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 Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:03 pm
He didn't care if the kid stayed quiet, Galesen knew what he was talking about so if the boy didn't confess soon he would have two drow after him. They wont kill him for lying but they may bug him about lying in the first place. Malik and Sevilin, he knew that those two had trust issues with new people, and he understood why, Malik has a family to protect and so does Sevilin, that and what they went through in their lives made them into who they are now. So the kid better explain himself soon or what little trust he has gotten from them now will go away.
"Come on let's go." He had placed Ramoth and the other horse back in their stables and now lead the kid back into the fortress. Moments later they were back in the room with the others. "We're back, and got all the info you want too Malik."
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:09 pm
Malik knew how she was feeling, but the frown that formed was not from her. it was from the information he got from a returning, unmounted, Ramoth. Malik put things together quite well, and after letting piper go in a gentle and nice way, turned around to the two coming into the room. he ignored Galesen, and grabbed Myklorian, and lifted him clear off the ground before throwing him down, drawing his sword and putting a boot down on his chest.
"I've had enough boy! Enough of your deception, enough of your excuses! Where are your parents, why are they not with you, and don't give me some garbage about them being conveintly off plane or on the surface. I have my own allies topside and I can and will find them there if I have to with a speed that will make your head explode. Or, should I just assume your one of these things you talk about, one of them looking to stick it to another and just feed Malvolence your soul and life and learn everything you ever knew that way?!"
The blade did get drawn and the tip pressed to his throat.
"These are my children at stake. this is my family at stake. You, you are nothing compared to that. less than nothing. You give me my answers, and you had better be completely honest with me. Because if my son, or the Inthara's children, suffer even so much as a split hair because you didn't tell me something, or give me access to something, there is no word in any language to describe how fast, how hard, and how horrible my retaliation on you will be."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:26 pm
And thus why she was keeping to herself about it as Malik went to tend to business again. Normally she would probably chastise him for handling the boy roughly...but she just didn't care right now. Damn her...giving into the wants of humans for a surface only brought about this eventual thing. All in all...it was her fault that this happened. And how could she tell Malik that...would he turn on her too? She was momentarily distracted from her thoughts though by the hand on her shoulder, looking to meet her mother's eyes...which the woman only pulled her daughter into a hug.
If Malik wasn't going to do it, or Piper wasn't going to let him or whatever the issue was, then she was going to do it. After all...Fianna knew exactly what Piper was feeling in a sense because it had happened to her. One day she woke up and her child was simply gone. But a shake of her head at the display...the boy was just a child.
Sevilin turned his attention somewhat to Malik, Galesen and Mykorian as Malik went about asserting how things were going to be, and applause to him...that boy had been hiding something ever since they met him and it had something to do with his parents. Malik had the right to take the matter up harshly.
Uh oh, he was in trouble. Which was clearly the case as he was picked up and thrown down again, then held as still as he could when there was a sharp point of a sword to his throat. "Okay okay! They're dead! Are you happy?! They're not on the surface, they're not down here, and you can't get a hold of them." Cue the tough kid trying not to cry look as he laid on the floor with that blade above him, the corner of his pack in his back causing him pain but not saying anything about it. So what, Galesen was right about it all...didn't change anything.
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:34 pm
Well he did warn the kid, and Malik wasn't going to take pity on the child. Neither was he as he had stated before. Galesen learned this way the hard way too, he could even remember being under Malik's blade enough time throughout the years he spent here at Twilight. So sighing lightly he walked over to a wall and rested against it, Malik got what he wanted shouldn't that be enough now?
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:48 pm
"you're wrong. I can get them, and I can contact them."
Sheathing his sword, and helping the boy up.
"Let me introduce you to someone. I'm sure you'll find them most helpful with your parents."
glancing at Galesen.
"Everything else you brought put on the dining table. we'll go over it, then we'll go to the location you saw these potential things. by then we should be able to talk to a better source of information."
Looking over at Piper and Fianna. there were times he envied a relationship with a parent like that. someone that coudl help soothe things a lover couldn't.
A young humanoid came from below, dressed in gold and back patterned robes. human looking, but grey skinned with runic writing emblazoned into his skin.
"Myklorian, this is Tybalt. Tybalt, this is Myklorian. You two need to talk, and I want you to find his deceased parents for questioning."
the humanoid nodded and gestured to Myklorian to follow him, and started his way back downstairs.
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:59 pm
Oh great, he had no idea what he had just gotten himself into did he? It seemed not seeing as he was being helped up an told things that didn't seem possible. Handing his pack over to Galesen since it had what he had brought with him in it, he looked to the other that he was given an introduction to. Crap, he was in for it now wasn't he? Mykorian swallowed hard...and merely was a good boy and followed his 'new friend' back downstiars. Crap indeed.
She however had caught Malik's gaze and gave him back that 'you should be here doing this, not me' look. But she could see how it was hard for him...Piper was restricting things across her bonds, and for Malik who was drow and thus would always be new to them in certain aspects it was plausible to see that maybe he didn't know how to approach her. "Well...from what he said before, we need to proceed with utmost caution with these creatures...information may not be enough to give an edge."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:16 pm
Galesen looked at Malik and raised an eyebrow, so he was going to go that far just to get some information? Well he knew Malik would do anything but this took him by surprise a little bit. So when Tybalt came in the room the elf knew things were going to be alright, at least nothing bad was going to happen to the elf. Though when Mykorian came to him he looked down at the elf and nodded. "Don't worry, you'll be fine." the kid was probably scared like hell. Taking the bag he looked at the others and dug through it, pulling out a few books and papers. "Okay let's see what information we got here." He placed the stuff on the table and looked over what they had slowly, thank god for elf memory it was going to become useful right now.
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:54 pm
Malik caught that look from Fianna, and shook his head and went to the table. He didn't know how to handle it, or how to deal with it indeed. this was just something he was not familiar with at all.
"Knowledge is an edge at least...to know something about what we're dealing with. Far better than going in blind and dumb."
Of course piper restricting things from bonds made it harder to know how to comfort her in any form. Malik rested his hands on the table lightly.
"the ability to mimic others is not a skill I am completely familiar with. I know about illusions, but this sounds like a physical alteration. shapeshifting. they can mimic physical, voice well enough that our missing children are not in the least set off by anything they can see or hear. They've got some form of protection that prevents us from bond tracking them down. We don't know if this is an inherent skill, or a magical protection."
Tybalt led Myklorian down into the depths of the basement, the unpleasent sounds rather muffled and mute, and opened a door to a room lined with all sorts of mystical reagents and objects, skulls and books, and candles. workdesks with things he probably didn't want to know what they were.
"I will need your father and mother's names. I will need thier home location, as best as you can describe it. the names of family that have also passed there were blood related. thier parents, siblings."
his voice was metallic, otherworldly, and his picked up items and drew a large circle ont eh floor, marking it in specific places with certian objects or script.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:14 pm
And he was going to die. Despite Galesen's words, he was going to die. well...hopefull it wouldn't be too painful or anything. Mykorian fidgeted nervouslya she watched the other do things and ask questions of him. "Rivas and Ahliya Pathtell. We lived mostly on the surface...near the foot of some mountains with a forest to the east. I don't know any family...they never spoke of anyone else." Fidgeting again, not sure if he was giving enough but he didn't have much to give.
Handing his son over to his wife, with some reassurance to the boy beforehand, he walked over to the table and sat down to go over this information...after all, few could go through a passge of text faster than he could. His life was part books. Grabbing one, he flipped it open and looked over the writing on the pages that was in common. "S othewise called 'nells for time saving sake. Dopplegangers as well as retainers....retainers," scanning a bit more. "Able to take strong knowledge and aspects of the one they mimic to the point of being able to pull other mimickry sources." That wasn't good. "Here...physical contact with bodily fluids such as blood or other, or scent traps. Scent traps?"
If one didn't know the look, they would never know that Piper and Fianna were having a conversation between them on mental frequencies. Or at least one was trying to have one with the other. While everyone else was tending to children or reviewing information, she was working on her daughter, blasted girl was being difficult. Though suddenly she blinked a few times at Piper and seemed to be quite surprised by something she had told...before frowning at the information in agressive fashion.
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:28 pm
"Yeah to have a bit of knowledge about these creatures will at least give us a good direction to go in, though hopefully Mykorian's father has enough information on the creatures." Though a look to Malik and he gave a nod. "It is physical shape-shifting, these creatures called 'nells are purely non physical until they take the form of someone they want. Though your right about one thing, they are able to avoid any way of being tracked down or tripping any alarms and whatnot. Especially since they avoid Sevilin's runes then they have to have something backing them." A look to Sevilin as the man began to read, hopefully the drow would pick up something though Galesen would like to take a crack at the info, may prove useful one day.
A blink as the drow began to speak out loud, passing on info that was actually bad to hear. "They can take our knowledge too? Great..." That's bad very bad, they will have intimate knowledge of both Sevilin and Piper, and anyone else they may have copied. "Scent traps?" There was a slight pause by everyone until it somehow clicked. "Wait didn't some of you guys say that you smelled something odd over the past few weeks?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:23 am
Zykariel, Piper, Sevilin all had that. Zykariel smelled cookies, Piper pine, and sevilin it was amber wasn't it? and taking knowledge would be a required thing. you'd have to know how to do things, how to talk or move to fool others. but this other mimicry sources...that might be implying that if they for example, take piper's form, with enough time they coudl use that knowledge to mimic say, Fianna or Kieran possibly. or myself, or malikhai."
Tybalt looked over at the boy.
"The surface has not been habitable until recently for elfkind. do you know where they may have been before the surface was restored?"
the necromancer finished his circle, and moved over to Myklorian, and took his hand and pulled him to a certain location.
"Rivas Pathtell and Ahliya Pathtell. these are the names, correct?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:25 pm
Taking Piper by the shoulders, she pushed her daughter from the room away from the men and into another, where she then crossed her arms at the woman, imploring the mothering look. "Why won't you tell him? You think he wouldn't take it well? I would never let him hurt you...your father may not be here to help keep things in line with the way he goes about things, but that doesn't mean that I would let Malik do anything to you. Besides...that's just something you should never be afraid of when it comes to your husband. If Kieran even had those thoughts, he'd regret it."
"I can't tell him that. It's not that I think he would do something more phsyical to me, but it's his family mother. His son. It doesn't matter who it is that caused it...they caused it and that's all there is to it." Shaking her head lightly as she was still trying to keep herself together. First she was upset it had happened...now even more so that it was her fault. "And you and father aren't married, it's different." A few confused blinks though, as it was her turn to be slapped by her mother.
She was just on a role with this slapping thing today. Then again it was the best way to get someone's attention and say 'hey, you're being stupid'. "Me and your father may not be married, but we are as close to that as can be. It's no different." Shaking her head, "The longer you wait, the worse it's going to get. He's going to find out. And the others too, are you afraid of them blaming you as well. I know both have attacked you before, but again...I wouldn't let them hurt you."
"In other words...they're form parasites who can adapt." Just great...that didn't do them any good and only made things worse. "Well when it speaks of taking our knowledge...I'm sure it's not all encompassing as Malik says. After all, certain conditions with the source," say the fact that Sevilin's mind was rather compartmentalized and he was able to be deemed insanse for one, "may affect how they can have information." But a nod to Galesen as well as Malik. "Yes...some of us have been like Malik says...which means they were picking targets. So then...if we know that...then we better not give them enough time to do that."
"Um, we have a place out toward the southwest of here, by the channel between this land and the druid land. Mother used to live there and that's where we stayed when we were down here. Dad stayed with her down here too long before I was born." He didn't like talking about all of this, it bothered him because he didn't like to bring up the past when he was awake, that's what reverie as for. "Yes...that's their names."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:22 pm
Zahara was playing soother to both of her children, one on each side of her, running her fingers through their hair as they rested their heads against her shoulders. Poor things. She was furious with Malik over his attempts that had gone so horribly awry but now was not the time to extract the pound of flesh for that error. But she was also torn on the matter of Mykorian. Frightening the boy out of his wits wasn't going to get anything and she didn't like the look of Tybalt when he came up either. But she kept her silence during the whole display. If Mykorian's information was going to help get her children back, she'd let Malik be as harsh as he needed to. She still didn't like it and filed away the information.
Listening to the rest of the information thrown out about the creatures who had managed to snatch her children, she tilted her head. "Could they have gained information from us while we lay in reverie all that time? We know it was longer than the time we needed because we all woke up disoriented, but what could they have gained from us during that time?" Stab in the dark? Yes, but it was all she could think of right now.
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Faate cut her eyes at him and shook her head. "I don't want anything from you." Picking up her study materials, she nodded to her father. "I'll finish studying in my room." Turning on her heel, she strolled from the room and down the hall. Stupid older brothers....
Kelligrin gave a happy giggle through sniffles and buried his head in his brother's shoulder. "Silly sissy." Not completely happy but not completely upset either. "Kariel play with Kelli?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:14 pm
"Shapeless beings who can mimic anyone they want too, though parasites do sound like a good word for them other than 'nells. Still if we were to find them we need to take them out all at once, if any of them get away they probably could change into someone else and try it again." Though a look to Sevilin and he nodded. "That's true, there are people who have complexed minds, or even barriers that they set up for reasons of their own. Maybe these 'nells have limited information from you guys." That may be true, though it could only be a theory. Though as they dived into the whole scent trap scenario Galesen thought about it. "Well in order to keep your children under control they had to pick you guys and take your forms, but who knows who else they have targeted? The Underdark is a large place and who knows who else these 'nells may target if they are interested in more than these kids. But for now it's best to focus on finding them."
A look to Zahara as she finally spoke up, she had been quiet for awhile tending to the kids but at least she was able to think over everything. "Well they had three days with the doors locked and you all knocked out, they could of picked around inside you guys all that time. They could try and find information on Sevilin's runes, your potions. Who knows what else? But I think they needed just enough to fool the children, after all they couldn't just pick anything from your minds."
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:32 pm
Tybalt gave a nod, and bagen to talk in a language very spidery, whispers usually. the writing ont eh floor began to light up in wavering green light in certain patterns, the patterns shifting about.
"Rivas Pathtell. I summon you forth. Your son has need of you. Ahliya Pathtell, I call on you. your son has need of you. I call forth you both, to aid this House, and through that aid to aid your son. On the bonds of parent to child, I demand your presence here of your own volition."
This little pharse he would say when the patterns shifted, calling out to the surface adn the areas in the underdark aforementioned by Myklorian to find the spirits of his parents. of course if they have moved on, Tybalt had ways of pulling htem from there, too.
Malik frowned lightly.
"I don't think they spent three days here. I think what they did was use scent traps to gather information, knock us out, take the kids, and spend those three days fortifying, solidifying their base of operations for when we wake up."
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