(5:31:55 AM) ***Reise saves most of her chatter for arriving on the castle grounds, leading Linny and Constanza Carol mostly in silence. The first place she takes them once on the grounds of the castle proper is the wall, leading them to the control-ish room all but hidden in the outer wall that she'd found previously. "This is the barrier thing that I mentioned earlier," she says as the other two pile into the room, pointing to a map on the wall.
(5:33:56 AM) Feldi: "So, these maps control the enchantments within the castle?" Linny asks.
(5:34:26 AM) Ikiryo: The slim, slightly nervous looking hospitaler nods. "...that's a very old sort of magic, not much of the modern streamlining."
(5:35:53 AM) Reise: "As I understand it, Leoric built this castle, however many zillion years ago, so yes. And yeah, Eyebrows, each location has a little button-gem that you press to activate what it does. For example, here"--she touches the button for the guard room--"should make a nice big barrier spring up just outside the walls. A shield, if you will."
(5:36:57 AM) Feldi: "I doubt it will be much use if they send a Titan against us."
(5:38:04 AM) Ikiryo: Carol goes to peek outside of the door. "...hmm..it's good but it's not airtight. That makes me worried opposing Nurgle demons."
(5:39:00 AM) Reise: "I didn't really analyze it to see the energy output levels before, but you might be surprised." She shrugs. "You can see the effect if you check out the murder holes--yeah, okay. Well, between me or Adelinda and someone better up in magic, like you, Eyebrows, we can probably work on fixing that up. Assuming it doesn't overload whatever magic circuitry this place runs on." She touches the button again to shut it down.
(5:39:00 AM) Feldi: "Good, old Nurgle plagues." Linny smiles.
(5:39:59 AM) Ikiryo: "We could...hmm...not airtight has it's upsides. It means that it can last long term without people suffocating." She looks over at Linny, rolling her eyes.
(5:42:02 AM) Feldi: Linny chuckles. "I appreciate the confidence, but I'm not as good at magic as someone who follow Tzeentch or one of your mages. And for something like this? What magic I do know focuses on change and destruction, not strengthening."
(5:42:32 AM) Reise: "Hey, it'd be a change of the current configuration," she smirks. "Anyway, we can move on, if you like."
(5:42:59 AM) Feldi: Linny tilts her head slightly, to concede the point. "Let's."
(5:44:19 AM) Ikiryo: "We could be able to get some warding along the wall to oppose plagues and gas attack while keeping it not airtight for breathing reasons." She smirks at Linny. "We are good at warning, however."
(5:45:13 AM) Feldi: "Warning?"
(5:46:47 AM) Ikiryo: She pauses. "...warding." She pouts slightly.
(5:47:37 AM) Feldi: Linny shakes her head, chuckling. "Where to next, Feana?"
(5:48:03 AM) Ikiryo: "...Feana?"
(5:48:17 AM) ***Reise looks curiously at the halfling.
(5:48:22 AM) Feldi: "...old friend. Reise."
(5:48:35 AM) Ikiryo: The smirk returns to the hospitaler.
(5:49:30 AM) Reise: "...Right. Well. Let's see...you saw the library one, so...next is probably the kitchen and dining room. It sounds kind of silly, but good food's important for morale, right?"
(5:50:21 AM) Feldi: "As long as there's plenty of meat." Linny smiles, ignoring the hospitaler's smirk.
(5:51:18 AM) Feldi: One of her incisors is visible at the corner of her mouth.
(5:51:36 AM) Ikiryo: That only makes the smirk wider. "And as long as it's sanitary...a lot of primitive planets don't do enough with food preperation to make it healthy and we don't have enough people to treat food poisoning and people being shot."
(5:53:12 AM) Reise: "Looked fully cooked and prepped to me," she shrugs. "Let's go have a look." She leads them out of the wall and into the keep, up the stairs and through the halls to the kitchen she'd found before.
(5:54:48 AM) Ikiryo: "I don't know what the food standards of this world are." She shrugs. "The last place I helped at went with 'Comically large meat on the bone' as the main meal."
(5:55:31 AM) Feldi: Linny follows along. "Is that where you got food poisoning, Sister?"
(5:56:51 AM) Ikiryo: She shakes her head. "I didn't, no but a lot of the locals just assumed it was somthing that happened. The worst part? That wasn't even a primitive planet, it was neo-primitives who decided the old ways were best...and then forgot about useful things like sanitation within a couple of generations."
(5:57:38 AM) Feldi: "You can't cure idiocy."
(5:58:48 AM) Ikiryo: "Sure you can. I've got a thunder hammer for that." She shakes her head. "...ok, that came off a lot more nasty than I intended it to."
(6:00:53 AM) Feldi: "You're definitely not what I expected from what they told me, Sister."
(6:01:28 AM) Ikiryo: "...what do you mean?" She raises an eyebrow
(6:02:41 AM) Feldi: "Hmm? Oh, that was said in confidence. Now, let's summon up a meal."
(6:08:00 AM) Reise: "The map-button's over here," she points. "Last time I was here I picked up some heat signatures that weren't us, so keep an eye out just in case."
(6:08:26 AM) Feldi: Linny walks over and, having to reach on her tiptoes, pushes the button.
(6:10:43 AM) Ikiryo: The room shifts slightly...as a feast appears on the tables, all ready to be taken out to the dining hall. There must be enough here for dozens of people. Linny can smell roast pheasent and just baked bread.
(6:11:40 AM) Reise: "From what I could tell, by the way, the kitchen will *make* all of this stuff. But you have to use the button next door to get it out there. Of course, I didn't try to see if you could just bring it out yourself, or eat in here."
(6:13:03 AM) Feldi: Linny sniffs at the air and lets out a satisfied sigh, as she turns around to see the feast. "Now, I could get used to this~"
(6:13:50 AM) Ikiryo: Carol nods, pulling out a small device and running it over the food. "It's...within tolerable limits, suprisingly. That's not going to get anyone sick. Concidering how old this castle is supposed to be, I'm suprised."
(6:14:50 AM) Feldi: "Funny thing about old magic is that it tends to last.  There's thousands of old tombs and ruins on this planet with curses and magic traps still running."
(6:15:20 AM) Feldi: Linny steps up onto a chair and grabs herself a fresh loaf of bread.
(6:15:38 AM) Ikiryo: ...and gets a phantasmal swat on the nose.
(6:16:05 AM) Feldi: "...seriously?"
(6:17:10 AM) ***Reise holds her hands up. "I told you I didn't try. I'd have said something otherwise. C'mon, let's hit the dining room."
(6:17:49 AM) Feldi: Linny sighs, abandoning the short-lived hope of decent food, and moves to follow Reise.
(6:18:02 AM) Ikiryo: That suprisingly actually hurt the werewolf. Not real damage but stinging pain is a new one for something that minor.
(6:18:51 AM) Feldi: Linny rubs at her nose, hoping to rub whatever magic it was off.
(6:19:09 AM) Ikiryo: It still stings but it's fading.
(6:19:36 AM) Ikiryo: Carol looks over at her. "Would you like something for that?"
(6:20:19 AM) Feldi: "Thanks for the offer, but it's already fading."
(6:21:04 AM) ***Reise leads them over into the dining room. "Hit the button for grub to get served. Careful, though--the castle's got real particular ideas about what it means to be in the dining room."
(6:21:34 AM) Ikiryo: Carol nods. "Can you press it? I want to try to examine the magic as it does..."
(6:22:10 AM) Reise: "Hold on to your butts..." She does so.
(6:43:17 AM) Reise: There's a bit of flicker and then Reise's armor disappears, replaced by an off-white dress that tightly wraps around her torso; backless, with wraithbone support in the bodice in a sort of bustier shape, it clings tightly to her until around her knees before flaring out. She's wearing heels and her lengthy blonde hair is braided and pinned up in an elaborate hairdo; teardrop earrings dangle from her ears, and lengthy opera gloves cover her
(6:43:17 AM) Reise: Linny is done up in a silk-looking wine-purple dress, with her white hair combed and tied back with a black bow. The dress hangs on her snugly, spaghetti straps over her shoulders and a slit up the side to show off some leg. There's actual makeup on her face, too, hints of coppery colors bringing out her eyes. Her feet are tucked into heels as well.
(6:43:19 AM) Reise: And Carol is in a yellow gown, satin and shiny in the bodice, with hoop skirts and a pair of knee-high heeled boots; she has shorter gloves, only enough to cover her hands, and has earrings like Reise's. A string of small gems is woven into her hair, which also has a tiara-styled comb placed into it.
(6:43:42 AM) Reise: "I told you it was particular."
(6:46:22 AM) Feldi: Linny stands stock-still looking down at herself. "Why...I'm in a dress and...heels.....at least, I can eat the food in here." She sighs.
(6:47:10 AM) Ikiryo: Said bodice on carol is rather a lot tighter than people would have expected with her armour. She blushes heavily. "What?"
(6:48:43 AM) Feldi: Linny examines the rest of the dress. "Of course it would show off my rack...but at least, if I can take off the shoes, I could fight in this." She says, running a finger along the slit.
(6:50:24 AM) Ikiryo: "...where did my armour go?"
(6:54:18 AM) Reise: "Once the room effect turns off, you'll have it back on," she says, gesturing to the table--a huge one, built for a dozen or more to eat at at once--fills with plates floating in from the kitchen. "For right now, it's the same place as mine, wherever that is."
(6:55:18 AM) Feldi: "I wonder if the magic will get slappy again if I stand on my seat." Linny says, a little sour as she watches the plates float in hungrily.
(6:55:34 AM) Ikiryo: The food still smells wonderfully.
(6:57:05 AM) MaximusTres left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving).
(6:58:42 AM) Feldi: Linny walks, oddly confidently, in her heels to the table, jumping up onto the chair.
(6:59:32 AM) Ikiryo: It doesn't swat her this time!
(7:00:07 AM) ***Reise shows Carol to a seat before taking one herself, across from Linny. "Yes, this is actually what happened last time. I actually own this dress, except it's back on Sigil."
(7:01:02 AM) Ikiryo: "Well, I most certainly do not own this dress..." She looks down at herself as she takes a seat.
(7:01:40 AM) Feldi: "I don't own any dresses, so this definitely isn't mine....hmm, unless..." She ponders something then shrugs.
(7:03:57 AM) Ikiryo: "I feel like I'm going to fall out of it...I mostly wear robes or just t-shirts." Carol sighs...but gets herself some food.
(7:06:07 AM) Feldi: "Really, just t-shirts?" Linny teases as she begins to fill her plate as well.
(7:06:46 AM) Ikiryo: "And pants." She pouts, taking just a small amount of food. She's clearly focusing on a balanced meal.
(7:08:37 AM) ***Reise lets the "Unless" from Linny pass. "I dunno. Did you catch anything about how the magic works?"
(7:09:27 AM) Ikiryo: "My scanner was stolen when they gave me the dress...I'll have to check when it comes back.
(7:10:50 AM) Feldi: "Hmm, I dare say this meal is a pleasure to the eyes and all the other senses!" Linny's voice is suddenly notably different...with a very sophisticated accent in comparison to her usual near-growl.
(7:11:42 AM) Ikiryo: "...I beg your pardon?"
(7:13:12 AM) ***Reise stares across the table.
(7:13:51 AM) Feldi: "Oh, don't worry your mind about my...turn of speech. It's just a little something that those kind Excess folks gifted to me while I stayed with them!" Linny's right eye is twitching. "I do so love a good meal with beautiful company!"
(7:15:24 AM) Ikiryo: "The food is nice but...wait...what was that other part?" Carol stares at the halfling.
(7:16:42 AM) Feldi: "Now, there's no need to be shy! Why, the Gods have blessed with a magnificent bounty, I think anyone can see that, especially in that dress, Sister." The 'sister' has lost the teasing tone from before.
(7:16:48 AM) Feldi: blessed you*
(7:17:35 AM) Feldi: Linny cuts a very dainty portion of meat and with great poise brings it to her mouth.
(7:18:03 AM) Reise: "...'Kind?'" is about the only thing she can get out.
(7:18:27 AM) Ikiryo: "...bounty?"
(7:21:08 AM) Feldi: "Rolling hills, if you get my meaning, Sister. But that's only one of your fine featur-" Linny blocks off her speech with another piece of meat. "A meal shared is a meal to be truly savored, I believe!"
(7:21:37 AM) Ikiryo: "Are you talking about..." She looks down at her heavy cleavage. "I...are you hitting on me?"
(7:22:57 AM) ***Reise hides a smile with a napkin. "I know the sounds of overtures, even dressed up in fancy words. Yep, she's hitting on you."
(7:23:45 AM) Feldi: "Sister, the dining room is no place for flirting, that would be uncouth.  Such activities are best kept to the sitting room with wine and refreshments." Linny's eye continues to twitch.
(7:25:39 AM) Reise: "Aaaand she's hating every second of it." She glances at Carol. "I suggest we pause the tour so Dame Eyebrows here can work some of this out of her system when the room resets."
(7:26:16 AM) Ikiryo: "...I'll agree." She nods. "This is uncomfortable on many levels."
(7:28:12 AM) Feldi: "Oh, do stop bandying about.  Being at the height of manners and sophistication...so many dream of it! I'm sure the kind folks at Excess would help you, if you need the education."
(7:30:15 AM) Ikiryo: "...I don't think I want to see the results of that." Carol shakes her head, looking over at Reise. "Did this happen to you too?"
(7:30:49 AM) ***Reise blinks. "Huh? Did what happen?"
(7:31:13 AM) Feldi: "I believe her beauty is all-natural, Sister. Fortunate soul that she is!"
(7:31:33 AM) Ikiryo: "...oh, sorry."
(7:33:10 AM) Reise: The subject Carol was referring to clicks. "Oh, ha ha. Yes, I have so far managed to avoid needles, overzealous dryads, and an enforced stay in Excess' clutches." She raps her gloved knuckles on the wooden tabletop. "Mostly it comes with being eldarin. Because seriously, have /you/ ever seen an ugly on?"
(7:33:37 AM) Ikiryo: "...physically or personality?" She blushes as the words escape her lips.
(7:34:07 AM) Reise: "Physically. Trust me, I know the latter all too well."
(7:35:03 AM) Ikiryo: "I...cannot say such? I suppose?" She shakes her head.
(7:35:03 AM) Feldi: "You should see what Excess can do for you, Sister. They really are miracle workers!" Linny's true self must be breaking through as she stabs her fork into her meal.
(7:35:38 AM) Ikiryo: "...I'll pass."
(7:36:21 AM) Feldi: "Truly? That is an /awful/ shame."
(7:36:46 AM) Ikiryo: "What...what would they do?" The girl looks very uytana-like with her nervousness right now.
(7:37:46 AM) Reise: "You don't really want to know."
(7:37:53 AM) Feldi: "They would bring out the very best  in you, inner beauty and outer beauty! Perfection isn't something one can achieve without help!"
(7:38:32 AM) Ikiryo: The girl slides her seat a little away from the halfling
(7:40:59 AM) Feldi: "R-Reise, would you be so kind as to push that button on that enchanting map over there? I think I have had my fill of dinner!"
(7:41:28 AM) Feldi: Given how dainty her portions were, barely anything on her plate has been touched.
(7:42:41 AM) Reise: "Certainly." She slides out of her seat and glides over to the map, pressing the button again.
(7:43:12 AM) Ikiryo: Outfits and mindsets returns as the  food vanishes back to the kitchen.
(7:44:36 AM) ***Reise flexes her hand in her gauntlet as her armor reappears. "Fun as that is, I prefer changing clothes by normal means, not magic."
(7:46:01 AM) Feldi: Linny, back in her normal clothes, stays standing in her chair, though she dips her head, shielding her face from both Reise and Carol.
(7:47:04 AM) Ikiryo: Carol frowns, reaching out towards Linny. "...are you alright?"
(7:55:58 AM) Feldi: A low rumble transitions into a full roar, giving Carol just enough time to snatch her hand back, before Linny grips the table with enough strength to send cracks through the hard oak and throws it away from Reise and Carol to crash into one of the stone walls.
(7:56:29 AM) Feldi: Linny remains, panting, in her chair afterward, fingers tipped by claws.
(7:56:32 AM) Ikiryo: Carol jumps backwards, putting a hand to a small hammer at her side. "Gods."
(7:58:01 AM) Feldi: Fur creeps up the sides of Linny's face but, with a sharp breath, it recedes back, along with her claws. "...that helped." She says to the ground, before looking up at Carol. "I didn't get you, did I?"
(7:58:32 AM) Feldi: Linny gives her a glance over.
(7:59:07 AM) Ikiryo: She looks fine. Or at least unharmed. The armour isn't flattering. "I'm alright..."
(8:01:23 AM) Feldi: Linny nods, looking away. "Yeah, I am too." She steps off the chair, patting invisible dust off her tunic. "Anywhere else to go on this tour of wonders, Reise?" She asks, voice a shade too loud.
(8:01:53 AM) Ikiryo: "You sure? I mean, if you are spelled by something I could try to cure it...we are good at that."
(8:03:23 AM) Reise: "It's Excess' treatments," she supplies after a moment. "Linny was one of their guests for a while." She doesn't bother with the nickname this time. "Anyway...how 'bout the guest rooms next? Those should be a bit more relaxing."
(8:03:43 AM) Reise: "Oh, and did your scanner get anything? I can probably get you what my helmet recorded, too, if you need it."
(8:04:18 AM) Feldi: Linny nods at Reise's offer, letting Carol respond to that first.
(8:04:29 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh...right, yes." She nods, bringing up her scanner. "Looks like...extradimentional space of some sort. This room might be several times larger than it looks."
(8:08:29 AM) Reise: "Makes sense, if it's gonna be stashing our stuff out of sight."
(8:09:37 AM) ***Reise leads them out of the dining room and up and over to the guest rooms. "I only tested one of these last time, but the room did itself up to look like home for me...and for some reason teleported Uytana straight off the Serpent and into here. When she touched the button it undid itself, including sending her back. So just...be careful."
(8:09:59 AM) Reise: "Well, 'home.' It looked more like my berth on the Serpent."
(8:10:55 AM) Ikiryo: "Right..." Carol nods. "I might pass and just trust your word...who's Uytana?"
(8:10:56 AM) Feldi: "No point in me trying then."
(8:14:42 AM) Ikiryo: "No?"
(8:14:44 AM) Reise: "Friend of mine, roommate, back on the ship for now."
(8:17:14 AM) Feldi: "Girl has bunny ears and looks like Reise, if Reise was three times for curvy."
(8:17:17 AM) Feldi: more curvy*
(8:19:21 AM) Ikiryo: "...is that possible?"
(8:19:47 AM) Feldi: "Her organs function somehow." Linny chuckles, shrugging.
(8:20:49 AM) ***Reise nods. "I'm pretty much the same width all the way down. Uytana's got the real hourglass. Also she has dark hair to my blonde." She shrugs. "Anyway, I believe all that's left is the ruined chapel. Linny, it's Sigmarite, so don't feel like you have to come in too."
(8:21:48 AM) Feldi: "Much as I like testing my might against the Forces of Order, I'll take you up on that, Reise."
(8:23:14 AM) Ikiryo: Carol nods. "Right." She looks over to the Halfling. "If you want at some point, I could try to break the effects Excess had?"
(8:24:50 AM) Feldi: Linny shifts her weight from one foot to the other. "You can try but I was told their stuff runs deep. But I did want to talk to you about something else, anyway."
(8:25:09 AM) Feldi: deep. It's been two years and nothing's changed.*
(8:25:17 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh, yes?" She draws a holy symbol, a sigmarite hammer from her pocket.
(8:28:53 AM) Ikiryo: She closes her eyes and starts to focus...the hammer symbol starting to glow.
(8:29:31 AM) Feldi: Linny rolls her own and spreads her arms out wide, as if to say to Sigmar 'hit me with your best shot.'
(8:29:57 AM) Ikiryo: She reaches out and gently touches the hammer to Linny's head, light flowing over her...
(8:31:00 AM) ***Reise folds her arms over her chest, watching.
(8:33:36 AM) Reise: 'p
(8:33:36 AM) Reise: ];\\
(8:35:04 AM) Feldi: As the light fades, it as if it the scene was at the end of a movie where a beast becomes a beauty...but in reverse. Where the Linny from before had only the one scar on her lip, now scars crisscross her face in an awful pattern, the skin around them like aged leather.  The tip of one ear is gone, and the color of her eyes are now the yellow of a wolf's.  She laughs, an awful sound, as she...
(8:35:06 AM) Feldi: ...looks down at herself.  She spins about in place, her now over-sized tunic flaring out around her, like she was a child. "I'm me again!"
(8:35:42 AM) Feldi: She drags a hand down her scarred face. "Just like it should be..."
(8:35:51 AM) Ikiryo: Carol smiles. "There we...oww..." She wraps her arms around herself, wincing as she nearly collapses. "Oh gods, that doesn't...oww..."
(8:36:04 AM) Reise: "Carol?" She moves over to her.
(8:36:31 AM) Ikiryo: She's wincing and sounds in a fair amount of pain, not breathing well.
(8:36:40 AM) Feldi: "Hmmm?" Linny drops out of her euphoria to look over at Carol. "What's wrong with her?"
(8:37:03 AM) Reise: "I don't know." Her voice is tense. "Must've been something in the Slaanesh magic on you."
(8:37:31 AM) Ikiryo: She doesn't seem to be dying but she does seem to be in a lot of pain.
(8:38:22 AM) Feldi: "I did say it was deep, and Slaanesh does love traps." She looks over Carol with the eyes of a predator. "You can reverse it, if you need to." She says.
(8:38:44 AM) Reise: "I don't think she can right now! C'mon. Help me get her out of her armor."
(8:38:54 AM) ***Reise searches over Carol's carapace for a means of removing it.
(8:39:39 AM) Feldi: Linny's voice is harsh and rough, fitting with the scars evident across her throat. She moves to help Reise. "I could rip it off of her." She offers, hands at the edge of the carapace.
(8:40:33 AM) Ikiryo: There is some connections along the side of the carapace. It can be disconnected there.
(8:40:57 AM) Feldi: Linny's keen eyes notice that and she flicks them open on her side of Carol.
(8:41:06 AM) Reise: Armored fingers fly as she triggers the connections and cracks the carapace open, pulling it off.
(8:43:28 AM) Ikiryo: Well, speaking of Uytana...Carol has a figure that more than matches the bunny. A massive chest barely hidden by a very tight t-shirt and a tiny, organ questioning waist above huge birthing hips. Oh, that's where Linny's curves went!
(8:44:25 AM) Reise: "Tch." She listens for Carol's breathing. "Fuck Slaanesh. Don't even make 'he'll like that' jokes. Just, seriously. *Fuck* Slaanesh."
(8:45:06 AM) Feldi: Linny laughs again, a ill-sounding rattle. "I couldn't agree more.  And something like this...means all this only temporary. We're linked and as she heals it, it'll all come back to me."
(8:45:08 AM) Ikiryo: She's breathing a lot better now that she's not in the several sizes too small carapace.
(8:45:34 AM) Reise: "How d'you know it's temporary? Seen it happen before?"
(8:45:41 AM) Ikiryo: She puts a hand to her chest...and pauses, looking down. "...oh gods, that was horrible. I never thought that would be my death."
(8:46:16 AM) Reise: She sighs heavily. "I seriously cannot *wait* to be off this hellhole."
(8:46:40 AM) Feldi: "Strangled by your own breasts? Oddly common in the Excess prison. And if she has what used to be my curves, we're linked and warp and holy magic don't like each other."
(8:47:19 AM) Reise: She sucks her teeth again and runs fingers through her hair. "You okay to walk, at least?" she asks Carol.
(8:47:53 AM) Feldi: Linny offers a scarred, slightly clawed hand for Carol to help herself up.
(8:48:22 AM) Ikiryo: "I think so?" She takes the hand.
(8:49:02 AM) Feldi: Half-pull, than mostly push gets Carol back on her feet. "You're still going to check out the chapel?"
(8:49:11 AM) Feldi: then mostly*
(8:49:53 AM) ***Reise nods. "If Carol's up to it. Given what I saw it do before, it could come in real handy if someone can get it fixed up."
(8:50:05 AM) Ikiryo: Carol stands up to her feet...she's gained some leg too it seems. At least based on the fact that her pants are hanging low on her hips now. "I already don't like this planet." She nods to Reise.
(8:50:45 AM) Reise: "It doesn't take long, no. C'mon, this way. Linny, up to you if you wait just outside or wander the halls or whatever."
(8:51:57 AM) Feldi: "It didn't used to be so bad." Linny says with an unnerving grin. "There's some people I should call, so I think I'll head off. But, Carol, before I go, I wanted to ask you for some help with something."
(8:52:13 AM) Feldi: "Well, something else." The grin widens unnaturally.
(8:53:26 AM) Ikiryo: "...oh?" She raises an eyebrow.
(8:55:32 AM) Feldi: "There was a ritual...there is a ritual I know of that my tribe used to perform on humans who were near death, but who had earned our respect and favor.  A way to transfer injuries that would be fatal in one person to a werewolf, who can live through anything. I'd like to try it on Tathir, but the ritual was performed by a werewolf and several priest, and you and your fellow Sisters are the...
(8:55:33 AM) Feldi: ...only ones available I know.  Even if you're on the wrong side."
(8:55:39 AM) Feldi: "What do you think?"
(8:56:33 AM) Ikiryo: "Do you have any records of the ritual? We could try to match it with some in our files." She nods
(8:57:00 AM) Feldi: "My tribe wasn't much for writing, but I'd know it when I saw it."
(8:57:53 AM) Feldi: "I'll talk with the Sisters about it, after I make my calls."
(8:59:15 AM) Ikiryo: She frowns. "Right...well, it sounds like something we'd have in our archives. Since it's based on hea...ah..." She winces, clutching her head.
(8:59:43 AM) Reise: "Carol?"
(8:59:55 AM) Feldi: "Ah, that might be the," she taps at her own head, "effects."
(9:00:46 AM) Feldi: "You saw the worst of it earlier, but there's plenty I've learned to suppress."
(9:01:02 AM) Feldi: "Two years gives you plenty of practice."
(9:01:33 AM) Ikiryo: As she lets go of her head the pair spot blonde wolf ears popping out of the top of her head...and a matching tail behind her. "Oh my, that is rather unlikable." Her voice has gained a rich, sultry tone to it as she licks her lips. "...this is very unexpected."
(9:02:15 AM) Reise: She sighs and puts a hand over her face, but not before Linny catches a tinge of red to her cheeks.
(9:02:42 AM) Feldi: Linny looks down at her own clawed hands then back up at Carol's new ears. "This is stranger than I thought."
(9:03:50 AM) Feldi: She walks around her to spot the tail. "Good thing her pants were so low, or else she, you'd, be in a lot of pain."
(9:04:07 AM) Feldi: She flicks it at the base.
(9:04:25 AM) Ikiryo: "Whatever happened?" She looks about, confused and clearly not noticing her ears yet. She blushes and yelps as the halfling flicks it. "What on terra?"
(9:04:54 AM) Reise: "Looks like you caught some werewolf, too."
(9:05:05 AM) Reise: "Hopefully that doesn't mean Linny doesn't have it anymore."
(9:06:00 AM) Ikiryo: "I don't feel like a werewolf."
(9:06:27 AM) Feldi: "Oh, I"m definitely still a werewolf." She raises a hand that becomes enveloped in wild white fur, warp lightning jumping from strand to strand. "It seems like she's an Excess knock-off werewolf."
(9:06:44 AM) Feldi: "All the beauty, without any of the reality."
(9:06:52 AM) Feldi: "Their idea of beauty anyway."
(9:07:00 AM) Feldi: Linny sniffs.
(9:07:21 AM) Feldi: "Might be a shifter...or a skinwalker."
(9:07:34 AM) Ikiryo: "I'm not..." She blushes at the comment. "...I don't mean to be rude Miss Linny but I will admit, I am vaguely regretting offering to help with your condition. I should have done more study first."
(9:08:24 AM) Reise: "I dunno, it IS pretty cute. But okay. Let's just hope it wears off and go hit up that shrine. Maybe that'll speed up making it go away."
(9:08:59 AM) Ikiryo: "Please." She nods.
(9:09:20 AM) Feldi: Linny huffs out a chuckle. "I see my proper manners passed on too. And, yes, you two go on. I want to enjoy being back to my old self as much as I can."
(9:09:38 AM) Reise: "Have fun, Eyebrows. We'll see you later on."
(9:10:22 AM) Ikiryo: "I am glad you are happy at least. I am sorry to say I don't think it will be permanent. This effect seems...extensive."
(9:10:53 AM) Ikiryo: Her voice is very classy with a seductive tone that Linny has done a good job of eradicating when she doesn't want it.
(9:13:26 AM) Feldi: "Well, I'm used to it.  You're not. I'll find some way to beat it, without passing it on." The fur on her arms keeps spreading, the sounds of bones cracking and re-forming as she grows larger, larger than the wolf that Reise had seen her become and then some. Eventually, standing a foot over Reise, is a giant white beast, fur marked with quicksilver patterns and warp-lightning jumping from...
(9:13:27 AM) Feldi: ...flowing tuft to tuft. Great scars mark the beast-wolf's face as it huffs at the two of them and then bounds off.  The smell of the musk and burned air it leaves behind is extremely strong.
(9:14:03 AM) Reise: "...I'm not even gonna ask where all the extra mass came from. There must be eight or ten Linnys in there."
(9:14:19 AM) Feldi is now known as Feldi|Dinner
(9:14:23 AM) Reise: "C'mon, cutie." She takes Carol by the elbow. "Shrine's this way."
(9:14:45 AM) Ikiryo: "Cutie?" She follows, hips swaying widely. "...why can't I stop this?"
(9:16:54 AM) Reise: "I have a problem with the little animal features," she admits freely. "And probably because that's how deep Slaanesh shit goes. Eyebrows has lived with it for years. She got to retrain herself."
(9:17:58 AM) Ikiryo: "Right. I do not like this." She struts after Reise.
(9:19:19 AM) Reise: "I don't blame you. I wouldn't either. And for what it's worth, I'm sorry that your good deed backfired so poorly...but, y'know. Daemon lords."
(9:20:09 AM) Ikiryo: "They are...rather unpleasent." She pauses. "I can't swear. Oh bother."
(9:20:47 AM) Reise: "Baby steps. Figuratively, of course, since you probably can't take anything other than a runway walk either."
(9:21:18 AM) Ikiryo: "I don't think most runways have this much sway. I think? I don't watch them much."
(9:22:25 AM) Reise: "Oh they most certainly do. Each step you're supposed to try to stomp through the floor, and swing each leg enough to cross your feet. Like this." She demonstrates--even in her armor she nails the walk, swinging her shoulders and almost stomping and so on.
(9:23:03 AM) Ikiryo: She watches, staring...her own steps mimicing it...as Reise watches her eyes glaze slightly.
(9:24:32 AM) Reise: "Alright, that's enough of that, c'mon. Don't go all brainless on me now."
(9:25:09 AM) Ikiryo: "Brainless..." She giggles slightly.
(9:25:45 AM) Reise: "Fuck. No, hello, Carol. C'mon back to me here."
(9:26:15 AM) Ikiryo: She blinks a few times, looking at Reise. Her eyes are still a little glazed but less so than a moment ago. "Huh?"
(9:29:55 AM) Reise: "Alright. Focus on being you here--I mean, really focus. If you let it, the Slaanesh stuff takes over."
(9:30:20 AM) Ikiryo: She nods. "Right...that was weird. Like my head was full of toffee..."
(9:32:20 AM) Reise: She nods. "For now, just keep actively thinking about something close to you. The hammer, Sigmar, something. We're close to the chapel anyway."
(9:33:08 AM) Ikiryo: "Right. I am terribly sorry to have you deal with this. Can I help in any way?"
(9:35:46 AM) ***Reise shakes her head. "Just let's see what there is to salvage in the chapel. Here we are, by the way." She helps Carol and her new figure through the ruined entrance.
(9:36:39 AM) Ikiryo: She looks about. "It's a...strange...feeling. I'm suprised Linny recovered from this...then again, telling a werewolf to do anything seems like a pointless task." She looks about the chapel, frowning.
(9:38:43 AM) Reise: "Well, again, she's had a couple years to fight it. You've had a couple minutes."
(9:41:53 AM) Ikiryo: She nods. "It rather makes me want to...make out with you."
(9:46:32 AM) Ikiryo: She blushes heavily.
(9:57:40 AM) Reise: "This is going to sound really conceited, but...I get that a lot. I'm pretty sure it's the Slaanesh talking, especially if you're not normally into girls." She doesn't sound teasing, hurt, or anything except stating a fact. "Anyway...what do you think of the shrine here?"
(9:58:43 AM) Ikiryo: "...I...huh?" She was busy staring at Reise.
(10:00:07 AM) Reise: "Temple, Carol. What do you think about the temple?"
(10:00:50 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh, it's very clearly that of a sigmarite sect, not one of the ones I know too well but sigmarite for sure. He's known by many names on many planets."
(10:05:07 AM) Reise: "Right. And do you think the altar can be repaired?"
(10:06:20 AM) Ikiryo: "...hmm...we don't have many skilled stonemasons, a bit primitive for our use." She sways about the room, her hips and tail moving opposite directions. "However we do have some patch nanomachines we use for hull breaches. We might be able to rig up the broken peices using that..."
(10:08:51 AM) Reise: "Right, sounds like a plan. All that's left is the library, if you want to see."
(10:09:28 AM) Ikiryo: "I'd love to see anything you want to show me~" She pauses. "...that sounded so very wrong."
(10:26:20 AM) Reise: "Yeah, well...alright. Make a note for the altar, then walk this way." She heads out and toward the library, almost unconsciously returning to her catwalk gait. It's not that she's trying to show Carol, but the modeling instincts Reise has had to grow are professionally offended and trying to subtly instruct Carol.
(10:26:53 AM) Ikiryo: Carol nods. "Alright..." She falls in behind Reise...watching her sway, eyes glazing slightly...
(10:32:50 AM) ***Reise arrives in the library after a few minutes, deriving some deep level of satisfaction from their matching footfalls. She turns around...and her face falls. "...Carol?"
(10:33:42 AM) Ikiryo: Carol smiles at her, her eyes a bit glazed. Reise gets to watch her for a moment walking perfectly, just like her. It does make her rather proud in some part of her. "Hmm...yes?"
(10:35:10 AM) Ikiryo: She seems alright...
(10:39:08 AM) Reise: "...This is the library, in case it wasn't obvious."
(10:39:25 AM) ***Reise hates herself a little bit...but it's only going to be a couple more hours...
(10:40:30 AM) Ikiryo: "I figured, yes~" Her smile widens. Despite the glazed look in her eyes, she seems rather aware.
(10:44:09 AM) Reise: "Somewhere around here is a way to get in to a room, but the last time I found anything it was via trapdoor, and I'm honestly not sure how else to get out of it, so...stick close while I find the release."
(10:44:30 AM) Ikiryo: "Of course~" She nods "I'll try not to fall in any holes~"
(10:46:14 AM) Feldi|Dinner left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(10:48:37 AM) Reise: "Good girl." She pats her on the head, right between the ears, almost without thinking about it--then recoils slightly.
(10:50:09 AM) Ikiryo: She shivers. "That felt...very nice."
(10:53:23 AM) ***Reise sighs and delivers another headpat.
(10:54:14 AM) Ikiryo: She smiles as she's petted. "...I'll almost miss the ears at this rate."
(10:58:18 AM) ***Reise chuckles gently. "They *are* really cute...but, uh, that's a weakness of mine, so..." She runs her lip around her lips for a moment, then nods. "C'mon, let's get that trapdoor open."
(10:58:57 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh? They are a weakness...why?" She stays close to Reise...
(11:06:56 AM) Reise: "I dunno," she half-squirms in her armor. "The girl I want to date is a tengu so she has bird wings...my best friend on Sigil is a ctarl-ctarl, a...friend...from another sphere got stuck as a jackal-girl for a while, here's you...it just is." She leads her to the spot among the shelves that had triggered the trap door last time, and pulls the secret book again.
(11:08:09 AM) Ikiryo: The trap door swings open with less screaming and falling this time. "That is very interesting~" She stays with Reise, almost pressed up against her, watching her movements like she wants to learn from her.
(11:12:28 AM) Reise: "And there it goes...I think they said there was a ladder? Let's go see." She heads over, Carol practically clinging to her and still matching her gait.
(11:14:54 AM) Ikiryo: Her swaying hips matching Reise's on the runway. "Alright~ As weird as this has been...I've liked a lot of what I've seen~"
(11:16:57 AM) Ikiryo: Her voice just near where Reise's ear would be if she wasn't wearing her helmet.
(11:20:05 AM) Reise: Her helmet is indeed off, and she shivers slightly at the purring into her ear, red tinting her cheeks again. "...Uh...good? Where was I...oh. The, uh, room. The map button makes the suits of armor in here come to life."
(11:20:36 AM) Ikiryo: "That's facinating...what's under the armour?~"
(11:26:38 AM) Reise: The red in her cheeks flares way up. "Uuuhhhhhh. I...have no idea, didn't look inside."
(11:35:02 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh, would you like to look together?~"
(11:38:16 AM) Reise: "Ssssure, let's do that." She backs away from the trap door to angle Carol toward one of the armor suits.
(11:40:09 AM) Ikiryo: Carol stays by her side. Her movements are really triggering her 'Dealing with a rookie model' instincts.
(11:40:40 AM) Ikiryo: The armour is heavy steel plate, very solid looking.
(11:49:34 AM) ***Reise finds herself giving Carol little nonverbal tips, little nudges and prods here and there to get her to carry herself better or improve her posture. "Alright...off with its head." She grasps the helmet to one armor suit and pulls.
(11:51:31 AM) Ikiryo: It takes some pulling from the pair until the head comes off in Carol's hands...sending her impressive bust jiggling.
(12:00:07 PM) Feldi [[email protected]] entered the room.
(12:00:30 PM) ***Reise whistles in admiration.
(12:01:21 PM) Ikiryo: She smiles at Reise. "Anything you like the look of there?~"
(12:02:44 PM) ***Reise makes a show of peering into the armor, though her eyes keep ducking looks at Carol. "Lot of, uh...stuff to get a handle on."
(12:03:51 PM) Ikiryo: "Sure, I'm willing to anything you want to help there~"
(12:07:55 PM) Ikiryo: The suits seem to be empty, save for runes all over the metal.
(12:20:24 PM) MaximusPrime [[email protected]] entered the room.