Go ahead, but I believe you will have to wait a moment or so.
[ the shadows are rolling in which is extremely annoying when you are attempting to keep up a level of anonymity here. they rolling slow, but then speedily jump on the two of them once they're close. ]
Suguru is surrounded by the immaculate walls of what looks like the interior of an elaborate cathedral, washed in soft green light from magical lanterns. He steps - no, he realizes, he isn't even walking, he's floating - off a runic teleportation circle and out of a room into a short hallway with another single sigil at the other end.
He's nervous, but mildly excited. It feels as if he is doing something he isn't supposed to be doing, the bubbling anxiety mixing with the adrenaline of pressing forward.
Stepping up to the sigil, Suguru recites something in a strange language, like a chant, a spell, and the sigil begins to glow. He steps inside it.
A dark portal spits him out on the other end, dropping him into a windowless, doorless room. Around him on pedestals are four cannonball-sized dodecahedrons made of slightly lit quartz-like material. Luxon beacons.
Suguru moves to the closest one, lifting it up in rich, deep purple hands. A warped reflection gazes back at him, someone with the same dark and purple skin, with short white hair and lashes and brows, with two long ears decorated in silver jewelry, with brilliant violet eyes.
Quickly, Suguru flicks his wrist, and the beacon is swallowed up by a lip of space, eaten away into a pocket dimension and gone. Carefully, Suguru glances around at the remaining beacons. They are meant to be holy, revered, but somehow, to Suguru, they are a puzzle to be unraveled. There is something more to them, he knows, something none of them have understood yet, none of them have found. No one will look. So he will look.
He turns away and returns through the dark portal from which he entered.
They are relics excavated from old, buried ruins. My people believe they are pieces of our deity, the Luxon. Those who go through the rite of consecution are then able, upon death in the radius of a beacon, have their soul put into a newly born child in the area.
They retain the memories of each life until they are a perfect soul, ready to meet the Luxon.
Because I'm a wizard. Because I have spent me entire life studying a form of magic which these beacons also seem to utilize in some way, but not in one taught among the discipline.
Not particularly. I have taken some beacons to... a collective of mages who should be able to assist me in studying them. However... this collective is... aligned with a territory currently at opposition with my own.
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I don't believe so. You may hide in the garden periodically until it wears off, if you want. If it wears off.
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I'd rather die than have a huge ass forever.
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Who would do this to you, do you think? Send them a terrible dream.
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But I have a couple questions for you, you're used to answering those right?
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[ your bi gass, geto. ]
Go ahead, but I believe you will have to wait a moment or so.
[ the shadows are rolling in which is extremely annoying when you are attempting to keep up a level of anonymity here. they rolling slow, but then speedily jump on the two of them once they're close. ]
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He takes a moment, trying to swallow what it is that he just witnessed. ]
... So you're purple.
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Thank you for your rather racist observation of my skin. I can at least count on you to ignore everything else.
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You can ignore all of it, however.
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So why did you take the beacon?
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I wanted to learn more about them. I refuse to simply accept our faith's explanation for them, and none of my people will research them.
So... I had to take matters into my own hands.
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Why? What do they do?
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They are relics excavated from old, buried ruins. My people believe they are pieces of our deity, the Luxon. Those who go through the rite of consecution are then able, upon death in the radius of a beacon, have their soul put into a newly born child in the area.
They retain the memories of each life until they are a perfect soul, ready to meet the Luxon.
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Cool.
And you're trying to figure out why they can affect souls this way?
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I am trying to learn who exactly made them and for what reasons. I am trying to learn what powers they all hold and how many of them may exist.
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[ Hmm. ]
Have you learned anything yet?
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[ they shake their head. ]
Not particularly. I have taken some beacons to... a collective of mages who should be able to assist me in studying them. However... this collective is... aligned with a territory currently at opposition with my own.
This is the cause for my secrecy.
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