This Hole Was Made For Me
Wessex
Nate Wrenzaok
the Lone (Free) Ranger
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Age: 37 | Height: 6'1" | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
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#1
– NATE –
He’d missed a lot. Between the giant chicken and the arsons and everything else that had eaten up his last few seasons things had slipped through his fingers. Honestly he had been content to leave the Prince thing as something in the rear view, until a figurative voice in his head told him he need to look in that mirror now, dipshit. Wessex at least is willing to get him back up to speed, to accompany him to the underground in an attempt to figure out what was so important.

Nate waits at the entrance of the underground, his boot tapping against the stone impatiently. Pemota swirls around him, ever careful of her spiralling horn in the tight quarters. There’s no effort made to be quiet, the demi-god trying to be as easy to find as possible. After all, the sooner the drop into the unknown, the sooner they can come back.

I had another vision.” Nate offers as soon as he’s aware of his sister, urgency trying to claw at his voice. “I think it’s about the Prince. And... wishes, and stairs.
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Wessex Theskyra
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#2
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Nate’s inquiry about the Prince gave Wessex much to think about, going over their last interaction with him to comb it for any clues about what might work better on the proto-Ascended. The conclusion she more or less comes to is that he is both stubborn and helpless, locked in his own mind until pushed beyond the breaking point, at which point he reacts instinctively. They have to do better.

So she comes with a pack off odd items, and Loki, because you never know when a companion might be able to soothe the beast.

The dragon croons a greeting to the starwhale, followed quickly by Wessex’s own. “Hey -” she begins, but is cut off.Oh. A beat. “Well, your visions have never been wrong before, we've just been shit at interpreting them. What was in this one?” Then she realizes something and looks around, curious. “No Sam?”

That’s odd. This is his pet project. She thought for sure he would be joining them.
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Nate Wrenzaok
the Lone (Free) Ranger
"Doctor" / Guildmaster

Age: 37 | Height: 6'1" | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
Level: 10 - Strg: 55 - Dext: 45 - Endr: 50 - Luck: 46 - Int: 1
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– NATE –
Immediately, Pemota moves to greet Loki warmly, nudging the bulk of her body into the dragon with a pleased trill. "It was... treasure doesn't look like treasure, and you don't always have to dig for it, and then..." Nate snaps his fingers, trying to summon the words that had been, until only a moment ago, at the very forefront of his mind. "Step by step to the last, and a wish granted, and a frog prince, which," he gestures around them at the tunnels, one part easy to figure out at least.

As for Sam? "He never responded to my letter, so..." Nate shrugs, not letting his irritation bleed into his features too much. This was definitely something that felt like it needed as many hands as they could spare, but if it was just going to be him and Wessex then fine, they'd handle it.

Though, at least at this point, she'd have to take the lead. She'd been on the last expedition, knew where the grave and the hole was, knew what they should be looking for. Apart from what he's been told, Nate really was going into this utterly blind.
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Wessex Theskyra
the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds

Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2
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#4
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The first part is puzzling enough, and Wessex mouths it to herself in the pause between clauses. It could mean any number of things. But when he gets to the part about the Frog Prince, a lightbulb goes off in her head. Of course. “The Last Step,” she says, trying to keep  her voice low and her expectations about being right even lower. “There’s a legend about it being able to grant wishes, that gods can be defeated and kings can be reborn. We saw some stuff down there that suggest’s the Prince’s name is Emyr King. I think we need to get him to the Last Step.”

Which is easier said than done.How is the question, though.” Pausing for a moment to consider going without Sam, Wessex can’t say that she’s inclined to wait. He hadn’t been the most helpful, hadn’t briefed them beforehand. “Alright, well, that’s odd. His loss.” And she adds a mental note to check in on the bookmaker after this. To see why he hadn’t responded.

“Do you need to get anything? I don’t think this will be a fighting thing. More like… luring an abused kid out of hiding and trying to gain his trust. He’s really fucked up. Trying to force him and guilt him didn’t work last time - but he can be dangerous.” If Nate wants to go get something, she'll wait for him here, otherwise, they can start on down the tunnel.
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Nate Wrenzaok
the Lone (Free) Ranger
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Age: 37 | Height: 6'1" | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
Level: 10 - Strg: 55 - Dext: 45 - Endr: 50 - Luck: 46 - Int: 1
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#5
– NATE –
That... that makes sense.” At least more sense than anything Nate’d managed to come up with on his own. Though that left them with the far more complicated problem of convincing a living snot rocket to make a change of scenery, for reasons they didn’t even really understand. He rolls the thought around in his head, searching for a solution and leaving very little room for concern about Sam. “We just have to make this something worth missing, huh?

As for the Prince himself? “Sunjata told me a little bit about him. I’ve got uh,” he shakes his bag, trying to remember, “some treats, in case he can get better use out of them than us, a few books, and ‘Mota.” At the sound of her name, Pemota trills and slips around his shoulders once again. “And all my other usual... stupid bullshit stuff.” Obviously. He was ready.

And so they set out, Nate memorizing the twists and turns they take, just in case then end up being important, just in case they have to come back again.
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#6
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“Great. I’ve got this -” she holds up the rope again, “some frog-type snacks… dead bugs, mostly, a stuffed doll, a blanket…” and then she shrugs, because fuck if anything they have will actually be useful. “Loki, you might need to stay here,” she says to her companion, who has settled like a cat at her ankles. “Dragons haven’t always been Ascended-friendly.” and she doesn’t want to unconsciously raise any alarm bells in the Prince’s head.

So the black dragon remains above ground while Wessex leads Nate down into the Underground’s maze, until they come to the inscription on the wall, which the demigod recites from memory. “That says, My beloved Tallulah, I hope one day we will be together again. Until that day comes, know that you are in my thoughts and my heart always. Your beloved Prince and as they approach the grave, hopefully still open and able to pass through, she explains, “Tallulah King was Rae’s Champion in the last war, though I'm not so sure if that means she was a demigod or what. But it makes her connection to the Prince all the stranger.”
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Nate Wrenzaok
the Lone (Free) Ranger
"Doctor" / Guildmaster

Age: 37 | Height: 6'1" | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
Level: 10 - Strg: 55 - Dext: 45 - Endr: 50 - Luck: 46 - Int: 1
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#7
– NATE –
Nate is more than happy to follow after Wessex, an apologetic glance thrown back where Loki is left behind, even as Pemota follows after them, albeit at a distance. It’s another route Nate keeps track of silently, just in case, though admittedly his full attention is not on it this time.

Gears work slowly in Nate’s mind while they walk, chugging over something that didn’t quite sit right. He can’t work out what it is exactly though, not until they get to the inscription, and he stops completely, his brows furrowing. “What if... what if we don’t need to bring the Prince to the Last Step?” Nate turns to look at Wessex, his head cocked. “What if he’s going there himself? To wish them together again, or... something?” It doesn’t seem outside the realm of possibility, hell, it’s all but relatable, and that’s what makes him worry he might just be projecting.
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#8
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“Definite possibility,” Wessex readily agrees as she stands at the uncovered hole, uncoiling the rope to let Nate descend harmlessly.

She wouldn’t be surprised by anything these days, and with multiple interpretations to his visions, she can easily see this newly posited one being the case. “Since we’re already here, do you want to poke around a bit, just in case? There was a hole in his little cave that might lead somewhere. And the statues…” Shrugging, it’s clear she doesn’t have a concrete plan - if that wasn’t already obvious. “It’s a weird place down there, a second look can’t hurt, if you don’t mind.”

And if Nate says yes, she’ll hold the rope for him, giving a brief warning as they enter the Prince’s lair. “Careful, the slime on the walls is acidic or something,”
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Level: 10 - Strg: 55 - Dext: 45 - Endr: 50 - Luck: 46 - Int: 1
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#9
– NATE –
Fuck” Stupid, they should have caught that sooner. He should have caught it sooner. Nate sighs, rubbing at his face before taking hold of the rope and descending deeper into the acidic hell.

No, I don’t mind at all.” It was interesting to see what he’d missed out on after all. Statues and little rooms and gods know what else. “So... what exactly happened down here anyway? I only got bits and pieces out of Sunjata.” Nate lifts his brows in Wessex’s direction, curious to hear more.

Her warning is well timed, Nate snatching his hands back in close as they pass by the slime covered walls. “Even to us?” Obviously, considering the warning, but it was still curious.
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Wessex Theskyra
the Wraith
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Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2
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#10
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“Yeah. It’s weird,” Wessex confirms about the slime affecting them. “But then if he’s a prototype, it might make sense that she hadn’t ironed out all the problems yet.” Or maybe it wasn’t intentional and was a side effect? They’ll probably never know and the demigod resigns herself to wondering as she joins Nate in the slime-covered tunnel.

When they get to the hole where they last found the Prince, he is, obviously, nowhere to be found, as the last pair of Ascended who tromped through their would know. It’s a little disappointing, to say the least, but she can nevertheless show Nate the curiosities surrounding their potentially eldest brother weirdest cousin and then return above ground and take a pause to go into some other deep, dark holes.

{Fin}
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