//I'm fine both days.
Toric looked around the temple. "So's we did it, eh?" He points at the necklace around Nih's neck. "Not sure I'm fully comfortable with carryin' that thing 'round, but I canna think of any safer place. I just hope it behaves itself and doesn't cause any more trouble than what it 'ready has. I've a feelin' someone or something wanted us to trap that demon lord so's they could harness 'is energy. Should be very, very careful regardless." He eyes Nih critically. "How ye feelin', lass? Any plans ta take o'er the world with undead?"
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((can do the 24th!))
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Thus far it's 5 yes for the 24th (counting the DM), nobody has said they cannot make it.
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// I should be fine to play Saturday!
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//I'm fine for both days.
The arrows the goddess had given proved very effective, one was a killing strike on the first incarnation of Orcus. The second Orcus didn't really last much longer and then got sucked into a necklace the sorceress was wearing; Slade wasn't sure what to make of that. When they were carried back to the temple by a golden dragon, the high priestess seemed to think it was best the necklace stay right where it was - around the sorceress' neck, another thing Slade wasn't so sure about - but then what did he really know about such?
The arrows the goddess had given proved very effective, one was a killing strike on the first incarnation of Orcus. The second Orcus didn't really last much longer and then got sucked into a necklace the sorceress was wearing; Slade wasn't sure what to make of that. When they were carried back to the temple by a golden dragon, the high priestess seemed to think it was best the necklace stay right where it was - around the sorceress' neck, another thing Slade wasn't so sure about - but then what did he really know about such?
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((Looks like I'll be okay for the 24th. Not sure yet about the 31st, but odds are decent.))
Nihmri was uncharacteristically quiet, seemingly absorbed in thought. She looked down at Toric and blinked, for once without a ready retort.
"Oh," she said. "No. I mean, I feel fine. And I don't feel like conquering the world at the head of an undead army. Well. Not any more than usual, anyway."
Nihmri was uncharacteristically quiet, seemingly absorbed in thought. She looked down at Toric and blinked, for once without a ready retort.
"Oh," she said. "No. I mean, I feel fine. And I don't feel like conquering the world at the head of an undead army. Well. Not any more than usual, anyway."
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She had seen the face of her God! She didn't mean to forget it. In fact, she intended to honour it... she looked at her own reflection in the small room they shared once again at the Temple of All Faiths, examining the look of near-white hair, the strangeness it brought to her face. Behind her, Nihmri bustled about, fixing a last application of dye, but she had only thoughts for the divine.
It had been as if a jeering, sarcastic sun had come out from behind the clouds. Years stubbornly following a course against the wind of everyone's disapproving opinion, with power but no guidance, half-making it up as she went along. And after all that, of pushing on against everything... she had been blessed with holy words. Don't stop being you. As a commandment, it was the most potent she'd ever heard, straight from her matron's mouth. She didn't intend to disappoint.
It wasn't just the approval... but the understanding that had been given. Discord, misfortune, spite, bad luck... it wasn't just the absence of what her sister thought was good. It had a presence, a place in the cosmic order, a right to exist all of its own. How could bad luck exist without good luck to tear down? How could good luck exist without bad luck to escape?
She stared into the mirror, squeezing the last of the bleaching-dye Nihmri had cooked up for her into her hair. And as she did... she caught a sparkle of light in the corner of the room's image. A glimpse of the chaos-stone, glittering with possibility and power, just peeking out from under Nim's chin.
Want to be a Goddess, Suula? She had been asked. Yeah. Maybe a little...
It had been as if a jeering, sarcastic sun had come out from behind the clouds. Years stubbornly following a course against the wind of everyone's disapproving opinion, with power but no guidance, half-making it up as she went along. And after all that, of pushing on against everything... she had been blessed with holy words. Don't stop being you. As a commandment, it was the most potent she'd ever heard, straight from her matron's mouth. She didn't intend to disappoint.
It wasn't just the approval... but the understanding that had been given. Discord, misfortune, spite, bad luck... it wasn't just the absence of what her sister thought was good. It had a presence, a place in the cosmic order, a right to exist all of its own. How could bad luck exist without good luck to tear down? How could good luck exist without bad luck to escape?
She stared into the mirror, squeezing the last of the bleaching-dye Nihmri had cooked up for her into her hair. And as she did... she caught a sparkle of light in the corner of the room's image. A glimpse of the chaos-stone, glittering with possibility and power, just peeking out from under Nim's chin.
Want to be a Goddess, Suula? She had been asked. Yeah. Maybe a little...
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Upon their return to the temple, Amathain spent some time in prayer and meditation at the shrine of Torm. Although they had come through their encounter with the divine largely unscathed, it seemed they were do be custodians of some of that power, at least for a time. Amathain found this troubling as he pondered its implication; the power of a god simply floating loose, where it might be stolen by any entity strong enough to take it from them. The list of beings that might crave the power of the defeated Orcus was a long one, and that was just the ones he could think of. He felt sure there would be surprises aplenty in store for them, if they were to be the custodians of the necklace.
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The woman who lay resting in the Temple of All Faiths was not the same one who had left it all that time ago. None of the faithful who had stood before their patron and seen everything they wanted to be reflected there could ever be the same. Everything you had done, every element of your behaviour, was effectively validated. So it should be impossible not to be content. Yet she was not.
So she meditated between what light duties they were asked to complete, or sat lost in thought. Could even be found leafing through the library looking less than comfortable while doing so. Building a level of relaxed concentration that even Suula's change of hair colour failed to dent beyond a roll of the eyes.
The only thing that dented it was to catch sight of Nim. Her eyes would follow the other woman watching the talisman hanging around her neck. After a while she seemed to reach a decision and, waiting a time when she could be certain none were watching, she took a cloth wrapped object from her bag she sought out Kirekk.
"I need you to take this," she told him, presenting the cloth wrapped shape.
The half-dragon took it but did not look at what he was given, simply taking it and wrapping the cloth tighter around the long shape. "Is giving it to me enough?" he asked.
Shanni should her head. "No, no it isn't," she added. "It needs to be hidden. Please take it somewhere as inaccessible as possible. Hide it from mortal eyes, and from as many immortal ones as possible. Tell no one where you have hidden it." She glanced behind her as if indicating others may have an interest. "I fear one danger is all I feel we can guard at a time."
So she meditated between what light duties they were asked to complete, or sat lost in thought. Could even be found leafing through the library looking less than comfortable while doing so. Building a level of relaxed concentration that even Suula's change of hair colour failed to dent beyond a roll of the eyes.
The only thing that dented it was to catch sight of Nim. Her eyes would follow the other woman watching the talisman hanging around her neck. After a while she seemed to reach a decision and, waiting a time when she could be certain none were watching, she took a cloth wrapped object from her bag she sought out Kirekk.
"I need you to take this," she told him, presenting the cloth wrapped shape.
The half-dragon took it but did not look at what he was given, simply taking it and wrapping the cloth tighter around the long shape. "Is giving it to me enough?" he asked.
Shanni should her head. "No, no it isn't," she added. "It needs to be hidden. Please take it somewhere as inaccessible as possible. Hide it from mortal eyes, and from as many immortal ones as possible. Tell no one where you have hidden it." She glanced behind her as if indicating others may have an interest. "I fear one danger is all I feel we can guard at a time."
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+2550xp for full-party IC posting. Everyone should be at least 17th level now.