Amdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
The first technique scroll for Ki State involved layering the energies to support each other like she’d seen Master Payam use. Being familiar with multiple melody components supporting each other, the technique made perfect sense. Unfortunately, that initial success didn’t continue, and mos...
2024-01-24 04:54:28 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
When the clerks verified the last student’s Affinity, Erhi came to the office and added Amdirlain’s payment to her white jade pendant. Though she appeared composed, Amdirlain could hear the confusion and shock that still roiled inside her.
“I can tell you’ve got a question,” pro...
2024-01-20 03:32:11 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
With Ebusuku’s disappearance, Amdirlain returned to the duty pavilion and looked over its eight-story pagoda. The Outlands’ sunlight glistened off the lacquered red tiles that covered the eaves and the polished redwood of the window’s shutters and trim. The fittings inside were all lacque...
2024-01-14 13:08:02 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Between time spent in contemplation and discussions with Custodian, Livia had taken nearly a day composing seven simple tenets. In that time, Amdirlain had restored almost half a million prisons to pristine condition and ensured the rest each had at least twenty million years’ capacity. Amdir...
2024-01-11 05:25:38 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Outlands - Custodian's safehold
Custodian's pronouncement about champions caused Livia to frown.
"What do you mean by that?" asked Livia.
"Aspects are the personification of the concepts, but we're not allowed to work directly against each other," replied Custodian, and they slowly started turning, sending rays of light from opposite sides of...
2024-01-06 12:01:09 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s POV - Outlands - Annex of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
The concealments made it appear to the students that the four merely sat calmly observing the presentations. Throughout the lesson, none of the students had risked inviting Master Payam's ire even to glance their way. However, once the chime signalled the lesson's end, Klipyl attracted open stare...
2024-01-02 21:56:57 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s - Outlands - Annex of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Sharing tea and conversation with Livia had been a pleasant change from her meditations upon the pain within her past lives. When another Master’s servant delivered a scroll with matters that needed discussion, Amdirlain left her to the monastery’s business and headed for the training arena. Temp...
2023-12-30 06:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Outlands - Annex of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Livia teleported them into the meeting room overlooking her mansion’s rear yard. The room's decorations blend objects and styles from four cultures.
Amdirlain took in the sounds of the Monastery’s inhabitants, and only when things seemed calm did she move from their arrival point. As Amdi...
2023-12-26 12:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Círbann
Fuichon drew a bolt of inky-black cloth from a shadow near her and set it on the table’s edge. “Shadow Fey cloth, enough for several sets of clothes depending on their style. A token from my domain to you as host of this discussion, Amdirlain.”
“I appreciate your token, Fuichon,” replied Amdirlain. “I’ll put it to good use....
2023-12-23 08:42:50 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Círbann
When Klipyl vanished to deliver the invitation to the Mantle holders, Sarah gave a disappointed huff and shot Amdirlain a knowing look.
Yeah, she knows what I’m up to with the invitations.
“A Succubus!” gasped Silpar. “Kli was a Succubus?”
“A born Succubus at that,” confirmed Amdirlain.
Sarah grow...
2023-12-20 20:24:43 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Círbann
Amdirlain attuned a new plate to the local surveyors to replace the one Isa had taken with her to meet the hound archons. Zoomed in on the display with the cavern used for scale, it was clear to the others the closest pack was only forty kilometres away, with their settlement set into the valley wall. Though Amdirlain could hear their melodies, ...
2023-12-16 22:13:17 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Círbann
The cavern floor was nearly two hundred metres beneath where the Portal released them onto the ledge. The place was vast, with a fenced-off section at the end furthest from a carved passage that led out onto the mountain's slope.
Each Frost Giant corpse sprawled for four and a half metres, like massive trees felled and left discarded. Flam...
2023-12-14 04:40:47 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands
At Amdirlain’s question about her discovery of the world, Livia waved a hand absently to her left.
“Its Portal is out in the forest beyond the fields; its manifestation caught me by surprise,” admitted Livia. “I stepped around a tree, which had formed an arch with its canopy linking to another, and stepped through it. I could hav...
2023-12-11 11:52:20 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Outlands
The thick forest they appeared within looked to be composed of silver-barked oak trees, the canopy rustling under the ministrations of a strong wind.
"Do you think Rana's Goddess will take you up on your offer?" enquired Silpar.
Amdirlain shrugged. "I don't know. Danu would have invested a lot of effort to get an Avatar onto the worl...
2023-12-08 13:44:37 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Foundry.
Much to Gail’s delight, she earned provisional approval from Gilorn after three hours of performing complex melodies and fun folk songs.
Amdirlain had closed up the container with the orrery after Gilorn’s first sound of approval but didn’t secure it until the pair had finished their haggling.
“I’ll let you know when I’...
2023-12-05 21:31:42 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Foundry.
Gilorn’s strings rang and strummed thoughtfully after Amdirlain provided her list. “We’ll go back to the fundamentals. How many centuries did this take you to achieve?”
“Decades,” advised Amdirlain.
“That’s something. At least you’re not a slow learner,” replied Gilorn primly. “Your Soul is once again conceale...
2023-12-01 20:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhile she cleaned the first mountain site of the Eldritch distortion, Amdirlain’s surveyors discovered another contaminated site a thousand kilometres north. The crystal plate display showed the stray entities in enough detail to allow her to capture them at a distance. As she imprisoned each, Amdirlain presented them to those celestials who had lingered to observe the cleanup. Their appearan...
2023-11-29 01:25:03 +0000 UTC View PostThey arrived at the encampment's edge, just beyond wards so fragile, they seemed like cotton thread.
A patrolling Astral Deva, his wings compressed within a green-skinned elven form, walked along the warded perimeter. He wore no visible armour, and from what Amdirlain could tell, he relied on his Angelic Aura and reflexes to keep him safe, as the earthen-hued cloth had no protective encha...
2023-11-25 13:02:35 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Foundry
The pair sparred for nearly six hours, and Amdirlain’s mind steadily regained a clear focus. When the last fuzziness had cleared, Amdirlain called a halt and used Analysis to retrieve Gideon’s work list. There was no sign that the work would end, with just as many items on the list as previously. Yet the work required the performance of inc...
2023-11-22 04:37:57 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Foundry
Despite her uncertainty, Amdirlain recorded the melodies for Claughuthruuazex’s demi-plane. She contemplated pushing True Song Architecture when the Alliegiance Bond she still held with Sarah hummed. An image came from Sarah of her working hard to keep up with a gliding Claughuthruuazex, who looked far more at peace than when he’d been rest...
2023-11-19 08:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Limbo
The Plane Shift had placed them under the purplish-black sky of Limbo; the vast whirlpool of material and surging chaos overhead was an eerie sight despite all she'd seen. Amdirlain closed her eyes and took in the rippling tones before exhaling a long, sustained note that pressed her will against the Plane. The Plane responded to the sound, and a d...
2023-11-17 00:20:57 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Culerzic
Amdirlain moved between a few scores of towns whose locations she’d learned while travelling through Zozzuth’s city. She left devastation in her wake at each mining town that supplied the city with ore. The town wards cracked and shattered when the ground gave way beneath their anchors. Buildings were scooped up and crammed into mine shaft...
2023-11-14 01:07:03 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Ijmti
This time, Silpar's arrival point set them few hundred metres from the fortifications.
"Just to mix things up," said Amdirlain as they waited for instructions to approach.
"I only go there when I feel I need a reminder. Though I try not to arrive outside the wards at the same location twice, just in case someone has placed a trap for ...
2023-11-11 05:45:10 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Foundry
When she opened a Gate to the most straightforward song, the view beyond its threshold was of an inky void from atop an icy rock.
"What must you do to this asteroid?" asked Silpar.
"I need to set up changes to adjust its orbital speed only when it reaches a specific location relative to its sun," replied Amdirlain. "There are few like...
2023-11-09 12:18:10 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Foundry
Dancing over the broken ground, Amdirlain’s swords blocked Silpar’s strike and sent Cyrus’s staff above her head. Across the platform, Ilya recovered her sword and teleported back to attempt to pincer her. It was a familiar scene to Sarah and Isa, who had both stayed to watch the weeks of gruelling practice Amdirlain had endured to date. ...
2023-11-07 00:14:12 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Ijmti - Cloister of the Fallen
Though his blows repeatedly knocked her down, he pushed at her capabilities without being overtly damaging. What injuries he inflicted, Phoenix's Rapture healed before she even reached her feet. He used different forms, techniques, and weapons to keep her on the back foot and force her to adjust. She endured nearly a half d...
2023-11-04 07:26:16 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - The Hunting Grounds
A guarded passage beyond the first cavern led to the surface, with powerful wards to prevent teleportation and plane shifting. Three times she passed through defensive structures where goods were being ferried over walls to the warehouses beyond. Besides the Dretch and Schir performing that manual labour, she didn’t sense any non-su...
2023-11-02 09:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Culerzic - Ashen Plains
"I'll assume you learnt the location of Zozzuth," smiled Silpar.
Amdirlain smiled ruefully. "Psionic techniques work well with the evolution of Advanced Telepathy and my Willpower. Perhaps too well. I've not stretched the Power for a while. I've got a broad range of powers and skills that I've let languish because the combin...
2023-10-30 15:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Undeveloped Demi-Plane
"Are you setting up this place as another training ground?" Silpar asked.
"This is one I didn't include in the list for others to use. I want to test something to annoy Orcus before we go anywhere," replied Amdirlain.
The song dug into the demi-plane's boundary and inflated it further until it was an empty sphere with a...
2023-10-28 20:28:59 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Training ground Demi-Plane
"I'm unsure how quickly I can get confirmation from Bahamut. I'll have to send a message through a friend as Moradin has spoken to me a few times, but I've not met him outside memories," said Amdirlain.
Bahamut’s focus on them increased, and an Avatar came into existence. The Elf had silvery hair, liquid metal eyes and ...
2023-10-26 21:27:03 +0000 UTC View Post