Wingsa [22 Nivvem 4385]

[sythyry]

Mirrored from Sythyry.

Wingsa: “Hello. The guard who called for me did not explain too clearly precisely what needs to be done.”

Me: “Wingsa! A pleasure to see you again!”

Wingsa: “I am not wholly certain of that. Or, at any rate, I am not wholly certain that it is a pleasure to see you again. After hearing the news about you, I would just as soon avoid you for the next seven years.”

Me: “Oh, my marriage, you mean? This isn’t about that.”

Wingsa: “Your tofitude to your own servant. What in walls possessed you to do such a thing? Did you think of the insult to the name of Glikkonen even for an instant?” Glikkonen being my common ancestor, with Wingsa.

Me: “Glikkonen’s reputation is safe in many, many history books — as is yours. My own reputation is less so. In any case, the current issue is not about that.”

Wingsa: “This injured Rassimel?” Zie looked at the body of Prince Rastomil, still unconscious and badly wounded — and carefully kept that way because, while it was certainly his body, it was certainly not his mind and spirit in it. “What is he, that he requires a wizard to heal him, when there are so many fine and well-trained members of the Healers’ Guild about?”

Me: “I am one!”

Wingsa: “You, Sythyry, are the kept lizard of a mediocre chef.”

Me: “True! But my marital duties have not caused me to forget my advanced training as a healer. Or as a wizard, for that matter.”

Wingsa: “Then why didn’t you heal him?”

Me: “He’s actually occupied by the spirit of the Lady Noshi … or perhaps Lord Kethji or even the supposedly-dead wizard Nanggi-Zi. We haven’t sorted the matter out for certain yet. “

Wingsa: “Nanggi-Zi? Nanggi-Zi is dead these decades, and the World Tree is a better place for it!”

Phaniet: “Who did she marry? Or do you have some other reason for despising wizards?”

Wingsa: “Lord Kethji. That wasn’t the problem. She was a subtle and vicious Mentador mage.”

Me: “Still is, I suspect.” And we explained matters.

Wingsa: “Fools! I don’t suppose you discussed the matter with the supposed Lord Kethji?”

Me: “… We’ve been a bit busy.”

Noshi

So we went back upstairs, and untied the doddering Lord Kethji, and administered various purgatives, curatives, remedies, and washings. He really needed the washings; the household routine had been rather disrupted by the battle in front of Kethji’s cell.

Jagraton: “So! Who are you, in there?”

Noshi (in Kethji’s body): “I am Lady Noshi. I’ve been trying to tell you that all along.”

Jagraton: “You were not!” But we looked at his record of events later, and, indeed, Noshi had several times corrected someone who called her by the wrong name.

Wingsa: “Now! Tell us about Nanggi-Zi!”

Me: “And how you came to be in Lord Kethji’s body.”

Noshi: “Oh, I’m still in … “ She wailed.

Rastomil: “And I seem to have yours. I will attempt to take good care of it — now that I’m not tied to a table and fed on dazing-drugs!”

Noshi: “Can I have it back please?”

Rastomil: “Now that we are rescued, perhaps it would be time for a spot of victim-restoring, what?”

Wingsa and Me: “We hope it is that easy, but rather anticipate complications.”

Comments

[foomf.livejournal.com]

How disturbsome! Where did that nasty bit of a ghost of a necromentic wizard get itself off to?

[bikerwalla.livejournal.com]

Well yes, there is yet a third prime with a third soul to be obtained... and for that matter, what vast magics have to be wrought to keep a fourth soul contained without a suitable living prime host!

Complications indeed.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Also the complications of undoing the various things done to the servants which would be reasonably-deadly should those things be undone incorrectly.

I rather suspect that Nanggi-Zi will have to be recalled before a proper breaking of spells can be performed.

[rowyn]

Did you manage to get the spell that was obscuring Mentador and Illusidor off the area yet?

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

Speaking of souls trapped in things, did you ever get that poor guy out of the magical crown?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

He belongs to Vae. It's a bad idea to take Vae's things. She said she was going to release him once Lithia either died or was saved.

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

She promised to release him before and broke her word. She had kept him in their for decades before Lithia even showed up.

There's no reason to believe she will free him once Lithia has either died or been saved. In any case, he doesn't deserve to continue being tormented simply because it's inconvenient to free him. To do so would be evil, and I do not yet believe Sythyry to be evil.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Well, there's inconvenient and there's inconvenient. I have no idea where he is, beyond "on a side-side-twig of a side-side-branch of Mrasteia" (which I intended to be more figuratively than literally true. I'm honestly not even clear that it's Mrasteia, or even Ketheria. Windigar the sky-pilot said that it was, and I never thought to doubt him; but I do not know how carefully he was navigating when Vae teleported him around.

Vae knows, of course. She won't say directly. Several of us attempt to winkle clues out of her now and then. It is slow going; Vae tends to burst into tears when we mention Brondigance. I suspect she would free him (viz. kill him) if she could; but she is being helpful to him (viz. granting him a request that, at one point, he very much wished for, to put it nicely) and she can't.

I did send out letters to adventurers' guilds and sky pilots: reward for information etc. etc. Nothing has come of it yet.

Vae didn't keep Brondigance before Lithia showed up, though. Vae and I did that research when Lithia was born, and because Lithia was born.

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

My mistake, my recollection was that he'd been stuck in the crown for more than 50 years, rather than the 26 he actuall was stuck there.

Still... you have seemed to be rather lackadaisical about dealing with this situation. As I mentioned before, I think you're being far too easy on Vae with regards to this. To the extent that her compulsions are affecting her, it seems to be that she has deliberately manipulated they situation so that they do, providing her with a convenient excuse for doing what she wanted to do anyways.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Well, at least Wingsa's being helpful as well as grumpy.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

So Rastomil is in Noshi. Noshi is in Kethji. Presumably Kethji got stuck with the corpse? Or perhaps he has wandered onward. While Nanngi-Zi is in Rastomil. It's interesting that Nanngi-Zi wasn't killing the earlier bodies with their inhabitants. If one of the earlier ones died, would that bring down the whole house of cards?

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

What if... Nanggi-Zi is really the butler! Omg!

It would make sense! The adventurers thought they had dispatched Nanggi-Zi, but in reality, they had simply dispatched the butler in Nanggi-Zi's body.

[arenhaus.livejournal.com]

It would also be very traditional if the butler did it.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

That's the implication... although she might just be evil and enjoy the thought of them suffering. I mean, it's what Vae would do (to her enemies).