Anders (libertassumptus) wrote in valloic, @ 2020-06-18 18:11:00 |
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Netpost 18.06: Anders
Hello again, Vallo.
First off apologies to all the new arrivals I've not caught up with yet; my name is Anders, and I'm nominally in charge of the Magical Research division of Outlanders. Which mostly means keeping track of who's interested in learning what and trying to bring like-minded people together and secure them a chunk of the DOA budget to put towards said learning. If there's things you want to know about Magic, let's talk.
Normally when I do one of these things it's a "Hey, we poked a thing and learned some stuff" information dump or a "Hey, does anyone know about this thing?" net-throw. Today, apparently, I'm here to talk about skeletons.
I'll preface this, for the newer Outlanders, with the fact that the Waypoints don't just pull in fascinating heroic sorts like all of you. Occasionally they also bring through things with knives for arms, or bear-owl hybrids, or angry murder chickens. This week (I say week, I don't know how long this latest madness is going to last) it's decided to pull from Thedas, which is home for a few of us.
So. Skeletons. Specifically, skeletons possessed by demons who, on finding out they've ended up in a dead host rather than a living one, go crazy and start trying to destroy anything with the audacity to not be dead like them. There are a few different sorts, dependent on what manner of demon is doing the possession - some are fast and vicious, some are slow and lumbering - but all of them are vulnerable to fire. Or being smashed with extreme prejudice, if that's more your thing. Be aware they like to attack in numbers, and have a tendency to pretend to be dead before launching an ambush.
Fortunately for us, most if not all of the demons are going to be too weak to break through what passes for a Veil here and instead will die with the host. Otherwise we'd have a whole different problem.
Unrelatedly, I'm still looking into finding a space we can use to store anything dangerous or just potent-and-unwanted that comes through (new people: sometimes Vallo gives you things or places instead of people, we're not sure why or how). If you've got ideas, I'm all ears.
Questions, comments, recommendations for where to source new flavours of sugary whipped air all welcome.