"You will return to Aussa and work for me. You will find individuals of great skill, power and knowledge. You will take their male seed, or have a female of such caliber carry the seed of a male, I care not. Then, you will bring yourself and the bearer of the infant to me, where the unborn life will be used to fuel my research. In return you may live, and if you serve me well, more than a single lifetime. Fail, and your doomed soul will be for the fiend's taking." the ghostly figure instructed "Now, the time has come at last." he muttered before Aleria could inquire about the purpose he might have with pregnant women. The mage's specter extended his hands towards the degraded redhead, but not in aid. As he chanted a spell that the witch couldn't recognize her body jerked and twitched on the now familiar, wet stone floor.<br/><br/>She felt as if part of her was set on fire, her insides ablaze with hellfire. With a violent thug, a crimson beam of light erupted from her belly, magical energy drained into the insubstantial caster. As her consciousness was about to give out, Aleria was shaken back awake by a realization when the spark she received earlier, the flicker of pure arcane power she was granted was drained from her as well. Everything she gained was for nothing. It was his now, and she could only attain as much as he allowed, if he didn't murder her with the torturous ritual.<br/><br/>The magic ended abruptly, and she was left at peace finally, glimpsing her master before everything turned dark. The image of the ghastly old man was gone, and in his place stood a young man bearing the same features, but also a pair of short horns on his forehead. Her unborn freak of a demonic child was consumed by the magic to grant the archmage a new physical form.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Good news is, Aleria is no longer pregnant. Bad news is, she lost her rank in Archmage and every feature or benefit associated with a mythic rank.</div></div><br/><br/><hr/><br/>When Aleria awoke, to her surprise she felt perfectly fine and healthy. Her body was healed and her mind was as rested as it could be. She wasn't bound, gagged, violated nor dead. Her surroundings have changed from before, and instead of the seemingly endless stone prison of darkness, she was in a richly decorated room, one befitting a princess. She was lying on a huge double bed alone, naked and clean under the silken sheets. The room was decorated with fancy curtains, and carpets mostly in crimson and gold color. There was a small bath and study here as well, her own spellbook resting on the desk along a small crystal ball, her familiar in a golden bird cage not a three feet from the tome. This was no doubt a taste of the rewards she could enjoy if she served faithfully and well.<br/>Still, there was one thing that made the luxurious abode confining and alien - the lack of any windows or exits. The only archway that could have been a doorway was just leading into a solid wall, and while there was a rune circle on the floor, it was one for summoning and not escaping.<br/>So she too was a bird trapped in a gilded cage, but at least she wasn't dead or damned, at least for now.<br/><br/>Examining her spellbook, there were some additions - exercises and studies that would make her an overall better wizard, as well as four new spells, one of which caused shivers down her spine, and an indescribable feeling in her nethers.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Aleria is fully healed, ability damage and negative effects are dispelled form her. She has currently no possessions other than her spellbook which has the following spells added: Unnatural Lust (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/u/unnatural-lust), Vampiric Touch (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/v/vampiric-touch), a cantrip that lets her contact her father through any scrying device (such as a crystal ball, mirror, etc) and a custom version of Summon Monster, Summon Rafael that has a casting time of 10 minutes, a maximum duration of 1 hour, but grants no control over the summoned outsider. Rafael can make a will save to resist being summoned or dismissed this way at his whim, and if he succeeds, the caster has no power over him for the next week.<br/><br/>By studying her improved spellbook and having suffered through her personal hell, Aleria also gains 1500 XP.</div></div>