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 Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:46 am
His leg moved with practiced ease from her swipe. and he stood his ground carefully.
"don't overestimate yourself."
He decided to give it a shot, and flick one of those near invisible little blades, the one that siphons of magical energy at sevilin's calf. couldn't hurt to try.
"And that may be, but that was a very expensive substance on that one."
a shrug.
"I've got my own orders. part of it is already done, the rest I need information your wife has. a piece of you is for the Lodge. they were rather interested in you. something about how you harness your magic. it's worth a great deal to get a sample of you. Cerrillia was just sent to learn about it. I intended to collect on it's application."
Cerrillia did as told, sitting in the position he demonstrated. calm, serene, medative. it was very similar to the exercises they used to first feel the energy around them...but this was focusing internally. so she montiroed her breathing, the way her heart beat, the feel of her pulse bmping form her wrist resting against her legs.
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:51 am
Well attuned to minute movements indeed, the flick of wrist and fingers was easy enough for him to pick up on and he gave his own flick of the wrist, little dart slamming into eneries that dissolved it with a hiss. "Sorry, I've already handed over a piece of myself to someone else. You're a little too late in line." He was talking more or less about nothing Sevilin could connect in his mind...save for one thing really and he was not looking forward to the follow up. "And what do you need to know from her so desperately?" Smirking. "You have two hundred years to spare? Ask again when you do."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:02 am
"He wants to know how you use your magic internally." Speaking up with a glare at the other elf for using such dirty tricks. She caught that movement after all. "It doesn't matter because he's not getting it and I'm not messing around any more. Go back where you came from and report that you don't know and you aren't going to find out." Getting irritated now as she kept her own daggers at the ready. "Or just rip him to shreds. He cut me."
"When you're completely relaxed, you need to imagine your magic as a specific color. One you identify with immediately. See it as a tangible thing and when you have it clearly visualized, roll it into a ball inside you. Play with that ball if you can but don't be surprised if you can't."
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:58 am
He gave a slight grin. guy had good reflexes.
"Oh I'm not looking to learn for myself. I've got no use for magic. but those that do are paying big coin for something to study."
okay, dirty tricks now.
"But, I imagine Zykariel might work for that. might need a bit more then a little sample though. diluted as it might be from mixing blood with the woman there."
raising a hand.
"And before you get all aggressive..nothings happened to him. he's perfectly fine, and has no idea I'm here."
and he'd like to keep it that way. particularly from Cerrillia. she was sweet on the boy. last thing he needed was that chanter on his case since technically she was in charge of this whole little operation.
"As to Malik's apparently wife, not pet...the Ebon Mask has a score to settle. I need information. you're going to give it. one way or another."
Cerrillia nodded, and let herself relax. a color she identified with immediately. well that was easy. blue. let the color be there. tangible..all her power inside, a blue web of veins. this was harder then she'd thought. while easy to imagine blue energy, it was much more difficult for her to imagine it tangible. to gather it up.
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:02 am
A slight sideglance to his wife, hoping she'd stay her ground and not go on the offensvie. Foolish pregnant motions and what not would drive him up a wall he was sure. "That's my trick to know." Shaking his head as his eyes never left the apparent assassin. His stoic look of battle concentration didn't betray the proverbial slap in the face that the next words spoken though. Zykariel? What did he have to do with this? How did he know about them? What had that boy been doing!?He gritted his teeth and ripped his mind off his son's involvement in this. "You can't be possibly so stupid as to think you're just going to get information and walk off. Malik hears of this and you'll be dead by his hand two seconds later. You obviously are out of touch with D'vinns extreme prejudice." Tilting his head. "Humor me...what do you want to know about the surface elf?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:12 pm
She couldn't help it, she was pregnant and this fool was threatening not only her unborn child but her oldest as well. She lost it. Jabbing that dagger into the flesh of his stomach and growling. "You stay away from my son!" It didn't matter that her oldest was fine and had no ideas of what was going on right now. He knew Zykariel, he was threatening Zykariel and she was a mother.
He murmured soothing words to keep her relaxed and projected himself outward from his body and into her own. It was a trick his father had taught him when he'd been helping his younger siblings learn to harness their own power. The threads of blue were intertwined throughout her body. He coaxed one strand from the pool of red and began tugging like one would a rope. "You'll feel things constrict, just stay calm. It's going to feel different for a while because your power will be concentrated. It will give you more control over it and allow you to use higher drain spells."
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:36 pm
That blade barely made it past chainmail and leather and before it really did anything he grabbed her wrist and twisted it hard, applying pressure on teh pressure point in her wrist and putting her on her knees before shoving her forward.
"You're trying my patience, woman."
before back to Sevilin.
"Her habits, her weaknesses. she paid a great insult to the leader of the ebon mask once. and while Malik's money did calm him down, it hasn't been forgotten. and with these recent developments...I've been sent to gather the information needed to extract her form here if that's what he wants. You're wife is her buisness partner and closest friend from what I've learned. she'll know the things I need to know."
Cerrillia felt the boy's pressence and almost instantly slammed shut any doors she didn't want him privy to...but let him continue with his lesson and paid careful attention to how he was pulling the threads and getting them to move as he wanted. and trying to replicate the process on her own.
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:17 pm
Granted he knew she would do that but he couldn't take his attention from this one for a second and it made it worse for him to be torn between three things at once. Funny how the other ignored the Malik quip, which was quite true indeed. Enough was enough. A quick series of things scribed to the air before Gizdean would feel a quick constriction around his body that would yank his arms and legs together and against his body and drop him to the rocky ground. Another movement of fingers and it was then as if he was staked there as well. "You need to learn not to confront what you don't know how to counter. I'm sure Malik will have a blast with you." A look to Zahara then. "Contact Zykariel, I want to know where he is and I want him to get his a** home now."
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:42 pm
Pushing herself back to her feet, she growled, "You tried mine a long time ago." She deserved that one and they all three knew it. Keeping her cool in situations such as these was paramount and she'd lost it. It was not a mistake she'd be repeating. Watching Sevilin handle the other elf easily enough, she pulled out a linkstone. "Zykariel, answer me."
He paused in the act of tugging magic when his body alerted him to the sound coming from his tunic pocket. Crap. Withdrawing abruptly, he jolted himself out of the meditative state, perhaps too quickly, and dove for the stone. "What?"
"Don't you take that tone with me. Your father wants you home. Now. No arguments. Where are you?"
"With a friend."
"What friend?"
"A friend, mom."
"A girl friend?"
"MOM! I'll be home in a few minutes." He shook his head and deactivated the stone then looked at Cerrillia. "I've really gotta go."
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:06 pm
Okay that felt strange...but she recovered quickly enough. before watching the boy with the linkstone and frowning lightly.
"Go on ahead. I'll work on this and we can continue this later on perhaps."
a small smile, and as soon as Zykariel left, she grabbed one of the ones they had.
"I want a head count. now."
Okay, this was a bit awkward. laying out on the ground and in mystical bindings...until the linkstone in his pocket went off...by Innoruuk's cauldron. okay how to get out of this. with arcane restrictions on norrath, he had a magical evacuation spell on his bracers that just had a fifteen minute recharging period. that would take him to thier 'home' but he'd probably still risk the wrath of the chantress. decisions, decisions.
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:27 pm
He dropped his hands at the moment but didn't drop his guard or the level of magics he had up. Oh Malik was not going to be happy about this at all. A frown though at the highpitched crytalline like noise that marked linkstone use and it wasn't theirs. He had one too...which meant there was more than one of them. Zahara...I need you to call down to Twilight too, tell Keely they need their defenses up. Now."
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:38 pm
She heard it, too, and had just bent down to retrieve the device when Sevilin gave her a task. Picking her own back up, she linked Keely. "Keely, it's Zahara. Sevilin and I had an intruder at the house and I think he has friends. They're from Malik's home plane. Strengthen your defenses and prepare for a possible attack, just in case."
Zykariel gave a nod and disappeared down the stairs and out the door. He'd sent Destyny home and he didn't feel much like going that fast so he kind of meandered and ambled. His mother was always calling him home for stupid reasons but making it seem like an emergency. She just wanted to keep control or something like that, especially when she used his dad as the order giver.
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:59 pm
Head count taken...and only three of them.
"I want Gizdean found. He's gone way beyond a simple information dig. and quite frankly, I'm sick of it."
glancing at her companions.
"We may get visitors. make sure we're as defendable as possible. I'll be making sure to cover this place in illusion. once you find Gizdean...we're sending his a** back to Neriak. The Ebon Mask can fuss all they want, but if it was so important they should have sent someone with a bit more patience."
This was not going to bode well for her future engagement with Zykariel, she was sure. he'd probably accuse her of destracting him for Gizdean to get away.
Lianna went to work right away, and starting on the magics to help her find Gizdean, while Valten setup tripwires and early alarms of approach, and made sure that the building itself was fortified to military expectations.
Gizdean weighed his options and his choices...and using his mouth, picked at the edge of his hood. failsafes were good. his icking dug out a little blowgun, maybe a couple inches long. the dart was like a sewing needle, and toxic enough to bring down an adult. normally they sucked it into thier own mouth a false suicide. put you down, but not out. just close.
So he had to turn the tube around while digging it loose, but he wasn't thinking about Zahara who was the closer target. the best way to undo magic was to take down the magic wielder. and Zahara wouldn't be playing with magic anytime soon without some nasty repercussions. So he kept the little tube in his mouth. he'd wait for Sevilin to get cocky over his catch for a bit...then take the shot if he had to otherwise.
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:39 pm
Where was that boy? he had a horse that could get him here, fast as could be. Though the apperance of said horse in the corral without said boy...well that made his ire for the moment rise even more. He was purposefully taking his sweet time! But his attention went back down to their new friend and he watched him...he was aweful quiet and in reflex he stepped back a little. What foe was that quiet unless they had a plan or two to deal with. Reaching over he took the stone from his wife. "Better yet Keely, send Broog up this way." Just to make sure because this was not going to end well if not handled right. Before a frustrated look to his wife. "Where is that boy? Did he say?"
She fumbled a moment, dealing with their new guest and that linkstone went off, with messages like that no less. "Um...why don't you stay here in the main room, have a seat and relax. I'll be back." Thusly trotting downstairs for her, giving orders to Malik's staff about things and then going to broog. "Broog, they need you at Sevilin's....something's happened."
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:44 pm
She could feel the anger feeding off Sevilin and put a hand on his arm to calm him down. If he was that angry, she really wouldn't want to be in Zykariel's shoes when he did manage to find his way home. Sevilin didn't get angry often but when he did, you sat up and paid attention. "Kelligrin is scared of Broog still. I don't like the thought of him in the house by himself either." Frowning and glancing back. "With a friend was all I could get out of him. He sounded annoyed at being interrupted but wouldn't give me any particulars and he hung up on me before I could tell him we had an emergency." A shake of her head. "He doesn't realize, Sevilin. Keep that in mind."
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