Mechanus Trip

[Anastasia]

Syala sighs, "Now I'm glad I didn't insist on a bet beyond that." Shaking her head with a wry smile, "Let it go, Marie. You'll just have to go adopt your own psychic cat and name her Cantenora."

[Ebiris]

Marie sags downwards, deflating as Alicia scoops Martin up and pets him. "What a lot of silliness, aren't we glad we're past all that Martin?" the goddess of battle asks her new fluffy companion.

[Anastasia]

With that done, gimme a d100.

[Ebiris]

[03:47] <@Ebiris> roll 1d100
[03:47] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d100 --> [ 1d100=63 ]{63}

[Anastasia]

A few hours later and you've had kitty bliss.

'Oh, sister!' Jessica sends to you in prayer, 'Commander Oberuth is here and you should see how he looks!'

[Ebiris]

I'm on my way.

So Martin is left in the much better behaved now care of Marie while Alicia goes to drop in on her sister and former commander!

[Anastasia]

Oberuth is outside of Mercia, sitting on a tree stump as he eagerly tears into some bread. Jessica's there and smiling. You notice it immediately, the dark circles around his eyes are better and his posture is sharper, stronger.

[Ebiris]

"Sister, Hellman," Alicia greets them both as she walks over. "You're looking much heartier. Did you have a breakthrough?"

[Anastasia]

Bread is devoured swiftly before Oberuth draws a waterskin and drinks deeply. "Yes, Seira helped me with a breakthrough - both of you did. I've been in the Deep Ethereal. Horrors from my dreams spawn there and I slay them, over and over, with blade and stranger things. I've been sleeping better even with the nightmares since then."

[Ebiris]

"Interesting," Alicia says. "Honestly I was clutching at straws when I suggested that, so I'm glad to hear it worked. But what do you mean slaying them with stranger things?"

[Anastasia]

Jessica smiles, "I'm glad to see you feeling better. The last few times you've looked like death warmed over."

Oberuth finishes his bread, "Part of my training is about keeping a blank mind. It stops enchantments and the like from latching on, they slide right off. Sometimes I feel like I can push it out when I'm fighting them. Like it can be outside of me. When I do, the horrors recoil or go still. Or sometimes my anger and frustration over all of this boils over, and I express it with a word, and it devastates them."

Taking a breath, "Or when I stand true and unmovable, my foes grow immobile, unable to easily move away from me, like they were the mountains and earth as well."

[Ebiris]

Alicia nods in agreement with Jessica. "You do seem far more your old self. But hmm... when I was outside of Creation recently, Syala and I did battle with beings there. We didn't use sword or spell, rather we imposed our will and the concepts of Creation directly upon them. It sounds rather like you've been doing the same thing."

[Anastasia]

"Seira had the same conclusion, as did I," Oberuth concurs, looking to you. "Now, lately, I can see their weak points. No matter what form they take, I can see how to strike them and how to sever them. I can only come to one conclusion: Whatever's coming will involve the Beyond intensely. A soft grunt follows, "Sylian's turning me into a warrior to slaughter them."

[Ebiris]

"It's a strange coincidence with how Antenora achieved her divinity Outside as well," Alicia hums. "Just what does Sylian know?"

[Anastasia]

"Too much," Oberuth finishes sourly, "But I seem to have found what's intended to be done with these nightmares."