Upon the Sands She Walks

[George of House Glover 372]

*looks at the females orc, he grunts, no caring, he returns to his blarg, full of slaves begging for his touch*

[Hoss 16]

*Slinks into the crowd, smaller than most of the orcs there. Vuugush crains his neck for a look but can't see much but Moksha and a flare of pink hair*

Nub peep head fur like dat since..meh..

*begins to vigorously pick his nose*

[Lexperiments 18]

Having zoned out, a few minutes AFTER the gigantic roar is heard, Lex blinks back into existance and rubs his head. "E-eurm! Sorreh. Mi kind ub.. zoned out. ANEHWAYZ, wut'z da problem?" He blinks a few times, and seems dazed as if he just woke up. He glances around, not remmebering that many orcs there.

[_pok_ 1768]

Looks down from one of the towers in the palace. He hadn't left the tower in years. Pawk watches the commotion from above, crossing his arms and retreating back into his tower, twirling his axe in his fingers gently. Pawk creeps close to the edge of the tower and strains back his neck. For the first time in nearly a decade, Pawk lets out a bellowing roar. The Orcs were not expecting to hear such a roar and stopped to find where it was coming from.

Mokrag and Ghazkull would have known what the roar was, and would have responded appropriately.

Pawk stands at the edge, watching silently as the Orcs again go about their business, his gaze stuck on Shuuga.

[Arkelos 1027]

Having zoned out, a few minutes AFTER the gigantic roar is heard, Lex blinks back into existance and rubs his head. "E-eurm! Sorreh. Mi kind ub.. zoned out. ANEHWAYZ, wut'z da problem?" He blinks a few times, and seems dazed as if he just woke up. He glances around, not remmebering that many orcs there.

Shuuga smiles slightly, shrugging as she looks back at Lex. "Shuuga am peepin ur Shuman tu peep ib ey cuud peep my ancusturs, su me am peek clun"

[Lexperiments 18]

He raises his right eyebrow slightly, but slowly nods. He looks the feorc up and down, wondering her heritage, and begins to think of the ritual to speak to her ancestors. After a few moments, he begins to speak.

"Yub. Yub, mi can. Mi be High Shaman Lex'Lur o' Strigzgoi, hozh tu meet lat." He headbutts her, but quickly, his mind suddenly racing. "Cum wit me, agh bring sumtin... sumtin ob family heritage, o' sum skah dat'z important tu lat. If lat nub hab anytin', mi can use lat skeen. Lat gut anehtin' tu uze?"

[Arkelos 1027]

Shuuga nods quickly, taking out a massive Steel [diamond] war-axe, the handle made of petrified wood, the edge of the axe a bright golden hue and a crack going through the axe to the middle, filled with a strange purple substance. She holds it high, looking at Lex.

"Dis am family wur axe, id am blahed "Rawr" meh sista am haff "Howl" agh dey am hosh uld."

[Lexperiments 18]

Lex nods, beckoning her over. He takes the axe, then begins walking to his home, next to the Rex palace. He hauls it over suprisingly easily for the dwarf he is, and once he reaches the room, he sets down a single torch in the middle of the home. He waits for Shuuga, then nods to her once she enters, beginning the ritual. He holds the axe, one-handed, over the small, puny flame, snapping his fingers in the other hand and brightening, enlarging the flame. As it begins eating the wood that it burns on top of, he speaks out.

"Mi need tu hab a hozh understandin' ob dis wepun, agh how it relatez tu lat famileh. Az I focus on da spiritz o' lat ancestorz, lat blah da storeh o' da axe. Tink ob lat ancestorz-- or wut lat gruk ob dem-- az much az possible. Da more energy lat put intu dis, da easier it will bi."

[Arkelos 1027]

Shuuga thinks for a moment of the stories her mother Mishka told her of the axe, looking at the purple substance as she states. "It wad used ta ward uff evul spirids, agh id cum frum Aeguus, id am frum hosh lung agu, dis am bun pazzed tu my famileh ova hugreds uh yurrs. Su da story am hos durunt frum wut momo says, cus id am old agh dey nub remember mush. Dis am ull me knuw." she thinks for a moment, before giving a nod to confirm that was all she knew, concentrating on the Axe.

[◥▶◀◤мσкѕнα / ƒιѕну◥▶◀◤ 43]

Moksha follows Lex and Shuuga to Lex's blarg. Once inside he scratches his ass and plops down next to the fire and stares intently into the flames. Moksha rubs his eyes and thinks about devouring the fire.

[Lexperiments 18]

He had his eyes closed already, but he frowns slightly, having expected a... longer story. He shakes his head but concentrates, shifting his mind through the Spirit plane, searching for any relation to the axe.

A minute passes.

Another minute passes.

Five minutes pass of Lex staying completely, utterly still, his mind locked onto the outer plane.

When ten minutes, thirty six seconds, and 43 milliseconds exactly pass, Lex's eyes flash open, and he stares, wide-eyed, at Shuuga.

"..Vardak?"

[Arkelos 1027]

Shuuga tries to remember, going wide eyed as she nods, looking at the axe. "Can Shuuga blah wid him?" she says curiously, tapping her chin

[Lexperiments 18]

He shakes his head and sighs, then looks up at Shuuga. "Yub, yub lat can. From wut I remembah, he wuzn't a vereh... bub'hozh Uruk. Blah tu 'im latself."

He grips the axe with both hands, looking upwards, towards the ceiling and the sky above. Once I du dis, lat will take da axe and blah tu him mentalleh. Lat will read each othah's evereh thought, but dis will onleh last a few howahz at most. I will imbue hiz thoughtz intu da artifact... get readeh."

Lex pulls the axe upward, closing his eyes once more. As a few moments pass, sparks-- dark green sparks-- fly from Lex's hands, slowly slithering their way up the axe, not truly electric sparks but a physical representation of the energy sent through the artifact. Lex squints and grunts as the sparks overtake the axe, beginning to cover it in its entirety.

The tip of the axe flares, a dark, unholy, purple flare, lighting up for only a moment in flaming horror. Lex recoils, but continues the ritual; he knew Vardak and does not wish to do this, but any of his kin should know who he is. The 'sparks' of dark green envelop the tip, dousing the now-gone flame, and Lex sharply inhales.

The 'electricity' throughout the axe begins to make the axe shudder in itself, rumbling and causing a tremor in the air around and into Lex's hands. He barely holds on, breathing shallow and quick. The artifact glows a bright green, and then...

Lex faints as the axe dulls itself, looking completely normal. Both the artifact and the shaman fall to the ground, the weapon clunking down next to Lex's right arm.

[_pok_ 1768]

Pawk reaches for a his bow and then grabs two arrows from a small end table by his sleeping block, the tips made from the finest steel in Strigzgoi, and begins for the tower nearest to Lex's home. When he reaches the tower, he knocks down the torch there, lighting a small part of the tower on fire. He quickly rubs some coal dust over both his arrows and puts a large amount of sulfur at the bottom of each arrow. Pawk readies his bow and fires two quick shots from his bow.

As the arrows past through the fire, they catch fire and ignite the arrow. It flies rapidly through the air and lands on the thin wool covering on top of Lex's house. The fire then reaches the sulfur and explodes atop Lex's house. All this is in an attempt to disrupt whatever is going on inside the home. The blast is not intended to kill, merely collapse some of the roof and foundations of the house down onto the people inside.

Pawk quickly stomps out and pisses on the fire in the tower and retreats back to his home, snarling and mumbling about something in regards to the grey skin and the yellow eyes.

Orcs near the bottom of the city point and shout at the smoking tower where the fire was put out, and rush to Lex's house to see if he and the feorc are ok.

[Arkelos 1027]

Shuuga emerges from the ruins, grumbling as she holds the axe, power from the spell coursing through her as she enters the trance, before Pok had shot the arrow while he was walking to the tower near Lex's tower, Shuuga had grabbed the axe, allowing her to connect to Vardak. She remained in a trance for a while, before coming to as the Orcs helped remove the rubble from on top of her, in an instant, her ancestor delivered the only few messages he wanted to deliver, images of his last years, as well as a verbal message before closing the connection between him and Shuuga.

"Don't become... like me...."

Shuuga look about, looking at the axe, then to Lex's house before saying.

"Da skahin skah? wub da skah huppuned?!"