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Post by Dionisia on Mar 6, 2024 20:13:10 GMT
Dio does the same she looks at the two Lords.
((Waiting wirh posting, to knew some9ne.))
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Post by Admin on Mar 10, 2024 3:58:04 GMT
"Shroudlings? The vampires of legend?" Despil asks.
"A strange and interesting tale, Dionisia. I find the fact that you returned to the convent after assaying the Logrus to be of greatest interest. The thing is supposed to set us free. Did they tell you why?" Mandor asks.
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Post by Dionisia on Mar 10, 2024 7:16:33 GMT
Dio shakes her head. Looking a touch sad. .
"No Lord Mandor. Just that i was made ready, and that my parents will collect me when it is time. Mother Superior was very vague around it and ended any discussion quick. And i had learned to not push it or the sister of enforced repentance would end the issue quickly."
Dio winches a bit. She might have been stronger then the sisters but she feared the punishment.
"After i was trained and came into my powers, i was worked harder. Kept seperate from the other girls. Worked more often in the enclosed cellars, or temple parts of the convent. Was alowed less sleep, less food, to keep me humble they said. I figure now they did this to keep me weak enough to stay there."
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Post by Maeve on Mar 11, 2024 8:24:45 GMT
Maeve nods to Despile. "Yes those."
She listens to Mandor question and Dio respond.
"I have not much knowledge about the Convent of Cruel Prince Julian. What is known of the convent for whom do they work?"
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Post by Dionisia on Mar 11, 2024 13:06:27 GMT
Dio shrugs a bit
"I wouldn't know for who they work, or how to find out, like i said most nuns are dead or at least the ones that at first did hunt me. Though i had a sense they are still looking for me.
i think you have a good point though Maeve, stopping the nuns for hunting me might be a good first step. "
Dio turns to Mandor and Despil.
"Any idea how to on that part? stopping the nuns of hunting me down. because even if i wouldn't pursue any more information about myself. everyone who travels with me is in danger of falling in harms way of being hunted. So a danger for those around me anyway. "
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Post by Maeve on Mar 11, 2024 13:23:38 GMT
Maeve looks to Mandor if he has advice for Dio.
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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2024 6:31:18 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/HtyfnC2/despil~png "I have had a centuries-long fascination with torture and the infliction of pain. Much of my Ways here are dedicated to those pursuits. I would enjoy bringing that sister of yours here to see how she fares against my techniques." "Amber cults are outlawed in the Courts" Despil says with surprise. "The ones that used to exist were one-person or small cabal operations. This convent sounds like a major operation with many members. It must be much better hidden than the lesser cults.""Better hidden or buried deeper," Mandor says.
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Post by Dionisia on Mar 12, 2024 6:36:16 GMT
Dio looks down then a moment she looks up with a smile.
"I am sure Sister of Enforced Repentance has returned to the convent. She was, close to the Mother Superior and since she died, this sister myst have taken over.
With some effort i am sure to get close enough to the convent. But if i have backup, and she comes out, you can practice, your skills, Lord Mandor. And if it is indeed forbidden and a dnager to the courts then thisnwould be good for the Courts as well."
She looks at Maeve.
"Right? I am more then willing to put myself out there to lure her out and get some answers in the process."
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Post by Maeve on Mar 12, 2024 7:40:27 GMT
"Yes I heard the last time I was here that Swayvill had banned Amber cults. So the existence of such a large operation as Dio describes surprised me." Maeve replies to Despil.
"If it is such a large organisation with complex building than one of the great house might be a patron. Jesby has a connection to Julian but that would be to obvious."
"A Lure." Maeve ponders. "So you would lead us there, we kind of hide. You pretended to sneak around to find a way in and when the sister comes to collect you lure the sister to us?"
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Post by Dionisia on Mar 12, 2024 7:49:44 GMT
"The religion was around Cruel Prince Julian. Who send demons back to the Abyss but it was never clear to me of they were in devotion to Cruel prince Julian as a saint or as a devil.
Either way it was in reverence to him."
Dio then nods enthusiastically to Meave
"Or not sneak about. Because after escaping why would i return. I would call for repentence beg to return, beg for forgiveness. That life is to hard, yadayada that kind of stuff."
She smiles a menacing grin.
"One thing they are keen on are people groveling for forgiveness. I know this as i had to use it often enough to lessen the beatings.
But yes, you are there in hiding ready to take on the sister. "
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Post by Maeve on Mar 12, 2024 14:09:31 GMT
"We would need to make sure that they do no snatch you. And you should stay a good deal away from any door so that the sister of enforced repentance has to come out. Maybe even cry explicit for her forgiveness."
"Can you draw sketches of the buildings?"
"Do you know if any of the nuns are initiates of the Logrus or any of the other girls?"
"Did you ever saw any guards, and demons that did guarding?"
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Post by Dionisia on Mar 12, 2024 14:22:42 GMT
Dio closes her eyes to recall things from her past, it all seems so long ago, while it isn't.
"Yes i can sketch things out, not everything though, i was still not allowed in every part of the convent. And calling explicitly for the sister of enforced repentance is a good idea, she will probably love to gloat over me begging forgiveness. "
Dio is a moment silent to think.
"No there are no guards, and after i had assayed the Logrus i was the strongest there, i was able to overpower Mother Superior, hense they kept me in a weakened state. It is in a shadow closeby. If they still operate as they used to then there are demons but mostly down in the basement to be flayed and drained to create unholy candles and sanctify the temple with it.
As for the girls, i do not know, i was kept away from them most of the time. Sorry it is not alot to go on, but that is why trying to get the sister outside is our best bet.
If you have something to write on i can make a sketch from what i remember of the convent"
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2024 3:55:33 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/HtyfnC2/despil~png With little more than a snap of his fingers, Mandor conjures a collection of coloured pens and an artist's pad for Dionisia. "You're well prepared brother," Despil says. "In all things, brother," Mandor responds. "Were all you girls brought to the convent as young children?"
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Post by Dionisia on Mar 13, 2024 3:59:54 GMT
Dio smiles at the conjured drawing things and sits down to work on what she remembers of the convent. The cells, the temple the basement, the gardens, the front.
A moment she looks up she shakes her head
"No i think i was the youngest they ever had. As a mere infant. The other girls have had lives outside the convent. As i understand they were placed there because they did not fit in society for some reasons.
Mother Superior always said i wasn't like them. But why...." Dio shrugs and continues to draw.
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Post by Maeve on Mar 13, 2024 4:32:44 GMT
Studies the sketch Dio is drawing.
"The tree lines there." She point ti the trees Dio has drawn. "How far are they away from the front door?"
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