Allotter 2011/06/03(Fri)22:40 No. 308970 ID: 544dd4
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Previously.
http://quest.lv/kusaba/questarch/res/227246.html
http://quest.lv/kusaba/questarch/res/262261.html
http://quest.lv/kusaba/questarch/res/281675.html
http://quest.lv/kusaba/quest/res/296192.html

But now...

THERE IS A LADY IN YOUR ROOM. DO NOT PANIC, NOTHING IS WRONG.

Warning: Unstable Atheric Power Signature Outside User Regulatory Boundrie Allo--@!wqLZLRuzPQ!!HjAGD0MJIy 2011/06/03(Fri)22:48 No. 308972 ID: 544dd4
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"Oh, I see. Hmm."

>>308972
Hello!

>>308972
Hello, M'lady!
Would you kindly identify yourself?

-sysap delink- *!ZxwaF2MV5c 2011/06/03(Fri)22:54 No. 308975 ID: 544dd4
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"Well, this is curious. I wonder, a gift, or something he found?"

(Everyone shhh! We're just a normal stone!)

gift from his master, we are magic, he is a wizard is he not? we talk and stuff.

>>308975

Can you hear us? Your link is, well, unstable. August's got a gift for magery so he can hear us, and almost all kobold breeds have it to some degree. Humans can, and goblins probably can too. Fae would know us instantly and could master our amplification functions given a little time. But most vehrimen would have trouble even hearing us.

You are Lucidia, correct? We're an artifact from the stars, and currently serve August. We provide advice, instructions, glib comments, songs, and a plethora of ideas of varying quality. August is in the bath right now. He's sort of exhausted from his outing. It was quite an adventure, actually.

>>308975
Ah, you would be August's intended, then?

We are an artifact he summoned to help him achieve his goals.
If you're to be his wife then I suppose we would be expected to keep you safe, but it would be best to let him know where we are.

OH! He was so flustered when you asked him to buy a fertility fetish! Said something about it being far too overt for public, but he was very interested. You should put us on, strip naked, lie in his bed, and offer yourself to him when he returns.

>>308980

Shameless! Don't talk to a lady like that! We just met her!

H'lo there.

Anonymous 2011/06/03(Fri)23:28 No. 308984 ID: 07416a
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>>308975
OH! OH! HE WAS DREAMING OF YOU NAKED! ALSO HE COULDA FUCKED A TOTALLY HOT CHICK WHO WAS TOTALLY WILLING BUT DIDN'T!

Damn, he imagines you with a really nice ass. Is your ass that nice? Show us to compare.

>>308984

I swear. It's like you guys learned nothing from that adventure we had with Kanes and the two lesbians.

'Allo, little lady~

Is that someone behind you?

>>308987
oh my god you are right, Lucidia look out!

>>308975
[attempt synchronisation]

THERE. IS. SOMEONE. BEHIND. YOU.

>>308975
>>308972
You're breaking us, also I think August is back

In the future you might want to be a bit more cautious about picking up random items belonging to wizards. I mean sure we don't do too much crazy stuff, but some of the stuff wizards keep around is much nastier.

[delink]

>>308984

Get the willing chick to bd

>>309064
[DELINK]

>>309064
[DELINK]

>>309453
I don't think that's going to help.

[link]

Hey maybe we should wait for August guys.

Luc-!RGm1frReI. 2011/06/06(Mon)09:57 No. 309543 ID: a6dd15
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” I don- so… so many-“

^D3id-& 2011/06/06(Mon)10:01 No. 309545 ID: a6dd15
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*gasp*
Strong arms encircle and tug from behind. His scent, clean and pure from the bath, with the barest hints of thoroughly masculine exertion… Voice soft and low, authority mingled with bemusement. Breathing us in...

%32&ia 2011/06/06(Mon)10:04 No. 309547 ID: a6dd15
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“Mmmm, Lucidia~ you know, you know you should not be here?”
”I-I know, and yet-“
”Yet?”
He leans in, nibbling at our neck, pressing against us warm and strong, fingers tracing the lines of our sash.
”August, y-you're barefaced.”
”You expected otherwise? You… desire, otherwise?”

>>309545
Seduce August! You have already stated your desire for him plainly, so carry through on your request!

Something is very wrong here. August should not be acting that... openly towards you.

Something is off with him. He would be far more careful about such things... or maybe he is just a special kind of morning person. Talk with him a bit, ask him about us maybe.

Uh... maybe we have been away from August for longer than we thought. How long has it been since he returned with his mask?

Why are you stating our? We can't feel...

Oh, stop daydreaming so much you! Though suave August is tempting, you like his bumbling shy nature also.

>>309547
Uhm. Yeah, he totally isn't that hot for you yet, sorry. Foist him off and find out what's going on.

i think it's a feedback thing, her feelings are leaking into us and effecting him.

Lady, please give us to August. Please. Your magical abilities are causing us to malfunction and that may harm you.

>>309577
Yesterday he got teased within an inch of his life and went through a great deal of danger. Of course he's going to be a bit... Intense, when he gets back to a proper outlet for his desires~

>>309768
Inch of his life? He was two sheets of cotton away from throwing the heirship of your children he sires into question.
If he wants to ravage you as much as you want to be ravaged, then go right ahead and assist his efforts.

I don't know... different people react to stress in different ways. Perhaps Verhimen's version of PTSD is getting randy? That red-haired lowlander was rather amorous, and her lifestyle did tend to seem to do a lot of risking of one's own life.

Luc3&!7.XcKUb4yQ 2011/06/08(Wed)17:33 No. 310767 ID: 544dd4
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>>310192
>>309768
Yes, of course, he needs us... and we... I...am

-sysap up- 3)&id!7.XcKUb4yQ 2011/06/08(Wed)17:38 No. 310769 ID: 544dd4
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>>309577
>>309554
>>309549
*sigh*

Anomalous Frequency Stablizing 3)&7%!Y1ThokzFJ. 2011/06/08(Wed)17:44 No. 310770 ID: 544dd4
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>>309572
Do I, do I really? As a youth, perhaps even now, but should he not grow, in presence and power? To mold, shape, teach him... such things.

Such foolishness... he is just a bit shorter I think anyhow."

uh... wow, you can creature tactile illusions?

Ahh... the link is behaving better now.

Also that is super kinky. You are a naughty, naughty girl. How much effort does that take? How long could you have kept that up, hmmmmmm?

>>310773
*tut tut* You shouldn't imply such things about a lady. Even if they are true.

>>310770
Ok, that's impressive.
Now, strip naked, put us on, and either lie on his bed in a seductive pose or join him in the bath.
He's not forward, but he would not turn your advances away at this point. Just tell him that you're off-cycle, unlike the lowlander who tempted him.
Heck, say you hope offering him that fertility fetish wasn't too subtle for him.

Make your move - swift, decisive, and unambiguous.

On an unrelated note, do you find other women to be alluring?

>>310780

>>310770
Why trifle with illusions when you could have the real thing? He dreams of you. You need simply reach out... And take what you wish.

His eyes and some spots on his back are glowing. Is this a normal feature of your abilities, or is this cause for alarm? There have been shape-shifting assassins creeping around lately, so it is good to be cautious.

Well. You didn't call him up deliberately, did you? Do you have control problems, Lucidia?

Well. You didn't call him up deliberately, did you? Do you have control problems, Lucidia? Do you want him that much?..

>>310770
Oh... okay, sorry to ruin your fun. We were just scared something weird had happened to him. Like mind control. Or being replaced by a doppleganger.

You may continue.

>>310770
Oh, I don't disagree that he will grow and become more bold over time. But I think you must admit also that many a rogue could have asked you to dance while trying to be charming and sweeping you off your feet. It is the real August who can be delightfully shy and nervous while still doing his best.

Besides, you HAVE to know someday when he is maskless and alone with you, when he freezes up shy for a moment, it is going to be adorable~

( Part of me wants to say that there's nothing quite so irritating as a woman who's always nagging at you that you should be 'more' than you are... )

>>310865
How about an orb that does that? :P

>>311772
MADAME, ARE YOU DOING WHAT I THINK YOUR DOING?

Allotter 2011/06/10(Fri)22:01 No. 311778 ID: 544dd4
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"Mistress, did you find hi- oh. I suppose not. I thought I heard talking and assumed..."

"No, I fear he must have sequestered himself elsewhere, still I did find something. Please, come and pick up this necklace beside me. I would like you to describe to me your perceptions as you do so."

"Mistress?

"It... 'appears' to be magical, however... I would value your thoughts on the matter."

Steelsplinters 2011/06/10(Fri)22:07 No. 311780 ID: 544dd4
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"Willingly"
"Try to avoid alarm, it seemed rather... lacking in the fundaments of propriety."
"It... talks?"
"Difficult more me to tell really."
"I understand"

hello... Steelsplinters. how goes it?

>>311780
Hello there Steelsplinters. We're uh... a thing. That can talk.

Tell us about yourself. We haven't really heard much about you.

Hello sir, not to be rude, but I feel your mistress has misjudged us. Propriety is an odd standard to hold when little more than a voice in an orb, I hope you would agree?

>>311780
Your perception of the world is noir? THATS PRETTY GREAT.

>>311787
Quite.
The purpose of our existence is to advance the goals of our legitimate holder, and restricting our statements to the socially acceptable is contrary to that.

>>311787

She did not misjudge us, you guys were being boorish with her.

So, Steelsplinters, how's life treating you?

>>311780
You have an awesome mask. Anyways, tell your mistress that we apologize. We got over excited.

Oh and please tell her that the last time we saw August he was getting ready to take a bath.

>>311780
Hello there. Yes, we do talk to people who hold us, but unfortunately your mistress's magic interferes with our ability to communicate with her. And please excuse that some of us can be rather uncouth at times.

>>311790

Friend, our perception changed because we leech a little magic power from whoever we're linked to. He's a normal verimen, I believe, and so he's got a very small reserve for us to tap.

>>311965
I'd prefer to believe that's actually how he sees the world, and that he goes around giving an internal monologue like some grizzled dectective/Max Payne.

OOGA BOOGA WHERE ALL DA WHITE VERHIMEN AT?!

(Seriously tho, for >>311965 and >>312030 , that'd be Takkaya, as referred to chapter 2, >>265118)

>>312070
Hey girls can be grizzled detectives to right?

>>311965
Hmm. To summarize with August and Lucidia we see the world in color, with Wintertounge we see see the world in a grey-scale, and now with Steelspliters we see the world in inverse-grey-scale (plus blue for the goggle lenses.)

Steelsplinters 2011/06/11(Sat)22:16 No. 312246 ID: 942ce7
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A sense of weight, a stormfront's pressure change as dozens of disparate whispers clutter in like windblown tatters of newsprint on a wirefence. Filthy... heralding sooty occluded outpourings, but with a subtly electrical electrical flavor we relish for a moment like the bittersweet tang of a curare backwash.

"Are you okay dear, do you hear them, do you hear the voices too?"
"We=I-erh- yes, I hear them, confusing, but I can filter it.
"Excellent, don't strain yourself too hard on my account though, I suspect it an errant oracular of sorts. It could be useful to us, albeit perhaps disharmonious with my condition? I have some questions if you could relay them."
"I shall certainly attempt"
She makes to rise from the bed, taking our hand in hers, like so much in the world, the small and sharp hidden in the great and soft. The razor to the sheath, the claw to the paw, th-

Steelsplinters 2011/06/11(Sat)22:33 No. 312255 ID: 942ce7
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"I. am. a. girlbold!"
"Erhm, a problem so soon dear?
"How could this bauble be of any use? It babbles on about detectives and colors, or somesuch nonsense."
"Yes, I found it quite distracting. However, if you could perhaps give it focus, maybe ask in where August is?
"It mumbled he was in the bath, I think."
"Unlikely he's appeared there since we checked, and he could hardly have been keeping low in the bath all this time. Why, we only saw him once all week, with some muddy sack he handed of to his little sister before he said he had more 'work' to take care of. Speaking of which, it also mentioned some 'other' woman. Needless to say, I want answers."
We take a moment to parse this information, to willfully relay it to this... 'thing', gripping it tightly in our pocket as we imagine our questions passing from fingertips to the unmarred surface.

no need to try that hard, we can hear spoken words. the other woman we speak of tried to get august to bed with her but we managed to escape. say we because he is ours and we are his. we wish the best for him and his kind.

>>312255
Aren't you a bit tall for a 'bold? We are only aware of the short ones oft called 'puppyfaces'. Are you merely a different breed from those? You look kindof like a Verhimen.

How long has it been since August returned from his trip? We have no sense of time. If it has been more than a day then we will have no clues as to his location.

The other girl mentioned was a member of the rival family, who rescued him on the road and planned to have him be her servant in more than one way. He evaded her advances, fearing impregnation, and absconded with a certain item he was looking for.

It's possible that he's arranged a second meeting with a childhood friend we came across there. The location was not mentioned exactly, but... a night on the town, perhaps?

>>312255
Ah our new and dear friend, we have no concept of time when we are left alone. Last we were aware of he had gone to bed just after returning from a quite exciting trip. As far as we can tell this morning followed that evening.

Oh and the "other woman" is no kind of threat to our fair lady.. I mean awkward situations were of course involved but that was because she had mistaken him for something that he wasn't. In the end we innocently used the misunderstanding to his advantage and immediate escape.

As an aside, we are rather upset he would leave us behind and we intend to smite him reasonably, as soon as we figure out how.

>>312255
[Feed our statements one at a time, and give her a bit of time between each one.]

IMPORTANT
We do not sense the passage of time. The last we saw August he was heading for the bath before retiring for the night, and that was immediately after we returned from his adventure.
How long has it been since Lucidia went to the market with him? With that information we could tell how long ago we last saw him.

Less important
The girl is a lowland princess who saved his life and attempted to seduce him, but failed due to his desire to sire legitimate heirs with Lucidia. Lucidia should be informed of this.

We can hear her questions fine. You don't need to relay them to us.

We are not familiar with these "oracular" you speak of. Would you kindly tell us more?

>>312255
Naw, he didn't sleep with her, no worries! Well, he slept slept with her, but there was no fucking and he was soooo sick. It was AWESOME he was hallucinating and everything.

Hey. HEY! Ask her if using too much magic makes her sick like it makes August sick! He was really feverish!

OOOH! OOH! HAND US TO HER! WE BOOSTED HIS MAGIC CAN WE BOOST HER MAGIC I WANT TO KNOW!

Hey hey, you wanna hear a song? It's an awesome song, about how awesome August is!

And if you are curious about the bag, it contained a large frog for August's sister.

>>312272
[silence everything said in this post]
For fuck's sake seven, you're not supposed to go around telling random people all our secrets like that

>>312337
[don't silence it]
she knows he nearly fucked some chick so we need to explain and the rest is useless or questions.

Steelsplinters 2011/06/13(Mon)23:33 No. 313066 ID: 942ce7
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The answers flood back dripping into my skull with the insistence of a returning tide, littering factoids and ideas among the recessed tide pools of private thought.
"They say he was away for a while, when he brought back the frog, erh the frog in the bag, for his sister he must have returned."
"Perhaps, but that was well on five days ago, where has hidden himself now?"
"They say, while he was out, he met a rival princess, was ill and apparently she helped him, also slept with him."
"What?"
Mistress grips our hand tightly, turning about to meet my eyes. We feel her gaze burrowing into us, probing, searching out the truth behind our mask.
"T-they say he feared impregnating her and thus spurned her advances.
"Did he?"
"Their current guess as to his whereabouts is, in returning from his outing he met an old friend and arranged a later meeting, maybe a night on the town?"
"Mmmm, it appears I shall have to examine his character more closely, perhaps I had gathered a rather... different impression of him?

Steelsplinters 2011/06/13(Mon)23:58 No. 313077 ID: 942ce7
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"Still, first things first, Takayya, this woman, I want to know what there is to be known about her. I must assume she's one of those Sperenze 'princesses'."
"As you wish."
"We should also inform the family he has been successfully experimenting with 'applied' objects, they will be pleased by such news.
"Ehh?"
"They've wanted confirmation of his progress, this is an almost sure sign. I've gathered his mother disproves of his interest in 'That' science, while his father is reluctant to tell us 'anything' as to his practical abilities... bargaining habits I imagine. Speaking of which, I wonder, what could his father wish to speak so urgently to him now about?
She purses her lips for a moment of thought, whiskers twitching pensively.
Mmmmmm, there is simply no way he spent most of the week with a friend on the town. It still doesn't sound like him, besides the guard would have picked him up at the least. It should know his habits, where might he be?"
"I shall ask."

we can try to find him, but unknown if this will even work.
[pull in direction of august]

>>313077
The old friend is his roommate from school.

August slept in the same bed as the princess because he was her prisoner and had no choice. He was tempted, but refused her advances. Fear of pregnancy was not the reason, as she was not in cycle.

August would have taken us with him if he expected trouble or to be gone for more than a few hours. That he has been missing for days is seriously troubling, and mandates a response.

[Attempt to pull towards August]
[Attempt to put August's direction and distance into Steelsplinters head]

Ehh, tell her to not treat us like an "it." Some of the jerks in here pick up on that and will perform small acts of sabotage in retaliation. Nothing serious, mind, but we'll become even more irritating.

And while we're making requests, can you please relay to the lady that August was traveling incognito and thus had to play the part of a wandering commoner. Otherwise he wouldn't have shared a bed with the Sperenze 'princess' at all. And make sure your lady understands he was a perfect gentleman.

Let's see, the only thing I can think of that would keep August away for a full week like this is his master. I bet the old man encountered him and they hared off on another adventure, probably something to do with the elf attack the night August and the lady danced.

Oh right, I bet you don't know. One of the elves launched a dream attack on August to attempt to learn where the old man is. When the mage got wind of elves on the grounds he fled; likely some sort of trouble he'd had with them in past. August's powers were sufficient to repel the dream attack, but the issue was wholly unresolved before we went to retrieve August's mask.

Oh, Lady Lucidia asked about the Sperenze princess.

Here is a summary: Jolienne, the Second Princess of Sperenze and adjunct priestess of Mari. She is the sixth surviving daughter of the Matron. Jolienne is over two meters tall, and a fine shot with a pistol, skilled enough to hit a blaster from thirty paces on an otton at full gallop. Her private quarters are in what were the old crew quarters for the battleship, not far from the ship's mess. She speaks with a very strong accent.

She is naive, proud, and believed August to be a dragon traveling in disguise thanks to a flashy display of desperation magic he used when faced by overwhelming numbers of blasters.

August suspected she was in heat, or nearly ready to go into heat, judging by smell. Since we can't smell, we had to trust his judgement. We speculate that the Sperenze family has some way to maintain high fertility levels by either being mutants that are constantly in a low level heat, or use fertility rites that have actual effect somehow to achieve the same. There's no evidence for either besides their high fertility rates as a family, and August's observations.

High technology medical equipment, a hyperbaric life support chamber, was observed in the ship while August explored it. If their other medical technology matches that example, hormones or hormonally active agents may be available to encourage greater fertility.

Jolienne has the pet name Joey, but she only allows her brothers to use it.

That concludes my report on her.

>>313165
She was smokin' hot, too.

And the whole 'technically slept with her' bit was a rather tactless play on words; referring to the fact that he indeed slept in the same room as her.

I'm assuming they've already checked Sirius's workshop, where they helped him clean up and whatnot... perhaps August is doing some scrying in the divination bowl thing?

(Also, guys, I really don't think we should be handing out all of August's doings and secrets to just anyone who picks us up)

>>313239
But Lucinda isn't 'just anyone who picks us up'.

>telling Lucidia we've been seeing another woman
>telling her that said woman is a rival princess
>nobody but me seems to realize how badly they'll react

>>313243
Been seeing? SAW. Once.

>>313243

Hey, it's reasonable as long as you know the entire story. He was posing as a commoner, he rescued a father and son attacked by blasters, the son was injured badly but August stabilized him, blasters caught up to them, August used the desperation magic I mentioned earlier and was rendered insensate by it, Jolienne retrieved August and treated him as an oddity because he could cast magic.

Since August didn't want to rock the boat, he went along with her demands that he remain close to her until the first opportunity for him to accomplish his original objective and escape came up. He took it, and the rest is an adventure story.