Who: Lucifer & Istredd When: Eifstide's period + November Where: Thorne What: The worst people to be dealing with children (Child's Play quest). | Istredd's No Good Very Bad Reckless Experiment Warnings: N/A first thread, angry/yelling/violent Lucifer second thread.
Istredd gathers his strength for when Lucifer is ready to do his part. They are still an exceptional team when they put their mind to things, always in step. He has Lucifer's own mental strength along with his, they can accomplish much this way. His touch on all the infected children's mind is gentle until it's not. When they react to the sharp change from Lucifer, flinching and getting pulled away from their dolls even briefly, he makes the move.
Dispel. It is a dozen sharp cuts on strings that cannot be seen, only sensed. Puppet strings hanging over the children and in one slash he clips them, using his psionic power to do so. He was trained on how to manipulate minds and break them, but he's far more comfortable freeing them from the very things he could place down. This is in Stregobor's wheelhouse of creating what these children suffer from. He can backtrack it.
The kids don't outwardly react in an obvious way, they don't cry out or panic, but they seem to get dizzy and confused. A few drop their dolls entirely, disoriented. The others keep it with them but it's not clutched as tightly, it's not tied to them the same way. This was only a selection of children so it's not as if he had to clear a room of adults. They all pay attention to Lucifer's playing now, no longer possessed.
They're going to want to check in on the people who made these. I have a suspicion it was no simple dollmaker.
If they can find anyone. Similarly to there being no mark of an enchantment, I didn't particularly notice a maker's mark. Whether or not anyone--kids, parents, teachers--remembered who gave them the dolls. Wasn't there reports of dolls vanishing from shops?
Lucifer hears a lot of rumor on any given day. Most of it gets filtered out and ignored. But some of it shakes between the cracked flows of his mind to be shaken out later. He cared less about the dolls, obviously, but disappearing stuck. Disappeared, not stolen.
Better yet... He's still playing, if only because it keeps him from having to answer a renewed barrage of inane questions from the children, walking backwards in the direction that they're supposed to be escorting the flock. Without the possession, surely they can make this batch of misfits someone else's problem. He'd just ditch them here but the last thing they need is finding out the possession retook them.
Weren't the Summoned helping to create dolls last year? Again: did not care about the dolls; did care about tinkering with the enchantments. He does not remember if those dolls and these dolls have any likeness in the slightest. (They don't). But in the way of magic they don't really have to, do they? The Summoned touching anything has a chance to eventually come back and screw with the rest of them.
Edited (scrolled down SLIGHTLY MORE and saw what I've been looking for) 2024-10-30 21:58 (UTC)
You can probably end the quest on yours to turn in :D
So someone could be taking the dolls and putting something on them. Strange thing to do. Specifically to children too. Very predatory. It could be that adult minds are stronger, and they are only testing out these dolls on smaller minds.
Now that they are with themselves though he follows with Lucifer, shooing the kids along so they can escort them back to where they're being picked up. They do barrage Lucifer with questions and Istredd is pleasantly left alone, the benefit of being the boring book guy as opposed to the musician. He keeps up the rear guard and picks up one of the dolls that was dropped. Nothing on it now, a simple inanimate object.
Possibly. Although I'd think someone would have mentioned it already if they had. Istredd doesn't remember it himself but he also is not the type to make something like that. He's not a creative. I'll check in with the mages and let them know to look out for these. Who knows what they could end up making children do in a trance. Walk off into the night, steal things. Be bothers in general.
Look, is he going to fault someone for targeting the weak minds of children?
Of course not. A+. Good plan. Seems to be working fine for whatever seed of darkness may take root and grow.
Except it's messing with his daily life so Get Out.
Enjoy your freedom from the children Istredd because Lucifer could easily redirect the questions with a few easily placed words, but he doesn't.
Kids can get into smaller spaces. But if they really want to know they'll keep a possessed kiddo under surveillance and see if they try to return anywhere. Or something return to them.
There's nearly a spike of interest but it's still too boring for Lucifer to consider. He wouldn't put it past Thorne if things start escalating beyond this though.
Lucifer ignores "do you know..." some song he's never heard of. "Can you play..." another song he's never heard of. "What's your favorite..."
Just kidding he's done. He stops playing and gestures at Istredd with the instrument. "You know he looks nerdy but this man can single-handedly swipe out a pack of Torcainse from Nocwich with his magic and not break a sweat." Lucifer can too (though not with magic), of course, and even if Istredd tries to bring it up, they've already turned their focus locked to him. "Bet you haven't seen your teachers in action like that."
And that's how they spend the rest of the walk, Lucifer primly amused by the newly distracted children and their diverted questions.
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Dispel. It is a dozen sharp cuts on strings that cannot be seen, only sensed. Puppet strings hanging over the children and in one slash he clips them, using his psionic power to do so. He was trained on how to manipulate minds and break them, but he's far more comfortable freeing them from the very things he could place down. This is in Stregobor's wheelhouse of creating what these children suffer from. He can backtrack it.
The kids don't outwardly react in an obvious way, they don't cry out or panic, but they seem to get dizzy and confused. A few drop their dolls entirely, disoriented. The others keep it with them but it's not clutched as tightly, it's not tied to them the same way. This was only a selection of children so it's not as if he had to clear a room of adults. They all pay attention to Lucifer's playing now, no longer possessed.
They're going to want to check in on the people who made these. I have a suspicion it was no simple dollmaker.
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Lucifer hears a lot of rumor on any given day. Most of it gets filtered out and ignored. But some of it shakes between the cracked flows of his mind to be shaken out later. He cared less about the dolls, obviously, but disappearing stuck. Disappeared, not stolen.
Better yet... He's still playing, if only because it keeps him from having to answer a renewed barrage of inane questions from the children, walking backwards in the direction that they're supposed to be escorting the flock. Without the possession, surely they can make this batch of misfits someone else's problem. He'd just ditch them here but the last thing they need is finding out the possession retook them.
Weren't the Summoned helping to create dolls last year? Again: did not care about the dolls; did care about tinkering with the enchantments. He does not remember if those dolls and these dolls have any likeness in the slightest. (They don't). But in the way of magic they don't really have to, do they? The Summoned touching anything has a chance to eventually come back and screw with the rest of them.
You can probably end the quest on yours to turn in :D
Now that they are with themselves though he follows with Lucifer, shooing the kids along so they can escort them back to where they're being picked up. They do barrage Lucifer with questions and Istredd is pleasantly left alone, the benefit of being the boring book guy as opposed to the musician. He keeps up the rear guard and picks up one of the dolls that was dropped. Nothing on it now, a simple inanimate object.
Possibly. Although I'd think someone would have mentioned it already if they had. Istredd doesn't remember it himself but he also is not the type to make something like that. He's not a creative. I'll check in with the mages and let them know to look out for these. Who knows what they could end up making children do in a trance. Walk off into the night, steal things. Be bothers in general.
finger guns (sorry Istredd)
Of course not. A+. Good plan. Seems to be working fine for whatever seed of darkness may take root and grow.
Except it's messing with his daily life so Get Out.
Enjoy your freedom from the children Istredd because Lucifer could easily redirect the questions with a few easily placed words, but he doesn't.
Kids can get into smaller spaces. But if they really want to know they'll keep a possessed kiddo under surveillance and see if they try to return anywhere. Or something return to them.
There's nearly a spike of interest but it's still too boring for Lucifer to consider. He wouldn't put it past Thorne if things start escalating beyond this though.
Lucifer ignores "do you know..." some song he's never heard of. "Can you play..." another song he's never heard of. "What's your favorite..."
Just kidding he's done. He stops playing and gestures at Istredd with the instrument. "You know he looks nerdy but this man can single-handedly swipe out a pack of Torcainse from Nocwich with his magic and not break a sweat." Lucifer can too (though not with magic), of course, and even if Istredd tries to bring it up, they've already turned their focus locked to him. "Bet you haven't seen your teachers in action like that."
And that's how they spend the rest of the walk, Lucifer primly amused by the newly distracted children and their diverted questions.