i'm a lost cause, do it the way I want
The pull catches under Vesper’s ribs like a hook, and the world tears sideways. He arrives with sand under his boots and Colt at his back.
That part he knows before he understands anything else. Not where he is, not what’s happened, not why the desert’s laid open around him in broken wagons and butchered pack animals and cactus flesh shining wetly in the sun. Just Colt, close enough behind him that the knowledge of her is immediate and viciously clarifying.
Then the Dreamhollow turns.
Vesper’s teeth set hard enough for his jaw to ache. There’s no time to ask, no time to make sense of the way the wreckage seems to double and shiver at the edges, no time for the curse that drags hot and low through the back of his throat as the thing’s many eyes find him. His hand lifts, fingers curling as shadow condenses in his palm, darker than the black beneath a closed door, heavier than night, and the dark matter snaps forward.
It doesn’t fly so much as unfold, bursting from his hand in three separate lengths of absolute black. They lash across the sand like living things, each one thickening as it goes, one striking for the creature’s chest, one for the hinge of a forelimb, one whipping high toward that narrow, many-eyed head. Where they pass, the light seems to give up around them, the desert briefly carved into strips of nothing.
Vesper doesn’t wait to see if it’s enough and instead he turns fast enough that the edge of his coat cuts through the hot wind, and for one bare second Colt is there in front of him: real, alive, too far from safe and too close to all the things he’s never learned how to say cleanly. His mouth opens, and a thousand things crowd his tongue all at once. "Be—" And then the channel breaks, taking him with it.
Vesper sends 3 bolts of dark matter at the creature.
Magic: Dark Matter Tendrils | Vesper may condense dark matter into tendrils. Control is excellent, and multiple tendrils may be created at once. (In quests or other combat situations requiring dice rolling, only 3 tendrils may be created per post). Range 60ft.
Type: Dark | Rank: Mastered | Cost: Action
Regional Score bonus: +5 in all shrine visits, drops, PQ+s, KQs, etc. (You must post this at the bottom of any post where a +5 should be included). Residents cannot be cursed at shrines in this region.
That part he knows before he understands anything else. Not where he is, not what’s happened, not why the desert’s laid open around him in broken wagons and butchered pack animals and cactus flesh shining wetly in the sun. Just Colt, close enough behind him that the knowledge of her is immediate and viciously clarifying.
Then the Dreamhollow turns.
Vesper’s teeth set hard enough for his jaw to ache. There’s no time to ask, no time to make sense of the way the wreckage seems to double and shiver at the edges, no time for the curse that drags hot and low through the back of his throat as the thing’s many eyes find him. His hand lifts, fingers curling as shadow condenses in his palm, darker than the black beneath a closed door, heavier than night, and the dark matter snaps forward.
It doesn’t fly so much as unfold, bursting from his hand in three separate lengths of absolute black. They lash across the sand like living things, each one thickening as it goes, one striking for the creature’s chest, one for the hinge of a forelimb, one whipping high toward that narrow, many-eyed head. Where they pass, the light seems to give up around them, the desert briefly carved into strips of nothing.
Vesper doesn’t wait to see if it’s enough and instead he turns fast enough that the edge of his coat cuts through the hot wind, and for one bare second Colt is there in front of him: real, alive, too far from safe and too close to all the things he’s never learned how to say cleanly. His mouth opens, and a thousand things crowd his tongue all at once. "Be—" And then the channel breaks, taking him with it.
Vesper sends 3 bolts of dark matter at the creature.
Magic: Dark Matter Tendrils | Vesper may condense dark matter into tendrils. Control is excellent, and multiple tendrils may be created at once. (In quests or other combat situations requiring dice rolling, only 3 tendrils may be created per post). Range 60ft.
Type: Dark | Rank: Mastered | Cost: Action
Regional Score bonus: +5 in all shrine visits, drops, PQ+s, KQs, etc. (You must post this at the bottom of any post where a +5 should be included). Residents cannot be cursed at shrines in this region.
☆ has a pale star tattoo beneath his left eye, and freckle-sized constellations move across his skin
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
