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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:27 pm
"You're the one metaphorically flogging the dead horse." Snappy no? She'd been so ever since this morning and she'd gotten down in the field hadn't she? But she let him check her armor, mostly because she was used to it. Everytime she put on armor, sometimes even chainmail, he had to check. It was endearing in a way. "Just bceause I'm not Drow doesn't mean I'm not ready...I killed Kaden didn't I? I killed many this morning didn't I? I can kill a foe just as easily as you can." The tone was defensive in a way...then again it went with her sudden development of bad attitude. Her hand lightly gripped at the hilt of her own sword as she walked over to Nightmare, waiting for Malik to mount up before she did. "I'm ready."
Oh this just got more and more interesting. That surface elf...he didn't know if she was liek that all the time but she was so deserving for a good smack right now. Erase that attitude right quick. A look over to Zahara and Serino a moment as they came up and he walked over and mounted up behind her much like he had been before. Yes, Malik was right, he was well prepared. "Let the true journey begin then."
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:31 pm
She was mentally cheering Piper on. Go girl, tell him that you'll be fine and he needs to mind his own damn business, you tell him. Yes, Zahara in the beginning had thought Piper weak and not worthy for a Drow of any kind but she'd quickly changed her position. After all Piper had stood up to her with a bow raised ready to kill her at the same time Zahara's daggers had been ready to seperate her head from her body. She knew Piper was fully able to kill if she needed to and had no qualms about it, especially if death was needed for her survival. "Indeed. I suppose now we're goign to do what we intended this journey for in the beginning?" Another apple for Serino just because she could.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:28 pm
"Killing is not what I was reffering to, and you know it. it's seeing your friends die without blinking. it's seeing the people who trust you to lead them fall, thier dead eyes accusing you of failing them, that I am talking about. that is what I'm asking you to handle."
He hoped up on Nightmare, looking down at Piper a moment.
"If I brought that little blond girl as a standard bearer, and she was butchered and torn apart before you, adn the last thign from her you heard on this plane was her terrified screaming of your name to help her, would you still be able to fight without a second thought about it?"
He offered his hand, to help her up.
"Many are going to die. and not just the enemy. we know that. I want you to be prepared to steel yourself agasint your friends dyign around you. so that you don't join them."
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:58 pm
"What you're asking is if I can be as cold and heartless and unfeeling, that's what you're asking of me. If the Piper here before me could do with without thought to it, then I can to. I can be your sterotypical merciless Drow if that's what you want me to be." Why was there a certain viciousness to her voice? Like an overlying presecen of something that was totally foreign to the surface elf who was usually upbeat and positive. Though she did have enough sense about her to bite her tongue on his Keely comment...she'd say something she'd regret to him. Though her hand, that was holding do tight to her swords hilt her knuckles were turnign white, left her sword hilt and grabbed his own, pulling herself up on Nightmare behind him. "What happened to you being there?" It was stated in rhetorical sense really...almost as if her attitude drove her to say it as opposed to her wanting to say it to just be mean.
"About time we got things underway...I was starting to get bored with just having you to kick around." Unlike Piper he was aiming to be mean somehwhat to Zahara. Though he had his own reason to be mean to her that were none of any body else's business. Besides...sometimes anger fed runes from the adrenaline and response they induced.
Though another look to Malik and Piper. Okay..she didn't need a slap...she needed a severe beating. Her attitude was intolerable by his standards...especially for being a surface elf. That wasn't the woman he first met not too long ago. More like a she demon now...
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:16 pm
IT was a damn good thing she couldn't see his face and he couldn't see hers. BEcause hers was betraying her good girl attitude right now and she really wanted to just draw her daggers and brain him with them. Just simply smack him wiht them until he went unconscious or better yet, died. YEs that would be perfect. But she nodded, "Yes that would be a travesty if you only had me to vent on now woulnd't it. Sinc eyou can't keep control of your feelings you'd probbaly explode." An insult? Yes. Drow were well known for not showing any emotion and she was insulting his ability to do so. Though she was still proud of Piper. Malik needed her to be a b***h to him every once in a while, he was an a** all the time and made her uncomfortable and upset with his dealings with others. She personally felt that using Keely against her was a bit unfair but being that she was the good little Drow, she said nothing. In her mind she screamed all sorts of accusations at him, but kept her thoughts well guarded, mindful of MAlik's unorthodox abilities.
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:27 pm
"Good. and I will be there. Oh. and before you totally lose it. you're really going to have to learn to silence Malvolence. You have to be forceful with him."
A slight chuckle.
"It's a bit harder isn't it, when you don't have to touch him, to hear him in your head. You'll get used to it in time. same as I did. I just hope you don't ahve to go through what I did to gain that. but of course..you saw what he does when he wins."
And they started to ride, at a brisk pace, back home. there they woudl gather thier forces, and march on the Corn fields.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:39 pm
A blink through a glare at him. Not a glare purposefully at him, just one she had from her mood. So, was that what this was...she was hoping it wasn't and she was just in a general pissy mood from his horrible PR skills. Well regardless...she wasn't liking it at all....the feel was horrible and the way her aggerssion was spiking was worse so. This wasn't her and she didn't want to be like this. Half the things she said she knew she wouldn't say normally. "Easy for you to say..." She could hear it whispered when it was at bay and hear it almost perfect when it was feasting in battle...it was disturbing for her. She didn't want to get used to it either...and to think Malik touched the thing all the time.
"Exploding on you in a violent sense would be nothing but pleasure in pain, little Drow. Before you start prodding, make sure you know who you're prodding at. I won't rise to your bait like a dog for a bone and every other Drow male you've know. I'm far from working like that."
But he merely crossed hsi arms, one hadn idly patting at Nym. After all, he was along for the ride. But boy did he want to smack both these women here.
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:44 pm
Little Drow? She seethed, yes seethed. But a moment later she began to think. Hmm well that was an interesting tidbit that she'd definitely have to keep in mind. She knew he was different but this just brought that point home. After all he often stayed quiet when she was baiting him adn that would piss her off more than a retort or throwback insult from him ever could. Perhaps she was going about this all wrong? Perhaps she should heed his advice and stop trying ot bait him. "Ah wise words spoken but that shouldn't surprise me. I have come to know that you are very wise indeed Master Rune Mage." Yes she was giving him teh respect he 'deserved', even though it practically killed her to do it. "Perhaps I should heed your advice, may make for a more peaceful time between the two of us."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:54 pm
"Malvolence feeds on negative emotion as well as teh blood of the enemy. that's why those in teh blade are in continual agony. Malvolance enjoys that. you were angry at my...lack of PR skills, as you put it to Din. he feeds it, makes you more pissy, and you in turn feed him on your anger. you just have to shut the door in his face, so to speak."
A moment of thought, and he undid Malvolence from his side, and handed it to her.
"Give it a try. it's a bit easier to shut him up when you have a bit more force to use. I mean if I coudl close him off from our bond I would but I don't know how. any suggestions?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:05 am
"Oh great...it's a vicious cycle. And it's your fault...if you could just try to be a little nicer and what not I wouldn't have to worry about you getting yourself into trouble with your words and attitude. I don't know how many times I have to tell you, you just can't do that, not everyone responds well." A bit of grumbling on her part. Did he have to be so all knowing about it too? Though she looked at the sword for a moment as he attempted to hand it over to her...but she merely took it by the sheath, settling for a moment to not touch the actual sword. The thought of doign so and letting it directly into her head wasn't her favorite concept. Not to mention it bit...but a slight shake of her head. "I only know how to close out my parents...and usually its through force of will and even then they aren't completely cut off...bonds are too deep...and Malvolence is too deep in you as well..." Damn the sword, she didn't want to share him with it.
Of course he would take it as patronizing. Even if tone and words didn't say that. Why? Because he knew Zahara pretty much hated him and that's all there was too it. It was like she was trying to throw him off his guard all the time, which only meant that he threw it up all the more. Layer upon layer of barriers.
But he'd humor her. "Wise words come with age, which you have very little of...don't try to lord yourself until you have a good two hundred on you...then you can start thinking you're something." Though a shrug at her second comment. "Perhaps that's the wisest choice indeed."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:10 am
"Malvolence isn't bound to me like you are. If needed, I coudl be rid of it. but you'd have to expect teh same kind of reactions as perhaps making a person whom had done opium all thier life sudden being forced to give it up. and Malvolence has value to me in many ways. So it's done through force of will."
He was quiet for a moment.
"How do you know what your shutting down? like...how do you know it's your mother, and not your father your closing out so to speak."
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:20 am
Piper seemed to scoff at the whole idea of him ditching the blade, no matter how much she'd probably like it. And she shook her head. "That's not fair to you and I don't have the right to ask you to do that, even for me. I know how you feel about it...I wouldn't take it away from you forever just as you wouldn't take my collar." Though now that he was talking to her and refocuing her, that attitude seemed to diminish some...though she was slightly staring at the sword she had hold of. How to explain this..."Bonds have unique feels to them. All three feel different to me. I know who is who simply by the different feels and intensities of them from distance. And then I just...block out that particular feeling. Like say...my father's feels like I'm being led by the hand...all I have to do is pull my hand away so to speak."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:52 am
"Ah yes the curse of one so young. We all try to be more than we are, say things when we don't even know what we're talking about. And even once we get older, there are still things we don't know that we speak of as though we do, for various reasons of course." She shook her head and glanced off into the distance watching the interactions between Malik and Piper. "And other times the words of one, even though young are wiser by far than any others..." It was said softly, as though she was thinking of someone specific and not merely trying to contradict what he was saying.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:22 pm
"So. lets say I know the 'feeling' of Malvolence, is it possible for me to keep it to myself, and not allow you to be influenced. Or is that something that you'd have to do from your end of things? As Malvolence is a parasitic entity in that manner of speaking."
the Fortress was coming up, and already there was a verifable legion of slaves waiting. golems and breakers, gladitorial slaves. the bulk however were undead. orc skeletons in the remanents of armor and using thier old weapons. spell casters just bones with an aura of magic.
"our friend the Lich may have the ability to influence the undead. Which I have been working on. So..the soultion is bind them to a powerful undead that he can't directly influence. so I bind thier essence to Malvolence."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:34 pm
"And those times are rare...be it a cruel fact of life or not, the older of us have more experience to pass down to those who are younger. That's just the way things work so get used to it. Very few younglings have life shattering revelations that run that deep and that strong to call wisdom."
He shifted lightly on Serino, brushing some hair from his eyes a moment and petting at Nym some more. The little ferret always kept his temper down and right now he needed to remain calm...seeing as they were about to go on a razing spree.
"Just like I can't keep anything from you, you can't keep anything from me...it's up to ourselves to push out the opposing forces. I have to block it out...but since as you say it's mostly parasitic...I have to block out more than just it...I would have to block out some of you...and I don't want that...I don't want to feel that I'm pushing you out and I don't want you feeling that either...it's physically painful to feel yourself being blocked out sometimes..." A look down at his mention of their little undead things being boudn to Malvolence now...oh so he was feeding it lately...no wonder it wouldn't shut up.
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