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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7638430" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)">Session 233, Part Two - The Dead City in the Clouds</span></strong></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Within the city, the pirates kept thousands of slaves, entirely dependent on their captors because nothing grew here. Drozani was beyond desolate – whatever civilisation had once built this city must have transgressed in some terrible way, as their home was now devoid of life, of the capacity to create life. The pirates imported food from Etheax and fish from Hunlow.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">When the unit arrived, the wretched slaves mobbed them, and at the news that the pirates were gone, their jubilation soon turned to violence as they took revenge on those who had kept order in the pirates’ stead and won favour by disciplining their fellow slaves. The unit chose not to intervene in this.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Calily found the monks they were seeking, or rather she found their descendants: Their asceticism made them pariahs, but the slaves and pirates let them pass along their martial arts traditions as long as they were willing to submit to whatever debased demands the pirates made. They did not make good playthings, however, since they suffered torments with stoicism. Calily was sad that her old friends were dead – life on Drozani was hard – but soon recovered, smiled and said that she was very proud of their children. “You must come home to the monastery at once.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">They brought the Coaltongue in and reunited the slaves with those they had rescued from the sacrificial ritual. Then they began to organise the slaves and consider what to do with them and how to feed them now the pirates were gone. There were somewhere between two-and-half and three thousand of them, and now half of their food supply had vanished.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Uru tried to commune with the spirits of Drozani. The emptiness was even more disturbing than Padyer. Uriel meditated and used <em>location loresight</em>.While he did so, Kai announced, “No babies can be born here.” Uriel opened his eyes and said, “Utterly dead. The worst kind of hell. We need to get these people off here.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Korrigan gathered them all together and bolstered them with his oratory. He promised that they would sort out the food situation and find them a new home. (Calily said softly that this would be difficult indeed. One of the first things she had warned them about when they met was the lack of food here.) They organised the slaves under a new regime to tide them over until they returned and then rested while the <em>Coaltongue </em>recharged again.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Gupta and Uru went exploring. They found nothing. This place was very beautiful but utterly devoid of life – even the frisson of excitement that might accompany a strange discovery.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Alexander Grappa had been living inside Uriel’s head for a few days now, but had stayed silent for the most part.Here on Drozani, he chose to speak up for the first time:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">“I have been talking with this poor young woman whom I share your head with. We have reached and understanding, she and I, and now I think she has something to say to you.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Silence. “Xambria?” asked Uriel, encouraging.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">“I am sorry for what I did,” said Xambria, “for betraying you. I think I understand what made Nicodemus the way he is. Being without a body, it… disconnects you from reality. All you have left are intellectual pursuits. Emotions start to fade. At the Convocation I was so overwhelmed, that I… And Nicodemus seemed so inspiring!”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Grappa commiserated with her and spoke of his own infatuation with the Ob leader, and how strange it was to live as nothing more than a psyche – “not a spirit, even”. Uriel said that he too had been inspired by Nicodemus – once, when he was a man, and again, through several incarnations.“ He inspired me to turn against the Church and try to free him.” Then he gave a laugh and joked, “We are all very much in the same boat, it seems.” As he said this, he guessed that there was even more to it than he cared to admit. Fortunately, he was distracted by Grappa, who wanted to talk to Lavanya before it was too late.“ I get the feeling she might not be with us for long. At least that’s what she keeps saying. I’m hoping she might be able to tell me more now that you’re here.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Lavanya was spending time with Leon, who had taken a break from trying to pick up Calily’s Stance of the Paper Wind. They were engaged in an intense conversation about Lavanya’s purpose, which segued neatly into her reasons for rescuing Grappa and for being here right now.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Lavanya said that she was Kasvarina’s avatar.“ She saw everything, on the Lance of Triegenes, through her connection to Reida. She knew she had to reach the plane, and tried to get there before the titan. Fighting the Voice of Rot wasn’t in her plan, although I suppose she knew it was going to happen, and did it anyway, for all of us. Because her body was dying, after she was bitten, she created me to finish what she started. I am all of her best parts – her love, and her desire to do good. Her anger and spite, which got the better of her in her later years, she took out, and trapped in spirit form. As you know, they became Jenny Greenteeth, which I suppose she must have known would happen too.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">“My task was to use the power she gave me to travel to places you and I had been and try to fix things in a certain, safe way. It’s very difficult, though. If I make too many changes at once, the outcome may be so far removed from the future I was once part of that it creates another reality entirely. That is why I have to be careful not to tell you too much each time, in case by doing so I cause you to act differently and inadvertently alter things yourself.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">“I think this is my last task, though. At least, I don’t know what to do next, which hasn’t happened before.I do have a vague awareness of being drawn back to Lanjyr when he Ob find my body. Then… who knows? Rescuing Alexander Grappa was important. He has a role in all this which should become clear. You need to get him to Reida, even if I don’t make it that far.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">She mentioned Conquo again, of how important he was, and reminded Uriel of his earlier suggestion that he might be able to help with that problem.She asked what had happened to Conquo and was told that he was destroyed falling into lava in Pemberton’s island lair.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">“His heart won’t have been destroyed by that,” she said.“That’s all that matters. The body was only so he could practice moving around. It will be difficult to retrieve, no?”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Uriel shook his head. "When we get back to Lanjyr I will see what I can do."(There was a certain hollowness in his tone when he said this.)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Leon asked if they could know what Conquo was needed for, and Lavanya shrugged, tired of keeping secrets, “The hope is to place him into the colossus and displace Borne.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Grappa was sceptical that this could be done, but Lavanya insisted that the golem heart just needed to be placed in the recess where the lantern was.“ Conquo was raised well and will do as he is told. He wasn’t brainwashed by Nicodmus.” Now Grappa became defensive and insisted that Borne could be saved – persuaded that what Nicodemus was doing was wrong.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">“Don’t forget, I have already tried,” said Lavanya, “when you first awoke him.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">“And Kasvarina tried as well,” said Leon."Back on the Lance." A sad memory that bought the conversation to a close.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">It was during this hiatus that Admiral Smith suddenly noticed that the ship’s strange mascot ‘Sparklehorse’ was missing. With the help of the crew he established that no one had seen the creature since they reached the Gyre, and that he most likely disappeared during the storm between Cauldron Hill and Av. Smith tutted ominously and said, “It is very bad luck for a ship lose its mascot.”</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7638430, member: 79141"] [B][COLOR=rgb(209, 213, 216)]Session 233, Part Two - The Dead City in the Clouds[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=rgb(209, 213, 216)] [FONT=Calibri]Within the city, the pirates kept thousands of slaves, entirely dependent on their captors because nothing grew here. Drozani was beyond desolate – whatever civilisation had once built this city must have transgressed in some terrible way, as their home was now devoid of life, of the capacity to create life. The pirates imported food from Etheax and fish from Hunlow. When the unit arrived, the wretched slaves mobbed them, and at the news that the pirates were gone, their jubilation soon turned to violence as they took revenge on those who had kept order in the pirates’ stead and won favour by disciplining their fellow slaves. The unit chose not to intervene in this. Calily found the monks they were seeking, or rather she found their descendants: Their asceticism made them pariahs, but the slaves and pirates let them pass along their martial arts traditions as long as they were willing to submit to whatever debased demands the pirates made. They did not make good playthings, however, since they suffered torments with stoicism. Calily was sad that her old friends were dead – life on Drozani was hard – but soon recovered, smiled and said that she was very proud of their children. “You must come home to the monastery at once.” They brought the Coaltongue in and reunited the slaves with those they had rescued from the sacrificial ritual. Then they began to organise the slaves and consider what to do with them and how to feed them now the pirates were gone. There were somewhere between two-and-half and three thousand of them, and now half of their food supply had vanished. Uru tried to commune with the spirits of Drozani. The emptiness was even more disturbing than Padyer. Uriel meditated and used [I]location loresight[/I].While he did so, Kai announced, “No babies can be born here.” Uriel opened his eyes and said, “Utterly dead. The worst kind of hell. We need to get these people off here.” Korrigan gathered them all together and bolstered them with his oratory. He promised that they would sort out the food situation and find them a new home. (Calily said softly that this would be difficult indeed. One of the first things she had warned them about when they met was the lack of food here.) They organised the slaves under a new regime to tide them over until they returned and then rested while the [I]Coaltongue [/I]recharged again. Gupta and Uru went exploring. They found nothing. This place was very beautiful but utterly devoid of life – even the frisson of excitement that might accompany a strange discovery. Alexander Grappa had been living inside Uriel’s head for a few days now, but had stayed silent for the most part.Here on Drozani, he chose to speak up for the first time: “I have been talking with this poor young woman whom I share your head with. We have reached and understanding, she and I, and now I think she has something to say to you.” Silence. “Xambria?” asked Uriel, encouraging. “I am sorry for what I did,” said Xambria, “for betraying you. I think I understand what made Nicodemus the way he is. Being without a body, it… disconnects you from reality. All you have left are intellectual pursuits. Emotions start to fade. At the Convocation I was so overwhelmed, that I… And Nicodemus seemed so inspiring!” Grappa commiserated with her and spoke of his own infatuation with the Ob leader, and how strange it was to live as nothing more than a psyche – “not a spirit, even”. Uriel said that he too had been inspired by Nicodemus – once, when he was a man, and again, through several incarnations.“ He inspired me to turn against the Church and try to free him.” Then he gave a laugh and joked, “We are all very much in the same boat, it seems.” As he said this, he guessed that there was even more to it than he cared to admit. Fortunately, he was distracted by Grappa, who wanted to talk to Lavanya before it was too late.“ I get the feeling she might not be with us for long. At least that’s what she keeps saying. I’m hoping she might be able to tell me more now that you’re here.” Lavanya was spending time with Leon, who had taken a break from trying to pick up Calily’s Stance of the Paper Wind. They were engaged in an intense conversation about Lavanya’s purpose, which segued neatly into her reasons for rescuing Grappa and for being here right now. Lavanya said that she was Kasvarina’s avatar.“ She saw everything, on the Lance of Triegenes, through her connection to Reida. She knew she had to reach the plane, and tried to get there before the titan. Fighting the Voice of Rot wasn’t in her plan, although I suppose she knew it was going to happen, and did it anyway, for all of us. Because her body was dying, after she was bitten, she created me to finish what she started. I am all of her best parts – her love, and her desire to do good. Her anger and spite, which got the better of her in her later years, she took out, and trapped in spirit form. As you know, they became Jenny Greenteeth, which I suppose she must have known would happen too. “My task was to use the power she gave me to travel to places you and I had been and try to fix things in a certain, safe way. It’s very difficult, though. If I make too many changes at once, the outcome may be so far removed from the future I was once part of that it creates another reality entirely. That is why I have to be careful not to tell you too much each time, in case by doing so I cause you to act differently and inadvertently alter things yourself. “I think this is my last task, though. At least, I don’t know what to do next, which hasn’t happened before.I do have a vague awareness of being drawn back to Lanjyr when he Ob find my body. Then… who knows? Rescuing Alexander Grappa was important. He has a role in all this which should become clear. You need to get him to Reida, even if I don’t make it that far.” She mentioned Conquo again, of how important he was, and reminded Uriel of his earlier suggestion that he might be able to help with that problem.She asked what had happened to Conquo and was told that he was destroyed falling into lava in Pemberton’s island lair. “His heart won’t have been destroyed by that,” she said.“That’s all that matters. The body was only so he could practice moving around. It will be difficult to retrieve, no?” Uriel shook his head. "When we get back to Lanjyr I will see what I can do."(There was a certain hollowness in his tone when he said this.) Leon asked if they could know what Conquo was needed for, and Lavanya shrugged, tired of keeping secrets, “The hope is to place him into the colossus and displace Borne.” Grappa was sceptical that this could be done, but Lavanya insisted that the golem heart just needed to be placed in the recess where the lantern was.“ Conquo was raised well and will do as he is told. He wasn’t brainwashed by Nicodmus.” Now Grappa became defensive and insisted that Borne could be saved – persuaded that what Nicodemus was doing was wrong. “Don’t forget, I have already tried,” said Lavanya, “when you first awoke him.” “And Kasvarina tried as well,” said Leon."Back on the Lance." A sad memory that bought the conversation to a close. It was during this hiatus that Admiral Smith suddenly noticed that the ship’s strange mascot ‘Sparklehorse’ was missing. With the help of the crew he established that no one had seen the creature since they reached the Gyre, and that he most likely disappeared during the storm between Cauldron Hill and Av. Smith tutted ominously and said, “It is very bad luck for a ship lose its mascot.”[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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