Re: Thread VIII: Power, Players
These bishops are quite powerful, are they not? Kinda scary to do anything around them! Remind me not to get Sun Snake drunk, where he mocks Hurlon about getting the man to kill a Helghast for him, and Madayl for killing his acolytes for him. Sun Snake might not survive that one!
Anyway, thank you for having all that duplicitousness pay off and have the Helghast killed off! Of course, you've just shown the other bishop is actually the worse of the two, and really we should have waited until the Helghast had surprise killed that bishop first.
Anyway, time to do something else stupid and dangerous...yell at the man who can slay you in an instant...
Sun Snake was stunned the moment Hurlon showed such casual power, slaying the Helghast. Luckily, his instincts - whether Kai-born or not - kicked in.
"Nooooo!" he yelled in consternation, clawing his hands, dropping his jaw as low as possible and using shadows to make it a little less than human, and burying his jaw in his throat to help make the utterance as gutteral and inhuman as possible. It also helped hide his more human reaction to the air.
"This...this face..." said Sun Snake, saying it in a sing song way and looking to Madayl as if for understanding, "he's..trapped me with this face. And the abomination...I'll..have to speak to that idiotic abomination again..." Sun Snake held his head in his hands for a moment.
Sun Snake turned back to Hurlon, apparently bringing himself under some form of control, co-incidenatlly when the air improved. "I approve of the skill and pain of the kill. But that traitor was the only intelligent link to the plan of the Deathlord cultists. The only other link is the insane Kai abomination that hates this shell's face. The Nadziran that created it use that compulsion to drive it. However as Madayl can tell you, even when I surrendered to it, allowed the indignity of being bound captured, it still believed this shell whose head I made fall off was some mastermind still orchestrating a trick. I...cannot shift my form and back for fear of being off with an eye or fingerlength if the thing is that paranoid of trickery. You've just killed the only thing we might have tortured for information that won't drive me insane to deal with."
Sun Snake shuddered. "Now this traitor by the High Priest's side is dead, the matter is less urgent. But you may still be infested by traitors supernatural and mundane. The Nadziran are looking to raise the Deathlord. Not a creature I believe will share space on this miserable world with Vashna. The traitors that they gave you to shepherd the Maiden of Sacrifice to the Monastery to retrieve the Dagger mysteriously failed, and only luck I presume saved us from losing her. And yet the Nadziran have a second Vonotar in the form of the second highest ranked Brotherhood mage under their thumb! They have attacked the Monstery themselves having been given a secret passage to Sommerlund, and stolen things from the Sun Vault itself. Did...we get the Dagger from them? They knew we wanted it, and owed us for the faiure that almost cost us her. A platoon of Drakkarim come here and steal the Sommerswerd from under our noses and walk away with it, having been told where Aki-amaz's* body is by the Nadziranim, yet...did they share this information with us? And the Agarashi trapped as a contingency sacrifice has been destroyed. Do you think anything other than the hand of Naar under one of his wizards could destroy something that ancient and defeat the security around it? All we have left is the Deathstaff, something we now fight the Cener over. And yet it is the tool of this Deathlord. Why did the traitor not stay in the temple and steal it away when it had the chance? I think the Deathstaff is a trick, to harm Vashna's rise, and then the traitors will take the staff away for its real purpose of raising this new pretender."
Sun Snake looked defeated. "I will stay and watch the slaughter, but then I must track the abomination. I had called faithful to me, to find that thing and take it to me. And yet they do not come. And they were faithful." Sun Snake looked to Hurlon. "The abomination does not have your skill. Either it is exceptional at hiding, or else something else helps it and my kin are dead. Either way, the only lead to discover how deeply the Nadziran plot against us goes is not here."
Sun Snake looked to Madayl and motioned as if for the man to corroborate the story and make plans with his fellow bishop. Sun Snake instead turned his head to look the battle, as if enjoying the senseless slaughter between the two foes.
* couldn't resist :)
This message was last edited by the player at 19:58, Sat 01 Feb 2014.