Learning Experiences (Archer)

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

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HP = 37, PP = 38, EP = 41, Status = Fine

The satyr waited a moment after Vivian had finished speaking before replying, the feys expression unreadable; "Such would not likely be the result. From what I know of your kin, your lust fades as you feed, and while my kin and I might certainly enjoy your company, we are not so unrestrained that we would all attempt to have you in the same day. It is also my understanding that you can suppress your feeding, if you so desire, so as not to harm your partner. " The gruff patted her on the shoulder, but Vivian could tell that the feys eyes were a bit below her face, focused on her fairly massive breasts. She was still naked, and a quick glance down revealed the gruffs member slowly hardening, peaking out from the mass of fur around its lower body.

"Some members of the fey are not so different from yourself, Vivian, and they never fear for lack of sustenance, but neither do they fear for the safety of others as you do. You will learn to control yourself, in time."

 

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

Vivian smiles as her escort comforts her, "I was taking some classes on how to control my power but I never got up to the point where we actually practiced." She blushed a moment before smiling, "When we get back to your villiage I must repay you, and maybe I'll finally get to practice too~" She giggled, "I already rewarded your friend, though he will probably feel kinda queasy when he wakes up. I'll wait for yours because I'm kinda scared of these woods, I keep expecting for something to jump out anytime now." She shuffles a bit closer to the gruff glancing around at the shadowy trees suspiciously.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Vivian (Archer)

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HP = 37, PP = 38, EP = 41, Status = Fine

The gruff seemed to smile at Vivians response, but he glanced to his right, into the nearest woods, at Vivians mention of how the woods frightened her, and said; "There are dangers within the woods, yes, especially at night. You are wise for your years, for being so on your guard, Vivian." The gruff turned back toward her, but took his hand off of her shoulder. "We should be safe here, for now. Why not take the time to cleanse yourself and rest, while I try to wake him?" He motioned toward the spring in the middle of the clearing, and then turned away to crouch next to the satyr, the motion strange on a being with reverse jointed legs, and started roughly slapping the man every few seconds in an attempt to wake him.

 

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

"Right....I should really clean myself up." Vivian stood and walked over to the spring, relishing the cool clean water on her skin and sinking down in contentment as she washed her body off. "I missed the feeling of nice clean water on me. If anything not corrupted attacks us, let me go first. I know I look really horrible in a fight but I have an idea that would make the fight go much easier hopefully..."

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Vivian (Archer)

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HP = 37, PP = 38, EP = 41, Status = Fine

The water was cool, almost cold, and the spring was fairly deep, up almost to her breasts as she slipped into the water. The gruff didn't respond to her words verbally, simply turning his goat-like head and nodding to her briefly as he continued trying to slap the satyr awake. He was shaken, slapped, shaken some more, and then he finally began to sty as the gruff bopped him on the head. He groaned, and then rolled over to the side, clutching his stomach and his head in order to ward off both his nausea and any more blows form the gruff. "Enough! I'm awake!" He said, and after a minute the satyr rolled back and sat up straight with another groan. He scratched behind his horn several times, his eyes slightly bleary, before he climbed to his feet with the gruffs help.

"We may go when you are prepared, Vivian. We should not linger too long, as we are far from the grove where we might find safety." The gruff said, as the satyr gave her a lop-sided grin, the fey blushing slightly as he stared down at Vivian.

 

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

Vivian opened her eyes quickly after hearing the gruff's statement, "Okay! Coming!" She sprang out of the water not even bothering to try and dry off since without clothes it did little good anyways. She bounced over to the pair and quickly extended her hand to the satyr, "Umm...I'm Vivian, please forgive me for sucking you dry earlier I was in really bad shape.." Her cheeks turned red in embarassment as she faced the satyr she had fucked unconcious just a short while ago.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Vivian (Archer)

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HP = 37, PP = 38, EP = 41, Status = Fine

"Heh, sucked dry..." The satyr laughed quietly for a moment, and then said; "Don't worry about it, Vivian... You can do it any time you like." His eyes, like those of the gruff, were kept a little bit below her face as she climbed out of the spring. The two didn't say anything for a second, simply staring at Vivian, before the gruff suddenly grunted, and turned away. "We should be off." He started away, the satyr following a moment later after offering Vivian a quick grin.

The hike through the woods became increasingly unpleasant as Vivian had to deal with burrs, low tree branches, thorny bushes, sharp rocks, and an assortment of other minor pains that she simply wasn't protected from due to her nudity. The fey often had to pause to wait for her to get through something that they had simply strolled through like it was nothing, but she at least got through it without being badly injured, suffering nothing more than a few scrapes here and there. They reached the edge of a wide glade that was surrounded by ash trees, and had a small meadow filled with wild flowers in the center of it. The flowerbed was raised slightly, and the half-moons light flooded down onto a curved surface with a dozen different colors coming from even more different species of flowers.

Reds and blues and violets, their vibrant colors plainly visible even in the light of the moon and stars, filled Vivians vision. Atop the hill, within the flowers, a woman was laying, on her side facing them. She was naked, her form perfectly curved and flowing as naturally a running stream, and had vibrant green skin, and long curly hair that was the color of fresh ivy. She smiled as the pair of fey men and Vivian approached, and she spoke, her voice as soft as the spring wind; "Welcome..... Vivian, right? Your mother told me a lot about you!"

 

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

Vivian giggles at the satyr already trying to come onto her again after just waking up, though her mood changed a bit when she had to stumble her way through the underbrush, constantly apologizing to the two forest dwellers for her slow pitiable speed making the trip longer. She sighed in relief when they finally entered the glade, gasping in awe at the colorful flowers that seemed to glow even in the middle of the night. Upon sight of the nymph in the middle of the flowers Vivan blushed slightly she was getting ready to introduce herself before the nymph did it for her, as soon as she was finished Vivian immediately started to well up with tears sniffling. "My.....my parents made it? They're alive? Wh-where?" Vivian stammered her words out shaking in excitement wanting to run off in the direction her parents were whichever that was.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Vivian (Archer)

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HP = 37, PP = 38, EP = 41, Status = Fine

The woman in the flowers didn't seem to be in any great hurry as she shrugged, and then drawled out; "Oh, around here somewhere. Well, not here specifically, but, she did manage to get away. Well, both of your mothers, actually. Mina and Tabitha. They're around here. Somewhere." She was suddenly standing, the motion so graceful and quiet that Vivian hardly noticed it as it occurred, but then the woman started toward her. She moved like a wild panther, alien grace that left no touch upon the flowers around her, and as she cleared the flower bed, each and every one of them seemed to wilt slightly, and their petals closed shut, the color that had once been there disappearing completely.

The satyr and the gruff stepped aside, and the nymph eventually stood in front of Vivian, facing her with glowing catlike eyes the color of gold. She waited there for a moment, her head cocked as she examined Vivian, but then said; "You don't seem to have been as badly off as they were, when they got here. They had to be carried in, and I don't know if they've given birth yet to whatever it was that fathered the things inside them. You won't be glad to see them, mortal. They are not well." She then promptly turned and started walking, moving around the bed of flowers this time, as she continued into the woods. The other two fey followed her, not even bothering to check if Vivian was following until they'd already gone several steps, at which point the satyr would turn and motion for Vivian to follow if she wasn't already doing so.

As they passed back beneath the trees, Vivian seemed to pass through some sort of shimmering barrier, its presence only perceptible when she was physically touching it, as it felt and looked like she was stepping through a paper thin sheet of water. She was only within it for a heartbeat and a half, before she suddenly found herself in a forest filled with moving figures. Kobolds, trolls, gruffs, sidhe, and satyrs all moved around upon the ground, busy with a myriad of tasks or perhaps simply wandering without anything better to do. Massive spiders, covered in white hair, skittered about on webs that hung between the trees. The two fey she had come with were still next to her, but the woman that had led them there had vanished.

There were tents in the center of the camp, and the gruff pointed to them as he said; "If your parents are here, and are in such a state as Fara described, that is where they will be."

 

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

Vivian gulped and tried to look calm and stoic for the nymph as she looked her over, she needed no hesitation to follow sticking close as they left the grove. The magical barrier startled her for just a moment until she noticed their guide was gone. Vivian quickly began scanning the crowds looking for any sign of her parents, when the tents were pointed out to her Vivian spent no time in sprinting towards them, weaving or sometimes leaping over things in her way as tears welled up in her eyes. She feared the worst as she began rapidly looking into each tent trying to find theirs.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Vivian (Archer)

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HP = 37, PP = 38, EP = 41, Status = Fine

People grunted annoyance at Vivian as the naked part demon sprinted through the crowd, but she easily ignored them as she began searching through the tents. The first she looked into had a pair of men sleeping in it, both of them snoring loudly and spread far throughout the small area. The second had two women who, while they were both lying down, were most certainly NOT asleep, and neither of them seemed to notice Vivians brief intrusion. The third had a fairly dark skinned woman who was quietly sewing a rend in a dress closed, and glanced over at Vivian for only a heartbeat before returning to her work. The fourth had her parents, lying side by side in slightly raised cots, with a woman in a blue dress seeing to both of them. She turned toward Vivian as she entered the tent, and she quickly asked; "Who are you? These two are very sick, you shouldn't be in here unless it's important. Are more wounded on the way in or something?"

 

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

Vivian started to weep just a bit when she finally found the right tent, "They....they're my parents....how bad is it? Whats wrong with them?" She moved up next to their cots filled with a mixture of sadness and anger at herself, blaming herself that if she hadn't been unconcious for the beginning of the attack maybe she could have helped them. "They can't be corrupted....they're too strong for that I know it." She sniffled and wiped her eyes looking at the two of them.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Vivian (Archer)

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HP = 37, PP = 38, EP = 41, Status = Fine

The woman seemed about to try and usher Vivian out until she mentioned that they were her parents, after which she simply stepped aside and waited in the back of the room as Vivian knelt beside and between her comatose parents. After a moment, the woman said to Vivians back; "They were raped, and left for dead in the village where some of my kin found them some hours ago. They gave birth to.... Things, not long ago. They still haven't awakened, though we can't be sure why, and until they do we won't be able to tell if their minds are intact. We'll have to wait a while yet and see." She said no more, and instead began bustling about quietly.

 

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

Vivian knelt between them sniffling, "It's not fair, one of them is a great fighter, the other is really good as treating people. I sing.....it's not a fair trade. I shouldn't be the one who is fine, I had the same thing get me, I even survived it when my best friend got me and somehow sucked......" Vivian paused a moment suddenly quiet. "The monsters leave people as empty shells. They had their spirits drained thats why!" Vivian suddenly took one of their hands into each of her's and tried to focus, Mina had been trying to teach her how to project her soul for fighting maybe she knew enough to help them. "I'm....I'm going to try and pour some of my soul into them...if I end up giving them too much I might end up in heat again. Just to warn you..." Vivian squeezed their hands tightly and tried to connect her soul to what was left of theirs.

 

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

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HP = 37, PP = 38, EP = 41, Status = Fine

The woman stopped moving as Vivian began speaking, watching her as she monologues. "If that was all that was wrong with them, they'd have woken up by now..." She said quietly, but she didn't try to stop Vivian from trying whatever it was that she was going to do. She didn't respond to her warning with anything other than a nod.

It was more difficult for Vivian to try and connect herself with her parents souls than it would be if she were feeding from them, but eventually what she'd learned allowed her to connect herself to both of them. What she found within them was.... Nothing. Not even shreds of her parents souls remained. Instead, she found a.... Presence, within them. Whatever it was inhabited both of them, a weak shimmer compared to what they had once been, and not at all recognizable to Vivian. It was as if both of her parents were simply gone, their bodies left as empty shells which had subsequently been inhabited by.... Something. Whatever it was, it remained dormant even as she touched it with her spirit, but she could feel whatever the alien presence was slowly but steadily growing more powerful.

 

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

Vivian suddenly recoiled in horror tears streaming down her face, "They....they're both completely gone, whatever that thing was...it's using them as vessels now. And it's getting stronger, you need to warn everyone. Anyone who's been left just like them isn't a person anymore, they're all puppets of that damnable monster now! I-I don't know if they can be restrained safely we...we might have to.....kill them before they wake up." Vivian shakes in sadness covering her face, "I'm sorry I couldn't help you at all, I just hope that somehow you know I'm okay....I don't want you to worry wherever you are." Vivian weakly leaned against one of the tent poles sobbing, clenching her fist in a burning hatred for the thing she had seen in the sky.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Vivian (Archer)

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HP = 37, PP = 38, EP = 41, Status = Fine

Vivian felt a hand on her shoulder as she sobbed against the tent pole. The woman had come over to her, and placed her hand on her shoulder. She was... Different, from how she had been before, but Vivian couldn't exactly tell how, in her grief. "Thank you. For telling us for sure. We suspected but... We didn't want to assume anything. I'll see to it that it.... That it's clean, if that's what it comes to." She retracted her hand, and left Vivian alone in the tent. A few moments later, two gruffs and two satyrs came in, among them the two she'd met earlier, but they didn't smile to her. Instead, one of each stood opposite her parents, against the wall, and waited. The nurse came back, and gently placed a hand on Vivians back. "Come.... Lets get you set up somewhere. I'll make sure that you can be here, if the time comes, but I think you could use someplace private for a little while."

 

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

Vivian nods, "It's hard but...I know if I held onto them just because they looked like them more people would just end up like them and I know both of them would be cross with me." She smiled a bit as she was led out of the tent, "I'm just not sure what to do now, part of me is sad, part wants to destroy everything connected to those monsters. I guess I'll be beginning my life of traveling differently than I planned on." Vivian sighed weakly, she was worn out body and soul after the day she had been through. "I'm not even a very good fighter, I doubt I could avenge them, they'd tell me that it would be silly to go charging after monsters when I can barely swing a stick without hurting myself." She gave a small laugh trying to keep her mind from dwelling too long and driving her mad with grief.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Vivian (Archer)

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HP = 37, PP = 38, EP = 41, Status = Fine

"Just... Just don't go off doing anything crazy, alright? You'll be safe so long as you're here, and you'll have plenty of time to decide on what you want to do with yourself... Later. Just, try to get some rest." The woman said to her as she led Vivian off to a different area of tents. These were shorter, she'd have to crouch or crawl to get into them, and seemed to be made of dirt, though they didn't crumble or shift as she passed them. The woman led her to the end, where there were two tents. The one on the right had a leafy flap pulled closed, but the one on the left was empty, and she turned to Vivian and said; "This is where you'll be staying... You're not pregnant, so we don't have to isolate you and wait for you to give birth. You're free to walk around, and do whatever you like. Just... Please stay where I can find you."

The fey woman left her and went back to the other tents, leaving Vivian alone. She could go into the tent, and try to sleep, or she could try and explore. There were a great many of the fey around, all of them apparently busy, and there was surely something she could find to do that might distract her from her grief if she just looked hard enough. She found herself to be growing hungry as well, in the physical sense, and she had to wonder how long it had been since she'd eaten something.

 

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Re: Vivian (Archer)

Vivian rubbed her stomach as it growled angrily up at her, "Mmph.....I didn't even eat anything since breakfast...I'm starving...." She began wandering the camp trying to find some place food was being prepared, in the state she was at she wasn't worried about eating wierd stuff the fey might eat, she was so hungry she could eat a horse, or a gruff. She could think about other things after her belly was full.