Cost (excuse the c/p): whatever limb or part of the body that touches the dark water becomes fleetingly 'contaminated': for four-eight hours (your choice), it will feel as if that body part is assailed by hundreds of sharp needles from within. The pain suffered will range from severe discomfort to spells of acute pain that no magic or healing can alleviate. It will feel as if something is inside the body part, stretching it out, filling to assume its shape from within and shifting bones and flesh in the process. This pain fades gradually.
Outwardly, there will be no visible bodily change, and your character will suffer no long-term biological damage as a result of this episode. The brief contamination leaves no sign of possession, although the body part will feel 'death-touched' or reek of death for up to three days, to any necromancer your character encounters, or to anyone sensitive to life and death energies.
Dragons will be greatly reluctant to interact with your character in this contamination period, but you can assume they'll allow (very rocky) transport, if you need a fast getaway.
Please check in and we can adjust the above, if any of it touches on any personal triggers for you — definitely do not want you feeling forced to play out something that makes you uncomfortable.
Gain: Diego can see a memory glimpse from the perspective of... something collapsed, unmoving. The vantage is very narrow and land-bound, as if the viewer's head touches the ground, paralysed. Ahead, at distance, blurred masked men prepare the Relint. One is in awe they were able to find parts old enough to match the vessel's requirements and patch it up. Another remarks the real strike of luck and strangeness was finding a vessel of this fleet, period — since the entire medical fleet was presumably burned down with the last signs of the 'coal sick.' One of the men suddenly wrenches back in horror, asking if they're going to get sick for having touched it, but the other two laugh, saying the 'coal sick' is gone and never coming back.
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Cost (excuse the c/p): whatever limb or part of the body that touches the dark water becomes fleetingly 'contaminated': for four-eight hours (your choice), it will feel as if that body part is assailed by hundreds of sharp needles from within. The pain suffered will range from severe discomfort to spells of acute pain that no magic or healing can alleviate. It will feel as if something is inside the body part, stretching it out, filling to assume its shape from within and shifting bones and flesh in the process. This pain fades gradually.
Outwardly, there will be no visible bodily change, and your character will suffer no long-term biological damage as a result of this episode. The brief contamination leaves no sign of possession, although the body part will feel 'death-touched' or reek of death for up to three days, to any necromancer your character encounters, or to anyone sensitive to life and death energies.
Dragons will be greatly reluctant to interact with your character in this contamination period, but you can assume they'll allow (very rocky) transport, if you need a fast getaway.
Please check in and we can adjust the above, if any of it touches on any personal triggers for you — definitely do not want you feeling forced to play out something that makes you uncomfortable.
Gain: Diego can see a memory glimpse from the perspective of... something collapsed, unmoving. The vantage is very narrow and land-bound, as if the viewer's head touches the ground, paralysed. Ahead, at distance, blurred masked men prepare the Relint. One is in awe they were able to find parts old enough to match the vessel's requirements and patch it up. Another remarks the real strike of luck and strangeness was finding a vessel of this fleet, period — since the entire medical fleet was presumably burned down with the last signs of the 'coal sick.' One of the men suddenly wrenches back in horror, asking if they're going to get sick for having touched it, but the other two laugh, saying the 'coal sick' is gone and never coming back.