Pining for the fjords

[frankensteins_moe]

Who: Berserker of Black and YOU!
What: Berserker took a solo trip to Norway and got jumped by some local ayakashi, and is dragging her half-dead self home
When: October 21, evening
Where: The Far Shore

[Well, that's the last time Berserker takes a trip to the Near Shore on her own. She'd been doing some reading about Freyr - the god Soleil has taken the role of - and decided she wanted to see the homeland of his followers. There aren't any surviving temples to the Norse gods left in Scandinavia, but Asatru is spreading in recent years and there are a number of small shrines scattered about. Berserker hopped over to one, hoping to see the fjords, but got attacked by a group of troll ayakashi halfway to her destination.

Thankfully, she's a tough fighter possessed of remarkable reserves of strength and endurance, but a sneak attack like that was almost too much. So while she managed to beat back her aggressors and escape back to the Far Shore, she's definitely extremely worse for wear. Literally dragging herself through the streets using her mace as a support, there are a number of deep gashes in her body where the ayakashi's claws managed to tear her open. Curiously, though, instead of exposed bone and sinew there are only severed wires and tubes, periodically throwing off sparks and slowly leaking some sort of black viscous liquid.

She doggedly makes her way through the streets of the Far Shore, heading for Freyr's temple. Her thoughts are consumed only with returning safely to her goddess. Unfortunately, exerting herself is only opening her wounds further, and whatever's wrong with her beyond the obvious injuries is only getting worse as she goes along. It's questionable whether or not she'll make it all the way to the temple unassisted, but at the same time she's giving off the feeling of a gravely wounded animal that may summon its last reserves of strength to attack a would-be savior at any moment.

Approach with caution.]

Comments

[trapperkeeper]

[Approach with caution? How about run over in a panic? Is that about the same?]

HOLY mother of HONK, Ber! What happened??

[Once he's close enough he reaches out to try to help support her.]

[lookingforhead]

[Celty, as ever, was out for a ride. She didn't have any delivery jobs at the moment and she felt less guilty about riding her bike around the Far Shore now that it was more magic horse and less noisy engine. But the serenity of her ride along the old roads is broken when she sees the shape Berserker is in.

She swings her bike to a sliding stop up alongside the other Shinki, too wrapped up in her concern for her to consider the other might lash out right now, especially with the ghastly whinny emanating from her horse at the harsh halt.]

[fauxcalibur]

[When something catches Saber's interest, he's hooked for as long as the novelty lasts. Self-preservation doesn't really factor into the equation, which is the only reason he stops. Most people would think better of it, but he's bored with his temple and one certainly doesn't happen across a woman literally falling apart on one's walk every day.]

You seem in quite a state...

[Thanks, Captain Obvious.]

[mersunary]

[Typically speaking, Soleil has no issues with letting her shinki take to her own adventuring when she feels inclined to. As much as she likes being able to spend time with Berserker, giving her that kind of freedom and curiosity is something she's more than happy to accommodate.

It's only through their shared bond that she figures out that something's wrong, though she has no idea what could be happening just from that alone. She knows that Berserker is more than capable of handling herself in dangerous situations, but as the seconds pass and the tension starts mounting, she knows she needs to get to her shinki's side.

Searching doesn't take too long, thankfully, and as soon as she spots her, she breaks into a sprint toward her partner.]

Berserker-!