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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8604597" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Prompt 24You are forced to adopt a new name. Why?After being humbled by Wulfstan, I crossed the channel into the land of the Franks. I lingered in Flanders for some time. I wandered the countryside like a vagabond, secluding myself from the mortal folk, except when I felt the urge to feed. I lived that way for a time... how long, I cannot rightly say. My sense of time was becoming capricious. After some time had passed, I felt the need to be among people again. I spent my time in isolation imagining a new beginning for myself, here among folk who'd never heard of Eadric of Streona. In my mortal life, I'd managed to rise to a place of prominence mostly through sheer determination. How much further could I climb given my new abilities? I replenished my dwindling supply of gold by waylaying merchants on the road. With my powers, it was easy to enthrall the mortals and take their coin. But it felt somehow beneath me... banditry no matter how you dress it up. Still, a necessary evil in order to create for myself a new identity. One that would allow me to fit into mortal society. I purchased some finery and took on some new thralls to serve as my retainers. So it was that I arrived in the city of Boulogne as Colum of Orkney, a minor Scottish noble. I felt invigorated at the idea of a new beginning. I would see what this new city... this new existence... had to offer. ***********************************Added Experience to Memory 1:<ul>
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[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 8604597, member: 6785785"] [U]Prompt 24[/U] [I]You are forced to adopt a new name. Why?[/I] After being humbled by Wulfstan, I crossed the channel into the land of the Franks. I lingered in Flanders for some time. I wandered the countryside like a vagabond, secluding myself from the mortal folk, except when I felt the urge to feed. I lived that way for a time... how long, I cannot rightly say. My sense of time was becoming capricious. After some time had passed, I felt the need to be among people again. I spent my time in isolation imagining a new beginning for myself, here among folk who'd never heard of Eadric of Streona. In my mortal life, I'd managed to rise to a place of prominence mostly through sheer determination. How much further could I climb given my new abilities? I replenished my dwindling supply of gold by waylaying merchants on the road. With my powers, it was easy to enthrall the mortals and take their coin. But it felt somehow beneath me... banditry no matter how you dress it up. Still, a necessary evil in order to create for myself a new identity. One that would allow me to fit into mortal society. I purchased some finery and took on some new thralls to serve as my retainers. So it was that I arrived in the city of Boulogne as Colum of Orkney, a minor Scottish noble. I felt invigorated at the idea of a new beginning. I would see what this new city... this new existence... had to offer. *********************************** Added Experience to Memory 1: [LIST] [*]I abandon the name Eadric, and assume the identity of Colum of Orkney, a Scottish noble visiting Boulogne in Flanders. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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