EVENT #12: INVOCATION - COORDINATION POST (PART 2)

[abraxasmods]

Event #12 - COORDINATION ( 2 )

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THE ALTAR

[abraxasmods]

[unwings]

Player Name: Jay
Character Name: Castiel
Other characters involved: Norman Jayden

Action: Cas and Jayden are inspecting the altar, Cas is checking out the mouth in particular, shining his light power in there to see how far it goes/what's going on inside. he also tosses a stone in to see what it hits. he's running hands over it, looking for cracks, crevices, indentations, anything that might give under pressure. and of course, giving it a sniff.
Thread: Thread
Notes: this event has been so much fun, thank yall for all your hard work!!

[abraxasmods]

The altar smells like a foul mixture of herbs, rotting flesh, and blood. Inside is more blood and viscera as if the altar has been fed with sacrifices for a long time. The sound the stone makes is fleshy and wet when it makes contact with what is inside.

If the pair peer closer, they might find what looks like a human hand. They can try to pull the body out.

[unwings]

Delightful. Ok, Cas will go ahead and try to give the body a tug, being pretty cautious about it and watching for any movement of those teeth looking things on the altar.

[abraxasmods]

The body that falls out is quite disfigured. If they examine her closely, they will notice that the figure is breathing in a rhythm that pulses with the vines and forms that surround the altar. It is labored and painful.

They may try to keep the form "alive" for a few days to learn more or kill it swiftly. If they choose not to interact with the body further, it will perish after a few hours outside of the altar's mouth and decompose rapidly.

[unwings]

INTERESTING ok so the first thing Cas would try, since it’s looking like she pretty tethered to the altar for living, I’d see if they can kind of halfway put her back in? Enough that they can still see her face and try to talk to her. If that doesn’t change anything, they’ll just start treating her and trying to keep her “alive” right there on the ground next to the altar. So that’ll either look like rescue breathing or calling over someone with a healing ability that isn’t all but depleted like Cas is by this point.

We’ll be moving this thread to the ic exchanges section in a couple tags here, and they’ll be calling over Istredd and Urianger will help her with his healing ability. Cas will first try to talk to her out loud, ask if she can hear him, what her name is, how she got there, what she was doing in there, how can they help her stay alive. If she’s not able to respond, Istredd may try to communicate with her telepathically.

[abraxasmods]

She will not respond to any verbal communications. When Istredd establishes a telepathic communication with her, the body will "link" with anyone who is currently touching her. Though she is not explicitly capable of communicating, they'll receive a glimpse into her memories. They're not very coherent, but she appears to remember seeing a variety of god-like figures superimposed over the face of another woman who occasionally resembles Josselyn Creed. The emotions attached to it are soothing and awed.

Characters can sense that her vision looks and feels very different than the visions they themselves received of the shadowed figure. Hers is much closer to a typical hallucination mixed with reality, whereas theirs carries a note of something genuinely otherworldly or divine.

[unwings]

ok cool, good to know, thank you! A few more questions: would she seem to be responding to Urianger’s healing at all? Does her condition seem to deteriorate more the further they pull her out of the altar? If they start pushing her back into the altar, does that make it better for her?

Is it obvious whether or not she inevitably will die, and is there any sense of pain mixed into the soothing and awed emotions?

Since she seems like she's having more of a drug high sort of thing, is there any kind of chemical scent Cas might be able to smell or sense on her or inside the altar that might pinpoint a source? Does it seem similar to the jellies from the rituals at all?

Thank you!

[abraxasmods]

1. She will respond temporarily to Urianger's healing.

2. She deteriorates quicker when pulled further out of the altar. Returning her to it appears to ease her pain.

3. Yes, he would be able to detect that she underwent the same ritual they did, confirming that only the Summoned received a unique experience.