Beyond the Ragnarök

WIS save 18

Kora smiles and pats the goat on the head, then turns back to her friends.  "I don't think we'll get any more information out of this one.  Sounds like it is sporadic when the goats are visited, and from all different directions.  I feel we have at least gotten the lay of the land, she nods towards Leif, and the knowledge of people around here, so head back to the boat?"

She then feels the prickling on the back of her neck and is about to shake it off and head down the hill when she sees Drekise's reaction.  She grabs his arm and shakes him a bit, "Drekise!  Are you alright?"

Leif’s attention is drawn back to the group with Kora’s call. Sólmyrkvi‘s back is to him but he does see him appear to have been released from a temporary paralysis. He steps forward to potentially catch him should his legs give out. “You with us, Sólmyrkvi? What happened?”

Just beyond the edge of conscious thought, Leif registers that the breeze had been different. It had either appeared out of nowhere or had changed direction while he was instinctively recalling the words last spoken while the world was still whole. He is not even sure he had said them aloud. But now, if he had thought about it, the smell of the sea or briny water was added to the grass, oak, goat, and dung smells from earlier.

Leif halts his advance when he sees Kora has him by the arm, but he does quickly glance to everyone to see if anyone else had been affected, including the animals.

Halp readies a Healer's Kit in case it's needed. 

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You all shiver as the hairs on the back of you neck stand on end. Most of you shrug it off but Sólmyrkvi your eyes suddenly roll back and you stand rigid...

(OOC: I'll assume that all of the descriptions of what Sólmyrkvi's did (e.g., dropping to his knees) after the start of the revelation were just happening in the vision.  To the others, he was just standing rigid with an apparent seizure for a few moments.) 

A great wave lifts you bodily from the water and hurls you toward the waiting rocks and just as you are about to be broken by those jagged black teeth... you are back on the hill with the soft sound of waves drifting on the breeze...  or is it laughter? 

When the epiphany passes, and Drekise can finally move again, he jerks back, twisting to the side and throwing up his hands to protect himself from the "rocks."  He collapses to his hands and knees until he can catch his breath.  Then he raises his head and looks around in confusion for a moment, trying to take in the sights and sounds of the hilltop and his friends. 

As his friends begin to ask questions, Drekise sits back on his heels and takes a shaky breath.  He wipes his hands on his breeches and answers Kora first: "Yes, I...I think so."  He gives her a weak smile, but he's still looking around the hilltop in seeming confusion or disbelief.

To Leif's question, he says, "I'm not sure.  None of you saw that?  A sort of numinous revelation.  The great tree?  The flames and lightning?"  Once they confirm that they did not, Drekise does his best to describe what he saw in the vision even though some of the details are already fading like a half-remembered dream.  But he remembers the feelings of vulnerability and dread even though the end of the vision seemed to reveal that he had survived through to some new place.  He does not mention the "laughter" at the end since it wasn't clear whether that was really part of the vision.

Drekise cannot tell them much else.  It seemed to be a vision of Ragnorök, of the past, not a warning about the future.  But he doesn't know where the vision came from or why it only came to him.  He had taken out his black book when Leif spoke, and he slides it back into his pouch before the others suspect that the book and his vision are somehow related.  The fewer questions about that, the better!