The Nomad Vagrants — The Wanderers' Directives

[Stratus_Hound]

Nephele sings of regret, triumph, and curiosity

The song of regret: the bridge it willed to build was forced to collapse by Darkness.
Song of triumph: Transgressions punished.
Song of curiosity: A stray Brethren, its intention unknown.

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[04.12.2021 09:46:27] Vagrant.Nephele: *You feel a strange tickling inside your head*
[04.12.2021 09:46:51] Vagrant.Nephele: *Its not headache, the closest comparision would be a butterfly, stretching its wings isnide your mind*
[04.12.2021 09:47:00] DTR-Penumbra: *What the...*
[04.12.2021 09:47:09] DTR-Penumbra: I remember this feeling but now more soothing.
[04.12.2021 09:47:18] Vagrant.Nephele: "Ravenna.....it stalked for a long time..."
[04.12.2021 09:47:49] Vagrant.Nephele: "Many cycles flew..."
[04.12.2021 09:47:57] DTR-Penumbra: Who or what are you?
[04.12.2021 09:48:06] Vagrant.Nephele: "It awaits *yours*...."
[04.12.2021 09:48:14] DTR-Penumbra: Are you that mysterious light a few cycles ago?
[04.12.2021 09:48:34] Vagrant.Nephele: "Beneath the ruined husk of a giant it slithers..."
[04.12.2021 09:53:32] Vagrant.Nephele: "Darkness tears the void....A husk enormous, minds swarming aboard..."
[04.12.2021 09:53:55] DTR-Penumbra: You..you...
[04.12.2021 09:54:14] DTR-Penumbra: You are that curious light we saw cycles ago.
[04.12.2021 09:54:19] Vagrant.Nephele: *The form reveals itself, slowly drifting from beneeath the debris*
[04.12.2021 09:54:40] DTR-Penumbra: Strangely enough, my head doesn't feel like it will burst this time around.
[04.12.2021 09:55:12] Banisher: ~Confusion~
[04.12.2021 09:55:13] Vagrant.Nephele: "*Yours* have truth....once a link is established, singing becomes easier....."
[04.12.2021 09:55:28] Vagrant.Nephele: "A Stray One"
[04.12.2021 09:56:05] Vagrant.Nephele: "Let it lurk in the shadows, all of Light shall bear witness"
[04.12.2021 09:56:25] DTR-Penumbra: Another entity on scanner, prepare weapons just in case.
[04.12.2021 09:56:34] DTR-Penumbra: No
[04.12.2021 09:56:37] DTR-Penumbra: no corsairs do
[04.12.2021 09:57:17] Banisher: Yours.... -strange-... to... ours...
[04.12.2021 09:57:25] Banisher: Theirs.... -defile-... ours.... voids...
[04.12.2021 09:57:46] DTR-Penumbra: I felt drawn in here but it looks like it was a trap?
[04.12.2021 09:57:56] Vagrant.Nephele: "A commander of such giant, a great respect *yours* must command among the ranks of Darklings"
[04.12.2021 09:58:00] Vagrant.Nephele: *Amusement*
[04.12.2021 09:58:10] Banisher: Yours.... -do not-.... -cleanse-.... "defilers"
[04.12.2021 09:58:14] Banisher: ~Confusion~
[04.12.2021 09:58:37] Vagrant.Nephele: "A trap would spring in the blink of an eye, silent dance among the void"
[04.12.2021 09:58:46] Vagrant.Nephele: "It would not sing to *yours*"
[04.12.2021 09:59:15] DTR-Penumbra: Warm light if you are a kindred spirit, do not forsake me now.
[04.12.2021 09:59:40] DTR-Penumbra: I am beginning to understand the eddies and flows of your mind.
[04.12.2021 10:00:07] Vagrant.Nephele: "*Stray-One*...*yours* need not to disturb dealings of the Lost"
[04.12.2021 10:00:47] Banisher: Ours... -witnessed-.... theirs.... -metal-husks-... -defile-... "ruined city"
[04.12.2021 10:00:56] Vagrant.Nephele: "Yet...Ravenna, Kin of *yours* disturbed the Old Nest"
[04.12.2021 10:01:23] DTR-Penumbra: We are only passangers in the grand scheme of things.
[04.12.2021 10:01:33] Vagrant.Nephele: "The Matriarch herself drove spear of *theirs* into the husk"
[04.12.2021 10:01:51] DTR-Penumbra: My kind needs to survive in these forsaken parts of space.
[04.12.2021 10:02:00] Vagrant.Nephele: "*Yours* are letting avarice to drive you into the forbidden ground"
[04.12.2021 10:02:18] DTR-Penumbra: We don't have a luxury of choice - it's survival or death.
[04.12.2021 10:02:31] DTR-Penumbra: My kind is backed against a corner so to speak.
[04.12.2021 10:03:09] DTR-Penumbra: My people driven into exile and into this corner of space
[04.12.2021 10:03:09] Vagrant.Nephele: "It knows, the Tribe does struggle as well, being forced between the tides of both Radiance and Darkness"
[04.12.2021 10:03:31] DTR-Penumbra: Radiance and Darkness - one must always walk the balance.
[04.12.2021 10:03:45] DTR-Penumbra: Even more so to protect those important to them.
[04.12.2021 10:03:51] Vagrant.Nephele: "It shall hide fangs for now, let *yours* sing of people of *yours*."
[04.12.2021 10:04:25] DTR-Penumbra: Our song is probably similar to the song of many others.
[04.12.2021 10:04:31] DTR-Penumbra: Banished in this forsaken space.
[04.12.2021 10:04:58] Vagrant.Nephele: "One who belongs to none is protected by none"
[04.12.2021 10:05:00] DTR-Penumbra: To survive we need to resort to all kinds of acts, otherwise my people will become extinct.
[04.12.2021 10:05:07] Vagrant.Nephele: "Remember that, Stray One"
[04.12.2021 10:05:31] DTR-Penumbra: I have an obligation to my crew, to protect them, to provide the way forward.
[04.12.2021 10:05:54] DTR-Penumbra: We do not seek to defile your holy place but to find a way to survive.
[04.12.2021 10:06:15] DTR-Penumbra: Humanity is full of strife and not all walk the path of Radiance.
[04.12.2021 10:06:38] DTR-Penumbra: Do you understand such song?
[04.12.2021 10:07:09] Vagrant.Nephele: "There is no surviwal by commiting sacrilege out of avarice...yet...it is not devoid of compassion"
[04.12.2021 10:07:29] DTR-Penumbra: Do you have an alternative in mind perhaps?
[04.12.2021 10:07:34] Vagrant.Nephele: "How does *yours* provide to the tribe?"
[04.12.2021 10:08:12] DTR-Penumbra: By any means necessary. Although often my hand is forced due to lack of a better choice.
[04.12.2021 10:08:26] Banisher: Ours... only... -cleanse-... ~banish~... "defilers".... from... -cycle- of.... ~Shattering~
[04.12.2021 10:08:39] DTR-Penumbra: We are looking for a world, a ripe world that will allow us to grow and to prosper.
[04.12.2021 10:09:07] DTR-Penumbra: But this is the edge, and in the edge, there's not many worlds that can sustain us.
[04.12.2021 10:09:40] Vagrant.Nephele: "A tongue twisted, words without meaning come out, a smokescreen composed of thoughts."
[04.12.2021 10:09:58] DTR-Penumbra: Other factions of my kind will kill us if we advance so we are forced to find alternatives.
[04.12.2021 10:10:07] Vagrant.Nephele: "Tell it, what are "any means neccessary"?"
[04.12.2021 10:10:36] Vagrant.Nephele: "*Yours* kill other Darklings to surwive?"
[04.12.2021 10:10:46] DTR-Penumbra: Let me ask you this mysterious light.
[04.12.2021 10:10:57] DTR-Penumbra: On your path have you made choices that lead to Darkness?
[04.12.2021 10:11:01] DTR-Penumbra: Are all your choices radiant?
[04.12.2021 10:12:21] Vagrant.Nephele: "It is what it is, and will not be anything else, yet a sin of its own blacken its mind"
[04.12.2021 10:12:49] Vagrant.Nephele: "Many sins can be forgiven, minds could be reforged..."
[04.12.2021 10:12:55] DTR-Penumbra: Sometimes sin is required for the greater good.
[04.12.2021 10:13:02] DTR-Penumbra: Radiance does not come with a cost.
[04.12.2021 10:13:14] DTR-Penumbra: It comes with sacrifices.
[04.12.2021 10:13:25] Vagrant.Nephele: "*Yours* mixed up the thoughts, Ravenna..."
[04.12.2021 10:13:30] Vagrant.Nephele: "Radiance is not Light."
[04.12.2021 10:13:47] Vagrant.Nephele: "Radiance burns and obliterates, when Light brings peace..."
[04.12.2021 10:13:59] DTR-Penumbra: I see, a crucial distinction
[04.12.2021 10:14:27] DTR-Penumbra: I beginning to understand your thoughts being of light
[04.12.2021 10:14:45] Vagrant.Nephele: "Morality of a cornered animal is strange, coming from a leader of such power."
[04.12.2021 10:15:28] DTR-Penumbra: Life is a game, one is powerful to another, and yet trapped nonetheless.
[04.12.2021 10:15:43] DTR-Penumbra: Power is relative to shadow it casts.
[04.12.2021 10:15:58] Vagrant.Nephele: "Yet, the river of thoughts/emotions/codes/creeds within Shadelings do not concern it much"
[04.12.2021 10:16:23] Vagrant.Nephele: "It has a question...does *Yours* harvest the Heritage of the Creators?"
[04.12.2021 10:16:35] DTR-Penumbra: It should, if it wants to follow the path of the Light.
[04.12.2021 10:16:50] DTR-Penumbra: The heritage?
[04.12.2021 10:17:09] DTR-Penumbra: You mean the relics of the ancient ones?
[04.12.2021 10:17:34] Vagrant.Nephele: "Remnants of old, of the Great Ones, resonating with thoughts of another..."
[04.12.2021 10:17:50] Vagrant.Nephele: "*Yours* has truth"
[04.12.2021 10:18:08] DTR-Penumbra: I am not one for lying. But I suspect that even if I did your mind connected to mine would sense it.
[04.12.2021 10:18:39] DTR-Penumbra: We do gather relics from the lost, it's our only way to provide for my crew right now. Otherwise, we can't obtain sustenance.
[04.12.2021 10:18:51] Vagrant.Nephele: "It asked out of respect, it already knows..."
[04.12.2021 10:18:52] DTR-Penumbra: Because we do not possess a world that can sustain us well.
[04.12.2021 10:19:15] Vagrant.Nephele: "Between hammer and anvil...that is how Darklings would put it."
[04.12.2021 10:19:23] DTR-Penumbra: Precisely.
[04.12.2021 10:19:51] DTR-Penumbra: To chart a course forward one must take the necessary steps.
[04.12.2021 10:19:56] DTR-Penumbra: Or face extinction.
[04.12.2021 10:20:10] Vagrant.Nephele: "Tell it, does *yours* have friends among the Darklings..or just keep to *yourselves*?"
[04.12.2021 10:21:11] DTR-Penumbra: Friends...
[04.12.2021 10:21:33] DTR-Penumbra: I suppose we do. Anyone that does not want to murder my kind is a friend of mine.
[04.12.2021 10:21:59] DTR-Penumbra: But actions speak louder than words or thoughts.
[04.12.2021 10:22:02] DTR-Penumbra: Do you understand that song?
[04.12.2021 10:22:14] Vagrant.Nephele: "It follows the same principle for the most part"
[04.12.2021 10:22:21] DTR-Penumbra: Many sing, few act.
[04.12.2021 10:22:31] Vagrant.Nephele: "It does, maybe better than *yours* Would suspect"
[04.12.2021 10:22:53] Vagrant.Nephele: "Or wish to..."
[04.12.2021 10:23:15] DTR-Penumbra: What is your purpose?
[04.12.2021 10:23:29] Vagrant.Nephele: "It wanders..."
[04.12.2021 10:23:29] DTR-Penumbra: You must be what compelled me to come here?
[04.12.2021 10:23:55] DTR-Penumbra: I had a strong intuition that we will find something of importance here.
[04.12.2021 10:23:56] Vagrant.Nephele: "It seeked *Yours*...faced no hatred the last time..wanted to know"
[04.12.2021 10:24:10] DTR-Penumbra: But I see that this ''intuition'' was probably you compelling my thoughts.
[04.12.2021 10:24:13] Vagrant.Nephele: "To unveil truth, to know if a bridge could be built"
[04.12.2021 10:24:45] DTR-Penumbra: A bridge can be build by those that listen.
[04.12.2021 10:24:53] DTR-Penumbra: But what song will it be?
[04.12.2021 10:25:22] Vagrant.Nephele: "It mourns choices of the tribe of *yours*..Ravenna"
[04.12.2021 10:25:38] Vagrant.Nephele: "Every one can change, the Lost being the prime example..."
[04.12.2021 10:25:52] DTR-Penumbra: My ''tribe'' has been attacked by other lights.
[04.12.2021 10:26:01] DTR-Penumbra: I am not certain how to distinguish them.
[04.12.2021 10:26:10] Vagrant.Nephele: "But until that happens, for defiling the Heritage..."
[04.12.2021 10:26:30] Vagrant.Nephele: "And primarily, for standing against Mother on sacred ground..."
[04.12.2021 10:26:40] DTR-Penumbra: Well, what alternatives there are?
[04.12.2021 10:26:47] DTR-Penumbra: In your wanders, have you seen a world?
[04.12.2021 10:26:56] DTR-Penumbra: A world that can sustain ''darklings'' such as me?
[04.12.2021 10:27:26] DTR-Penumbra: If you've travelled the stars in wonder, maybe you've seen a world like that?
[04.12.2021 10:27:37] Vagrant.Nephele: "A void is vast, but torn apart in strife between many Strands...*yours* could seek, could change ways"
[04.12.2021 10:27:58] DTR-Penumbra: Violence is generally not the answer, it's expedient.
[04.12.2021 10:28:01] DTR-Penumbra: Unnecessary.
[04.12.2021 10:28:22] Vagrant.Nephele: "Maybe, if it feels the avarice ceased to lead *Yours*...it shall point the way"
[04.12.2021 10:28:28] DTR-Penumbra: If I find such world, if my people prosper - I feel our ways will change.
[04.12.2021 10:28:45] Vagrant.Nephele: "But as it is between *Ours* right now...thought it mourns it"
[04.12.2021 10:29:00] Vagrant.Nephele: "Hand raised against Mother shall be cut"
[04.12.2021 10:29:17] Vagrant.Nephele: "ACTS TELL MORE THAN SONG, RAVENNA"
[04.12.2021 10:29:27] Vagrant.Nephele: "FEEL THE JUDGEMENT OF LIGHT"
[04.12.2021 10:29:35] Vagrant.Nephele: "It is not afraid"
[04.12.2021 10:29:40] DTR-Penumbra: We were attacked.
[04.12.2021 10:30:02] Vagrant.Nephele: *A loud screech can be heard inside yourt head*
[04.12.2021 10:30:04] DTR-Penumbra: Do you not judge self-defense in your kind as well?
[04.12.2021 10:30:09] Banisher: (The smaller form pulses violently)
[04.12.2021 10:30:24] DTR-Penumbra: *Get out it of my head.*
[04.12.2021 10:30:47] Vagrant.Nephele: *Form starts pulsating in violent light, sensors show concentration of energy"
[04.12.2021 10:30:53] DTR-Penumbra: *A medic administrates a quick dose of stim and a shot of adrenaline*
[04.12.2021 10:31:01] Banisher: Ours... -purge-... "defilers"....
[04.12.2021 10:31:32] DTR-Penumbra: *Must resist these shrieking thoughts*
[04.12.2021 10:31:58] DTR-Penumbra: Power up weapons just in case it's a trap.
[04.12.2021 10:32:12] DTR-Penumbra: We are under attack.
[04.12.2021 10:32:16] Vagrant.Nephele: "A trap lies inside mind of *yours*"
[04.12.2021 10:32:17] DTR-Penumbra: All hands to battle-stations.
[04.12.2021 10:32:23] Banisher: ~Rage~
[04.12.2021 10:32:41] Banisher: ~Amusement~
[04.12.2021 10:32:56] Banisher: "Defilers"... can not... -flee-....
[04.12.2021 10:34:35] DTR-Penumbra: To all DTR vessels, request for immediate assistance. This is not a drill.
[04.12.2021 10:35:07] DTR-Penumbra: Prepare jump pods. Vessel sustained heavy damage.
[04.12.2021 10:35:33] Death: DTR-Penumbra was put out of action by Banisher (Missile/Torpedo).
[04.12.2021 10:36:01] Banisher: (The small one ceases pulsing, observing the larger form)
[04.12.2021 10:36:01] Vagrant.Nephele: "Stray One"
[04.12.2021 10:36:17] Vagrant.Nephele: "Leave surwiwors...in was a lesson, not an execution..."
[04.12.2021 10:36:27] Banisher: ~Confusion~
[04.12.2021 10:36:40] Banisher: Ours.... -heed-... "song"...
[04.12.2021 10:36:46] Vagrant.Nephele: "Sins punished...one can start anew..."
[04.12.2021 10:38:15] Banisher: (The small one was very old, yet primitive, limited by its isolation) Ours.... -return-... to... ~cold~...