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RE: [Quest] Ascension - Mercy - May 15 2020
Shaking and losing his lunch, though? That was out of character for anyone. Mercurius was hardly as experience a healer as - say, Oliver - but he could provide a minor flush of magicka: bacteria urged towards the poor hybrid and his unsettled gut (even as he had suspicions that it wasn't a symptom of physical illness.) Hopefully, the brief, refreshing cool of it would be grounding.
Dip moved closer, fingers moving deftly through his feathers, perhaps not thinking the right thing - but her sympathy was there.
Pride looked completely out of his depth, plodding forwards with a wish to help but unsure of how to. Mercy hummed softly, considering - and murmured to him softly, "could you find something cool to the touch, Pride? A gemstone, perhaps? Small enough to grab, not too smooth."
Meanwhile, he slunk forwards, pressing closer to Aure and huffing until bright, unsteady eyes stared hard at him. "Good, look at me. Do you feel the ground under your - claws?"
Eyes dilating. A mute shake of the head. No.
"Look at it, move your claws a little. Feel it."
Pause. Head turning down slowly. The shuffling of claws.
"There - there's someone... petting you, too."
Gaze twisting back, wide-eyed at Dip.
"Look at me again, okay?" (Aure did.) "Can you tell or show us what happened, or do you need time?"
RE: [Quest] Ascension - Auré - May 15 2020
Aure wasn't sure why, but having his feathers smoothed down was reassuring. The rhythm of it was easy to focus on. He might've even leaned into it a little.
"Can you tell or show us what happened, or do you need time?"
His beak pulled into a hard line, brows furrowing in that moment of consideration and -
Y-yeah he could... show them.
A wing stretched out weakly, gesturing for Mercy and Pride to come closer, and maybe for Dip to lean over further to see - he didn't want to broadcast the imagery for... everyone here to see. There were children. Magicka flowed feebly, and he closed his eyes as if he could escape from reliving that brief nightmare by ducking behind the curtains.
The scenery played out like a lagging, patchy - soundless - slideshow, bright at first and grim by the end.
As soon as it ended, he let out a ragged sigh:
@Dip
RE: [Quest] Ascension - Pride - May 16 2020
Something cool..? Pride glanced around, a little quizzically. He could conjure up a mist, perhaps, and pull the stone through it..? He concentrated on that, first. Water vapor coalesced, and he pushed a chosen stone--smooth and mostly black--into the center of it, and waited. It cooled for a moment as the water evaporated, and he picked it up carefully in his teeth while it was still wet.
The stag carried the stone over, setting it down between Mercy and Aure, not quite sure what he was meant to do with it; and he didn't want to interrupt. By the time he arrived, the light-clothed imagery was beginning.
That it came soundless--that was merciful. Had the agonized screaming come through, Pride might have lost his own lunch, or even bolted. As it was, it was horrific enough, and he swore softly--unusually, and only reinforcing how terrible it was--and turned away. Only after a moment staring off at nothing did he gather himself, and he pushed his terrible thoughts (Did the Masters do this-? Why did they create these rings, this... thing? What if that fate awaits us--what if this is part of this... puzzle, of sorts? But there was something more important, now, and the stag, grimacing, turned back to Aure.
"I'm sorry. That is-... that is terrible," was all he said, softly. Sympathy, empathy--but he'd leave the rest to Mercurius, who was far better at these things than he.
@Mercurius
RE: [Quest] Ascension - Soumak - May 18 2020
There was a loud noise, painful. She skittered back, hunching low to the ground, before something ground again, then retching, vomiting, voices. What was happening? She wondered, and approached slowly, lights flashing before her, but they were too large for her to make sense out of them.
A wilting rose unfolded, and she rose upon it.
RE: [Quest] Ascension - Mercy - May 21 2020
Though, Aure seemed well enough to offer the grim visual that the ring'd offered him. It was a patchwork series of memories, fleeting but certainly enough. The stag swore at his side, while Mercy was simply - harrowed by it. Ripped apart, reduced to - that... he frowned, horrid things formed these caves, these rings. What lies past this?
He'd meant to direct another pulse of cleansing magicka to the bird, but it was caught in that faint thrum of disgust, and it was twisted into a unfamiliar spell and aimed at the equally as alive-seeming ring. It stopped short as Mercy's breath caught in his chest, and he turned back to the young King.
Instead, he offered Aure his gentlest words, "it's not your fault. That... is a wretched thing to have witnessed - and it should not have happened, but... ah... perhaps you carry them with you, now - or perhaps you have freed them from such a painful existence."
RE: [Quest] Ascension - Auré - May 21 2020
The young King reached into his stone, and a phosphorescent glow winked into existence before his eyes. Wonderful, safe, secure.
Mercurius's words were, at least, reassuring in some part. It helped Aure settle that rattling breath of his, bringing himself closer to that steadfast King persona.
He swallowed.
@Pride
RE: [Quest] Ascension - Pride - May 21 2020
Pride listened to the two, and turned back to the rings, grimly thoughtful. Mercurius was better than he, regardless, at comforting and the like. Pride, though; his mind had turned back to the puzzle, or the test, or the lock or the door or whatever the damn thing was. How had this happened-? Who had done it, and why; what atrocity was worth this sort of thing?
@Aure
RE: [Quest] Ascension - Mercy - May 21 2020
Mercurius smiled gently at the wisp as it manifested, then at the hybrid that conjured it. "You're welcome," he rumbled, voice ever-so-soft and reassuring.
Back to the rings - "I do hope that it is anticlimatic." Wry humor, completely borrowed from his cervine companion. Mercy watched out the corner of his eye, appraising the young King's state as conversation moved back to the rings, and hummed, "This one seems - alive, as well." Perhaps not pulsing with a heartbeat or certainly bone, but alive. Crawling with that sour sort of infected scent.
"But, are we to cleanse it, move it, consume it like the last... to -" the lion hesitated. What was it that I felt before? Moonset eyes traced the ring's figure. A particularly powerful thrum of magic - one that he would reserve only for healing in the future, coursed through him, and he more purposefully aimed it at the ring. It ebbed out, and he hummed softly in wait for... whatever effect was there.
RE: [Quest] Ascension - Game Master Dark - May 22 2020
RE: [Quest] Ascension - Pride - May 22 2020
Pride examined this ring closely. He wasn't sensitive to prokaryotic magic, not in the way that Mercurius likely was, and so to him the ring just seemed to thicken, to slick with slime, and then to move. Puzzled, he glanced at his white lion friend.
He looked at the next ring, and exhaled in thought. So they were doing them in order-... and this one was just--rock? Stone? Was it broken, perhaps; was it missing an element? Or were they meant to move it, somehow-... or.
Actually.
And then he focused, concentrating on the rock and its ring. He was a skilled magicka user--of that there could be no doubt--but changing the epicenter of an shattering blow to the earth to the wall should be near impossible. Hopefully the ring itself--if he were right in his guess--would aid them in this.