One is woken. Functional, is our shell. To the Citadel one is still Devoted!
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It is so quiet. Much has changed. Have they all fallen silent, the precious-vulnerable-voices?...Is this Sentinel alone?
Hello I am new to this.
- muse's name is Third (or Trinn), it/its and clix/clix/clax
- mod's name is Sage, he/they. 23 years of existence
- my main is @wearethehallowe (no fun posting as of late 😞)
- and my HK fanfic sideblog is @hollow-silk
- We have a Ko-Fi now for writing commissions
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Rules:
- it's now pg-15, because of the violence and the One Tristam Post. No NSFW rip
- you can be mean to it
- no misgendering any character tho
- there will be spoilers
- keep in mind that the muse is a murder bot and all that entails. any violence will be tagged, but present
- Asks for Niniane need to be nonviolent and age appropriate, or Trinn will kill the anon :3
- You may NOT send me asks that would have Trinn hurt a child in ANY way. That makes me upset and it would ruin Trinn's established character as a protector of children. I will delete them or have Trinn kill you mercilessly
- magic anons are very welcome, although I may veto or not respond if I don't like em lol
- Clanker is both a racist term for robots and used against people in real life. As such, calling Trinn a clanker, a rust bucket, or anything along those lines will not be tolerated. But especially clanker.
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Tags:
gilded siblings = story tag with @goldensentinel
[off the clock] = ooc
[cogged and ready] = Third is doing something
[musings] = Trinn replies to an ask
[to serve the voices] = interacting with other RP blogs
golden cocoon = [///////]
[ghost in the machine] = arc with the Weeping Shade
[to love-grow] = child posting
I will sometimes add extra comments in the tags. If I do not put an [off the clock] tag before it, assume it is Trinn's inner thoughts. It's up to you to acknowledge them lol.
Text in this color = Trinn speaking honestly about itself
Text in this color = Third Sentinel is being compelled or influenced by its programming
Dream Eater (self, permanent, heal): Third Sentinel heals 1 Mask upon consumption of a source of Essence
Poison (self, Stab, Throwpin, buff): after dealing damage to an enemy with a poisoned attack, it gains a +1d6 modifier to its next Attack roll
Shell Piercer (enemy, Bite, debuff): after dealing damage to an enemy with a bite, that enemy takes a -1d6 on their next Defense roll
Siren Song: As part of its attack, Trinn can give a -1d2 Modifier to Evasion Checks, and a -1d6 Modifier to an Offense roll to its enemies by mimicking sounds to confuse or mentally attack it's opponent.
Bind (self, healing): Based on a Silk System. Trinn gains Silk Points by succeeding on attack rolls. I roll a d20. If Trinn has 3 Silk Points -> if it rolls above 10 it heals 2 Masks. If it rolls below 10, it heals only 1. Less than 3 Silk Points -> if it rolls above 10, it heals 1 Mask. If rolls below 10, it heals nothing.
Red Accordance (self, Offensive Rolls, buff): If Trinn is experiencing feelings of love, protection, and violence, it becomes capable of generating Silk from its Cogheart. Roll a 1d10. If it rolls below a 6, it fails this check. If it rolls a 3 or below, it consumes a Silk point. If there is no Silk Point to consume, it takes a Mask of damage.
Inventory:
Heart of Void (self, passive, buff): Holds no resentment against Trinn, rather resembling the final statement of Crochet. Allows the bearer to harness the power of Void, although they are limited to very basic attacks. It also allows the bearer to FOCUS Soul.
Ravka's Mirror (self, 1 charge, buff): The condensed memories of Ravka, a mirror that shows the dual nature of the world. When wearing this Charm, the user's anger is magnified, channeling it into devastating strikes when attacking an opponent...at a cost. 1/1 Charges. Upon use, Trinn takes a 1d6 - 2 Modifier to all offensive rolls for the rest of the battle. If Trinn's Modifier rolls a 4, the attack will deal +1 Damage if it lands that turn. If it rolls a -1, Trinn takes another Mask of damage in addition to whatever damage it takes from the enemy.
Freedom Motif Psalm (self, ally, 1 charge, heal): Trinn uses its Siren Song to cast a Silk Spell. It heals 3 Masks to anyone in its party, and only 1 for itself. It cannot use Siren Song for two turns, or make any sound at all.
I have h-heard r-rumors of s-silkflies, and the i-iea that this isn't my o-original f-form, per se. I've l-lost my u-undying l-loyalty towards the C-citadel, but I still cannot b-be-believe that such a d-deed could've been d-done by l-living, b-breathing b-bugs. I was h-hoping to s-sp-speak to a fellow sentinel-automaton in the ch-chance you might have a-advice.
It has simply a harsh reality-truth for you: we are dead. Brought back to serve.
It does not know what advice to give you, other than to make space for grief...Would you like to see if we can find-locate your Silkfly Number, so this one can look through the records for your past-name?
Afraid-frightened, yet hopeful. It is true-correct, still, that it swore it would not hurt you.
And it wouldn't. But it also could not ignore the devastation she wrought - the loss of life that it was honor and duty bound to allow to happen, and emotionally unwilling to allow another Sentinel to kill her.
Weak and pathetic, it is.
No more. Come to blows, they would not, but a sacrifice of its morality had to be made. For Pharloom.
Its voice box shifts and adjusts. A melody underpins its words, adding slight but easily overlooked distortion.
° Please do not kill-harm any more people-bugs, outside of self defense. °
Hello new uhm. Condictuctor head surgeon bug. Can me and my friends continue sleeping on the floor in whiteward for one hour per day and then working all other times or do we have to leave
- a Surgeon, courtesy of Two More Surgeons and a Mortican.
...?
You need-require more sleep. If you like-enjoy the floor, it shall not stop you. Do you have sufficient blankets, bed rolls? Concerned with quality of life, it is.
The eggs in the comb do not take long now that they're out of clix. Trinn does not leave them alone very much the next few days, fussing with the nest and adding more to the den's food stores. Clix doesn't know what the hatchlings will eat exactly...so it hoards everything it can think of.
It makes a temporary Nest by the comb, only leaving to eat and check in with its other children and charges.
Clix is nodding off late during the rest-cycle, when clix hears a tiny buzz. A little squeak, a soft crack.
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The communal Nest is stuffed full of soft things, of warm things. Niniane and the three new babies are wrapped up in the softest blankets known to bug. Trinn curls around them all, purring and covering their little baby bodies with its own. Any intruders will have to go through it first.
Mell is the fluffiest of the three, its downy fur sticking up out of the blanket it's wrapped in. The neck and back are especially fuzzy with this. The little noi has brown fluff in the segments of its joints, giving it an awkward contrast with its steel-metallic shell. Black and golden bands hug the hatchling's vent slits and taper off, not quite meeting in the middle like a bee or wasp's might, but enough to give the impression.
Numina's fluff is much less in volume than Mell's, and only wraps around its neck and between the shoulders, but its antennae are large and downy. Its shell is a shade of gold lighter than clax own. It shares the tapered stripes with Mell, black stripes and black fluff contrasting sharply with the lighter gold of its metal. Numina huffs in its sleep...and nuzzles into Niniane's side.
Fiadh is almost completely silver, if not for the noi's markings. Gold spiderwebs like broken-repaired porcelain across its metal shell. Among clax children, this one has the longest pair of wings - more waspish than bee, in stark contrast to Mell's bee-like wings and Numina's mix.
It was hard for clix to sleep that night. Excitement and dread war in its Silk. Sentlings, tucked away in the Nest...
Sentlings, who will bring the unknown with them into this world.
Mysteriously, a video game console appeared in Trinn's living room. It holds one video game for each resident of Trinn's house! (Trinn, Niniane, Diver, seventh sentinel.)
Bug approaches to Third Sentinel with curious. They walked up... well, too close*l.
Oh, you are the one of the Sentinels? The cogwork bugs? I have so many questions!-"
This bug strongly believe that nothing bad will happen. This is a Sentinel, it won't bite after all, yes? It definitely a good idea, to pull Sentinel's cloak to examine a little.
It was truly horrible timing from the Veiled Bug, and before Trinn knew it, clix had clax mandibles in the smaller bug's mid-thorax.
A haunted bug wanders into the twelth's workshop carrying a letter. It kneeled before the architect, holding up the letter. The letter reads as follows:
"Kind Architect twelfth,
have you been informed of our need for parts? We had to recently disassemble a rogue automaton and we want to rebuild it. I have an exact list of parts required and the dimensions they need to come in. The sentinel third should have the list.
Kind regards,
The silken monarch."
@witness-our-waking
... The Twelfth Architect found this disturbing. But, the letter DID claim that the Third Sentinel played some part in this, and thus, the Twelfth chose to go to it to get answers.
A random haunted bug enters Trinn's house and throws a silk blanket on them. The blanket had Seventh, Diver and Niniane on it. The tag read "I have plenty of gifts for a benign caretaker such as you." The haunted bug attempted to flee.
(roll a d20, if above a 5, you get to kill this guy however you want.)
@witness-our-waking
Reflex Check d20 -> 2 -> Failure
Trinn's eye twitches as the Haunted bug escapes before it can throw a knife into its brain.
Does she think she can bribe her way out of her death?
A haunted servant searches for Trinn. They are holding a letter and package by the silken monarch.
The letter reads as follows:
"I have been going around in the memories of Diver and I have to say... You seem really nice! You care so much for your little brother I find it beautiful! For being so nice to a candidate for a child I want to adopt I have given you a present in this box."
The box contained a rune inscrypted blade. The runes describe that the sword is unbreakable.
@witness-our-waking
It takes the sword in hand, adding it to its Inventory after slaying the Haunted husk with it.
To the Abyss with you, Silken One.
How dare she go through his mind without his permission.
We received your message from Chorin. Excellent-pleasing, that you are alright from whatever you have been up to. It however, must inconvenience you.
Mother-Sentinel. It has a god to kill-remove. Your aid, it asks for.
@third-sentinel
Yivel stands over her workbench, spinning a length of golden Silk between two fingers, examining it. She turns to the Third when it enters, and knows immense relief.
She had not been able to watch over it for some time, so to know it is well is... a great deal of weight removed from her mind.
At the words it speaks, however, she pauses. "... A God to kill. In anything, I am with you... perhaps especially in this, but this is no small task."
She looks away. "Which God? What prompted this?"
The Silken Monarch. She has dismantled Diver and taken-stolen his Silkfly and Crest-Spool. She has ordered it to find-retrieve smaller components to rebuild him.
It relays the struggle with the Knight, the prophecy, the evacuation and destruction of the Cogwork Core. It tells her of the Pale Star's demise and Grand Mother Silk's unexpected interference. It tells her of the Liar's Eye, and how it was stolen by the Monarch not that long ago before this interaction.
So it seeks your council, instead of rushing in after her.
Yivel listens silently.
She tries not to allow her fear to show without.
"... The Mother, then," she says, keeping her voice studiously level. "You seek... to kill Mother."
She looks back at her workbench.
"... Good. That's... good. She needs to die. She is the biggest tyrant in these lands. I..."
She takes a deep breath.
"... My project isn't done. The one that will rid Pharloom of all of its masters. But I have... experimental weaponry meant to be wielded against her."
Help-assistance, it is willing to provide in finishing it, as meager as that may be compared to a Weaver or Architect.
This Master will have to be removed-burned first, before the rest, as she is in possession of a dangerous artifact. For that purpose, you have this one at your disposal as an Assassin-Weapon in addition to its regular duties-tasks for you, should you choose.
