Charonquest

[wooliefrand]

WHO: Lily
WHERE: Lily Barn
WHEN: Early Day 36, post ritual!

[alright nerds lets go get your emotional support shepherd]

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Re: great hall

[featherduster]

[ WAIT, SORRY, TF IS GOING ON WITH THE FLOOR??? This is exactly like stepping into the Plants' shared consciousness.

Crouching down to press his flesh hand to the glass. ]

Re: great hall

[endsjustified]

[the wings and feathers are shining green, made of something like crystal, and huge. they clearly look nothing like his or Perci's. whatever creature they belong to is utterly still beneath the floor.

a soft impression of a memory, on contact. words, feelings. it feels fresh and recent.

"Now that we know the locations of all the other Runes," Luc says, "We can proceed with our plan. Sarah, you go after the Lightning Rune. Yuber, you start looking for that old general. We have a stranglehold on the land we need for the ceremony."

You push aside the tentflap with a gloved hand, following your commander out. The air whips cuttingly through the encampment, almost hard enough to rock you where you stand, startling horses and the more skittish of the soldiers. You note, in the part of you that dispassionately catalogues such facts, that he would not have allowed that to happen even a week ago. His control over the True Wind Rune is degrading rapidly; has been since his confrontation with his brother.

"The time is growing near," he murmurs, like he heard you. "For me to gather all the True Runes, and then give up my soul at the altar."

You breathe out, feeling his words settle. It's been a long time since you've grieved; the emotion almost startles you, thick in your throat, simultaneously leaden and sharp in your belly. Strange to feel, when you'd known this was coming almost from the start of your acquaintance. You suppose you hadn't expected him to inspire quite so much sympathy from you, or genuine loyalty.

"You are prepared to die...to save this world?"]

Re: great hall

[featherduster]

[ 'He wouldn't even have wanted this from me.'

Pulling his hand away apologetically and standing up. Don't get distracted; find Charon.

He resumes following the footsteps. ]

Re: great hall

[endsjustified]

[you can follow the trail of ash behind a stairwell...

there's a small, nondescript door here. it's locked.

but the bell on the Bluebell staff chimes when you get near it...? and an answering chime sounds from behind a particular but otherwise unmarked spot on the wall.]

Re: great hall

[featherduster]

[ HUH?

. . .

Presses his hand to the wall, approximately where the chime sounded from. ]

Re: great hall

[endsjustified]

[touching that part of the wall reveals it's a seamless illusion! there is a small hidden alcove there. you feel some kind of switch...?

when you press it, there's a click from the nondescript door. it's open now.]

Re: great hall

[featherduster]

Hidden switches . . . is your mind booby-trapped too? Better not be . . .

[ We open the door ]

Re: great hall

[endsjustified]

[:)

continue.]