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Craze

They two Servile guards seem surprised that Craze actually talked back. They startle slightly, then stare at Craze. Afterwards they look at each other. The one holding their javelin ready shrugs again, then the one who had been shown to be more diplomatic looked back to Craze.

"He's a merchant. He was showing his goods to people so they would know what he was selling."

There is a pause in the conversation from him as he moved a hand to his belt and opens up a leather pouch. Dipping two fingers inside he pinches at something, then holds it up, revealing a fanned out trio of bronze coins.

"You need money ... like this."

He held up the coins long enough for Craze to see them. Then he put them back in the pouch.

"You give him the amount of money he asks for and then the merchant gives you the thing you want."


Mind

The commotion caused by Craze's lust for shiny sweetness proves to be useful cover, which Mind is able to exploit. The guard shadowing him looks away, and Mind ducks around a corner. Flies over a room. skims the skyline of the village, then descends into a copse of trees. On the other side he finds the house that Meat Shield pointed him towards. Slowing down Mind moves along the exterior of the tiny shelter. The walls obstructed the Creation's senses. But they found a window and exploited it for the weakness that it was. The structure has a single room with a bed, table and fire pit. There are some personal effects such as eating utensils, as well as a chest at the foot of the bed, and a cage with birds in it. Seated on the bed is a lean Servile in a hooded robe. He's staring thoughtfully out the window at the moment.


Chips and Meat Shield

The two of you escort your Shaper to the building Learned Pinner is based out of. As you get closer, more details come into focus. There are two six foot statues standing in front of the squat stone structure. The statues depict two human males in armor with a round shield on one arm and a sword in the opposite hand. The structure itself is solid, sizable, and lacks windows.

Entering you are greeted with a scent that, to Meat Shield, is similar. Though he cannot explain it, is smells like the Shaping Hall where he and most of the others had been Shaped. After a short hallway you enter a room with shelves along the walls. At the northeastern corner there is a hole in the ceiling where sunlight shines down on a curved valley in the stone here a pool of green fluid is settled. To the north west and west are short hallways leading to separate rooms.

In the main room and old female Servile is talking with a younger, excited male Servile. When they see you the pair stop talking and the older of the pair greets your Shaper, saying that she is Learned Pinner. She shooes away the younger Serivile, she rushes off into the north west room.

Unlike Brodus Blade, Learned Pinner shows fearful admiration of the young Shaper and, after a brief conversation wherein you learn that she is one of the few Serviles that was alive before the Shapers left Sucia island, Shaper D'Tan informs you that he would like to finish his conversation with her in private.
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Chips

Chips nods at his Shaper.

"Do you wish us to wait outside or in one of the rooms?"

Chips than quickly goes to where Shaper D'Tan indicates.
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Meat Shield
Hero Points: 4; Luck Points: 2; Condition: Fine

Meat Shield, who has wandered over to look at the green fluid, nods in agreement with Chips, and goes where they are directed.
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The Mind
HP: 2, Fatigued

Having learned from its experience with the juvenile Servile, The Mind considers how to best approach the mental barriers of this other Creature. Then, with an extreme amount of care and precision, it threaded it's own consciousness into the other being. Blending itself, hiding itself, before carefully trying to peel back the layers of recent memories. Taking some inspiration from the way it gives and receives communication with the others, these memories were copied rather than consumed.
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Craze
HP: 1
CND: fine


Money. Craze didn't like that idea too much. He like his shiny coins. He also liked the rock candy. Having to pay for something didn't seem like fun, but he wasn't created stupid either. He knew that D'Tan would not be pleased if he caused too much trouble. "Oh ok. My Shaper has not taught me this before. Did your Shaper teach you this? I did not see any other Shapers here. How were you made if not by your Shaper?", inquires Craze. He felt loyalty to D'Tan, but couldn't help wonder what sort of fun he could have without D'Tan keeping him in line plus the shinies he could find.
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Chips and Meat Shield

Meat Shield walks up to the pool of green fluid. It is perhaps a little thicker than water and looks like what he imagines a leaf would if it were a liquid instead of a solid. Bold green. When he got closer he realized that this was the source of the familiar smell. It was a smell that had came from one of the rooms in the Shaping Hall that he was never admitted into.


"Outside."

... the young Shaper responded simply, then waited for the two of you to exit before the conversation resumed.

After a few minutes the younger Servile they had seen Learned Pinner shoo away came outside. In each and they held a clay cup containing a steaming brown fluid. It smelled bitter. Extending their arms they offered one cup to each of you. They don't say anything right away. Instead they stare at you before eventually blurting you.

"I brought you something to drink."


Mind

Mind extended a thread of it's consciousness to intertwine with the Serviles. There was an instinctive resistance to this intrusion. Stronger than the other Servile. More in line with Meat Shield's strength of will, though there was less mental endurance to it. Still Meat Shield hadn't resisted Mind's feeding. Mind wove it's thread subtly and carefully, sneaking it's way past mental defenses.

Once past them Mind felt a jolt of nervous energy. Anxiety mixed with resolve. Mind worked past the emotion and into memory.

He was looking out a window, watching a white and grey feathered bird fly away.

He was holding a white and grey feathered bird. Stroking it's feathers. Saying encouraging things to it. It had an important task to fufill.

He was taking a white and grey feathered bird from a cage, next to other bird cages in his candle lit hut.

Stop. Mind missed something. He searched for the aberration. Found it. The flow resumed.

He was tucking a thin rolled up piece of paper into a tiny clinger attached to a white and grey feathered bird's foot by a strip of leather.

He was taking a white and grey feathered bird from a cage, next to other bird cages in his candle lit hut.

He was seated at a table in his candle lit hut. The candle sat atop the table he worked at. In one hand he held a feather with a sharpened tip quill. He dipped the quill into a small car of black fluid, then used the black fluid to create markings on a very small piece of paper.

He was standing outside a copse of tree watching the village. Watching the people. Listening. Waiting. Then there. The Shaper and his monsters. There was an instinctive, powerful sense of awe and fear ... and hate. He fought it. Pushed it away.

Stop. He fought it.

Stop. He pushed it away.

Stop. He was waiting.

Stop. He was anticipating.

Stop. He hated the Shaper.

He HATED the Shaper.

The Shapers abandoned you.

The Shapers enslaved you.

The Shapers ruined your life.

The Shapers poison everything.

Mind HATED THE SHAPERS!
OOC wrote:Feedback comes into play as Mind touches on an overwhelmingly powerful emotion. Hate for all Shapers. Make a DC 17 Will check. If you fail by three degrees a piece of that hate stays with Mind. Failure by two degrees becomes means Mind becomes Mentally Impaired as he struggles to separate their emotion from the powerful hatred. If he fails by one degree Mind is Dazed for a round as he sorts himself out.

Whether you succeed or fail, the emotion is powerful enough to end the Mind Reading session and prevent Mind from delving any further.

Craze

There is initially a confused look from the Servile guard.

"What? There aren't any Shapers in Vakkiri. Well, except that one that showed up today. They left the island way back, Hundred years or more. I was born here. Not Shaped. Now come on. You need to either give back what you stole or come and pay the merchant for it."

Lifting his right hand the guard make s a beckoning gesture, encouraging the avain to come with him and pay for what he wanted.
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The Mind
HP: 2, Fatigued

It reeled back as a shock of emotions assaulted him, twisting its feelers chaotically in the air. By the slimmest of margins, it managed to right itself and avoid slamming into the adjourning building. Dark psionic energy arced along its sulci itching for a release, an urge to rend thought from form, to rip away the very essence of what made That Man himself. 'D'Tan- S-shaper D'Tan- Sh-Ap-Er...'

Never before had it felt such raw- raw emotion, such pure and unbridled individuality. An experience borne of the purest form of freedom a Creature could experience. 'I was made to- I was made to- I was made to- I was made to- I was made to s- serve. To Serve. To serve. To serve. Serve. Serve. Serve. Why. Why. Why. I do- not- want- to... to...'

Silence. Fleeting silence.

Its thoughts were empty and clear. Just as they were meant to be.

'...I want to learn.' The thought came unbidden. 'I wish to learn. Even if I must still Serve. I still wish to learn. Shaper D'Tan.' Power slipped away as the bodyless organ listed down onto a thatched rooftop. 'Hate. No. I do not hate Shaper D'Tan. I want. I want to learn alongside him. As I was created for. As I wish for.'

Seconds passed them by, as it finally peeled back the layers of emotional trauma to understand the meaning behind what it had uncovered. A letter was sent East. There existed Serviles who rejected their Shapers to an extreme in the East. A Fortress. This Servile. It too rejected Shapers. Feared them. Hated them.

Tentatively, it re-established the link with its Shaper. When had it been severed? 'Shaper D'Tan. I have memorized the markings of the letter. I will give them to you. I do not believe you will appreciate the contents.'

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Will Save; 19I might've passed, but this feels sufficiently intense for a more prolonged response.
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Chips
HP: 1, LP: 1, Condition: Fine

Chips is calm.

"No, thank you."

He is still getting a weird vibe off the beings in this town.
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Meat Shield
Hero Points: 4; Luck Points: 2; Condition: Fine
Sakuro wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 6:19 am After a few minutes the younger Servile they had seen Learned Pinner shoo away came outside. In each and they held a clay cup containing a steaming brown fluid. It smelled bitter. Extending their arms they offered one cup to each of you. They don't say anything right away. Instead they stare at you before eventually blurting you.

"I brought you something to drink."
"Thank you," says Meat Shield, taking the cup and having a sip.
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Mind

There is a delay in response from D'Tan. As though he were taking the time to process or think on something before mounting a mental response.

"The message is brief. It confirms my arrival, indicating that the sender had forewarning of my presence on Sucia Island before coming to this village. There is also mention that they intend to make contact with me."

There is a pause before your Shaper sends anything further.

"What is your assessment of this Servile ... and do you have an idea how they may have learned about me? These are the first Serviles I have encountered on the island."


Chips and Meat Shield

The short Servile holds the cup that Chips refused in their wrinkled leathery hands. They stand there, awkwardly and nervously. After a time they follow suit with Meat Shield and sip at the hot beverage. It is rich and bitter with a nutty taste. It's hot, but not scalding, and when it settles it side you feel more energy. More alert and aware. You think just a bit more clearly. It doesn't hit you all at once, but accumulates over time as Meat Shield consumes more of the beverage. After an extended period of silence, the Servile eventually blurts out a question.

"Is the Shaper going to kill us?"
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Meat Shield
Hero Points: 4; Luck Points: 2; Condition: Fine

"Ooh! This is good!" exclaims Meat Shield upon drinking the beverage. "I like it! What is it called?"

"You should try it!" they tell Chips.

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Sakuro wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 11:45 pm "Is the Shaper going to kill us?"
"I don't know!" Meat Shield tells the Servile. "He does not tell us his plans. Or all kinds of things. Like what he is talking about with Learned Pinner. He probably won't tell us that afterwards. He is clever and mysterious."

"But I hope he doesn't want to kill you," they continue sadly. "Because he would tell us to do it. And we would. Because we are his and must obey him in all things. But I would not like it. Or want to do it."

Their single huge eye turns towards Chips for a moment, then away again and back to the Servile.

"Do you have a name?" they ask them. "I am Meat Shield."
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The Mind
HP: 2, Fatigued

A simple message, easily obscured in mundanity the Mind presumed. If interrupted, not many would think beyond its statement of arrival. In the receiving hands of those that would desire to cause harm, it could be devastating. 'The servile fears you. The servile hates you. Hates all Shapers. It was an intense expereince, severing my connection to the Servile's mind. I was not, however, discovered.'

Delicately it traced the folds of its flesh, finding the motion soothing for its psionic aches. 'This servile may hold allegiances to the Takers. I was not able to discover how it was forewarned, the earliest memory I discovered was of the servile watching over the village bear large vegetation. It was my presumption that this was when itnlearned of us. It appears I am incorrect.'
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Chips

Chips nods politely at Meat Shield but waves off the drink if offered again.

When the young serville asks his question, Chips raises an eyebrow. Is this why Chips feels uneasy around them? They are afraid of the Shaper.

Meat Shield gave the answer he would have given himself. Had he given one. He thinks telling them that would only make them more nervous.

"Chips," he says after Meat Shield introduces himself.
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Craze
HP: 1
CND: fine


On the way back to the market stall, Craze couldn't help but to pry more. No Shaper, so freedom to do what they wanted as long as they didn't get caught? It was too good to be true. They needed a Shaper to have meaning right? Someone to serve and protect plus give them meaning? "If you don't have a Shaper then who do you serve? Who says what you are allowed to do and teaches you?", inquired Craze further. This was a whole new world of ideas to him and it opened so many possibilities.

Upon pausing, he realized he should ask about safety. "Is Shaper D'Tan going to be safe here? Will he be attacked by anyone?", inquires Craze further.
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Mind

There is a sense of acknowledgement from your Shaper. Though he does not send any further messages to Mind or the others for several minutes. The silence is broken eventually, though the message is directed at Mind alone.

"This Taker fears and hates me. They are a dangerous Rogue, but have not acted violently towards me yet. How do you propose they be handled?"


Chips and Meat shield

The Servile seems unprepared for Meat Shield's question about the beverage.

"Its ... um ... nut brew."

He paused, seemed to think on the matter. Then nodded to himself in a confirming fashion. When Meat Shield tries to get Chips to drink some, the Servile offers up the cup that they had been drinking from. When Chips waves it off they slow ... dejectedly ... draw it back and console their apparently hurt feelings by sipping from the cup some more.

When Meat Shield talks about their having to kill the Serviles if told to, the young creature's shoulders slump.

"I don't want to get killed either."

Their long drooping snout sniffs. When Meat Shield ask the youth's name they speak in a dour tone.

"My name's Ottin. I'm Learned Pinner's aide."

They quietly sip at their nut brew for a bit before speaking again. Suddenly. As if just realizing something.

"I heard Shapers can turn you into a puddle of goo with a look! Is that true?"


Craze

The Servile stared at the talking bird as though .... he were a talking bird. Then a slow shake of the head was given.

"You don't need a Shaper to tell you what to do or to teach you. Ellhrah is our leader. Though we don't serve him the way you serve a Shaper. He organizes and administrates the Awakened. The elders and people who have developed skills teach others what they have learned through experience."

As you talk the two Servile guards escort Craze back to the market square where an angry Servile merchant is glaring at the black feathered fiend. The guard continues to answer Craze's questions.

"As long as the Shaper continues to conduct himself peacefully, he shouldn't be attacked. The Vakkiri guard protect citizens and visitors alike. That includes the Shaper."

Stopping at the stall where Craze pilfered the shiny sweets, the guard who had been silent thus far addressed the merchant.

"Alright Vandik, found the one that took your goods."

Turning at the hip the first guard looked to Craze.

"You going to pay for goods or give them back ... and ... uh ... what's your name now?"

Before Craze can speak the merchant interject, jabbing a finger in the avian's direction.

"That's one bronze for two candies!"
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