The Quest Unknown posted:

A Ghostly Flower
^{'A suitable dedication, to lay at the stone, of my daughter's grave...'}

During this Quest...

* Śmiercią demanded it. One stone more to your burden. Just to make your fear a little worse, unto death. But you dreamed.
* The Eaumur Moot. The auction finale.
* They pulled aside the tarp, and spoke its name.



* Sauber held you as you cried, screamed, pleaded.
* With every thunder of your panicked lungs, Euamur shook and split with impossible gravity, falling into the sea.
* He didn't understand. You were begging for your Mother.
* All he knew is that it frightened him, to hold someone who was just like him-
* But something had gone wrong.
* Pandemonium.
* They could see him struggling to hold you from harm, black and white silhouette against the star-night terror of horizon's Kadath.
* The Final City was so clear to see from the peak, once the ceiling and walls came down.
* When the flower drifted near him in the chaos, he could not reach it without risking you.
* But then a cat leapt out from swimming in the ground, and batted it down with capture.
* The purring cat let you hold him and the flower as your panic ended, and the dream dissolved.

All Considered...

Marluxia posted:

Once Upon A Time posted:

You remember that day. When she told you true; she who was once Death was holy with child.
Despite every miracle of your fallen life, you still couldn't believe it. A child immaculate.
She smiled and said it was proof that something out there must still love them.
Because, she told you she knew it true; it was the child she would have had with Polikarp.

Level Up! posted:

1. Clearer ESP
2. Better bandagin'
3. Stronger magery
4. Greater speed
5. Improved defense
6. Molochine damage
7. Darker tyranny

taiyoko posted:

Also, when did the Oilstained Shield's description get that it's capable of reviving added to it???

quote:

door finally opens. Locks and chains drop to the floor as they hurry inside. It was dark and cool, protected from the terror. A moment of rest. They all smell and see her at the same time - a chicken, in truly wretched condition, shivering somewhere in the quantum pools between. Immediately they forget and attend to the cage. "Poor fella" Hell says, reaching through the bars to try to get the locks open to touch runes on the feathers. Heaven is standing with a sour look, since she'd rather end the bird's misery the way a wolf would. Instead she tells the sickly chicken, "It'll get better. Just wait." 8th is staring around with an uncomfortable thought, but then he walks to the cage and sees the bird being traced by Hell with a rune that said HEAL and a rune that said BODY. The chicken vomited water. She had one collapsed lung. But that's not what was killing her as they watched. 8th squatted and worked the ideology of esoteric medicines, speaking with the kindness of a rock a bird could warm themselves on. "No no- it hasn't been a year. That isn't right. You're not starved and gone, you're here. You must believe me."

Knight's the last one to come over, after she spent a moment with confused deja vu. It made her remember something vital. She reaches into the deepcooler she had stashed, into one of its special compartments. "Here."



Knight pours it onto a small wood plate. It's some of the sacred feed of the Holy Chicken Knights. They didn't give their chickens just field fare- they got to dine on pyrite-spiced special blends of the best Home could bless. Holy chicken food. The bird rouses out of the quantum starvation and attacks the plate, possessed of an entire year's phantom hunger. Knight smiled and stood up, just as the door slammed opened, and they looked to see their familiar tourmaline light as holy bright while

Randalor posted:

"Oh, no, Kwait's not in trouble, it having 0 rations doesn't mean anything"- you jerks

Also... were we always called the Ambassador of the Black Throne? Because I'm pretty sure that's not a good thing.