Hoth: Blood and Ice

"Truly, Baes? I have yet to meet a droid that has striven for its own liberation, against its programming."

"I do, but I can't really talk about them too much." She grew serious, leaning back. "They have been contingent on..." She paused, the pain still too fresh. "But I suppose now there is little reason to hold back. I am going where you won't follow me, Zeno, but you'll be glad if I accomplish what I h...

"Is it something you'd like to occur, blurring the difference between the living sentience and the machine?"

"Damn you, Zeno." She punched him lightly with a balled fist, then leaned over to hug him, arms and lekku. "The most wonderful of all assholes."

For a time, she watched the place his contours had faded away, savouring the sensation he had left, shuddering at the chill that eventually returned. She didn't rage against this strange confluence of Light and Dark their bond represented; it was what it was, and she was comfortable leaving it abstr...

"I won't let you let me be alone any more than you already have. It is still going to be very lonely, but survivably so." She sat up and wiped off her tears, just now realising that her physiology should not have allowed them in the first place. A small miracle of clearing a path onward. Her lekku w...

"I will not sever it, Sylvain. I will cherish it. I will enshrine it at the end of the universe. You've always wanted balance, but your mistake - and mine - has been to seek it alone. You may be of Light and I may be of Dark, but this is this very alignment of the opposites that makes the connection...

"You know I've had no men after you, bastard? None. For a time I thought it was trauma, but all this time it's been a barb of a different kind. I can't even count how many times I've sung my heart out for you." Her tears welled up again. "And now you come over, all ghost-like and very dead, and spea...

"Ah, so you've noticed. Guess who's to blame for that." She puffed, with just a bit of resentment. "You know what my need is, Sylvain? I want to have passionate sex with the person I love. And you've taken that potentiality away from me. I am crying over my inadvertent celibacy."

So had he turned Jedi before he died, or was it something more universal? She sighed deeply and looked down at her prone body as it undulated because of it. "Do you find me in need, Syl?" She allowed him to take it however he wanted. She recalled maybe that one moment he could have turned her to the...

Moyr laughed. "It looks like you might be the smarter one. I've always been spitting against hurricanes." Then she sighed. "You realise that we may never see each other again, Aphr? We are choosing very divergent paths."

Moyr has ever appreciated camaraderie, and from our earliest exploits together Zeno has been a buddy. She never had too much of the 'exploit trust for your advantage' thing in her so she was glad she'd found a fellow team player. Back in Korriban she knew what she roughly wanted from her life but sh...

"For lack of strength to argue, Zeno, I'll say I can believe in some plausibility of what you're saying. But we only choose so many paths in life, and time has an arrow. This present is unlike the ones before, and there is no return to them. My freedom to choose a way forward is not limitless, but d...

"Always pursuing those AI goals of yours. Do you think they are as good as biological sentience? Do they stand a chance of being part of the Force?"

"I mean, this ethereal form. Is this some new form of existence after death you've discovered, you've been doomed to, or you haven't really died?" The words felt silly to her when she uttered them, though she'd dealt with various forms of Force ghosts before, so it wasn't entirely inconceivable.

It was time to part ways. Moyr signalled farewells to her associates and began preparing for departure.

/exit

So, Moyr rolled alive, Serenno rolled alive, Oddyn rolled dead. I developed different versions of a story in which their fates intertwined in my head for other combinations of alive/dead while I was waiting for DD to make those rolls. This is the one that resolves things: https://hoth.fallenash.com/...

Yavin I don't begrudge you for this attempt, Oddyn Vizsla. Darth Bellious knelt by the body lying in the bloodied thicket, swaying from sustained wounds. The jungle continued its noisy existence as if nothing had ever happened, and the statues of Sith Lords lining up the entrance to the temple over...

Your turn girl! The moment of the biggest satisfaction? The biggest regret, now that everything is set and done? The most unnerving unfinished business? The biggest self-inflicted facepalm that made curses fly? The biggest WTF/screen-spitting moment? 1. There are several comparable, for different r...

Katarzyna Panteer wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:22 am

What does the future hold for Moyr, Oddyn, and Valorus? Will they survive the war?

Still waiting for roll results. Will share it then!

I enjoyed the Count quite a bit. If Jocasta hadn't been a contender for the Prince's favor or if at least things had been better off on Alderaan and she wasn't so motivated to get in there and try to break the cycle and encourage some stability, she would've pursued the Count if he was open to it. ...

She was parsing it slowly, unlike herself. She was... shocked. To the point of staying immobile and staring.

"Is this what you are now, or is this what you do now?"

The moment of the biggest satisfaction?

The biggest regret, now that everything is set and done?

The most unnerving unfinished business?

The biggest self-inflicted facepalm that made curses fly?

The biggest WTF/screen-spitting moment?

The moment of the biggest satisfaction?

The biggest regret, now that everything is set and done?

The most unnerving unfinished business?

The biggest self-inflicted facepalm that made curses fly?

The biggest WTF/screen-spitting moment?

Dear Dapper Dog, Darth Chocolate of the Sith, First of Thy Name, For me, this 6-part experience is the single most memorable campaign of my decade of Fallenash role-playing. I have faltered in my commitment to other continuities, but to yours I have always returned and have never regretted it. I tha...