Looming poison (Moore)

[Anastasia]

It takes time. Many are offended by the question or are defensive, but you get answers out of most. By and large people tell the truth and none know the location of Yggdrasil. It takes well over a day of work to do the rounds with Lady Skye and only a few are left - Afina and Crystal, both of who are on missions. Or in the former case, who has just returned. Lady Skye exhales slightly, "Of course it would be one of them," she murmurs as you stand in the court.

[Nephrite]

Moore chuckles a bit. "I suppose we should've known better."

[Anastasia]

"Quite," Lady Skye bites off, "Elena!"

The ghost girl appears, today dressed up as Misalea. The outfit look surprisingly cutesy on her. "Hi, you called?"

"Yes, get Afina for us. Now." Lady Skye crosses her arms, "It's court business."

[Anastasia]

Soon enough Afina comes in, Lady Skye immediately telling her, "Afina, we have questions for you on behest of Her Majesty."

[Nephrite]

Moore gives a small wave, although he doesn't look like his normal and cheery self.

[Ebiris]

Afina gives them both a funny look before looking at her Majesty herself. "Yes?" she asks neutrally.

[Anastasia]

"Afina," Queen Ilsenine asks, "For reasons Moore will make clear momentarily, we require the location of the Yggdrasil. Do you know where it is?"

[Ebiris]

"No more than anyone else does... why are you asking?" As far as she knows you go there when you die and begin a new cycle... of course things like the leaf they found in Castle Crumbling and the fruit Ilsenine was gifted from Titania suggest it can be physically reached somehow, but perhaps only Titania herself knows.

[Anastasia]

Queen Ilsenine sighs slightly, "Please explain, Moore."

[Nephrite]

"I'll give you the short version -- if you want the longer one let me know. I visited Celestia and was given a vision of the future. We need to take Her Majesty to Yggdrasil, and apparently someone in the court has a suspicion about where it is and they're apparently right. We have to go there in order to counter... something that I think the fiends left undone when it came to Medicant and Lifasa. There is apparently someone tied to that that we have to put to rest."

He scratches his cheek at that. "There was a lot more to it, but that's the boiled down version."

[Ebiris]

"Lief," Afina says sadly. "Lixer and Taelfagn captured him shortly before you arrived here. It's what provoked our attacks on Lixer's holdings. But unless you're Queen Titania isn't the only way for a fey to visit Yggdrasil to die?" She supposes someone could kill themselves and then get resurrected afterwards, but she's highly dubious on that working well.

[Anastasia]

Queen Ilsenine considers, "So you have no idea, nor you have found any possible clues in your adventures, Afina?"

[Ebiris]

"Only that leaf we found in Castle Crumbling - which I had always been suspicious of," Afina answers, shaking her head. "More tangible was the fruit you were recently gifted with, your Majesty. Can we not follow the chain backwards, even if it takes us to Queen Titania herself?"

[Anastasia]

"We may have to if all else fails," Queen Ilsenine says, "For now, would you explain the situation fully, Moore?" It isn't really a question, not the way she says it.

[Nephrite]

Moore takes a breath. "This is going to be a bit long. They really need a spell that can transfer knowledge in an instant... they probably do. Ah, anyway."

"This all started a few days ago -- I was in Limbo and felt a horrible sensation befall me. It was like a sickness... like something just... hit me out of the blue. I don't know what it was. Anyway, once I got back I had Balyss check me over and she said I was fine, but something about her divination seemed... off a little bit. Like there was some kind of interference in what she had seen. I was told 'time' would fix my issues, but I didn't want to leave it at that, so I went to Celestia." Moore explains.

"There, I met a dwarf who had died, blind and deaf from a disease, I presume caused by some poison or something. Cresiel was with me and said that it was a message -- that we were blind and deaf to the problem. So we took off to Venya." Moore continues.

"I was told that there is a rot -- a poison within me and of a funeral veil that drapes over me to block out life. Now that you've mentioned Lief, I wonder if that makes the rest of this make more sense.

She said 'the harmony of order speaks of malice, that a song of hatred ripples through it all. A captive world where the poison of one suffering soul flows'. Again, my assumption is now that this is Lief. Perhaps somehow the devils have used him and are poisoning the tree itself? That... might explain a lot, actually..." Moore shakes his head. 

"They couldn't defeat Medicant last time, so they resorted to discord, strife and betrayal." He quotes.

"Save he who is lost or drown in poison. Evil never learns, never changes. It always degenerates. The devils repeat themselves. Do you understand? Save him or drown in poison. End his suffering, give him the rest a hero deserves." Moore says. "The final part is that we must 'pierce the veil,' and that Her Majesty must be the one to go with those she trusts with your life."

He takes another breath. "We are to go to the place above all to our kind, and apparently someone already suspects we need to go there. We must to the Yggdrasil."

"I should really write all of this down..." He says as a bit of an afterthought.