#lycaste.

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Chi Avende backstory. Still disjointed!

Chi Avende and his companions met Asius. They didn't meet Asius. They met Guneus. They didn't meet Guneus. They rescued, ignored, accepted, rejected. 

When they saw redcaps attack Gladewood, Asius said it wasn't their problem, and Lycaste insisted that they had to hurry to her people to have the soulslayer parasites removed. 

When they saw redcaps attack Gladewood, Chi Avende and Guneus insisted they help.

Chi Avende: What's the point of power if it doesn't benefit anyone?

Guneus: My thoughts exactly.

Asius: The point of power is to benefit us.

Chi Avende: I've only been a battlemage a few days. I ought to get some practice in.

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Chi Avende Backstory. A little disjointed because it's just a fragment of what's in my head, because writing is hard.

Lycaste and Chi Avende reached the helm of the living ship.

Lycaste, Syme, and Chi Avende reached the helm of the living ship.

They found a battle between the Soulslayers and the Evils.

They were killed by an Evil. They were killed by a Soulslayer. They killed every Evil and Soulslayer, giving Chi Avende his first taste of his new magic. They ran past the Evils and Soulslayers, barely fighting.

They took control of the ship, crashed, and died.

They took control of the ship and crashed, but an invisible force kept them alive and allowed them to escape.

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Chi Avende Backstory. A little disjointed because it's just a fragment of what's in my head, because writing is hard.

After the battle, Lycaste and Chi Avende came across a holding pod with a person still in it. She was alive, with no signs of transformation, begging for help.

Lycaste insisted that they leave behind the helpless woman to more quickly escape the ship.

Chi Avende refused, and as much as Lycaste objected, he looked for ways to free the prisoner, and found one. She introduced herself as Syme.

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Chi Avende Backstory. A little disjointed because it's just a fragment of what's in my head, because writing is hard.

After the battle, Lycaste and Chi Avende came across a holding pod with a person still in it. Alive, with no signs of transformation, begging for help.

Lycaste insisted that they leave behind the helpless woman to more quickly escape the ship.

Chi Avende agreed.

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Chi Avende Backstory. A little disjointed because it's just a fragment of what's in my head, because writing is hard.

Lycaste commanded that they fight their way past people that Chi Avende recognized as a similar species as Presbon. Lycaste had taken charge, and Chi Avende had been without a leader for too long, so he followed her orders.

He felt... something.

He began to understand what Presbon meant, when he said there were cracks in reality.

They fought together.

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Chi Avende Backstory. A little disjointed because it's just a fragment of what's in my head, because writing is hard.

In the chaos of trying to escape the ship, Chi Avende met a xeno woman named Lycaste. She threatened him, thinking he was under the control of the people who'd abducted them. But instead of controlling them, the parasites connected their minds. By seeing each other's memories, they knew they were both captives trying to escape.

Lycaste explained that they'd been kidnapped by Soulslayers, that the parasites were Soulslayer infants who would kill them and create their adult bodies from their corpses.

She promised that her people could remove the parasites- but only if they escaped the ship before it was destroyed by the people attacking it.

She called them the Evils.

Chi Avende thought back to Presbon, and felt a chill.