Muttonhawk

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Damn it, not even ten minutes after I post and I feel like I need to edit to better convey Toun's demeanour.

But I am tired...

EDIT: There we go, I edited in a bit more body language and other things. Should be clearer now. Damn it, Toun, don't go making me a perfectionist now...

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Toun Responds To People

Short post, but I'll summarise anyway:

- Toun continues poking the cube to escape his grief.
- Toun speaks back to Teknall when he arrives. Is generally cynical.
- Toun receives the ping from Lifprasil, mistakes it for Vulamera and then for Vestec. Go figure. He doesn't text back like the pig he is.
- After spotting Amartia in the cube, Toun thinks the cube is no more than a prison and gives up. He feels slightly embarrassed for not noticing the demigod as he did not think to look inside the cube at all. Everything starts to build up inside of him.
- Astarte shows up. Toun uses her presence as an excuse to vent the frustration he feels in himself and his grief. He is generally rather insulting while doing this.

No might spent.

So lost and avoidant was Toun in trying to solve the puzzle of the cube's many markings that the years went by without him finding the answer. He had many excuses to find Vowzra's time spreading power utterly obnoxious, but allowing him to justify focussing on his puzzle was not one of them.

What did count among the gripes was the time it took for his siblings to respond to his message. Teknall was the first, Toun could detect him outside. The time he had spent weeping meant Toun was given much more time to deal with the puzzle before the craftsman came through the gate.

When Teknall approached, Toun turned his head to look at him with one eye but didn't respond to his greeting. His presence was a reminder of his grief. Perhaps thankfully, Teknall's attention was brought to the cube as well. Not so thankfully, Teknall only had more ill tidings. Toun slid his hands from the cube so they loosely swayed to a stop at his sides.

"Reathos. More death." Toun bowed his head forward and swayed it in slow disagreement. "Vulamera. It does not matter if Vowzra slew her now. It is all a game. A cruel game." Toun's eye turned up to the cube. "Knowing Vowzra, he was playing the game so closely that this little diversion might not mean anything but a lie in the end. I am simply here looking at it because..."

Toun's trailing off was caused, initially by his lack of an answer. He was considering remarking on the hollowness he felt, though his trail of thought was interrupted. He lifted his head straight. A nudge of some kind was sent across the aether that sounded somewhat like...Vulamera?

No. She was dead. This was not Vulamera. It was one of Vestec's tricks posing as her dead sister. It stank of it. Toun would not indulge Vestec with an answer, as incensed as it made him feel.

Rather than dwell on Toun's incomplete answer, Teknall posed another question. One that made Toun blink and tighten his shoulders. "I was not looking for anyone inside," he answered defensively. "It was inconsequential."

Trust the engineer to focus on the structure and not just the surface. It was just a filthy cube anyway. There was no point.

Nevertheless, Toun remedied his complacency by looking as Teknall was. Sure enough, a hiding creature slept within. Toun's cheek lifted a fingerwidth. "Oh," his low tone sounded, "It is the brat." Toun narrowed one eye at the memories that Minus had conveyed to him while shadowing Lazarus. The hedonistic creature could rot without his concern. "This cube is not a record, then. It is a prison. I had suspected that Vowzra's promises were empty. This proves it. There is no point trying to open it."

With a disdainful hiss, Toun turned on his heel and took two paces forward to look out to the landscape of the ruined plane. His head slouched forward and shot in one direction and another. He had hoped to take his mind from the criticism he was giving himself for even bothering, but his eye instead found yet another sibling. His hiss lasted just a little longer.

It was none other than Astarte. She was on her way in, apparently looking miserable. She had just floated to a stop to seat a short distance away. Toun tilted his head and balled a fist. She couldn't have arrived for any purpose but whimsy. That she even dared to show her face made Toun's eye twitch. After everything else, Toun took one look at her and his frustration burst.

"Are you here to laugh, sister?!" Toun he threw an arm across in front of himself, escalating the venom his tone. "Go on! Laugh! Laugh like Vestec! It's all you possess! It's all that you do! Laugh!"

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

After confirming that nothing else was following the sphere up, Janius squat down to take a closer look at the disabled sphere. "It's so...intricate," he said. "Must have taken an age to build. Hmph, a shame that we had to smash it." He lifted his head, "Good hit, general."

Fendros sniffed. "If every other machine that we come across is alone like this one, we should have no trouble at all."

All the onlooking soldiers brought Janius back to attention. He stood up quickly. "Right, let's move on."

The shield wall formed up again, ready to advance. There was a slight increase in confidence throughout the assault force.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

The ruin was foreign and ominous with its whirring and its warmth. It wasn't quite like the still and sparse Dwemer ruins of Morrowind. The leftover supplies only made the place seem even more foreboding. Thankfully, the ominous and the foreboding were not so foreign to Meesei's pack by this point. They strived onwards from the front without a flinch.

Both Fendros and Sabine removed their coats with the other warriors. While they did not care for the cold, the extra weight limited their movements and was too much for the warmth under the ground. Janius did not have a layer to remove without taking off his armour, so he had to simply deal with the heat.

Meesei's pack waited patiently while Saras dealt with the lock. For as long as it took, they began to let their guard down and settle into what they expected was a long wait. That, or stood in anticipation of going up the left path. However, the sounds of the lock lurching open and the gate creaking caused both Sabine and Janius to jolt in surprise. It seemed that they would have to do neither.

The sound of the Dwemer sphere was less startling, but warranted a greater reaction. Janius called out as soon as he spotted its silhouette. "I see one!" He raised his shield between Ri'vashi's shield and the shield of the warrior to his left, ready to take on whatever attack the sphere had in store.

Fendros nocked an arrow and tried to make out the details of the sphere. There were many moving parts, but with the entire thing being made from metal, he could not discern any obvious weaknesses.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

@Vec So how's this working? Is Vec's supernova going to asplode New Chronos? Will it take Galbar as well? I am of the confuse, for I do not know the sun from leetle red glass think.

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That would be quite funny xDD but I don't think there's a plot-hole here at all. To all extents and purposes, Toun exists in a separate plane from the universe, his message will have to pass through the New Chronos barrier which would, I assume, allow the message to be transmitted to its intended receptors in the manner it was sent. Or something like that...

@Kho

In all seriousness, I should think that Toun would have had the presence of mind to notice and account for the time dilation in some form or fashion. I could just say that it was godspeak and isn't consigned to your mortal vibrating communications and its pitch and speed nonsense.

EDIT:

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Would they care to take in a currently homeless little werewolf cutie that suffers from night terrors? (ﾉ≧ڡ≦) Teehee~!

@Vec

Well, I have an avatar that's not really up to much now. How does Luna feel about tall blunt folks in white armour? He's a really good listener, I swear.

Of course, locating her would require some kind of contrivance.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

@MuttonhawkDoes one have a choice whether they sign or not? I mean, you said it would take 25 (30 with Teknall's reinforcement) Might to break. What happens if someone decides to skip the whole thing? Do they have to use might in order to NOT sign it?

@Vec

No, no one is bound by it unless they sign. They are not obliged to sign and Toun isn't cajoling anyone to sign. You don't have to break anything unless you've signed.

Also, once you've signed...no take-backsies unless the oath is destroyed.

Although it seems an exception exists for inside New Chronos; the Oath seems to prevent fighting there full-stop, like the Valley of Peace except more powerful.

@BBeast

Also this. It's a powerful Valley of Peace-ish effect that doesn't generate might and only applies to gods or those under the orders of gods.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

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Yup, the time flow in New Chronos is 1000 years to 1 Galbarian day

@Kho

Aw crap, now I'm just imagining Toun's broadcast being sped up so much from the time dilation that it sounds like a caffeinated chipmunk fired from an air cannon.

How about we just...pretend that plot hole isn't there and carry on?

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

I guess I'll respond to Teknall...eventually. I'll see if there are other reactions (and also do yet more study).

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Sabine was warming up in more ways than one. To revise what she knew of fire magic, she practiced making the magical warming fire in her hand larger and smaller. She paused in this momentarily to give Hjergir her own curious glance. However, she did not want to speak over whatever Meesei had to answer.

Janius stuck by Kaleeth and Ri'vashi. He did not know how wide the passageways would be, but he would be an extra shield if it was needed. He responded after Lorag, "This isn't the first time we've been in an assault in close quarters. Let's try to make this as quick and clean as we can."

In contrast, Fendros avoided eye contact with Hjergir. It was not so much a Dunmer superiority complex that was causing him to avoid the Nord, but rather what his parents had said about their treatment when they lived in Windhelm for a time. He strung his bow while he waited, for all the good his arrows would do against creatures made from metal. He supposed he might find a gap in their machinery, but he didn't like the idea of being cocky with this attack.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Oh yeah, on Poog's note, I'll ask that if anyone signs the Oath of Stilldeath near the Gate that they make it extra clear so I can keep track of who's on it.