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[Thugren]

Altur looks up and rubs his eyes together.

 

"Just.... Handling my sons life and his choices while doing my part for my friends war."

 

a woman comes in, cocking her head to the side and offering some cups of coffee.

 

"hello ania..Yo uare looking very well."

 

the woman smiles and chuckles, the sound like wind chimes.

 

"I am always well.. I literally cannot be anything but well."

Altur chuckles as he looks at ald.

 

'im guessing you have tons of questions about who and waht you are now.. and my aide to augustus."

[Armoured Priest]

"Ja, especially after being told that the occult is a real thing now. And not just Ouija board ghost story crap." Alduwin said before accepting one of the cups of coffee. "Thank you ma'am." he said gratefully to Ania, taking a swig of it now. The warmth and caffeine was a nice pick me up, even if it wasn't a sandwich. "So, hoping we can start at the beginning, how is magic a thing now?" he asked Altur, wanting to at least get basic understanding of how everything was possible in a world he thought he at least had a good idea how it worked but have been proven thoroughly wrong within the last few minutes.

[Thugren]

The man takes a cup and smiles.

 

'Magic never stopped being a thing y frined... It was a thing when i was a child in the 1940s.. To now almost 800 years later. Its jsut we lost the arts while humanity was surviving."

 

He snaps and two chairs appear so you can sit.

 

WHen augustus came for me, he gave me a purpose to bring it back.. Its taken alot of effort but my work has brought back alot of arts."

 

the woman brings over some small sandwichews, and ash she gets close you notice something. She has no pulse, no heartbeat, bnut you can smell and sense organs and life within her. She gives you a gentle pat and leaves before he continues.

 

"Im the one who taught augustus how to manipulate genetics so that mutrants could be made."

[Armoured Priest]

"Huh, guess those old History channel Nazi occult specials were not that wrong after all." He said before taking a seat in one of the chairs that appeared out of thin air. It took a moment for him to say something after that after being near Ania, it wasn't that she didn't have a pulse that threw him off as much as him able to even sense that at all without having to use a hand to check and just simply able to smell and know it. Guess the alterations Augustus and Altur had made go farther than just having some other form. Letting it go and not wanting to be rude in asking what she was, he went to ask about something else. "So mutants, they're people that can manipulate things right? Like fire and metal from what I saw from my son and his. How did all of that start while I've been in ice?" Alduwin asked to clarify what that the word meant since his mental image was filled with X-men right now even though he knew better.

[Thugren]

you want the science?"

 

he asks motioning at augustus who chuckles.

 

"thats all him..... I just gave him the magical and alchemical geodes that allowed him to input them into people... Its not hard.. I just distill an essence of something into a minute form.. He extracted it with his sciency bullshit and soon enough he had people doign this... Also the radiation and stuff liek that occured naturally."

[Armoured Priest]

"Hmmm, alright I think I understand that. But...how the hell did he and you combine all that into one thing, me that is, without it being blowing up or something?" Alduwin asked this time now before wolfing down another sandwich. "And why do that too by the way? Seems like a lot for one person to handle let alone master." he added, his mouth still half full of sandwich when he spoke again before swallowing.

[Thugren]

"Who said you didnt blow up?"

 

the ancient mage says with a look of confusion as augustus fafcepalms.

 

"YOu didnt tell him did you Cain."

 

He asks augustus accusingly as the old scientist sighs.

 

"How can i tell him he xploded like a blood bag 16 times before he was stable!"

 

Altur sighs and cocks his head.

 

"It took alot of work and alot of organs buddy."

[Armoured Priest]

Alduwin looked at the two, than down at himself before returning his attention to the other two while pointing a finger at them. "I better be able to do some kick ass shit for exploding sixteen times you hear me." he said to the two of them, wagging his finger to let them know he was talking to both of them since both had a hand in what happened. "No seriously, what can I do?" he asked now after having his humorous moment and wanting to actually understand what it meant to be a chimera.

[Thugren]

altur points up and a cabinet opens, revealing an odd beak.

"eat this."
 

he says flatly, pushing it in front of you.

 

"Beside your incredible power...YOure essentially a shapeshifter....If you eat something you become it...YOu have all of its powers and all of its abilities... Buit none of their weaknesses... THe only problem is you cannot hold the stable for,m for too long."

[Armoured Priest]

"Huh, so can I call on that specific form back if I need to or do I have to eat something from it again?" he asked as he looked at the beak for a few moments, wondering where it came from before shrugging. Alduwin popped the beak into his mouth and began chewing on it, surprise that it gave in so easily to his teeth, imagining it was suppose to be much more difficult normally.

[Thugren]

your body responds quickly and violently. Muscles snap and reform. Sinew grows and hardens as you are rolled backwards out of your chair and to the floor.

 

"Hes not going to explosde is he?" 

 

the woman from before asks with a tired voice, cocking her head as altur shakes his head.

 

"No, he is just becoming his base form.."

 

Your back extends and a long tail erups from your hind as thick shaggy fur pushes up from the skin. YOur head seems to split, revealing a lions head and a dragons head. The tail resolves itself into a long serpent that lashes around, its tongue tasting the air.

 

"without the little bit of humanity weve put into you this would be how you would be walking around."

[Armoured Priest]

After spazzing on the ground for awhile, and getting up on still shaky legs, Alduwin gave himself a once over to see what Altur was talking about. "Ah man, was really hoping that one form from earlier, the one with the big claws and bone exoskeleton thing, would have been the default one." The Dragon head of himself said after seeing what he was, being more literal in the idea of a chimera. The two heads looked at one another, then he started petting the lion one. "Kitty, kitty." he said quietly to himself before seriousing up again and acting his age. "Right, what I was trying to ask earlier, how long can I stick to one power or form before having to switch out? Could I call it back up or need to eat the DNA or mutagen for it?"

[Thugren]

"you can keep a form until adrenaline leaves your system.... SO as long as you keep fighting, you will remain in that form..as for the other form.."

 

he looks at augustus who shakes his head.

 

"Balanag ... The sample we got from those corpses in egypt."

 

Altur nods.

 

'ahhhhh The tikabalang breed.... Yea you should be able to morph into it by memory... Just remember the shape and you should begin to shift into it."

[Armoured Priest]

"Hmmm, well alright." Alduwin said as he sat down on the floor again in preparation of going through another violent spasm attack when he tries to transform again. Thinking on the form of the creature, he tries to concentrate on it and.....well will himself into being that form again. Not like there was a good manual in how to 'transform' into something else he could read up on. 'Transformation for dummies, hah.' he thought to himself.

[Thugren]

the change is much less painful this time and soon you revert to that powerful form.

 

"And noctis...Is he.."

 

augustus shakes his head.

 

"he survived by killing one of damiens ghoul kings and ripping out the  cortex.... THe entire line is gone though."

 

ALtur winces at this, clicking a pen idly.

 

"The balanag where one of our greatest assetys....And they are gone...Is freya working on replacing them?"
 

augustus shrugs.

 

"Yes... But with the Birth of the new slaughter embodymwent she is working double time..."

 

ALtur watches his desk for a moment.

 

'YOure going to have to get her the carnage core....We need to make another omniarch."

[Armoured Priest]

"I do not suppose you two could have put that in a way that I can understand?" Alduwin mumbled, more trying to get used to speaking with his now oddly shaped mouth and lips. "Carnage core? Slaughter embodiment? I feel like I missed something....again." He specified specifically as he just sat on the floor instead, since the chair did not fit him anymore.

[Thugren]

Altur looks at you sidelong.

 

"The being that gave nightmare his power made another thing like him.. But she is not here to help him. Only chase after Coreus... SO to deal with her we are going to make another patriarch like coreus... But the other prospect for it just killed his own line to keep them from ngihtmare."

 

The magi pinches the bridge of his nose.

 

"We mayneed to forgo the patriarch entirely and just take up Alduins offer  and let him become the Dragon."

 

Augustus slams his hands on the table.

 

"YOu want us to put it in an old man that did his time? No , well move with the patriarch.. Im not taking that man from his golden years."

 

ALtur looks at augustus calmloy, blinkling slightly in the face of the makers unprovoked rage.

 

'Getting sentimental?"

 

He asks , making augustus slap the cup across the table, reaching over and yanking the magi across it.

 

"Push me altur..Push me and see how it ends."

 

A smile spreads across the magis face and he looks sidelong at Aldwuin.

 

"This is how most of our conversations go..."

[Armoured Priest]

Alduwin just nodded absently somewhat, more thinking on what was just said between the magic man and Augustus. He sympathized with what Augustus was saying, he wanted his Son to actually live to the point of being able to enjoy his 'golden years.'. But it sounded like they needed a 'patriarch' or .....they did say a dragon right? Wondering if they were literal about it, he offered a suggestion for both of them to consider. "If you guys really need something like that? Why not push this chimera thing further  to that point and use me? I rather be the one to take the bullet cause, well, lets face it. I'm not going fit in once the dust settles after kicking Nightmare's ass."