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Title: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on January 03, 2021, 10:07:43 PM

The Land of Forever Fall

Nestled deep in the heart of the Mountains is a mystical land where leaves are always the vibrant hues of autumn. Its borders are wooded foothills, it's walls the endless peaks, and scarcely does it know the harsh touch of frost or fire. A softly rolling valley of green provides abundance for all who settle there, fed by the ashes of the burning mountains to the west. Sparkling lakes and rivers reflect sun and moon to cast even the humblest stone in a shade of beauty. Famine, plague, and poverty are merely foreign affairs, their presence a momentary intrusion. These are the blessings of the Highborne - the magical rulers of the land, which they call Endien.

The People

Said rulers are long-lived, with elegant features and pointed ears, possessed of wit and wisdom the like which foreign men might never know. They move in all things with grace, and maintain such a degree of casual athleticism that softness is almost fetching in its exoticism. The Highborne dress in finery fitting for a court, or a battlefield, in hues of sapphire and violet. They expend their centuries in the pursuit of culture, knowledge, or prowess. They hunt, and ride horses, and politick. Their children learn to sing, or play at least one instrument, as a rule. The noble houses sustain the sacred bloodlines of the Firstborn, and rule with swords and instruments in hand to protect their people and earn the favor of the royal family.

The commoners of Endien are closer to earth in means and manner, yet still possessed of an ineffable charm of their own. They live, if not as long as the Highborne, then still longer than ordinary men. Their ears, if not as long and sharp, still taper to a point. They dress finely, but simply, with primary colors dominating an assortment of outfits for work and leisure. Their labors are enabled by the many blessings of magic, fine tools of finer metals, and land all too easily cultivated by the hands of those who keep to the old ways. This leaves the commoners with time to spare for other entertainments, and each has at least one hobby of interest to themselves or their neighbors.

To see the homes of Endien’s people is to know their ways - all curved lines, white stone, and expert yet archaic design, with distance between them for gardens or workshops. Differences in size and space, rather than quality, demonstrate status. The ancestral homes of the Highborne are traditionally the largest, and even when not so distinguished from their neighbors might be recognized for the stability of their means and markings across multiple commoner generations. Commoners aspire to such affluence, but do not often allow the search to consume their lives. Modern technology is unheard of here, and yet the workmanship of Endien’s artisans is enough to make a contemporary craftsman cry.

A small, isolated minority of pure humans, the Lowborne, dwell at the threshold of these lands. They are descendants of criminals and outcasts from long ago who were forbidden to mix their blood with that of the noble Highborne. These people have found a place for themselves as itinerant merchants, seasonal farmhands, and rangers who scout the mountain borders. The last of these, the Mistwalkers, are the subject of tales of terrific and taboo romance by the intrepid, sinister rumors of treachery by the fearful, and parables from the mouths of the elders who yet live to remember their heroism in times of trouble.

The Politics

In earlier years the Highborne ruled as aristocratic landowners, absolute in their power, over a short-lived Lowborne underclass. This changed faster perhaps than the ruling class of the time would have liked when scions of their great and noble families found much to admire in those fleeting beings they ruled, and took them first into their beds and then into their hearts. Their children, strange liminal creatures between High and Low, were split into branch families of the nobility whose numbers swelled within but a single generation once the taboo was broken. In time the only Lowborne remaining were those who’d been cast out from society’s protection, and the hybrid commoners known to Endien today demanded representation within their own lands as more than mere clients of their Highborne ancestors.

Today the Land of Forever Fall is ruled by a federation of Houses centered around a monarch from the Royal House of Endien. Each of these Houses is made of two groups: The original Highborne bloodlines who founded them, and the populations of commoners who affiliate themselves politically and economically with them today. By preference, people tend to purchase goods from members of their House, to marry people affiliated with their House, and to deal more fairly and honestly with their House kin than with outsiders. Each House has claim to lands and resources traditionally apportioned to them in ages past, and compete with one another over access to everything else by any means but murder. The traditional role of the Royal House is to moderate the competitions and disputes of the other Houses, serving as an arbiter in times of peace and a commander in times of war.

Leadership among the Houses is ostensibly decided by merit. The finest at arms, the keenest of thinkers, the cleverest merchants and craftsmen, people whose words stir their neighbors to action - all of these things technically make a leader who can join their House Council. Traditionally, a majority of Councilors are those with the talent for magic - a talent that is found most strongly and consistently among the Highborne whose children learn the sacred songs from their youth, and far less so among commoners who often lack the education and time. This too is seen among the Royal House, an exception to tradition already by making leadership a matter of heredity, where the crown princess spends centuries mastering the sacred arts of her bloodline in order to live up to the power and responsibilities of her title.

This is a land with many traditions held to by virtue of long memories and a sense of righteousness. These traditions are taken for granted in the way basic laws are in other lands - the minimum quality of one’s wares, the precautions one takes with their own safety, the traits one looks for in a partner, the length of time a proper courtship lasts (between 5 to 10 years, of course). True laws are the sole province of the presiding monarch, to be contested only by unanimous agreement of the Houses, and a new one has not been passed in over a thousand years. They are simple things with no exceptions: Do not kill your neighbors. Do not take from them the ability to work. Do not treat with sinful sorceries save to seal them. Do not force, by sword or spell, another thinking being to labor for you. Times where these laws are broken are dark ones indeed - worse so those where they are repealed.

The Warfare

The Land of Forever Fall is always wary of falling before its many enemies. From the mists come a variety of exotic and terrible creatures who would ravage their homes and devour their families, some unique and others the first example of a malevolent new species. This would be bad enough on its own, but not enough to justify the extensive degree of militarization the people of Endien are accustomed to. That particular tradition emerged from generations of border conflicts and even outright invasions from the monstrous inhabitants of the Land of Neverending Night - orcs and goblins and worse beside.

Every able-bodied citizen of Endien and its Houses has basic training in simple forms of fighting through the means of archery, swordsmanship, and spear fighting. Every family has at least enough bows for its adult members, and perhaps a set of light armor and a spear and short sword. They are taught from a young age in their spare time how to move in formation and take instruction from superiors. A mixture of exceptional craftsmanship and magical assistance from the Highborne or a gifted common Mage allows their weapons to strike with force comparable to modern infantry weapons - their arrows with the speed of a firearm. They are expected to answer the call to arms for their neighbors, for their House, for the Royal Family.

Most Houses also maintain a pair of elite Orders devoted respectively to a particular form of fighting, and a specific area of magic. The Orders of War are Endien’s only permanent military force, commoners and Highborne alike spending from decades to centuries devoted to the practice of their craft. The Orders of Magic are devoted to furthering and preserving the use of a particular field of magical study, and are predominantly Highborne. Together their skills serve to hold fast against the monsters of the mountains in times of peace, and to reinforce the citizen militias called in times of strife.

The Mistwalkers of the Lowborn present in times of trouble as an irregular force, striking the enemies of order from directions none else may. In peace, their skills are put to use gathering news of threats, collecting plant and animal samples from within the mists, and slaying monsters long before the Highborne recognize them. They spend much of their effort honing mountaineering and medicinal abilities which allow them to endure exceptional lengths of time in the presence of the Mountains’ Mantle. They have thus mobility which no other force in the Western Mountains possesses.

Endien is largely impregnable to conventional invasions through all but a handful of routes. The vastness of the Great Western Mountains protects them to the north and south. Anyone attempting to approach by land from these directions may only do so in at most small groups from these directions, and then only through supernal skills of navigation and magical assistance. Only one path allows for the exit or entry of larger forces to the west and east - the former toward the burning mountains and the Lands of Neverending Night, and the latter toward the greater Nexus as a whole. Both paths are narrow mountain passes defended by a series of gates and fortresses, each protected by spells from one of the Houses and staffed by a mixture of their people and volunteers from the Royal House. There are four such checkpoints in total, two to each pass, one for each of the Houses. A fifth exists at the center of Endien - this is the land’s walled capital, which has in turn surrounds the mystical Star Tower which has been home to the monarch’s noble line for thousands of years.

Historically, invasions have never occurred from the Eastern ``Path of Dawn.” The fortifications along that path are intended more as a final line of defense by the people of Endien to protect the rest of the Nexus from the vengeance of their ancestral enemies. The rare visitor from beyond will typically find themselves cautiously welcomed unless their intentions are obviously malign. Conversely, every few Highborne generations seem to find themselves drawn into open war with the monsters from the burning mountains beyond the Western “Path of Dusk.” Hordes of orcs, goblins, and more terrible things still pour forth from the ash, throwing themselves against the outward facing defenses in numbers beyond counting. In quieter times the gates serve as waystations for expeditions into the Land of Neverending Night to seek lost relics, trade with the Smallfolk in the hills, or cull the belligerent locals.

The Houses

Each of the four main Houses represents a distinct subculture within the Land of Forever Fall. They possess unique traditions, refine a particular martial art to perfection, and hold in harmony two of the eight basic elements of magic. The fifth house is the Royal House, keepers of the purest magical arts, and they bear the name of the land of Endien. They have been the dominant political and economic forces throughout Endien’s long history, and are as follows.

House Aurë. They have a perhaps undeserved reputation for being worldly, for their lands are the closest to the mysterious world beyond the Path of Dawn. They weave fanciful tales of forgotten lands, the horrors they allegedly contain, and the great heroes who cast them down. Not all of their knowledge is whimsical nonsense, because it is they who know best the ways of curses, dark creatures, and how to harness and contain both. Were they any less subtle their reputations might be a fair bit more sinister. Their mages create melodies of Shadow and Light, to bind fearsome and deceptive powers to a proper cause, and cast them out when they have overstayed their welcome. They produce the finest rangers of the realm, renowned for near perfect aim, incredible feats of woodsmanship, and an arsenal of magical arrows.

House Cálë. It would be natural to believe the citizens of House Cálë to be a somber lot - they surround themselves with the oldest growth in all the land, living amid reminders of the youth of even the Highborne compared to the natural history of the world. Their sacred Everwood is a place where the restless spirits of Endien gather until they are ready to pass beyond the mountains, unable to speak save to those who can match their silent songs. And yet they seem all too eager to take their responsibility as a call to joy, as much healers as they are harbingers of death’s peace and wisdom. Their mages create melodies of Spirit and Life, to call upon the knowledge of those who have passed, and to prevent that fate for just a little while longer. To witness their warriors in action is to stare down the power of the eldest beasts, and their riders.

House Húro. The builders and dreamers of Land of Forever Fall, the example of professional and intellectual quality to which others aspire. Their astrologers read the fates in the stars to warn their fellows of danger, while their mathematicians design architectural marvels of exceptional complexity and beauty. Their forges produce some of the greatest weapons of this age. For them the bounty of land and sky is abundant, ash and rain turning them into a competitor for breadbasket of Endien. Their mages create melodies of Heaven and Earth, to call forth the power found above and below for the building of wonders. Their finest fight in the ‘heaviest’ mithril armors, and carry shining golden halberds that can cleave through steel.

House Saiwa. The fierce defenders of tradition. If any of the Houses can be said to value most strongly the traditional values of Endien it is the Saiwa, who are said to be quick to correct and even quicker to accuse. However, it is for this same reason that they are among the most political of the Houses, with even commoners taking a keen interest in the affairs of governance and intrigue. Their mages create melodies of Fire and Water, for they are the instruments with which civilization is maintained. Their finest fight with flowing finesse and burning bravery, wielding imperishable magic swords almost as tall as they are with the skill to deflect arrows in midair.

House Endien. The Royal House, the founders of the Land of Forever Fall who have held to their duty to protect and guide for thousands of years. Aside from the Highborne ruling family themselves, they are made up of both the commoner descendants of royalty and their most exceptional servants. They are all encouraged to aid the other Houses in their duties in any way they can, and they go largely unresented for their efforts at this. Their mages weave together the other eight melodies of magic into a sacred symphony of Harmony, sorcery’s true form purified of all Dissonance. They are the archmages of the Highborne, and the few from outside House Endien who achieve similar heights are granted honorary membership as well. The martial arts are not neglected, but the royal family have shunned their ancestors’ brutal ways after the Darkening, and so they do not contribute a unique combat tradition to their people.

The Melodies of Magic

Light and Shadow. Life and Spirit. Heaven and Earth. Fire and Water. These are the forces around which the chaos of Dawn coalesced, allowing the Fourth Age to rise from the bitterness and spite of those which came before. Each of these forces, known to the Highborne as Melodies, may be harnessed by the skilled and learned to perform great feats of magic. The Highborne, and gifted commoners, learn from a young age to use the arts of music and instrumentation to harness at least one Melody, and even those who do not go on to make a study of magic integrate its basics into their daily lives and careers. The greatest of spellcasters grow beyond the need to weave their music for others to hear, summoning all but the mightiest symphonies of power in their hearts alone.

Light is the Melody of Banishing, that which draws down sun and stars to cast out that which does not belong in this world. Those who call on Light find that creating illumination where there is none is the simplest and most meager of its abilities, something even children can accomplish with a simple tune. Proper magicians can turn simple light into blinding rays, or into a comforting glow that flows into the hearts of others and lift them up similarly to Intimacies. They learn to weave wards against hostile intentions to protect themselves from peril. In the hands of a master every note and gesture radiates purifying energy that brings great harm to beings of inherent wickedness such as devils or the walking dead.

Shadow is the Melody of Binding, that which anchors the senses in the echoes of the darkness before the Fourth Age. Children who learn to harness the power of Shadow learn not to fear the night, for they learn to see through it and name its denizens. Proper magicians can dim all but the greatest lights, twist the senses with lies, and fill the hearts of others with despair all too similar to failing an Intimacy. They conjure curses and horrors from out of nightmares so that their enemies are torn apart - or at least given cause to run away.

Life is the Melody of Beginnings, that which gives us the chance to experience the Fourth Age in all its splendor. Children who learn songs of Life do so for reasons simple and concrete - to free themselves and their friends of minor scrapes and bruises. The true magicians of Life sing limbs back into place, disease out from bodies, and food from the soil. In battle they are some of the most fearsome of all, their songs turning to fury at the notion of anything threatening their charges and calling that which dwells below to surge forth to crush all danger.

Spirit is the Melody of Passing, that which gives us a chance to come to terms with a simple truth - all Ages come to an end, and for some sooner than others. Children who learn songs of Spirit do so because they do not want to let go of what they’ve lost - because they still want to hear the songs of cherished pets and ancestors. True magicians of Spirit keep listening, drawn to the wisdom of the lost and away from immature longings for eternity. In battle they channel the skills of the departed, and call forth the energies of passing in great bolts and fields of withering cold.

Heaven is the Melody of Skies, that which displays the glory of the Fourth Age from above. Children who learn songs of Heaven cast their eyes upward, learning to call down soft rains and gentle breezes from the firmament to give comfort to their days. Magicians of Heaven are far more impressive, both conjuring and banishing weather of all kinds and giving speed to their fellows by keeping the wind at their backs. In battle they call forth the essence of the sky to strike fast, turning simple storms into raging maelstroms of lightning and terror. The most esoteric and lofty of songs instead call to the less obvious gifts of the sky - the powers of prediction.

Earth is the Melody of Shaping, that which provides for the works of those for whom the Fourth Age was meant. Children who learn songs of Earth revel in rocks and soil, in glass and metal, and worry their parents to death as they shape these things into simple crafts and tools - or undermine the foundations of their houses. Magicians of Earth may part the earth, or call it together, bid it rise or fall, and change it from one form to another. In battle they use these abilities to create weapons of great power, and to control the terrain in ways their foes cannot readily escape.

Fire is the Melody of Renewal, that which seared away the Third Age to make way for the Fourth. Children who learn songs of Fire learn quickly that it is not a toy to play with, for its beauty comes with a terrible danger. Magicians of Fire learn not to burn in the face of this heat, and to direct its destructive power against the world around them. It is a stereotype to say that the Melody of Fire is the most combative of all, but one that is well earned - all good work that Fire has wrought has done so through destruction.

Water is the Melody of Decay, that which will one day wear away all that came before it - but until then, it gives life and beauty to all. Children learn songs of water because they are thirsty, because they enjoy watching it flow, or because they cannot stand filth. Magicians of Water understand that it is not so benevolent a force as something merely to admire, to drink, or to use to clean - but that it rots away at all works when left to settle. Their songs keep the Water flowing, call it forth from the slightest moisture, and send it to wear away at the mountain that is their foes’ defenses.

Most magicians only learn one Melody over the course of their lives, learning its songs and working wonders with it. Exceptional sorts, usually Highborne with long lives to spare for it, will learn to call forth two Melodies - always those that oppose it in the standard pairing system. It is the providence of the Royal House of Endien, and perhaps a few other prodigies of an era, to learn the secrets of weaving all Melodies in Harmony. These Highweavers, the masters of Harmony, learn to do all of the above, and in doing so discover the secrets that underlie magic itself - and thus, the means with which to unweave it.

The way of the Highweavers is difficult, the work of many lifetimes, and yet it is not the only path to ultimate power over magic. A forbidden art exists in the Land of Night of which the Highborne dare not speak, corrupting the Melodies of Magic without ever truly bothering to understand their meaning. This Dissonance is a quick path, a thing born of cruelty and hatred, a cancer one accepts into their soul - the bitterness and spite of previous Ages seeking to unravel the fabric of the Fourth. More of it, we dare not speak of here save to say this - its might suffices that the Dark Lord Yaru derives his title from it.

People, Places and Objects of Interest

The Bright Forge was created by House Húro to serve in the place of the mythic Black Forge, lost to their people with the fall of the burning mountains to darkness in ages past. It is one part enormous concert hall for the Earthshapers of the Húro to beat the drums of making, one part celestial orrery to see the heavens’ influence on their designs, and one part an access point to the last safely available ember of volcanic heat for working magically resistant materials. To reach the central chamber is to pass through endlessly echoing corridors lit by the glow of sun, moon and star and guarded by rank after rank of silent soldiers armed with the products of their charges’ labor. Anyone who witnesses this place’s beauty can recognize the skill of its keepers - and any with such skill would find no fault at all in the offered facilities.

Castle Town is the only true urban development in Endien, and it is magnificent. Set atop a great hill surrounded by an open grassland plain, it is well defensible even before one discusses the brilliantly rounded white walls that ascend in layers to defend it. Members of all Houses make their homes in its splendid townhouses, and share the products of their unique subcultures - food, items, and songs. The streets are filled with music, and thus with the magic of the Highborne. It's stores usually contain provisions for a year at siege, and its native families own weapons and armor enough for every adult to arm themselves. It surrounds the royal Star Tower, which extends deep down into the hill and ascends from its summit to rival small mountains in height. It is so named for the constellation of magical crystals which orbit its upper levels, filling the sky of the surrounding plains with wondrous light and sound on even the darkest nights. Only the most terrible magics, weapons of mass destruction, or internal sabotage could pierce the defenses of the Tower.

The Hero’s Blade is perhaps one of the greatest items of power in the entire world. Once every thousand years this seemingly simple sword is drawn from its pedestal and surges with the power to destroy all evil. Responding only to one who seeks to wield it in defense of the world’s people, with no motives of conquest or superiority, and only then in times of greatest need, the Hero’s Blade is renowned among the Land of Forever Fall for its many fine traits: Its imperishability, its ability to sense wicked intent, and its brilliant gleam in the heart of night. Perhaps the greatest of its powers are these: its flawless ability to pierce the defenses of all who harbor darkness in their hearts, and banish wicked intruders from the world with a single cut. With the passing of each wielder the blade returns to its pedestal to rest so that it might be renewed for the next great trial. For now it slumbers, silent and still, waiting for the new Chosen Hero.

The Garden of Heroes honors those who stood, sacred sword in hand, against the forces of evil in each passing age. At once somber and majestic, the garden stands at the heart of the the Everwood and seemingly grows with every thousand years without truly displacing a single blade of grass beyond its original grounds. Each hero stands tall, silent, content in the fulfillment of their ancient duty. At the center stands one statue, desolate and alone, with a single crack down the middle - the First Hero, his name unspoken, who stood with the great champions from the Dawn of the Fourth Age until his fall.

Queen Nushala has ruled House Endien, and the Land of Forever Fall, for almost a thousand years. An archmage of incredible wisdom and wondrous power, she has already led her people through one great invasion by the forces of the Dark Lord Yaru and seen to his sealing for another age. However, the weight of rule has been heavy upon her shoulders, soon it will be time for her eldest Highborne daughter, Lirazel, to take the throne by tradition. Yet she seems determined to cling to her reign, and her life, for as long as possible and to delay for just another year the inevitable failure of the seal.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on April 04, 2021, 11:03:41 PM

The Path of Dawn

There, they saw it. (https://forums.darksidemoon.net/index.php/topic,857.msg68635.html#msg68635)

To Thorra, only the great halls of Jotunheim could begin to compare to the immensity of the bastion before her. The greatest of giants could but peek their heads over the deeply curved wall looming over them. It glimmered, bright as the dawn, with a hundredfold lattice of mystical light crossing its pristine surface like a cage. The tops of shining helmets and spears and knocked arrowheads caught rays of the dawn. A century of songs, in a strange yet familiar dialect, rose like brilliant birdsong to lift the heart with hope.

And there, standing before the great fastness in unutterable defiance, was what could only be described as an army. Innumerable rotting bodies, wild animals and humanoids and hounds with flesh sloughing from their bones, clambered their way up the hill in files of fifty wide. They climbed over each other, uncaring in their march.

At its rear was a small figure scarcely taller than Sage, dressed from head to toe in naught but a ragged cloak. Yet this being's very presence, and the rotting legion at its back, threatened to bury the light before them. The mist of the mountains clung heavily about them, and rot fell about them like a rain. A thousand arrows from a hundred bows rained down upon them in moments, filling the sky with trails of glimmering starlight to meet the sun as both fell on their enemies. The shambling corpses interposed themselves unerringly between their master and the defenders' volleys.

The bodies trampled on, filled with a palpable malice. Their wails cut through the songs of the defenders like a dissonant chord, channeling the figure's malevolent will. Those cut down slowly, fighting against the cleansing light, pulled themselves back together to press on.

Then one of them turned to notice the newcomers.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on April 05, 2021, 04:27:59 PM

Thorra

Thorra artfully grasped the lone arrow as it whizzed by their faces, tossing it as if it were a dart into the stone face. She began to hop up the sheer faces of the wall, scaling the mountains with such effortless ease that it was as if she were on the flat plains.

Then, she saw it. A tremendous battle—between beautiful elves singing exalted battle cries and on the other side beneath them, an inexorable army of corruption and death, much akin to the serpant which she had tasted on the journey through the mountains.

The hammer knew which side she would aid without even really considering her action or its consequences. The naked hammer sprinted along the cliff face to join the fair-skinned elven host, carrying her charge all the while.

"Sage, use your druid powers to destroy the undead!" Thorra suddenly barked out an order. The very sky above them suddenly darkened, great rainclouds forming directly above the undead. Holwing winds of hurricane force forced them back down, and repeated bolts of lightning began to scar the rock black, repeated bolts targeting their fell leader from afar.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on April 06, 2021, 04:57:44 AM

The Path of Dawn

T'was not just the dragon in her arms who beheld the hammer's thunderous approach in both awe and bewilderment, yet t'was she who was most inclined to respond swiftly to the act. "Then you will - release me, flat headed fool, that I might work!" In spite of the effort put into her volley of such complaints, so too did she push forth her hand and call forth the strength of the wild too long abused by the approach of this unnatural force.

A multitude of roots rose up from the soil and out through cracks torn in stone, exploiting every flaw in the ancient roadway so that the horde of shambling corpses might find itself entangled by nature's fury. Their dissonant wailing was nearly drowned out completely between the searing crack of thunder and the steady creaking of wood. They fell back onto each other in piles of limbs and rotting flesh, their steadily stumbling advance toward the pristine walls of the defenders halted in its tracks.

Only the leader of the foul force remained unscathed, a bone-piercing howl that mocked the art of song with its existence making still for but a moment the energies which threatened its shrouded half-life. That same howl seemed to bring the abominable assailants new strength, for they began to push forward against the winds.

But the elves, they did not rest. The volley of mystical arrows resumed, and upon Thorra's arrival one of the great conductors stepped forward from their midst to greet her with outstretched hands. "Hold, travelers!" The helmeted figure, dressed in some of the finest armor and silks her eyes had ever seen, beseeched her not with threat, but perhaps the warning of the calm and the experienced. "Greetings shall need to wait. Please, if your intentions are well we would have you continue to assist us!"

But of course, at least five of them had knocked bows in their direction. Just in case.

Sage took the opportunity to wrench herself from Thorra's grasp, and then immediately settled behind her so that most of her body was obscured by the blonde's. Her eyes stayed focused on the crowded approach.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on April 07, 2021, 04:01:41 PM

Quote from: Aiden on April 06, 2021, 04:57:44 AM

The Path of Dawn

T'was not just the dragon in her arms who beheld the hammer's thunderous approach in both awe and bewilderment, yet t'was she who was most inclined to respond swiftly to the act. "Then you will - release me, flat headed fool, that I might work!" In spite of the effort put into her volley of such complaints, so too did she push forth her hand and call forth the strength of the wild too long abused by the approach of this unnatural force.

A multitude of roots rose up from the soil and out through cracks torn in stone, exploiting every flaw in the ancient roadway so that the horde of shambling corpses might find itself entangled by nature's fury. Their dissonant wailing was nearly drowned out completely between the searing crack of thunder and the steady creaking of wood. They fell back onto each other in piles of limbs and rotting flesh, their steadily stumbling advance toward the pristine walls of the defenders halted in its tracks.

Only the leader of the foul force remained unscathed, a bone-piercing howl that mocked the art of song with its existence making still for but a moment the energies which threatened its shrouded half-life. That same howl seemed to bring the abominable assailants new strength, for they began to push forward against the winds.

But the elves, they did not rest. The volley of mystical arrows resumed, and upon Thorra's arrival one of the great conductors stepped forward from their midst to greet her with outstretched hands. "Hold, travelers!" The helmeted figure, dressed in some of the finest armor and silks her eyes had ever seen, beseeched her not with threat, but perhaps the warning of the calm and the experienced. "Greetings shall need to wait. Please, if your intentions are well we would have you continue to assist us!"

But of course, at least five of them had knocked bows in their direction. Just in case.

Sage took the opportunity to wrench herself from Thorra's grasp, and then immediately settled behind her so that most of her body was obscured by the blonde's. Her eyes stayed focused on the crowded approach.

Thorra

The giantish hammer-woman winked at them, sending a shiver down their spine. "I could never leave a beautiful group such as yourselfs out to dry. Consider this battle over."

Thorra loomed over Sage, using her mass to protect the shy dragoness. She was easily able to hide behind Thorra's girthy and lavasious curves, standing currently at over seven feet tall.

The gale had continued to pick up force, circling around the battlefield like a raging tornado now, tearing up rocks and battering anything else existing inside of it with debris. Lightning crackled inside the tornado, arcing from one side to the other and batheing the entire area in a blueish light.

Thorra herself turned. She took a stance, focusing on her target, and threw. She hurtled through the air like a supersonic projectile, smashing into the hooded fellow with cataclysmic force.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on April 09, 2021, 02:02:51 AM

The Path of Dawn

The elegant chorister who'd addressed Thorra paid but a moment's notice longer to take her measure. Then, they inclined their head and returned their attention to the accursed sight beyond the battlements. "Then we are most fortunate to extend our hospitality to you in our Land of Forever Fall." The great glimmering host turned, phased not by the terrible glory of the divine laid out before them, and readied their strings and songs for when her retribution came to an end.

An assortment of corpses were cast about by the force of the hammerborn's ferocious gales, crushed beneath the weight of the mountains' stone, seared by the sundering thundering fury of a doomed and daring demigod. They were no match for her destructive might! And so when thus she struck the ominous orchestrator of this obscene parade their body exploded into an electrified heap of rotting meat and dust, splattered across the mass of their pitiable pawns.

It seemed then as the storm ended that this was, in fact, the end. A great cheer went up, and Sage wrung her hands and squirmed in place behind the demigoddess as she watched.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on April 09, 2021, 09:34:23 PM

Thorra

Thorra puffed out her chest, causing an enticing, almost magical jiggle to run through her entire body. It mattered not whether one had a preference or otherwise, the sheer statuesque beauty drew the attention of every member of the elven host, whom would surely be thinking of her later during their private time. With the hand which she wasn't carrying herself, she made a V with two of her fingers over her eye, as one of her many lovers had taught her in the past. Her bombastic presence drew all eyes to her, and Sage could rapidly feel the avid interest in the dragon-woman diminishing in favor of Thorra's extravagance.

"My name is Thorra, daughter of Mjolnir~ It's great to meet all of you!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on April 12, 2021, 12:02:18 AM

The Path of Dawn

Eyes were on her now, and Thorra could feel the velvet chains of destiny threading their way around her limbs once more. From whence, with whom, she could not readily say - yet they grew slowly tighter as her introduction went on.

The leader of the elven battle choir bowed their head once more. "For your great deed here, you are most welcome in our lands. Pray tell, what brings you from the distant lands of Dawn?"

Sage was still lurking behind the massive blonde woman, sharp clawed fingers clutching harmlessly out of sight at her curves. She was looking aside over the great wall, and the rising sun, and the misty horizon beyond.

It was magnificent.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on April 12, 2021, 09:33:26 PM

Thorra

Thorra's skin was impossibly soft, smooth, and her body seemed to be made of clouds with how squishy she was. The demigoddess winked at the man addressing her, taking a short look behind her at Sage before responding.

"Can't tell just anyone. It's a secret—but I promise, we have nothing bad in store for your people."

Thorra suddenly stepped forwards, getting right up into their personal space and putting them at eye level with her volumous chesticles.

"Do you mind taking us to your leaders, so we can pay our respects?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on April 13, 2021, 02:32:12 AM

The Path of Dawn

The elves, for their lyrical tongues were all too telling of their true nature, were whispering among themselves now at the rear lines. They were busy, of course, restocking their many arrows and restringing bows set over long to efforts. A few, further down the line, were more solemn despite their triumphant company and kept their eyes pinned to the festering remnants of horror below.

Their leader's eyes wandered for a moment, and then they shot back up and up to Thorra's face. "Most... certainly, yes. An audience is surely due to one who chose so freely to aid us in battle."

And then, Sage nostrils flared, and her eyes glared, and she pushed her way past to the edge of the wall. "Tis not over yet!"

A truly wretched melody rose up from what remained of the battered, broken, beaten mass of their foes, a thousand wailing voices each heralding their own suffering alone and yet together. Alone, and yet together.

Alone.

Together.

And then they were whole, and this time pulling themselves together alone around the head of their master, their maestro, before their very eyes threatening with their grasping and howling to stand tall as a great and terrible horror in mockery of the grandeur of a serpent.

The choir leader turned's voice hardened. "ONCE MORE, TO ARMS!"

Their greeters, the garrison at the gates, calmly yet hurriedly drew their bows and let loose a comet trail of purifying light once more at the abomination in an effort to prevent its formation. A fresh song from rose from worn throats, from tired hands, and the wall gleamed ever brighter still. It faltered, but did not fall this time. It held itself together on six limbs, a body raised up with a trembling and dripping of rot and gore to stain the white stone forevermore.

And Sage, ever quick to offense in the foul mood in which Thorra had taken her measure, dashed forward to launch herself from the parapet in a steep dive - only to rise again as a beast of her own, the great boughs of the forest rising up to meet the heights of the bastion at the peak of her wingspan. Her great oaken hide and the many leaves of her wings caught the light of the defenders. A tremendous roar escaped her throat, and carried with it a great billowing cloud of acrid green.

Flesh sloughed from it, leaving spaces for arrows of light to reach into precious bone. In its malice, it slammed into the great dragon and turned her aside with a trembling grasp of its hands. Its blasphemous amalgam of a form fell in sizzling rivers of flesh, like a slurry, from cracking and crunching bone.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on April 15, 2021, 11:28:52 PM

Thorra

Thorra clapped her hands with a grin, scratching at her own ear. She'd always wondered what having such long, pointy ears would feel like when she interacted with such elves. Idly, she wondered if this brand would prove to be as tight and wet as the ones she's interacted with on her own world...

No matter. She'd surely have time to find out. Hopefully the royals were cute...

Thorra's lustful reverie was cut short by the rising of the undead scourge—seriously, why couldn't it just accept it'd been defeated and fucking die already? Jeez. To her surprise, her draconic partner had taken her true form, spraying acid at the abomination.

Thorra simply hopped onto the top of Sage's neck, tightening her legs around her neck to hold on tightly. Then, she swung, a phantom hammer of lightning and fury appearing in front of the beast, slamming into it with as much force as if she'd been in front of it personally.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on April 18, 2021, 03:56:20 PM

The Path of Dawn

Held fast by the dragon's great strength, its approximation of structural integrity undermined by the persistent melting of its substance in a slurry of slop, the wailing abomination had little to offer as resistance against Thorra's sudden application of divine force. At this size it was not so much the entire creature that was struck down so much as that her hammer's impact tore enormous chunks of meat and bone away from it.

The platinum collar that stretched around Sage's neck made for a good hand hold as well, and seemed not to bother the great beast whilst she took advantage of the other monster's stumble to drive a massive talon into the hole. As if sensing the danger, for once it expressed distress in audible madness.

"▂▂▃▃▄▄▅▅!"

Grasping firmly with the multi-limbed menace, Sage clamped her beak-like maw of teeth around where a head would normally be, and unleashed another point blank rain of burning fluid down to spill across it. And from within came a tremendous surge of bright, cleansing light - something meant for healing. Indeed, it had a rejuvenating effect that seemed to purge from within the dissonant curse which held the abomination together.

It began to crumble, and yet it struggled still, beating about at Sage with its limbs, grasping at her wings and pulling with a terrible force that let her roaring in pain around her corrosive and iron jawed vice.

The sound of wood creaking filled the pass.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on April 18, 2021, 04:12:48 PM

Thorra

Blows rained down as if it were a thunderstorm. Thorra slammed into the enemy, retracted, slamming in again in a flurry of blows that would leave a large building pulverized. Not once did her blows threaten her draconic partner, however—she carefully avoided slamming herself into Sage's clawed hands.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on April 18, 2021, 05:32:58 PM

The Path of Dawn

Their combined efforts brought low the assemblage of corpses, forcing it down to the earth, to its many knees - elbows? Joints. Its joints collapsed beneath it, and it began to evaporate in a haze of blues and greens and whites from the hole Thorra made, and the spots where blessed elven arrows had found purchase. Each thunderstrike of a blow sheared pieces of it away, pieces which struggled to rise again and rejoin the greater mass.

But the elves upon the wall did not waste time despite the mythic display at hand. Disciplined volleys of light-blessed arrows found their way unerringly to their targets, and thus did they whittle away at their unnatural foe piece by piece.

An unfortunate squeezing of something approximating a hand made an audible crack in Sage's wing as the creature went into its death throes, and she began to thrash about in pain and fury. Most abruptly she turned and began to smash the crumbling thing into the stone face of the mountain pass, and released a deafening roar.

Piles of leaves fell to the earth, and where they touched plant life sought to surge forth from cracks in the tarnished stone road.

They were winning. It was just a matter of time until all that remained was rot and scattered bone.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on April 18, 2021, 05:49:25 PM

Thorra

And eventually, bone and dust it was. The rockface was scarred by a dark, bloody rot which would eventually be baked away by the sun, disintigrating back into nothingness where it belonged.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on April 18, 2021, 06:09:43 PM

The Path of Dawn

A chorus of triumph rose from the walls, proclaiming the victory of Thorra and her majestic companion for all to hear. The sun peaked, the rising dawn complete so as to shine the warmth of nature down upon the champions who had defended it from such an unclean presence. It reminded the demigoddess of the heat of the forge whence she came, and filled her with a familiar sense of strength and purpose.

The draconic druid stumbled her way a distant from the carnage, rumbling, and curled up against the mountainside to nurse her cracked wing. She reached up with a titanic hand to grasp the sunlight, and pulled it to the damaged spot.

Her great glowing eyes fell on Thorra, and for once the hammer felt no animosity there.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on April 22, 2021, 03:06:32 PM

Thorra

The hammer's grin was like the gentle mist on the forest. Charming, refeshing, and calming. She leaned forwards and hugged the top of the great dragon's head, smooshing her inhumanly soft chest against the scaley bark as if it were nothing at all.

"We shall succeed in our quest yet, but I fear these people are in dire trouble, facing beasts as fell as these."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on April 24, 2021, 02:34:58 PM

Quote from: SINIB on April 22, 2021, 03:06:32 PM

Thorra

The hammer's grin was like the gentle mist on the forest. Charming, refeshing, and calming. She leaned forwards and hugged the top of the great dragon's head, smooshing her inhumanly soft chest against the scaley bark as if it were nothing at all.

"We shall succeed in our quest yet, but I fear these people are in dire trouble, facing beasts as fell as these."

Sage

The druidess released from her enormous nostrils a most sullen and disgusted exhalation, and yet released the vast and terrible tension creaking through her oaken limbs. Her shining eyes sealed, and a rumble like cracking branches escaped from her collared throat. Thorra could witness from here the miracle of her injured wing pulling itself back into place, the sinew and wood growing over damaged places and new rustling leaves taking the place of those fallen and soiled.

T'was not until it appeared she had given some consideration to Thorra mentioning others when the dragon's eyes turned to the cautiously approaching party of robed and helmeted defenders, a half dozen in all.

One of them, eternally youthful in face and with hints of red hair slipping past the confines of his graceful helmet, raised a hand and waved.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on April 24, 2021, 02:45:31 PM

Thorra

Without waiting for Sage to respond any longer. Thorra hopped off of Sage's neck to land squatting in front of the elven warrior. Electricity crackled around her body, and even squatting, she was about the same height as the standing elves. "Have we earned the honor of your trust? I'd really love to know what's going on and to have a meeting with whomever's in charge." Thorra winked at the boy with the flowing red hair, sending ripples of youthful love through his body.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on April 25, 2021, 06:22:08 AM

The Path of Dawn

Sage adjusted her head so that her great leafy wings obscured much of it, leaving only the glow of her eyes to peer at the elves from far above Thorra's distracting visage. The combination seemed a bit much for the youthful-seeming brave who'd dared to greet them once more. He brought a hand to his mouth and softly coughed into it.

"Tis certainly worth an audience, at the least." The others in his presence set about the rest of the field before the bastion, and with songs soft yet strident began to turn the sun's rays into yet more cleansing light against what remained of the abomination. He focused on Thorra, instead, and a hint of eagerness entered into his voice. "If you and your... companion, would join us beyond the first wall, then I - we, may send forward word of your arrival!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on April 26, 2021, 03:29:26 PM

Quote from: Aiden on April 25, 2021, 06:22:08 AM

The Path of Dawn

Sage adjusted her head so that her great leafy wings obscured much of it, leaving only the glow of her eyes to peer at the elves from far above Thorra's distracting visage. The combination seemed a bit much for the youthful-seeming brave who'd dared to greet them once more. He brought a hand to his mouth and softly coughed into it.

"Tis certainly worth an audience, at the least." The others in his presence set about the rest of the field before the bastion, and with songs soft yet strident began to turn the sun's rays into yet more cleansing light against what remained of the abomination. He focused on Thorra, instead, and a hint of eagerness entered into his voice. "If you and your... companion, would join us beyond the first wall, then I - we, may send forward word of your arrival!"

Thorra

Thorra skipped forwards with a girlish giggle. She reached down and slowly took off his helmet, planting a quick peck upon his cheek.

"I'd really appriciate that, thanks."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on April 28, 2021, 12:12:04 AM

Quote from: SINIB on April 26, 2021, 03:29:26 PM

Thorra

Thorra skipped forwards with a girlish giggle. She reached down and slowly took off his helmet, planting a quick peck upon his cheek.

"I'd really appriciate that, thanks."

The Path of Dawn

The soldier's elven beauty was only enhanced by the soft flush that overcame his sharp features. "It, shall be done, fair warrior. You and your..." He looked up, and up, and up some more at the great leviathan's peering eyes as they pinned him to the tarnished road stones. "Your companion, shall be swiftly welcomed."

Most of his comrades were too busy to properly appreciate what was taking place, but one of them raised a hand in his direction. "Cease your flirtations and see them back to the gate, Amras!" A sharp motion back up the road, and the soldier stiffened his back and tucked his hair back behind his short and pointed ear before extending his hand for his helmet.

"Yes, well, shall we go then?"

Sage took the opportunity to flex her wing, swiftly rejuvenated from its earlier mauling, and condensed herself back down into the appearance at once elven and draconian she'd been in prior to her return to form. She quickly took her spot next to Thorra, and continued to pin the bewildered soldier in place with her eyes.

Fortunately for him, Thorra was distracting.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on April 28, 2021, 02:41:42 PM

Thorra

Thorra wrapped an arm around Sage's waist and pulled her close as if to protect her.

"Yes, we shall."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 02, 2021, 03:45:47 AM

The Path of Dawn

The soldier, Amras, led the pair of foreign visitors back toward the towering bastion walls whilst his comrades took to purifying the mélange of mutilated remains left behind by their terrible battle. A trio of rope lines were dropped down for them as they reached the base of the wall, each with places for their feet to slide into. The gate remained firmly closed as Amras let out a sharp whistle above, and his line began to rise.

Tugging on her line a few times, Sage attempted to whistle as well and failed miserably at the task. A flush overtook her face as she pursed her lips in embarrassment, and then merely allowed herself to drop back down and then lift off with her wings instead.

With their attention no longer focused on the battle below, or on the ranks and rows of gleaming soldiery present upon the ramparts, Thorra was able to witness more of the elven fortifications. Or rather, what lay over a kilometer in the distance further through the mountain pass: another such fortress, shorter in scale and yet encompassing a much greater width.

Their guide, doing his utmost to maintain his composure in light of his company, cautioned them to approach from the ground as he was. "It would be most unfortunate should the impression you provide the defenders be one of unexpected arrival by air. Please, allow them to-"

But then a large force approached, and Sage rose up on her haunches for a moment until she realized they carried not some manner of battering ram as it might have seemed, but rather a great many stretchers and horse-drawn wagons. "Hail!" The one at the head of the party, with red hair pouring down from another pointed helmet. "What news from the East?" She peered around Amras' side, and her eyes widened at the sight of Thorra and Sage. "Travelers? Now? But what of the abominations assailing the wall?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 03, 2021, 09:38:15 PM

Thorra

Thorra beat her chest with a clenched fist. "Destroyed. My compatriots and I found outselfs caught up while traveling, and decided to lend a hand."

She smiled. "My name is Thorra, daughter of Mjolnir. Your city is quite impressive, with equally pleasing denizens."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 03, 2021, 11:23:01 PM

The Path of Dawn

The woman looked to Amras, who made a seemingly vague gesture with his hand that left her eyes wide and seeking between the two foreign women. Those accompanying her were waved ahead, and their procession quickly proceeded on. She inclined her head. "You and your horned companion are owed a great deal for your assistance by the people of Endien."

Amras mouthed the word 'city?', but was hushed by the woman. With an almost mischievous smile on her face she turned to point further down the path. "You will be quite welcomed once you arrive at our... city."

Sage tilted her head, peeking out to scrutinize the elves suspiciously, before planting herself back between Thorra's arm and the rest of her body with a huff.

Which became a squawk of disapproval when the red headed elven woman leaned up and kissed the demigoddess on the cheek. "Perhaps we shall meet again!" She took off without giving Thorra a chance to respond to catch up with her forces. Amras gaped at the sight, then schooled his features and inclined his head as well.

"Shall we move on?"

---

The Kingdom of Endien

There was another wall at the end of the pass, as pristine and magnificent as the last, only this time the enormous gates were open. Amras waved them passed the guards with news of their victory, and their visitors, and they were permitted passage. The pass through the great bastion was like a massive tunnel unto itself, and ended in a cool and soothing glow that grew brighter on approach. Sage seemed to relax by Thorra's side as they walked closer, and by the end was all but pulling the demigoddess along with her arms and batting at her back with her tail.

Amras kept himself ramrod straight and facing forward the entire time, until they finally exited the bastion. Then, he turned around and held his arms out to his sides as if to present what lay before them. "Welcome, to the Land of Forever Fall!"

They were atop a great hill, looking out across a vast and verdant sea of reds and oranges waving in the winds. Spires of white and gold rose up from lands far below, gleaming in the light of the dawn. A dim symphony of melodies rose, one by one, carried on the winds from the settlements and manors Thorra's keen eyes could see from afar. Great flocks of birds spread across clear daybreak skies and added their songs to the welcoming chorus. At the center was the city she'd imagined before, with a great tower reaching up to the sky and shining with the wonders of sorcery.

And then Amras stepped aside, and revealed too the field hospital of white canvas that had overtaken the land just slightly further down the hill in the bastion's looming shadow. There were a great many elves, their long hair and pointed ears of varying lengths presented largely without anything to cover them now, and they were hard at work tending to the wounded of the previous battle. Many worked with their hands, with wet rags and scented herbs in hand, while others strummed instruments and sang gentle songs of hope that lifted Thorra's heart.

Sage let out a soft rumbling sound at her side, and whispered. "That was what those ... stretchers, were for?"

One song in particular stood out from the closest tent, resonating deeply within the divine hammer's heart. Armored soldiers with long two-handed swords stood guard outside, and they held those weapons at the ready as the two unfamiliar figures approached. "Hold, strangers! None may enter-"

Amras lifted a hand as if to explain "The battle has ended, noble Swords of Saiwa, with the aid of these two travelers. We shall not tarry long"

Then the mesmerizing melody faded and a gentle voice which left Amras wide eyed and speechless carried freely beyond the canvas. "Then please, see them in." The two soldiers with swords turned to look at one another, and then lowered their blades. "As she wishes."

Within was figure in a concealing cloak, with a hood over her head, who was kneeling between a pair of wounded and weary warriors with her hands hovering over them.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 04, 2021, 04:08:46 AM

Thorra

Thorra walked up to the near divine voice of the cloaked elf. She squatted down, towering over the elves even in such a position. She held onto Sage's hand, squeezing the anxious dragon's hand with her own much-larger one.

She could sense the worthiness and threads of fated tied around this young elf.

"Your singing is surely as beautiful as your form, esteemed one." The tall hammer rested her hand on the other's shoulder. "Can you tell me of this great kingdom's problems, once you are finished with your duties?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 04, 2021, 04:15:49 AM

Lirazel

Despite the tight space and the numerous wounded elves present, Sage did not seem quite as anxious as before. Indeed, her wings and tail had seemingly relaxed while she tried to get a better look at the elven songstress from this angle. Alas, she could not from here.

The woman's gentle smile could not be seen, but it carried into her voice. "That shall be the least of what I may do for you, noble hero, for your unsolicited aid." She placed her fingers atop the foreheads of the injured. "Please, if I may, I would have you speak to me first of what brought you to to such. While I work."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 04, 2021, 04:22:17 AM

Thorra

"Ehehehehe... Yeah, um... Well..." For once, Thorra was flustered. She glanced up at Sage, unsure of how exactly to respond.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 04, 2021, 04:39:34 AM

Sage

The draconian woman huffed, and crossed her arms under her chest after letting go of Thorra's hand like the reminder had burnt it. "We quest for a sacred fruit that is rumored to nourish the spirit, so that one that has been most woefully mutilated by a sinister art might be restored to their proper shape." There was a brief pause. "Tis my understanding of it at least."

---

Lirazel

The cloaked healer paused at the description of their prize, and then turned her head slightly to the side in Sage's direction. "We possess such a fruit, from the trees of the holy Everwood, and if that be proper recompense for your aid then I see no reason you should not receive it."

But then she returned her attention down, and yet turned her head oh so slightly up toward Thorra's looming face. The demigoddess caught a glimpse of golden blonde peeking out from her hood. "Please, do not be afraid to speak your desires to me."

She turned down, and allowed them to hear yet another soft and gentle melody. Before the pair's very eyes the two elves by her side began to shine with a blessed light, and even Thorra's own guilty nerves could not help but relax. It lasted but a moment, a single verse, before fading away. The wounded were renewed, and Sage let out a soft coo of interest.

Then her breath caught as the elven woman stood, and turned to face them. Her face was cast in shadows for but a moment as she lowered her hood and looked up... and up, at her two guests. The dawn's light piercing through the canvas caught on hair like freshly polished straw as it spilled past her shoulders, and her blue eyes brightened at the sight of them while framed by a charming flush of pink. She held her hands together in front of her with a faint smile. "Forgive me for my ill manners - I am Lirazel, of House Endien."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 04, 2021, 11:59:54 PM

Thorra

Thorra's rounded ears wiggled. She grinned at the stunning beauty of the elf, cocking her head and starting at her with thunderstruck eyes.

Then, she winked. "Well, I'd love to take a beauty like yourself out to dinner. Get to know one another, exchange information?"

She blew a kiss at her with a charm that rivaled Lirazel's.

"Thorra. Thorra Thorsdottir."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on May 05, 2021, 12:31:55 AM

Valerie, sometime later near the gates at the path of Dawn.

"It is even more ridiculously oversized than I remember. They say bigger is always better but whoever said that has never gazed upon this travesty."

The hum of the motorcycle's engine quited as they drew closer to the absolutely massive bastion that was the gate into the land of Endien. There were clear signs of a large battle haven taken place here but from the rains of the enemies it didn't appear to be impressive enough for her to take further note.

Valerie was of course commenting on the bastion itself and as they came even closer, close enough for aterbtive members of the garrison to overhear her, she continued laying out her thoughts on it. "if I did not know any better I would think we had gone to the Dwarven lands as their sense of architecture is all a massive overcompensation to make up for what they lack in their pants."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 05, 2021, 01:10:45 AM

Quote from: SINIB on May 04, 2021, 11:59:54 PM

Thorra

Thorra's rounded ears wiggled. She grinned at the stunning beauty of the elf, cocking her head and staring at her with thunderstruck eyes.

Then, she winked. "Well, I'd love to take a beauty like yourself out to dinner. Get to know one another, exchange information?"

She blew a kiss at her with a charm that rivaled Lirazel's.

Lirazel

Blue eyes went wide in surprise, long pointed ears twitched, and a hint of pink filled fascinating features in the face of such brazen flattery. One of her hands with nary a hint of the distasteful detritus of a medical ward came up to press against her cheek as though receiving the kiss. "Thorra," she said with an accented trill that made it sound like it melted in her mouth. As charmed as she seemed, she still turned her eyes and her smile to Sage as well. "And your companion?"

The draconian elven maiden puffed herself up, and tugged on her shiny platinum choker. "You may know me as Sage, Keeper of the Great Forest." She narrowed her eyes at the real elf maiden before them. "Of House Endien... are you perhaps someone important?"

Lirazel covered her lips with the wide sleeves of her cloak and laughed. "Perhaps so, Sage of the Great Forest." She peered up over her sleeve at Thorra once more, and let out a soft hum. "Is dining with me so valuable that you would expend your boon on the opportunity? I'm flattered."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 05, 2021, 05:49:40 PM

Quote from: Bern on May 05, 2021, 12:31:55 AM

Valerie, sometime later near the gates at the path of Dawn.

"It is even more ridiculously oversized than I remember. They say bigger is always better but whoever said that has never gazed upon this travesty."

The hum of the motorcycle's engine quited as they drew closer to the absolutely massive bastion that was the gate into the land of Endien. There were clear signs of a large battle haven taken place here but from the rains of the enemies it didn't appear to be impressive enough for her to take further note.

Valerie was of course commenting on the bastion itself and as they came even closer, close enough for aterbtive members of the garrison to overhear her, she continued laying out her thoughts on it. "if I did not know any better I would think we had gone to the Dwarven lands as their sense of architecture is all a massive overcompensation to make up for what they lack in their pants."

Sakura Edelfeldt

The young purple-haired vampiress was pressed up against her king's back, her thick masculine member pressed right up against Valerie's ass, twitching as if to accentuate the joke at the native's expense.

"Fuh, come on, they can't be that bad! I mean, look at this! A magical kingdom, full of elves as if from my storybooks when I was a young girl! The elves in those books are well known for beautiful, intricate cities deep in the mountains!"

She pressed herself against Valerie's back. Despite her relaxed poise, she was alert and ready for combat. She could sense the residue of fell magics permeating the pass, and she could tell something was wrong with the ambient mana.

Still, that couldn't dampen her excitement. "Drive faster, Val!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 05, 2021, 06:04:53 PM

Quote from: Aiden on May 05, 2021, 01:10:45 AM

Lirazel

Blue eyes went wide in surprise, long pointed ears twitched, and a hint of pink filled fascinating features in the face of such brazen flattery. One of her hands with nary a hint of the distasteful detritus of a medical ward came up to press against her cheek as though receiving the kiss. "Thorra," she said with an accented trill that made it sound like it melted in her mouth. As charmed as she seemed, she still turned her eyes and her smile to Sage as well. "And your companion?"

The draconian elven maiden puffed herself up, and tugged on her shiny platinum choker. "You may know me as Sage, Keeper of the Great Forest." She narrowed her eyes at the real elf maiden before them. "Of House Endien... are you perhaps someone important?"

Lirazel covered her lips with the wide sleeves of her cloak and laughed. "Perhaps so, Sage of the Great Forest." She peered up over her sleeve at Thorra once more, and let out a soft hum. "Is dining with me so valuable that you would expend your boon on the opportunity? I'm flattered."

Thorra

Lightning suddenly burst out of her eyes, dancing along the bare skin of her curvaceous body in such a way as to draw attention to all of her best places. A blue haze emenated from her body, causing her to look as if she were glowing.

And then, Thorra stepped forward, wrapping an arm around Lirazel's waist, looming over her with her immense size. Her touch was gentle, and Lirazel would be able to easily pull away if she decided such contact was unwanted. "Of course not, this is an entirely seperate affair. Surely a woman as bound by the fates as yourself wants to learn more of the mysterious outsiders in a casual, possibly intimate setting?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 06, 2021, 01:31:08 AM

Quote from: Bern on May 05, 2021, 12:31:55 AM

Valerie, sometime later near the gates at the path of Dawn.

"It is even more ridiculously oversized than I remember. They say bigger is always better but whoever said that has never gazed upon this travesty."

The hum of the motorcycle's engine quieted as they drew closer to the absolutely massive bastion that was the gate into the land of Endien. There were clear signs of a large battle haven taken place here but from the rains of the enemies it didn't appear to be impressive enough for her to take further note.

Valerie was of course commenting on the bastion itself and as they came even closer, close enough for aterbtive members of the garrison to overhear her, she continued laying out her thoughts on it. "if I did not know any better I would think we had gone to the Dwarven lands as their sense of architecture is all a massive overcompensation to make up for what they lack in their pants."

The Path of Dawn

To the great credit of the garrison those upon the walls immediately had their bows trained on the pair the very instant they came into sight, and far sooner any ordinary human counterpart would have recognized them. So too had those tending to the bodies drawn their fantastically fine weapons, with their long and pointed ears twitching at the unfamiliar sound the moment the mist thinned enough not to swallow the roar of distant combustion. An equally fine frown graced the features of the long haired leader among them who had been tracing a circle around the monumental pile of monstrous remains with a censer of incense and a cool, soothing hymn, cleansing the air of the odor of rot.

They halted in their motion, allowed themselves a deep sigh, and turned to face the visitors after smoothing their expression back to politeness. In the language of the elves they proclaimed, "Ah, another set of visitors to the Gates of Dawn. To imagine four in one day would grace us with their presence!" They handed the censer to an accompanying attendant, and with a pair of magnificently mailed guards armed with halberds, approached the pair. With upraised hands they stated, "Announce yourselves, riders of uncanny conveyance."

The others, with their gorgeous faces and bright eyes and pointed ears and excellent equipment, continued to regard them with nary a moment's faltering in discipline or focus.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 06, 2021, 03:18:52 AM

Quote from: SINIB on May 05, 2021, 06:04:53 PM

Thorra

Lightning suddenly burst out of her eyes, dancing along the bare skin of her curvaceous body in such a way as to draw attention to all of her best places. A blue haze emanated from her body, causing her to look as if she were glowing.

And then, Thorra stepped forward, wrapping an arm around Lirazel's waist, looming over her with her immense size. Her touch was gentle, and Lirazel would be able to easily pull away if she decided such contact was unwanted. "Of course not, this is an entirely separate affair. Surely a woman as bound by the fates as yourself wants to learn more of the mysterious outsiders in a casual, possibly intimate setting?"

Lirazel

The electric glow reflected like a pool of water in the healer's eyes, and sparkled with the earnest and innocent joy of someone seeing something new again. Her hands came up and pressed at the toned belly of the woman suddenly holding her, keeping her arms pressed in between their bodies. Her face went from soft pink to flushed red, and she let out a soft sound of surprise as she looked to Thorra's face. "That is rather quite forward for one with whom I am only now acquainted."

Thorra felt the hilt of a sword lurking at Lirazel's side beneath the cloak that resonated to her, as a weapon, with the simple joy of being cherished and well used by its creator. The echo of its triumphant birth-song whispered in her mind.

Lirazel's fingers felt strangely, almost disbelievingly, at the curve of the demigoddess' muscles for precious moments despite her flustered flourish of words. Her left ear twitched as she gently put a few inches more between herself and her would be courter, and she withdrew her hands back to her sides. "Yet, I shall not deny my desire to know more of you, and of your lands."

The dragon off to the side let out a frustrated huff, and turned about in even more of a huff to leave the tent. Her tail swished over the face of one of the injured and tickled it enough to send them into a half conscious sneeze which made Lirazel's shoulders jolt in surprise. Sage grumbled out, "Inform me when you are done philandering, then," as she departed.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 06, 2021, 05:08:12 AM

Quote from: Aiden on May 06, 2021, 03:18:52 AM

Lirazel

The electric glow reflected like a pool of water in the healer's eyes, and sparkled with the earnest and innocent joy of someone seeing something new again. Her hands came up and pressed at the toned belly of the woman suddenly holding her, keeping her arms pressed in between their bodies. Her face went from soft pink to flushed red, and she let out a soft sound of surprise as she looked to Thorra's face. "That is rather quite forward for one with whom I am only now acquainted."

Thorra felt the hilt of a sword lurking at Lirazel's side beneath the cloak that resonated to her, as a weapon, with the simple joy of being cherished and well used by its creator. The echo of its triumphant birth-song whispered in her mind.

Lirazel's fingers felt strangely, almost disbelievingly, at the curve of the demigoddess' muscles for precious moments despite her flustered flourish of words. Her left ear twitched as she gently put a few inches more between herself and her would be courter, and she withdrew her hands back to her sides. "Yet, I shall not deny my desire to know more of you, and of your lands."

The dragon off to the side let out a frustrated huff, and turned about in even more of a huff to leave the tent. Her tail swished over the face of one of the injured and tickled it enough to send them into a half conscious sneeze which made Lirazel's shoulders jolt in surprise. Sage grumbled out, "Inform me when you are done philandering, then," as she departed.

Thorra

The hammerborn's musculature brimmed with vitality. Divine ichor coursed through her faux-veins, and Lirazel could see the excitement courseing through Thorra.

After all, it was unusual to meet a woman both as fine as herself and equally bound up in the fates.
As Lirazel felt her up, Thorra smirked. Her large hand slid down the elven beauty's back, only just barely stopping at the point where her generous posterior began to truly form. "I'm an audacious woman, one whom knows what she likes and how to live in the present. If you live in the past, you can fall into a deep depression. If you live in the future, anxiety can overtake you similarly." Her half smirk grew as Lirazel accepted her invitation. "As you are interested in me, I remain woefully ignorant of your people and traditions. But even more than that, I wish to learn your own story."

Her hand slid down to Lirazel's hip, but brushed against her armament instead. "A marvelous weapon, it reminds me of my own divine creation."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on May 06, 2021, 02:22:11 PM

Valerie

"We cannot go faster Sakura lest we agitate our friends with the pointy ears." Valerie spoke to her passenger as the bike came to a stop. She leaned forward and pushed her ass back to really squish the hard member her minion had been teasing her with for a while now. She was the King and it was her prerogative to tease not the other way around.

The next she spoke it wasn't in the tongue of Man but in the one of the Elves. "Fourth? Am I to assume someone cleared the Path of Dawn ahead of us, if so they have our gratitude." Oh yeah she'd heard them alright, her hearing might even be sharper than theirs.

She continued speaking in Elvish. "But it is quite insulting that you do not recognize your own allies, for it is I, Valerie of the Sunken Most Valley, King of the Night and all Vampires, and Apprentice of Lord Yamada the Great. Your Queen will be most disappointed if she hears you held me up keeper of the gate..."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 06, 2021, 02:58:55 PM

Quote from: Bern on May 06, 2021, 02:22:11 PM

Valerie

"We cannot go faster Sakura lest we agitate our friends with the pointy ears." Valerie spoke to her passenger as the bike came to a stop. She leaned forward and pushed her ass back to really squish the hard member her minion had been teasing her with for a while now. She was the King and it was her prerogative to tease not the other way around.

The next she spoke it wasn't in the tongue of Man but in the one of the Elves. "Fourth? Am I to assume someone cleared the Path of Dawn ahead of us, if so they have our gratitude." Oh yeah she'd heard them alright, her hearing might even be sharper than theirs.

She continued speaking in Elvish. "But it is quite insulting that you do not recognize your own allies, for it is I, Valerie of the Sunken Most Valley, King of the Night and all Vampires, and Apprentice of Lord Yamada the Great. Your Queen will be most disappointed if she hears you held me up keeper of the gate..."

Sakura Edelfeldt

Sakura hopped off of the motorbike to dash up closer to the gates. "Wow!" She exclaimed in broken elvish with a heavy English accent. "This place is amazing, like Rivendell, or even Gondolin!" The vampire leaned back and waved with a enthusiasm that was the sole property of the young.

She walked straight up to the wall, planting her palm against it and feeling the serene enchantments which ran through the great fortress.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 06, 2021, 11:30:11 PM

The Path of Dawn

The harmonious weaving of melodies resonated in the place where the young magus sought contact with them, spun into place by verse and line with a weight older than her entire civilization. They reached for her - listening to her her, knowing her, and ultimately assessing her with the simple patience one might have for a child. Although some of that feeling may have been born from the bemused amusement of those who'd seen fit to follow in her wake and watch with great care as she broke ranks and approached.

As this moment took place there was a perhaps lesser preponderance of patience taking place in the presence of the perniciously provocative person who so proudly made herself known to them. The chorister who'd led the procession prior showed Valerie all too clearly their bewilderment there. "Surely not..."

They approached more closely, their azure hair fluttering in the mountain wind and their ears twitching with great uncertainty, and gave her another look. "You could not have aged a moment from whence I witnessed you!" Then they scowled softly. "I suppose House Aurë has you to thank for why my sister insisted on the scythe as a weapon rather than a tool of harvest. And I suppose you will be wishing to present yourself to her Majesty?"

One of the other elves nearby had eyes all but bugged out at the sight of their elegant and distinguished leader telling Valerie off.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 07, 2021, 12:14:48 AM

Quote from: SINIB on May 06, 2021, 05:08:12 AM

Thorra

The hammerborn's musculature brimmed with vitality. Divine ichor coursed through her faux-veins, and Lirazel could see the excitement coursing through Thorra.

After all, it was unusual to meet a woman both as fine as herself and equally bound up in the fates.

As Lirazel felt her up, Thorra smirked. Her large hand slid down the elven beauty's back, only just barely stopping at the point where her generous posterior began to truly form. "I'm an audacious woman, one whom knows what she likes and how to live in the present. If you live in the past, you can fall into a deep depression. If you live in the future, anxiety can overtake you similarly." Her half smirk grew as Lirazel accepted her invitation. "As you are interested in me, I remain woefully ignorant of your people and traditions. But even more than that, I wish to learn your own story."

Her hand slid down to Lirazel's hip, but brushed against her armament instead. "A marvelous weapon, it reminds me of my own divine creation."

Lirazel

"A strange philosophy to live by for one who speaks so freely of fate's weave." Lirazel's hand found its way over Thorra's, then underneath it in order to feel for the hilt of her precious blade. "Yet, I cannot fault it when you admire my work as much as my mother's. This sword is meant to cut those tangling strands."

She lingered there for a moment, a nervous uncertainty lighting up her noble features Then as if remembering where they were, surrounded by the injured, Lirazel gently yet swiftly disentangled herself completely from Thorra's amorous embrace and covered her mouth with a giggle. "There are other places we could continue our discussion of tales and their instruments than a healer's tent, Thorra." Then, turning about on her bootheel she turned up her hood once more, and turned to allow the mysterious curve of her lips beckon her. "You may wish to tell your companion of your intentions. I shall meet you at the bottom of the hill."

And then swifter than any woman of man, she slipped away out the back of the tent.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on May 07, 2021, 05:08:30 PM

Quote from: Aiden on May 06, 2021, 11:30:11 PM

The Path of Dawn

The harmonious weaving of melodies resonated in the place where the young magus sought contact with them, spun into place by verse and line with a weight older than her entire civilization. They reached for her - listening to her her, knowing her, and ultimately assessing her with the simple patience one might have for a child. Although some of that feeling may have been born from the bemused amusement of those who'd seen fit to follow in her wake and watch with great care as she broke ranks and approached.

As this moment took place there was a perhaps lesser preponderance of patience taking place in the presence of the perniciously provocative person who so proudly made herself known to them. The chorister who'd led the procession prior showed Valerie all too clearly their bewilderment there. "Surely not..."

They approached more closely, their azure hair fluttering in the mountain wind and their ears twitching with great uncertainty, and gave her another look. "You could not have aged a moment from whence I witnessed you!" Then they scowled softly. "I suppose House Aurë has you to thank for why my sister insisted on the scythe as a weapon rather than a tool of harvest. And I suppose you will be wishing to present yourself to her Majesty?"

One of the other elves nearby had eyes all but bugged out at the sight of their elegant and distinguished leader telling Valerie off

Valerie

"I will be visiting your queen but first..." The blonde Vampire stepped off the bike much a more gracefully than her minion. Her walk as she approached them carried so much more gravitas, this was no overly excited child, no it was a regent whom had been slighted twice and would not stand a third.

She was upon him in a heartbeat, there had been no sudden movement to close in on him. Valerie had simply walked up with unshakeable confidence and looked up at with the most terrifyingly beautiful she could muster. "Excuse me, I did not quite catch that about scythes, were you complimenting my talent on inspiring your youth?" Insult me again and I will end you.

"It would prove positively exhilarating to be granted the opportunity to impart my teachings to your people once more. "

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 08, 2021, 05:22:34 AM

Sakura

Sakura turned her attention back to her queen, no, her king, and the brewing kerfuffle between her and the native elves. The purplehead in the tiny miniskirt reluctantly abandoned looking at the magic and returned to their side, watching them both with curious eyes.

After all, there was no need for her to interject.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 09, 2021, 12:16:48 AM

The Path of Dawn

Everyone in sight of Valerie became very still, indeed their very breathing was reduced to the absolute minimum. Every weapon was pointed to be ready to avenge the sudden and inevitable loss of the uppity chorister if the next exchange resulted in their untimely death. Sweat poured down the elven weaver's neck in the precious moments between Valerie's verbal intimidation and the final response.

A deep, cleansing breath. A face of resignation and determination

"I see you are still every bit the woman who inspired my sister." As if they were not being threatened, they motioned to the gate with a majestic gesture. "As ruthless and daring as any could hope to be. I ask only that you not gut her should her... emulation of your manners offend."

More breaths were held in anticipation of Valerie's response.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on May 09, 2021, 12:52:16 AM

Valerie

"Excuse me for expressing doubts but I hardly think anyone here is capable enough to emulate me."  She smirked just a bit, but quickly pushed that feeling of pride down to appear less hostile to them. It was never her intention to threaten the rest of the garrison." Fetch me your best and brightest masters of the bow, spear and sword and I shall test their mettle. Unless of course you are afraid of being shown up by one mere girl"

This should rustle their memory if all they remembered of her was her scythe loving and her bloodlust. She was even particularly bloodthirsty the last time she'd visited, maybe the men exaggerated her training drills that put them in the ground as some hellish duels do save what was left of their pride.

With how he had acted so far, the odds of him accepting challenge was certainly in her favor.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 09, 2021, 01:21:39 AM

Sakura

Sakura watched in silence, gripped by anticipation like the elves around her. She felt no need to take any aggressive actions, not to white-knight her master, no, her consort. Still, she stepped back, giving them the space they'd need to duel her master, standing ready to interfere if Valerie tried to kill anyone.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 09, 2021, 06:24:54 AM

Quote from: Aiden on May 07, 2021, 12:14:48 AM

Lirazel

"A strange philosophy to live by for one who speaks so freely of fate's weave." Lirazel's hand found its way over Thorra's, then underneath it in order to feel for the hilt of her precious blade. "Yet, I cannot fault it when you admire my work as much as my mother's. This sword is meant to cut those tangling strands."

She lingered there for a moment, a nervous uncertainty lighting up her noble features Then as if remembering where they were, surrounded by the injured, Lirazel gently yet swiftly disentangled herself completely from Thorra's amorous embrace and covered her mouth with a giggle. "There are other places we could continue our discussion of tales and their instruments than a healer's tent, Thorra." Then, turning about on her bootheel she turned up her hood once more, and turned to allow the mysterious curve of her lips beckon her. "You may wish to tell your companion of your intentions. I shall meet you at the bottom of the hill."

And then swifter than any woman of man, she slipped away out the back of the tent.

Thorra

"A fascinating and wonderful power, to be sure." Thorra's soft smile was enchanting, drawing the attention of even the wounded, quieting their pain for just a moment with the distraction of her happiness. It drew the attention of all those whom beheld her, and to each and every one of them, she seemed to be a flower in the bloom of her life. "I appriciate the skillful worksmanship of your people. It reminds me of my home."

She turned to wave at the wounded, blowing each and every one of them a kiss before exiting the tent to follow the elven royal, waving at Sage—it was up to the dragon whether she wanted to follow along on such a date, or to explore on her own.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 09, 2021, 11:27:22 PM

Quote from: Bern on May 09, 2021, 12:52:16 AM

Valerie

"Excuse me for expressing doubts but I hardly think anyone here is capable enough to emulate me."  She smirked just a bit, but quickly pushed that feeling of pride down to appear less hostile to them. It was never her intention to threaten the rest of the garrison." Fetch me your best and brightest masters of the bow, spear and sword and I shall test their mettle. Unless of course you are afraid of being shown up by one mere girl"

This should rustle their memory if all they remembered of her was her scythe loving and her bloodlust. She was even particularly bloodthirsty the last time she'd visited, maybe the men exaggerated her training drills that put them in the ground as some hellish duels do save what was left of their pride.

With how he had acted so far, the odds of him accepting challenge was certainly in her favor.

The Path of Dawn

The elf in question allowed their eyes to narrow, as if recognizing the ploy Valerie insisted on putting forth, but then inclined their head regardless. "Should they wish to present themselves to your challenge, by all means." Indeed, now their teeth were bared. But then one of their comrades had the gall to tap them on the shoulder, and the elf stiffened in agitation before forcibly relaxing. "Alas, you will not find our greatest defending this gate. You will wish to proceed on, and there you will find the challenge you seek among those less burdened."

They turned, and made a dramatic motion with their censer to those who'd accompanied them. "One of them shall escort you to the kingdom beyond. Please, leave us to our work. And our dead." Indeed, the corpses were starting to stink the air again without tending.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 10, 2021, 05:53:24 AM

Quote from: SINIB on May 09, 2021, 06:24:54 AM

Thorra

"A fascinating and wonderful power, to be sure." Thorra's soft smile was enchanting, drawing the attention of even the wounded, quieting their pain for just a moment with the distraction of her happiness. It drew the attention of all those whom beheld her, and to each and every one of them, she seemed to be a flower in the bloom of her life. "I appriciate the skillful worksmanship of your people. It reminds me of my home."

She turned to wave at the wounded, blowing each and every one of them a kiss before exiting the tent to follow the elven royal, waving at Sage—it was up to the dragon whether she wanted to follow along on such a date, or to explore on her own.

Sage

When Thorra returned to the outside of the tent she witnessed the sight of Sage... not being there? Or rather, of a very peculiar bird with a familiar set of eyes perching on a nearby barrel and staring at her. Staring at her real good. And then, to the perturbance of the two elves with greatswords standing guard over the tent, the Sage-bird opened her beak and cawed at Thorra in annoyance, before averting her head as if to huff.

"Fine, give thine precious time to the pursuit of your lusts!" She took off in flight, seeking a higher vantage point. Or perhaps, just seeking to get away from Thorra. "See if I require your assistance!"

The two elves glanced at one another, and then back to Thorra, and as if on some unspoken cue returned to looking straight ahead and nowhere near either of them.

Amras was still there, his face a display of great nervousness approximating a smile. "A-Ah, you have finished then. Will you be requiring my assistance further, then?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on May 11, 2021, 06:42:14 PM

Valerie

The king nodded at their answer and appeared satisfied for the moment. Thus she moved back to her bike and hoisted it up over her shoulder, it's great weight seemingly not hindering her at all.

She put it down once she'd past the gate and told the guards to watch over it until she returned. Then she continued on towards the Kingdom together with Sakura. "You will see far more wondrous things once we reach the heart of Endien. And their Royal Family has some of the tastiest blood you'll ever find. If you're lucky you may even get a taste." The opportunity to sink her fangs into one of them again was almost as exciting as the main goal of this trip.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 12, 2021, 04:48:41 PM

Quote from: Bern on May 11, 2021, 06:42:14 PM

Valerie

The king nodded at their answer and appeared satisfied for the moment. Thus she moved back to her bike and hoisted it up over her shoulder, it's great weight seemingly not hindering her at all.

She put it down once she'd past the gate and told the guards to watch over it until she returned. Then she continued on towards the Kingdom together with Sakura. "You will see far more wondrous things once we reach the heart of Endien. And their Royal Family has some of the tastiest blood you'll ever find. If you're lucky you may even get a taste." The opportunity to sink her fangs into one of them again was almost as exciting as the main goal of this trip.

Sakura

Sakura followed along, wrapping an arm around Valerie's waist as they passed through the gate. "You're pretty good at picking fights, or maybe your strength just draws their attention." Her eyes seemed to glimmer at the prospect of feeding on high-quality blood. She hadn't been satisfied by anything except her lord's and succubus blood since she was turned. "So, where to first?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on May 12, 2021, 06:24:14 PM

Valerie

At the question the blonde king merely pointed at a massive tower visible even at this distance. It was a true work of art, that much was clear even from here. Or so it would be for regular mortals, but they were anything but that. Far more detail was laid bars for the two with their amazing eyesight.

"There exist a great lake some distance from here which is the home of our natural enemies, dragons. I would rather not go there. And the Everwood is far too gloomy for this excursion. No I believe the castle town and the Star Tower will bring you most joy Sakura. That is gathering place of the high point of Elven culture and also where House Endien resides"

Valerie licked her lips as a particularly refreshing memory rose up from the dregs of her mind. "And that is the most likely place to find any of the sweet princesses, oh how I long to sink my fangs into them..."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 12, 2021, 07:59:59 PM

Quote from: Bern on May 12, 2021, 06:24:14 PM

Valerie

At the question the blonde king merely pointed at a massive tower visible even at this distance. It was a true work of art, that much was clear even from here. Or so it would be for regular mortals, but they were anything but that. Far more detail was laid bars for the two with their amazing eyesight.

"There exist a great lake some distance from here which is the home of our natural enemies, dragons. I would rather not go there. And the Everwood is far too gloomy for this excursion. No I believe the castle town and the Star Tower will bring you most joy Sakura. That is gathering place of the high point of Elven culture and also where House Endien resides"

Valerie licked her lips as a particularly refreshing memory rose up from the dregs of her mind. "And that is the most likely place to find any of the sweet princesses, oh how I long to sink my fangs into them..."

Sakura

Sakura raised her eyebrow a tad. "Dragons? I've never heard that dragons are the natural enemies of vampires. Why's that?" She looked closely at the tower, examining its architecture, sure, but also using her tremendous eyesight to examine the magic that had gone into its construction as well.

"Hmm, well, this is just completely alien to me. Honestly, it's almost overwhelming to find out places like this exist outside of my book collection, Val." She grabbed onto Val and pulled her close. "We should also find an inn to stay at, enjoy the simpler side of life in the castle town while we visit."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 13, 2021, 11:05:29 PM

Thorra

Thorra chuckled at Sage's reaction. She knew it was somewhat inappropriate, but she knew very well that if she failed to hit on as beautiful a woman as this, fate would make sure to throw issues at the two on their quest. It was better to play to her role and enjoy herself than put everything at risk for the sake of expediency.

She leaned down and kissed Amras on the top of the head before foolowing the Elven royal. "I don't think I will, but I'll let you know if I do!" She turned around and blew a kiss one last time before catching up with Lirazel.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 13, 2021, 11:37:39 PM

Sage

Their position allowed the two vampires to largely ignore the field hospital off to the side of the main road, of the scent of blood and weakness that would have tantalized their senses with the prospect of filling themselves with fresh elven nectar. The very air was filled with the radiant presence of magic, of the splendor and grandeur of a forgotten age, and even from this far from its center they could not help but feel it welcome them.

And then, after perking up at the word 'dragon,' a big and fluffy white cat sauntered on up to Sakura to start rubbing itself against her leg, purring loud enough to resemble a lawnmower motor.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 14, 2021, 04:09:03 AM

Quote from: SINIB on May 13, 2021, 11:05:29 PM

Thorra

Thorra chuckled at Sage's reaction. She knew it was somewhat inappropriate, but she knew very well that if she failed to hit on as beautiful a woman as this, fate would make sure to throw issues at the two on their quest. It was better to play to her role and enjoy herself than put everything at risk for the sake of expediency.

She leaned down and kissed Amras on the top of the head before following the Elven royal. "I don't think I will, but I'll let you know if I do!" She turned around and blew a kiss one last time before catching up with Lirazel.

Lirazel

The distinctive cloaked figure of Lirazel was found quickly halfway down the hill along the long and pristine road of white stone that gleamed in the early morning light. She sat astride a towering auburn destrier who turned their head back toward Thorra on her approach, and turned with nary the slightest of motions from the elven maiden to face her. Lirazel's hood did little to obscure her small smile, or her seeking eyes. "Up for a ride about the countryside? There is much to be seen of these lands, and we will have much time to speak along the way."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 15, 2021, 08:49:51 PM

Thorra

Thorra smirked, tossing herself blithely for Lira,el to catch. "I'd be happy to join you." She remarked, before her body disappated into a puff of plasma. The immense hammer soared through the air in a perfect arc, ready to be caught by the princess.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 15, 2021, 08:52:23 PM

Quote from: Aiden on May 13, 2021, 11:37:39 PM

Sage

Their position allowed the two vampires to largely ignore the field hospital off to the side of the main road, of the scent of blood and weakness that would have tantalized their senses with the prospect of filling themselves with fresh elven nectar. The very air was filled with the radiant presence of magic, of the splendor and grandeur of a forgotten age, and even from this far from its center they could not help but feel it welcome them.

And then, after perking up at the word 'dragon,' a big and fluffy white cat sauntered on up to Sakura to start rubbing itself against her leg, purring loud enough to resemble a lawnmower motor.

Sakura

The cat quickly found itself swept up in Sakura's arms, snuggled up against the vampire's firm and squishy chest. "Aww, who's a good little kitty?" Sakura cooed at the large white cat, giving Sage a kiss on the head.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 15, 2021, 09:47:45 PM

Quote from: SINIB on May 15, 2021, 08:49:51 PM

Thorra

Thorra smirked, tossing herself blithely for Lira,el to catch. "I'd be happy to join you." She remarked, before her body disappated into a puff of plasma. The immense hammer soared through the air in a perfect arc, ready to be caught by the princess.

Lirazel

"Wait-!" Lirazel's eyes widened in shock and awe, and it was only instinct and the fastest sort of elven reflexes that allowed her to bring her hands up off the reins of the horse in an attempt to catch the weapon in mid air. Her legs clutched at her steed's sides just in case, to prevent her from being thrown off!

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 15, 2021, 10:01:38 PM

Thorra

As soon as Lirazel's slender fingers grasped Thorra's meteoric shaft, the elven princess felt her power surge as Thorra's divine ichor coursed through her veins. She could feel their minds touching, the power of the gods coursing through her form, and felt herself growing in size to match that of the hammer's body. Her chest billowed out, her hips widened, and she grew to the towering size of Thorra.

"Ah-hello." She heard the hammer's cheerful voice cautiously intone. "I'm glad to see that your intentions are truly as pure and genuine as you claim. Testing your worthiness was the fastest and most secure way to test your intentions, and I apologize for any discomfort I've brought to you. The beasts that we encountered on our journey tasted truly—disconcerting."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 16, 2021, 03:30:44 PM

Lirazel

Lirazel's mouth hung open as the change took hold, the elegance and propriety of minutes prior falling before the unsubtle tearing sounds of the outfit that lay beneath her cloak, and the unsettled whinnying of her mighty steed as a familiar rider suddenly became all so very much unfamiliar. That knocked her out of her shock, and she mustered some composure to reached down and whisper gently to her steed. "It's still me -"

She became very still.

"... and of course, my voice has also undergone some changes." She looked once more to the hammer in her hand.

"An intelligent weapon? Then, what of the woman who once wielded you in my place?!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 16, 2021, 06:10:30 PM

Quote from: SINIB on May 15, 2021, 08:52:23 PM

Sakura

The cat quickly found itself swept up in Sakura's arms, snuggled up against the vampire's firm and squishy chest. "Aww, who's a good little kitty?" Sakura cooed at the large white cat, giving Sage a kiss on the head.

Sage

The white kitty let out a soft 'mew' sound as she quickly squirmed to make herself comfortable in the abundance of soft cushioning that Sakura's body provided at this angle. Her feline face squished up adorably at the sudden kissing.

Of course, to a more experienced nose such as Valerie's the cat smelled nothing like one.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on May 17, 2021, 01:41:17 PM

Valerie

Her red eyes almost drilled through the cat that definitely wasn't a cat, it smelled too much like forest. So perhaps some sort of shape shifting nature spirit, maybe a dream. Either way she was perving on her minion right now and that was unacceptable to her. But what was even more unacceptable was Sakura hogging the fake yet still so cute cat to herself. It was enough to make even the King pout in sadness.

"Hey there, you cannot just claim such a cute kitten all for yourself! I wanna see her too, please..."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 18, 2021, 05:26:26 AM

Sakura

"Not just any cat!" Sakura flashed her fangs with a toothy grin. "This right here is a magic cat, one which probably has intelligence herself!" She held Sage out at arm's length, displaing her like a trophey to Valerie. Sage's posterior hung loose while Sakura's strong fingers held her steaduly under her forelegs. "What's your name, little kitty?" Sakura cooed.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 18, 2021, 05:30:48 AM

Quote from: Aiden on May 16, 2021, 03:30:44 PM

Lirazel

Lirazel's mouth hung open as the change took hold, the elegance and propriety of minutes prior falling before the unsubtle tearing sounds of the outfit that lay beneath her cloak, and the unsettled whinnying of her mighty steed as a familiar rider suddenly became all so very much unfamiliar. That knocked her out of her shock, and she mustered some composure to reached down and whisper gently to her steed. "It's still me -"

She became very still.

"... and of course, my voice has also undergone some changes." She looked once more to the hammer in her hand.

"An intelligent weapon? Then, what of the woman who once wielded you in my place?!"

Thorra

"A simulcrum of the storms. This is my true body." Thorra chuckled, her voice reverberting through Lirazel's head. "Just drop me if you're upset with the changes, that's not something I can control. If you're worthy to wield me, you'll gain my not insignificant power."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 19, 2021, 12:26:03 PM

Quote from: SINIB on May 18, 2021, 05:26:26 AM

Sakura

"Not just any cat!" Sakura flashed her fangs with a toothy grin. "This right here is a magic cat, one which probably has intelligence herself!" She held Sage out at arm's length, displaing her like a trophey to Valerie. Sage's posterior hung loose while Sakura's strong fingers held her steaduly under her forelegs. "What's your name, little kitty?" Sakura cooed.

Sage

The feline quickly chose to hang there without shame, revealing her soft fluffy underbelly to Valerie's eyes. From here the older (oldest?) vampire was able to make out a shiny collar around the cat's neck, too. As Sakura's words echoed, the cat's tail twitched and she let out a mewling sound of frustration. "Nyaaa... I guess you can call me Sage."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on May 19, 2021, 04:12:14 PM

Valerie

"You are right about her being magical..."

Valerie only spared a single glance at the collar, it was far more interesting to see how soft the fur was and that's why she rubbed "the cat's" underbelly which much enthusiasm.

"But she is not a cat. You are some kind of spirit with a deep connection to forests are you not ms. Sage?" As she posed her question, the vampire king kept up her rubbing. It felt amazing to brush her fingers through it. "I am Valerie, the Vampire King, and this is my progeny Sakura."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 19, 2021, 08:37:09 PM

Sakura

Sakura squished the not cat against her booba, resting her chin against Sage's head. She took a deep, heady breath, reveling in the rich scent of the not-cat's blood. Her fangs began to elongate and her stomach grumbled.

She held Sage against her as if she were a prized pet. "Your collar–it's magical, isn't it?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 20, 2021, 12:13:41 PM

Quote from: SINIB on May 18, 2021, 05:30:48 AM

Thorra

"A simulcrum of the storms. This is my true body." Thorra chuckled, her voice reverberating through Lirazel's head. "Just drop me if you're upset with the changes, that's not something I can control. If you're worthy to wield me, you'll gain my not insignificant power."

Lirazel

That appeared to bring her up short for a moment, and it only ended after Lirazel took a peek beneath her cloak and saw the travesty that was what happened to the rest of her clothes. A soft sigh fled her lips reluctantly. "Then, as much as I respect the honor and the opportunity presented by your regard? I am afraid I will forego such benefits for the time being."

She did, for a moment, gently run her fingers all along Thorra's hand as though she could not help but marvel at the make of her. But she had already made her choice, and so very gently returned the hammer back to the ground next to her horse using the greater reach this transformation granted her. She swiftly sat upright again in anticipation of returning to her usual self.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 20, 2021, 12:25:44 PM

Quote from: Bern on May 19, 2021, 04:12:14 PM

Valerie

"You are right about her being magical..."

Valerie only spared a single glance at the collar, it was far more interesting to see how soft the fur was and that's why she rubbed "the cat's" underbelly which much enthusiasm.

"But she is not a cat. You are some kind of spirit with a deep connection to forests are you not ms. Sage?" As she posed her question, the vampire king kept up her rubbing. It felt amazing to brush her fingers through it. "I am Valerie, the Vampire King, and this is my progeny Sakura."

Sage

Her purring grew much louder even as her fur started to stand on end at the back of her neck. "Nyaaa..... you are quite close in your - mmmm, estimation. I am the mighty guardian of the Deep Wood!"

Her little paws wiggled.

"I came to this land so that I might acquire a fruit for the - ahh, could you get a little more to the left? - person who enchanted this collar for me, that she might assist me in my time of need!"

Sage's little kitty ears stood up.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 21, 2021, 04:28:16 AM

Quote from: Aiden on May 20, 2021, 12:13:41 PM

Lirazel

That appeared to bring her up short for a moment, and it only ended after Lirazel took a peek beneath her cloak and saw the travesty that was what happened to the rest of her clothes. A soft sigh fled her lips reluctantly. "Then, as much as I respect the honor and the opportunity presented by your regard? I am afraid I will forego such benefits for the time being."

She did, for a moment, gently run her fingers all along Thorra's hand as though she could not help but marvel at the make of her. But she had already made her choice, and so very gently returned the hammer back to the ground next to her horse using the greater reach this transformation granted her. She swiftly sat upright again in anticipation of returning to her usual self.

Thorra

After a few moments, Lirazel felt the link connecting their minds shatter. The hammer laid against the ground, unable to animate itself as her body returned to its usual supple size.

Then, the hammer-woman's body apperated in with a great cloud of smoke. She smied gaily at Lirazel, winking at her before bending over to pick herself up.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 22, 2021, 03:39:09 PM

Quote from: SINIB on May 21, 2021, 04:28:16 AM

Thorra

After a few moments, Lirazel felt the link connecting their minds shatter. The hammer laid against the ground, unable to animate itself as her body returned to its usual supple size.

Then, the hammer-woman's body apperated in with a great cloud of smoke. She smied gaily at Lirazel, winking at her before bending over to pick herself up.

Lirazel

The sudden absence of that connection left Lirazel blinking and holding her head, plus her horse more carefully as her body returned to its usual size and equilibrium. Her horse whinnied in dismay at the sudden strangeness of someone reappearing right next to it, but then Lirazel let out a soft 'shhh' sound while turning her eyes to Thorra once more. "Never in my life have I ever witnessed something quite so queer as this. A weapon with a will of her own..."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 22, 2021, 04:09:06 PM

Thorra

Thorra winked, offering Lirazel her hand. She was slim, with a smoothness that belayed the great strength and power Lirazel now full well knew she had. Her large breasts jiggled freely with every movement, ahd electricity raced harmlessly along her skin.

"And I have never met as wonderful a city of elves such as yourselves, nor one as fair and beautiful as yourself. I would be honored to be weilded by one such as yourself in your time of need."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 22, 2021, 05:37:11 PM

Quote from: SINIB on May 22, 2021, 04:09:06 PM

Thorra

Thorra winked, offering Lirazel her hand. She was slim, with a smoothness that belayed the great strength and power Lirazel now full well knew she had. Her large breasts jiggled freely with every movement, and electricity raced harmlessly along her skin.

"And I have never met as wonderful a city of elves such as yourselves, nor one as fair and beautiful as yourself. I would be honored to be wielded by one such as yourself in your time of need."

Lirazel

She pulled Thorra up behind her astride her mighty steed, pushing through the many distractions presented by the weapon's assortment of charms. Throwing her hood up once more to disguise the degree to which Lirazel was affected by such words, she took a moment more to soothe her horse. "Then I shall be certain to wear more appropriate clothes should that time come!"

She gave her horse a soft whistle which seemed sufficient to move them along at a quite impressive pace. Lirazel's mount was easily an equal for the descendants of Odin's mighty Sleipnir, able to carry them across the vast and winding path down the hill from whence they came. "And perhaps," the elven woman suggested with a smile hinted in her voice, "you might withhold judgement until you have seen this land's beauty for yourself!"

Lirazel timed it well so that they would thence come around the bend, and the vast grasses and woodlands and rivers of Endien would unfold before Thorra's eyes, surrounding the immensity of the Star Tower and Castle Town at their center.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on May 22, 2021, 06:06:05 PM

Quote from: Aiden on May 20, 2021, 12:25:44 PM

Sage

Her purring grew much louder even as her fur started to stand on end at the back of her neck. "Nyaaa..... you are quite close in your - mmmm, estimation. I am the mighty guardian of the Deep Wood!"

Her little paws wiggled.

"I came to this land so that I might acquire a fruit for the - ahh, could you get a little more to the left? - person who enchanted this collar for me, that she might assist me in my time of need!"

Sage's little kitty ears stood up.

Valerie

"So the mighty guardian is fetching food like a well trained dog, how quaint. This must be a truly magnificent person to tame you so well." Valerie played up her surprise and rubbed the fake cat's chin. "We may assist you in your quest for a small fee of course..." Valerie said as she opened her mouth to reveal her sharp fangs, the message being very clear.

This cat was a sublime dish just waiting to be tasted.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 22, 2021, 06:15:01 PM

Thorra

She immediately felt Thorra's powerful thighs as thick as a log wrap around her. The hammer's breasts squished up like clouds, as if they had no resistance at all, up against her back as Thorra wrapped her arms around her waist to hold on.

Then, she simply allowed the wind to whip through her hair and enjoy the ride.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 24, 2021, 12:51:41 AM

Quote from: SINIB on May 22, 2021, 06:15:01 PM

Thorra

She immediately felt Thorra's powerful thighs as thick as a log wrap around her. The hammer's breasts squished up like clouds, as if they had no resistance at all, up against her back as Thorra wrapped her arms around her waist to hold on.

Then, she simply allowed the wind to whip through her hair and enjoy the ride.

Lirazel

The soothing clip and clap of a horse's galloping carried them away, past the birdsong and the distant strumming of harps, the whistling of flutes and the laughter of children as they charged off in the distance. That was not the focus of Lirazel's attention - no, she was too focused on the ordinarily automatic task of keeping her horse going where she should be. It was not simply the distraction of physicality that wore at her mind, but rather the brief but all too recent memory of spiritual intimacy in the time she'd held the hammer in her hand. To be so close to another being without warning, without preparation?

She gripped the reins tighter than she otherwise might have.

The road split off like gleaming marble tributaries toward distant hills and spires. They did not turn onto those, at first, until Lirazel's hooded head perked up as though she had forgotten something and whistled. Her horse pulled them to a sudden stop, and the elven woman turned to look over her shoulder whence they came. After a moment of that she released a sigh. "Forgive me - I swallow my own discomfort to the detriment of your first impression of this fair land."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 25, 2021, 04:12:28 PM

Thorra

"No, no, it's fine. I'm enjoying the gentle breeze just fine." Thorra replied. "I get it, fusing with another can be pretty intense. If I'd had a better way of ascertaining the truthfulness and trustworthiness of your people I'd have used that instead—and don't worry. I couldn't see anything past the very surface."

Thorra gave Lirazel a comforting squeeze. "I won't deny it—as a weapon, I long for the feeling of being used well by those who are worthy. I'm sorry for forcing it upon you."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 25, 2021, 04:15:13 PM

Quote from: Bern on May 22, 2021, 06:06:05 PM

Valerie

"So the mighty guardian is fetching food like a well trained dog, how quaint. This must be a truly magnificent person to tame you so well." Valerie played up her surprise and rubbed the fake cat's chin. "We may assist you in your quest for a small fee of course..." Valerie said as she opened her mouth to reveal her sharp fangs, the message being very clear.

This cat was a sublime dish just waiting to be tasted.

Sakura

Sakura flicked her master's nose. "Come now, is it really proper to try to feed on someone the first time we meet? You're going to scare the cute itty bitty guardian of the forest away."

Sakura began to scratch Sage just above her honches, digging her fingers into all of the best places.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 26, 2021, 03:00:42 AM

Quote from: SINIB on May 25, 2021, 04:15:13 PM

Sakura

Sakura flicked her master's nose. "Come now, is it really proper to try to feed on someone the first time we meet? You're going to scare the cute itty bitty guardian of the forest away."

Sakura began to scratch Sage just above her honches, digging her fingers into all of the best places.

Sage

Sage-kitty let out a hiss of disdain at the sudden mockery, and the perverse interest in consuming her. She squirmed about in Sakura's grip as though to leave, but then the good scritching left her slowly relaxing again. "I am no creature's meal - nor will I allow you to mock a sacred covenant made in good faith!"

She hissed some more, but couldn't stop purring much either. After a moment of that she let out a drawn out 'meooooow.' She looked up at Sakura. "Eruraviel will hear of your wisdom, she of great pettings."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 27, 2021, 01:27:51 AM

Quote from: SINIB on May 25, 2021, 04:12:28 PM

Thorra

"No, no, it's fine. I'm enjoying the gentle breeze just fine." Thorra replied. "I get it, fusing with another can be pretty intense. If I'd had a better way of ascertaining the truthfulness and trustworthiness of your people I'd have used that instead—and don't worry. I couldn't see anything past the very surface."

Thorra gave Lirazel a comforting squeeze. "I won't deny it—as a weapon, I long for the feeling of being used well by those who are worthy. I'm sorry for forcing it upon you."

Lirazel

Lirazel listened quietly, her ears twitching beneath her hood as she received the earnest sincerity of Thorra's words. By the end she permitted one of her hands to seek the hammer's own. "Very well." A smile was conveyed by her voice even though her face could not be seen. "When next the time comes, and it is appropriate, I shall wear something more suited to the occasion."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on May 27, 2021, 07:34:43 PM

Quote from: Aiden on May 26, 2021, 03:00:42 AM

Sage

Sage-kitty let out a hiss of disdain at the sudden mockery, and the perverse interest in consuming her. She squirmed about in Sakura's grip as though to leave, but then the good scritching left her slowly relaxing again. "I am no creature's meal - nor will I allow you to mock a sacred covenant made in good faith!"

She hissed some more, but couldn't stop purring much either. After a moment of that she let out a drawn out 'meooooow.' She looked up at Sakura. "Eruraviel will hear of your wisdom, she of great pettings."

Valerie

"So you agree to beeing a Itty bitty little guardian. It is good that we have our expectations settled." The blonde vampire smirked, she was ignoring the backtalk she was getting from her minion in lieu of this more promising interaction that was sure to be had. "My my Sakura, we ought to lend her aid in her quest. It is simply not fair that someone so small has to carry a burden so large.

But the she turned more serious or so it seemed. "Never disparage the lust for such aagnificent feast again my dearest minion. The hunger of the ancients is not so easily quenched, you are all delectable treats to me~"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 28, 2021, 03:45:11 PM

Sakura

Sakura stood her ground, and again shook her head. "I lust for only the highest quality of blood, but it's a gift which should be given willingly." Her fangs had begun to elongate as she could smell the delectable treat flowing through Sage. "This mighty kitty isn't in the bussiness of selling herself, and I think we should respect that."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on May 29, 2021, 03:13:37 PM

Quote from: Aiden on May 27, 2021, 01:27:51 AM

Lirazel

Lirazel listened quietly, her ears twitching beneath her hood as she received the earnest sincerity of Thorra's words. By the end she permitted one of her hands to seek the hammer's own. "Very well." A smile was conveyed by her voice even though her face could not be seen. "When next the time comes, and it is appropriate, I shall wear something more suited to the occasion."

Thorra

"I've never understood the appeal of covering oneself from viewing by others." Thorra chuckled with a soft mellodic ring. Her voice was soothing yet apologetic. "You guys must be having a problem, if the fates have drawn me directly to you, Lira."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 30, 2021, 01:32:40 AM

Lirazel

Her shoulders shook for a moment in obvious mirth. "If I were to unwrap the adornments of your handle, I suspect you would feel similarly... discomforted." Lirazel whistled, and her horse began trotting along again at a much slower pace than before. "Some things are best only seen by a few."

After a few moments the elven maiden responded again. "It is nearing the time when the Night will march upon us in force once more. You have come at a fortuitous time, if you intend to lend us aid!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on May 30, 2021, 09:41:25 PM

Quote from: SINIB on May 28, 2021, 03:45:11 PM

Sakura

Sakura stood her ground, and again shook her head. "I lust for only the highest quality of blood, but it's a gift which should be given willingly." Her fangs had begun to elongate as she could smell the delectable treat flowing through Sage. "This mighty kitty isn't in the bussiness of selling herself, and I think we should respect that."

Sage

The feline druid hissed once more at Valerie for her blatant provocations, but appeared to visibly restrain herself as Sakura spoke soothing words of respect. "I may, perhaps, gift you with a taste of what you seek upon deliverance of aid in my quest - if after I do not find you tedious and unbearable, mew."

With that being said, she pointed a fuzzy tail in the direction of a visibly baffled elven man, Amras from before, who was even now approaching. He said, "H-Hail, travelers - more of you? That is to say, forgive me my hasty approach, but have you seen a strange bird pass?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on May 31, 2021, 06:00:56 PM

Quote from: Aiden on May 30, 2021, 09:41:25 PM

Sage

The feline druid hissed once more at Valerie for her blatant provocations, but appeared to visibly restrain herself as Sakura spoke soothing words of respect. "I may, perhaps, gift you with a taste of what you seek upon deliverance of aid in my quest - if after I do not find you tedious and unbearable, mew."

With that being said, she pointed a fuzzy tail in the direction of a visibly baffled elven man, Amras from before, who was even now approaching. He said, "H-Hail, travelers - more of you? That is to say, forgive me my hasty approach, but have you seen a strange bird pass?"

Valerie

"All is forgiven Master Elf." Valerie immediately turned toward the approaching Elf and bowed deeper than what was strictly necessary. It was a stark detour from how she had treated the shape-shifter in the guise of a cat. But that was due to this man not approaching them with a false form.

"I am afraid I cannot properly answer your question however as I have seen many strange creatures in the shape of birds. Perhaps you could enlighten us further to its appearance? And please, address me as Valerie or Lady Valerie if using my name gives you any discomfort." Yup she was definitely treating him with more respect. As he so deserved, not even the Gate Guards had been this polite.

Of course her newest Childe clinging to her mortal moral compass was to be expected even if it was entirely vexing. Someone so young had no understanding of how utterly boring eternal life could be. Why would you not take the opportunity to tease others when given the chance?

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 01, 2021, 04:14:54 PM

Sakura

Sakura planted another kiss on Sage's soft fluffy fur. "I haven't seen anything either, but is it ok for us to go in? Sakura quipped with a raised eyebrow. Her fangs were fully elongsted, and her stomach suddenly growled.

"Let us go find a hotel to stay in, Val. And maybe find a nice morsel to eat."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 03, 2021, 01:13:17 AM

The Valley of Endien

While the feline in question huffed in frustration and made herself comfortable in Sakura's arms, and settled in to purr and be carried for a time. The elf seemingly dared not observe too closely lest he observe as well the bouncy bounty that kept the kitty cosy. Instead with a faint flush across his face, Amras bowed his head once more. "Of course, Lady Valerie, and companion. I could see to finding you lodging while your request for an audience is presented to Her Majesty, if the trip has wearied you?"

He pointed past the field hospital to the side of the long road, down the great and winding hill that led down into the valley.

"Should it please you, of course."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 03, 2021, 01:14:31 AM

Quote from: Aiden on May 30, 2021, 01:32:40 AM

Lirazel

Her shoulders shook for a moment in obvious mirth. "If I were to unwrap the adornments of your handle, I suspect you would feel similarly... discomforted." Lirazel whistled, and her horse began trotting along again at a much slower pace than before. "Some things are best only seen by a few."

After a few moments the elven maiden responded again. "It is nearing the time when the Night will march upon us in force once more. You have come at a fortuitous time, if you intend to lend us aid!"

Thorra

"I do, I do!" Thorra cooed almost akin to a small child excited at the prospect of going to the amusement park. "Tell me more—about this night, about your kingdom, about everything!" But then, she chuckled. "And no, I wouldn't mind too much. You might not have noticed, but I don't have um, any concerns about your mortal senses of decency. I've never really gotten it, personally."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on June 03, 2021, 10:09:10 PM

Valerie

Valerie sighed yet she didn't address Sakura directly, she merely continued the conversation with the Elf. "If you could spare us some simple lodging that would be quite lovely. Especially for my companion, she needs to learn that you simply cannot ridicule the great hunt and expect free handouts in return. Perhaps some hardship will finally burn that spoiled nature of hers away."

She couldn't even find the will correct the incorrect way this guide had addressed their relationship. If she was gonna behave like a brat then she should simply be treated like one.

"If you keep this nonsense up then I will have no choice but to spank you in front of the whole royal court. And do not take this as idle threat, I spanked over a hundred Elves last I visited." Ah that was a good memory, many young maidens swooned for her exalted grace back then, it was quite the scandal.

And this time she was dressed even more provocatively than back then. Perhaps the Queen would panic when she heard of her arrival, or perhaps it would happen when she laid eyes on her. Either way that was amusing scene she couldn't wait to partake in.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 04, 2021, 01:32:07 PM

Quote from: SINIB on June 03, 2021, 01:14:31 AM

Thorra

"I do, I do!" Thorra cooed almost akin to a small child excited at the prospect of going to the amusement park. "Tell me more—about this night, about your kingdom, about everything!" But then, she chuckled. "And no, I wouldn't mind too much. You might not have noticed, but I don't have um, any concerns about your mortal senses of decency. I've never really gotten it, personally."

Lirazel

And then Lirazel started talking, allowing her horse to rest in a slower yet steady walk as the urgency of the moment passed. "Our people settled here, in the Valley of Forever Fall, thousands of Turns ago. The first Queen knew that this was where we could discharge our ancestors' sacred duty - to stop the Lord of Night from every returning to ravage the lands from whence you arrived." Her angelic voice had become stern, yet retained the softness of a school teacher who had no use for yelling. "But the Queen knew too that she would give her very life to prevent His return, and that it would take time for her daughter to take up the duty in her place. Since then our people have prepared for war with the monstrous denizens of Night, beyond the Burning Mountains, until the next Queen is ready to take up her mother's duty. Everyone here has readied themselves from childhood, no matter their careers, to offer their lives in battle against this foe."

She paused, either for dramatic effort or because it impacted her in some deep way to speak of these things.

"The Queen's time grows short. He will return, soon, at the head of an army a thousand years in the making." A hesitant sigh escaped her chest. "I fear even your great power could not stand before the Dark Lord in victory alone."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 06, 2021, 02:45:49 PM

Quote from: Bern on June 03, 2021, 10:09:10 PM

Valerie

Valerie sighed yet she didn't address Sakura directly, she merely continued the conversation with the Elf. "If you could spare us some simple lodging that would be quite lovely. Especially for my companion, she needs to learn that you simply cannot ridicule the great hunt and expect free handouts in return. Perhaps some hardship will finally burn that spoiled nature of hers away."

She couldn't even find the will correct the incorrect way this guide had addressed their relationship. If she was gonna behave like a brat then she should simply be treated like one.

"If you keep this nonsense up then I will have no choice but to spank you in front of the whole royal court. And do not take this as idle threat, I spanked over a hundred Elves last I visited." Ah that was a good memory, many young maidens swooned for her exalted grace back then, it was quite the scandal.

And this time she was dressed even more provocatively than back then. Perhaps the Queen would panic when she heard of her arrival, or perhaps it would happen when she laid eyes on her. Either way that was amusing scene she couldn't wait to partake in.

Sakura

Sakura was offput by that description of her. Spoiled was a term many had used to describe her at the clocktower, one which had been used to minimize her efforts and to make fun of her.

She hated it. Just being called such made her skin crawl. If Valerie felt that way about her, then she needed to reconsider her attitude and manner.

She couldn't abide being called as such in this world too... The worry that Valerie would think less of her in the same way, that she'd be written off as less than she was worth, it made her heart flutter with worry and fear.

She put down Sage and jogged over next to Valerie–if she wanted to be treated seriously, she didn't need to apologize, but she knew she did need to amend her actions.

Still, she wasn't exactly sure what to say. There was still so much she wanted to learn, needed to learn, about her lover.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 07, 2021, 03:31:11 PM

Quote from: Aiden on June 04, 2021, 01:32:07 PM

Lirazel

And then Lirazel started talking, allowing her horse to rest in a slower yet steady walk as the urgency of the moment passed. "Our people settled here, in the Valley of Forever Fall, thousands of Turns ago. The first Queen knew that this was where we could discharge our ancestors' sacred duty - to stop the Lord of Night from every returning to ravage the lands from whence you arrived." Her angelic voice had become stern, yet retained the softness of a school teacher who had no use for yelling. "But the Queen knew too that she would give her very life to prevent His return, and that it would take time for her daughter to take up the duty in her place. Since then our people have prepared for war with the monstrous denizens of Night, beyond the Burning Mountains, until the next Queen is ready to take up her mother's duty. Everyone here has readied themselves from childhood, no matter their careers, to offer their lives in battle against this foe."

She paused, either for dramatic effort or because it impacted her in some deep way to speak of these things.

"The Queen's time grows short. He will return, soon, at the head of an army a thousand years in the making." A hesitant sigh escaped her chest. "I fear even your great power could not stand before the Dark Lord in victory alone."

Thorra

Thorra held onto Lirazel as they rode, listening silently with the rapt attention of an eager student. The faint smell of ozone grew slightly more intense as Lirazel told her of their ritualistic sacrifice to seal the ancient evil—this was the first hint she'd been able to hear of the mythos of the Nexus, and it reminded her of her own inevitable demise.

It was relieving that such a fate did not seem to upset Lirazel. At the least, she seemed to be accepting. "I fear you are correct, Lira. I would not be able to singlehandedly defeat an evil as you are describing. Such an endeavor would be a tremendous enough deed to trigger my apotheosis—in other words, an impossibility. However..." Thorra wrapped her large hand around Lirazel's own. "I'm well known to meddle in affairs where I do not belong. And I'm foolish enough to be able to spurn fear and stand up for what is right and good. The threat of certain doom would not deter me from standing beside you and perishing together to protect your kingdom. You are a worthy weilder, and I will stand beside you in your quest."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 08, 2021, 04:36:50 AM

Quote from: Bern on June 03, 2021, 10:09:10 PM

Valerie

Valerie sighed yet she didn't address Sakura directly, she merely continued the conversation with the Elf. "If you could spare us some simple lodging that would be quite lovely. Especially for my companion, she needs to learn that you simply cannot ridicule the great hunt and expect free handouts in return. Perhaps some hardship will finally burn that spoiled nature of hers away."

She couldn't even find the will correct the incorrect way this guide had addressed their relationship. If she was gonna behave like a brat then she should simply be treated like one.

"If you keep this nonsense up then I will have no choice but to spank you in front of the whole royal court. And do not take this as idle threat, I spanked over a hundred Elves last I visited." Ah that was a good memory, many young maidens swooned for her exalted grace back then, it was quite the scandal.

And this time she was dressed even more provocatively than back then. Perhaps the Queen would panic when she heard of her arrival, or perhaps it would happen when she laid eyes on her. Either way that was amusing scene she couldn't wait to partake in.

Amras

If the elf present had an opinion on the matter of 'spanking,' then he wisely limited his response to a slight widening of the eyes, and the faintest twitching of the ears. Amras bowed once more as the the two strange visitors mustered themselves together. "If it is humble dwelling that you seek for the morn, I am certain my own household, but an hour's journey from here by horse, would be welcoming of your presence for a brief time. We Highborne of House Saiwa would be nothing were we not hospitable to guests, as tradition demands."

The Sagecat, letting out a meow of protest at this abandonment, saunters off to spend a moment around Amras' ankles instead.

A hint of a smile reached the elven man's face. "Yes, we have victuals enough for you as well, noble feline."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on June 09, 2021, 10:24:28 AM

Valerie

She was going to spank her regardless if she was a good or naughty, all that would determine would be how hard she went at it. Even so Dakura rushing over to walk beside her at least spoke for her willingness to amend. It was a start, which is why she didn't verbally reprimand her for not walking the proper half step behind her as she ought to during an official visit.

Valerie was her King before she was anything else, it didn't matter how she may allow Sakura to treat her in bed, that fact would never change. That emotion flowed strongly through their bond and she would never allow one of her own to talk back to her in public, to do so was to shame the whole nation. Outwardly they were indomitable, a unified will and she wouldn't allow one cute vampire lass to ruin that image.

"Actually I have changed my mind. Take us to where you accommodate visitors of stately business. We are here regarding urgent and confidential matters."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 10, 2021, 02:59:15 AM

Quote from: SINIB on June 07, 2021, 03:31:11 PM

Thorra

Thorra held onto Lirazel as they rode, listening silently with the rapt attention of an eager student. The faint smell of ozone grew slightly more intense as Lirazel told her of their ritualistic sacrifice to seal the ancient evil—this was the first hint she'd been able to hear of the mythos of the Nexus, and it reminded her of her own inevitable demise.

It was relieving that such a fate did not seem to upset Lirazel. At the least, she seemed to be accepting. "I fear you are correct, Lira. I would not be able to singlehandedly defeat an evil as you are describing. Such an endeavor would be a tremendous enough deed to trigger my apotheosis—in other words, an impossibility. However..." Thorra wrapped her large hand around Lirazel's own. "I'm well known to meddle in affairs where I do not belong. And I'm foolish enough to be able to spurn fear and stand up for what is right and good. The threat of certain doom would not deter me from standing beside you and perishing together to protect your kingdom. You are a worthy wielder, and I will stand beside you in your quest."

Lirazel

A sigh, for once all too mundane and lacking in lilt and lyric, tragically escaped from Lirazel's lips as she covered Thorra's own comforting hand with her opposite one. She trusted her horse to stay steady, clearly, in the absence of a grip on the reins. Her voice, so soft and low, was clearly not intended for others to overhear. "Well, at least one sacred weapon approves of my hands." But then, straightening her posture and getting some energy back to her, she lifted her held hand up to Thorra's sight. "You know, it's usually not the hammer holding on in a time of need. Thank you, Thorra."

And then, she gave her horse a little nudge with her ankles, and they picked up some speed again.

"But I have no intention of either of us dying in this!"

Soon, atop a hill overlooking the great alabaster-hued walls of the royal city, in the shadow of the Star Tower, they came into sight of another great crown of spires peeking out from a beneath cloak of green leaves and blue rose vines. A sort of slanted, almost organically rounded enclosure molded itself about the great perimeter, and as they came closer they were greeted further by another youthful pair of elves with ears seemingly shorter, less pronounced, proceeding down the hill upon a horse-drawn cart covered with some manner of smooth beige tarp.

Lirazel drew her hood up further over her head, but Thorra herself was too mesmerizingly strange a presence not to draw their attention. They did a visible double take, and whispered in a much too loud way, "She's returned with - who is that?"

The younger of the two, a much younger boy compared to the auburn-haired young lady steering the cart, stood up and waved frantically. "Good morning, your Highness!"

Outed so, the elven maiden Thorra was riding with lifted her hand in greeting. "Good morning Callon, Nienna. Please, do not stop on my account. My guest has had a long journey."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 11, 2021, 04:17:20 AM

Quote from: Bern on June 09, 2021, 10:24:28 AM

Valerie

She was going to spank her regardless if she was a good or naughty, all that would determine would be how hard she went at it. Even so Dakura rushing over to walk beside her at least spoke for her willingness to amend. It was a start, which is why she didn't verbally reprimand her for not walking the proper half step behind her as she ought to during an official visit.

Valerie was her King before she was anything else, it didn't matter how she may allow Sakura to treat her in bed, that fact would never change. That emotion flowed strongly through their bond and she would never allow one of her own to talk back to her in public, to do so was to shame the whole nation. Outwardly they were indomitable, a unified will and she wouldn't allow one cute vampire lass to ruin that image.

"Actually I have changed my mind. Take us to where you accommodate visitors of stately business. We are here regarding urgent and confidential matters."

Sakura

After a moment, Sakura took a half step back, falling into line next to her king. However, she didn't speak, instead making herself quiet as Valerie talked with Amras.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 12, 2021, 03:32:08 PM

Quote from: Aiden on June 10, 2021, 02:59:15 AM

Lirazel

A sigh, for once all too mundane and lacking in lilt and lyric, tragically escaped from Lirazel's lips as she covered Thorra's own comforting hand with her opposite one. She trusted her horse to stay steady, clearly, in the absence of a grip on the reins. Her voice, so soft and low, was clearly not intended for others to overhear. "Well, at least one sacred weapon approves of my hands." But then, straightening her posture and getting some energy back to her, she lifted her held hand up to Thorra's sight. "You know, it's usually not the hammer holding on in a time of need. Thank you, Thorra."

And then, she gave her horse a little nudge with her ankles, and they picked up some speed again.

"But I have no intention of either of us dying in this!"

Soon, atop a hill overlooking the great alabaster-hued walls of the royal city, in the shadow of the Star Tower, they came into sight of another great crown of spires peeking out from a beneath cloak of green leaves and blue rose vines. A sort of slanted, almost organically rounded enclosure molded itself about the great perimeter, and as they came closer they were greeted further by another youthful pair of elves with ears seemingly shorter, less pronounced, proceeding down the hill upon a horse-drawn cart covered with some manner of smooth beige tarp.

Lirazel drew her hood up further over her head, but Thorra herself was too mesmerizingly strange a presence not to draw their attention. They did a visible double take, and whispered in a much too loud way, "She's returned with - who is that?"

The younger of the two, a much younger boy compared to the auburn-haired young lady steering the cart, stood up and waved frantically. "Good morning, your Highness!"

Outed so, the elven maiden Thorra was riding with lifted her hand in greeting. "Good morning Callon, Nienna. Please, do not stop on my account. My guest has had a long journey."

Thorra

"Sure do. I'm not just any ordinary hammer—I can do tricks, and I can even give love advice!" The tall blond chuckled, wrapping her arms and legs around Lirazel to fully embrace the troubled princess. She rested her chin on the elf's head and gently kissed her. Despite her size, Lirazel felt little to no weight to her ephemeral body formed out of the clouds. It was a soft gentle embrace that didn't feel claustrophobic at all. "Fear not—this is not the place I shall die. We shall come out victorious just as you say."

As they approached the castle, Thorra disentangled herself from Lirazel and simply pressed herself against the elf's back, holding onto her stomach as she rode alongside her. She flipped her long hair with brilliant flourish, sparks arcing down her nude form. Her blond hair seemed to glow with the power of the sun, and she made sure to show off the subtle rounding of her ears. "My name is Thorra, daughter of Mjolnir. A guest from the divine realm of Valhalla." The act alone was enough to insire awe in the lesser folk.

Wherever she was talking about, Thorra seemed perfectly at home in such a fancy and luxurious abode. Despite its beauty, it paled in comparison to the palace of the gods.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 12, 2021, 06:48:15 PM

Quote from: Bern on June 09, 2021, 10:24:28 AM

Valerie

She was going to spank her regardless if she was a good or naughty, all that would determine would be how hard she went at it. Even so Dakura rushing over to walk beside her at least spoke for her willingness to amend. It was a start, which is why she didn't verbally reprimand her for not walking the proper half step behind her as she ought to during an official visit.

Valerie was her King before she was anything else, it didn't matter how she may allow Sakura to treat her in bed, that fact would never change. That emotion flowed strongly through their bond and she would never allow one of her own to talk back to her in public, to do so was to shame the whole nation. Outwardly they were indomitable, a unified will and she wouldn't allow one cute vampire lass to ruin that image.

"Actually I have changed my mind. Take us to where you accommodate visitors of stately business. We are here regarding urgent and confidential matters."

Amras

The elf blinked, and opened his mouth as though to question, but after a moment thought better of such things. "It is... as you speak then, yes. I shall lead you to the shadows of the Star Tower, and there the Queen's honored servants shall see to your accommodation." Amras' voice was a touch more guarded now than in the past, that earnest and open enthusiasm tempered by something else. "A moment, please, while I acquire a means of conveyance for you - lest you be forced to walk."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 13, 2021, 02:31:40 AM

Quote from: SINIB on June 12, 2021, 03:32:08 PM

Thorra

"Sure do. I'm not just any ordinary hammer—I can do tricks, and I can even give love advice!" The tall blond chuckled, wrapping her arms and legs around Lirazel to fully embrace the troubled princess. She rested her chin on the elf's head and gently kissed her. Despite her size, Lirazel felt little to no weight to her ephemeral body formed out of the clouds. It was a soft gentle embrace that didn't feel claustrophobic at all. "Fear not—this is not the place I shall die. We shall come out victorious just as you say."

As they approached the castle, Thorra disentangled herself from Lirazel and simply pressed herself against the elf's back, holding onto her stomach as she rode alongside her. She flipped her long hair with brilliant flourish, sparks arcing down her nude form. Her blond hair seemed to glow with the power of the sun, and she made sure to show off the subtle rounding of her ears. "My name is Thorra, daughter of Mjolnir. A guest from the divine realm of Valhalla." The act alone was enough to inspire awe in the lesser folk.

Wherever she was talking about, Thorra seemed perfectly at home in such a fancy and luxurious abode. Despite its beauty, it paled in comparison to the palace of the gods.

Lirazel

"You speak as if fate has already ordained your end." Despite the great affection and softness draped upon her ever youthful form, Lirazel's soft and steady voice could tear the heart with sorrow. But she did not persist in such a melody over long, and she straightened in her saddle to present a most regal of figures. "Perhaps so - but not without my blade to stand against it too."

Upon their arrival then, greeted as they were by the now-revealed royal maiden and then by Thorra herself, the two upon their carts whistled their horses to a full stop, and set themselves down upon the road that they might not stand taller than Lirazel herself. The boy, Callon, seemed all too eager to approach, but had the hand of the older girl upon his shoulder. "Wow! Is 'Valhalla' a place from past the mists?!"

Nienna, the older of the two, placed another hand upon the boy's head and ruffled his fine hair so. "Easy, boy." But her eyes were enrapt with the scene before her as well, of the princess and her magnificent guest together. "You know that cannot be - only Lowborn live in the mists!" It was a gentle chiding, well meant.

Lirazel herself allowed a lyrical laugh to escape her throat, and she covered her lips with her hand as if to preserve her impeccable elegance. "Ah, but little Callon is correct - I ask that you keep this to yourselves, for a time. She has had a long journey, and I wish to give her an opportunity to rest before presenting her to the Queen."

Callon laughed a lot more, and wrapped his arms around his - sister? Someone older, related, perhaps. He looked at Thorra and beamed. "Wow!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 13, 2021, 03:32:41 PM

Quote from: Aiden on June 13, 2021, 02:31:40 AM

Lirazel

"You speak as if fate has already ordained your end." Despite the great affection and softness draped upon her ever youthful form, Lirazel's soft and steady voice could tear the heart with sorrow. But she did not persist in such a melody over long, and she straightened in her saddle to present a most regal of figures. "Perhaps so - but not without my blade to stand against it too."

Upon their arrival then, greeted as they were by the now-revealed royal maiden and then by Thorra herself, the two upon their carts whistled their horses to a full stop, and set themselves down upon the road that they might not stand taller than Lirazel herself. The boy, Callon, seemed all too eager to approach, but had the hand of the older girl upon his shoulder. "Wow! Is 'Valhalla' a place from past the mists?!"

Nienna, the older of the two, placed another hand upon the boy's head and ruffled his fine hair so. "Easy, boy." But her eyes were enrapt with the scene before her as well, of the princess and her magnificent guest together. "You know that cannot be - only Lowborn live in the mists!" It was a gentle chiding, well meant.

Lirazel herself allowed a lyrical laugh to escape her throat, and she covered her lips with her hand as if to preserve her impeccable elegance. "Ah, but little Callon is correct - I ask that you keep this to yourselves, for a time. She has had a long journey, and I wish to give her an opportunity to rest before presenting her to the Queen."

Callon laughed a lot more, and wrapped his arms around his - sister? Someone older, related, perhaps. He looked at Thorra and beamed. "Wow!"

Thorra

The statuesque pale giantess hopped off of her horse with gentle grace surpassing even that of Lirazel. The soft curves of her body trembled as she stood up to her full seven foot tall height. She loomed over the smallfolk and looked down upon them with a gentle half-grin. She crouched down to Callon's full height and pressed soft lips against his forehead, repeating the gesture with his elder sister. "I hail from far beyond the mists, from beyond even this world." She replied, smiling gaily at the two before standing up and offering Lirazel her palm. "Shall we, Milady?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on June 14, 2021, 08:14:06 PM

Quote from: Aiden on June 12, 2021, 06:48:15 PM

Amras

The elf blinked, and opened his mouth as though to question, but after a moment thought better of such things. "It is... as you speak then, yes. I shall lead you to the shadows of the Star Tower, and there the Queen's honored servants shall see to your accommodation." Amras' voice was a touch more guarded now than in the past, that earnest and open enthusiasm tempered by something else. "A moment, please, while I acquire a means of conveyance for you - lest you be forced to walk."

Valerie

"That is hardly a concern of ours. In such a situation I would simply have my trusted vassal carry me onwards." On second thought perhaps that was the ideal reprimand for her childe. Sakura should princess carry her the rest of the way to Star Tower as her penance. Such an extended task would surely teach her the respect that her King ought to be treated with.

This desire grew firmer and firmer, until it started leaking over the bond, giving Sakura an idea or more of a feeling of what Valerie wanted her to do. Now would Sakura pay attention and carry out her silent order? That was quite the exciting prospect for her, Valerie had never been carried in such a way by another girl before.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 16, 2021, 05:33:56 AM

Quote from: SINIB on June 13, 2021, 03:32:41 PM

Thorra

The statuesque pale giantess hopped off of her horse with gentle grace surpassing even that of Lirazel. The soft curves of her body trembled as she stood up to her full seven foot tall height. She loomed over the smallfolk and looked down upon them with a gentle half-grin. She crouched down to Callon's full height and pressed soft lips against his forehead, repeating the gesture with his elder sister. "I hail from far beyond the mists, from beyond even this world." She replied, smiling gaily at the two before standing up and offering Lirazel her palm. "Shall we, Milady?"

Lirazel

The boy merely blinked in curiosity, and released a sound of awe at Thorra's explanation. The girl, Nienna, though? Her face paled as though she had seen a ghost, and with a much more nervous smile she gathered Callon up and back to the cart. "Well, please, be well then, your highness!" The boy guilelessly waved goodbye over her shoulder, and the two got on their way.

Lirazel released a sigh, and then dismounted from her horse with a smile. She reached out with a palm to touch her noble steed's flank. "Go on, then. I'm sure you have someone who will be very happy to see you out on the plain." With the simplest of motions she made the complex task of removing a saddle into a single smooth one, and with a whinny her horse took off away from the road.

The elven maiden then hugged it to her side with one arm, and took hold of one of Thorra's with the opposite, and nodded as they made their way past the archway leading within. Immediately. "Allow me to welcome you to my home."

It was more than just a great manor on a hill, on second glance within the walls. There were a multitude of fine smooth structures rising out from the walls as though molded from the same cast, never quite rising above them, and between and around each were an abundance of trees and bushes and vines growing all sorts of greenery and fruits. Elves of differing ear lengths, some visibly aged and some not, some noticeable youthful and others far from it, were gathered all along the sides and... dueling?

Sparring with weapons in graceful motions, bearing spears and short blades, stringing bows on benches by their gardens, showing the young how to handle knives. They were a people preparing for war.

They only stopped when they saw who was entering, and then they all rose and turned. Lirazel paused, and then lifted her arm that was occupied by a saddle up. "I have returned, everyone - with a friend from afar!"

A great cheer went up, faces alight as they took in the sight.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 16, 2021, 03:57:41 PM

Thorra

The nude giantess gently waved at what felt like each and every one of them, tugging at the heartstrings of the old and the young, straight or otherwise, of all genders. Her soft body's gentle trembling sent soft pangs of lust throughout all who beheld her, leaving them with but one question to debate.

Was the princess a fairer woman, or this exotic and interesting outsider? The halls would be abuzz with this debate for months to come.

She grabbed Lirazel's hand and raised their entwined fists up into the sky, imbuing her chosen weilder with both the power of flight and the thunder god. Electricity ran down both of their bodies in a tremendous show of silent force.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 16, 2021, 09:02:38 PM

Quote from: Bern on June 14, 2021, 08:14:06 PM

Valerie

"That is hardly a concern of ours. In such a situation I would simply have my trusted vassal carry me onwards." On second thought perhaps that was the ideal reprimand for her childe. Sakura should princess carry her the rest of the way to Star Tower as her penance. Such an extended task would surely teach her the respect that her King ought to be treated with.

This desire grew firmer and firmer, until it started leaking over the bond, giving Sakura an idea or more of a feeling of what Valerie wanted her to do. Now would Sakura pay attention and carry out her silent order? That was quite the exciting prospect for her, Valerie had never been carried in such a way by another girl before.

Sakura

Sakura heard, or rather she felt, and she was more than happy to obey. "Walking is fine." She reiterated, suddenly stepping forward and grabbing Valerie's ass with greedy fingers. She swept her arm underneath Valerie's and lifted the king up into her arms, positioning her arm so Valerie's legs were rested comfortably on it.

Sakura sent a probing feeling through their link, with a little bit of contrition but mostly curiousity. She was testing its limits and looking to see just how much information they could send to each other through their link. As she probed, she seemed to be trying to expand the link and see just how open it could get.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 19, 2021, 04:58:53 AM

Amras

The sight left Amras staring, visibly bewildered yet doing an admirable job in minimizing just how much so. Then, he turned to face the road and not the pair of vampires, or the field hospital off to the side, or the great wall from whence they'd come. "I suppose, then, that I shall be walking with you. It will be a considerable distance by foot, and so I pray for your patience in enduring this choice."

He began marching along, and with only a brief glance to see if they were following, he proceeded on.

The sun rose ever higher in the daybroken sky. A white cat followed in their wake.

---

The Approach to Castle Town

It was a fortunate matter that for all that the great white road between the Path of Dawn and the distant Star Tower had not shifted an inch since Valerie's last visit to Endien it was even more pristine and well kept than before, the hardships of war washed away by the alluring gleam of enchantment. The path whispered the subtlest harmonies to Sakura's acute mystical senses, easing their passage and washing away the idle woes of weariness that came with foot travel. Sage, the cat, could hardly help herself in sniffing at the edges of the road, but also seemingly refused to step foot on it and instead trotted her way through the soft and flowing grasses that crunched here and there with the leaves of trees quickly left behind.

They passed several villages along the way, each built such that the land accentuated their presence and their simple elegance. Tasteful hues of gold, orange, and red predominated. The elves they passed, some with longer ears and others with shorter, some visibly aged or youthful and others with a timeless beauty, were all in the midst of preparations for some manner of conflict. They drilled with spears, swords, and bows. They sang rousing songs of battle, and brought forth with grace all manner of magic. Children played flutes and strung harps by gardens to coax forth their fruits.

They were greeted, of course, by those with the time to spare for such. Amras handled the brief introductions at each village, and as they passed he and they were offered drinks and food of exquisite quality for the road. Craftsmen took one look at their attire, and attempted to ply them with some of the finest shoes either had ever seen to see them on their journey. Sage caught mice, which seemingly dissolved into her mouth.

The great walls of Castle Town, as it translated from the tongue of the Highborne for Sakura's ears, grew ever larger. They could feel the great weight of eons of enchantment beginning to layer into place, one step after another, assessing and welcoming them. The regard of the one who waited for them in the Star Tower rested on their shoulders.

Then at last, as the sun made its far across the horizon from its eastern start, Valerie and her entourage arrived at a much larger, more fortified settlement at the foot of the great hill upon which the capital resided. Amras raised a hand as if to present it, and its open gates, and its glimmering townhouses, to his guests. "We have arrived where all foreign visitors of status are expected to remain until granted access to the capital. And to rest after that long walk." He nodded to both of them. "Her Majesty is, of course, aware of your presence - preparations are... likely being undertaken to greet you properly."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 20, 2021, 01:39:40 AM

Quote from: SINIB on June 16, 2021, 03:57:41 PM

Thorra

The nude giantess gently waved at what felt like each and every one of them, tugging at the heartstrings of the old and the young, straight or otherwise, of all genders. Her soft body's gentle trembling sent soft pangs of lust throughout all who beheld her, leaving them with but one question to debate.

Was the princess a fairer woman, or this exotic and interesting outsider? The halls would be abuzz with this debate for months to come.

She grabbed Lirazel's hand and raised their entwined fists up into the sky, imbuing her chosen wielder with both the power of flight and the thunder god. Electricity ran down both of their bodies in a tremendous show of silent force.

Lirazel

The youthful and elderly alike let out sounds of unfettered awe, raising their hands in witness to the great crackling force that defied the nature of Melody, yet did not insult it in doing so. Those more timeless, less caught by the chains of aging, held their hands together at the auspicious sign. Lirazel herself flushed, and very gently and subtly brought their joined hands back down to their sides. "Thank you, everyone. I must apologize, for our guest, Thorra, has come from a great distance, and I would see her receive all the hospitality she is due for her effort in coming to us."

She smiled, and the populace spread to give the pair space as they continued to walk toward Lirazel's verdant tower.

It was a rounded sort of interior, with two staircases branching off from the gate which had folded up into the walls at Lirazel's approach, and then returned to seal behind them as they stepped inside. The ground floor was warm in a literal sense, a series of soft golden flames hanging from crystalline spheres from a ceiling that was inevitably the floor of the next level up. Directly ahead appeared to be some manner of dining hall, with a long table molded from the same material as the building itself, set with chairs. It was overlooked by whatever was on the second floor...

Actually, everything seemed to be all molded as a flowing, single piece of the overall structure save for the chairs and some of the various enamelware and ceramic pieces set about.

The elven maiden released Thorra's hand, and turned to face her with a smile. "Welcome to my home, Thorra. I hope you will like it."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 20, 2021, 03:23:21 AM

Quote from: Aiden on June 20, 2021, 01:39:40 AM

Lirazel

The youthful and elderly alike let out sounds of unfettered awe, raising their hands in witness to the great crackling force that defied the nature of Melody, yet did not insult it in doing so. Those more timeless, less caught by the chains of aging, held their hands together at the auspicious sign. Lirazel herself flushed, and very gently and subtly brought their joined hands back down to their sides. "Thank you, everyone. I must apologize, for our guest, Thorra, has come from a great distance, and I would see her receive all the hospitality she is due for her effort in coming to us."

She smiled, and the populace spread to give the pair space as they continued to walk toward Lirazel's verdant tower.

It was a rounded sort of interior, with two staircases branching off from the gate which had folded up into the walls at Lirazel's approach, and then returned to seal behind them as they stepped inside. The ground floor was warm in a literal sense, a series of soft golden flames hanging from crystalline spheres from a ceiling that was inevitably the floor of the next level up. Directly ahead appeared to be some manner of dining hall, with a long table molded from the same material as the building itself, set with chairs. It was overlooked by whatever was on the second floor...

Actually, everything seemed to be all molded as a flowing, single piece of the overall structure save for the chairs and some of the various enamelware and ceramic pieces set about.

The elven maiden released Thorra's hand, and turned to face her with a smile. "Welcome to my home, Thorra. I hope you will like it."

Thorra

The large-breasted giantess regaled the room with what seemed to be a genuine interest. Either she really was fascinated by the architecture, or she was an amazing actor. She ran her palm around the wall, sending soft currents through the frame and mentally mapping out the building. Thorra closed her eyes, walking along it with her outstretched palm.

"You live in an interesting sort of building, Lira." Thorra quipped, turning towards her with a warm grin. "Never seen anything like it before."

As she passed the table, Thorra placed herself gingerly down on the top, circling back around with her body to face Lirazel directly again. "Do you ride often? I only rarely meet women who are so tremendously skilled as yourself—even I'd have been worried, letting go of the reigns of my horse the way you did!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 20, 2021, 04:35:19 AM

Lirazel

Lirazel's smile grew as she watched Thorra explore the first two floors of her home, examining everything in great detail this way. It appeared to take a great deal of composure for the elf maiden not to follow her about, hovering about, rather than moving up to the second floor by those stairs and disappearing briefly from the hammer's sight. When next she saw her she was floating gently down in front of her and the dining hall's table, dressed now in what appeared to be a fine silken white dress that went down to her knees and covered her shoulders. She did not bother with shoes.

"Thank you - I have spent centuries weaving this home for myself." She seemed to puff herself up a little with pride as she looked up at the much taller girl. "If you listen, you can hear the echoes of my song in the walls."

She pulled one of the chairs back and sat down, then moved another with her foot as if to encourage her guest to sit. "I ride almost every morning, when I can. I raised that mare from the time she was a foal, helping her mother care for her."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 20, 2021, 04:46:25 AM

Thorra

"Yes, I can feel its resonance through the walls." The young hammer replied. "It's a gentle, soothing pulse which calms my very soul." Her voice didn't emanate from her body, however. It was directly from the hammer on the table next to Lirazel. "Centuries is a lot longer than anything I've experienced. It less than twenty years ago life was breathed into me by my fathers."

The hammer thrummed with power, pleased with Lirazel's abode as her body silently continued to wander. "Heh." The hammer seemed quite relaxed, pulsating with electricity to turn the head towards Lirazel as if to regard her warmly, electricity thrumming down its spine. "No wonder you're so talented, then. You probably have more practice riding than I have existing, heh."

Finally, her body returned, sitting down across from Lirazel and smiling at her.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 20, 2021, 04:08:15 PM

Lirazel

The songstress covered her mouth with her hand, eyes wide as is scandalized for a moment to realize just how young Thorra actually was. Soon her eyes stopped following around the body, and focused instead on the weapon resting by her side. She tilted her head, and slowly removed her hand from her mouth to instead rest upon the hammer's head. "You have a magnificent gift, far beyond just a weapon, to be able to hear in such a way. I almost envy you this."

Though Thorra's body was sitting across from her now, Lirazel was directing her attention to where she really was. Her fingers traced at the lines where, in a more ornate design, a craftsman might have added a fine filigree of precious metals. "Forgive me for not disclosing my status to you when first we met." Her lips turned upward. "I know not how your people govern themselves, but I know that many find their actions change when I append the title 'Princess' to my name."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 20, 2021, 04:20:17 PM

Thorra

"Ahh~" Thorra cried out as Lirazel stroked her simple corded shaft. The metal was unlike anything from this world, pulsing with power and beating with the life of the woman sitting ever more listlessly across from her in a fascimile of life.

"You won't have to worry about that with me—it's a well known fault of mine. I'll treat you the same, no matter your station in life or the appropriateness of my decorum." A gentle shock ran up Lirazel's arm, focused around her wrist and hand as if Thorra was squeezing them.

"I'm a wandering daughter of the trickster god, a free spirit who doesn't have a place of true belonging except with the people she cares about."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 20, 2021, 04:52:34 PM

Quote from: SINIB on June 20, 2021, 04:20:17 PM

Thorra

"Ahh~" Thorra cried out as Lirazel stroked her simple corded shaft. The metal was unlike anything from this world, pulsing with power and beating with the life of the woman sitting ever more listlessly across from her in a fascimile of life.

"You won't have to worry about that with me—it's a well known fault of mine. I'll treat you the same, no matter your station in life or the appropriateness of my decorum." A gentle shock ran up Lirazel's arm, focused around her wrist and hand as if Thorra was squeezing them.

"I'm a wandering daughter of the trickster god, a free spirit who doesn't have a place of true belonging except with the people she cares about."

Lirazel

"I believe my mother's court would be quite ill disposed to that... but I consider it more of a quality than anything." Lirazel let out a soft laugh at the thought, and then rested her palm over the hammer's head. "Ah, but the wonder I could have wrought with material as fine as yours'. Do not misunderstand me - I adore my sword, and the years I put into getting her just right. But you are altogether something different."

Her smile became a touch mischievous. "I almost worry I'll make her jealous by having you here."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 20, 2021, 05:31:30 PM

Thorra

"Ehehe~ Watch out, maybe I'll steal you from her if I'm not careful~" She vibrated against the table with great mirth. "I was forged by the greatest dwarven smiths from a shard of my mother, the great war-hammer Mjolnir.

"Your crafts skills are near equal to theirs—an extremely rare feat, especially for one not of dwarven descent. You have a gift, Lira'." After a pause, she continued. "I hope you'll protect me from the wrath of your mother's court. I expect they'll take issue with my dress."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 20, 2021, 10:27:03 PM

Lirazel

"If you did that, I would need an entirely new wardrobe." The princess smoothed out her dress with her free hand. "Have no concern - they will cease quickly once I make clear the aid you have rendered us, and that you are a friend to me." Then she blinked, seemingly in confusion.

"Whatever happened to your companion, the horned woman for whom you undertook the great journey to us originally?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 21, 2021, 01:22:22 AM

Quote from: Aiden on June 20, 2021, 10:27:03 PM

Lirazel

"If you did that, I would need an entirely new wardrobe." The princess smoothed out her dress with her free hand. "Have no concern - they will cease quickly once I make clear the aid you have rendered us, and that you are a friend to me." Then she blinked, seemingly in confusion.

"Whatever happened to your companion, the horned woman for whom you undertook the great journey to us originally?"

Thorra

"Sage is not one for being indoors—right now, she's exploring the city on her own terms." Thorra replied. "In other words, I'm not entirely sure what she's up to—or what she's thinking, most of the time. She adores her elven princess—not you, someone else."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on June 24, 2021, 05:25:26 PM

Quote from: Aiden on June 19, 2021, 04:58:53 AM

Amras

The sight left Amras staring, visibly bewildered yet doing an admirable job in minimizing just how much so. Then, he turned to face the road and not the pair of vampires, or the field hospital off to the side, or the great wall from whence they'd come. "I suppose, then, that I shall be walking with you. It will be a considerable distance by foot, and so I pray for your patience in enduring this choice."

He began marching along, and with only a brief glance to see if they were following, he proceeded on.

The sun rose ever higher in the daybroken sky. A white cat followed in their wake.

---

The Approach to Castle Town

It was a fortunate matter that for all that the great white road between the Path of Dawn and the distant Star Tower had not shifted an inch since Valerie's last visit to Endien it was even more pristine and well kept than before, the hardships of war washed away by the alluring gleam of enchantment. The path whispered the subtlest harmonies to Sakura's acute mystical senses, easing their passage and washing away the idle woes of weariness that came with foot travel. Sage, the cat, could hardly help herself in sniffing at the edges of the road, but also seemingly refused to step foot on it and instead trotted her way through the soft and flowing grasses that crunched here and there with the leaves of trees quickly left behind.

They passed several villages along the way, each built such that the land accentuated their presence and their simple elegance. Tasteful hues of gold, orange, and red predominated. The elves they passed, some with longer ears and others with shorter, some visibly aged or youthful and others with a timeless beauty, were all in the midst of preparations for some manner of conflict. They drilled with spears, swords, and bows. They sang rousing songs of battle, and brought forth with grace all manner of magic. Children played flutes and strung harps by gardens to coax forth their fruits.

They were greeted, of course, by those with the time to spare for such. Amras handled the brief introductions at each village, and as they passed he and they were offered drinks and food of exquisite quality for the road. Craftsmen took one look at their attire, and attempted to ply them with some of the finest shoes either had ever seen to see them on their journey. Sage caught mice, which seemingly dissolved into her mouth.

The great walls of Castle Town, as it translated from the tongue of the Highborne for Sakura's ears, grew ever larger. They could feel the great weight of eons of enchantment beginning to layer into place, one step after another, assessing and welcoming them. The regard of the one who waited for them in the Star Tower rested on their shoulders.

Then at last, as the sun made its far across the horizon from its eastern start, Valerie and her entourage arrived at a much larger, more fortified settlement at the foot of the great hill upon which the capital resided. Amras raised a hand as if to present it, and its open gates, and its glimmering townhouses, to his guests. "We have arrived where all foreign visitors of status are expected to remain until granted access to the capital. And to rest after that long walk." He nodded to both of them. "Her Majesty is, of course, aware of your presence - preparations are... likely being undertaken to greet you properly."

Valerie

"You have been a wonderful guide and we will be sure to mention how gracefully you have handled our visit to your Queen. I do hope the beds at this establishment is as sturdy as the rest of your craftsmanship." It was pure torture, nothing but torture to travel this slowly. She couldn't remember the last time she'd been this horny. Maybe this was why she went so wild the last time she visited Endien. It was certainly good contender for the reason why.

Being carried by her cute minion and constantly having her ass groped didn't make it better. She hadn't had fat cock in days, and she desperately needed to be dicked. Pretty much anything would do at this at this point. The last time she'd gone this long without sex would have been... maybe centuries ago. And her thirst wasn't much better either, as younger vampire Sakura was probably feeling fine, but Val simply couldn't go days upon days without feeding.

She was starved, and all of these feelings were laid bare to her childe through their bond.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 24, 2021, 05:57:05 PM

Sakura

Sakura continued holding tightly onto her king's butt, looking around and soaking in the magically-crafted city of wonders which she had found herself in. "I thank you for your guidance, noble elf." Sakura smiled at him, silently wondering how many hundreds of years her elder he was. And, how an elf's blood tasted. How would it compare to that of demonic royalty, she wondered.

She sent an image of an elven barmaid to Valerie across their link, before looking down at her and silently raising her eyebrow. Perhaps they could find a cute elven girl or boy to bed and feed upon—her king just needed to agree, and Sakura would find them a bar of repute.

"What was it like, the last time you visited?" Sakura asked mysteriously with a half grin to bare the tips of her fangs.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 24, 2021, 11:29:05 PM

Quote from: SINIB on June 21, 2021, 01:22:22 AM

Thorra

"Sage is not one for being indoors—right now, she's exploring the city on her own terms." Thorra replied. "In other words, I'm not entirely sure what she's up to—or what she's thinking, most of the time. She adores her elven princess—not you, someone else."

Lirazel

Lirazel blinked, and tilted her head to the side, and then blinked again. "Another... princess?" Her lips moved a few times as the wheels of her mind visibly turned. "Are you implying there is - some other land of Highborne blood out there, in the lands of dawn?"

Her voice grew more excited as she spoke, those same lips curving all the more upward.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 25, 2021, 03:37:47 PM

Quote from: Aiden on June 24, 2021, 11:29:05 PM

Lirazel

Lirazel blinked, and tilted her head to the side, and then blinked again. "Another... princess?" Her lips moved a few times as the wheels of her mind visibly turned. "Are you implying there is - some other land of Highborne blood out there, in the lands of dawn?"

Her voice grew more excited as she spoke, those same lips curving all the more upward.

Thorra

"Yes, although I caution that she may not be exactly the same sort of elf as you are—as you are an elf of no degree similar to those which I myself had previously encountered." Thorra replied. The hammer suddenly lifted itself up with electromagnetic forces and turned as if to look into Lirazel's deep eyes.

"We should journey throughout what you call the land of dawn together!" She suggested excitedly. "Perhaps you need to embark on an epic quest to solve the woes that face your people! That would seem to be the most reasonable explaination to me!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 27, 2021, 07:46:13 PM

Castle Town Visitor's Quarter

Amras smiled politely to Valerie as she finished her thanks and inquiry, and inclined his head. "The possessions of the people of Endien differ only in quantity and scale, never quality, King Valerie. You will find even the simplest of public houses to your liking." His ears twitched as he glanced between the pair of visitors and the spires of the visitor's quarter which served as antechamber to the capital. "Might I suggest the one with the image of a dancer about it? I believe it was opened within the past six centuries, so it is fairly new - but also more inclined to be to your liking."

The music that rose from even here, strings and woodwinds and archaic elven dialects carrying through the air, was already at work to render the pair feeling welcome.

He bowed once more. "With that, I must return to the Path of Dawn. Good fortune to you."

It took Valerie a moment to recognize the other guest hitch hiking along with them as their guide made his way back along the road, having clung to her back after they got to the visitor quarters. Sage weighed virtually nothing and so was all too easy to not recognize for all she lacked ill intent.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 27, 2021, 09:41:44 PM

Quote from: SINIB on June 25, 2021, 03:37:47 PM

Thorra

"Yes, although I caution that she may not be exactly the same sort of elf as you are—as you are an elf of no degree similar to those which I myself had previously encountered." Thorra replied. The hammer suddenly lifted itself up with electromagnetic forces and turned as if to look into Lirazel's deep eyes.

"We should journey throughout what you call the land of dawn together!" She suggested excitedly. "Perhaps you need to embark on an epic quest to solve the woes that face your people! That would seem to be the most reasonable explaination to me!"

Lirazel

"You can fly?" That seemed to be the part that really made Lirazel's eyes bright, and not just because they were reflecting the electrical charge coursing over Thorra's metal head. But then the rest of the hammer's words reached her, and the princess' face slowly fell. "To be so free... I have not told you all of what is to come, I suppose."

She withdrew her hands to her lap, and rested them there togther whilst closing her eyes.

"My mother is due to pass, soon."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on June 28, 2021, 06:49:15 PM

Quote from: Aiden on June 27, 2021, 09:41:44 PM

Lirazel

"You can fly?" That seemed to be the part that really made Lirazel's eyes bright, and not just because they were reflecting the electrical charge coursing over Thorra's metal head. But then the rest of the hammer's words reached her, and the princess' face slowly fell. "To be so free... I have not told you all of what is to come, I suppose."

She withdrew her hands to her lap, and rested them there togther whilst closing her eyes.

"My mother is due to pass, soon."

Thorra

"What exactly does soon mean? I find it means something very different depending on a species lifespan."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on June 30, 2021, 01:06:57 AM

Lirazel

"I'm not even quite sure." Her pointed ears twitched, following Thorra's voice. "Strictly speaking, she should already be dead. When the princess of Endien becomes queen, her years are already numbered. I do not know how my mother has lasted longer than that, and I do not know for how much longer she can endure. She could last another hundred years longer than she should, or she could pass this evening and war would be upon us in an instant."

She picked at one of her fingernails with the other, and bit her lip in discontent.

"To take on such a journey now, uncertain?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on June 30, 2021, 08:08:16 PM

Valerie

Valerie shook her head and spoke with a great calm that was completely out of synch with her internal turmoil. "No it would be better to take his advice, most places here would not be to our to our tastes. The Elves are boring traditionalists." Then the blonde acknowledged the freeloader that was clinging to her back. It was much preferable that she clung onto her and that was why she hadn't commented on it. At least this way her childe would be safe from whatever nefarious plots she possessed.

"Oh and you wise cat, you should find my stomach to be a far more comfortable resting spot." Indeed, with the way Sakura was carrying her, it would be the most luxurious royal seats. "You should feel honored, I am royalty and I would not just do this for any cat!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 01, 2021, 01:52:13 AM

Sage

A soft, squeaky 'huff' could be just barely be made out despite the melodic background music that comfortably settled into the scene. Valerie soon felt the cat in question clawing her way up and around her body until glorious white fluffiness was within sight for both of them once again. She started to knead at the spot, making it extra comfy, and let out a rumbling purr as she settled down there looking at her. "Very well. You are wonderfully comfortable like this. It is a shame you are a king, and not a proper princess, or I would kidnap you for such coziness."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 01, 2021, 02:01:32 AM

Quote from: Aiden on July 01, 2021, 01:52:13 AM

Sage

A soft, squeaky 'huff' could be just barely be made out despite the melodic background music that comfortably settled into the scene. Valerie soon felt the cat in question clawing her way up and around her body until glorious white fluffiness was within sight for both of them once again. She started to knead at the spot, making it extra comfy, and let out a rumbling purr as she settled down there looking at her. "Very well. You are wonderfully comfortable like this. It is a shame you are a king, and not a proper princess, or I would kidnap you for such coziness."

Sakura

"Mmm. Why not?" Sakura wondered aloud. "This place is fascinating, almost as if it's become stuck in time, seperated from the rest of the Nexus for the past, well, I'm not sure how long. Probably thousands of years." Sakura looked around, craning her neck. "I wonder if life during the age of gods was like this, even a little."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on July 01, 2021, 02:17:34 AM

Valerie

"A perfectly preserved memory is unsettling when you have lived it. Without change there cannot truly be life." Valerie shook her head in dismay, but she brightened up once the cat settled in on top of her belly. She looked down at the creature with the majestically fluffy furniture unfortunately it was partially obscured by the rising hills of her chest. But that didn't stop her from caressing it with her hands, which isna privilege she quickly exploited, and she brushed the majestic fur with much enthusiasm.

"Ah but you see wise cat, I was and still am a Princess, a King is merely a Princess who is in charge." She spoke these ludicrous words as if they were absolute and an undeniable truth. There was no falsehoods here despite how bizzare it may sound. "And not just any Princess, I was the fairest in the whole realm. Countless knights propositioned to save me from the darkness, it was quite amusing."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 01, 2021, 02:56:25 AM

Sage

"Life is always in motion, always changing - but the cycles remain as they have in the beginning. Variations on a pattern, devoted to a single purpose." The particularly talkative cat's speech was interrupted by yet louder purring as Valerie really took advantage of the situation at hand. Her fur was especially soft and smooth, perfectly pettable. She was very warm on top of the vampire's belly. "Ahh, but this is also good. Keep doing that."

That was until her face scrunched up in confusion. Consideration.

"But.... princesses become queens, do they not?" She looked up to Sakura. "Indeed, would not she be the princess to your queen, now?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 01, 2021, 03:03:12 AM

Quote from: Aiden on July 01, 2021, 02:56:25 AM

Sage

"Life is always in motion, always changing - but the cycles remain as they have in the beginning. Variations on a pattern, devoted to a single purpose." The particularly talkative cat's speech was interrupted by yet louder purring as Valerie really took advantage of the situation at hand. Her fur was especially soft and smooth, perfectly pettable. She was very warm on top of the vampire's belly. "Ahh, but this is also good. Keep doing that."

That was until her face scrunched up in confusion. Consideration.

"But.... princesses become queens, do they not?" She looked up to Sakura. "Indeed, would not she be the princess to your queen, now?"

Sakura

Sakura grinned. "My King was once a princess, but decided that she would be better served claiming the title of king, not queen." Her fangs grew more pronounced as she smiled, shifting her arm underneath Valerie's pit to get a little more comfortable. "Her motivations are a well kept secret, so you'll have to ask her about that."

She looked down at Valerie and nodded—change was needed, vital even. It had been engrained in her psyche since childhood. The need to pass on her crest and to expand upon it had always been an absolute imperative, and the quest for ineffable perfection drove her. She could well imagine how Valerie must feel seeing the same city hundreds or thousands of years later, without change.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on July 01, 2021, 03:59:04 AM

Valerie

Valerie kept petting the cat and even scratched her behind her ears. The fur just felt wonderfully against her and the sounds the cat was making in response were heavenly to listen to.

"No she is my guard and one of the people vying to be my mate. Any new princesses of my kingdom would have to be carried by me, unfortunately only the most virile of species stands a chance of conceiving with my kind, so you will have to wait to see that which you desire."

Then her smile turned more mischievous. "Besides if you claimed a King instead, you would not have to worry about maintaining my purity..."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 01, 2021, 07:37:11 PM

Quote from: Aiden on June 30, 2021, 01:06:57 AM

Lirazel

"I'm not even quite sure." Her pointed ears twitched, following Thorra's voice. "Strictly speaking, she should already be dead. When the princess of Endien becomes queen, her years are already numbered. I do not know how my mother has lasted longer than that, and I do not know for how much longer she can endure. She could last another hundred years longer than she should, or she could pass this evening and war would be upon us in an instant."

She picked at one of her fingernails with the other, and bit her lip in discontent.

"To take on such a journey now, uncertain?"

Thorra

"Yes. The urgency makes it even more urgent. If the cycle remained functional, you would not be worrying so. I know well of them—as some point, ragnorok shall come and the world shall be clensed only to be reborn. Fate is not so easily changed. You'll have to look outside the box in order to break its chains."

Thorra paused for a moment, then continued with a greater sense of urgency. "If not now, when? When all is lost?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 02, 2021, 04:14:38 AM

Quote from: Bern on July 01, 2021, 03:59:04 AM

Valerie

Valerie kept petting the cat and even scratched her behind her ears. The fur just felt wonderfully against her and the sounds the cat was making in response were heavenly to listen to.

"No she is my guard and one of the people vying to be my mate. Any new princesses of my kingdom would have to be carried by me, unfortunately only the most virile of species stands a chance of conceiving with my kind, so you will have to wait to see that which you desire."

Then her smile turned more mischievous. "Besides if you claimed a King instead, you would not have to worry about maintaining my purity..."

Sage

"Huh. However, Eruraviel's example suggests to me that purity is a very minor element behind the mighty allure of princesses. Is my living example truly an anomaly in this regard?" Sage's head turned so that Valerie's fingers could properly pamper her twitchy ears as well. "Has my understanding of princesses been truly so flawed...?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 03, 2021, 03:24:39 AM

Quote from: SINIB on July 01, 2021, 07:37:11 PM

Thorra

"Yes. The urgency makes it even more urgent. If the cycle remained functional, you would not be worrying so. I know well of them—as some point, Ragnarok shall come and the world shall be cleansed only to be reborn. Fate is not so easily changed. You'll have to look outside the box in order to break its chains."

Thorra paused for a moment, then continued with a greater sense of urgency. "If not now, when? When all is lost?"

Lirazel

The princess' breath caught in her throat, and her fingers moved to massage the front until the air escaped past her soft, pink lips. "You are... not wrong. There is no way out if I remain here." Her mouth thinned out into a line. "Mother will never permit it. I would be leaving without her sanction, most certainly. She may even try to stop me. But, if I do not go-"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 04, 2021, 08:19:14 PM

Quote from: Aiden on July 03, 2021, 03:24:39 AM

Lirazel

The princess' breath caught in her throat, and her fingers moved to massage the front until the air escaped past her soft, pink lips. "You are... not wrong. There is no way out if I remain here." Her mouth thinned out into a line. "Mother will never permit it. I would be leaving without her sanction, most certainly. She may even try to stop me. But, if I do not go-"

Thorra

The hammer's body reached out and took Lirazel's hand. "I'm new here too, so you won't be alone. Sneaking our way out would be child's play with my abilities—and my draconic friend would surely wish to help were she to become aware of this tumult. Perhaps um, what's his name, Yamada? Perhaps he may have an idea."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 04, 2021, 08:24:01 PM

Quote from: Aiden on July 02, 2021, 04:14:38 AM

Sage

"Huh. However, Eruraviel's example suggests to me that purity is a very minor element behind the mighty allure of princesses. Is my living example truly an anomaly in this regard?" Sage's head turned so that Valerie's fingers could properly pamper her twitchy ears as well. "Has my understanding of princesses been truly so flawed...?"

Sakura

Sakura raised her eyebrow at the cat. "Your Eruraviel... Hmm... What sort of person is she?" Sakura asked. She tapped on Valerie's back, creating a small shadow familar which walked up and around Valerie's waist and turned itself into a pillow for the dragon-turned cat. Then, sure turned and grinned at Valerie. "And I'm not vying for it. I shall soon become your queen rather than simply your mate, my King."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on July 06, 2021, 01:17:15 AM

Quote from: Aiden on July 02, 2021, 04:14:38 AM

Sage

"Huh. However, Eruraviel's example suggests to me that purity is a very minor element behind the mighty allure of princesses. Is my living example truly an anomaly in this regard?" Sage's head turned so that Valerie's fingers could properly pamper her twitchy ears as well. "Has my understanding of princesses been truly so flawed...?"

Valerie

"No there simply are different kinds of Princesses, like meat they come in different flavors. If you always stick to the same type, you will never sample the full buffet. And if you forever maintain such virgin tasted, then one day the meat will be the one taming you." She scratched the majestic feline behind her ears as she inclined want for. However the pillow made by her minion was brushed aside.

"Sakura dear, it is good that you have ambition but you have a long way to go, seeing as you have not even realized that my royal chest is the most superior pillow." Indeed the number of people she had ever extended this honor to was very small. If they weren't about to make an entrance into Endien, then Valerie wouldn't be holding back so much.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 07, 2021, 04:03:54 AM

Quote from: SINIB on July 04, 2021, 08:19:14 PM

Thorra

The hammer's body reached out and took Lirazel's hand. "I'm new here too, so you won't be alone. Sneaking our way out would be child's play with my abilities—and my draconic friend would surely wish to help were she to become aware of this tumult. Perhaps um, what's his name, Yamada? Perhaps he may have an idea."

Lirazel

Lirazel's eyes widened at the mention of that name. "You mean the Great Chief of the East, who fought beside the Firstborn of old?!" She closed her mouth tight, her lips pressed together, and then squeezed at Thorra's hand. "You speak truly, yes. It would be a grand opportunity indeed. However... I cannot do my mother the disservice of leaving without being forward regarding my intentions."

She stood then from her chair, long blonde hair spilling down her back like a curtain, and tightened her expression into one of determination. "Tomorrow I will introduce you to her, and make plain my desire."

The princess' free hand clenched into a fist.

"I will not allow my mother to die this way."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 07, 2021, 04:48:39 AM

Quote from: SINIB on July 04, 2021, 08:24:01 PM

Sakura

Sakura raised her eyebrow at the cat. "Your Eruraviel... Hmm... What sort of person is she?" Sakura asked. She tapped on Valerie's back, creating a small shadow familar which walked up and around Valerie's waist and turned itself into a pillow for the dragon-turned cat. Then, sure turned and grinned at Valerie. "And I'm not vying for it. I shall soon become your queen rather than simply your mate, my King."

Sage

"She is my beautiful elven princess, of course, even if she has a horrible witch around her I need to get around to eating someday!" The arboreal feline's ears flattened at the profane recollection of that most perfidious creature Eruraviel kept the company of. "A wizard of great potential-!"

Someone, a red haired woman with short pointed ears left visible by her ponytail, wearing a dress of fine quality silk yet simple and uncomplicated design, made to approach the trio with a smile on her face. "Ah, you surely do not mean the great Princess Lirazel by your discussion, do you outlanders?" She looked them both over once, and then covered her mouth. "Oh my, such daring outfits too! But where are my manners?"

The woman bowed, even as Sage peered at her with renewed interest from atop her perch, and then looked up at them with an even brighter smile. "My name is Aerin, of House Aurë. Were you, perchance, looking for a certain establishment for guests of our land?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 07, 2021, 05:11:47 AM

Quote from: Aiden on July 07, 2021, 04:03:54 AM

Lirazel

Lirazel's eyes widened at the mention of that name. "You mean the Great Chief of the East, who fought beside the Firstborn of old?!" She closed her mouth tight, her lips pressed together, and then squeezed at Thorra's hand. "You speak truly, yes. It would be a grand opportunity indeed. However... I cannot do my mother the disservice of leaving without being forward regarding my intentions."

She stood then from her chair, long blonde hair spilling down her back like a curtain, and tightened her expression into one of determination. "Tomorrow I will introduce you to her, and make plain my desire."

The princess' free hand clenched into a fist.

"I will not allow my mother to die this way."

Thorra

Thorra blinked with a look of mild confusion. "Hm? Ah, yes, him! I read online that he was really really old, so I thought he might be helpful! I guess you know him by another story, huh?" The hammer grinned sheepishly at Lirazel. She rubbed her hand against the back of her head and squeezed it back.

"Of course. And as the daughter of the trickster god, I'll make sure your escape is clean if she doesn't agree with you." Thorra squeezed the elven princess's fingers. "And I would love to know what you do around here. I'm severely lacking in local knowledge right now—it's almost as bad as my first time into the human world."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 07, 2021, 09:14:43 PM

Quote from: Aiden on July 07, 2021, 04:48:39 AM

Sage

"She is my beautiful elven princess, of course, even if she has a horrible witch around her I need to get around to eating someday!" The arboreal feline's ears flattened at the profane recollection of that most perfidious creature Eruraviel kept the company of. "A wizard of great potential-!"

Someone, a red haired woman with short pointed ears left visible by her ponytail, wearing a dress of fine quality silk yet simple and uncomplicated design, made to approach the trio with a smile on her face. "Ah, you surely do not mean the great Princess Lirazel by your discussion, do you outlanders?" She looked them both over once, and then covered her mouth. "Oh my, such daring outfits too! But where are my manners?"

The woman bowed, even as Sage peered at her with renewed interest from atop her perch, and then looked up at them with an even brighter smile. "My name is Aerin, of House Aurë. Were you, perchance, looking for a certain establishment for guests of our land?"

Sakura

The poor shadow man flew helplessly through the air before slowly dispersing in the sunlight, helpless against Valerie's capricious transgressions. Sakura just rolled her eyes at her king. Did she really think a cat would prefer her breasts to a ball that could be played with and bullied to its heart's content? "All I have to do is claim your deepest parts as my own. With a little more practice, I'll have the tools available to me to do so. Are any of your other consorts close to such a feat?"

Still, she continued holding Valerie even as the beautiful buxom half-elf greeted them. Her eyes lingered upon the elf's slender hips and her bosom, before finally coming to rest upon her red hair and pretty face. Sakura politely bowed at her and then winked as she stood up. Despite its issues and Valerie's uncomfortable analysis, this place was still filled with many beautiful women and was thus a treat she fully intended to enjoy. "My name is Sakura, of the noble house Edelfeldt. It is an honor to be making your acquaintance, Aerin. We are indeed searching for such an establishment as the one you are describing. Thank you for your help."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on July 08, 2021, 11:08:57 PM

Valerie

"Six out of ten, you can do better than that my loyal retainer. And you can start by answering a greeting
from foreign representatives by introducing us first and then yourself." She wasn't even gonna acknowledge the other statement Sakura had made in public. The dismissal of the royal bossom was a grave offense and one that irked her greatly. Her servant shouldn't ogle a mediocre Elf when she was her. She'd understand if it was real treat before then, but it wasn't.

"I hope that certain establishment comes with a selection of virgin Elves to corrupt to the ways of the scythe bearers." Subverting the whole Elven courting process and bagging them on the first date was definitely a pleasurable thrill. Her old conquests were probably unsatisfied since she left, considering no one around here had her raw passion.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 09, 2021, 01:25:47 AM

Quote from: SINIB on July 07, 2021, 05:11:47 AM

Thorra

Thorra blinked with a look of mild confusion. "Hm? Ah, yes, him! I read online that he was really really old, so I thought he might be helpful! I guess you know him by another story, huh?" The hammer grinned sheepishly at Lirazel. She rubbed her hand against the back of her head and squeezed it back.

"Of course. And as the daughter of the trickster god, I'll make sure your escape is clean if she doesn't agree with you." Thorra squeezed the elven princess's fingers. "And I would love to know what you do around here. I'm severely lacking in local knowledge right now—it's almost as bad as my first time into the human world."

Lirazel

"Online...?" She shook her head, disregarding the word after a moment and instead focusing on Thorra's question with a twitch of the ears. "I would be more than happy to answer any of your questions. You are doing far more for me, and for my people, than I could ever possibly ask anyone after all."

And then she smiled. "And I will be needing your aid in navigating that same human world myself, when we leave."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 09, 2021, 03:00:53 AM

Quote from: Aiden on July 09, 2021, 01:25:47 AM

Lirazel

"Online...?" She shook her head, disregarding the word after a moment and instead focusing on Thorra's question with a twitch of the ears. "I would be more than happy to answer any of your questions. You are doing far more for me, and for my people, than I could ever possibly ask anyone after all."

And then she smiled. "And I will be needing your aid in navigating that same human world myself, when we leave."

Thorra

"Oh. Right. You're going to be in for a shock as to how the outside world works, aren't you?" Thorra rubbed her forehead and smiled. "You don't need to thank me so much, though. This is just how I am, I can't help but meddle where I don't neseccarily belong."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 09, 2021, 03:50:52 AM

Quote from: SINIB on July 09, 2021, 03:00:53 AM

Thorra

"Oh. Right. You're going to be in for a shock as to how the outside world works, aren't you?" Thorra rubbed her forehead and smiled. "You don't need to thank me so much, though. This is just how I am, I can't help but meddle where I don't necessarily belong."

Lirazel

"Well, I cannot imagine it would be too strange. My mother tells me the humans were doing quite well in advancing their metalworking and agriculture when last we heard from them!" She looked so confident and pure in her smiling enthusiasm now. "I imagine with less magic many things will be far less convenient, but some hardship is not something to shy from."

She tactfully did not respond to Thorra's refusal of her gratitude.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 09, 2021, 03:34:48 PM

Thorra

"Ehehe..." Thorra's musical laugh sounded discordant and uncomfortable. "Lira... you have it backwards. The human-dominated societies out there... they're far surpassing this one in terms of technological development. As wonderful as your kingdom is, it feels like home. It's stuck in the past, while the rest of reality moves on."

Thorra smiled sadly. "Whatever I say can't prepare ypu for what you'll see, but please be ready for a surprise."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 12, 2021, 02:22:29 PM

Quote from: Bern on July 08, 2021, 11:08:57 PM

Valerie

"Six out of ten, you can do better than that my loyal retainer. And you can start by answering a greeting
from foreign representatives by introducing us first and then yourself." She wasn't even gonna acknowledge the other statement Sakura had made in public. The dismissal of the royal bossom was a grave offense and one that irked her greatly. Her servant shouldn't ogle a mediocre Elf when she was her. She'd understand if it was real treat before then, but it wasn't.

"I hope that certain establishment comes with a selection of virgin Elves to corrupt to the ways of the scythe bearers." Subverting the whole Elven courting process and bagging them on the first date was definitely a pleasurable thrill. Her old conquests were probably unsatisfied since she left, considering no one around here had her raw passion.

Castle Town Visitor's Quarter

The woman who'd approached them flushed in some quite visible degree of shyness now. "A-Ah, well, you are hardly someone who requires an introduction here, your majesty." She wrung her hands together and smiled all the same. "There are many among our Highborne elders who remember your ways." She took a better look now at having Valerie's identity confirmed, at her current outfit and form. Her face got even redder. "In fact, my mother ah, spoke quite highly of you."

She bowed again, and turned as though to lead them. "Would you care to see your legacy, your majesty?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on July 12, 2021, 03:37:26 PM

Quote from: Aiden on July 12, 2021, 02:22:29 PM

Castle Town Visitor's Quarter

The woman who'd approached them flushed in some quite visible degree of shyness now. "A-Ah, well, you are hardly someone who requires an introduction here, your majesty." She wrung her hands together and smiled all the same. "There are many among our Highborne elders who remember your ways." She took a better look now at having Valerie's identity confirmed, at her current outfit and form. Her face got even redder. "In fact, my mother ah, spoke quite highly of you."

She bowed again, and turned as though to lead them. "Would you care to see your legacy, your majesty?"

Valerie

"I would certainly hope so, I invested a lot of effort into those girls, so I do hope they actually accomplished something or I will have to pound some discipline into them again." Was it her fault she ended up fucking every single student she had? No definitely not. They totally started it and she just indulged their fantasies. And it definitely wasn't her fault that some of them threw away betrothals over devotion to her.

"One day you too can have your own Elf harem and cuck the Highborne families Sakura, just follow her and the truth will unveil itself." Beung carried around was so nice, she should do this more often.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 12, 2021, 04:39:13 PM

Sakura

Sakura grinned at Valerie. "I see no reason why we need to limit ourselves to the highborn, your majesty." She winked at the cute redheaded lowborn. "And I see no reason why I shouldn't start the process of gathering my elven wives today."

She followed the elf along, carrying Valerie at the perfect height to watch the woman's hips sway.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 12, 2021, 06:58:23 PM

Quote from: SINIB on July 09, 2021, 03:34:48 PM

Thorra

"Ehehe..." Thorra's musical laugh sounded discordant and uncomfortable. "Lira... you have it backwards. The human-dominated societies out there... they're far surpassing this one in terms of technological development. As wonderful as your kingdom is, it feels like home. It's stuck in the past, while the rest of reality moves on."

Thorra smiled sadly. "Whatever I say can't prepare you for what you'll see, but please be ready for a surprise."

Lirazel

The princess' eyes widened in no small measure of disbelief. "That is - unlikely to be the case. But so too do I not feel you would knowingly deceive me in this." She relaxed quickly, and stood from her seat while gently pulling Thorra's body up with her. "I will simply have to show you the wonders that my fair kingdom has to offer."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 16, 2021, 04:46:31 AM

Quote from: Bern on July 12, 2021, 03:37:26 PM

Valerie

"I would certainly hope so, I invested a lot of effort into those girls, so I do hope they actually accomplished something or I will have to pound some discipline into them again." Was it her fault she ended up fucking every single student she had? No definitely not. They totally started it and she just indulged their fantasies. And it definitely wasn't her fault that some of them threw away betrothals over devotion to her.

"One day you too can have your own Elf harem and cuck the Highborne families Sakura, just follow her and the truth will unveil itself." Being carried around was so nice, she should do this more often.

Castle Town Visitor's Quarter

The trio could not see the commoner woman's face as she led them into the fine looking establishment, so presentable and tastefully decorated on the outside, with the sign of a dancer dangling from its door. They could not see it as the music, oh so familiar to Valerie's aged ears now as if from a distant memory, wrapped its way around them. And they most certainly could not see it as she opened the door for them, and the music grew louder, and the soft welcoming lights of the Highborne weavers greeted their eyes.

There really were no other establishments in the world of the East that could compare. It was tall, and open, and yet there were platforms and walkways lining the walls upon which the dexterous and nimble hopped and spanned, dressed in silken garments that clung tight to their bodies and left their legs free to move about. Some sang, and propelled themselves as they did from point to point by way of spears to vault their toned and athletic forms about. Others played instruments along the ground level, dancing and weaving among one another while the ever so familiar song caught upon the magnificent acoustics of the open space.

And at the center, revealed by the stepping aside of their guide, Aerin, was an ageless and gorgeous elven woman with hair so fiercely brazen in hue that one should well warm themselves by it were it not done up in a long tail behind her. Her limbs, corded in elegant musculature, were left exposed almost completely by her outfit which otherwise took care to mostly conceal her torso and hang down her front and bottom. In one hand she held the haft of an enormous scythe as its head rested precariously upon the floor, supporting her weight in her toes in a casual yet sublime show of balance. It did not so much as wobble as she grinned, green eyes gleaming in anticipation while the dancing crowd spread around her.

This was Idril of Aurë, who despite her youthful and much cheered expression was a being old enough to call the oldest of their group, "Teacher!" She extended her hand in invitation to Valerie and her company. "I see your prodigious irreverence has only grown in your distant kingdom!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 16, 2021, 04:01:24 PM

Quote from: Aiden on July 12, 2021, 06:58:23 PM

Lirazel

The princess' eyes widened in no small measure of disbelief. "That is - unlikely to be the case. But so too do I not feel you would knowingly deceive me in this." She relaxed quickly, and stood from her seat while gently pulling Thorra's body up with her. "I will simply have to show you the wonders that my fair kingdom has to offer."

Thorra

"I would be honored to be proven wrong." Thorra's chest jiggled as she was pulled up in just the right way to send a pang of lust down Lirazel's spine. She towered over the elven woman and gently interlocked hands—hers was far larger though, almost half again the size of Lirazel's. "I think you'll find yourself telling me that I was right once we arrive in the realm of mortals, though."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on July 18, 2021, 07:52:28 PM

Quote from: SINIB on July 12, 2021, 04:39:13 PM

Sakura

Sakura grinned at Valerie. "I see no reason why we need to limit ourselves to the highborn, your majesty." She winked at the cute redheaded lowborn. "And I see no reason why I shouldn't start the process of gathering my elven wives today."

She followed the elf along, carrying Valerie at the perfect height to watch the woman's hips sway.

Valerie

"The highborn are the ones who actually look like Elves which was the whole reason for going here, and the taste so much better, you will understand once you have your first Sakura."

Then Valerie's attention turned to her old student, she'd handled things nicely here it looked like. If only she could dress better though, those breasts of her deserved more exposure. And they would get what they deserved, once Idril was one of her children

Valerie skipped out of the carry Sakura had on her but also made sure to gently put the shapeshifting Cat down so that she didn't offend it. Then she skipped right up to Idril as if she was about to hug her, only to kick at the head of the scythe launching both it and her student into the air.

Then she moved with an absurd grace that could make an ordinary Elf jealous and caught her student with one arm, and the falling scythe with the other.

"You have passed the test my cute Idril, this time I have returned to truly make you one of my own."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 18, 2021, 10:16:58 PM

Quote from: SINIB on July 16, 2021, 04:01:24 PM

Thorra

"I would be honored to be proven wrong." Thorra's chest jiggled as she was pulled up in just the right way to send a pang of lust down Lirazel's spine. She towered over the elven woman and gently interlocked hands—hers was far larger though, almost half again the size of Lirazel's. "I think you'll find yourself telling me that I was right once we arrive in the realm of mortals, though."

Lirazel

The princess grinned up at Thorra's body, and held their joined hands up between them. "I suppose I might, if I am fortunate. But tell me - what would you like to see first here? There is little in our lands that I cannot reach for you."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 18, 2021, 11:36:18 PM

Thorra

Thorra pulled in closer and hummed. "I want to see what you have to show me—I know scarely enough to make a reasoned judgement at what sorts of sights are best to see. Shouldn't one leave the guiding up to the locals?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 20, 2021, 03:55:23 PM

Sakura

"Hmmm, half-elven? That's the race I always played in my games..." Sakura muttered before Valerie hopped out of her arms with a sublime grace that left Sakura awestruck. She wasn't jealous of this elf—no, she was curious about their relationship, what they'd done over a millenia ago together, and felt rather inadequate. After all, she knew so little of Valerie's life—she could not have.

Suddenly, the immense age of the elves felt rather intimidating. She slinked over to her redheaded guide and gently ran a hand down the woman's back.

"Thank you for the guide—despite my King's words, I think you're quite a pretty morsel." Sakura grinned, baring her long and pronounced fangs for the woman to see before turning to watch Valerie's courtship ritual from afar.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 22, 2021, 03:40:43 AM

Quote from: SINIB on July 18, 2021, 11:36:18 PM

Thorra

Thorra pulled in closer and hummed. "I want to see what you have to show me—I know scarely enough to make a reasoned judgement at what sorts of sights are best to see. Shouldn't one leave the guiding up to the locals?"

Lirazel

If the princess was uncomfortable with Thorra's proximity by this point then she didn't give anything away to suggest as much. Instead, she allowed herself a softly musical hum as well. "Do you eat, or drink? It does appear I have been rather remiss in basic hospitality." An almost impish smile graced Lirazel's lips. "Mother would be most distraught with me were she to learn this."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 22, 2021, 03:24:43 PM

Thorra

Thorra's vast body glistened with electrical charge. Her chest gave a sensual show of trembling with each fake breath that Thorra took. She patted Lirazel on the shoulder with a hearty chuckle. "Hehe, I can, but I have no needs in that manner. My body is a cheap fascimile of the human form constructed from the thunder and clouds. I only eat or drink for pleasure."

She then ran an immense hand down Lira's arm, grasping their hands together and squeezing it. "What I would love is to be given a tour—and then be granted to share a drink with the pricess of Endien herself." Thorra flashed a charming toothy grin. "If that would be amenable to her."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 23, 2021, 04:20:28 AM

Quote from: Bern on July 18, 2021, 07:52:28 PM

Valerie

"The highborn are the ones who actually look like Elves which was the whole reason for going here, and the taste so much better, you will understand once you have your first Sakura."

Then Valerie's attention turned to her old student, she'd handled things nicely here it looked like. If only she could dress better though, those breasts of her deserved more exposure. And they would get what they deserved, once Idril was one of her children

Valerie skipped out of the carry Sakura had on her but also made sure to gently put the shapeshifting Cat down so that she didn't offend it. Then she skipped right up to Idril as if she was about to hug her, only to kick at the head of the scythe launching both it and her student into the air.

Then she moved with an absurd grace that could make an ordinary Elf jealous and caught her student with one arm, and the falling scythe with the other.

"You have passed the test my cute Idril, this time I have returned to truly make you one of my own."

Castle Town Visitor's Quarter

It spoke to the athletic potential of the Highborne, and of just how well Idril had kept up with Valerie's training for all these long centuries, that she managed to position herself in just such a way that she landed face up in the vampire king's arm instead of ending up as a sack of potatoes. With a daring smile, and a flippant tilt of her head, the ageless woman made a mockery of swooning. "Ah, such a promise you make to me, great teacher!"

Aerin seemed only somewhat impressed by what had taken place, and so was quick to find herself with arms full of fluffy white cat and a purple-haired youngster courting her shamelessly. The commoner still had the decency to blush. "Ahh, you do have my thanks. It can be hard not to... feel overshadowed by those so much more experienced than you." Her eyes were understanding as they met Sakura's.

As this took place, Idril's smile became far more sly. "But oh, if you wish to have me then I have quite the price this time!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 24, 2021, 05:02:58 PM

Quote from: SINIB on July 22, 2021, 03:24:43 PM

Thorra

Thorra's vast body glistened with electrical charge. Her chest gave a sensual show of trembling with each fake breath that Thorra took. She patted Lirazel on the shoulder with a hearty chuckle. "Hehe, I can, but I have no needs in that manner. My body is a cheap fascimile of the human form constructed from the thunder and clouds. I only eat or drink for pleasure."

She then ran an immense hand down Lira's arm, grasping their hands together and squeezing it. "What I would love is to be given a tour—and then be granted to share a drink with the pricess of Endien herself." Thorra flashed a charming toothy grin. "If that would be amenable to her."

Lirazel

"I would not call this," she emphasized her words with a squeezing hand of her own, "a cheap anything, Thorra. And I will gladly show you what lay within my piece of this kingdom." Lirazel began to lead her guest up the stairs of her home, that which hummed with the echoes of her melodies, and then further, up the spiraling staircase which seemed to have grown as a single piece from floor to the levels beyond.

The stairs continued up, and Thorra caught but a glimpse of the corridors and chambers beyond, but Lirazel gently pulled her up yet another, to what could only be the top. It was, the stairs aside, a more seamless and open space in comparison to the first two floors. It was gently rounded, with an airy dome filled with natural lighting from the sun. Upon its walls were adorned a multitude of works molded from metals and clays. Each appeared whole, and whispered a soft acknowledgement of their creator's presence. Some were simple pottery, while others were fine knives or bows or any manner of weapon. Barrel upon barrel of arrows found their place in a corner, while fresh materials sat in piles awaiting use. Mirrors, arranged and moved by mechanisms foreign to her senses, responded automatically to the shifting of shadows cast by their presence.

At the center of the chamber was a some manner of... forge?

But like none Thorra had ever seen before. Absent was an anvil for hammering, or a furnace for heat, or a vent for smoke. No, instead there were an assortment of instruments of the musical kind, and artfully crafted molds, and delicate precision tools. A barrel for water was there, yet it appeared all too fresh and rested next to a ladle for drinking. The princess looked quite pleased, if pink in the cheeks, to be showing her this space. "It is but a pale ember of the Bright Forge of Húro, itself a shade of its elder cousin, but it is mine. I do not... often bring others here."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 25, 2021, 02:53:27 PM

Quote from: Aiden on July 24, 2021, 05:02:58 PM

Lirazel

"I would not call this," she emphasized her words with a squeezing hand of her own, "a cheap anything, Thorra. And I will gladly show you what lay within my piece of this kingdom." Lirazel began to lead her guest up the stairs of her home, that which hummed with the echoes of her melodies, and then further, up the spiraling staircase which seemed to have grown as a single piece from floor to the levels beyond.

The stairs continued up, and Thorra caught but a glimpse of the corridors and chambers beyond, but Lirazel gently pulled her up yet another, to what could only be the top. It was, the stairs aside, a more seamless and open space in comparison to the first two floors. It was gently rounded, with an airy dome filled with natural lighting from the sun. Upon its walls were adorned a multitude of works molded from metals and clays. Each appeared whole, and whispered a soft acknowledgement of their creator's presence. Some were simple pottery, while others were fine knives or bows or any manner of weapon. Barrel upon barrel of arrows found their place in a corner, while fresh materials sat in piles awaiting use. Mirrors, arranged and moved by mechanisms foreign to her senses, responded automatically to the shifting of shadows cast by their presence.

At the center of the chamber was a some manner of... forge?

But like none Thorra had ever seen before. Absent was an anvil for hammering, or a furnace for heat, or a vent for smoke. No, instead there were an assortment of instruments of the musical kind, and artfully crafted molds, and delicate precision tools. A barrel for water was there, yet it appeared all too fresh and rested next to a ladle for drinking. The princess looked quite pleased, if pink in the cheeks, to be showing her this space. "It is but a pale ember of the Bright Forge of Húro, itself a shade of its elder cousin, but it is mine. I do not... often bring others here."

Thorra

Thorra grinned back at Lirazel, interlocking the elf's elbow with her own as she was led up the stairs. She looked around with awestruck wonder at Lirazel's worksmanship, holding her mouth shut as to avoid looking like a country bumpkin to her.

When they arrived at the forge, she had only one thing to say.

"It's divine. Thank you for showing me this." She stepped forward and ran a finger along the outside, walking gently in a circle around it, doing her best to ignore the rising heat in her core. "So it's hear you breathe the breath of creation into these objects. Maybe one day you could honor me with your work."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 25, 2021, 03:35:54 PM

Quote from: SINIB on July 25, 2021, 02:53:27 PM

Thorra

Thorra grinned back at Lirazel, interlocking the elf's elbow with her own as she was led up the stairs. She looked around with awestruck wonder at Lirazel's worksmanship, holding her mouth shut as to avoid looking like a country bumpkin to her.

When they arrived at the forge, she had only one thing to say.

"It's divine. Thank you for showing me this." She stepped forward and ran a finger along the outside, walking gently in a circle around it, doing her best to ignore the rising heat in her core. "So it's hear you breathe the breath of creation into these objects. Maybe one day you could honor me with your work."

Lirazel

Lirazel was watching her response with both trepidation and excitement visible, her eyes shining in the late morning light that filtered through her domed roof like stained glass. She folded her hands in front of herself, smiling, almost bashful at having someone else so openly admire this. "I would be the one honored to be allowed to have you on my forge, though I can scarcely imagine what more I could do to better a piece such as you."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 25, 2021, 03:43:34 PM

Thorra

"Perhaps then, we could honor each other." Thorra replied with a wolfish grin. Electricity radiated down her fair skin with uncontrollable excitement. She walked back around the forge slowly and stood next to Lira, wrapping an arm around her waist and resting a giant palm against her thigh. "The road to perfection is endless. Even if you just wished to clean or decorate me, it would be a wonderful assistance towards that goal." She offered Lirazel herself haft first. "You're more than worthy of having a go at me."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 25, 2021, 03:48:26 PM

Lirazel

The elven princess bit her lip as she felt something welling up inside of her, breathing heavier until she swallowed it back down and took a deep, cleansing breath. "Then, if you are so willing I believe I will... 'have a go', as you call it." Lirazel wrapped her fingers around Thorra's haft with the utmost care of an expert craftsman, rather than the firm grip of one who intended to swing her about. Then, seating herself before the forge, she began to inspect her. Not just with her eyes, but by drawing her fingers delicately across her metallic head to feel for the slightest imperfections. "It must have been so long since you've been tended to."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on July 25, 2021, 10:06:02 PM

Quote from: Aiden on July 23, 2021, 04:20:28 AM

Castle Town Visitor's Quarter

It spoke to the athletic potential of the Highborne, and of just how well Idril had kept up with Valerie's training for all these long centuries, that she managed to position herself in just such a way that she landed face up in the vampire king's arm instead of ending up as a sack of potatoes. With a daring smile, and a flippant tilt of her head, the ageless woman made a mockery of swooning. "Ah, such a promise you make to me, great teacher!"

Aerin seemed only somewhat impressed by what had taken place, and so was quick to find herself with arms full of fluffy white cat and a purple-haired youngster courting her shamelessly. The commoner still had the decency to blush. "Ahh, you do have my thanks. It can be hard not to... feel overshadowed by those so much more experienced than you." Her eyes were understanding as they met Sakura's.

As this took place, Idril's smile became far more sly. "But oh, if you wish to have me then I have quite the price this time!"

Valerie

Valerie didn't even let the Highborne Elf finish speaking before kissing her with a millenia of bottled up passion, like a raging sea it was all unleashed at once, the Vampire King ruthlessly took advantage of her nonexistent need to breath to prolong the kiss until Idril would be rendered breathless. Then and only then did she pull back.

"My young and oh so cute apprentice, did you think my past exploits was the true extent of my power? You still have much to learn Idril and no silly price will stop me, for you are already mine."  Her piercing crimson eyes saw naught but Elf now, nothing else mattered in this moment than her claiming what was hers.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 28, 2021, 05:33:54 AM

Quote from: Aiden on July 25, 2021, 03:48:26 PM

Lirazel

The elven princess bit her lip as she felt something welling up inside of her, breathing heavier until she swallowed it back down and took a deep, cleansing breath. "Then, if you are so willing I believe I will... 'have a go', as you call it." Lirazel wrapped her fingers around Thorra's haft with the utmost care of an expert craftsman, rather than the firm grip of one who intended to swing her about. Then, seating herself before the forge, she began to inspect her. Not just with her eyes, but by drawing her fingers delicately across her metallic head to feel for the slightest imperfections. "It must have been so long since you've been tended to."

Thorra

"Hmmm~" The hammer replied. She placed her hand on Lirazel's shoulder. "Far too long since I had a professional's touch."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on July 29, 2021, 12:50:15 AM

Quote from: Aiden on July 23, 2021, 04:20:28 AM

Castle Town Visitor's Quarter

It spoke to the athletic potential of the Highborne, and of just how well Idril had kept up with Valerie's training for all these long centuries, that she managed to position herself in just such a way that she landed face up in the vampire king's arm instead of ending up as a sack of potatoes. With a daring smile, and a flippant tilt of her head, the ageless woman made a mockery of swooning. "Ah, such a promise you make to me, great teacher!"

Aerin seemed only somewhat impressed by what had taken place, and so was quick to find herself with arms full of fluffy white cat and a purple-haired youngster courting her shamelessly. The commoner still had the decency to blush. "Ahh, you do have my thanks. It can be hard not to... feel overshadowed by those so much more experienced than you." Her eyes were understanding as they met Sakura's.

As this took place, Idril's smile became far more sly. "But oh, if you wish to have me then I have quite the price this time!"

Sakura

Sakura gently wrapped her arm around Aerin's waist and pulled her close enough that their thighs were touching. "Experience isn't the be all end all—talent and determination play equal measures of importance." Sakura replied to her. She leaned in and planted a kiss on the woman's tapered ear.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on July 31, 2021, 06:06:27 PM

Quote from: SINIB on July 28, 2021, 05:33:54 AM

Thorra

"Hmmm~" The hammer replied. She placed her hand on Lirazel's shoulder. "Far too long since I had a professional's touch."

Lirazel

"I would hardly call myself a professional," the princess demurred between short, chest-heaving breathing exercises. Then she made a very distinctive throat-clearing sound. "I'm far too easy to convince to do this for free, apparently." She pulled out from a small crevice in her workspace a vial of some manner of transparent oil, poured a few drips onto the fingers of her left hand, and began to gently but firmly rub it into the spaces she'd felt for earlier.

Then Lirazel began to sing, softly and slowly, in a dialect of her people's tongue even Thorra could scarcely recognize. The divine hammer began to feel more divine with every note she hit, the stresses of battle and the looming shadow of her demise sliding off of her with the cleansing sound of her voice just as the princess' fingernails scraped the filth from her form.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 01, 2021, 03:22:20 AM

Quote from: Bern on July 25, 2021, 10:06:02 PM

Valerie

Valerie didn't even let the Highborne Elf finish speaking before kissing her with a millenia of bottled up passion, like a raging sea it was all unleashed at once, the Vampire King ruthlessly took advantage of her nonexistent need to breath to prolong the kiss until Idril would be rendered breathless. Then and only then did she pull back.

"My young and oh so cute apprentice, did you think my past exploits was the true extent of my power? You still have much to learn Idril and no silly price will stop me, for you are already mine."  Her piercing crimson eyes saw naught but Elf now, nothing else mattered in this moment than her claiming what was hers.

Idril

It was a matter of pride that saw the venerable elven warrior persist until she was purple in her fair face beneath Valerie's persistent affections. Those who'd danced and cavorted about them, keeping them as a central display, whistled and laughed and otherwise showed their bountiful cheer far more freely than one might otherwise believe. It took several moments of gasping breaths and iron-fingered clutching for Idril to return to herself in the face of that fixating gaze.

She tapped the vampire king about the shoulders and coughed once, twice. "T-That may be so, but I will not join you in the Night until you aid my people in throwing it back beyond the burning mountains. Teacher."

Aerin

A squeak escaped the redheaded commoner as Sakura nipped at the sensitive cartilage. "I-It cheers me to know you feel this way, milady." And then with a bravery born of the atmosphere she leaned in and took a bite of her own at the purple-haired vampire's own, releasing some of the nervous tension thrumming through her body and curling her toes.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on August 02, 2021, 04:11:06 PM

Valerie

"That's was my primary reason for coming here, watching you repeat this cycle was becoming tiresome. And the time has come for a more permanent solution."

She suddenly dropped Idril trusting that the warriors wouldn't fall to the floor and then the Vampire King turned to the crowd while raising her voice dramatically. "I have come to grant the dark wanker eternal rest!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on August 03, 2021, 06:29:26 PM

Sakura

Sakura was the only one who didn't show a reaction to Valerie's proclimation—after all, she'd already been told all about it. Instead, she leaned in and nibbled against Aerin's ear again with a giggle. "My master does have a flair for the dramatic, doesn't she?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on August 05, 2021, 02:26:57 AM

Quote from: Aiden on July 31, 2021, 06:06:27 PM

Lirazel

"I would hardly call myself a professional," the princess demurred between short, chest-heaving breathing exercises. Then she made a very distinctive throat-clearing sound. "I'm far too easy to convince to do this for free, apparently." She pulled out from a small crevice in her workspace a vial of some manner of transparent oil, poured a few drips onto the fingers of her left hand, and began to gently but firmly rub it into the spaces she'd felt for earlier.

Then Lirazel began to sing, softly and slowly, in a dialect of her people's tongue even Thorra could scarcely recognize. The divine hammer began to feel more divine with every note she hit, the stresses of battle and the looming shadow of her demise sliding off of her with the cleansing sound of her voice just as the princess' fingernails scraped the filth from her form.

Thorra

Thorra felt the grit of travel falling off of her; the weariness of the journey evaporating. She felt comforted by the song. "Ahh~ Never felt---anything like this before. I like the gentle healing of your song almost as much as the warmth of the forge and the beating of the hammer..."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 06, 2021, 12:31:37 AM

Idril

The vampire's student was on her feet as though she'd been gently let down rather than abruptly released, and looked not at all bothered by it. Idril was instead grinning at the enthusiastic cheer that went up through the inn. "That's just the sort of bold claim I'd expect from you!" The older of the two redheads accompanying them took hold of her scythe again, and gave it a casual spin. "Very well. Defeat the Dark Lord, and I'll join you in eternal darkness as your bride. A fair trade for all."

Aerin

The younger of the redheads gave Sakura a playful push at that. "Y-Yes, I see where mother got it from now."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 06, 2021, 04:23:36 AM

Quote from: SINIB on August 05, 2021, 02:26:57 AM

Thorra

Thorra felt the grit of travel falling off of her; the weariness of the journey evaporating. She felt comforted by the song. "Ahh~ Never felt---anything like this before. I like the gentle healing of your song almost as much as the warmth of the forge and the beating of the hammer..."

Lirazel

Lirazel pressed one of her fingers to her lips, and made a silent 'shhh' motion. Yet if provoked by the word 'almost,' the princess then insisted on increasing the tempo of her song, focusing the warmth of the sunlight pouring down through the ceiling upon her flameless workspace, and allowed Thorra to experience some of that warmth she'd desired. Deeper tarnishes she'd scarcely given thought to from her short years of battle, the stains of Titan's blood and more, flaked off with the passing of the highborne songstress' nails. Her voice was unwavering, and her golden hair gleamed in the softly burning light. If the heat bothered her or blistered her fingers, Lirazel did nothing to give that away.

Little save the faintest hint of sweat on her brow which threatened to drip on the hammer's head.

Seconds passed into minutes, into a dozen minutes, into losing track of time while Lirazel sought her guest's grand renewal. Turning over, left and right, up and down, handling her with the utmost tender care. Her voice relented only once, with a mysterious smile, while she worked magic with a nearby harp instead. Even the wrappings of Thorra's handle began to recover from the fraying of constant use. The princess' face was red, her breathing heavy, while each note of her instrument echoed with a intimate acoustic resonance.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on August 08, 2021, 05:55:09 PM

Valerie

"Ohoho... my bride you say?" She slunk in behind Idril caught her in a dominating hold. "You are being quite hasty my sweet little apprentice. Before you are worthy of such an honor you must pass the test of withstanding my full passion. For you see, last time I claimed you I was holding backand you still mewled like the most adorable kitten...."

Valerie leaned in closer to nibble on Idril's pointy ear, teasing the girl with the knowledge that she could sink her fangs in and overwhelm her with pleasure at any moment. "Last time you were girl, but now you are a woman, and I'll fuck you the way you deserve..."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on August 08, 2021, 11:47:45 PM

Thorra

She was quite good, a supremely talented smith. Her method was unique and her technique was flawless. Thorra let out a soft moan as the song seeped into her metallic form.

But, she knew that Lirazel still had a ways to go—she was not as skilled as the dwarvish smith who had forged her. The technique was only approaching perfection, it failed to exceed it and go beyond.

The princess felt a pair of breasts press against her head. Thorra's long arms draped around her shoulder. She reached down and grabbed ahold of her own shaft, running a finger down the length of it with a gentle hum.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on August 11, 2021, 04:07:39 PM

Quote from: Aiden on August 06, 2021, 12:31:37 AM

Idril

The vampire's student was on her feet as though she'd been gently let down rather than abruptly released, and looked not at all bothered by it. Idril was instead grinning at the enthusiastic cheer that went up through the inn. "That's just the sort of bold claim I'd expect from you!" The older of the two redheads accompanying them took hold of her scythe again, and gave it a casual spin. "Very well. Defeat the Dark Lord, and I'll join you in eternal darkness as your bride. A fair trade for all."

Aerin

The younger of the redheads gave Sakura a playful push at that. "Y-Yes, I see where mother got it from now."

Sakura

Sakura slipped an arm around Aerin's side and groped the half-elve's prominent chest, getting a good feel for the other woman's body. She turned to look at her with a grin, until something Idril said upset her.

She turned and walked into the center of the room, pulling her chosen consort along with her. She looked the ancient elf straight in the eye with a challenging glare. "I am the one who is our king's wife—not you. Don't mistake yourself~"

There was a spike in Sakura's magical output as she coursed mana through her body, as if itching for a fight. She wanted to prove to Val that this old woman was no match for her prized protégé."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 13, 2021, 06:00:23 AM

Idril

Admirably restraining most observable signs of being distracted by Valerie's activity, Idril instead let out her best amused laughter - which was quite advanced in character compared to most. "Ah, but you will find I have not been idle since my youthful indiscretions. I-"

And then, Sakura was interrupting and the amusement was gone from the highborne woman's demeanor. She relaxed, and made to slip through Valerie's grasp with preternatural dexterity and flexibility, so that she might tilt her head to the side and better observe her challenger. "Is that what you believe to be so, child of man?"

Aerin's eyes, wide at the sight of her mother's current expression, took a step back away from Sakura. She let out a squeak o surprise as the nearby scythe disappeared in a shroud of shadows only to reappear in Idril's hand, twirled about into a ready position.

"How interesting."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on August 13, 2021, 10:23:31 PM

Sakura

Magic coursed through Sakura's body, reinforcing her strengths into the realm of the heros. Her shadow crept up her legs in an intricate tatoo pattern, and she stared right back at Valerie's elder disciple without a shred of fear. Instead, she withdrew several priceless gems from within her shadow, holding them in between her fingers at shoulder-level.

"No, it is not what I believe to be so—that turn of phrase implies a state of fantasy, heh." Sakura chuckled at Idril, taking in her stance, watching all her limbs and most importantly her scythe. She was confident that despite this woman's obvious experience, that she remained their teacher's lesser.

"I'd hate to destroy your fine establishment, though. If you wish to challenge me, shall we take it somewhere more appropriate?"

Her red eyes gleamed.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 15, 2021, 04:21:53 PM

Quote from: SINIB on August 08, 2021, 11:47:45 PM

Thorra

She was quite good, a supremely talented smith. Her method was unique and her technique was flawless. Thorra let out a soft moan as the song seeped into her metallic form.

But, she knew that Lirazel still had a ways to go—she was not as skilled as the dwarvish smith who had forged her. The technique was only approaching perfection, it failed to exceed it and go beyond.

The princess felt a pair of breasts press against her head. Thorra's long arms draped around her shoulder. She reached down and grabbed ahold of her own shaft, running a finger down the length of it with a gentle hum.

Lirazel

It spoke of the princess' great concentration on the truth of Thorra that she did not miss a note merely because she was so intimately close in flesh rather than just spirit. But as the harp continued playing her ears twitched, and her breathing caught in her chest. "H-How do you feel? I've never had a chance to truly ask the weapons I shape this."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on August 15, 2021, 04:40:41 PM

Valerie

"Sakura..." The blonde king spoke oh so sweetly as she walked in between with a stride of absolute confidence. " Perhaps you should inform me of when I ever gave you the right to interrupt me." Her tone grew deeper and deeper the closer she came. Then she suddenly spun around and faced Idril.

"And you Idril, being my student does not give you the right to refer to one of my one as Child of Man, have you lost your wits?" This was particularly insulting cause her kin were her children and she most definitely not of Mankind.

"This hot-headedness is precisely why I left Emilia in charge when we left.  Who beats who is inconsequential for standing in my harem. There are members at home who could crush either of you depending on the match up. No if you two naughty little girls wish to impress me so, then take this fight to the bedroom and see who the dominant one is-"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 18, 2021, 01:42:33 AM

Idril

If Idril was frightened or harmed by Valerie's words, she did not show it. No, all that came was an elegant eyebrow lifting in bemusement. "What she is does not change what she was in my eyes, great teacher. If it displeases you to hear otherwise, I will refrain from it." She turned her scythe in her hands once more, and allowed it to fade into shadow out of sight, before extending the hand it was held in toward Sakura. "I am of course up to the challenge, if she is."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on August 18, 2021, 02:46:13 PM

Quote from: Aiden on August 15, 2021, 04:21:53 PM

Lirazel

It spoke of the princess' great concentration on the truth of Thorra that she did not miss a note merely because she was so intimately close in flesh rather than just spirit. But as the harp continued playing her ears twitched, and her breathing caught in her chest. "H-How do you feel? I've never had a chance to truly ask the weapons I shape this."

Thorra

Thorra's chest settled against the back of Lirazel's head. They were gentle and almost weightless, and felt like two large soft clouds were pressed gently against her, embracing Lirazel without resistance. She could feel more things about Thorra's body, too. The impossible softness was her defining feature. It was easy to simply fall against her body and enjoy the comforting feeling. But also, she could feel its stillness. There was no heart beating within her body, no circulation, only the gentle hum of a generator within, an electric crackling within her just under her skin.

"Your music is subtle and healing." Thorra replied. "I've never had a gentler touch upon my metallic form. And I can feel your careful wishes washing over me, resonating throughout my form. I see now you're not just worthy of wielding me. You're a great smith in the making, and soon, you'll be able to reforge me once again..." Thorra hummed it out in her high pitched gentle tone. She crouched down and planted a gentle kiss against the back of Lirazel's ear. "I can also say this with confidence–it is not your fault–the great weapon of the heros must have run out of energy in its own right. You care far too much about us for it to be an issue of compatibility." Then, she testingly planted another kiss against the same spot, ready to stop at the first sign of discomfort or rejection.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on August 22, 2021, 03:57:52 PM

Quote from: Bern on August 15, 2021, 04:40:41 PM

Valerie

"Sakura..." The blonde king spoke oh so sweetly as she walked in between with a stride of absolute confidence. " Perhaps you should inform me of when I ever gave you the right to interrupt me." Her tone grew deeper and deeper the closer she came. Then she suddenly spun around and faced Idril.

"And you Idril, being my student does not give you the right to refer to one of my one as Child of Man, have you lost your wits?" This was particularly insulting cause her kin were her children and she most definitely not of Mankind.

"This hot-headedness is precisely why I left Emilia in charge when we left.  Who beats who is inconsequential for standing in my harem. There are members at home who could crush either of you depending on the match up. No if you two naughty little girls wish to impress me so, then take this fight to the bedroom and see who the dominant one is-"

Sakura

The shadows retracted back into their natural form, slinking back down Sakura's skin as if they were flat snakes returning to their nest. Sakura grinned, flashing her long, protracted fangs ready to feed on her venerated elder pupil, and then ran a hand through her singular curl, flipping it to the side. "It goes without saying that such a contest isn't beneath me."

She turned to her blond King and looked her very seriously in the eye. "I shall put this pupil of yours beneath my heel, whether it be through bedding her or defeating her in a duel. I hope that you'll be watching with keen interest. I won't disappoint you."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 24, 2021, 05:01:04 AM

Quote from: SINIB on August 18, 2021, 02:46:13 PM

Thorra

Thorra's chest settled against the back of Lirazel's head. They were gentle and almost weightless, and felt like two large soft clouds were pressed gently against her, embracing Lirazel without resistance. She could feel more things about Thorra's body, too. The impossible softness was her defining feature. It was easy to simply fall against her body and enjoy the comforting feeling. But also, she could feel its stillness. There was no heart beating within her body, no circulation, only the gentle hum of a generator within, an electric crackling within her just under her skin.

"Your music is subtle and healing." Thorra replied. "I've never had a gentler touch upon my metallic form. And I can feel your careful wishes washing over me, resonating throughout my form. I see now you're not just worthy of wielding me. You're a great smith in the making, and soon, you'll be able to reforge me once again..." Thorra hummed it out in her high pitched gentle tone. She crouched down and planted a gentle kiss against the back of Lirazel's ear. "I can also say this with confidence–it is not your fault–the great weapon of the heros must have run out of energy in its own right. You care far too much about us for it to be an issue of compatibility." Then, she testingly planted another kiss against the same spot, ready to stop at the first sign of discomfort or rejection.

Lirazel

It was impossible to concentrate now that contact had become caressing in so smooth a manner. The princess' fingers grew still along the strings of her harp, while her long pointed ears twitched in sensitive fascination. The second of them forced a musical gasp to escape her lips. "R-Reforge you, when you are already so great? How could anyone hope to improve on what I felt with you in my hands?"

Carefully, she slid her instrument to the side along the floor which moved to accommodate the motion smoothly. Lirazel bit down on her lip while resting one of her hands back on Thorra's metallic head, and the other reached up to brush against her soft face. "Are you sure you would prefer this Princess, over the chosen Hero?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on August 25, 2021, 02:50:49 PM

Thorra

Lirazel felt Thorra's quiet giggle gurgle against her ear as Thorra continued to kiss at it. She slowly worked a circular pattern around its base, sucking on it for just a brief moment before moving to another spot on the elf's ear. "You're the hero of your own story. Don't get caught up in the details of the past—it obscures your sight of the future." Thorra muttered. She gently wrapped her left arm around Lirazel's waist, sliding the other one gently down the princess's shapely thigh. "You shouldn't wait for a hero who may or may not come. We should use each-other to refine our own strengths and compensate for one-another's weaknesses."

Thorra planted another, longer kiss against the same ear, pressing her mounds right up against Lirazel's back. She could feel Thorra's arousal pressing against her. Gentle sparks of electricity raced up her arm in the meantime, relaxing the princess's muscles with Thorra's rythmic ministrations. "You're one of my chosen weilders. That means you too have the capacity to be a hero."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on August 25, 2021, 10:30:44 PM

Valerie

"Wonderful but all I hear is talk and talking is cheap. You two will need to show me your worthiness with action." She grasped onto both of them and marched them over to an empty room where upon arriving she threm them inside.

"And do not come out until the other has passed out." It would be better if thosr two could work it out without having her looming above them, so they could really be honest. She could always claim her spoils later.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 27, 2021, 05:33:22 PM

Idril

There was no hint of a stumble as the two were deposited abruptly in one of the luxurious side rooms, with a truly magnificently sized bed. As soon as the door was open and Valerie's attention turned away from it, Idril seemed to relax. It was just the slightest of cues, her ears twitching and her shoulders losing a small measure of their tension. She held a finger up between herself and Sakura as if to urge her to wait. "You truly have come a long way. Tell me, when is it that you last fed, young childe of Valerie? I will not defeat you at any less than your best."

---

Sage

As soon as the vampire king was done with setting her students up for that, a familiar cat began rubbing against her ankles with a loud motor purr.

Everyone else was busy gossiping and dancing, casual displays of minor magics filling the air with song once more.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 27, 2021, 07:35:10 PM

Quote from: SINIB on August 25, 2021, 02:50:49 PM

Thorra

Lirazel felt Thorra's quiet giggle gurgle against her ear as Thorra continued to kiss at it. She slowly worked a circular pattern around its base, sucking on it for just a brief moment before moving to another spot on the elf's ear. "You're the hero of your own story. Don't get caught up in the details of the past—it obscures your sight of the future." Thorra muttered. She gently wrapped her left arm around Lirazel's waist, sliding the other one gently down the princess's shapely thigh. "You shouldn't wait for a hero who may or may not come. We should use each-other to refine our own strengths and compensate for one-another's weaknesses."

Thorra planted another, longer kiss against the same ear, pressing her mounds right up against Lirazel's back. She could feel Thorra's arousal pressing against her. Gentle sparks of electricity raced up her arm in the meantime, relaxing the princess's muscles with Thorra's rythmic ministrations. "You're one of my chosen wielders. That means you too have the capacity to be a hero."

Lirazel

Lirazel's fingers threaded their way into Thorra's golden hair, while her own stood on end as soft surges of lightning shot through her nerves. Her grip tightened every time the hammer's beautiful body touched her ears so intimately, and eventually she pulled as if to stop her. "Please." Her voice was breathless for once now, caught in her throat. "Let me look at you first, before you continue."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on August 27, 2021, 10:13:14 PM

Thorra

Thorra pressed one final, long kiss on Lirazel's ear. She held her lips against it, gently pressing her full lips against Lirazel's flesh. Her hand slid down Lira's thigh and around to her buttocks. Then, she withdrew the kiss and turned Lirazel around. The hammer wore a cute half-grin on her face. Static ran down the length of both of their bodies, tickling and stimulating them. Then, the plates covering Thorra's chest clattered to the floor, and she leaned forward to press her soft chest right against her partner's bosom.

"You're beautiful, Lira~" Thorra whispered in her ear. One hand caressed the elf's cheek while the other cupped her apple-shaped ass.

Then, she leaned in and planted a lavacious kiss onto Lira's lips.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 28, 2021, 02:40:21 AM

Lirazel

The elven princess couldn't stay tense with all that energy running through her. Feeling someone grasp where she'd not permitted others to before, tasting hot breath against her skin, it was all so new. Most novel of all was hearing someone call her that, and having it be something that sent a fresh flush of heat through her rather than merely experience it as a reality.

She was blessed with beauty. It was a fact, a simple inevitability, a feature that every Princess of Endien possessed by virtue of her birth. For Lirazel, it was merely an empirical observation that others found cause to voice in one moment or another. There was nothing to take pride in about it, for all that it was proper she honor it as the gift it was. The difference here was, perhaps, why she leaned forward to meet Thorra in the middle between them.

"Mmm..." As she attempted to return the kiss she did so with far less zest and zeal, the hesitancy of inexperience and the gently tugging of her fingers in Thorra's hair respectfully requesting she not be overwhelmed.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on August 28, 2021, 03:56:43 PM

Sakura

Sakura somersaulted through the air and gracefully landed on her feet facing Idril. She flipped a brilliant purple curl accompanied by a gentle sparkle around her hair. With a graceful ease, she slipped out of her top which proceeded to disintegrate into her shadow and free up her bouncy breasts from their containment. It also have Idril a first chance to admire her figure—the toned musculature of her eight pac dominated her gut, and her feminine curves were accented by the masculinity of her hard definition.

"You need not worry about that—while I am quite hungry, feeding is a desirable part of coitus, for both me and my partner. There is no need to offer me charity." She grinned, baring her fangs at the elf. They were long, pointy, and sharp, befitting of a direct spawn of the Vampire King herself. Sakura sat down, her shadow morphing into a chair for her to sit upon. "I may be younger than you, but I am not to be trifled with." Sakura too seemed more relaxed, but every action she took, every word she spoke, had a sort of nobility to it that it had lacked in the heat of defending her honor in front of their respective lord.

"It will be I who walks out of that door, not you."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on August 28, 2021, 04:01:16 PM

Quote from: Aiden on August 28, 2021, 02:40:21 AM

Lirazel

The elven princess couldn't stay tense with all that energy running through her. Feeling someone grasp where she'd not permitted others to before, tasting hot breath against her skin, it was all so new. Most novel of all was hearing someone call her that, and having it be something that sent a fresh flush of heat through her rather than merely experience it as a reality.

She was blessed with beauty. It was a fact, a simple inevitability, a feature that every Princess of Endien possessed by virtue of her birth. For Lirazel, it was merely an empirical observation that others found cause to voice in one moment or another. There was nothing to take pride in about it, for all that it was proper she honor it as the gift it was. The difference here was, perhaps, why she leaned forward to meet Thorra in the middle between them.

"Mmm..." As she attempted to return the kiss she did so with far less zest and zeal, the hesitancy of inexperience and the gently tugging of her fingers in Thorra's hair respectfully requesting she not be overwhelmed.

Thorra

Thorra's more experienced lips gently met hers. Her tongue pilied at Lirazel's mouth, gently teasing it open. Her tongue carefully grazed against the front of Lirazel's mouth, making sure not to invade her virginal mouth too aggressively and to savor her taste. Meanwhile, Thorra reached behind her, gently untying the back of the woman's dress while continuing to knead at her ass.

"Nnnhhhnnn..." Thorra gently moaned, reaching to help Lirazel slip out of her clothes.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 28, 2021, 09:57:29 PM

Quote from: SINIB on August 28, 2021, 04:01:16 PM

Thorra

Thorra's more experienced lips gently met hers. Her tongue pilied at Lirazel's mouth, gently teasing it open. Her tongue carefully grazed against the front of Lirazel's mouth, making sure not to invade her virginal mouth too aggressively and to savor her taste. Meanwhile, Thorra reached behind her, gently untying the back of the woman's dress while continuing to knead at her ass.

"Nnnhhhnnn..." Thorra gently moaned, reaching to help Lirazel slip out of her clothes.

Lirazel

Lirazel gasped as she pulled her face back, but rather than to stop this she was instead helping Thorra get the rest of her outfit off. It was the first time sliding fabric like this was such a sensitive sensation, her skin sparking at contact. Not just because of the actual electricity gaily jolting its way through her nerves, but from the sheer excitement shooting through her veins. "I would question if you'd prefer to do this in my bedroom..."

The warm light of day poured on them from the stained glass sky. Blue eyes sparkled with something innocent.

"... but I feel this is better for us." She closed the distance again, now bared to the one here with her.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 29, 2021, 12:31:44 AM

Quote from: SINIB on August 28, 2021, 03:56:43 PM

Sakura

Sakura somersaulted through the air and gracefully landed on her feet facing Idril. She flipped a brilliant purple curl accompanied by a gentle sparkle around her hair. With a graceful ease, she slipped out of her top which proceeded to disintegrate into her shadow and free up her bouncy breasts from their containment. It also have Idril a first chance to admire her figure—the toned musculature of her eight pac dominated her gut, and her feminine curves were accented by the masculinity of her hard definition.

"You need not worry about that—while I am quite hungry, feeding is a desirable part of coitus, for both me and my partner. There is no need to offer me charity." She grinned, baring her fangs at the elf. They were long, pointy, and sharp, befitting of a direct spawn of the Vampire King herself. Sakura sat down, her shadow morphing into a chair for her to sit upon. "I may be younger than you, but I am not to be trifled with." Sakura too seemed more relaxed, but every action she took, every word she spoke, had a sort of nobility to it that it had lacked in the heat of defending her honor in front of their respective lord.

"It will be I who walks out of that door, not you."

Idril

The millennial elf's lips curved up. She listened, patiently, as Sakura spent precious moments defending her character verbally and with brazen displays of ability. She casually discarded her own outfit in a swirling veil of dusk to reveal a form more lean, yet supple in the places that mattered. Her body was toned, yes, built through relentless effort and attention, but the real lines of interest were the patchwork of faded scars casting lines of white against her tanned torso that had outlasted all too many kingdoms of man. And then a curtain fell, the tail of her fiery hair released.

She clapped her hands together, and the smoky veil's remains vanished. Her smile showed teeth. "Should I be impressed that her standards have not lessened in the thousand years since our last meeting? Win or lose, I will show you that we are both the victor in this battle."

She appeared, in a flicker of the light, in front of Sakura. She reached out to brush purple hair from across her face.

"Let's take our time, shall we?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on August 29, 2021, 10:59:59 PM

Quote from: Aiden on August 27, 2021, 05:33:22 PM

Idril

There was no hint of a stumble as the two were deposited abruptly in one of the luxurious side rooms, with a truly magnificently sized bed. As soon as the door was open and Valerie's attention turned away from it, Idril seemed to relax. It was just the slightest of cues, her ears twitching and her shoulders losing a small measure of their tension. She held a finger up between herself and Sakura as if to urge her to wait. "You truly have come a long way. Tell me, when is it that you last fed, young childe of Valerie? I will not defeat you at any less than your best."

---

Sage

As soon as the vampire king was done with setting her students up for that, a familiar cat began rubbing against her ankles with a loud motor purr.

Everyone else was busy gossiping and dancing, casual displays of minor magics filling the air with song once more.

Valerie

"Aww the cute kitty is back, did you feel lonely?" She crouched and begun scratching her behind the ears, just the way any cat would like it. "I will let you in on a little secret okay.... it is about the value of princesses. Any old dragon could have regular princess in their hoard but that is not enough for the bards to make poems. No you gotta think big. The value of a princess goes up the more favorable traits she has, and am ascended princess like me has unfathomable value.... And most importantly..."

She leaned in and her scratching got more livid as ahe reached her point. "No dragon has ever managed to take me..."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on August 31, 2021, 04:01:46 AM

Sage

The druidic feline released a low, mewling chirp of satisfaction as she was received the tribute that was her due. She rubbed the top of her head against Valerie's hand, but slowed down in her reciprocation of the charming motions the longer the vampiric monarch spoke for. In the end Valerie found herself on the receiving end of a dissatisfied grimalkin's bite, and with a huff the delightfully white and fluffy one hopped up onto a nearby table instead.

"You may indeed possess many qualities of substance and character," she said with a stiff accented noted well upon by the other patrons, who turned in interest to the novelty of the loquacious beast. "But it is clear to me that yes, your every thought no matter how noble and charitable turns around a single vice which threatens to consume you from within!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on September 04, 2021, 12:53:17 PM

Valerie

"Ahahahaahahahaahaahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahabahahah..."

The Vampire King burst out in mad laughter, as she clutched her sides. Her long blond hair flowed beautifully and cast a dark shadow over face whereupon only the crimson glint of her gaze could be witnessed.

"You fell for it, you fell for it all so magnificently."

 Clap clap clap....

She was gone, no on the other side of the room clapping her hands madly like someone who'd just gotten everything they wanted. "I did not want them to see me like this. You see I try soooo hard to keep it all nice and locked away, but you just have to show up... a fucking dragon... do you work for them?? Do you?? I will end them, destroy them again and again and again and again, no matter how long it takes."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 09, 2021, 12:33:12 AM

Sage

The cat's hackles were up, hair of great white softness now standing on edge in sharp and predatory readiness as her eyes unblinkingly focused on Valerie and her sudden movements. Everyone around them had frozen up as well, the tension in the air and Valerie's own open display of hostility provoking them to stillness. After a moment Sage let out a huff through her little kitty nose.

"I know nothing of what or whom you speak, or why I would work for anything but my own quest." Her words were slower now, more guarded than before. "Though I commend you for realizing my true nature in the end."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on September 11, 2021, 07:05:53 PM

Quote from: Aiden on September 09, 2021, 12:33:12 AM

Sage

The cat's hackles were up, hair of great white softness now standing on edge in sharp and predatory readiness as her eyes unblinkingly focused on Valerie and her sudden movements. Everyone around them had frozen up as well, the tension in the air and Valerie's own open display of hostility provoking them to stillness. After a moment Sage let out a huff through her little kitty nose.

"I know nothing of what or whom you speak, or why I would work for anything but my own quest." Her words were slower now, more guarded than before. "Though I commend you for realizing my true nature in the end."

Valerie

"I see..." She begun slowly, not drawing any closer but at the same time not lowering her hostile tone. "And what sort of quest would a dragon even be on? Why would you be in this land, singling us out? That is awfully suspicious of you little kitty." She chuckled but that didn't mean she found the situation humorous, no it was quite the opposite. This was aligh of frustration.

"An unknown like you appearing just as we arrive, that is an unstable element that I cannot tolerate, state your true purpose or I will personally deal with you."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 11, 2021, 11:22:59 PM

Sage

"My encounter with you and your spawn was mere happenstance." A decidedly unfeline huffing sound continued to escape from Sage's decidedly feline nose. "I came to this land with another, who abandoned me to galivant with some manner of physician, in order to seek a remedy for an ailment for one of my spawn. You were simply heading in the direction I wished to go when you arrived after me."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: YOLF on September 12, 2021, 09:49:15 PM

Folainluc

Hurried and weighty feet found their way through the graceful halls of the palace as the rays of the sun began to bend sharply through the windows, tilting towards a lovely orange of a midwinter hearth. It was enough to raise the spirits of even one who had seen it ten thousand times before, but the soldier who ran up the innards of the tower did not require a balm for the mood. Each step was alight, not with trepidation, but curiosity, excitement, and at worst a mild anxiety for answers.

He only got faster as he passed by less people on the way up, as he did not quite have to slow his step to greet them as he deserved. So it took no time at all for him to arrive at his most respectable lady's sanctum, striding right in with his arms spread wide.

"My lady!" He called, loud with cheer and unexpectant of what he was to find. "I heard you were at the walls unattended, and that you had the pleasure of meeting a most fascinating stranger! I came straight here to be appraised of the tale by your own words!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on September 13, 2021, 09:31:26 PM

Quote from: Aiden on September 11, 2021, 11:22:59 PM

Sage

"My encounter with you and your spawn was mere happenstance." A decidedly unfeline huffing sound continued to escape from Sage's decidedly feline nose. "I came to this land with another, who abandoned me to galivant with some manner of physician, in order to seek a remedy for an ailment for one of my spawn. You were simply heading in the direction I wished to go when you arrived after me."

Valerie

"You came all this way for some magical remedy? Would not Columbia or the Campus have been less of a hurdle to visit? This place is not even the center of magical learning, not anymore. Yeah you hear that?"

The blonde vampire turned to face the onlooking crowd, addressing the Elves themselves. "While you squander away your splendors the humans innovate freely and without restraint. They have already long surpassed you in industrial output, and soon even your qualitative advantages will wither away, your nation is falling one way or the other."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 14, 2021, 05:58:03 AM

Lirazel

The sun soared across the sky to alight the passions of those who lay beneath its warmth. The colored glass poured its constellations upon them as they lay in a heap by the forge. Lirazel lay atop another, their mutually long blonde hair pooling like a curtain over exposed skin and a head resting upon a substantial bosom. Her arms wrapped around her, holding tightly while she hummed a soothing refrain to cool their searing nerves. It echoed gently about the great dome.

Her partner's true form was nowhere in sight.

Then her ears twitched at a sound only she could hear, and she grabbed firm hold of a large sheet of linen cloth that had been used to cover materials and drew it over herself and Thorra like a blanket, just in time to witness their guest's bombastic arrival. Her face was pink as Lirazel lifted her resting head up from her comfortable repose to see him. Her eyes were wide. "A-Ah. Folain, I was - not aware you had yet returned to the village!"

He saw them from a rather fetching side profile.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 14, 2021, 02:58:54 PM

Quote from: Bern on September 13, 2021, 09:31:26 PM

Valerie

"You came all this way for some magical remedy? Would not Columbia or the Campus have been less of a hurdle to visit? This place is not even the center of magical learning, not anymore. Yeah you hear that?"

The blonde vampire turned to face the onlooking crowd, addressing the Elves themselves. "While you squander away your splendors the humans innovate freely and without restraint. They have already long surpassed you in industrial output, and soon even your qualitative advantages will wither away, your nation is falling one way or the other."

Sage

Now every eye that had lingered on the pair shone with a glimmer of disdain, and Valerie saw more than one youth being restrained with a hand to the shoulder by ones who carried themselves more timelessly. Sage paid them no heed of course, not being their intended target, and pressed on.

"There are particular circumstances you are not privy to and which I do not owe you knowledge of. Suffice it to say that they have something that is necessary for me to receive the aid I require." Her eyes were following Valerie's every move, and those of the elves before Valerie too.

Aerin, the forgotten redheaded commoner who had accompanied the trio and guided them to this establishment, stepped forward once more. "I believe I should show you to your intended room now, 'Great Teacher.'" She had a remarkable poker face; the intrigue and uncertainty of before was nowhere in sight.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on September 14, 2021, 07:03:41 PM

Valerie

"And playing at being a cat is necessary  to acquire it?" Valerie shook her head mirthfully. If the Dragon wanted to play charades then she would entertain the machinations of the beast. It's not like she would be able to fool anyone important with that form of hers anyways. Right now there was something far more pressing to deal with.

"And no Aerin, this is where the fun begins...." Her smile turned predatory as her fangs made themselves known, with a glinting presence. " I must have gone far too easy on you all last time, I see thar now as sure as the guiding light of Luna. You children thoroughly dissapoint me. Release your passion, what are you waiting for? How am I supposed to step on your balls if you lack any in the first place?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on September 14, 2021, 08:57:01 PM

Thorra

The giantish woman's distinctly nude form sat up and waved at what she could only assume to be Lirazel's retainer. Her entire form was enchanting, glistening from Lirazel's exertions over the previous night as if to taunt him, and her innocent, smug smile seemed to know exactly what sort of prize she'd claimed. And her nature screamed against the idea of not flaunting her conquests to at least some extent. "Greetings, I am the stranger! My name is Thorra."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: YOLF on September 14, 2021, 10:57:47 PM

Folainluc

The surprise was written plain on his face, stripping his aquiline nose and sharp cheekbones of the bright severity that tinted his youthful handsomeness until one heard him speak loud in fondness. How could anyone not be utterly disarmed of their composure, having carelessly stepped in to a moment exposing not one, but two transcendent beauties? That was not precisely the reason for his shock, but rapidly as that instant threatened to stretch to a brief eternity, his mouth parted in flustered astonishment.

"Goodness! Pray forgive my indiscretion! This is QUITE the surprise!" He shouted, shielding his eyes with a forearm while twisting his body away. But the princess would notice then, a familiar inflection slip into the last of his words, a dreadful ease slightly appear in that posture that had been genuinely caught off-guard. Folainluc continued.

"I must say, when I was preparing myself to admonish you for disappearing into your workshop, giving nary a warning before occupying yourself with gods-know-what for hours when you had a guest - I did not expect in truth that you were entertaining her in such a fashion!" His light laughs gave away his sincerity. "My greetings to you! I am Folainluc, steward of Endien and most staunch ally of our dear princess!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 15, 2021, 03:35:36 AM

Lirazel

The princess' face flushed a much deeper red between the two of them, especially as she found herself pressed against Thorra beneath their coverings and holding on while she sat up. "E-Entertainment is not the word I would use, Folain! It was nothing so, so casual to speak of in that way, I assure you."

She pulled the linen up more to make sure they were both covered even though her fellow elf was looking away.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on September 15, 2021, 04:03:55 PM

Thorra

Thorra gently slid an arm around Lirazel and rested her huge palm against her thigh, gently stroking her in just a way to excite her nerves underneath the covers. "It is a pleasure, Folainluc." Thorra replied graciously. "It is indeed as Lira has said—I am her lover, and she is my rightful wielder. It is a relationship far closer than mere entertainment."

Her hand slid around, resting upon the princess's bulbous posterier.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: YOLF on September 15, 2021, 04:43:12 PM

Folainluc

If one could hear the workings of the knight's mind, then the speeding gears that were turning inside would likely compel most people to cover their ears. He still blocked for himself the sight of the pair, but they saw his mouth stretch into a knowing smile in spite of the awe that occupied him.

"I jest, I jest!" Folainluc said, waving his other hand apologetically. "But it's a serious committment then. Now I really must hear everything! I had given for lost that my lady would ever entangle herself so deeply with anyone until her awaited hero arrived, but fate seems to be smiling today. Ah, I should leave you to compose yourselves, excuse me!"

He started walking backwards to the outside of the forge with a spring to his step.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 16, 2021, 02:34:50 AM

Quote from: Bern on September 14, 2021, 07:03:41 PM

Valerie

"And playing at being a cat is necessary  to acquire it?" Valerie shook her head mirthfully. If the Dragon wanted to play charades then she would entertain the machinations of the beast. It's not like she would be able to fool anyone important with that form of hers anyways. Right now there was something far more pressing to deal with.

"And no Aerin, this is where the fun begins...." Her smile turned predatory as her fangs made themselves known, with a glinting presence. " I must have gone far too easy on you all last time, I see thar now as sure as the guiding light of Luna. You children thoroughly dissapoint me. Release your passion, what are you waiting for? How am I supposed to step on your balls if you lack any in the first place?"

Sage

"It does not interfere with my efforts." But, seeing that Valerie had quickly lost interest in Sage the false feline took that opportunity to slip silently away to elsewhere. "Although associating further with you may make up the difference!" Well, almost silently.

Valerie's rebuttal would be inevitably drowned out by the sound of the revelers beginning to draw their weapons in concert. But Aerin herself, holding a hand to her chest and scowling in dismay, suddenly raised her hands up high. "Wait! Please, hold." She had placed herself between Valerie and the others - the ones who weren't aiming at the vampire from behind - and turned her pretty young head back and forth to look at them all. "Should we not... wouldn't it be better to take this outside?"

That brought the outraged elves up short. Aerin looked to Valerie herself and asked, "What say you?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 16, 2021, 04:44:57 AM

Quote from: YOLF on September 15, 2021, 04:43:12 PM

Folainluc

If one could hear the workings of the knight's mind, then the speeding gears that were turning inside would likely compel most people to cover their ears. He still blocked for himself the sight of the pair, but they saw his mouth stretch into a knowing smile in spite of the awe that occupied him.

"I jest, I jest!" Folainluc said, waving his other hand apologetically. "But it's a serious commitment then. Now I really must hear everything! I had given for lost that my lady would ever entangle herself so deeply with anyone until her awaited hero arrived, but fate seems to be smiling today. Ah, I should leave you to compose yourselves, excuse me!"

He started walking backwards to the outside of the forge with a spring to his step.

Lirazel

The princess' eyes shot up at Thorra's brazen behavior beneath their mutual covering, and her fingernail in turn dug its way into her side as if to chastise her for it. It wasn't until Folainluc had left that she let out a soft whine of embarrassment against her companion's shoulder. "You are simply incorrigible, Thorra!" Lirazel began to turn her lovely eyes about their surroundings once again. "Oh, now we must find our garments quickly. Ah, but you wear so little as it is, what else am I to do?"

She stood up in spite of Thorra's embrace and began to make a frantic search somehow look dignified.

"Perhaps you could wear my cloak from before...?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on September 16, 2021, 06:15:10 PM

Thorra

The nude giantish woman rolled over onto her belly like a cat, kicking her legs into the air and resting her chin against balled fists. Electricity crackled through her messy blond hair, unkempt yet perpetually untangled. Even in such a lazy and childish position, she was absolutely stunningly gorgeous.

"Mmhhh? Can't I just wear what I always do? I hate dressing up in those uncomfortable and constraining wrappings when I can avoid it. This body's just a puppet, anyway. Who would want to put a hammer in a dress? It'd be so weird..."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on September 17, 2021, 12:00:12 AM

Quote from: Aiden on September 16, 2021, 02:34:50 AM

Sage

"It does not interfere with my efforts." But, seeing that Valerie had quickly lost interest in Sage the false feline took that opportunity to slip silently away to elsewhere. "Although associating further with you may make up the difference!" Well, almost silently.

Valerie's rebuttal would be inevitably drowned out by the sound of the revelers beginning to draw their weapons in concert. But Aerin herself, holding a hand to her chest and scowling in dismay, suddenly raised her hands up high. "Wait! Please, hold." She had placed herself between Valerie and the others - the ones who weren't aiming at the vampire from behind - and turned her pretty young head back and forth to look at them all. "Should we not... wouldn't it be better to take this outside?"


That brought the outraged elves up short. Aerin looked to Valerie herself and asked, "What say you?"

Valerie

"You are right...."

The continuation of her sentence was as swift as she was brutal, because just as Aerin had turned around to face her, the Vampire King's foot met her face and launched her through the nearest window.

"And that is why you go first. Now, who would like to go next?" She addressed the crowd of Elves with a jovial tone as if she hadn't just kicked someone out through the window. "If you would be so kind to come all once I would greatly appreciate it. I do so hope at least one of you is worthy of my time."

She couldn't wait to sink her fangs into some prime elven meat. Ah the nostalgia. She oh so hoped some brave warrior would step up and try to put her in her place, those truly were the fun ones. Idril had been like that before she claimed her.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: YOLF on September 17, 2021, 04:59:16 PM

Folainluc

Making his way down, past when he could no longer hear the muffled voices of the two, the hopping vitality in Folainluc's steps died down quietly. He looked forward as he went and held his jaw in thought. Playing it off with his usual temperament or not, the knight could not imagine what manner of woman, charming and impressive in figure as she was, could have commanded this intimacy from princess Lirazel so quickly. He was truly curious... curious and worried. From the brief report he listened to, it wasn't just one stranger who had aided their numbers at the walls, rather two companions, and the other was of a rather unique mien as well, but did not seem to be anywhere he could find right now.

Ah, but he shouldn't jump to conclusions, that was unsavory. "I will go prepare some beverages and treats so we can have a good, long discussion in the common room," he said, eyebrows curling contently, and followed with a chuckle. "Hopefully, they will be presentable by the time I come back."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on September 18, 2021, 01:43:37 AM

Quote from: Bern on September 17, 2021, 12:00:12 AM

Valerie

"You are right...."

The continuation of her sentence was as swift as she was brutal, because just as Aerin had turned around to face her, the Vampire King's foot met her face and launched her through the nearest window.

"And that is why you go first. Now, who would like to go next?" She addressed the crowd of Elves with a jovial tone as if she hadn't just kicked someone out through the window. "If you would be so kind to come all once I would greatly appreciate it. I do so hope at least one of you is worthy of my time."

She couldn't wait to sink her fangs into some prime elven meat. Ah the nostalgia. She oh so hoped some brave warrior would step up and try to put her in her place, those truly were the fun ones. Idril had been like that before she claimed her.

Sakura Edelfeldt

When Aerin was thrown through the window, Sakura was bent over, wearing nothing more than a bra and a skirt, panties down to her knees still containing a beastly length. Idril sat across from her on the large bed. She stopped, and then looked behind her for a moment. Then, she sighed. "Haah. She just has absolutely no chill, does she?" Sakura asked, shaking her head at Idril. "I'll bet that she did something exactly like this last time she came here, too."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 18, 2021, 06:09:59 PM

Quote from: SINIB on September 16, 2021, 06:15:10 PM

Thorra

The nude giantish woman rolled over onto her belly like a cat, kicking her legs into the air and resting her chin against balled fists. Electricity crackled through her messy blond hair, unkempt yet perpetually untangled. Even in such a lazy and childish position, she was absolutely stunningly gorgeous.

"Mmhhh? Can't I just wear what I always do? I hate dressing up in those uncomfortable and constraining wrappings when I can avoid it. This body's just a puppet, anyway. Who would want to put a hammer in a dress? It'd be so weird..."

Lirazel

Lirazel shook her head even as her flush grew brighter. "It is very important that nobody can so freely see you except m- ah, that is to say only in the appropriate circumstances." The princess carefully moved about, taking in the hammer and her aforementioned puppet body in the corner of her vision always, and made as if to do something with the covering they had availed themselves of previously. Somewhere along the way she acquired a needle. "You may consider that form to be but a shell, but it is still a part of you others will sing of in praise! I will have them do so for the right reasons."

Speaking of singing, she began to move her needle about through the fabric whilst flitting about the room, collecting bits and pieces of material and widgets as she went along. Her voice began to hum out from within her throat, filling Thorra's ears and causing the linens to begin changing before her eyes. It was a waltz of weaving held before the weapon's eyes alone.

It would be impossible to track time were it not for the passage of the sun's light through the finely colored glass. It was a sight that ended only with Lirazel's dance coming to an end by Thorra's side, and a finished product being dropped upon her head with a triumphant "Hmmph!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 18, 2021, 09:24:15 PM

Quote from: Bern on September 17, 2021, 12:00:12 AM

Valerie

"You are right...."

The continuation of her sentence was as swift as she was brutal, because just as Aerin had turned around to face her, the Vampire King's foot met her face and launched her through the nearest window.

"And that is why you go first. Now, who would like to go next?" She addressed the crowd of Elves with a jovial tone as if she hadn't just kicked someone out through the window. "If you would be so kind to come all once I would greatly appreciate it. I do so hope at least one of you is worthy of my time."

She couldn't wait to sink her fangs into some prime elven meat. Ah the nostalgia. She oh so hoped some brave warrior would step up and try to put her in her place, those truly were the fun ones. Idril had been like that before she claimed her.

Valerie's Lesson

The bloodstains on Valerie's footwear were obvious to those who looked once she finished knocking the redheaded commoner through a window like that. It spoke well of them that despite the outrageous brutality the vampiric monarch had displayed they came at her with a semblance of discipline, all hard-eyed stares and unsettling silence while they surrounded her from all directions in rows with whatever weaponry they could have at the ready. There were just enough gaps between them that missed attacks wouldn't hurt their comrades, and where most opponents trying to weave their way through them would just leave themselves open to opportunism.

It also gave time for the ones up on the higher levels to start singing.

Idril

Idril was bare as the day she was born, all scarred tan muscle and intrigued smirks until she heard that much. A deep throated chuckle escaped her, and she began to clench her fists in excitement. Long tapered ears twitched. "I made the mistake of challenging her for her bravado and licentious arrogance and found myself... similarly propelled. I was not the only one - just she who got up and tried again."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on September 19, 2021, 04:00:57 PM

Sakura

Sakura chuckled. She stepped out of her magical panties and dropped them loosely on the floor, allowing her immense member to snap up to attention. She wrapped her hand around the base of it and felt the gentle throb of her heartbeat through the smooth skin. She reached behind her back and unclasped her bra, allowing her perky tits to be put onto full display for the delectable elven woman.

"Heh. I'm strong, no doubt, but she's definitely still on another level compared to me. I don't think she's even a little serious out there—probably just killing some time and teaching some sort of lesson to your progeny while I fuck your brains out."

Sakura grinned, reaching up and tweaking one of her nipples. The woman's bare body was a magnificent specimen of a bodybuilder. Each and every muscle had been lovingly and carefully trained and crafted to near-perfection, a state of affairs locked into place forever by her vampiric genes. The purple-haired second heir of the Edelfeldts sauntered on over to the elf sitting on the bed, before slapping the tip of her cock against Idril's forehead playfully. "So, how'd you do? Do you think the you now could beat her?"

As much as fucking and drinking from a full-blooded elf appealed to her, the greater part of Sakura's being would rather be wrestling this woman into submission first, fighting her with everything she had and defeating her in that manner first. This was like eating only the gravy on top of the mashed potatos, and ignoring what really made it delicious.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on September 19, 2021, 04:10:46 PM

Quote from: Aiden on September 18, 2021, 06:09:59 PM

Lirazel

Lirazel shook her head even as her flush grew brighter. "It is very important that nobody can so freely see you except m- ah, that is to say only in the appropriate circumstances." The princess carefully moved about, taking in the hammer and her aforementioned puppet body in the corner of her vision always, and made as if to do something with the covering they had availed themselves of previously. Somewhere along the way she acquired a needle. "You may consider that form to be but a shell, but it is still a part of you others will sing of in praise! I will have them do so for the right reasons."

Speaking of singing, she began to move her needle about through the fabric whilst flitting about the room, collecting bits and pieces of material and widgets as she went along. Her voice began to hum out from within her throat, filling Thorra's ears and causing the linens to begin changing before her eyes. It was a waltz of weaving held before the weapon's eyes alone.

It would be impossible to track time were it not for the passage of the sun's light through the finely colored glass. It was a sight that ended only with Lirazel's dance coming to an end by Thorra's side, and a finished product being dropped upon her head with a triumphant "Hmmph!"

Thorra

A feeling of apprehension built deep in the iron core of the hammerhead as Thorra suspiciously watched Lirazel walk around the room with a spring to her step, planning her nefarious clothening of the hammer. She didn't mind wearing clothes when merged with other people. After all, she was sharing their body with them. But wearing them on her own puppet body, which belonged to her, and solely her... It felt wrong, and she despised when people would attempt to force her to conform to social norms, to follow the rules, to act "properly." This was especially true when such behavior came from a place of love and genuine affection. It made it just that much more difficult for her to blow them off or get out of the clothing as fast as possible. She pouted as she watched Lirazel sing a beautiful, hand-crafted blouse and dress for her, adorned with golden threads which matched her hair and a smooth ivory-colored finish. It would be plainly obvious to Lirazel that Thorra was distinctly unhappy with this idea as the clothes laid atop her head. She didn't hate the way it looked, but...

Thorra grumbled. "I'll try and put it on before we leave." She gently took it off her head and placed it next to her with the utmost care and respect.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 19, 2021, 04:26:17 PM

Lirazel

Lirazel, her face still flush from the effort of so rapidly readying raiment for her ribald paramour, gazed upon her with eyes as keen as a hawk. Then, after a moment, she extended her hand to Thorra with a much gentler smile. "It gladdens me that you are willing to try it on, as detestable as you find it. Thank you, Thorra. If you find it intolerable afterward then I will speak no more of the matter."

"Now, let us greet properly my dear friend."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: YOLF on September 19, 2021, 11:26:00 PM

Folainluc

His hurried footsteps came back into earshot of the princess and her companion with timely aplomb. Elfglass and fine porcelain clattered as he emerged from the last stretch of the rise, but not one thing spilled or fell off in the hasty manuevers. And no sooner had he made the last of the stairs, did Folainluc raise higher the silver tray he brought and unfolded wheeled legs from under it, setting it on the floor so he could simply push it. The wheels made no sound as the set of delicacies and refreshments was brought to them, but the knight had to pause when it came the time to look upon them, and smiled with due consideration a second later.

"Here we are, my ladies!" He said, bringing the tray to a halt. A colorful grouping of desirable snacks stood out for them, such as delicate, sugar-sprinkled treats like flower petals, grape-sized fruits by a bowl of fluffy cream, flat, caramel-colored biscuits, tea of a blend exclusive to making of the Houses of Endien, and a honeyed, refreshing nectar drink in a crystalline container.

Not willing to stop there, he pulled chairs along for each of them before beginning the conversation proper as he inquired with his eyes how to begin plating their choices. "So, Miss Thorra, I am given to understand you played a rather flashy part on the walls! Before anything else, though I'm certain the princess has already impressed upon you the significance of your deeds, please, accept my thanks in looking out for our soldiers. Any one life your contribution saved means more than I can express."

He managed with no small effort to not gawk as he addressed her.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on September 19, 2021, 11:44:16 PM

Quote from: Aiden on September 18, 2021, 09:24:15 PM

Valerie's Lesson

The bloodstains on Valerie's footwear were obvious to those who looked once she finished knocking the redheaded commoner through a window like that. It spoke well of them that despite the outrageous brutality the vampiric monarch had displayed they came at her with a semblance of discipline, all hard-eyed stares and unsettling silence while they surrounded her from all directions in rows with whatever weaponry they could have at the ready. There were just enough gaps between them that missed attacks wouldn't hurt their comrades, and where most opponents trying to weave their way through them would just leave themselves open to opportunism.

It also gave time for the ones up on the higher levels to start singing.

Idril

Idril was bare as the day she was born, all scarred tan muscle and intrigued smirks until she heard that much. A deep throated chuckle escaped her, and she began to clench her fists in excitement. Long tapered ears twitched. "I made the mistake of challenging her for her bravado and licentious arrogance and found myself... similarly propelled. I was not the only one - just she who got up and tried again."

Valerie

Ah how commendable, to think that these Elves were so disciplined that they would assume such a brilliant formation. But before the Vampire King it would do no good, no it would be what spelled out their doom. For they were facing one who had braved the unknown and unlocked the final secret of indoor fighting. It was only something a master of unorthodox battle styles could ever hope to comprehend, and it would know shatter the minds of all these Elves.

Combined with the teaching bestowed upon her by the great master himself, the cherished flow of life would invigorate the wood, and flourish beyond even the limits of Elven craft. And with it's massive size their formation meant naught for she would sweep them all aside with a few swings of her newly brandished weapon.

These fools were now up against the sacred art of Tablekwondo.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 22, 2021, 03:30:18 AM

Quote from: SINIB on September 19, 2021, 04:00:57 PM

Sakura

Sakura chuckled. She stepped out of her magical panties and dropped them loosely on the floor, allowing her immense member to snap up to attention. She wrapped her hand around the base of it and felt the gentle throb of her heartbeat through the smooth skin. She reached behind her back and unclasped her bra, allowing her perky tits to be put onto full display for the delectable elven woman.

"Heh. I'm strong, no doubt, but she's definitely still on another level compared to me. I don't think she's even a little serious out there—probably just killing some time and teaching some sort of lesson to your progeny while I fuck your brains out."

Sakura grinned, reaching up and tweaking one of her nipples. The woman's bare body was a magnificent specimen of a bodybuilder. Each and every muscle had been lovingly and carefully trained and crafted to near-perfection, a state of affairs locked into place forever by her vampiric genes. The purple-haired second heir of the Edelfeldts sauntered on over to the elf sitting on the bed, before slapping the tip of her cock against Idril's forehead playfully. "So, how'd you do? Do you think the you now could beat her?"

As much as fucking and drinking from a full-blooded elf appealed to her, the greater part of Sakura's being would rather be wrestling this woman into submission first, fighting her with everything she had and defeating her in that manner first. This was like eating only the gravy on top of the mashed potatos, and ignoring what really made it delicious.

Idril

"Were she to combat my fellows in any true earnest, then I expect the building would already have been leveled by their whole hearted efforts to swallow her in the full measure of Highborne might. Most of them would die." Idril said as such with a subtle shrug to her shoulders, but her sight never left her 'opponent.'

The elven warrior's eyes fluttered a moment as she found herself struck by the sheer size of what Sakura was packing. She murmured something softly in her native tongue, sweet to Sakura's ears but beyond her ability to grasp. The purple-haired vampire could hear her taking a long, searching whiff of her, and her eyes crinkling immediately after. "The Great Teacher of a thousand years ago? That is an opponent I am confident I have surpassed. The one of now?"

She did not dignify the notion with further response. A calloused fingertip pressed it oh so slightly to the left so that she could see with both of her eyes. "When was the last time you washed this?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 22, 2021, 01:17:57 PM

Quote from: Bern on September 19, 2021, 11:44:16 PM

Valerie

Ah how commendable, to think that these Elves were so disciplined that they would assume such a brilliant formation. But before the Vampire King it would do no good, no it would be what spelled out their doom. For they were facing one who had braved the unknown and unlocked the final secret of indoor fighting. It was only something a master of unorthodox battle styles could ever hope to comprehend, and it would know shatter the minds of all these Elves.

Combined with the teaching bestowed upon her by the great master himself, the cherished flow of life would invigorate the wood, and flourish beyond even the limits of Elven craft. And with it's massive size their formation meant naught for she would sweep them all aside with a few swings of her newly brandished weapon.

These fools were now up against the sacred art of Tablekwondo.

Valerie's Lession

Certainly, none of them had expected Valerie to produce such a potent example of powerful improvisation with which to pummel them. It spoke admirably of a few of the most nimble of Highborne that they were able to leap over the first swing, or slide beneath the second, but the majority of commoners and those who had been further in the back and unable to properly perceive the threat were knocked into the well appointed walls and windows like chaff on the wind. The only ones who were unaffected stood still upon the upper levels, and finished weaving their Melodies of woe!

Valerie's position, or more pointedly her abominable furniture-weapon, were struck by a barrage of high powered elemental fury.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on September 23, 2021, 03:45:38 PM

Thorra

Thorra chuckled with a gentle smile. She rolled over onto her back and turned to look at Lirazel. It wasn't a responce she typically was accustomed to, not without a great deal of fighting and conflict first. This weilder seemed different from the rest, gentler. She glanced up at Lirazel's eccentric manservant, carrying a delectable tray of sweets as he entered. She smirked, then chuckled. "One helps those who need help, regardless if one asks for it. It's as simple as that—meeting my weilder is more than enough of a prize."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 24, 2021, 03:48:03 AM

Quote from: YOLF on September 19, 2021, 11:26:00 PM

Folainluc

His hurried footsteps came back into earshot of the princess and her companion with timely aplomb. Elfglass and fine porcelain clattered as he emerged from the last stretch of the rise, but not one thing spilled or fell off in the hasty manuevers. And no sooner had he made the last of the stairs, did Folainluc raise higher the silver tray he brought and unfolded wheeled legs from under it, setting it on the floor so he could simply push it. The wheels made no sound as the set of delicacies and refreshments was brought to them, but the knight had to pause when it came the time to look upon them, and smiled with due consideration a second later.

"Here we are, my ladies!" He said, bringing the tray to a halt. A colorful grouping of desirable snacks stood out for them, such as delicate, sugar-sprinkled treats like flower petals, grape-sized fruits by a bowl of fluffy cream, flat, caramel-colored biscuits, tea of a blend exclusive to making of the Houses of Endien, and a honeyed, refreshing nectar drink in a crystalline container.

Not willing to stop there, he pulled chairs along for each of them before beginning the conversation proper as he inquired with his eyes how to begin plating their choices. "So, Miss Thorra, I am given to understand you played a rather flashy part on the walls! Before anything else, though I'm certain the princess has already impressed upon you the significance of your deeds, please, accept my thanks in looking out for our soldiers. Any one life your contribution saved means more than I can express."

He managed with no small effort to not gawk as he addressed her.

Lirazel

The princess, at least, was sparing Folainluc from having cause to gawk at her own royal perfection for any length of time. Lirazel was wrapped in a fresh cloak, and pulled Thorra up with her previously offered hand so that they might sit properly in the chairs her friend had provided for them. "I would chastise you for your humility had I not known better." After a moment she snapped her fingers off to the side to draw Folainluc's eyes away from the demigoddess' naked form while helping herself to this breakfast.

"It looks wonderful as always, Folain. Which of course means I'm just waiting for the subtle jape at my expense which inevitably lurks within."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: YOLF on September 24, 2021, 11:53:47 PM

Folainluc

He averted his eyes of course, and concerned himself with setting the princess's favorites on a plate. "I don't know what you could mean, my lady," he answered, offering a wry smile. But when it came to the other woman's words, his brows climbed subtly up his forehead as towards a foreign curiosity. "Pardon me, but wielder? Might this be some parlance from your home for a warrior of renown sworn or aligned with a particular personage? You do match the part, speaking as a hero like it were a simple thing, standing here in the confidence of Princess Lirazel."

Folain's gaze drifted between Lirazel and Thorra.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on September 26, 2021, 11:47:29 AM

Quote from: Aiden on September 22, 2021, 01:17:57 PM

Valerie's Lession

Certainly, none of them had expected Valerie to produce such a potent example of powerful improvisation with which to pummel them. It spoke admirably of a few of the most nimble of Highborne that they were able to leap over the first swing, or slide beneath the second, but the majority of commoners and those who had been further in the back and unable to properly perceive the threat were knocked into the well appointed walls and windows like chaff on the wind. The only ones who were unaffected stood still upon the upper levels, and finished weaving their Melodies of woe!

Valerie's position, or more pointedly her abominable furniture-weapon, were struck by a barrage of high powered elemental fury.

Valerie

Regrettable it was really, but the piece of furniture known as a table made its sacrifice. And took the barrage for her, breaking in the process. Now the Vampire Monarch was disfanged  her weapon broken. The terror of the Elves had finally come to a rest, and now was their chance to recover and go on the offensive...

Then she picked up another table.

"Tablekwondo is eternal."

On that day, the Kingdom of Endien would know pain.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on September 26, 2021, 02:08:26 PM

Quote from: YOLF on September 24, 2021, 11:53:47 PM

Folainluc

He averted his eyes of course, and concerned himself with setting the princess's favorites on a plate. "I don't know what you could mean, my lady," he answered, offering a wry smile. But when it came to the other woman's words, his brows climbed subtly up his forehead as towards a foreign curiosity. "Pardon me, but wielder? Might this be some parlance from your home for a warrior of renown sworn or aligned with a particular personage? You do match the part, speaking as a hero like it were a simple thing, standing here in the confidence of Princess Lirazel."

Folain's gaze drifted between Lirazel and Thorra.

Thorra

Thorra laughed. A boistrous guffah echoed melodiously through the forge. Thorra sat up and slid into her battle panties, affixing the silvery coverings over her breasts. She crossed her legs and then reached under the blanket, pulling out herself and lazily lobbing herself over towards Lirazel. "No, my weilder is my weilder." The fine tunic Lirazel had made was tossed over as well. "Why don't you show him our bond, so he stops misunderstanding once and for all?"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on September 26, 2021, 02:27:25 PM

Quote from: Aiden on September 22, 2021, 03:30:18 AM

Idril

"Were she to combat my fellows in any true earnest, then I expect the building would already have been leveled by their whole hearted efforts to swallow her in the full measure of Highborne might. Most of them would die." Idril said as such with a subtle shrug to her shoulders, but her sight never left her 'opponent.'

The elven warrior's eyes fluttered a moment as she found herself struck by the sheer size of what Sakura was packing. She murmured something softly in her native tongue, sweet to Sakura's ears but beyond her ability to grasp. The purple-haired vampire could hear her taking a long, searching whiff of her, and her eyes crinkling immediately after. "The Great Teacher of a thousand years ago? That is an opponent I am confident I have surpassed. The one of now?"

She did not dignify the notion with further response. A calloused fingertip pressed it oh so slightly to the left so that she could see with both of her eyes. "When was the last time you washed this?"

Sakura

Sakura chuckled. "I have been traveling for many days to visit this place with my King. Does the smell offend you?" Sakura reached down and grabbed onto the tips of Idril's ears with both hands, carressing the foreign objects with her thumbs, pressing into them and feeling the hard cartilage...

Her salty nuts hung right in front of Idril's face, each the size of an apple, dangling obscenely between her shapely thighs. Sakura continued teasing her, pressing them right up against the elder woman's face with a soft hum.

In the background, they heard the unfortunate fate of the table, and the elves who had unfortunately decided to challenge an unstoppable force...

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 28, 2021, 03:23:30 PM

Quote from: SINIB on September 26, 2021, 02:08:26 PM

Thorra

Thorra laughed. A boisterous guffaw echoed melodiously through the forge. Thorra sat up and slid into her battle panties, affixing the silvery coverings over her breasts. She crossed her legs and then reached under the blanket, pulling out herself and lazily lobbing herself over towards Lirazel. "No, my wielder is my wielder." The fine tunic Lirazel had made was tossed over as well. "Why don't you show him our bond, so he stops misunderstanding once and for all?"

Lirazel

As abruptly as such a throw was performed, as wide-eyed and off guard as having such a great mass suddenly wobbling in her direction had made her, Lirazel demonstrated still what being Highborne meant. A deceptively delicate hand caught the weapon by the handle, spun it a flourish so that it was rightside up, and allowed herself to be flooded with the thunderous power of the demigoddess Thorra. Folainluc was witness with his very eyes to the transformation that followed, muscle surging with power and...

He had to look up at the princess in a way he hadn't since he was a boy, and she the compassionate sororal figure.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: YOLF on September 29, 2021, 12:47:57 AM

Folainluc

"Blessed song!"

Folainluc straightened up like a flexed harp string plinking back to place, and a nostalgic bashfulness dusted his cheeks red as he looked up in loud exclamation. His eyes widened, then squinted, and the awe in them spilled easily from his mouth in a moment of understanding. "A sapient, enchanted weapon, with its own bodily avatar? Do I understand this right? That is wondrous! It had never crossed my mind I would ever meet one, much less that such ah, beings, could be found outside of Endien!"

Another revelation appeared to dawn on Folainluc by his own words, because he caught himself hiding the lower half of his mouth with his hand. His brows wiggled in wily curiosity, eyes drawn off to the side.

"I always found you were much too taken with making things," he said. "No wonder."

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: SINIB on September 29, 2021, 03:51:18 PM

Thorra

Thorra's joys rushed through Lirazel's mind as they merged into a singular being, sharing all, knowing all about one another. The hammer's body laughed, hopping up and floating over to behind Lirazel, before grabbing her from behind and pressing herself up against her weilder's back. "She is quite a talented smith—and I am quite the weapon. It was destiny that we would meet here in this strange land."

She looked over Lirazel's shoulder, casually floating a few feet off the ground in a prone position, arms wrapped around her neck. "Lady Lirazel and I shall create great new sagas of victory and triumph together!"

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on September 30, 2021, 12:15:04 AM

Quote from: SINIB on September 26, 2021, 02:27:25 PM

Sakura

Sakura chuckled. "I have been traveling for many days to visit this place with my King. Does the smell offend you?" Sakura reached down and grabbed onto the tips of Idril's ears with both hands, carressing the foreign objects with her thumbs, pressing into them and feeling the hard cartilage...

Her salty nuts hung right in front of Idril's face, each the size of an apple, dangling obscenely between her shapely thighs. Sakura continued teasing her, pressing them right up against the elder woman's face with a soft hum.

In the background, they heard the unfortunate fate of the table, and the elves who had unfortunately decided to challenge an unstoppable force...

Idril

A soft hum of appreciation escaped Idril's throat, a flush running up her ears toward her tips, even as she brought a finger up to poke at the tip of the monstrosity pressing against her face. "She must have found quite the steed to take the two of you to the Path of Dawn so swiftly. Trust me when I say - the stench of battlefields makes enduring this a simple matter." Sakura felt the woman gently nip at a sensitive place there, and she flicked her fingernail along the slit at the end.

She repressed a laugh as she heard the table shatter in a barrage of sorcery. "O-Oh, that is not going to help them. I did try to warn the lot..."

---

Valerie's Lesson

It was in the gap between the first table and the second that the second barrage rained down spears of light and darkness from all directions from above. The ones on the ground, those who had been furthest from the swinging of Valerie's assault, attempted to take advantage with their staffs and knives by striking at her with strafing and sliding blows from the sides. But the second table, the second table was too much, it left them bereft of options as whilst a few lucky strikes would inevitably hit the vampire king they would not dissuade her from punishing them further.

Then it was only the Weavers who sang their songs of retribution from above who maintained the potential to retaliate against her. She could not use a single table against all of them at once, surely?!

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Bern on October 02, 2021, 06:10:07 PM

Quote from: Aiden on September 30, 2021, 12:15:04 AM

Idril

A soft hum of appreciation escaped Idril's throat, a flush running up her ears toward her tips, even as she brought a finger up to poke at the tip of the monstrosity pressing against her face. "She must have found quite the steed to take the two of you to the Path of Dawn so swiftly. Trust me when I say - the stench of battlefields makes enduring this a simple matter." Sakura felt the woman gently nip at a sensitive place there, and she flicked her fingernail along the slit at the end.

She repressed a laugh as she heard the table shatter in a barrage of sorcery. "O-Oh, that is not going to help them. I did try to warn the lot..."

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Valerie's Lesson

It was in the gap between the first table and the second that the second barrage rained down spears of light and darkness from all directions from above. The ones on the ground, those who had been furthest from the swinging of Valerie's assault, attempted to take advantage with their staffs and knives by striking at her with strafing and sliding blows from the sides. But the second table, the second table was too much, it left them bereft of options as whilst a few lucky strikes would inevitably hit the vampire king they would not dissuade her from punishing them further.

Then it was only the Weavers who sang their songs of retribution from above who maintained the potential to retaliate against her. She could not use a single table against all of them at once, surely?!

Valerie

Through the carnage and bloodshed, she weaved her own song of retribution to challenge the bards. The bright disturbances to her symphony could not disrupt the harmony she possessed for she was like a bottomless fountain of martial prowess. Those at the upper levels had made one crucial mistake though, one that would cost them everything. In their hubris, standing so far above they had thought themselves safe, oh how naive....

The time had come.

Valerie begun running and picked up yet another table as she leapt into the air with a fearsome spin.

The cowards above would now face the might of Dual Tablekwondo.

Title: Re: The Land of Forever Fall
Post by: Aiden on October 02, 2021, 10:19:15 PM

Quote from: SINIB on September 29, 2021, 03:51:18 PM

Thorra

Thorra's joys rushed through Lirazel's mind as they merged into a singular being, sharing all, knowing all about one another. The hammer's body laughed, hopping up and floating over to behind Lirazel, before grabbing her from behind and pressing herself up against her wielder's back. "She is quite a talented smith—and I am quite the weapon. It was destiny that we would meet here in this strange land."

She looked over Lirazel's shoulder, casually floating a few feet off the ground in a prone position, arms wrapped around her neck. "Lady Lirazel and I shall create great new sagas of victory and triumph together!"

Lirazel

The rush of emotions freely shared drew a brilliant, heart-catching smile from Lirazel's face as she held gently the handle of this handsome hammer. There was an ease in the grip which Folainluc had never seen before, and now Thorra's clutching affection phased her not at all. It was her fellow elf's words instead that instilled a sliver of embarrassment into the princess, and that brief and wondrous smile turned to something more comical. "T-That is correct, yes. It has nothing to do with some peccadillo born from your active imagination regarding how much time I spend in this workshop!"

Muscles the princess did not normally possess in such quantity flexed in a fascinating manner.