The Unseen Servant forums

That is, Magic Missile and Healing

You awake standing naked and alone, on top of a tall tower. Above you in the sky a roiling, dark storm is forming. You wear the four chains, one around each of your upper arms and thighs. As you watch, the chains tightens one by one, squeezing into and eventually through each of your limbs. Oddly, there is no pain or blood, and the sensation and sight are not as horrifying as you'd expect. Completely severed, your limbs drift like balloons up into the sky. A blood red hole opens among the blue black clouds, and swallows your limbs, whereupon you awake suddenly, short of breath and drenched in sweat..

You nod off during your watch, and awake on the forest floor, but immediately you know you're near Whitetree, not where you went to sleep. You stand and look around, and realise nothing is moving – no wind, no animals, nothing – the forest is completely still. From a distance, you hear a melancholy, alluring tune begin. Walking towards it, you round a wide-trunked tree and are confronted with Llewellyn's head, hanging on a large hook through the eye, suspended from far above on a slender silver chain. Your father's head whispers, "thief" over and over as you pass it, following the music. Increasing your pace, the music becomes louder as you stumble over a hand lying in the dirt. It crawls towards you like a spider on its nimble fingers. You notice a silver chain around the wrist (where the rest of the arm is severed) and the word "weak" branded into the back of the hand in elven script. Somehow you also recognise that it belongs to Conallen Starhand. Fleeing from the hand and towards the music, you find a thick tree wrapped in thick silver chains. Circling the tree you see the body of beautiful Elithea, pierced in many places by the wicked hooks on the chains, and held by them against the tree and a couple meters above the ground. As you stare, your mother opens her mouth and the music becomes louder. A red glow issues from her mouth, and you are drawn struggling towards it… you wake suddenly, short of breath and drenched in sweat.

When you look around, you find a small box lying near your head. It is made of glossy black wood, and decorated with inset silver details. On the top is a pattern of seven interlocking circles, forming a larger circle together. There appears to be no way to open the box, but when you hold it close to your ear, you hear the same haunting tune from your dream. No one else is awake, so you're the only one to have seen the box so far. Please roleplay either showing the box to the rest of the party, or not, in which case we will assume it is your secret.

You awake in Urbem, your home. You walk the streets, looking for something (what you don't know), when you see a red glow. You rush to follow it, always a few steps behind as it disappears around corners and through doors. The glow seems to be the solution you seek, though you know not what that might be. As you rush through the streets, you realise that you're not in Urbem after all – much is familiar, but much is also wrong, including strange creatures that would never be tolerated in orderly Urbem and architecture that defies your eye's ability to clearly understand it. As you think you've almost caught up with the glow, you suddenly realise it's behind you and a wave of painful shock washes over you as you spin to face it… and wake suddenly, short of breath and drenched in sweat.