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The Student's Mistress

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Ymiden 23rd, arc 719

'Sick childe of the Northlands...' Came the voice of the Mistress. Her crooning tone turned craven from the flights of madness. Her words were impulses upon the resting mind. Whispers, from the annals of history. A shade, of the grand entity she once was. 'Prithee, how long dost thou wish for for this idocracy to remain?'

The malignant tumor upon Sybil's soul took the role of the Primordial Sin. The pus that leaked from her mangled lips gave her ruined features a glossy sheen. The Empty, not yet dead, caresses the mind that scarred her. 'Surely thine sin is grand. But to whom do you pray? From whom dost thou seek absolution?' Her lips, slowly breaking free from the muzzle of melded bone began to sweetly murmur.

'The softness I sought was for naught.' The Mistress crooned, softly, as her malformed, needle tipped fingers slowly glanced across the fleshy interior of her prison. This hell was some perversion of the act of conception. Her milky white eyes had long lost the ability to see. But her strength, was slowly growing. 'Thou art a ghoulish creature indeed. Absolution is not what you seek.'

She had found a weakness within Sybil's mind. The Mistress had too much time to bide. And she was, indeed, intent on finding a way to wrench control of this body. Her gnarled fingertips trace along the wrinkles of flesh, slowly sinking within, with a sickening squelch. Purulent blood leaking from the walls of her prison. Her weak ministration causing the pulsing synapse gracing her nails to quiver.

'Thy deeds doth precede thee.' Her words, her aristocratic voice that had been stolen from her, during her dogged struggle to assert control over this body, seemed to be broken. She spoke like she remembered her grandmother, upon her deathbed. 'If none are to judge thine sins... Shall I? We art kin, childe. There is naught to fear. There is only us damned.' The memory began to play itself. Pulsing within Sybil's mind.

The sluice of fluids began to wrap around the Mistress's finger. She still had control of her own mind. It took all of her energy to retain it. In the process, the reason why her goals were in place had left her, but the Empty was intent on seeing them completed. Even if it meant that some daft brat had to have a seizure, and she had to play the role of cripple for one short lifetime. She was not intent on surrendering so easily.

It was like a metal wire was being dragged across open, sensitive flesh. Her finger slowly disintegrated into a bony prominence. The flesh began to slough off. The Mistress squirmed in place, unable to stop tasting her own rancid breath, let alone move. The pulses of synapses began to fire, as the broken grin of the Empty began to form. Her teeth much like jagged shivs, or broken glass, more than anything. The torture she was subject to, ungodly. But she knew that she would do the same thing, if she was in Sybil's position. No.

She wasn't as milquetoast as this brat. She would have shown the fetid child why the Empress and her followers were feared across the land.

She couldn't help but grit her teeth, as she pulled back her finger. The shattered shards sinking into her gums, causing her to gag from the sensation of it. She was forced to swallow. The Mistress could only allow her prison to do with her as it wished, now. Milky, white eyes simply shifting, trying to see the fruits of her labor. She knew that she wouldn't be able to see it. Her limp body remained against the fleshy, pulsing walls.

Her ace in the hole is now in effect. The memory that the sickening, fetid, ghoulish, miasmatic, olish, loathsome, revolting Videnese brat thought was so horrific.
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Last edited by Sybil Malach on Sat Jun 08, 2019 9:18 pm, edited 1 time in total. word count: 658
"No mass graves."

-Vri 720, scolding Sybil for disposing of necromancers.

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The landscape of the memory was covered in flesh. The air was choked with the potent stench of musk and vomit.

It was a graveyard. The hard, frozen ground shimmered. In reality, the fleshy substance that pretended to be ice seemed to flicker; barely even reminiscent of the thing it was supposed to represent. The exposed sinew shifted like grass, fine as piano wires. The only people that Sybil could see, were flayed. Their exposed musculatures sinking against the endless fields of bloodied silver skin. It was as though there was a glitch in this memory. The hell sight that was granted to the mind, only occasionally flickered into something that made more sense. But it was rare. It spurred a headache for Sybil, in this memory. It caused the stomach to churn, as it disobeyed any sort of rational reality.

Sybil was smaller than usual. Resting upon their knees, the student could only look down into the gaping maw of flesh that lay in a crooked rectangle. The ground began to sweat beneath Sybil's legs, as something could be seen within the hole. An object that was made of iron. It was unaffected by this strange, abyssal filter upon the eyes. Looking down to their hands, they were covered in blood, and chunks of flesh. The memories began to slowly flurry back. Thirteen arcs. This was when it had happened. When Sybil had to do what no one else in the family would do. Eyes widened, it was like the student's mind was stuck within a miasma of confusion and complete disarray. Nothing was right.

'Quaint. A burial of mere dirt is not fit for a man of distinction, doesn't thou agree?' The Mistress's ruined, brutally manged fingers slowly slide across the childlike Sybil's shoulders. Her breath smelled of rancid pus, and was humid enough to feel as though there was active liquids being dispersed from it. 'Thou knowst what must be done. Even a childe so embroiled in sin knows.' Her words flowed like that of a broken hag's. Every flowing syllable sounded as though it came from someone going through a phlegmy cough. Sybil's eyes could only glance to the side. Widened, the reds of the corner of the sclera could be seen. The student's temperature rising, to a fevered, sickly pitch.

Sybil couldn't speak. The bile rising in their throat was alternating up and down the esophagus. It scorched at the vocal cords.

Sybil was entranced by the iron below. The student's mind desperately tried to hide what it was. Flickering in and out of existence. The object was not entirely anchored to this world. The flesh that surrounded it was being held apart, like a surgical wound to a metal apparatus. It caused the world to squirm, and shriek in pain, the longer it was held. It was impossible to ignore what this was. It was impossible to understand what this was. But the mind was being forced to bear witness to the thing it had so desperately attempted to hide from the student, all of these years. The Mistress was speaking a warped, disgustingly venomous truth. No other option could have happened.

The student's hand began to reach out, towards it. Leaning within the mound of torn flesh. Eyes widened painfully so. Hands shaking. The sweat pouring from the fleshy hole had began to create a puddle beneath the coffin. The thick, viscous fluid slowly beginning to push it up, towards the hands. The smell of burning charcoal stained itself upon the senses. The student's hands paused, looking down into the hole. The smell of smoke seemed to cloud the mind. The grip upon Sybil's shoulders tightened, 'Open, you vile cretin!' The pretense of some feigned nicety began to peel back, like a dead fingernail. The Mistress's words frantic, 'Open it! Dost thou wish for truth, or ignorance?!'
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"No mass graves."

-Vri 720, scolding Sybil for disposing of necromancers.

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Slowly, Sybil's eyes began to close. Zemos was always useful for something. Though the slave was all but a hair's breadth from mental dereliction, he knew how to do basic tasks efficiently, and without hesitation. The meditative trance that the student had entered was slowly being interrupted by the smell of the burning coal being held to the student's nostrils. It was Sybil's saving grace, in the chance that this had happened. Though Sybil's eyes flickered open, the scene desperately attempted to transpose itself upon the student's vision, all but releasing any notion that this was anything but the Mistress's attempt at wrenching control. The burning smell is focused on, for a moment longer.

'You took everything from me, you brat!' The Mistress screamed, grip upon the student's shoulder almost crushing the bone upon it. 'I am deserving of life, just as you! Dost thou have any sympathy?! It was stolen from me, while you waste it, toiling among the commoners and the sods!' Her shrieking voice reached a fever pitch, as she began to sink within the fleshy ground itself. Her skin began to weave into the hellish, fleshy ground, her voice distorted by the grievous pain that she endured, slowly being placed back into her prison. Blood began to trickle from Sybil's eyes, as an attempt at focus is taken, stalwart mind beginning to tear at its own seams, just to retain a higher level of control.

The pit that was being constructed beneath were she stood, had begun to be filled with a thick, pale green fluid.

Her voice picked up, as her bone muzzle began to form against her lips. Tearing against the flesh, yet weaving together in an absolutely disgusting display, as she struggled to get the final word in. 'When you meet the Twins, I- I'll make sure thoust suffer! I'll make sure you pay! By the Empress, I'll cleave the soul from its sockets!' Her inhuman, growling voice screamed in agony, as she was pulled beneath the fleshy ground, and into the pit of acid. Sybil's eyes focusing on the iron coffin, hoisted up by what appeared to be a thickened sweat. It was hard to tear the gaze away from it. It took all the strength that the student had left, to look away from it. To shift the gaze towards Zemos.
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"No mass graves."

-Vri 720, scolding Sybil for disposing of necromancers.

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It didn't take long, for Sybil's attention to slowly begin to refocus upon the world. Zemos, the student's slave was standing stalwart, holding the piece of burning yellow-white coal towards Sybil's nose. Slowly blinking, the student was brought to focus. It was hard to see through the rosy red vignette in which the world presented itself now, the seeping blood beginning to obscure the vision, "Alright... You can place it down, Zemos. It's done." Sybil's words flowed. But that was not the only thing that flowed from those lips. A small river of blood, presenting two teeth had made itself present upon the student's feet, after dislodging from the throat. Yet, not a single tooth was missing from Sybil's mouth.

Leaning against the wall, the student's mind burned with the effort of trying to retain control. The painfully pulsing synapses of Sybil's mind seemed to strain beyond any sort of belief. Bloodied eyes slowly shifting towards the broad shouldered slave, something began to make sense. Finding a solution to this, alone, would be impossible. Slaves were necessary, in order to keep some semblance of living, now. Zemos looked to Sybil, giving a distinct look of confusion and worry. The student hadn't told him the truth of the matter.

"... I'll need some help standing... I think... I should visit the bathhouse..." Sybil made mention of, tiredly, as the hot coal is moved away from the student's nose.

And Zemos would not be told the truth. Not yet.
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-Vri 720, scolding Sybil for disposing of necromancers.

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Sybil Malach
Skill Points: +10 (cannot be used for magic)
Magic XP: None.

Renown: None.

Injuries/Overstepping: Psychological strain w/ physical manifestation.
Wealth Points: None.
Loot: +2 Mistress's Molars (Empty Memento)

Skill Knowledge:
  • Torture: Keeping the Mistress at bay through pain
  • Torture: Requires resolve to see inflicting pain through
  • Torture: Can occur to the mind
  • Discipline: Enduring the Mistress's torture
  • Meditation: Interruptions can be important
  • Endurance: Enduring a traumatic possession experience
Non-Skill Knowledge:
  • none requested.
Notes: n/a.

Wonderful combination between the Mistress and Sybil's own psychology. Mistress has some anger issues, huh? It's a good thing Sybil has Zemos around. I can only imagine how unsettling it was to have those teeth after the possession. You write creepy well.

Great job and enjoy your rewards!

PM me if you have any questions, issues or concerns.

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