Temporal pixies

[Anastasia]

No need, they have no seeming means to get you. If you're going to attack, attack.

[Nephrite]

Oh, well then. Fair enough.

Do I think Words of Creation could affect them in some meaningful way? I mean, he can just Divine Blast them, but I think that only really affects one target, so it isn't very feasible.

[Anastasia]

It depends on what you have in mind with them. Elaborate?

[Nephrite]

Well, they're abominations of Creation, and we can't make them 'whole' like Xandra can, but what if we simply sate them?

I'm not sure what the word would be here, but maybe ... hm, well, Abstinence is the opposite virtue, but maybe something like... using Words of Creation to simply feed them all with one Word, like 'Content' - basically trying to counter their awful nature with what Celestia offers through its Wisdom, if that makes sense.

So he's basically attacking them with the idea of being Content and Sated, rather than hungry.

[Anastasia]

f you want to try, go for it. Charisma check.

[Nephrite]

[14:11] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+26+26+15 Charisma, Rei
[14:11] <Rei-chan> Nephrite rolled : 1d20+26+26+15 Charisma, Rei --> [ 1d20=9 ]{76}

[Anastasia]

You call on the Words - and it is devoured. They eat what you offer and do not slow or stop, a simple and seemingly endless hunger within them.

"Don't think that one's your fault," Sylvie says as she watches, "More that the Father's that horrible, even his echos. I don't think it's possible for them to be sated."

[Nephrite]

"I don't disagree." Moore says with a frown. "But I hate the idea that..."

He blinks. "You know, I had an idea once, when I was thinking about what we could ever do if we had to fight The Father." He turns to Sylvie. "I thought about what it was that created it... and at the time I'd considered trying to ask for Sune and Lliira's help. I thought things like Love and Joy - emotions that The Father was never able to have because of... well, everything, might be the solution. I suppose I don't have much dominion over those things, but... I do have one over Hope."

He turns his attention back down to the creatures. "If they devour hope, then... do they simply become hopeful for more?" A pause as he starts to think. "I always wanted to try and save The Father somehow... show it love and hope that it never had a chance to experience. Even know, I feel like I want to try. I have to try, to prove to myself that these things aren't just a lost cause."

[Anastasia]

Jetina looks down on them, "There are some things that the only mercy you can give them is oblivion - be it a soldier facing a skeleton, a paladin facing a fiend or..." A shake of her head, "Just don't go too far and get yourself hurt."

"But you have to try," Kaja agrees. "It's who you are now."

Cresiel merely nods, "Fear not. I will protect you."

[Nephrite]

I know what you all are, where you're from. You probably can't even understand my words - but I will give you the one thing that will bring you salvation, the one thing that you need the most.

A flex of his divine will into this, as he opens his mouth to speak the one word he truly understands - the one word that he embodies.

Hope!

[14:40] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+26+26+15 Charisma, Rei
[14:40] <Rei-chan> Nephrite rolled : 1d20+26+26+15 Charisma, Rei --> [ 1d20=3 ]{70}

Again, again, and again, he will speak that word - speak it and keep speaking it.

Basically, if one doesn't seem like it'll do anything, he's going to keep trying. He's stubborn like that.

[Anastasia]

Con check, +5.

[Nephrite]

[14:49] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+9+8+15 Con
[14:49] <Rei-chan> Nephrite rolled : 1d20+9+8+15 Con --> [ 1d20=3 ]{35}

[Anastasia]

It's just like pouring water into an endless abyss. They simply and mindlessly consume.

[Nephrite]

There has to be some limit, doesn't there?

Even into an endless abyss, enough water would fill it up...

But, he stops, nonetheless.

"I think if I wanted to put a true end to this this way, it'd have to be directly to The Father. I don't think these can even understand the concept at all." Moore says. "Unless we threw them all into the Positive Energy Plane, or something."

[Anastasia]

"It may be so," Cresiel agrees, "But such a thing is beyond our grasp, if it yet lives."

"If," Jetina agrees, "But I don't want to ask him about it. Do you?"