Recent content by Aderyn Verchtegid

Virspoke "I don't care what a dead man thinks," Aderyn growled, kicking sand into the brineborn's face. She quickly recovered her senses, however, and slipped back into the far more usual calm, kind countenance. She refused to allow any further taint into her aura. "I'm sorry," she told him...

Virspoke There were more knights, much to Aderyn's surprise and comfort. She hadn't fully noticed before that the militia had broken, abandoning the beach and the bluffs... maybe even the village as a whole for all she knew. Her bag was gone somewhere, hopefully dropped in the rush to get away...

Virspoke Aderyn ducked and weaved her way through the fighting on the beach, barely able to contain her confusion and staring at her hands. She didn't know what those spikes were or how to repeat it, but that hadn't stopped a couple from forming around her anyway, whipping through the air...

Virspoke The Brineborne that had attempted to kill Aderyn instead received the broken spar thrust up through its skull, splitting bone and flesh alike. It died with a final breath of ocean, rotting fish, and blood, speckling Aderyn's face with some droplets of its vital fluids. Her heart was...

Virspoke Aderyn only spared another glance as Arthur took her bag and urged others to take flight. She stepped backward carefully, creating and maintaining as much distance as she could from the sea demons swarming over and around the ship, making their swift ways to the beach and the...

Virspoke Aderyn ushered the young man off the ship alongside several others who either seemed willing to trust her, or were in such a trance that they were suggestible enough to listen if only for a moment. The majority, though were either ignoring her or were too enraptured to react. "Stay...

Virspoke The young man who came up to Aderyn and seemed to actually be listening was in distress, that much Aderyn could tell. She shouted again for people to disembark quickly, to head back to the village so they could all march away from the sea together, before focusing specifically on the...

Virspoke Aderyn ran to the docks at a faster than usual speed, admittedly in an undignified manner as she slid on wet earth, dodged people and other obstacles, and waved her hands above her head trying to get people's attention. "Get off the boat!" she yelled. "It's not safe! Get off the...

Virspoke When Aderyn reached out to touch the madman's mind, she was frozen as his insanity flowed around her, offering her a glimpse of what was to come. His psyche defended itself - it attacked her with nightmares. Nightmares of swollen bellies rising above dark, turbulent surf. Of black...

The village of Virspoke Coast of the Allir Reach Aderyn rarely followed the southern coast of the Reach for much of anything, preferring to make stops along the way to the stone north of her home. Something, though - she honestly hadn't known what at the time - compelled her to make her way...

Aderyn studied Hector for a moment, trying to figure out where "back home" was without having to ask. She liked to be seen as a worldly person - she'd certainly traveled enough for it - but everyone sort of blended together for her after awhile. Cities, too; the Shallows were forever etched into...

"Thanks much," Aderyn said as she slid the coins away. She considered Marta's question carefully, knowing full well that she could probably find someone. Maybe they didn't know yet that they had a heart-felt twinge of some kind in her direction, but she could certainly draw it out given the...

"You could always try to convince some of the Inner City that keeping people's fluids on the inside is more important than some new sets of plates but imagine that's a losing proposition if those people are here," Aderyn said. She rifled through a messy stack of papers until she found a small...

Aderyn put aside her tools and wiped her hands on the front of her smock before reaching out to take the list. "Poisons, venoms, and toxins... not a problem, plenty of that around," she said, tilting her chin in the direction of a particular cupboard. "Blood thickener and wound sealant both...

The dwarf passed Marta and her elf companion with a grunt - not an impolite one, if Aderyn could read dwarves correctly, but a grunt nonetheless. Aderyn smiled as the two entered, pleased as ever to see a familiar face even if she didn't personally know that much about her. Such was the way of a...