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Tiercel's Peregrinations
Topic Started: Jan 10 2017, 09:00 PM (4,170 Views)
Areial
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Neil... huge warm hug's... Sometimes it's hard for me to even read about someone going through cancer... and I am never sure which is the harder.. My Mother's death was relatively quick.. ( though not painless) after she was diagnosed .. or having to deal, day in and day out knowing that the fight may be a loosing one.

Life has a way of shredding the weak spot's and leaving us pain-filled, but often stronger than before. Sending prayers and as much good karma as I can your way.
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Neil sending good thoughts your way and for your wifey!

Sere...just O M G...what just HAPPENED? Sounds to me like you're the conductor of that roller coaster, but somebody keeps changing the tracks! :teehee:
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No update.... had a 5 hour power outage, and it's starting to come in to snow.... Not to mention 50 mph+ winds going on 4 days now....
Edited by Serethil, Mar 5 2017, 09:19 PM.
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I lied (power's solid thankfully)....

45 - If there’s a way to get the daedra OUT of Tamriel.... I REALLY want to know what it is.


And - I want to be the author of their removal. This STANK of Bal. Even I, not so invested in keeping track of the various princes, knew exactly who was managing this entire scenario.

So.... Here I am in the dark, no clue where I really am - again - and knowing Molag Bal is the motive power, having subverted Devis/Vintan more years gone than I really want to consider. And.... I don’t know where either Var or his twin are. Assuming they’re still among the living.... and oh gods, that thought hurt to the bone. Not for Vintan - but Var....

‘Thrown your heart to the wind, child? But - see you - THIS one will not be light with it. You are blessed. Keep faith, keep heart, keep love. DO NOT DESPAIR....'

What? What in all the hells.... Ah... never mind. Just think about how to get home.

So. It’s.... black. Not at all like a mousehole at midnight.... more like the black of the end of all things. Which means.... I’m not in the world at all. I’m in some - sumphole of Bal’s making.

What do I know of Molag Bal? Not so much. He made - with rape and dark magics - the ancient vampire clan of Volkihar; and.... Meridia does not ally with him. That can be of import - since Meridia is not at all of the dark. Though - I have never known her....

But still - ‘Meridia! I have not known you. But I beseech a boon. Free me from this dark and I will owe YOU a boon. My hand and seal on it: I Tiercel Ravenwing, granddaughter of Verinne Ravenwing the Ravensdaughter, make my bond on it.’

A light flared up, driving the dark before it. I saw.... well, I just don’t want to detail the uglinesses.... So - say I saw things no one would want to remember, or think on - and leave it. Please.

But next I knew, I was kneeling in the place I’d last seen - the kitchen at Windstad. That darkness, the dark, the stain.... was dissipating. Vintan was flat against the floor. I wasn’t precisely sure he was breathing.

But next to me was Var.... and he was not only breathing, he realized sooner than I did that I was actually alive and in THIS world again. He hauled me to my feet and without preamble “You are marrying me tomorrow. I am NEVER spending that many hours in the hells without you again. You hear me?”

“Uh. I couldn’t possibly NOT have heard you, Var. Fine. I’ll be for marrying you - not tomorrow though, love. I need a dress, you know. And I need to explain to the family.

“And.... Vintan?”

“Ah. Hells. I forgot about him. Molag Bal....” Sheer frustration washed his face. “How does this happen? We’ve - never had truck with the princes....”

I shook my head. “No more have we. But - the weaker soul is the one the princes choose....”

“Aye. He always - hated - that I was older....”
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Yikes, damned Daedra!! Whatever did Bal do to Vintan? Ah, I hope it's really nasty, and lasts a long long time! :devil:

Well, at least I know part of this will end well, for Tier and Vartain, and that will hold me for now (until the next update anyway). YES!!

Wonderful Sis!!
Edited by Andra Hawksdaughter, Mar 5 2017, 11:02 PM.
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Thank you, love! My gosh, you have NO IDEA how frustrated I was not being able to even get that post in file.... JEEZ I hate power outages.... Yeah, I did write it down on paper - but even I can't read my writing a day later....
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:clap: Very much enjoyed that! Now I wonder what Meridai's going to have in store for Tier? At least she'll have Var with her, well, once she gets that dress and wakes the family from their faint at hearing the news! :D
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Eh, well.... Meridia's focused one place so it's not much of a much. I hope.

Um. Yeah. The family. Oy.
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Wonderful read!! loved it... icky Deadric prince..
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Well, that was all very sudden! Great stuff, Sere!

Sorry to hear about the wifey, neil. I'lll keep you both in my prayers. :hugs:
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Thanks, y'all! Not "sudden" really - I did say I knew the ending.... but that's not yet anyway!
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Yeesh, I'm not much more fond of Meridia than I am of Molag Bal... given her love of sending characters off to fight ghosts and powerful necromancers. You do what ya gotta do, eh? :)
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Well, I far prefer Meridia and her quest to the rest of them....
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46 - Well.... I guess I need to go talk to Meridia.

So, we checked Vintan over. He was alive, breathing, but lifting his eyelids showed total unconsciousness. “Ugh. Well, we’ll have to carry him back then. Oh that’s going to be fun.”

“Hmm. Tier, let’s just tie him and leave him here - then when we get back to Morthal we can have the guards pick him up.”

I shook my head. “I don’t think so. The minute Bal realizes he’s alone....”

“Oh. Damn. I hate it when you’re right.”

I arched my brows at him. “Really? So I’m going to have to fake being wrong so you don’t get pissy with me?’

He just hauled me in for another kiss. “I don’t think you need to worry....”

Well, so I probably don’t....

“What do you have in mind then?”

I growled. Too bad we hadn’t ridden part way. Hmmm. There was the mine cart and horse.... “I’ll go get the Windstad Mine horse and cart. We’ll take him back that way. You tie him up tight, and I’ll be back in a few minutes.”

So that’s what we did. As we rolled Vintan out of the cart at the steps of the Hall, the family gathered as if called.

Ma opened her mouth, then shut it as da poked her. No one said anything. I sighed.

“So. As you see, we’re in one piece. This” I nudged Vintan with a toe “is alive as well, but not - currently - present. There’s a daedric prince at the bottom of it: Bal. And we’ll tell you the whole of it. INSIDE.” The one thing I could never fathom about my family was their need to wash dirty linen in public!

Hours later, the only thing that hadn’t been said was that I’d agreed to marry Var. The High King. I could feel his amused glance on me. So finally I gritted my teeth and made the bald statement: “Var’s asked me to marry him, and I’ve agreed - subject to finding an appropriate dress, and finishing up with Meridia as that needs doing first.” I could feel the man laughing at me - well, no.... not that. But laughing at the probable reactions to come.

And.... well.... So I was as well, as those reactions just got more and more extreme. Finally, I grabbed the horn off the wall again, and - well, how odd - the moment I grabbed it they all shut up. Except Var, who was like to die of laughter before we ever found a gods-be-damned priest!

“Why.... how kind of you all to - shut the hells up! I’m not a child. In fact, I’m all but the eldest grandchild. I’m THIRTY, damn you all! Was it not just a few months back, ma, that you were bemoaning my unwed state? Wasn’t it? Yes, it was. So I will be wedding Var after we get one more daedra out of our hair. And then what will you carp at me about?” I was well and truly furious - but Var just sleeked a hand down my back and I settled to dark looks and muttering under my breath.

He grinned at the family. “Do you have any real objection to me as Tier’s husband?”

The number of gaping mouths gave me a great deal of enjoyment. So I held my peace. Obviously my love was far better with the family than I had ever been!

A bit of further discussion wound up at “Tier. What do you think Meridia is going to want?”

I looked at g’ma. “I don’t know. But of all the princes, she’s the least likely to be out for blood - or ask me something I can’t manage. It’s annoying that I had to beg for favor from any of the princes - but still.... I don’t know how we’d have got back otherwise....” which thought still gave me some serious discomfort. A sober sidewise glance from Var held agreement.

“Anyway, we’ll sleep, and leave in the morning. I know where Meridia’s temple lies.... it’s not far from Solitude. We’ll deal with that first, and try to find a courier to let you know if we’ll be longer than a few days.”

Ma got her back up and rode right over da trying to shut her up. “Oh, and will you be sharing a bed then?”

I looked at her, then all around the family one by one. Then I finished with Var, who was having way too much fun over this.

“Why yes, I believe we will. If it’s too much against your principles, ma, we’ll take a room at the inn.”
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My first wife and I lived together for a few months before we got married... Anyway, we were going to spend a couple odays with my folks, and my mother said "You're not sleeping together under my roof 'til you're married. I ain't running no damned ho house here!" :)

I have a word of advice for Var though. Remember Var, that it's bad luck to sleep with the matron of honor, any of the bridesmaids, or any ringbearer named Frodo before the wedding... ;)

I love this tale Sere! :clap:
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ROFL! Especially about the Frodo bit!

And I have to say.... that exact thing happened with MY mother.... I'd been living with husband for a while, and we'd planned to be married after his divorce was final (so - we were thinking March of 1976 or thereabouts) - and we'd planned to go to my parents/grandparents for Christmas '75. Well.... my mother was.... entirely a total bitch about the whole thing. So he pushed his attorney to get it handled asap. His divorce was final at 9 am on my birthday - and we were married at 4 pm the same day.

And then my mother had the absolute GALL to claim we couldn't possibly be legally married. Oh, she was a piece of work....

We did go there for Christmas. I called up my grandparents, explained the whole situation, and asked if we could stay there. Of course they were perfectly happy to oblige. THEN my mother had even more absolute gall, and got in their faces over it. They just ignored her.

The biggest issue with the whole trip was that we took my car (1972 240Z) - and where they lived was down a pretty steep grade. Husband had several weeks off but I was supposed to be back to work a week later - which wouldn't have been an issue except for a LOT of snow.... and the tranny going out halfway up the hill.

My boss was flat PISSED. But it wasn't exactly easy to fix.... I was close to a week late getting back to work. And almost $1k poorer.

But the real benefit? My mother didn't speak to me for almost two years.

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ROFL! Especially about the Frodo bit!

*snip*

But the real benefit? My mother didn't speak to me for almost two years.




ROTFLMAO

When my youngest sister gets on my nerves with her high and mighty, condescending self, I just tell her she's full of shit, then she leaves me alone for a year or so... ;)

That was super Sis!!! :D I like Var!!
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Thanks Sis! Heh. I like Var my own self. A LOT. I'm going to have to try to find a pic that - fits.....

As for family.... yeah. They can stuff socks in it.
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Another great chapter Sere! Now I wonder, did they end up at the Inn? ;)
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*snerk* I might be after telling.... maybe.
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