Amdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Quil Tris
When Pal’tran and Jal’krin returned loaded with drinks and food, they found Amdirlain still reviewing the contract options with Jan’era. Throughout the discussion, Amdirlain followed the threads in Jan’era’s thoughts. They were a flurry of mental calculations and projections that balanced the need to cover overheads...
2023-08-14 10:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Quil Tris
With Jal’krin starting to stir, Amdirlain used the washroom and changed into clothes she’d made a few days prior. The bright green summer dress swirled around her knees as she tested her legs' responses swaying before the stove filling pans with thin slices of steak and eggs. Not finding a toaster or anything like it, she...
2023-08-12 11:32:25 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Qil Tris
Kadaklan’s gaze twinkled in amusement, but Amdirlain had had enough of the games.
“I know there is a lot you’d like to know about me, but really I’m just not going to share it unless it's needed. So please ask questions directly related to restoring my legs, and you’ll get information. You seem on a fishing exp...
2023-08-09 23:09:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Ravenshard posted this on Discord, but I'm aware not everyone looks at it.
While Amdirlain's blue fur is darker, and it's a different instrument., I've got this as my mental image presently for Amdirlain's Catfolk appearance
2023-08-09 07:31:46 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Quil Tris
True Song shifted Amdirlain’s body into an incorporeal state similar to the spectres she’d seen. It was also a condition that put her uncomfortably close to the warped dimensional shift the Eldritch attack had caused. In it, Amdirlain could see the infestation of alien energy drawing close to her torso. The upper wounds o...
2023-08-07 12:30:53 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Quil Tris
Dinner had proved easy to prepare between them, and afterwards, a still emotionally exhausted Jal’krin had gone to bed early. Once he fell into a deep slumber, Amdirlain set up the crystal to project an illusion of her sleeping on the living room bench and headed out.
Tracking some songs gathered from among the retrea...
2023-08-05 20:19:29 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Quil Tris
Amdirlain polished off the roast before she headed off. Though she intended to pick some things up, it wasn’t from any store. Out among the alleyways, new concealments wrapped around her, cloaking her auras, and blocking her presence to sight, hearing, and smell. Creating a few changes of clothing that would fit into her tr...
2023-08-03 23:07:31 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Quil Tris
Amdirlain paid, left the cafe, and caught the waiting observers slip in among those who fixated on her flowing steps. Slipping through the still very early morning crowds, she made the observers work to keep track of her, shifting in and out of shops. She made purchases, sold mithril to a jeweller, and moved amidst groups to ...
2023-08-01 04:22:28 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Quil Tris
With the surrounding distortion dramatically lessened, Amdirlain reactivated True Sight. Examining the vault’s controls, she heard the residue of four people operating the controls spread across its surface. The knobs and curved impression seemed more suitable for tentacled beings than any Catfolk, but traces of those who...
2023-07-29 12:17:07 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Quil Tris
Wrapping herself in more concealments, Teleport placed her near the wooded edge of the first estate. Searching for distortions wasn’t a problem as she immediately heard the fractured notes within the main building. The owners had laid out four hexagonal structures in a lopsided Y-shape with an open mouth towards the drivewa...
2023-07-27 10:32:49 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Qil Tris
The door with the sign for the sound booths let her into a corridor with doors marked to indicate three sound booths, the lavatories, and a flight of stairs to the roof. Letting herself into the first booth, Amdirlain found the area split into two sections, similar to a recording studio in miniature. Despite the soundproof pan...
2023-07-25 05:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Qil Tris
Though the cashier at the steps tried to talk Amdirlain into a more expensive option, she took the cheapest ticket for the next trip and headed up. Taking the stairs to the platform on the ticket, she found herself on a stone platform of more hexagonal blocks. They’d marked carriage numbers along the platform’s edge, and A...
2023-07-22 23:14:12 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Xaos
When Amdirlain arrived in the suite’s living area, she found Livia, Rana, and Goxashru looking over the surveyor’s images.
After exchanging their greetings, Livia jumped straight in. “Did things go well?”
“They’ve retrieved and opened the royal tower. Gideon gave an achievement for it, but I think the main reason...
2023-07-20 01:49:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning is a rush of activity preparing for the evening feast. Ellother and I purchase extra materials from stores to distribute some coins rather than me simply creating more. Irene and some ladies I’ve seen at the Temple services join the gathering.
Ellother breaks the ice when she rolls up her sleeves and joins me in helping a group of village women knead the dough. Some ladies I...
2023-07-17 21:26:34 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands
Amdirlain paused with her mind outstretched to turn the time-lapse image of Quil Tris. The city's ruins sat far from other occupied lands, cracked stonework peeking up beneath the layers of snow. The surveyor's perspective had drawn Amdirlain’s attention to the regular formation beneath the snow. Yet it had only been at the end of the record...
2023-07-15 19:54:41 +0000 UTC View PostZosime is looking thoughtful when we get back. “I didn’t realise how tight things were getting on the farms. It was nice of you to feed that family, not just the work crew.”
“I prefer to be nice, but have I been too nice?” I ask.
A glum smile appears on Phile’s face. “You made the nobles apologise to the village council and then gave Selene and the others a tour of you...
2023-07-12 23:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands
Though Amdirlain was pretty sure what would happen, she opened a Gate to Qil Tris and faced a nighttime scene. The view was of a snow-covered hillside with weather-worn boulders and trees covered in long, needle-like leaves. Though she could hear the landscape’s music, the threshold didn’t allow her to cross.
Amdirlain wondered if Ti...
2023-07-11 22:21:56 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands
The Gate opened to the edge of the flattened forest, and the distortion caused the fine hairs on the back of Amdirlain’s neck to lift.
With an eager laugh, Mars jumped through, his pilum already ready to throw. “I’ve only heard of these! World maggot, come up and fight us.”
As Mars raced forward, he jumped between the decay...
2023-07-09 05:47:08 +0000 UTC View PostIpy joins the seven teenagers to form them up in lines of four, and a steady cadence of blades clicking against each other soon fills the air.
“Stick to the pace,” Ipy critiques when one gets adventurous and picks up the rhythm. “You need your muscles to get used to the attacks and counters.”
When their energy starts to flag, he has them spar in pairs while the others rest, ...
2023-07-08 03:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands
Opening a scrying window to the coordinates of the key storage, Amdirlain saw an irregular corridor that curved out of sight. The walls appeared rough-hewn but of the same light grey stone as the Spire. Turning the window’s focus, she found the entrance from the Outlands was around a sharp turn. Anyone looking at it from a distance would see...
2023-07-05 03:30:20 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Xaos
At first, toying with the harp, Amdirlain only felt a sense of déjà vu until an expected rush of memories showed her Ólneth’s harp instruction from Hirindo. Orhêthurin's recollections of her family were powerful; ironically, they left Amdirlain feeling like she had intruded, despite them overtaking her. After a few hours of strugg...
2023-07-01 06:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostAfter getting a few kilometres beyond Cendëróme’s northernmost scouts, I shift directly back to Sanctuary’s foyer. Within the hall, Sarah has stretched out on the dance floor in a restrained version of her Dragon form, giving Ellother and an elderly Human male a chance to examine her scales. As I walk forward quietly, taking in the man’s melody, Sarah lifts her head to peer over them. T...
2023-06-29 00:05:33 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Xaos
When Amdirlain arrived at Xaos, she appeared beside a teenage Ratkin with honey-hued fur. Before he started to react, Amdirlain projected calmness to moderate his reaction. The young male still pulled the satchel closer, his nose twitching and fur rippling with the air displaced by Amdirlain’s arrival. Instinctively, he gave an outrag...
2023-06-28 03:32:57 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Xaos
Hours later, Livia found Amdirlain in her suite, rolling a memory crystal between her hands. As Livia entered, Amdirlain looked up and patted the couch beside her. “Come sit with me?”
“You know I do the same thing when delivering bad news to friends,” commented Livia, but she still sat beside Amdirlain.
“Moradin lo...
2023-06-24 07:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Prison Cells
Amdirlain collected the enchanted crystals around the prison and stored them in Inventory. She took apart the four cells before gathering up the spheres that now contained her patients. Considering her options, Amdirlain created the smallest storage ring she could manage and stowed them.
As she slipped it on, Moradin raise...
2023-06-21 17:37:13 +0000 UTC View PostNanoĸ, Nikias, and Myrto are heading out the door when Phile comes over and sits beside me. Bumping her knee against mine, Phile holds out a hand and, when I clasp it, she gives me a relieved smile I gladly echo. A knot of tension eases from my stomach, with her not opting to create a distance.
“You saying you grew up without other children around makes sense now,” offers Phile.
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Amdirlain sat outside the cells and procrastinated by considering the visit with Phrinhralith’s grandparents. The lengthy protocols of the dragons of Vrantvrak had consumed hours of back and forth; their displays of overflowing reverence throughout had made it an uncomfortable experience for Amdirlain. While she had missed the event...
2023-06-17 09:38:11 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Votari
After her return trip to Cemna, Amdirlain progressed through a series of random jumps between Cemna, Votari, and the desolated worlds.
The leaps initially battered her mind and caused Pain Eater’s capacity to grow. World Step dampened the impact, and a Journeyman breakthrough strengthened it. It was an outcome that was a...
2023-06-15 02:11:43 +0000 UTC View PostAfter rejecting my advances, it’s an hour of inscribing before Gaius pauses. “I’m surprised you’re not asking what the runes do.”
Shifting my focus from the Mana he’d left in the rune, I snort. “It’s all Draconic; I’m focusing on where you inject the Mana.”
“These are Artificer runes,” corrects Gaius.
His ignorance draws out bitter laughter, and I point...
2023-06-14 01:22:11 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Xaos
When Amdirlain returned, Livia was already in the suite, sitting cross-legged on a couch, quietly meditating. “Having an extended training session isn’t a very subtle way to avoid speaking about Uncle Torm.”
“We were trying to make up for three missed days,” countered Amdirlain.
“Yet you also missed three days Ki...
2023-06-10 07:28:15 +0000 UTC View Post