(11:00:12 AM) Feldi: Mouth dyed with the blood of the strange creatures living underneath the castle, Linny looks out at the city from atop one of the taller buildings in the abandoned city. She groans as a wave of a familiar toffee feeling hits her, filling her mind and body, even as her natural werewolf toughness and her hard-won resistance works to counter it.
(11:00:49 AM) Feldi: Soon enough, her scars are gone again and the tunic she was wearing is stretched out again at the front, her figure returning to its new 'normal.'
(11:01:13 AM) Feldi: She sighs looking down at herself.  "It was fun while it lasted....better call Eisen now that she'll know it's me."
(11:01:26 AM) Feldi: She taps the comm link to see how that's even done.
(11:04:22 AM) Ikiryo: She...presses buttons, most likely? A large holographic display appears in front of her.
(11:08:44 AM) Feldi: Linny takes it all in for a long moment, before typing in Ministry of War.
(11:08:50 AM) Feldi: 'Ministry of War.'
(11:13:05 AM) Ikiryo: It's not long until a call starts, a human secretary appearing. Judging by his looks, he got a similar 'underwear model' treatment to Linny herself. "Welcome to the Bureau of War, how can we help make someone's day a lot shorter?"
(11:14:23 AM) Feldi: "I'm calling to talk to someone in the Weapon Research and Development team. Eisen?"
(11:15:50 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh, Tiffany? We just got done re-naming her workshop."
(11:19:00 AM) Feldi: "Oh, right." She says, deadpan. "I'd forgotten. Tiffany, please."
(11:20:32 AM) Ikiryo: "Of course, can do! I'll transfer you right away!" He smiles, dimly. Linny is pretty sure he's not resisting as well as she is.
(11:24:59 AM) Feldi: Sadly, few do. She waits for the call to connect.
(11:26:46 AM) Ikiryo: It's not long until the call does through. It looks like Eisen hasn't noticed it, since she's a good distance from the camera. She's leaned over a table, working on a weapon dressed in cargo pants and a bikini top that hides none of her figure.
(11:30:35 AM) Feldi: "So, this is how you dress now, Body Shots?" Linny says, her eyes trailing up and down Eisen's figure. The time away from her Excess-damned body and its toffee-brain feeling don't even make her feel a little guilty about it.
(11:30:54 AM) Feldi: Though, Eisen was a 'safe' one.
(11:31:26 AM) Ikiryo: It's a very impressive figure, curvy...but somehow managed to keep her abs and impressive muscles.
(11:31:42 AM) Ikiryo: Eisen jolts up, sending her bust jiggling. "Linny?"
(11:33:35 AM) Feldi: Linny finds herself licking her lips as Eisen turns around, showing her those lickable abs, and she knows just how lickable they are. "Tiffany~" She purrs back, before she can stop herself.
(11:34:34 AM) Ikiryo: "Eisen." She growls back, trying to look murderous but more smouldering.
(11:36:07 AM) Feldi: "That's not what the receptionist said." She replies. "But to me, you will always be Eisen." Her voice loses its purring quality, as she speaks, as she regains control of herself.
(11:38:51 AM) Ikiryo: She heads over to the desk the camera is on, giving Linny a very good look at her figure up close before she sits down. "So, what brings the Chihuahua calling?" She smirk.
(11:44:02 AM) Feldi: Linny swallows at the sight, crossing her arms below her own prodigious bust, pushing it up unconsciously. "I know how much you love killing Angels, and it just so happens some friends and I need something that would rip one to shreds."
(11:45:01 AM) Ikiryo: She shivers at that comment, licking her plump lips...leaning forward unconsciously and giving Linny a view of deep cleavage. "Kill an Angel? Now I'm very interested~"
(11:50:34 AM) Feldi: "It's not just any Angel. It's a very powerful one, more powerful than the idiots who taunt us by flying over the wall to show us their tail-feathers, and leave with them singed or ripped off~ I need something /powerful/ for this, Eisen~" She watches Eisen lick her lips intently, eyes dipping to appreciate Eisen's deep cleavage as it dips back into her mouth.
(11:51:22 AM) Ikiryo: "A powerful, murderous weapon~" She almost moans out.
(11:55:27 AM) Feldi: "That's just what I need, Eisen. Something that reduce an Angel to nothing but.  A. Charred. Lump~" She grins toothily at Eisen, eyes hooded.
(11:56:16 AM) Ikiryo: She bites her lip, nodding. "That would be such...wonderful...devastation~"
(11:58:42 AM) Feldi: "Apocalyptic~" She drawls out. "Do you know anything that could manage that, Eisen? Something that would make an Angel cry just to see it?~"
(12:00:22 PM) Ikiryo: She shivers, nodding. "So many options, many lost but so many~" She shivers as Linny draws the word apocalyptic out.
(12:01:26 PM) Feldi: "Tell me all about them, Eisen. With all the gory detail~"
(12:02:23 PM) Ikiryo: "Old weapons? Or what I could make?~" She licks her lips again.
(12:07:32 PM) Feldi: "Which would be the most powerful?" She asks, leaning forward with a grin.
(12:07:50 PM) Feldi: "I want nothing to be left after I use it~"
(12:08:58 PM) Ikiryo: "Depends how much time you give me. If you gave me a few months I could make a weapon that would reduce an angel to ragged, red meat...still alive but unable to experiance anything but dismembered agony~" She shudders, sending her bust jiggling.
(12:23:06 PM) Feldi: "That sounds wonderful~ And I'd /love/ to see it used one day~ But I need something in a week, maybe less." She watches Eisen's bust bounce, a part of her wishing it wasn't just an image before her. "Something powerful, fast~"
(12:25:27 PM) Ikiryo: "Ah, I can get you runed blades in a day. Long, hard hours of work but not too had. It won't do that sort of damage but it will cut through a lot of the bullshit toughness~" She smiles widely. "Beyond that, there are old artefacts...many of them lost but not all~"
(12:26:42 PM) Feldi: "I'm sure my friends would love to hold one of your blades in their hands~ But tell me about these artefacts, anything...special?~"
(12:36:27 PM) Ikiryo: "A few lost weapons of fantastic power. This world was always great for it's artefacts. Khartoth the Hungerer and the Blade of Endless Bloodshed~" She shivers happily, running her hands down her curves as she talks about them.
(12:42:00 PM) Feldi: I would love to get my hands on those~" She says, watching Eisen's hands trail down her amazing figure. "But where are the weapons?~"
(12:44:58 PM) Ikiryo: "Khartoth is long lost in a battle with holy forces~" She bites her lip. "It is a weapon that not only devours blood but the time of it's opponents. Each strike makes them slower and slower...until they are frozen in the moment of death, a motionless fountain of...ah...blood~ Forever."
(12:48:33 PM) Feldi: Linny sighs longingly at the thought of it. "What about the Blade of Endless Bloodshed?~"
(12:53:31 PM) Ikiryo: "A blade quenced in the blood of a dozen rival gorepriests and tested by slaying an angel, forever. Wounds it causes never stop bleeding, even angels will bleed thier essence out...it's weilder able to sup upon that essence to gain it themselves~" She lets out a low moan.
(12:59:57 PM) Feldi: Now that sends a shiver down Linny's spine and a groan from her lips. "Ahh~ I can't think of anything sweeter to do to this Angel~ Where can I find that Blade?~"
(1:01:02 PM) Ikiryo: "It's...ah...it's in the vaults of War, under lock and key~" She runs her hands along her curves again. "Close~"
(1:02:25 PM) Feldi: She squeezes her arms together under her bust, drawing Eisen's gaze to her even as she watches Eisen trace her own curves with dark eyes. "Could you get it for me, Eisen?~"
(1:05:02 PM) Ikiryo: Her eyes are very much drawn to it "I don't have authority...I'm not one of the Bureau chiefs. I know where it is but I can't touch it." She shakes her head.
(1:05:38 PM) Ikiryo: "Security is too tight for me to just take."
(1:08:50 PM) Feldi: "Are you saying I'll have to come and take it myself, Eisen?~ Fight my way through the Bureau of War to claim what I want?~"
(1:09:01 PM) Feldi: "Through fire and blood?"
(1:10:14 PM) Ikiryo: She opens her mouth...and lets out a moan. "Yyeesss~"
(1:18:20 PM) Feldi: Linny only barely suppresses a groan of her own with a bitten lip, biting hard enough to draw blood.
(1:18:39 PM) Ikiryo: "I'd love to see you do that~"
(1:19:03 PM) Feldi: "You won't have to wait long~"
(1:20:22 PM) Ikiryo: "Good, slaughter cannot wait~" Her eyes watch the blood flowing down Linny's chin, breathing heavily.
(1:21:08 PM) Feldi: "I'll see you soon, Eisen~" She licks some of the blood from her lips and then shuts down that call.
(1:22:18 PM) Ikiryo: She hears a small chuckle from elsewhere in the room. "Oh my, now THAT was a show~" She recognises that voice. Eloise, the Sister 'Archeologist'.
(1:23:17 PM) Ikiryo: *elsewhere on the rooftop.
(1:23:53 PM) Feldi: Wiping off the rest off the blood on her palm, Linny turns around to wear she hears the voice coming from.
(1:25:21 PM) Ikiryo: She watches a space in the air shimmer and shift...a camoline cloak and something to hide her scent. She appears, sitting on top of a wall. "I heard someone talking about artifacts~"
(1:26:38 PM) Feldi: Linny looks her up and down, and not in the way she was doing to Eisen earlier. But like one predator sizing up another.
(1:28:22 PM) Feldi: "Fuck off." She says after a moment and jumps off the roof.
(1:55:52 PM) Feldi: Some time later, and with plenty of sniffs around the room (and a braced door), Linny drains some of her blood into a bowl, in order to call upon Queen Asylla's spirit in the Umbra.
(1:58:55 PM) Ikiryo: The blood shifts, becoming the ink blackness of the water of the river...before revealing Leoric's tomb. Asylla is there...but she's not answering the call. Instead, a dark shadow figure is standing in front of her with a blade of ice in it's hands. While shadows, it's not the void that makes up any of the now revealed to be angels...
(1:59:29 PM) Ikiryo: Asylla gives a tiny glance towards Linny...but doesn't act like she notices it beyond slightly moving to block the figures view of it.
(2:05:30 PM) Feldi: Linny stays silent, taking Asylla's glance as a signal to do so.
(2:06:07 PM) Ikiryo: The smell...she knows this scent, though from two seperate places. The more overwhelming scent is that of the Greater Dead. Beings who have spurned death for so long that they have grown greatly in power, easily a match for a daemon prince. This is an uncommonly humanoid one, most of them warped beyond recognisability as what they once were.
(2:07:05 PM) Ikiryo: The second odd scent she gets...wraithbone and the same scent she gets from Uytana. Well, the non-fear scent.
(2:08:38 PM) Ikiryo: The figure looks at the Werewolf, nodding to her respectfully. "So, have you thought about my offer? Your husband's mind for that of the Abhorson and her bells?"
(2:09:16 PM) Feldi: The first part of the smell makes her rankle her nose and shifts her eyes to yellow.  The second...makes her think.
(2:10:21 PM) Ikiryo: She nods. "I have...it is a tempting offer...but one I must deny. My husband would not wish to dwell beyond his time, to stay and harm others. He would not wish to become as you." Her mouth turns up in a snarl at the figure.
(2:14:40 PM) Ikiryo: The figure tilts it's head. "You are rather rude, to someone who came under a banner of peace and swore to do no harm. I do believe you are making a mistake." It's voice is rich and aristocratic.
(2:15:22 PM) Feldi: If there's any kind of voice that would make Linny more likely to want to punch them in the face, it would be a rich, aristocratic one.
(2:15:45 PM) Ikiryo: "Perhaps but it is my mistake to make. Now leave. If we see each other again, I will not ignore my Luna-given duty and I will Hunt." She crosses her scarred arms in front of her.
(2:17:42 PM) Ikiryo: "Very well. I will, however, give you one last bit of advice." The figure leans in close to her. "I do not respect oaths of peace." Asylla gasps as the sword of ice shoots foward without him actually touching it...impaling her. "If you will not cooperate, your husband will serve."
(2:17:56 PM) Ikiryo: Ice is spreading along her body...starting to entomb her.
(2:18:55 PM) Ikiryo: Watching it rather than being there, Linny notices something before the two distracted figures. The tomb is shaking...and Leoric has laid a hand on his mace, as tall as a man.
(2:19:39 PM) Feldi: Perhaps she should have held it in. But she doesn't.
(2:20:01 PM) Feldi: Linny laughs, a terrible laugh that would make her old body proud.
(2:21:23 PM) Ikiryo: The figure turns...staring at Linny with eyes of ice-blue flame. A coldness and a darkness beyond almost anything she's seen in the river. Even among the greater dead, whatever this is...it's a monster. It's also turned it's back on the slowly rising Leoric...
(2:22:54 PM) Feldi: Linny grins back at him and gives him a big exaggerated wave. "Hello~"
(2:22:58 PM) Feldi: "And goodbye~"
(2:24:01 PM) Ikiryo: "Good..." The words are interrupted by a mace as large as the figure slamming into it, the weapon and the figure impacting a wall hard enough to crack it from one end of the tomb to the other.
(2:25:52 PM) Feldi: Linny watches with a certain glee.
(2:27:06 PM) Ikiryo: The mace pulls back for another strike...the figure rising, somehow still able to stand after that hit...but pushed back by each strike as it calls up black shadows to try to block the hits. It's blade is still embedded in the werewolf queen, unable to be used to defend itself.
(2:30:08 PM) Ikiryo: A green haired man steps out from behind the dais where Leoric's body lay. An Eldarin. He's wearing white trousers and shirt under a dark green waistcoat, jacket and a long white and green scarf. His scruffy looking dark green hair doesn't look like it's been combed any time recently and he's got a large friendly grin on his face.
(2:30:08 PM) Ikiryo: He puts a finger in front of his lips in a shushing gesture...and starts to pull the blade from Asylla's stomach, the ice retreating as he does. She starts to stand as the tomb of ice breaks about her.
(2:31:46 PM) Feldi: Linny continues to watch, folding her arms under her bust.
(2:31:49 PM) Ikiryo: As the ice breaks, the pair nod at each other...as the sound of the black figure being slammed into another wall echos through the tomb and the Eldarin vanishes in a shimmering image of a ticking clock.
(2:32:29 PM) Ikiryo: Asylla growls, her form shifting as she gains mass...white hair growing along her as she becomes a wolf the size of a small bus.
(2:33:52 PM) Ikiryo: The black figure looks between the skeletal figure forcing him eternally backwards with sweeping smashes and the huge werewolf. "Oh...bother." He sinks into his own shadow, the ice blade following him and flees into the River.
(2:36:47 PM) Feldi: Linny looks to Leoric, to see what he will do now that he has no enemy to fight.
(2:37:21 PM) Ikiryo: Linny watches Asylla start to shift back...starting to sing a gentle lullaby as Leoric smashes at the room about him, nearly hitting her a few times. It's several minutes and a several near deaths before he staggers...and falls to the ground, his rib cage moving up and down in a parody of sleep for the skeleton.
(2:38:08 PM) Ikiryo: She manages to get him back to his dais, singing some more before she heads over towards Linny's communication...bowing deeply to the other werewolf.
(2:40:27 PM) Feldi: Linny bows back, just as deeply, as is proper.
(2:40:55 PM) Ikiryo: "Thank you for your aid, young one. I owe you a debt of blood."
(2:49:25 PM) Feldi: "You honor me, Queen Asylla."
(2:51:23 PM) Ikiryo: "Only as much as you deserve to be honored for your actions."
(3:02:35 PM) Feldi: Linny smiles and tilts her head, baring her neck to the Queen, accepting her words. "I was calling you to ask for your aid in a matter, but I am glad Luna guided me to call at the right moment."
(3:09:57 PM) Ikiryo: She nods. "I am glad you were as well. How may I aid you?"
(3:15:35 PM) Feldi: "There were two things I wished to ask of you.  The first was for your blessing for a ritual I may be performing tonight, to take on the injuries of a friend of one of those you met yesterday."
(3:16:14 PM) Ikiryo: "Did the friend gain these injuries bravely?"
(3:18:13 PM) Feldi: "She withstood great torture, with soulsteel, without screaming."
(3:18:19 PM) Feldi: Which is probably true.
(3:18:27 PM) Feldi: As she had no voice with which to do so.
(3:19:19 PM) Ikiryo: She raises an eyebrow, catching the unsaid words. "Do you truly believe this girl is worthy of such a gift?"
(3:22:07 PM) Feldi: "Given who she travels with, there's no doubt that she is worthy, and injuring the body I have been cursed with reduces the weight of the gift I give regardless."
(3:23:35 PM) Ikiryo: "...I give approval...but contingent on an order. Make sure she is worthy." She nods though.
(3:24:46 PM) Feldi: "I will do so. Thank you.  The second boon I ask of you...did you or your husband ever fight with the Angels?"
(3:26:07 PM) Ikiryo: "My husband fights will all now...but before...I, myself, had met angels under less than polite circumstances." She nods
(3:32:23 PM) Feldi: "Did you ever meet with an Angel of Hope, with the voice of a man?
(3:36:11 PM) Ikiryo: She nods. "I have not fought, no...but I have met such."
(3:43:26 PM) Feldi: "Any that expressed a hatred of death, or of the Eternal War?
(3:43:26 PM) Feldi: "
(3:44:59 PM) Ikiryo: "Many angels spoke of a hatred of the Eternal War...but in a desire to end it with the destruction of demons, mostly." She frowns. "...a hatred of death...that vaguely feels like something I've encountered before..."
(3:46:32 PM) Feldi: "Do you remember an Angel with a hatred of Death, and a desire for the war to end, by any means, without defeating the demons?"
(3:49:59 PM) Ikiryo: "Hmm...a moment. Centuries of memories are sometimes hard to sort." She nods
(3:50:40 PM) Feldi: Linny waits patiently.
(3:52:46 PM) Ikiryo: "Jophiel. Not of Hope but close. Of enlightenment."
(3:56:37 PM) Feldi: "Jophiel...can you tell me anything about them?"
(3:58:15 PM) Ikiryo: "He believed mortals went through three stages in life. That first they cared not for gods, as they were like children who didn't know any better. Then they were moral but not faithful, as they believed morality was enough. Finally, they accepted that above any self-set morals there was gods and they accepted their place." She nods "He was an odd one."
(4:00:52 PM) Ikiryo: "He beleived that most mortals, even those who claim to have faith, never pass through the first stage as they are simply attracted by apperances and what they feel they like. That the angels should help them improve."
(4:03:34 PM) Feldi: Linny frowns. "As the Angels rarely come down from their 'Heaven,' I doubt they listened to him."
(4:04:19 PM) Ikiryo: "They did not, no. Some argued for free will being more important...mostly simply did not wish to engage with mortals."
(4:05:41 PM) Feldi: Linny nods, already piecing together the rest of the tale in her head. Even Angels are predictable. "Did he suddenly go missing one day?"
(4:06:37 PM) Ikiryo: She shakes her head. "He was reported slain in battle with the demon who has become the new master of this world."
(4:10:08 PM) Feldi: One side of Linny's mouth quirks up. "I think reports of his death were greatly exaggerated."
(4:14:22 PM) Ikiryo: "Oh, yes?" She raises an eyebrow
(4:19:39 PM) Feldi: "The new 'master' of this world couldn't have killed Jophiel, as he is Jophiel, inverted to disguise himself. Enlightenment, disguised as Hopelessness, using demons to help him 'improve' humanity, while casting everyone else aside." Her eyes flicker to their yellow tinge, as her anger rises.
(4:20:47 PM) Ikiryo: "...you have seen this? This is very grave indeed..." She nods, narrowing her eyebrows.
(4:24:10 PM) Feldi: "Do you know of a ritual that would force him to reveal himself, or a weapon to stab into his heart?" The last is said with a low growl, Linny shifting uncomfortably as her anger at the Lord of Hopelessness calls at the rage at the heart of her Luna-granted gift.
(4:26:59 PM) Ikiryo: "Hmmm...my claws have served me well enough the few times I have fought an angel...but..hmm...there are rituals that can force shapechangers to discard all illusions and deception."
(4:29:42 PM) Feldi: "While I'd love to see him bleed from my own claws, there's something I want first, to have him see everything he's built burning to ruin around him. If I can reveal him as an Angel, the Demons will do that for me."
(4:31:09 PM) Ikiryo: "I know a ritual that could help but it's limited. It's normally done on a tied up person...you would need to keep him in the area for the duration of the spell without him leaving. Or without him knowing it is happening."
(4:34:35 PM) Feldi: "I think the people you met yesterday can help me do either one."
(4:35:50 PM) Ikiryo: She nods. "I will be happy to teach the ritual, in that case."
(4:36:16 PM) Feldi: The yellow in Linny's eyes fades. "Thank you, Queen Asylla."
(4:38:10 PM) Ikiryo: She nods to the other werewolf, deeply and respectfully.
(4:38:37 PM) Feldi: Linny returns the gesture, just the same.