Moving spheres

[Anastasia]

> roll 4#1d20 all need a 20 anyway
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 4#1d20 all need a 20 anyway --> [ 1d20=8 ]{8}, [ 1d20=16 ]{16}, [ 1d20=6 ]{6}, [ 1d20=8 ]{8}

Nothing relevant - just thinking about how to restrain him if this keeps up and about the strange things he was rambling about.

[Ebiris]

Oh well! She waits for them to leave in that case.

[Anastasia]

After about five minutes of making sure he's out and restrained, he's left alone - save for a single man, who pulls up a chair and watches him. The same man who first came into the room, rubbing his jaw and eyeing the old man.

[Ebiris]

And what's he thinking about?

[Anastasia]

He's thinking about what could have done this to the old man.

[Ebiris]

You and me both, buddy!

That's what Marie thinks to herself. Lacking anything else to do right now she keeps on monitoring his thoughts in case they cycle around to anything pertinent like how the old man got here or any other particular ravings he made.

[Anastasia]

d100, would you?

[Ebiris]

[17:12] <@Ebiris> roll 1d100
[17:12] <Rei-chan> Ebiris rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=22 ]{22}

[Anastasia]

You begin to get it - feverish images of...something. Some great thing of darkness, twisted and eyeless. It strikes again, again and again, seeming to repeat over and over again.

[Ebiris]

Really what she needs to do is talk to him and find out where he was, and for that she needs him mentally stable... Marie prays to Alicia for a helping hand.

And Alicia creates a potion of heart's ease in Sylica which she gives to a lantern archon who is gated to the prime and then teleports to Honey Belle's room with the bottle perched on his orb-like body before carefully depositing it on her bed and teleporting back to the gate to return to Sylica.

Like clockwork, surely Antenora would approve.

Thus knowing things are in motion, Marie slips back out and returns to her inn to get dressed and resume her Honey Belle guise. Come nightfall she'll take a break from performing to infiltrate the temple once more and feed the old man that potion so he can hopefully tell her things.

[Anastasia]

Thus it is done. You find his room dark at night, the old man still fast asleep as Marie returns.

[Ebiris]

Unfortunately going incorporeal means she wouldn't be able to bring the potion along, so Marie is invisible and tiny but still a humanoid. One with clothes too, another unfortunate issue that can come from going incorporeal!

Using telekinesis to open the window and slip inside, she reverts to normal size, currently appearing as a dark-haired human woman, a hood over her head to better conceal her features, false as they may be. Unstopping the potion, she creeps over to the bed and opens his mouth to slowly empty it down his throat, lightly rubbing a finger over it to encourage swallowing.

[Anastasia]

Done. The man's features smooth over and grow placid once the potion is consumed.

[Ebiris]

Next she unties him before nudging him awake!

[Anastasia]

The man stirs and moans softly, from deep in his throat, "Ah...ah..." he slowly opens his eyes and looks at you, "What...what is this?"