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A city floating in the center of a lake, Ravok is a place of dark beauty, romance and culture. Behind it all though is the presence of Rhysol, God of Evil and Betrayal. The city is controlled by The Black Sun, a religious organization devoted to Rhysol. [Lore]

[Nitrozian Estate] Ravens/Crows of a feather (Kit, please)

Postby Crypt on October 22nd, 2013, 2:48 pm

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Date to be determined by Kit

Crypt was seriously considering an addition to his name.

Crypt Babysitter Insatem would be simply awful though.

He had spent the entire morning entertaining four children, ages five to eight. He had awoken at dawn, eager to begin another day at the Nitrozian estate. There was always something new he would find out, whether it was a new, fascinating dish or a particularly intriguing carving of Ravok in miniature.

Today was different.

It wasn't that he enjoyed playing with children - he did enjoy doing so, always being struck by the sheer wonder and innocence of the little tots, but some of them were frightening.

Rhysol-like, even.

The Nitrozian matriach, Milina, had requested for him to entertain the children until lunchtime while another family member supervised him (and by that, she actually meant reading a book and talking to himself every now and then), since she knew of his mark. Being a retainer, he had no choice but to agree.

They were quiet enough when he was telling a story about Alvadas. There was plenty of excitement there, but thankfully nothing else.

The chaos, one perhaps worthy of Rhysol, began when he starting pulling out the big guns. The illusions.

One minor illusion was all it took. Crypt had began another story, greatly encouraged by the responses of the children, and created a simple image of a chicken.

All four leaped towards it, bowling over Crypt in the process. The illusion disappeared once he hit the floor, and the five-year old began crying. In an attempt to sooth the toddler, Crypt started creating several butterflies that flitted around her head. This led to another chain reaction, and hilarity ensued.

Several bells passed, and Crypt was finally relieved of the budding Rhysol followers. The family member remained in the room, still reading a book. Crypt took a seat on a couch opposite him, glaring every now and then at the unaffected Nitrozian while regaining his strength for his duties after a tea break.


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[Nitrozian Estate] Ravens/Crows of a feather (Kit, please)

Postby Kit Rowan on October 22nd, 2013, 5:52 pm

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Day 73, Season of Fall, 513 AV

Valerius' peers had gotten word of his new messenger and made use of her however they could. Most seemed to have an understanding. An understanding that her specialty involved climbing and leaping, involved crossing the city in bounds by high roads that other couriers would scoff a attempting. They knew that if they wanted the best value out of her they would send her across the city.

And then when she returned they expected her to be prim and proper and composed. Kit bent over, hands on her knees in front of the main house. She reached up, brushed sweat away from her face nad wiped it off on the leather of her jacket. She straightened it, tried to keep her back straight, slipped on her shoes and marched on inside.

Of course it would have been faster if she ran, but it had been made very clear to her the first time she tried that unless the Nitrozian house was in grave danger, she could 'compose herself with dignity' in the Estate. Little wonder they valued the gilt of their civilization so much, when what lay beneath was so infested and treacherous.

Today she had been send to retrieve information rather than simply send it, and so Kit went about her business, taking a winding course through the luxurious halls, pausing, here, there to ask for a name. At last the detective work led her down to the end of a hall where she heard screaming. Kit paused, registered it as playful screaming before she made the rest of the walk and pushed through the door.

She scanned the room and found the man she had been looking for, sitting self-absorbed in a book to the side . . . But as she walked inside her mark sang, and Kit could hear the divine hymn of its twin through her arm. She turned and found the source of the song.

The man, Ionu-touched as she was, was not big, perhaps at a height with Kit's uncle, but even so he would dwarf her. His skin had a tint of a color she was unsure how to place, and everywhere else was coated in tattoos, some numbers, some utterly incomprehensible. Kit stared blankly for a moment, unsure what exactly, she was looking at.

You've a job, Kit. A sensible part of her hissed, and Kit turned back to the Nitrozian. She moved to meet him, held out a scroll of paper for him to take. "Everything you asked for, sir." She asked, cordial without affection. He glimpsed up, frowned, took it and went about his business. Kit turned, looked at the man again, listening to her mark's song for a moment longer, trying to meet the man's eyes.
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[Nitrozian Estate] Ravens/Crows of a feather (Kit, please)

Postby Crypt on October 24th, 2013, 2:39 pm

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A note sounded in his mind.

Crypt stopped glaring at the Nitrozian, opting to listen to it.

It was a pure, unrefined note, played on a fiddle. Quite possibly an archetype of that single violin note, played by perhaps Rhaus on the very first example of that bowed instrument.

Not that he would know. For the most part, he continued to listen in silence as it developed into other notes that struck a chord within him - particularly his mark.

He grasped his left shoulder, eyes darting everywhere in search of the source of the strange music the Nitrozian did not appear to be aware of, before they finally alighted on the form of Kit, who had just entered the room.

Resonance.

Ionu-marked. A girl. Age? Already past prepubescence. Now an adolescent, form the looks of it. I wonder how she received her mark?

He continued watching her go about her duties, taking note of her stature and her bright blue eyes. She turned to look at him, and he caught her eyes, nodding once before getting up from the couch.

"You too?"

Crypt moved out of the room, trusting that she would follow him, and into an adjacent room obviously meant for recreation, judging by the playing cards neatly stacked up on one side of a large table covered in soft green cloth and a raised dais for hired musicians to play ambient music at.

The Drykas sat down at a similar couch with a sigh, motioning for her to take a seat at the armchair opposite him.

"Ionu marked you. So did he to I. Good to meet you. Are you one of the Inverted?"

He poured her a glass of water from a glass jug half-full of water with slices of lemon that was set on a small coffee table between them, pushing it towards her.

"Have a drink. You look like you needed a break."

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[Nitrozian Estate] Ravens/Crows of a feather (Kit, please)

Postby Kit Rowan on October 27th, 2013, 8:20 pm

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Kit stole a glance to the Nitrozian and the children—did they find it odd? Did they suspect? She thought not—before raising an eyebrow at the other illusionist's question, tilted her head to the side. What do you think? Needless to say, she was not entirely comfortable talking of it in front of a pack of Nitrozian snots . . . Young or old.

The illusionist seemed to sense that, inviting her away into a nearby room. She followed, her steps slow and wary. Alvadas had many illusionists in it, and they were not always on the same side, after all. But it had been so long since she had seen another illusionist in the flesh. Vanari aspired for Ionu's attention and Kit loved her for it, but there this man had already been touched.

Kit collapsed into the seat and lounged back, studying her peer with care. "Thank you," Kit said, snagging the water. "And thank House Nitrozian for their generous donation." Kit's face broke into a smile as she raised the glass to her lips and downed it all. Her body thirsted for nourishment, and Kit indulged it in long gulps. Valerius would have called it wasteful, but Valerius was not around to point his nose into the air.

"I wish I was with the Inverted," Kit said, her voice wistful. "No. I'm just a favored soul." She turned her left hand palm up, reached and pulled back the sleeve of her leather jacket, revealing the glossy blue inverted triangle that marked Ionu's chosen before pushing the sleeve right back down. "You can call me Shy. What can I call you?"
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Postby Crypt on October 30th, 2013, 1:12 pm

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"To the Nitrozians, then."

A matching smirk appeared on his face. It was refreshing to hear something like that after weeks of having to comport himself for many hours every day he was at the Nitrozian Estate.

He reciprocated her gesture with a similar one, raising the left sleeve of his shirt to show her his own elaborate mark before concealing it once again.

"You're still favoured by Ionu. That's a lot. It would be nice to join the Inverted though... Then again, I do travel around as much as they do. The shows back in Alvadas made the stay there worth it."

He took a sip from his own glass of water.

"Just call me Crypt. Yes, it may sound morbid, but I am not what my name suggests I am. I do play around with illusions. Makes eating a much more enjoyable and tricky experience, at the very least."

He raised his left hand to about chest level, snapping his fingers and creating an illusion of a spark forming and sustaining itself. Another illusion, a glowing snake, moved out of the miniscule star slowly, curving about a rod that was emerging from the spark at a similar speed. After a few seconds, they formed a Vildani, Ionu's symbol, in shades of azure, before dissolving into the Julia set fractal.

Crypt smiled, and made it disappear.

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[Nitrozian Estate] Ravens/Crows of a feather (Kit, please)

Postby Kit Rowan on November 1st, 2013, 5:39 pm

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He had been to Alvadas as well? Perhaps that was something that illusionists had in common, that city, the star at the tip of Ionu Vildani. "There's no better performers, from the Sebakem to Agher." She said, and reverence crept into her voice. Kit had not seen a performance since she had been marked.Would their marks sing to hers, as Crypt's did? Would they come and ask her to come with them?

Kit brushed the daydream from her eyes. "You picked the name cause you liked the way people responded to it. If you wanted to be treated different, you'd go by a different name." Like Kit had. Shy Carsma, Ria Thorn, Kit Rowan, all identities worn and cast aside at convenience.

Kit had not had a chance to eat alone, and therefore discard her disguise to switch her attentions to taste, for a very long time. She frowned, considered. "It would, depending." She had few chances to cast a glamour over her food before she ate it. Was that a credit to Ionu? Perhaps if you already knew the taste, and wanted something more flavorful. But the temptation to cast it over something you had yet to taste would be strong, and Ionu loved variety.

"Show off," Kit muttered, good-natured, tappping her knuckles against the table and turned her mind to a new glamour, tailor-made for Crypt's eyes and no others. As Kit raised her hand it revealed a stem, an impossible green that is only seen in vivid dreams, appearing beneath her slowly rising hand as though it had simply been hidden behind it. When at last she pulled her hand away it revealed a flower of luminous azure and three droopy leaves, forming a shape like the one on both their arms. "Presentation is half the charm." She waved her hand in front, and in the moment it was hidden from Crypt's sight it was very much gone.

"It's good to see another," Kit said, leaning back in her chair and relaxing. "It's been a long time."
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[Nitrozian Estate] Ravens/Crows of a feather (Kit, please)

Postby Crypt on November 8th, 2013, 1:52 pm

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"Aye, that they are."

He smiled at Kit's accusation (of sorts), acknowledging it for what it was. He watched as she created another beautiful illusion, observing it with keen eyes as it grew from her hand and disappeared at its apex.

"Excellent. I'm not quite an artist or performer - unlike you, apparently - so you must forgive my lack of presentation."

She was the first marked he had encountered outside of Alvadas, and like all the others he had met, she had that flair, that panache for creating something aesthetically pleasing. One could possibly use illusions for scaring people, as he had done before leaving Alvadas, but on the whole it was something to delight in, something to participate in with great joy and laughter.

"If you'll forgive me for asking, how did you become one of Ionu's own here in Ravok? Were you in Alvadas previously? If so, what about your family? Seeing someone this young working for the Nitrozians is not uncommon, but there's something more to you than others."

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Postby Kit Rowan on November 26th, 2013, 8:08 pm

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Kit wagged her finger back and forth tsk, tsk, tsk. She fell back into her chair, said "history is a coin all its own, Crypt-But-Not-Morbid. Akajia walks with Ionu, in her own way, it'd be remiss for me to give away all I am, especially not for free."

Giving her head a little tilt, she examined Crypt up and down. Secrets were something she respected, and no secret more now than the twists and turns of her own life. Still, it had been such a long time since she had met and illusionist, and she did not want to scare him off with reticence. Perhaps something to tease to tease him, then?

Kit gave him a jaunty grin, "but since we have some things in common, I think I can tell you something, at least." She leaned just a little forward, propping hands on knees. "I didn't get this mark in Ravok."
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Postby Crypt on December 4th, 2013, 2:44 pm

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"I'd do it just for fun - after all, secrets can be played with. Just like dice."

Crypt frowned slightly, as if he were a tad frustrated, then grinned as he made his reply.

"That isn't really something, is it? You could have gained it anywhere then - in blazing hot Eyktol, in the Sea of Grass, in freezing cold Avanthal... It's been a long time since I've been there myself, maybe I should travel there."

He sat back in his chair, thinking for a few moments before snapping his fingers.

"A game! I want to play a game. Here are some dice."

Crypt retrieved the set of ivory dice from his pocket, which he had earlier used them to play a game with the children from Vayt's arse.

"Four, six, eight, ten, twelve and twenty sides. And here's a throwing cup - a dice cup. Pick any of them. If you're feeling particularly lucky, choose the icosahedral die. We roll the die - or dice, if you want to play with more than one die - and when the number comes up, we tell the other the same number of things about them. Anything will do. In exchange, the other will tell the die-roller half the number of things about himself. Sounds fair?"

"Oh," he added as an afterthought, "and no using illusions. Let's have a game for Ovek."

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