01-12-2024, 11:09 PM
Written-out items with some edits as the cast changed!
And a question:
What grade is appropriate for event rewards typically at this level of danger?
REWARD SPECIFICS -
• Paraskevi: Paraskevi will receive a -10 permanent wound that is infused with Memoria’s aether from the Nephilim’s attempts to possess her for escape. This is for the purpose of some future plotlines she might want to do around potentially having a child to be a Nephilim of Memoria.
• Syne: The Mortification of the Flesh (dev-mat)
This ancient tome is a tattered, time-worn thing, its leather cover softened by the years to a nearly-crumbling mess of indiscriminate brown. The pages that remain intact, however, are crammed with writing – mostly in the form of ancient glyphs and runes, sandwiched in with tiny rows of more legible text. Careful study will allow a reader to realize this book’s true purpose – information on different theoretical ritual preparations that might allow an individual to shed the shackles of flesh and ascend into the realm of the spiritual. To make use of any of these rituals would require a great deal of power, as well as the intelligence to fill in the gaps stolen by time. With enough dedication, however, these instructions might pave the way to a fundamental metamorphosis.
• La’Kesh: Fatedancer (custom ring)
Power thrums in this twisted circlet of viridium, forged to resemble a crown of thorns in exquisite miniature. Tiny spikes of the dark metal dig into the wearer’s finger, extracting their toll in a minute quantity of blood – just enough to fuel the magic that glimmers green across its surface with the eerie phosphorescence of faerie fire. The nascent ghost of an alternative timeline, preserved in a surface dusting of fine, crystalline sand. It awaits the wearer’s call to awaken, to stir and spend its brilliant strength to master fate itself. Only for a split second, of course – but kingdoms have risen and fallen on a single throw of the dice.
[The wearer of this ring may trade it to staff for a +1 on either an injury or captivity role in any RPB they participate in.]
• Cade: Opalescent Pearl (dev-mat; a neries’ gem)
This lovely pearl is curious in more than one way. It’s distinctly egg-shaped, rather than round, though its contours are perfectly smooth and regular. Its surface glimmers with a strangely vibrant iridescence, reflecting colors with a rainbow sheen more similar to an opal than any natural pearl. But what is strangest about it, perhaps, is the hunger curled within it – a void that longs to devour any foreign mana brought nearby. That desire is too inchoate to be leveraged in this raw form, a mouth without a mind, yet the frayed and tattered remnants of some spiritual tie suggest it might have once known a higher power…
• Regalus: Ouroborus of the Zephyr (dev-mat)
Legend says that the very air in Memoria’s obelisk-library carries the weight of time itself, compressed to the strength required to bear the burden of all that ever was, or is, or shall someday be. That the sheer density of time requires that the breeze winds back on itself in permanent circuits, like eternal dust-devils, where no breath of new possibility can find a way forward through the immutability of fate.
Perhaps that is the source of this mystery: a fixed, whirling breeze that blows in a perfect circle, as if eternally chasing its own tail. Though it is languid and gentle in speed, its air thrums with the suppressed power of uncounted years. Many secrets might lie hidden within its current, absorbed from the hallways it once orbited.
• Elizabeth: Memoria’s Tarot (dev-mat)
Seventy-eight fortune-telling cards, smooth and perpetually cool under the hand, black backs glimmering with incomprehensible glyphs in the emerald radiance of time magic. Familiar symbols – cups and wands, pentacles and swords, the twenty-two familiar steps of the Fool’s journey to completion.
But this is no ordinary fortuneteller’s deck. The artwork looks as if every card has been assembled from a different set: soft pastel watercolors alongside vibrant, bold inks alongside incredibly detailed blackwork sketches. Each is recognizable, depicting familiar symbology, and each is lavish, ravishing, with the beauty and artistic sensibility infused into the image. Nonetheless, each is unique.
And to one blessed to see beyond the surface of things – the muted radiance of chronomancy shimmers across these cards like the subtlest of rainbows. They have been summoned from across the uncountable stretch of centuries, perhaps even millennia, and then bound together as one. Yet a hint of the distant places and times from whence each card came still lingers, buried in its heart. A potent tool for one who seeks to steal a glimpse of fate… or a banquet of possibilities to unlock.
And a question:
What grade is appropriate for event rewards typically at this level of danger?
REWARD SPECIFICS -
• Paraskevi: Paraskevi will receive a -10 permanent wound that is infused with Memoria’s aether from the Nephilim’s attempts to possess her for escape. This is for the purpose of some future plotlines she might want to do around potentially having a child to be a Nephilim of Memoria.
• Syne: The Mortification of the Flesh (dev-mat)
This ancient tome is a tattered, time-worn thing, its leather cover softened by the years to a nearly-crumbling mess of indiscriminate brown. The pages that remain intact, however, are crammed with writing – mostly in the form of ancient glyphs and runes, sandwiched in with tiny rows of more legible text. Careful study will allow a reader to realize this book’s true purpose – information on different theoretical ritual preparations that might allow an individual to shed the shackles of flesh and ascend into the realm of the spiritual. To make use of any of these rituals would require a great deal of power, as well as the intelligence to fill in the gaps stolen by time. With enough dedication, however, these instructions might pave the way to a fundamental metamorphosis.
• La’Kesh: Fatedancer (custom ring)
Power thrums in this twisted circlet of viridium, forged to resemble a crown of thorns in exquisite miniature. Tiny spikes of the dark metal dig into the wearer’s finger, extracting their toll in a minute quantity of blood – just enough to fuel the magic that glimmers green across its surface with the eerie phosphorescence of faerie fire. The nascent ghost of an alternative timeline, preserved in a surface dusting of fine, crystalline sand. It awaits the wearer’s call to awaken, to stir and spend its brilliant strength to master fate itself. Only for a split second, of course – but kingdoms have risen and fallen on a single throw of the dice.
[The wearer of this ring may trade it to staff for a +1 on either an injury or captivity role in any RPB they participate in.]
• Cade: Opalescent Pearl (dev-mat; a neries’ gem)
This lovely pearl is curious in more than one way. It’s distinctly egg-shaped, rather than round, though its contours are perfectly smooth and regular. Its surface glimmers with a strangely vibrant iridescence, reflecting colors with a rainbow sheen more similar to an opal than any natural pearl. But what is strangest about it, perhaps, is the hunger curled within it – a void that longs to devour any foreign mana brought nearby. That desire is too inchoate to be leveraged in this raw form, a mouth without a mind, yet the frayed and tattered remnants of some spiritual tie suggest it might have once known a higher power…
• Regalus: Ouroborus of the Zephyr (dev-mat)
Legend says that the very air in Memoria’s obelisk-library carries the weight of time itself, compressed to the strength required to bear the burden of all that ever was, or is, or shall someday be. That the sheer density of time requires that the breeze winds back on itself in permanent circuits, like eternal dust-devils, where no breath of new possibility can find a way forward through the immutability of fate.
Perhaps that is the source of this mystery: a fixed, whirling breeze that blows in a perfect circle, as if eternally chasing its own tail. Though it is languid and gentle in speed, its air thrums with the suppressed power of uncounted years. Many secrets might lie hidden within its current, absorbed from the hallways it once orbited.
• Elizabeth: Memoria’s Tarot (dev-mat)
Seventy-eight fortune-telling cards, smooth and perpetually cool under the hand, black backs glimmering with incomprehensible glyphs in the emerald radiance of time magic. Familiar symbols – cups and wands, pentacles and swords, the twenty-two familiar steps of the Fool’s journey to completion.
But this is no ordinary fortuneteller’s deck. The artwork looks as if every card has been assembled from a different set: soft pastel watercolors alongside vibrant, bold inks alongside incredibly detailed blackwork sketches. Each is recognizable, depicting familiar symbology, and each is lavish, ravishing, with the beauty and artistic sensibility infused into the image. Nonetheless, each is unique.
And to one blessed to see beyond the surface of things – the muted radiance of chronomancy shimmers across these cards like the subtlest of rainbows. They have been summoned from across the uncountable stretch of centuries, perhaps even millennia, and then bound together as one. Yet a hint of the distant places and times from whence each card came still lingers, buried in its heart. A potent tool for one who seeks to steal a glimpse of fate… or a banquet of possibilities to unlock.