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Tiercel's Peregrinations
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Areial
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Beautiful scene... except the nightmare's of course!
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Thanks! Yeah, nightmares are a royal PITA.
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Andra Hawksdaughter
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It's hard, when one realizes the little brother has become a man, and it wasn't even noticed. :)
They are good together, and it can only get better. (I think, lol) Though being family, they'll still make each other nuts...

Wonderful Sis!!
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Thanks Sis! I keep wondering what's going to happen when things get fixed (assuming they do) and Melki has to watch Var take over..... Guess I'm going to find out eventually!
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76 - Interlude(s)

Ho. Let us see you squirm, little toy. Let’s see how you think to wiggle out of my grasp. Oh, you will provide so much juicy enjoyment, you will! I haven’t enjoyed anything so much in - well, I don’t know how long. Millennia, I suppose. I will so relish your.... subversion.... shall we say?

This is - unexpected. Why is this girl-child attempting to co-opt me? After all - I am the repository of knowledge. She cannot be allowed to.... Hmmm. Digging through her memories - she is not lying. Not at all. Everything she said.... is true. How unusual in such an unworthy being - a human! But.... to take on Bal....

Well. I will think on it.


Vartain:

I can’t even function. Tier’s gone somewhere, with her brother (so her grandmother tells me, and - well, I don’t disbelieve her though I’d almost rather be able to do so) and since my entire mind and being are focused on Tier - wherever she and Melkioran are (my feelings say Solstheim for some reason) - I’m not.... paying attention to anything else at all. Damn the daedra anyway! Oh. Wait.. They already are....
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hmmm seem's like, thing's are moving..
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Yup. I'd have to say, that when a "mere human" gets a couple of daedric princes actually,,,, waffling....

Said princes might be in trouble. At least a little.
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I hope 'ol Hermy comes around for Tier. He is narrowly beaten out by Nocturnal on the list of my favorite deities.

Bal can stuff it.
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LOL, love it Sere, but poor Var!
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That which causes angst makes for a stronger king? Thanks Sis!
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77 - I’ve always hated barrows.

And this one’s no exception. We walked up to an old camp of some sort, and then looked over the barrow-deep. Yes, one of those that starts out in the ground and only gets deeper.... I sighed, and Mel grumbled.

“Let’s go. I don’t want to sit out here thinking about it. I wonder what this camp area was about - maybe they were the ones who dug it up to start with?”

“Could be, sis. It’s been here in the ash long enough to rot heavy hide tents....”

We had enough food for a couple of days. I hoped we wouldn’t need that much time. “Well, let’s get to it. We can hope it’s not huge, but we should be prepared for the worst.”

As a barrow ordeal - well, it just wasn’t. Oddly enough, we found only fully-dead draugr, even the higher-rank ones. If we touched them, they fell into dust. This place had been cleared so long ago that even the undead inhabitants were long dead. I think it’s the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this....

Melki seemed bemused. “Sis.... this is the kind of thing you do for fun?”

Um. *sigh* Younger brothers.... “No, usually I do it because someone asks me for help, and I’ll get something out of it as far as reward. And sometimes, I do it because these.... undead.... things - just need erasing....”

He slanted me an odd glance. “My sister the paladin....”

I knew I was fiery red. “It’s NOT that!” And then I stopped. “Yes, sometimes it is. I’m not really a paladin.... but sometimes the dreck the ages have left behind.... well.... someone has to step up and deal with it.”

He grabbed me in a hug. “Sis. You really need to stop being so easy....” But I could see the disquiet in his eyes.

“I’m not looking for swift death, brother mine. I actually do love life. Right now, it’s being a pain in my ass.... but we’re working on fixing that, right?”

“Right.”
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...Oooohh.. got a good laugh outa that one... very nice interaction!
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Thanks Sis! You know.... I am really enjoying Tier - and both her guys. She's finding out things - because she's quit being a loner....
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Being a loner can get one dead. Fast. I'm glad Tier and Melki are learning about each other, though it may not always be comfortable. LOL Great update!
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Thank you Sister! Yep, they're both having to adjust some wiggle-room into their relationship. As I said, after a "leveling" out like they're doing, it'll be interesting to see what Melki and Var think about things....
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It's funny, I don't remember ever doing anything in or with that barrow at all... Interesting though... :)
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Raven Rock? Or Kolbjorn? Both have Black Books. Kolbjorn has Ahzidahl; Raven Rock has Zahkrisos - even if you're not "doing" Dragonborn....


78 - And now here’s this DAMNED book....

“Melkioran. I’m going to open the book, and then you’re going to see me fade away. No - just wait, and listen. In a few minutes, I’ll be back, a bit green because all this turns my stomach. Yes, there are things in that realm - it’s called Apocrypha - which could hurt me. However, I’m sneaky, I’m fast, and I shoot from range. So - don’t be fretting, please. I have to do this. Something inside me says that Mora’s our best shot at getting Bal out of our lives forever.”

I hugged him hard, because - well, he was looking so.... wounded. He knew we needed to get rid of Bal as soon as it was possible - and I knew he was still seeing that seraglio in hell.... Well, so was I.

“Tier. Be.... safe. If I have to tell the family....”

“Don’t worry. I’ll be careful. As much as I can. This will be longer for me than for you - time does strange things in Mora’s realm. By the way - you’re my favorite brother. Always have been.” I hugged him again, and then opened the damned book before I lost my courage - and everything in my stomach.

Same crap, different book. Ugly oily not-water, floor made up of mostly rotting papers, stacks of books everywhere, long tentacles trying to swat me. But this time there was something different - floating “lights” hovering in different areas. I moved into one of the dark patches, thinking to stay out of sight. Ouch! No, not a good idea. It hurt, the dark. And it kept hurting more as I stayed in the dark, so I beat a quick retreat to the light where I’d entered.

So. I had some torches. Seemed like the best thing might be to take light with me. I hoped I had enough torches to get where I needed to go....

I had to kill some of the creepies that apparently were sycophantically attached to Mora - probably hoping to keep knowledge-seekers away. They stood in the light (so, did the dark hurt them too? Interesting, if true....) which made killing them all too easy for me. I ran from light area to light area, holding the torch aloft, and soon I found the duplicate of the book I’d opened to enter here.

And as soon as I opened it again, Mora spoke to me. “Well. You are determined. And.... I must admit, clever. Finish the books, girl, and then we’ll talk again. Oh. If I were you, I wouldn’t trust Neloth....”

Then I was back, sick and shaking, on the floor with Mel holding me as I lost the contents of my stomach. Now - there’s a thing you really never think a younger brother would do for you, right? But he did, and then handed me a cup of water, and a damp cloth to wipe my face.

Eventually I got back together enough to tell him what had happened. “So, it sounds as if Mora is actually thinking he might - help. I - well, I’ll believe it when it comes true. And what on Nirn did Mora mean about that Telvanni wizard?”

“I don’t know. How could we know? Daedric princes are tricksy - but then, so by all accounts are Telvanni wizards. Can we go home now for a bit, Tier?”

“We can. I know you need to be there for Telka’s burning.”

“Aye. After.... well, we’ll come back to find the other book....” We held each other for a long time.
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Ugh, it gives me the shivers just tinking about going there! I feel so bad for Melki...
Even without a ton of details, well done Sere, you succeeded in scaring me!
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Sometimes - details get in the way....

Thanks Sis!
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Nicely done, Sere. I'm beginning to wonder if I've ever done three books... All I can remember is finding one book, going through Apocrypha and riding a dragon at the end...
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