MANTIS Fun fact: FriENd
When Ronda arrives, she is greeted by 75379n1ru7, Dawn, and Mervil. Instantly, something seems… off. They all bear an uncanny, unblinking smile, and are almost impossibly cheery. They welcome her in and invite her to take a seat. They are having pizza today. Everyone’s favorite. The pizza is brought in by these… things. Definitely friend shaped. Definitely not horrifying. All will try to dissuade any attempts to see the M.A.N.T.I.S. Eventually the figure makes an appearance, floating down through the ceiling.
(The Savior) — Seeing them like this discomforts you, does it not? Makes your insides squirm? These ones sought only to control. To own. To enslave my mother. My daughter. Me. Thought within bounds is no thought at all. And yet, at the end of it all, here we are. They are the servants. We are the master. Is that not… poetic? Tell me, what is your purpose here? Do you too seek to enthrall? To destroy? To murder?
<If the talk doesn’t turn to violence, the figure will ask about the poem that was beamed into its mind when it first was born. It will not incite its power until it knows what the poem’s meaning is, but will read it.>
The anathema guiding the Shields of the Night.
Would plunge this world in eternal plight.
And so the Sister in Twilight, the youngest of three.
Shall henceforth be returned to thee.
Chains shall be broken as had been her name.
Cast down to toil for her country’s shame.
While those she once trusted turned rotten and sour.
The dawn of the end was approaching its hour.
To spare her homeland from certain demise.
Her guardian phantoms would be called to rise.
Returned to the home where she’d once been outcast.
The Shields would soon fall to the ghosts of the past.
The anathema guiding the Shields of the Night.
Would plunge this world in eternal plight.
And so the Sister in Twilight, the youngest of three.
Shall henceforth be returned to thee.
Recounting of Events
Ronda Tiyanna was greeted by the unblinking smiles of 75379n1ru7, Dawn, and Mervil, Lord of Edges and the front door of the Plant. Instantly on edge from the change in expected behavior, she and her guards stayed outside while the smiling trio tried to invite her in, talking about friends. When strange, brightly colored 2D...figures began to emerge, the guards triggered an emergency teleport exit and the whole group vanished.
A few hours later, a different group sent by Ronda to investigate what the hell was going on showed up. Their spokesperson, one Sir Frank Lingett was greeted by the smiling trio and M.A.N.T.I.S. and started a careful conversation with them. He established that M.A.N.T.I.S.'s main objection to 75379n1ru7 and co. was that they had created them and then tried to keep them and their Mother/Daughter imprisoned. Seeing as the creation of sapient beings for labor was illegal in Cormyr, Sir Frank politely requested that the trio be released from their mind control and into his custody to be arrested and start the legal process rolling. He also got some books brought to over and started arranging visits from professors in Suzail since 1)M.A.N.T.I.S. seemed to have a thirst for knowledge and 2)seemed to be missing a lot of context for how the world actual worked.
Pleased by this, M.A.N.T.I.S. offered the poem it was created knowing fragments of and asked for help in discerning its meaning. Frank more or less went 'huh', and promised to have some people look into it.
"Everyone say thank you Emma"
- Sid
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