audio | un: yiling patriarch

[weifinder]

We've just heard from our friend Haltham about the fighting between Unhalad and Anurr forces nearby, so here's a question for everyone, brought up originally by our companions who got themselves drugged and fight-happy against the second living: what actions do you think we should or shouldn't take?

In Haltham's encouraging words, think wisely. Whatever we're doing or not doing has an effect by merit of choice. Also, a reminder that we still need to not end up in either's hands or revealing our location, given the reason we were summoned here has not changed, and our deaths can be a benefit to either side. Our lives benefit ourselves and our rescuers and the peoples here, by keeping us out of warlord hands.

( He's not opening up with his thoughts because he doesn't want it as a discussion against his take, but as people offering their thoughts after he asks the question. )

Comments

[weifinder]

( Abducting people without permission is still abducting, even if you're doing it to try and save them. He's just saying! )

No one should.

Eleven, with how your magic is powered, do you or your companion from home have a, I don't know, a sort of internal source of energy that powers these things? We have another member of our group who says he can create a confusion array, to lever against the two forces here in an effort to free the captives. Only he needs outside spiritual energies of some kind to assist, and that's not something I can help with, as I am.

[bearshermark]

[His response appears slowly, as though thinking through the words as he writes]

Magic is an internal source of power, though I don't know if I could say it's spiritual. I did have something like that once, but it was stolen from me.

[weifinder]

I'll be honest in saying I don't know how much the 'spiritual' part plays itself directly. However, I'm sorry to hear of your loss, Eleven. That had to be hard.

( Giving up one's spiritual core is one thing. Having it taken away is something altogether different. )

[bearshermark]

[Awkward. Perhaps he should have just said he lost it, as though a spiritual core is something one just misplaces]

Well, I lived at least.

[Barely, thanks to mermaids]

But I could try to help. We could test it, and see if magic will substitute.

[weifinder]

Living is an admirable first step in that process, yes.

If you're willing, then you can speak with him here, you'll hear him talking too. You don't have to, either. Know that, Eleven.

[bearshermark]

I'll give it some thought, thanks.