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| Tiercel's Peregrinations | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 10 2017, 09:00 PM (4,158 Views) | |
| Serethil | Apr 4 2017, 09:45 PM Post #561 |
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Et'Ada
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Yup. Not to mention "hoist with his own petard". |
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| Areial | Apr 4 2017, 10:00 PM Post #562 |
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Et'Ada
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<snicker> yup |
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| Serethil | Apr 4 2017, 10:44 PM Post #563 |
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Et'Ada
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Oh oh! Reminds me - there's a new Pirates movie this year! I'll have to make myself a note to keep checking amazon for pre-release. Oh damn. I keep forgetting to buy a blu-ray player.... Yeah, the antique CD player still works.... but jeez - it's 10 years old.... |
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| Areial | Apr 4 2017, 10:53 PM Post #564 |
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Et'Ada
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Ok.. I might just have to go to the Theater... cause.. big screen...<sigh> |
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| Serethil | Apr 4 2017, 10:57 PM Post #565 |
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Et'Ada
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Can't do big screens. All that movement, and no lit negative space means my vertigo causes me.... eh, well, I'll forgo the descriptions. Suffice it to say - it's ugly. I'll buy it and watch it on the tv - letterboxed. And with the stairway lights on behind the screen. |
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| Areial | Apr 4 2017, 11:05 PM Post #566 |
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Et'Ada
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It's kinda a tradition.. My Son and I ( and my Mom ) went and watched the 1st Pirate movie together.. and have seen them at the same time.. the last one, we will do the same thing.. I'll buy his ticket ( and snack stuff) and we will go see the movie at the same "time".. though he is in South Carolina.. so his 1pm show will start before mine... It's not perfect.. but as close as we can.. <sigh> I miss my Mom.. |
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| Serethil | Apr 4 2017, 11:08 PM Post #567 |
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Et'Ada
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I know you do sweetie. *mommy hugs* OH! THAT reminds me - I may have mentioned that daughter and her older girl have - um - had an adversarial relationship (and that's putting it mildly....) Things are beginning to smooth out - because g'daughter is living away from home for the first time in her life, and things are not a bowl of cherries. No surprise to any of us who are older than mid-20s.... but a HUGE wet dishrag in the face for her. She has a pretty high-stress job in print newspaper publishing (yeah, great money; benefits but not excellent) - and due to things like spinal scoliosis and generally poor posture, crap chair at work etc. she's had to have some serious medical intervention. Well, her insurance won't cover most of that (as the scoliosis is considered "pre-existing") so she had no choice but to ask mom and dad for help - including a fairly expensive desk chair. Got an email from daughter with a scan of g'daughter's handwritten thank you. The title on the email is "When your kid finally becomes human" - which should give you an idea of what daughter has dealt with for 25 years.... I did tell her it would likely happen eventually - but you have to feel for her.... Daughter was a problem, yes. But NOTHING like g'daughter was for daughter. And really, that's about all I've been able to say to daughter all these years. I just had to keep reminding her that eventually, everyone comes to realize that a parent has done things BECAUSE she's a parent. It's about the same age daughter was when she called me up one day and said, "Mom. You were absolutely right. About EVERYTHING." Yeah. I about fell over. And then I cried a while.... Edited by Serethil, Apr 4 2017, 11:20 PM.
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| Areial | Apr 4 2017, 11:13 PM Post #568 |
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Et'Ada
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Thank you <hugs back> |
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| Serethil | Apr 5 2017, 08:56 PM Post #569 |
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Et'Ada
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71 - Now to deal with a vampire. At least.... I think.... I handed the sheathed greatsword to Mel, having already boot-sheathed the silver dagger in my right boot, and quivered the silver arrows. It made me laugh internally, seeing that he wanted to ask how I got them so fast, and really didn’t want to ask - he wanted me to offer the information. Now, g’ma and g’da hadn’t precisely said they didn’t want me to be free about it, but the odd looks they’d given each other.... well, if they wanted Melki to know, they could tell him. And I didn’t vouchsafe the bit about g’ma being ready to do something about his boredom.... I still owed him for that remark about me “going off like a crossbow....” “Naluna’s blessed everything - weapons and stakes, and given me some blessed salt and holy water. Let’s hope we don’t need to find out if all this is necessary.” So, more or less in charity, we walked out to Movarth’s Lair. It still begged answering - how had Idgrod not known he was there? The walk took us all of a quarter hour. That’s not just close, that’s right next door.... Well, no knowing now. She’d been unworldly in the extreme, as little as I remembered of her. “Mel - keep back a bit. You’re not so quiet as I am. I want to get a look around before we stir anything up. If he’s still in there, he by now probably has friends.... Oh, hmm. Too bad I didn’t bring some of that explosive stuff along - the oil in barrels....” “I’ll go fetch some sis. That’s a bright idea for sure. DO NOT go inside before I get back though!” “Fine. But hurry.” He took off at a run. And since I’d really no intention of going in without him, I tried to possess my soul in patience. He was back in less time than I’d figured, because he rode Vigilant back. “I thought it might be a good idea to have a horse handy.” I nodded, and we each took three of the fist-sized canisters of the oily gunk out of the marsh bubbles and pools. They were fitted with braided wicks, you just lit the wick fabric at a torch and tossed them where you wanted them to explode. Felanna (the local mage) had come up with them not long back. We slipped into the cave. I whispered “Did you boys ever come in here?” “No. We’d have got skinned for sure.” “Too bad then. I’d have liked some idea - like a mental map....” Damn. “I should have asked g’ma.... Well, I can’t think of everything.” “No. No one can. She could have offered....” Since she hadn’t offered, we were even more careful to make as little noise as possible, and use only what light we had to, feeling our way around corners and down ramps. We were going so slowly I guessed we’d be here another full day just finding out if anything was really here! As we got past the light from the entrance, it began to darken fast. But then.... “Eh.... so someone or something’s in here - too much light up ahead.” Melki nodded agreement. “Sis, it’s wide enough here for us to walk side by side - and it may be a good idea....” “Right. Keep in mind that vampires have some sort of absorbing spell - from what I know, it can take you right down so they can feed - and we really do NOT want to have that.” I knew he shuddered since his arm was next to mine. “No.” I was crouched as close to the floor as I could get, moving about an inch at a time, bow out, arrow nocked, with Mel next to me, greatsword held in one hand for ease of movement (and a good thing he’s built like an ox, ain’t? Otherwise he’d never have managed that much.... My mind insisted on seeing da trying that.... da who is shorter than I am, and - well - not as muscular either....) Suddenly I realized I wasn’t feeling Bal tickling around the edges of my mind. That wasn’t really a good sign.... for a lot of reasons. And then we looked into the doors of hell. |
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| neildarkstar | Apr 5 2017, 10:53 PM Post #570 |
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ooh! Oooh! Whadd'ay see Eh? C'mon, you can tell meee... :pop: |
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| Serethil | Apr 5 2017, 11:01 PM Post #571 |
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Et'Ada
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*snerk* Not tonight I can't. I haven't slept well for a few nights, and I'm off to bed VERY shortly. |
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| Areial | Apr 5 2017, 11:05 PM Post #572 |
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Et'Ada
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<bitting nails> :faint: suspenseful!!!! |
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| Kane | Apr 6 2017, 07:46 AM Post #573 |
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:nails: |
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| Andra Hawksdaughter | Apr 6 2017, 05:41 PM Post #574 |
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Mel is NOT going to be happy...even less so if he finds out Tier told that he was 'bored', LOL. I love it! Little brothers....hehe And dear gods, what have they now run into??? Yep, another nail biter!! I love her family, they're a trip for sure! |
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| Serethil | Apr 6 2017, 07:51 PM Post #575 |
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Et'Ada
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Well, considering, they could hardly NOT be a trip, could they? Thanks Sis! |
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| Serethil | Apr 6 2017, 08:22 PM Post #576 |
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Et'Ada
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72 - Retreat.... and not strategic, just get the hell out and run. The only reason I didn’t lose whatever was in my stomach was because I knew if I did, we’d be dead. And dismembered. Like the pieces.... of people.... all over in there which was just about all we could see. I grabbed Mel’s arm to get his attention, then slid back away from that opening as quietly as possible. He was shuddering continually, and I just hoped he’d manage not to trip over his own feet, or anything else. Noise we did not need.... In fact, what we needed.... was an army of vampire-killers. Or one seriously pissed off daedric prince. We finally got outside, stumbling and sick. I fell to my knees, and voided everything in my entire body it felt like. Melki was a few feet away, doing the same. When I finally dragged myself back to my feet, I found him staring into the sky, eyes glazed and tears running down his cheeks. Not that mine were dry.... I turned into his embrace and we just held each other and sobbed for a while. Eventually, we moved to the area above the cave, out of sight in some brush, and talked it over quietly. “Mel, I saw one male - probably Movarth - wearing some sort of “royal” looking robes, and a circlet like a crown. There were around three female vampires, a couple of other men and women - probably slaves - and two other male vampires. There are likely other areas, so we don’t know if that’s all.... “And - Bal was there.... sitting in the throne. What he was doing....” I retched again. I couldn’t think of it - because I knew the woman he was.... using. Telka the Younger, Lami’s apprentice. “Sis. We have to - do something!” Melki was.... hmm. There was more going on there.... Oh hells and divines. “Mel.... you and Telka?” “She kept putting me off. But I offered for her months back.... but she - wouldn’t - answer....” Oh gods. I just held him closer as his heart broke. And then some time later, I said “Well. I’m going to have to do all of Mora’s damned books, because we can’t handle this without him. So. I’m off back to Solstheim. You’d better come along brother mine. I don’t trust you not to do something....” “Addled. I don’t trust me either. We need to tell the family the whole of it, Tier.” “Aye. That we do. And today - because this is just too damn close to home. In fact, we need to have Tovis and Lami too. I hate to say it - but I’m glad Telka’s folk are gone to Sovngarde.” He nodded, the tears still streaming. We limped back home, stopping by Lami’s house and Tovis’s. Once done asking those two to come up to the Hall shortly, I said to Mel - “So it was stupid of me to have decided I didn’t need Roggi Roggisson as steward. Let’s stop by their house too - this is something that needs every head we can get in on it.” “You’re right - on all counts.” Well, that sounded a bit more normal. He’d never get over it. But maybe he could find peace eventually. |
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| Andra Hawksdaughter | Apr 6 2017, 08:30 PM Post #577 |
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Okaaaayyyy. Well that was another holy shit moment! VERY good Sis, very well done, though horrible for them!! Wow. |
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| Serethil | Apr 6 2017, 08:34 PM Post #578 |
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Et'Ada
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Yeah.... I had this vision in my mind of a seraglio in hell.... and what would happen to two nice normal people when they realized they knew someone being raped and dismembered.... My dreams haven't been real fun lately - though I must say they're pretty good story fodder. Thanks Sis! |
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| Areial | Apr 6 2017, 08:45 PM Post #579 |
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Et'Ada
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<shudder> I feel verrry sorry for them, seeing such a sight. Very good read.. and Oh shite moment.. one more than one level. |
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| Serethil | Apr 6 2017, 08:48 PM Post #580 |
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Et'Ada
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Thanks Sis - yeah.... and now Tier's got one more reason to make that deal with Mora. |
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