Robert Wilson
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Vex stared at the dungeon that Noram had led them to. "Are you sure this is it?" he couldn't help but ask. It was just... a hole in the ground. It sloped downwards, opening up into a cave of some sort, but it didn't change the fact that it was one of the least impressive dungeon entrances Vex had ever seen — and that was amongst even the low level dungeons he had visited before. Those usually at least had a "Yup," Noram said, sounding a little embarrassed. He even kicked a bit at the ground. Vex…-
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Misa was, compared to Sev, having a far more interesting day. The first thing she'd done was use her Anchor skill to call a copy of her mother and two of the guards over, ones that specialized more in tracking and hunting than necessarily in guarding the town. She gave them a chance to acclimate themselves to the strangeness of having two bodies while she spoke with her mother, who was having no such problems. They were still in the privacy of the inn, anyway, so the two guards could bump into the walls…
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"Huh," Sev said, glancing through his messages. He glanced at Misa — they were having breakfast together in the room, having decided that the suddenly crowded tavern downstairs was not for them. Well. More accurately, Sev had decided that the crowded tavern wasn't for him, and Misa had opted to eat with him so he didn't have breakfast alone. Which was a gesture he appreciated, really. "Looks like we'll be splitting the party?" Misa asked, glancing through her own messages, and Sev nodded. Vex had sent…
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Noram was looking around anxiously, in a way that felt rather painfully familiar to Vex. It reminded him of himself, but also... "Do you think all this is my fault? Some people are acting weird. I don't know if the mana changes caused it, but..." "You opened a door," Vex said, shaking his head, and trying not to think about his little brother. He offered Noram an encouraging smile. "We don't even know what that did yet, if it did anything. But maybe you can—" "Porridge!" Anyati announced, the…
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Vex didn't have all that much time to contemplate the behavior of the mana before he was accosted by what he assumed to be the owner of the tavern; a large, portly woman smiled brightly at him as she noticed him coming down the stairs, and immediately walked over to greet them, a smile on her face. "You must be the new guests!" she said cheerfully. "I'm Anyati, owner of the Sleeping Bird. I heard about you from Gensen. I didn't think you'd be up so early, though! I hope we didn't wake you up? I might have…
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The first thing Vex did was, of course, explain his concerns about what he'd seen. "Do we know what that means?" was Misa's immediate question, and Vex just shook his head mutely. "I've never seen mana behaving like this," he said, his tail swishing about nervously. He looked up at Derivan for comfort, almost automatically, and without seeming to think about it the armor reached out to take his hand and squeeze it — Vex froze at that little action, feeling his heart beating faster. He didn't say…
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Vex couldn't help but feel anxious. Something about this town — about Fendal — felt off to him. Where the presence of mana was usually a comfort, this time something about it felt... dangerous. Like it was a warning. He wriggled in his seat, slightly annoyed by the fact that the chair was tall enough that his feet didn't even touch the ground. "You said in your request that there was an infestation," Sev said. "What kind of infestation?" "Let's not speak of such things to start with," the old man…
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The bandits were, in all honesty, the most exciting thing to happen on their trip to Elyra so far. It would still take a number of days for them to get there, and they had other stops they wanted to make along the way — the Guildmaster had marked out two quests in particular that were relatively urgent and that the Guild didn't have the spare manpower for. Each quest was located in a small village that was just barely off the road, making it convenient for them to make a stop on the way to Elyra proper,…
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The earth was quiet today. Often, Velykos would be able to hear echoes of emotion from the earth, through his connection with Nillea. Sometimes it was fear, like there was something big coming, and little could be done to change its course; sometimes it was anger, like there was something truly wrong, and the earth was shaking in its desire to fix it. More often it was smaller — gentle, happy trembles, or sad little quakes. It had been most active when those strange adventurers were here — the odd…
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There was a ritual of sorts that Sev, Derivan, Vex, and Misa had started, now. They'd started it ever since they'd learned that the emptiness of the night sky wasn't the way it was supposed to look — ever since they'd learned that it used to be full of stars. They'd tried to tell others, of course; Max, the Guildmaster, the villagers. But no one else had been able to retain any information they tried to share, no matter what combination of skills they tried; whatever kind of infolock this was, it seemed…
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