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Post by Daos on Mar 13, 2020 15:34:33 GMT -8
Ladonna re-enters the manor and heads for her room. Along the way, while in a hall, she is approached by a strange looking gnomish woman. She is a young adult, with a stout build and round face. She has long, brown hair in twin pigtails. Her eyes are green, but her face is covered in white paint, making her look pale. She's dressed like some kind of jester, and is wearing bells all over. "Never seen, but known," she says. "Into the dark woods of the sun, with the moons right behind her. Following, watching--always watching. What do they find so interesting about you?"
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Post by HorizonsDream on Mar 13, 2020 17:13:49 GMT -8
"What?" Ladonna asks the woman curiously.
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Post by Daos on Mar 13, 2020 18:15:16 GMT -8
"What?" the woman repeats. She slowly begins to dance in a circle around Ladonna as she speaks. "That is the first part of the question, but not all of it. What...what do you want?" she asks. "Riches?" She cups her hands together, and suddenly they are filled with coins, rings, and small jewels. She then claps her hands together, and the wealth vanishes as if made of air. She dances around Ladonna a bit more. "Twue wove?" she asks, putting her hands on her cheeks and demurely batting her eyes. She then dances a bit more before stopping again. "Death to your enemies?" she asks in a deep, reverberating voice. She then sweetly chuckles in her normal voice.
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Post by HorizonsDream on Mar 14, 2020 10:45:19 GMT -8
"I don't freely go around telling strangers my wishes," Ladonna says.
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Post by Daos on Mar 14, 2020 13:58:20 GMT -8
"Strangers? But we are all strangers," the gnome woman says. "We come into this world alone, and we leave it alone. Nobody truly knows anyone else. We all wear our...masks." She swipes her hands before her face, changing her expression drastically with each swipe.
"But," she continues, "if you wish a name to go for my face, then Unakite will do."
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Post by HorizonsDream on Mar 14, 2020 15:48:52 GMT -8
"I'm Ladonna," she says. "And what do you do here?"
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Post by Daos on Mar 14, 2020 16:16:58 GMT -8
"I know," Unakite says simply. "The moons always watch, the winds always listen. 'Ladonna.' The Lady. The Lady who walked the woods of the sun. The Lady who sewed chaos by letting the poachers flee. The Lady who lied to her lord. My, my. So unpredictable. What will The Lady do next? All eyes and ears are on her, waiting, watching, listening..."
She pulls out a dagger with a skull shaped pommel, then flips it into the air. While it is in mid-air, she whips out a second. She tosses it into the air just as she catches the first one. Soon, she is juggling both, then adds a third one to the mix. "I do many things, and I do nothing. I am called many things. Jester, joker, mime, harlequin." One by one, the daggers seem to vanish into thin air, as if they never existed at all, until they are all gone. She gives a theatrical bow.
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Post by HorizonsDream on Mar 15, 2020 15:32:00 GMT -8
"Assasian?" Ladonna asks in amusement. That profession seems to fit this person quite well.
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Post by Daos on Mar 15, 2020 15:55:24 GMT -8
"Anyone can be, for the right price," Unakite says. "You wish someone dead then?"
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Post by HorizonsDream on Mar 16, 2020 10:38:13 GMT -8
"No," Ladonna shakes her head. "Though, it seems like something that you would be willing to do if I did wish someone dead. My wishes are a little more tame I suppose," she says vaguely. "My current wish is to make things up to the Count."
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Post by Daos on Mar 16, 2020 13:47:52 GMT -8
"I see, I see...earn back his trust, so he lowers his guard and never sees your next act of treachery coming," Unakite says, nodding sagely. "A cunning plan, but a difficult one."
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Post by HorizonsDream on Mar 16, 2020 18:18:12 GMT -8
"Who says I have another plan to betray anyone in mind?" Ladonna asks, clearly amused. "But you aren't wrong that it is a difficult task."
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Post by Daos on Mar 16, 2020 19:23:08 GMT -8
Unakite chuckles. "What a wild card you are...we have that in common. I look forward to seeing what you do next...just like the moons." She then mutters something incomprehensible and Ladonna watches as she starts to fade away, starting at the feet, then moving upward, until nothing remains but her eyes, wide grin and that white face makeup. Eventually, those fade, too, until Ladonna is left standing in the hall alone.
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Post by HorizonsDream on Mar 17, 2020 10:50:20 GMT -8
Ladonna stares at the empty space that once held the gnome, and then shakes her head. There were certainly some weird characters in the manor. She heads off to her room.
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Post by Daos on Mar 17, 2020 14:42:15 GMT -8
Ladonna returns to her room, finding it just as she left it when she departed that morning.
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