un: absterge

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( 'lo, from the depths of the Mouse House, post-Unwinding: )

If... this were no dream. The child of the rains, bearing a vulpine mask. 'Hyang-Won' and his pale protector.

He is remembered? He did not appear as the other manifestations.

Though we have retrieves ourselves, we cannot abandon a child to nightmares.


( Guilt is strong among exorcists. )

Comments

text; un: mccoy

[biomed]

I agree.

( but also... )

Who was this 'beastmaster' you all encountered?

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Hyang-Won of Ke-Waihu, master of deathly beasts.

An undeath liege, slain.

[biomed]

( he takes a moment to absorb that. )

And this child could be him, or his son.

( it is, actually, a question. )

Did any of our... necromanticly-inclined teammates get a read off him, aside from anger? Did he feel like the people of Serthica?

( 'dead', he means. )

1/2

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Sound query.

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Villagers sacrificed the son to a volcano to cure drought.

His mother.

[biomed]

My god.

WAIT THERE'S MORE

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The volcano entrapped death, spirits, power, madness.

Sacrifices took this within themselves.

husband smh

[weifinder]

Might as well clarify more than stay so succinct, Lan Zhan.

There was a dark mirror present in the volcano itself that only those with significant protective ability could read, meaning Wrath and Emilia. Adding more of the dark water strengthened the cap, so the volcano wouldn't eradicate the villages that surrounded.

Also are we mentioning the people cursed into wolves? There were people cursed into wolves. Wolf-people. It was horrible.

he Tried????

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You yet lived.

he did Try

[weifinder]

Thanks granted to Sizhui.

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Also, a child rescued.

[weifinder]

More than one.

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The, you know my incentive.

[weifinder]

I know your caring. I know that longer paths are not abandonment, when their destinations remain intact.

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You think me reckless. Speak so.

[weifinder]

I think we don't have an easy avenue to be reckless on, Lan Zhan.

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Noted.

[weifinder]

I do not abandon the weak or defenseless.

Note that, too.

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Noted.

[weifinder]

His mother is the Huntress, who we assisted, some out of whatever guided themselves, myself at the cost of a promise out of the undead liege Anurr.

Her son didn't die in the time of his being 'sacrificed.' Speaking with the statues at the House of Ravens, he survived for a time after, and was not thrown into the depths of the volcano's maw.

thanks, he hates it

[biomed]

In light of... all of that, would he even permit any of us to rescue him?

[weifinder]

He might, if he's sane. He wasn't sounding as much so at the start, but most couldn't in that rain.

I don't know what it means when we're away from that place, but in that space, he felt alive.

[biomed]

Is there even a reliable way to get back there?

[weifinder]

Until we understand the mechanism behind the unwinding, beyond a select few who may have abilities which could, I don't believe there is yet.