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Bewildered by all that he's seen in the past few minutes, Simeon pushes his mind to make some sort of logical connection between the room that contained the replica of Lyrikav and the temple that just momentarily flashed before his eyes.
“ When the god of strength seeks to betray, it is a bad time in the lands”, Garu states. She closes her eyes in a silent prayer to Tylyn to see if the Lightbringer has a stake in the games that are afoot.
Not knowing what the inside of Kayel's temple looks like, you can't be certain whether that was the area you just saw Gabrielle.
You do know that what you just witnessed was not a portal. The environment fit seamlessly over the forest you sit in, as if its physical location was wrenched away and placed directly over this one. Whatever it was is beyond any arcana you've heard of, but if the deities of Rikirta are anything like those of Toril, you were likely looking into another plane, one where the deities reside.
For Simeon:
It was only a brief glimpse, but the decoration of the temple you saw was not like that of Kayel's. However, you are unfamiliar with the symbols that you did see.
The momentary silence is broken by another image being transposed over the area in front of the fire, this one another forest very similar to the one you sit in. The view is strange in this area; the trees cast shadows darker than should be possible, even when the light of spellfire should be brightening the area. A bald man, familiar to Abraxas and Harmony as Ginan, stands with his back to you. For the first time, his hands are not crossed into the sleeves of his robes; hanging down at his sides, they end in hideous claws, twice as long as they have any right to be. Glancing over his shoulder, he says, as calm and even-toned as ever, "Kayel seeks Fenrir. The dread wolf will end everything if--" His head snaps to the side, seeing some threat. The man grows in size, his limbs suddenly elongated and covered in fur. His claws match the form of a werewolf he has taken. The image disappears as he leaps to the side, scattering the image.
The forest grows quiet again.
For Garu:
You feel a connection as you pray different from any you have felt before. You have always felt Tylyn's light heed your call, granting you divine abilities, but this is more tangible, more concrete.
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Abraxas mentally compares Ginan and Gabrielle's locations. He doubts they are the same but hopes the comparison might suggest a course of action. "Should we stay here hoping for more visions? I'm not sure what to do, my colleagues."
He tries to remember everything he has heard about Fenrir as he has studied the history of this place, specifically location of and how to influence the wolf: 9. Abraxas will also seek to remember all he can about the religion/worship of Kayel: 15.
He'll ask for the help of the party in doing this, seeking to pool their knowledge to discover the next best steps.
Garu opens her eyes and calls out in prayer, "Tylyn, Merciful bringer of Truth and Light - from your faithful paladin, please share the truths unfolding here with us."
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Harmony had heard Garu, surprised. Kayel is the god of strength? But then that's when it happened again, seeing Ginan before hearing him talk about how Kayel seeks Fenrir and that the dread wolf will end everything before being cut off. She had heard Abraxas, thinking. "We need to help Gabrielle and Ginan stop Kayel and keep Fenrir from him. But how?" she said back, trying to think of anything at all that could help with what little she might know.
A wave of light appears on the other side of the fire when Garu speaks, a shimmering in the forest that gradually becomes a humanoid form. The new arrival is clad in stark white armor, a magnificent longsword held downward, point into the ground. Appearing as man or woman dependent on the eye of their beholder, this being is unmistakable to Garu. Standing before you is the avatar of Tylyn, deity of light and justice.
They gaze first upon Garu, eyes lingering through an approving node, before turning to Harmony. "Your power pales in comparison to that of your patrons. Do not fret for them, for Kayel seeks only to distract."
Tylyn's eyes scan the four of you, and one by one you feel a presence in your mind as they speak, awakening a clarity there.
"He of strength and battle miscalculates, for his interference in the mortal realm has awoken my purpose. The other patrons of this realm see it fit to allow you to continue to act alone, as the loophole to our agreement made so long ago. That is not just. Take with you to Turmaether my eyes. See for yourselves the citadel's true nature," they speak.
For Abraxas:
You do not recall any knowledge of Fenrir.
Being the god of strength and battle, worship of Kayel centers around those aspects. His tenets attract both the best and worst aspects of strength. It is common on Rikirta for his name to be on the lips of those heading to battle, and many a contest of strength has been dedicated to him.
For Harmony:
You do not know much of Kayel, other than that he is the Rikirtan god of strength and battle, and have never heard the name Fenrir before now.
"Thank you, Tylyn, for speaking with us. And thank you, Garu, for being someone Tylyn would answer in this way," Abraxas says. "We accept, generous Tylyn, your eyes, that we can see Turmaether's true nature." He is not sure what to do exactly because Garu has been Tylyn's eyes in some ways, but Garu is already with them. So, Abraxas extends his open hands as if accepting a gift, but only for a moment. He nudges Garu forward and whispers, "Tylyn seems to have a gift for you?"
Garu kneels, her palm on the handle of her jian, her heart and spine open to Tylyn. "You honor my life's work with your presence. What would you have us do?'
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Tylyn smiles at Garu, still unmoving from her stance. "What you have always done, Garu, champion of my light. You found the light of these heroes yourself. You have aligned your cause with theirs, trusting their purpose. As has Simeon Gray," Tylyn says, now moving toward the elf. They place a hand upon his chin, looking deep into his eyes.
"What happened to you was not just, and there is no justice to repay that tragedy. But you will find Ersetu. It is up to you to reclaim that which is yours."
Tylyn returns to her side of the clearing, where they look upon Abraxas, with his hands held outward. "You travel with my light now. Clarity already fills your mind. You will look upon Turmaether as it is meant to be seen."
Fading from view, the being of justice says, "The second plot has been revealed, and Lyrikav is its destination. Kayel hides from us his method. Rikirta is in your hands once more."
Harmony couldn't think of much besides that Kayel is the god of battle and strength here. But then she was shocked as the light turned into a white-armored female avatar, hearing that she shouldn't worry about their patrons since Kayel seeks only to distract, listening to them and nodding. "T-Thank you for the help!" she would have said back. Then she listened as they told them that Lyrikav is the destination of the next plot, nodding. "We should get back to Lyrikav then and stop what Kayel is planning." Harmony then says to the others.
Simeon finds himself in speechless awe after his encounter with Tylyn. "I will find Ersetsu and reclaim what is mine," he whispers to himself. "Remarkable."
He wonders what is meant by Tylyn's words you will look on Turmaether as it as meant to be seen. Looking to the others, he asks "Is there more for us to behold in Turmaether then? Or is our time there now ended?"
Abraxas blinks. He is trying to detect changes in his sight. "I may be taking this all too literally. One never knows with the gods," he says. "I think we should return as well."
At some point on the way, he will turn to Garu. "Was it presumptuous of me? I apologize, Garu. You merit this gift in way I never will."
Even as Abraxas speaks, the forest fades around you. Another glow encompasses you and fades, and you find yourselves standing once again in the citadel of Turmaether, with a very startled Mro Jus Bir and a nonplussed Mro Jus Bur. At the least, it seems like Turmaether; the room looks like it did, with the paper mache model of Lyrikav in the center of two doors, the one you entered from still standing open. The atmosphere, however, has changed. Dust, debris, and cobwebs fill the floor and every corner of the room, and source of the ozone scent is now visible, a mist hovering about the upper reaches of the room.
"What happened? You put those things on the city, and then poof! It was only my close and personal friend Mro Jus Bur and I, and now you are back!" Mro Jus Bir wonders loudly.
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"Ugh," Abraxas says. "So much dust. And the cobwebs!" He looks at Mro Jus Bur and Bir. "The gods have spoken to us. Tylyn says we need to see this place as it truly is. Doing so will help us defeat Kayel. Kayel has Lyrikav as his target." He looks at Simeon, Garu, and Harmony. "Does that sound right?" he says.
Abraxas will also investigate the model of Lyrikav again, seeing if he notices anything different: 15.
"You...they spoke to...I still cannot wrap my head around this," Mro Jus Bir says, but despite his bewildered look, he returns to chronicling the unfolding events into his book. "What do you think is meant by seeing this place as it truly is?"
For Abraxas:
The model appears as you left it, and the clasps are still in the places they had been left.
Harmony was surprised and relieved as they ended up back in the citadel, seeing Bur and Bir while hearing them. She nodded in agreement to Abraxas as she was thinking. "Yeah! We need to hurry up and get through this citadel in order to get back to Lyrikav quickly. Would it be possible that you might see the old woman and those women who we met earlier differently now?" she then said back to him, curious about that too.
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Bewildered by all that he's seen in the past few minutes, Simeon pushes his mind to make some sort of logical connection between the room that contained the replica of Lyrikav and the temple that just momentarily flashed before his eyes.
“ When the god of strength seeks to betray, it is a bad time in the lands”, Garu states. She closes her eyes in a silent prayer to Tylyn to see if the Lightbringer has a stake in the games that are afoot.
Halsen - Human Monk - Winter Splendor
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's Blade Bizarre
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Betrayal at Devilsfall
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's "The Hidden War" (Doom Portals Part 4A)
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's "The Whispered Word (Doom Portals Part 5)
Garu - Tabaxi Paladin - Barty's "Beyond Twilight" (Rikirta Part 3)
For Abraxas:
Not knowing what the inside of Kayel's temple looks like, you can't be certain whether that was the area you just saw Gabrielle.
You do know that what you just witnessed was not a portal. The environment fit seamlessly over the forest you sit in, as if its physical location was wrenched away and placed directly over this one. Whatever it was is beyond any arcana you've heard of, but if the deities of Rikirta are anything like those of Toril, you were likely looking into another plane, one where the deities reside.
For Simeon:
It was only a brief glimpse, but the decoration of the temple you saw was not like that of Kayel's. However, you are unfamiliar with the symbols that you did see.
The momentary silence is broken by another image being transposed over the area in front of the fire, this one another forest very similar to the one you sit in. The view is strange in this area; the trees cast shadows darker than should be possible, even when the light of spellfire should be brightening the area. A bald man, familiar to Abraxas and Harmony as Ginan, stands with his back to you. For the first time, his hands are not crossed into the sleeves of his robes; hanging down at his sides, they end in hideous claws, twice as long as they have any right to be. Glancing over his shoulder, he says, as calm and even-toned as ever, "Kayel seeks Fenrir. The dread wolf will end everything if--" His head snaps to the side, seeing some threat. The man grows in size, his limbs suddenly elongated and covered in fur. His claws match the form of a werewolf he has taken. The image disappears as he leaps to the side, scattering the image.
The forest grows quiet again.
For Garu:
You feel a connection as you pray different from any you have felt before. You have always felt Tylyn's light heed your call, granting you divine abilities, but this is more tangible, more concrete.
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Abraxas mentally compares Ginan and Gabrielle's locations. He doubts they are the same but hopes the comparison might suggest a course of action. "Should we stay here hoping for more visions? I'm not sure what to do, my colleagues."
He tries to remember everything he has heard about Fenrir as he has studied the history of this place, specifically location of and how to influence the wolf: 9. Abraxas will also seek to remember all he can about the religion/worship of Kayel: 15.
He'll ask for the help of the party in doing this, seeking to pool their knowledge to discover the next best steps.
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Garu opens her eyes and calls out in prayer, "Tylyn, Merciful bringer of Truth and Light - from your faithful paladin, please share the truths unfolding here with us."
Halsen - Human Monk - Winter Splendor
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's Blade Bizarre
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Betrayal at Devilsfall
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's "The Hidden War" (Doom Portals Part 4A)
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's "The Whispered Word (Doom Portals Part 5)
Garu - Tabaxi Paladin - Barty's "Beyond Twilight" (Rikirta Part 3)
Harmony had heard Garu, surprised. Kayel is the god of strength? But then that's when it happened again, seeing Ginan before hearing him talk about how Kayel seeks Fenrir and that the dread wolf will end everything before being cut off. She had heard Abraxas, thinking. "We need to help Gabrielle and Ginan stop Kayel and keep Fenrir from him. But how?" she said back, trying to think of anything at all that could help with what little she might know.
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A wave of light appears on the other side of the fire when Garu speaks, a shimmering in the forest that gradually becomes a humanoid form. The new arrival is clad in stark white armor, a magnificent longsword held downward, point into the ground. Appearing as man or woman dependent on the eye of their beholder, this being is unmistakable to Garu. Standing before you is the avatar of Tylyn, deity of light and justice.
They gaze first upon Garu, eyes lingering through an approving node, before turning to Harmony. "Your power pales in comparison to that of your patrons. Do not fret for them, for Kayel seeks only to distract."
Tylyn's eyes scan the four of you, and one by one you feel a presence in your mind as they speak, awakening a clarity there.
"He of strength and battle miscalculates, for his interference in the mortal realm has awoken my purpose. The other patrons of this realm see it fit to allow you to continue to act alone, as the loophole to our agreement made so long ago. That is not just. Take with you to Turmaether my eyes. See for yourselves the citadel's true nature," they speak.
For Abraxas:
You do not recall any knowledge of Fenrir.
Being the god of strength and battle, worship of Kayel centers around those aspects. His tenets attract both the best and worst aspects of strength. It is common on Rikirta for his name to be on the lips of those heading to battle, and many a contest of strength has been dedicated to him.
For Harmony:
You do not know much of Kayel, other than that he is the Rikirtan god of strength and battle, and have never heard the name Fenrir before now.
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"Thank you, Tylyn, for speaking with us. And thank you, Garu, for being someone Tylyn would answer in this way," Abraxas says. "We accept, generous Tylyn, your eyes, that we can see Turmaether's true nature." He is not sure what to do exactly because Garu has been Tylyn's eyes in some ways, but Garu is already with them. So, Abraxas extends his open hands as if accepting a gift, but only for a moment. He nudges Garu forward and whispers, "Tylyn seems to have a gift for you?"
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Garu kneels, her palm on the handle of her jian, her heart and spine open to Tylyn. "You honor my life's work with your presence. What would you have us do?'
Halsen - Human Monk - Winter Splendor
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's Blade Bizarre
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Betrayal at Devilsfall
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's "The Hidden War" (Doom Portals Part 4A)
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's "The Whispered Word (Doom Portals Part 5)
Garu - Tabaxi Paladin - Barty's "Beyond Twilight" (Rikirta Part 3)
Tylyn smiles at Garu, still unmoving from her stance. "What you have always done, Garu, champion of my light. You found the light of these heroes yourself. You have aligned your cause with theirs, trusting their purpose. As has Simeon Gray," Tylyn says, now moving toward the elf. They place a hand upon his chin, looking deep into his eyes.
"What happened to you was not just, and there is no justice to repay that tragedy. But you will find Ersetu. It is up to you to reclaim that which is yours."
Tylyn returns to her side of the clearing, where they look upon Abraxas, with his hands held outward. "You travel with my light now. Clarity already fills your mind. You will look upon Turmaether as it is meant to be seen."
Fading from view, the being of justice says, "The second plot has been revealed, and Lyrikav is its destination. Kayel hides from us his method. Rikirta is in your hands once more."
The forest again grows quiet.
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Harmony couldn't think of much besides that Kayel is the god of battle and strength here. But then she was shocked as the light turned into a white-armored female avatar, hearing that she shouldn't worry about their patrons since Kayel seeks only to distract, listening to them and nodding. "T-Thank you for the help!" she would have said back. Then she listened as they told them that Lyrikav is the destination of the next plot, nodding. "We should get back to Lyrikav then and stop what Kayel is planning." Harmony then says to the others.
Simeon finds himself in speechless awe after his encounter with Tylyn. "I will find Ersetsu and reclaim what is mine," he whispers to himself. "Remarkable."
He wonders what is meant by Tylyn's words you will look on Turmaether as it as meant to be seen. Looking to the others, he asks "Is there more for us to behold in Turmaether then? Or is our time there now ended?"
Garu exhales contemplatively. “I would expect that it means we must return. To gaze upon it with fresh eyes.”
Halsen - Human Monk - Winter Splendor
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's Blade Bizarre
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Betrayal at Devilsfall
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's "The Hidden War" (Doom Portals Part 4A)
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's "The Whispered Word (Doom Portals Part 5)
Garu - Tabaxi Paladin - Barty's "Beyond Twilight" (Rikirta Part 3)
Abraxas blinks. He is trying to detect changes in his sight. "I may be taking this all too literally. One never knows with the gods," he says. "I think we should return as well."
At some point on the way, he will turn to Garu. "Was it presumptuous of me? I apologize, Garu. You merit this gift in way I never will."
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Garu puts her hand on Abraxas’ shoulder. “The light has shone on you.”
Halsen - Human Monk - Winter Splendor
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's Blade Bizarre
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Betrayal at Devilsfall
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's "The Hidden War" (Doom Portals Part 4A)
Aradurk - Half-Orc Fighter - Barty's "The Whispered Word (Doom Portals Part 5)
Garu - Tabaxi Paladin - Barty's "Beyond Twilight" (Rikirta Part 3)
"How do we make our way back?" Abraxas says. He investigates the horizon, the surrounding forest, hoping for a clue about the best way to return: 10.
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Even as Abraxas speaks, the forest fades around you. Another glow encompasses you and fades, and you find yourselves standing once again in the citadel of Turmaether, with a very startled Mro Jus Bir and a nonplussed Mro Jus Bur. At the least, it seems like Turmaether; the room looks like it did, with the paper mache model of Lyrikav in the center of two doors, the one you entered from still standing open. The atmosphere, however, has changed. Dust, debris, and cobwebs fill the floor and every corner of the room, and source of the ozone scent is now visible, a mist hovering about the upper reaches of the room.
"What happened? You put those things on the city, and then poof! It was only my close and personal friend Mro Jus Bur and I, and now you are back!" Mro Jus Bir wonders loudly.
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"Ugh," Abraxas says. "So much dust. And the cobwebs!" He looks at Mro Jus Bur and Bir. "The gods have spoken to us. Tylyn says we need to see this place as it truly is. Doing so will help us defeat Kayel. Kayel has Lyrikav as his target." He looks at Simeon, Garu, and Harmony. "Does that sound right?" he says.
Abraxas will also investigate the model of Lyrikav again, seeing if he notices anything different: 15.
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"You...they spoke to...I still cannot wrap my head around this," Mro Jus Bir says, but despite his bewildered look, he returns to chronicling the unfolding events into his book. "What do you think is meant by seeing this place as it truly is?"
For Abraxas:
The model appears as you left it, and the clasps are still in the places they had been left.
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Harmony was surprised and relieved as they ended up back in the citadel, seeing Bur and Bir while hearing them. She nodded in agreement to Abraxas as she was thinking. "Yeah! We need to hurry up and get through this citadel in order to get back to Lyrikav quickly. Would it be possible that you might see the old woman and those women who we met earlier differently now?" she then said back to him, curious about that too.