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alexmegamiOkay, I know you all saw my announcement yesterday, but here it is again (and with added bonus new fanart!):
018. Black
073. Light
And, as bonus incentive to reply to this post and stroke my ego, that post I promised yesterday!
I promise to keep it as short as possible.
So second-last game, D'or was going to kill Cindy and Sam for (unwittingly) unleashing horror upon the city [they had visited a vampire in Golconda - remember boys and girls, Golconda is not always your friend! - and been dominated to blow up an Elysium. Very nearly killed the city]. As a distraction, Az pointed out that Lee had crimes to answer for, and with an exceptionally good Revelations roll on David's part, Lee admitted that he was there on behalf of De Laurier, and then fled.
D'or uses this as an opportunity to leave the city, which pisses Az off to no end. She figures he's gone to Toronto, for whatever purpose (hunting De Laurier, angsting, being an emo kid in general), so she follows him there.
She finally catches up to him after a week and a half of hunting along with her detective ghoul, just after D'or jumps, naked, into Lake Ontario and starts swimming out. Az, undeterred, strips, leaves her clothes with Edzse, and follows him. D'or stops about 40 minutes later and climbs onto a rock in the middle of nowhere. Az notices that he's showing signs of earlier (but healed) burn damage.
She swims around to face him, and intones, "D'or, this is your guilty conscience. Come back to KW."
They argue for a while. D'or's basic point is, "everyone thinks I'm a monster and they're probably right". Az's is, "you're less of a monster than the crazies that took over [Windsor], come back and save us". At one point, D'or frenzies and beats the ever-loving piss out of Az, but this is only important because she can only heal so much before she's down to two blood. [So she's somewhat injured.] He wakes her up.
Eventually D'or agrees, but he makes no move to swim back to shore. It's about an hour to sunrise, at this point, and Az is already going to have to burn rubber to get back to her makeshift haven before sunup. Az prompts D'or to start swimming, and he says no.
His explanation is this: Back about 20 years ago, a Lancea Sanctum archbishop by the name of Thyracea was called to this rock. She sat on this rock for an entire night and an entire day, and DID NOT BURN. This was proof of God's love for her. Now, I'm going to do the same, and if God loves me I won't burn. And if you're a devout Lancea Sanctum, you'll do it too.
And Az is like, "... ... ...... .............Okay."
So they spend the last hour before sunrise praying together, so that when the sun rises they don't frenzy. And that is when that image is taken: the sun rising, the two of them holding each others' hands for comfort, really, really believing and hoping that the sun won't kill them instantly. And the sun is like a laser bearing down on them as it rises...
Their eyes proceed to burn out of their sockets as they try not to freak the hell out. [D'or takes two rounds to calm himself, Az takes five. By the time Az calms herself, D'or is gone.]
BUT.
They are not burning.
Az can feel the sun on her face, and it's a kind of crappy mid-September sun, but it is the SUN and she is NOT BURNING. And Az feels elated, and full of joy, but she also feels very very sad about having to leave her family. She wants to ask God to take care of them, but she can't find the words for it.
And then she tries to heal her eyes...
...and when God says, 'you can feel the sun, but you can't see it, because I am in it, and I am AWESOME, BOW BEFORE MY MIGHT', the correct response is not to try and heal your eyes.
So she starts burning, and leaps into Lake Ontario, and [thank God] in the World of Darkness apparently Lake Ontario is so horrifyingly polluted that the sun stops doing damage after the first round. And she swam to the bottom and dug herself in and slept there for the day.
And that is how Az had a honest-to-God religious experience that cured her of her evil and crazy [half-price buyback to Humanity 6].
018. Black
073. Light
And, as bonus incentive to reply to this post and stroke my ego, that post I promised yesterday!
I promise to keep it as short as possible.
So second-last game, D'or was going to kill Cindy and Sam for (unwittingly) unleashing horror upon the city [they had visited a vampire in Golconda - remember boys and girls, Golconda is not always your friend! - and been dominated to blow up an Elysium. Very nearly killed the city]. As a distraction, Az pointed out that Lee had crimes to answer for, and with an exceptionally good Revelations roll on David's part, Lee admitted that he was there on behalf of De Laurier, and then fled.
D'or uses this as an opportunity to leave the city, which pisses Az off to no end. She figures he's gone to Toronto, for whatever purpose (hunting De Laurier, angsting, being an emo kid in general), so she follows him there.
She finally catches up to him after a week and a half of hunting along with her detective ghoul, just after D'or jumps, naked, into Lake Ontario and starts swimming out. Az, undeterred, strips, leaves her clothes with Edzse, and follows him. D'or stops about 40 minutes later and climbs onto a rock in the middle of nowhere. Az notices that he's showing signs of earlier (but healed) burn damage.
She swims around to face him, and intones, "D'or, this is your guilty conscience. Come back to KW."
They argue for a while. D'or's basic point is, "everyone thinks I'm a monster and they're probably right". Az's is, "you're less of a monster than the crazies that took over [Windsor], come back and save us". At one point, D'or frenzies and beats the ever-loving piss out of Az, but this is only important because she can only heal so much before she's down to two blood. [So she's somewhat injured.] He wakes her up.
Eventually D'or agrees, but he makes no move to swim back to shore. It's about an hour to sunrise, at this point, and Az is already going to have to burn rubber to get back to her makeshift haven before sunup. Az prompts D'or to start swimming, and he says no.
His explanation is this: Back about 20 years ago, a Lancea Sanctum archbishop by the name of Thyracea was called to this rock. She sat on this rock for an entire night and an entire day, and DID NOT BURN. This was proof of God's love for her. Now, I'm going to do the same, and if God loves me I won't burn. And if you're a devout Lancea Sanctum, you'll do it too.
And Az is like, "... ... ...... .............Okay."
So they spend the last hour before sunrise praying together, so that when the sun rises they don't frenzy. And that is when that image is taken: the sun rising, the two of them holding each others' hands for comfort, really, really believing and hoping that the sun won't kill them instantly. And the sun is like a laser bearing down on them as it rises...
Their eyes proceed to burn out of their sockets as they try not to freak the hell out. [D'or takes two rounds to calm himself, Az takes five. By the time Az calms herself, D'or is gone.]
BUT.
They are not burning.
Az can feel the sun on her face, and it's a kind of crappy mid-September sun, but it is the SUN and she is NOT BURNING. And Az feels elated, and full of joy, but she also feels very very sad about having to leave her family. She wants to ask God to take care of them, but she can't find the words for it.
And then she tries to heal her eyes...
...and when God says, 'you can feel the sun, but you can't see it, because I am in it, and I am AWESOME, BOW BEFORE MY MIGHT', the correct response is not to try and heal your eyes.
So she starts burning, and leaps into Lake Ontario, and [thank God] in the World of Darkness apparently Lake Ontario is so horrifyingly polluted that the sun stops doing damage after the first round. And she swam to the bottom and dug herself in and slept there for the day.
And that is how Az had a honest-to-God religious experience that cured her of her evil and crazy [half-price buyback to Humanity 6].
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Date: 2006-04-26 03:39 pm (UTC)[I am starting a semi-religious train of thought in relation to The Story, because it takes on a mind of its own. When we were getting Pax back from the Seers of the Throne, I explained to Rob fairly carefully the prayer and offering that Ianima made to her gods; that she would appreciate their eyes over her shoulder and that she would use everything she had learned, the strengths she had aquired, to get this very important person back.
I didn't tell him that she also followed with an "I will give up anything to get him back, as long as I do."
And a bizarre six successes on six dice - her managing to dispel the Gray Pope's healing spell - ensured that she give up her most precious personal resource, when he attacked her with an aggravated Mind Sword. Her memory's been going, her vision's been going - nothing too major yet, yay for being a Life mage and having some decent drugs.
T-minus four days to Capgras' delusion, aimed at Derwyn. Gonna be a fun day.]
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