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Veralidaine Sarrasri ([personal profile] bleedsbuttermilk) wrote in [community profile] wellcome 2024-07-20 06:51 am (UTC)

veralidaine sarrasri | tortall

gray wolf lodge
Daine, an enormous wolf, lurks around the edges of the lobby, mostly in the shadows but with her eyes reflecting white as she looks long and hard at whoever you are. Presumably you're human-ish. She has a sense that she's human-ish too - she remembers running with wolves as a human and probably a couple other things - but isn't entirely certain what to do with that information.

She might start to transform, but not immediately, especially if you do something more interesting than stare back.

the necromancy option
In the catacombs somewhere ahead of you, there's a brief flash of white light and a canine yelp, soon followed by bones clattering against rock and one another. This may have happened multiple times by now. This time it's close enough to catch up.

A massive, weary-looking gray wolf is sitting licking the hands and arm bones of a kneeling human skeleton. Daine-the-wolf is whining and telling it odd's bobs. you have to go back to sleep! be like the others! but if you aren't an animal or have animal communication powers her speech is entirely undetectable. The skeleton seems to understand but cannot talk. Something about its body language suggests protest or a gentle form of defiance, despite its submissively bowed skull.

bully
A bull? Daine is unafraid at first. Animals are always coming to her, she's probably got a collection of desert creatures around her at all times. She reaches to touch the beast's nose as fearlessly and affectionately as she would any animal, hello horn-brother, but doesn't get the kind of response she wants. Whatever she picks up, it's bad.

She shivers violently, a pattern of fur growing and shrinking back across her skin, but can't break the compulsion to climb on. "Don't you dare," she growls, but she doesn't have command over this creature at all.

bullfight
There's a second bull out here in the dark, charging about following after the monster. A more normal bull, with bovine vision that can't make out the eyes very well, though Daine-the-bull is quite conscious that they're very there and very wrong. Snorting, she closes the distance and veers into it, slamming horns against its shoulder.

This might give you the chance to get off. You could fall, or try to get on Daine-the-bull's back instead. It's just furry hide over a lot of bone and muscle. Is that better?

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