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It was fun while it lasted. Thanks for the good times everyone. Kane's going to keep traveling with Jazzai, being her eyes and the occasional meal if she needs one, and continue trying to track down the source of the curse that changed him. When he eventually found it he probably would not choose to change back. By then he would have accepted himself for what he is.
I'm fine with whatever you decide GM. I liked having Naki around, but if the player's gone I think we should probably press on without the character.
"Of course." Kane said, mostly to himself.
He pocketed the stone and moved forward to draw the attention of the snake things.
Kane stared, intent and shocked. He shook his head and blinked hard, looking again. Then he reached up angrily to try to pry the stone from the statue's eye socket.
"It is my risk to take." Kane says moving toward the statue.
"Yes." he said after some deliberation. "They do no one any good down here."
Kane sighed. She was right. There might be more mysteries in this place, but they had learned much. It was enough for now. Pushing forth would be needless risk. That was how so many of his family had died delving into nameless crypts. Unless there was a real reason to delve them, deep places were usually best left buried.
Kane looked around, not really sure what they were going to do. Surely there were more answers to be found in this place, or perhaps at least, more questions that would give him direction. "I'm open to suggestions."
"Snakes. Or something like that. Big ones."
Kane readies his weapon. "Everyone back away from the water."
"Put your lights in the water. Only the surface is reflective." Kane said, starting to get his composure back.
Pieces of the puzzle clicked together in Kane's head. His eyes lit up with the power of death herself. Suddenly gone was the pious warrior-priest. In its place was a monster made of stone and fury. "What!?" Kane snarled, incensed. "That means someone was on the other end of this!" His lips peeled back over his sharp teeth, his savage, gargoyle grimace stretching from ear to ear, exposed for the first time ever. "No generational curse, nothing unexplainable!" His growl was like a distant rockslide. "Someone did this."
Kane was about to drop a tinder twig down onto the oil to light the water and give more light to the area around it, but he ended up simply staring at the snake statue. The tinder twig in his hand burned down to his stoney fingers. He didn't feel the flames. "I've seen these eyes before..."
Busy whole week for me. Sorry about the delay.
Kane fished out a container of oil and poured it down the hole.
"Yes." Kane said moving to the edge of the revealed opening and looking down.
I'd like to explore downward! Don't know what to do about Naki.
Kane didn't even consider jumping onto the platform. He simply waited with careful stillness and watched the pillar rise. When the rumbling stopped he moved to the edge of the new exit to the chamber and asked Adrien "You can reverse this, right?"
Alright. Kane said a little uneasily. "Go ahead, Adrian."
"Adrien, if you want to activate it, I will stay down here with you. I'm not going to force everyone else to brave that danger with us though. Anyone who wants to go back out while we see what this thing does, I'll take you up."
Sorry for the delay. Busy weekend that isn't going to let up. I'm in a play that opens on thursday. This weekend was the start of hell week. I will most likely be unable to post until tuesday.
Kane kept an eye out for dangers while the others inspected the floor's magical aura.
"Catch." Kane said to Aiden, carefully dropping his polearm down the hole once light was reestablished. Then he gently took Jazzai around the waist and flew her down to the ground below.
Kane waited patiently above, hoping the magical floor wasn't some sort of trap.
"Alright." Kane said giving Jazzai's shoulder a quick squeeze. "Adrien, scout the entrance please."
Kane immediately kneels next to Jazzai to take a look at her wound. "How bad is it?"
Then he thrust again, right into the same spot, opening the wound wider
Kane snarled and thrust beauty down into the massive vermin as it moved to attack Jazzai.
Kane made sure that there was a backup rope in place around Jazzai's waist, then gently picked her up and spiraled down into the dark making wide, slow turns to slow their descent. Setting her down on top of the pyramid, he let his cassock settle back over his wings, more out of habit than anything else. "Adrian, can you light the inside of the hole?" Kane readied his polearm and waited.
Checking in. Usually I'm the slow one in this game, so when it stops moving for a bit I get paranoid everyone is waiting on me. :)
"Rope. Lots of rope." Kane said with a shrug. "We'd better start splicing them and tying knots in them now. We're going to be at it for a while." "Craddosk, you're welcome to have someone join us. We'll do our best to keep them safe."
"The top of a pyramid." Kane said in reply. "We plan to investigate this morning."
Kane climbed out of the well shortly after Jazzai called down. "We had similar thoughts. There is a pyramid down there. I'd like us to explore it tomorrow, if you are all willing."
Kane awkwardly flapped his huge wings to hover in place. I really need to practice this more. he thought to himself as he tried to get a good look at their find. He didn't know if it was related to the questions he was trying to answer about his mother's curse, but he knew it was significant. "Whatever it is, it is worth looking into. Lets go back up and speak with the others."
"I'm not confident in my ability to fly while fighting something that also has wings. I'm afraid I'm not very good at it yet. I'm going to keep the rope tied around myself in case we run into something that knocks me out of the sky."
We should totally have a thanksgiving scene in game. We just caught a giant bat after all. :)
[b]"Stay close." Kane said with a nod, moving back toward the well.
"No. I wasn't able to get a good look around before the bat showed up. I will have to go back down."
"Have you considered… doing this… with nets?" Kane said with gravely strain as he came out of the well still wrestling with the bat.
Kane called upon the aid of his faith. His wounds began to close as he waited for the creature to come again.
"Thank you, Adrian. If you could put them below me, that would be useful."
Kane wasn't going to throw the harpoon. He never had been a very good shot. Instead he waited until the thing closed with him and thrust out with it like a spear.
"I'm not terribly interested in hunting, but I am interested in what might be down that well. I might as well fish for your family while I do."
"I am not sure. The Whisper cultists that my parents tracked here may have been working with the one who cursed my mother, but it is not certain. That curse is connected, somehow, to the way all of us have been transformed. This entire endeavor is half-guesswork. It is the strongest lead I have." "We simply will not know for sure until we look for ourselves."
From out of his cassock Kane pulls a pendant. The sigil of the Watchers on the Wall, the soldiers of Lastwall who's duty is to guard against the return of the sleeping tyrant. It bore four notches, one for each year of service. "I as well. It is always good to meet a Watch-brother." Kane pulled out a his mother's journal and turned to the page detailing the keep. "First, I need to be certain we are in the right place. She describes a number of landmarks, which I believe we have found, but it has been many years. Landscapes can change. What I really seek is an inscription on the stone that matches this." he said pointing to a rubbing on the page.
Once seated, Kane took down his hood. "Where I am from, humans live beset by horror on all sides. Their lives are often brutal and short. As such they often judge harshly and err on the side of caution. My family is sworn to protect them, as a shepherd to a flock. It becomes a great deal more complicated when the shepherd suddenly looks like a wolf." "I served with an orc, and a number of orc-kin during my time on the Wall. They were the ones who taught me not to judge based on appearances. When I woke up looking the way I do now, I was very grateful for the lesson."
"I know nothing of it. It is in my mother's journal. I am retracing her steps. It is my hope that within the walls are clues to the answers I seek."
Kane was pleasantly surprised at what his goddess' sight revealed to him. "We bear you no ill will. We have an intrest in this keep, not in conflict with you."
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