ERode

Magic in the Park

>everyone is stunningly pretty except me
>literally five minutes of shaving after



Yeah, I dunno. I think I've seen his face before somewhere...

ArrowFell: The Wizard Queen's Court

Naw, think Rhinecliff would just shrug and be like “Can’t beat a dragon, after all.”

Iris Ascendis

What's the difference? kekek

Anyways, its clearly more for the three who can stand rather than the one who can't.

Iris Ascendis

Aaaand there's a post.

Anyways, if anyone actually drinks it, the potion is basically just made from opium, for the purposes of being a painkiller. Ciara herself got a stronger dose though, enough to basically turn her limbs into noodles.

Iris Ascendis

_{@Nanaya@Estylwen@Psyker Landshark@AThousandCurses}

Interesting.

So one could simply walk into a Leyline Overcharge without issue? Or was this a special quality of this particular transformation into Ascendia? It was worthwhile to consider as well, whether or not a Leyline was truly being drained here, considering how...lacking the capabilities of the Umbralist proved to be, if a handful of already-fatigued students could ward off their advances. They could claim mercy, a small compassion afforded to children who knew not what they were getting into, but only the results mattered. And in this case?

The results were that they all managed to buy enough time for the Undermage to arrive. Enough, perhaps, that they could escape entirely.

Otis stood up from his chair, shooting off one last message to Nicole: "I'll bring them to the clinic."

No need to get the guards involved, not when Ciara was still an active threat in their eyes. And Davil's situation was dangerous as well, not the sort of work that first aid would benefit too greatly. The Strigidae would have preferred if Iraleth had enough strength left to simply carry and fly his roommate over, but well, no one was perfect. He set his Adapa to record the battle raging within the cathedral, made sure his gun was loaded, and finally entered the scene.

...

The Door opened, and Otis stepped out to the stairwell, his nose wrinkling slightly at the stench of blood and sweat that had seemed to congeal here. Unlike the others, he had remained spotless throughout all this, his amber eyes showing no particular strain. It had been a beneficial venture for him, after all, getting access to so much information, from the structure of the Iris Record to the capacity of its guards to the curious spellwork utilized by the Undermage to how Umbralists seemed capable of Leyline Overcharge despite how advanced and novel the technique was to the simple limits in capacity that his classmates had.

And now, though his holstered firearm was loaded, the Strigidae offered a vial each to the bloodied students. It was a dark liquid, a crafted potion that smelled bitter.

"Drink. It'll help with the pain and the adrenal dump. I'll bring you four to the hospital proper."

A screen of light illuminated the dark stairwell; in the corner of his eye, Otis was still watching the frenzied battle between Umbralist and Undermage.

Magic in the Park

That's what happens when you make a fed. ;3

Magic in the Park

What do you imagine would be the situation behind them meeting? Amaya herself isn't likely to reach out, and if its work that a House wants done by a DSC squad, it probably wouldn't be work that an indie contractor would really get involved in. Kinda like how you'd hire a landscaping company to make a new garden and fence versus hiring a teenager to mow your lawn.

Magic in the Park

@Remram I mean, she'd just treat him as another independent mage encountered in the Dark City. So passively cautious but not immediately drawing steel n all.

@OwO A microwave is too heavy to carry around. Electric kettle and instant noodles/dehydrated meals though? God combo.

@Asuras With regards to Houses getting peeps to marry into them, is it usually a House-to-House kind of thing, or is it more common for them to snag significantly capable independents into their House?

ArrowFell: The Wizard Queen's Court

I mean, for real here. Is this Duchess Bastille who’s saying whatever Irradiant is saying OOCly?

Cause this is a whole new side I’m seeing.

Magic in the Park

@Estylwen That's fine with me. From Amaya's own side, she's mostly just ticking off boxes, going after each House that specialized in Obscurity and puzzling out if they have any actual involvement in her own stuff. If it came down to an actual all-out fight, she'd more or less just be running away and hiding every time, because the difference in resources between the head of a House and an independent mage is basically unbridgeable.

It is fun to have that whole Demon-Possessed vs Demonsbane thing though.

@Remram I'm not totally sure if they would end up crossing blades that often, because in most cases, Amaya does contract work for other Houses. So it's like...on her side, she doesn't really want any smoke with the DSC, because they have significant Realspace influence, and on the DSC's side, they probably wouldn't want to obstruct the work that a House (that they wouldn't know the identity of) had paid to get done. Things would be different if Mathias was out-of-uniform during an encounter though.

Small note too: she'd be absolutely flabberghasted that Mathias decided to teach the Craft to someone whose name was literally Maverick.

@OwOYeah.

soothing the howling of the mind, pulling away the psychological afflictions

I saw the line and went for it.

Anyways, comfy cooking flashbacks sound good, but unironically, it's probably a situation where Amaya doesn't actually know all that much about adulting either. She can certainly boil a hot pot of water though. With an electric kettle.

@Kronshi It'd be interesting in general to consider how much impact one's personality has upon their Crest and vice versa. Amaya's own biases come strictly from understanding that its the Obscurity peeps who are able to do stuff like summoning shadow monsters and wiping/editing memories, so that's more of a personal bias than anything else.

I don't think any mediation would really be necessary or even justified, because Amaya was definitely the aggressor in this particular instance kekek. Probably one of the things that're immediately obvious would be that, for someone who spent their formative years purely in the Realspace, she adjusted relatively quickly to the amoral, lawless life of the Dark City real quick. So I guess somehow it's the demon-fused life-eating child-leader of a House that has more scruples than the small-time kiddo who just got in deep during her young adult years.

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Also Asuras. There's a Dark City for every metropolitan area out there, yeah? Are there Houses that have like, national or global levels of influence? Or are all Houses, no matter how powerful, still mostly contained within their individual City?

If the former, may be useful to distinguish between levels of influence that player-made Houses have, and perhaps also have a list of, idk, the top 5 most infamous Houses nationally and internationally.