[IC] Act 1.1 : Whisked Away... [In the Senate's Name...]

[Haku1]

(20:50:07) Haku: It shouldn't come as a surprise that there would be some difficulty in exiting the structure given that she was leaving by a different route than the one she had entered by...


Admittedly, this occurred only as she neared the exit, where the light of the sun beckoned for her... hinting at safety.


And the only way she actually knew she had trouble was the materialization of guardians at the entrance. Either materialization or VERY hidden. Guardians in the form of rather large lions of gold and orichalcum.


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(20:50:45) Danakir Odeiron: (Cute. Beat my 15 successes stealth roll.)


(20:50:57) Danakir Odeiron: ()


(20:51:12) Danakir Odeiron: "They have a perfect awareness charm."


(20:51:12) Danakir Odeiron: ****.


(20:51:20) Danakir Odeiron: That's what you have to say to piss me off xD


(20:51:46) Haku: ooc - indeed. they do have a perfect effect that they can use for awareness


(20:52:03) Danakir Odeiron: (Alright, alright, she's not that stupid. She'd probably knew that.)


(20:52:05) Danakir Odeiron: (Right?)


(20:52:51) Haku: ooc - well, yes. such spirits are known in the Realm and quite frequently guard freeholds, manses, tombs and such


(20:53:07) Danakir Odeiron: (So she wouldn't just stride confidently knowing that. Thanks)


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(20:55:37) Danakir Odeiron: Under different circumstances, pride would be her downfall and she would stride forward boldly and without a second's hesitation, completely confident in her ability to remain undetected even when directly facing her foe. But this? This is different in many ways. Not only that but it'd be troublesome to deal with them immediately and they'd likely ring some sort of alarm and then well...


She could say adios to her plan if things played out that way.


That just wouldn't do at all, though somewhat bitterly she backed away from them before they could notice her and made her way back to the roof, preparations could still be made there without too much trouble. At least so she hoped.


Nature abhors a plan it would seem.


***


(20:55:57) Danakir Odeiron: (Let me know if anything's not okay, rusty is rusty)


(21:03:22) Haku: The low growl indicated that perhaps her attempt at stealth wasn't as good as she could hope for. After all, such potent guardians had charm based perception abilities.


(21:03:31) Haku: ooc - you might wish to make a stealth roll


(21:03:54) Danakir Odeiron: (Sure. Any stunt?)


(21:04:38) Haku: ooc - 2 at this point


(21:06:36) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 3 with my persistent charm


(21:07:14) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - And of course I use Being-Nonbeing Approach and get back the mote


(21:08:54) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 27d10 → [6,10,6,4,10,8,5,10,1,9,7,4,7,7,6,9,4,1,6,5,1,10,7,2,1,9,5] = 16 successes


(21:09:10) Haku: ooc ....... wut


(21:09:30) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Dexterity 7 + Stealth 7 + Shoes 5 + Being-Nonbeing 5 + Stunt 3 = 27


(21:13:48) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - You okay?


(21:14:17) Haku: ooc - just... *twitchges* looks over stats and rolls


(21:14:19) Haku: ooc @_@


(21:14:42) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - She was made to be a super-predator, so yeah I invested in stealth. ;


(21:14:46) Haku: ooc *shakes fist at Maggie and her stupid skills at hiding


(21:14:51) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - lmao


(21:15:12) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Think about it, Kali-Mahakala has EVEN MORE STEALTH


(21:15:14) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - xD


(21:16:42) Haku: ooc ;_;


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(21:23:04) Haku: Perhaps it was skill, or the very essence and dreams of horrible monstrosities hidden in the darkness that she had wrapped around herself as a cloak that allowed her to escape the attention of the golden lions...


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(21:24:34) Danakir Odeiron: Now sitting on the roof, she stares around to see whether her 'companion' is still anywhere around. No matter how she may feel about Ciara Nami, the rest of this would be rather bothersome if she lost her transport and so she did want to make sure that she was still at least in one piece before proceeding with her plan.


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(21:24:44) Danakir Odeiron: (JUst a quick answer will do, then I'll get to the meaty part, sorry!)


(21:25:00) Haku: ooc - no sign of her... but you feel that she's somewhatever


(21:25:15) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - So she's not all barglehargle dead is what you're saying?)


(21:25:31) Haku: ooc indeed... likely still fighting


(21:26:52) Danakir Odeiron: ooc Remind me, how long does one scene/tale last in the Wyld?


(21:27:12) Danakir Odeiron: ooc *is considering just how much I'm going to pil up*


(21:27:19) Danakir Odeiron: ooc pile*


(21:32:45) Haku: ooc - scene/tale? o_o


(2108) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Let's say I want to cast one spell of oneiromancy, how long would that take?


(2125) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Since I'm not interacting with anyone


(21:34:33) Haku: ooc - as per normal.


(21:34:50) Haku: ooc - X scenes = montage of scenes


(21:35:06) Haku: ooc - but you'll want to be sure no one is going to interrupt you


(21:47:11) You missed 2 messages from Danakir Odeiron because they were too large.


(21:47:43) Haku: (21:47:11) You missed 2 messages from Danakir Odeiron because they were too large.


(21:47:49) Danakir Odeiron: (Yeah I'm going to post this in the thread lol)


(21:48:01) Danakir Odeiron: (That's okay?)


(21:48:29) Haku: xD


(21:48:37) Haku: ooc - not going to try and break it up?


(21:48:46) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Lol okay sure


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(21:49:09) Danakir Odeiron: Standing up, she held her hands together on her lap, closer her eyes for a moment to take in the atmosphere of this place. It is wild and untamed yet filled with hope and glory. Despite being lost in some sort of ruin, it is rather positive. Disgusting to say the least, she cannot stand it!


Holding up her doll in an almost trancelike state, she peers into those beady empty eyes filled with the sad mockery of life she infused within them, for them to dance and play for her leisure. For she loves them truly and deeply, every last one. From they does her deepest strength spring eternal, from they does she wield her legend of the Sword.


And from they does she lead an army that is legion.


(21:49:15) Danakir Odeiron: Stern bloody eyes that scream bloody murder, the stance of the nightmarish huntsman from beyond the dread forest of shadows, in the valley of death there is nothing less than those eyes. Shining bright as the fell moon from twisted netherworlds, the image of war and strife and carnage.


Death incarnate is nothing but a paper tiger. This done she reaches within her own chest, flesh parting as if the sea to allow her access to her own Heart which she touches foolishly in her mad revelry of the devouring mindless beast of a thousand crying dreams.


Whispering the name only she is intimate with, losing it away to the wind so that it will carry during one eternity and one second toward the right place in that lost forgotten abyss from her past and future. Something stirs, and it hungers.


She stirs.


And she hungers.


Eyes snap open as a silent scream echoes within her soft yielding flesh, sending ripples through it even as she transforms and shift into the image of fear. The incarnation of horror.


The Great Unknown, Fear Incarnate.


The God-Monster Body, kneel in helpless impotence before this fearsome elegant monster which with every word of her song will plunge the world into everlasting darkness.


And so she did.


(21:49:18) Danakir Odeiron: Swallowing whole this meager spire in tides of black dread until nothing is left of weak reality, of reviled Creation, but the vague dreamlike memory of better days extinguished ever more. Within, swarms upon swarms of crawling monstrosities and other vile creatures of an insane toymaker fill it to the brim, every street and every house and every corner and every shadow...


Only the pale sickly red glow doth protect anyone from what is to come and there is no escape.


Sing-song voice "Now, you and me Goldie, like in the old days. What says you?" at once another whisper that would creep along the spine alike a spider and a powerful defiant shout to wreck the confidence of bold and confident men and women alike.


What manner of twisted fates await them? Those imprisoned within the Kingdom Where Midnight Stands Still can only imagine.


She awaits on the summit of the ziggurat, the 'ending' to this bitter tragedy.


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(21:49:35) Danakir Odeiron: (She's doing a LOT of things in this post)


(21:49:42) Danakir Odeiron: I'm going to state here what she's actually doing


(21:49:43) Danakir Odeiron: Kay?


(21:50:57) Danakir Odeiron: First she activates Unsightly Rigor Approach as an innate ability, I'll roll for it as soon as I get my stunt.


(21:51:45) Danakir Odeiron: Second, she activates the All-Consuming God-Monster Stance for 10 motes and 1 willpower


(21:52:32) Danakir Odeiron: Third, she evikes the Kingdom Where Midnight Stands Still


(21:53:06) Danakir Odeiron: Fourth, she uses Transient Work of Flesh and Bone to fill it with horrible nightmarish dolls


(21:53:50) Danakir Odeiron: That's it


(21:54:27) Danakir Odeiron: evokes*


(21:55:48) Haku: ooc - o_o


(21:55:51) Haku: ooc - 3 die


(21:56:13) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I'll use it to get back my willpower


(21:59:49) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Manipulation 7 + Medecine 5 + Stunt 4 = 16d10 → [9,2,3,7,6,6,5,3,3,8,8,4,10,4,1,3] = 6 successes


Giving her a temporary Sword Grace of... well either 10 or 14, depending on if you consider we can go 'beyond the impossible' like some spirits can


(22:00:09) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Keep in mind that the God-Monster Body makes her Sword 8 as long as it's active


(22:01:21) Haku: ah... num... 14, but max you can get with magnitude is 9


(22:01:27) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Wrong


(22:01:31) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - >


(22:01:39) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - *goes to fetch the quote, cackling*


(22:02:31) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - P.160 "Each Magnitude value over 9 has a maximum member size double the previous rating"


(22:03:02) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 160,000 dolls


(22:03:09) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Shit your pants


(22:03:31) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - And that's minimum


(22:03:39) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 320,000 for maximum


(22:04:02) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - The Wyld: We Are Scary Motherfuckers


(22:05:38) Haku: ....


(22:05:47) Danakir Odeiron:


(22:05:53) Haku: ....


(22:06:11) Danakir Odeiron: <.<


(22:07:08) Danakir Odeiron: Oh yush


(22:07:27) Danakir Odeiron: Versus normal people, Wits + Essence > 17 = Glamour resistance


(22:07:31) Danakir Odeiron: Versus Exalted.... make that 19


(22:07:57) Danakir Odeiron: So um, did I break the Haku? >_> I thought that was pretty epic-awesome dickery ala Exalted


(22:08:14) Haku: how do exalted end up with 19? o_o


(22:08:18) Danakir Odeiron: Simple


(22:08:27) Danakir Odeiron: War 6 + Against Exalted 2 for base


(22:08:29) Danakir Odeiron: For a total of 8


(22:08:39) Danakir Odeiron: Now add in Unassailable Tower of War for +4


(22:08:42) Danakir Odeiron: So a total of 12


(22:08:50) Danakir Odeiron: And then add in Invincible Fortress of War for +7


(22:08:52) Danakir Odeiron: For a total of 19


(22:09:02) Danakir Odeiron: God-Monster Body gives me a temporary Essence rating of 7


(22:09:24) Haku: erm... specialties don't count for GR, do they?


(22:09:32) Danakir Odeiron: They don't?


(22:09:59) Haku: I thought they didn't, ie it's pure ability, attribute, whatever stat


(22:10:01) Danakir Odeiron: I was always under the impression that specialties apply to static values


(22:10:08) Danakir Odeiron: Otherwise Dodge specialties are... lol


(22:10:42) Haku: it's more that specialties work for static values, which are assumed to be rolled


(22:11:09) Danakir Odeiron: True. Fair enough, it does make this specialty pointless since I bought it for this specifically but that's fair enough


(22:11:14) Danakir Odeiron: Though it applies on both sides then.


(22:11:24) Danakir Odeiron: Not that it means much, most of the time


(22:11:44) Danakir Odeiron: But yeah, even without that it's still 17


(22:12:01) Haku: *nods*


(22:12:27) Haku: uness you want to steal lunar trick and get ability specialties?


(22:12:35) Haku: or willpower specialties?


(22:12:40) Danakir Odeiron: Lawl no.


(22:12:47) Haku: ;;;


(22:12:52) Danakir Odeiron: I just felt that if it was there, it should apply


(22:13:22) Danakir Odeiron: S'okay though, I'll deal with it not applying


(22:14:13) Danakir Odeiron: Anyway, more or less as for what it's there for, it's simple


(22:14:26) Danakir Odeiron: It's there to make sure that Maggie won'T face those stupid extras and/or guards


(22:14:35) Danakir Odeiron: Either they die against the dolls or they're stuck fighting them


(22:14:40) Danakir Odeiron: Either way, works for me.


(22:14:55) Haku: *nods*


(22:16:55) Danakir Odeiron: Sometimes I worry about going too far


(22:16:57) Danakir Odeiron: Then I remember


(22:17:03) Danakir Odeiron: This is Exalted, players are SUPPOSED to be out of control


(22:17:04) Danakir Odeiron:


(22:17:23) Danakir Odeiron: .... I think <.<


(22:17:32) Haku: nummm


(22:17:54) Danakir Odeiron: Nya, you'd tell me if I went too far.... right?


(22:18:07) Haku: indeed, like I just did


(22:18:12) Haku: brb


(22:18:20) Danakir Odeiron: You... did?


(22:18:34) Danakir Odeiron: ;_; Have I been a bad kitty?


(22:35:35) Danakir Odeiron: Nya nya


(22:36:32) Haku: back


(22:36:40) Haku: 19 vs 17?


(22:36:41) Danakir Odeiron: Welcome back


(22:36:51) Danakir Odeiron: Ohhhhhh


(22:37:00) Danakir Odeiron: Well that's alright, like I said, I just figured it added in


(22:37:03) Danakir Odeiron: It's alright if it doesn't


(22:37:12) Danakir Odeiron: I was just worried you were mad at me ;_;


(22:37:24) Danakir Odeiron: Since well, I've got more tricks in mah hat


(22:37:37) Haku: if 2 die = tricks xD


(22:38:05) Danakir Odeiron: How about a potential for a -21 internal penalty?


(22:38:22) Danakir Odeiron: Depending on GR and other factors, sure


(22:38:24) Danakir Odeiron: But still.


(22:38:53) Danakir Odeiron: (And it would eat some motes and one willpower)


(22:39:14) Danakir Odeiron: Then again


(22:39:19) Danakir Odeiron: Solars have "Lol what penalties" moves


(22:39:24) Danakir Odeiron: So this might not seem very impressing


(22:39:49) Danakir Odeiron: impressive*


(22:39:57) Danakir Odeiron: But you get the idea I think


(22:40:45) Danakir Odeiron: I'm tricksy I guess <_<


(22:41:56) Haku: ooc - do roll awareness and join battle


(22:42:17) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Mkay, Perception + Awareness?


(22:43:41) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Also, I give myself 2 style dice on my Join Battle


(22:45:50) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Perception 6 + Awareness 2 = 8d10 → [1,5,10,6,4,5,10,8] = 5 sux


ooc - Wits 4 + Awareness 2 + Style 3 = 9d10 → [8,10,9,3,6,10,8,10,9] = 10 sux


(22:45:57) Danakir Odeiron: (o__o Mein luck scares me)


(22:46:18) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - One day I will botch, and it will be horrible. x_x


(22:48:32) Haku: ooc - martial arts excellencies count as martial arts charms, yes?


(22:49:08) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Um.... mebbe? Where is it relevant exactly? *might be able to check on it while you post*


(22:49:37) Haku: ooc - it might be VERY revelent


(22:51:05) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Well I'm not sure >_<


(22:52:23) Haku: ooc - going to say it's a yes


(22:53:26) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Alrighty


(22:53:47) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - If I ever find word either way I'll let you know, until then... go ahead ^^


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(23:00:53) Haku: Perhaps if she had been paying more attention to her surroundings, instead of contemplating death, doom and disaster... the ringmaster of nightmares might have, possibly just might have gotten more warning than she had.


As it was, the only warning she had of an impending attack was shining golden tiger claws carved the very air behind her back as if to claw out the spine of the raksha.


http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2642342/ 30d10.hits(7) → [4,1,1,1,8,3,10,1,7,6,3,10,7,7,7,1,4,1,1,6,1,10,7,5,10,9,9,7,5,8] = (18)


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(23:01:06) Danakir Odeiron: (Meep!)


(23:01:46) Danakir Odeiron: (So, um, it's your move then, since you beat my Join Battle by... lots?)


(23:02:20) Danakir Odeiron: Or am I wrong?


(23:03:00) Danakir Odeiron: (It's important to let me know whether it's your move or mine lol)


(23:03:34) Haku: ooc - it's ambush! ie your awareness was... not enough and so she gets to go first


(23:03:48) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Oh gee, unexpected attacks. My favorites.


(23:04:02) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Anyway, here goes


(23:04:10) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - First off, rolle Valor versus difficulty of 2


(23:04:23) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - If fail, can't attack this tick, if win, -2 internal penalty


(23:04:38) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - If Valor + Essence isn't over 17, -14 internal penalty


(23:05:38) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - And of course there's the shaping effect on her armor


(23:05:59) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - So that's one willpower and -4 wyld penalty, at least probably


(23:07:21) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Lastly I dunno how unexpected attacks interact with her IoL for Dexterity + Melee (Swords)


(23:07:27) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I'll let you be the judge on that


(23:08:38) Haku: ooc - can she parry? normally against an unexpected attack?


(23:08:48) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - As far as I know, nope.


(23:08:54) Haku: ooc - your answer there


(23:08:54) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - It's the most dreaded thing for her.


(23:09:24) Haku: ooc - you just get a chance to get perfects if you can roll


(23:09:39) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - That's alright, I figured it probably didn't apply


(23:09:46) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - There's a reason why I fear unexpected attacks.


(23:10:23) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Still unless things go really weird, I should probably get a -20 internal penalty on her


(23:10:27) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - So there's at least that.


(23:10:44) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - God let her now have a stupid high Valor...


(23:10:49) Danakir Odeiron: not*


(23:10:55) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - ;_;


(23:13:22) Haku: ooc - she's still valour 5


(23:13:37) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Oh good, then even with Essence 10 she still gets the penalty


(23:13:54) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I don't care if she wins the Valor roll, I just don't want her to ignore my Fearsome Mien


(23:14:01) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Well okay I DO care


(23:14:04) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - BUt not as much


(23:14:08) Haku: ooc - http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2642347/ 5d10.hits(7) → [8,5,9,10,8] = (4)


(23:14:17) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - *nods*


(23:14:20) Haku: ooc - valor


(23:14:41) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - So then she takes a -16 right now, -20 depending on what she does with the shaping effect of the Seal or Varanasi


(23:17:01) Haku: ooc - what's the shaping effect do again?


(23:17:17) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Perfect Shaping Effect: "You are incapable of wounding me, for I am invincible. As such, you cannot bring yourself to wound me."


(23:17:32) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - There'S clever ways around it


(23:17:38) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - But claws to the face are not one of them


(23:17:57) Haku: ooc - -20 internal penalty


(23:18:08) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - She also spends 1 willpower


(23:18:10) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Just fyi


(23:19:20) Haku: ooc - yeah


(23:19:33) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Sorry for the ton of oocs


(23:19:53) Haku: ooc - goes over the list of martial arts charms and such for Lyta... hmmm...


(23:20:05) Haku: ooc - hmmms hmmms


(23:20:42) Haku: ooc - bah! http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2642352/


(23:20:58) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Whew


(23:21:14) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Do you need Maggie's soak?


(23:21:24) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Cause it's different then listed right now


(23:21:27) Danakir Odeiron: than*


(23:21:36) Haku: ooc yesh


(23:21:42) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 24L/27B


(23:21:46) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - God-Monster Body


(23:23:18) Haku: http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2642353/ - 2L


(23:23:36) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Well post about what actually happened and I'll get ya a response


(23:23:51) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Also, ouch


(23:24:04) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - *does not have extra health levels*


(23:27:12) Haku: ooc - ack wait... it's not 2L...


(23:27:23) Haku: ooc - what's your non-stamina soak like?


(23:27:43) Haku: ooc - ie against holy attack


(23:27:51) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - O_O


(23:28:15) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 21L/21B


(23:28:36) Haku: ooc - never mind it's just 2A then... soaked down to ping still


(23:28:53) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - *nods*


(23:29:04) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 2A uh... grrrr Solars!


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(23:30:00) Haku: Being a fearsome god monster is all well and nice, but when one forgot that one is NOT invulnerable... well... all sorts of problems like say when someone got the drop on you and slash you with shiney essence weaponry that bore the displeasure of Creation; stating that they KNEW what you were... or at least their essence did even if you had the blindfold pulled over everyone's eyes.


***


(23:44:07) Danakir Odeiron: Crying out in pain despite herself, even as her flesh sizzled for a moment before exploding in golden light, disrupting her terrifying presence for an instant, enough for the claws to dig deep and viciously inside her, she shudders softly and melts away as if the darkness itself to reform a few steps away, the golden bitch now standing in front of her, the holy fury of the dawn at her hand.


This pain would focus her for what was to come now, especially as she held went right back into the fray with cold, almost dispassionate, efficiency. Invulnerable she may not be, that much history would not allow her to whisper of at the moment, but she would scream her invincibility at the scarlet sky of her world! Here she is almighty, here she makes the rules!


"You... wounded me." wordlessly she swarms the holy warrior, leaving her not even a breath's time between her fierce assaults, constant perfection being the token of her unassailable glory. At this point, her swordmanship could almost be called an art, inhumanly precise and deft to such an extent as to demand respect!


In fact, as this went on, almost unreal for her poor victim, this living image of the worst eldritch horrors crawling and seething at the borders of reality dug deep against the sacred places of her mind, poisonous claws clutching hard there and seeping the venom of passion and desire, the constant thrill of visceral fear akin to that of prey trying to take over and dominate without the slightest chance for resistance.


Then just as her wordless performance which would seize Lyta's breath away came to an end,the bloody deed done in more ways than one, she moves away with insane speed, defying yet again expectations and the very laws of this world.


No matter how you slice it, this is now her home.


And you are most certainly NOT welcome!


***


(23:44:24) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Flurry of 5 actions with 1 reflexive charm


(23:44:30) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 4 attacks + Move action


(23:44:44) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Compelling Presence activated for 10 motes + 1 willpower, awaiting any stunt


(23:46:09) Danakir Odeiron: as she held steadfast and went*


(23:48:20) Haku: ooc 3 die


(23:48:36) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Use it with my passive charm to get back all my motes


(23:48:55) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I'll start with the Compelling Presence roll, then do everything else


(23:49:49) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Important question, would my Inflicting Fear Presence specialty be applicable here considering my stunt�?


(23:50:35) Haku: ooc - hmmm... yes


(23:51:09) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Then same for the bonus success from her Assumption of Dreams and Passion?


(23:51:26) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - For the reflexive presence roll


(23:51:34) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Not the melee attacks lol


(23:53:26) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 20d10 → [8,4,9,2,10,8,6,2,2,1,5,7,6,3,4,7,9,2,6,7] = 9 sux, 10 sux if I get that bonus sux, versus her Dodge MDV


(23:53:48) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Also, Temperance + Essence > 17 would mean she ignores it


(23:56:51) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 19d10 → [9,8,10,10,9,10,1,7,7,1,3,9,6,4,10,4,1,6,5] = 14 sux


19d10 → [3,1,8,10,3,9,10,6,4,8,5,5,5,8,5,2,4,8,9] = 10 sux


19d10 → [6,3,7,2,5,3,2,2,4,4,3,1,10,9,7,4,4,3,5] = 5 sux


19d10 → [2,2,3,3,3,7,10,8,10,4,10,5,3,10,1,5,1,4,1] = 10 sux


(23:56:58) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - For the 4 attacks


(23:57:43) Haku: ooc - dodge MDV = 10, and yes, you get that bonus suxx


(23:58:04) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I'm a bit iffy, do you hit on a 0 accuracy bonus?


(23:58:10) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Also, she moves away 21 yards


(23:58:18) Haku: ooc - if it's even draw, defense wins


(23:58:27) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - So one attack connects then


(23:58:33) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - HOWEVER


(23:58:40) Haku: ooc - that's for the presence


(23:58:45) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - She's currently under a -1 DV pen-


(23:58:48) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Oh


(23:58:56) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Well that sucks lol


(23:59:40) Haku: ooc - her parry DV = 15 before penalties


(23:59:53) Haku: ooc - soak = 14L


(00:00:04) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Remind me, do internal penalties go in that?


(00:00:15) Haku: ooc - yes, calculated in... but yes


(00:00:21) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - So what's her real DV then?


(00:00:35) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Since she's got like -20 internal penalties?


(00:00:56) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Wait, it's 15 WITH the -20 penalty!?


(00:02:36) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - .....


(00:03:59) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Ahum, ahum


(00:05:38) Danakir Odeiron: <_<


(00:06:25) Haku: ooc - no... but that's her original DV ^^;


(00:06:37) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Oh god thanks


(00:06:41) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I'd have freaked out


(00:06:58) Haku: ooc - her current DV is 5


(00:07:11) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - So 3 attacks connect


(00:07:28) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Wait, maybe 4


(00:07:58) Haku: ooc all 4 hits 5,4,3,2 for her DV degration


(00:08:10) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Yup, thanks


(00:08:22) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - It's math time *crunch*


(00:08:52) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Well fuck


(00:09:01) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Totally forgot to add in the +4 Accuracy for my weapon


(00:09:03) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Durr hurr


(00:09:14) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I stoopid


(00:09:29) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Oh well my bad, I'll add it in next time


(00:10:56) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Ping, ping, ping, ping


(00:11:33) Haku: ooc xD


(00:12:06) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 7d10 → [3,3,3,7,7,10,7] = 4 sux


7d10 → [4,6,8,5,1,9,2] = 2 sux


7d10 → [10,8,1,4,4,4,10] = 3 sux


7d10 → [6,8,9,6,8,3,10] = 4 sux


(00:12:08) Danakir Odeiron: (Seriously good rolls)


(00:12:20) Danakir Odeiron: For a total of 13 health levels of lethal damage


(00:15:13) Haku: ooc o_o


***


(00:16:23) Haku: Her comment about her opponent being a ghost of the past might have been more accurate than thought as her counterattack simply resulted in her scattering into golden motes beneath the sun.


***


(00:17:02) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - So she just went poof without any bloodshed or...?


(00:17:34) Haku: ooc - she went poof


(00:17:50) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Nowhere in sight?


(00:17:55) Haku: ooc - nope


***


(00:21:54) Danakir Odeiron: Snarling softly, losing her self-control for the shortest instant due to her currently overwhelming Sword, keen beyond immortal imagination, Magdalene quickly gathers back her composure and comes to term with her grand duel having been sullied by her opponent's unexpected cowardice. She is nowhere in sight and she cannot feel her presence. Presumably she either escaped or she is waiting to ambush her a second time, but she wouldn't be caught unaware.


Walking off the side of the ziggurat's roof and into the depths of her own world, she easily shape reality to suit her whim and creates a fantasy where she can run down vertical surfaces until she reaches the bottom and into the teeming masses of her Nightmare Circus.


Once inside she hides cleverly, using the entire operation as cover and silently orders them with a tug of the innumerable strings that are hers and hers alone to crush everyone inside this ziggurat. Either she would rat out this woman if she were still around or she would completely destroy her base of operation, sending her on the run.


This would suffice for now until she could join back with her transport.


***


(00:22:31) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - She's joining back with her dolls to create a Magnitude 10 war unit. She'll also use her stealth if someone attempts to attack the commander of the unit.


(00:22:58) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - And no, I didn't roll that fantasy, unless someone is going to shape it away, it's unimportant


(00:24:00) Haku: ooc - erm... you do know that fantasy only works in wyld areas?


(00:24:09) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Her world counts as a wyld area


(00:24:14) Haku: ooc - xD


(00:24:18) Haku: forgot about that


(00:24:22) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - S'alright ^^


***


(00:29:09) Haku: Given that it was a nigh infinite horde being sent for such... it didn't take too long before the ziggurat was emptied of life.


***


(00:31:00) Danakir Odeiron: Once she got reports back that there was nothing left for them to slaughter inside, Magdalene accepted that her opponent had somehow escaped, likely defying her edict that none could escape her nightmare world. After all, in this boring reality that is Creation, even she could not extend her reach into infinity. Still however, she would make sure of it first, with her preternatural senses as a peerless exemplar of the predator, she turned her attention to her own world.


Now, now, now, which direction, little miss Sunshine...?


***


(00:31:31) Danakir Odeiron: Ooc - IoL Perception + Survival (Tracking)


(00:36:04) Haku: ooc - 2 die


(00:36:26) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - So she's stunting/using a charm that goes against this one?


(00:38:22) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 12d10 → [2,10,8,9,4,7,6,7,4,3,3,10] = 8 sux + 2 sux for IoL = 10 sux


(00:38:34) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Ah wait that should be 13d10


(00:38:45) Haku: ooc - perhaps only 2 suxx and not auto suxx


(00:39:04) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 1d10 → [1] yeah nvm


(00:39:08) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - lol yeah perhaps


(00:39:22) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Well there you have your roll


***


(00:42:48) Haku: The whisper of essence that had faded wasn't the pure golden essence of the sun and its deposed chosen. Some similarities were there, but... not sufficient to call it the side effect of a solar charm.


No, the taste of it seemed more... static, entrophic than the vibrant liveliness of solar essence. Almost as if someone had released the essence used to hold her in a material state.


***


(00:46:14) Danakir Odeiron: Could she have been fooled? Perhaps this was closer to an actual spirit instead? That was not what she expected at all. If it came there from Yu-Shan, through the gate, then what else...? She couldn't ignore the potential risk. However two could play at that game. She concentrated further, hoping to discern whether it still dwelt within her demesne and if so where exactly.


Failing that, she would have to accept her defeat, but otherwise she might yet be able to give it the what-for, oh yes...


***


(00:47:45) Haku: If she still lingered here, who could say where it was. But it was rather unlike a spirit to behave thus.... to allow its followers slaughtered without trying to stop it.


***


(00:52:01) Danakir Odeiron: Breathing a small sigh, she dismiss her world, letting it back deep within the core of her arcane being as one of the rulers of Chaos. Soon enough, the illusory yet oh-so-real countless legions of lethal dolls she brought to life with her whim ceased to be with another whim, their presence and thus existence no longer required by their mistress. And so now she stood alone, still clad in the vestment of the deepest immortal fear of man and god alike.


This magnificent yet threatening form of hers, she kept it, for not doing so would be unnecessary at the moment.


Glancing for a moment at the smoldering ruin where there once used to be a golden ziggurat, she took care of dashing in the direction of her 'partner', easily tracking her with the expertise of the greatest huntress in the Realm. Or so she'd fancy herself.


***


(00:52:07) Danakir Odeiron: she dismisses*


(00:58:04) Haku: ooc - what's your MDV?


(00:58:24) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Good question, need to recalculate it, gimme a sex


(00:58:26) Danakir Odeiron: sec*


(00:58:27) Danakir Odeiron: lol


(01:01:06) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Dodge MDV 10, parry MDV 9


***


(01:02:57) Haku: Following the trail of destruction soon results in the embodiment of nightmares finding the odd scene of Ciara Nami with a boot on the throat of a quite naked and whimpering human female. Judging by the pattern of the shimmering scales that run up the arms to her back, and back down her legs... this had to be the chimerae that had caused so much trouble earlier.


"Ah... you're done, I take it. Meet my new pet. Her name is fluffy."


***


(01:06:41) Danakir Odeiron: "She isn't very fluffy at all." oh do I smell another wacky scene?


Magdalene's comment is dry and perfunctory, Ciara likely recognized this form as the one she took on when she felt she needed to take her opponent seriously "The Gate is sealed but the one responsible for the threat to it escaped. This is my fault." she took responsibility for her minor failure, though none would blame her for it, after all she'd accomplished her actual mission with barely any hitch.


Even with this body's enhanced healing, her wounds would take a while to actually heal. This bothered her tremendously, not that she let in on that.


"Have you trained her yet?" she inquired calmly, meeting the beast's eyes, testing it with her mere presence. Would its hostility hold before such an unimaginable nightmare made gossamer flesh?


***


(01:09:10) Haku: ooc - are you trying something with the lunar?


(01:09:41) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Just a normal Charisma + Presence thing


(01:09:49) Haku: ooc - 1 die stunt


(01:10:23) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Using Elegant Muse Attitude for 1 mote


(01:14:01) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Charisma 6 + Presence 6 + Inflicting Fear 3 + Clothes 6 + Stunt 2 + Elegant Muse Attitude 2 = 25d10 → [6,1,10,2,9,6,2,1,10,5,6,9,10,1,5,5,2,4,2,10,1,7,7,1,6] = 12 successes + 1 success for Assumption = 13 successes


(01:14:33) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Maggie is just establishing who's alpha


***


(01:22:53) Haku: "Oh goodness me, no," Here Ciara laughed as the dollmistress' attention focussed on the lunar. "I've just caught him. But he does know his proper place now."


The paling of complexion, the whimpering, as the anathema soiled herself or is that himself or perhaps itself (the gender of lunars could get a bit... confusing) under the hostile and unbearable nightmare that was Magdalene indicated that she could feel fear and knew it.


***


(01:26:57) Danakir Odeiron: Magdalene fed from this fear, drinking deeply from it to sustain herself so as to refresh herself a bit. She chuckled softly and brushed a hand against Ciara's cheek, her hand still shifting and pulsating idly with some eerie darkness yet the fellow Raksha was lightly less than perturbed by it "That's rather careless of you. We have to hunt this silly woman I allowed out of my sight earlier." she lightly chastised her 'better half'.


She didn't care much for the fact that the proud chimera had soiled herself "We have work to do." she could still dimly sense the fugitive, she may not be able to precisely locate her from this distance, but she'd eventually find her one way or another.


Or at least try to.


***


(01:30:27) Haku: "Ah... I did get some information out of Fluffy. You must mean the ghost," Ciara's smirk could be seen as insolent or playful.


***


(01:32:55) Danakir Odeiron: "Impossible, no ghost can wield this kind of atrocious and blasphemous magic! To wound me deeply, beyond even flesh..." she points at the scar, it would take her almost an entire day to heal from it, far more than a lesser wound.


"You would have me believe that this was merely some... ghost? That is entirely unlikely..." she glares at the crestfallen chimera imperiously "Would you dare lie to us? Lie to me, you worthless animal?" her voice remains even and detached, but nevertheless she still somehow ends up sounding quite threatening.


***


(01:35:50) Haku: "Well.. it's not like it's impossible for ghosts to grow over time... is it?" An eyebrow rose at the glaring raksha. "Who knows how long she's been here..."


The chimerae whimpered and shook her or its head desperately.


***


(01:36:09) Danakir Odeiron: (Can ghosts even learn holy attacks? o__O)


(01:36:51) Haku: ooc yes... not innately CoD


(01:37:12) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - How? Sure they're not innately CoD but they only get to use arcanoi


(01:37:29) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Even Solar ghosts


(01:37:34) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - That's why Deathlords are a big deal


(01:37:42) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - The Neverborn allow them to use their shiny superpowers again


(01:39:09) Haku: ooc martial arts


(01:40:02) Haku: ooc you die, but keep all martial arts (except for SMA)


***


(01:40:37) Danakir Odeiron: "That is true, but I've never met anything quite like it..." she stares calmly at the terrified creature and lets out an irritated sigh "There's no use, she's not lying." Magdalene still glares at her companion, visibly rather peeved that she'd been made a fool of by a ghost of all things. Not only that, but how did she manage to even come into being here during the day? This made less and less sense, but she either way it would seem this incongruous creature was real.


It would prove pointless to pursue it regardless.


"Then it appears we have some leisurely time to pay a visit to the good Sultana of Harbordhead. Aren't you one for exotic locales and vacations mm?" she idly teases Ciara Nami's tendency toward idleness.

 

[Haku1]

(13:32:06) Haku: "Indeed, that is so," she shook her head, before looking at the lunar with a raised eyebrow. "Mouse."


Which apparently was a form that said lunar could assume... and did. Only to be placed into small cage. "So... to Harborhead. Want to go there fast or by something method?"


***


(13:34:45) Danakir Odeiron: "Predictably." she teases mildly, watching as the Lunar turns into a small mouse and is then unceremoniously put into a cage, fitting enough. She would likely not prove much of a problem at this point.


"We're in no hurry, so we might as well take the scenic route, yes? Did you have something in mind, I'm fairly certain you do. Knowing you, you wouldn't ask otherwise." she grins meaningfully, rather aware of her companion's exact role in her story. It held little to no mystery, but at least it led to a strange brand of trust between the two monsters.


***


(13:36:27) Haku: "I've heard say... and it's just rumours, really... that there might be an Unshaped lurking to abit to the south and east of where we are..." Here she shrugged.


***


(13:39:50) Danakir Odeiron: "Are you suggesting some questing to the side? And here I thought you didn't want to work with me ever again." she smirks slightly, leaning forward and lightly touching Ciara's chin "Awww, you liiiiiiiiiike, you big softie. And here I thought I creeped you the fuck out, what with me being completely arbitrary and violently homicidal. " self-parody isn't all that uncommon when the Raksha are between themselves, as it shows confidence to be able to deprecate one self... however it is good to remember that it is not quite as acceptable to agree openly with said satyre.


"Mmmm, I *am* hitching for a fight and to be honest, the last one was a pretty big disappointment." she lightly taps her own shoulder pensively, before grinning fiercely "Color me intrigued, got any details you feel like sharing with me, you dastardly vixen?" that was at once an insult and a compliment, on different levels.


***


(13:50:28) Haku: "Mind you, it's all hearsay, as I've been unable to find a wyld region large enough that it can sustain an Unshaped. At least not nearby..." she shook her head, not deigning to respond to her companion's teasing. She was above that, really. It wasn't like she liked some of the outcomes there...


***


(13:53:11) Danakir Odeiron: "So then what? Do you want to investigate? You're running pretty hot and cold on me here foxy." she always pictured Ciara Nami as a fox for some reason, most likely because she embodied many of the same flaws and virtues, at least from her perspective "We can either go play ball with an arrogant Sultana or we can do some sidequest. Decision, decision..." she playfully makes a show of her dilemna, even if she's already more or less decided that they'd pursue this rumor for now.


***


(13:55:56) Haku: "It's up to you if you want to play at questing, or do stuff... like play with the Sultana," Here Ciara shrugged. "You are on the clock after all."


***


(13:57:30) Danakir Odeiron: "So are you, last time I checked." she snapped back at Ciara, not particularly caring for the chold shoulder she was being given, before sighing softly and motioning in the general direction of Harborhead "Whatever, let's just get it over with, you witch." she snarks, her temperament flaring with remarkable ease against the fellow Raksha.


Ciara brought to a science the art of the agent provocateur.


***


(13:59:26) Haku: "Am I?" Here she smiled smiled at the angry Magdalane. "I'm just the one ferrying you about... you have but to suggest where you'd like to go..."


***


(14:03:29) Danakir Odeiron: "Didn't I just instruct you to bring me to Harborhead, woman?" she inquires dryly, the atmosphere somehow remaining light around them as this scene had played countless times before, it was almost irritating in how common and almost banal it now was.


"It shouldn't take me long to put the Sultana back in her place." she'd give that witch a reminder of her glory and why she is known as one of the Realm's true Immortals, who will last through even the End of Days. She gestures for her to either transform and provide her transport somehow "C'mon, we don't have all day. After all, I'm on the clock." she throws her words back in her face sarcastically.


***


(14:08:18) Haku: "As you wish," A shrug later, and the pair were standing upon the landing pad for the Realm's envoys and other air travellers to arrive on. In harborhead.


How annoying it must be to have someone who could use way shaping charms to such fearsome effects. As judging by the sun's position in the heavens... no time had passed during the shrug.


***


(14:13:41) Danakir Odeiron: "Goddamn freaking ninjas." Magdalene mutters as she gets back her bearings in a few moments, brushing a hand against her own face before standing straight up and looking at the sky to notice that no time had passed "Slippery eels..." she comments dryly, the exact meaning of that particularly turn of words perhaps being lost on her interlocutor.


"Let's get this show on the road." the Ringmaster of the Nightmare Circus approiaches imperiously toward the customs officers, the stench of fear stick thick around her, her mere presence enough to leave most mortal men either babbling incoherently or meekly standing there as they hope with every ounce of bravery inside their bodies for her to not pay any attention to them.


Without trying, she is a living nightmare, for that is what she made herself to be, that is her legacy and the story she tells every second of every day in this banal world that is Creation "I come to Harborhead as an official envoy of the Realm and I have come to meet with the Sultana. Let it be known that one of the great goddesses of the Realm has been sent as such." she commands with practiced ease and inhuman charisma, her every words having the weight of an holy decree straight from the mouth of an unquestionable God-Empress.


***


(14:14:02) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Goddamn Way grace lol!


(14:15:09) Haku: ooc - I know


***


(14:24:25) Haku: Ciara waved off her companion as Magdalene wandered off into the palace as she, herself, settled for a nice long luxurious wait with table, chairs, over-sized umbrellas.


After all, it wasn't like threatening a mere god-blooded should be a difficult issue. Not for one of the Ringmaster of the Nightmare Circus, right?


Still, the guards of the palace seemed to have some measure of bravery as they attempted to delay the embodiment of nightmares' progress with such silly things like asking her to wait and such.


***


(14:36:59) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Sorry for the slow, had to go AFK >_<


***


(14:41:26) Danakir Odeiron: "You would make me wait? You would dare?" she inquires firmly but tactfully, glaring at the one who seemed to hold the most authority as she stood there unmoving, as still as death itself, almost as if an eerie sort of beautiful yet disturbing doll. Their awkward silence and obvious hesitation left her with no choice but to remind them of her...


Rather strong reputation.


"I am Magdalene Farandole, you may know me as the Ringmaster of the Nightmare Circus. You will impede my task as appointed by the Senate of the almighty Realm at your own risk, mortal" her expression is cruelty incarnate, brimming with untold promises of torment as she hopes they'd heard of her military exploits. Only idiots would misunderstand the implications of the Realm sending one of their foremost generals as a diplomat. This wasn't a courtesy visit and if they were to treat it as such, then her patience would quickly run out.


***


(14:46:15) Haku: "Please... it it... is to inform s... some one more important of your arrival," The guard dryswallowed.


***


(14:51:28) Danakir Odeiron: She raise her hand with unnatural calm, the entire world seeming to coming to a stop and only jump with each of their heartbeats as she spoke, three fingers still standing upright "Three minutes." she declares forcefully.


"I will wait not one more second for you to find someone who the authority to bring me to the Sultana. Consider this courtesy from the Realm, but do not presume to mock our munificence." this is more than arrogance, this is the cold certainty that should she decide to make her way to the Sultana right now no one would have the courage to stop her or stand in her way.


From her perspective, she is doing them an immense favor, with commensurate wrath shoud her benevolence be scorned.


Unreasonable and irrational and absurd.


Elegant godly monsters that consume the world...


***


(14:51:30) Danakir Odeiron: to come to a*


(14:51:32) Danakir Odeiron: with the authority*


***


(14:55:45) Haku: The other guards ran... and time started to count down.


***


(14:58:06) Danakir Odeiron: Coalescing a tiny bit of wyld essence in her hand, Magdalene created a pocketwatch to time then as she waited idly, evoking a comfortable chair for her to sit down in while she did so. If she was going to have the kindness to wait for them, then she'd do so comfortably. It felt somewhat irritating that there were no servants rushing to do so for her, but she had to remind herself to at least PRETEND to be reasonable.


After all, it just might pay off in the end.


When and should the timer almost run out, she would stand up as the leather chair disappears and close the watch with an audible snap.


***


(15:10:17) Danakir Odeiron: (Y'still there?)


(15:10:36) Haku: ooc - yesh ^^;


(15:10:46) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Was just wondering x3


***


(15:13:58) Haku: At almost the mark of the time allotted to the mortal guards, the ones who had ran returned with the captain of the guard. A rather strapping young man, judging by the physical attributes on display. It's rather obvious that he was of the same tribe as the sultana, and adhered to the traditions of his people of not bothering with clothes. Jewelry, yes. Armor, yes... but not clothes to cover up his toned and bronzed body.


***


(15:18:24) Danakir Odeiron: Now standing up, Magdalene bothered with some simulacra of a smile, the clock disappearing in her clothes as she hold her hand forward, likely expecting him to kiss it "I am Magdalene Farandole, dread Goddess of the Realm and envoy of the Senate, I have come to meet with the Sultana at the request of the Chancellor." she explains succintly, expecting him to fold on the matter as a castle of card.


"As you may gather from them sending someone such as I, it is a matter of some import to say the least." she subtly let it knows that delays would be unappreciated to say the least.


***


(15:21:11) Haku: "Of course, if you'll come with me this way," he nodded in response and gestured the way he had entered the waiting room.


***


(15:25:40) Danakir Odeiron: She quirks an eyebrow as he fails to press his lips to her hand, taking note of his rudeness. Should she feel the need to obliterate Harborhead's current leadership, she would make sure to devour this particular mortal's soul as punishment for his inconsiderate behavior. With that decision made in complete silence, she follows behind him toward what she expected to be the throne room, though she very well might be mistaken.


Regardless, the small doll that always follow in her footsteps likely scares away most mortals due to it feeling distinctly... unnatural.


Considering this particular doll was a minor behemoth made of a particularly obnoxious mortal, they had good reason to fear. For in oneiromancy, even the souls of men could not be protected from the ravages of the Liar-Kings.


(15:25:50) Danakir Odeiron: (Are you still having fun?)


***


(15:32:20) Haku: ooc - just trying to think of any reaction other than OMG DEATH!!! run away!


(15:32:45) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Ah I shee, sorry about that? ; *not sure if that's my bad*


(15:35:07) Haku: ooc - perception + awareness, please?


(15:36:10) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 8d10 → [3,1,1,9,6,4,3,4] = 1 sux


(15:36:14) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Lawl shitty roll is shitty


***


(15:39:07) Haku: The captain of the palace guards might not have been polite in not bowing to her majesty, but he certainly did take her as fast as he could to the throne room. At least by the reckoning of Magdalene.


***


(15:41:04) Danakir Odeiron: Once they stood before relatively grand doors, Magdalene asked bluntly "Is this the throne room?" and once she got confirmation of that, she let her doll open the door for her as she made her entrance inside.


***


(15:45:09) Haku: The sultana, descendent of the elemental-blooded warlord who threw down the god-blooded scion of the cattle god and conquered all of Harborhead, sat proud and tall upon her throne gazing calmly at the envoy of the Realm. Clearly, someone had forewarned her.


To the sides of the throne stood her dragonblooded vizier, and her champion protector.


***


(15:46:06) Haku: Given the distinct lack of anyone else in the throne room, it's clear that it had been emptied out for the meeting. Perhaps, that or the courtiers were likely spying on the meeting from various safe locales.


***


(15:53:51) Danakir Odeiron: "Your Highness." Magdalene didn't bow or kneel to the ruler, but her usage of the title at least implied a willingness to recognize a moderate amount of independence in the Satrapi "I hope this meeting finds you in good health." she gazes up at the Sultana, her throne high above her and almost towering, however she is not intimidated in the least, her presence is such that despite her diminutive stature it is almost as if it is she who is looming over them all.


"I am afraid that this is no courtesy visit and that the news I bring is rather problematic." she starts calmly, motioning toward the Palace "There are rumors going on in the Realm, of defiance and disobedience and perhaps even brewing revolt. This leaves the Senate looking askance at beautiful Harborhead." she smiles warmly, however on her face it looks all wrong, as if she could only bring despair and strife with her every breath "Embezzled taxes, delayed tributes, ignored edicts and..." she grins slightly "Well, I'll say that a few imperial dragon-blooded of ours have recently disappeared in the countryside." she leaves it at that.


"Now, of course, I haven't come here only to throw accusations without substance at Your Highness feet, or else we would not be here right now. I do expect to have something to bring back to the Lords of the Realm however and that something would be your words." she leaves the conversation rather pleasant for now, she would push further once the Sultana mocked her intelligence with some weak attempt at hiding the truth.


This defiant woman reeking of independence and yet at the same time with such a glowing will, she would never willingly submit to a foreign power.


This was little more than a game.... a thin pretense of civility and moderation.


***


(16:00:12) Haku: "Your words are polite but we preceive that you demand that we kneel down to you and yours in supplication. You go too far, goddess of the Realm," The cool and collected gaze directed at Magdalene indicated a mind and soul strong, a firm will. "Harborhead might be a nation that is lesser than the Realm, we will admit that. But we are not a tributary or colony of the Realm."


***


(16:05:47) Danakir Odeiron: "Kneel? That is perhaps too strong a word you choose, Your Highness. You must not misunderstand, my presence here expresses very clearly the displeasure of the Senate. I am the Herald of the Time of Judgement, so to speak." her dramatic choice of word is entirely intentional, even as she bring a hand to her chin, starring intently at the young leader as she speaks.


"Ah, yes, I see there's a rather peculiar misunderstanding here." she takes a few steps further until she reaches the bottom of the steps leading to the Sultana's throne, her presence now feeling so heavy around her that it is almost physical pressure, crushing at the chest of leser beings "You presume that your independence is anything the result of anything else than the Senate's magnaminous mercy." her blood red eyes rest on her as her lips curl into a vicious smirk.


"That is rather presomptuous of you, Your Highness. After all, we do not request much. We only ask for proper deference and respect, in exchange we leave you and your people to care for your daily lives as you see fit." she lightly picks up her doll, stroking the head of the poor emotionless abomination that used to be a mortal man, in the distant past.


***


(16:06:10) Danakir Odeiron: anything but the*


(16:06:26) Danakir Odeiron: er


(16:06:30) Danakir Odeiron: is the result of anything*


(16:06:33) Danakir Odeiron: (There, betterlol)


(16:07:22) Haku: ooc num


(16:14:50) Haku: ooc - are you attempting to shape stuff?


(16:15:25) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Nah, she's just being a scary motherfucker and pointing out some Hard Truths.


***


(16:19:38) Haku: An eye brow rose now. "That may be so, however, you might find that the Realm is very far from where you are."


***


(16:27:08) Danakir Odeiron: "Wherever I go, so does my circus, Your Highness. I am after all the Ringmaster of the Nightmare Circus. Rather, I invite you to declare open rebellion in front of me, as I would then be fully capable of taking appropriate actions which would vastly simplify my work." she points out helpfully, smiling wryly even as she clearly intends to intimidate the Sultana.


"Failing that, I recommend you to remember that we, that is living Gods, do not operate under the same limitations as mortals. That we do not consider distance to be an impeding factor to the ascertion of our authority. And lastly that I am Magdalene Farandole. Or think you capable of withstanding the might of the Realm?" she points toward the Sultana with impeccable mannerism, invoking both awe and fear with her incredible and preternatural presence.


"The current state of affairs will no longer be acceptable. That is final. It is your decision whether you will let pride blind you to that fact." she fold her hands behind her back.


***


(16:27:24) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Charisma + Presence social attack


(16:28:13) Haku: ooc - 2 die, also this would be a new scene so any scene longs wouldn't be operating now


(16:28:36) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - *nods* I figured as much, I'll use that opportunity to reactivate Wyld Communion then.


(16:32:13) Danakir Odeiron: 23d10 → [1,1,9,3,10,3,9,10,4,5,7,6,1,1,6,5,9,5,2,6,1,1,9] = 9 successes + 1 success from Assumption = 10 successes


(16:32:31) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Keep in mind that her Fearsome Mien is always active unless she deactivates it for some reason


(16:34:36) Haku: ooc - it is shaping or?


(16:34:49) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Like I said, it's just a normal social attack.


(16:34:59) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - OH! You mean the Fearsome Mien? Let me check


(16:35:50) Danakir Odeiron: Ooc - Yeah it's the got the Keyword Shaping


(16:36:28) Haku: ooc - it's oddly not affecting the sultana or those by her


(16:36:41) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - You sure?


(16:38:12) Haku: ooc - indeed...step closer to the sultana if you wanna find out more


(16:38:22) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - S'alright, just making sure


***


(16:44:05) Haku: "Hmmm mmmh, indeed, I suppose you don't work like us mortals... but then... few things do," An imperious look was directed at Magdalene. Even as the vizier and guardian sweated under the pressure of the Ringmaster's presence, the sultana seemed... unaffected, and far too calm for the subject material offered by the blond girl.


***


(16:50:51) Danakir Odeiron: Someone who didn't feel any fear in her presence? How genuinely boring... in more ways than one. Still she didn't letit faze her more than absolutely necessary "I will still require that you take this seriously, Your Highness. Otherwise I will be forced to conclude that you are not speaking to me, as a representative of the Senate, in good faith." she points out firmly, glaring at the overtly indifferent ruler.


"If I cannot obtain your cooperation so that you may respond to the Realm's concerns, then I will simply have no choice but to conclude that this conversation is over." she stands there with the tension thick enough to be cut with a butter knife "I do abhor wasting time, after all."


***


(17:02:49) Haku: "Perhaps in the Realm, it is acceptable to declare that you are talking in good faith, even if you're not. I am more honest than that," With that the sultana stood up and slowly strolled towards Magdalene, a certain grace in how she walked and the manner that her slender sheathed sword on the delicate chain-belt around her waist swished back and forth giving a vague sense of dread and worry to those who knew that such grace seldom came to mortals.


"No, you insinuate that the Realm is displeased. But then, so am I. Did not the Realm sent those ill-bred curs who style themselves the princes of the earth? Did they not assault my nation? Slay my father, the sultan of that day? And even now, does not your chancellor prepare for war?"


***


(17:12:31) Danakir Odeiron: "Straightforward." Magdalene comments dryly, watching intently as she approached with grace slightly above that of a mere mortal, but by her standards it was nothing to worth making a fuss about. She stood before so much more, beyond the pale and comprehension of these insects and here she is, still alive and comfortable in her immortality. But they? They would foolishly oppose her, they would certainly pay the wages of their folly and ignorance.


"I'll give you that it is their arrogance that wrought them defeat, they striked above their station." she smiles warmly, however the effect is still nevertheless chilling especially up so close where they could almost touch, her apparent immunity to shaping effects granted her a measure of protection but it did nothing to stop Magdalene's own nature fearsome and nightmarish disposition to shine through.


"War can still be avoided, IF you will prove yourself more reasonable than your honored Father was. Your. Highness." she meets her gaze with her own,the almost nuclear winter between the women only growing now.


"You are the Sultana of Harborhead, do not let your emotions guide your decisions, for your own arrogance could very well spell the ruin of all those who follow in your wake." she chastises calmly, noting to herself that she could cut down the Sultana right there on the spot were she so inclined.


***


(17:23:26) Haku: "More reasonable? He welcomed you and yours into his home with open arms, only for the very guests of honor to murder him in the dark of night," A disdainful look now was directed at Magdalene as Dejah Thoris circled the goddess of the Realm. "Tell me, is it arrogance to learn from that delightful lesson that the Realm could not be trusted? That there are... more trustworthy allies?"


***


(1731) Danakir Odeiron: "You are dangerously close to heresy, young lady." Magdalene gave up on the facade of diplomacy and the accompanying mannerism, instead letting her gloomy disposition take over. With that, suddenly a quiet feeling of dread and breathless anticipation took over the entire room's atmosphere, filling it to the brim with the unusual aroma of fear that sticked to her without fail.


"Since you're so frank, I'll level with you. Those blustering idiots acted on their own and their behavior is arguably both shameful and pointless. They hoped to earn glory for their 'House' and in doing so they brought it ruin and misery. Their death is not mourned in the Realm." she doesn't follow Dejah with her gaze, letting her walk around her while she stands motionless, as statuesque as a bronze figurine while her doll playfully follows Dejah Thoris around and 'imitates' her for the sake of some grotesque parody.


"We do not request reverence and respect, we demand it. We are the mightiest nation in the entire world and our strength is incomparable. What happened to your father is unfortunate and it could likely have been avoided, however if you get it in your head that you can do as you please, then I am afraid you are incredibly wrong." she sigh heavily, as if the weight of the ages lurch on her shoulders, even as she glances up toward the ceiling.


"Those who are responsible for this are now dead and those who would have stood to profit from it are lost now, their last chance at glory escaping their grasp. It won't be long before the very House is history and no one will miss it. Not the one." she turns around to face Dejah Thoris "Woman of Thoris, revenge is already yours whether you want to admit it or not. What you are doing now? It is nothing but the equivalent of a petulant and childish temper tantrum, one which does not escape me." she holds her hand forward "Talk to me, honestly this time, or eventually face me in the field of honor, for I am Magdalene Farandole, living legend of the Realm and greatest general in Creation!" for the time being, the intense drama and potency of the situation keeps her from completely abandoning ideas of peace.


***


(1758) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Charisma + Presence social attack


(17:37:41) Haku: ooc 3 die


(17:39:48) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Activating Shiftless Untamed Beauty then


(17:40:23) Haku: ooc - mmmh?


(17:40:56) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - It'll let me addict people reflexively once I've spent some time talking to them, I'm just activating it right now. It lasts for a day


(17:41:40) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 22d10 → [9,6,8,2,9,4,9,7,1,6,8,10,7,4,10,3,2,10,5,8,10,6] = 16 successes


(17:41:46) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Booyah


(17:42:36) Haku: ooc - is it shaping? ;


(17:42:41) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Nope.


(17:42:51) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - No shaping keyword


(17:43:08) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - It's just outright me being really REALLY addictive


(17:43:16) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Instead of forcing someone to be addicted to me


(17:43:19) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - See the difference?


(17:43:34) Haku: ooc - what's the key words on i?


(17:43:51) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Combo-OK, Glamour, Mutation, Shaped-only


***


(17:53:28) Haku: "I am not unreasonable," She paused behind Magdalene before continuing on to stand before the Ringmaster of the Nightmare Circus. "But the anger within me isn't so easily soothed by words. Pretty words, but words. If it is as you say that the house of curs, who were responsible for that incident, will not be missed. Then would it not remiss of me to state that I would like certain reparations for the injury done to my nation. I desire those who would have profited from this. Not the elders of that house, but the future of that house. Those who have yet to take their second breath and those who have but just taken it."


***


(17:57:36) Danakir Odeiron: "I cannot make any promise, but it is certainly a request that I can bring for consideration before the Senate." she shrugs slightly, visibly unmoved by the emotional side of this debate "However you have to understand that there is only so much that can be done. You may have to settle with the death of the perpetrators and the fall from grace of their former House." she explains firmly, starring into her eyes calmly.


"Still, I've made my point. This unfortunate incident has little to do with the Senate's concerns. I've spoken them, now it is your turn to tell me what shall be done about this." she insists.


***


(18:03:04) Haku: "Very well, that is acceptable for now," the slight narrowing of her eyes indicated that she didn't feel it was acceptable, but she would do so. For now."As for what shall be done? Whatever do you mean?"


***


(18:04:27) Danakir Odeiron: "Do you believe that you can completely ignore the concerns of heresy, blasphemy and blatant disrespect which not haunt Harborhead, young lady?" she inquires bluntly, her patience growing a bit thin at her apparent arrogance and somewhat surprising naivety.


(18:06:02) Danakir Odeiron: now*


***


(18:13:14) Haku: "How so? Are not the priests and priestesses of the Faith of the Ten Thousand Lords permitted to enter Harborhead? Do they not have numerous temples and shrines? Do we not aid you and yours in hunting down anathema, demons and rogue spirits?" The look of puzzlement on Dejah Thoris' face seems sincere. "Of course, as I have said, we are allied with the Court of the Orderly Flames and the gods who control it? The Rain Princes."


(18:26:12) Haku: ooc - num


(19:04:53) Danakir Odeiron: Gack! Sorry about that x__X


(19:04:59) Danakir Odeiron: I had to get afk suddenly D:


(19:05:36) Danakir Odeiron: And yush, I'm not too sure what to say. My memory might be bad, but I seem to remember I had a pretty good reason to think the Sultana was full of shit, or was that just me? x_X


(19:06:09) Haku: ooc - is up to you


(19:06:29) Haku: ooc - you could roll perception + socialize


(19:06:42) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I think I'll take you up on that since I'm at a loss


(19:07:32) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I'll use one style dice on it


(19:08:19) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 11d10 → [4,8,6,10,4,8,6,10,3,6,5] = 6 successes


(19:09:25) Haku: ooc - she seems to be telling the truth as far as she knows. she might be leaving out details and such... but the core facts are as she stated... of course, allowing entry, "helping" wyld hunts doesn't really mean much


***


(19:22:34) Danakir Odeiron: "Ah yes, the Court of the Orderly Flames. Are they doing well, yes?" she inquires almost playfully, before going back to her serious disposition "Well fair enough, I'll take that as an answer then and it will be what I bring back to the Lords of the Senate along with your request. You may have to send an ambassador to present your case eventually, however I cannot tell how long it will take for this to process." she holds the hand of her puppet.


"Now that that's done with..." she brushes a hand through her hair and presses the palm of her hand down against the Sultana's shoulder "How is the weather around this time of the year in Harborhead?" she asks bluntly, changing the subject without any warning. Even so, somehow she appears more charming and inviting than before, still dangerous and predatory but in a way that is closer to that of a lion than some sort of grotesque monster, your fear only enhancing your thrill that you can get so close to such majesty.


It is rather exhilirating.


***


(19:22:39) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Naughty!


(19:22:53) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Also, using the reflexive power of Shiftless Untamed Beauty


(19:28:41) Haku: ooc - hmm, by the by, I will require you to make a perception + occult or lore or awareness roll


(19:29:03) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Sure, do I get any stunt to my attempt at addiction?


(19:29:21) Haku: 2 die stunt to addiction


(19:30:04) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I think I managed to stunt my (Inflicting Fear) specialty in, wrong?


(19:30:25) Haku: ooc - no


(19:30:29) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Sadness


(19:30:33) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Or happines?


(19:30:36) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I AM CONFUSED


(19:30:47) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Needs clarification lawl


(19:31:53) Haku: ooc - no specialty


(1900) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Addiction 21d10 → [9,2,2,7,7,4,5,2,9,9,6,4,8,10,6,10,4,10,7,6,1] = 13 successes


(1947) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Perception + Lore/Awareness (They're both equal so meh?) 8d10 → [10,4,2,3,1,10,8,8] = 6 sux


(1950) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Greatroll is great


(19:38:38) Haku: ooc ^___^


***


(19:40:00) Haku: The null presence of shaping effects being utterly negated, prevented from even coming into being radiated from the skin of the Sultana that Magdalene was touching. "The weather is fine... absolutely perfect."


***


(19:43:47) Danakir Odeiron: At this point, it would have been hard for Magdalene not to feel this... well it's almost some sort of field, likely an item of great power on the Sultana's person. Considering just how little she wears, this makes Magdalene's guesswork a lot easier as she discreetly observes the chains and more particularly the sword, trying to see if she can accurately assess the source of this field.


After all, it might come in handy at a later date "Really? Would you perhaps care for a spot of food on the beach with one of the Goddesses of the Realm then?" she inquires calmly, figuring she might as well stick around for a bit longer and see if she could find out anything.


Furthermore, with Ciara Nami around there would likely have to take a spot of vacation regardless and she wasn't especially looking forward to going back to her annoying companion.


***


(19:44:04) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Intelligence + Lore?


(19:44:33) Haku: ooc - 2 die...


(19:45:22) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Note to self: Buy Heavenly Rain of Wisdom


(19:45:24) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - lol


(19:46:05) Haku: ooc - there's no penalty, you know for lore rolls?


(19:46:12) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Yeah


(19:46:17) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - I wanna buy it for the bonus


(19:46:25) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - Since it'd help with my Lore/Occult problem


(19:46:42) Danakir Odeiron: ooc - 11d10 → [9,7,5,8,5,9,3,3,7,1,9] = 6 sux


***


(19:48:35) Haku: There's a smile and a nod. "Perhaps."


More worrying was the fact that none of the accoutrements of the godblooded sultana seemed to possess the power to simply negate shaping effects. Not on this basic level. Not even the dragonblooded charms were this effect in saying 'no'. And it had to be a charm, once everything was taken into consideration.


***


(19:53:15) Danakir Odeiron: "I'll provide the food, after all what Lady of the Realm does not bring her retinue along with her everywhere she goes." she points out quietly, since the shaping that was part of her mystique had no effect, she was still creepy but not quite as terrifying as usual, instead merely appearing to be disturbing and eerie.


She however does worry about this sudden revelation, wondering just what she might have gotten into after all, for one there was NO way that this... woman was anything other than some sort of elemental-blooded, that much was clear. Otherwise she would have likely already made an attempt on her life, as most youthful misguided Anathema were wont to do.


No, this couldn't be... so then perhaps her entourage?


She would need to find out in due time. Perhaps ask that witch to investigate? Or at least report about it. She'd decide eventually, however for now an absolutely lovely and adorable if just slightly uncanny doll curtsy in front of the Sultana "See? Even she would appreciate Harborhead's finest as company for this short vacation."


***


(19:58:05) Haku: "But of course, if you insist," The sultana nodded at the shorter raksha. A collected look on her face.


***


(20:00:24) Danakir Odeiron: "Do you know any good beach?" she inquires with the closest thing she could get to a friendly expression, standing demurely in front of Dejah with her crimson garbs elegantly resting against her smaller frame, even as she lightly picked up her doll to hug it to her chest.


It's rather easy for anyone to pick up on her puppet obsession.


***


(20:04:41) Haku: "Know? I own them all..." An eyebrow rose at the 'demure' goddess. Dejah Thoris wasn't THAT easily fooled.


***


(20:06:09) Danakir Odeiron: Magdalene didn't let that discourage her, she wasn't in the business of scaring anyone for a very short moment in her extremely long existence, arguably this is as normal as she could get on the best of days "Well that does help an awful lot. Would you like me to provide the meal or will you insist in being this one's host?"


***


(20:12:55) Haku: "I believe it wouldn't be hospitable of me to not be the host."