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Amethyst	The alchemist sits at a desk amid her open shop, but for once she's not doing dragons-knows-what sort of alchemy, but instead she has a simple wooden mask that she's slowly carving with her ritual blade, for what ends? Only she knows.
Rishi	The bell rings as the Chosen of Changing Waters sweeps in, grinning. "Hello my Love! I had the honor of having done the helping of the many people today at the temple and Fudou was doing the stopping by, so we came to be seeing how you have been doing!" She tilts her head looking at the carving. "Oh! Are we doing the interrupting? Or may I be doing the assisting of you with the sorcery?"
Fudou the Mountain	As described, fudou lumbers in, lowering his head and squeezing his frame into the shop with the dexterity of an yeddim that's learned ballet. He manages to not break anything but as he stretches up as best he can..he looks around curiously. "Mmmm..Not my initial plan for some fun but this is as good a place as any." He looks over to Amethyst, "Hmm..what are you doing?"
Amethyst	A yeddim that's learned ballet, that would be a sight. Amethyst looks up slowly towards the 'Exigent', and grins widely. "No sorcery, not this time. Not even alchemy." Amethyst comments, "Just focusing on using the most of my elemental magic." She says as her athame heats up and leaves little burns here and there, marking out where she intends on cutting it. She gets up, sheaths her athame and beckons the two. "Here, let's talk in the back." She says, stretching. But as she stretches suddenly a tail, wings, scales and several other mutations just /unfold/ from hidden spots around her body, neatly flowing from holes specially detailed in her cloth. She looks more akin to the dragons she venerates than a typical DB at this point. "Want some tea? Wine? Drugs?"
Rishi	Rishi gives Ammy a hug as she changes. "You know, if you were wanting to be looking like that all of the time, you could be coming down to the temple. Or, I am supposing you could just be telling the people that you have done this. It really is doing the 'suiting of you' well."
Fudou the Mountain	"What -kind- of drugs?" Fudou grins slowly but then inclines his head as he hears Rishi and then chuckles lightly and rumbles, "Some people like looking different ways at different times, Rishi. Everyone is not trying to be a vision of an 'ideal self'. What if she needs to travel to a village in The Hundred Kingdoms? Or Greyfalls?" He leans over, peering closely at Rishi and grinning in amusement, "A little invested in your dogma, I see.."
Amethyst	"I mean they run the gambit, opiates, vision dust, various stimulants, and quite a few designed by yours truly." The alchemist grins. "Those are mostly carefully designed mixes of more intense variants of other drugs for those that are... tougher than the average Great Forks partygoer, if you catch my drift." She giggles. "I look human most of the time because most people that know me are familiar with that form and, ears and tattoos aside, it doesn't ring alarm bells as much as a full on dragon-person." Amethyst explains, "And you seem to like my mutant shapes more than my more human ones anyway, love." She teases Rishi and gently pokes her. "Besides, wings'll only slow me down in the water. And fins'll only slow me down anywhere else."
Rishi	Rishi giggles. "They are better fitting your inner radiance, my love. And...I shall be having the Fire Spice Tea." Rishi names a tea blend made from a type of southern cactus-like plant that causes incapacitating pain and feelings of being set on fire of anyone who drinks it.
Fudou the Mountain	"Got aything 'perfomance enhancing?" rumbles Fudou with a grin and mischief in his eyes and likely a lewd sense of humor in his heart. "Not that I need anything. I'm sadly too much for mortals to handle.." Rumors of dalliances w with the fair folk and more may have circulated here and there in some circles when amusing himself with curious revelers ceases to be of interest. THe giant browsers her wares while rubbing his jaw. He squints his eyes as he hears Rishi's request and just sort of eyes Amethyst at that before finally saying, "Rishi don't you think you're playing with fire there, luv? Literally? WHat other temples are so openly performing these large scale changes on people. You may hav fooled them into thinking your an Exigent but how long before The Three or some jealous god looks into this and interferes?"
Amethyst	"I might." Amethyst says, squinting at Fudou for a moment but grinning. "I'm sure I could cook something up if that was needed. Tho I will say, if you use it to cheat, and get caught, didn't get it from me." She giggles. "But I'm sure I could find something to keep you going for hours. It must take a lot of stamina to maintain something that large." And then she winks, and flexes as though she has /no/ idea what sorta 'performance enhancers' Fudou has in mind. But she just sorta stops and stares at Rishi. "I heard you right, Fire Spice Tea, yeah? I keep many things on hand my dear but that is not one of them. I can offer you some fire dust if that'll be suitable to your palette?" She goes and grabs a jar of said dust and offers it to Rishi with this mischevous streak on her face. "And... Fudou's got a point my love. I'm amazed this stunt managed to fool anyone honestly. Tis why I'm working on better ways of disguising myself so that my own activities don't draw unwanted attention."
Rishi	"I am having the Calling. It was being given to me when I was being Chosen." Rishi's voice is musical, as always, but just then it was also harder than Fudou's abs. "If there are being the problems, then I will simply be having to be dealing with them. And, if I cannot be handling the "minor of the issues" that the helping of the people is doing the creating, then ...well, I am simply being not of worth. Not for Pearly. And not for the One who is Many. If it is being the fate of me to be doing the failing, it is being best that we are learning of this now, instead of later."
Fudou the Mountain	"Now who am I going to 'cheat on'. Are there some sort of rumors regarding me and our dear giantess?" laughs Fudou, "MM...going for hours? Well now, I can already do that..." She seems to be playing innocent but Fudou is either not having any of that or just wants to play along more and push her as he brings a massive arm up and flexs, causing it to bulk up like a guild wagon wheel has been pumped into his rugged flesh. He slaps it a few times producing loud meaty thwacks, "If you were to cook something up it'd have to be rather signifigant for me to 'notice' its effects considering what I already carry around..." However at Rishi's edge..Fudou frowns lightly and then says bluntly, "You sound like a Shahan-Ya." And it doesn't sound like he meant that as a compliment entirely given the mix of edge and concern in his voice but he also seems to choose to not elaborate unless pressed. There's drugs to consider.
Amethyst	"You're impossible!" Amethyst declares giggling hard at Fudou's comments. "As for these." And Amethyst gently places a hand on one of Fudou's muscles, "I don't know if I have anything strong enough to effect them... Not without learning more about medicine and the ways of, hmm, maybe earth? Fire? Some sorta dragon magic." But her jovial mood instantly fades at Rishi's tone. And Amethyst switches to speaking Rishi's native language, firetongue, and there's anger in her voice like Fudou's never really heard. "You are integral to /all/ of us Rishi. Senselessly risking yourself for the sake of your ideals isn't any better than any of the stupid things I've done to risk my own skin. You threaten me with being tied up in silken threads of your demonic spider and spread this overprotective gaze over so many things I do and now you want to turn around and risk yourself as though I and Pearls don't care?" Then back in riverspeak, "How dare you!" She shouts with the force of her sorcery behind it, like a literal wave of energy. But then she calms herself, tempering the flame in her heart, "If you go down Rishi, you might take all of us with you. At the least I'm sure they can trace you back to me, Pearls, and a few others here. Heavens forbid you bring a Hunt to this town. We might be strong enough to beat them, but that's just going to ensure that more come for us later." Amethyst looks exhausted as she shifts again, losing the scales and wings but keeping her tail. She sits down and looks between the two. "What do you mean she sounds like a Shahan-Ya?" Amethyst asks.
Rishi	Rishi's face wavers for a moment, before her resolve firms. "At this point, it is being impossible to be going back, unless I am doing the losing of my life. I am not doing the demanding of worship or the charging and I have already done the proving of myself with iron for the constabulary, so they are knowing I am not being the Fae Queen. It is ...doing well. And if it is being the dangerous... both of you have been doing the telling of me that the times are only getting more of the danger. If I am wanting to be able to be facing such times of danger, then this is being something I am needing to be doing." Rishi doesn't flinch under Ammy's scolding. "...If things are going bad and the Hunt does the coming, I am being most confident I can be getting them to be doing the focusing on me. They will be doing the taking down of me, everyone will be marveling at how I did the fooling of them all, and that will be the end of the things. You and Pearly can be most shocked and dismayed and be helping them to be doing the burning of my body. No-one will be doing the questioning of you after that."
Fudou the Mountain	The behemoth - visibly deflates. "It was not my intention to cause you two to have a fight." he comments, sounding embaressed now and rather frustrated. "Rishi, you are missing the point. You and I have had this conversation before..about your extreme tendencies. Back in Elderloch and before that, even. But you just do what you feel led to do, luv. Nobody can stop you . I've not interferred and never will...but you should remember those you associate with.. The point is that nobody -wants- to see you bring doom onto yourself by moving to fast and not thinking this entirely through. Fate's chosen lurk and question us. Malfeas has sent champions powered by it and more then that besides." Fudou gives Amethyst a side glance at her question and at first says nothing then sighs and finally says, "Rigid and set in their ways. Sure of their beliefs and thinking and forging the world immediately around them to suit their needs without consideration of others or over confident in their ability to withstand what comes their way. Not all. Some.." He shakes his head and then adds, "The same Luna that blessed Raksi, who serves -babies- on platters.. blessed Lilith, one of our greatest champions. She only grants the power. How we interpret it and what we do with it is as varied as the stars above... So if Rishi is set on her calling then that is her calling..."
Amethyst	Amethyst also deflates. "Sorry, I still let my emotions get the better of me sometimes. I might be worried for... um, all the reasons Fudou just mentioned." "Wait, Fate's chosen?" She blinks, "I've never heard of them. Not as anathema or anything like that. /Are they also new?/" She asks, eyes just a little wide. But then Amethyst listens to Rishi, and, she sighs with a her ears just sorta dangling. "You, suggest, that me and Pearls join up with the wyld hunt that helps take you down. Is, is that what you are suggesting?" "Rishi it's not /just/ about you and us being safe. I don't know a more capable healer, someone better at putting people back together. Nor do I know many Lunars that I know I can trust and won't just mince me for being among the Dragon-Blooded. If we have any hope in creating some sort of place where the various chosen can work together in harmony without worrying about the Hunt or what not, it's going to take the strengths of everyone I know. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants something like that." And then she looks back to Fudou, "Luna is a mercurial one that I don't think I would have any hope of understanding. I don't know of Lilith but just knowing she chose you, Raksi, and Rishi are saying something interesting about her intentions." "Maybe, just maybe what we need is to all consider what we truly value. For me?" Amethyst is silent for a few moments, as though she's never really considered it, "...I want a lot of things that are pretty mutually exclusive. Or at least, they feel that way. Most of all I think I want a reason for seeking the power and strength that I wish for, some purpose to put it towards, to make some real difference in this world rather than just training forever. Maybe we should all think about what kind of change we want to see in this world and start working towards it."
Rishi	"I spent many of the months thinking this through, doing the planning and the preparing. It is having the blessing of the Many Faced One. And, though I am not being as large as you, I am not being the easy to be doing the killing of. Yes, it is being much the better if I am simply remaining to be the lesser Chosen of the Waters, but, if people are doing the finding out, then..." Rishi fishes a vial out of her satchel and drinks it, making a hand sign that quickly grows into the Wood Dragon's Claw. After a moment of thought, she slices off her other arm, which falls to the floor, wetly, though there is no blood. The Claw quickly retreats and Rishi flexes the muscles in the stump, which is visibly growing. "I am very hard to be doing the killing of. And it is being a skill which I am still doing the improving." "So, yes. You and Pearly should be doing the leading of the hunt that is destroying me, for that will be doing the exonorating of you. Because I can be handling the minor dismemberment. And I am thinking I can be fooling them into thinking that I am being most dead." She waves her stump which has a proper forearm now. "But...if I cannot be doing the handling of it, if they are doing the killing of me, then...I am wanting to go to my next life knowing that I was doing the protecting of those I am loving, until I could not be doing that." Rishi looks oddly at Fudou. "No, when they were appearing to me, the Ever Changing One, they were giving me this charge, this task. It is being a holy mission."
Fudou the Mountain	The giant sighs. It's crass - but he came here to make lewd jokes about the size of his sexual attributes, get drunk and do drugs, and amuse the others with his more buffonish side. Like all lunars, Fudou is mercurial. He can be deadly serious, has been a brutal raider, thief and barbaric in his use of strength, and also kindly, affable with a streak of heroism that's been coached out of him. But tonight he just wanted to tease Rishi and now Amethyst and maybe do drugs. This has become enirely -- not that. "Strange that she'd give you this unique holy mission when I received no such instructions." He finally seems to snap and his voice raises as he gestures at Rishi, "She gives us no -charge! She exalts murderers and storybook strongmen alike! I was both! Your holy mission may be another lunar's desire to see mortals lacked in their forms. Are you more right then -they-?? You keep flaunting this holy mission and you have these mortals tapped into it but when it comes crashing down your well played plans will have cost us a powerful lunar sorceress wrapped up in her own ideals! Itw ould be different if you'd thought this plan out in your own forged dominion but here? In Great Forks? In the middle of all ..this??" He snorts, "Tell me again how 'holy' your mission is when the Wolf of Roses sends you emmisaries seeking your abilities to fuel his armies." He gestures again witha dismissive wave. "Luna exalted champions to defend Creation, not soldier-slaves to fulfill her 'wishes.'. She's just doesn't -care- as long as you are being great. So stop putting this wild plan of yours on her!"
Amethyst	Amethyst recoils as she watches Rishi /chop off one of her limbs/. "I've hurt myself but never like that before..." Amethyst murmurs. "Fine, then." She takes a deep breath and speaks up, "I challenge you to a duel then. If you're really so skilled you should have no trouble fending off a lone dragon, eh?" Amethyst is quite serious here. "And I swear if you die senselessly I'll spend my next life finding you /just/ so that I can make sure yours isn't so foolishly spent." Then she thinks back, "I... looked through one of the memories of a lunar to see their exaltation, and I believe Luna was only vague about her desires, but she was most definitely there. Unless my own ability failed me somehow..." She considers. Amethyst wasn't prepared for Fudou tho. Amethyst tries to speak up several times but can't get so much as a single word out. She just stares, mouth agape, and waits to see how Rishi takes all of that. She might be preparing for the worst here.
Rishi	Rishi nods to Ammy. "It would be best for me to be seeing just how much punishment I can be handling. You are both having the point. So...yes, I am accepting your challenge, Ammy." She waves her new wrist for emphasis, as she picks up her discarded arm. "And you may be checking to be seeing if there are any of the Alchemical uses for this." Rishi backs away slightly from Fudou's rage, looking at Ammy for ...validation maybe? but she sees none there. "But..No, they...they *said*...I...I heard... I-I... I thought they...." and it is at this moment that both of you are reminded that, for all she *acts* like she's got everything figured out, like she's an elder, like she's experienced...she's not actually that much older than either of you. The expression on her face makes her look so young and scared. "No. No!" And, with that, she dashes out of the door and launches into the sky, tears streaming down her face.
Fudou the Mountain	A long time ago in an ancient ruin, Fudou met a beautiful young lunar girl who requested he crack open a temple door for her with a bat of eyelashes and a polite requested when he was there to plunder the place himself. He obliged. Rishi probably will never remember that but Fudou never forgot. Now he looks after her as she flees and just sighs and shakes his head while rubbing his jaw. "I just wanted to tell jokes about the size of my.." he rumbles, voice trailing off but Amethyst could probably guess at where he was going. "..I will go after her. It's my fault and I think she needs another lunar's perspective." He turns to Amethyst, "Yous tay her luv, clean up after her demonstration yeah? Don't you worry now. Luna comes to us all, differently. RIshi, I think, developed her own meaning behind it but so do many lunars. The Silver Pact helps but I do not think she ever had that opportunity and forged her own path. I will go find her." And with that, his form melts away, whirling into that of a beefy hawk which takes wing, circling Amethyst before darting out the door.
Amethyst	Amethyst is stunned. The... second time her love has just ran away from her. For a moment she just stares, goes and pokes at the arm. But as Fudou transforms, she shakes her head, gives the arm a last glance. "You'll still be fresh by the time I get back." she murmurs at it. "No I'm coming with you too." She says regrowing her wings. "Not letting her vanish off the face of Creation like Frosty did that one time." And so she too bolts out the door, locks up behind herself, and takes off into the sky. She really needs to finish this mask.