Fhan 2010/04/08(Thu)03:45 No. 161203 ID: e2020c
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>>160367
>>160368

I quickly walk through the dark temple to its courtyard.

There's one! Damn! What is he doing?

Fhan 2010/04/08(Thu)04:22 No. 161211 ID: e2020c
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[cutscene]

Fhan 2010/04/11(Sun)13:27 No. 162810 ID: e2020c
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I become stoned to my ground and my thoughts escape from my mind... I stare at the folded mand without blinking my eyes so long that color escapes from my sight. A feeling emerges inside of me, but it's hard to say what it tries to evoke in me.

>>162810
It is a feeling of... eternity.

Try to move? You don't really want to stand here forever. Try to speak. Say hello.

uh oh, looks like some kind of powerful ascetic of some sort. Can you envision yourself anywhere else?

Fhan 2010/04/12(Mon)00:59 No. 163254 ID: e2020c
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>>162848

I greet the man.

>>162916

I realise he is some sort of a powerful ascetic. I try to envision myself somewhere else.

My vision distorts.

Fhan 2010/04/12(Mon)08:22 No. 163293 ID: e2020c
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>"Fhan! You have transcended into the spirit world! Can you see the dark wyrms in the vision? They must be in the vicinity. Can you see something about the man in the garden? Even from up here I can see that the man has a dark sphere around him. Something's off about him. Maybe it is caused by the wyrm that feeds on human blood. I see weak humans and strong humans here. Most of the weak ones have been slaughtered by the strong ones." I hear Sarixu explaining.

>>163293
The wyrms are eating the blood... and creating power from it, which they give to the man? The man is responsible for creating the blood, somehow...

Is Saraxu there in the courtyard with you? What the fuck is going on?

Fhan 2010/04/13(Tue)00:15 No. 163629 ID: e2020c
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>>163293

"Sarixu, what the fuck is going on?"

>"Fuck? No? It might be confusing, but you've breathed in wyrm incense, which is the stench from the mystic waste the wyrm creates inside it after consuming souls and their blood. The garden might be fertilized with the waste under the tiling."

"Are you seeing this?"

>"I see this all the time. I was a little wary of the wyrms so I flew on top of the temple. The wyrms are now somewhere in the ruins or in the jungles nearby."

>>163391

>"The man in the garden has killed the weak people to fulfill his contract with the wyrm that is bloodthirsty. This gains the man power and makes him seem stronger. His wyrm fertilizes the garden with its waste. This is an old contract that has become heriditary long ago. The process has it's own soul and is worshipped by some humans here. The other wyrm is the spouse of the bloodthirsty one and soon will be carrying offspring."

>>163629
"Then... should I kill him, you think?"

One of Fhan's weapons is glowing in astral sight. Check it out a little closer.

Fhan 2010/04/14(Wed)02:27 No. 164129 ID: e2020c
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>>163723

I examine my chamberine in the astral light. It looks interesting.

"Sarixu, do you mean I should kill him?"

>"Fhan, tell me about that cult of yours again. This person has a reason it comes here, maybe it's power, but suspect he is in the Dragon cult."

"Are you in the Dragon cult?" I inquire.

The man speaks for the first time. "Drakimo kulto? Yam."

Fhan has now an opportunity to turncoat and kill this man.

>>164129
No. Cutting ties now would get her killed.

>>164165
Hrm? How so?

I think we could kill him with the gun. It has an astral power. Question is... will the drakes immediately know and come to attack us?

>>164170
They can see us, and what would be worse is if they report her betrayal back to the cult.

If she's going to leave, then the best way to do it would be vanishing. Fly away, never to be seen again.

Fhan 2010/04/14(Wed)07:23 No. 164220 ID: e2020c
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>"Dula?" the ascetic asks.

"Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying."

I should go...

No wait. It seems like Sarixu is talking to the man on his language. I follow the conversation of Sarixu and the ascetic.

>"He knows what the Dragon cult is, and has taught some of its disciples the art of remote viewing. He was instructed to train them by the tribal elders, who also serve the dragons. He asks if you have been sent to recieve this gift?"

>>164220
That could come in handy. So long as it doesn't involve getting involved with the dark drakes.

Fhan 2010/04/16(Fri)00:45 No. 165101 ID: e2020c
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"So long you teach me yourself. I also don't want anything messed."

[Fhan begins to train remote viewing with the ascetic, some time will pass]

>>165101
Okay.

Fhan 2010/04/16(Fri)12:59 No. 165239 ID: e2020c
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Fhan spends three weeks under the guidance of Aranachi, the shaman of Ek Chuah. She discovers that there are two other shamans in the ruins and that they're holding four sacrifical hostages underneath the temple. The shamans are about to appease Ek Chuah.

[Fhan has gained a new level - Seer]

Vitality: 24
Self Image: 32
(Average: 10)

You can:
Inquire about Fhan's abilities | Instead, turn into a shaman of Ek Chuah, the dark wyrm | Instead, try to become an Equilizer | Accept the Seer level and leave

>>165239
Leave. Fhan is mated for life to a dragon, and should stay with her.
Said dragon has an egg to tend to.

Fhan 2010/04/16(Fri)13:43 No. 165260 ID: e2020c
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Telepathize with Sarixu | Go fly | Leave Sarixu | Remote view

>>165260
What's telephathizing about?

What's an Equalizer? Would that have involved killing the cultists?

>>165260
Telepathizing sounds like a good idea. Do that.

Why would you even consider leaving Sarixu? Being her mate is the greatest thing that ever happened to you.

Fhan 2010/04/17(Sat)02:04 No. 165581 ID: e2020c
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>>165289

"Sarixu, I could have saved the prisoners and killed the shamans."

>"You would have risked yourself. They were strong and I saw them carry sharp knives."

"Right... That was what was on my mind too. And I'm not an assassin. Sometimes I think about how we telepathize. And I think what if you're able to read my unintended thoughts? Can you?"

>"Some I can, some I can't, because I don't always understand what your thoughts mean."

"I learned telepathy in the Dragon cult. My teacher was a small spectral or prismatic dragon and he made me think in a whole new way. Maybe it is difficult to understand my thoughts, because they are influenced by a dragon of chaos."

>>165581
Ask her if she could teach you to be more ordered.

Fhan 2010/04/18(Sun)04:38 No. 166076 ID: e2020c
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>>165621

"Could you teach me how to be more ordered?"

>"Be with me. You will learn by time."

[quest firmness has increased, now select quest graphic style*

*Calligraphic
*Calligraphic & tint
*Reaver's style
*Pencil & color
*Pen
*Watercolor
*Oil-painted (Basically much like the style of Cutebold Slaughter Fest)
*Outline & tint
*Varied styles
]

>>166076
I like variety!

Wait, does this actually have any context in the quest or are you just asking us for a change in visual style? I mean, if this is just for looks it should be in a discussion thread or something.

>>166098

Well, didn't pay anough attention to that. Ignore it here and see to quest style in the quest discussion thread.

>>166076
Variety is the spice of life...

Fhan 2010/04/19(Mon)08:23 No. 166896 ID: e2020c
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Legends don't just camp and babysit. They combat chaos and corruptness!

But I may choose to babysit until the hatchling is born. Sarixu tells that it will take half a year to hatch the egg. I made a bed out of mountain goat hides. I could use this half year moving around in the astral, spying in the realms and making plans. I have nothing else to do here, except talk with Sarixu.

What astral research should I begin?

-Realm Politics
-Geology & Archeology
-Religion
-Dragon cult
-Dragons
-The Human Web
-Technology
-Other

Other: Basis of magic

>>166896
Dragon Cult.

Fhan 2010/04/28(Wed)11:13 No. 171517 ID: e2020c
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This is going to be a long journey.

It took some weeks to locate a place where lectures on the basics of magick were held. The city is Lunoban and it seems to be located on the coast and belongs to the Empire. I remote view those lectures, and surprisingly, they're held by the Dragon cult.

The lecturer speaks.
"As Above, so below. The world around us reflects the properties of the dimensions beyond. By approaching the world we have here in a focused manner, we can find something found in the other dimensions as well. And how could it be otherwise? If it were so, we wouldn't be able to perform any studies on the nature of it.

Now. The world around us has another meaning than just being glue to the dimensions above. It goes by the name of Anima Mundi, this "glue", and the subject of this lecture.

Anima Mundi is the plane between this realm and the higher dimensions. Everything in it parallels with that which is found in this world. Anima Mundi is as far as most of you will go with astral travel. It is the easiest to access and closest to our physical existence. It is the world where in our spirits go and where they live."

| Go on with the lecture || Find another lecture || Start another research |

>>171517
Go on with lecture.

Fhan 2010/04/29(Thu)02:12 No. 171715 ID: e2020c
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“There is a chain from the First Cause all the way to our world. In the First Cause all things are one, combined. When descending down to our plane, this oneness has become gradually divided into ever smaller systems according to the design Themu and by the realization of Anima Mundi.

In this event, at first like beings attract like, opposite begin to repel one another. This causes a vast diversity of energies. After this separation, qualities of reactive and unreactive are created. Eventually First Cause has become Themu and Anima Mundi, Themu has become “rock”, “magma”, “tree” and so on and Anima Mundi has become “mood”, “observation”, “love”, “realisation” etc. If you can grasp this perfectly with your minds, you will pass into the trials of an adept.

Anima Mundi comes into the scheme by this very important division. Anima Mundi has the tools the adept will learn to manipulate. In realization, it is clusters of pure consciousness brought down from the higher dimensions to maintain the experience that material people think they have, and do have because of this. These “angels” of pure consciousness create a weave of magic, or the Weave! The elves call this weave ‘guldur’ and have become very advanced in guiding it by what they call the pacts. It is by the ways of dragons that the method of true magic has come to Our bidding. We don’t have to appease and excel before the “angels” of magic, like the elves, to affect the Weave. We can command them by the voice of our own scheme.”

Fhan 2010/04/29(Thu)07:03 No. 171775 ID: e2020c
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“Gone are the days when you practiced holy symbols and controlled flows of energy by symbols, pacts and mysticism! Dawned has a new era on wonder and true magic. Break free from the old restrictions I say – to become an adept transcends you from the laws of this world to the laws of magic and the First Cause!

Now this is true magic. It is a much more awesome effect to achieve, however, by the understanding of how to actually detach Anima Mundi from a subject and directly instill it with your own desired will, in effect "reclothing" its spiritual and intelligent weave. The results of this can be as miraculous as imagined, though the learned magician knows perfectly well that his operations depend on natural laws and not divine intervention. A cat may be raised to think itself a pig. A rock may go from hot to cold as if of its own accord. An entire house may instantly scare those who enter it. Looking at a particular magic ring may strike terror or peace into those who gaze upon it. A stone corridor may catch spontaneously on fire and melt down upon hostilities entering it; the prospects of such manipulation are many.

The oldschool magicians would have thought that for example salt would repel evil. And that leaving a marriage ring in the nest of a dove couple would bring love to the relationship. This all was good practise at that time, and does influence most dramatically many of our lives, but now we can go straight and freely to the core essence of things and bypass all this ceremony. Just like necrotic chamberine brought instant death to our weapons’ arsenal, true magic has brought freedom to our spirits. We no longer have to risk our very flesh in close combat, but in endeavor of far more noble achievements than death of another. The universe reveals its secrets before us.”

>>171775
Hmm, that's some interesting stuff about magic. As for the Dragon Cult... not as much, though we did find out that our chamberine is an instant kill weapon!

What now? If the lecture is over, attempt to remote view more about the Dragon Cult. Try to figure their motives. Are all sects evil or just the local ones involving dark dragons?

Fhan 2010/05/01(Sat)12:55 No. 172546 ID: e2020c
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>>172143

I spend weeks remote viewing different cult centers and find out that the cult seems to be all about messing with dark dragons. It is created and directed by the perverted will of a dark dragon host. The dragons I've seen have been small and sly type. There seems to be plenty of experiments going on in each center I am able to remote view. One night, I discover a dark dragon painfully copulating with a female disciple. I don't dare to assume this is the first time a half-dragon is attempted to be bred.

As I do more research on the cult, I discover that humans in it serve two purpose. They're servants to the dark dragon masters, but also an indepth apprenticeship... or an apperception of the dark dragon way is present. But the dragons are somehow booby in keeping the strings in their hands, yet something is making the organisation subtle and efficient. As my research goes on I am starting to get to the conclusion that there is an elite inside the Dragon cult and that elite seems to have leads to something interesting. Should I remote view more on the actions of the dark dragons of the cult or try to excavate what's so attractive about this human elite?

>>172546
Find out about the elite.

hmmm so they are trying to offer some fast track magic to attract members? Likely chaos sorcery from their instance on inborn power and a utter disdain for proper protocol, this would also explain the attempts to breed half-dragons.

>>172613
Sounds about right.
See if their half-breeding attempts have had any success. Either way, research dragon/human pairings to find out how to safely perform your duties as Sarixu's mate.

Fhan 2010/05/02(Sun)08:25 No. 172886 ID: e2020c
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>>172613
>>172735

Grand success. In the presence of Sarixu I blast the heck out of the "mental" defences of the cult. I search thoroughly through one suspiciously large cult complex and find a solid containment chamber underneath. There's a poor male creature, which without doubt is who I was looking for, contained inside bedrock. I'm instantly attached to him. What should we do? There's something grand about this poor half-dragon, but in the captivity of the cult he seems so diminished.

>>172588

Propelled by my lucky discovery I impetuously look into human involvement in this matter and follow suspicious members inside the same complex. Several of them actually do turn out to be members of a human elite, roughly half of the group women and all most bright intellectuals. Many of them wear strange clothing and use devices of amazing refinement.

After a few weeks follow-up I realize things. These people have come from OUTSIDE. The mission they seem to conduct in my world appears to be plainly associated with dragons. Maybe they are here to breed a new human race to work as something in a bigger picture? Maybe they're working for an organisation flexing across void from another world or a collection of worlds or at least for a human web of many worlds? Maybe they see dragons as a natural resource they are aiming to exploit? Perhaps they use dragons to steer this world into a course of a greater utility?

Secondly, I am spooked to stop the investigation as many of the subjects are making clear that they know about my surveillance.

>>172886
Communicate to Sarixu what you have learned.

>>172886
Can you speak with the half-dragon, or is he inanimate?

Hmm it would be a shame to pass up the ability to recruit this half-dragon. But what you say of these humans worries me. 'Outside' you say? Devices of strange refinement?

I wonder if how much aid from 'outside' they can call on with any regularity? Regardless, if they can we must move swiftly as they are already aware of our presence.

Fhan 2010/05/03(Mon)00:01 No. 173067 ID: e2020c
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>>172890
I inquire Sarixu's counsel on the matter and she ponders that the outsiders might be powerful telepaths and thus be able to follow my thoughts even under her guidance. First I should learn to seal off even a powerful telepath from my mind. She thinks that she can teach me this in time, if Fhan starts to grow dragon scales. Otherwise the task might show difficult. I ask how it is possible to grow dragon scales, and Sarixu tells that she's been working with shapeshifters under a green sun world and knows a method that relies upon a deeper intercourse between our two souls. She explains that it is "a full scale magic ritual".

To rescue the half-dragon I should return to the dragon cult and get a transfer to this power center where the half-dragon is held. Gaining the trust and knowledge of the outsiders would take some years.

Then Sarixu throws herself into the plot by an exceptional conviction. She ponders that if the cult is all about dragon associations then maybe I could sneak into the high complex accompanied by her baby, in case I can take care of it, which would convince the cult of a my high talent with the dragons. They might even give me a chance to associate with tha half-dragon in a reasonable time by that method.

>>172891
The half-dragon seems to be sealed off from the outside of his cell by a powerful spell.

>>173067
Deep soul-intercourse? This sounds like something you should be engaging in on a regular basis even without the side benefits.

>>173067
Growing scales? That sounds nice. Let's do that.