[Special Classification] Findings of the Serpent

[Leyrah]

Powerbase,

This is a space where all of us may make reports of oddities, esoteric findings, or other knowledge that is related to our current foe. While all of the information is encrypted to only be available in the archives' physical location, each report will also need to be appropriately restricted in accordance to rank. Do not forget to include the Operatives and their ranks in this.

Depending on the information in each report, they may be reclassified according to need or distributed to those who have use of it at that time.
Lord Arcanus Sendahl

Spoiler: OOC

In order to classify your post, just add at the top as written below, and remove those you do not want to include.

CLASSIFIED: Darth Véhemen, Sith Lords, Sith, Incipients, Director, Lead Operative, Spec. Operatives, Operatives.

 

[Zaca Vintaka]

CLASSIFIED: Darth Véhemen, Sith Lords

Subject: Post attack report
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My Lords,

When the previous attack was concluding, a (mental) attack seemingly went out. I'll lay out the symptoms I have felt since:
An unease deep within my being.
Something writhes underneath my skin, wriggling, coiled and alive. It is somewhat subtle.
Uninvited and intimate whispers in the back of my mind, removing defenses and exposing me.
Vulnerability, thoughts feeling noticeable and desires laid bare. It's as if the Patron's gaze is just beyond my sight, drawing me in and inevitable.
It feels as if a mark has been put onto me.

As of right now there are no holes within my memory. There is a possibility this mark might force me to turn against the powerbase.

Signed,

Sith Zaca Vintaka

 

[Calian Tarr]

CLASSIFIED: Sith Lords

Report on the vision I experienced around two weeks after the Patron’s attack on the Tyrant.

I witnessed a fleshy corridor. Seemed almost alive, felt like a pulse. Vague scent of metal in the air.

Joining me in the corridor was a strangely beautiful man. Unnaturally so. Believe it to be the Patron.

Following the appearance of the Patron, the beauty quickly faded as his face cracked to reveal dark tendrils from within. At the same time I felt probing coming from inside me, like bugs under the skin or poking from the inside. Sensation lingers to this day, albeit not quite as intense.

” I let you glimpse the membrane, Calian Tarr. Now feel what presses against it from the inside.” is all that he spoke immediately afterwards.

Finally, the aforementioned sensations have lingered with me since. Even if not as intensely.

Sith Tarr

 

[Zazriel]

CLASSIFIED: Darth Véhemen, Sith Lords.

A report on the events of the attack suffered on the Tyrant above Lesser Gambor some weeks ago.

Spoiler: Report

At the onset of the attack, multiple Sith and Lords were present in the training room. As events unfolded, several were drawn away across the ship to various sections of the crew deck.

I remained in the training room alongside my apprentice Sith Kharib, Sith Vintaka and a newly inducted member of the SOG who's name I still do not retain. There, like everyone else, we engaged an unknown entity.

This entity presented itself in the form of a Hollowed Guard and despite a prolonged engagement, it exhibited no discernible signs of injury or fatigue.

Recognising the futility of a physical confrontation I shifted to a mental assault in attempts to sever whatever connection had brought the manifestation to us. Without restraint, I found myself encountering something beyond expectation.

The presence I touched cannot be reconciled with the assumed capabilities of the Patron. It was vast, ancient, and its reach and power far exceeding the confines of what we believed we were facing. The contact rendered me temporarily incapacitated as a series of words, primitive and utterly alien, forced themselves into my mind.

Upon regaining autonomy, I withdrew to my quarters, committing the experience to memory.

See below the rough pronunciations.

“ITH-RAH-KOOL VESH NAH-THOON”
“THREN-KAI, THREN-KAI”
“RESH-TAHL, OOTH-KETH, VEH-NORR”

Spoiler: OOC Translation to Correct Spelling

“ITH-RAH-KOOL VESH NAH-THOON” = Ythra’kul vesh na’thuun.
“THREN-KAI, THREN-KAI” = Thren’kai, Thren’kai
“RESH-TAHL, OOTH-KETH, VEH-NORR” = Ressh’thal, Uth’keth, Venorr”

The entity also made vague references to "the vessel" as that which split the veil and seeped through the breach. It named this presence as both "aperture" and "membrane" and something that coils beneath the skin.

I am aware of the weight of this account.. nonetheless I stand by the accuracy of it.

- Lord Zazriel

 

[Leyrah]

CLASSIFIED: Darth Véhemen, Sith Lords.

Regarding the affliction of my person: It was not too unlike Sith Tarr's experience. I sought answers, and I did so inside his skull, with his consent. There was a feeling of going 'against' something, of potential danger if one pried past, but answers were never something gained by the cowardly.

I recall wriggling beneath my skin, as if something was behind my sockets, in my mind, in my thoughts and pushing my own voice into small, terrified echoes. I remember hearing myself as I did not wish it to hurt, or eat, me. I saw depths without bottom, felt smiling with a familiar allure. Doubt flooded my mind, suspicion on all and everything, and so I made no report - because my own mind believed it was unwise.

Beyond this, the experience was as Sith Tarr's. It is an unexplainable existence, and it is as if there are cracks and broken lines in the Patron's supposed beauty that will tear it open to the world.

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Furthermore, the Eye of Yndare was used at the behest of the Dark Lord, allowing Sith Tarr and Sith Vintaka to reach out towards two particular choices: the Patron, and the Creature, respectively. The Dark Lord after the fact informed me that the Eye had already been used once in attempt to see the Patron with similar results, a matter previously unknown to me. I have yet to gain Sith Vintaka's report, but Sith Tarr's has been attached below.

Spoiler: Sith Tarr's Report

Lord Sendahl,

I saw a jungle. Ancient ruins. The jungle reclaiming the ruins. Two suns in the sky and… a gas giant. Some kind of planet anyway.

Saw the Patron walking below. Again, hard to look away from. Oddly inviting. An army of Hollow Guard walked with.

Suddenly the Patron spotted me. He smirked at me, left me feeling unsettled. Looked right into me, through me. Like he saw the deepest parts of me.

He addressed me after. Speaking directly about how he sees me. Then I felt a presence that was unlike anything I ever felt. It felt like a weight crushing against me everywhere at once. I’m not sure, but I think he even tried to take my mind.

Something with my head, either way. I’ll try to answer questions the best I can.

Sith Tarr