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Lorelei Gumede

@nucleartempest.bsky.social

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Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. » Ranger, Tempest » Happily with @tiruml.bsky.social Fallout RP | MVRP | written by bardlockcafe » Story & Banter, Happy to plot. » Current setting: Near New Vegas » Mun is 30+

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Oct 17

❝ Guess I'm contagious,
it'd be safest if you ran, ❞

» West coast scav-for-hire
» Haunted and hunted

❝ Fuck,
that's what they all just end
up doing in the end. ❞

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a fairy riding the wind @quotes.sunder.my · May 4

These calloused hands only know how to draw blood. | Do you think that would stop me from loving you?

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Captain Beris Iscandar @hornedrenegade.bsky.social · May 5

“Captain Beris Iscandar of The Renegade Dawn, former wing leader of Hatchet Squadron. Is that enough titles for you or do y’need me to make up a few more?”

• #SWRP #StarWarsRP
• Detailed, descriptive
• Galactic Civil War-Post Civil War era. (Flexible)

(Art by Rasmus Poulsen)

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

||Lorelei's story will be moving to @bowofthetempest.bsky.social for the foreseeable future.

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Lorelei (Mihras?) @bowofthetempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

...and in a small, secluded cabin in a forest she could never recognize...

Lorelei wakes before a roaring fire with a shocked gasp.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

When her leg crosses the threshold of the trunk and her foot tenderly touches the first step,

Lorelei Gumede vanishes.

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

When her leg crosses the threshold of the trunk and her foot tenderly touches the first step,

Lorelei Gumede vanishes.

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

"Yeah, I think we should. Hell, maybe she had some spooky-ass ritual down here, like those old ghost stories about the old world." She stands and hefts her leg onto the lip of the trunk, bracing herself on the open lid and his shoulder.

"Just be careful down here, alright? I don't know what kind—"

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

She can see no sign of trigger or attached mechanism, so, carefully, she undoes the latch and lifts the lid.

When the pair peers over the edge, they find a vacant staircase descending deep into some unknown depths of hewn stone, lit by torches that never flicker.

"What in all the hell..."

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

the faint doubt in her eyes.

"Hey, I'm as surprised as you are. Good eye, though, that trunk was definitely hers. She had it hauled in here when she arrived with Vivian."

She crouches and moves to open it - then thinks better of haste and looks it over carefully without touching it.

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

She's nothing if she's not perceptive, and something in the explanation offered feels... lacking, somehow. It doesn't mesh at all with what was in the note.

Then again, what the note offered made the situation sound particularly personal. She's not going to pry, even if she can't manage to hide

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

"'My sincerest apologies for the delay, dear, but the currents of change shift as often as the tides here. Here is the item we discussed; I pray it offers you clarity. Should you tire of it, simply linger by the lake and a friend will see it away.'

Can you make any sense of that? It's just a belt."

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

It sure is a lot of damn mirrors though. She'd forgotten since the last time she was in here. She takes the belt and examines it as he eyes the note, then takes it as it's offered.

"'To be delivered to... Arlo'?" Arlo? "You two met? She's been gone a while now..."

It unfolds and she keeps reading,

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

is her target, and she again finds it unlocked.

She turns the knob, then gently shoulders it open. With no one inside, she steps in and starts looking around.

The first thing to catch her eye is a trunk, and an out-of place, shiny-as-new belt. There's a note on top of it.

"...Huh. Fancy."

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

"Not really mine, either, other than poking around where I probably shouldn't. I'm just looking for anything that looks insane, honestly, or something I recognize as hers."

She leads the way down the hall, resisting the urge to crouch and duck into the shadows. The door at the end of the hall

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

if I'd recognize anything she left if I saw it. But checking can't hurt, right? We're heading down the hall."

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 30

With how much Vivian smoked– smokes, she'd remind herself– he probably could light up without any problem.

"Hell if I know. I never saw her do too much, except turn Tirum into a horse." The doorknob turns freely and she steps inside the kitchen, waiting to close it behind him. "I don't even know

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 29

Nobody

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 29

Missing him hours.

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 29

and I don't think all of these are wholly natural. Might get worse than a little rash."

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 29

to the lab and no one bats an eye as she lets them in. This part she's spent a fair bit of time in, with Vivian and without. She murmurs, weaving her way through shelf after shelf to reach the interior door,

"Don't touch the plants in here. She does a lot of experiments,

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 29

"Alright, long as I'm not keeping you from anything. This way..."

It's not really snooping, she tells herself. She has free reign of the lab building to allow her to do her job. And... having that sort of access, if Ril left anything behind, would make it that much easier.

So she leads him

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a fairy riding the wind @quotes.sunder.my · Mar 29

These battles will set us free.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 28

I mean, you don't have to.

Actually... it probably looks weirder if you come, too...
(thinking)

arlo andazona @vaqueroerrante.bsky.social · Mar 28

i don't, but, uh, sure.

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 28

Snoop, with an 'n,' y'know?

Wanna tag along?

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 28

Snoop, with an 'n,' y'know?

Wanna tag along?

arlo andazona @vaqueroerrante.bsky.social · Mar 28

scoop what?

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 28

...Now I kinda wanna snoop. I shouldn't...

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 28

...Now I kinda wanna snoop. I shouldn't...

arlo andazona @vaqueroerrante.bsky.social · Mar 28

yeah . . . i know whatcha mean.

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · Mar 28

Oh, good, she did crazy shit around you too.

Yeah! Yeah. Tirum's with her now dealing with something for his kid. So. Probably magic.

Just would be nice if I had some magic on MY end, I guess...