[ti]private[/ti]done a concern [s][c]

He mentally recoiled at the sight of the flooded field—maybe this was one of the ‘aftereffects’ of having max-levelled Kindler, having a slight aversion to large bodies of water. He sighed; surely that wasn’t possible?

(He was a southern Italian brat through and through. He spent the early half of his life near the water, after all…)

Once they were far enough from most everyone else, he would watch the little demonstration and…

“Whoa, hey, you okay?” he blurted out as he saw the other player fall to one knee. Yikes. Maybe the damned thing was that cursed, after all…

Or maybe it was because…

“Okay. Let me try,” he would continue; and although spellcasting wasn’t exactly one of his best suits (he did have a heavily-defensive gaming style after all, due to maxing out Tank so early even back on the European servers) he would pull out his own cursed ‘tome’ once more.

The strange chanting started again as he cracked the thing open; but for some reason he could feel the wound on the back of his right hand twitching the moment the strange energies began streaming out of the ledger.

“Uh…” he would trail off, looking over at his companion.

Scrolling through the heavily-crossed out pages of the ledger he had with him, he would find a sentence that he could actually pick out… and it was in French, of all things.

[tangent=“Death to the cornered ones,”]“Mort aux acculés,”[/tangent] he read out; unlike the spell effect he’d witnessed from the other, his own spell would come in the form of multiple smaller ‘arrows’ that took on the same density and color as the ichor that had infected him back in the cursed office building.

The ‘arrows’ would fly off some distance before detonating, like they were some kind of time-delayed spell effect.

“Wait, hold up, let me see if there’s a change,” and he would momentarily ‘freeze’ in place; he was actually fiddling around with his in-game language settings, immediately swapping it from French to Italian and then looking at the same legible line he could read…

What the fuck.

“…the line changed languages when I swapped over my own in-game language settings,” he would report; this time reading it out in his native tongue, [tangent=“Death to the cornered ones,”]“Morte a chi è alle strette,”[/tangent] and watching as the same spell effect would occur once more.

Although, for some reason… why did the spell look like it became slightly different when he read it in Italian…?

Josh Devlin