Quest [Quarters] Rubbing out smears

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An undead citadel created before the cataclysm, Sahova is devoted to all kinds of magical research. The living may visit the island, if they are willing to obey its rules. [Lore]

[Quarters] Rubbing out smears

Postby Fallon on March 13th, 2015, 12:14 pm

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There was a small satisfied nod to the agreement of her terms, the excepting of the conditions for now at least. It felt easy. The orbs focused, lowering and looking for the unusual source of sound that came from within. An incline of the head, that rock up onto her heels as she tried to strain her ears. Chords, it sounded like the plucking of strings - though much more melodious than those she heard from her partner. She watched the arms rise, her gaze flickering between the outstretched limbs and the fabric that fell from them, her ears twitching and prickling to the sensation that was seeping its way in. She could feel her head turning, the gentle press as the voice oozed into her and settled within the forefront of her mind as merely a truth that would occur.

A stunned blink, she pinched her brow - willingly falling under the hypnotic geas that was placed upon her, though yet to truly realise the true potential power of it all. It was the literal meaning that wriggled into her mind however, the words solidifying down to that of speak - a verbal action in its simplest form. Regardless, the other's will had been placed over her, some thought in her mind tickled, but it was pushed aside as she heard the door swing open. Cracking her gaze towards it, she watched Lyre continue on through, her own tapping against the floor as she followed on through. Her gaze looked to the surroundings at first, her head turning as she drunk the room and then snapping around to look upon the clothing that fell. Or, more correctly did not simply fall. They faded, her eyes falling onto the gilded form and the curves suggesting only construction.

Silence ruled and lasted, a mere exhale as her gaze turned and flickered back and forth. Her fingers twitched, the lykata upon the back of her hand burning in anticipation. Knowledge, she wanted to know, had to know what construct this was. Impeccable, a craftsmanship she had not seen before that told her that the producer cared about their work - she would have to have been a fool to miss such details. The harp, the strings, the quivering with every step that seemed to occur - an instrument of many things, but music was the obvious.

The impulse to touch begun to creep in, the eyes that bit larger as she followed the visual line downwards. Catching the swirls, the shapes that had been all so carefully carved in. It was perhaps then that she knew what she really was, no human or once mortal being. She was a golem, intelligent and created for purpose - yet something much more than the beings that existed within the rest of the citadel. No, Lyre was an entirely different level, though if the rest of her kind were the same - golems - it left Fallon in the predicament position of wondering on how to exactly go about initiating one into projection. She knew nothing on their construction, let alone if they had a soul in which to work with. Everything was made up of layers, did the same apply with these magical constructs.

"I do like a good mystery," She spoke to herself then, mind slowly ticking over how to deal with the present predicament. Her hand now exposed, the human's eyes fell upon it, the way the joints curled and formed, the small clicking of metal resting there. The topaz orbs looked upon her, before leading her onwards deeper without another thought. It was only then that the rolling, lilting voice crept forward in a breath, "You are beautiful."
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[Quarters] Rubbing out smears

Postby Ink on April 9th, 2015, 6:31 pm

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"Let me alleviate some of the mystery." Lyre offered, replying to the rhetorical. She began their trek into the dank tunnel. For all that the light dimmed, her sculpted vessel, shined to a persistent gleam, seemed to always reflect just enough to follow her by.

“The way is long Sweet Soulful one, let us discuss your portion of our bargain. In exchange for your lesson I have promised answers which are within my ability to know.” Lyre turned her gaze, made tender by trust and perception for but a moment before the impossible inhumanity of a gemstone sight returned, upon Fallon. She gave no frame of reference for what she might or might not know and that was a facet of the fickle riddling nature of oaths.

Leading in a sedate swaying she took them both down into the natural and corrupt labyrinth. The difference from Fallon’s first visit was the lack of sinister atmosphere. No creature encroached upon them, nor did any abnormal features to a cave present themselves. It could have been calm as any walk through a spring park. Every few chimes a breeze reeking of sulfur pushed through them and the subtle tendrils seemed to whisper a lover’s half-drunk promise against Fallon’s cheek drawing to the question how much of their journey was reality and how much was illusion projected by Lyre’s will. The way of a hypnotist was a choral tragedy, powerful until the chink of True weakness came to light. The wondering of the Golem’s both legitimized and marginalized its scope.
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[Quarters] Rubbing out smears

Postby Fallon on April 9th, 2015, 8:50 pm

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Fallon followed, her head gradually turning as the pair made their descent in deeper. Her eyes gave a stare a head, flickering back and forth as she heard the gentle steps and strings guiding her onwards. The tunnels greeted them, different - as she noted - but the walls were still around her, tight, suffocating, closing in. She paused mid step, a brief closing of the eyes and pinching of her brow as she pushed down the sensation that swirled within - nothing would happen, it would be alright. There would be no monsters here to greet her, just only the low lights and darkness. It took another forceful step to push herself onwards once more.

It did not stop the mind from dancing however when the pulling tugs came against her, skin prickling and scents causing her to occasionally snort and cough in annoyance. Questions however, they continued to form and flow within her mind and it was only as she let her gaze once more settle upon Lyre that the most pressing came to her, "You and... your kin are..." Her lips licked then, a low hum of consideration, "Golems? But more than just that...?" The expression turned to one of puzzlement, "Ignorance rears its head here, but I know nothing on your kind. Which raises one or two concerns. Do Golems have souls? Or, an astral layer? I need to know...? Hear, see, do." With a shake of her head she gathered herself, "I require to know that much for assisting in granting this magic to one of yours. Else, I may have to think of another method."

With a shrug she slowly followed behind, the Lykata in her glove itching to be used. She wanted to touch, so much. It was perhaps then that she found herself tugging at her left glove, leather peeling away from flesh. Flexing it she looked upon the vessel, "How long have you been here? Existing?" Her head turned to one side then a sigh escaping, "Of all the people in Sahova, or all the master wizards, magic users, practitioners of some skill or another to such a high degree, you asked the rough, wolfish gang leader who focused only on ever covering her steps and trying to miss detection from being noticed. So, why? Out of all those up there, why pick out the bastard thug from the others?" She gave a snort then, "Better yet, how did you notice?"

"Where are we even going?"
Fallon looked down to her bare left hand then, turning it over before her gaze before looking once more to the back of the construct. It was slowly that she reached it forward, She remembered the letter, the script upon it, "Nightmares are still Dreams. Do you talk in your sleep? What did you mean? Or was it merely words to hook the mind in an lure I in?" Fallon's bare left hand stretched out, a mere inch away from the surface. Eyes were widened with curiosity, a lust to learn and explore, the golden lomar of her gnosis catching in the light. Merely the smallest reach forward and she would be able. It was a croak that escaped, "Can I touch you, please?" She could already feel the mind simply looking forward to search, the orbs focusing intently down as the out pressed palm simply went to press against the metal.
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