The Psionicle, Part IX

[Jarval]

Jansson swings at the closest squirrel, obviously relived to see Ruth.

"Thank the Gods you're here! We need to kill all these creatures, but save the one being chased by it's fellows. I think that's all you need to know."

He looks around for the good squirrel, hoping it can again lead its pursuers past him.

 

[Darkwolf]

"Are you sure they are false images? Perhaps you are a false image and one of them is the real one?" Narok prepares to be visciously smited if this is the real Rashida.

"Well, are you going to answer me or does your silence prove that you are a false image?"

 

[GnomeWorks]

Test of Rashida (Syld, Narok)

"If that were the case," The Rashida you are talking to says, "then would not the others be the same: not true, but one of the others is? Yet what other can be true, if it is false, as one of the others is true... as you can see, that is circular thinking, and will get you nowhere."

 

[Dalamar]

"But there is no way to tell you apart, you each give the same answer to a given question, you each claim that the others are false and that you are the real one. There are even too many of you to try guessing by which month it is now!"
Syld's voice is starting to grow desperate.

 

[Darkwolf]

"If you can't be the real Rashida because one of the others is the real one, but they also can't be the real Rashida because you are the real one then there you are all the real Rashida but at the same time not the real Rashida because you are each a part of her."

 

[GnomeWorks]

Test of Rashida (Syld, Narok)

Each of the images looks at Narok. After a small moment of silence, they speak: "Have you chosen?"

 

[GnomeWorks]

Test of Merle (Osius, Shardorn)

ROUND THREE
Initiatives
Osius - 7
Shardorn - 5
Ghost - 4

Osius throws his mental strength at the ghost, but there is no mind there that he can direct his attack at...


Shardorn casts cure moderate at the ghost...

Shardorn deals 12 damage to the ghost.

The ghost's image sharpens for a quick moment, then slowly dissipates. A small pile of items slowly fades into being where the ghost was standing before... however, before another moment passes, both Osius and Shardorn disappear in a flash of black light.

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The Rest of the Group (Animus, Desimus, Tori'shel [dying])

Suddenly, Osius and Shardorn - along with a small pile of items - appear in the center of the circle of stones, next to Tori'shel.

The shadowy figure appears once more, near the edge of the clearing.

"You two," He says slowly, "have passed the Test of Merle. The Voices have decreed that you will wait here in the clearing, until your companions have completed the remaining Tests."

With that, the figure disappears into the shadows once more.

 

[Zhure]

Osius

"That was not pleasant," Osius says with a sigh of relief. "I don't think I was the right man for that job at all."

 

[Dalamar]

Syld nods his approval to Narok.

 

[Darkwolf]

ooc: Was waiting on Dalamar's approval

Narok nods, "Yes that is our final answer."

ooc2: Couldn't resist..sorry