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Ductu Myrkul

We wander in the minds of other things.

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a character in “The Multiverse”, as played by lil_kreen

Description

Ductu is a rider that wanders along in the guise of other creatures. Myrkul dispatches them to understand things which are foreign and not human. She adds her intellect and thereby her goals to the creature and can speak in many languages producing the structures necessary to do so. While becoming a greater whole Ductu nonetheless holds the strings of the bonded creature's goals. While she has a distaste for bonding with sapient creatures she abjectly refuses to subvert the will of humans. She is likely to undo hostile psychic efforts against the host creature to effect escape. Weaving into the creature's body it becomes larger and more hardy and in the night or shadow one can see the faint crimson crown of Ductu's mental defenses above the creature's head.

Gender: Female
Race: Ascended hairworm
Age: Not applicable
Height (personified): 5'8"
Theme: Link
Description

Ductu can be somewhat androgynous when personified if going about her business alone but when engaged with other sapients she takes on much more feminine features. Her smooth face hints at some well designed symmetry hidden just underneath and defined enough for a warm smile. Her fingers shorten to lithe attractive hands if she needs to interact with substances. When interacting with physical objects her hands take on the smooth cool texture of silken gloves. The rest of her substance feels much like a silt caressing as it moves past. She takes on eyes sometimes which are silver with red irises.
Powers

  • Bond - When Ductu bonds with a creature they gain a supernatural hardiness. As she is woven into their muscles if they sustain any bleeding she can cauterize wounds very quickly. This is stupendously painful when done in large amounts so Ductu prefers to seal wounds with her own substance until the host can rebuild themselves. The host's skin is more robust as the networks of black motes are far more resilient than most flesh. If the host takes too much damage without having time to heal it may prove fatal for Ductu to leave as she may be triaging for a good amount of flesh that hasn't regenerated yet.
  • The Crown - Ductu's will produces the faint red crown above the creature's head seen largely at night as during the day it's too bright. The bonding is vulnerable to psychic attacks which weakens her but Ductu will not leave a bonded animal unless absolutely necessary. The bond allows her to repair hostile efforts against the host mind. While bonded with such a creature its will is very difficult to subvert by others without also breaking Ductu's own first. As long as she is there she is conscious enough to exploit the bond.
  • Personify - If she leaves a bonded animal and personifies Ductu will not easily be damaged holding a wispy solidity unless needing her hands to manipulate objects. Outside the weakness of the bond she will prove heavily resilient against psychic attacks but weak to fire. Touching Ductu's mind is damaging in of itself as it innately reacts with hostility to things attempting to actively bond with her benign or otherwise. She moves very quickly as her claws liquefy and consume what they puncture. Ductu prefers diplomacy for sapient creatures or bonding with everything else than damaging potential hosts however.


Current Host

Unknown female - Darknet handle "Neural Saint"

Ductu found this female with a sucking chest wound from persons she had no capability to identify. She would never take a human by force but neither could she allow a human to perish. So it was she bonded with the girl quickly fading from reality. Ductu reached out and anchored her from falling into the dark of nonexistence by replacing the destroyed flesh with herself. A mind still absent the girl's waking thread still recovers as Ductu's motes tend to the seared neural garden.

So begins...

Ductu Myrkul's Story

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Character Portrait: Gabrielle LeBeau Character Portrait: Ductu Myrkul Character Portrait: Ulrich Paternosta Character Portrait: Akio Revela Character Portrait: Swan the River King
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Becca spun around on her stool to face them all easier patting Gabby's arm to try and comfort, "Leave her alone she's had a rough enough day. Now I don't know the other lady but I'll tell you what: you two have bigger problems she's wasn't even involved in. How about a quote from one of the four black armored bastards. I'll even look it up in the Almanac so Gabby doesn't have to get a worse headache."

Hand stretched out in front of her as if cradling the spine of a book one flumped into existence a thing of her mind's eye. Only a general idea how to touch it for her own memories much of the rest still entirely foreign. Not that other people could see the thing rendered in her head that made showing stuff a problem. Gestures flip pages backward through time in midair a squirming pseudo text on each page. interspersed under her focus by coarse outlines of mental images displayed. A rough sense of visual landmarks among her own memories. Finally to the beach where that sunrise was by its anchored radial image. A pale finger drifts over some line in midair as moments of time rose to the fore.

Her voice someone else's unknowingly playing back the voice of a dying sabbat using her own dusty throat,"It shan't end with us. Your home will be plagued by both the Sabbat and Camarilla now. Same with Myrkul and all Her followers. The Bar wasn't protected under thy rules, this' be a declaration of war."

One of her glowing patina irises flickers trying to find her train of thought staring at the emblem on the black envelope. Things were rooting around in her head to look at the image scattering words away from her tongue. Myrkul must have seen it before. The slow pressure felt like someone's cold metal finger poking a random spots in her brain.

An eyebrow raised in a flash of worry but Becca's own voice continued at Ulrich, "Vamps called it out by name then declared war. I think Myrkul accepted. If you're not somewhere just above Khorne on the big critter to-do list now I'll be damn surprised."

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Character Portrait: Gabrielle LeBeau Character Portrait: Ductu Myrkul Character Portrait: Ulrich Paternosta Character Portrait: Akio Revela Character Portrait: Swan the River King
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Akio just nodded at his fellow kin, and decided to get to work...although he did so discreetly, and did not make a big scene, to avoid any conflict or confusion while the others dealt with each other. Making sure to utilize the powers of the Nightingale's Wand, he did not just make himself turn invisible, but rather surrounded himself with a charm that would make others naturally take less notice of him, or even just not notice him completely. It was as if he had no pressence at all, which was a lot more discreet then going poof.

Of course, whether it was necessary to do this or not, who could say. But either way, with the exception of Ulrich who he specified in his spell to not be affected, and any other vampire he recognized, Akio figured it was best in case the criminal was still around, or had other people watching. Information control could be key in this investigation. Now, he just needed to search over this place, to find any and all clues and traces at the crime scene left behind by the culprit, including any blood. If he dripped a single drop of blood, even if it was cleaned away, Akio could find some trace of it. And Akio would definently be able to tell it was the right blood, as he had sharpened his senses to be able to tell how fresh blood was to a shockingly specific degree.

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"If vamps 'er involved, th'Detente's involved. Yeh migh' know of the standing' agreeamant, between Wing City an' the Vankoryth Detente. Huntin', massacre- it ain't allowed in Wing City. Any information yeh might have-"

Ulrich turned to Becca, "Who wassit they named?"

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Becca reached into her hoodie to pull out a cell phone with only a few cracks in the front. Though they slowly vanished now that she held the brushed heather metal framing the device. It flicked on much the same way lacking obvious buttons. She'd had the Jinhai make a few changes like the ferroplasm frame and basically charged it by eating. Screen lit from underneath the UI displaying recorded videos without a touch. It'd begun to respond to spoken commands of her inner voice when she got the new heart.

She loaded a video she'd taken at the small cottage, "I've heard posts mentioning about this Vankoryth Detente but there's a lot of hearsay. I took video when I was in Genesis for a while."

Video displayed sideways she held it up to Ulrich and the play button turned blue. Shaky at first it displayed her bare midriff the raised up a bit to show a thickly layered empty crater of lucent webbing a throbbing red heart thumping away. Layers pulled inward as her lungs retracted some of the webbing. She rose up and spun the camera to the window she was under a lithe yellow eyed female figure looking on near the door.

In the distance a dense cloudy horizon did not curve away but drifted aimlessly unbroken by terrain. One could see a single massive mountain wreathed in a dark column forming the whole of the grassy plane's presence of altitude. Easily hundreds of kilometers away the mountain looked tiny if not for the large black obelisks and recognizable human buildings manufactured upon the surface nearby. Then a single spark eye sized larger than the buildings below broke the cloud layer. Then the other three as Myrkul's careful expression of curiosity noticed Becca's small camera among violent disturbances of clouds. flat surface of that rising murky column proved a worm clung to that sturdy edifice. The curve above shading clouds hid easily a dozen its width in length. It loomed below the clouds four inferno of grey spark-eyes fixated on the camera.

The phone recorded only Becca's side of a conversation, "It takes video! ... Because my cortical implant isn't that expensive. Uh... a Brain tool? Yes, it thinks for my eyes so I can see.... no, severe corneal dystrophy, it's genetic."

She stopped the video and put it back into her pocket, "You could try finding one of the white robed guys to talk up at north main street. Uh, the cultist-looking ones in black, Jinhai, might shoot at you now."

"Cultists?", came a curious voice from her hair.

"Pfft, yep. That's what they look like!" Came Becca's grinning response to Ducky.

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Character Portrait: Gabrielle LeBeau Character Portrait: Ductu Myrkul Character Portrait: Ulrich Paternosta Character Portrait: Akio Revela Character Portrait: Swan the River King
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• White Robed Cultists (N Main St, Wing City)
• Genesis
“If yeh don’t mind,” Ulrich asked after the clip was complete, “Wha’ sorta hearinasay?” He pulled out a small tablet device, taking notes. He didn’t quite understand what he had just seen, but he figured it was important.

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#, as written by Faithy
Gabrielle was grateful for Becca taking over the conversation, because frankly, she was feeling like shit and didn’t want to deal with anymore drama. Exhaling deeply, though she returned her gaze towards Swan just in case he wanted to start something, the mutant let her newfound bud explain things to Ulrich. Why did things have to happen while she was busy looking for Renee? More importantly, were things happening because she was looking for her sister and someone didn’t want them to reconnect? Realizing that was probably stupid, the teen forced herself to remain focused on the conversation, not wanting to miss out on anything. Unfortunately, she zoned out through most of it, but knew she could ask Becca about things later.

“I don’t know of the standing agreement, no. I left Wing City when I was younger to go model and shortly after I returned I was kidnapped, tortured, and brainwashed before being rescued. I only just got back and am actually looking for my stupid sister. So, nope, don’t know anything other than what the attackers said to us today.” Shrugging a little, Gabrielle returned to being quiet, letting Ulrich and Becca talk while hoping to find out more information.

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Becca nodded at Gabrielle, "Hell, Gabby... I had it easy getting a shotgun to the chesticles. After she scraped me up was out cold until Ducky fixed up a lot later. Glad you got out okay though. Ducky doesn't need to sleep so you'll be harder to shanghai as long as we're around!"

Shrugging at Ulrich she replied, "Mostly stuff clearly lifted from video games but there's a few references of them being a vampire costco to not have some truth to it. There's a few forums digging through shell corporations that found really old traces. Most of them say not to approach the goths unless you have a small army."

Tapping her chin she thought it over, "Their black armor, hmm, right."

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Character Portrait: Gabrielle LeBeau Character Portrait: Ductu Myrkul Character Portrait: Ulrich Paternosta Character Portrait: Akio Revela Character Portrait: Swan the River King Character Portrait: Minerva T. Laurinaitis
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#, as written by Sepokku
Ulrich had advanced on his plan, and Swan was all too aware of the recent agreement between the Camarilla and the Detente, having only recently came from the meeting. Flustered, but unwilling to openly break the treaty, he backed away from Gabby. In the grand scheme of things, it mattered not. Akshasha would come to him in due time. Besides, new people had filtered in. Ones who might cause a disruption or spread news of what happened should he choose to act.

It seemed petty threats would not be enough to sway Gabrielle, and unfortunately... the treaty. Letting out a low growl from deep in the chest, Swan walked away and sat on a bar stool. Making a mental note of Becca and Gabrielle, for later use, he sat quietly and let Ulrich finish his investigation. Akio was scampering around, picking up what minute evidence of the event that he could. Evidently the Sabbat had launched an attack on the bar, probably due to his childe's presence. Presumably she had also been called away on that same note.

He left out a hearty "Hah!" when the kine but not kine called the Detente a Vampire Costco. Little did she know, that fact was more correct then she knew. They had all kinds of Vampiric goodies that weren't produced anywhere else, like Blud. He had to leave soon, but for now he'd sit and enjoy the recount of another failed Sabbat assault.

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Character Portrait: Gabrielle LeBeau Character Portrait: Ductu Myrkul Character Portrait: Ulrich Paternosta Character Portrait: Akio Revela Character Portrait: Elanna Torres Character Portrait: Swan the River King
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  1. Where did everyone go??

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A daydream was one thing when you were doing it but it was another when someone pushed a memory into your visual cortex. Becca's patina-colored eyes dimmed as Ducky dragged a memory forth of the woman in question. Bloodied and healing Becca at that moment was too out of sorts to remember. The motes of both her and the Ductu could see just fine though the volume outside Becca's vision was drained of much detail. The memory went on repeat as Ductu held in place a particular moment of time 'What brings you out here Lacroix?What brings you out here Lacroix?What brings you out here Lacroix?' A Pale blonde-headed guy in the suit left three times with the other woman to the blurry overlaid moment. Becca waved her hands in front of her trying to push the thought away so she could think again. The loop relented and her cortical implant reset to the outside world as the Ductu let go.

Becca blinked a few times as a status window appeared in her vision from self-testing, "Agh, Ducky, let me know before you do that my cortical implant shuts down."

"If you were trained you could safely control that yourself," Came the yellow-eyed reply from her hair.

With a shake of her head to clear the muddle Becca noted to Swan, "Look, what's her name left with the creepy pale blond guy. Lacroix. I've never seen him before but he's probably team You Guys. Go bug him. Gabby's tired and there's customers I should probably get to."

While Becca didn't know whether the lady was a friend of Gabby's or not she thought it more important for these guys to go away. It suddenly occurred to her that the men were both dangerous but for some reason it didn't matter. Something was flattening her emotions but it didn't feel like Ducky was doing it. The lithe creature riding her was protectively eying the both of them and not messing with her head anymore.

The setting changes from Gambit's Bar to Genesis

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#, as written by Sonofel
Parem'Zel attempts to stand to his feet, taking a deep breath of fresh air.

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#, as written by Sonofel
Parem'Zel Rubs his head in confusion as he gazes around

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 “ Hmmm. Too many people. ”

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 “ none ”

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Iessi Uoduoyh hi

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#, as written by Remæus
 “ Ah, you made it! ”

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#, as written by Remæus
Issachar Remaeus dusted himself off, sending a cloud of fine-misted silicate into the air about him.

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#, as written by Prose
Sabine Varushka turned to face the odd man who all but commanded her to this unknown place. Sabine kept her distance, eyeballing him with great suspicion.

What do you want with me?

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#, as written by Remæus
 “ Nothing, really. This place'll be much better for you. ”

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#, as written by Prose
 “ This place will be much better for me? Who are you to assume? Do you have any idea of who I am! ”

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#, as written by Prose
Sabine Varushka fidgeted with the gloves on her hands. Already this bizarre person began to annoy her.