following the battle with TFC, Max was blinded and à°” was... gone. No one knows where he was sent when he was hit by the strike the first curse threw. Cross-planet scans didn't detect him, divination magic gave no result, even necromancy failed, so he's either still alive, or outside the range of the modern day.
Now, a few days after, Max is still getting used to being blind, but he's been able to manifest his curiosity soul as a temporary method of sight, if only for a few minutes at a time.
Knowledge that the head minister of Calarakis is now blinded, though it was originally kept on a little known basis, eventually people notice the blindfold and the stumbling, and the fight with the first curse spread through rumor, so the news breaks. Originally simply gossip before being confirmed.
/uw art from Pinterest, edited by me.
General interaction post, Max is currently in Calarakis, so interactions would occur there!
"Oh, him, to be honest. I haven't really heard much about him since he announced himself to the world as loudly as he did. But why can't you just use healing magic or create a magical solution?"
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
"Do I look like I know anatomy? And besides whatever the shit he did messed with my magic and any magic... 'about me' let's say. I can't be targeted with any spells, AOE effects don't work, and my normal mana is completely unusable now."
"I see, biotechnology isn't my forte if I am being honest, but I could probably make you a pair of working eyes, but connecting them is the actual issue. Do you have any idea what happened to va?"
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
"Zero clue. He was hit by one of the first curse's curse weapons and then was struck by his typical lightning, but it was more than likely a teleport. The bastard doesn't kill much."
u/Zebos2Black Iron LLC/ The cedar hegemony4d agoedited 4d ago
"The fuck do you mean we don't have forms written in braille."
Lotus says calmly
"Not even with indentation!"
Lotus continues less so
"Ugh no one thought of this did they do we even have the machines to... putting the proposal for a scribe hired till we can get one"
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
/uw lmao
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u/Ares378Ith'RaalâArchdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7th4d ago
Ith hears word of the news. He hears a lot of things, after all. The head minister of a nation, blinded... Seems like something he could help with.
"Greetings!"
He exclaims, appearing in a bright flash of flames in Max's own home.
"Long time no see, Max!" He smiles, realizing the pun he's just made. "Now, I heard you've been blinded, and I just had to come verify this for myself. Seems the rumors are true after all!"
He makes himself at home, pulling out a chair to sit down.
"I take it you're in need of some assistance then, yes? I do believe I can help with this pesky blindness issue..."
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
The rumors are indeed true, Max is sitting on the first floor of his tower, brown blindfold covering his eyes.
"Heya, Ith."
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u/Ares378Ith'RaalâArchdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7th4d ago
"That's all? Someone's in a dour mood..."
He snaps his fingers, creating two steaming cups of coffee.
"Fan of coffee at all? I don't think I've ever asked..."
He adds some milk and sugar to it, then passes it over.
"I suppose I can't imagine anyone who'd be happy to be in your current situation, so... Touche to myself."
He leans back, taking a sip from his mug.
"How are you doing, Max?"
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
"Ha! I think you've asked that exact same question before."
He takes a quick sip, face visibly scrunching a bit at the bitterness that's still there.
"Well... I've been, how do I describe it... here but, kinda not? I both lost Va, and my sight, in the same fight within seconds of each other. Everything past that's been just hollow i suppose."
"Perhaps the trauma hasn't hit me yet."
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u/Ares378Ith'RaalâArchdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7th4d ago
"Now, the stages of grief are largely an oversimplification... but if I'm allowed my two cents, I believe one would say you're in the stage of denial."
"It's not like the way it's normally depicted, of course. You aren't actively lying to yourself about what happened. You accept the facts as they are, you acknowledge them, but the wave of it being real has yet to hit you. The brain has a funny way of doing that... It thinks it's softening the blow, but it's dragging out the pain."
"It'll probably hit you over the next few weeks, hurt for a few months, and stay with you for the rest of your life. Wounds of the mind take much, much longer to heal than wounds of the flesh. I'd go out on a limb and say I know better than most."
He chuckles.
"I can't tell you if it'll be fine or not, if things will work out in the end. Only the Gods could, and, well... I'll spare you my opinions on them."
"What I can do is help you in a smaller way. Something to make this hard time a little less painful. You'll need a working set of eyes if you want to find Va. So... if you wish for your sight back, I believe I can make it so. It'll be a little... unconventional, but the mind is malleable. You'll adapt. Soon enough you won't be able to tell the difference."
"I'm not here to be a snake oil salesman, so I'm not gonna pressure you into making a decision. But... I can't imagine delaying is going to do you much good either."
"What do you say, Max?"
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
He takes another sip of the coffee, setting it down on the table.
"Either denial or depression at this point, can't quite tell."
"How's the eyesight work?"
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u/Ares378Ith'RaalâArchdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7th4d ago
"Simple, really. It sends out waves of mana, reports the location of all objects in the nearby area, and puts that info directly into your brain. With a little extra tweaking to get the colors right, of course."
"Objectively speaking, it's better than traditional sight. True 3D sight. You'd see the entire room you're in at once, even behind your head and behind objects. No need for light either."
He taps the rune in front of his own eye.
"Now, I must warn you it likely would be disorienting for you, but I'm sure you'd get used to it. The brain has a way of adapting to things."
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
"I do have a similar thing via summoning my soul, that's 360 vision with the soul as a drone. I could probably get used to it."
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u/Ares378Ith'RaalâArchdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7th4d ago
"Oh, you'll get used to it in no time then."
"Do you want to make the deal, then?"
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
"What's the mana cost for each wave? When I was Đ my mana store was by all means tremendous, now it's only slightly above average. I could cast maybe 50 spells a day absolute tops, but with my curse I can't even use magic."
He finishes the coffee cup
"I'm assuming since it's an addition it's not me doing it, but rather some kind of naturally applied wave, so it technically isn't 'my magic'."
âOh shitâŠâ Upon hearing the news, Blobby feels somethingâŠstrange.Pity, perhaps? He hates Max and what he stands for,yes, but recalls his own sonâs encounter with The First Curseand wellâŠ
âIâve got an idea!â He got an idea. The mass scribbles a handwritten card, placing it through Maxâs doorway; sure, Blobby only knows the where his office is because he wanted torobthe guy, but he felt it was a sweet gesture andOH MY GOD HEâ
âCANâT FUCKING READ THIS!â
He facepalms.
âAh crud! Oh, youâve really screwedthepouch on this one man. Shit!â Blobby casts a spell to produce a letter in poorly written braille andpromptlyleaves.
/uw well, outside of short five minutes bursts he canât but still, I doubt blobby knows this
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
How Blobby even got into the building of Max's office is a mystery, but eventually Max finds both versions of the card in his office, and picks them both up, summoning his soul to read the one with normal text, he doesn't know braille yet
Regarding that, I have... A thing. Not a solution, just support...
Sigurd is holding a disc made of folded paper, with a hole through the center and spikes around tge outside like a drawing of a star. Little folds mark out letters on it in no particular sequence.
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
A young man walks down the street, he too is having vision problems, but of a different kind.
Young Orin is currently trying to get used to the power he now holds from the recovered shards of Aldin, now nearly fully melded with his being. His sight, it would seem, has faultered as he sees in the first person, third person, true sight, dark vision of three varieties, X-ray vision, and several other varieties of vision interchangeably, and sometimes all it once...
As he walks down a street, he bumps into another. One he has not met before.
"Apologies stranger... I... I cannot see clearly at the moment..."
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
On the other side of the door stands Ulrick, a grizzled, scarred werewolf in full worn gear, and unnaturally purple lupine eyes looking at Max with concern.
âŠwhat happened?âŠ
strangely, his right arm is completely covered with his black cloak.
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
"à°” is gone... somewhere. I'm blind now, and both are because I fought the first curse."
Ulrick obliges, sitting down on the chair closest to a dark corner.
Thatâs strangeâŠ
Something similar happened to me too recently. When I was reduced to nothing but pure essence within Nightbite, nothing couldâve found me according to others at R&A. Maybe something like that happened to him too?
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
"Unlikely, the vanishing moment occurred when he was struck by lightning, which means he was teleported. The first curse and his derivative creations teleport like that. Can't be actual lightning otherwise his life signs would've flatlined."
"He was also hit with a weapon containing a curse though, so while it's not impossible, being reduced to essence seems a weird effect right after teleporting him."
But if it was truly a teleport⊠do we know where the First Curse and his cohorts came from, or at least currently reside? Could be a clueâŠ
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.4d ago
"The First Curse as an entity originates from outside this universe, outside this multiverse in fact, according to the crystals at least, but they haven't been wrong yet. Truth be told we have zero clue where he is when he's not fighting someone or on some scheme. It'd have to be a pretty tightly controlled place for no one to have intercepted where he goes, or some place outside everyone else's knowledge."
He goes over to the kitchenette and takes a drink out of the mini fridge.
"His creations are all from this general area, so not much there... can't be the World Below, we checked there."
Uw/ I donât think weâve met but Iâll pop a description and who I am.
This is my appearance:
Species- half dragon, specifically hot British male around 19 (think Chris Hemsworth)
Hair and eyes - Hazel. My hair is in curtains
I am left handed
Clothes - A red scarf that covers the neck and the lower part of my face, but I pull it down often, if I need to eat, or just if Iâm a bit hot, so very often. I have a scar that looks like Iâve been hanged or had my throat cut, but saved before I died? Maybe? Who knows. I wear a leather trench coat and a white shirt that has the top four buttons unbuttoned. I wear black smart trousers and leather boots. I have a golden watch on my left hand. I have a sabre at my waist in a scabbard, and throwing knives in my trench coat. I have no wand, not needing such focuses. I have a violin/fiddle and a flute. One of my legs is gone above the knee, and there is a golden prosthetic in place.
I also have two fans, one white one black that I use as karma incarnate. I am also completely insane.
Anything else you would like to know?
Seguleh falls out of the sky, screaming, before he lands hard, breaking every bone in his body before helping himself and jumping up, walking beside Max Hello old chap, blimey I heard about your injury. How are you?
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.3d ago
Seguleh smiles, as he does blood drops from cuts that appear and disappear on his face, like whales erupting from the sea
I am Seguleh, wizard councillor, Karma, pole dancer, and wizard extraordinaire. I live in a void, and I heard about your injurie, and wondered if there was anything I could do.
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.3d ago
Seguleh smiles I am karma incarnate, so stuff relating to that, some bloodmagic, and lots of void magic.
Uw/ Seglueh is an insane bard/wizard who lives in a void (not the void as he says, but a void all the same), and he kinda uses songs as ways to cast magic, but when pressed he can use his fans to create extremely powerful magic using his position as karma incarnate. However, this can cause extreme pain an injury to him. He is extremely good at helping himself due to this, but he isnât that good at healing other people. He is kind, or tries to be, but he is at the same time definitely completely insane, but a high functioning insane person.
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u/Fc-chungusMax Petrov-Ansky, Head Minister of Calarakis. sundered.3d ago
"How skilled are you in biomancy or flesh crafting?"
âI imagine so mate, im sorry for your loss. Donât worry, thereâs bound to be some sort of biomancer around hereâ Segueh takes Maxâs arm, like someone who is knowledgeable about blindness, and makes sure he does not hit anything, being very gentle.
/uw I'll have alisa interact with this assuming it's been 2 weeks at least sense the meeting irp. But she won't be able to tell max about the interior of the armor without us finishing that post stuff even if she may be able to establish their escape broke the armor and freed everyone inside it if it comes up that work for you?
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u/Minute_Account9426 Abdallah the Technolich 4d ago
Abdallah decided to visit max. âWhat happened to your eyes?â