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"Of course." Althea agreed. "I suspect that a part of it will end up with one guild or the other at some point, but as long as we are down here, I see no reason why you shouldn't study with us, or rather why we shouldn't study what we find down here together. Afterwards - I can't speak for all guilds here." She touched the stone of the walls around them, it was cool to her touch, a little bit moist. They would most likely find some plants or animals loving this kind of place soon. Moss, maybe mushrooms, insects. "You're assuming again." She stated after a while. "I never said, I won't take you out should the situation call for it. I simply think that betting your life on an assumption is a dangerous bet, when you have a chance to learn about someone else's intention's directly. I could still be lying to you, but then weare at the question what I might gain from that lie." Falling silent again she followed Myriad deeper into the tunnel. Bending down she picked up a pebble, turned it around in her fingers and pocketed it. It looked like a crocodile.
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Althea raised an eyebrow when Myriad passed her, the first visible sign hinting at an emotion for a while and turned around and walked backwards. "Mrs. Teleportation?" She repeated and looked the girl up and down again. "I'd prefer if you used my name, actually. And you seem to be pretty sure that I'll get you out, show we get stuck at one point or the other." Which she would. Brashen would kick her if she didn't. But it was strange that someone asumed that she would help, that she was part of the good guys. She wasn't entirely sure if the Mrs Teleportation part was respectless, or just careless, the carelessness people seemed to adopt around those they trusted. Had she been too friendly? Did the girls think of her as someone she could trust? Should she have behaved like Corette or Rig, doing her own thing without giving the weaker ones a chance to keep up and join? Althea looked at the faces around her, at Adren you had come over with a question, at Wes how hadn't even hunched down when she had handed the bracer back. No, for now things were good as they were. She had promised herself to be less harsh, less avoiding people. Max would like it, if she had more friends than just Tena and Zokora. "The plan is, to catch whatever we find next." She replied to Adren. "Although it will depend on what it is as well. We'll just take a look and decide if we want to take a closer look, or not. @ElephantEarwax
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Just walking into an Alley and ask for food? It sounded like a strange custom, but at least it was easy to remember. She discarded Alanis advise, her sister had never been the bravest person in the world. She hid behind the fact that she couldn't hear and - Temeria froze stared at her in surprise. She was talking to her. And Alanis replied. How had she missed this? Alanis had opened the door and adressed her and she had replied, and then they had talked and she hadn't even reflected how they talked. She had been so preoccupied with her own thoughts, with her problems, with the anger when she thought of her as more than just someone to ask questions, when she thought of her as her sister. Temeria lifted a hand and brushed her hair out of her face, although it wasn't neccessary. The gesture was mostly there to cover up on the fact, that she had frozen. "You can hear me." She stated slowly, and shook her head. "It's this world isn't it? With Elantrians and carriages that move on their own. They repaired your ears somehow." She couldn't quite cover the fear that made her voice shake when she considered again the possibilities. Immortality, hearing, the people that lived here were gods, and she would never, ever understand what was going on. How could she? She was nothing but a soldier. She was scholar, she wasn't learned and studying, learning was hard, nothing she liked to focus on. This world was the right place for Alanis, but she, she was lost here, she was like a feather blown around by the wind, never able to get back on solid ground.
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"I don't have a sword." Sagitta got to her feet as well, grimaced when her leg hurt because of the movement. "If I had a sword and my armor things would look a little brighter, but ten of them -" She shook her head, but grabbed the tomahawk. If she died here, she would die fighting. And if she survived, she would ask Price where to get a real weapon. She was tired of improvising with something else. Price addressed the travellers again, asked for their help, although Gati had already admitted that there was nothing he could do. That left the other one, and she wondered what their instinct might be. No, not instinct, Price had asked about magic, as if he didn't know what they were able to do. Price who was studying instincts, didn't know what their abilities were. That meant, they weren't normal. Add to that the changed memories and the Undead. Something was wrong here. She readied herself for the battle, calmed her heartbeat, focused. "Is there a chance that we hide? Or at least a part of us?" She looked at Price, suspected that he was the one who knew. @I think I am here.
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Hemalurgic spikes. Alanis' explanation put a lot of things into context and Temeria smiled when she felt like she understood a little bit more about this world. There were the good guys and the bad guys. And somehow she had met a nice bad guy. "Why are they called the Dark Alley? Is there a chance to talk to them?" She inquired, considered to search for them later, tell them that Mac had decided to leave. Maybe they would want to know what happened to him. She looked around for something to drink, but decided against asking that as well. She wasn't comfortable with Alanis offering her everything. Not when she had a place to stay of her own.
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Mike slowly stepped into the room, looked at the corpse and plucked out the dart. "It's the same one, than the one they used earlier." He stated and lifted it up for Mari und Lusk to see. The stench of the blood made squirrel gag and he quickly stepped back from the corpse, nearly pushed the dart into Mari's hands, wiping his fingers clean on a curtain. Still the stench remained in the room and he felt squirrel flee, hide in the darkness. Mike yelped in surprise, at the sudden change, he hadn't known that it was that easy to scare squirrel away, but then it made sense. Squirrel hadn't been there during the battle either, had only appeared when there was no other chance. For a moment he was alone. Then fox surged, and Mike's posture changed when Fox took the room in, looked around. His eyes rested on the dart again. Mike tried to push him away, to remain in control, but he had no chance. "What's the symbol?" He asked and stepped closer, his eyes changing as well when Fox took over nearly completely. Hunting. "Mike recognizes it." Fox stated and bent forward, close the Mari's hands to take a look at it. "A company, close to the nothern gate. Mike passed it, on his way here." @kenod @I think I am here.
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Althea's face remained impassive, his her disgust completely when she listened to Allri's reply. Arrogance didn't suit the young woman. She was too inexperienced to wear it with pride. "Or you could show a sliver of respect and don't try to incfluence me in the first place." Her voice was calm aswell, years of hiding her emotions making it easy to do so now. "I would prefer to work together on a base of respect, but it's up to you. Your powers, your decision." She let her words hang in the air for a moment before she turned slightly away from Allri to indicate that she was done with the topic. Allri couldn't know about her issues, and she had tried to help. That counted for the first try. If she did it again, there would be consequences. Mistborn or no Mistborn, Althea had no qualms to establish a hierarchy and replace respect with strength. "Of course." She agreed to Myriad's idea to form a group and looked over the faces around her. Sarah, Wes, Allri, Myriad, Karin. Six people. "We are six standing here together. If possible I would prefer that all six of us leave the cave again." Her eyes rested on Karin's face for a while. Apart from her, Karin was the strongest one here, but she doubted that she would care if one of the weaker ons got lost. She would just have to make sure that the others had as much information available to them as possible. Then they could hopefully protect themselves. Finally she looked at Wes and handed his bracer back. "Thank you." She said simply and then added for the whole group to hear. "It is entirely possible that we encounter more creatures mimicing abilities we usually would expect on one planet or the other." She switched on her headlamp as well and started to walk towards the tunnel. Corette and Rig were already there - good, then they could check the tunnel for unpleasant surprises. @I think I am here. @kenod @AonEne @I Rashek @Rushu42
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Althea turned towards the woman that joined their group. Allri, a mistborn. They were rare, so rare that she only once met one so far. It was interesting that Allri appeared so suddenly and a little bit too late as well. Chance? Maybe. Unlikely. This was Alleycity after all. Things rarely happened by chance. Another fact to keep in mind. With an internal smiled she realized, that she was keeping an eye on almost everybody by now. Typical her. Try to know everything, to learn everything, to control it. "I'm Althea." She repeated her name. "An Elsecaller. It's nice to meet you." She paused for a moment, then realized something else. Mistborn. That meant she could soothe. And riot. "Did you riot me earlier ?" She asked calmly, although she felt her throat constrict at the memory. A mistborn. Valuable, but dangerous. Allri could- she cut the thought off. Wait for her reply, then decide what to do.
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Earth. Earth was a strange planet and she planed on visiting them one day. There were several, and while they shared some aspects, they were so different in others. "Yes, originally. I left years ago." She noted Corette and Rig talking, made a mental note to observe these two. Slowly she considered who else would be coming along, who she might have to keep an eye on. The girl had stated, that she didn't die when she was supposed to, so there was huge chance she was able to regenerate quickly as well. Adren, Wes, Sarah were the weakest ones, although they could have some hidden skills she didn't know of. Easy to kill if they ended up in a wrong situation. She knew, that she wasn't responsible for them, apart from Wes at least, but somehow she knew that she would try to get all of them out one way or the other. They had lost enough lives during the last months and depending on the situation it wouldn't even be exhausting to get them out of harms way. It couldn't hurt to try to keep an eye on them. Althea focused on Myriad again. "If you have any questions, just ask them." She repeated Deb's offer.
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Althea followed Karin over and gave a sign to Deb, that she would join the scouting group as well. "Althea. I'm an Elsecaller. So should anybe get stuck somewhere, I can get you out." It reduced her abilities mostly to small part, but she didn't mind. There was no need for her to run around and tell everybody what she was able to do. Those who had some idea about Roshar would know, and the others could ask. It wasn't her job to educate all of them about Investiture. She listened to Karin explain what Epics were to a girl and nodded at her in greeting. Myriad, given the name she had introduced herself with. "Would you mind to tell us, where you come from?" She asked the girl curiously. If she hadn't heard about Epics at all, there was a chance she had arrived only recently in the Alleyverse. @AonEne @kenod @ZincAboutIt
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That explained the way Mac had changed. Temeria nodded and filed that information away for later use. "Max mentioned it at one point, and I didn't get a chance to ask about what they are, or where they come from." She explained, without mentioning the ring sitting in her pocket. She could turn into a being like a Returned, like a god. The thought was strange. She was nothing but a human, no god, no Returned. Aons, that was another word he had noticed. Maybe the magic they were able to use? "What about these long metal nails?" She asked about the ones she had seen Mac use. "What do they do? What do you need them for?"
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Althea looked at Karin and Adren when she heard Deb speak up again, shouted for volunteers of a scout team. A scout team. Her eyes flicked over to the Underling and she paused, wondered if he would choose to be with that team as well. She wasn't sure about it, but it was his decision. She was who she was, but she didn't plan on ordering him around soon. She would have to hand him back his metalmind, but as she didn't want to interrupt his conversation, she stayed where she was. "Let's go as well?" She asked them. "I think we have a larger chance to find something alive if we stay with the scouts." @kenod @ElephantEarwax
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"Of course." Althea noted the woman who had asked about Karin's survival walk away without a word of goodbye. Impolite. To ask a question, and not even show that you heard the answer. "I can trap them easily, but it depends a bit on the size and on their bodily abilities. The smaller the easier, until we reach a size that is best kept in a box with a tightly closed lid. With the huge ones, there will be a point where a simple prison isn't enough anymore and we might need to resort to a sedative as well. To trap something like this worm for a longer period of time, without blocking or hindering our path is difficult." She considered the size and the force of the worm as well. "And for a creature like the worm we would most likely need a prison with sufficient water and thick walls. I think we should decide based on the creature we encounter how to best catch them." Hopefully they would meet another one using some kind of Investiture. That was the part which interested her most of all.
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Temeria leaned back in her seat, listened to Alanis' words. Most of them meant close to nothing to her, but then she rarely understood everything Alanis was talking about. Or writing. Somehow it was soothing her, that this small thing hadn't changed at all. "I arrived today." She replied. "A few hours ago." No sense in lying about the obvious. Alanis would find out anyway. Temeria's face darkened when she remembered how Alanis always found out anything and everything, not always to her own best. Alanis and their mother had been difficult together, until the one point when their mother had focused on Temeria and left Alanis mostly alone. She had been the one to make up for everything their mother disliked about her sister, she had always been alone. "It's nice that this world has some spren as well. I missed them in Idris." She stated instead to distract herself from her dark thoughts. Talking about their family or their past together obviously didn't work at all, so there was no need to start it again. "What is an Elantrian?" She asked when she remembered the ring Mac had given her. He had turned into someone with silver hair, and his skin tone had shifted as well, although the dim light in the tomb had made it hard to judge the new colour.
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Althea waited until Karin was finished, then she inhaled, the familiar storm inside of her like a home she returned to. She remembered the man and his magical horse, how he had used huge, elaborate gestures to market his horse, and to signal it was well. Magic, real magic, no matter what you called it, didn't neccessarily call for huge gestures. They might be helpful to warn somebody that you were about to do something, but in the end she herself rarely never needed them. Althea looked up, considered which substance had the least potential to harm those around. Then she simply touched her mind to the spren, offered it some stormlight and the meat changed within the blink of an eye, turned into clear water, falling to the ground in a loud rush most of it flowing back into the pool, the rest leaving a huge puddle on the ground. "I agree." She nearly smiled at Karin's happiness. She enjoyed to talk to her, to discuss possibilities and to rule them out. It felt good to think about something else but politics, or her daily work. The ideas bounced of each other, were so different from what waited for her above ground that she felt herself relax further. The expedition was harmless, but it was like an open door to a store full of sweets and nobody was there to stop here from eating as much as she wanted. "We should try to capture whatever we find next, try to study it. Especially if its as interesting as this creature was."
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"I agree. Copying the principles of soothing, but not soothing in regard of Allomancy. As far as I know the creatures you refer to are able to create allomancy-like effects, therefore it could be something similar." She sighed. "It's a pity, that it's dead. It would be interesting to know how it really worked. What it used to access the power, if it needed something, or not. How much it was able to influence or direct the effects of its ability. Its actions didn't hint at any strategic planing of some sorts, so I guess that it was more instinctive, but to know for sure I would have needed more time to observe and judge its actions." Shrugging she looked away from the mass of flesh. "There is always the chance to find another one. Do you still need the body? Otherwise I'd get rid of it and the stench as well." Her eyes returned to the animal. "But if it really was something like on that group of islands, we have to expect to meet other creatures that mimic abilities."
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"Usually not." Althea replied, careful to include the word usually. If she'd learned one thing, then than there were no rules without an exemption. "An allomancer needs the metal, in this case brass, to be as pure as possible. Even a mixture that is a bit off can harm them." She used a cup to scoop up some of the water in the pond, looked at it. The worm lived in the water, so it would be logical if the water played a role in this. Or maybe not, and it was some kind of inate ability they hadn't seen before. "Brass is an alloy, it's not found in water or the earth, without any other factors playing into the equation as well at least." She emptied the cup again. "For a worm to have a steady enough supply of Brass to base its whole hunting habit on it - it seems highly unlikely to me." Turning back to Karin she tapped her foot against a part of the worm. "Additionally Allomancy is hereditary. It makes it not impossible for the worm to be able to use brass like a soother, but it adds to the unlikely part."
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I think we should visit Firesoul. She should be in favour of our proposal, maybe she can offer some input (both regarding the content of the proposal and how to sway the other gods) and additionally she's been around longer, therefore has better connections. If two gods try to convince the others, our chances to succeed in the end are higher. It would be great if we were able to convince her to work together with us on this one. [X] Visit Firesoul with proposal I have to admit, I like your second idea a lot, but I'm not sure if now is the right moment. I think we should be more communicative for now, do more research later. People already think of us as studying all the time, and there still are gods we didn't even talk to. I'm a bit torn between following our path and study, or try to build up a network of our own, so that we can get more support for our proposal. I'll think about that for a day, and vote then.
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"One of you. not you neccessarily." Sagitta clarified and narrowed her eyes at Gati. The way he had inhaled. Something was off. "We were talking peacefully, and then you come around and suddenly Zura forgets about everything and we're back where we started." She lifted a finger, added more detail to the facts she'd listed of earlier. "Then the boy is alive again, and I killed him myself. As I know for sure that neither Price nor Zura are able to do this -" her hand made a sweeping gesture towards the travellers. "It means one of you did the trick." Additionally there was the fact that her memories seemed strange, as if she had fallen asleep at one point or the other. But maybe she had, or maybe she was growing till. She lifted a hand and touched the skin at her neck. Warm, but not too warm. She wasn't developping a fever. Therefore she wasn't hallucinating. Stating the her memories felt off, was too vague and so she left it away. "What happened?"
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One of the people that created this world. Temeria wished that she might get a chance to talk to Mac again, ask him about all of this, about creating the world, about all of this, but she knew that she wouldn't. "He seemed a pretty decent person, when I talked to him." She replied a bit testitly, unsure what to make of the way Alanis talked about Mac. A DA leader. That had to be the guild he mentioned. That she understood what Alanis refered to gave her an odd sense of satisfaction, and she followed her over the stool unbuckeld her sword and leaned it against it. She made sure she could reach and draw it any time, then she sat down as well. "I've served as a soldier in Idri for a few years." She explained her cloths. "And I ended up here, the way most do. I travelled." It sounded like she really knew what happened, how she had arrived here, instead of hiding on a cart and suddenly appearing in a strange world. "How did you end up here?" She handed the question back to her sister, hoped that her answer might offer some more clues about the place or the whole travelling part.
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@I think I am here.
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"I will take care of it, once they are done." Althea replied to Deb and then followed Karin over to the worm. Adren had joined them and she was glad to see that he appeared to be unharmed, now that the pressure on her mind was gone she relaxed again, easily able to resume the usual neutral mask of face. She listened to Karin offer to run some tests on the blood, check if it was poisonous and lifted her hand. "It's not poisonous." She stated and showed them the little spots of blood she had gotten on her skin when she'd cut the worm open. "Otherwise I'd know by now." Now that she was close to the worm again, the stench of its intestines became instense and started to breath shallow, keep back the urge to gag. "Actually I would be interested to find out, how it was able to soothe all of us in the first place." She gave voice ot her thoughts. "Same with regeneration there are several possibilities to acoomplish that feat. If we found out how it did it, it might hint at the abilities of the other creatures we can encounter." Pensively she touched the hide of the worm, moved her fingers over something that felt like thick flesh. "If it really was some kind of allomancy, there is a large chance, that we meet other creatures using something similar to the other metals. Or maybe it was simply biological, which I doubt given that it resisted other Investiture, then it will be hard to deduct any information at all." Pensively she stepped back. "Whatever it was, it'd be interesting to know how it worked." @kenod @ElephantEarwax
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