4etyre 2026/08/24(Mon)02:27 No. 1131259 ID: fd485f
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You slowly adapt to the senses of your wielder.
Something is happening. You hear creaking voices, struggling to pronounce words; you feel strange tickling; and you sense your carrier talking back without trouble and answering that feeling without using voice. Metal clashes against carapace, someone falls to the ground and stands up again, soil is pierced repeatedly on the run.
Even the language you are using to think feels unfamiliar to some parts of you.

Who is your wielder?

Change comes with time. The only path forward is to adapt.

Are you being forced to fight for the very enemy that you have sworn to destroy?

4etyre 2026/08/24(Mon)09:12 No. 1131279 ID: c0eb59
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Your sensations become clearer, now you can inspect your surroundings. You’re in a clearing in a forest. In the middle of it stands a long ago burnt wooden hut, before which two wounded antfolks fight each other while trying to speak aloud. The third, snake-like figure slithers around the ruined house in expanding circles, probing the ground with some kind of a sword.
— Llleaaa-vvee...
— Qu-eeenn ww-ont rrisk letttt-inng ellf ll-livve
— I-iii’-mm nn-ooottt…
— Wwe di-ie, bbut ttake you witthshs us, Quennn wi-i-l revviv-e
— Iii bb-bbbe-e—
— You and your Queen hire me specifically to NOT let you zealots die! — The strange creature shouts from over its shoulder. — I’ve almost finished; endure a bit more, and we will go searching into the hut itself. And then I will get my answers, elf.
The fight looks weird: the two are twitching, trying to open themselves for the blows, then in an instant attempting to block the incoming attack or to dodge. They continue the talk, but you could swear the roles reverse from time to time.

>Change comes with time. The only path forward is to adapt.
>Who is your wielder?

The creature shudders in surprise.
— ​ⰱⰾⱔⱅⱐ! Are you the Nazar’s orb? I was expecting you to start working half a day ago. Save your advice for another time, we have a plan already, and we can't risk changing it right now. Shame on me for expecting his baubles to work properly, I guess.

>Are you being forced to fight for the very enemy that you have sworn to destroy?
— What?! No, of course not.

>>1131279
Why are the antfolk fighting?

yeah this is a neat scene to wake up to. The hell is going on here?

Anything we can do to help? or shall we just watch

4etyre 2026/08/26(Wed)09:35 No. 1131342 ID: c0eb59
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>Anything we can do to help? or shall we just watch
—All goes as planned, so no. The best you can do right now is to get what is happening, so if something goes wrong, you can do your thing. In short, the ants were updating the maps and had found this place in only two versts—uh, a mile from the town, where literally none of them had ever been in all eight years since our arriv…—it had stuttered again, as under a tree the sword sunk into the ground deeper than usual. — Nice, found something. Anyway, later mages found out this is a place of power or whatever, and archivists have reported some recluse actually lived here before everything went in flames with half of the town and the lord’s family.

The creature did its strange thing, the tingling feeling appeared again as in response, and the noises from where antfolk are fighting became louder. The creature shrunk its right hand right into a slim twig-like appendage before shoving it into soil.
— And in the last at least twenty years exists the goddamn cult of so-called elf worshippers. — it continued talking. — This is a literal evil, not some regular “a rural priest has read the Holy Scripture with his ass instead of eyes” heresy.

>yeah this is a neat scene to wake up to. The hell is going on here?
—The ants can’t risk it being a cult’s place, plus Volk and I have personal interest, so we are dealing with it right now. — The creature coiled around the point and began pulling something from the ground. — We three are the scouts, and in the forest, there are at least a dozen arbalests with a couple healers, including Volk.

>Why are the antfolk fighting?
—It turned out there is something that can possess people. Usually no one is able to do it except for some older brethren and elves, and I wish it’s the latter. I must get my answers.

>>1131342
What's the plan?

So its trying to possess both of them, but ends up switching back and forth? seems silly

So what have you found there?