A Dream of Old Times
Dec. 23rd, 2006 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothLast night we had a session of Lazar's world-of-time themed shadake game. It was the filler episode he'd planned for the week Snowwy was missing, but hadn't actually done because, well, everyone else was also missing. Basically, we travelled alongside a Tinker caravan for a while, and many strange things happened.
The party joined the caravan in the morning the day after they'd left Four Kings. Fezzik -- but only Fezzik -- thought that he recognized many of the people in the caravan as old friends (of sorts) from the fakey tinker caravan he'd grown up in. The others did notice that for tinkers, these guys had a whole lot of weapons. Tinkers being famous as extremely fanatical pacifists.
There was other weirdness in the air. The first day, sounds all sounded like singing, no matter what they were -- talking, footsteps, the wind in the trees... and the number and nature of the moons in the sky kept switching back and forth between one large moon and the usual two small moons. Hariin spotted his old master Tom, who'd apparently just lost yet another apprentice, one whom he'd planned to settle down with somewhere... or at least, that was the story Hariin told them. When Hariin wasn't around, Tom didn't seem to know him at all. Just like when Fezzik wasn't around, the others in the caravan had no idea who he was or why he was acting so friendly with them.
There was also... er... Ophala I'll call him. A strange, largish, blonde-furred feriphal from 'across the waves' where they had 'tamed the one power' [in other words, Seanchan, although no one in the known world knew that name, as they hadn't invaded yet] who wanted to duel Sophia, chat with Kanwei about strange magical materials (Kanwei, of course, professed to have no idea why he'd been singled out), and find 'the gateways of wisdom, wealth, and will' -- large archway-like ter'angreals that he'd read about, and knew the ritual to activate.
Fezzik asked him if he wanted to try out the doorway ter'angreal they'd found in the vampire's lair, and of course he was eager to give it a shot. So that night, it was taken down, and Ophala went through the ritual -- he divested himself of iron, music, and fire, focused his need, made some silly handwaving gestures that looked like someone who'd never seen the one power in his life aping a channeler, then stepped through the gate and vanished. They stayed up all night waiting for him to get back (well, Fezzik managed to stay up all night, the others fell asleep), then put his things in their wagon 'for safekeeping' and assumed he was gone for good.
On the second day, Fezzik decided that his feelings could no longer be denied, and despite his dislike for the whole concept of love, he had to go see his old teacher, which he was feeling very strong affection for for some reason. He told her everything -- about Lucrecia, what they'd been doing, and about his real reason for not wanting to go to the White Tower. That is, that he could channel saidin as well as saidar. "Maybe you made a mistake? I mean, I was always able ot channel saidin, but I didn't know how to channel saidar until you taught me..."
The wisdom insisted that such mistakes weren't possible, and spent the day studying Fezzik, eventually bonding him as a warder to better feel how he channeled. As it started to get dark, Fezzik mentioned Ophala and the doorway, and the wisdom insisted that they go see it immediately.
So they were in time to see the end of the duel -- Sophia had eventually accepted Ophala's challenge, and they were fighting a very... messy duel, with all sorts of magic flying every which way, since neither was a purely mundane swords-person. Sophia was eventually victorious, and Ophala gravely proclaimed that she now held his honor. Whatever that meant.
During the duel, the wisdom mentioned to Fezzik that the strange feriphal was a ta'veren -- one of the important threads that shaped the pattern, or rather a person who'd destiny altered the destinies of everyone around him. Afterwards, she interviewed him about his experiences through the gate. He was vague and dire about it, refusing to give specifics, only that some of what they'd told him was impossible, while the rest was merely very very bad if it was true.
So the wisdom decided to go through the gate, and did so at once. Fezzik sat watching the gate, waiting for the woman he loved and was bonded to -- but somehow could no longer feel, although the link was still there -- to return... to no avail.
last session | next session
I suspect the wisdom vanished to get Fezzik undoomed from the quite comprehensive and thorough dooming he'd done to himself after being enchanted to love the wisdom there... the question now is, should he follow her through, to get her back?
And should Sophia ransom back Ophala's honor to him? Perhaps in return for a cuendillar sword or two?
The party joined the caravan in the morning the day after they'd left Four Kings. Fezzik -- but only Fezzik -- thought that he recognized many of the people in the caravan as old friends (of sorts) from the fakey tinker caravan he'd grown up in. The others did notice that for tinkers, these guys had a whole lot of weapons. Tinkers being famous as extremely fanatical pacifists.
There was other weirdness in the air. The first day, sounds all sounded like singing, no matter what they were -- talking, footsteps, the wind in the trees... and the number and nature of the moons in the sky kept switching back and forth between one large moon and the usual two small moons. Hariin spotted his old master Tom, who'd apparently just lost yet another apprentice, one whom he'd planned to settle down with somewhere... or at least, that was the story Hariin told them. When Hariin wasn't around, Tom didn't seem to know him at all. Just like when Fezzik wasn't around, the others in the caravan had no idea who he was or why he was acting so friendly with them.
There was also... er... Ophala I'll call him. A strange, largish, blonde-furred feriphal from 'across the waves' where they had 'tamed the one power' [in other words, Seanchan, although no one in the known world knew that name, as they hadn't invaded yet] who wanted to duel Sophia, chat with Kanwei about strange magical materials (Kanwei, of course, professed to have no idea why he'd been singled out), and find 'the gateways of wisdom, wealth, and will' -- large archway-like ter'angreals that he'd read about, and knew the ritual to activate.
Fezzik asked him if he wanted to try out the doorway ter'angreal they'd found in the vampire's lair, and of course he was eager to give it a shot. So that night, it was taken down, and Ophala went through the ritual -- he divested himself of iron, music, and fire, focused his need, made some silly handwaving gestures that looked like someone who'd never seen the one power in his life aping a channeler, then stepped through the gate and vanished. They stayed up all night waiting for him to get back (well, Fezzik managed to stay up all night, the others fell asleep), then put his things in their wagon 'for safekeeping' and assumed he was gone for good.
On the second day, Fezzik decided that his feelings could no longer be denied, and despite his dislike for the whole concept of love, he had to go see his old teacher, which he was feeling very strong affection for for some reason. He told her everything -- about Lucrecia, what they'd been doing, and about his real reason for not wanting to go to the White Tower. That is, that he could channel saidin as well as saidar. "Maybe you made a mistake? I mean, I was always able ot channel saidin, but I didn't know how to channel saidar until you taught me..."
The wisdom insisted that such mistakes weren't possible, and spent the day studying Fezzik, eventually bonding him as a warder to better feel how he channeled. As it started to get dark, Fezzik mentioned Ophala and the doorway, and the wisdom insisted that they go see it immediately.
So they were in time to see the end of the duel -- Sophia had eventually accepted Ophala's challenge, and they were fighting a very... messy duel, with all sorts of magic flying every which way, since neither was a purely mundane swords-person. Sophia was eventually victorious, and Ophala gravely proclaimed that she now held his honor. Whatever that meant.
During the duel, the wisdom mentioned to Fezzik that the strange feriphal was a ta'veren -- one of the important threads that shaped the pattern, or rather a person who'd destiny altered the destinies of everyone around him. Afterwards, she interviewed him about his experiences through the gate. He was vague and dire about it, refusing to give specifics, only that some of what they'd told him was impossible, while the rest was merely very very bad if it was true.
So the wisdom decided to go through the gate, and did so at once. Fezzik sat watching the gate, waiting for the woman he loved and was bonded to -- but somehow could no longer feel, although the link was still there -- to return... to no avail.
last session | next session
I suspect the wisdom vanished to get Fezzik undoomed from the quite comprehensive and thorough dooming he'd done to himself after being enchanted to love the wisdom there... the question now is, should he follow her through, to get her back?
And should Sophia ransom back Ophala's honor to him? Perhaps in return for a cuendillar sword or two?
