And then she remembered something. Something from long ago - long before she was enslaved, back from a time when she was truly and completely free. She Remembered, and because she Remembered, she Forgot. But there was the answer - a way out, materialized in the moment of Remembrance. It was a golden liquid and a small potato with a zinc rod and a copper rod. She drank the liquid and touched the two pieces of metal to her heart. She died. Her body and the skull vanished from the void.

She saw her former master wearing a tutu and dancing in a ballet. She felt what it was like to be a bee at a spelling bee. She was a fish. She was a chewed up fish. POWER! UNLIMITED POWER!

She woke with a start in the middle of a forest, with a tugging "that-way" sensation pulling her toward her giant's skull (which was all around her since she was in it), and another to the left. Sounds of a nearby town were to the right.

Hearing sounds of life outside she shapes the opening of the skulls eye open once more, takes a bit more time now it's so reinforced so she just makes a circle so she can push the segment out. Maybe she can attach a hedge to it and use it as a door?

She hums, increasing her size while shrinking the skull to pick it up and fly in the direction of the pull.

Before arriving, she suddenly comes on a clearing she didn't sense before now, with people in it she didn't sense. They are wearing American Pioneer era clothing and a necklace of a leather string tied to a natural crystal. The crystal starts glowing as soon as Mein enters the clearing. The people yell, "Verserscum! IT'S A VERSERSCUM! KILL IT!" and they begin chasing after her, aiming with their guns to kill.

She used ice magic to create a fog in the air and glamor to create several illusions of herself, while making a few of the people look like her as well, while she made herself look like one of the people she made look like her. If there is only one person with a crystal she tries to use a charm to make one of there attacks hit it.... a bit harder to do if there more than one though >.>

They're all wearing the crystal. Her fog and glamour confuse the humans enough that they panicked and run away after accidentally killing one of their own.

They go to the left, the tugging sensation is straight ahead.
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She animates the body and looks over the gun and the crystal. She was familiar with a fire arm but there was many kinds, and the crystal she examined magically.

It's a muzzleloading Flintlock long rifle, and there were a few six-shooters as well.

The crystal glows in her presence, reacting to something in her. That's all it does, though, as far as she can tell for now.

((Also, animated the body how? It works, though.))
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Necromancy, though likely with her own fae twist on it.

She takes it all and shrinks it down to store it away for later, maybe she could combine the six-shooter and the flitlock rifle to get a barrel loaded rifle later. Is glad people panicked and dropped there stuff though.  Gives a pair of guns to the zombie and follows along behind it.

She mused if she could figure out what the crystals detected she could make something nifty with them. Also they seamed agitated around her so they where giving off power or least light in her presence and that was useful.

((I got that part, I mean how as in by what method? Such as,
-reattaching the soul to the body in an enslaved state,
-reattaching the spirit energy to the body to use the soulless spirit energy to power movement,
-using her own spirit energy to enliven the cells and enslave the body as an extension of herself,
-binding an available disembodied spirit to the body
-using magic energy as the body's new enslaved spirit
-some other means))

Following the tugging "that-way" sensation, she eventually comes upon a little boy with a purple, blue and red birthmark over his right eye. He isn't wearing a crystal. He is dirty, starving and weak, but he tries to run from her and the zombie.

EDIT: He's carrying a child's practice bow and some arrows, dressed in tattered swim-trunks.
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((Magic that animates the body with out using a soul in this case, mindless undead))

Smirks some "My my my what do we have here, are you the one calling me child?"

Confronted, he draws his tiny bow in defiance, and says, "I don't know what you're talking about. Your the one pulling me suddenly out of nowhere."

He notices the glowing crystal (to far too be that activated by him) and lowers his bow, questioning, "You a Verserscum too?"

She telleports behind him leaning over him to dangle the crystal in front of him, though leaves an illusion of her behind to talk for her to make it look like she cloned herself or something. "Oh...?   Whats this."  The her bedside his head says. "Verserscum?"

The crystal glows brighter being so close to both of them.

The boy points to the crystal, "Verserscum proximity warning. They dig them up everywhere here. You and I are Verserscum, so everyone all hates us."
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The illusion disapears and she frowns some, kinda wanting to play with the kid but the kid wasn't doing anything she could validate playing with him..... well not really... he wasn't answering her but she wasn't sure that was enough.... maybe if he keep it up.

"That don't really explain to me what Verserscum is.... you name things and exspect the world to know the meanings of your names when your names do not say there meanings....  why bind something is such a way when one has to pry out the nature of it anyway?"

The boy gets angry, "I don't know! I just want a friend! How am I supposed to know why everyone hates me? I was minding my own business at Summercamp, hiking on the trails when a freak storm hit. I just want a friend! I pulled out my phone to video the cool wind when I was struck by lightning. It didn't hurt much, though. But when I woke up, I couldn't find the trails anywhere, and everyone I meet hated me and called me Verserscum! I just want a friend!"
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How uncouth to yell at her.... oh but a friend how fun. "A friend you say? Lets make you one!"

She will fly over and around the zombie and try and summon it's soul back into it's body to make it an intelligent undead. Even if this means dragging the soul from where it's passed on to if it has, which yes will make for a horrible sort if it was some where pleasant though for some one gunning down strangers..... eh.... "I've always wanted to try something under that bores control."

If she's not able to draw the soul back into it she just pouts and goes "oh poo... well so much for that idea...." and gives the corpse a good kick.

If she is the first thing she dose while is command it to tell her his name not even giving the poor sob time to come to terms with whats going on. Then getting flustered and responding "no no no your real name... your true name." if they respond with a brith name.

"You mean you'll be my friend? Will you really? My friend!?"


*Rolls*
The soul of the recently departed man hasn't even fully left the body, so snapping it back in place wasn't hard at all.

"Wait, I'm confused, I feel compelled to obey you. My name is Georg-

"Gorgo"

The boy says, "Hi, Gorgo, I'm El. Are you going to try to kill me?"
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"I bind you Gorgo, and compel you live and be this childs friend by the call of your true name." She smiles weaving a bit of everything into this... necromancy, name magic, and fae magics, she tried to resurrect him and compel him to a new bonded life. If it actually worked he would decently be twisted into some dark fae mockery of his living form with od traits. Likely some monstrous ones as she has never tried anything like this before.

Gorgo's body twists and pops and bones break and reform as his body compacts his mass until he is the same size as the boy, El.

Gorgo's eyes well up with tears as he observes the face of El with awe and devotion. In his childhood, he looked up to his bigger brother, who died saving him from an attack by an evil man and woman who wanted to use his pain.

El's eyes go wide, and he cries a little, saying, "Are you okay, Gorgo?"

But Gorgo has already forgotten the pain he was in, "Shucks, Elly, I sure am! Say, wanna go fishin'?"

Just then, a line of flame about 100 feet out in every direction bursts up almost at the same time. The wind picks up, blowing the smoke higher, and pulling air in from every direction to create a sudden low-pressure zone centering on them and drawing the fire ever faster toward the center.

Smiles "Oh goody it worked!" she frowns a little at the flash of flames and countered it with a burst of ice hoping the cold would not only put out the flames but stop the winds. Then she looked around to see what had caused the flames and if they where under attack, or if this was some kinda side affect to the twisted magics she did.

They were under attack by the townsfolk who had surrounded them. At the presence of Ice, a number of their kind dressed in black hold out swords, and a black aura leaves the ice, melting it instantaneously. Then they point their swords at Einselb and hundreds of ice spheres the size of cannon balls fly in her direction.

Uses magic to control the ice, stooping it in mid air. (hopefully) She luaghs and produices Masa, tossing it to Gorgo. "These folks seam to want to play... why don't you oblige them child...." This could be fun, what wonderful things did her magics do to this soldier turned .... well she didn't know what it was turned but it sure looked like a human child, she knew thats not what it was but here was a chance to get some insight more to what it had become.

She waved her hand the spheres becoming spears of ice and she sent them back of the ones dressed in black who sent them.

Gorgo the partially resurrected companion of El grabs the sword out of the air and takes off running like Naruto into the fray, slicing and hacking at the villagers like a demon. He is silent, dark and fast, stronger than 100 full grown men with skin as tough as steel.

Most of the dark mages manage to melt the spikes before they're hit - a few teleport out of the way, and a few are impaled. While impaled, most manage to melt the ice and heal themselves but a few were impaled through their heads and didn't have time to heal.

Some others dressed in white step forward and send out streams of flame toward Einselb and Gorgo. The flames bounce off of Gorgo.

The black mages who recovered first serve a dark beam at the fire which enhances the stream into a jet-engine strength flame. That intense flame causes Gorgo to catch fire on his arm, but he keeps fighting and evading the flames.
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She raises up pillars of ice, in twisting spires, twirling and swirling as they grow up in such a way that as the fire attacks melt away at them there heights fall in the direction of the attacking villagers.

She looks over to El "It seams I've made you quite the fun little friend haven't I?" She seams quite delighted. "I don't think you will have to worry about these silly people attacking you anymore child."

The White mages draw a beam of white energy from the spires, causing them to crack and fall and disintegrate. The Black mages draw a black beam from falling shards, melting them. The white mages then send back a beam of white, turning the water into acid. The Black mages send a black beam into the acid turning it into semi-sentient slime which squirts and splashes itself toward Einselb and Gorgo. Gorgo's flesh melts some, hamstringing him as he slays a white mage.

El stares on in amazement and thrill, not certain whether to scream in fear or bliss.
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She tried a necromantic rite to heal Gorgo to see if it (he, but she was stilling thinking of him as an it) retained any necromantic elements to allow such simple healing even though he was alive. If the Necrotic energy harmed instead of regenerated she instead triggered a fugal bloom with it growing temporary fungal skin over the burnt away skin and forming withered bark armor over him with it......  if she rolls well and it heals him she might do both.

If the mages continue there assault she will fly up into the air and empower the candidate of the chosen of ice robes and draw on her full ice powers. "We have done nothing yet you attack us with such fervor, know how the winter courts repay such 'kindness'" and she blast out as much of her ice powers as she can pushing everyone away from the three of them with harsh cold winds and summoning up a rolling blizzard to spread across the lands as far as her magic will carry it. While shielding Herself, El, and Gorgo from the furry.  (the equivalent of double pumping ice powers for this =p)

Gorgo heals



((I need you to edit your CS to tell me the level that this would be associated with, but it's safe to assume it works - just don't know how well yet.))



Everything within a 150 mile radius is frozen solid, and beyond that out to 2500 miles, everything is covered in snow.

For a few minutes, the black mages absorb as much as they can from the ice to stay alive, but those who don't teleport away, eventually overload and become black pearls. The White mages teleport away as soon as they realize they won't survive the ice-blast.

There is quiet in the clearing.

Gorgo says, "Phew! I'm glad that's over! You doin' okay, Elly?"

El, mouth hanging open jumps and says, "WOW! That was awesome! You guys kicked their asses from here to Georgia!"
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Walked over to get her sword back from Gorgo while she looked around. "I think I may have over done that juuuuuuust a tad." she snickers some. "Oh well."

She pushed one of the ice encased people over letting them crack apart on the ground as she moved over to get a better look at the black pearls with curiosity. "You know this was all quite amusing I'll let you get away with owing me one for making you such a nice friend, as you don't seam to have any real way of paying me back for it." She examined the pearl looking it over.

"Wouldn't it only be fair if I gave you my friendship in return? A friend for a friend, a friend forever?"



Suddenly one of the spheres morphs into a black knight chess-piece and says, "Greetings, Lady Mein Einselb. I am a Knight of Order and am honored to be in the presence of one so adept at the mystical arts of ice and darkness. A member of the Winter court of Fae is a welcomed guest of my own within this iced zone. How may we be of service to one another?"
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She blinked a little and then smiled. "True but if you would expect me to return that friendship.... you would have to earn that one on it's own for things to be quite fair. But you are a smart one, I'll give you that. Yes, a friendship for a friendship is fine, your debt is paid."  Though with the magic involved El would likely find they always feel they are friends with her even if she did things that where quite upseting now.



"Strange you know my stolen name before I use it.... you must be something quite special knight of order.  You wish to have my services?"

((Fair enough))

"That sounds fair. I agree, friend!" El is thrilled.



"I am, much like yourself, a creature bound to my word. I am a being created for the purpose of representing and doing battle for the gods of Order whose magic I yield. The black mages you witnessed are Order Mages. They are free to wield Order magics any way they choose, in exchange, they must create objects of Order magic when commanded to do so. Such demands are rarely used - often only once in a lifetime. Objects of Order permit their wielder to use certain related Order Magics, provided their skill with the item in question is sufficient enough to warrant use of the magic. Order Priests can speak with the gods of Order directly and use Order magics far beyond their ordinary capacity but also are required to obey commands from the Order gods. Balance is the only will of the gods of Order and Chaos, though, so as long as the balance of Order and Chaos isn't thrown too far off, Order Priests can do mostly whatever they like. Then there's Order Knights - we are given vastly powerful offensive Order Magics, and usually have some foe to vanquish in the name of balance. We also have access to any Order weapon or item we desire (usually made for us by an Order Mage). Finally there are Order Thralls whose own abilities compliment Order Magic, and who are used without their knowledge or consent to accomplish goals of the Order gods. The gods of Order are impressed by your power over ice, and therefore wanted to give you the option of choosing any one of these paths."

He gathers up the human sized black pearls as he speaks.

"What limitations or draw backs are involved in an order mage.... what do your gods get out of this?" It was her nature she did not like to be owed or owe others. Bargains and exchanges should have balance. Least unless one had slighted them of course, then they could take as they saw fit and do as the like. But amongst civil folk there needed to be a level of fairness. She recognized quite a lack of details here in this offer.

She also notes she has no interest in owning anyone  so would know what it is she would make now and make it.

"Order Mages find it difficult to receive Chaos Magic energy. Mostly this means that fire is a little more painful, but less harmful. Also Chaos Magic either won't work on you, or will hurt but work less well. In balance of this, Order Mages absorb energy from darkness, cold, smoothness and other forms of Order. Night-time is our most potent and powerful time. Underground, we are the nightmares of our enemies. When the entity absorbing the Order Energy is too unevolved to absorb all of the energy, there is a chance they can transmute into pure Order energy called Order Pearls - these black pearls you see me collecting which had been Order Mages before they tried to absorb all of the cold you threw at them. Your physical form would be able to retain nearly unlimited amounts of Order Energy - each time you maxed out your ability, it would increase a little." He begins eating the Order Pearls.


"Balance. You are a creature of balance, you wield the power of Orderly Temperature, yet create Chaotic tipped spears. You see the value of owing nothing and nothing owing. Order makes sense to you, and you make a fair and balanced degree of Chaos. They're already benefiting from you, and this is an offer made out of gratitude for the balance you have already helped to restore - these human Order and Chaos mages had become altogether too powerful for balance. You fixed that in one battle."

"I see and what is it you would have me make?"

"I would have you make nothing. The gods of Order may ask you to make an object using a crafting skill at which you are an expert. It will take less than .1% of the total time of any one lifespan, never twice in 1 lifespan, and won't exceed 1 year in making. For every second you work on the project - if fair and not fraudulently long - you will not be asked to make anything else for at least 1 year. That's over 31 million seconds off for every 1 second worked. This is a special arrangement that I've never witnessed them making to any other potential Order Mage ever."
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She frowns. "I will make something for you now and be done with it or that is the end of this, we are not ones to be bound, and I will not be bound again willingly. We are only bound to ourselves and our nature not to others, that is who we are. To bind us to another is to choke the life from us and you will slowly see that power you are so interested in die little by little."

"A high being such as yourself has a clear self worth and command of respect. The gods of Order have decided to make this offer: spend as long as you like, making whatever you like with one of your favorite and best crafting skills. However long you spend making it, you will be given Mage-level unlimited access to Order magics for one year for each second you spent making the object. After that time, you may continue to use Order magics through any Order Magic artifacts you find or create prior to that time without limitation."

"You would replace this binding with a payment for renewal?" She seams to think on this for a time. "This is acceptable so long as nothing else is left undisclosed." She starts to weave her own magics to enchant a Geas to make sure the contract is inforced on her own terms aswell and that if something is left undisclosed it is invalid.

(this is if i've understood things corectly anyway and this just means she builds something and gets powers for a while and no strings attached besides the weakness to fire and chaos)

Yup

The Order Knight waits for Einselb to finish the Geas, and says, "Once you finish crafting the object, I'll come to collect it, and you will have access to Order magic."

Gorgo and El will play with one another and do child-like things until Einselb finishes - bothering her only occasionally to try to convince her to play with them. Gorgo will leave the safe area and forage for food to bring back as needed.

She may play some games with them, and makes a deal with Gorgo that if he collects some of the frozen animals and prepare them, she will thaw them out and prepare a fire.

She mostly rests till some of her ice magic is restored while exsamining the chaos spheres to see if there is a way she could work with them. If she can make them into ordered choas or some thing that won't harm order users she will work with them too working 3 or 9 into her idea.

Ether way she will work a ritual circle into the ground growing up some roots to grasp three rocks, carving into them aswell. She imbunes the rocks with equal amounts of fire, wind, and water magic... while the roots knot there way around them (drawing in and locking in shunken orderd chaos if able to) and imbuning with nature magic (although swamp flavored lol) She makes a magical nature based device capable of controlling weather and creating/controlling atmospheres.

A white Knight Chess piece appears and morphs into a human teen girl, saying, "Fine! I'll do it! Here!" She flings her fingers in Einselb's direction and says, "You get Chaos magic too. Same deal as with Order magic. Weaknesses of Order to Chaos and Chaos to Order are cancelled out. Since you're just a temporary mage, the gods have decided to give you balanced powers from both Order and Chaos. I don't understand why you get to use both, and I don't even get to do that. But, whatever! No questions, no choices, no secret motives, no cheating. It's just done." She shakes her head in disappointment, looking at Einselb, "I'm not going to say it's a waste to give you this kind of power, but I doubt you'd prove me wrong." She immediately disappears.

The device is completed, and it successfully uses Chaos and Order magics. ((How long would you say it took her to complete that object creation?))

No more than an hour, she would take her time to do it right but at the same time she is kinda half assign it and wouldn't do more work than she needed to. She's not a dwarf =p so no intricate and unnecessary details, just doing what is necessary and very little more.

The two knights show up and argue a moment about who will take the object. Finally the Chaos and Order knights both send energy at it and shrink it to the size of a marble, and encase it inside a black Order Pearl with white Chaos Paradox spikes. They then take the weather manipulator and the Order knight announces, "For 3600 years, you will have access to Order magics." The Chaos knight grumpily admits, "Yeah. Chaos too..." They leave.

She looks at the children and laughs some "They did not seam to pleased at what ever deal they reached...... They say diplomacy happens when no one is happy though. Which is why I try and avoid it. It's much easier to make demands."

She kneels down to them "So what is it you wish to do now.... this land will likely be seen as a cursed place and anyone found coming from it doubly so."

((Quick OOC question - does Mein Einselb consider Gorgo to be her slave, El's slave, or just an enthralled entity (not really an owned slave, just an obedient servant)? Also, does Mein Einselb have any desire to remain with El, or is she ambivalent about that?))

(She see's Gorgo as a curiosity. And more technicaly El's property/friend due to the deal which is a weird conundrum she's not sure how it works out so she would assume more friend just one that is kinda a friend that can't not be a friend. She is just curious to see what happens right now and will probably move on when she gets bored)

On the exact opposite side of the planet, all of the remaining Order mages have been working on a massive Order gathering spell. This has left the area of the earth between the two concentrations of Order energy extremely high in Chaos energy. The remaining Chaos mages have been directing and gathering that Chaos energy to 12 points around the border of the frozen-zone Mein Einselb had created. At the appointed time, the Order Mages unleashed the gathered Order energy in a directed beam to each of those same 12 points. At each of those 12 points, a Grey Order/Chaos Mage has been working on a cooperative destruction/creation genesis spell.

At the exact moment that Mein Einselb was explaining that the land would be seen as cursed, those 12 Grey mages were releasing their combined Genesis spell.

In an instant, all of the land and everything within a sphere centering on the center of the frozen land is suddenly and completely transformed into an Edenic garden. Of course, anything living in that area no longer exists. This includes Mein Einselb, Elliot, and Gorgo.

Thou art dead.

((new post coming soon))