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Real & Half-Real: Iskierka's Notes | OTA
Who: Illarion's Omen Iskierka and anyone who happens to stumble across her notes.
What: Receiving messages from hell.
When: March 5 onward, after Sayo's full return to the Waking World.
Where: Throughout Trench and the Levels
Content warnings: All of the following are mentioned or discussed obliquely: magical zombies, mind control, emotional manipulation, war-time violence, murder of family members, drug use, cannibalism, suicide, hallucinations/derealization, existential horror, apocalyptic setting, kidnapping, enslavement.
Iskierka has not been idle while her Sleeper is missing from Trench. Somewhere, he's wandering a hell far removed from the Waking World; somewhere, he rehearses to himself the briefing he might give to any would-be rescuers when they arrive, what is necessary to survive and sufficient for Sayo's ritual. When hoping for rescue pales on him, he dictates his thoughts to the air or an animal or a corpse's patient ear, and she hears it.
She hears every word of it, and she cannot respond; she listens faithfully, and the words fill her head to the point of forgetting. When there's no more room for them, she writes. With whatever comes to hand--beg buy borrow or steal--on whatever surface she can find, she writes--scratches out--rewrites. Notes and letters emerge beneath her pen, and she takes them where she thinks they belong. Some she abandons in significant places and others she brings to significant people, urging them to take this fragment of her lost Sleeper.
It may help, when they go to rescue him. If anyone can.
[[ OOC: Real & Half-Real Plot Write-Up and Interest Check, for those just joining us. Even if you haven't left a comment there you're more than welcome to join in on finding notes!
See comments for how to use this post and tasty tasty plot hooks. ]]
What: Receiving messages from hell.
When: March 5 onward, after Sayo's full return to the Waking World.
Where: Throughout Trench and the Levels
Content warnings: All of the following are mentioned or discussed obliquely: magical zombies, mind control, emotional manipulation, war-time violence, murder of family members, drug use, cannibalism, suicide, hallucinations/derealization, existential horror, apocalyptic setting, kidnapping, enslavement.
Iskierka has not been idle while her Sleeper is missing from Trench. Somewhere, he's wandering a hell far removed from the Waking World; somewhere, he rehearses to himself the briefing he might give to any would-be rescuers when they arrive, what is necessary to survive and sufficient for Sayo's ritual. When hoping for rescue pales on him, he dictates his thoughts to the air or an animal or a corpse's patient ear, and she hears it.
She hears every word of it, and she cannot respond; she listens faithfully, and the words fill her head to the point of forgetting. When there's no more room for them, she writes. With whatever comes to hand--beg buy borrow or steal--on whatever surface she can find, she writes--scratches out--rewrites. Notes and letters emerge beneath her pen, and she takes them where she thinks they belong. Some she abandons in significant places and others she brings to significant people, urging them to take this fragment of her lost Sleeper.
It may help, when they go to rescue him. If anyone can.
[[ OOC: Real & Half-Real Plot Write-Up and Interest Check, for those just joining us. Even if you haven't left a comment there you're more than welcome to join in on finding notes!
See comments for how to use this post and tasty tasty plot hooks. ]]
TARGET | Domnika Cor Hydrae (the Swan Sorceress) - 1A
Number available: Lots
Conditions to receive from Iskierka: None
On Nephele-that-is, the Swan Sorceress is a wicked woman. She besmirches the line Cor Hydrae with her greed and aberrant lusts.
In some jurisdictions she is still wanted for the murder of her husband and grandson.
Very few recognize her for what she is; her first mastery is deception. To most, she is a gracious hostess and sparkling socialite, generous in her substance (so long as you remember who you owe patronage). Her house on the Isle of Joy (a warning sign by itself) is a place of culture and peace away from the ongoing debauchery under Pleasure's continued misrule.
She does not excel in the martial arts and shows little apparent interest in political power. It's unnecessary she dirty her hands with them. Her magecraft lets her possess the minds of others to act as an extension of herself. Her centuries of practice at manipulation ensure her loyal followers will act nearly as quickly as the half-dozen she can hold in her direct thrall.
She is not a Prince only because she doesn't want it as much as she wants to spend her playthings' lives whenever it suits her, however it suits her.Here, she has her own captive harem of elves still uncorrupted by death and return. They are miserable and beautiful.
She uses anyone else she has to hand as a shield before using her prizes; she uses them to beg and plead for their own lives with any who threaten her. In the biting moment, because she is a coward, she will sacrifice all of them to protect herself.
no subject
And here is where they find it. They hum in interest. What a vile woman indeed.
The situation rings similar to them, someone who treats their domain as a child would treat a box of toys. And near the shrine of Superior herself as well. Perhaps it was a coincidence. Or fate. Or something conscious.
They don't know. In the end it doesn't matter. They tuck it into their coat anyway. Beato will probably want to look at this.]