The question being, my dear Xiao Lily, is who, and what, has placed it there, in that case? Is it an illusion, a construct, an array of some kind... presume dangerous, either way.
If so many of the undead leaders converged on this place I think they left a mark, like a curse, or a magical scar. The way we decay outside of our suits reminds me of that naked woman on the horse from Taravast and the way things would begin to degrade the longer she lingered. The Merchant knew of her enough to announce her. Certainly the lighthouse, must be something left behind by them. Everyone's gone so mad for it. It's wonderful, but, Wen Qing almost wandered off a cliff staring at it.
Something which chills the marrow in my bones, I'm not afraid to say. Anything that has those levels of compulsion are more than dangerous, they're seductively so, and even being aware doesn't mean you're capable of staying wary.
As far as the causation, it's possible. Between the most powerful undead and the magics the people of this citadel worked on, there could be some sort of combined effect, intended or incidental.
You were contacting with your mind turned toward something, I'm guessing to addressing this improbable lighthouse. What did you have in mind?
You've mostly said all the things I had in mind, who put the lighthouse there, why, and what is it doing? Is it what's anchoring whatever strange loop this place is in that keeps everything from really dying and staying dead?
I don't know what we'll find when we go there, but I don't think we can avoid going there.
Right, so! What kind of mental clarity charms might you have, things of that nature? I've a few, Lan Zhan has more and perhaps the ability to play toward it, though I suppose I can borrow his preferred tune and tweak it around to this purpose, even if it's less about situational clarity and more on meditation.
We're caught in a loop that cannot allow for life or death, in its own tail-biting loop. We need to get through the whole of the region, certainly, but also — break that loop.
Though breaking it, if we can, may be consequential enough to be worried over, or what levels and reasons Master Scorpion had for bringing us through here.
I might have everything I need to make some Wit Sharpening Potion? I'll have to have a look through my inventory list.
Eleven believes this place is a well-spring of life energy, but the absence of permanent death isn't right, no matter how beautiful he thinks it is.
It's clear we were brought here to find this lighthouse, preoccupations aside, I think we're being used by the Great Gobshite. He must have known how captivating it would be.
He's a very particular idea of what's lovely or unlovely, though he does try to work outside of that. Forgive him, he's young, and ladies outpace us in maturity and wisdom.
Also: he's been using us from the start, just as it's to our benefits that he also acts. He's not interested in preserving much more than our lives, ah? So yes. He's brought us here for a reason.
You're a maddening sort at times, but it does make me afraid sooner or later someone might try and do something foolish - especially after catching Wen Qing on that cliff's edge.
I've never spoken to him. It doesn't appear as though many people have much luck when they try.
He hardly speaks in anything other than misleading statements, be warned, and aware.
But yes, we do maddening things, and foolish things, and when we're lucky and somewhat wise, we learn from them and do better. Which, I will say, I don't think Master Scorpion is interested in doing, particularly, when he's happily using us as borrowed blades to scythe as we go. Still.
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As far as the causation, it's possible. Between the most powerful undead and the magics the people of this citadel worked on, there could be some sort of combined effect, intended or incidental.
You were contacting with your mind turned toward something, I'm guessing to addressing this improbable lighthouse. What did you have in mind?
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I don't know what we'll find when we go there, but I don't think we can avoid going there.
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We're caught in a loop that cannot allow for life or death, in its own tail-biting loop. We need to get through the whole of the region, certainly, but also — break that loop.
Though breaking it, if we can, may be consequential enough to be worried over, or what levels and reasons Master Scorpion had for bringing us through here.
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Eleven believes this place is a well-spring of life energy, but the absence of permanent death isn't right, no matter how beautiful he thinks it is.
It's clear we were brought here to find this lighthouse, preoccupations aside, I think we're being used by the Great Gobshite. He must have known how captivating it would be.
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Also: he's been using us from the start, just as it's to our benefits that he also acts. He's not interested in preserving much more than our lives, ah? So yes. He's brought us here for a reason.
Have you asked?
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I've never spoken to him. It doesn't appear as though many people have much luck when they try.
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But yes, we do maddening things, and foolish things, and when we're lucky and somewhat wise, we learn from them and do better. Which, I will say, I don't think Master Scorpion is interested in doing, particularly, when he's happily using us as borrowed blades to scythe as we go. Still.
Conversation is useful.