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Post by Admin on Mar 20, 2023 4:45:43 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/VVJgGZv/jurt~png "You are wise to confirm your loyalty to me. This promise to assist Flora is a problem unless a wise action could be construed as helping. I must think on it."Merlin sits pondering for a minute, idly twisting the ring on his middle finger around and around. "Suhuy's reasons are his own. No one considers him as mad as Dworkin is supposed to be, but he does things that aren't easily explained. He's probably working on a higher level than the rest of us."
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Post by Derek on Mar 22, 2023 12:19:55 GMT
I wanted to extend the olive branch to Florimel because I guarantee you she is 1000% smarter than anyone gives her credit for. She is very good at the long game. She is a child of the unicorn and very conniving, but I believe she can be swayed away from conflict or possibly an unfortunate thing could occur to her if she fails at a very fundamental level.
*looks to Merlin*
I will serve the serpent first and I will act in the capacity which maximizes our ability to achieve the upper hand.
I would like to understand the machinations of Amber. I can be a better asset this way.
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2023 6:15:04 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/5TGr3y5/jurt~png "You are undoubtedly correct. She played up her looks and, let's say, flighty nature to convince her brothers that she was of no concern. That she was able to run that con for centuries which also allowed her to spend her time at parties, in romances, and with dangerous liaisons, proves her smarter than those forming armies, marching around in rain and mud, and being miserable. But smart doesn't always mean being able to lead. Somehow she let our cousins interfere in Court affairs which have angered some Houses and embarrassed me.
"Do you wish to understand Amber or the Amberites? My father is causing a great disturbance from his throne in Paris. The Hendrakes, Gallowglass, and Thyrsan Houses are marching out to meet him."
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Post by Derek on Mar 30, 2023 16:15:53 GMT
*Looks to the side out into the darkness created by the light of the fire*
"Would you like another set of eyes on that Your Majesty?"
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Post by Admin on Apr 2, 2023 4:36:07 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/xFzNPTq/merlin~png "I couldn't have come up with a better suggestion myself," Marlin says. Ochre and yellow-coloured bands surround Derek, first wide, then contracting. As they tighten, Derek feels himself being sent away. "If you see Jaxiam, don't forget to kill him..." Merlin says as Derek disappears. Derek is reformed somewhere in Shadow. Standing on a cliff edge, the first thing he notices is a wall of black a few feet from him ahead of him. It rises into the lavender sky as far as he can see and extends to either side also as far as he can see. Slimey globs of grey float on the black surface, stretching, twisting, and occasionally splaying out into a rainbow of colour before clumping back into greyness. Hypnotic to stare at, it is almost like a strange grey oil floating on black water. It looks new since the rock it slices through hasn't had time to weather. The wall cuts clean through what was once a mountainside. To his left, over the edge of the cliff, there are the remains of the Courts' army, a field hospital - full of the injured, trains of mules and other pack animals, labourers, and a few soldiers. This must be the rear of the army Merlin mentioned. The rest? Inside the blackness, one would suppose. To his right, ten yards away, wedged into a crack in the rock, is a trump card. Tilted, it is caught between this place and the blackness, half here, the other half is??
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Post by Derek on Apr 21, 2023 4:22:38 GMT
*grabs the trump card and surveys it*
"Is this one of mine?" Derek muses in a murmur.
"Who do we have here?" Brings up Logrus to assist ion the process.
*Heads down to the field hospital assuming demon form, Logrus up and ready for shenanigans*
Announces himself as he heads into the biggest tent.
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Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2023 5:51:10 GMT
[OOC: What is Derek's demon form?]
The card comes out with the slightest resistance. The image is of a place Derek has never seen before. Blue sky, yellow sun, green hills, a small stream, stone farmhouse surrounded by a short stone wall, sheep on the hills, washing line extending from corner of the house to a tree, pinned clothes waving in the breeze.
The remains of the army greet Derek, and he is led away from the largest tent to a medical tent where the great General Barsson rests. Both his legs are mostly gone, one arm severed below the elbow; he is a mass of bandages. His breath rasps in the dim coolness of the tent.
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Post by Derek on Apr 25, 2023 11:41:14 GMT
[OOC: Do I know this General B?]
[Demon Form: big black scaly with a smattering of symmetrical horns]
*gets a measure of the tent and its environs*
"How can I be of assistance General?"
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2023 5:37:45 GMT
OOC: Barsson is famous enough that all have heard of him. Derek may have met him; your choice.]
The general's hand slowly rises and points to Derek. His voice rasps and croaks.
"Avenge me. Death to Corwin and his kin. Death to the traitor Jaxiam. Revenge!" He falls back weakened, breathing shallow phlegmy gasps.
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Post by Derek on May 1, 2023 1:43:24 GMT
"Talk to me Barsson, what in the eye of Chaos is going on here?" (with feeling)
*Takes in the room and those present*
*assess wounds on Barsson with the Logrus*
*searches for the presence of others in the area obfuscated in any way*
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Post by Admin on May 3, 2023 6:00:50 GMT
Barsson has passed out from the effort of speaking. A nurse warns Derek that further disturbance of the general might kill him. His Logrus sight shows nothing other than what he saw with his eyes: both legs and one arm servered. A few slighter wounds but nowhere near as serious as the severing.
Outside he sees more of the wounded soldiers and medics. The great black wall has shrunk a small amount. No one is seen hiding.
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Post by Derek on May 4, 2023 15:03:14 GMT
*goes off a bit and pulls out the Trump he found earlier*
*Looks about, and then bears the Logrus upon the card to ascertain artist origin or anything special about it*
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Post by Admin on May 5, 2023 4:36:17 GMT
It is a trump card and will transport the one using it to the indicated place unless it is some trap crafted with a skill beyond Derek's ken.
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Post by Derek on May 21, 2023 18:41:51 GMT
*Takes a deep breath, pulls up the Logrus while in Demonform*
"For you my liege" under his breath.
*begins to bring the Trump card into focus*
*let's the experience wash over him and begins to assess for threats*
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Post by Admin on May 24, 2023 5:06:06 GMT
The card doesn't appear threatening under his Logrus sight.
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