( closed; quest ) the long and winding road

[sorser]

WHO: Stephen, Thancred, & Yennefer
WHAT: Three individuals go on a quest to help perpetuate better magical monitoring of the Singularity!
WHERE: ALL OVER THORNE
WHEN: End of March into mid-April.
WARNINGS: Some eventual monster-related violence and injury! But nothing else for now; will add as needed.



(( quest info here ))

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[funbreaker]

[ Thancred finds himself on one knee, with Stephen in close proximity. His head continues to pound with pain, and he sucks a breath deep into his lungs and lets it out again, allowing it to clear the haziness from body and mind. He doesn't expect it would be wise to stand until he's taken a few more breaths, and so he focuses in on Stephen, who seems to have also experienced a vision.

It's as if they all have the Echo. Did the Singularity do this to them? ]

You saw something, did you? Something from my memory.

[ He closes his eyes for a moment, takes a few more breaths. In and out. ]

It was different from what I experienced with Yennefer. We viewed the memories together, not...

[ Whatever it is that just happened. ]

[sorser]

Yes. I did. But it was like a flash, like something just… deposited the memory in mind. Without even bothering to ask, mind you.

[And it left him dizzy, nauseous, and confused once he had returned to reality — much like Thancred had experienced, as well. Why? Not that Stephen had hoped to traipse through anyone's memory, but the fact that the experiences were different at all meant there was another variable at play.

He shakes his head.]

You were on a— a ship. A spaceship? [He was under the impression that Thancred hailed from a place far more… medieval than what he had witnessed. His personal domain, versus what he had just seen, are hard to reconcile.]

Speaking to a bird-like young woman who definitely did not have life's best interests in mind. What did she do? Try to suffocate all of you?

[What happened after?]

[funbreaker]

[ Thancred can't begin to imagine why his experience with Yennefer had differed from the exchange that just took place between him and Stephen. Their recent proximity to the Singularity might have something to do with it, but he can't shake the fact that it's all so similar to the Echo. There's no saying that such a power doesn't exist in Abraxas just as it does on Etheirys, and yet this is the first he's heard of it. Or experienced it, rather.

He glances up as soon as Stephen starts to explain what he saw. That memory is much fresher than what he saw with Yennefer, the details still etched clearly in his mind. He nods slowly, not wanting to worsen any of his symptoms. ]

The Ragnarok.

[ There's a lot to explain there, perhaps too much for him to manage when his head is pounding and his stomach is churning.

All the same, he reaches out for a nearby tree's trunk and uses it to stabilize himself as he gets to his feet. He leans up against the tree, still a bit shaky. ]

Her name is Meteion. It's a long story, but yes, she meant to snuff us all out right then and there. That was the last event I recalled before arriving in Abraxas, but I've been assured it was not in fact our final moments.

[ By Hythlodaeus, of all people.

Thancred lets out a groan and slides a hand down his face. ] And what I saw was... you in some realm surrounded in color, facing off against an immense being who was, so far as I could tell, mainly just a face. It kept trying to kill you, and you kept returning, until it grew tired of you.