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Post by Admin on Apr 18, 2020 19:07:20 GMT
There is a bright light and a loud sound. Then nothing.
Then something...a sound unusual, a feeling unsettling.
He opens his eye to see a world of green shapes and an odd cloud of red wafting above him. Blood is not supposed to float like that.
"Welcome to Moire's home for wayward Amberites." a woman's voice says from behind him.
Hammett realizes that he is laying in the centre of a pentagram under the sea. Rebma probably.
There is a lot of blood floating about him and everything about him doesn't look quite right.
Also he starts to feel the mental buzz of a trump contact.
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Post by Hammett on Apr 18, 2020 19:16:16 GMT
"Uhhhhg..." is about all he can manage.
He looks around to see who is talking to him, while trying to keep the trump contact on hold for the moment. As he sees who is talking to him, he then does a quick check of himself. How much of the blood is his? How badly hurt is he?
Damn Leonil. This is what happens when you mess with power. What happened to King Random and the Queen? He hoped they are alright.
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Post by Admin on Apr 18, 2020 19:27:08 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/xqdCvzH/4d018a2f954cffa33f9daa13381ed638-roger-zelazny-ambre~jpg Looking about he can barely make out his aunt Llewella standing in the shadows. There is no other person visible so all the blood must be his. "I don't recommend moving." Llewella says. "You are very badly injured. I will see to stitching you up once the attendants bring my equipment.
"If you are able, tell me of what happened in the castle."
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Post by Hammett on Apr 18, 2020 19:50:18 GMT
"Thank you..." He takes a breath to help focus past the pain before continuing, "Leonil... he had attempted to perform some sort of magical ritual, hoping to fix the storms besetting the city. He walked the pattern I believe and focused it into a scroll or spell. But it was highly unstable. King Random was there and Queen Vialle. Random told him to get rid of the scroll, but before he could it exploded. What happened to them? The King and Queen? Are they alright? And Leonil. He was holding it at the time it exploded..."
He keeps trying to hold off the Trump call, but not end it if possible. It could be Random or Leonil trying to reach him...
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Post by Admin on Apr 18, 2020 19:53:38 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/xqdCvzH/4d018a2f954cffa33f9daa13381ed638-roger-zelazny-ambre~jpg "The castle was damaged. I know of nothing else yet."There is the sound of a door opening and the steps and hushed voices of others. "Lay back and rest I will fix what I can of your injuries."
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Post by Hammett on Apr 18, 2020 19:54:57 GMT
Hammett does what she asks, and knows the trump call will need to wait, so he blocks it. "How... How did I get here?"
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2020 4:40:41 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/xqdCvzH/4d018a2f954cffa33f9daa13381ed638-roger-zelazny-ambre~jpg "Quiet now. Save your strength. We have no anaesthetic down here so this will be painful. I recommend passing out before I begin cutting away a large portion of your face." Llewella holds the scalpel above Hammett's eye and from his point of view, it is much large than the usual surgical scalpel. His aunt didn't lie - there is a lot of pain but thankfully he does pass out before his skull is split open.
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Post by Hammett on Apr 20, 2020 5:11:42 GMT
Hammett remains unconscious until he wakes up.
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2020 19:40:05 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/xqdCvzH/4d018a2f954cffa33f9daa13381ed638-roger-zelazny-ambre~jpg Opening his eye he sees that he have been moved to a different room. Judging by the decoration of the ceiling, this place is a luxurious apartment of some sort. He is in pain from the back of his head, forehead, temples, crown, jaw and neck. And in various places across the rest of his body. He has been hurt often enough to recognize the pinch of sutures in his skin but never as many as he is feeling now. His sight is still oddly distorted. "You surely have the family ability to heal. For a while there I didn't think that you were going to make it" Llewella says.
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Post by Hammett on Apr 20, 2020 20:38:06 GMT
Hammett gathers himself and then slowly tries to sit up.
"I don't think all the healing in the world wouldn't have helped me pull through if it wasn't for you. I can never thank you enough."
He gently touches his face, but also looks over the rest of his body to make sure everything is still there. How distorted is his sight? Is it a double vision kind of thing like from a concussion? Or different colours or trouble focusing? Or is it from just like opening your eyes underwater when everything is reflected a bit differently?
"How long have I been out? Is there any word from the castle on the others?"
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2020 20:48:37 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/xqdCvzH/4d018a2f954cffa33f9daa13381ed638-roger-zelazny-ambre~jpg "You were out for a few days. I don't expect that you will be in any shape to go back to wandering around shadow for some time.
"Don't touch the bandages! Especially about your right eye socket." The change in his sight is due to only having one eye, Hammett realizes. Bandages cover most of his head hinting of other injuries. Other portions of him are burnt or stitched up lesser injuries.
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Post by Hammett on Apr 20, 2020 21:03:28 GMT
Hammett stops touching his face.
He was worried, he had never been hurt this bad before, but knew from stories and past injuries that he would eventually fully heal under normal circumstances, but these were caused by some mix of Pattern energy and sorcery, what if they wouldn't heal. Was he going to be disfigured forever?
He fights to regain control of his emotions for a moment.
"How bad am I? My eye, is it... is it gone? Or...?"
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2020 21:11:37 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/xqdCvzH/4d018a2f954cffa33f9daa13381ed638-roger-zelazny-ambre~jpg "It's gone. That side of your face was flensed down to the bone in places. If it wasn't for your thick skull I doubt your head would have stayed on.
"To answer your earlier question: the castle is still in an uproar."
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Post by Hammett on Apr 20, 2020 22:28:33 GMT
<<OCC: I can't believe you Gus Fring'd me.>>
Hammett tries to keep it together, "Have you let them know what happened? Did anyone else survive?"
If Leonil did, he was going to have a lot to answer for.
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2020 0:07:11 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/xqdCvzH/4d018a2f954cffa33f9daa13381ed638-roger-zelazny-ambre~jpg [OOC: Never heard of him until now. Haven't got around to watching those shows.] "They are well aware of what happened. Difficult to determine survivors when not all the bodies have been recovered. Benedict is in charge for now."
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