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INVENTORY:

- Kiandri Dragon Orb x 15

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- Firani Dragon Orb x 10

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- Peisio Dragon Orb x 9

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- Aiskala Dragon Orb x 1

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- Diabi Dragon Orb x 20

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- Rope x 1

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- Climbing Kit x1

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- Lock Pick Set x1

- Icy Treasure Map

INGREDIENTS:

- Sewing Kit

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- Amber x 5

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- Song of Ice x 4

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- Brow Spikes x 6

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TOMES and RECIPES

Astral Tomes

A Guide to Levitation

Magical Incantation: Fupanonai
Category: Non-Battle Tome
Type: Neutral
Description:

Levitation is quite a useful skill for the peoples of Magesc. This tome contains a handy guide to mastering the art.

Chapter 1 covers basic control and offers tips on how to handle objects as heavy as a small sized canine (10lbs or 4.5kg). Chapter two expands a caster's skills allowing them more finesse and the ability to control multiple objects at a time as well as heavier things than before (200lbs or 90kg). Chapter 3 covers how to magically support the levitating of massive and unwieldy objects like horses, logs, and boulders (840lbs or 381kg).

ENG Cost: 10, 25, 40
Requirements:

Chapter 1: Apprentice Stage
Chapter 2: Adept Stage
Chapter 3: Expert Stage

Reflection Shield

Magical Incantation: Lufunay Maau
Category: Battle Tome
Type: Defensive
Description:

This short manual teaches the user how to create a solid shield of magic which reflects all incoming magical or physical damage once. Once cast, the shield remains up until a successful attack connects and the spell cannot be cast again that battle. Damage returned to attacker is their original damage. Opponent's block/ward do not apply.

In a multiple vs one situation reflection shield will only reflect the attack of the first opponent to land a hit, all other successful opponent's hits that round will land as normal.

Can be used in RP's to summon a shiny shield.

ENG Cost: 40
Requirements:

45 INT
Adept Stage
Civilians can use this if they are Adept stage.

Alarm Rune

Magical Incantation: Lours Peorlan
Category: Non Battle Tome
Type: Protective
Description:

This tome teaches you the special runes in which you can store magic that creates a loud noise when triggered.

Requirements:

20 INT
Ch 1 is Adept stage
Ch 2 is Expert stage

Nature Magic

Creeping Poison

Magical Incantation: Vinnemo Kazzik
Category: Battle Tome
Type: Support
Description:

This tome instructs the user in setting poison spores into the air. These spores inflict poison damage equal to the caster’s intellect spread out over five turns. This is a flat rate which stacks with other poison or bleed effects, but can only be cast once per battle.

ENG Cost: 50
Requirements:

60 INT
Expert Stage

Wind Magic

Summon Wind

Magical Incantation: Shoush Skedush.
Category: Non Battle Tome
Type: Neutral
Description:

This short Tome summons a strong wind that blows in the direction of your choosing for a set amount of time. Adept: 30 minutes. Expert: 1 hour. Master: 3 Hours.
The direction can be changed slightly, but cannot be twisted to start a tornado. Temperature is the same temperature as the surrounding air. Speed is a strong breeze:: 17-21 Knots which is about 20-25 mph. Strong enough to make branches sway.

At Expert, you can control and change the speed of the wind.
At Master you can also change the temperature.

While wind is blowing, you must be concentrating on it and cannot not fight or cast any other magic while doing so. Once you break concentration, the spell stops. You can only cast this once a day.

Requirements:

40 INT
Adept Stage
Civilians can use this in Adept stage as well.

Spirit’s Melody

Magical Incantation: Melothi Alueme
Category: Non-Battle Tome
Type: Neutral
Description:

This tome instructs the user in tapping into the vibrations of the wind to make a melody. The result is often gentle and soothing, but subtly eerie. With practice, however, it can be manipulated into a variety of tunes.

Requirements:

30 INT
Apprentice Stage

Voice Echo

Magical Incantation: Abrashai Veloem
Category: Non-Battle Tome
Type: Neutral
Description:

This tome instructs the user in utilizing the wind to transport one’s voice short distances.

Requirements:

Apprentic Stage: Across a room.
Adept Stage: Distance of a house.
Expert Stage: Distance of a city.

Fire Magic

Embers

Magical Incantation: Ugvulm
Category: Battle Tome
Type: Offensive
Description:

Learn to create a small cloud of burning hot ashes that float on the wind. Ignoring defenses the embers will do 5 damage per turn for the next 3 turns. Initial attack roll must be a hit for the spell to be cast successfully, can be used twice per battle.

Can be used out of combat to create the small cloud of embers in an RP as well.

ENG Cost: 20
Requirements:

20 INT
Civilians can use this in Adept stage.

Heat Flux

Magical Incantation: Foirei Belluim
Category: Non-Battle Tome
Type: Neutral
Description:

This tome teaches the reader how to heat a room’s temperature. The more advanced the caster, the more effective and potent the spell.

Requirements:

Apprentice: Can warm a small room slightly.
Adept: Can warm a small room fully and a moderately sized room slightly.
Expert: Can warm most rooms quite effectively.
Master: Can warm even a massive room, with concentration, or pump a great amount of heat into something smaller. Control is also better.

Water Magic

Misting Drizzle

Magical Incantation: Aguanne Liqiteh
Category: Battle Tome
Type: Support
Description:

This tome instructs the user in tapping into the latent moisture around the caster. When mastered, this spell imbues the surrounding battle area with increased receptivity to water magic. All peisio spells cost 5 less energy for 5 turns (this applies to every peisio spell cast on the current battlefield, ally or foe).

ENG Cost: 0
Requirements:

20 INT
Adept Stage

Ice Magic

Slow Freeze

Magical Incantation: Efreim Belliz
Category: Battle Tome
Type: Defense
Description:

This spell, once mastered, chills your opponent’s blood, reducing their attack speed and in doing so decreasing their accuracy by giving you more chance to dodge. Decreases opponent’s accuracy die roll by 10 for three turns.

ENG Cost: 30
Requirements:

40 INT
Adept Stage

Light Magic

Candlelight

Magical Incantation: Wofufaz
Category: Non-Battle Tome
Type: Neutral
Description:

The spell contained in this tome allows the user to create a fist sized orb of golden light. Most useful for exploring in the dark should you run out of torches or other light sources. Experts and Masters can create multiple orbs of varying colors.

Can be used out of combat to create globes of light as well.

ENG Cost: 5
Requirements:

10 INT
Civilians can use this in their Apprentice stage.

Seeing Double

Magical Incantation: Xiofu
Category: Battle Tome
Type: Defensive
Description:

Create a somewhat blurry illusion made of light partially over your body making there appear to be two connected versions of you. Lowers enemy accuracy by 10 points for two turns. Can only be used once per encounter. (Cannot be stacked with 'Blinding Light')

Can be used in RP's out of combat as well.

ENG Cost: 25
Requirements:

25 INT
Adept Stage
Civilians can use this in their Adept stage.

Dark Magic

Crippling Miasma

Magical Incantation: Lafahz Gaom
Category: Battle Tome
Type: Offensive
Description:

The caster's hands or weapon briefly expel a thick fog that settles on the opponent causing them to drop 1 damage tier (50 to 25 or 25 to 10, etc) on their next successful hit. Can be used twice per battle.

Can be used in RP's out of combat as well.

ENG Cost: 25
Requirements:

20 INT
Adept Stage
Civilians can use this in Adept Stage

Toad Transformation

Magical Incantation: Neox
Category: Battle Tome
Type: Offensive
Description:

Turns your opponent into a toad for 2 turns, taking away their ability to attack. Only usable once per battle.
Can be used in RP's out of combat as well. It is not permanent! It expires after a few minutes.

ENG Cost: 50
Requirements:

40 INT
Expert Stage
Civilians must be Expert to use this.

Shadow Puppet

Magical Incantation: Illithir Darikkum
Category: Non-Battle Tome
Type: Nuetral
Description:

This tome instructs the user in manipulating their own shadow. Though the shadow is incapable of doing harm or grasping anything physical, the spell can be used for either amusement or a tactical advantage on a stealth mission.

Requirements:

Adept Stage: Manipulate only your own shadow.
Expert Stage: Learn to manipulate up to three additional shadows simultaneously, including your own.

Conjuration Magic

Basic Conjuration

Magical Incantation: Webilu Luonilu
Category: Non-Battle Tome
Type: Neutral
Description:

A basic conjuration spell. This is a must-have before any other conjuration book. One must first master the basics before moving forward with more difficult incantations. This conjuration spell brings forth a small familiar whom looks adorable and is killed by a single damaging attack. This creature does nothing to aid you in battle and is specifically meant to bring joy and happiness (as well as a basic understanding of conjuration magic) to the caster and their allies.

Requirements:

25 INT
Civilians can use this Adept stage.

Enchantment Recipes

Enhancement

Increase a specific skill. Three recipes in one.
Intellect:
Ingredients: x1 Astral Ink, x1 Blue Egg, x1 Loveless Flower
Produces: +5 INT to Self

Attack:
Ingredients: x1 Astral Ink, x1 Red Egg, x1 Sharp Claws
Produces: +5 ATK to Self

Defense:
Ingredients: x1 Astral Ink, x1 Green Egg, x1 Bird's Beak
Produces: +5 DEF to Self

Tailoring Recipes

Simple White Cloak
Ingredients: 5 x Bolt of Plain Cloth, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Simple White Cloak
Information: Takes up the Back Slot, grants +3 DEF when worn.

Plain Stitched Trousers
Ingredients: 3 x Bolt of Plain Cloth, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Plain Stitched Trousers
Information: Takes up the Leg Slot, grants +2 DEF when worn.

Plain Stitched Belt
Ingredients: 2 x Bolt of Plain Cloth, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Plain Stitched Belt
Information: Takes up the Waist Slot, grants +1 DEF when worn.

Greenweaver’s Cloak
Ingredients: 5 x Bolt of Ysali Dragoncloth, 1 x Simple thread
Produces: x1 Greenweaver’s Cloak
Information: Takes up the Back Slot, grants +3 DEF, +2 INT when worn.Must be of Initiate skill (at least 3/15 rank) to create this.

Greenweaver’s Healing Belt
Ingredients: 3 x Bolt of Ysali Dragoncloth, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Greenweaver's Healing Belt
Information: Takes up the Waist Slot, grants +1 DEF, +1 INT when worn. Must be of Initiate skill (at least 3/15 rank) to create this.

Wind Dancer’s Boots
Ingredients: 6 x Bolt of Ayrala Dragoncloth, 3 x Garghon Feather, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Wind Dancer’s Boots
Information: Takes up the Foot Slot, grants +4 DEF, +3 INT when worn. Must be of Initiate skill (at least 3/15 rank) to create this.

Thundercaller’s Vest
Ingredients: 3 x Bolt of Kiandri Dragoncloth, 2 x Garghon Feather, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Thundercaller’s Vest
Information: Takes up the Chest Slot, grants +5 DEF, +2 ATK when worn. Must be of Initiate skill (at least 3/15 rank) to create this.

Thundercaller’s Girdle
Ingredients:3 x Bolt of Kiandri Dragoncloth, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Thundercaller’s Girdle
Information: Takes up the Waist Slot, grants +3 DEF, +1 ATK when worn. Must be of Initiate skill (at least 3/15 rank) to create this.

Firesong Legguards
Ingredients: 4 x Bolt of Firani Dragoncloth, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Firesong Legguards
Information: Takes up the Leg Slot, grants +6 ATK when worn. Must be of Initiate skill (at least 3/15 rank) to create this.

Firesong Bracers
Ingredients: 3 x Bolt of Firani Dragoncloth, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Firesong Bracers
Information: Takes up the Arm Slot, grants +3 ATK when worn. Must be of Initiate skill (at least 3/15 rank) to create this.

Siren’s Lullaby
Ingredients: 4 x Bolt of Peisio Dragoncloth, 1 x Small Pearl, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Siren's Lullaby
Information: Takes up the Back Slot, grants +6 INT when worn. Must be of Advanced skill (at least 11/15 rank) to create this. This looks like a small blue capelet with pearl decorations.

Vest of Tides
Ingredients:3 x Bolt of Peisio Dragoncloth, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Vest of Tides
Information: Takes up the Chest Slot, grants +4 INT when worn. Must be of Initiate skill (at least 3/15 rank) to create this.

Bracers of Ocean Song
Ingredients: 3 x Bolt of Peisio Dragoncloth, 1 x Simple Thread
Produces: x1 Bracers of Ocean Song
Information: Takes up the Arm Slot, grants +3 INT when worn. Must be of Initiate skill (at least 3/15 rank) to create this.

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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:29 pm

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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:01 am

In the aftermath of ‘lesson one’ in Araceli’s bedroom, Detraeus relished in every opportunity to practice his newly discovered range of skills, hone them, and expand through experimentation. He still refused to let her return any favors, but it pleased him immensely all the same to make progress, and it was — so far as he was concerned — an endlessly fascinating pastime with an infinite number of avenues for self-improvement and discovery on his part. When he was not busying himself with such activities, he was often training solo, fighting in the pit, or sparring with Casseth.

True to his word, the hybrid visited most every day since the first, and never once did Detraeus refuse his company. Casseth, for the most part, kept his wings mostly out of sight, to Detraeus’ relief and though things were not precisely what they had been, their old routines and habits came back to them easily as slipping into familiar shoes. It relaxed Detraeus, he found, and — while it wasn’t the absolute freedom of Ayr — he realized he was, once again, content. Happy.

With a last, resounding metallic clash, Detraeus and Casseth — previously engaged in a weapons spar — stepped apart from each other, each thoroughly winded and worn down from having run through a variety of different techniques. Detraeus set his practice blades aside with a grunt and a one-sided almost-smile.

“Better,” he said. “You almost hit me that time.”

Casseth huffed, panting. “I did hit you.”

“Once.”

“Once is once.”

“Once doesn’t count,” Detraeus asserted, turning to give Casseth his back and stalking over to where Araceli waited, watching. Behind him, Casseth scoffed.

“Once totally counts! How does once not count? It—”

“Once is luck,” Detraeus said, though his attention was now all but entirely focussed on Ara, and he caught her chin between his fingers as he stepped up before her, the corners of his lips edging up into a smile and tail coiling around to slide up her legs when he kissed her. “Hit me three times and it counts.”

“…and what’s the second time, then?”

“Mm.” Detraeus’ smile stretched broader into something verging on a grin, and he touched his lips once, fleetingly, to the juncture between Ara’s jaw and throat before turning to glance back towards Cas. “More luck.” One hand lingering at Ara’s waist, Detraeus lifted his water canteen to his lips and drank greedily.

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:26 pm

Ara smile reflected Det’s as he kissed her. She hummed happily as he turned back to Casseth. Though things weren’t one hundred percent back to how they used to be, they were better and Detra seemed like a changed man as far as his happiness was concerned. It thrilled her that she was the reason for that happiness. Her arm snaked around Detra’s waist, in return, and she leaned her weight against him as she smiled at Casseth.

Cas snorted and rolled his shoulder as he looked away from the two of them. “Mhmm, I think you just don’t want to admit that I can hit you.” He grinned as he turned back towards Detra, posture relaxing instantly. He watched as Ara leaned against Detra, letting her weight rest against him, and smiled. No matter how much he saw it, it still amazed him that Detra allowed such familiarity from someone. Love, he supposed, changed your whole perspective on life. That’s what Detraeus had, too. Cas was happy for his friend and even happier that he had gone to Soudul after him.

Casseth turned away from the couple, giving them a bit more privacy as he fished out his canteen from his pack. He took a big gulp and as he lowered it, his gaze locked on to a familiar figure heading towards Ara’s house. Cas frowned, not having expected to see Lithian. His stomach knotted, nerves on end as he realized that he’d been caught. He gave a small, sheepish smile as he waved at Lith hoping, beyond all hope, that Lithian would not be too mad at him for not telling him about the sparring sessions between Detra and himself.

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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:58 pm

Lithian was not happy.

For all that he had tolerated Casseth eventually going after Detraeus — despite ample pleadings that he consider acting otherwise — he had known then that it was inevitable. Casseth had made up his mind and the matter was out of range of Lithian’s powers of persuasion. This, however, was different. This was Casseth, for obvious reasons, willfully withholding information from him, going behind his back, and throwing himself directly in front of the exact danger which had nearly got him killed three months prior.

He hoped he was wrong, of course. Hoped that when he arrived at Araceli’s house, Casseth wasn’t there, that he had misunderstood and Casseth was engaged in something entirely separate, innocent, warranted and reasonable.

He found Casseth with Detraeus, both shirtless and showing obvious signs of exertion, training weapons at their sides. Ignoring entirely the way the oblivionite’s posture stiffened at his approach — and, at least as pointedly, the possessive coil of his tail around Lithian’s other friend — Lith turned his focus to Casseth, and released a tempered breath.

“Casseth…what are you doing?”

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 2:04 pm

Casseth blinked, staring at Lithian for a second before frowning. “Sparring,” he said simply. Cas sat his axe down as he made his way over to Lithian. He hesitated slightly, pausing a few steps away from Lithian. “What are you doing here?” Cas’ shoulders sagged at Lithian’s look. “You’re angry with me, aren’t you?” Cas fidgeted, shifting his weight as he ran a hand over one of his horns. “C’mon, we were just practicing...and Ara’s here…”

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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 3:38 pm

“Sparring…” Lithian repeated. He glanced away, narrowing his eyes at the heavens as he gathered his thoughts and curbing the urge to bite his lip, bunch his fists, or shuffle his feet. “You’re sparring. I see that. With the man who tried to kill y—”

“Problem?”

Lithian whipped around at Detraeus’ voice, and bunched his fists in spite of himself. For a moment, all he could see was Casseth prone on the arena floor, bleeding in the sand, Detraeus looming over him, blade drawn, and the ringing, burning, crushing pulse of the crowd’s chanting all around him: “Kill him!” “Kill him!” “Kill him!”

He loomed over Detraeus now, over a head taller than him naturally, and his heart throbbed painfully in his throat, the corners of his eyes stinging as he grit his teeth.

“Yes,” he managed to say. “There’s a problem.” He turned and took a step forward. Facing the other fully and looking down on him, he watched his tail flick and his wings stretch like a territorial pidgeon. “You hurt Casseth once already. You don’t deserve his forgiveness. He shouldn’t have gone after you, but he did, and so here you are. I can’t change that. But I haven’t and never will forget what you did, and I don’t want you anywhere near—”

“I don’t care what you want.”

“You—” Lithian jerked forward, but was immediately restrained by Casseth, causing whatever he might have said to cut off with a frustrated snap. “Casseth, no, let me—”

“Do you want to fight me, taka’tha?”

Lithian’s shoulders bunched, posture rigidly stiff in spite of the fact — or perhaps partially due to the fact — that Casseth had yet to let him go. “What did you call me…?”

“It means…” Detraeus’ tail twitched again, “…stupid, spoiled, weak dragon child.”

“Casseth, let go—”

“If he fights,” Detraeus said, “…I make no promise not to hurt him.”

“Am I supposed to be intimidated?”

Detraeus shrugged. “Be what you will. All things bleed the same.”

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 4:09 pm

Ara bit her lip and watched, knowing she could do nothing to stop the inevitable fight that was about to take place. If Lithian attacked first, she would not blame Detraeus for defending himself nor would she fault LIthian for doing the same if Detra were to attack first. She squeezed her eyes shut and bowed her head, praying to whatever god or goddess would listen to her. Ara did not wish either of the men, in front of her, to die that day.

Casseth held tight to Lithian. “Damn it, Lithian…” he muttered as Lith tried to pull free. “Think about what you’re doing. Detraeus is strong. Please don’t do this.” Cas’ fingers dug into Lith’s arms, doing his best to not let go and to hold him back. This was the last thing he had wanted and he cursed himself for ever keeping Detra and his sparring sessions a secret. When would he learn that secrets only caused problems in the end? He clenched his eyes shut and under his breath he muttered again. “Please Lithian…”.

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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 4:57 pm

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Lithian frowned as he glanced back to Casseth. “I am thinking about what I’m doing. At least as much as you were when you went chasing a madman off to another continent.” With a quick jerk, serious this time, he dislodged himself from Casseth’s grip, and stepped away, over to where Cas and Detraeus had previously been sparring. “I am not stupid, or weak. And I have every right to not want my lover sharing the company of a man who tried to murder him.”

Across the way Detraeus bristled, the spines of his tail rippling as he moved to fetch his bow and strapped his quiver back on. “If I’d intended to kill him,” he growled as he moved to follow and stand ahead of Lith, “he would be dead. Remember that.”

Lithian struck first.

Attacks and Defense

Master Magical Attack, Hit, Special (Double Damage) = 2,980 x 2 = 5,960 Damage - 590 Defended Against = 5,370 Damage Total

Defense
Opponent Defeated: 0 Damage taken.

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 5:00 pm

Current Stats

Level: 105
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Detraeus watched the water draw up from the flasks at Lithian’s hip like snakes armed to bite, and prepared to dodge, nocking an arrow before the dovaa got in his first stroke. What he didn’t anticipate, however, was Lithian’s action strategy. He expected the crack of a whip of water, a wave, or some other similar offense. Something sharp. Something quick. Something real.

Instead, Lithian’s fingers fingers splayed, and so far as Detraeus could see, all the liquid water disappeared, evaporating into the air itself. The surroundings — moments before dry as the sand beneath their feet — became muggy, instantly damp, sluggish, and hard to breathe in. Grimacing, Detraeus shrugged off the change, aimed, and—

All at once, the humidity condensed, the latent water in the air congealing into a liquid blanket on his skin. In his distraction, his first arrow missed, and by the time he had another in his fingers, his pulse was diving into overload, the water crawling up his throat, over his face, and into both his lips and nostrils.

Panic kicked in.

He choked, staggering, attempted to snarl and dive forward but found the sound garbled and drowned by liquid. Everywhere, liquid. He dropped everything, fingers futilely scrabbling a the water on his face, but Lithian was across from him, expression still as a statue as his fingers lifted, twisted, and pushed, funneling the liquid deeper. Detraeus vaguely noted the wind picking up, screams like a distant echo — a backdrop to approaching blackness — and as his lashes fluttered, world darkening in at the edges, he thought of Ara and sent a prayer to Soudana for her safety.

His knees gave out, and he lost consciousness as his body hit the sand.

Attacks and Defense

Result: Lost. 40exp gained.

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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:13 pm

Lithian hadn’t intended to kill Detraeus. He hadn’t even, initially, intended to fight Detraeus. Despite his training, despite his choice to lead a fighter’s life in practice, he had made all his choices with intentions to heal not bring about damage, and he never truly considered himself a fighter, even once he became relatively proficient at it.

At Detraeus’ words, though, Lithian knew — momentarily — what it meant to be consumed by anger, to hate, and to want revenge. He remembered, as though caught all over again in the moment, what it felt like to watch the man across from hold Casseth’s life in his hands, the fear coursing through him, alongside rage, helplessness, anguish. And something in him tipped.

Some invisible scale slid from tentative, brittle neutral to something else altogether, and in the instant that he held Detraeus’ life in his hands, he recognized the first moment in his life where he might actually kill someone.

He couldn’t, though.

For all his hurt, all the pain of the memory, and all the fear, he knew — despite his words to the contrary — that Detraeus had made an active choice to spare Casseth’s life, more than once. He knew that — however much he disapproved of it and however little he understood it — Casseth considered Detraeus his friend, and Araceli loved the man. Araceli’s cry, combined with a sharp rise in the winds, cut into Lithian’s one-track conscious, jostling him back to reality from whatever blinded fog he’d sunk into, and he released a shuddered breath.

He dropped his arms, and relinquished all hold on his magic. Water spilled out, seeping from Detraeus like an opened canteen being allowed to pour across the sand, and it gathered around him in a pool, eerily reminiscent of blood under the circumstances, but not. He realized only belatedly that he was shaking, every limb in his body seeming to quiver as he stared at the body of the man who could have been dead by his hand.

Lithian felt as though he might be sick.

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:31 pm

Araceli’s world began to crumble the instant Lithian’s water invaded Detra’s body. The wind whipped around her as Detra went down, a scream tearing from her lungs at the same time. Before she even realized it, Ara was moving and had Lithian not relinquished his hold on Detra, she very well might have become involved in the fight. She dropped down to her knees, her wind dying down as a sob escaped her lips. “Detra…” Ara’s fingers brushed over his cheek, down to his neck to check for a pulse. When she felt the beat of his heart her body sagged, nerves relaxing and tears finally falling. She shifted, sitting down on the wet ground and moving Detra so that his head was in her lap. “Please wake up...Please…” She bent over him, lips touching Detra’s forehead as she squeezed her eyes shut.

Casseth moved up next to Lithian, hand resting against one of Lith’s arms, watching the scene with Ara unfold. When he felt Lithian shake, Cas’ attention focused fully on the man he loved. “Lithian…” He had known Lithian was strong, could take down dragons easily. Had even seen the man drown a beast from the inside. He had not expected to see the same move used against Detra. “Maybe we should...go?” Cas frowned as he turned his attention back to Detra. “Will he be alright?”

Ara’s shoulders stiffened, back going straight. “He had best be alright,” she growled but didn’t turn around to face the pair.

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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:41 pm

“I’m sorry…” The words fell from Lithian’s mouth barely above a whisper the first time, then multiple times in succession, louder. “I’m sorry—I’m sorry, I—he will be alright,” Lithian said, stepping forward on instinct. “I didn’t damage anything internally, and I can—”

“Don’t touch him,” Araceli snapped when Lithian attempted to crouch, the desire to heal filling in automatically now that the fight was over.

At her tone, though — sharp, brittle, and cold — Lithian winced, guilt knotting deep in his gut. “Ara…please, I…”

Detraeus coughed, sputtering, and then groaning as he rolled over, dry-retching and gasping as he shook into consciousness. Lithian took several darted steps back, nearly tripping over himself in his effort to make space. With one, uncertain glance to Casseth, Lithian bit at his bottom lip, turned, and left.

This was not the place to stick around.

Detraeus, meanwhile, shuddered, wincing at the burn in his throat and shaking his throbbing head. “Ara…?”

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:51 pm

Casseth winced at Ara’s tone, watching helplessly as Lithian fumbled. When Lithian turned to leave, Cas stepped towards Ara, crouching and placing a hand on her shoulder. “If you need anything...let me know, yeah?”

“Just leave,” Ara said, pleading for Casseth to leave them alone. He rose, smoothing his hand over Ara’s hair and giving Detra one last glance as he started to wake up. Ara didn’t dare move as she listened to Lithian and Casseth retreat. Her body shuddered, resolve cracking the instant she heard Detra’s voice. “Shh, I’m here Detra.” Ara brushed her fingers over his cheek, murmuring to him as he came around.

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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:05 pm

Detraeus opened and shut his eyes several times, shaking the dizziness from the edges of his vision and then frowning. That…had not gone as he’d intended. He registered Casseth and Lithian retreating on a passive level, and his mind continued to loop back through the battle — so short it almost felt surreal. He grimaced. And embarrasing. Perhaps Casseth’s chosen intended was accomplished at more than growing an impressive rack of horns after all.

Then, Ara’s state registered with him, and he stiffened, immediately staggering up to an unsteady sit. “Ara. What happened? Are you alright? Did he hurt—?”

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