Alnarra's RP Stories
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Bring out your dead
There before her sat the daunting task which she yearned not to partake in. Her lab was covered in the corpses and remains of those that had been found in a makeshift grave outside of the small medical camp here on this wretched island. Putting her face into her hands, she gave an exasperated sigh. The druidess leaned back in her chair and looked over to what stood before her. Hours of work documenting, sorting, and then properly identifying the remains of the fallen.
She got all the tools she knew too and then began meticulously combing the medical records of those who had made their way to the island. Say what you will of the Horde and Alliance, their recent conflicts had resulted in much better record's keeping then previously.
With a mask over her mouth, goggles covering her eyes, and her hair tied back in a pony tail she started the grim work of measuring teeth, hip bones, skull fragments, and more. The mass grave left before her a reminder that this world was still far from done healing its wounds. With the first corpse upon her table the compassion that came with being a doctor gave way to the harsh realities of needing to get the morgue dealt with as quickly as possible
A wide set of shoulder bones, even if the flesh was scorched beyond recognition, little more then a pile of bones. Male, Human, dental records seemed to match those of a Samuel Wyldell, age 43. He had been a Sergeant of the infantry division dispatched here. Survived only by a daughter, aged 21, the druidess began drafting her letter.
They had all been the same, yet so different, each letter straining to take away a bit more of your soul as you conveyed to those who would never have a father, mother, brother, sister, daughter, son come home.
Dearest Isabelle,
My name is Doctor Alnarra Elsora K'Shinar Stargrove writing on behalf of the Alliance Military on the date of 05, October, Year 32. It is with great sadness that I must inform you of the death of your father, Samuel Wyldell, at the hands of a yet unknown assailant. You may collect your father's remains at the address listed below, I will ensure that they are handled with care on their journey back home. You have my sincerest condolences.
- Doctor Stargrove
After the letter, her next least favorite task, filling out the death certificate with the time of confirmed death as well as her signature and ensuring that it was placed in the proper files. For a matter that was so sensitive, it at the same time seemed so clinical and without thought. Each of these people had a life, a family, a place they belonged, and now here she was tagging and bagging them as little more then one more in a line
She moved on to the next, quickly finding an identifying tattoo, a Gery Thommasi, age 36 of Sentinel hill, serving as a senior medic. The humans were always the most difficult to identify, made all the more difficult when records weren't quite correct or lacking in details. Much the same a letter to family or next of kin and a death certificate quickly made their way across her desk.
Her lab coat had gotten dirty with blood and charred remains as she had to often times dig through the scarred and unrecognizable flesh in order to identify the owner. Next up the short stature of the victim helped narrow it down and before long a small surviving family trinket helped Alnarra determine the victim was a Walda Brewgranite, Age 71, a corpral and engineer from Khaz Modan.
Each culture had their own unique approaches to how a burial should be handled; however, there was no time for such things now. She would leave the ceremony to the priest and family afterwards, she had to press on, a job to do for certain.
The job never got easier, Cormac Jepsin, a 20 year old Private out of Lakshire, barely old enough to leave his home and now he lay as little more then a pile of ash, bone, and charred flesh on some cold metal table on a far away island. The druidess long ears sagged as she went about carefully documenting and measuring to ensure that the individual in question was indeed matching what was on record.
Such horrific means of disposal often wipe away the traditional means for identifying remains and even more so take away the dignity of the dead. The long ears of the next victim gave Azun Blazepyre, age 117, a corporal and battlemage from Tranquilien a more easily identifiable form even amongst the charred remains. Bowing her head slightly it in a way reminded her horribly of her own wifes mortality, what fate awaited her, would she have to bury yet another that she loved?
The tides of war had made it more common place to stumble into those who before might have been considered rare was now more common. And so when the next corpse presented as more green even amongst the black it became easier to identify them. Kima Goreclaw, Age 23, a private who had come from razor hill.
It was perhaps the hardest letter of the bunch to write. With Sin'dorei, humans, dwarves, there was a cadance to the writing, she felt as if she could communicate in a sympathetic manner to the family of the deceased, but with the orcs she was never sure. She did not know if they wished sympathy or assurances that their loved one had served with honor. Regardless she tried her best and soon another envelope sealed, another tag on a delicately wrapped set of remains.
As the hours dragged on and the druidess stunk not only from what she had been working with but her own sweat, she managed to identify Llwellyn Marsh, a Half-Quel'Dorei man only 19 from Dalaran. The sight of such a young individual, dead on a table was a bitter reminder. Not unlike the young Cormac before, Llwellyn too had been taken away at a young age in a horrible manner. It was greater then a tragedy.
The scent of burnt flesh and fur gave away her next set of remains. Rolson Dunwhich of Stromwind. A medic and a man cursed with the worgen disease which her people had been responsible for bestowing. A deep sense of regret filled her at the notion that so much pain must come as a result of her people's doing and now as some final insult it would be yet another Kaldorei wrapping him up to be placed to rest one final time.
Small and green, it made Alnarra worry for a moment that perhaps it had been her newly met friend, but teeth and piercings soon proved such an assumption incorrect. Kylia Gripgear of Ratchet, a 29 year old young medic who surely had only been doing her part now joined the bitter remains of the fallen. She wasn't sure how to write to goblins either, did they want to know about insurance? Compensation of some kind? The druidess shook her head, it was not something she could be responsible for.
And then the final corpse gave her pause, a Kaldorei woman, serving as she had, a medic, a Kaldorei. When she put the name with the corpse she realized that the two had served together for a short stint during the war in Pandaria. Shaking her head, while for the past corpses she could not muster the strength nor the will to bless the dead, she broke her short lived tradition.
"Goddess, I ask you to watch over Elinara Braodarrow, who served you without fear and without question. Guide her to her place among the stars"
With the last of those corpses having been named, having at least been restored the honor and dignity of a proper burial she finally sat down, and staring over at the now cloth wrapped remains of her sister Kaldorei she openly wept, a fear and a sadness that it could just as easily have been her.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Hunger Pains
The woman shot out of bed, covered in sweat. Her sheets were soaked all the way to the frame of the little makeshift cot she was sleeping in. The simple linen T-shirt she had worn, drenched, and her mind in a rush from that dream... that horrible dream.
All the mirrors turned down, the images in them getting stranger and stranger, it had become better not to look anymore, instead tucking them away to no longer be seen. In the corner of the room her lab work sat quietly, untouched after what one could imagine was barely a quarter night's rest. A stack of empty tuna cans, and various other rations was piled up in the corner, the flies already picking up on the smell. She would have to take it all out in the morning.
But she could not shake that dream, those images which had flashed through her head, of her skin just starting to melt away, to fall off and on to the ground. Exposed bones and muscle rancid with rot and decay as if her body was simply melting there.
She quickly checked herself over before walking towards the little sink. Turning on the water she splashed her face and closed her eyes not wishing to look at the attached mirror. Taking a deep breath she shook her head "Only a dream Alnarra, only a dream". Her heart raced and her mind ached for answers, but none had come to her. The research she had performed turned up little and her mind was starting to grow at it's whits end
At every corner she saw them, those forsaken abominations the butchers of her people now walking as ally to her and her kin. She wondered how the Draenei did it, how they managed to stomach standing shoulder to shoulder with the green skinned monsters who had committed such atrocities on their people. How each day they seemed to manage to bite their tongue and work hand in hand with the very same people that only years earlier would have driven an axe into their skulls without question.
Now she was left with these anxiety's, a camp filled with the very same soldiers that only earlier that year may very well have been at the burning of Teldrassil itself, to have been there as her people burned to death without hope of salvation, trapped in a funeral pyre that could only be rectified by the goddess herself. Was one of them going to ambush her, to come and finish the job that had been started? How many more Kaldorei were left to give their blood? How many more of her brothers and sisters would have to lay down their lives to protect this world?
And then there was that terrible hunger, which nothing seemed to quench. Even dropping out of her Saberon form did little to quench the gnawing sensation. She had eaten entirely through all the supplies she had brought with her, and the rations being passed around at camp were hardly enough to keep her stomach quiet. She had started taking little gnomish weight loss and hunger suppressants in hopes of calming the sounds of her belly.
Whining softly she rubbed at her face, and where there was still sweat the druidess tried to brush it away. Looking back at the sheets she sighed and started trying to undress the bed only to be reminded of that dream, of holding her ear in her hands as it fallen away from her head like little more then the skin of a doll dripping down in a hot fire.
The memory caused an instant revulsion and almost sickining sensation, causing her to retch for a moment before catching herself. She did not know what sort of horrors were afoot here, assuming only that this was the last wrathful lashes of the last of the old gods, hoping perhaps it would be the last horror inflicted upon this land. Maybe if they could just bear this little bit more there could be peace
Friday, September 25, 2020
Section 28 Report - A197G [3] - $216
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Classified By: Mikuza Nightblade
Reason: 1.4(a)
Downgrade to: Confidential on 10472.06.12
Declassify on: 10572.06.12
Alnarra K'Shinar Stargrove
- Height: 6'8"
- Weight: 230lbs
- Eyes: Silver
- Birthdate: 08.08.4600PS
- Spouse: Elynxdria Stargrove K'shinar (U) : Living
- Spouse: Veraldan Stargrove (U): Deceased
- Subject's eyes were enhanced with Sprite Darter essence to provide subject with access to a series of illusionary and anti arcane abilities. Subject was taught to make use of occular adjustments in order to dispel arcane illusions, weaken arcane magics, and otherwise enrapture opponents in a Fae Magic Illusionn.
- Note: Large Scale Illusions proved strenous on the subject as well as long term use of the abilities. Subject was noted to have several instances in which strain on the occular abilities resulted in shattered blood vessels in the eye which required repair.
- Subject already possessed mastery of Ironwood, and as such was simply given combat training on how to better use Ironwood for defensive and offensive purposes. Abilities include rapid weapons crafting, summoning of Ironwood Treants and then layering them with Fae magic in order to allow a Mirror Image style combat.
- Subject also possessed significant knowledge of the use and manipulation and intertwining of her blood with ironwood to be delivered as a weapon to attack opponents organs at a cellular level.
- Subject was provided with mastery over an experimental form, hence forth known as a "Saberon" form. Form was based upon druidic experimentation with a variation of the Goldrinn based Worgen form. It was thought that the use of Ashamane as the spirit would result in a more tempered feral spirit. Results are promising but subject lacks adequate combat potential. There were no signs enhanced aggression as a result of taking this form.
- Subject's lungs were enhanced with shamanistic magic to allow for extended ability to engage in underwater activities.
- Subject was taught to make use of Faerie fire for damaging and Anti Arcane combat. A variety of techniques were passed along to the subject so that she could use these abilities offensively rather then simply as a method for revealing enemy forces.
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Dear Diary
She had in another set of tubes, vomit, blood, skin samples, and saliva of an individual who had been in direct contact with the fungus and survived. Her lab equipment? A temporal repeat field of a much smaller scale then what Section 28 had used for training. She had stolen it before she had been forced to abdicate her position and it served as a treasured piece of equipment. The ability to perform a near endless number of experiments on a specimen and then simply reset the temporal stasis chamber so the sample was never destroyed proved beyond invaluable.