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

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Zephy's response to Seddi's opening question:

'Hey, this is Muse! 'Erni is resting right now - he'll give you the deets later, if he wants! Don't really know what's been going on today - had a bit too much fun last night and was out 'til now, eh he... If it's important don't keep the deets from me now 0o0 !!! Oh, and if you want to chat I'm free right now 'til Erni wakes up after his nap!"

Seddi frowns, a little concerned about the mage and wondering why the mythical was hungover of all things, but types out a response to the little critter.  If Muse isn't worried about Bernhard, then won't be either, but he's not gonna mince words as he gets Muse up to speed.

You almost immediately get a response back, as simple but BIG:

"WHAT?!"

...Before a flood of text comes your way.

'Oh sugar honey ice tea with cookies under neat tiramisu! Wwwwwwwhy does this have to happen NOW of all times?!?!?! Give me EVERYTHING you can. I'm not big on magic, but if you got the designs I can give you my best guess on what the unholy fuck is going on!' 

Unfortunately for the both of you, trying to send direct pictures doesn't work - the Trail doesn't show up on electronic media, while trying to take a picture of The Circle or Pendant nearly causes your Dex to brick, Crude drawings of the later two, however, and the aforementioned descriptions do a serviceable job at getting the details across, however. Several minutes pass before you get a response, and the tone of it makes you think Muse is rather wary and unhappy with the conclusions she's drawn.

'....I can't say for certain unless I can get a good look at it myself, but these symbols and the effect it had on you....it smells of Faith based Magic. Or 'miracles' , if you want to get technical about it. Darkest kind too boot - indoctrination , conversion, and soul fuckery is something only the most Evil or twisted Legends or individual care to risk doing. The glowy stuff is probably 'bleed over' Faith - either it being casted on the poor people, or it literally dripping off someone saturated in it. Not too sure about the Pendant, but it looks like a spiritual thingy you humans like to wear to represent your Faith. Maybe it's involved in the 'miracles' there, maybe it is. It's DEFINATELY related to whoever did this, though - you don't leave stuff like that around willy nilly unless you're trying to send a message or if you have to. That person your Murkrow buddy saw was most likely the one to 'enact' these 'miracles' , given the times and deets you shared. Not sure if this was all set up in advance for them to trigger or if they did it one the spot, though - that's more a 'Erni question, sorry!."

'Oh, and those...bandage you have? I'd say you probably want to Burn them to be on the safe side, but given they appeared to you and what you said....they might be keyed to you in some way. Destroying them without 'Erni or I getting looksee at them might be....bad, to say the least. Spiritual stuff and miracles tend to leave their mark, and messing with it requires a delicate or precise touch most of the time. For now, try to avoid using them unless you have to, okay? They SOUND useful, but as they say - there is no such thing as free art supplies, and certainly not from such a shady source!'

Muse, it's bad.  I'm likely gonna need some magical assistance at some point, and Bernhard's my only contact in that field so far.  Some group or other magiced away five pokemon centers worth of people, pokemon, and medical supplies.  Just gone.  Nothing left.  All that's left in the building I checked is a magic circle that I can only assume was left as a trap to hypnotize anyone curious enough to investigate, and a pendant with an equally magical looking symbol on it that was probably used to set something up in advance.  City's on complete lockdown while the cops investigate.

You been around a few blocks in your time?  Maybe you might recognize some of the symbols or descriptions of one of the individuals responsible that I've obtained in my investigation.  This feels like dark magic of some kind disguising itself as something good and welcoming if it catches you unawares.

If Muse is willing to hear Seddi out on this, he'll provide her with a picture of the magic circle and a description of the effects he experienced, a picture of the pendant and the symbol on it, a description of the mysterious bandaged mage and the magic the Murkrow saw, a description of the eye wrappings that mysteriously appeared in his pocket, and a description of what the symbols he saw represent and mean as best as he could tell after putting on the eye wrappings.

Any of that sound like something you've encountered or heard of before?  The authorities are rather starved for information right now due to the nature of the crime. 

And even if she isn't able to be much help (or even if she is able to assist), Bernhard can always look at the images and descriptions later himself!  And oh boy, is Seddi going to be curious to see what Bernhard thinks of this later...

You almost immediately get a response back, as simple but BIG:

"WHAT?!"

...Before a flood of text comes your way.

'Oh sugar honey ice tea with cookies under neat tiramisu! Wwwwwwwhy does this have to happen NOW of all times?!?!?! Give me EVERYTHING you can. I'm not big on magic, but if you got the designs I can give you my best guess on what the unholy fuck is going on!' 

Unfortunately for the both of you, trying to send direct pictures doesn't work - the Trail doesn't show up on electronic media, while trying to take a picture of The Circle or Pendant nearly causes your Dex to brick, Crude drawings of the later two, however, and the aforementioned descriptions do a serviceable job at getting the details across, however. Several minutes pass before you get a response, and the tone of it makes you think Muse is rather wary and unhappy with the conclusions she's drawn.

'....I can't say for certain unless I can get a good look at it myself, but these symbols and the effect it had on you....it smells of Faith based Magic. Or 'miracles' , if you want to get technical about it. Darkest kind too boot - indoctrination , conversion, and soul fuckery is something only the most Evil or twisted Legends or individual care to risk doing. The glowy stuff is probably 'bleed over' Faith - either it being casted on the poor people, or it literally dripping off someone saturated in it. Not too sure about the Pendant, but it looks like a spiritual thingy you humans like to wear to represent your Faith. Maybe it's involved in the 'miracles' there, maybe it is. It's DEFINATELY related to whoever did this, though - you don't leave stuff like that around willy nilly unless you're trying to send a message or if you have to. That person your Murkrow buddy saw was most likely the one to 'enact' these 'miracles' , given the times and deets you shared. Not sure if this was all set up in advance for them to trigger or if they did it one the spot, though - that's more a 'Erni question, sorry!."

'Oh, and those...bandage you have? I'd say you probably want to Burn them to be on the safe side, but given they appeared to you and what you said....they might be keyed to you in some way. Destroying them without 'Erni or I getting looksee at them might be....bad, to say the least. Spiritual stuff and miracles tend to leave their mark, and messing with it requires a delicate or precise touch most of the time. For now, try to avoid using them unless you have to, okay? They SOUND useful, but as they say - there is no such thing as free art supplies, and certainly not from such a shady source!'

Well, that was Insight! Worrisome too, oh boy!