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<blockquote data-quote="s@squ@tch" data-source="post: 3933369" data-attributes="member: 42885"><p><strong>Marot the Deadly</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrchid">"Many thanks to you, madam," </span> Marot says to the Jorasco healer,"<span style="color: DarkOrchid">Your gift is truly something to behold. I don't know if I could ever have gotten used to being blind..."</span></p><p></p><p> He gets up from the chair and rejoins the group. He was glad to see the familiar faces of Khensu and Jarrith, but his heart sank a bit when he remembered how Jarrith had left him and the group out in the woods. The memories of last night and earlier were still fresh in his mind. Although his sight had returned, he still didn't feel......<em>right</em>. He had thought that after he got away from the nymph's cave or corpse, perhaps the voices would quiet down somewhat, but they hadn't. He then thought that when his sight was restored, the voices would quiet, but they hadn't. </p><p> </p><p></p><p>His anxiety level was still high, and he was also concerned with Khensu's actions last night. Something didn't ring true about his instantaneous transformation. All that he could recall about lycanthropy was that it took some time to manifest itself. </p><p></p><p>He pulls Jarrith and Khensu aside, telling them that he needs to talk privately with them.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrchid">"I feel as if something has corrupted me -- this land, or the fey in the woods. I had thought perhaps it was the blindness, or some spell she had placed upon me, but it still persists -- I am hearing these voices in my head.. Unclean voices. I do not know what to do about it, but I will be honest, I need your support -- both physically and spiritually. I felt incredibly alone out in the woods after you left, Jarrith. Although I am not of your order, during my travels with the both of you, I've come to rely on your support to help keep me on the Flame's path."</span></p><p></p><p>He grimaces slightly,<span style="color: DarkOrchid">"In the battle with the nymph, I felt as if I had partially given in to my fiendish roots... The blindness washed over me and trapped me within an old nightmare, and I vaguely remember lashing out blindly with searing hate and rage."</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrchid"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrchid">"It was after this experience that the voices started. And even now, I can hear them, quietly, in the back of my head."</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrchid"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrchid">"I fear that a small portion of my conscious has been stolen from me -- I do not know if it is this land, with all of the misery shrouding and covering it all -- or whether something else, within me, which has been released."</span></p><p></p><p>He can't get the thought out of his head that perhaps THIS was what Gan'dal Homm forwarned him about, all those years ago. Could the rakshasa's be calling him back into the fold? Would he be able to resist their call?</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrchid">"All I know is that I do not feel right, I do not feel pure, or clean. I fear my soul has been attacked and wounded, but I do not know exactly how to set it right, or attempt to heal it."</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrchid"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrchid">"That is why I feel the need to be in the company of the both of you while in this land."</span></p><p></p><p>He looks between the stalker and the inquisitor with a sad look on his face, and a heavy shadow upon his soul.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrchid">"Without the strength of the Flame, I fear I will falter and slip into the darkness."</span></p><p></p><p>He pauses a moment. Then looks back at the shifter.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrchid">"Khensu, on another, disturbing front, from my studies of lycanthropy, I cannot recall an instance where a bite from a were-creature caused one to shift immediately -- by all accounts, the curse or disease takes <em>days</em> to manifest itself before it happens... But I would not put anything past this foul land and the curses that abound everywhere."</span></p><p></p><p>[D]aaa[/D]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Upon rejoining the others in the 'private' meeting room, Marot scans the room, using his keen vision to see those things that would wish to remain hidden with magic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="s@squ@tch, post: 3933369, member: 42885"] [b]Marot the Deadly[/b] [COLOR=DarkOrchid]"Many thanks to you, madam," [/COLOR] Marot says to the Jorasco healer,"[COLOR=DarkOrchid]Your gift is truly something to behold. I don't know if I could ever have gotten used to being blind..."[/COLOR] He gets up from the chair and rejoins the group. He was glad to see the familiar faces of Khensu and Jarrith, but his heart sank a bit when he remembered how Jarrith had left him and the group out in the woods. The memories of last night and earlier were still fresh in his mind. Although his sight had returned, he still didn't feel......[I]right[/I]. He had thought that after he got away from the nymph's cave or corpse, perhaps the voices would quiet down somewhat, but they hadn't. He then thought that when his sight was restored, the voices would quiet, but they hadn't. His anxiety level was still high, and he was also concerned with Khensu's actions last night. Something didn't ring true about his instantaneous transformation. All that he could recall about lycanthropy was that it took some time to manifest itself. He pulls Jarrith and Khensu aside, telling them that he needs to talk privately with them. [COLOR=DarkOrchid]"I feel as if something has corrupted me -- this land, or the fey in the woods. I had thought perhaps it was the blindness, or some spell she had placed upon me, but it still persists -- I am hearing these voices in my head.. Unclean voices. I do not know what to do about it, but I will be honest, I need your support -- both physically and spiritually. I felt incredibly alone out in the woods after you left, Jarrith. Although I am not of your order, during my travels with the both of you, I've come to rely on your support to help keep me on the Flame's path."[/COLOR] He grimaces slightly,[COLOR=DarkOrchid]"In the battle with the nymph, I felt as if I had partially given in to my fiendish roots... The blindness washed over me and trapped me within an old nightmare, and I vaguely remember lashing out blindly with searing hate and rage." "It was after this experience that the voices started. And even now, I can hear them, quietly, in the back of my head." "I fear that a small portion of my conscious has been stolen from me -- I do not know if it is this land, with all of the misery shrouding and covering it all -- or whether something else, within me, which has been released."[/COLOR] He can't get the thought out of his head that perhaps THIS was what Gan'dal Homm forwarned him about, all those years ago. Could the rakshasa's be calling him back into the fold? Would he be able to resist their call? [COLOR=DarkOrchid]"All I know is that I do not feel right, I do not feel pure, or clean. I fear my soul has been attacked and wounded, but I do not know exactly how to set it right, or attempt to heal it." "That is why I feel the need to be in the company of the both of you while in this land."[/COLOR] He looks between the stalker and the inquisitor with a sad look on his face, and a heavy shadow upon his soul. [COLOR=DarkOrchid]"Without the strength of the Flame, I fear I will falter and slip into the darkness."[/COLOR] He pauses a moment. Then looks back at the shifter. [COLOR=DarkOrchid]"Khensu, on another, disturbing front, from my studies of lycanthropy, I cannot recall an instance where a bite from a were-creature caused one to shift immediately -- by all accounts, the curse or disease takes [I]days[/I] to manifest itself before it happens... But I would not put anything past this foul land and the curses that abound everywhere."[/COLOR] [D]aaa[/D] Upon rejoining the others in the 'private' meeting room, Marot scans the room, using his keen vision to see those things that would wish to remain hidden with magic. [/QUOTE]
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