Post by Mystigon on Jul 29, 2019 20:51:29 GMT
Pain.. Need.. Angelbark..
It's been three days since the fight in Angelbark. Where thanks to Abdel and brave friends and adventurers Jacinta, Milo, Igrainne, Doddil, Coat and Ixcel found me out of it almost attacked and killed by Imps. They took to achieve a plan I had given up on to save myself, they even fought off an Infernal Knight one of the Trickster's chosen champions with the help of Will they managed to finish him off. But unfortunately not before he took my eye and hand. Will stopped my bleeding wounds and told me to go and await his call then they disappeared. Jacinta has been around a lot kept giving me full hearty meals and helping in clearing the house from the rubble that the Imps helped create. She was polite not to ask about my absence of magic and my short conversation with Will.
Around early noon I notice three squirrels on my windowsill who then take off in the direction of Angelbark and disappear out of sight. I go outside, think and head to Miras, telling her ears that it's time and she neighs in understanding. Once we arrive at the edge of the great forest, I get off and whisper to her saying to go find Pieni if something happens and let her graze some fresh grass.
After some wondering I feel the overwhelming presence of Will once again as this tall angelic form seemingly made of bark and ferns steps out of the side of a tree. There was markedly different tone to the aura emanating from the seraph, whereas before it was coloured with a divine rage against the hell-born knight they were helping destroy, that colour has lessened but hasn't disappeared, and i get the unmistakable mouse-before-lion knowledge that Will's remaining anger is directed at me who says " I hope your wounds are healed, mortal. I would know something of you. why did you deliberately bring a spawn of hell into my forest?"
I drop to my knees with fear but without any faltering say "I had already had taken the decision not to come for that reason, but my friends had found me in a wretched state and unconscious. Through my notes about you and the forest, they decided to try and save my undeserving self!". I stand up at that second showing respect but defiance too and continue " What brought me to seek power was corrupted at first, that i gained the attention of the Hells; then he offered me power to change the world, while my intentions were different to his I was too naive to realize the cost. The moment i realized it is changing my own nature. I knew that i had to protect everyone from the forces of Hell, deciding at that second that second that breaking my bond would be the first thing to do to start achieving that even if it kills me. I know that they will go for me again and I will fight them with every single piece of my being till death! and continue on after that too wherever my soul ends up! Their sway shall never take place again."
The glowing emerald spheres of Will's eyes regard me for a long moment. Time seems to slow in that instant, the leaves seeming to hang in the air as the entire forest forest holds it's breath while it's Guardian decides a mortal's fate. The ageless, genderless angel's stare seem to bore into my whole being, surfacing old memories of kindness shown to animals and long walks taken amongst nature nature, as well as pacts made and power wielded with anger. Finally, the leaves continue their descent, and Will relaxes.
" Then you shall not do so alone. I would not see evil gain further foothold in these lands, and you can be a bastion against this, even as it may be drawn to you." They reach up to their huge wings, and plucks a single green ferny feather from it and presents it me. In their hand it curls around until it forms a kind of bracelet. " If you accept this, I will lend some of my power to you, granted through the great god Corellon, wherever you are. I may call upon you for a particular service from time to time in return. My deal is not that of the devil though, if you ever find this exchange onerous or you no longer wish to fight this battle simply take off the bracelet. Your will to do so will be sufficient, otherwise it will not remove easily. What say you ?”
I answer “ I accept “ with a voice full of confidence and my left reaching for the bracelet. A si touch the bracelet, it springs to life and curls around my hand and down my wrist, coming to rest around it and suddenly becoming incredibly solid with click that I feel in the depths of my soul. Looking up, Will is gone, and all that remains is a pile of leaves where they stood, blowing away gently in the breeze.
I start breathing again for i haven’t realized I was holding my breath! And say “ I shall honour your trust in me “ and start walking back to Miras and head to Port Ffirst
Next Day…..
“ Where’s the roof!?!?” Pieni exclaims.
Some coughs while Mystigon looks up with mixed feelings towards the ceiling saying “ remember when we took the job for the Egg it shop?”
“Yeah -- where’s your hand?!?”
He looks at the stump then looks up “ I need a drink and feeling like some fish, let’s take Abdel and go out and I will tell you the story… Well what i have memory of!”
Whilst they are walking they spot a grilled fish stand in the market. Mystigon pays for the three of them and starts walking. He suddenly continues “ So that day, I felt ashamed of myself to be influenced by him, I decided after I gave the guy his money back and apologized, that I am breaking my deal with the denzien of evil; unfortunately for me that power came with a price which my decision sped the payment and collection time”
“ Wait. Influenced by who? What? You know i don’t understand Warlock stuff in that much detail, right? At least, not the demon stuff you’ve got going on.”
He holds up his small hands for a fish. “May I?”
Mystigon gives one of the fishes and the other to Abdel and continues on “ The prince of Hell himself, he came to me when I was younger and wanted to change the world and so he gave me the means to do that”
He continues on when he saw the look of disbelief from Pieni while Abdle just carried on eating his fish, not realising how serious this is.
Pieni eats his fish whole. “ No changing the world working under the likes of devils or demons or whatever.”
With a smile Mystigon says “ Yup, well to continue, I sensed my magic failing and knew that I had to protect you! Made some protection around the house which used me as a vessel whenever I was there, and started researching and looking and listening. Finally found about two important things, a story about a mage with similar circumstances but whom failed to find a willing Celestial to take him under his wing and he got pulled to Hell”
Pieni sighs. “ All this warlock stuff… It always goes wrong. Wish you’d told me more about this at the time. I could protect you, you know.”
“ I know you would have, but that was my path to walk through. The second piece of information was the existence of a powerful angel in Angelbark. But by then I knew he won't accept me, there was no reason they to assume responsibility of me” Mystigon looks down at a bracelet on his hand made of some sort of ferny feather as if he can’t believe it’s there.
“So I gave up my doomed quest but here I heard his cursed voice again about harming you guys and the little ones. I decided to power up the spell protecting the house with my life then, whatever little left of it”
“Slow down, slow down. You did what? You used your life force to protect the house?” Pieni tugs on Mystigon’s Sleeve. “There are better ways to do things than to hurt yourself! Whatever roads you’re walking down, whether they lead to any ‘Quests’ or not, you don’t have to walk them on your own! I’m from Angelbark, maybe I could’ve… I don’t know… Found Will for you, or something, I don’t know.”
Whilst Pieni was tugging at Mystigon they forgot for a second that he was holding his fish and eating it with one hand who drops it, Mystigon instinctively reaches for it the stump of a right hand but something happens a ferny looking hand appears around it and grabs the fish before it hits the ground.
Pieni let’s go of his sleeve. “Sorry. Guess that’s a trick from Will?”
Mystigon chuckles with relief and says “Apparently though, didn’t realize I could do that. Probably something to make it more convenient”
“Nice of them. I’ll thank them if I run into them. More importantly, can we get to that part that explains the hand, or lack thereof?”
Mystigon straightens up and carries on "Yes right, as I said, I just gave up and locked myself in my room to keep you guys in the ignorances bliss, but here (looking at Abdel who was giving an uneasy smile) Abdel found me barely in my mind just after you went for some adventure; when we got attacked by some imps I held them off but it was taxing. He decided to call for some help from acquaintances of ours who came to our aid the next day" he taps on Abdel's shoulder.
"They were Master Milo the good smith, Jacinta the ranger, Code who is a rogue, a frosty looking Dwarf called Doddil, A half drow looking girl named Igrainne and some sort of snake eyed lady named Ixcel. They found my notes killed the imps who kept attacking the house and took it to drag my unconscious body to the forest to find Will"
"I've met some of those folks. Nice people. Did they help out of the goodness of their hearts? Or did you offer them money?"
Abdel answers that one saying "some took the money some didn't Master Pieni."
Mystigon says "You were right to offer them some sort of recompensation for their risk"
Mystigon continues "At some point i woke up in a clearing with them around me it felt divine, but I could sense it stalking me and it being near! I knew I had to keep them at a distance so I sent them to the farthest corners of the clearing to do a sigil for me, then it arrived It's presence chilling to the bone even though you could see heat emanating from its armor. The Infernal knight! “
"Sent by the Prince of Hell?" Pieni asks.
"I can only assume so" answers Mystigon.
"Does he have an actual name?"
Suddenly Mystigon stops and looks with absolute seriousness " Some say knowing his name means he will know of you, are you sure you want to know?"
Pieni recoils. "I mean, no, not now that you've said that. I've had enough of these pacts and the higher entities that make them -- I'm not getting involved. So you fought the Knight, right?"
"Wise decision my friend, unfortunately not. I had no power left in me i just let him take what he was here for, hoping that he will leave the good people be after."He traces down the scar on his face that used to be his left eye and his tattoo
"I meant the other guys -- ah, for Oak-Father's sake, I go away for one day and you've lost a whole eye and a hand!"
" Yeah, they did but it was leaning against them even though he was mostly interested in me at first, Milo somehow agitated him that he flew towards him and I was just a mess on the floor unable to help " He goes silent.
Pieni reaches up and pats Mystigon's upper arm, as high as he can reach. "What's wrong, friend?"
"If it wasn't for Will interfering he probably would have died or even worse, do you know what those knights do!"
"Nope! Never had the not-much-of-a-pleasure of knowing one."
With a small chuckle "Hopefully you never do, They can take your soul against your will. Thankfully Will appeared and weakened it enough for the rest to take it down, they were furious but healed me and told me that eye will never heal, and to go and rest for the time being "
With a Smile "Till he called for me yesterday and I went and got tasked to protect everyone from the forces of evil"
"That's no small task... Is that the end to the demon troubles, then? Or devils, whatever. Should I worry you might get thrown into the planes of hell next time I'm not watching?"
With a humourfull laugh he says " Nothing for the time being" and carries on directing the Trio to the Sea shank.. Pieni knows Mystigon for quite some time now and notices a certain worry mixed with determination in Mystigon’s only eye he has got left.
When they reach the Sea shank he comes back with a drinks and some seeds to the table while playing with one of the seeds it started growing to a full grown Sun Flower right on Mystigon’s hand.
Pieni smiles, though it is brief, as he thinks of future demon visits and how to protect Mystigon & the household's occupants. "Taken to my Druidic influence, have you? Another of Will's tricks?"
"Not sure but most likely both. Cmon Mr Birdman these days we are going to drink, eat and have a laugh"
Pieni sighs as he nibbles on a seed. "You've given me a lot to process... But I'll try."
Pieni looks up. "Wait... So... What's this Quest you wanted to go on so bad you made a deal with the devil for it?"
Mystigon Looks with some calm " What quest is greater than the quest of knowledge"
"My Quest for the knowledge of what your actual Quest is!"
That's my Quest Pieni finding out the secrets of the Gods, Devils and Demons The reason of Creation, Life and death"
"That's kind of vague and unattainable. I dunno if even Will will be willing to help you with that. Start small, look for the answer to life's greatest question: what came first, the chicken or the egg?"
"That's already been answered for me" he gestures towards the people around them "We are the secret, We make meaning for it, Us mortals" He smiles while saying that
"... It's the egg, though, by the way. As the resident eggspert, I can confirm."
In a humorous tone, "I definitely shall take your word" and he smiles finishing his drink and stands up to bring another one asking Pieni if he rather some tea instead
"... Nah, I think I'll go home and make my own tea instead."
"as you wish my friend" he sighs and goes to get another round of drinks for him and Abdel.
Many thanks to Andy and Jay for the enjoyable Roleplay.
It's been three days since the fight in Angelbark. Where thanks to Abdel and brave friends and adventurers Jacinta, Milo, Igrainne, Doddil, Coat and Ixcel found me out of it almost attacked and killed by Imps. They took to achieve a plan I had given up on to save myself, they even fought off an Infernal Knight one of the Trickster's chosen champions with the help of Will they managed to finish him off. But unfortunately not before he took my eye and hand. Will stopped my bleeding wounds and told me to go and await his call then they disappeared. Jacinta has been around a lot kept giving me full hearty meals and helping in clearing the house from the rubble that the Imps helped create. She was polite not to ask about my absence of magic and my short conversation with Will.
Around early noon I notice three squirrels on my windowsill who then take off in the direction of Angelbark and disappear out of sight. I go outside, think and head to Miras, telling her ears that it's time and she neighs in understanding. Once we arrive at the edge of the great forest, I get off and whisper to her saying to go find Pieni if something happens and let her graze some fresh grass.
After some wondering I feel the overwhelming presence of Will once again as this tall angelic form seemingly made of bark and ferns steps out of the side of a tree. There was markedly different tone to the aura emanating from the seraph, whereas before it was coloured with a divine rage against the hell-born knight they were helping destroy, that colour has lessened but hasn't disappeared, and i get the unmistakable mouse-before-lion knowledge that Will's remaining anger is directed at me who says " I hope your wounds are healed, mortal. I would know something of you. why did you deliberately bring a spawn of hell into my forest?"
I drop to my knees with fear but without any faltering say "I had already had taken the decision not to come for that reason, but my friends had found me in a wretched state and unconscious. Through my notes about you and the forest, they decided to try and save my undeserving self!". I stand up at that second showing respect but defiance too and continue " What brought me to seek power was corrupted at first, that i gained the attention of the Hells; then he offered me power to change the world, while my intentions were different to his I was too naive to realize the cost. The moment i realized it is changing my own nature. I knew that i had to protect everyone from the forces of Hell, deciding at that second that second that breaking my bond would be the first thing to do to start achieving that even if it kills me. I know that they will go for me again and I will fight them with every single piece of my being till death! and continue on after that too wherever my soul ends up! Their sway shall never take place again."
The glowing emerald spheres of Will's eyes regard me for a long moment. Time seems to slow in that instant, the leaves seeming to hang in the air as the entire forest forest holds it's breath while it's Guardian decides a mortal's fate. The ageless, genderless angel's stare seem to bore into my whole being, surfacing old memories of kindness shown to animals and long walks taken amongst nature nature, as well as pacts made and power wielded with anger. Finally, the leaves continue their descent, and Will relaxes.
" Then you shall not do so alone. I would not see evil gain further foothold in these lands, and you can be a bastion against this, even as it may be drawn to you." They reach up to their huge wings, and plucks a single green ferny feather from it and presents it me. In their hand it curls around until it forms a kind of bracelet. " If you accept this, I will lend some of my power to you, granted through the great god Corellon, wherever you are. I may call upon you for a particular service from time to time in return. My deal is not that of the devil though, if you ever find this exchange onerous or you no longer wish to fight this battle simply take off the bracelet. Your will to do so will be sufficient, otherwise it will not remove easily. What say you ?”
I answer “ I accept “ with a voice full of confidence and my left reaching for the bracelet. A si touch the bracelet, it springs to life and curls around my hand and down my wrist, coming to rest around it and suddenly becoming incredibly solid with click that I feel in the depths of my soul. Looking up, Will is gone, and all that remains is a pile of leaves where they stood, blowing away gently in the breeze.
I start breathing again for i haven’t realized I was holding my breath! And say “ I shall honour your trust in me “ and start walking back to Miras and head to Port Ffirst
Next Day…..
“ Where’s the roof!?!?” Pieni exclaims.
Some coughs while Mystigon looks up with mixed feelings towards the ceiling saying “ remember when we took the job for the Egg it shop?”
“Yeah -- where’s your hand?!?”
He looks at the stump then looks up “ I need a drink and feeling like some fish, let’s take Abdel and go out and I will tell you the story… Well what i have memory of!”
Whilst they are walking they spot a grilled fish stand in the market. Mystigon pays for the three of them and starts walking. He suddenly continues “ So that day, I felt ashamed of myself to be influenced by him, I decided after I gave the guy his money back and apologized, that I am breaking my deal with the denzien of evil; unfortunately for me that power came with a price which my decision sped the payment and collection time”
“ Wait. Influenced by who? What? You know i don’t understand Warlock stuff in that much detail, right? At least, not the demon stuff you’ve got going on.”
He holds up his small hands for a fish. “May I?”
Mystigon gives one of the fishes and the other to Abdel and continues on “ The prince of Hell himself, he came to me when I was younger and wanted to change the world and so he gave me the means to do that”
He continues on when he saw the look of disbelief from Pieni while Abdle just carried on eating his fish, not realising how serious this is.
Pieni eats his fish whole. “ No changing the world working under the likes of devils or demons or whatever.”
With a smile Mystigon says “ Yup, well to continue, I sensed my magic failing and knew that I had to protect you! Made some protection around the house which used me as a vessel whenever I was there, and started researching and looking and listening. Finally found about two important things, a story about a mage with similar circumstances but whom failed to find a willing Celestial to take him under his wing and he got pulled to Hell”
Pieni sighs. “ All this warlock stuff… It always goes wrong. Wish you’d told me more about this at the time. I could protect you, you know.”
“ I know you would have, but that was my path to walk through. The second piece of information was the existence of a powerful angel in Angelbark. But by then I knew he won't accept me, there was no reason they to assume responsibility of me” Mystigon looks down at a bracelet on his hand made of some sort of ferny feather as if he can’t believe it’s there.
“So I gave up my doomed quest but here I heard his cursed voice again about harming you guys and the little ones. I decided to power up the spell protecting the house with my life then, whatever little left of it”
“Slow down, slow down. You did what? You used your life force to protect the house?” Pieni tugs on Mystigon’s Sleeve. “There are better ways to do things than to hurt yourself! Whatever roads you’re walking down, whether they lead to any ‘Quests’ or not, you don’t have to walk them on your own! I’m from Angelbark, maybe I could’ve… I don’t know… Found Will for you, or something, I don’t know.”
Whilst Pieni was tugging at Mystigon they forgot for a second that he was holding his fish and eating it with one hand who drops it, Mystigon instinctively reaches for it the stump of a right hand but something happens a ferny looking hand appears around it and grabs the fish before it hits the ground.
Pieni let’s go of his sleeve. “Sorry. Guess that’s a trick from Will?”
Mystigon chuckles with relief and says “Apparently though, didn’t realize I could do that. Probably something to make it more convenient”
“Nice of them. I’ll thank them if I run into them. More importantly, can we get to that part that explains the hand, or lack thereof?”
Mystigon straightens up and carries on "Yes right, as I said, I just gave up and locked myself in my room to keep you guys in the ignorances bliss, but here (looking at Abdel who was giving an uneasy smile) Abdel found me barely in my mind just after you went for some adventure; when we got attacked by some imps I held them off but it was taxing. He decided to call for some help from acquaintances of ours who came to our aid the next day" he taps on Abdel's shoulder.
"They were Master Milo the good smith, Jacinta the ranger, Code who is a rogue, a frosty looking Dwarf called Doddil, A half drow looking girl named Igrainne and some sort of snake eyed lady named Ixcel. They found my notes killed the imps who kept attacking the house and took it to drag my unconscious body to the forest to find Will"
"I've met some of those folks. Nice people. Did they help out of the goodness of their hearts? Or did you offer them money?"
Abdel answers that one saying "some took the money some didn't Master Pieni."
Mystigon says "You were right to offer them some sort of recompensation for their risk"
Mystigon continues "At some point i woke up in a clearing with them around me it felt divine, but I could sense it stalking me and it being near! I knew I had to keep them at a distance so I sent them to the farthest corners of the clearing to do a sigil for me, then it arrived It's presence chilling to the bone even though you could see heat emanating from its armor. The Infernal knight! “
"Sent by the Prince of Hell?" Pieni asks.
"I can only assume so" answers Mystigon.
"Does he have an actual name?"
Suddenly Mystigon stops and looks with absolute seriousness " Some say knowing his name means he will know of you, are you sure you want to know?"
Pieni recoils. "I mean, no, not now that you've said that. I've had enough of these pacts and the higher entities that make them -- I'm not getting involved. So you fought the Knight, right?"
"Wise decision my friend, unfortunately not. I had no power left in me i just let him take what he was here for, hoping that he will leave the good people be after."He traces down the scar on his face that used to be his left eye and his tattoo
"I meant the other guys -- ah, for Oak-Father's sake, I go away for one day and you've lost a whole eye and a hand!"
" Yeah, they did but it was leaning against them even though he was mostly interested in me at first, Milo somehow agitated him that he flew towards him and I was just a mess on the floor unable to help " He goes silent.
Pieni reaches up and pats Mystigon's upper arm, as high as he can reach. "What's wrong, friend?"
"If it wasn't for Will interfering he probably would have died or even worse, do you know what those knights do!"
"Nope! Never had the not-much-of-a-pleasure of knowing one."
With a small chuckle "Hopefully you never do, They can take your soul against your will. Thankfully Will appeared and weakened it enough for the rest to take it down, they were furious but healed me and told me that eye will never heal, and to go and rest for the time being "
With a Smile "Till he called for me yesterday and I went and got tasked to protect everyone from the forces of evil"
"That's no small task... Is that the end to the demon troubles, then? Or devils, whatever. Should I worry you might get thrown into the planes of hell next time I'm not watching?"
With a humourfull laugh he says " Nothing for the time being" and carries on directing the Trio to the Sea shank.. Pieni knows Mystigon for quite some time now and notices a certain worry mixed with determination in Mystigon’s only eye he has got left.
When they reach the Sea shank he comes back with a drinks and some seeds to the table while playing with one of the seeds it started growing to a full grown Sun Flower right on Mystigon’s hand.
Pieni smiles, though it is brief, as he thinks of future demon visits and how to protect Mystigon & the household's occupants. "Taken to my Druidic influence, have you? Another of Will's tricks?"
"Not sure but most likely both. Cmon Mr Birdman these days we are going to drink, eat and have a laugh"
Pieni sighs as he nibbles on a seed. "You've given me a lot to process... But I'll try."
Pieni looks up. "Wait... So... What's this Quest you wanted to go on so bad you made a deal with the devil for it?"
Mystigon Looks with some calm " What quest is greater than the quest of knowledge"
"My Quest for the knowledge of what your actual Quest is!"
That's my Quest Pieni finding out the secrets of the Gods, Devils and Demons The reason of Creation, Life and death"
"That's kind of vague and unattainable. I dunno if even Will will be willing to help you with that. Start small, look for the answer to life's greatest question: what came first, the chicken or the egg?"
"That's already been answered for me" he gestures towards the people around them "We are the secret, We make meaning for it, Us mortals" He smiles while saying that
"... It's the egg, though, by the way. As the resident eggspert, I can confirm."
In a humorous tone, "I definitely shall take your word" and he smiles finishing his drink and stands up to bring another one asking Pieni if he rather some tea instead
"... Nah, I think I'll go home and make my own tea instead."
"as you wish my friend" he sighs and goes to get another round of drinks for him and Abdel.
Many thanks to Andy and Jay for the enjoyable Roleplay.