Description
In disarray, this emaciated dark-elf catches your gaze and returns it with
malevolence and disdain narrowing her pale purple eyes. Her face is a pallor
of ashen gray and unhealthy, marked by soot and dried blood, obscuring her
otherwise sharp features, yellowed teeth, thin nose, and brow. Her hair is
kept long, chopped more than cut once it gets in her way. Ragged and unkempt
clothes cover her thin body, with many marked by holes, burned there and at
the fraying hems. A thin staff is in her bony hands, seemingly keeping her
upright and some distance between her and others. A smoldering candle is in
her possession and it casts a faint light and jagged shadows in any darkness.
Role
The Vivisector.
Added Sun May 12 16:26:03 2024 at level 36:
In the middle of it all, there was the faintest flame of the lone candle. It
cast a a pale light, barely any at all, upon the cold, stone room. A thin,
emaciated drow huddled in the corner, anger and fright fighting the each
other to outline her eyes.
The candle holder, an unusually tall and knobby gnome with a most bulbous,
oversized head, pattered about the chamber. The drow heard the echoes beneath
the thick wooden door, hushed sounds of other prisoners, other subjects, as
they whispered in fear of the gnome. They called him the Vivisector.
He did not even bother to lock the door, comfortable in his own powers, in
his own place of research. He simply locked eyes with her, uttered a word or
two, and her body became abruptly rigid.
The flame flickered, and she longed to find refuge in the shadow of its edge.
The gnome produced his knife and held it to the candle, and began cutting
into her abdomen.
"Marvelous!" he mumbled. She felt little through the pain, but the pain
subsided, and once again a tingling sensation roiled around her wound. She
could not see the dreadful work, frozen immobile, but as her eyes darted
about frantically, she felt the slice mend itself.
The Vivisector then held the candle flame to her palm, and the sear and scent
of burning flesh began to fill the room as pain enveloped her. He held it
there for what must have been minutes, but the fire and pain never spread.
"How it heals even so, remarkable!" he again exclaimed in his studious
torture. His curious eyes caught her and she felt her body become even more
suspended.
A tightness began to form in her head, a sharp pain like the knife was within
her skull, slicing blindly and haphazardly about, before being combated, or
thwarted by her own thoughts. A war began to roil, as the gnome probed and
she parried, but he pressed harder. She felt her eyes begin to dim as his
studies went further than any before, and she vaguely saw his curiosity turn
to something more menacing and unrelenting as she thrashed within.
(continued . . . )
Rawhead-and-Bloody-Bones.
Added Sun May 12 16:27:36 2024 at level 36:
The flame flickered, but this time there was no air moving.
He head askance to the corner, she witnessed the shadows cast grew darker,
more ominous, darkening as her pain and fright worsened, until the shadows
themselves slid vertically and seemed to . . . open?
From its doorway, or portal, a figure materialized, a scuttling deformity
with pointed teeth and four eyes. It locked its gaze upon the gnome, and its
gaping maw widened beyond proportion. As the battle waged and tilted to the
gnomes favor, the beast bent forward, nearer and nearer . . . and devoured
the gnome whole!
Barely a sound escaped but the flash of abject terror in surprise.
The candle collapsed to the floor but its flame did not diminish.
The magical hold released. In near brokenness, a mess of sweat and heavy
breathing, the drow stared quickly about, surveying for the shadow lurker.
Her vision still cloudy, her hearing took over and she listened to the faint
sound of hunger and claw upon cold stone.
The Vivisector had often mumbled how fear amplifies the latent abilities, and
at this moment, she was grateful it was so. She blinked, and found her self
flat, between light and shadow, just as the rush of elongated claws swiped
through where she had lain prone and paralyzed.
By the time the bestial sound of dejection could be heard in the chamber, she
had easily slipped through the door, then the hallway, then a winding alley,
and eventually under the harsh noon sun of Galadon.
What other horrors lurked so brazenly amidst so many people she knew not, her
only memories now being decades of pain and torture. But no one or no thing
would ever rival her for the misery she would now enact. The fire yet burns,
though a dim candle, but in its shadows cast loom mayhem and chaos. Soon, the
flame grows and will sweep across in power and carnage. This she knew,
strengthened by scars seen and unseen.
The Ember.
Added Tue Jun 18 13:58:45 2024 at level 45:
The scrawny man, startled from his rummaging for more wood in the ash, caught
the hollow gaze of the drow before him. Real recognized real, and his
bloodshot eyes gleamed with delight.
She knelt at the smoldering tree and thrust her hands into the embers and ash
and she too covered her pale skin with streaks of soot.
"These ashes of nowhere, they will soon be everywhere," she said to the
forest burner and cackled into the coming night, her maniacal laugh joined by
the man, then another, and another as several neared.
Searching, mesmerized by the ruin around her, she felt her fire drawn down
into the depths of the forest, and there she found the swirl of chaos and
magic, fire and devastation, and a vision for what was to come.
The dark phoenix welcomed her to the pyre, to rejoice before Ocaiye's
ever-burning flame. Solisren questioned her, of prey, of feelings, of worth,
and the drow grew bolder, for she had found her home, a place to be
captivated.
She held her hand to the flame and marveled as it scarred her, and her magic
regenerated. And again, upon the pyre, its obsidian easily slicing her
fragile skin, only to be mended by the prevalence of magic in Her holy place.
The dark phoenix questioned if she would stand out.
She already does.
The ember burns, grows, and she consumes.
PK Wins
Apr 18, 2024|Lv 16|Ar'atouldain|Khourk vs 1: [16] Ancarula (100%, defilement)
Apr 18, 2024|Lv 19|Galadonian Settlement|Engama vs 1: [19] Ancarula (100%, mental jolt)
May 10, 2024|Lv 30|The Citadel of Ostalagiah|Mraowu vs 2: [30] Ancarula (34%), [29] Yidezan (65%, blast)
May 14, 2024|Lv 37|Graveyard|Llyrre vs 2: [36] Chaizi (9%, black light), [37] Ancarula (90%)
May 14, 2024|Lv 37|Mausoleum|Kuolantra vs 1: [37] Ancarula (100%, frigid smash)
May 17, 2024|Lv 38|Mausoleum|Chaizi vs 1: [38] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
May 19, 2024|Lv 39|Ruins of the Deep|Cengus vs 1: [39] Ancarula (100%, mental jolt)
May 20, 2024|Lv 39|The Imperial Palace|Skeanz vs 2: [39] Ancarula (20%), [40] Yidezan (79%, beating)
May 21, 2024|Lv 40|Teth Azeleth|Oultuun vs 1: [40] Ancarula (100%, burst of energy)
May 27, 2024|Lv 40|Underdark|Blinkinbum vs 1: [40] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
May 27, 2024|Lv 40|Eil Shaeria|Morte vs 1: [40] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
May 29, 2024|Lv 41|Mansion of Twilight|Kheeji vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
May 30, 2024|Lv 41|Underdark|Kurrukuh vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
Jun 3, 2024 |Lv 41|High Lord's Keep|Pawlqre vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
Jun 4, 2024 |Lv 41|Ayr'Trinil, the Arial City|Harekulf vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, burn)
Jun 4, 2024 |Lv 41|Galadon|Aallandruil vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
Jun 4, 2024 |Lv 41|Galadon|Umrik vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
Jun 5, 2024 |Lv 41|Domain of Eternal Night|Dotmati vs 2: [41] Ancarula (1%), [51] Yidezan (98%, beating)
Jun 5, 2024 |Lv 41|Ancient Emerald Forest|Wyrlian vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
Jun 5, 2024 |Lv 41|Darsylon|Cengus vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
Jun 6, 2024 |Lv 41|The Eastern Road|Umrik vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
Jun 6, 2024 |Lv 41|Ayr'Trinil, the Arial City|Raju vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, burn)
Jun 7, 2024 |Lv 41|Ancient Emerald Forest|Wyrlian vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, smash)
Jun 9, 2024 |Lv 41|The Eastern Road|Isoegaob vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, thirst)
Jun 15, 2024|Lv 41|Domain of Eternal Night|Nymira vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, disruption)
Jun 16, 2024|Lv 41|Hamsah Mu'tazz|Wilgim vs 3: [41] Ancarula (18%, smash), [47] Zysal (81%), [51] Quzevril (0%)
Jun 16, 2024|Lv 41|Darsylon|Gothrak vs 1: [41] Ancarula (100%, smash)
Jun 24, 2024|Lv 47|Voralian City|Borakh vs 1: [47] Ancarula (100%, burn)