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Black Athame rolled 4 6-sided dice:
3, 1, 2, 1
Total: 7 (4-24)
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 Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:40 pm
Basina Marigold
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Noble ward of DixonBasina felt her body slide across the ground as she heard more cracks echo though her body. she opened her mouth to scream but instead got a mouth full of dirt that she had to choke up despite the pain in her ribs. She felt the tail lash against her back as she lay on the ground and the tears came faster. Part of her wanted to die, but that was when she saw the red Phoenix coming toward her. The Phoenix picked her up by its talons and threw her into the air, the very act making her was to throw up, but the pain in her ribs stopped her as she landed with a thud on the Phoenix's back, the thud causing the pain to finally force her to black out as the Phoenix let out a loud caw before flying east. [exit]
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Take up a pen and write down your life
Take up a chisel and make your mark
Take up a voice and say your piece
No matter what the language you speak
Someone will hear you.
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 7:15 am
News of this does not get out to the constructs
No one knows until the announcement is made .Though the day was already chilly the air became colder after Argos took Antigone. The wind had stopped but the air that they took into each lung was as if they were drinking in the very essence of the winter.
Soldiers began to notice something was wrong when the ice that had started to form on the ground started to coalesce to form bodies of pale blue skin and long white hair, putrid yellow eyes and fingers tipped black as if they had been dipped in ink. They grew in number until they far outnumbered the soldiers of Solidon but they did not move until one brave... perhaps stupid, man swung his sword down in an attempt to kill the ice creature but as he moved to swing ice would form across the blade and up to the mans wrist. The ice so cold that at its touch the man started to scream in pain as his skin started at first to change to a light blue before taking on a bruised purple color and then black before falling off at the wrist, leaving the man screaming.
The ice borne began to attack the Solidon soldiers and soon they lay upon the ground in pieces, no sign of blood anywhere on the ground as the ice creatures turned to Argos, still in his monstrous form and they walked over to him, freezing him into a living stature.
As they did this a screech of a snow owl could be heard far in the distance just before it flaked away into snow and in its place a strange dark cloud with blue wings appeared. The blue winged creature dived toward the ground and a hand reached out from inside the dark cloud and touched the ground. Thick stalagmites of ice pushed up forty feet. The dark cloud would make its way around the boarder of Solidon, the hand dragging across the ground as the ice continued to grow all around Solidon's boarder, keeping people from exiting the province on foot.
The Ice creatures let out a wail as they started to melt, the dark cloud dipping down once more and moving though each of the creatures, letting them return to the ground as simple ice. The dark cloud would part for the briefest of moments to show a strange being that looked....almost Sylphlike...elegant and dangerous, with eyes that seemed to burn like a thousand bursting stars, shining perfect skin that looked like a pond of frozen milk, black hair as long as a river and tangled around strange colorless crystals looked sharp enough and heavy enough to have ripped though any normal hair. Blue wings protruded from the back of this being, but they weren't like a phoenix or a dragon, they where sheer with icicles hanging from them in a way that should have torn them to shreds... but they did not. The face of the creature was that of a beauty that could only be seen as a perfection so refined that it was like a weapon in of itself, crafted in such a way that such ethereal beauty was almost ugly in comparison to the real world...it could not be real... could not be replicated, could it?
The Creature would let its eyes grace a farmer that had been huddling under a bush out of fear, the creature would part its frozen blue lips for a moment before it was wrapped once more in the dark cloud and it sank into the land. The farmer would pack up a small pack and start running for the capital.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:44 pm
✺Forgotten Son EC: 100 Streaking across the sky, the count was a mixture of worry, fury, a certain enamored feeling he got from the duchess of all people--what? Why was he thinking this?
He shook his head. Within an hour he would be at the place where his troops would blitz the enemy rebels and avenge his charge, the heiress Marigold. This was about business: assessing the damage, meeting with those there, showing solidarity... --He had not time for these emotional thoughts.
And yet he asked her to come. He didn't want to be alone. His thoughts right now, they couldn't be trusted; he felt his mind drift back to what had just happened, what the princess had said and done... His fist clenched again. Before landing, the sky was lit a stark crimson, accompanied by a piercing shriek, by the count in his rage.
At the edge of the devastation he stood, breathing deeply and trying his hardest to steady himself.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:05 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi landed a little ways away from the Count as she returned to human form, the hate in her eyes swirled and tainted the pure gold within them. It was probably a good thing she didn't have an active ability because she would probably have been destroying things right about now. Bowing to a filthy dragon of all things! Chusi looked down at the ground, at a frozen face and her body slowly stilled as she closed her eyes. She listened to the count shriek and she took a deep breath and she slowly opened her eyes to look at the frozen statue that was her broth- HALF brother. That little bit of news irritated her, but now she understood were his desire to prove himself to the family came from, it was because he was never a Chhatrapati in the first place, he was some b*****d. Chusi looked over at Count Dixon and walked over to him "If you take it as a personal attack you're just going to play right into her hands you know" she said to him before looking northwest, in the general direction of Lionis "They're probably looking for any excuse to occupy Ethe and right now they have at least two armies behind them, We would be crushed if we do anything other than obey" she said, the sound of her grinding her teeth against each other could be heard, she was not pleased.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:18 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
Perhaps the most bothersome thing about what the duchess had said was that it was all true. He turned slowly, eyes to the ground in reflex--there he would see some of the frozen bodies that lined the landscape--and found that his face had chosen a wry smile to convey his consternation at his own helplessness. "By what inane twist of fate does our proud leader of warriors..."
He had to stop himself. His voice was carrying on out of some preset autopilot; it was a moment before he noticed just how angry and shook the duchess had become as well. Obviously, this did more to ease his mind, if only a little. His face flattened along with his shoulders. "--Forgive me..." His eyes went to the frozen figure. "It is not right to question your sudden acumen when you have suffered so."
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:34 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi let out a little tick sound with her tongue, a warning to the Count just as he changed his words. Chusi sighed and lowered her head "Solidon can not fight right now" she said to him "They refuse to fly over the ice barrier that surrounds us, those that had been rallied to head toward Phobos refuse to return to their homes, having been promised battle" she said to him "Even if Solidon was at full force we would probably only be able to hold back Lionis for a week... less then that if we planned accordingly" she said to him as she then looked away and walked over some of the shattered faces "They will not listen to me until I take up my mantle as Duchess, and I will not do so until the mourning period is over" she said as she slowly crouched down to pick up one of the faces in her hands and sighed "Tell me...what were you about to say....about me?" she asked him "that I bowed to easily?" she asked him as she put the frozen face down and stood back up, the veil moving just enough to show tears that had frozen in pathways down her cheeks.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:46 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
The sheer emotion in the soon-to-be duchess' face drove right through the count's chest. He simply couldn't bear to think of what might happen to them tomorrow--how much worse today was from yesterday! He took enough steps to be about a pace behind Chusi. "You once told me that bending a knee was a sign of submission with no grace for your people... --and you went so far as to put your head to the floor." He sounded disappointed, but he was also outright puzzled by the display. "It isn't like you."
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:02 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi nodded her head and looked back at the ruined field of battle "It is" she said to him "but then I stop and think." she whispered Whatever small force Antigone managed to get together before Solidon marched here is dead, the thousand men and women of Solidon that fought here now lay like puzzle pieces on the ground with no bodies to return to their families...At least double that number and you have the wives and husbands of each and at least one child each....at least two thousand people have suffered enough pain" she said to him "So when I walked into that room and saw the late king and crown princesses bodies mummified by the heat, and when I was standing in front of the princess, listening to her speak. The things that ran though my head were as follows" she muttered as she looked at her half brother, frozen forever "First off I thought...this woman uncovered the castle on her own, was skilled enough in her ability that she was able to keep the Late King and Princesses bodies from being destroyed" she looked back at the Count "Second thing I thought was, what if she flew into Solidon, weather to my family home...or to one of the villages...what would happen? How many would die because I was not smart enough to keep her eyes off of my people." she said to him "Solidon Castle employs a little over a thousand servants... In Solidon Greater we have almost ten thousand people, in Solidon lesser we have maybe half that..." she looked at the Count "But whatever the case, She is not looking at Solidon now is she? we can recover without her pawing at us like some bored cat, and by the time she looks back Solidon will have all of its military power again, and I will make her bow to me before I slit her throat for sitting on the Queen's throne" she whispered, her gaze once more on the shattered faces.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:37 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
At least she was smart about it. Dixon sighed and allowed himself to take solace in this: "In any case, it is your ultimate promise to avenge our pride and the soul lost today at her hands that fill me with the most confidence..." He came to look upon the destruction, his eyes narrow over the horizon and reeling with disgust this way and that. He stood a shoulder from the lady and said nothing for a long time.
"... Thank you," he finally said, something of shame in his voice. "Had it not been for you, I would have stirred the Empire's wrath." His aura was very much cooler now, affecting the immediate area in a different way than his previous anger had. "My condolences about your people... No one should die like this."
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:44 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi shook her head "The only thing that angers me about this is that they did not die a warriors death, whatever did this was not something that was meant to be fought" she whispered as she felt the coldness coming off of him, it was a different cold compared the cold of the winter and it had her once again reaching over and taking his hand, she didn't particularly know why she did it, only that she felt that it may offer him some comfort "If Ethe's Autonomy is going to be defended we need to do it smartly" she said as her shoulder sagged just a bit as she looked down, using her free hand to adjust her veil over her face so the frozen tears were no longer visible "Even if the whole of Ethe hates her that woman is still a Princess... as much as it is my wish to see her bow before me and to feel her blood on my hands its not something I should do... that anyone should do" she said, her voice lowing as she squeezed his hand "Her death would have to look like it was an accident done by her own hand..." she trailed off.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:28 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
"Yes... Maybe that's it." Perhaps it was as simple as dying a warrior's death. That would explain it; Dixon might have just never felt such a sentiment so embroiled in the viewpoint of the warlike culture that was the essence of Solidon so much. His face had changed from the severe thoughts, softening a degree, when his hand was taken again. Unlike the castle, however, this time the count seemed to take hers as well, responding as though it were rather natural for them to be seen like this. He gave her a smile; his aura lost some of that coldness, and, were it visible by some sensitivity, would appear a arboreal green.
"You make it sound like an eventuality, milady," pointed the count bemused. "Remind me to never incur the wrath."
Something, time perhaps, pulled his attention away to the frozen figure of a giant serpentine creature. "And that..." he gestured to it. Grizzly thing it was. Could scarce look at it without thinking of stories of wars between dragons and phoenix.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:41 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi smiled under her veil "I do not bow unless I have to" she said to him before slowly looking over at her brother, the serpent and the feathered wings that he had, more dragon then Phoenix but not enough of a Dragon either. Chusi squeezed his hand a little harder as she nodded her head "My younger.....half brother" she said to him he looked like a horrifying creature, perhaps one of the worst examples as to why Dragons and Phoenix's shouldn't breed "I had a look though my mothers journals and she had...." Chusi frowned under her veil "She entertained a Phobian male for a night, My father knew and I guess so did Argus, it would explain his need to prove that he was part of the family" she whispered.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:56 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
"That..." the count found himself drifting into a series of hypothetical flashbacks--a tangle of the most forbidden type, the secrets that followed, the tension when a certain few might have suspected... --those backs that were but targets for each other's arrows now seemed to be the both sides of this unsung fiend. "--would explain it." He nodded, slowly, somewhat unsure himself of how to broach the subject or what he could say. He found his nerves had begun to spin out signals affecting his composure: thumb stroking her calloused hand, foot tapping...
"I... I would rather not have the same fate for my children," muttered the count, now turning a weary eye to the side opposite Chusi.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:10 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi looked over at him and raised a dark eyebrow "The Chhatrapati have forbidden intimacies between Dragon and Phoenix within their line, of all of our traditions it is the only one that is enforced and normally it would be enforced with death" she said to him and nodded her head toward the frozen mess of her half brother "and now I know why. I understand that perhaps such a thing doesn't happen all the time, but perhaps the Chhatrapati blood doesn't mix well outside of the Phoenix" she said to him and she squeezed his hand slightly "you want children?" she said, a little surprise finding its way into her voice "Forgive me for saying, but you've never seemed the type to have such thoughts" she said as her hand slowly slid from his as she walked over to her half brothers frozen form and reached up and let it rest on his scales, she felt so confused. Everything in the way she was raised told her to abandon Argus here and to disown his existence. She then followed the long stretch of him, the way his serpentine body coiled around the Marigold Estate "What should we do with this?" she asked Count Dixon "It will all have to be cleaned up..."
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:27 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
So it was like that... Such pride! And honor... Dixon was newly astounded at the standards and prestige with which the Solidon line conducted themselves. He was only snapped out of it by the duchess' comment on his wanting children; he could only offer a nervous chuckle in that moment.
The tour of the gargantuan amphitere was a little too long for his taste; made it seem as though nothing at all could have stopped it. He walked opposite Chusi astride in her rhythm, plucking at his fingers absently as he went. "I am the last of my line," he admitted. "It is a line filled with patrons of the arts, debutants, dignitaries... and it dates all the way to when there was no difference between light and dark as far as phoenix are concerned." He seemed to stop himself from going any further.
Now they were on the deck of the estate. Charming place it had been; just as jarring was it to see it this way now. "... I suppose it must...."
"I think that all depends on what you would have done with him. A burial and small plaque warning of his folly, perhaps? Or would you have it in Solidon?"
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