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#Post#: 55--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Evil Squeegee
Date: November 30, 2024, 8:40 pm
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[center]Eve Solomon
Your first impression’s got to be your very best
I see you're full of shit and that's alright
That's how you play, I guess you get through every
night[/center]
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What the hell, Nameright? You punched me?
~Oh please. You’ve had worse in bed.~
Pfffft. Pffft I say. Pffft on you and your attitude!
My argument in my own head with my familiar is cut short,
though, by the troll kneeling and asking if I need anything.
I sit up straight. Obviously, she knows I’m important. Why else
would she be kneeling? I’m a god-damned princess and don’t you
fucking forget it!
“I have no way to get there,” I say, standing up -- and climbing
up onto the troll’s big blue shoulders, straddling the back of
her neck like a child riding their father.
“But there’s a ranch out in the desert if you follow the
highway. I can point you there!”
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: BIGDoor82
Date: November 30, 2024, 8:49 pm
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[center]Catherine Templeton
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I didn't expect to become the lady's mount, but I do not
complain. I simply stand and walk in the direction she points. A
highway. I walk fast, even for my size, even with the extra
weight. I'm a frost giant, and I have the strength of mountains
within me. "What is you name, My Lady?" I ask as we walk. I did
give her mine. It is only fitting she tell me hers. I made sure
to word it so that she doesn't think I'm trying to steal her
name...not that I could. Only certain power sidhe possess the
Naming Art. I may be powerful, a sorcerer in my own right, but I
am not sidhe...
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Evil Squeegee
Date: November 30, 2024, 9:09 pm
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[center]Eve Solomon
Your first impression’s got to be your very best
I see you're full of shit and that's alright
That's how you play, I guess you get through every
night[/center]
App 5 (Captivating) | Kinain | Kinfolk, PB 3 (Shadowlord)
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“You can call me Eve!”
So… it’s a long walk. So long, in fact, that it’s morning by the
time we get there. The path follows the highway away from the
city, eventually turning off and plunging deep into the desert,
away from civilization and everything that it implies.
But when we get there… oh man I love my house.
The first thing we see is the greenery. Unlike the surrounding
desert, there’s actual grass growing here - yeah! In Nevada!
Don’t ask questions, because even if I know how it’s done, I’m
literally not allowed to tell you.
The next thing to notice is the Manor itself. It’s a gorgeous
mansion. The driveway is long, and leads to a little roundabout
that spins around a statue of a beautiful woman that’s actually
a fountain. There’s a big red truck parked to the side, beat up
and rusted and not at all fitting in with the expensive-as-fuck
everything else surrounding it.
I climb down from the troll’s shoulders, and walk a few steps
ahead of her, looking around.
“Hello?”
No response.
“...Anyone home?”
Weird. Not even the groundskeepers or the wolves come out to
greet me.
I pat the troll’s arm, distractedly, looking around.
“Might want to draw that big sword of yours,” I say, my tone
entirely different from it’s usual playful up-beat sound.
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: BIGDoor82
Date: December 1, 2024, 7:39 am
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I do indeed draw Eldi Sverð, but I do not ignite the blade. Eve
thinks there may be a fight and I'm sworn to protect her, so I
do...I stab Eldi Sverð into the ground and call on the stone of
my mountainous homeland, drawing it from the bedrock and casting
the elder form on Eve, so she will be safe.
Eve will be slower, but her body will be protected from lethal
attacks by her new stone skin. "It will not last forever." Is
all I say to any protests.
Then, I simple ready myself and Eldi Sverð.
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Evil Squeegee
Date: December 1, 2024, 9:32 am
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[center]Eve Solomon
Your first impression’s got to be your very best
I see you're full of shit and that's alright
That's how you play, I guess you get through every
night[/center]
[i]App 5 (Captivating) | Kinain | Kinfolk, PB 3 (Shadowlord)
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--- Quote ---
> The Sight: Spirit 1 + Mind 1 + Corr 1
> Arete: 4, 9, 9
--- End Quote ---
I rub my eyes and offer a prayer to Kraken. There’s a shimmer of
magic and when I lower my hands, my eyes are softly aglow to the
Changeling’s chimerical sight - I scan the premises for any
spirit activity, any chimerical activity.
Everyone is missing. The Manor is cold to the mystical senses.
All the lights are out - it’s dark.
That’s when the first flat little shadow darts up and rushes me,
scuttling across the ground as it peels itself away from the
main shadow of the Manor. I step behind the troll, sluggishly
because of the magic she’s cast on me.
“What the fuck--”
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: BIGDoor82
Date: December 1, 2024, 9:41 am
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[center]Catherine Templeton
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When Eve runs behind me, I lift my sword, and bellow a warcry
across the field at the shadow creature. Even here, in the
warmth of the desert the world seems to turn to the cold grey of
deep winter. Winds of pure winter cold blow and carry my warcry
on them, a haunting, terrifying sound. I grind my foot into the
dirt, and point sword forward! My cry ends with a single
phrase... "CEASE THIS FOLLY!". The cold light of the mountain
dawn in my eyes. Frost crystals growing on my horns that curl
tightly like a ram's.
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Evil Squeegee
Date: December 1, 2024, 9:55 am
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[center]Eve Solomon
Your first impression’s got to be your very best
I see you're full of shit and that's alright
That's how you play, I guess you get through every
night[/center]
[i]App 5 (Captivating) | Kinain | Kinfolk, PB 3 (Shadowlord)
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Look, I’m not saying I’m happy.
I have no idea where my family is, and my home has been invaded
by this shadow thing, or whatever it is. I’m cold. I’m dressed
to get laid, not dressed for adventure. I was just the victim of
an attempted kidnapping.
But after that display, I’m glad I’ve got a troll handy.
The shadow thinks twice about rushing us and scuttles back into
the house, rejoining the major shadow the darkness of the Manor
is casting.
And then it comes back with friends. Five of them. They skitter
around, slowly advancing, slowly circling around us.
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: BIGDoor82
Date: December 1, 2024, 10:10 am
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"Fine" I say. "You have chosen this fate." I roar, and charge
the nearest shadow, attempting to bisect it with my blade.
((Rolls made in DM To Grant))
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Evil Squeegee
Date: December 1, 2024, 11:01 am
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[center]Eve Solomon
Your first impression’s got to be your very best
I see you're full of shit and that's alright
That's how you play, I guess you get through every
night[/center]
App 5 (Captivating) | Kinain | Kinfolk, PB 3 (Shadowlord)
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((After a whole buncha dicing…))
The troll rushes in and cuts one of the shadows in half.
It splits into two and the whole group returns the assault,
climbing up the troll’s body and tearing at her flesh and armor
and hair and eyes. The troll is soon entirely covered in
shadows, thick and cold and dark. They rip her to shreds -
wounds appearing all over her body. She crumples to the ground,
and the shadows reform as a giant, detail-less dark shadow of
their victim.
Catherine drops to the ground, unconscious and nearly dead.
“...Welp.” I take a step back from the shadow-clone-troll,
looking it up and down and backpeddaling. I start to panic.
[i]~Don’t panic.~
Maybe I WANT to panic!
~Nobody WANTS to panic.~
TOO LATE, NAMERIGHT. I AM SO PANICKING.
~Fine but before you panic, I know a place we can retreat to.~
I am not abandoning Cathrine, she just saved me. Twice.
~Ugh. Nobility? Honor? Now of all times! Eve you need to work on
letting your inner sociopath breathe a little.~
NOT HELPING, NAMERIGHT.
~Fine fine. Here. We’re taking the troll, too. Dream us a portal
to here…~
--- Quote ---
> Spirit 2 + Mind 3 + Correspondence 3: Retreating to the
Anywhere Cafe.
> Arete 3, Diff 7, WP auto: 8, 8, 5 - three successes
> One point of Paradox generated
> Paradox dice: 2 - no successes. No paradox discharge, but no
effect.
--- End Quote ---
I bolt forward, laying a hand on the unconscious troll, and we
both disappear in a big CLAP as the air rushes in to fill our
displaced locations.
We appear suddenly and without warning in the Anywhere Cafe: Me,
dressed to kill, and a troll, dressed… uh.. To kill, but
differently. Like, not sex. Troll is for fighting. You know.
Shut up. You know what I mean.
I don’t even bother to look around. I immediately kneel next to
the unconscious body and my right hand places itself on
Catherine’s head. There’s a soft glow as the artifact works it’s
power.
--- Quote ---
> Nameright spends five essence.
> Nameright’s WP: 6, 7, 3, 10, 5
> Catherine heals five health levels.
--- End Quote ---
#Post#: 66--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: BIGDoor82
Date: December 1, 2024, 11:11 am
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[center]Catherine Templeton
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I go down, the light goes out...and then I hear voices...Not the
voices of my fellow temple knights...people ordering drinks...I
sit up, still in a little pain. "Ow..." I say, and start to look
around. Yeah... "Apparently, I chose poorly..." I say, talking
about my attack. I went with steel, but I should have went with
fire...
I look at Eve. "You saved me." It's not a question. "Thank you."
I say, and push myself to my feet. "My oath is fulfilled, it
seems." Obviously... She can take care of herself it seems. I
look down at my hand. Eldi Sverð is still there, so I sheathe
it. "Where are we?" I ask, look down at Eve. I'm hunched over a
bit, to fit in the room...
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