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The Last Daughter; Dragon-Blooded Sorcery School Quest

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Gazetteer said:
"I'm not actually trying to be frightening," you say.

"It would be alarming to see you trying," Peony agrees.
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LMAO

Yeah, she does seem to be acclimating to us again. Which is great.
Gazetteer said:
She also kept saying that she'd been instructed in the ritual by a guest instructor who no one else seemed to recall in the slightest. Which could probably be attributed to a side effect of the initiation in question — say what one would of your pact with Diamond-Cut Perfection, you hadn't become a sorcerer by defiling your own soul. At least Amiti is no longer at risk of failing out of the Heptagram due to lack of sorcerous talent. Even if a sorcerer isn't quite what she's made herself into.
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Who didn't see this coming? It's a great vibe for her though.
Gazetteer said:
"Ogh, Ambraa!" Amiti garbles your name slightly, trying to speak around a mouthful of jewelry. She spits the pendant out, the piece of black, teardrop-shaped metal seeming to shift hideously under your brief scrutiny as it falls back to hanging around her neck. "Oh, Ambraea!" she says, more clearly.

"Hello, Amiti," you say. "That really is an appalling habit, you know."

Amiti actually rolls her eyes. "It's my soul that went into it in the first place -- it's fine. And it tastes like copper."

You stare for a long second, trying not to look too closely at the unnerving soulsteel pendant. "You mean, like blood?"

Amiti blinks, dangling the pendant up by its chain to examine it, as if for the first time. "Oh. I suppose? It only really bleeds sometimes, when I'm doing too much casting all at once. Usually it just makes a lot of noise."
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LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

God, I love her.
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You look out over the room again, trying to catch the eye of the servant offering the exceptionally bracing Chalanese coffee you'd tried when you first arrived. Instead, you lock eyes with a girl you haven't met yet.

Slender, dark-haired, mortal — a year or two older than you at most. Her clothes have a strikingly martial bent to them, while not outright falsely claiming military rank she doesn't have. Most surprisingly to you, rather than looking away or pretending she hadn't noticed you, she meets your gaze steadily, offering a small, intrigued smile.
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Oh? What have we here?
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"That would explain it," Vahelo says, a little cryptically. Her eyes fall on your neck, where you can feel Verdigris sliding out from the folds of your clothes again. There's perhaps a healthy amount of wariness there, but interest as well. Interest in the snake, or in following the pattern of quartz set into your skin, you're not sure.
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Yes. It's a mystery, is what that is.
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She has a swordswoman's build beneath the finery. And even when she's making a joke, or laughing in that sharp, carefree way, there's a certain keenness to her dark eyes. Like she's taking in more than you mean for her to — you don't exactly mind it in this case, however. Particularly given that she seems to be noticing you at least as much as you are her.
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GET SOOOOOOOOME

[X] Go with Vahelo
Erebeal said:
I mean there are lots of nice people there. We can't rule out, for example, the possibility of a torrid rivalry with Deiza!
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Fingers crossed! One of these days I'll surely convince people to vote for a Deiza option. Surely.

Raiseth said:
Unrelated to this,
Amiti feels like exactly the gal who will bathe the realms in the blood of her enemies in a few decades, but right now she is just adorably constipated about her social position. "People? I have to talk to them?! Gross."
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Hey, no reason she can't keep that vibe going. "You know, people are so much easier to talk to when they aren't alive."
 
Amiti is now best girl, good to know

[X] Go with Vahelo

Ambraea deserves to have fun and let off steam, she's under too much pressure
 
Randino Treviani said:
Hmm. Wait a minute. Does leaving mean we miss whatever Ambraea's brother Oban wanted us here for in the first place?
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I'm assuming the reason Oban wants us here is basically "scope her out". If so, either way is more just a data point than good answer, bad answer. Presumably, he can do a little more with "you think this woman in my House is cute enough to fool around with, I can do something with that" than "she's very reserved", but either way is more just... finding out.
 
VagueZ said:
I'm assuming the reason Oban wants us here is basically "scope her out". If so, either way is more just a data point than good answer, bad answer. Presumably, he can do a little more with "you think this woman in my House is cute enough to fool around with, I can do something with that" than "she's very reserved", but either way is more just... finding out.
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Lol. I'm pretty sure neither vote is that simple. None of the votes so far have failed to produce major consequences. Clearly something impactful develops in either situation, and now that I'm focused more on the chapter as a whole instead of just the vote itself, I can't help but wonder if Oban is working his way up to introducing ambraea to someone.
 
[] Go with Vahelo

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[x] Turn Vahelo down

On second thought, maybe a fling with a fellow Dynast would get in the way of more Prasadi ambitions.
 
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[x] Turn Vahelo down
Swatting ships is kinda my thing, and this feels political. I mean, sure, we need to learn to deal with at least some politics, and a splash of "Let's throw Val-clones at them to influence The Empress' latest daughter" is, hopefully, not the deepest end of "getting into politics" shenanigans, but, ergh, can't we just be a hermit? I mean, surely someday we will be spending the centuries alone at the peak of a solitary serpentine tower that dominates the surrounding toxic dreadlands, engrossing ourselves in snuffing out arcane mysteries and smiting the occasional band of heroic types who thought that slaying a witch was a good employment opportunity. What better opportunity than this to get a good start into our life as an asocialite!
 
Aunty Shi Ping said:
[x] Turn Vahelo down
Swatting ships is kinda my thing, and this feels political. I mean, sure, we need to learn to deal with at least some politics, and a splash of "Let's throw Val-clones at them to influence The Empress' latest daughter" is, hopefully, not the deepest end of "getting into politics" shenanigans, but, ergh, can't we just be a hermit? I mean, surely someday we will be spending the centuries alone at the peak of a solitary serpentine tower that dominates the surrounding toxic dreadlands, engrossing ourselves in snuffing out arcane mysteries and smiting the occasional band of heroic types who thought that slaying a witch was a good employment opportunity. What better opportunity than this to get a good start into our life as an asocialite!
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Ambraea is a daughter of the empress. She is political. She is literally the most political thing.
 
1337Procrast said:
Ambraea is a daughter of the empress. She is political. She is literally the most political thing.
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A thing which will fall into relative irrelevancy when the empress disappears a year or two prior to Ambraea's graduation. Granted I'm not arguing for Hermit, mearly pointing out that Ambraea is going to be a very small and unestablished Dragon blood in a time of relative turmoil with older more powerful syblings people will be more fixated on.

That said, leaving the room Ambraea's Esteemed elder brother who is...
Gazetteer said:
The husband of Matriarch Sesus Raenyah, he is a well known socialite and popular at court. And, you understand in the pit of your stomach, a very dangerous man, in his own way.
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...if we go by this discription, a master of courtroom politics, doesn't seem wise. Frankly he could be planning to play alliance peddler, and leaving the room for idle trysts now could cost us a worthwhile introduction he intended to make when time allowed.
 
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It is genuinely impossible to operate as the Empress' daughter among dynasts and avoid being 'political' in your choices. At this level everything social in the Realm is political and every option means something, even if that something is fairly minor.

Randino Treviani said:
A thing which will fall into relative irrelevancy when the empress disappears a year or two prior to Ambraea's graduation.
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This is a danger and not a relief. I don't think it's likely Ambraea will be able to avoid the fallout. And further, the less genuine allies and friends she has, the less likely she will have any ability to control what happens to her.
 
sometimes you're just a teenager and you get to have gay sex for fun. let her live a little!
 
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Brainbow said:
On second thought, maybe a fling with a fellow Dynast would get in the way of more Prasadi ambitions.
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I mean, it is very explicit in the vote that this is just a fling:
Gazetteer said:
This vote represents whether or not Ambraea pursues a casual hookup in the carefree days of her youth. This does not represent a binding romantic choice, nor will it rule out any future romantic choices. It will not be any particular mark against Ambraea within Dynastic society. Is she someone who will take this sort of opportunity when it comes her way?
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This is a character vote on whether Ambraea is somebody who ain't gonna say no to a little casual hookup if one comes her way. The QM has explicitly stated this is not some long-term strategic whatever thing.
 
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