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0348: Duskwalker

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Owned by effectedelk

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DUSKWALKER (327 words) Despite the waving of hands above them, the excited ripple through the shadowy crowds, not a single sound reaches Duskwalker’s ears. She stares up at them, spinning slowly with Knots at her hip. The walls that separate the floor from the seats above are tall and smooth. As she spins, she notes the entrance they came through, and another one, across the chamber, that leads into...
[MEDIUM] specter
In Campaigns ・ By tenturo, effectedelk
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WOLFREM (389 words) Wolfrem had all but completely zoned out, his mind going numb to the constant rustling of packs and hooves on stone. The sudden flapping of wings and dull talons landing on his head abruptly brings his attention back to the cavern the horses are exploring. He’d nearly forgotten that he brought Divym along, and he let out a quiet sigh of relief when no form of trouble seemed to be...
[MEDIUM] not this again
In Campaigns ・ By tenturo, effectedelk
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KNOTS (332 words)     Disturbed dust clouds Knots’ face the moment the four horses step into the chamber, tickling his nostrils until he snorts. “Eugh,” he mutters, rubbing his nose on his leg. Duskwalker, next to him, gives him a sideways look that need...
[EASY] handsy
In Campaigns ・ By tenturo, effectedelk
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Content Warning: Unreality

unfinished business
In Event Prompts ・ By effectedelk
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    THE PATH SLIDES UNDER HIS HOOVES, crumbling down into the molten orange river below. Scrambling, muscles bunching, hooves digging in, Knots manages to get up onto the more stable portion of the path next to Duskwalker. She says nothing, too busy leaning forward to look at something in the lava.     “What?” Knots asks.     “What is that?” She says at the same ...
[DD2] loved and lost
In Dungeon Dives ・ By effectedelk
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    DUSKWALKER DOESN’T NEED TO SAY a word, Knots does it for her.     “Oh no,” he groans.     Ahead of them, a bridge swings precariously between this ledge and the next. Far below it, a churning, slow moving river of impossibly hot molten rock. Duskwalker’s ears twitch. Even from here she can hear its lazy, popping gurgle. The middle of the bridge dips alarmingl...
[DD2] river of fire
In Dungeon Dives ・ By effectedelk
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    THE LAST THING DUSKWALKER EVER expected to come across within the furnace stands before her: someone humanoid. Shorter – much shorter – than what she knows of humans. Beneath their impressive beard is the symbol of a maned goat, visible with every nervous full-hand twist of the wiry hair they perform. Over and over and over. Duskwalker watches in endless fascination before she finally stirs back into the living world and realizes that th...
might
In Event Prompts ・ By effectedelk
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    “HEY, MOON?”     Knots’ voice isn’t directed towards her, instead drifting somewhere upwards, as if he’s got his nose pointed to the clouds. His footsteps stall, and then Duskwalker’s. Moon-eater marches ahead a few more strides before stopping. “What?” she grouses.     The still air...
to taste the moon
In Event Prompts ・ By effectedelk
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    THERE ARE STRANGE THINGS GROWING in the caverns, and Moon-eater can’t place why they’re familiar.     They choke the path in clinging vines, clipping her hooves and tripping her as she tries to forge through them. They smell like no plant of her own – something about their scent is cold and frost-bitten but not in the way that winter smells. More like the way a body smells, when a horse finally sli...
rot
In Event Prompts ・ By effectedelk
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    AS KNOTS AND DUSKWALKER HOP over a small gap in the path, Knots feels the impossible within the furnace: a cool breeze.     He comes to an abrupt stop at the same time that Duskwalker does, the two sharing a wordless glance. Below them, just a few feet from their hooves on the burning path, magma rolls in sluggish liquid waves, goopy bubbles rising to the surface and splitting slowly down their middles. ...
[DD2] cold flame
In Dungeon Dives ・ By effectedelk
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Content Warning

Content Warning: Death

another life
In Event Prompts ・ By effectedelk
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Wolfrem (173 words) With the creature ahead, Wolfrem was beyond grateful that Esper couldn’t see what was waiting. He gave her a gentle nudge with the quietest shush he could offer, and watched her nod in understanding. As eager as he was to take on all that the dungeon had to offer, he simply wasn’t ready, and he knew his friends weren’t either. After exchanging a knowing glance with Knots and Dusk, he slowly lifted a hoof, and took a painstakingly slow and quie...
[BOSS] what the $@#% is that
In Campaigns ・ By tenturo, effectedelk
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FOR MANY MEMBERS OF THEIR group, rations can be placed into the packs they all carry on their backs, and when Knots and Duskwalker were first diving together, they did the same thing – even if Knots had been quietly dubious about it (he had never needed to rely on such a thing when he was living alone in the dungeon, after all). Now, however, in this lush first level, all Duskwalker has to do is give him a nudge and say, “How about some food?” Knots pauses in the...
[DD1] reprieve
In Dungeon Dives ・ By effectedelk
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THIS PART OF THE FURNACE is a miserable, endless slog ever forwards. Heat bears down on every side, with every breath, with every step. Knots longs for the uppermost level of the dungeon; so much closer to the surface that breezes still find their way in through cracks and crevices to twist down the long, green corridors. And water is easier to find, he thinks as he passes a popping, burbling pool of red-hot lava. He’s always been fonder of that level...
[DD2] at the edge of my senses
In Dungeon Dives ・ By effectedelk
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“Suncatcher,” her mentor, and Knots’, too, “he told me about this once.” Knots gives her a curious look. “I haven’t heard it.” The quiet chamber sends prickles down the length of Duskwalker’s spine. Her skin twitches, trying to shiver the feeling away. She can’t smell anything except for the mustiness of old junk left to rot in the dungeon’s depths, and Knots’ flared nostrils and twitchy ears haven’t picked up anything, either. Still, she can’t shake ...
bad dream come true
In Event Prompts ・ By effectedelk
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It comes crashing down onto her when she’s alone. Hot pain explodes across her withers as claws dig in. Sharp teeth bite down, release, bite down again as it tries to find the sweet spot that will drag her down onto her knees. She can’t see it when she tries to look back, tries to spot what she’s up against. All she can hear is its awful, ragged pants that end in growls. Cursing it, Duskwalker hits the ground knees-first and throws herself in a roll. The beast digs in deep...
[DD1] little beastie
In Dungeon Dives ・ By effectedelk
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“Absolutely not,” Duskwalker says the moment she sees what Knots is looking at. “Oh come on,” he whines in response, twisting an ear towards her but keeping his gaze fixed on the jewel encrusted beetles. Two of them have their horns locked and are twisting and shoving, spindly legs pushing against the scraps of dull armor beneath them with little metallic scratching noises. As he watches, one of them pushes forward and flips its opponent onto its back. “We’re almost back to...
[DD1] gladiators
In Dungeon Dives ・ By effectedelk
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A river must have once run through the area that Duskwalker chooses for them to rest in. The channel is dry as a bone, but deep and sandy. Together, the two coursers shuck off their gear and lay it down nearby. Knots takes his lantern in his teeth and delicately rests it on a wide, flat rock. The light flickers across their surroundings, lighting the edges of wide, drooping leaves in a warm orange glow. Before he returns to Duskwalker’s side, he investigates the mushrooms he had gathered fr...
[DD1] the courser and the pixies ii
In Dungeon Dives ・ By effectedelk
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“Oh no,” Knots groans the moment he feels something crunch under his hoof. This entire chamber of the dungeon is flooded with pixies and their homes, tucked under mushrooms great and small. A particularly big mushroom had caught his attention, and he had lapsed in his careful tiptoeing for just a moment too long. “I didn’t mean to,” he tells the little creatures crowding around his feet. One of them bangs their tiny little fists on his hoof, gesturing at the shattered gazeb...
[DD1] the courser & the pixies
In Dungeon Dives ・ By effectedelk
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“What did you say?” Knots asks. “Repeat that?” Duskwalker says at the same time. Both horses freeze, staring at each other with blank expressions. “What?” they both say. “You go first,” Duskwalker says after a long period of silence, one ear turning backwards. Knots fidgets. The movement sways the lantern on his back, warm yellow panels of light shivering on the cavern walls. The rock here is dark and smooth, flecked with a mineral that makes it gli...
[DD1] must've been the wind
In Dungeon Dives ・ By effectedelk
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