Ascension - Celina Zabinski - 01/07/2021
Jul 12, 2021 0:41:02 GMT
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Post by Celina Zabinski on Jul 12, 2021 0:41:02 GMT
Apple-lause To The New Queen
Written by Celina Zabinski
So there I am minding my own business enjoying the chaos that’s happening. I mean we were there for a party… or what I like to call anyway. An Ascension… in the Feywild… who was I to turn down that invite... that would be... madness. All the Queens and Kings from each court in the Feywild were to be there... waiting to be voted as the ruler. Exciting... will there be drama...? Who knows. But next thing I know hooded people start attacking all of us in the crowd. Like I said… chaos. And then next ‘poof’, I get grabbed by someone. We disappear for a second and I am placed in a new location. I was about to react but the person was gone within seconds. “They probably knew I was NOT going to be happy with that”, I think angrily in my head. I look around and see a bunch of other people that are gathered in the same spot and I quickly spot two familiar faces – Angier and Vi. There are two other faces I don't recognise and I learn quickly that their names are Levuka (a female elf) & Seraphina (a female assamir). All of us look stunned to be here. We’re quickly introduced to Imryll, who is a tall eladrin woman and she is in green. Before Imryll can say anything the ground below us trembles. Once the trembles stop shaking Imryll informs us that we must help Nicnevin. At the word Nicnevin I freeze. “This can’t be… Queen Nicnevin which I’ve learnt so much from Mistress Songbird…. Queen Nicnevin who was there on stage earlier… can it?”, I think to myself. Imryll asks if we had any questions and I just had one, apart from asking if this was the real Nicnevin. “You don’t want to look a fool Celina if it's not the real Nicnevin… best to have a look at this person and find out for ourselves”, I think to myself. I enquire as to how much gold were we getting paid to help. To which Imryll replies that the case is a matter of life and death, so gold isn’t really an option. I follow up with, that is was perfect timing for lots of gold and flash her my biggest smile. “There’s always time for gold!”, I think, “especially to help a QUEEN. Plus if this is the real Nicnevin she would appreciate me asking”. Imryll sighs and says she expected something like to happen. She promises if we help Nicnevin we would all get a reward for helping her. Someone else in our group then asks how would Nicnevin know that we’re there to help her. Apparently she would know straight away as everyone else will be trying to kill her, which will be mostly unseelies. Well, I thought this was all excellent and I went off happily to find the delightful queen (or not queen) we were to be helping... who may or may not need assistance. As I said all exciting.
Loud noises seemed to be coming from one location and sure enough that was the place we were heading towards. As we start approaching the sounds keep getting louder and louder, until we get to a clearing and we can all see in the corner Nicnevin. It was her! It was Queen Nicnevin! Exactly as described long red hair and she was so tall. She seemed magnificent. As we all walked into the area, I decided to politely inform Nicnevin that we were here. So I shouted to her across the way that help has arrived. I also added would she pay us 10 gold for each person we kill on her behalf? I am not sure if she heard me or not but I decided to go ahead anyway and help her by targeting one of the four people surrounding her who look like they’re about to attack. I take out an apple and I use my new spell ‘Catapult’. Sure enough I hit my target straight in the head and knock them right out. The unseelie immediately goes unconscious. I laugh and shout out towards Nicnevin, “That’s 10 gold straight away for me”. Out of nowhere I get hit with a tiny arrow. "Owwww", I think angrily in my head. As I am taking out the tiny arrow from my shoulder, I seem to get into an uncontrollable fit of laughter. Everything is hilarious and I can’t get the image of me hitting that guy with an apple out of my head. I fall on the floor laughing and all I can say out loud though the fits of laughter is “Apples”. “I’m an apple shop keeper and... I... now kill people with apples...”, I think while laughing uncontrollably again. The thought is too bizarre. Too hilarious. After a few moments, I suddenly snapped out of my laughter state by Seraphina shouting in my face “BOO”. It works and I can finally stop laughing. The images in my head aren't as funny as I thought a few moments ago. Seraphina also helps me get to my feet. I tell Seraphina that her boo was scary… and I awkwardly thank her for breaking me out of whatever that was a few moments ago. I look over and watch Nicnevin and she pulls out a glowing ring and just knocks back 2 unseelies and completely destroys another one with a huge blow. “My god she is so powerful… it doesn’t seem that she needs our help… so why are we here...” I wonder to myself but keep quiet. I spot some unseelies standing in front of the tree I was behind with Seraphina, I decide to try and attack one of them. I go and stab one but they still stay standing, so I immediately retreat behind the tree to where I left Seraphina. As I come back I stand next to her and say “Hey… so I did something. What a day, huh” and smile.
All of a sudden the sky turns dark and everyone looks up to the sky. I follow it and spot a huge dragon, it appears to be blocking the sun from view. Looking around everyone seems to be staring at this dragon. Nicnevin then shouts to all of us to come over and stand next to her. Everyone in our group slowly starts heading over to Nicnevin. As I’m walking over I take it as an opportunity to try and take one of the unseelie down, while they're distracted by the dragon in the sky. “I mean it seems rude to not take advantage of this opportunity…” I think to myself. I go up and stab one of them from behind and run away quickly to Nicnevin before they can respond. As all of us are standing around Nicnevin, that’s when the dragon starts to drop from the sky. All I can see is a mouth descending down upon us, we can’t get away we’re trapped. Suddenly there’s a brief flash of light, it feels like being crushed and poisoned at the same time. It’s hard to describe and then there’s a light. A soothing light and a feeling that I am being carried. I can finally start to see again and I can feel solid ground now. I look around and try to focus. It looks like the craziness of the Feywild… but like even more intense than normal… I can see the others all around me and I see that there’s a big dog… BIG DOG. I stare around the place again and see that the whole place is filled with islands, so many islands. I see one that looks like a rainforest and one that looks like a whirlpool in the air. There’s also this endless purple sky. It’s quite beautiful to look at, you could get lost staring at every little detail. Next thing I hear a man’s voice. I look and it’s a tall elf, with wavey blue hair which seems to drift in the air. He is wearing a vest woven with reeds and has seafoam trimmed lining. He starts asking our group if we knew how to get to the Ascension… I can see this man is clueless and has no idea what has taken place. Has he been in this place for a while? I have no clue where we even are. The others try and explain but he doesn’t seem to listen and walks off. I believe I heard that his name was Velorian… or was it Ulorian... I wasn’t really paying too much attention. So many islands to watch. I see one in the distance one made entirely of snow and then one with tones of flowers. Beautiful...
Nicnevin finally comes over to us and tells us that we’re here to help her with a task of stopping the dragon. That we were in fact inside the dragon. I ask if we're dead and she says not quite but we need to help this dragon in order to get out. She wants to do a spell but needs help from us in defending from any unseelie or other unwanted things, while she’s casting her spells. We’re basically distractions. She tells us that there’s a smaller version of the dragon that swallowed us in here, in this place and that it’s covered in black marks. It's the black marks that we need to destroy from the dragon. She asks that if there's anyone who can join her performing spells to go with her and that the others were to help remove the black marks directly from the dragon and stop any attacks from unwanted creatures. So the groups were divided into Nicnevin, Imryll and Seraphina to perform spells and then the rest of us, Vi, Levuka, Angier and myself to head to the dragon. To be honest I was excited to see the dragon. Before we were to head off Nicnevin handed us all locks of her hair. She tells us if we wear them it will provide us magical resistance. I decide to ask her if she was providing this out of the goodness of her heart. I mean from the stories I’ve heard about Nicnevin, she doesn’t just give out anything for free. A woman after my own heart and all! She confirms she has no intention to do anything else with them for us. “Sure, she doesn’t…”, I smile. I know there has to be something more to this surely... but I don't question it further. I decide to put it on anyway and off we go.
We get to the dragon and it’s still quite large. Its legs are on either side of the small island we’re on, which could be a rock, it’s all confusing. And its head was resting in the middle. The dragon didn’t seem to acknowledge our presence. It seems to be content lying still. I decide to approach first and target one of the black marks up high. I could see one of the marks on its shoulder. It doesn’t look pleasant. I decide to climb up the dragon on its right side and Vi and Angier decide to proceed up the left. "I survived being turned into a statue… surely I’m not going to die by a dragon today… right?", I think positively. I manage to make my way up its leg and luckily there's no movement from the dragon, good sign. I finally make my way up to its shoulder, again no reaction. All seems good. I then decide to stab the black mark with my rapier. My attack hits however the dragon clearly doesn’t like this and starts to shake me off. I was not prepared for this and I immediately slip and fall to the ground and lie on my back. While lying on my back, I decide to contemplate life and my choices. “Take the black marks off… it’ll be easy… it’s just a dragon…” random thoughts all running through my head. As I am lying down I notice that the dragon is about to roar. I do not want to be there and I immediately roll away and just in time before a huge intense beam of energy just comes pouring out of its mouth. I get up quickly and decide to try climb the dragon again. However before I do that, I notice what appear to be… apes… running by me and climbing up quickly on the dragon. “Apes… where the hell did they come from… I mean they look like they’re targeting the black marks…. Maybe they’re on our side?”, I ponder and look around and see Levuka. "Maybe it was her? I sure as hell am not going to be out done by freakin’ apes", I say to myself. This motivates me to climb up the dragon again on the shoulder, however I immediately slip down from the dragon as I begin to climb. But from this angle I can see that the apes have already smashed through the black marks. The dragon roars again but this time I'm not quick enough to escape the energy from it's mouth and it's hits me. I scream in pain but I'm still alive. I shake off myself but then there's a whoosh of healing energy. I look around and see it's Seraphina, she's healing all of our group. "THANK YOU", I think happily. I feel good and I focus on the task again. The sooner the black marks are off the sooner we're out of here. There’s just one mark left and it’s on top of its head. I decide to climb and reach… but I slip… yet again but I don't fall on my back. And then I can see Angier. He’s just appeared out of nowhere and he’s directly above the dragons head. He has his bow and something glowing in his hands like an arrow. He takes aim and shoots at the head of the dragon.
Next thing, we are all brought back to where we were just we left at the ascension area. The chaos has ended. The regular people of the Feywild have left and it’s now only us adventurers that get to vote on the next person to ascend. I should have left and pretended I wasn’t an adventurer as normal but the chance to vote on the next person to ascend is too good to pass up. We’re all handed musical instruments and we’re to use our instruments to vote on either Titania, Morinn or Nicnevin. I think to myself, out of the people there I have met Titania and Nicnevin. Titania, she’s Merla’s mother. I mean if the vote was for Merla this might be different… Merla helped turn me from being a statue. Titania is strong and powerful. On the other hand Nicnevin is wise and powerful. Also Nicnevin is also beautiful and she clearly was powerful enough to stop that dragon…
I decide to vote for Nicnevin and sure enough she wins!
Imryll comes up to our group at the end. She explains that Nicnevin is quite occupied with her win but she sends her thanks. She mentions we can keep the lock of hair, which I completely forgot about it. But it’s definitely handy to have. She also hands each of us a gift and says it’s also from Nicnevin as a reward. Before Imryll leaves I hand her an apple and tell her to pass on to Nicnevin. That it was something to remember me by and that her and Nicnevin were welcome into my shop at any time to see my special apples and I wink. Imryll mentions that she will not forget us but will gladly pass it on to Nicnevin. I smile delighted with myself and think about the exciting day I just had...
Written by Celina Zabinski
So there I am minding my own business enjoying the chaos that’s happening. I mean we were there for a party… or what I like to call anyway. An Ascension… in the Feywild… who was I to turn down that invite... that would be... madness. All the Queens and Kings from each court in the Feywild were to be there... waiting to be voted as the ruler. Exciting... will there be drama...? Who knows. But next thing I know hooded people start attacking all of us in the crowd. Like I said… chaos. And then next ‘poof’, I get grabbed by someone. We disappear for a second and I am placed in a new location. I was about to react but the person was gone within seconds. “They probably knew I was NOT going to be happy with that”, I think angrily in my head. I look around and see a bunch of other people that are gathered in the same spot and I quickly spot two familiar faces – Angier and Vi. There are two other faces I don't recognise and I learn quickly that their names are Levuka (a female elf) & Seraphina (a female assamir). All of us look stunned to be here. We’re quickly introduced to Imryll, who is a tall eladrin woman and she is in green. Before Imryll can say anything the ground below us trembles. Once the trembles stop shaking Imryll informs us that we must help Nicnevin. At the word Nicnevin I freeze. “This can’t be… Queen Nicnevin which I’ve learnt so much from Mistress Songbird…. Queen Nicnevin who was there on stage earlier… can it?”, I think to myself. Imryll asks if we had any questions and I just had one, apart from asking if this was the real Nicnevin. “You don’t want to look a fool Celina if it's not the real Nicnevin… best to have a look at this person and find out for ourselves”, I think to myself. I enquire as to how much gold were we getting paid to help. To which Imryll replies that the case is a matter of life and death, so gold isn’t really an option. I follow up with, that is was perfect timing for lots of gold and flash her my biggest smile. “There’s always time for gold!”, I think, “especially to help a QUEEN. Plus if this is the real Nicnevin she would appreciate me asking”. Imryll sighs and says she expected something like to happen. She promises if we help Nicnevin we would all get a reward for helping her. Someone else in our group then asks how would Nicnevin know that we’re there to help her. Apparently she would know straight away as everyone else will be trying to kill her, which will be mostly unseelies. Well, I thought this was all excellent and I went off happily to find the delightful queen (or not queen) we were to be helping... who may or may not need assistance. As I said all exciting.
Loud noises seemed to be coming from one location and sure enough that was the place we were heading towards. As we start approaching the sounds keep getting louder and louder, until we get to a clearing and we can all see in the corner Nicnevin. It was her! It was Queen Nicnevin! Exactly as described long red hair and she was so tall. She seemed magnificent. As we all walked into the area, I decided to politely inform Nicnevin that we were here. So I shouted to her across the way that help has arrived. I also added would she pay us 10 gold for each person we kill on her behalf? I am not sure if she heard me or not but I decided to go ahead anyway and help her by targeting one of the four people surrounding her who look like they’re about to attack. I take out an apple and I use my new spell ‘Catapult’. Sure enough I hit my target straight in the head and knock them right out. The unseelie immediately goes unconscious. I laugh and shout out towards Nicnevin, “That’s 10 gold straight away for me”. Out of nowhere I get hit with a tiny arrow. "Owwww", I think angrily in my head. As I am taking out the tiny arrow from my shoulder, I seem to get into an uncontrollable fit of laughter. Everything is hilarious and I can’t get the image of me hitting that guy with an apple out of my head. I fall on the floor laughing and all I can say out loud though the fits of laughter is “Apples”. “I’m an apple shop keeper and... I... now kill people with apples...”, I think while laughing uncontrollably again. The thought is too bizarre. Too hilarious. After a few moments, I suddenly snapped out of my laughter state by Seraphina shouting in my face “BOO”. It works and I can finally stop laughing. The images in my head aren't as funny as I thought a few moments ago. Seraphina also helps me get to my feet. I tell Seraphina that her boo was scary… and I awkwardly thank her for breaking me out of whatever that was a few moments ago. I look over and watch Nicnevin and she pulls out a glowing ring and just knocks back 2 unseelies and completely destroys another one with a huge blow. “My god she is so powerful… it doesn’t seem that she needs our help… so why are we here...” I wonder to myself but keep quiet. I spot some unseelies standing in front of the tree I was behind with Seraphina, I decide to try and attack one of them. I go and stab one but they still stay standing, so I immediately retreat behind the tree to where I left Seraphina. As I come back I stand next to her and say “Hey… so I did something. What a day, huh” and smile.
All of a sudden the sky turns dark and everyone looks up to the sky. I follow it and spot a huge dragon, it appears to be blocking the sun from view. Looking around everyone seems to be staring at this dragon. Nicnevin then shouts to all of us to come over and stand next to her. Everyone in our group slowly starts heading over to Nicnevin. As I’m walking over I take it as an opportunity to try and take one of the unseelie down, while they're distracted by the dragon in the sky. “I mean it seems rude to not take advantage of this opportunity…” I think to myself. I go up and stab one of them from behind and run away quickly to Nicnevin before they can respond. As all of us are standing around Nicnevin, that’s when the dragon starts to drop from the sky. All I can see is a mouth descending down upon us, we can’t get away we’re trapped. Suddenly there’s a brief flash of light, it feels like being crushed and poisoned at the same time. It’s hard to describe and then there’s a light. A soothing light and a feeling that I am being carried. I can finally start to see again and I can feel solid ground now. I look around and try to focus. It looks like the craziness of the Feywild… but like even more intense than normal… I can see the others all around me and I see that there’s a big dog… BIG DOG. I stare around the place again and see that the whole place is filled with islands, so many islands. I see one that looks like a rainforest and one that looks like a whirlpool in the air. There’s also this endless purple sky. It’s quite beautiful to look at, you could get lost staring at every little detail. Next thing I hear a man’s voice. I look and it’s a tall elf, with wavey blue hair which seems to drift in the air. He is wearing a vest woven with reeds and has seafoam trimmed lining. He starts asking our group if we knew how to get to the Ascension… I can see this man is clueless and has no idea what has taken place. Has he been in this place for a while? I have no clue where we even are. The others try and explain but he doesn’t seem to listen and walks off. I believe I heard that his name was Velorian… or was it Ulorian... I wasn’t really paying too much attention. So many islands to watch. I see one in the distance one made entirely of snow and then one with tones of flowers. Beautiful...
Nicnevin finally comes over to us and tells us that we’re here to help her with a task of stopping the dragon. That we were in fact inside the dragon. I ask if we're dead and she says not quite but we need to help this dragon in order to get out. She wants to do a spell but needs help from us in defending from any unseelie or other unwanted things, while she’s casting her spells. We’re basically distractions. She tells us that there’s a smaller version of the dragon that swallowed us in here, in this place and that it’s covered in black marks. It's the black marks that we need to destroy from the dragon. She asks that if there's anyone who can join her performing spells to go with her and that the others were to help remove the black marks directly from the dragon and stop any attacks from unwanted creatures. So the groups were divided into Nicnevin, Imryll and Seraphina to perform spells and then the rest of us, Vi, Levuka, Angier and myself to head to the dragon. To be honest I was excited to see the dragon. Before we were to head off Nicnevin handed us all locks of her hair. She tells us if we wear them it will provide us magical resistance. I decide to ask her if she was providing this out of the goodness of her heart. I mean from the stories I’ve heard about Nicnevin, she doesn’t just give out anything for free. A woman after my own heart and all! She confirms she has no intention to do anything else with them for us. “Sure, she doesn’t…”, I smile. I know there has to be something more to this surely... but I don't question it further. I decide to put it on anyway and off we go.
We get to the dragon and it’s still quite large. Its legs are on either side of the small island we’re on, which could be a rock, it’s all confusing. And its head was resting in the middle. The dragon didn’t seem to acknowledge our presence. It seems to be content lying still. I decide to approach first and target one of the black marks up high. I could see one of the marks on its shoulder. It doesn’t look pleasant. I decide to climb up the dragon on its right side and Vi and Angier decide to proceed up the left. "I survived being turned into a statue… surely I’m not going to die by a dragon today… right?", I think positively. I manage to make my way up its leg and luckily there's no movement from the dragon, good sign. I finally make my way up to its shoulder, again no reaction. All seems good. I then decide to stab the black mark with my rapier. My attack hits however the dragon clearly doesn’t like this and starts to shake me off. I was not prepared for this and I immediately slip and fall to the ground and lie on my back. While lying on my back, I decide to contemplate life and my choices. “Take the black marks off… it’ll be easy… it’s just a dragon…” random thoughts all running through my head. As I am lying down I notice that the dragon is about to roar. I do not want to be there and I immediately roll away and just in time before a huge intense beam of energy just comes pouring out of its mouth. I get up quickly and decide to try climb the dragon again. However before I do that, I notice what appear to be… apes… running by me and climbing up quickly on the dragon. “Apes… where the hell did they come from… I mean they look like they’re targeting the black marks…. Maybe they’re on our side?”, I ponder and look around and see Levuka. "Maybe it was her? I sure as hell am not going to be out done by freakin’ apes", I say to myself. This motivates me to climb up the dragon again on the shoulder, however I immediately slip down from the dragon as I begin to climb. But from this angle I can see that the apes have already smashed through the black marks. The dragon roars again but this time I'm not quick enough to escape the energy from it's mouth and it's hits me. I scream in pain but I'm still alive. I shake off myself but then there's a whoosh of healing energy. I look around and see it's Seraphina, she's healing all of our group. "THANK YOU", I think happily. I feel good and I focus on the task again. The sooner the black marks are off the sooner we're out of here. There’s just one mark left and it’s on top of its head. I decide to climb and reach… but I slip… yet again but I don't fall on my back. And then I can see Angier. He’s just appeared out of nowhere and he’s directly above the dragons head. He has his bow and something glowing in his hands like an arrow. He takes aim and shoots at the head of the dragon.
Next thing, we are all brought back to where we were just we left at the ascension area. The chaos has ended. The regular people of the Feywild have left and it’s now only us adventurers that get to vote on the next person to ascend. I should have left and pretended I wasn’t an adventurer as normal but the chance to vote on the next person to ascend is too good to pass up. We’re all handed musical instruments and we’re to use our instruments to vote on either Titania, Morinn or Nicnevin. I think to myself, out of the people there I have met Titania and Nicnevin. Titania, she’s Merla’s mother. I mean if the vote was for Merla this might be different… Merla helped turn me from being a statue. Titania is strong and powerful. On the other hand Nicnevin is wise and powerful. Also Nicnevin is also beautiful and she clearly was powerful enough to stop that dragon…
I decide to vote for Nicnevin and sure enough she wins!
Imryll comes up to our group at the end. She explains that Nicnevin is quite occupied with her win but she sends her thanks. She mentions we can keep the lock of hair, which I completely forgot about it. But it’s definitely handy to have. She also hands each of us a gift and says it’s also from Nicnevin as a reward. Before Imryll leaves I hand her an apple and tell her to pass on to Nicnevin. That it was something to remember me by and that her and Nicnevin were welcome into my shop at any time to see my special apples and I wink. Imryll mentions that she will not forget us but will gladly pass it on to Nicnevin. I smile delighted with myself and think about the exciting day I just had...
