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

[Lord Windos]

Vernon doesn't care if people see him go into the tent.

Traditional Creshirian clothing is evolved from the fairly practical traveling outfit, but includes decorations from older civilizations, like spirals and fishhooks. So we're talking light longsleeve button-up shirts with a breast pocket, a sort of shoulder pad construction with breathable vents, perhaps a belt or sash, and slacks. It looks a little incongruous in purple, but that just fits the entertainment aspect of this teen.

Saying 'oh i knew you'd come' is the oldest fortune teller trick in the book, but knowing Vernon is involved in a party is a little more impressive.

Vernon sits on his turtle and looks just as comfortable as if he'd settled into a plush chair. He's ensconced himself where he can see the crystal ball. "I have some questions for sure. And you might be interested in one of my friends, who just came back from the dead! And I have this token you can uhhh meditate on or whatever." He hands over the crystal leaf gem.

1. "I'd love to know anything you can tell me about this and the forces connected to it."
2. "I'd love to know if you can sense a coming storm."
3. "And honestly, I'd like to know how long my future is tangled up with being in this city."

Fascinating! + 1 XP to Vern!

The Fortune Teller winces as you mention Oz' resurrection, rubbing their temple with slight worry and the lingering ghost of Pain.

"Quite. That....momentous event certainly was an....ordeal. For a moment I thought the very fabric of Fate would come Undone from your companion's.....loss. The relief I felt when that was overturned was immense, to be perfectly honest. Perhaps I'll see them soon to discuss that matter. Perhaps note. Fate, and its many paths, are so fickle and mutable, even with the Eye's Sight guiding me."

He doesn't attempt to take the Leaf Astral Stone, and demonstrates why: his touch phases right through it!

"Ah, yes. Your totem of Ascension - A Lodestone of Fate and You. Symbol and Sign, for You, your Companions, and the Earth and Stars, so bright and mysterious, profane and Divine. A mere Fate Weaver as myself trying to Hold such a Lofty, Heavy Stone is but a dream - not mine, but you and your own. And, perhaps, some particularly Arcane or Earthly individuals."

The self-described Fate Weaver contemplates your questions, before looking into his Crystal Ball, waving and weaving his hands around it to conjure the Answers you seek from the very Aether within....

"Hmm...I'm told you all I can about the Astral Stone of Yours. It's powers and uses are mostly Unown to me and my Sight, though for the most part I See it mostly being remarkably mundane - until circumstances and Chance provoke otherwise, as you have no doubt recently Felt. Symbol, Sign, Similarity - You, You, and Them. Together as One, Bond by Purpose Grand and Untold...."

The second question gets another wince as the Crystal Ball suddenly *FLASHED* with a brilliant, nearly entrancing L i g h t  that you Struggle to shrug off before the man banishes it with a wave, cradling his eyes with one hand and letting out a Pained pant.

"....I'm afraid that has been obscured to Me and the Sight. Though whether it is deliberate or it being a mere portent of this Storm's......radiance, I can not say for certain. All I can is thus: Soon."

The third question gets them to shake their head and look back into the Ball, mumbling a bit to himself before looking back at you.....somewhat worried but confidant in you.

"....No more than a Day at most after This One, no less than Three, perhaps. I can not See One such as yourselves Futures so cleanly or clearly, but that much I could find. Best prepare yourself for another long, winding Journey, Wandering One."

You know, for a Fortune Teller/Fate Weaver he's being remarkably NOT vague and Mysterious with his answers, but then again you and the group you're in seem to be of sufficient 'Rank' in the cosmological/FATE AND FORTUNE scale that either he's willing to dismiss the typical trappings of his practice or can't help but be Clear because he's Foretelling and Answering one such as you. The allusions to being Pained by recent actions seem to lean more towards the later than the former, but who knows for sure?

Do you have any other Questions? The man already looks Tired after just Divining Three Questions of Yours, but they seem willing to Answer More. Maybe if you had some Will Restoratives you could 'pep' them back up, or something similar....