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Severing the Emotions - First Day

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Ennvon
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Joined: Sat Jan 26, 2019 8:58 pm
Character Name(s): Yauch

Severing the Emotions - First Day

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Yauch made the decision to severe his emotions after he experienced his own incompetence and fault of character. He knew, of course, that a complete severing of the emotions would be impossible. Thus, he resolved that he would leave only the emotion which guided him in his pursuit of knowledge, interest. As such, he began to pursue the severing in the spirit of 'seeing the result'.

His first step was a vow of silence, this would be a means to experience his emotions at their most visceral, without the confusions that might be caused by his own attempts to rationalize them to others.

The first emotion to manifest as a tangible essence was his desire. He was constantly faced with his desire, because he had the desire to speak. The essence was a orange string which wrapped around his soul, tugging tightly at it whenever desire emerged.

He quickly entered meditation in order to attempt his first severing. His mental energy took the form of a DreamBlade, and lowered slowly towards the string.

Pain... incredible pain... and the string seemed as durable as obsidian! Yauch grit his teeth and continued the process. It took several minutes of grinding at the string like sawing wood, but it eventually snapped, turned into mist, and vanished. When the string vanished, his soul shifted in colour from a bright white to a mixture of colours which seemed to disfavour red.

The next emotion to appear was expectation, as he constantly tried to expect the actions of other people, and expect how they would interrupt his body movements. He did not immediately attempt to sever this yellow-green string, as it would provide him with the perfect opportunity to find the sadness essence if a large expectation was broken.

In order to find the essence for the emotion of fear, Yauch went to hunt. He first tried the lost caves and the bogroms there, but found that they did not provide enough danger to scare him. He thus moved to the albino planes, and comparatively unfamiliar place where agoknights and shamblix were abound.

He fought his agoknights with his DreamBlade, experiencing close brushes with death that allowed him to, when he was focused on it, discovery the green string which constituted fear.

He had made this discovery in the heat of battle, and due to losing concentration, was collapsed. In his anger at himself and the agoknight, the red string of anger was discovered.

Yauch found a place to sit down and preform the severing on these two new essences. His mind once again manifested as a DreamBlade which began sawing at the green string of fear. The pain was once again immense, perhaps even stronger than the first time. It took even longer to sever this emotion, which did not bode well for Yauch's continued efforts. Would the pain be more severe and longer with every essence he severed?
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