Czlaplon Quest
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Re: Czlaplon Quest
Assuming this is being spoken in Throalic, I'll be translating for Kolbeinn where necessary. "The Horror cloud, and the corrupted dragon."
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I'll sit down and fold my arms, staring into the tankard but not touching it. "Perhaps we could just hurry on to the part where you are dead and yet not dead. That would be preferable. Pardon the interruption." I'll glance up at Mekhitar when I speak and narrow my remaining eye a little, not really one for lengthy tales - especially when they are being told by someone so suspicious.
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Mekhitar raises an eyebrow at Isaac, then asks Shaliko, "Relative of yours?"
"So as I was saying," Mekhitar continues when Shaliko totally fails to respond to the dig, "the explosion. And just to put a fine point on it, Vestrivan actually didn't cause the explosion, although what exactly he did do nobody seems tobe quite sure. No, what caused the explosion was the Therans. They sent a mana surge to Sky Point to power the big magical cannon, the one that fried Vasdenjas, poor fellow. Trouble was, they had to route the mana surge through a series of nodes, and one of them happened to be in Vivane. That happened to be damaged by the arrival of the Horror Cloud. That let the mana surge loose at - well, there really is no right time to let something like that loose, now, is there? And the Horror Cloud exploded. Alas, Vivane."
He pauses for a silent toast to the fallen city. After taking a sip, he goes on. "When you blow up a Horror Cloud, that close to Death's Sea, well, all sorts of things get loose. Including me. I'd like to have a heroic ballad to sing about how I fought my way out of Death's Realm amid fire and hordes of the undead, but truth be told, that was everybody else. I just slipped out the back in the confusion. And here I am."
"So as I was saying," Mekhitar continues when Shaliko totally fails to respond to the dig, "the explosion. And just to put a fine point on it, Vestrivan actually didn't cause the explosion, although what exactly he did do nobody seems tobe quite sure. No, what caused the explosion was the Therans. They sent a mana surge to Sky Point to power the big magical cannon, the one that fried Vasdenjas, poor fellow. Trouble was, they had to route the mana surge through a series of nodes, and one of them happened to be in Vivane. That happened to be damaged by the arrival of the Horror Cloud. That let the mana surge loose at - well, there really is no right time to let something like that loose, now, is there? And the Horror Cloud exploded. Alas, Vivane."
He pauses for a silent toast to the fallen city. After taking a sip, he goes on. "When you blow up a Horror Cloud, that close to Death's Sea, well, all sorts of things get loose. Including me. I'd like to have a heroic ballad to sing about how I fought my way out of Death's Realm amid fire and hordes of the undead, but truth be told, that was everybody else. I just slipped out the back in the confusion. And here I am."
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I'll narrow my eyes at him. "Fun story, but it doesn't add up...Everything with Sky Point and Vivane and all of that happened before I ever joined the Bearers, and all of the business with Leliel and your whistle was after that. So if you got out because of Vivane...Wait, do you mean it's /still/ letting things out? It couldn't be...We'd be completely overrun with things that are supposed to be dead! ...No offense."
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"That surely can't be the case. Torana's right. I've been...indisposed for the last year or so, but I was part of the war that lead up to the Battle of Sky Point, and I'm fairly certain that no armies of the undead have taken over the land since then." Isaac tips his cap forward a little, obscuring his brow. "So...this whistle...what is is for? I assume it's somehow important....and who is Leliel? Ah..you know what, nevermind. Let's assume that you are telling the truth, how many people like you would have been released into the world?"
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Mekhitar rolls his eyes. "So many questions, so much distrust. I mean, really. Where to even start? Hm." He puts down his winecup. "How about we start with I'm neither a Nethermancer nor a Warrior? That being said, you'll understand maybe when I tell you I don't understand the theory stuff behind it, but I know from having been there that Death's Realm doesn't run on the same kind of time that this world does. Time doesn't match up between here and there at all. Next thing, I slipped out the back in the confusion, remember? That means I didn't stick around to count how many people went through the crack, or take part in the fight. And there was a fight, oh yes, there most certainly was a fight. There's guards on the crack on both sides now, although I suppose now is kind of a slippery word to use what with the time thing and all. So no mass movement in either direction. The undead have to stay in Vivane and in this world, and not go marching into Death's Realm demanding their rest or trying to take over, and the dead have to stay in Death's Realm and not go gallivanting around the living world, well, with a few exceptions." He grins and adds a flourish with his hand to indicate that he's speaking of himself. "As far as armies of the undead, the only one I know of belongs to Queen Twiceborn, who moved her people from Parlainth down to Vivane after the explosion. You" -- and he indicates both Isaac and Shaliko -- "have been undressing me astrally this entire time, so you know I'm not undead, at least not in the classical sense of someone who died and was raised by Horror magic. I'm more not-dead, or quasi-living, or something. You know," and he pauses to pick up his winecup and stare into it, "I'm not sure there's a Name for what I am, and not having a Name for a situation tends to make people uncomfortable." He sips from his winecup, then waves it at you all in general. "Maybe that's part of the problem. You don't have a nice tidy box to file me in. But then I've never quite fit in anybody's categorization scheme."
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Ignoring the remark about astrally undressing him, I'll sit forward and continue. "So...let me see if I understand this. You have to appreciate that it's a little difficult to grasp. After the explosion at Vivane there was a tear between Death's Realm and our world, and there was a battle at this tear - I assume between dead people who wanted out and perhaps some undead who wanted in. During this conflict you snuck out of Death's Realm and now you are here, but are still dead." I rub my brow. "Well, that's a pretty flagrant disregard for the natural order of things...or rather, it appears to be. Isn't anyone looking for you, you know, to take you back and put you where you're supposed to be?"
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"I think you're...sort of like a refugee. An escapee from Death...But it's curious. I mean, I saw your body...and it wasn't exactly...well, habitable. It makes me curious. Is this a new body, or your old one restored, or not a real body at all? Anyway...why is it that you want me to send you the whistle from Fortetsa Hebo instead of going there yourself? If you aren't Horror-tainted, which you apparently aren't, you shouldn't have a problem. Though...I suppose T'mor is sort of touchy about things. ...Oh, that reminds me. What is...sustaining you? We came across another person who...kept herself 'alive' by stealing energy from everything else around her. It would be good to know if that's what you're doing since...well, it might matter."
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Mekhitar laughs. "I've always had a complete and utter disregard for the natural order. Just ask any of my past lovers. But really, I'd sort of assume that there's someone out looking for the escapees, but given a choice between tracking down a cute little songbird and an enraged and hungry brithan, which would you hunt first? Oh, so many questions." He sighs dramatically. "I answered fewer the last time I auditioned for a patron. Oh, very well. Look, you're asking a troubadour about things that are more properly the province of a nethermancer. What keeps you going? If you want to be crude about it, I eat and drink and piss and shit just like everybody else. If I'm sucking the life out of the Name-givers around me, I'm not aware of it, and wouldn't you and your Vorst relative there be able to tell if I was doing something like that? As far as Long Sounder is concerned, I've got no idea where it is. I should be able to sense its presence, just like anybody can sense where their identified Pattern items and connected Thread items are, but I can't. And while I don't know how T'Mor would react to me, you know, it's not like I'm Horror tainted or carrying a contagious disease or anything nasty like that, why take chances? I've spent my life being careful about who I offend, and making sure that if I do offend someone, I meant to do it. I mean, really, what's the point of being outrageous if you don't leave someone outraged every once in a while?" He pours himself another cup of wine while he's talking, and has a sip from it. "Now, would you like to know about my childhood, or are you going to go meet your nethermancer, who could probably answer more of these questions than I can?"
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"This is getting us nowhere, and it does make sense to ask Gudrun about it." I'll muse quietly, again ignoring the jibes from the dead man. "She'd be more of an authority on these things than we are. As for taking you to pick up your...whistle. That's entirely up to Torana, I certainly won't be taking you anywhere. Wrong direction, I'm afraid." I'll stand up. "For now, you'd probably better come with us..."
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