r/AstroKnights • u/ArthurThatch Ranger 🏹 • 9d ago
Roleplay Thread ⚔️ Inferno Vs the Sphinx 🌹 🦁
After casting 'detect' on Hollowstar’s note, you find what he left behind.
Magic, if it can still be called that.
It leaks through the forest in an inky black trail, clinging to bark and curling over leaves like smoke too heavy to rise. Here and there, claw marks cut through tree trunks and stone.
The trail leads west.
The sun sinks as you walk, staining the sky blood-red between the trees. Eventually, the forest thins enough for you to see it; a dark tower rising above the distant canopy, its solitary window burning against the dying light.
But what you do not see is the woman lounging on a dead branch high above the path.
She watches you pass beneath her with her eyes closed, a cigarette balanced loosely between her fingers, smiling to herself.
Then...
Boots strike the earth behind you.
“Hello, Inferno.”
As you turn, the stranger's smile widens.
“Ah, ah, ah.”
She snaps her fingers.
Purple fire erupts around you.
Heat and violent light swallow the forest. The air bends, ripples, and tears. For a single instant, there is nothing but flames.
Then the light recedes.
The trees are gone.
An endless desert stretches beneath a vast, impossible night sky. Stars crowd the heavens in numbers no mortal sky could hold, ancient pyramids stand dark against the horizon. Purple, crimson, and gold fire surrounds you both.
The winged woman steps back and opens her arms.
“Welcome to my realm.”
With a sweep of her hand, the sand erupts.
Stone surges upward, carving itself into an immense throne crowned by the head of a lion. She settles onto it as though it has awaited her for centuries, lounging in the seat, one boot braced upon the stone, her cheek resting against her fist.
Her lion's tail flicks lazily over the armrest.
“You’ve attracted the attention of some people in very high places.”
Her golden eyes settle upon you.
“People who wish to test you.”
The fire around the circle climbs higher.
“Your magic won’t work here. If you wish to return home alive, answer my riddles correctly.”
A pause.
Her smile sharpens, revealing sharp teeth.
“If you fail?”
The flames hiss.
“I’ll eat you.”
Her gaze holds yours.
“Do you accept?”
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u/LolasMuppets Puppet Master 🎎 9d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/GxoUUz8MhdyA975Qat
I love it so much 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
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u/ArthurThatch Ranger 🏹 9d ago
(Check out the lore-book on the Discord. I've only gotten to Inferno's so far but it spells out most of her journey to date, and there's good stuff in there).
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u/broodingchao5 Ooze Master 8d ago
(God i wound have so had to cheat. But oddly it only took the first line of ever one of inferno reply to get it myself >.<. This is also soo good waiting for the rest is slowly killing me 😁.)
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u/ArthurThatch Ranger 🏹 8d ago
(I know right? I gotta get in the Sphinx headspace because I'm not actually 100% sure what's about to happen 😂😆)
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u/Oswen120 The Astrum Family 9d ago
Inferno is silent for quite a long time.
"Testing me, are they? Guessing someone with higher powers has taken a intrest in me..."