Necromancy Log 1 -First Lesson-

[18:57] Roanna giggles at Roh in happy surprise.

"Not quite dear, but good effort. You're half right.

The four important organs for a resurrection are the brain, the heart, the stomach, and the spine.

The brain is self-explanatory why it is required as it stores the thought processes of the undead which is required for life; the heart is necessary as it is one of the most important conduits for the mana circuitry in the body; the spine allows the mind to channel thought into bodily action; and the stomach stores a great deal of mana."

Despite being half-wrong, Roh was more importantly half-right despite his lack of experience. A good intuition alongside the confidence to speak aloud perhaps incorrectly in class were good traits to have if he nurtured them right.

"It is vital you make sure these vital organs are in good repair. Should it become absolutely necessary, prosthetic replacements or finding organs of an animal roughly analogous will do.

Still, always try your best to keep things as original as possible for best results."
(Roanna Rosenkreuz)
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[18:59] Strolled in the door looking like he'd rolled out of bed, which he had. He'd just mosey on up through the tables, looking around for those that'd showed up for the lesson. It didn't take long to find a place to sit.

He'd just flop down next to Esme, who else to sit beside and leech off of their success than the Lich's daughter? He'd pull out his classic journal and pen. Smoothly sliding into the persona of a devout student.
(Syracuse Fengari)
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[18:59] Reclining in her seat, Esme folded her arms across her chest and looked forward.

This wasn't the time for a debate, after all.

Jotting a few things down in her notebook, she'd stay quiet and allow the rest of the class to partake until she felt like adding anything to the discussion. Though, as per usual, her plain expression did little to help the stillness of her gaze.
(Esme Rowan)
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[19:00] Roh was the type to take notes, and laugh when he was wrong despite his noviety on such a subject. The topic of such an object was worrisome on the head, but it didn't stop the aspiring Necromancer to try his hardest in class. At last, he found himself with a quil in hand and a book of notes filled with important information. With Roh's dedication to the art, the young man did his part until the first page was filled with notes.

"My question," she says as she raises his hand in the air, "what is a proper way to keep these organs safe?"
(Roh Stanirsk)
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[19:05] The woman shrugged towards Roh's question.

"There isn't much you *can* do beyond trying to live as is. Armor helps, but if an enemy magi truly wishes to desecrate your body, best you have a friend to stop them before irrecoverable damage is sustained.

Or if you mean preservation beyond death from natural rot, I would suggest using either natural or magical ice to slow the rate of bacterial growth. Other methods would work too such as embalming."

She returned to her board again, writing down:

Patin Ligitus

She sighed and slumped her head. Boring parts. She returned to her desk-seat once more and looked out over the class - including the one who'd just slipped in and joined.

"I won't lie, this part is dumb and pointless. I expect you all to be fairly understanding when I explain this stuff is literally just making sure the subject has as many arms and legs as they did when they died.

So... same as last time, use prosthetics or find their old limb to reattach if it isn't there. Very boring and mundane, I know. Next part is a little more interesting.

As always before I move on: Are there any questions?"
(Roanna Rosenkreuz)
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[19:06] Rai Ann whispers something.
[19:07] Gray Rosenkreuz whispers something.
[19:07] Roh Stanirsk says, "No further questions. Obviously, you need all these parts or else it would end horribly. Imagine coming back with one leg, or better yet, one eye? It's basically useless."
[19:07] Gray Rosenkreuz whispers something.
[19:07] Rai Ann whispers something.
[19:07] Gray Rosenkreuz whispers something.
[19:07] Rai Ann says, "waait so would that mean we need all of the body or just spacific parts>"
[19:08] Gray Rosenkreuz whispers something.
[19:08] Gray Rosenkreuz whispers something.
[19:08] Rai Ann whispers something.
[19:08] Roh Stanirsk asks, "Why, I'd figure it's better to keep all the organs in tact; every fabric and tissue, no?"
[19:08] As Roh and Roanna had talked, the ever resourceful Syracuse had leaned over and just roughly jotted down what he could see from Esme's notes. Brilliant.

Though when the moment came for questions regarding the importance of keeping a persons body intact. Why, the inquisitive Neries couldn't help but hold up a pen and roll into a question.

"Yo! Ma'am, so, we can replace internal organs with animal one's right? Could we like. . . Put a snake in replace of an arm?"
(Syracuse Fengari)
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[19:08] Esme Rowan says, "You only need the spine, heart, brain and stomach for raising them... just... the limbs are sorta required to function properly."
[19:08] Rai Ann whispers something.
[19:10] Rai Ann says, "Ok ok so would that mean we can get a bounch of body parts from diffrent people togeather would that be able to be made into an undead"
[19:10] Rai Ann says, "And would eatch body part give a diffrent memory or would only the brain give memorys"
[19:11] Gray analyze the question writing everything in his notebook. He hasn't ask anything in the entire class just waiting to with his question since the start.

"I been asking this to different people and even if I believe I know the answer, I am interested to confirm it. Can undead learn necromancy?"
(Gray Rosenkreuz)
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[19:11] Rai Ann says, "Then would that mean that if we somehow fuzed the brains togeather would that mean the person would be more then one person haveing a ton of diffrent memorys"
[19:15] "It's not exactly even necessary for success, which just makes me wonder why it's even a step in the first place. Like, you could easily just put a prosthetic on afterwards or...

� Yes this part is just very silly MOVING ON."

She quickly hurried along to write out the next step on the board:

Viscus Vitae

After this she was in a bit better of a mood. Something marginally more interesting than just limb surgery.

"Anyway - wouldn't suggest putting other body parts (or snakes, by The Dreamer...) on undead subjects for a raising. I know I said you could use replacement organs earlier, but that was in a pinch. Mismatching mana circuitry could have disastrous consequences.

Please don't try such things until you have a firm grasp on the basics."

For Rai, she smiled a bit weaker. So manyquestions...

"� No, an arm doesn't keep a person's memories, Rai. Just their brain.

� also for the love of Sareen I wouldn't try fusing brains together the results will probably not be worth the costs of the living people who supplied it."

Then onto Gray.

"Yes, the undead can learn necromancy just fine. Of course they can't do some weird inter-locking Necromancy circle with those that are also raising them, but they can use Necromancy themselves.

The only benefit of being a Lich is that you no longer need a Necromancer."

Suddenly, she remembered she was supposed to be teaching about Viscus Vitae, and slowly began to return to the lesson proper.
(Roanna Rosenkreuz)
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[19:19] The woman cleared her throat after getting off-topic.

"Viscus Vitae is another step best used for making superior undead. Ones that are more closer to living mankind.

This is for those that have died of blood-loss or have otherwise lost the fluids in their bodies. Viscus Vitae involves replacing these fluids with something.

Blood works best, but sometimes that's not available. Water, oil, or other things can work just as fine for the final product, but as always try to aim for the most original substances to the body as possible.

For those who don't have enough fluids in them, I personally work with Holy Water unless they were an Occultist in life - which I just use regular old water to fill their veins and arteries instead."

She then went back to sitting and waiting for questions that any in the class might have.
(Roanna Rosenkreuz)
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[19:23] Jotted down the wisdom departed. He'd actually stand up to turn around and look at Rai. Curious who'd asked about fusing body-parts and brains together. My wasn't that interesting? Think how cool something would be with the best parts of everything?

A. . . Nagual, he'd scratch his head with the end of his pen. The hell was a Nagual doing in Dawn? OH, right Messika Ann the Paladin lived here. Must be her daughter, that made sense. He'd then jot down the a quick idea. Fusing the best attributes of different races to create a superior undead product.

He'd then twirl about and sit down in his chair, with a audible thwack. He'd look up at Roanna, Viscus Vitae, he chuckled to himself quietly. Not really willing to muse about what that sounded like to him. He'd instead pull his mind from the dumpster fire it stayed in and focus upon the rest of what Roanna was saying.

Ah, so water can replaced blood? Oh, wait that thought reminded the young bravo about his time interviewing vampires. Their thralls consumed vampirici blood and gained a boost to emotional, mental, and physical faculties. Withotu missing a beat he'd raise his pen up once more.

"Ma'a, what if we used special material to replace the blood? Like if we strung up a vampire and used their blood? Oooh! Or what about a demon's blood?! Yeah, imagine how better that'd be than regular blood."
(Syracuse Fengari)
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[19:30] The woman considered the idea for a moment.

"Mmm... I am not sure, actually. Necromancy is a discipline all about experimentation. While the results may be dangerous, if you can brave the possible pitfalls of such things, you may find impressive results.

Ah yes - an important note.

Everything that I have said is 'impossible' today, is merely something that has never been done before. I encourage you all to take the time to practice and learn things yourselves. After all, you may progress the field considerably one day."

An interesting thought, but one she'd consider in greater detail another time. Roanna steps back over to her board to write one final thing down below all of them. She purposefully underlines it.

Vox Quietus

"Vox Quietus. The method of bringing back the spirit itself and shoving it inside the body.

I will be honest with all of you right here and now: Vox Quietus is an extremely subjective process. I will teach you *my* method, but I also encourage you to do things your own way should desires for individuality strike you.

My methods involve the extensive usage of runes. Even if you have no practice in the field, using those already made will work for you so long as you copy them faithfully.

� if you have not already, I suggest you take out a notebook and a writing utensil and pay extremely close attention."
(Roanna Rosenkreuz)
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[19:31] Looked down at his note-book and writing utensil, check-mate classroom preparedness. He'd give a cocky smirk to nothing in particular and lean back ready to write whatever it was that Roanna was going to show them.
(Syracuse Fengari)
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[19:36] Rai reached back into her pocket and pulled out a small pen and began to write on her arm some notes and such thinking hah I was totally way more prepared then these other guys

(Rai Ann)
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[19:36] Up on the board beside her written down steps, Roanna began with a large circle to take up much of the remaining board space. Might as well make it very obvious and easy to read even from the seats further away.

"I'll be leaving this up, so do feel free to get closer and copy more intimately after I'm finished."

In the middle, Roanna drew a thin line down the center. Neither end of it touched the top or bottom of the circle.

"This represents the spine, the main conduit of mana flow through the physical body..."

Following that she wrote down extensive runic letters up and down the spine line.

"� these represent the heart. Make sure to take notes of the individual letters in this runic sequence as they're most important..."

With the heart and spine finished, she moved down to the bottom of the spine, drawing an right-angle upwards, like an arrow pointing at its own tail.

"� as well as the stomach, a storage for the mana in the body."

She took a step back from her work, allowing her students to copy what she had so far. There was more, but best they get a look at it in-progress.
(Roanna Rosenkreuz)
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[19:42] Leoda quietly slides in to whatever is going on hoping she isn't asked to leave
(Leoda)
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[19:46] After a bit of watching them all copy down her work, Roanna got back to it, finishing off the Vox Quietus ritual.

"Moving on."

From the top of the spine to both tips of the stomach, Roanna drew an arc on the left and right side of the symbols. It might remind some of them of the wings of snow-angels.

"These symbolize the continual flow of mana through the body from top to bottom."

To mostly finish things off, she drew a circle on the very top of the spinal column and began drawing a number of more runic letters around the greater circle.

"I'm sure you all could take a wild guess at what exactly this is to symbolize.

The mind, of course."

Roanna looked towards Leoda and smiled. She wasn't going to ask her to leave at all. With that outof the way, Roanna withdrew from the blackboard and returned to the front of the class.

"From there, lay the subject down on your ritual circle and try to line up their body with the sigils. Channeling raw energy into the rune will be enough for it to make it flow into the body where it needs to go.

From there, you will be perhaps able to visualize the tether connecting the subject and their spirit in the upper realms. This is the most dangerous aspect of the work as losing focus in the upper realms will leave your spirit trapped there - and that's what we call death.

� So try not to lose focus during that part. Then all you have to do is convince the person's spirit to return to their body. I would like to add the disclaimer that you should only grant the gift of unlife to those that desire it.

Forcing them to exist in this world is just as bad as forcing them to die. That being said, if you're stronger than them you *can* force them. Just... use your morals on this aspect of it, please?"
(Roanna Rosenkreuz)
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[19:47] Rai Ann says, "Hey miss Roanna"
[19:48] Roanna Rosenkreuz asks, "Yes, Rai?"
[19:48] Rai would rest her head on her palm, Conflicted if she should ask this or not. Though its been bugging her.

"How do runes work?"
(Rai Ann)
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[19:49] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "They're the living language of the Angels and this world. They function like a mana circuit in executing magical effects."
[19:49] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "Though unlike a person's mana circuit, they're inflexible and can't be changed on the fly."
[19:49] Ever so carefully, ever so carefully, Syracuse began to copy down the circle. However, he'd make a mistake and draw an oval! It was a catastrophe, he'd glance up and make sure no one had paid attention to his mistake. No one had cause no one cared, perfect.

Without missing a beat he'd move to a fresh sheet of paper, idly glancing back up at the board. This time he'd draw the perfect circle. Genius, he'd then go about copying down the runes, but they where kinda small. He'd stand up, his chair scraping against the soft carpet.

He took a few steps and squinted at the ruins. Now he could copy them down more easily. With a smooth motion he'd start to write down the rest of the runic diagram. His pen moved like lightening! Or perhaps like a sporadic flame. He'd simply stand there using the dest that would normally be for an instructor as a basis to hold his notes.

Writing along he'd hum to himself, actually being thankful that he'd a passion for tattoes. If he'd not learned how to draw in order to get his ink done he'd be in real trouble. As he finished the runes themselves he'd go about copying each individual on the succeeding pages and writing down an explanation of what each one did.

He'd lean agains the table as he finished, simply looking back at Rai as they'd asked the question. It was a good one, one that he'd actually know! Thank you Xog you rat-tastic fiend, you'd taught our young hereo, that was me, more than you oculd ever know.

(Syracuse Fengari)
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[19:50] He stands to look at the word better, his body leans in the desk behind him. Notebook in his hand as he copy it all exactly.

"I have a small question, I could use runes without learning runescribing? How does runes work in general?"
(Gray Rosenkreuz)
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[19:51] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "Runes are like any other writing language. You can 'say' something in a language you don't know if you copy it from someone who does know."
[19:51] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "As I explained to Rai, they work not unlike a mana circuit."
[19:53] Rai Ann asks, "So then how do i write in it?"
[19:53] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "For this Vox Quietus Ritual, simply copy the board."
[19:53] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "To learn runic language, there are many books on the subject."
[19:53] Rai Ann says, "Hrmm"
[19:54] Roanna Rosenkreuz asks, "Are there any final questions before I finish the lesson?"
[19:54] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "If not, I'll be assigning the homework."
[19:54] With the work of copying done he'd hop back over the table and flop into his seat. Of course though he'd his own curiosity over what could be done with a rune. Raising his pen he'd give a cough, breaking into the runic conversation.

"Could you write runes into the bones of an undead to give them status effects like super strength or like elemental resistances?"
(Syracuse Fengari)
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[19:59] Leoda whispers something.
[19:59] Roh Stanirsk whispers something.
[19:59] Rai Ann whispers something.
[19:59] Leoda whispers something.
[19:59] Rai Ann whispers something.
[19:59] Roh Stanirsk whispers something.
[20:00] Leoda whispers something.
[20:00] She turned to Syracuse to answer the question.

"Not likely, no. To do so would take increasing amounts of energy - energy required to sustain the undead in the first place. Besides, undead can grow in strength at their own pace like the living."

With everything seemingly answered, Roanna moved towards the back of class and found a box of freshly killed rats. None seemed to have any damage to them at all - nor suffering from any rot. An ample test subject for the aspiring Necromancer.

"Take one or two of these each and practice the lessons I've taught you if you wish to continue on the path to Necromancy.

Even if not, it was a pleasure to teach this class and give you more information on The Holy Art."

Roanna slowly paced along the desks, dropping off a single deceased rodent in front of her students each. Something small and non-valuable for them to practice their basic skills on.

"Oh - and word to the wise: Pour too much energy into these things and they explode into blood and gore. Try not to do that..."

With everything finished, Roanna went to grab her cloak seeing as the class was over. The board still lay wide open with the listed steps on it.

Corpus Creare
Patin Ligitus
Viscus Vitae
Vox Quietus

"If you have any questions, stick around and ask them. Otherwise, class is dismissed. Thank you for your time and attention."
(Roanna Rosenkreuz)
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[20:00] Leoda says, "Lady Roanna, may I also have a rodent? My last one from the first class kind of.. got old.."
[20:01] Roanna nods, dropping off another for Leoda to take. On second thought, Roanna leaves two.
(Roanna Rosenkreuz)
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[20:01] Leoda exclaims, "Thank you!"
[20:01] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "Not like these things cost anything..."
[20:01] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "You're welcome, dear."
[20:01] Leoda quickly pockets the rats
(Leoda)
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[20:01] Leoda whispers something.
[20:02] Rai would slide the rats into her pocket with her little rune rock thing before returning to her conversation with gray
(Rai Ann)
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[20:03] Roh Stanirsk says, "I loved the information."
[20:03] Roh Stanirsk says, "I'll study them on my own later."
[20:04] Roh Stanirsk says, "To the square."
[20:04] Leoda asks, "Roh?"
[20:11] Picked up the dead rat, giving it a close examination. He'd hum softly to himself. Idly wondering if perhaps he could give it wings, how cool would that be? Without missing a beat the young man would slide off his coat, then his shirt or what he called a shirt. Really it was more like a shoulder cover.

Though he doubted anyone was paying attention at this point. If they where they'd see that the Neries' back had an intricate set of runic tattoos. Starting with a sort of jagged circle-like symbol in the center of his back. From this positioning snaking lines would wrap about his ribs to end in sharp points aiming towards his center chest. The could be identified as inactive runes by the small runic sybols snaking along with the line work.

As for the shirt, well he'd wrap his newly acquired rat corpse up in it. Clearly intent on keeping the creature safe from getting bruised up. With it wrapped and sitting upon his desk he'd pick up hiscoat, donning it swiftly and within the same motion picking up the encased rat and dropping it into a side pocket.

With that done Syracuse strolled up to the desk and simply pointed at Corpus Creare, offering an innocent smile as he rolled into a question.

"Corpus Creare is that basically saying keep the body intact?"

He didn't need to explain that he was late and had missed that part. If anything it was better that he didn't mention anything about being late or even ackolodge that he wasn't hear from the first second.
(Syracuse Fengari)
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[20:15] The woman had quickly lost her air of professionalism with class being over. Her stylish boots were already up on her desk and she was leaning back. Even still, she was a font for knowledge - just not the most... scholarly sort.

"No, actually. Corpus Creare is all about making certain the subject's organs are intact.

While all organs are a bonus, the four important ones are the brain, the spine, the heart, and the stomach.

Should those become lost or damaged, repair is needed. Barring it being too decayed for whatever reason, transplant or prosthetic will be necessary.

Except the brain of course, which is mostly irreplaceable outside of esoteric means which are currently beyond my purview! Last time I asked Dylerun he basically told me to fuck off."

Roanna yawned and scratched her neck in idle thought. Still, she smiled towards Syracuse.

"Does that help you out, dear?"
(Roanna Rosenkreuz)
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[20:17] Scratched his head, it did help. Which meant he'd gotten a bit of information he needed. He brought his hand up and make an OK sign.

"Got'cha, so what if there's two brains in an undead?"

His ideas of a multi-headed flying rat starting to take shape in his mind. Idly he wondered if he should go find Xog and question him about the powers of a rat.
(Syracuse Fengari)
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[20:23] The woman shrugged her shoulders. It was a complex question.

"Nothing good, I'll say that much. Even placing random body parts from others onto something it wasn't born with is difficult enough.

Everything has a specific mana circuit unique to them. That's why Mythril Prosthetics need to be custom tailored to a person. It's best left to those with a great amount of experience.

For now, I really suggest you try basic resurrection and work your way up the animal kingdom. Once you can call humanoid souls back, then you can begin your truly crazy experiments like Sors and me."

She took out a small piece of paper, looking it over again in intense thought. It had nothing to do with the lesson or anything else relevant, but it was somewhat interesting to her to read a testimony back again.

"Should you desire to warp flesh like that, I would suggest once you have the requisite experience to work on bending the living flesh of a person. Easier to do.

� of course, only do so against truly reprehensible monsters and criminals. As it will likely maim them for life or even kill them if you're not methodical."
(Roanna Rosenkreuz)
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[20:25] Rai Ann whispers something.
[20:25] Rai Ann whispers something.
[20:26] Tapped his chin with an index finger as he mused what he was being told. Stick with the basics now, get good, then create monsters. It made sense to him, and by the Dreamer if he was going to do anything it'd be fabulous.

Without missing a beat he'd tuck his notebook and pen into a coat pocket, he had a lot of those sewn into the thing. "Alright, I can do that. I'll stick with resurrecting the rat first. Perhaps learn a bit of medicine, should be a good starting point."
(Syracuse Fengari)
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[20:27] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "Yes, you're very right. Medical training and Necromancy go well together."
[20:27] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "But..."
[20:28] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "Remember the point of Necromancy, Syracuse:"
[20:28] Roanna Rosenkreuz asks, "Utopia. A second chance for all in a perfect world. Don't corrupt innocent people looking for a new life with your more bizarre experiments, yes?"
[20:29] Roanna Rosenkreuz asks, "Draw the line between monsters and people. Feel free to sew dragon wings on a bear and use it as transport, just don't put a person's brain it it, okay?"
[20:29] Rai Ann whispers something.
[20:29] Gray Rosenkreuz whispers something.
[20:29] Rai Ann whispers something.
[20:29] Syracuse Fengari says, "Corrupt? Not the word I was thinking but of course. Of course I'll only tortue people who deserve it! Like anyone who in life didn't agree with me or the state. Man, I'll be a hero."
[20:29] Gray Rosenkreuz whispers something.
[20:30] Nodded sagaciously, he'd truly be a paragon of Azrealism at this rate.
(Syracuse Fengari)
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[20:30] Gray Rosenkreuz whispers something.
[20:30] Rai Ann whispers something.
[20:30] Gray Rosenkreuz whispers something.
[20:30] Rai Ann whispers something.
[20:30] Gray Rosenkreuz whispers something.
[20:32] Rai Ann exclaims, "mhmm!"
[20:33] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "Err... Syracuse..."
[20:34] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "Do remember that the tenets of The Dreamer and Azrael do not always align."
[20:37] He'd give Roanna a little bow and then turn about, strolling towards the exit. Stopping mid-step at his name being called, he'd turn back to look at Roanna. For a few seconds confusion clear on his face, he'd shake his head as if to knock off some clouding influence.

"Oh, right of course. I don't know what I was saying."

He'd frown slightly at that thought, he'd perhaps gotten to caught up in his own mania. He'd slip a hand into a warded pocket, his fingers dancing upon a chunk of Tyrium he kept with him. Ah, the burn brought a hint of focus to him, shaking of the cloud.

"I'll of course work towards our Utopia, what I meant was I'll make sure to try and pull along those who opposed it's creations so they could enjoy it as well."
(Syracuse Fengari)
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[20:37] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "Of course. Speaking of those who oppose its creation..."
[20:38] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "I'm heading out. Best of luck to you all."
[20:38] Roanna Rosenkreuz says, "Come find me if you require direction or assistance."
[20:40] Syracuse Fengari says, "Welp, I'ma go get drunk."