Faith Adiana O'Keefe (
moonheart) wrote in
knightsoflegend2014-07-14 01:37 am
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katoomba ♔ while I formulate denials of your effect on me

♬ Watching You Go - Ghosts
WHO || Alanna, Jaime, Faith, Fiona, Jordan, Adi [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a shady temple of Mystra.
WHERE || Katoomba, Australia
WHEN || July 24th [forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.
The Knights take off for Katoomba, Australia, to investigate a tale of a temple to the goddess of magic Mystra that was erected very suddenly and mysteriously, seemingly unknown to other Mystran clergy in the world. A bizarre tale of a cleric being chased out with gunfire, and a missing bookseller with a connection to the church have left Wynn worried about what might be going on within the walls of the temple. It is constructed a short distance from the actual city proper, up the river.

Flight Threads
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be proud of her.
it's already hooked up for drakenet purposes so she's just navigating it and working on settings and fucking with the camera at this point but it's going to be so handy to have for the next 22 hours ok. SO HANDY. and she's actually doing a pretty good job of it (computer use 19) which is hilarious because she has a fucking magic sword tucked away in a napsack in the seat beside her — which is the window seat, and she's at the aisle, because she demands space — and a normal sword at her hip.
yep. definitely 100% congruous. ]
yO
[ Basically a rhetorical question. Adi's on the other side of the aisle, and he leans over his armrest slightly to get a look at what she's doing. He's been around long enough to know what the device is, but he's never actually bothered to use one.
Things he also hasn't used: airplanes. Distract him from the airplane, Alanna. ]
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He pauses as he passes Alanna. His pride is still wounded from both her victory in their duel and the fact that she of all people was proclaimed mission leader. But he's very confused by the shiny thing in her lap that's showing her face (knowledge 9).]
...your magic mirror's faulty.
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[ She lowers the iPad and looks up at him like excuse me bitch did you want something ?? ]
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[ She pulls at the fabric of her bag, exposing a bit of a bright red shield with a lioness rampant painted across it. Her hand falls away after just a moment. ]
And a bit of magic of my own. If they aren't as dangerous as I fear, my hope is that the Mystran priests could perhaps give me answers on the subject of a blade that came through the Veil with me.
[ Even if the ones in the temple are useless, perhaps Wynn's contact won't be afterward. Worth checking. ]
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ota
After a few hours of the plane not crashing down despite the fact that CLEARLY IT SHOULD BE, he calms down a little. He can't spend a whole day in a state of panic, thankfully. That's the point where he puts headphones in (possibly with help) and tries to watch the in-flight movie. For all of his general mistrust of technology, he finds movies and television a whole lot less frustrating than trying to read when letters tend to move around the page and swap in his mind.
He probably eventually sleeps too idek go bother him.]
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fiona ♔ ota
faithdistraction. open in her lap is a large tome specifically dedicated to the mother of all magic, herself. in the seat beside her sit a few more books, in many different, and some ancient, languages, and still more written in mainly only the language of magic, itself.she seems quite content pouring over her studies, eyes scanning the pages furiously, and she's scribbling notes in a pad on her tray table in between chewing on the end of her pen. ]
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Jordan; ota
for a while he plays some sudoku, listening to an ipod and humming along (perform: sing 22). some of the time he is found reading a college level mathematics book, quickly jotting formulas and the like in a beat up binder. some of the time he passes sleeping, some just gazing out the window he sits next to, eyes lost in the clouds.
come bug the nerd, you know you want to.]
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Uh, thanks. I uh, wasn't being too loud, was I?
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temple of mystra
a cobbled stone path gradually ascends the low hill toward a steep-sided bluff, behind which runs the river. the path leads to the flat rampart of the whitewashed temple wall built right into the bluff. to the left of the open doors stand a large, stylistically simple statue of a woman. a smaller, freestanding stone building stands to the south of the temple. a spot check of 15+ notices two guards walking the top of the walls surrounding the outer courtyard that they glimpse between the doors. ]
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As long as we can manage it, we should lead the temple clergy to believe us tourists. They'll believe Jaime, Adi and I to be from Faerun—it should draw no attention for us to seek out such a temple.
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mystra's sacred trust
"You've returned! Wonderful. With your donations, I trust?" ]
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[ In this large bag. ]
For the lot of us. What'll it be getting us? You don't have a program, do you?
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the large room within is closed off from the sky, but tiny points of light glitter on the otherwise oil-black ceiling. the floor is tiled with obsidian slabs, and three rows of square pillars march across the chamber from north to south. torches are ensconced on the east and west surfaces of each column. a plain stone altar stands alone near the chamber's center. two guards flank the room, and a taciturn and dour priest waits for them.
"Have you paid your fee to Shan Thar?" he asks, nodding to the priest from outside. shan extends his hand to them to collect the fee. ]
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mystra's sacred trust ♔ days 2-3
the gist of the ceremonies is difficult to disentangle from the religious iconography and symbology, but a DC 15 Int or Knowledge (religion) check garners the following: Mystra is born between stars, as Mystra's symbol shows - the stars are known points of magic, but the space between the stars holds far more, knowledge that Mystra reveals only to those who show special promise.
taciturn and dour, the priest fembrys generally refuses to speak at all, except when leading the chants and ceremonies. temple guards rotate duties, feed the petitioners, make sure they're following the rules, but otherwise keep to themselves.
by the third morning, they're a little light-headed from the lack of food, but are woken by the guards and told to prepare for fembrys to come gather them for the final ceremony - the 'starry gnosis' ]
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perhaps more noticeably, her already short temper grows even shorter over the course of those two days. it's basically a snickers commercial. so, when they're woken by the guards, alanna is snappish. ]
About bloody time we see an end to all this.
once more in the right place oops
I thought meditation was meant to have a soothing effect.
[ He says it like it's an idle observation. Totally not a super obvious joke re: Alanna's current mood. ]
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