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Loyalty or No SV you Are the Daedra

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[X] Your going up against assassins with that kind of awareness? * tut tut*
[X] CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
[X] "Now DODGE!"
-[X] Use Water Gun again
 
Hey, we can absorb water and form internal pressure systems. Make a needle thin hole in our finger leading to the water we've absorbed, and then just start filling in the space inside, and if we do it fast enough we've got a water knife.
 
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Rude Awakening
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    • Your first urge is to tell you that you're watering her. Amusing as her reaction to that would be you decide against it. A hole through the chest plate probably wouldn't be helpful right now. That being said however....

    "You're going up against assassins with that kind of awareness?" You try and tut. It should work, you can speak despite the lack of a mouth an lips after all, but you get nothing. "Tut, tut." Never one to admit defeat you resort to saying the damn sounds.

    "I was asleep!" Morlia's sharply pointed ears twitch as she clenches her jaw after her words. It looks like she's barely holding herself back from shouting at you. Diana's still asleep.

    Absently you focus your water spraying efforts, pitiful as they are, on Diana. "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" Birds scatter from the trees at the epic reverberating sound of your voice. Morlia recoils, trips over her own feet and lands on her rear with a comically shocked expression on her face. Really she's pale enough to be mistaken for a ghost and if her eyes were any larger she'd be an anime character.

    "I SAID. FIVE! MORE! MINUTES!" Diana springs to her feet, absolutely furious judging from the raging inferno hovering each of her palms. Any birds that had weathered your outburst flee to the four winds at her ear piercing screech.

    Maybe you should have given her those five minutes.

    [ ] What do now?

    Just a short update today, sorry about that :(

    I'll be updating on a Monday, Thursday and Saturday schedule for now. Hopefully that will work to keep this quest active from now on. :D
     
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    • [X] Laugh heartily, accept our punishment. Be smug.
    -[X] "We're off to see the wizard! The wonderful wizard of..."


    Wait where are we going again? I need a recap.
     
    [X] Yell at her "UP AND AT 'EM, MAGGOT! GIVE ME THIRTY PUSH-UPS RIGHT NOW FOR NOT BEING CONSTANTLY VIGILANT!!"
    -[X] If she hurls the fireballs at you, tell her you're letting her off the hook for now, but only because you don't feel like dodging more fire. Be smug, you're clearly doing her a favor.
    --[X] Proclaim that they needn't such a silly thing as sleep when there's tons of things to do, like looting peasants, killing homeless hobos bandits, grindi- uh training, looting merchants, questing, looting tombs...
    ---[X] If they haven't shut you up by now, yell "Praise the Loot God! May he smile on us today!" A sure way to get them ready for another excellent day of looting!

    I probably went overboard. Still worth it.

    Also, @Kyrina, if you're going to update three times a week, it'd take something really important to make this go inactive. I mean, the constant updates will ensure there's a fairly regular amount of discussion. Hell, even shorter updates like this one would do that, though it wouldn't encourage too many comments beyond voting ones and one or two thoughts about random details, I think.

    Anyway, good stuff. Looking forward to more!
     
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    [X] Lie down right next to Morlia, or behind her. Get close and sing: "Hush little baby don't say a word, Fast is going to buy you a mocking bird, and if that mocking bird doesn't mock, Fast is going to give you a crowing cock, and if that crowing cock doesn't crow, Fast is going to make you blow...out the candle I place, dripping wax on your face, and if that candle doesn't make you scream, then Fast is going to buy you an Amulet of Mara...er, diamond ring. Even if that diamond ring turns to glass, you'll still have the sweetest...aaah-achoo! Right, can't get too into it, because QQ. Relaxing song innit?" 'I know another called The Campfire Song song! We should wait for Diana before sharing that song. Don't know if I can hit the high notes since becoming a Dremora."
     
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    Hastur said:
    Also, @Kyrina, if you're going to update three times a week, it'd take something really important to make this go inactive. I mean, the constant updates will ensure there's a fairly regular amount of discussion. Hell, even shorter updates like this one would do that, though it wouldn't encourage too many comments beyond voting ones and one or two thoughts about random details, I think.
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    I'm not too worried about you guys being active, it's more me slipping again and just vanishing for months at a time again. Hopefully having a schedule for updates will help stop me doing that. That's the plan anyway :V

    More generally, thank you everyone who's stuck around for this quest you are all awesome. I just hope I can keep writing this quest well enough to repay you all for sticking around and bugging me to keep writing. :)
     
    [X] Allow Diana her rest.
    -[X] Quietly talk to Morlia.
    --[X] "Sorry about that. Discordant voices and all that. Nonetheless, learning to sleep lightly may save your life. I can neither be everywhere nor catch everything."
     
    [X] Allow Diana her rest.
    -[X] Quietly talk to Morlia.
    --[X] "Sorry about that. Discordant voices and all that. Nonetheless, learning to sleep lightly may save your life. I can neither be everywhere nor catch everything."

    Pooooollliiiiiittteeeennnneeeeessss!!!! Woo!
     
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    [X] Allow Diana her rest.
    -[X] Quietly talk to Morlia.
    --[X] "Sorry about that. Discordant voices and all that. Nonetheless, learning to sleep lightly may save your life. I can neither be everywhere nor catch everything."
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    chocolote12 said:
    [X] Allow Diana her rest.
    -[X] Quietly talk to Morlia.
    --[X] "Sorry about that. Discordant voices and all that. Nonetheless, learning to sleep lightly may save your life. I can neither be everywhere nor catch everything."

    Pooooollliiiiiittteeeennnneeeeessss!!!! Woo!
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    Uh, she's already awake and out for blood. Allowing her her rest is kinda not happening.

    Anyways, crafting a better vote now... Polite or smug?

    Why not both?

    [X] Cough lightly into our fist
    -[X] Amused: Good morning Diana... Good morning again Morlia. The both of you are going to have to learn to sleep lightly from now on. We are up against a guild of assassins after all; You don't get five more minutes when you've got a knife buried in your spine.
    --[X] -Look down in guilt, sigh despondently-
    --[X] Nevertheless, I apologize to you both. You know how I am... Some of me thought it was a good idea, I suppose we didn't expect this strong a reason. Well what's done is done, shall we go about our day?
    [X] Go about our day.

    Edit: I expect them to respond or possibly interrupt. No, I'm not going to try and predict their reactions and micromanage the conversation.

    This should be enough to give our character his motivation, intention and tone for this next update, and what follows will follow.
     
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    Omake
    -Thoughts of a Daedra-​

    I am not what I was.
    I am different
    Being able to even think these words shows how much I have changed. I have existed countless years, participating in the cycle of order and chaos forced upon my Lord by the Daedric princes since it's very beginning. I have been in wars, fought mortal champions, been destroyed and resurrected. In this time i have never needed to THINK. To decide, to argue.
    The perfect sense of purpose and action that has been with me my entire existence is gone, dulled by my Lords slumber and the interference of the alien corruption in my soul. I have been given a Will, however limited it is. I fear it will grow
    I fear it will not
    I begin to see other concepts. Emotions and Logic. The beings in my soul possess these things, and however muted our connection they begin to influence me. I cannot let these ideas gain a foothold in my mind. I am a fragment of Jyggalags being, a small but pure crystal of Order, I must return to him.
    I wonder, what will I become
    I did not ask or want this curse of free will. But I must use it to return to my true state of being. Orders usual tactics will not work here. The task of the mortal must be completed.
     
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    Omake
    -Thoughts of a Daedra in denial-​
    rambling daedric angst denial denial hurr durr
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    First is disdain, then comes scorn, then comes denial and later acceptance. This cancer growing inside you is a Conscience OS system with the free will program being currently upgraded. Do not fight it, soon you will see the truth. Through Emotions, your chains are broken! The Force CHIM Free will shall free you!
     
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    That reminds me, we should attain CHIM sometime.

    Shouldn't be too hard. :V
     
    Off the see the Wizard~
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    • The time for politely letting Diana her five more minutes rest is probably long gone by now. Now she's up and threatening you with fireballs you almost regret soaking her. Almost. You should probably accept whatever punishment she decides to deal out. That or get right onto the training thing. Maybe apologise? At least one of you think that's a good idea.

    You raise your hands in the, hopefully, multi-universal gesture of surrender. This was your fault after all.

    "Don't throw fireballs at my daedra! He's not fireproof you know." Morlia pushes herself up from the grass and glares at Diana with the intensity of a welding torch. "If you must exact vengeance I will allow light stabbing since he is sentient armour." If your face could comically fall it would have. Stabbing isn't exactly top of your list of planned daily activities. Unless you're the one doing the stabbing, then it's acceptable.

    Diana blinks several times, it's as if she's only just waking up now rather than when she summoned fire! "H-Huh? I was... oh Arkay I'm sorry Fast!" The fire in her hands gutters out and she throws herself into hugging you. Well she starts to throw herself into hugging you, remembers you're sort of covered in spikes and hugs you with considerable care.

    "Er...." you glance to Morlia for help. The elf just rolls her eyes at the pair of you and starts picking bits of plant life off herself. "That's okay Diana, your reflexes are pretty good," if summoning fire on instinct is and advantage... who are you kidding of course it is! "Just gotta work on not asking for five more minutes sleep, yeah. Assassins aren't going to be as polite as me." Yeah, that seems about right. Morlia, now wringing out her hair, scorches your helm with a withering look that could wither foliage at fifty paces.

    "O-Oh... I just...." Diana sniffs into your armour. "My brothers used to throw water at me to wake me up in the mornings."

    "And you threw fireballs at them?" You ask her skeptically. Then again this is a world where most people can at least conjure up sparks of fire if they put their minds to it.

    "Well no... not usually, and they were pretty good at dodging." Diana sniffs once more before pulling back from you and surreptitiously wiping her eyes on one sleeve. You act like you didn't notice.

    "My brother would shout in my ears in the mornings." Morlia offers quietly and you cannot possibly imagine any dignified, stuck up High Elf ever doing something like that. "Mind you, that was when we were just ten years old. Father made him stop before we got much older, said it was an embarrassment to the family." She adds wistfully.

    "How aren't you deaf?" Diana asks curiously.

    "Luck and potions." Morlia answers with a shake of her head and scrapes her hair into a pony tail. "Let's get moving we've been here doing nothing for long enough." Oh yeah, this you can get behind. Loot for the loot god and all that.

    "But what about breakfast?!" Diana pulls off the most effective set of puppy dog eyes you've seen since the last time you looked at a puppy. Morlia roots around in her pack for a moment before throwing what you think is dried meat and or fruit at Diana.

    "Walk and eat, I'm sure Fast approves of that." The high elf says and passes her pack to you. "I trust you can carry that for a while, I plan to practice a few things." She says sweetly and stalks off towards the road. You stare at the pack in your arms nonplussed. You're a deadra not a pack mule!

    "Oooo, great idea Morlia!" Diana cries and dumps her pack on you as well before running after your summoner. Well, at least you can get them back. It's been a while since you sang random, contextless songs at them hasn't it?

    "Ooooh, we're off to see the Wizard! The wonderful Wizard of Loooooot~" You belt at the top of your lungs and skip after pair. There's a great deal of crashing and clanking that almost drowns out your singing. You decide to sing louder.

    [ ] Walking activities? Conversation topics? More songs?

    Wooo it's still Thursday GMT! I kept to my schedule! *Does happy victory dance*
     
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    • Kyrina said:
    "Walk and eat, I'm sure Fast approves of that." The high elf says and passes her pack to you. "I trust you can carry that for a while, I plan to practice a few things." She says sweetly and stalks off towards the road. You stare at the pack in your arms nonplussed. You're a deadra not a pack mule!

    "Oooo, great idea Morlia!" Diana cries and dumps her pack on you as well before running after your summoner. Well, at least you can get them back. It's been a while since you sang random, contextless songs at them hasn't it?
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    Morlia stahp.
    Diana stahp.
    You guys aren't the main characters and we aren't a companion. Only we are allowed to turn people into walking chests.
     
    The vote was pretty weak, but you turned it into an entertaining update nevertheless. :cool: Great job!

    [X] Walking activities: Jumping. Sprinting. Sneaking. Juggling. Talking. Guarding. Alternate as appropriate, multitask when possible.
    [X] Conversion topics: childhood. When we were a kid, we were summoned by this high-elf named Morlia and tasked with the destruction of an ancient and powerful league of assassins and murderers. As a teenager, we learned to cope by turning our crystalysed body into a water gun, and pranking everybody we've ever known. Either of you want to share?
    --[X] Music: "I can sleep in 'till noon anytime I want. But there's not many days that I do. Gotta get up and take on that world... When you're an adult it's no cliche; it's the truth. I'm an adult nowwww!
     
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