[Game Thread] Lord Windos’ PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

[Lord Windos]

*Akamu collects his words for a moment.*

"Truth... the truth is that I have to stay determined. It would be a fool's errand to attempt this without any staying power. Giving up would mean ignoring everything that went into getting this opurtunity so it will not be an option."

"This journey won't just affect me. Its outcome will have consequences for my people back home and I believe it is my duty to fulfill. For whatever the future might hold I shall believe in them and the great old one."

*He tried to reach for the bowl in his backpack, forgetting that this would be rather difficult as a shapeless soul.*

"Her support and trials did and will continue to shape my future. I declare that I shall prove to her that she made the right choice."

Determine

Determination

Determined

The ardent desire to continue

Enduring and thriving

Solidified purpose, unwavering

Until what dream....

Is Realized


Duty

Duty-Bound

Dutiful

The responsible desire to oblige 

Selfless and sacrificing

Honorable fettering, unerring...

Until what purpose

Is Upheld


Determination and Duty...

Wake's Soul

The quest you have taken will be unremorseful

All you seek can be your undoing

Your hopes and wishes fickle and flux

Like the far-flung Mifowe you follow

Yet if you stay true

If you totally commit

If you remain steadfast and faithful

Your dreams, one and all, shall be True.


Wake's Soul...

Is this a quest you wish to undertake?

We shall see...

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The third of these strange, unknown souls looks around cautiously at first at everyone assembled.

Seeing that no harm seems to be coming, they seem to relax somewhat, taking it all in stride.

"Well, I reckon this is certainly one of the stranger things to have happened as of late.  Seems to be par for the course these days, though.  Truth, Ideals, and Will...heh.  That certainly rings a bell."

The shape moves as if straightening a hat upon their head as they briefly look at the one indicated to be the Wreathed Soul.

"Proving yourself, huh?  I can relate to that."

The shade almost seems to lean against an invisible wall, saying what comes next so casually despite serious undertones.

"My Truth is that you need to Fight for what you believe in, and the world will respond in kind.  My Ideal is to Fight for a worthy cause."

"And my Will, and the Will of my partners, is to help stave off further calamity in this world.  As heroes before us once did, some might say."

There's confidence in those final words.

Intriguing

This one upholds the Old Twin's Order

Long torn asunder

By the one that ever seeks

To unite and uplift Humanity

Making them greater than the Legends they scorn

What compels you to carry on

Fighting a grand cycle of restoration, remake, and ruin....?

Your words give an eternally short pause, and further absent time for It to ponder the rest of what you had to Say, and what they See.

Curious Still

You Already Know Thyself


In part yet true

Revelation and reflections be had

A Trial Overcome

Bond, Conviction, and Discovery deadly made

Clashed, Carved, Cameradence

Separate and at once

Truth, Belief, Purpose

United but distinct

Bound yet free

Warding Soul...

You are already on the Hero's Journey and to Enlightenment

You Know grave perils you will face

You Know that you will be Fighting an entire Future Real-Yet-Not

You Know failure means Ruination and Strife renewed

Yet still, you boldly accept and carry on

Undaunted of what may come

...And full of Hope for Tomorrow


Warding Soul...

You have undertaken a great deal

Salvation's Fate shall be of your own make

Right or Wrong

Grand Through it All

Will you brave your journey alone?

Will other Souls join along?

We shall see...

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