Dark Cloud

World of Light

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'Higher than average constitution' and a resistance to 'ailments' do not an immunity to crippling, lethal weather conditions make. If by 'ailments' you meant 'all status effects, including temperature' that warrants further investigation. As for timing, Laharl would have to throw his attention-catching tantrum after the other Seekers start to climb. Even if Flonne set out immediately, it would take her a long time to get over there. Maybe she could try flashing her healing field at Laharl to get his attention in return, and after a half hour or so they could meet one another halfway.

Edit: her field is also healing rather than any kind of shield, according to her sheet, so instead of protecting her from the cold at all it would only be able to heal the actual damage that the cold inflicts to her body, thereby slowing down the rate of her hypothermia.

@Lugubrious

Flashing her field would do let's say that. In favor of brevity I'm fine with him being written to follow along after seeing the flash. I wouldn't mind doing a collab for this if it would be alright with you?

World of Light

It's taking me forever to port her sheet because I'm trying to copy it from a sheet of paper.

World of Light

Yeah, that'd work. Hopefully she has a thick coat or three (or maybe just a great many 'borrowed' habits) and a stash of hot oil to keep her warm, because it is not at all a straight shot over to where the Seekers were. She'd have to climb up the mountain for bit, then move laterally a long way through the wind and cold and snow. The gateway to the Graveyard of the Peaks is at a higher elevation than the Convent.

@Lugubrious

I think her physiology would keep her decently okay, she has a high constitution lending her a bit of an edge against the cold thus she might also continuously emanate her aura as she descends to meet the others, using her faith as her shield so to speak and that's where she can end up in your update as she reaches the Seekers just barely reaching them but far enough for any of them to see and rush to help.

World of Light

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That's a good point, unless in their zeal they're able to justify healing as allowing them to suffer even more.

Maybe that would lead to Flonne being a fugitive in the place, trapped with nowhere else to go and constantly hiding out from the Sisters who seek to hunt her down and burn her.

@Lugubrious

Alright, then catching a glimpse from a deambulatory of the group she seizes the first opportunity to flee in a desperate attempt to get to the group? Or what else?

World of Light

Suffering isn't something Flonne is all for even if her higher power told her it was. Her very power as an angel is tied closely to her conviction to love above all else which is the power her soul emulates.

World of Light

I don't feel like the sisters would particularly enjoy Flonne's presence once they realized that she's not on board with the whole "suffering as virtue" thing they've got going on in Cvstodia. It's probably very confusing for them, faith wise.

@Gentlemanvaultboy

She probably initially believes helping them will get the sisters to possibly change their ways but after awhile now she is beginning to see their own faith is too different from her own. At least she'll try to convert some to her side but she is starting to feel her love is needed elsewhere specifically to the Seekers and her obstinate acquaintance Laharl.

World of Light

In that case, she would just need some sort of reason as to why she would be able to suddenly leave the Convent to go on a long and perilous journey up the mountain. Or at least to where Laharl is, since that's what I assume you want. Contrivances being what they are, maybe she's taking a break from tending to the sisters' horrific burns and wounds through one of the Convent's deambulatories and sees Laharl throwing some kind of showy tantrum from far away with his powers, due to his anger and helplessness at the stubborn Seekers?

@Lugubrious

Yes, I believe that is plausible, yes. I think that sounds very in-character for the idea I had of them meeting.

World of Light

What Master Hand does and doesn't do is governed by strict plans and rules. It is not the type for meaningless pranks. If anyone was just stuck on the mountain alone in the elements without gear or preparation the cold would almost certainly claim them. There are a lot more people that could use her love in Al Mamoon, or even Lumbridge, for instance.

However, there was one possibility I left open. The building that Midna spotted: the Convent of Our Lady of the Charred Visage. It's essentially an abbey whose sisters worship a woman whose face was used as a likeness for divinity, but who burned her face with boiling oil as an act of piety to distance herself from such comparisons. Those who reside there, half-frozen by the cold and half-burned by the scorching lava that flows within, are extremely hostile, but since Flonne is an angel it's possible that they see her as a divine benefactor come to ease their pain. She may have come this way after hearing about it while in Tostarena or Al Mamoon, wanting to provide what comfort she could to a place suffused by suffering.

@Lugubrious

The second suggestion is actually one I can get behind. That definitely sounds like somewhere she would try to go.

HORIZON: In Wastes, Our Dreams

It’s not generally going to be anything so insane, Dark Cloud. Basically don’t think about it too much. You’ll usually be rolling multiple d6s, so extreme results are rarer.

There is one Guild. That Guild has many branches.

@ERode

Cool, cool good to know. I got an idea of an character that'll be cool in this somewhat grim & realistic world. "Beware the old man in a profession, where the young man doesn't last." sort of sums up my idea.