Re: RP PUBLIC SAVAGE: The Sunken Jungles of Logthsah
Pitcarn
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The tears continued to fall. Oura, High General and high-standing member of the Conclave, looked at Pitcarn with a heavy mixture of concern and dismay. Pitcarn could tell that she didn't know if he was stupid or courageous - or both. Her dark grey hair swayed softly.
Slowly, she pulled up the loose sleeves of her shirt, and showed Pitcarn the long, blood-red slashes that crossed in the dozens across her arms. The scars looked barely healed, as if they could burst open at any time, and seemed to bring Oura a great deal of pain.
"In my last.. incarnation, we faced, Khor and I," she said. "I was a great warrior, and I had broken the general of Tushmuthut, Sura Al'Amun, leaving a corpse of sand within the marble ruins of that terrible city. He came to me, livid, and we fought. I barely escaped with my life - I, despite all of my prowess, could not match him. He was ferocious." She stopped. "He was.. maniacal. We fought, and he slashed me with the Murder Knife, and my body was covered in wounds.." She looked away, suddenly.
Pitcarn knew, now, that she was ashamed.
"My body is riddled with these scars, reminders of my failure as a warrior and tactician. I have reincarnated once and experienced five deaths between those times, and each time my theoelectromagnetic field refreshes, almost entirely new - save for one feature. The scars. They never.. they never leave.."
She looked at Pitcarn, and something turned over in his stomach as he realised the full extent of her claim.
"What kind of monster.. can permanently ruin the image of the divine?"
There was a knock at the door.
Anik
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(Pitcarn'll be told properly, tomorrow evening (in person!) that the game's on. I did mention earlier in the week that I was making efforts to revive the game, but I don't think he quite believed me.)
"Of course," nodded the soldier. "Come with me."
He took Anik past soldiers and dining halls; past a barracks and a library; through a winding hall; until he was finally led to the door of High General Oura's chambers. The soldier knocked twice, bowed, and left.