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I've read the first two books of Dresden Files. I want to specify, how many left untill the start of the fic?
And also I am not very fond of trope "And then he gathered his last strength and casted the mighty spell, and after this he gathered leftovers of his last strength and casted the mightiest spell, and after this he gathered scraps of leftovers of his last strength and casted the Spell of the Ultimate Might...". :D
 
Arhin said:
I've read the first two books of Dresden Files. I want to specify, how many left untill the start of the fic?
And also I am not very fond of trope "And then he gathered his last strength and casted the mighty spell, and after this he gathered leftovers of his last strength and casted the mightiest spell, and after this he gathered scraps of leftovers of his last strength and casted the Spell of the Ultimate Might...". :D
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The first two books are not the best, they get really good around book 3/4 and then stay that way until maybe the last two (15 and 16). The fic has its PoD at the end of book 8.
 
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  • [X] Hello, Exposition Owlgirl!
    -[X] How have you fared since we last saw you? Did you return to visit your people? We met your mother and some of your people after departing Orinilu, she was very worried about you.
    --[X] If she did return, try to learn what we can of their circumstances.
    -[X] What can she tell us of 'Those Before'?
    -[X] Who, or what, are the 'rats'? She could be speaking quite literally, given the issues we've had with rats since coming to this world, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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Arc 15 Post 29: Those Who Linger
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    • Those Who Linger ​

    Fifth of Olweje-hamba (Olweje Descendent), 1349 A. L. (After Landfall)

    Getting a bird, or as the case might be a woman who is sometimes a bird, under a roof to chat, is not as easy as one might have hoped. She does not trust the stone of the keep nor the eldritch wood of the Marcella's form. But in the end you manage to get her away from any ears that might bot be meet to hear all she has to say. "Your pardons fair lady, but I am a poor climber of trees let us perchance walk upon the shore..."

    "Unchaperoned... tsk," you hear Esha's voice teasing unbidden in your mind sending you sputtering. Thankfully all Sings in Sorrow does is look at you in askance. You will find some way to get back at Esha though, you vow.

    Asking how she has fared this past season earns you an earful of how an owl might see the winter through. If you ever find yourself in need to tell the fat squirrel from the lean you are set, but the real meat of the talk begins when you ask if she had gone back with her people or not. Her face darkens and her cloak of feathers seems to flatter like a living thing, which is might be for all you know. "They don't need me there anymore, they want me, my mother, my kind, but they do not need me. I've seen it in moontouched water, I've heard it in the hearts of prey when they come to a sudden... stop."

    Her mien had grown less woman and more owl the more she speaks, the more agitated she becomes, so wisely perhaps, you choose to turn the question to 'those before'. How does she know about them and what does she know?

    "I know they carried iron that was not from the sky and not from the forges of giants, I know they were brave as they were cruel and would have been harsh lords if they had lived. They spoke much with all who would listen about the place where they had come, a city with Seven Hills." she drops her voice. "I know they made deals with the landwards to look for the hills, to look for the river. Many, many of the spirits went alooking and they did not find the river because the water hides itself away maybe, always sly. But they found the hills..."

    'The land is mostly as we found it,' you recall Zaia saying and wonder at the tribulations of those long dead sons of Rome. Oh course they found the city.

    "All was empty but herders and grazing beasts," Singer in Sorrows continues. "But they spoke to the earth Wyrd and it said to them that a city might one day be there for it was much alike to other places where men had chosen to dwell and then some among the Forecomers thought that they must be in the days of their grandfathers grandfathers that then might then tangle the skeins of fate and the dark ones came and they fed upon their sorrows as rats feed upon carrion in the dark and some of them fell to the service of the darkness for it promised than that it would leave fate unbroken. Though the Shining Ones called it madness that those who had been vested to be fateless should wish to preserve fate, as though a fish should wish for drought to dry up the seas the traitors would not be denied, and so it is whispered in the dreams of the Shining Ones and so it is."

    "You said something about rats, by the sea," you motion to the waves. "Though I confess I have seen the like in every ship I sailed on the same is true of every house, rats do not seem to have any great affinity to the sea."

    "The sea is where most things live and though she is perilous the sea guards her children, so in times of great strife some linger there that were lost to land or air." She turns to look you with wide golden eyes. "You have heard tales of the face of the world then the challenge of the age is met as the Forecomers have done. Do you not wonder what happens when the trial is not passed?"

    You remember the demons looking at you from behind glassy eyes, through rotten lips speaking... you do not want to know and yes the mind flies on dark wings hence.

    "You think the Formless are survivors of a battle lost with the Neverborn?"

    "I know only that he... that the shaman who was not worthy of the came wished you ill and when I asked who in all the world would most wish you undone that was the takers of souls, the Neverborn as you say."

    What do you reply?

    [] Offer her a place in Wayfarer's Deep

    [] Ask more questions
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: Sorry this took so long guys, I always struggle with exposition because I am afraid of making it an info-dump, but I feel this gets the character right and shows that this is just another piece of the puzzle and not an eye in the sky ultimate answer.
     
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    Those Who Linger ​

    Fifth of Olweje-hamba (Olweje Descendent), 1349 A. L. (After Landfall)

    Getting a bird, or as the case might be a woman who is sometimes a bird, under a roof to chat, is not as easy as one might have hoped. She does not trust the stone of the keep nor the eldritch wood of the Marcella's form. But in the end you manage to get her away from any ears that might bot be meet to hear all she has to say. "Your pardons fair lady, but I am a poor climber of trees let us perchance walk upon the shore..."

    "Unchaperoned... tsk," you hear Esha's voice teasing unbidden in your mind sending you sputtering. Thankfully all Sings in Sorrow does is look at you in askance. You will find some way to get back at Esha though, you vow.

    Asking how she has fared this past season earns you an earful of how an owl might see the winter through. If you ever find yourself in need to tell the fat squirrel from the lean you are set, but the real meat of the talk begins when you ask if she had gone back with her people or not. Her face darkens and her cloak of feathers seems to flatter like a living thing, which is might be for all you know. "They don't need me there anymore, they want me, my mother, my kind, but they do not need me. I've seen it in moontouched water, I've heard it in the hearts of prey when they come to a sudden... stop."

    Her mien had grown less woman and more owl the more she speaks, the more agitated she becomes, so wisely perhaps, you choose to turn the question to 'those before'. How does she know about them and what does she know?

    "I know they carried iron that was not from the sky and not from the forges of giants, I know they were brave as they were cruel and would have been harsh lords if they had lived. They spoke much with all who would listen about the place where they had come, a city with Seven Hills." she drops her voice. "I know they made deals with the landwards to look for the hills, to look for the river. Many, many of the spirits went alooking and they did not find the river because the water hides itself away maybe, always sly. But they found the hills..."

    'The land is mostly as we found it,' you recall Zaia saying and wonder at the tribulations of those long dead sons of Rome. Oh course they found the city.

    "All was empty but herders and grazing beasts," Singer in Sorrows continues. "But they spoke to the earth Wyrd and it said to them that a city might one day be there for it was much alike to other places where men had chosen to dwell and then some monng the Forecomers thought that they must be in the days of their grandfathers grandfathers that then might then tangle the skeins of fate and the dark ones came and they fed upon their sorrows as rats feed upon carrion in the dark and some of them fell to the service of the darkness for it promised than that it would leave fate unbroken. Though the Shining Ones called it madness that those who had been vasted to be fateless should wish to preserve fate, as though a fish should wish for drought to dry up the seas the traitors would not be denied, and so it is whispered in the dreams of the Shining Ones and so it is."

    "You said something about rats, by the sea," you motion to the waves. "Though I confess I have seen the like in every ship I sailed on the same is true of every house, rats do not seem to have any great affinity to the sea."

    "The sea is where most things live and though she is perilous the sea guards her children, so in times of great strife some linger there that were lost to land or air." She turns to look you with wide golden eyes. "You have heard tales of the face of the world then the challange of the age is met as the Forecomers have done. Do you not wonder what happens when the trial is not passed?"

    You remember the demons looking at you from behind glassy eyes, through rotten lips speaking... you do not want to know and yes the mind flies on dark wings hence.

    "You think the Formless are survivors of a battle lost with the Neverborn?"

    "I know only that he... that the shaman who was not worthy of the came wished you ill and when I asked who in all the world would most wish you undone that was the takers of souls, the Neverborn as you say."

    What do you reply?

    [] Offer her a place in Wayfarer's Deep

    [] Ask more questions
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: Sorry this took so long guys, I always struggle with exposition because I am afraid of making it an info-dump, but I feel this gets the character right and shows that this is just another piece of the puzzle and not an eye in the sky ultimate answer.
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    There's a lot to unpack here.

    It seems that her people back at the Straits of are doing relatively well, at least if Sings in Sorrow doesn't believe they need her.

    The lost Roman legion was apparently more active than I was assuming. It looks like they got around and interacted with a lot of different people and supernatural elements. More pieces for the puzzle, at least. I'm not surprised some of them threw in with the bad guys, but it's still unfortunate. That might end up complicating things for us in the future.

    I'm still not sure what she means about the 'rats'. Are they supposed to be the Formless or the Neverborn?

    As for the vote, I'm all for inviting her to stay if she wishes. One thing, DP, you got the name of Wayfarer's Respite wrong again. :p

    [X] Offer her a place in Wayfarer's Respite
     
    @Goldfish, what do you think of also asking her about the haunting? And also, if she can't help us with it or at least get us info on it, ask Inge to try to speak with the dead like she did with Onogu? We first decided to speak with owls explicitly for this reason, so we should not abandon trying to solve the haunting.

    Maybe like this?

    [X] Offer her a place in Wayfarer's Respite
    -[X] Can she tell us anything about the haunting, how can we get rid of it or purify it so it no longer wishes us ill?
    -[X] If there is no haunting solution from her, see about that ritual Inge used to summon the dead in Apuku, perhaps she can do it again?
     
    myrix said:
    @Goldfish, what do you think of also asking her about the haunting? And also, if she can't help us with it or at least get us info on it, ask Inge to try to speak with the dead like she did with Onogu? We first decided to speak with owls explicitly for this reason, so we should not abandon trying to solve the haunting.

    Maybe like this?

    [X] Offer her a place in Wayfarer's Respite
    -[X] Can she tell us anything about the haunting, how can we get rid of it or purify it so it no longer wishes us ill?
    -[X] If there is no haunting solution from her, see about that ritual Inge used to summon the dead in Apuku, perhaps she can do it again?
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    Duh, I meant to do that, but it completely slipped my mind. Mondays... :oops:

    Looks good to me, dude.

    [X] myrix
     
    It's very... confusing.
    So, "city with Seven Hills" – Rome? I did not guess it with a first try.
    So, Romans returned to Rome, decided that they are in the past, and some of them decided that "fate must be unboken", whatever this means. And began to serve "darkness".
    And who are Shining Ones? Do we have any guesses? Maybe it's worth asking?

    [X] myrix
     
    Shining Ones sounds vaguely Celestial to me, but then again, it could also be fey akin to the late unlamented Bright One who we found elsewhere, elsewhen in Braavos.
     
    Arhin said:
    It's very... confusing.
    So, "city with Seven Hills" – Rome? I did not guess it with a first try.
    So, Romans returned to Rome, decided that they are in the past, and some of them decided that "fate must be unboken", whatever this means. And began to serve "darkness".
    And who are Shining Ones? Do we have any guesses? Maybe it's worth asking?

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    Romans returned to where Rome would have been and they found no city, but familiar hills.
     
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    Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jul 27, 2022 at 4:49 AM, finished with 15 posts and 7 votes.
    • [X] Offer her a place in Wayfarer's Respite
      -[X] Can she tell us anything about the haunting, how can we get rid of it or purify it so it no longer wishes us ill?
      -[X] If there is no haunting solution from her, see about that ritual Inge used to summon the dead in Apuku, perhaps she can do it again?
      [X] Offer her a place in Wayfarer's Respite
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