Looking For A Tiefer

[*Er_Nano_Infame]

Wuhi goes to the foundry looking for Vara. should she find her, she'd bring her to a quiet spot and ask if she has news about Rannia, whom wuhi didnt see in a while after last time in the hive.

[*LiquidDreamer]

Vara buries Wuhi in a hug first and foremost. When she is lead to a quiet corner, Vara tells Wuhi she heard rumors of her in the custody of the Harmonium. She also adds, quite flippantly, that the lobsters won't tell her anything about Rannia or let anyone outside legal council see her.

[*Er_Nano_Infame]

after returning the hug with a very warm one of hers and listening, she purses lips thinking, tilting a brow at vara's flippancy.
''how did it happens? why's?...'' then slumps shoulders , scratcheshead

''we heard of assault at the carnival. how did those beings enter the cage? yuh knows?''

taps her chin , then asks her ''do yuh has chisel and hammer?''

[*LiquidDreamer]

"Dunno hun. The dark is that some lobster caught her with a badge or two. I knew we should have taken'em.

Portals is how they got in if the stories are true. My faction is goin crazy right now. They say those things can possess people and all kinds of nasty stuff. And you know I have a hammer and chisel. You wanna break her out or somethin?"

[*Er_Nano_Infame]

''ah? do we looks like jailbreakers? nuh...yuh need better brains than ours if you wants try a rescue, or wait and hope that we come up wiff a plan'' noddles ''...dont yuh have ''friends'' in that lawish triad that may help get rannia out or sumthing?''
takes the tools then looks up to vara ''we wants find one o' those etchings rannia carved around and scrape it away. see if aneething happens. maybbe there's some at the carnival's area?'' the girl smiles confiding hers is an idea worth trying, knowing it may be a hard search....
-she'd use mind blank on herself (plus mindsilver headband) if and when trying to remove an etching-

((and guess styxdweller, or who for him, is required for this part :) ))

[*EM StyxDweller]

There were etchings and paintings all about the Hive, if one knew where to look. The trouble came in determining which were the works of the wayward tiefling.

Oft-times, they had proven subtle, hidden amidst other designs or incorporating the play of street-torches and shadows into their design so as to form grand, sprawling artworks when certain, unknowable conditions were met.

The cobbles at the foot of Khazeet's bar had been stripped and re-paved by silent, floating Dabus, replaced with smooth stones, unmarred by her etchings.

Were the Hin to wander, eventually her eye would catch upon a design, bringing a sense of dread to her mind and a lurching in her stomach. Dim fascination would compel a viewer to draw nearer while their mindscape blazed with feeble attempts to draw the flesh it barely controlled away from the dangerous sign.

Wardings offered some small protection, keeping the mind whole, but didn't save the viewer from drawing in an aspect of the aberrant taint as mad thoughts and impossible sights burrowed into the recesses of their brain.

The signs - No, they weren't merely scribbles or mere conveyances of a concept, they were tears, holes in what should be through which things that *mustn't* be could peek through and force their formidable wills into those who peered impotently back into their realm.

Hunger! Anger! Curiousity? Indifference! Dismissal!

In a quick, nauseating moment, a disgusting violation of the Hin's mindscape began and ended, the brutal conquest averted only by the wardings she'd dared to enact. The silvered headband darkened, irreparably tarnished.

Costly, certainly, but the knowledge that it had averted a greater loss - That of the Hin's mind, would serve as some small comfort.

[*Er_Nano_Infame]

after some time a sealed message via courier would arrive to vara

''we found her. meet us where she lives''
signed - W.

[*LiquidDreamer]

Vara makes her way to Rannia's house. When she's there, she looks around for Wuhi.

[*Er_Nano_Infame]

wuhi is near rannia's kip, trying to rest. rannia -should- still be in the kip.

hin appears tired. noticing vara she waves and approaches

''she escaped from gatehouse, after she was sent there from barracks. her drawings brought chaos among the barmies and group of hivers try to resist them, but...is hard, and invaders posses and spy. apparently it is them hivers resistance who took the monodrone, to have it help people back from those portal traps, we could see it, but not take back, a fight insued between us and those hivers for a..misunderstanding, apparentlee...''

explains among some sigh

[*LiquidDreamer]

Vara finds the hin and taps her awake. "Say what? When was this? Slow down start from the beginning. What monodrone hun?" She asks. She also waits outside, looking around to see if anyone notices them talking.