Then he looked down, and then back up to Captain Mia who had not in fact yet removed her hand.
"Captain Mia?
"Mmm?" She said languidly, looking him in the eyes with a small smile on her face.
"I'm healed. The curse from the blades has been banished," he informed her.
"Indeed, Prince," she said, the smile widening.
"And now, I'd like to get some sleep," he said, before grabbing her wrist gently, watching her smile grow further still and something flicker in her eyes before carefully removing it from his chest. "And dream of my wife, whom I love," he added.
Captain Mia's lips abruptly thinned, her head cocking as she found herself pushed back slightly onto her haunches.
"Indeed? Indeed," she said, half to herself as she stood up, sighing. "Well, I wish you well on that front then, Prince Hohenzollern," she grunted more officiously than he could remember her since they'd first met. "Well fought," she declared over her shoulder as she walked away.
... Oh boy. She's gonna kidnap Logan. in both definitions of the sentence. Good lords, mayby that one Todbringer was right to keep Ulicans pants in check. Cause appartently catnip is canine aviable.
Also point for Sabine. Still not sure how dedicated she is but she makes for one motivating reason of coming home.
Benefitting from years of experience, the Prince of Ostland entered the realms overseen by Morr within a few seconds of closing his eyes.
It was also those same years of experience that had his eyes fly open and his body roused to wakefulness in a near instant when he heard his name being called once more.
On another note. Morr! my dude! ya get populace on board for dream defence! with all the nightmares and hopefull scared kids praying to him for restfull sleep, kind dreams filled with loved ones and free of horrors of the waking world... His faith may grow similary to how Esmeralda did with all people invoking him everyday before going to sleep of seeing other people doze off. Sometimes even providing advice and premonitions for well warded dreamers.
At this point "go greet Morr" may be some alternative to 'sleep well' and such. Wow. What a development in narrative.
She looks up at you, then at Kerillian, then at Sadrina.
"So she showed back up," you manage through gritted teeth.
"Maybe," Johanna shrugs. "Could be another sorceress in the Coven decided to only pretend to wave the flag until they could scrabble into the shadows to hide, strike out from there."
"If it is her," Sadrina says, brow furrowed, "I cannot fault her for killing one of the Coven."
"Oh I can fault her fucking plenty for whatever I want," your snarl, fists clenching so tight that the Ledstahli squeaks and pops. "My – she – Frederick is…," you gasp out, drowning in your fury before you plunge your mind and soul into the cold once more. "…she's not here," you finally growl. "If it is her. It doesn't matter right now. What matters is getting out of sight, and figuring out what we're going to do next."
You purposefully ignore a great many exchanged glances as you stride down into the depths once more.
Oh. good for her. That's a another Sorcerres down on top of two priests of exess... good score.
Do hope Nat can keep it together not to murderize Hul till Freddy gets to bonk her. Hope Gwen s doing better. Being able to kill all those drichi and deamons may well be theraputic if it were not for all the asshats she has to torelate.
But hey, she did kill an ex-fellow sorceress. That's a point in her good favor book. Plus she may be somewhat forced into conqiering the ark with all those followers... so long as she offers it to handmaiden for reconsecration upon Isha....
ughhh.. a lot of posibilities. glad she's kicking, hope's Nats will stay pragmatic.
(Divine Realms of Pain: 76+25+15+10+15+20+15+10+15-15-35-15-15-15=106/100)
A slow exhale escapes you as you straighten, and finally after an entire day, manage to take all the pain and entomb it in the glacial depths of your soul where it becomes nothing more than a frozen part of the greater structure.
"...of course," you say over your shoulder as you walk - steadily - to your corner to steal some rest. "Who in the hells do you think I am?"
A note of good news here is the potential/likely expendeture of unique resources, she will not have easy time replenishing.
Outside of that. Ufff. That's a relief. Imagine All Allysa is seeing is how Freddy got bored, even if she's getting used to failing that may still do things to her. Good for Eldyra, kind of, her dad figure n'3 is so ungothered it may well cause some dissonance to all the whitness...
Good night rest's a good thing too.
[]Arming The Helpless [Taking this option
will alter circumstances, presences, at targets, for better or worse as you reach them later in the day]
-[] Strike the Corsair Armories: Located in the docklands, with relatively light armor but effective swords and hand crossbows, possibly also causing damage to the docklands themselves, the Cult of Mathlann, and Alyssan forces.
-[X] Strike A Major Armory: Kerillian's little killers know about some of the major armories meant to equip the invading forces of the Ark when they land at a target, one of the larger foundries meant to equip a variety of troops. Which definitely means a harder target than any of the others, as it was assuredly a priority target for Alyssa before to keep and to hold. Depending on how things go there, it might be all you can manage tomorrow, but you'd be able to equip everyone properly, and then some for future recruits.
AND (?)
[] Targets for Destruction [Circumstances, one way or another, will change over time, depending on the results/choice in the above category]
- [] Strike the Siege: The Temple of Atharti is one of the greatest known resistance points against the Cult of Pleasure, seeing as Atharti is literally a rival Cytharai to much of what Slaanesh is. The longer it lasts, the more focus it will require from the Cult of Pleasure. It follows that killing the Druchii and banishing the daemonettes assaulting it will, in turn, harm the Cult of Pleasure all the more. They will not hold out forever, you don't think, but you can extend the length of time they resist.
- [X] Attack An Arena: The Arenas are full of slaves literally trained and built and fed properly to be satisfactory combatants. You have a much larger warband now, but why not swell it all the further? Traverse the slave tunnels, emerge, and shatter more cages, break more chains, and become an even greater threat to the machinations of Alyssa. Hells, maybe you'll even get her to come out of the tower that way all the quicker. They might belong to Alyssa now, but that just means it's that much more important to break her toys.
Ughhh. Will change in future. Mayby. But should be rid of problems before they became problems? we'll see, mayby...
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Did. Did you factually won the second place for the best quest on the site... for several years in row?
That sounds like it deserves its own award honestly.