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Tiercel's Peregrinations
Topic Started: Jan 10 2017, 09:00 PM (4,150 Views)
Andra Hawksdaughter
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Gods, SO not good! Now is when we'll see Tier's strengths, I think! She will need every bit of strength and power she has!
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Well, at least the "good" princes warned her.... Thanks Sis!
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Areial
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OH...Lordy...Hopefully she did enough to call in some markers!
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Yeah..... we'll see..... Thanks sis!
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Uh-oh... I think the fit's about to hit the shan... :pop:
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Yup. It's not a real good feeling....
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90 - Interlude(s)

Melki: I didn’t know.... how much I love her - our grandmother - until she’s gone. I - will kill him.... them. If I can....


Var: Tier’s going to blame me. I know she is. NO - I don’t know that. It’s - no one’s fault - other than Molag Bal’s. Tier knows it as much as I do....


Ger: How do I kill a daedric prince.... there must be a way. It cannot be allowed to run roughshod over any human it wishes. Favors.... who owes me what....

Tier: No my love - it’s not your fault. Nor g’da’s, nor Melki’s, nor mine. This - prince - is moving us to its will. That can’t continue. We’ll see what can be done.


Bal *laughing*: Oh, wriggle little worms! None of you shall escape my designs. You are all blood-fodder. But do try to escape, it gives me such enjoyment to see you squirm....”
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<shivers>... pawn...but a pawn can take a..King.. let alone a Prince.
Edited by Areial, Apr 25 2017, 09:39 PM.
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Yep. Chess has many lessons.....

My brother and I learned chess at a very young age - I was 6, he was 4. My mother's great-uncle (no kids of his own) wound up - adopting us (or adapting.... depends on how you look at it) for several summers. He was - nutty as a fruitcake (most of her family was - any sanity I have is totally due to daddy's genes) - but he was willing to explain chess to a 6 year old girl and 4 year old boy.

We spent a lot of time with him for several years. My brother was far better at the theory of chess than I ever was or ever will be - but I'm the one that eventually beat Uncle Marion (without help) - and beat my brother enough times that he just wouldn't play against me any more.

A small victory for intuition....

Which has nothing to do with Chess: The Musical - other than that I just LOVE it. Especially "the god in every golden cloister"....
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I used to play chess but I was perhaps just a bit better than average, but not really very good at it. I did beat an Idaho state champ 2 out of three once though... :) You never saw a dude so pissed! Up until then he thought Bikers were rather unintelligent brutes doing nothing but drinking and partying... He should have seen Bear and Evil playing chess for motorcycle parts if he wanted to see a tough game. :D

EDIT: I meant to say NOT very good at it... :D

A typo is one thing, but an entire word vanishing and chaning the whole meaning of the sentence is... difficult to take. :$
Edited by neildarkstar, Apr 25 2017, 09:47 PM.
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Yeah, there's a lot of air between some ears. Oh wait - I think I meant vacuum....
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Andra Hawksdaughter
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Sere, that gave me a shiver! But I'm thinking, Bal should NOT underestimate Tier's g'ma, or the rest of her family, for that matter.
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'Kay, that's weird...tried to edit and got two posts. please delete #732. :-/
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Done!
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91 - No! We are not going off like a half-cocked crossbow!

About that point, da and g’da walked in. Grim was the operative word, and I just held up a hand before all these men got going.

“We’re NOT going out there right now. We’re going to discuss things, and develop a plan. I’m fully aware that you’re all going, along with Uncle Hed and the boys. But we have to set up defenses for the town before we go.” I saw glances flicker amongst my male relatives.

Holding up a hand - one grasping a dagger - I said “Again. NO. I am part of this rescue... and - vampire elimination. By all the Divines, LET MINE BE THE HAND THAT KILLS IT.”

Not one of them said a thing after that. Da shrugged, Melki shook his head, g’da and Var grinned at me. Hmm. Well, at least one of my male relatives got it. As did my “not-betrothed”.

“Now, I want to know exactly what happened, and how Movarth got to g’ma. At least - as much as you all know about it.”

The upshot: everyone had been about their own business in the town and environs. Var had thought to check with g’ma as to when I might be back (wait - weren’t we supposed to not be seeing each other?), and discovered she wasn’t in the Hall, the city, or at the mine or Manor. He grabbed da and g’da, and that’s when ma said that Bal was in it. If anyone would know - she would.

I sighed. There was only one of me.... but had I been here instead of on Solstheim, managing shrines for the princes.... Var shook his head at me, and Melki did the same. Well, fine. Still I felt - guilty.

“So. Somehow, this all hinges on Bal and Movarth. What would Movarth want in Hjaalmarch? Well, other than women.... Or Bal - what would it want? This is not a thriving population center like Solitude. And by now, it must know that it’s not going to get a string on Var through me. Is this all about revenge against g’ma so many years later? But - Idgrod..... Hmmm....”

I went off into one of da’s “brown studies” and stayed there a good long time. When I surfaced, it was to see four pairs of male eyes fastened on my face.

“Well.... the only thing I think is that somehow, Movarth has persuaded Bal to put things back the way they were before Verinne Ravenwing the Ravensdaughter ‘killed’ him. He had quite a tidy little thing going - even if he lived in a dump of a cave. He could get all the women he wanted - and why else was there such a dearth of young marriageable women here? He could sit at his ease - in his dump of a cave - and laugh as girl after girl was brought to him for despoilment.

“We’ll have to lop the head off the snake. And salt the remains, put a wooden stake through its heart - as if it has one! - then burn the rest. And for this.... yes. We will ask the Companions for help. Mel - head for Whiterun, and make sure they understand the urgency!"

I wasn’t above admitting there are times five people - even very smart, very involved people - aren’t enough. This was one of them. And as a final fillip of “please help me”, I dropped to my knees and beseeched help from “my” princes:

‘Meridia. I disregarded you because I was careless, and got involved with other things. But if you will help me get my grandmother back, safe and whole.... I will.... do whatever you choose - even to never wedding Vartain. Please - overlook my laxness....’

‘And Azura - my lady of the times in the day I love the best.... I ask that you give me the strength to do as I must, and to give up what I must - if I must.’

I got no replies, but - well, probably I wasn’t yet worthy enough.
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92 – Conversation -

‘Sister. She calls on us. And she admits she was at fault. We could.....’

‘We could. But.... she would not be better for our intervention. It is enough that she knows she bears blame.

‘However. This - meddling - of Bal’s. It disturbs me. This is only since Tiercel disrupted its “fun”. So, Bal is angry - and it is manipulating humans.... again. To what end? We need to discover....’

‘Aye. The Balance is.... not. We should see what is toward.’
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She be making them think, eh? :)
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Two Princes are better than one...specially when they decide to act!
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Thanks guys! You know - I'm not sure.... well, I'll figure it out.
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