The Plight of Ostentero

[Ellesar]

((now what's been happening? *sigh* maybe I should just drop out...I've fallen so far behind))

 

[Soldier_For_Christ]

((No...ust check-up more often; I understand that it is hard when you are in so many different active Rpg's at once. Mathonwy has told Vili that he is the werewolf and Vili ate a root to put himself to sleep so Mathonwy can tell the werewolf who he is. That's all.))

 

[shernren]

((am I allowed to get up and check out the disturbance?))

 

[CheshireCat]

(shernen- after this post you will be- srry for the wait everyone- finals week @~@, and our school doesn't give excemptions)

Mathonwy glared into the tiny white pupil, but said nothing. The werewolf didn't reply, only his face grew closer, ever closer to Mathonwy's face, until the boy could feel the moist, sour breath on his skin. The werewolf suddenly began to open his fangs but at that moment a thin stream of blue light passed from Mathonwy's eyes, to the werewolf's, and back again. Instantly, they both crumpled in a heap to the ground.

Mathonwy had taken the wolf's mind into his. He had to act quickly, and so he reached out in dreaming to the others, while he held back the wolf spirit's rage.

"My friends, the time has come to rise. The information I have on the three assassins is this: one will possess seemingly unstopable strength and so can most easily be conquered by magic- Aestaer and I shall take him; the second will try to touch you- do not allow him, for even a scratch will open you to his ability to drain you life energy- thus i suggest that the swiftest challenge this assassin- thus tenkana will lead this band- whoever chooses to go with him will be accompanied by Davil- you will know this assassin by his or her weapon, for he carries some clawlike weapon with which to open you to his power; the third assassin will most likely carry some weapon resmbling a tail, or even may have one, i am not certain- you will know him or her by that image- this is the most formidable of the trio, as this assassin possesses extraordinary powers to influence the psyche of an individual- his or her words will corrupt every thought in your mind until you lose all will to battle, and if the exposure is prolonged, the will to live- thus i suggest those with the keenest instict attack this assassin for with that keen instinct one can transcend rational thought which is the route through which the assassin's power travels- hence this band will be lead by shernen who possesses a high intellect to discern the truth but also possesses a higher potency of instincts than other humans because he is more closely connected to nature- with you shernen, i will send an ally- he is an ancient wolf spirit- i will do what i can to focus his rage at the enemy- hopefully your mutual relationtionship with nature can form a bond with and solidify your attacks

That is all- i shall see you all shortly. But for now, I give you rest."

Then Mathonwy closed his glowing blue eyes, held out his hands, and released small shimmering baubles that alighted to each company's member's head. After the sparkling light subsided, the dream faded, and for a few minutes, the entire company slept deeply, serenly, so that they might be able to brave the horrors that were sure to come in the night.

 

[jesusfreak10537]

Aneirin rolled over in her sleep, tangling her silken blankets around her legs. "Uumph." she muttered, waking up. She saw that it wasn't time for the ceremony yet, and she had to remember that strange dream that had flashed through her mind, so she fell back asleep.

 

[Lessien]

Zalika woke up after the dream. What Mathonwy had said unnerved her. She dashed off a quick note, berating herself for being such a coward.

I regret that I can't come with you. However, I will meet you as soon as I can. Look for me. Watch for me. Pray for me, as long as your prayers are not directed at Chama.
Farewell,
Zalika

Grabbing her pack and changing into a tiny sparrow with her magic, the faerie was off.

((Hope that's OK. I don't know when I'll be back, it may be months. I just needed to keep Zal occupied. Adios.))

 

[Soldier_For_Christ]

Tenakana waited a few minutes more than he should have, he would admit. But, he was very tired and so after he woke up, he ate a few extra roots that would gie him the energy of a full 8 hours of sleep. He then prepared to leave to the garden he had been in earlier. He did a few practice spells and attacks to prepare himself for his foe. Then, he left the inn and headed for the garden.

 

[shernren]

((character name's kuillia, but no harm done. and who's going to play the assassins?))

Kuillia awoke with the instructions fresh in mind. Instantly he began to feel afraid. He said this is an assassin who can cause me to lose my will to live ... how can I defeat someone in body who can defeat me in mind? But then he ran through the Scriptures imprinted within his mind.

The truth shall set you free.

He clung to that, allowing it to dwarf the growing fear in his mind and to calm it, as he suddenly heard a strange noise from Mathonwy's room - the assassins? He opened the door and rushed into the hallway, alert.

 

[Paladin Dave]

Ulf yelped in terror as the blue light came from the eyes of his prey. He soon went limp and his eyes shut as he went into the dream state, enduced by Mathonwy. However, instead of just Ulf listening, or just Vili listening, both stood there in the dreamscape. Once the message had been delivered, the two glared hatefully at eachother.
"So." Ulf began. "Kill me because you do accident? I not let you." he growled savagely, foaming at the mouth as he lowered his great canine body to the ground, ready to pounce at Vili.

"You exist only because I created you! And now I am ending your existance, as is my right, and my duty! I have hunted you for far too long to give in now!"

As the two prepared to fight, something unexpected by both of them began to happen. They were about to leap at eachother.... but some strange, supernatural force already pulled them together. Slowly, they came closer and closer, now struglling to try and get away, each thinking, in their moment of panic, that this was some evil magic of the other. But their struggles were in vain.

All was dark after the two bodies came in contact. There was silence, darkness, sweet, serene, dreamless sleep. When Vili finally opened his eyes, he found himself back in the courtyard, where Ulf had been knocked out by Mathonwy. He sat up and scratched his head, but the movement felt most odd. His clothing felt tighter, and he felt very awkward as he moved around. He shuddered and closed his eyes, rubbing the sleep from them, until he discovered something. His brow. It was more rigid! He felt along it, and there was no doubt about it. His eyebrows had also gotten a bit thicker as well. Trying to figure it out and avoid having a panic attack, Vili scratched his beard in thought. It almost felt thicker, and longer, but he paid it no heed. This was strange... very strange... He stood up and tried to stretch out, and then found out why his clothes had felt so awkward. He was almost a foot taller! Not only that, but he was more muscular than the old, wimpy, by Ordki standards, Vili had been. Now Vili was really beginning to lose his nerve. He was still himself, but at the same time, he looked so different! He grabbed ahold of his pony tail, only to find that his hair was longer... and it had already been long enough that he could wear it down on one sholder! In fact, the rest of his body seemed slightly harrier too.
"What happened to Ulf?! Where is he? Why did this happen to me?" he wondered frantically, before howling in confusion and desperation. Howling... wolf style... that was NOT an ordinary way that Vili used to express himself. Although it was strange to him, what happened next was far stranger. His body, his clothing, skin, everything, began changing and shifting. Just as it had every time he went to sleep since he had been cursed.... He became Ulf again... but only his body! It was still him, Vili, just in Ulf's body! "NO! I wanna be human again, I wanna be human again, I-" he then slowly morphed back into a human. Immediately afterwards, he fainted, not in exhaustion, but in terror.

 

[Soldier_For_Christ]

Tenkana heard the wolf howl and rushed quickly to the garden...to see Ulf looking quite powerful and imposing. Whoa!! What happened to him!?

 

[CheshireCat]

(srry for the delay- the assassins will be controlled by everyone)

(my apologies kullia)

Mathonwy awoke to the sight of a fainted vili. "Well, there's nothing more that I can do- Tenkana, let's hide him before the assassins-"

In the distance sounded a sort of snorting. It was deep, gutteral, and breathy. Something around twenty meters ahead , past the garden's walls, he could see small clouds of glowing orange curl up into the night sky with each loud breath. The assassins were here.

"Quickly, Tenkana- let's stash Vili in the room- there's no time left-"

 

[Paladin Dave]

Vili's eyes opened when he heard voices. He let out a shout, remembering what had just happened as a nightmare. But the shout came out more like the bark of a dog. He clapped his hand over his mouth and looked down. His nightmare was real. He stood up and looked around nervously. "Please do not ask me what happened... just tell me what that strange noise is, please!" he said shakily.

 

[jesusfreak10537]

Aneirin ducked out the temple, the sound of chanting apprentices floating on the air around her. She had told the Priestess that she was cold, and needed another cloak, because she thought she was getting sick. The Priestess, she could tell, hadn't really believed the story, but had no choice but to let Aneirin go.

Shaking with fear at being caught, Aneirin darted into her room and shut the door softly behind her. She grabbed her pack and took a deep breath. Starting across the room toward her terrace, she ran back suddenly and grabbed her cloak. At least then she wouldn't be lying to the Priestess! She padded softly out onto her balcony.

The whole Temple grounds were surrounded by a huge, white wall that gleamed in the moonlight. There was no way out of it, except for one gate that was guarded by four alert guards. Therefore, the fact that a large oak tree that was on the outside of the gate grew over the wall and hung over Aneirin's balcony. Grabbing the lowest branch, she managed to carry her pack and shimmy down the tree at the same time. She hit the ground hard, but broke instantly into a run. She was free of the confines of the Temple! She had done it! In a few minutes she reached the palace, and took the servant's back entrance into the garden.

She burst into the section of the garden where Mathonwy was, breathless. "What's happening?' she asked, panting. "What is that noise?

 

[CheshireCat]

"Good to see you Aneirin- what is happening- well to be blunt- for there isn't really time for anything else- the hoofs of evil have arrived. Expect the tail and horns to follow. In the meantime, you and I had better ready our magic to fight this- thing or person- for he is about to come over the wall."

"Vili, I can't explain now, just ready yourself for battle- don't attack the first assassin. You will fight the tail when he or she should arrive."

Beneath his white hood, Mathonwy's eyes glowed intensely. The boy drew from their sheaths on each forearm his twin wands, and held them, as he had been trained in his dreams, loosely at his sides. He breathed deeply and calmed himself. 'I must remain steady if I am to battle this foe. Steady, Mathonwy.'

 

[Soldier_For_Christ]

Tenkana jusr about broke away when he turned back around and asked Mathonwy, quickly but not frantically, "Where do we need to go after we have defeated or eluded the assasins?"

 

[shernren]

Kuillia rushed to the garden. He was not sure when or how the assassin he was to take would come, but for now it made sense that if they were after Mathonwy then he should go protect him.

 

[jesusfreak10537]

Aneirin shook her head. "I don't know, Mathonwy...something tells me these assassins will need to be destroyed not only with magic, but with wit and common sense as well. The High Priestess knows of your skills and would not have sent something that could easily be destroyed with magic." Still, she closed her eyes and readied herself. About the magic she knew that could help them in this fight was her power to call down fire, but she wasn't sure how much that would help.

 

[CheshireCat]

(i apologise for not informing you all about the reason for my absence- i have been to a seminar/camp in which around 900 or so guys participate in a mach Texas government- so without int access computers i have basically dropped off the face of the planet- until today, that is, because I was able to go to the UT library (the conference is in Austin TX). Anywho, wish me luck on becoming Texas Associate Supreme Court Justice!

Mathonwy, without turning his eyes from the firey plumes that were an ever-closer approaching assassin's breaths, replied to Tenkana, "I leave for the city of the moon as I have been instructed in dreams."

A few moments passed, and all around them could now be heard a very slight echoing sound that reverberated in the gardens all around the party- the quiet sound of a prolonged, high-pitched, warbling bird call. The sound created in the party a strong anxiety, as if they longed for something that they had wanted for a long time; each muscle in each party member's body began to tense, to the point where the party became entirely immoble.

Mathonwy's mind struggled against the growing anxiety, and as he had been trained by the Mystics, he exhaled.

He let go of thought, and began to expand his emotions, his spirit, from his body into the garden. This expansion of power is not easily visible, for any extension of unclored auras, spirit, or emotion is seldom visible, and if it is visible, it appears only in small translucent winding lines that ripple through the area. These ripples expanded, and soon encompased the entire garden in which the enchanted party dwelt.

He took a deep breath in- the windlike sound echoed throughout the gardens, and dampened the bird call.

The ripples that had been expanding bowed in the middle toward one point- Mathonwy. They then rushed back to him, and as they passed a party member, a faint glimmer of grey light was carried with them. The grey light and the waves concentrated into Mathonwy's being, no longer visible.

The boy didn't breath for a moment, and then exhaled softly and closed his eyes.

"Crafty child- thou hast absorbed my enchantment. Thou art truly an apprentice of the Mystic of the Waters," muttered a raspy voice of an old man mixed with that of an even older woman. The voice came from a figure wearing a vast cloak around it, whose deep hood completely covered the ghastly rinkled face beneath.

"The whip. Kullia. Spirit of Nature. It is your time," Mathonwy replied, opening his eyes- now glowing a brilliant turquiose.

 

[Ellesar]

((I'm gonna try to jump back in...))

Kayden stood nearby listening to what they had to do.

 

[jesusfreak10537]

Aneirin was completely freaking out. Never before had she felt such potent power- and hate- at such a close range. She stepped back behind Mathonwy, trembling. In all her years of training as an apprentice, nothing had trained her for this...