From being an Abandoned who had rarely left the Hollowed Grounds, to embracing the call of adventure, to dying and being reborn first as an Ascended and then as an Ancient, Maea has gone through quite the amount of changes in her life. One thing remains common, though, in her attempts to find out just where she belongs; she’s always had a craving for knowledge which has brought her to so many places and to meet so many people here in Caido. We can’t wait to see what else is in store for her!
Congratulations, Maea!
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Oh abso-fucking-lutely not. At the sight of the land shark Ianto is all but certain he’s wet his pants, a few choice curses slipping from his lips that the Fae (and Delphia) will easily be able to discern. Feathers scatter through his red hair before he jumps to the skies and becomes a brightly coloured cardinal. Fly! he urges the others, in case they haven’t realised what the fuck is going on yet.
As for Delphia and her massively bleeding leg? Sorry lady, but you brought a coward along with you. Besides, she’s Mort’s daughter - this shit should be fine, right? Right. That’s what he tells himself anyway, because he’s not touching down again until this is sorted.
Pain seared through her leg, a sort of pain like she had never experienced before (and certainly hoped to never experience again). The attack sent her flying to the side and she landed on the ground hard, Tishy yowling in alarm. Delphia herself had a few choice words as she grabbed at her leg, echoing Ianto's sentiments. Her skin began to grow taught and decay, her stress showing as she seemed to wither away to a zombie-esque form before their eyes. And though her travelling friends could fly, she could not - but that didn't mean she would be helpless to the Landshark's mercy. She and Tishy would seem to disappear, fading into Mort's realm.
Landshark can't eat what isn't technically there now can it? Also it was very difficult to bleed from legs which also didn't technically exist.
Gritting her teeth, Delphia slammed her ghostly hand towards the ground as it rumbled beneath her. Reaching out with her powers, she tried to pull the soul from the landshark straight from its body.
Delphia swears, becomes a spoop ghost to stop the bleeding and prevent further monches, and tries to rip the soul from the Landshark's body.
Abilities used:
Magic: Spiritual Guide | Able to remove trapped spiritual entities from a location/object and release into the environment. Can also remove the soul from a living person and send to Mort (requires character/admin permission).
Type: Light | Rank: Mastered
Magic: Living Dead | Becomes a ghost for a short period of time. Is completely incorporeal / transparent and cannot affect the environment. The temperature drops in a 10ft vicinity of her. Cannot be clearly heard except occasional vague whispers. Lasts for 5 minutes x her endurance stat.
Type: Grey | Rank: Upgraded
Greatwood Citizen | Animals know to respect you. During PQ/PQ+/KQs/Drops, animals roll with disadvantage against you. (In order to use this, make sure to note the ability at the bottom of each post)
Delphia
i just choose to feed mine
Code blatantly stolen from the fantastical, wonderful Odd
The landshark attack was swift and brutal. It took a chunk out of Delphia's leg before the group had a chance to react. However, Alina was already moving by the time Ianto made his suggestion. Leaping into the air she pumped her wings, trying to fly straight up and not let the sandstorm buffet her from side to side.
As she was leaving the ground, though, she employed her limited glamour. It wasn't much, but she tried to make a loud thumping sound as far away from the group as possible in an attempt to draw the landshark away at least a little and maybe distract it from another attack.
Alina uses her glamour to try and make a loud thumping sound on the ground five feet from the group to try and draw the landshark's attention and then flies straight up.
Base Illusion: Can create minor sensory effects within a 5ft radius
Type: Grey | Rank: Basic
Greatwood Citizen | Animals know to respect you. During PQ/PQ+/KQs/Drops, animals roll with disadvantage against you. (In order to use this, make sure to note the ability at the bottom of each post)
In the air both Alina and Ianto have utterly lost the attention of the landshark. Like leaving the water when dealing with a normal shark, it is only those still in its ocean that it worries about. Just Nephele and Delphia.
With Delphia suddenly gone somehow (and with her the delicate tang of her blood), there is only Nephele to focus on. Though the fae's animal-magnetism goes far to protect her, this is not a creature of the Greatwood. Perhaps that is why it is not as susceptible to her charm. Ignoring completely the thumpAlina produces, the shark lunges out of the air and towards the copper-haired fae. However as Delphia 's magic slams against the creature it is thrown off-course. What might have been a life-ending blow merely grazes the foot of the fae.
Thrashing, and not at all wanting its soul torn from its body, the Landshark dives back down into the sand.
Your randomly chosen order is: Nephele, Ianto, Delphia, Alina. Please post within 48 hours of the person before you, or you will be skipped and you will not be able to count this PQ+ for levelling/MP. And to ensure that nothing is missed, please include a summary of your actions at the bottom of your post, including the description of any magic/items/feats that are being utilized!
Hesitation and hectic movement are nearly the end of her. The roiling beneath the sand, the gleaming teeth and predatory inclinations momentarily daze and freeze her. Alina and Ianto - unaware of his forms, she at least assumes he has a flighted one - take to the sky. Nephele hesitates, uncertain of leaving the demigoddess. It’s something that nearly comes back to bite her in the ass. Quite literally.
However as Delphia strikes true and the landshark is distracted, Nephele takes immediately to the skies, her chakrams already in her palm. She hovers there, relieved to be able to get off her newly injured foot. Should they continue trying to attack? Have they scared it off? Nephele isn’t sure, but she reaches for her magic anyway, the sound of a wounded animal coming to mind easily with her life experience in the woods. Nephele directs the magic towards the sand and as far from the party as possible, hoping the landshark might be momentarily distracted by the idea of easier prey.
Nephele flies into the air and uses her magic to try and make the sound of a wounded animal with it to distract the landshark.
Base Illusion: Can create minor sensory effects within a 5ft radius
Type: Grey | Rank: Basic
Citizenship Abulity
Animals know to respect you. During PQ/PQ+/KQs/Drops, animals roll with disadvantage against you. (In order to use this, make sure to note the ability at the bottom of each post)
Items
Type: Dark
Ludo's Rags | A shawl made of pitch dark, lightweight material. The wearer will not feel cold or the effects of the cold, regardless of the temperature. You look spooky.
Type: Dark
Lasracha | A pair of chakrams. The outer rim of these throwing discs are sharpened to a razor's edge, and glint with a curious crimson. Imbued with fire, they burn as well as they cut.
that red riding hood knew exactly what she was doing when she let the wild in
Ianto did not sign up for this. Sure, he could womble through a dust storm and pretend that he’s interested in whatever the hell lies on the other side, but land sharks? Nah. A thousand times, nah. The problem, of course, is that there’s no way to tell which way is up or down any more, and he can’t see further into the storm or back towards the Greatwood. Ianto is lost, and there’s teeth in a huge mouth beneath them.
So the cardinal pumps his wings to try to climb higher, wondering if he might escape above the dust storm so he can better get his bearings. The rest of the group? Gone, in his mind. What do you expect, inviting a coward along for the ride?
Ianto does a Ianto and flies higher, hoping to get above the storm so he can see where he is. (And run home.)
Delphia gritted her teeth, feeling the Landshark pull against her will. Faintly, she could hear the loud thump, the cries of a wounded animal, but for the moment she had to focus. This was a great beast - and a great threat - on par with the Ghost Whales. However, unlike the whales who swam through water, the earth was far too solid for her to glide through in her ghostly form to get closer to her target. The only saving grace she had for the moment was that she already had a grip on it's soul she was loathe to lose. And so Delphia tugged back, rising to her feat and lifting her hands above her head, desperately trying to draw the soul away from the body of the beast.
Delphia continues to try and pull away the soul of the Landshark while in her spoop ghost form.
Abilities used:
Magic: Spiritual Guide | Able to remove trapped spiritual entities from a location/object and release into the environment. Can also remove the soul from a living person and send to Mort (requires character/admin permission).
Type: Light | Rank: Mastered
Magic: Living Dead | Becomes a ghost for a short period of time. Is completely incorporeal / transparent and cannot affect the environment. The temperature drops in a 10ft vicinity of her. Cannot be clearly heard except occasional vague whispers. Lasts for 5 minutes x her endurance stat.
Type: Grey | Rank: Upgraded
Greatwood Citizen | Animals know to respect you. During PQ/PQ+/KQs/Drops, animals roll with disadvantage against you. (In order to use this, make sure to note the ability at the bottom of each post)
Delphia
i just choose to feed mine
Code blatantly stolen from the fantastical, wonderful Odd
As the landshark surfaced near Nephele, Alina shouted a warning. However, something distracted the creature. The huntress narrowed her eyes as Delphia remained on the ground. Something was going on with the daughter of Mort, but she hadn't called for help so Alina didn't offer any.
Instead, she slung her bow off her back and nocked an arrow. Pulling the string back, she aimed at the ground. If the landshark attacked again, she would shoot it.
A flash of movement and color caught her peripheral vision. Ianto, still in the form of a cardinal, had taken to the skies. The huntress yelled after him, "Don't you dare flee!"
Alina stays in the sky and prepares to shoot an arrow. If the landshark appears, she'll shoot at it.
Greatwood Citizen | Animals know to respect you. During PQ/PQ+/KQs/Drops, animals roll with disadvantage against you. (In order to use this, make sure to note the ability at the bottom of each post)
Having already taken a dive, the landshark does not hear the sound meant to distract it created by Nephele. As Ianto flies upward his small body is battered about by the highwinds. His small body is thrown around like a ragdoll, offering him no insight and straining his wings for his efforts. Had Delphia let the beast be, it might have just swam off deciding that these meddlesome humans weren't worth its time. However as its soul was once again tugged upon, the blade of Delphia's will tearing through it, it streaks towards the surface once again.
Alina 's arrow flies true and it sticks into the massive snout of the shark, though it doesn't do as much damage as she might like. Roaring its displeasure, the beast looks around for a target but sees very little, what with the two fae hovering out of reach, Ianto lost in the storm above, and Delphia gone from view.
Your randomly chosen order is: Nephele, Ianto, Delphia, Alina. Please post within 48 hours of the person before you, or you will be skipped and you will not be able to count this PQ+ for levelling/MP. And to ensure that nothing is missed, please include a summary of your actions at the bottom of your post, including the description of any magic/items/feats that are being utilized!
Alina’s cry directs her attention to the fact that Ianto has seemingly disappeared from view. Perhaps intending to disappear entirely? Nephele does not bother to add her voice to the fray, if the man intends to abandon them she’ll not waste her energy on trying to convince him otherwise. Not with a predator down below who now begins to thrash around from direct contact with an arrow and...whatever Delphia is doing.
”Shall we try to evade it in the air?” she calls to those around her. Nephele is too scientific to see the use in fighting the creature. They are capable of flight; the storm may dissuade them eventually, but perhaps they can at least outpace the shark before then? Why waste energy on a task they didn’t even set out to accomplish?
Hoping to further dissuade the creature, Nephele tries for an auditory illusion as it’s above ground, this time a sharp piercing noise to hopefully scare it off. Chakrams at the ready but otherwise unneeded with the distance between herself and the ground.
Nephele suggests outflying the landshark if possible. Uses her illusion magic to make a sharp sound to try and disorient/scare off the shark while it’s above ground.
Base Illusion: Can create minor sensory effects within a 5ft radius
Type: Grey | Rank: Basic
Citizenship Abulity
Animals know to respect you. During PQ/PQ+/KQs/Drops, animals roll with disadvantage against you. (In order to use this, make sure to note the ability at the bottom of each post)
Items
Type: Dark
Ludo's Rags | A shawl made of pitch dark, lightweight material. The wearer will not feel cold or the effects of the cold, regardless of the temperature. You look spooky.
Type: Dark
Lasracha | A pair of chakrams. The outer rim of these throwing discs are sharpened to a razor's edge, and glint with a curious crimson. Imbued with fire, they burn as well as they cut.
that red riding hood knew exactly what she was doing when she let the wild in
He’s made a mistake in his cowardly panic, to the surprise of absolutely no one. The dust storm buffets him this way and that, yanking at his wings and causing a pained trill to leave his beak. He doesn’t know where he is, or where the rest of the group are in relation to him, and eventually Ianto just has to let himself freefall to give himself a break. The gale whips him somewhere within the range of Nephele and Alina’s cries.
Flapping hard now to try and stay aloft, he’s doing his best not to get blown away, or - worse - blown into the landshark’s mouth. Not fleeing. Just taking in the view. His Attuned voice sounds perfectly terrified. Where do you need me? Anywhere not near the shark, please.
Ianto reappears (by accident, not by design) and offers his services.
09-09-2020, 11:27 PM (This post was last modified: 09-11-2020, 08:05 PM by Delphia.)
we all have demons
Delphia could feel the Landshark's soul losen slightly, giving to her call. But it is only a brief victory as it is pulled back one more, the creature's will to live fierce. The daughter of death gritted her death, pulling once more on its soul as it surged to the surface, her ghost form keeping her both safe and invisible to its eye. Once this process began she was loathe to give in, for the call of Mort's realm was absolute and inescapable.
She probably should have let it go...but she thought it better dealt with while they knew where it was.
Delphia continues to try and pull away the soul of the Landshark while in her spoop ghost form.
Abilities used:
Magic: Spiritual Guide | Able to remove trapped spiritual entities from a location/object and release into the environment. Can also remove the soul from a living person and send to Mort (requires character/admin permission).
Type: Light | Rank: Mastered
Magic: Living Dead | Becomes a ghost for a short period of time. Is completely incorporeal / transparent and cannot affect the environment. The temperature drops in a 10ft vicinity of her. Cannot be clearly heard except occasional vague whispers. Lasts for 5 minutes x her endurance stat.
Type: Grey | Rank: Upgraded
Greatwood Citizen | Animals know to respect you. During PQ/PQ+/KQs/Drops, animals roll with disadvantage against you. (In order to use this, make sure to note the ability at the bottom of each post)
Delphia
i just choose to feed mine
Code blatantly stolen from the fantastical, wonderful Odd
When Alina's arrow sank into the shark she let out a fierce battle cry. However, even she would admit that her attack did little damage to the beast. Glancing at Nephele, the huntress pointed at Delphia below them. "Unless she can fly, I don't see how we can all evade it. The rest of us should stay up here, though."
Then Ianto's words reached Alina and she narrowed her eyes. "Safrin's stars," she snarled, the beginning of a curse. Putting away her bow, she held out her hand for the Attuned, trying to get him to land on her. "Just perch on me for now." Still, her mouth twisted into a grimace.
Alina tries to have Ianto land safely on her.
Greatwood Citizen | Animals know to respect you. During PQ/PQ+/KQs/Drops, animals roll with disadvantage against you. (In order to use this, make sure to note the ability at the bottom of each post)
None of you can see Delphia. Though your familiarity with the demigoddess of death tells you that she's probably just slipped into the spiritual realm. How long she can stay there you don't know, and for now until she appears again, you can't even ask. For her part, Delphia is still managing to keep her tether on the landshark despite how it twists and turns within the earth. The sand heaves as the great creature below tries to break free the restraints.
So what do you do?
Your randomly chosen order is: Nephele, Ianto, Delphia, Alina. Please post within 48 hours of the person before you, or you will be skipped and you will not be able to count this PQ+ for levelling/MP. And to ensure that nothing is missed, please include a summary of your actions at the bottom of your post, including the description of any magic/items/feats that are being utilized!
