Sitiki’Laurbit - EgyptAfter finally checking into the hotel room, leaving the steely German to himself, Tiki explains to Benji just what her job here is. Being a foreigner as well, there’s not much he can do to help. They decide to tuck in for the night (in their own beds, which didn’t help Benji’s bashful blushing anyway), and get started in the morning. And boy, do they ever.
Tiki wakes up to find a rather unwelcome presence stalking back and forth across her room. An
Amuni. There are no words. Tiki returns to her natural form and attacks. Benji wakes up during the rukess and attempts to separate the pair, eventually succeeding after aquiring a few cuts and bruises of his own.
The Amuni appears worried out of her mind that Tiki is here to kill someone important to her. Benji, being a defore, doesn’t understand the rivalry between the two, so Tiki and Ibises explain…with a few colorful phrases thrown in for good measure. Benji suggests they put aside their differences…this Ibises was a native, and she might know her way around. Tiki agrees reluctantly.
The trio leave the hotel and rather quickly come face to face with another Amuni, a priest this time, cleverly disguising himself as a human. He recognizes Ibisis…and what Tiki is, and another scuffle, this one of words rather than actions, occurs. Finally the priest spurts out that he isn’t letting a Euclides anywhere near Amunuku.
Yes, that’s right. Amunuku. The very name made Tiki’s blood boil.
He was to be the murdon she had to bring back to England? She’d bring him back all right….in shreds!
The Amuni seem to realize this, and the three are once again thrown into a scuffle. Benji breaks them apart tiredly, and they manage to wrangle out the purpose of Tiki’s quest from her. The priest reluctantly agrees to take Tiki to Amunuku.
Amunuku’s home isn’t easy to get to. He’s living in the middle of the desert in a tiny, unobtrusive little shack. Hardly the proper abode for a murdon leader. During their journey the run into a Defore shaman, who joins their group.
They reach Amunuku’s home after five days of hungry, thirty, tired wandering…and he doesn’t agree to return. Well, of
course not! The rivalry between he and Yuukuj is stronger than even that between the Amuni and Euclide. He even refuses the presence of Tiki in his home!
…but he does end up in England, threw whatever persuasion Tiki and her companions managed to give. He’s a little late, but he comes.
Name: Sitiki’Laurbit
ID: EU160F
Gender: Female
Rank: Marionette
Breed: Feline
Type: Slaughter
Accessories: Black Chain
Mutations: Unretractable Claws
Notes: Tiki was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and, although she’s worked on it, her voice still hints at this origin. Her mother was a member of a Castless trio who generally roamed near the coast, taking down most of their kills there instead of inside the city it’s self. However, the winters were cold and kills few and far between so the trio, having lost two bebes and feeling half crazed with hunger already, had no choice but to head into the city, which was currently controlled by Amuni.
This particular group of Amuni was quite strong, but not in the conventional way. This Church had rather questionable values, not exactly evil, but certainly not pristine, and this was probably how they’d managed to usurp the city as a whole from the Euclides to begin with. Lurking within this church was an Amuni with the ability to set curses upon other creatures. This church was horrified to discover that any Euclides, much less a trio of them, had the audacity to step one paw into –their- city and a confrontation was inevitable.
The curse set upon these unfortunate Euclides was one of restriction, each being bound in a different way and the more they had ‘sinned’ in their life, the tighter the bindings became. The binds upon the adults were fairly tight to begin with, as murder was a sin and that’s exactly what they did for food, and thus each time they killed the bindings tightened, and the three began a slow death full of nothing but suffering: they couldn’t hunt, moving was difficult and breathing was almost painful as the chains wound around their necks, legs and bodies, tight enough to start cutting into the flesh. This drove them absolutely mad, all besides one.
Tiki was to young to hunt, relying on her companions and mother for food, thus she hadn’t had the chance to sin, meaning her chains did not hinder her in any way physically, however they toyed with her mind, especially as she watched the torment of her family and the loss of their recognition of things around them, and her. And she was hungry, oh was she hungry, and everything was far to fast or strong for her to kill, so when the hunger pains became to much and the perpetual fatigue set in, she curled herself up into a tight ball to wait for death to find her, completely unaware that something had disturbed their little campsite.
The Amuni had decided that since the curse wasn’t working fast enough, that a ‘Crusaide’ was in order to rid all of Ireland of those worthless beasts, not to mention this was a battle that they were certain that none of their side would lose their lives to since it was only three incredibly weakened Euclides against all of them. They left their chosen church that night with high spirits and malicious intent, wrapped in a lie that they convinced themselves was nothing but truth, they were ending the suffering of another being, and that was a cause that would not leave blood upon their paws in the metaphorical sense.
It took half an hour at most for the Amuni to reach the campsite of the castless Euclides, and even less time for them to completely annihilate the opposition, with Tiki watching the brutal scene as it unfolded, having been roused from her slumber by the ruckus. And as the Amuni were picking over her home, looking for any hidden Euclides they knew not of, they stumbled upon a tiny ball of growling fur, which looked as if it were mere hours from death it’s self, the tell tale chain curled about her form, what a pity she heard one said, kill it like the others she heard another shout, but one voice, one that sounded strong, like a leader, suggested that they take her with them for an experiment of sorts, and this was the idea that was given a shot.
Tiki was raised by these Amuni who, even though THEY were the ones that decided to take her in, left no opportunity to torment her untaken. They looked down on her, talked about her behind her back, unaware of the fact that she head everything they said about her, some even shoved her or pulled her tail or chain, once an elder even decided to spit on her, and that did not agree with her and she attacked him, but stopped in total shock as her chain tightened, she had sinned and the curse was still active. She pinned her ears back as she heard the laughter, laughter which still haunts her head to this day as it marked the end of her hope. She resigned herself to this eternal torment, taking it without even lifting her head, choosing instead to hide herself away and stuffy the books that she found in the library this specific church housed.
She grew into a very beautiful, but very depressed young adult, and this is when her life changed. She learned that they had planned a special ceremony just for her and that it was to be held that night, under the light of the full moon and near the sea. In fact, as she learned later, the exact spot she had been found.
The ceremony was wonderful, all eyes were on her and no taunts or jeers were sent her way, and if was for her, no one else. It was a jolly night kicked off by a party complete with all the food and drink one could ever want, and, once everyone was satiated and had had their fun; it was time for the main event.
The Pope asked her to stand before him and close her eyes, which she hesitantly did, beginning to believe that this was nothing more then an elaborate set up, but once she did her ears perked as she heard him mutter something in a foreign tongue. She felt… different somehow, she couldn’t explain it, and then she felt her chains slipping from her and heard them as they clattered to the ground. A cheer rose up amongst the gathered Amuni which startled her. The pope reassured her that there was nothing to worry about, the curse was lifted and she was now considered an Amuni, as if that was enough to erase all the pain they’d caused her.
This was when she began to formulate a plan to make all this pain worth it, she had to avenge her family and get the ultimate vindication for all the years she’d lived with the Amuni. She spent nearly a year gaining their trust, acting holier then even the pope it seemed, and gaining more favor in the group, even the old Pope bought her façade, and this fact thoroughly amused her. It was time.
The church, having rid the city entirely of Euclides, slept soundly at night, every member falling into a deep sleep no later then midnight, except for one which they used as a watch man just in case, a job she’d taken several times in the past and took again tonight, ensuring that she would be the only one awake at the time she planned to have her revenge.
She slipped silently through the church, having learned every creeky board along with all the corridors and rooms, and made her way through each room, doing in each Amuni in the most silent of ways, placing a paw over their mouths and holding down them down this way with all the force she could must while slitting their throats with the claws of her other paw. But as she killed them just slitting their throats became not enough to satiate her, she started to carve a bit into each Amuni, mutilating their bodies more and more as she worked her way up the ranks, a pattern soon evolving.
She slunk into the Pope’s quarters and found him completely at peace, snoring in fact, and a sadistic smirk spread over her maw, she wanted this one to be fun. Her tail swished and jumped behind her as she leapt upon the pope, landing square on his chest, pushing all the air from his lungs, rousing a stuttering attempt at a scream as his eyes caught her, terror filling the old popes eyes as he say her paw coming down, those unretractable claws slicing a clean, rather deep cut vertically across his throat. He ears twitched and she giggled in morbid delight as he gurgled, attempting to speak but to no avail.
She began her task, laying out and mutilating the body, perfecting her ritual and giggling the whole while, completely unaware of the fact that the pope hadn’t cursed her, in fact it wasn’t even a Murdon that had cast the curse upon her and her companions, but something greater. She was fooled into this belief by remembering no other presence except that of this particular church’s members being there at any point in her life and she was blissfully ignorant to the fact that the strange feeling she’d had at the ceremony was created by the being who removed his own curse from her the night that everything changed.
And, having her blood lust momentarily satiated, she ventured from the Church and back to the shore, searching the beaches for an item that had played a major part in her life, and an even greater part in discovering what she truly wanted in life, her chain, her beautiful obsidian chain. It took her awhile to track it down, as it was halfway buried, but she let out a squeal of joy and grasped it gently between her jaws, pulling it from it's sandy grave and carefully repositioning over her body, making sure it stayed in place as she moved. Having this final task done she eagerly sought out foreign borders, anticipating even more delightful nights like the one that had just passed.
Name: Haerud
ID: DE034M
Gender: Male
Rank: Shaman
Breed: Equine
Type: Fire
Variation: Ninidia
Mutations: None
Accessories: None
Name: Ibises
ID: AM040F
Gender: Female
Rank: Follower
Breed: Feline
Type: Covenant
Mutations: None
Accessories: None
Name: Rahjnall
ID: AM035M
Gender: Male
Rank: Priest
Breed: Ursae
Type: Worship
Accessories: Golden cross necklace
Mutations: None
Name:
ID: Di281
Gender: Male
Size: Standard
Type: Teddy
Rank: Plushie
Genes: S,Cg,Cw,Cr,T*,F,F!,m