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sessions:worldbuilding:2019-06-18 [2020/01/10 19:22] – created shyriathsessions:worldbuilding:2019-06-18 [2023/09/18 15:05] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 {{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi jerked awake, almost striking at Evrith in the motion, his body emulating a fish trapped out of water, if only for the barest instant. He was instantly alert, his eyes wide, his antennae tense, his muscles coiled. "I'm ready," he whispered, without knowing precisely what it was that he was ready //for//, but meaning it regardless.}} {{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi jerked awake, almost striking at Evrith in the motion, his body emulating a fish trapped out of water, if only for the barest instant. He was instantly alert, his eyes wide, his antennae tense, his muscles coiled. "I'm ready," he whispered, without knowing precisely what it was that he was ready //for//, but meaning it regardless.}}
  
-{{wst>shyriath}}Evrith glanced nervously at the door. "They're suspicious," she whispered. "They expected me to do something to you by now and they're afraid we're plotting something, so they're going to put you back in the mine.+{{wst>shyriath|Evrith glanced nervously at the door. "They're suspicious," she whispered. "They expected me to do something to you by now and they're afraid we're plotting something, so they're going to put you back in the mine.
  
 It won't work if we try to fight them from in here. So let them take you, but the minute no one's watching you, start trying to convince the other slaves to riot - it's important that you do that, because now it's not going to happen soon enough on its own. Get them to come back up into the collection area and attack the gate. You understand?"}} It won't work if we try to fight them from in here. So let them take you, but the minute no one's watching you, start trying to convince the other slaves to riot - it's important that you do that, because now it's not going to happen soon enough on its own. Get them to come back up into the collection area and attack the gate. You understand?"}}
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 //Then what is the trick? We can just escape on our own, no need to involve a Soaker.// But if //that// objection truly came, he had a response ready - the benefactor would have to place much trust in the xtauh to reveal her tricks and risk being left behind for her generosity, after all.}} //Then what is the trick? We can just escape on our own, no need to involve a Soaker.// But if //that// objection truly came, he had a response ready - the benefactor would have to place much trust in the xtauh to reveal her tricks and risk being left behind for her generosity, after all.}}
  
-{{Swst>shyriath|The female who had sarcastically questioned An-uxhwi appeared to chew on his answer for a while. Her ruminations were interrupted by a male voice from slightly further away. "We should do it anyway," it declared. "You all saw Hijar get carried out of here just now. That's how we're all going out, if we don't do something."+{{wst>shyriath|The female who had sarcastically questioned An-uxhwi appeared to chew on his answer for a while. Her ruminations were interrupted by a male voice from slightly further away. "We should do it anyway," it declared. "You all saw Hijar get carried out of here just now. That's how we're all going out, if we don't do something."
  
 The female glanced over her shoulder at the voice. "That's how we're all going out anyway, if we try it and fail!" she snapped. "You do //realize// that, don't you?" She seemed about to say more, but other voices started piping up. "Then I'd rather die jamming a claw into a guard's eye-" "They'll never let us go, if we-" "They'll never let us go at all! Don't be stupid!" The female glanced over her shoulder at the voice. "That's how we're all going out anyway, if we try it and fail!" she snapped. "You do //realize// that, don't you?" She seemed about to say more, but other voices started piping up. "Then I'd rather die jamming a claw into a guard's eye-" "They'll never let us go, if we-" "They'll never let us go at all! Don't be stupid!"
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 And so he dodged the poorly aimed spear, diving toward the guard with his muzzle distorted in a soundless snarl, his motion curving upward rather than downward unto his prey, the pickaxe heaved against the pull of gravity, but with fervour, to strike optionally either the guard's neck or ram itself through his jaw.}} And so he dodged the poorly aimed spear, diving toward the guard with his muzzle distorted in a soundless snarl, his motion curving upward rather than downward unto his prey, the pickaxe heaved against the pull of gravity, but with fervour, to strike optionally either the guard's neck or ram itself through his jaw.}}
  
-{{wst>hyriath|The guard jerked his head back, but not fast enough; the point of the pick stabbed upward through his muzzle, pinning it shut. His muffled scream was cut short when another slave bashed his head in with a rock and seized his spear.+{{wst>shyriath|The guard jerked his head back, but not fast enough; the point of the pick stabbed upward through his muzzle, pinning it shut. His muffled scream was cut short when another slave bashed his head in with a rock and seized his spear.
  
 The guards at the rear, including the foreman, had already backed through the gate, but the ones remaining in the front seemed to be increasingly of the opinion that they weren't being paid enough to face off against angry, armed slaves, and began trying to force their way through as well. The guards at the rear, including the foreman, had already backed through the gate, but the ones remaining in the front seemed to be increasingly of the opinion that they weren't being paid enough to face off against angry, armed slaves, and began trying to force their way through as well.
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