>>5270640You return to your room—NOT to your brother’s chamber with his nubile young harem, not in your current state—and focus your energies upon your education. Study, the enlightenment of mind and the ascension of your ascetic spirit, THESE will be your path to inner peace and glorious victory!
Unable to calm the raging fire within your chest, your stomach, your loins, you focus your inner flame to an intensity like dragon-fire, and turn it upon the scroll which you spread out before you. It is a single page, almost more a poster than a scroll, but the single great sigil it bears in intricate in the extreme—a pattern of overlayed star-signs, incomprehensible angles, and interwoven patterns. Words weave through it—Reptilian True-Script and otherwise, woven into the pattern, forming shapes-within-shapes. You try to read them one way, then another, left-to-right and bottom-to-top and then in reverse or in circling patterns.
Your mind is awash in seemingly unaffiliated information and nonsensical ramblings, but you do not allow yourself to get distracted. You REFUSE to think of the Novice, or the breeding-pits, or of your unorthodox origins. You think only of MASTERY, not of your et past but of your uncertain future—of seeing it, and of molding it…
>20And by the Dark Gods Below and Beyond, it WORKS! At the eleventh hour (literally, for all you know) you have a breakthrough. Your eyes grow foggy and vision hazy and duplicated with the intensity of your scrutiny, and it is in THAT moment of wavering consciousness that the interlocking phrases, patterns, shapes, and sigils coalesce into a single, concrete whole!
>+1 rank in DivinationYou feel your mind and soul open up, like a third eye beholding sights your other two have been blind to all your life.
What do you see?
>GAME OF DISTORTION (courtesy of “I’m a demon?”):>Each player may post one picture, with or without a short phrase to accompany it. It can be anything, anything at all. I will roll if a huge abundance arrive and I don’t feel I can incorporate them all; those thus chosen will be incorporated into the quest… Though maybe not exactly literally, or as you expect. 