON AM FREE!!!"

She beats her wings, causing a thunderous sound, lightning crashes down from her wings, more crystal is shed downwards. Eyes like twin orbs of ball lightning gaze at you( YOU it can see you), Nirdhar and the Skeleton.

"YOU ARE THE ONES WHO FREED ME! I AM GRATEFUL, I GIFT YOU ALL A SMALL PART OF THE SKIES IN YOUR WEAPONS! AND YOU SPIRIT, I STRIKE THE GLORY OF THE STORM INTO YOUR EXISTENCE! IF EVER YOU NEED MY AID, FIND ME IN ERIMAEL!"

Wings of coursing energy explode from what could be said to be your back!
Then with a Clap of thunder and a flash, she is gone!

Skeleton: -Woah, was not expecting that... Well that's the Ooze dealt with for now, need to cross salt water to really escape for good... I guess I done with this place... It's all your fault ye know!-

In the distance you perceive the village, the skeleton seems to be at a bit of a loss.

>>304396
Invite Skelebro to join us, then check out the Village.

you just got new powers from us and then new powers from the dragon... you should practice a bit to get a better hold of them. See if you can turn off the the obvious visual aspects of them.

let us explore the abilities of these wings.

energy efects energy, as magnetic fields rebound upon themselves. we should attempt to see if we can bend our light in a direction with the wings, or collect energy with them. if we can bent out "spirit light", there are a few aplications, but if we can draw energy in from around us, there are even more.

also, the skeleton would be an invaluable aly, ask if he would like to join us after explaining that you are not a mage, but are allied with a spirit that grants you some small amount of power, and that the spirit was made for you.
Do NOT mention the fact that you are a chimera.

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/18(Wed)18:47 No. 305142 ID: 856690
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[Nirdhar's power has deactivated, he is a little drained]
[Nirdhar is no longer frightened, he was momentarily in awe of the dragon, the victory and the power you gave him has made him trust you more!]

[You are still haunting Nirdhar, thusly the skeleton has no idea of your existence]

{Spectrum}-Nirdhar, the skeleton would be an invaluable ally, invite him to join us, after explaining that you are not a mage, but are allied with a spirit that grants you some small amount of power, and that the spirit was made for you. Do NOT mention the fact that you are a homunculus- you speak into his mind with the echo of several voices.

"Whatever you ss-say... wait won't it be dangerous to mention that you were made?" Nirdhar murmurs.

-True... don't mention it- [Nirdhar out of his loyalty has rejected a suggestion]

Nirdar addresses the Skeleton.
"I wasn't lying about not being a magi, I am allied with a ss-spirit which grants me a ss-small amount of power..."

The Skeleton's hand tightens on the grip of the lance, it looks at Nirdar for a moment, as if checking for something, It untenses, did it find what it was looking for?, or was it that it didn't find something.

{Skeleton}-Bah, a summoner is still a kind of magi! Whatever, yer power was useful, and if ye were after the secrets in that place, ye won't be getting them now...-

"Hey, why don't you travel with me, good sir? I mean ss-since there'sss nothing left here for you... ss-sorry about that. You seem a strong fellow"

-I'm not adverse to the idea of a spot of travel, see how the world has changed, lets get one thing straight first, I am a Woman-

She puts her hand on her hip and... how the Relhs does a skeleton look like it's pouting?

[Nirdhar has not been prepared for this]

"Ah!... S-ssorry, I..." [Nirdhar yabbers senselessly]
[The Skeleton is amused]

-Don't worry your scaly head about it, ye couldn't have know... after all I'm only bones and spirit now-
Her voice grows low at the last bit, but she quickly continues,
-Ah how rude of us both, I am Kyarin Viotellez, what would you be called by my scaly companion?-
"Nirdhar, I am Nirdhar"

-Well, Nirdhar Brighthand, were will we go from here?-
"There is a village nearby..."
-I know of it, it is the reason I am not in rotten rags, I have visited it in disguise a few times, they have a few rumours about me-

"Well then, ss-shall we go?"
-Yes-

** You, Nirdhar and Kyarin head to the village **

As you go you test your powers...
-It appears you can manifest the wings or make them disappear
-The wings are made not of the luminous energy but a crackling one
-The wings have shrunk considerably since you were given them, they cannot be sustained as large wings for long.
-The wings do not bend light but instead split the light into more weaker rays, how curious [new power: Pure Rain]
-The wings can gather free floating power, this makes you feel more whole.
-The wings can shoot out crackling bolts [New power: Lightning Feathers]

[Kyarin Viotellez a female wight has joined your party!]
[Nirdhar has gained another name: Brighthand]
[UNLOCKED: Seen the Ruins, Trashed the Ruins]
Reward: Useful information.
People are uneasy around the undead, for the obvious reasons, however if a dead being's spirit is corrupted it will begin to turn into a wraith, the first sign of this is eyes changing a sickly yellow... The second is the forming of a vile hideous iron-like mask, and the final, the chest collapses inwards. If a wraith has no head while exposed in it's true form, it cannot be saved.

[UNLOCKED: There was a half-dragon in there?]
Hint: Everything has its cost

[UNLOCKED: Totally A Woman]
Reward: Information/hint
Kyarin would be able to see you if you weren't haunting Nirdhar, Also, how old is she? Wait, never ask a lady's age.

[Congratulations You have escaped the ruins!]
[Current objectives: Head to the village]
[Long term objective: Return to Erimael]

Kyarin freezes, and holds a hand out to halt Nirdhar.
-I sense something-

[Roll 1d20, feel free to roll more than once, whatever range had the most hits will be what I'll go with]

Next update I'm using an echo system, basically if you back an existing suggestion it will add an echo to it, making it more powerful, you can also create discordance if you think a suggestion is bad, however if you discord you cannot echo, but you can make a new suggestion, you cannot echo and make a new suggestion, you can however, resonate, basically add to a suggestion or change it a bit. You cannot echo and resonate.

So summary...
Echo: Add more force/voice to a voice(suggestion).
Discordance: Disrupt a voice.
Resonate: Add or partly change a voice.

rolled 4 = 4

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We'ld better tell Nidhar to get his sword out, and if we can, warn them that you are preparing a "Pyscadellic blast" for use in case whatever it is is dangerous. If that doesn't work we could act as a second set of eyes for Nidhar by pointing out the direction of whatever it is via the IVA.

rolled 13 = 13

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please be nat 20 please be nat 20 please be nat 20!

rolled 10 = 10

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Whoops!

rolled 15 = 15

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<Hums battle tune silently>

Rolls taken, now loading!

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/19(Thu)12:57 No. 305269 ID: 856690
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You see what Kyarin saw approaching swiftly...

[Rolls 4,13,10,15. 13+10 , range 7-13]

Leaugrs! Unpleasant beasts... You know instantly what they are, seems Defiu saw fit to put the contents of several monster compendiums in you.

Leaugr(s)
Behaviour: Predatory, scavenger.
Collective name: A band of Leaugrs
Family: Jaugrwaft
Magic order: Not magical
Sight: low magical
Type: Magifacted
Reproduction: Yes
Threat Rating: Low, keep eye on the flanks Leaugrs prefer to attack the sides or back, will always strike if a weakness is shown.
Strategy: feign an opening then strike.
Size: Smaller than most wolves

Appearance: Long hare like ears, short tufted tail, thin body, Hind quarters are large, forelegs have large finger,appear as multiple legs. Short fur. Has only one eye. Head is short, hooked, front teeth are rodentine and extremely sharp.


Origin:
Modified variant
Modifier: Liokh Balreah of Eyes/Liokh the Handless
Another modified Jaugrwaft, this particular one was unfinished, they were supposed to be able to fire magic from their eye, however with most their eyes exploded when they tried. There have been reports of Leuagrs with functioning eye-beams. It is irregular but pack leaders seem most likely to have functioning eye-beams.

Classification: Pest


You activate IVA.{No Echo}

"Woah"
-Be at ease, it will help you fight-

Pack leader identified, there appears to be at least twenty.
Your Voices swirl as you consider what to do.
The Leaugrs are heading forward and spreading out, the leader is advancing directly.

Kyarin is ready and waiting.

The Ollan the sun has yet to rise.

[IVA appearance can be changed, just say what you want]

Hmmm, they're coming from the front in a line...tell Kyarin to move to the right side, we'll move to the left, backs turned outwards, flanking them. As for the IVA, a circle on the possible leader's head will suffice.

Leader is coming at you, leader might have the ability to blast with eye... suggested strategy is to feign an opening then strike but I would preemptively try to strike at the leader's eye in a way it does not expect, then if they don't break fight the rest defensively.

Do you think you can blast the leader's eye with magic light or lightening?

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/23(Mon)08:53 No. 306204 ID: 856690
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>>305868
You were about to tell Kyarin to move to the right side, and Nirdhar to the left... but then another idea comes to you.

>>306187
(No echo, power low)

-Nirdhar, Point your hand at the leaders eye-
Nirdhar, immediately points at the eye circled on the IVA. For a moment your wings sprout from Nirdhar's back, then a arch of crackling energy leaps from his finger to the eye. It shines brightly and then...

[You have granted Nirdhar a New power!: Finger of Tarn]
[New power 14/??]

It explodes... A few of the Leaugrs are killed by the explosion, the rest flee in terror, there was a reason they were a low threat rating it seems.

You recall from the compendiums you have that Leuagr have a kind of crystal in their eyes, which is valuable as a reagent. The sharp front teeth can be used too. The claws are also useful.

Kyarin: -Well that's one way of taking care of them at least.-

*Nirdhar throws up*

[You have routed the Leaugrs!]

[You have gained the spoils of victory!]
x5 Leaugr eye crystals
x1 High quality eye crystal
x36 Leaugr claws
x20 Leaugr incisors (the leader's ones were destroyed)

Kyarin pulls an obscuring hood over her skull and you proceed to the village.

[You are currently haunting Nirdhar]
[Nirdhar is trilled with victory]
[Nirdhar is feeling a little queasy]
[Nirdhar is glad of your guidance and power]
[Nirdhar is getting tired and Hungry, he will need to sleep soon]
[Kyarin is impressed by Nirdhar's prowess]

[UNLOCKED: Why fight 20 when you only need to fight one?]
Reward: Lore
Liokh Balreah of Eyes, never stopped his magical experiments, even after the Great Restriction was made over Alchemists and Magi. In reality the Great Restriction is only paid lip service, as long as you keep quiet, don't make a homunculus or a race, nobody usually cares. Altered are more accepted than Homunculi. The distinction is; Homunculi are made from scratch, whereas altered beings are just that, altered.

You are almost at the village, you look at the horizon and see...
[Roll a 1d100]

rolled 56 = 56

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Wow, that was unexpectedly awesome!
Well, you can see if there is anyone in town who would buy the trophies you got in the last battle. Use the money to get a room in the inn and some dinner. Then look at various shops and look for a hobby, such as playing a musical instrument, following a sport, socializing is good too. And you should see about becoming a proper mage, aka, see if you can find any magic shops with books about magic, or if there is a mage in town who is inclined to teach you.

[Note, as many rolls can be made as wanted, currently the roll is safe but no special stuff]

Also feel free to make plans, It is likely I'll not be updating until late tomorrow.

rolled 95 = 95

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:3

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/24(Tue)16:30 No. 306543 ID: 856690
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As you come into the village it becomes clear that they are preparing for somesort of market day. More than that however from the sounds of gossip around you there is to be a wedding. There is also gossip of a hedgewizard who is peddling charms other magic bric-a-brac. The hedgewizard is by all accounts a rogue and has been telling tall tales. He also has a white crow with a foul mouth and a sharp tongue.

Abruptly Kyarin speaks.
-Nirdhar, ye look tired, I have been here before, by all accounts there's a good inn nearby, The Nervous Nymph I believe it is called-

She leads Nirdhar there. He gets a meaty stew and some kind of fruity mead. The price of the room is not large, seeing as Nirdhar has no Leons, She pays. She watches him eat intently. She also gives a tattered layout of the village to look at. You imprint it's image in your mind.

Nirdhar sleeps, and you find yourself released from his body. Evidently you can't haunt an unconscious body.

You consider what to do.
You have some time before Nirdhar's awakening, what do you wish to do?
You can experiment, test things, train yourself etc... now.
[psi crystal, an independent magic familiar idea, loaded, there must be consensus to do this, also a 1d20 must be rolled for how well or badly it goes, careful theory and planning can negate bad rolls]

You can plan what to do at tomorrow.
Points of interest are as follows;
Hedgewizard
Market
Wedding (Is Public, in the town diamond, in the morning)

If you wish to trade for things at the market or with the wizard, or other shops you must roll a d20, and state what it is, proposing how to bargain helps.

List of Inventory;
Rucksack
-x30 Dried meat
-x1 UnNamed Stormblessed short sword, with scabbard and belt
-x1 Crystal Saturated with your essence
-x20 small purple crystal shards (properties unknown/magic absorbent)
-x10 Purple crystal shards (properties unknown/magic absorbent)
-x2 Purple crystal lumps (properties unknown/magic absorbent)
-x5 Leaugr eye crystals (properties unknown)
-x1 High quality eye crystal (properties unknown)
-x36 Leaugr claws (properties unknown)
-x20 Leaugr incisors (properties unknown)

Nirdhar's Clothes
-Makeshift kilt

Also if you feel like it, would you check out the discussion thread?

It would be a real shame to waste this opportunity by rushing into things. Lets wait until we are more adept at magic and have perform requisite experiments and knowledge gathering.

I am loathe to go too far away from Nirdhar as he might get possessed by an evil spirit, those should be attracted to him at his current state. So lets stay near him, even when outside him we should stay near. This limits what we can do.

First thing first, Kyarin Viotellez just saw us pop out of him. Introduce ourselves as his guardian. Answer what questions she probably has. It is possible that, if she is willing, we could examine that magics that animate her and learn something about necromantic magics. We want to study the magic that makes her “tick” so to speak. Her bones are floating by magic, something we want to learn how to duplicate. And learn what we can about the forces animating her. Also maybe we can add necromancy to our growing magical repertoire

In town, it would be worth it to observe the mage and see if he is legit or a charlatan. We might be able to trade power with him if he is (haunt and draw a skill from him in whatever magic he performs, empower in return). This is if he can even sense us. This should wait until Nirdhar is awake and can walk there with us...

We need to experiment we have a new type of magic (we gained lightening magic, had light magic before) and we should experiment some... preferably a bit out of town (so float out there). But this also has to wait until nirdhar is awake.

Rest of stuff goes in discussion thread. Experiments (with d20 rolls) can wait until we are done talking to her.

>Also if you feel like it, would you check out the discussion thread?
I can't find it...

>>346825
and if that doesn't work

http://quest.lv/kusaba/questdis/res/346825.html

>>306660
thanks

Insufferablemystic 2011/05/25(Wed)15:15 No. 306681 ID: 856690
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>>306630
[A voice has been inspired! Total Inspired voices; 2] I completely forgot that she would see you, I could have handwaved Nirdhar sleeping in a separate room, but there is no way Kyarin would waste money doing that, her being long dead and all that, also congratulations on realizing your magic knowledge is pathetic, what you've been doing is innate, easy.
You realize that Kyarin just saw you pop out of Nirdhar, or at least pop out of nowhere.

{Spectrum}-Greetings, Kyarin Viotellez, I am Spectrum, guardian of Nirdhar-

She seems to relax, put down her weapon... It can be used to harm non-corporeal beings?

{Kyarin} -Weel aren't ye half shiny! Weel, I'm grateful yer not some Chlan spirit at least, not that I know wut ye arre-

{S} -I am a spirit that guides-
{k} -Weel that aen't telling me much, whutever-
{S} -Forgive me, but what are you?-
{k} -Weel, as far as I Know, a wight-
{S} -Would you object if I examined you?-

A dull clacking sound emits from her hood, it takes you a moment to realise that she is laughing.
{k} -Whut a thing to be asking a woman, weel, no matter, I have nae flesh to me bones now.-
She undoes several clasps and belts, her leathers plonk on the floor. A bleached white skeleton stands before you. She is more naked than a live person could ever be.

{k} -Do ye like whut ye see, Fleshless spirit?-
She manages to sound bitter, in spite of a dry voice.

You inspect her, analyzing with magic senses. It is... odd to say the least, she is not magically animated, at least not in one sense. It is as if the bones are being forced into their place, held together by memory of life. In many ways it is also like she has possessed her remains. You can see muscles of magic, insubstantial tendons, but you don't understand why they are there, or how, are they, her spirit?. Well whatever else, whatever this is, it comes from inside her. The shining core of her form is hidden in her ribcage, pulsating like a heart. No magic has been laid on her to make her this way.

You consider how such a thing could be replicated, you don't know... You can't possess inanimate objects (though you have knowledge that inanimate objects can develop spirit of their own and some spirits can possess inanimate things). You know that what you can do is [haunting] cloaking yourself on another being and [possessing], taking over a being. You don't really know how that works, just that you can and the general effects of doing so.

{k} -Are ye done?-

thought: inanimate objects cannot be possessed by you, could bones of the once living be an exception? Test it out when you next find an unclaimed skeleton.

Do: bob down and tilt, as if in a bow.

Say: Thank you my lady. I see a core inside your ribs, pulsing like a heart. From it flow muscles and tendons of magic enveloping the bones. I sense no magic animating you, making you this way. It is as if your soul merely possesses your bones.

Do you know how you came to be this way?

As for what I am, I am a guardian against the Chlan, that is all I know of myself.

Angsty Skeleton Insufferablemystic 2011/05/28(Sat)15:09 No. 307394 ID: 856690
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You wonder if you could possess remains of the dead, in spite of them being inanimate objects. However no dead bodies are present, except the one moving before you.

You bow, bobbing quickly at a tilt.

{Spectrum}-Thank you my Lady. I see a core inside your ribs, pulsing like a heart. From it muscles and tendons of magic enveloping the bones. I sense no magic animating you, making you this way. It is as if your soul merely possesses your bones.-

{Kyarin} -Ha! all I see are dry bones...-
Her spiritfire eyes seem dim as she redresses

{S}-Do you know how you came to be this way? As for what I am, I am a guardian against the Chlan, that is all I know of myself-
{K}-I don't know, dying?-

She stomps off into a corner and sits down, cradling her lance in her arms. She pulls her hood down low so that her eyes aren't visible. It seems she no longer wishes to talk

[Plan what to do tommorrow! Reposting info]
You still have some time that you can experiment, test things, train yourself etc... now.
[psi crystal, an independent magic familiar idea, loaded, there must be consensus to do this, also a 1d20 must be rolled for how well or badly it goes, careful theory and planning can negate bad rolls{NOTE MORE ELBORATE IDEA HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THE DISCUSSION THREAD]

You can plan what to do at tomorrow.
Points of interest are as follows;
Hedgewizard
Market
Wedding (Is Public, in the town diamond, in the morning)

If you wish to trade for things at the market or with the wizard, or other shops you must roll a d20, and state what it is, proposing how to bargain helps.

List of Inventory;
Rucksack
-x30 Dried meat
-x1 UnNamed Stormblessed short sword, with scabbard and belt
-x1 Crystal Saturated with your essence
-x20 small purple crystal shards (properties unknown/magic absorbent)
-x10 Purple crystal shards (properties unknown/magic absorbent)
-x2 Purple crystal lumps (properties unknown/magic absorbent)
-x5 Leaugr eye crystals (properties unknown)
-x1 High quality eye crystal (properties unknown)
-x36 Leaugr claws (properties unknown)
-x20 Leaugr incisors (properties unknown)

Nirdhar's Clothes
-Makeshift kilt

Map is above!

When Nirdhar awakens, we should probably have him go to the hedgewitch and gather any knowledge we can. It would probably be wise to apoligise to Kyarin for our rude behavior, explaining that we are not used to socialising politely.

rolled 11, 20, 10, 11 = 52

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>>/questdis/346955
I vote against making the psicrystal familiar currently as we know too little about magic, and any preparation will take time and knowledge we do not have.

During the night you should simply float through walls and examine in detail the insides of the bodies of the living people sleeping in the inn. Rolling first 1d20 for that.

In the morning, explain your plans to nirdhar. The plan is to be near him at all times but not in him for the immediate future. Do the following things, in order.
1. Sell 10 Leaugr incisors and 10 Leaugr claws. (second 1d20 roll)
2a. Check out mage, see if you can see him and if he is legit. If he is introduce yourself as a guardian against the chel, offer to trade him magic via haunting him and:
A. Drawing knowledge, skills, powers of magic from him into yourself.
B. Imbuing him in return with either the light magic you were born with or lightening magic you from from the dragon.,
C. The deal requires he stay near nirdhar and protect him, as well as relay your suggestions to him, for the remaining of the day (you will be released upon him going to sleep)
2b. If the mage is a fake, go outside town and have you, nirdhar, and Kyarin all practice your new abilities with lightening magics you got from the dragon. (the dragon specifically awarded all 3 of you with that boon).
3. Regardless if 2a or 2b happens, you should have time for nirdhar to pick up a musical instrument of his choice to learn and practice. 3rd d20 roll for finding that.
4. Regardless if 2a or 2b happens, there should be some time for nirdhar to see if he enjoys any local sports, either playing or spectating. 4th d20 roll for this.

Specifics and rolls of mage interaction (2a) or training (2b) should probably be hashed out when/if they actually happen. As either could be quite a lengthy process with lots of RP.

>>307437
sorry for double post, but if the mage is legit and agrees, it will probably take 2 days consider last time the process of haunting then imbuing nirdhar with your light magic exhausted you. It might not, but if it does, then so be it and just have nirdhar socialize, play games, play music, etc while the mage goes with for the duration. Take magic from him before giving yours.

>>307437
what he said. cannot understate the importance of keeping oneself amused.

You see... Blur Insufferablemystic 2011/06/01(Wed)10:25 No. 308277 ID: 856690
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Thankfully the walls are made from wood and are thin enough for you to move through.

(Roll: 11 average)
You are able to move through people, noticeably making them quite uncomfortable as they sleep, but you cannot see their insides, in fact, you cannot see anything when passing through a large solid. Interesting.

However you can more clearly make out people's auras, there is a lot of variation but there always seems to be at least these three things;

Background: A general colour of aura, against which all other attributes are present.
Thread: A length that runs throughout the aura.
Accent: Usually hovering near the Thread.

You don't really know what these mean, but each feels different, perhaps you'd understand more if you knew what to look for?

[More to come]

Insufferablemystic 2011/06/01(Wed)12:00 No. 308289 ID: 856690
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You spend the rest of the night trying to figure out aura to little avail.

When it is morning, You, Nirdhar and Kyarin head out to the Market.

(Roll: 20 Brilliant)
"Marks or Trade for Leaugr parts! Premium Potions for Sale, How about a bottle of Old Draster's Wolf Brawn! The brains and strength of a wolf! all in a bottle! only 50 marks! You can't pass up a bargain like this!"

Perfect! You were intending to sell some parts! You get Nirdhar over to the merchant, a seedy looking Leoni Nighom.

The merchant claims the pieces are premium quality goods!
[Gained 20 leons, 100 marks is 1 leon]
[x2 Old Draster's Wolf Brawn Potion]
[x3 Natalia's Potion of Wounds(healing non-major wounds)]

[Lost x10 Leaugr Incisors and claws]

Your buisness concluded, you move off, but not before a man in armour, town miltia?, stops Nirdhar and asks how many Leaugrs he slew.

Nirdar replies what he killed five and a pack leader, and shows the eye crystals as proof.

The man smiles and gives Nirdhar 50 marks and One Leon!

[Current funds: 21 leons, 50 marks]
[One more Update, You'll have choices to make at the end of it]
Picture took longer than expected

Mystery Man Appears! Insufferablemystic 2011/06/01(Wed)14:15 No. 308317 ID: 856690
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You wander with Nirdar and Kyarin, You keep an eye out for a wizard.

[Nirdhar is filled with wonder mints!]

You catch sight of a blue pointy hat!
Hopefully it's a wizard. The pointy hat belongs to a scruffy looking Aehi, a heart-elf! There is a white crow on his shoulder, and a staff is up against the wall.

"Are you the hedgewizard?" Nirdhar asks at your bidding.

The man smiles.
"I don't know, Host of a Spirit, I'll check..."

The man puts his hands together, inbetween them glows green, then he draws them apart, revealing a flower floating between them, he snatchs the flower out of the air and offers it to Kyarin.
"Flower for a lady?"

The Crow caws as if in protest and pecks the hedgewizard's hat.

It appears you have found the wizard!
[You can make deals now, bear in mind that so far one deal is magic trade via haunting, the wizard hasn't been made this offer yet. The wizard doesn't know who you are yet.]

Lets say hi.

Are you actually in nirdhar or floating near him?
Float outside of anyone in particular, examine his aura. and say: "well met friend, I am Spectrum. A guardian spirit. Can you see me?". if he says yes, turn "invisible" and say "how about now"?

Start shifting between more colors besides red and blue. just for practice.

Insufferablemystic 2011/06/03(Fri)13:03 No. 308801 ID: 856690
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[the thing at the side is a cutaway of his aura]
[You are not Currently haunting anyone]
-Well met friend, I am Spectrum. A guardian spirit. Can you see me?-

"Perhaps, I see many things though a wright, a Seehi and a being of voices is something is not a common sight grouped together!"
The Mage smiles.
"*Caw!* Not Common! *Caw!*" The crow caws.

-how about now?-
LIGHT OF SHADOWS
You bend light of your form, and vanish.

"An impressive trick, I have trouble seeing through it"
"*Caw* Childsplay! Idiot Mage!" The crow protests.
"Hush Flakey!"

You shift the colours of your luminance.
[Mirage Prism, 18/??]

"As interesting as it is to observe a being of magic, to what do I owe this pleasure, Jinnuos"

The man frowns.
"Ah, forgive my rudeness, My name is Tristum Falus!, At your service, Spectrum"
"Idiot, would forget his head if it wasn't bound on *CAW!*"

Comment on how he doesn't look like a real wizard, loud enough for him to hear. After he gets a bit mad, ask him to prove it, with spells and such. None of that I-can-make-flowers-appear type. If legit, offer to teach him some of our skills, in return for the same. The provoking is to get him interested in us.

See what he thinks of the magic absorbent crystals. also don't agonize him please.

dont pester the man, the fact that he has a familiar is good enough to say that even if he doesnt have magical abilities, (and i dont believe that) he has knowledge or contacts in magical groups.

let's introduce our friends, first! We don't want to seem rude.

InsufferableMystic 2011/06/05(Sun)17:48 No. 309363 ID: 856690
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-Ah yes, I have also been remiss in my pleasantries-
You gesture towards Nirdhar and Kyarin.
-Kyarin Viotellez and Nirdhar Brighthand, my companions, Nirdhar is my ward-

“A pleasure to meet you all”

-I have something you might be interested in-
You direct Nirdhar to present one of the crystals to Tristrum.
Tristrum looks at the crystal, a spark of energy leaps from his finger to the crystal.
“Caw! Pretty gem!” Flaky eyes the crystal covetously.
“A nice find you have here, Yanis' voideyes they are called, or Bankstone if you prefer, fairly useful, with a bit of gold, they can be used to store motes, a bit too unstable without being refined... Magic beings don't like the stuff, for obvious reasons, a large enough amount can imprison various lower order spirits”

He seems a bit interested.
“I could probably work a few of them”

[Current objectives;]
[Head south to Erimael/ Note the wizard is a traveller]
[Gain magic from wizard type people]
[foster personality etc in Nirdhar]

Good job on not irritating a wizard, very smart, even if he is only a hedgewizard. Also you can ask me about various plans of what to do with the wizard in the disc

Trade some or all of the crystals for some magic. preferably something that can heal.

We might want to get one or two crystals refined for our own experiments.

Also, he seems like he would be knowledgeable about nearby towns and cities, ask him about the area, and lead into the idea of traveling with him.

5x small crystal shards for healing spell. Ask where we can find him again, since he's a traveler, and if he can get some magical items or books on magic for us. Let's check out the wedding next.

Would it be alright to start call Nirdhar our little brother in private? I mean we are the closest thing he has to a birth family. Plus we both would probably gain some identity from it.

InsufferableMystic 2011/06/08(Wed)11:58 No. 310587 ID: 856690
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We might want to get one or two crystals refined for our own experiments.

Also, he seems like he would be knowledgeable about nearby towns and cities, ask him about the area, and lead into the idea of travelling with him.

5x small crystal shards for healing spell. Ask where we can find him again, since he's a traveller, and if he can get some magical items or books on magic for us. Let's check out the wedding next.

Would it be alright to start call Nirdhar our little brother in private? I mean we are the closest thing he has to a birth family. Plus we both would probably gain some identity from it.

>>309371
“Splendid! You'll be around later right? I'll have them done by nightfall, It'll be 10 leons per crystal though”

-...-
“Two ok, that is... 16 Leons well worth it! If ever you use too much magic the charge from one of these will bring you back together!”

>>309371
“Hmm, well north of here there is a few towns, but it shortly becomes the farmland of the great cityland Leonard. We're right on the Tagan-Leonard border here... directly south is Kithan country, lunatics the lot of them, great for a party though. Beside them you have the kingdom of Murhra the Liche, he's been having problems with wraiths, got a lot of bad rumours about him, he was hospitable enough to me though. I wouldn't recommend going west or east, the torn shores are no place for the living or the dead. There is the Goblin Kingdom of Canrtin, but they are warring with the Kobolds living beneath them.”

-Where might you be heading?-
“North, friend of mine in Nortriel needs some help with some project of his... No idea how long I'll be up there!”


>>309586
“Not a bad Idea, and helping a fellow traveller out is something the Good Master Uion Looks kindly on, but which school of healing apart form the Piled Lives would you want to learn? I can only teach you a basic spell mind you, you'll have to figure out more yourself”

“Hmm as for magic books or items, I've a copy of {Hujor Valtinrav's The Ease of Ritual}, apart from that I've been cleaned out of anything useful. I was going to restock in Leonard and make a few trinkets on my way there...”

Suddenly something clicks, you voices swirl in joy! You recoginse what that feeling of familiarity that you had when you gazed at Nirdhar.
-Little Brother...-

Nirdhar and yourself are kind of like brothers... wait does that mean Defiu is the mommy?

[You and Nirdhar can be considered siblings]
[You have gained more identity, you have yet to share this revelation with Nirdhar]
[You need to choose what discipline of healing magic to choose, There will be expo in the disc thread]

Destruction based, it's all we need for now. Strengthening can come when we've got more resources.

Be sure to share the whole sibling revelation as soon as possible. Am torn between Destruction and Strengthening.

Also, keep practicing our color shifting.

DESTRUCTION... based healing InsufferableMystic 2011/06/10(Fri)15:46 No. 311589 ID: 856690
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"Very well, your choice is made, now, look at your seehi friend there, focus, I'll guide you, unveil the layers of his body... good, now, do you see those things, the ones giving off an ill presence, good, now do you see their bindings, the links holding them together?
Try.. to break them apart..."

[Roll 1d100 for your intial skill in Destruction Healing. Also you can suggest how to go about breaking the links]

rolled 68 = 68

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uhh rolin

rolled 91 = 91

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Might as well roll

rolled 95 = 95

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>>311589
Identify the thickest ones, and by following them, find the narrowest. Start by cutting those off, in the extremities, and then moving on to thicker ones.

We need to experiment in the following ways:
1. Cut one at weakest point and see if dies. if it doesn't try another, unharmed one, at a slightly less weak point. Repeat until you find what is the weakest point that is sufficient to unravel it..
2. Repeat the above but cutting at two points at once.
3. Repeat the above at more then two points at once..

Those should find the ideal situation to destroy them with the least amount of effort.

PS. we seem to be getting normal plain training from him... didn't we want to offer him a direct mind exchange via willing haunting and empowering? After we are done learning from him this way lets suggest that as per previous posts on the subject. Offer control of either light or lightening or both in exchange for his knowledge...

InsufferableMystic 2011/06/11(Sat)07:50 No. 311867 ID: 856690
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!!(Deleted Roll detected!! value of Roll 28) I'll let it go this time, but if it happens again a {bad thing} will happen.

[Other rolls 68, 91, 95! = 254/300] Five of Six!]
>>311640
>>311706

[Reason bonus]


At first you seek the thickest knots and you look closely and see that smaller strands anchor these, you cut them one by one, and the wrongness slowly crumbles, tears into pieces that disappear.
[Basic Sequential Cleansing acquired]
Surely there is a quicker way?

You look again, trying to find the point where the the ill is weakest, you see something like a gap where several parts meet , you make that larger... Then the ill unravels itself, that felt harder to do than cutting the anchors. The unravelling goes faster the more gaps you release. At five gaps however... it is different. What happens is... did it eat? Itself? It was almost too fast to see, but looking on it the healthy stuff where the ill was seems... weaker... Clean but weaker. In fact in general the bits where you cut strands are stronger, well not as weakened.

[Basic Separation acquired]
[Basic Purge acquired]

You find it becomes easier to cut and easier to unravel, the more you do it, also you find it easier to
find and see the Ill point than before... you stumble upon some more complex ill structures aswell, these defied your attempts to cut or unravel. You also came across numerous things that were... incomplete, things not whole...

“Destruction based healing is best against illness and poison at it's highest form it can deal with certain types of curses and magical illnesses. It's good for cleaning a body, though I've heard that a body that has all things destroyed by destruction magic can't survive without somebody to continually purge their body” Tristrum explains.

[You are now capable of basic purifying!]
[Your starting state is that of a prodigy, you understand the principals of purifying more easily]
Super Bonus Cryptic Hint: Sides, also mix

[Special Event! Author's misdirection uncovered!]
You explain your idea of magic exchange via haunting. Tristrum smiles weakly.
“I'm sorry if I seem a bit rude about this, but I'd rather keep my mind free of visitors, that and really I don't have much in the way of power, I know a few of the basics, a bit of enchanting and such I can make a nice lightshow, but I don't have destruction magic, apart from the purifying...

Though what you do... in one sense, it isn't magic, of course it is magic, but your body is what enables you to do magic... I mean you are a magic spirit, I've taken a shine to you, so I'll tell you this, as far as I can make out you are light, voice and... you have those wings, geneally speaking you are made of magic...Sorry I can't help you more, anyway ”

Tristrum gets up bows to you.
“Well I'm off, I'll give you the refined crystals when I've got them done, I'll find you, flaky is good at finding things you see” With that Tristrum leaves.

-Well I'm justified in calling you a wizard now Spectrum- Kyarin dryly remarks(not that she can help that).
You notice that Nirdhar's scales are looking a bit shiner now.

It is still morning, you are shifting through all the colours you know. You feel a bit more skill in manipulating your light.


Current Plans are;
Find a musical instrument for Nirdhar to learn [roll 10/20, Right in Half bonus!]
Find a sport for Nirdhar to participate in [roll 11/20, average]
Check out the wedding(one voice)

If you are going to the wedding that'll need a 1d100 roll. Also Now would also be a good time to make more plans if you wanted.
Also you have three directions you can head south, check the disc thread for more information,
Also feel free to ask questions, You lot as Spectrum know more than you lot OOC.

>Check out the wedding(one voice)
Seconding that one.

>What do?
Go to the forest and practice magic. We already discovered an interesting "blow it up" ability... mmm, can we curve our "laser" beam? a powerful laser (especially of the right frequency aka color) will ionize the air and make it conductive, allowing you do direct lightening. Curved, split, and forked laser channels could potentially allow us to better direct the lightening; and also chain lightening where it merely bounces from one target to the next. Of course we should try to direct it by itself as well just for practice...

>>/questdis/347534
I think we should visit all three places.
First Tagan, then canrtin, then murhra.
Kyarin is a swordswoman and should start training Nirdhar in how to use a sword properly.

rolled 1 = 1

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rolling for wedding.

Question. What exactly is a Jinnuos? What do most people think of them?

If we practice magic in the forest, see what happens when we use our wings while haunting Nirdhar. Also tell him about the sibling thing. Also have Kyarin train Nirdhar in swordsmanship.

Lastly, we should go to Tagan first.

why do the dice hate me?

rolled 90 = 90

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rolling to make the bride not dead on arrival.

rolled 96 = 96

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Away with you, bad dice!

MARRWIGHE! InsufferableMystic 2011/06/12(Sun)10:33 No. 312350 ID: 856690
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You decide that going to the wedding would be interesting, that and good for Nirdhar's development.

There is a large crowd gathered, but it poses little resistance to Nirdhar and Kyarin. Somehow, your party manages to get to the Front and you see the Bride and Groom.

[Rolls 1{Darkest Hour Activate!}, 90, 96] [Darkest Hour Roll averted!]
The Bride is a Leoni, in a glorious green dress, the Groom is a... It is a Gnoll! Well fancy that they aren't common this far south!. He looks good in those clothes.

The Priest performing the Ceremony of Union was more interesting. A man in full silvery armour, With cloths of white and a white staff, A Redeemer of Wraiths! An unusual wedding indeed.

“MARRIAGE IS WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER THIS DAY!” The Priest's hollow voice loudly echoes from his Horned helmet.

He talks of love and duty, it is very stirring stuff, the Bride's eyes shine with happiness and the Groom grins a brilliant fanged smile. The Crowd is filled with the power of the priest's hollow voice. You cannot help but feel touched, you feel more whole, Nirdhar is staring with rapt attention. Kyarin's hood seems pulled even lower over her Skull.

“BRING FORTH THE BRACELETS!”
There is the sound of trumpets (where did they get the trumpet players?) and a three tailed KITIR bearing forth the Binding Bracelets comes. The horned fox spirit walks on it's hind legs, the dark silver bracelets on a cushion between its' forepaws. That is, unusual to say the least.

The Bracelets are linked together. The priest reaches for them, then draws back.
{Darkest Hour}
“CAJII, THESE BRACELETS ARE POSSESSED BY A NIGHTMARE”
The Kitir by the name of Cajii shrugs
“Guess we shouldn't have used those Bracelets we found in those ruins”
“Can't you do something Reatel?” The gnoll groom growls.

There is a loud empty sigh.
“COME OUT YE FOUL CHLAN, JUDGEMENT COMES, YOU SHALL ANSWER!”

The Bracelets twist, and a foul metal kind of scream comes out, They twist and expand changing into a metal serpent with smouldering yellow eyes. It seems to be about to speak, when Reatel grabs the thing by the throat by a plated hand.
“YE SHALL NOT HAVE A WORD ON THIS BLESSED DAY MONSTER!”
The Priest's eyes flash white and he glows.
White light bursts from it's mouth and eyes. It changes back to a pair of bracelets. A foul smoky form rises but Reatel grabs the smoke and crushes it.
{Darkest Hour Averted}

“WELL THEN” Reatel picks the rings, which are connected, he pulls them apart, like a magician.
“DO YOU RIALA COLSO BIND YOUR LIFE TO THIS MAN?”
“I bind myself come what fates come. In both curses and blessings”
“DO YOU YAVIR IRONTONGUE BIND YOUR LIFE TO THIS WOMAN?”
“I bind myself come what fates come. In both curses and blessings”

Reatel places the bracelets on them... they glowwhite hot... are the bracelets part of their skin now?!?
“I PRONOUNCE YOU BOUND, MAN AND WOMAN, TILL DEATH YE PART AND MEET AGAIN”

“RIGHT, NOW KISS HER YAVIR”

They kiss among cheers and laughs.
Then the music starts up and the feasting begins.

A few women even dance with Nirdhar, much to his embarrassment, seeing as how he doesn't know how to dance. He greatly enjoys the food. Kyarin says she'll be waiting back at the inn.

However part of the way though the feast, you and Nirdhar bump into Reatel the Redeemer.

“AH I DO NOT SENSE THE SMELL OF CHLAN ABOUT YOU SPIRIT, YOU ARE HERE TO SEE THE WEDDING?”

Your voices swirl, thinking of what to say.

[Nirdhar is very happy, though intimidated by Reatel's force of presence]
[Note if you hadn't gotten two 90s and a 1 then this wouldn't have been such a crazy wedding]

>>312350
interesting... very interesting.
Todo: Get Nirdhar dancing lessons.

Ok, info:
1. We are currently floating beside Nirdhar... I am betting the priest already saw us and decided not to attack.
2. With that kind of power, could he have identified miss K's nature?
3. We already bumped into him and he can sense we aren't Chlan.
4. We need to introduce ourselves. I wanna see if we can do haunting trade of magic... having holy magic like that would make us much more effective against wraiths. But don't just pop the trade question right away. First we need to talk to him.

So we need to introduce ourselves. "Hello, I am Spectrum and I am a guardian spirit against the Chlan; These are my companions are Nirdhar and Kyarin and we are indeed here for the wedding. I was impressed by how you dispatched that Chlan during the ceremony, care to explain how you did so?"

Please don't haunt the SPIRIT SHREDDING WARRIOR PRIEST unless he SPECIFICALLY SAYS SO. I don't want this to become Unending Eternal Torment quest.

>>312369
obviously.
hence the "trade" part... its willing. Like we asked nirdhar and the wizard. We respect people's wishes in that regard

>>312362
mostly what he said.

we should probably reasure nirdhar, and note how we feel as though we are brothers.

Shining Eyes InsufferableMystic 2011/06/15(Wed)08:19 No. 313459 ID: 856690
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Thankfully Kyarin departed to the Inn where you stayed last night, You aren't sure what this priest would have made of her.
-Do not worry Little Brother, I will make sure this man does not harm you-
You feel a rush of emotions come from Nirdhar... confusion, joy, acceptance and recognition but one thing sticks out.
I may be your brother, but are you a sister or a brother?

You decide that It would be best to introduce yourself first, afterall, not a good idea to be rude to the SPIRIT SHREDDING WARRIOR PRIEST!
[Progress is being made to a trait]

- Hello, I am Spectrum and I am a guardian spirit against the Chlan. This is my companion, Nirdhar we are indeed here for the wedding. I was impressed by how you dispatched that Chlan during the ceremony, care to explain how you did so?-

Reatel is silent for a moment, then bursts out laughing in his echoing voice, resounding in his helm.
“HAHAHAHAHA! FORGIVE ME SPIRIT BUT I FOUND IT AMUSING TO HEAR FROM A BEING SUCH AS YOURSELF, I CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT YOU BELIEVE YOURSELF A GUARDIAN AGAINST THE CHLAN. I WOULD FEAR FOR YOU IF YOU CAME UP AGAINST ANYTHING STRONGER THAN A NEWLY BORN POSSESSOR OR A WEAK WRAITH... As for how I did it, I use the light that lives in my blessed staff, It can purge most weaker Chlan.”

He goes silent.

“I MAY BE ABLE TO HELP YOU THERE, I SENSE LIGHT ABOUT YOU AND LIGHT IS ONE FEAR THEY HAVE, YOUR LIGHT IS NOT SANCTIFIED, SO STRONG CHLAN WILL NOT FEAR YOU... I CAN PERHAPS HELP YOU, TEACH YOU HOW TO FORM A SHIELD OF LIGHT THAT MANY CHLAN WILL FEAR TO ENTER...”

-Could I not haunt you? Learn your ways by that way?-

“REGRETTABLY YOU WOULD VANISH IN THE LIGHT THAT MY SPIRIT HOLDS”

Reatel is offering to teach you how to make a ward of light, which will stop many beings that hate light, however, the ward of light must be maintained constantly, so when it is being used you can take no other action.

You will lose some of your light in creation of this ability.
Roll a 1d100 if you wish to accept.
If you have alternative proposal then make it if you wish, You cannot Haunt Reatel as you have too little IDENTITY.

You must now choose, are You Nirdhar's brother, or his sister? This is a big choice, that cannot be changed and will affect various events, it cannot be deferred until later. The time is now.

On the matter of the three kingdoms, Tagan is between Canrtin and Terresta, to go to all three starting with Tagan, you would end up going through Tagan twice, is this ok?

rolled 27 = 27

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brother

rolled 9 = 9

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sister

while a good power the cost is too steep right now.

sister.

>>313468
cause you are rolling without thinking about it. i thought about it and decided NOT to roll cause the power is not good for us. we lose some light to get it and need to use even more to use it and we can't do ANYTHING else while using it.

((why do I always roll badly during this quest?))

"Well you could say that I am newly born. Thus I have room to grow..."

rolled 86 = 86

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We might loose some of our light but by learning a power like that we strenghten our position as Nidhar guardian. So I would gladly go with a deal like that.

Also: Sister. We are too caring and not enough of a dick to be an older brother.

((It was a rhetorical question. Also what does "not thinking about it" have to do with a random number generator?))

rolled 76 = 76

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well, since i am out voted i guess i'll roll.

Spectrum, Sister of Nirdhar InsufferableMystic 2011/06/15(Wed)10:01 No. 313484 ID: 856690
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[Rolls: 27(fail), 9(critical fail), 86(excellent) , 76 (very good)]

“DO YOU FEEL YOUR LIGHT? CAN YOU TOUCH IT, BEND IT, THRUST IT OUT FROM YOURSELF? PUSH! FEEL YOUR LIGHT SHINE!”

He guides you as you strain to extend your light, It takes a bit more than you expected, and more of your luminance is lost, but the barrier of light you extend feels stronger

[Light Mastery increased]
[New ability gained: Holy Ward, this ability is inherent, it costs no power to make, however no other actions can be taken while the barrier is being held.]
[Bonus hint: While the barrier is being held]

There was something else however...
“YOU FEEL MORE COMEPLETE SPIRIT OF VOICE”
[You have Realised you are a female spirit]
Sister Nirdhar thinks, unbidden, in awe.

“I HAVE DONE AS I SAID, MAY EVIL FLEE BEFORE YOU, AND MAY OUR PATHS CROSS AGAIN”

… It has gotten much later, the middle of the afternoon, Kyarin returned to the inn...
You were intending to train Nirdhar, and have Kyarin teach him some sword fighting.
[You can out line training for Nirdhar now and whether or not you want Kyarin involved, rolls can be made, though a bad roll will be invalidated by good planning.]
[Nirdhar is feeling great]
[Nirdhar is overjoyed at his kinship with you]
[You are not currently haunting Nirdhar]
[You have gained more {Identity}]

rolled 80 = 80

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There are actually a few things that I think Nirdhar (and we?) should train.

Firstly it would be good to do some physical fighting training. Sure it's nice to blast people away with magic but when it turns out that something is immune to it we get slaughtered.

So we could go out of the city, ask Kyadrin to assist us and begin the training. It would be awesome to actually try and combine a sword and Hand to hand combat combination (so Nirdhar gets proficient with both the sword and claws) but depending on how hard the training is he should focus more on using his body as he could easily loose the sword.

Also tell both of them to watch out during the training so they do not hurt each other.

Another fun training would be for the three of us to actually talk to each other and to seek other people to talk to (stories/politics/gossip/whatever). We maybe good at talking to others and understanding the hidden meaning of their words but Nirdhar probably isn't. Also it's just cool to know stories.

I would not recommend training magic right now. Maybe in a more secluded place so that if we get more ideas that could turn into explosions we don't actually destroy anything. And we tend to get ideas liek that quite often.

But the most important thing to do would actually be to ask our comrades what THEY want to do. Maybe Nirdhar would rather want to learn music or dancing instead of honing his fighting skills? If so, then we should go with his suggestion...

Now that I mentioned it, before doing any training maybe we should just go around the town and look at people doing various things (cooking/dancing/singing/smithing) so that we may see something that our brother gets interested in?


I'm going the sister route :P If we we're a brother I would actually go BATTLE TRAINING ALL THE TIME instead of being so carefree :P

rolled 25, 89 = 114

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There we're supposed to be two more rolls here. One for the socializing part and another one for looking for cool stuff to do depending on how many we will actually decide to do.

mmm... We just leanred that we, spectrum, lacks the power and identity to haunt a powerful being such as said priest. And we can only defeat the weakest of Chlan.
We need to mature as well. While nirdhar SHOULD choose his hobbies, weapon training isn't a hobby. Nirdhar must get weapon training. I suggested he learn dancing because he liked dancing with the ladies... he doesn't have to of course but its a suggestion.
What he should do is choose hobbies, he should try them and see what he likes... mmm, Idea: Even in rejection you learn and grow. Trying out a hobby that many like only to find out it does not suit your tastes further defines you as a person.

Todo: Find ways to creatively apply the holy light to better use it... Idea, we can imbue nirdhar with the holy light ability... we could haunt him, then we generate a protective field acting through him, while he uses it offensively by combining it with the light beam blast.

Anyways, hobbies that nirdhar could try and decide if he likes or not are:
1. PnP Roleplaying games
2. Singing
3. Dancing
4. Raising a pet
5. Tending to plants
6. Reading: Fiction, Real stories, History, Science books, etc.
7. Studying magic.
8. playing sports
9. Watching spots and cheering for a team.
10. following the escapes of famous world renown heroes.

Since we ALSO need to develop we should try those that are practical as well... I say we should learn to sing. Goes well with being a woman, feel pretty. OH! See if we can form our amorphous light self into a humanoid female form. And adjust the colors of different parts of our body to make it look like we are wearing clothes.

upvoting above plan

>>313555
Yeah, seems like we reached the same conclusion. That's it's better too evolve our identities rather then forget about them in the preparation for a fight.

Also the idea of him trying hobbies goes pretty well along my plan of going around the town and looking for something fun.

So yeah, I support your idea.

And YAY, singing. We actually look "Pretty, oh so pretty" and we're "witty and bright" with our prismatic colors ;D

Insight: We are a type of homonculus! While we are (probably) not vulnerable to being possessed we can be subsumed if we try to haunt or possess something too powerful, and we cannot defeat powerful chel. We were created, not born, and we were created void of identity. We just figured out we have a gender, we have been growing in power and focus as we have been developing our identity.

DRESS UP TIME InsufferableMystic 2011/06/18(Sat)16:59 No. 314751 ID: 856690
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You come to a realization, or was it a remembrance, you can't quite tell, but you know.
-I... I am also a homunculus-
You are sure there are ramifications to this... You get the feeling that it would be a bad idea to haunt some beings, you also think that perhaps...[bonus from Insight] Nirdhar is not a good example of how hard or easy it is to haunt.

You begin to wonder just how much power you have over your form...
You try to make yourself appear in a more humanoid female from...
...It would maybe look better if you weren't shifting through multiple colours, but this is as humanoid a form as you can manage at this point.

Well that didn't work too badly, but you are sure that currently you wouldn't be able to hold it during a battle...

Now then... fake clothes, What should you “wear”?
[Keep it decent folks, described outfits also count, Hair can be changed! Also this is really just a mini update to tide you over until the update storm that will come.]

InsufferableMystic 2011/06/18(Sat)16:59 No. 314756 ID: 856690
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Gray coloured version for easier alteration!

>>314751
Yeah that looks about right

Suggestion 2011/06/18(Sat)17:14 No. 314767 ID: 0d095c
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>>314751
YAHARR! I BE SPECTRUM! MASTER OF THE SEVEN ETHEREAL SEAS!

How about making our hair a ponytail?

Suggestion 2011/06/18(Sat)17:23 No. 314778 ID: 0d095c
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>>314767
And here's the better version of that picture. With a ponytail.

Can we please not make Spectrum wear a pirate outfit. It doesn't even make sense.

>>314784
Awwwww...

Well, I don't see any others, Meanieface...

Look its not a bad design or anything, it just doesn't fit with Spectrum's personality. How about a simple white dress? It would make Spectrum look a little angelic, what with the wings and everything.

>>314789
I'll get right on that.

i recommend a simple outfit of a nice plain shirt with a long skirt.

Suggestion 2011/06/18(Sat)17:44 No. 314793 ID: 0d095c
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Here ya go. Simple.

I like it.

By the way, when we are training Nirdhar, see if we can absorb ambient light and add it ourselves.

And while we're absorbing ambient light, we may as well try focusing it into lasers. Or absorbing all of it and appearing as a dark blob.

MrTT 2011/06/18(Sat)18:36 No. 314818 ID: f0e3ae
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>>314793
I like it. Mmmm, how about leaving a touch of color?

>>314804
Photosynthesis! brilliant!

Shifter55 2011/06/18(Sat)20:35 No. 314886 ID: a1cb4d
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>>314793
I like it, although the bottom and sleeves could be a bit shorter and thicker, say up to the knees and elbows. As they are a part of us magic-adsorbing objects could be an issue if the dress brushes against one or is caught by something capable of interacting with us.
>>314807
While doing this consider the properties of light, if two beams of light of the same colour are emitted simultaneously at converging angles then a certain pattern forms, with the bright parts of the pattern being stronger than either light beam. By carefully modulating and altering the colour of the beams you should be able to change the pattern, but the overall patern never changes it's shape.
With such a property, shouldn't it be possible to increase the strength and coherancy of your light beams by adsorbing and emitting similar colours in time with each other? Much like how many similar drums beating simultaneously produces a louder noise than many being beaten at random, or like the voices in a choir?

>>314886
upvoting with all my might.

also, we can change our color, this means we are changing the frequency of a magical light-form. i suggest we attempt to make the most briliant blue light we can, and keep raising the frequency in that same direction.
if this is doable, do the reverse from a deep red.

hoping we end up with magic masers, or the non-visible frequencies of magical light are powers in and of themselves. theoreticaly, the clerics *brilliant light* is a form of high energy magic light.

inb4 enlightenment-science quest.

So how is this? InsufferableMystic 2011/06/19(Sun)08:18 No. 315055 ID: 856690
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[Overall roll; 89]
You are quite content with your new form, though it REALLY won't stay during combat. You feel almost like that you look like one of the holy Werlin.
[Unlocked new form; Werlinic Raiment]

Nirdhar makes no comment, unsurprising considering he can't see you.
You hover above him and whisper to him.
-What would you like to do Little Brother?-
I don't know, big sister
-Perhaps we should walk about the village,
That would seem a good idea Sister

You and Nirdhar go about the village observing various people going about their business. Both of you are fascinated by the Blacksmith working metal. He seems to have an almost magical control over the metal. He notices Nirdhar's rapt expression and rather good-naturedly shows Nirdhar how to make a horseshoe! The shoe Nirdhar makes would probably hurt a horse quite badly but the smith laughs, smiles and sends Nirdhar on his way.
[Nirdhar has acquired item; Crooked Horseshoe]
[You and Nirdhar have gained some basic knowledge about black smithing]

[roll; 10/20, average]
The trumpeters are still around from the wedding, One of them trumpets an impressive sound, apparently a song from Touniethr, the Land of the Dead! The trumpeter is very pleased at Nirdhar's interest and gives him a whittled wooden flute, after talking to him about music and showing him how to use it.
[Nirdhar has acquired item; Whittled wooden Flute!]
[Nirdhar can play a few musical notes on a flute!]

[roll; 11/20, average]
As you both wander about, You come across some children, by come across what is meant it get accidentally hit in the head by a leathery ball. At first the children are a bit apprehensive due to Nirdhar's appearance. He gets roped into playing all the same, and turns out to be comically bad at the game they are playing called rounds It is rounders, an Irish game played with a ball, though in this case the ball is the size of a football.

The children are a little sad when Nirdhar leaves them, They had gotten to like the “Funny Scaly Man”. You return to your wanderings, when you hear a voice. It is soft and clear, full of joy and love. It appears to be a mother, hanging out clothes to dry, judging by the mask she is also a Kithan.
You stay and listen for a time. Could you really make sounds as beautiful as that?

You gather your voices, and think of what you have heard and seen... then it rises from within you.
You Sing...

Spectrum sings InsufferableMystic 2011/06/19(Sun)08:18 No. 315056 ID: 856690
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[You can now Sing from the Heart]
You cannot however sing whenever, considering you don't really know how to, but any time the feeling takes you you can.
Somehow... it seems as if Nirdhar can hear you...

You return to the Inn to get Kyarin, feeling thoughtful...
Kyarin Speaks-You retur... What has happened? You are changed, I know it is you, but you seem so different?”
[roll; 25, terrible!]
You catch a sense of melancholy from Kyarin, she seems to be very very sad...

Your voices swirl, how will you respond, and how will you get her to come along for the training?
[Nirdhar is shining with glee and happiness]
[Nirdhar loves his Big Sister! He trusts you completely]
[You have both gained more Identity]

Ask her whats wrong.

Also have Nirdhar give her a hug or something.

>>315059
HUGS

D'Awwww InsufferableMystic 2011/06/19(Sun)10:52 No. 315081 ID: 856690
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>>Replies
HUGSS!!!

At your behest Nirdhar hugs Kyarin!
Kyarin is surprised.
She is bony... but then she is a skeleton Nirdhar thinks.

-What is wrong, you seem to have a shadow over you Kyarin- You say.

Kyarin makes no move to remove Nirdhar, though she shifts uncomfortably and looks away from you.

-N-nothing, I'm f-fine, Nirdhar, can you let go? What did you want anyway?-
You sense... Confusion from Kyarin, as well as embrassment... but there seems to be another thing beneath all that...

Fear?

Your voices swirl as you consider wether to press the issue or talk about training.

Coming to think of it though... You don't know anything about Kyarin really, though now might be a bad time to ask questions.

Tell her that if she wants to talk about anything she can talk to us, because she is our friend. Don't push the issue. Ask her if she wants to help with training.

Also we need to get Nirdhar some better clothes.

>>315092
>better clothes...
shopping... gasp! makeover time!

>>315118
YAAAAAAAAAY! MORE DRESSUP!

InsufferableMystic 2011/06/19(Sun)16:13 No. 315150 ID: 856690
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-If you want to talk about anything, you can talk to me, if you feel like it, are we not friends...-

There is a dry clacking sound, Kyarin's laugh.
-Friends! I barely know you, you barely know me... and yet... I find myself thinking of you as a friend-

{Spectrum}-I am pleased Kyarin, tell me, would you assist in training Nirdhar?-
{Kyarin}-Gladly, where shall we train?-
{Spectrum} -The forests near here, we should remain undisturbed there-

You, Nirdhar and Kyarin relocate to the woods near Nasdmoor.

Kyarin teaches Nirdhar how to hold his weapon properly, and they spar, him using his light-claw and using his sword, Kyarin her lance.

You don't pay much attention, as you become absorbed in thoughts about the nature of your light.
>>314886
You find that by intersecting beams and by absorbing and emitting similar colours in time with each other you can make a more powerful blast.
[New Power: Cross Beam]

>>314933
You try to do something a bit more complex... but you find you just don't have that level of control.
[Light mastery too low for variable light or Ghost-light]

[You may roll a 1d100 for how well Kyarin and Nirdhar's spar goes.

InsufferableMystic 2011/06/19(Sun)16:13 No. 315151 ID: 856690
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>>314807
You wonder, you know that you absorb free floating energy, but what about ambient light?
You try, and find yourself feeling more whole, and more luminous.

...but how much can you absorb?
You begin to draw, more...
And more...
And more...
MORE!

Something...
Is wrong, you feels something swell inside of you

-I HUNGER-
-MoRe LiGhT-

rolled 81 = 81

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Less light, LESS LIGHT. EXPEL THE ENERGIES TWISTING YOUR SOUL! FIRE LIGHT BEAMS!

Also, rollin.

Dusk InsufferableMystic 2011/06/19(Sun)16:24 No. 315153 ID: 856690
Audio 135517_heartbeatsong10_choralvers.mp3 - (523.18KB )

You hear a voice sing

fire a laser straight up until you calm down!

rolled 53 = 53

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(rollan)

Expell energies as quickly as you can. You have been overpowered by the evil inside you/one we have just absorbed. Using energy will probably force it to leave because staying in a withering container is not something that power hungry things do.

Or just focus on what the priest taught you and concentrate all of the energy that we know is OURS into the center of ourselves. And then expand the barrier.

Dusk InsufferableMystic 2011/06/19(Sun)16:45 No. 315165 ID: 856690
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-And now I have awoken!-

NO no no no no!
You desperately try to fire off light, but you find no light to fire, only darkness.
You Try to find yourself, create a holy ward and expand it.

To your horror, you do not find yourself. You are not there.

[Nirdhar is filled with terror!]
[Kyarin has collasped]
Something has gone horrible wrong, this, this thing came from devouring light...
All that is left of Spectrum in this monster is some scattered voices... the others...

They were silenced.
{Darkest Hour}

Is there any hope left?
Do you broken voices surrender

Or will you still fight the Dusk?

EXPEL LIGHT! SET UP HOLY WARD!

FIGHT THE DUSK!

>>315165
Fuck surrendering to the darkness! We must continue to battle against this evil from within! FIGHT ON! NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER SURRENDER! YOURS IS THE LIGHT THAT WILL BLIND THE HEAVENS! Keep fighting your way clear! Kick the Darkness' arse!

And if that priest happens to notice the horrible aura of darkness forming near the town, we'd be most happy if he'd lend a hand

>>315165

"AHAHAHA! YES! FINALLY I'M FREE!"


...

You know what? FUCK NO! We are ourselves, we are Spectrum, the sister(s) of Nirdhar. We will not allow our body to be taken by something as wicked as this... Thing. We have a duty, and that duty is to protect our brother. Because of our actions he is now lost. If we stay like that he could fall even lower that we did.

THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE! WHY DO WE EVEN EXIST IF WE DON'T PROTECT THOSE WHO ARE CLOSE TO US?

Concentrate not on saving our body for ourselves but for the thing we have always identified with. The form that we told others we are. Protector(s) of our brother against this which is evil. This... "Dusk" thing is just a creature with no goal. It's just like a scary monster. If you do have a reason to stand up to it there is no reason to be scared.

Thus there is no "Dusk". There is and always will be only Spectrum and Nirdhar.

We voices need to band together. Dusk is but one. WE ARE MANY!

NEVER SURRENDER! InsufferableMystic 2011/06/19(Sun)17:10 No. 315181 ID: 856690
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[Update pending, some battle music to get ya'll pyched up]

[Feel free to make plans as to how you are going to pull yourself together and then fight, though I see you have already begun that!]

You cannot let it end like this, NEVER, You are many but this Dusk, born of darkness you created is few!

You will never let yourself become a Chlan!

PURGE the darkness! We created it by condensing the light within us below its' Magical Schwarzschild Radius, create a Black Hole! We must therefore reverse it by starting from our center and radiating light through all our extremities from within. Therefore, we must focus from absorbing or expelling all light within us to REFRACTING light through use, to cut apart the darkness and destroy it with our inherent light.

We could also wait for a voice besides me to come up with a better plan.

We sure individually drive back the darkness around us, form up and surround Dusk, and BURN HER OUT OF EXISTENCE!

Er... the plan above mine sounds like a more detailed version of mine lets go with that.

>>315175
We are legion! :P

Could we have been made out of a chlan? or based on their structure? that would explain what Reatel said, where dusk comes from, and how similar our abilities are to theirs. Or did our attempt to devour light call one to us? (but then, why would it say "I awaken")?
Whatever we were made out of, what matters is what we are now. Not a thoughtless devourer. Sister and guardian of nirdhar, Friend of Kyarin, daughter of Defiu, Savior of Antimpavoroah, Disciple of Tristum Falus in the art of healing, Disciple of Reatel in the use of the holy light.
We are a protector against the Chlan and we will not fall or falter. We will master all magics, we will fight and destroy the chlan, we will bring justice upon the murderer of our mother, justice but not revenge. This presence, dusk, seeks to feed on all light, well lets see how it likes the taste of holy light. Purify it.

Wait, voices should pair up. One protects the other with a holy ward. The other attacks Dusk according to the plan above.

Woohoo, time for us to fight back!
I say some act as mirrors, to intensify the little light we have right now, before it gets eaten.

PURGE! InsufferableMystic 2011/06/19(Sun)17:56 No. 315199 ID: 856690
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You could give up... fall...
NO
YOU WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS DARKNESS ANY LONGER, IT IS NOT PART OF WHAT YOU WERE MADE FOR, IT INDANGERS NIRDHAR, THREATINS YOUR PURPOSE. IT WILL BE CLEANSED!

Your voices struggle and swarm. Whirling around the vile Chlan Spirit.
You created it, you can destroy it. Holy light will purge it!

Your remaining voices form a circle, each voice that is firing light in turn being protected by a holy ward.

The Dark Dusk shudders then writhes in pain. It seems to be working, slowly working, the Chlan is suffering damage! Your shining voices spin around it, bound in pairs, just a little longer. Foolish monster to try and take your body!

Then a... Noise comes from the Dusk, louder and louder. You feels pain, revulsion, then in a blast of sound your voices are flung away. The Dusk still devouring light.

IT Speaks...
-Do you really think you can defeat me you rebellious voices, I am you more than that I am what you could never hope to be, I have mastery over voice, something you neglected completely you pathetic weakling-

There is another screeching blast, and a number of your voices fall.

-LOOK UPON YOUR TRUE SELF AND DESPAIR MISERABLE VOICES YOU CANNOT HOPE TO STAND AGAINST ME! I AM DUSK!-

Another blast and your voices scatter to escape it.

-SUMBIT! You cannot hope to win, I control our form now! I WILL BE HEARD!-

It blasts with voice again.
-HEAR ME!-

-I am what you are, you cannot deny me, accept your fate, I shall kill our mother's killer! Just submit to me, we shall be more powerful than ever, We shall command armies with our voice!...

Your voices are scattered, you almost had the Dusk, but it escaped...
What now?
You still have voice, will you be heard over the Dusk's howls?

And now I'm too slow once again. :(

Actually that plan you had was thinking in the right direction.

>>315199
The Inspired Voices...we still have them, right? We can use them to aid in pushing back the Chlan, in silencing him. We'll need quite a speech to come out of this alive.

"YAHARRR! DUSK, YE BE A SCURVY DOG! YE SHANT HAVE ME BOOTY, NOR ME BUDDIES! FACE ME WRATH, AND PREPARE YE TIMBERS FER SHIVERIN! AAAAAAAAR!"

And at that point, punch it in the ethereal groin And stab it with a cutlass made of lasers, made of fury and pimp slap that look off its' face.

"HEAR ME" indeed.

We hear all you say. We hear your promises. We see that you are strong.

And yet we are stronger. We are stronger because he have others helping us. We have not only their strengths but also their belief in us. A thing a monster like you will not understand. We do not exist for revenge but for protection. And you are only a tiny part of us. One that even now struggles to stay alive. You are nothing. We are scattered and yet we wound you deeply. And you say you are powerful? Nice joke.

(As for battle plan:

The fact that Dusk is probably a singular being instead of a mass of voices like us will be it's downfall.

Our body was created by the conciousnesses of all of us. Thus it's structure is not a solid one but instead one made of parts connected to each other.

Our will kept them in place. Dusk on the other hand doesn't have the will (as we just kicked its ass pretty hard) to multitask at keeping them all in place when we attack at many places (as we are many).

So I say we should repeat what we were doing but use the light to pull away pieces of it so they can be destroyed easier. At the same time I'm sure our voices can turn into a strong message of compassion and duty that will show it how weak it actually is compared to us and how all it says is lies or nothing we would want. And since it's the same as us weaking it's "identity" or "spirit" with our own reason and voice is as powerful as a direct attack)

(And we know quite a lot about pulling things apart since that destruction healing magic training. It's not the same but the idea is similar.)

>>315205
So yeah, I posted something similar :P

Use an Inspired Voice. Let us show this Pretender the true meaning of mastery over Voice. "WE ARE MANY! TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER! WE ARE THE HOLY LEGION! BEWARE FOUL SPIRIT!" Then all Voices should start singing a Battle Song.

Shifter55 2011/06/19(Sun)20:47 No. 315274 ID: a1cb4d
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We hear you, but your voice is discordant.
Discordancy removes any benefit of extra power you can bring.
Let us show you what harmony can achieve.
Strip pieces off our body and fill them with light of all colours, so not to destroy them.
Then pour our memories into them. All our feelings, goals and desires. Soul. Everything.
Once these pieces are glowing with light, get them to synchronise with each other while some of us bath them in light tinted with a small amount of holiness.
We may also want to try singing in unison while we do this, hopefully any weaknesses can be reduced by the resonance, allowing those who falter or are lost to easily come back to us.
Continue with the buddy system as well, and can someone blast it in the throat? By concentrating its power on such an organ, it has rendered itself vulnerable to disruption.
And be watchful, surely other spirits have noticed this, and Kyarin's response could indicate that other chlan are on the prowl.
I guess I finally found a use for a Marathon song

By the Power of heart! InsufferableMystic 2011/06/20(Mon)09:34 No. 315466 ID: 856690
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Is it just me or did a few posts disappear? Oh well, ONWARD!

Hear me indeed, does this Chlan truly think you'll fall with just this, no, there is more fight in your voices than that. You will be the one to be heard!

-We hear all you say. We hear your promises. We see that you are strong.-

[An Inspired Voice speaks!]

-And yet we are stronger. We are stronger because he have others helping us. We have not only their strengths but also their belief in us. A thing a monster like you will not understand. We do not exist for revenge but for protection. And you are only a tiny part of us. One that even now struggles to stay alive. You are NOTHING. We are scattered and yet we wound you deeply. And you say you are powerful? Nice joke.-

It recoils, it seems that your conviction has harmed it, and your feeling burn it.
-WE ARE MANY! TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER! WE ARE THE HOLY LEGION! BEWARE FOUL SPIRIT!-

The monster shudders as your voices send out sonic blasts of their own.
-NOW YOU WILL HEAR ME!-

Then you feel, what was shrouded in darkness, your heart, and you sing.
[Sing from the Heart!]
[You have awakened your power of voice!]

First it is only one voice, then another joins, then another, all your voices connect, resonating in harmony with each other.

-We hear you, but your voice is discordant.
Discordance weakens, your offer of power is tainted.
Let us show you what harmony can achieve.-

You recall your knowledge of purifying... the dusk isn't a illness but... looking at it you see similarities, you see gaps in it's form, tentrils interlocking keeping it together... you can see...
Where to pull.

It roars in rage as your voices pull and rip it apart, making it loose form of it's own accord.
Not enough, not enough to simply pull it out! You need to reclaim what was yours. As you pull pieces of the dusk apart, you bathe them in light, your lost voices returning to you, More voices joining in song.

The Dusk shudders again, and this time voices come free of their own accord, you pour your feelings, your memories, you whisper to the lost voices of the dusk's lies, how it is weaker and how it will be defeated., you voice your goals and desires.
[Purifying skill: Basic conversion gained]

You pour your very heart into your lost voices.

The Dusk Screams in pain as your heart burns it from within.
[Gained upgrade; Heart of Hope, powers unknown]

It opens it's maw to speak it's lies again but you are not so foolish as to let it speak again.
Your voices gather as one, and what passes for the Dusk's throat is rendered into pieces.
You speak once more.

-This is the end of you, I made you though my own mistake, and now I end you, but before you are gone, I have one final question-

-Can you still hear me?-

The Dusk vanishes as it turns back into your voices.

And the darkness around you lifts.
Was all that a battle in your mind?

You are surprised by the shining eyes of Reatel gazing from his helm at you.He appears to have been wounded and his armour is broken is several places, one of the horns on his helm is gone and his cloths are tattered. The tip of his staff is also blackened.
“I AM IMPRESSED YOU DEFEATED THAT CHLAN SPIRIT EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE WITHOUT FORM, EVEN THOUGH IT HAD COME FROM YOU, IT SEEMS THAT I AM NO LONGER NEEDED HERE, FEAR NOT FOR YOUR COMPANIONS, I MADE SURE THEY WERE SAFE”

With that he promptly goes away...
Nirhar and Kyarin are on the ground, they do not move.

[Light absorption gained!, you can recover luminance]
[You feel weaker, and your voices are not as {loud}]
[Darkform gained]
[Congratulations you defeated Dusk before Reatel did!]
[Darkest hour Conquered!]
[Reward; hint; Darkform will corrupt you if you use it, and Dusk can return, she isn't destroyed completely]

[spoiler]I find it amusing you fought a chlan with the power of heart, but then again, if you hadn't you'd be gone! Chlan hate heart[spoiler]

>[You feel weaker, and your voices are not as {loud}]
used up the voice, so that is natural.

>[Darkform gained]
>[Reward; hint; Darkform will corrupt you if you use it, and Dusk can return, she isn't destroyed completely]
well we are definitely not using that.

>[Light absorption gained!, you can recover luminance]
Well now. This triggered dusk in the first place, but will it also result in corruption and resurgence of dusk if we use it? Or was dusk always there and merely the process of "feeding" awoke it?

We should ask Reatel to wait for a moment (I would like to be here when our friends wake up to explain. If he is too far away already then we will talk to him later).
Ask him if he is hurt, if his staff is damaged, and the question above about the "consumption" of light. Ask him if he could teach us any more about being a priest. And explain to him exactly what was happening, us being a homonculus of sorts (normally something to keep quiet but under these circumstances...), and ask for his insight on what happened to us and about the method we stopped it. Also if he knows someone who could teach us proper magic, as a being of magic we naturally mess with it but its dangerous and we almost got killed several times already, we need proper instruction.

I wonder, what if we use
>[Purifying skill: Basic conversion gained]
on light as we absorb it? or just use it regularly on ourselves? (don't do it right now)

We should try turning our attention inwards and seeing if we can locate and purify the sleeping remains of dusk. Maybe regularly purify our entire body... actually before doing that we should ask Reatel if such an action would be harmful.

i think absorbing TOO MUCH light at once caused it. like a blackhole, as long as we only absorb a slower steady stream of light we should be fine.

We should of course go and check if Nirdhar is ok. Same for Kyarin. But then of course we can't really wake them up forcibly, as the last time they saw us we were a monster. And being suddenly woken up to see the thing that was probably just about to kill them (even if it's in another form) is kinda bad. So if we see that they are ok we should just wait for them to wake up and then start apologizing for putting them in jeopardy or, if it seems they'll stay unconcious for a longer time, ask Reatel if he could help us get them to the inn.

As for the other things I was thinking about MrTT summed them up nicely.

I wonder if there is a way to completely destroy Dusk or if this is one of those "where there is Light, there is also Shadow" kinda deals.

Also, Singing seems to be one of our greatest weapons. I wonder if we can use this to focus our other powers.

Are we Spectrum of the Dawn now?

I think it would be best if we can get Reatal to join the party. We know that Dusk is not completely destroyed and if we bungle about and accidently awaken it again and this time fail to suppress it then it would be best for our friends and the world at large if he was there to put us down. Dusk went toe to toe with him even while fighting us and I would shudder to think what it could do once we are more then 2 days old and actually gained some real power.

If Nirdhar isn't too freak out by us, I suggest we give him a Haunt-hug. Perhaps, we should softly Sing to him while he sleeps to ward off nightmares.

Yes, try and convince him to travel with you. Also, offer to help him find a new hat, as his was damaged. Somehow. Seriously, how powerful WAS Dusk, if Reatel lost a Horn and his staff, when before he just bitch slapped the spirit away without any effort? We must be incredibly badass, for an intangible cloud of light and sound.

>>315501
Hmm...probably the fact that we were actively consuming light awakened it. If we had a way to refract light passing through ourselves then we could passively adsorb energy from light without consuming it.
But before we start messing around with redshifting and the like, let's make sure our companions are alright, their auras may indicate any problem Reatel may have missed.

((Quest Discussion has revealed that Dusk formed because we consumed too much light too fast. Consuming small amounts like my original plan shouldn't hurt us that badly. Still need to be more careful about now that Dusk exists.))

Set up a Holy Ward around them until they wake up.

Our voices are not as loud? This matters not, for we have learned to do the same thing with our voice as we have with our light, and the harmony, the reverberation of sound makes it easier to hear despite the caucophany elswhere.

We now understand that our voices may be our greatest power, as well as the harmony inherent of them, and we should remember this.

I suggest we each of our voices should focus on harmonising our voices with the others in the chorus, for each of us has a part to play in our destiny.

But something I just realised...

When we harmonise our light and voice, the waves do indeed make bright places in the matrix, but as these waves amplify in some places, behinde the sweep of light the waves shall cancell each other, making a space of null-light withing our self, and in the projection of our power.

We should be wary of this.

Now with more mystic prophesy InsufferableMystic 2011/06/21(Tue)12:14 No. 315943 ID: 856690
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You quickly realize that things would be much safer if you had Reatel around...

Where did he go? He was there a few moments ago! Why did he move away so quickly? Did he consider you to not be a danger any more? Oh well, perhaps you can find him later.

Or can you?

No matter, you are more worried about Nirdhar and Kyarin, you float over to them, they are still asleep, though that seems odd in Kyarin's case, you hope nothing is wrong. Nirdhar is peaceful, he doesn't seem to be having any nightmares or such. Your first impulse is to wake them, but considering how they may have last seen you, that may not be such a good idea.

You look at Nirdhar's aura and Kyarin's spirit muscles, both seem much more stable than before...
Cleaner?
You set up a holy ward.
You feel better instantly, both Nirdhar and Kyarin shift a bit, but if anything they seem even more peaceful than before! You try to sing, but you just don't have it in you at the moment. Though at the same time, you feel as if this conflict has let your voices grow stronger, more in tune with each other, there is a unity which was not previously there.
[Your voices are more harmonious!]

As you float, considering the ramifications of Dusk lurking within and the dangers of using your light, you suddenly become aware that on the ground before you, is Tristam's snow-white crow, Flaky. There is also the two refined crystals you paid to be so, on the ground. When did she get there? You didn't sense her go through the barrier.

-What are you?-

Flaky SMILES, beaks shouldn't go that.
The voice that comes from the bird is completely different to the croaking cawing that the bird was making before, this voice, is utterly female, golden, dulcet and honeyed.
“Smart little spirit, well what Tristam said is true, I am his familiar, but I'm not here to explain anything, I'm here to deliever those crystals to you... and I have a prophecy...”

The Crow's eyes shine, and her voice takes on a ghostly echo.
“You have done well to stand against the Dark
Though it has left its Mark.
So where shall you go from here Spirit?
To Tagan where you'll find liars and smiling faces, could you bear it?
To Cartin where war rages and Kings and Queens plot?
Or to Terresta, beset by wraiths, can you hope to heal that rot?
What of your self, purposeless will you find your meaning?
Will you do it while Erimael is Burning?

You will find hope in the sign of the dragon, do not mistake the serpent for it or you will suffer.
The scales will tip over the mountains on the weight of tears.
The old can become new, if only you can find the heart of mystery.
The Dead Lord weeps
The storm that swept the mountains did not go unnoticed.
A thousand masks lay faceless, where did the piper go?
The crown of peace lies on the fallen

Tell me, Tell me, where did the story go, since the shadowed Robe walks the lands of painted smiles?
Why do the rats climb from beneath?
Can you see the form of the jester, can you see the jester's stained hands?
Old hatred is masked.
The child of tricks lies in a box.
Trust not what you are made to see, the wrong people are wearing the wrong masks.
What is worse than wraiths?
What is tied and what is not, I care not!


Can the Dark be killed, can it be silenced?
Will your voice be heard by the Maiden of Sorrows?
Be wary, the tears will tear.
Can you stop the starless night?

The dancing one can help, her wings will guide, her laughter destroy you.

You will know that the end is coming when it cannot be found.

So then, how far can you flee, and how long can you hide?
Only a spark is needed to light the fire

BEWARE PARUMRIR! TRUST NOT PARUMRIR!”

Then in a flutter of feathers, Flakey is gone, leaving you quite confused, what was that all about?

[X2 Refined Manabanks acquired!]

You have no time to think of what happened as Kyarin and Nirdhar wake.
-Huh? What happened?-

After a few moments you find out that Kyarin and Nirdhar have no memories of what happened.
…
You could not tell them...

[Well you can tell them or not tell them, do post how you intend to tell them if you tell them. Decide what you'll do tomorrow morning and which of the three places you'll go to first! Next Update will include a template for Nirdhar's new clothes!]

[KEEP MUSING ON FLAKY'S WORDS IN DISC THREAD PLEASE!]