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Sworn to the State: A Magical Quest

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[x] Talk to the spirit.

That was an awesome chapter to read. So awesome that I'll vote to continue this scene against my best judgement.
 
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Cetashwayo said:
As your eyes clear up and you push yourself up to see the figure of a nun, looking out of place in these wide open woods.
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Cetashwayo said:
As she speaks, her soothing words are heavenly, her laugh the sound of wind chimes. "Oh come now, you two look like I'm about to eat you up. Calm down a bit, girls. I have always endeavoured to help young women in need, especially when soldiers are involved. Call it a force of habit." A wry grin forms on her face.
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well played

any spirit with pun powers this strong would make a valuable ally

[X] "Do you have siege nuts?"
 
[X] Talk to the spirit.

I can't help but feel that it would have been easier to just knock them out physically instead of trying to be fancy. :V

Let's talk to the nice spirit with the bullet hole in her head, she's a nice one!
 
Cetashwayo said:
"Fall now, into the spirit abyss." It is a simple command that escapes you, said so quietly that only the wind listens. But that is all the audience you need, for in that second a tremendous cyclone engulfs you and the four soldiers, cutting short of trapping Tala, and then you are falling.
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Now they're in the sunken place.

[X] Talk to the spirit.
 
I feel like there's been some stuff about how spirits are dangerous and you should stay away from them until you're powerful. Was a that a thing or did my brain just make that up?
 
cB557 said:
I feel like there's been some stuff about how spirits are dangerous and you should stay away from them until you're powerful. Was a that a thing or did my brain just make that up?
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Naaaaaaaaaaaah

Cetashwayo said:
Outside, the spirits of the world revel in the despondence of man. The villagers below speak of masks that eat faces and liches that break from tombs and hunt for new hosts. They speak of men who are not men at all, but hidden demons, swallowing up whole villages in their gluttony. They speak of travelers impaled by malevolent trees. The souls of the living become the food of the dead.
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Cetashwayo said:
The supernatural will play an enormously large role in Vashti's life. This is not a low fantasy quest, but it also doesn't bother to follow most of the typical conventions of western fantasy because I am drawing aesthetically and thematically on medieval and especially Jewish depictions of magic and magical ability. These spirits can help or hinder Vashti's path, and they are extremely threatening. Spirits are often the disturbed souls of those who could not pass on, or malevolent entities created by other, darker means, and so must be sent to pass on to the next world or else destroyed, as unhindered they will often seek out and eat humans to gain in their own ability.
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Cetashwayo said:
Most spirits are weak in the chomer and send their victims to their personal Zurah Realm to feed on them. The Mystical Schools have been crafted to deal with this, and cover a number of ways to manipulate the Zurah and deal with spirits as well as humans skilled in the spiritual schools.
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Cetashwayo said:
A low understanding of Zurahna will endanger you when you are sent into a spirit or Spiritual practitioner's Zurah realm and Zurahna is extremely taxing on the will at lower levels of knowledge.
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Cetashwayo said:
A low level of Tologda is dangerous because it leaves you open to spiritual ambush and closes peaceful options to deal with spiritual beings.
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Cetashwayo said:
A low understanding of Rongen will cause spirits, spiritually trained enemies, and illusions to appear more dangerous and frightening than they are and weaken your will to fight, leaving you liable to collapse or exhaust your power much more easily.
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Cetashwayo said:
You can recognize when a soul is turning into a spirit and sense a spirit if it is outright revealing its presence. Otherwise, you can usually tell when you are being eaten by a spirit.
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Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
 
Okay everyone was voting talk to it so I thought maybe I'd just imagined that.
[X] Run away, right now.
 
Honestly most spirits will just eat you. They might be super-polite about it but they'll just eat you straight up. You're alone with Tala and temporarily exhausted so you'd think that if she just wanted to eat you she'd already have done it.
Adhoc vote count started by Admiral Skippy on Jan 21, 2018 at 11:20 AM, finished with 46 posts and 25 votes.
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