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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tellerian Hawke" data-source="post: 7053952" data-attributes="member: 6790669">As you begin to pray over the axe, you begin to sense something; it's only a glimmer at first, but it gradually becomes stronger. It's as if the axe were tugging at your shirt...As you continue to pray, you begin to realize that it's not tugging at your clothing, it's tugging at YOU. You open your eyes, and are greeted with an amazing sight: there are glowing, white-blue, pulsing tentacles coming from the axe, touching you on your chest! There are about 8 of them, long and thin, tugging at the very FIBER of your being, begging for your attention.You sense an urgent need from the axe, and you get the feeling that the tentacles have a specific purpose. It almost seems as if the axe is ASKING YOU FOR PERMISSION. You realize, suddenly, that one of the tentacles is touching your head, and you feel a sort of empathic link being formed. You somehow know that with the slightest response, you could give your consent, without moving a muscle, without saying a word...[gm]As per our lunchtime conversation, you give the axe permission, a bit nervously, since you are unsure as to exactly what it wants. All you know is, that the need is URGENT. You sense that giving permission to the axe will please it greatly, and fill some dire need that it has.[/gm]As you give your consent, the tentacles begin to pulse more quickly, rapidly growing in size, as they begin to suck out a portion of your life force!! You do not feel as if you were harmed; in fact, the sensation is quite pleasant, and very calming. You do not feel weaker, nor do you feel drowsy, nor sick in any way. It is not the same feeling you had when the undead fiend drained part of your soul, so long ago. That experience had felt like a ripping away, like a tearing, a sawing. This experience feels like a mild massage, a cleansing of sorts.[gm]Your xp total before granting permission: 19,965Your xp total after granting permission: 15,000You gave the axe 4,965 experience points.[/gm]When your prayer ends, you notice that your holy symbol glows faintly and dimly around its outer edge, a white-green glow, that is barely noticeable to the naked eye. In fact, you surmise that perhaps the only reason you can see the glow at all is because of your connection to the axe; now that the axe has drained a small part of you, you feel somehow as though you are now a part of IT. But aside from that recognition, nothing else about the axe, or about you, has changed. Your mind is clear, and you feel refreshed, and you know, somewhere in the back of your mind, that you will have to repeat this process SOON, lest your efforts up to this point be lost.[gm]You feel as if you should do this again within the next 16 days [before Ready'reat 02, CY 963], lest the xp be spent in vain, and at that point, you would have to start all over again.[/gm]</blockquote>

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