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| Action Id: 4769 | Crisis: | Participants: Denica | |
| Status: Resolved | Submitted: Nov. 15, 2023, 5:55 p.m. | Public: True | GM: Smile |
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Action by Denica
At a recent ritual to Leviathan, Denica had a vision of her grandfather, Donrai Thrax. It was a memory of her as a child, showing him a painting. After which, she could still feel him watching her.
Denica was so sure Donrai was dead (she had spoken to many people on this), but now she is not. She is going to to places he frequented, look at things that remind her of him, spend some time immersing herself in family history and then she will paint. Denica will paint Donrai. She hopes through her painting, it will tell her, if he is dead or alive, to get closure, or plan her next steps.
Result
Denica's been haunted by Donrai Thrax (metaphorically) for a long time. In past years, she hasn't been able to get a direct answer to her burning question of whether her grandfather lives or does not. If he lives, then why the mixed messages? If he's dead? Who is watching her.
She begins to paint an image of a man who looks the spitting image of her late brother, Dagon Tyde wearing Tyde livery. He's missing a hand and he's staring at a mirror, she notes as she finishes painting a mirror. Or at least she thought she was as there is no reflection yet. So she attempts to paint his reflection. It's a difficult feat, more than she'd have thought, but at the end, what she ends up is with a bloody clump of mass. Any attempts at fleshing out the reflection just lead to many painted cats feasting on the bits of blood and gore that make up the figure's reflection.
Any attempts to flesh out her painting lead to the man's features changing a little until a strong -need- to discover the truth overcomes her.
She paints and paints. Taking out a new canvas when she runs out of room. The man's features seem to change. He looks exactly like Dagon but something is off. The eyes are colder. There's none of her brother's charm. She paints pictures of the reflection and finally gets something different. He looks like the Dagon-like person but dead, broken, lifted into the air by some unseen power. She manages to paint the Dagon-like person in the moment before, in a fit of fury, with a bloody stump. Again, he carries none of her brother's warmth. She wishes to draw more of that reflection and it's simply Not-Dagon but with both of his hands!
In the end, her entire studio is cluttered with paintings but they seem to have a vague order to them if she looks at them in the correct sequence. Not-Dagon living his best life, Not-Dagon gets attacked and his hand removed, Not-Dagon is killed and his body lifted in the air, Not-Dagon has become splattered gore being consumed by cats, Not-Dagon has a reflection with a missing hand.
The sequence of events may not make any sense to any sane individual but it's what she's left with. When she emerges from her studio, after what may have been a full 24 hours of painting, with achey fingers - Denica notices that mage sight is now trivial to her.
And she still feels watched.((OOC: Denica has crossed the threshold. You can request for a stat that is currently at a 5 to bump to a 6.))