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Post by Dionisia on Aug 13, 2023 1:22:25 GMT
Dio remains sitting still. Defeated.
"It is not the circle that is my grievance, i am used being held, being confined. I just want answers.
Fine i made my own life a prison, but if i had done nothing, my life would also be a prison.
Do what you want, seemingly i cannot make a difference, and i will not be heard."
She holds her open wrist with the other hand applying pressure.
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Post by Admin on Aug 14, 2023 4:15:23 GMT
Dio can feel that the woman is gone. The chanting continues, an in time, she hears the soft swish of the singers' robes and the sometimes sway to the music. All is dark but for the green glow of the summoning circle. And two reptilian eyes reflecting the light. A snake slithers toward her.
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Post by Dionisia on Aug 14, 2023 4:17:41 GMT
Dio sits up more straight seeing the reptilian eyes. She tilts her head slightly curious.
Watching the snake slither towards her doesn't give her alarm or fear. She is mostly just curious.
Her eyes follow the snake wondering what it'll do.
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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2023 2:55:07 GMT
The snake slithers close to the circle's edge and then begins to follow the circumference. Dio recognizes the animal she found in Kasaba so long ago. The chanting becomes louder. A hand reaches from the darkness trying to grab the snake, but it bites the woman's wrist. She stumbles back into the darkness, hissing in pain, and then Dio hars her fall dead. The chanting becomes even louder. The snake stops, looks at Dio, then the circle, and then plunges across. It begins to burn and writhe. The spell containing Dio has been weakened enough for her to escape.
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Post by Dionisia on Aug 21, 2023 11:11:19 GMT
Dio stares at the snake. Recognizing it from before Mathgamina her eyes widen. Especially when umut decides to sacrifice itself for her escape.
The Logrus she couldn't get going which she had learned earlier. She has no trumps or other means. Shapeshifting will take her to much energy to do. So on foot it is.
Dio crawls up on her feet and stumbles out of the circle. Hearing the chanting she decides to go the other way.
Hopefully the chaos of what happened will aid in her escape.
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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2023 1:19:13 GMT
The room is in complete darkness. Dio has to navigate by touch. The floor is flagstone, the wall too, once she reaches it. The room feels circular, maybe a gladiator pit or something of the sort. The chanting voices are from above, maybe on a viewing ledge or large space. She feels two ways out an open passageway or a stairway curving up to the chanters.
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Post by Dionisia on Aug 29, 2023 3:46:39 GMT
As Dio has no wish to be held again she feels.her way towards the passage way.
As long as the chanters don't come after her. Though they seem passive enough.
Dio moves slow and careful. Not that she has any other choice. Her body still feeling weak.
A fear springs around her heart. Is she back in Mathgamina. She hopes not but how did her snake get here.
A tear rolling down her face. Two now sacrificed their lives for her rescue.
Duo feels the urrge to sit down and give up. Though after a moment rest she keeps walking. Can't give up now. It would be disrespectful to the sacrifice of her snake.
Or to Dalt's memory. So many questions, why....
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Post by Admin on Sept 4, 2023 4:32:53 GMT
She finds herself in what must be a labyrinth. The passageway branches and curves and twists back on itself. Mostly of stone, but sometimes her way is tunneled through dirt with wooden posts to support the ceiling. Sometimes, there is a smell of burning wood on the draught that blows through the maze.
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Post by Dionisia on Sept 4, 2023 5:57:59 GMT
Dio keeps her right hand on the wall, stone or dirt, having no real way to mark it except for her blood which she needs.
She tries to keep track of things that stand out. She also.follows the scent of burning wood. Hoping it leads to a way out.
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Post by Admin on Sept 4, 2023 6:39:53 GMT
She comes to a place lit by 4 torches hanging on the walls. The passage splits into 5 different branches from this spot. The breeze blows more steady and a little stronger here. Does she wish to try heading upwind, downwind, or along one of the other 3 passages?
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Post by Dionisia on Sept 4, 2023 7:31:27 GMT
Giving her eyes time to adjust to the light. She tests if one of the torches can be lifted from its standard.
If it can, she moves on downwind with light.
If not, she still goes downwind, but at the beginning of the pathway, she gives herself some time to let her eyes adjust again.
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Post by Admin on Sept 23, 2023 3:21:45 GMT
A torch can be removed from the sconce. Dio follows the breeze through the winding, twisting, branching tunnels. She crosses skeletons and bones scattered about the floor. A few skeletons are partially embedded in the walls of the tunnels. Many wear golden jewelry and headdresses. She sees no other living thing except for a few beetles.
Her trail comes to an end in a cave. Freshwater sloshes about a shore. Across the water, she sees the exit from the labyrinth and the later lights hanging from boats on the water. There is a smell of smoke in the air.
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Post by Dionisia on Sept 23, 2023 3:49:49 GMT
Seeing the skeletons she now and then stops. Looking at the type of headdresses and jewelry. She might not be so universally travelled, but perhaps she had read somethjng or seen pictures in books when studying sirh Lord Suhuy.
Hearing the water and seeing the boats she stands a moment. Are the boats further on the water or ar the shore?
Dio tries to sense with her normal sense od smell if the smoke is on the draft she has been following. And if it is more campfire or burning other stuff then wood (houses, fabric people) fire
As long as she hears noone near Dio takes a moment rest.
She kneels closer to the shore to lighten up part of the water. To see if it looks fresh or if stuff is floating in it.
She also tosses a pebble in the water to see if anything lives underneath the surface.
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2023 5:07:08 GMT
The jewelry on the dead is a style she recognizes from her adventure in the museum in Cairo. The boats, out beyond the cave, also are of a style she recognizes from her time in that city. The water is fresh, from a river or lake, and from what she can see, only small fishes dart about near the shore.
The smoke is a mix of many different smells: wood, clay, fabrics, paper, and flesh.
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 3, 2023 5:33:57 GMT
Dio stands (i kind of assume naked, or have the people with the circle and the chanting dressed her?)
She searches her side of the coast for a boat or something.
If she finds a boat, she uses that the cross the waters.
If she finds no boat. She hopes to find something that floats to help her swim in her current state. A plank big enough or other floating debris. Dio steps in the water till her knees are submerged. She waits for a moment to see if a predator fish decides to attack or check things out.
This is to be sure enough that she can safely cross herself.
When no nibbling or attack happens, Dio uses her floating something to swim across the water. Where there is smoke there mihht be people... or all the people are on fire. Either way it might mean an outside. And sinde the boats are on that side. People have crossed the water to go further that way.
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