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--- sessions:worldbuilding:2025-06-21 [2025/07/19 17:54] – shyriath
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 He shook his head slightly. "I wondered why Evrith had so much trouble with the concept of Ynudh; now I suspect I know. She believe Uvuun is involved as well. And looking to life is... not her strong point."}}
-{{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi nodded mildly, no disagreement in his body language about any of it, not even the characterisation of Evrith - it was, after all, the blunt truth of the matter - but went on to say: "Without meaning to make a mockery of all that, though, if a single takmar has managed to attract this creature's cosmic attention enough for it to send a thug after her, I would think it should be possible to distract its attention as well. Present something especially tasty to the thing that hungers, perhaps. Or, if indeed it must act through Ynudh instead of upon the world directly, perhaps just by breaking Ynudh as a vessel. The last time we saw him, he was alone, and we drove him away - at the very least I think if we put a concerted effort into it, we could kill him." And in that suggestion, he made it quite transparent that he believed every word of what Shyriath had said: Ynudh was not a //person//, and was not afforded the protection of decency that would have stopped An-uxhwi from considering premeditated murder.
+{{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi nodded mildly, no disagreement in his body language about any of it, not even the characterisation of Evrith - it was, after all, the blunt truth of the matter - but went on to say: "Without meaning to make a mockery of all that, though, if a single takmar has managed to attract this creature's cosmic attention enough for it to send a thug after her, I would think it should be possible to distract its attention as well. Present something especially tasty to the thing that hungers, perhaps. Or, if indeed it must act through Ynudh instead of upon the world directly, perhaps just by breaking Ynudh as a vessel. The last time we saw him, he was alone, and we drove him away - at the very least I think if we put a concerted effort into it, we could kill him." And in that suggestion, he made it quite transparent that he believed every word of what Shyriath had said: Ynudh was not a //person//, and was not afforded the protection of decency that would have stopped An-uxhwi from considering premeditated murder.}}
 {{wst>shyriath|Shyriath grunted doubtfully. "Perhaps. Killing him seems a more likely option than providing a distraction. If Uvuun is after Evrith, I imagine it's because she's an obstacle to the end of the world; something-" He shuddered. "'tastier' than that prospect would be have to be fairly cataclysmic."
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 {{wst>pinkgothic|"Speak of the bastard," An-uxhwi muttered. Somehow, the whole conversation with Shyriath had made him rather less afraid of Ynudh, not more so, and the fact a whole settlement was currently in panicked arms about his presence wasn't inspiring much fear, just discomfort. The distance, of course, was helping matters; were Ynudh bearing down on their little bubble in the stone, where escape was quite difficult and they were ill-prepared for a fight, he would certainly feel differently. "Unfortunately, I doubt they'll fix the problem for us, though I grant they seem to be trying. Perhaps we should keep moving."}}
-{{wst>pinkgothic|Shyriath stared out through the hole in horror. "An-uxhwi-" he choked. "An-uxhwi, Ynudh was following us from the north, that's coming from the other way-"
+{{wst>shyriath|Shyriath stared out through the hole in horror. "An-uxhwi-" he choked. "An-uxhwi, Ynudh was following us from the north, that's coming from the other way-"
 The gate began to dissolve into chunks, like a piece of bread left in water, and something stepped through. While details were scarce at this distance, it looked bigger than Ynudh, and darker - not as if it were in sourceless shadow, but as if it were a moving hole in space. Black mist writhed and coiled around it, and appeared to intercept and consume the various projectiles being hurled its way.
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 "Oh gods," murmured Shyriath. "There's more than one..."}}
-{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi watched the spectacle quietly, his antennae twisted into the draconic equivalent of knitted brows. Presumably, this then was the equivalent of this Uvuun making a tank after a single soldier had proven insufficient to the task. Well, either way, it wasn't very close by at the moment, and they still had a way's to go. Panicking about it wouldn't likely get them anywhere. "Do you reckon Ynudh is still alive? I wouldn't be surprised if he got replaced," An-uxhwi mused, some tension in his pose. "Why doesn't this Uvuun always do this, though? If it's so hungry, this seems like an effective way to... consume?... a bunch of people. But this is the first time I've seen this thing, and by the sound of it, the same is true for you."
+{{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi watched the spectacle quietly, his antennae twisted into the draconic equivalent of knitted brows. Presumably, this then was the equivalent of this Uvuun making a tank after a single soldier had proven insufficient to the task. Well, either way, it wasn't very close by at the moment, and they still had a way's to go. Panicking about it wouldn't likely get them anywhere. "Do you reckon Ynudh is still alive? I wouldn't be surprised if he got replaced," An-uxhwi mused, some tension in his pose. "Why doesn't this Uvuun always do this, though? If it's so hungry, this seems like an effective way to... consume?... a bunch of people. But this is the first time I've seen this thing, and by the sound of it, the same is true for you."}}
 {{wst>shyriath|"Most people in the world," Shyriath said distractedly, "have never seen a Chosen either. Except in the Citadel, there aren't that many of us. Even if these were far rarer than that, there might still be thousands of them already out there. It might not be that this one was //made//, not for this purpose - but that it was heading in the direction it last detected Evrith, and is just now getting here."