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[ENTER THE PALACE]
[You find yourself with a sensation like floating in water.]
[Above, the sky is dark. You can occasionally see things shifting, like gusts of wind, or perhaps waves of water. Is it…even a sky above you? Or is it some kind of giant ocean? Whatever it is, you can’t make it out very well. All around you, you appear to be floating in what appears to be water. It looks like a great, wide ocean of…space in every direction around you, with stars and lights twinkling in the distance. It looks like water and feels like water, but it doesn’t make you wet. You can reach your hand into it and pull some out, the purple and violet water and the tiny points of light inside it will even rest in your hands if you cup them to carry it, but once you’re not trying to hold it anymore, it’ll flow off of you, not a single drop remaining behind. You feel something similar if you go underneath the surface. The “water” doesn’t touch your eyes, mouth or nose when give the chance, it merely drifts around you, allowing you to breathe and see unabated. And you can see for a great distance, the twinkling stars illuminating the ocean of space all around you. Though perhaps less dark and empty, it feels every bit as vast as the sky above. You feel like you could swim forever and never reach the edge.]
[It’s quiet, here, with little noise around you but the starry ocean’s waves crashing back into its surface. It’s peaceful. In another situation, it might even be comfortable.]
[Above, the sky is dark. You can occasionally see things shifting, like gusts of wind, or perhaps waves of water. Is it…even a sky above you? Or is it some kind of giant ocean? Whatever it is, you can’t make it out very well. All around you, you appear to be floating in what appears to be water. It looks like a great, wide ocean of…space in every direction around you, with stars and lights twinkling in the distance. It looks like water and feels like water, but it doesn’t make you wet. You can reach your hand into it and pull some out, the purple and violet water and the tiny points of light inside it will even rest in your hands if you cup them to carry it, but once you’re not trying to hold it anymore, it’ll flow off of you, not a single drop remaining behind. You feel something similar if you go underneath the surface. The “water” doesn’t touch your eyes, mouth or nose when give the chance, it merely drifts around you, allowing you to breathe and see unabated. And you can see for a great distance, the twinkling stars illuminating the ocean of space all around you. Though perhaps less dark and empty, it feels every bit as vast as the sky above. You feel like you could swim forever and never reach the edge.]
[It’s quiet, here, with little noise around you but the starry ocean’s waves crashing back into its surface. It’s peaceful. In another situation, it might even be comfortable.]
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shivers, staring at it. of course the first thing she's going to think to do is... conjure a Mage Hand to touch the handle for her.
but does this even work, like, at all? ]
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[Goes through the orb and successfully grabs the handle!]
[It appears you can open the door without touching the orb, if you wish.]
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[The balcony appears to be overlooking a courtyard of some kind, but before she can take too close of a look...]
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[There's a huge crashing sound from a short distance away - if Sprezzatura looks, she'll see a hole just got blown in a wall and somebody is....stepping through the hole.]
[They raise a hand up and wave away some smoke from their face, revealing a white-haired young woman. Her eyes fell on Sprezzatura. She briefly looks surprised, then her expression just becomes a sneer.]
What are you doing here.
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she draws herself up to her full, diminutive height, sharpens her gaze. ]
I am here to help Miss Nessa. Who are you?
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[She bends down and taps the ground. A violet well of light opens up and she reaches in and pulls out a......VERY LARGE glaive.]
Help her into a shallow, unmarked grave!
[Seriously, that thing is taller than she is.]
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Mammon. Fuck.
[ no time to waste, in that case. she begins to intone and gesture those movements and words necessary to cast Magic Missile. ]
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[She hefts up that glaive, but doesn't attack yet.]
Yeah, you know what, go ahead! I wanna see this!
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she doesn't stop casting, but she slows... hesitation. her gaze slides past to the hole in the wall. does it lead deeper? ]
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[But this person is in between you and the hole.]
Come on, come on, I don't have all day, I've got destroying to get back to. Come on! I'm giving you to the count of three to do something before I do it myself!
One!
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she already knows the answer to that. so. she stops casting, but only for an instant. ]
Two.
[ and, instead of doing literally anything to this woman, she Thundersteps ninety fucking feet through that hole.
or, i mean. she tries to. sorry Jeff. ]
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[She reaches out and tries to catch Sprezzatura as she passes her and that blade almost catches Sprezzatura on her way past, before a thunderous BOOM from the spot she just vacated rocks the immediate area, knocking her aim off just enough for Sprezzatura to get past her, into the hole and into the starry water, where she can start to swim away....]
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[The woman spins on her heel, plants her feet, draws her arm back and HEAVES the glaive at Sprezzatura's back as she escapes, aiming right between her shoulder blades.]
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but.
she doesn't know how to dodge underwater. ]
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That was a cute little trick you pulled. But just like the rest of them...
You're going to end up just like her.
[She pulls the glaive out of Sprezzatura's back and lets her drift away, carried by the flow of the water.]
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the starry ocean pulses, pinpricks of light coalescing and blurring across Sprezzatura's as she floats.
that fast. that fast. you fucking joke. ]
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[Before unconsciousness completely takes her, she can hear a voice, very faintly.]
Oh, good lord, she really did a number on you, huh.
[And she can see two glowing points of yellow above her.]
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[…]
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[CH-THUNK]
[You feel a jolt run through your entire body, jarring you awake and making you take in a sudden, deep breath and sit up straight. Immediately followed by falling back down. You once again feel like you’re floating in water.]
done
[Your vision is blurry, but gradually returning to you. If you have glasses, they’re being held out to you. One way or the other, your vision clears up and you can see a woman standing above you, arms crossed, glaring down at you…]
[With a pair of glowing yellow eyes.]
Don’t force yourself to get up too quickly. Your body is still recovering.
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Miss... Nessa?
[ no. the golden eyes. shadow. ]
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That's my name, don't wear it out.
[She doesn't seem to have picked up that Sprezzatura has noticed anything is...off.]
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...
[ turns her gaze back towards the ceiling. only semi-conscious, she forms a fist ]
White-haired woman.
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Well, you missed this part, but, let's just say you and I have something in common, now.
She got the drop on the others while they were viewing that memory. I hoped since you snuck around it, you might have a better chance, but it went just about as badly as I thought it would anyway. Don't feel too bad about it. She's basically invincible right now.
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