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[aurable]

Hey, Drift here.

Brevity is the soul of wit and getting us the hell out of here, so I'll try to keep this to the point.

I've managed to speak to Remi, and now that I'm awake, I've been putting together what we already know. This deal with the orb, this 'phyllie' went awry, and now Remi has been feeding it immense arcane energy to keep up his end of the bargain. We all got a pretty good idea by now of how that's going.

I offered a possible solution, and it involves getting past that Sphynx and finding his body. The idea of offering something on our end to counteract the curse has been thrown around, and while Remi wasn't convinced it would work, he has expressed a willingness to try.

If you've seen me around, you've likely seen the greatsword strapped to my back. It's an artifact from Cybertron that siphons energy from my spark- the very essence of my life. Arguably you could call it my soul, but I doubt we want to waste time on a philosophical debate. My point is that energy can be channeled and redirected.

We juice Phyillie with pure, living energy and cross our fingers.

If that doesn't work, now would be an excellent time to develop plans B and C.

And

Remi gave me a parting gift that will help.

( ooc: please feel free to thread hop! )

Comments

text; un: kovacs

[kovach]

Yeah, I'm not gonna be one of those people telling you this is a bad idea.

[ because a) he doesn't know shit about this soul energy sword thing to know if it's good or bad one way or another, and b) he'd so the same thing if he actually had something worth contributing here.

considering he'd purposely almost gotten himself killed for the last orb, he gets it, so — no point in trying to stop him. ]

If you think there's a good shot of it working, I say go for it. Only thing I'd be cautious of is that you're sure enough about it so you don't just end up pissing it off more and getting everybody killed in the process.

[aurable]

Thank you for offering the one criticism that isn't condescending and makes me second guess my original idea.

Truth be told, and I normally try not to be so fatalistic, I think there's precious little we can do without pissing it off.

[kovach]

Like I was telling Yelena, if this one orb differs from the others in its desperation of hunger, it might be easier to manipulate.

It might sound like a joke when I say to sweet talk it, but I mean it - sweet talk it. If we make sure it knows we're the ones with something to offer, it might play nice, at least long enough for us to get what we need.

[aurable]

Remi left me with something to navigate the castle with. I'm not familiar with how the other orbs were obtained, but you seem to speak more plainly than miss Yelena.

I couldn't go after something sentient with a violent mindset, you could have a point. Is this an unpopular opinion?

[kovach]

There's a lot of heroics around here that like to preserve the violence in case there's a nicer way to approach a solution, with some a little more sensitive about getting their hands dirty. A few who don't give a shit either way.

I'm in the middle ground of knowing some people, some things, do just need killing. But I at least like to make sure it deserves it first.