<strong>Location:</strong>Upper Platform, transit to Iori's Quarters<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Sanger, Elias<br/><br/>It positively (and visibly!) warms Iori's heart to be taken seriously.  She grins again, the same sardonic half-smirk Elias saw on her face most of the time in the feasting hall, and motions them both onwards down after her.  "Let me spin you a story, Lawgiver, and we'll see what kind of fight you're -really- hurting for..."<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>After securing a bottle of grain alcohol and some snacks from the children, Gethalee Iori throws three cushions around the room surrounding a low table, secures a few small glasses, and pours herself-- and Sanger, and Elias if he comes-- something to drink.  It's serious time, and serious time involves serious drink.  Iori seats herself cross-legged, backside on the cushion, tail lashing the air behind her before curling around in front of her.  "First thing I have to ask," she says, nodding to the Dawn, "is just how much I have to tell you about how little Heaven's really paid attention to the mortal world.  Do you have any idea what the Splendid Office of the Censor is, or what they do?"<br/><br/>----<br/><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Chorgath, Any<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Anjushri Residence, the Path Down<br/><br/>The first thing Chorgath feels is the slightly-pensive pressure of lips against his forehead.<br/><br/>Then he can feel something pushing against his mind and awareness, enfolding his consciousness like a bed of nails: testing him, scratching, scraping.  Finding great resistance against his nobility of purpose and the desire to make the world a better place.  Passing through to his clarity of purpose, raking against it and it hurts him when it does.  Passing through to his willingness to overcome all obstacles, digging knives into that and ripping into it, and it hurts him even more.  But then, it finds something weaker still-- and when Chorgath deliberately lowers his resistance to this presence, it cracks him open, and it hurts.  For a timeless, agonizing eternity, he is hurting.  Hurting.<em>Hurting</em>,<strong>hurting</strong>, HURTING--<br/><br/>It stop hurting, suddenly, but the experience of that isn't per se the cessation of pain.  Rather, instead, it's the fact that he is still feeling.  And feeling.  And feeling, and -feeling-.  The experience couldn't have lasted longer for than a split second, because Anjushri is sitll coming off of tip-toe from where she's kissed him.<br/><br/>"To stoke the flames of your passion," the Bodhisattva says, a sad-yet-pleased smile on her face, "I had to break your self-restraint."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Chorgath's Essence+Willpower allows him to take all of the Mutation points he needs in order to obtain the 21XP for Valor 4 and 5, but 11 Mutation Points for 2xp apiece is a hell of a whammy.  The Bodhisattva has... enlightened him with the following, out of Revlid's Mutations:<br/><br/>2 - <em>Mood Swings</em> gives him -2 MDV against Emotion effects, and ensures that he is affected by a generic Emotion (which can be picked at the beginning of a scene) at all times, unless some form of magic is used to render him Emotion-less for a scene.<br/><br/>2 - <em>Severe Pray to Anjushri Compulsion</em>, has given him the compulsion to pray to or invoke the name of Anjushri, if he fails a Temperance roll made once per scene.  Every day he goes without praying to her levvies a -1 penalty to the Temperance roll, though the Compulsion can be suppressed like a Virtue with the expense of 1wp.  Should he need to reset the penalty to -0 without indulging in prayer, he can endure a controlled form of the Compassionate Martyrdom limit break.<br/><br/>2 - <em>Severe Sexual Addiction</em> has given him a similar addiction to sexual activity that similarly becomes more potent as time goes on, though if he needs non-sexual release he can instead go into a controlled Overindulgence.<br/><br/>1 - <em>Lust Trigger</em> instills an emotion of Lust whenever he sees a beautiful creature; we'll say either a single sex at App 4+, or all creatures with App 5+.<br/><br/>4 - <em>Sexytime Intercourse Trigger/Madness</em> tacks on a point of Limit every time he has sexytimes.</div></div><br/>"Now, my friend," the Bodhisattva murmurs, tenderly cupping his face in her hands, "shall I flense the very notion of fear from your soul?"