Fairy waltz

[Nephrite]

Somewhere known for (relative) quiet.

[Anastasia]

It's not hard to get a private little valley, virgin forest met by rocky slopes and capped by snowy, jagged peaks. You can't see or hear another soul within it, nothing but the quiet solitude of the mountains of Ysgard.

[Nephrite]

Moore will repeat the same as last time - a piece of paper with some memories written on it. He will also create a large rock, about 5 feet across with Words of Creation.

Then he will strum the harp again against both and see what happens!

[Anastasia]

Give me a Fortitude save.

[Nephrite]

[13:05] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+63 fort, mettle
[13:05] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 79 > [d20=16]

[Anastasia]

You feel momentarily weak when you strum, but you hold it together.

[Nephrite]

"Ah, there it is." Moore says. "A momentary feeling of weakness, but I resisted it. Now, let's see if anything else happens."

He directs the power of the harp at the paper and the rock!

[Anastasia]

The paper immediately is consumed - but the rock resists. It weathers a bit, but nothing immediately happens.

[Nephrite]

"Interesting." Moore says. "I wonder if it isn't that useful against material objects?" He says. "Should we try other things?"

[Anastasia]

Sylvie goes and grabs a roughly equal rock from nearby. "Try it on this. My first guess would be that a deity creating it with the Words impacts it."

"Oh yes, I thought that too," Jetina says, "Something full of new life has to be harder to undo."

"If we're wrong, then we eliminate it as a factor," Sylvie seconds, putting the rock down. "Give it a try, Moore."

[Nephrite]

He quickly reinforces his fortitude before he tries again!

Inspire Heroics for the fort save booster.

[14:11] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+63+16 fort, mettle
[14:11] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 95 > [d20=16]

[Anastasia]

This rock crumbles away without resistance, even as you again resist that feeling within you.

Sylvie nudges the dust with her foot before, "I was hoping I was wrong, but I didn't think I was. Damn. It's just the Words being potent in Moore's hands, not any weakness of the harp."

"I didn't expect anything else, either," Jetina confesses, "Weakness won't be this harp's problem, unfortunately."

[Nephrite]

"I think I'm relatively safe from its pull, but it may get stronger if we use it on something... well, stronger. I do also wonder if we can study it more if I just intentionally fail to resist it?" He says. "But... that's a bit too risky, I think. Maybe I could have my avatar do it?"

[Anastasia]

"It's your avatar," Sylvie shakes her head, "Use it as you will. There's worse ideas. Better ideas, but also worse ones."

"Regardless, I think we've established we need something more," Jetina agrees.

[Nephrite]

"Right." Moore says. "I hate to do it, but... we could always use it on something living here. I don't think it'd permanently harm them."