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For all their reputation for subtly, the Slaaneshi were entirely capable of being loud, garish and obnoxious. This ruckus was of a particular sort, though: revelry, merriment, and the occasional spot debauchery and perversion here and there. The earmarks of a party about to descend into utter madness and license.

Skarbrand’s intended his visit to be quick, before that happened.

He was out of the code of dress. All around him, mortals from both high and low society milled around in iridescent and grotesque parodies of animal masks, their identities hidden as they embraced one another and indulged their vices. Here and there, hooves and talons could be spotted among heels and loafers. The Reaper felt a tail brush by his ankles more than once as he muscled his way through the press of bodies. Not everyone in attendance was a man, elf, or dwarf. But he hadn’t come here for the daemons. Not the lesser ones, anyway.

He was here for their leader. The Keeper of Secrets, also hidden, also the reason this party was going to descend into a bloodbath of the basest kind sooner rather than later.

Where are you? The Reaper’s voice rumbled through the mind of all the immortals in attendance. The Lesser of them cringed and shrunk away. Skarbrand eyed the sole figures that did not.

Reveal yourself, Whoreson.

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The Fly Lord’s power had overtaken the others.

Thus had been clear, for the amount of epidemics and shambling plague-carriers roaming in their dozens and hundreds from village to village and town to town, bringing their malady with them. Only those settlements kept and manned by the creatures of Khorne proved any defense. Only fire and ruthless determination stayed the diseased hand of death.

But that hardly meant the residents of Infernius were welcoming. Under normal circumstances, strangers would be greeted with lukewarm hostility in the best of times. These were not the best of times.

And so when the strange lone figure came to the gate of Castle Infernius, they were greeted with hatred. The great orange figure of Khazaan blocked their path. His daemons, lesser screeching things the same shade of burnt orange as himself, flapped and squawked overhead in agitation. They were proofed against the Plague God’s rancid “gifts” and so they had been ordered to be the vanguard against invaders.

Khazaan levelled his axe at her.

“Halt. Who goes there? What business do you have at my Lord’s castle?”

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Rain. It wasn’t his favorite type of mortal weather. But, it had it’s benefits.

It was better than bathing, in Khazaan’s summation, and while he cared little for such things, the Bloodthirster was not a fan of how Nurgle’s flies would follow him or how his pestilential Chaos Furies would eye him once enough rancid, old gore was caked onto him. So, whenever the sky rumbled and finally released their payload, he was there, standing underneath it and letting the furious downpour wash away the accumulated filth.

Storms made it better, however. The rumble of the sky, the rage of the lightning as it cut across the heavens in a brilliant, jagged arc, exploding overhead. It swelled the daemon’s heart and made him ache for war and battle and his tufted tail swayed in unmistakable pleasure and joy at the experience.

Then there was gordon. Caught in the storm, same as him. It was unclear why the Rat King had been out here, but the rain and thunder had hit before he could do whatever he sought to do. Khazaan felt him long before he had arrived. He felt the determination, and the anger, within the other being vanish and turn into naked fear.

Gordon had tucked himself away in a too-small half cave that was barely enough cover from the wet and the noise. Khazaan stood just outside of his shelter, his contempt palpable. The smell of blood, sulfur, and decay wafted from his wet, sizzling flesh, made stronger by the deluge.

“ You’re pathetic.”

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Accepting the Past Without Letting It Define You

Not all things begin with our choice

We don’t choose every reality we encounter, but we do choose how we meet it. Some circumstances arise from decisions made by others, and we may find ourselves responding to consequences we did not create.

What makes it harder is how often the mind replays it. You revisit what happened, what should have happened, what you should have said. It feels like thinking it through will bring relief. But most of the time, it doesn’t resolve anything. It keeps you emotionally attached to something that isn’t changing.

The mind replays because it wants closure. It wants a different ending. But not every situation gets resolution. Some things simply become part of the starting point. If that is the case, a helpful shift is learning to replay it like a reporter rather than a prosecutor. State it plainly: this happened, these were my choices, these were the outcomes, and this is where I am now. Stripping it down to facts lowers the emotional charge. It acknowledges the impact of what you’ve had to deal with, without keeping the loop alive.

Being okay with inherited consequences doesn’t mean you’re okay with what happened. It simply means accepting that your reality won’t rewrite itself unless you choose to rewrite it moving forward. It means acknowledging the impact without turning it into your identity. You didn’t choose the starting point, but you still have influence over how your story continues and ends. 

There is a difference between carrying something and becoming it. You can acknowledge the weight without letting it define you, or letting others define you. You can accept the past without rehearsing it. Even if the pattern began before you, it doesn’t have to continue through you.

That quiet decision to change the sequences of your life is often where peace begins.

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Accept Me

I was a lost kid who didn’t know anything.Didn’t want power or attention, just acceptance.Shy, awkward, a child in a man’s body—five-ten, one-eighty in fourth grade,too big for the desk, too small for confidence,learning early how to disappear while taking up space.

Junior high made it worse.Big body, slow thoughts—or so I believed.Why can’t I learn like everyone else?Why does my brain take the…

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“Not that important”

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Send a 🥚 for my muse to receive an egg

Animals are a bit different. There’s a thought that he could eat it, but he isn’t particularly hungry. Xaallo looks around akwardly.

Then, decides to cover the baby with leaf litter and then walks off.

Wholly Filled

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Well. He takes it politely… “Uhh… Wow, thank you, it’s very nice… So uh.. Who was it?”

He’s conflicted about how to react given he has no idea why Khazaan is gifting him a severed head. Is it a threat? A romantic gesture? The equivalent of a ‘get well soon’ card? Simply a familiar gesture of sharing food/a toy? That would be a tremendous thing for this particular demon. He’s worried that if he asks why and it IS in a nice nature Khazaan will get aggressive.

So he’ll just offer the Khornate a chance to talk about how he murdered someone and why. Maybe that’d give him an inkling.

with a burn | PAIN MEME

It begged the question.

What could burn a Bloodthirster? Smoking and oozing, the burn itself was an ugly thing mangling the daemon’s hand enough to render it useless. Those would extra senses would be able to sense the unnaturalness of it; the injury wafted with spent magic. A chemical burn, but arcane in nature.

Kha'xanzyr was stoned faced. Writing with his remaining hand, some equation in a neat dharish script. He betrayed nothing of the agony he must be feeling.

“ If it isn’t troll’s gut, I don’t want whatever it is.” He finally rumbled to the other presence.

blinded temporarily | PAIN MEME

Keeper sickness was not a mundane ailment and so it’s symptoms were not typical either, as both Reaper and charge were finding. He could hear and smell the mortal, but not see him. That had been he symptom; blindness. Hopefully temporary, thought the Exile with a growl.

“ It is a great, leatherbound tome with the Tryptch of Decay on it’s cover. Find it. Bring it here.” Commanded the blinded daemon with exasperated irritation. Not at Terry, but at the fact he had to rely on the taur.

“ Do not touch it with your bare hands or your soul will be forfeit.”

with a stab wound | PAIN MEME

“Stab wound” was putting it mildly.

What had run through Khazaan was as large as a tree, yet decidedly not. Rather, it was a long, rusty length of iron spearing through his shoulder and out of his back, just barely missing his spine. It hurt. The daemon’s labored breathing revealed such. Already, his body set about destroying the intrusion, hot blood melting what it could.

Not fast enough for the daemon.

Maybe it was impatience, or the scent of a fellow Blood Daemon on the wind that drop Khazaan to rip free the makeshift spear. Without truly seeing who it was, the Bloodthirster had already launched the bloody metal towards his visitor, deducing them an enemy.

I’ll never get the truth.

When Simply Accepting a Situation Is a Stupid Thing to Do

 
“When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.”
Ah, travel…there never seems to be a shortage of challenging situations.
In fact, I suspect this is partly the point of travel. The more traveling I do, the more I realize that repeatedly being pushed outside my comfort zone – day after day – in one way or another, is…

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—-> “ are you doing alright? ”

the question is not one that is new to her. with the way she carried herself , it’s natural for someone to worry about her. it makes her sick , because she might not look like she can stand up straight but she can hold a knife to a mans’ throat if provoked. but when the weather got cold , and she was primarily still new to the planet’s temperature , it makes her weaker than usual , and in turn , more irritable than per usual. bruised knees tuck as close to her chest as she could , to preserve warmth , she coughs , she does not take her eyes off of him –

“ i’m FINE. ” is her reply , the woman speaks with venom in her voice , defense on the automatic. “ jus’ this damn planet and it’s stupid weather , it’s cold as fuck out here! ” she is aggressive to no one in particular.

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