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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:38 pm
And there she was, left standing alone in the dining room, Malik going off to do Malik things and Zahara heading off thinking she had just won the world. But Piper...Piper felt horrible...Zahara's parting words wrenched on her mind and her heart. What also bothered her was that she was so easily doing all of this...decieving one's she called friends, dragging others into plots and plans that would essentially trap them....this wasn't her...when did this come so easily to her. Did she honestly hate Sevilin that much and wish that much to prove to Zahara, and perhaps the world, that her and Malik really were in a caring, loving relationship. Her fingers twined in her collar a moment before she turned and headed out of the room and upstairs to hers and Malik's room, letting herself flop face down across the bed a moment, face buried in silken sheets that at some point had been made back into order. She laid there like that for a good while before sitting up and looking at her wrist, one showing more trauma than the other, from Sevilin and from runing. Hurt too. Piper shook her head....she was getting distraught over her change in compliance to the Underdark...she just needed to take her mind off of it...yes that's it. Thus she got up and went to the closet, fetching out that bar of silver enchanted metal as well as her little books of notes and ideas she had brewing. That would distract her for a while...
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:24 pm
The reached the small harbor in front of the Triumverate fortress in good time, with the wind in their favor. But Aella did not let the ship get in too close. She wasn't overly trusting of any of the people here, and did not want to put uneeded stress on her co-captain and crew. She traveled the rest of the way via staff, and waited for Onyx to catch up with her.
She looked up at the doors as they approached. "Who did Roarke say we wanted to see? A person named 'loud'?"
Those under torture did not have much useful information as it were. Important lab coats were often killed long before they could leak information. They did not know how to find Right Hand, who was as his name statedwas the right hand of the lich. As far as they knew, he was utterly cruel, yet strangely loyal to Dimitri. The only souless they were aware of that had a mind, and could act on free will. Amidst screaming and weeping, they informed their torture artists that rumors had found their way into the Corn Fields, and said that the Lich had dealings with the Wizen Watch Tower. But no one had ever seen proof of this.
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:18 pm
"Loud...yes. but I doubt that's the actual name."
Though Onyx noted the extra archers..he walked on inside, and held the door open for Whirlwind. after all he was quite known here, and if she was with him, she must not be a threat. But that didn't make onyx any less cautious about the guards, claws unsheathed.
"Probably should ask Piper.Less likely to get into 'what's in it for me if I help you' deals."
Malik let those that delivered what little information they had die. those that didn't talk right away...he hung on to them for later. in case he needed them. Now it was over into the passage that lead to the necromancers, who were fiddling with Laudi strapped to a table. Still under the impression they couldrebuild her mind in to something they wanted..like a pleasure slave. That is, until one of them gave a gurglign sound, and found Malvolence sticking out his chest.
"I told you to bring her here, not to tamper with her unless I expressly told you to."
The blade was twisted, and pulled out, but there was a cleric there to heal the wound ans save the life. of course teh action did cow down the others.
"I want her prepped immediatly for the enchanter. the fairy too. if she's the sole survivor of Kimmuriel's attack on the Wizen watch tower, and the rumor those men said are true, she may know something of use. and if I have to, I'll rip it out of her mind."
One enchanter was brought over from his mountian of metal, for the most part thier lives were simply devoted to enchanting metal for broog..while the necromancers tiled the table to a fourty-five degree angle. needles were inserted into her arms..and the fairy's legs, as her arms were far to tiny.
then came the paralytic drugs. after those, the necromancers siphon life, strength from the them both, atrophing muscles and then feeding it back in rather painfully, as the feeding part was of course intended for use on undead flesh. then the mana feeding and siphoning..this was useful to magic users, tearing away and then pumping back the natural magical forces that flowing through them.
After mind nad body were completely non resistant, it was the enchanter's job to charm the thier minds. but magically enforcing thier will, they could, in most cases, force someone to relive anything that they wanted in the manner of the elven reverie. including blocked memories.
"I want to know what she may have worked on with Dimitri. and restore her mind if you can."
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:26 pm
Though her current changes not completely gone from her mind, she was more or less distracted duly. Which was a good thing seeing as Malik more...dark...tendencies and feelings were trying to probe through her purposeful ignorance of them. At least she could tune them out as she sat at the desk, going over things in her head again and again. But soon enough Keely was poking her head into the room with information that made Piper smile. Standing and gathering things up, she placed them once more hidden in the back of her closet, funny how her 'conspiracy' as Malik had labeled it, was right in the room they slept in. But that was soon forgotten as she took to grabbing some bandaging she kept on hand, wrapping both forearms. No need to get people too worked up. That done she left her room, only to take steps two by two and more or less slam into Onyx, hugging him tightly with a nuzzle at his shoulder. "Where in the world have you been? I've missed you. And where's your brother for that matter?" Though a look and nod had been given over to Aella, always polite Piper.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:36 pm
Toharu would say nothing. SHe hadn't said a word since the day she as born. And Laudi? Well her brain was fried. Literaly. Open it up and the only thing functioning were her inner organds, keeping her alive as long as someone fed her. She was a vegitable, and could not be restored to her origional self.
Aella watched the happy little reunion and bowed politly when piper came in. She didn't speak up right away though. This time she wouldn't dig into buisness.
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:48 pm
That information made malik growl lightly. Damn that souless. but after than, the enchanter was dismissed to do his actual work, and he stood over Laudi thinking for a moment.
"Have the fairy completely checked out for anyway or shape that it can be coerced to speak. if not, then we'll send it to Kieran. maybe Raziel will be able to work with it. as for this woman...keep her alive. other than that, do whatever you want with her. She's of no real use to anyone without her intellect or her power."
"I've been in many places."
Hugging her back and petting over her lightly. tail hugging her waist some.
"Moon is in Honoursfield..he's set up a medical practice there. Don't know how well it's doing, but I would assume it's doing alright since he obviously hasn't headed back here from an angry mob."
Then a little more serious look, meeting piper's eyes with his.
"The oracle is missing. her dragon is on a rampage, Tarathield fortress in ruins..and Roarke is paranoid over the apparent survival of that lich thing. he was wondering if you might know a 'loud' named person? someone that might shed some light on what's going on."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:57 pm
Pulling back she took the stance that Rand had probably taken with both twins many times. Hands on her hips, that mixed look of seriousness and worry on her features. "I swear you boys, can't even leave a note and leave me to worry. I should turn you both into rugs and your wings into fletching material." A little chuckle, before turning her eyes to Aella, her posture slacking back into friendly manner. "But I see that you have someone who can keep you in line, suppose I can't worry too much. I hope he hasn't been too much trouble Aella." A moment of absolve for her fractured morals and practices, but that all too quickly died at the other information. "Yes, we know. Tarathiel had quite the fit with us over it, said we kidnapped her. Malik has other ideas about who it was though. At least we're all on the same page...though you're reading faster, been to Roarke already." Crossing her arms lightly she tilted her head in thought. "A loud named person? Loud as in..." Riddles...joy.
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:30 pm
Aella smiled nervously. Her and Onyx had not really spent that much time together, and she highly doubted she ahd the power too keep him 'in line.' She cleared her throat.
"'Loud' as in he couldn't remeber her name, but thought it sounded like 'loud' something. He said 'a woman who works with the dead, from the Wizen watch tower.' He seemed rather preoccupied, trying to get a lock on Din. His Academy seems to be vacent now, save for a few wolf children."
She shrugged though. "But the Wizen tower has been destroyed of course, so we had to come here."
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:41 pm
"Yes, Whirlwind keeps me aware of the lines not to cross. or places not to go."
Piper might understand that statement alot more than Whirlwind..seeing as she knew his father and the dark 'places' inside him he had to keep locked and the things he couldn't let himself do because of it.
"and since this was teh last place Din was known to be for sure, and we're hunting him down, I was hopign to pick up a scent and thus a tril as to whre he wandered off to after here."
"I believe the person you seek is called Laudi. We found her in the Lich's lair after his destruction. She's braindead. there's nothing isdie her mind at all..it's an empty hole. Whatever they did to her, was done to make sure what she knew didn't come out by any means possible."
Malik walked up the steps to the trio, nodding to whirlwind and looking over Onyx.
"Nice to see your not dead or critically wounded."
"Nice to see you're still arrogant. think you can sneak up on a Vah, when you know that my hearing is as good if not better, and my sense of smell a lot better."
"Arrogant as your father was in his youth."
"Don't start with me on that. You didn't know my father in his 'youth'."
"Don't need to. I know what he was and how he did. he had the option to die."
"That's not a choice!"
"To some it is."
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:37 am
"Din is the only lead we have besides this loud woman."
She looked at Malik as he entered and bowed her head respectfully. This was his home afterall. She would expect the same on her ship. Her shoulders dropped in disappointment. "Braindead? Supposedly she was the only one who worked close enough to this Sky Father god to give us any real help." She sighed. "Her work a research would have been destroyed along with the tower. I can't imagine that there would be any subject matter left." They had seen and even scouted out that ruined tower sometime while Aella was training on the ship. There was noithing left but rock rubble.
She watched the exchanged, wondering how high the tempers would rise.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:05 am
And the happy left completely as Malik and Onyx decided that it was time to start picking at each other...to which Piper only gave an irritated sigh, bracing her temples with the fingers of one hand a moment before looking at both in turn with a frown. "Onyx, don't start things and Malik don't you antagonize him. Can't you all be in a room for five seconds without starting into each other?" Between Zahara, Sevilin, Malik, and now Onyx...she wondered why she didn't lock herself befhind more closed doors and just scream out frustration. But she let it go with a sigh. "So then Laudi was supposed to help but can't now...and all the information she knew was destroyed." She thought for a moment. "Or was it? Didn't Raziel teach Tharu what he knew before he left with father?" Couldn't remember if Raziel had gotten his mind erased at the moment without a reverie to get detail, so something vague for now was good. "Or Raziel may still know too. Can't recall right off the bat."
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:57 am
Onyx just snorted, and malik waved his hand dismissively.
"Just a little poking, nothing wrong with that. As for the familiar..I can't get anything out of it. she refuses to speak at all. I was considering sending it to Kieran."
A slight shrug.
"But your welcome to them both if you feel they might help in some way with whatever your here for."
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:14 am
"Laudi's familiar has the information we need then? Except that she's not tlaking." Aella rolled a wrist. "Did you try a method besides torture?"
Then she looked at Piper, hoping to calm herself in a place that seemed to be growing in the male population. "Would we be able to see Raziel? If he doesn't remeber what he was told, then perhaps he would be able to speak with the mute."
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:19 am
Despite her not liking what Aella was implying...Malik's methods of getting infromation from the unwilling has always been...unorthadox to put it politely. But she managed a smile to Aella as if to say' sigh, men'. "I'm sure my father could bring him back here for a chat or two. And she liked him immensly last I knew, so maybe he can help." Wouldn't be too bad to see Kieran either.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:07 pm
"Despite beliefs to the contrary. not all my methods involve torture. those the deserve it, get it."
A slight smirk.
"We tried drugging her..and I tried using one of the enchanters I have to see if he coudl pry the information form her, or at least get her to talk, period. it didn't work."
"Enchanters don't do things gently from what I understand. it's more like then trying to jam a round peg in a square hole."
Onyx pulled whirlwind back to him a bit, nothing that she couldn't stop if she wanted but in an almost protective fashion from Malik.
"True enough in most cases. but we were as gentle as possible. they eat, the drink, the use the little girls room. but that's about it. they don't even move unless it's for the restroom. other than that they have to be moved from place to place."
A look and a nod to Piper.
"It's probably best we do that. whatever Dimitiri did to them..it may affect the familiars ability to cope with large beings to her. But what is the fuss? and who is the 'Sky Father'."
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