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  1. 01[18:13] <SpaceThor> Lashvel gets a message from Saint Jimothy not long after, wanting her to meet him at his restaurant.
  2. [18:15] <Lashvel_Orinei> She glances at it, nodding... and heads out to it, head held high. She can trust the saint--mostly... and she hopes he's managed to do what she asked.
  3. 01[18:17] <SpaceThor> The Saint is waiting for you as you arrive. "Okay, I've got a meet set up here with Enmul, one of the Outer Court of Thirteen. That's about as close as I can get you, I don't have any pull with the inner court."
  4. [18:26] <Lashvel_Orinei> She nods. "That's fine, Saint. I understand, believe me." She purses her lips... and slides across a series of letters to him. "If I don't come back, do give these to my servant, my cultists... and the rest of my group. You understand."
  5. 01[18:27] <SpaceThor> "I do. Good luck, and powder room is set up if you want to freshen up for the meet. It'll be in about two hours."
  6. [18:29] <Lashvel_Orinei> "Thank you again, saint." She smiles at him--almost honest--and goes to do just that. She has to make sure her face is on the best... even if for some of it, she just spends staring into the mirror..
  7. 01[18:34] <SpaceThor> Two hours later, the time comes for the meeting.
  8. [18:39] <Lashvel_Orinei> She stragithens her back and heads to the room for it, face neutral.
  9. 01[18:42] <SpaceThor> Inside a private room Saint Jimothy set up for you is an Ebon Devil, lanky and eyeless with long fangs. "You are my petitioner, yes?"
  10. [18:46] <Lashvel_Orinei> "I am, Ebon Enmul, Outer Courtier," the gilded devil says respectuflly.
  11. 01[18:47] <SpaceThor> "I am told you seek an audience with Himself? A bold move, though I understand you are a powerful gilded devil."
  12. [18:50] <Lashvel_Orinei> She smiles softly. "One does not obtain power as I have without a certain amount of boldness and bravado--and one does not keep it without the ability to back that up, hmm?"
  13. 01[18:52] <SpaceThor> "You are, of course, correct, but beware of hubris. It has claimed too many who mistook it for strength. Now, I have the ability to vouch for your meeting with the Ruler of Devils, but I do not give such things lightly. A favor must be done."
  14. [18:53] <Lashvel_Orinei> "I would expect no less," she says. "What needs must be done for you, oh Ebon Enmul?"
  15. 01[18:54] <SpaceThor> "You have had contact with a particular outcast war devil, one who has repeatedly earned my wroth. Pudding Niraal Benedict."
  16. [18:56] <Lashvel_Orinei> She quirks an eyebrow. "I'm familiar with Pudding, yes. I've fought both alongside and against him at varying times. YOu wish him dealt with?"
  17. 01[18:58] <SpaceThor> "He has shattered the masks of two of my favorite courtiers and sent them screaming back into the Flame. His continued existence is an insult to me, but I doubt you have the strength needed to best him on your own. What I would like you to do is give him up to me, and lead him to a location of my choosing so that I may banish him myself."
  18. [18:59] <Lashvel_Orinei> She nods. "A pity to lose him as a potential pawn of my own, but power always comes at cost. I agree to this."
  19. 01[19:01] <SpaceThor> "Excellent. Here is a location. Bring him there, I will be waiting." He hands you a map, with a location marked in the Shades.
  20. [19:03] <Lashvel_Orinei> "Understood," she says. "A pleasure doing business."
  21. 01[19:04] <SpaceThor> Enmul stands, lanky form extending to well over eight feet tall, and moves out of the business. Jimothy approaches you. "Everything go well?"
  22. [19:08] <Lashvel_Orinei> She nods. "Mmm, well as could be expected. Do you happen to know where PUdding might be?"
  23. 01[19:10] <SpaceThor> "Pudding? No idea right now, but I could look into it."
  24. [19:12] <Lashvel_Orinei> "If you don't mind? You're truly a treasure, Saint Jimothy, worthy of the name in every way." She's not sarcastic, probably.
  25. 01[20:08] <SpaceThor> The next day, Saint Jimothy sends you a message. It reads: "Got a credible lead on Pudding in the lower Shades, he apparently was spotted taking on some Belligerent Knights in the area. Look for the fresh ruins.
  26. [20:09] <Lashvel_Orinei> She has a cultist run ar eply--a thanks--to Jimothy... and stikes out towards the Lower Shades, bow and sword prepared.
  27. 01[20:12] <SpaceThor> The denizens of this part of the Lower Shades seem to have all fled, the neighborhood is eerily quiet, and the shattered buildings and bloodstained streets make it look like a war went on here.
  28. [20:17] <Lashvel_Orinei> "Because it basically did, you silly girl," she mutters to herself as she looks around. "Pudding! I know you're here! Show yourself!"
  29. 01[20:19] <SpaceThor> One of the ruins shifts, and the colossal war devil yawns. "Little Gilded one, we meet again. Here to fight?"
  30. [20:21] <Lashvel_Orinei> She grins widely at him. "I may not be a Red anymore, but sometimes one grows tired of the battle of courts and wants to feel the blood flowing right again!" She taunts. "But the question is, do you think you can catch me to crush me?~"
  31. 01[20:23] <SpaceThor> "Hah, not even a question." He cracks his back, which takes about three straight minutes.
  32. [20:24] <Lashvel_Orinei> She grins. "Then let's see who wins this one, Pudding!" She says, giving him time for that--and then striking off, with taunts flowing as free as arrows from her bow.
  33. 01[20:26] <SpaceThor> The arrows seem to do far less than the taunts, Pudding charging headlong after you. Several buildings go down as he pushes through important structural components, and their denizens are forced to flee the devastation.
  34. [20:27] <Lashvel_Orinei> "No apologies!" She calls out to the denizens, heading towards the drop-off location with... a surprisingly heavy laugh. This *is* fun to her; the chase, the taunts... what humans would describe as 'feeling alive'.
  35. 01[20:28] <SpaceThor> A piece of masonry smacks into you as you contemplate your feelings.
  36. [20:29] <Lashvel_Orinei> "DAMNATION" She cries out, the masonry shredding her *lovely* dress, though at least it's still mostly intact enough. "You aimed for my hem on purpose, Pudding!" She calls after him, voice slipping very slightly in a Dark Speach Brogue.
  37. 01[20:31] <SpaceThor> "I NEVER lose!" He roars.
  38. [20:32] <Lashvel_Orinei> "And neither have I--and I don't plan to start now!" She crows, jumping from fallen masonry to fallen masrony as she keeps peppering him with arrows...
  39. 01[20:35] <SpaceThor> He follows you, and you notice, slightly too late, that you're at the address Enmul provided. The lanky ebon springs his trap, beginning to gloat "Finally, Pudding Niraal Benedict, I shall send you back to the flame where y-" His gloating is cut off by a bus-sized chunk of masonry crushing him. Pudding missed.
  40. [20:38] <Lashvel_Orinei> She stares for a moment, making a strangling noise. "YOU MISSED ME! YOU ENCHANTABLE NINCOMPETENT GALLBEARER!" And here comes the black speech. She takes s abreath, however. "Fine. Fine! Then we'll have to actually fight. Blast."
  41. 01[20:39] <SpaceThor> Pudding catches up. "Huh, who was that?"
  42. [20:42] <Lashvel_Orinei> "Enmul," she says with a sigh. "Ebon, one of the Outer Courtiers. He was my in to try and get a meeting with Himself, and now he's... quite discorporeal. He wanted me to draw you towards him so he could kill you for some slight or another." She sighs theatrically. Of course, he had to be as theatrical as I would have been and do a speech instead of looking out for incoming buildings."
  43. [20:42] <Lashvel_Orinei> "More people die against you that way, I imagine."
  44. 01[20:44] <SpaceThor> "Enmul? Tall, skinny prick right?"
  45. [20:45] <Lashvel_Orinei> "Yeah, yeah. Ebon, full of himself as all the Ebons are."
  46. 01[20:48] <SpaceThor> "Why'd you even need him anyway? I just talk to Himself whenever I want."
  47. [20:48] <Lashvel_Orinei> "I guess I'll have to find another co--wait, you do what?"
  48. 01[20:48] <SpaceThor> "You never heard why the Court doesn't like me?"
  49. [20:49] <Lashvel_Orinei> "No, I hadn't..."
  50. 01[20:52] <SpaceThor> "Me and a bunch of other devils tried to spring Himself a few centuries back. Almost got him too."
  51. 01[20:53] <SpaceThor> "I'm the last of my group, a living embarassment to the Heretic's Court."
  52. [20:54] <Lashvel_Orinei> "Huh! That would've made the history books if you had." She grins a bit. "... And honeslty knowing that I'm rather glad you crushed him, something like that is *so* much more entertainign to leave alive than to let some grudge-bearing ebon kill. Can you get me in to see Himself, then?"
  53. 01[20:56] <SpaceThor> "I can, but there's a condition."
  54. 01[20:56] <SpaceThor> "I'm sure you've heard that recently."
  55. [20:58] <Lashvel_Orinei> "I have, and I am used to it."
  56. 01[20:59] <SpaceThor> "Join me in being an outcast. Work with me to take down the Court and free Himself. Or, if that's not acceptable to you, try your best to kill me and take the pieces of my mask to the Court. Either way you get your meeting, unless I turn you into paste."
  57. [21:01] <Lashvel_Orinei> She lets out a breath. "I'm going to be entirely honest with you, Pudding. I'm not a fan of the court," she says. "The politics, the power plays--ironic, from a gilded devil, sin't it? They try to apply *order* and *reason* to Devils. They make sure we're only ever just that. And I'm tired of it." She grins wide. "That... and the first choic esounds *so much more entertaining* than just
  58. [21:01] <Lashvel_Orinei> fighting you would be~"
  59. 01[21:01] <SpaceThor> "Hah, spoken like a true rebel! If you're good making an enemy of all proper devils, I'll show you the way."
  60. [21:03] <Lashvel_Orinei> She snorts derisively. "Is the proper devil one who stands lockstep with others, or one who forges their own way in chaos? Show me the way, Pudding."
  61. 01[21:07] <SpaceThor> Pudding grins, his giant red mask terrifying in its smile. He begins to walk deeper into the shades. "We found this place a long long time ago, we think it leads to a fragment of Himself's cage, or maybe a leak in reality where he can perceive us."
  62. [21:10] <Lashvel_Orinei> She nods, following along. "Terrifying. I like it."
  63. 01[21:11] <SpaceThor> Down, down, down into the depths of Throne, until no light remains. Small white orbs seem to dance in the air, floating carelessly on an imperceptible breeze. A chair is there. Or is it? Pudding motions for you to sit, so the chair must be real. Probably.
  64. [21:12] <Lashvel_Orinei> She lets out a breath, adjusting herself... and sits on it.
  65. 01[21:12] <SpaceThor> Pudding starts walking back. "He likes to do his meetings in private, so I'll wait outside." he vanishes from sight almost instantly.
  66. [21:13] <Lashvel_Orinei> She nods again. "Not ominous at all..." She mutters, takin ga breath and preparing herself as best she can...
  67. 01[21:14] <SpaceThor> 0,1a visitor. a new one. what is your name, lashvel orinei?
  68. [21:21] <Lashvel_Orinei> She blinks for a moment. "Lashvel, it would be."
  69. 01[21:22] <SpaceThor> 0,1a pleasure to meet you for the first time. i am Himself. what brings you before me?
  70. [21:26] <Lashvel_Orinei> She lets out a breath. "I require power, to aid some... contacts of mine."
  71. 01[21:28] <SpaceThor> 0,1the one with hair of fire, i know them. but why do you ask me for power? do you think it within my capacity to give?
  72. [21:36] <Lashvel_Orinei> "Not to give, no." She smiles. "Nor am I folly enough to take... but every devil can grant a boon for a favor, can we not?"
  73. 01[21:36] <SpaceThor> 0,1were it in my power to snap my fingers and turn a devil ebon, surely i would be far busier than i already am, do you agree?
  74. 01[21:37] <SpaceThor> 0,1and that was a joke. i do not have fingers. or nothing you would perceive as fingers.
  75. [21:37] <Lashvel_Orinei> "I supopse so..."
  76. 01[21:39] <SpaceThor> 0,1you're closer than you think. find the name between the name, and embrace the power you already have. your true name is not given by me, it is taken from the flame with your own two hands. remember the name you always knew.
  77. [21:51] <Lashvel_Orinei> "The name between the name..." She ponders for a moment, closing her eyes. A brief look crosses her face--revelation? ontentment? Rage? Joy? It's hard to say. When she opens her eyes, they are changed--different. A flame lights between them--a flame of purest black--spreading to her mask, socrching the gold-and-white lines of it... spreading to her flesh, spreading to her clothes... The sound
  78. [21:51] <Lashvel_Orinei> coming from her--it's hard to place at first. A laugh? Who can say what noise Devil's make... as the flame fades away--mask black as night with two burning red eyes... a female figure, taller than she was before--ten feet tall, or twelve--with six arms... but where legs would be her body flows into a mass of darkness, coalescing into a new shape--like a horse's body, but six legged, agile
  79. [21:51] <Lashvel_Orinei> and sleek with a tail made of bent and broken swords--crested with a silver point of an arrow at the very tip that traces over and over and over an eye-bleeding shape in pure black, a name of god that none could speak. She is truly laughing now--eyes wid eand flaming--arms flexing, her bow twisting and warping into one teh size of a siege weapon... before she shrinks back down--a subtle shift,
  80. [21:51] <Lashvel_Orinei> if one could be said to be such... shorter than before--a cloaked, feminine figure, barely five feet tall with red eyes and a flame of black shining from behind a veil. "Velori," she speaks. "Ripped fresh... a name of teeth."
  81. 01[21:52] <SpaceThor> 0,1welcome to the world, velori.
  82. [21:55] <Lashvel_Orinei> She bows her head softly. "The most wisdom I could expect from You," she says. "I would... say I owe you. So... I suppose I will help Pudding, when the time comes. And perhaps something new and exciting will happen."
  83. 01[21:56] <SpaceThor> 0,1we all await the next thing that is new and exciting. our business is concluded...for now. there will be a time when you'll come again, and on that day i will be able to help you, truly.
  84. [22:02] <Lashvel_Orinei> "I understand, somewhat," the short woman says, standing and giving a bow. "Until then." She goes to leave... a smile on her blackened mask.
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