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Siren's Call [Solo Quest]

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#1Toga 

Siren's Call [Solo Quest] Empty Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:45 am

Toga
Astera sprawled along the coast, its magnificent architecture and lively culture a jewel nestled between the ocean's azure waves and rugged mountain peaks. Tōga wandered the city's winding alleys and lively markets with childlike awe, marveling at the discoveries around each corner and revelations within newfound friendships. He soaked in the beauty and warmth of the place, filling his soul. But duty called as swiftly as seabirds winging messages through the salty air. As a newly inducted Rune Knight Major, word from Era by carrier pigeon reached Tōga in his seaside lodgings - the Knights required his services once more. Though he longed to linger, responsibility compelled Toga's steps away from sweet Astera and toward his next vital mission. The city blurred into memory behind him as he turned inland, Tōga's spirit filled with visions of returning one day to that glittering jewel of civilization nestled by the sea.

Rousing from his seaside hotel room, Tōga bathed away the last sweet vestiges of sleep. He readied himself with ritual precision - first donning the familiar red hoodie he wore on countless otherworldly adventures. Overtop, a tailored black gakuran jacket and matching overcoat gave a noble cast to his warrior physique. He stepped comfortably into his red travel shoes, as worn and welcoming as old friends. Last he hoisted the huge bulk of Zangetsu to his back, the massive sword sheathed in tattered bindings that did little to restrain its obsidian edges, hungering for supernatural flesh and bone. Thus, armored without and within, Tōga set forth on the new mission fate delivered him, the salt breeze passing unnoticed as duty displaced the joys of leisure. The shrouded black brand of the Rune Knights preceded Tōga through Astera's crowded streets, common folk withdrawing with a mix of awe and unease as he passed.

wc: 301
Perks: Zangetsu's Perk [,15% wird reduction, +10% to Jewlels by buffing lady luck coin]. Rune Knight Level [-20% word reduction]



#2Toga 

Siren's Call [Solo Quest] Empty Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:45 am

Toga
Fully equipped, Tōga set out into Astera's winding streets. He wove through lively markets and thick crowds, the towering buildings casting him in cool shadow as he made his way to the mission's origin point. There awaited the troubled Rhea, arrive to plead disturbing allegations about her husband that now fell under Rune Knight scrutiny. Tōga steeled himself as he approached the distressed woman, her haunted eyes speaking of dark secrets within the gilded walls of Astera’s dazzling facade. This shining city nurtured as much suffering as joy, and Tōga's role was to unveil and excise the creeping rot eating at the brilliant core. Rhea was but the most visible symptom of some deeper shadow lurking amid the ocean-kissed magnificence of the capital by the sea.

Tōga arrived at Rhea’s modest home, set against the sheer mountain face looming above Astera's colorful sprawl. She welcomed him inside the single-story dwelling, the weight of unknown trouble bowing her slender shoulders. As shadows gathered in corners untouched by the sea-view windows, Rhea shared whispered troubles - stories of a husband vanished into the home’s deeper places below the earth.

Tōga listened intently, piecing together details too dark for Rhea’s frightened lips. When the painful tale finally ended, he offered a bow of reassurance before departing. But duty kept close pace as Tōga plunged into Astera’s scintillating streets, bound for shadowed regions where secrets swirled. What malady infected Rhea’s husband to drive him into lightless depths underneath their small home? By oath and steel, the Rune Knight descended towards revelation.
wc: 257 [558]



#3Toga 

Siren's Call [Solo Quest] Empty Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:46 am

Toga
Hours spent questioning Astera's fearful wives yielded unsettling common threads. Each recounted the same disturbing tale - husbands spirited away by an irresistible torpor, their mutterings weaving cryptic patterns across fitful dreams. Though conventional wisdom proved worthless, Tōga's experienced intuition detected the faint outline of some phantom malaise at work. Expanding the search through Astera's winding byways fed older rumors back to Tōga, tales warning of a deadly siren that haunted the city's glittering facade. If true, such a creature could wield strange magics to draw men into an unwaking slumber. United with this new intelligence, the patchwork clues Tōga gleaned from the anxious wives now presented a mosaic of motive and sinister method. A ruthless predator seemed to move through their very midst, some alluring demon from the deep waters bewitching men to unknown fates below the root-gripped foundations of the bright city above. Tōga at last sniffed the true quarry’s scent, though to confront such a monster alone invited lethal peril.

His investigation guided Tōga's steps through bustling markets down to Astera's busy harborside. There he found the city’s hardy sailors, spinning fantastic yarns of the phantom songstress stalking the night-shrouded waves. Though most still safely plied their daily trade, some men recounted strange trances stealing over crewmates now lost to the icy sea depths. From these surviving old salts, Tōga borrowed two small skiffs perfect for navigating the city’s submerged labyrinth where the siren supposedly dwelled.

wc: 239 [797]



#4Toga 

Siren's Call [Solo Quest] Empty Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:47 am

Toga
Sunset dyed Astera’s glittering spires bloody crimson as Tōga laid preparations to bait destiny’s snare. The last fading light found him loading bundles of wax-sealed cloth into the small boats as provisions for his underwater quest. When stars emerged in intricate constellations over the ebony sea, the Rune Knight stood ready, armed with arcane artifacts from Astera’s mountain-spawned myths. If this city sheltered ancient evils below its jewel-like splendor, he would sound the depths and dredge them into the light. As the twin moons breached the horizon, Tōga slid his slender vessels into the ocean, resolved to pierce the mysteries lurking beneath swirling black waves.

As the last light surrendered the sky to wandering stars, mist crept from the ocean’s depths to enshroud the silent docks. Tōga gently slid his paired skiffs into the clinging gloom until the murky water hid them from sight. He stepped softly into the first slim vessel, its shallow draft parting the veil of mist with each dip of the oars. Only faint ripples marked his slow passage toward the deeper waters where few sailors dared tread. Mere boat lengths behind drifted his shadow skiff, an exact copy bereft of its master’s breath and beating heart. Together they slipped phantom-like through the harbor, the twin craft disappearing into the sea mists that continued their relentless advance over the now deserted docks. Safe ashore, Astera’s people barred their shutters against the creeping pall while Tōga plunged steady oar strokes toward its chilling heart, baiting destiny’s snare.

wc: 250 [1047]



#5Toga 

Siren's Call [Solo Quest] Empty Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:48 am

Toga
Luminous eyes glowed with feral delight at her presumed capture. Rosy lips parted, promising endless sweet oblivion for any man who tasted their nectar as the siren song trilled triumphantly over the muffled oars slowly drawing the second vessel nearer. Yet her alluring spells broke upon the silent figure, enraptured neither by hypnotic body nor rhythmic thralldom of voice. Too late, doubt dawned in her ancient gaze as magic senses warned this hardened warrior soul and disciplined Rune Knight mind would never submit to her profane enchantments. The trap was sprung, and hunter now marked unmistakable fear in his designated prey.

The siren's lyrical voice soared in complex arias of seduction, weaving a tapestry of delights in vain around the silent scarecrow lashed to the boat’s seat. Sensing the futility of her spells, desperation carved cold furrows in her once-regal face. Talons erupted from slender fingers as the creature ripped savagely into her wooden suitor, shredding it to debris. Moonlight exposed the ruse, gleaming off the water-logged bundle of reeds and rough cloth now littering the planks below. Understanding flashed in the siren’s luminous eyes too late. This soulless puppet was but distraction for a greater mortal danger lurking above this empty vessel now drawing her into the Rune Knight’s machinations. Frantically she cast her senses toward the murky depths, pierced by oar strokes of the second skiff breaching the mist veils at her flank. Snarling defeat, the Undine twisted vainly against growing confinement as Tōga’s woven rune-nets rose from the waves to meet in an inescapable cage. Ancient, merciless eyes locked upon the captain now rowing closer through dissolving tendrils of vapor. All routes of flight were closed; she thrashed in the water, his prize at last.

wc: 288 [1387]



#6Toga 

Siren's Call [Solo Quest] Empty Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:48 am

Toga
"Gotcha!" Tōga's voice rang out as a second skiff emerged from concealing mists, the knight vaulting aboard the siren’s captive vessel. Magic kindled around his clenched fist - dark inferno flames bound in crackling lightning nets that set the murk alight with flash and thunder. The siren twisted vainly against the glowing rune-bonds, twin moons illuminating primal desperation in her luminous eyes. Then lightning fire exploded against her scaly flank, scorching agony fused to paralyzing shock as Tōga’s blow landed home. She howled, writhing against the punishing currents now coursing through her lithe body. The knight’s ruthless gaze reflected no pity, only calm duty as he claimed his captured quarry. Ancient legends collided here beneath the star-strewn sky as Astera’s defender once more drew poison from society’s smiling facade. Soon pale eastern light would banish these phantoms back to the abyssal depths... but for now, the Rune Knight’s battle waged on beneath the impassive night sky.

As dawn's first light crested the distant waves, Tōga guided the skiffs bearing the captive siren back to Astera’s awakening harbor. There awaited anxious families, eyes alight with fragile hope as the lingering nightmares fled from their rousing minds. Rhea flew into her husband’s arms, the dark tide of sorcery that gripped his soul now banished by the Cleansing Fire. Tōga's solemn nod buoyed relief through the growing crowd - the aquatic devil that haunted their sleep could no longer croon her fell melody. By the knight's steadfast hand, the insidious malice corrupting the shining city faced ruthless conviction this day. Such darkness could find no haven here so long as Astera’s sworn defenders drew honorable might from mountain stone and society’s bedrock principles alike, standing vigilant so her people prospered safe in light's warm embrace. As families reunited in joyous reunion, Tōga's work now passed into myth, the protector who bested the wicked lore of the past.

wc: 314 [1701]
MISSION COMPLETE!



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