Velok the Younger
When I Was A Young Warthog
OOC/ As with all Weekend Treasure Hunts, I have no intention of posting to this one except to verify guesses' accuracy. It's merely an opportunity. Post your guesses here, ideally framed in IC terms, though there's no need for full posts. Show your work, where applicable. Be classy. All locations are based on canon. If I'm doing Rave threads with you, yes, I'll finish them in due course, fear not. And yes, this represents me retiring a character I created in 2002. Time for something new.
IC/
I, Rave Merrill, being of sound mind and body, leave this as my last will and testament according to the laws of Dathomir and the Fringe Confederation. I do this in the fully knowledge that I will no longer be part of the equation, and that whoever reads this will likely be attempting to solve my disappearance; the vanishing of the vast majority of alchemical objects created by my companies; and the murder or memory-erasure of the vast majority of my staff alchemists. I intend to provide answers to those questions.
I am a clone. At the age of five, I was possessed by my clone donor, a Nightsister Elder named Sira Ves. My possession was enacted by a Dark Master named Serrena Myomar, who was looking for allies against her father. She and Ves failed, and I spent the majority of my youth in the dubious care of one Dark Master or another. I have tried to make the most of my life, become the best at what I do, prove my fitness to lead and contribute. Nevertheless, I knew the facts of life and a hundred methods of torture before my sixth birthday, and the memories I experienced -- the knowledge I gained -- altered the course of my life so profoundly that I am unable to speculate about what I could have become or experienced if I had lived a normal childhood and adolescence. I am fairly sure I would not have made the choices I made. I would not have helped create weapons of mass destruction; I would not have tested those weapons; I would not have been chief assistant to the man who attempted to destroy the Rhommamool system, killing hundreds of thousands. And I am fairly sure I would not have attempted to re-create the Golden Age of the Sith by training dozens of alchemists and filling the galaxy with thousands of items of alchemy.
Between my alchemical expertise, my emphasis on aperion, my training with the Aing-Tii, and my research into a rare artifact, I believe I will soon be able to find a solution to the chief question of my life. My closest enemies and allies will attest that I have demonstrated some power over time. When I feel I am ready, I will attempt to go back to the day I was possessed, and prevent it.
I do not expect that action, if successful, to change the timeline you are experiencing. In this timeline, I have lived and worked and invented and learned, and eventually I will have disappeared. What I hope to do is create another timeline entirely, one where a little girl named Rave never became a Nightsister or a Sith Lord, a timeline in which I have erased myself. By the time you read this, the version of me you knew has, perhaps, been erased back into the Force, or perhaps I will linger in the new timeline I plan to create. Suffice it to say, I will not be back, because I no longer exist.
***
...52% out of my 57% of Akure Executive Interstellar is to be sold on the open market, and the following clause is to be added to the AEI company bylaws: No shareholder is to own more than 5% of AEI. All proceeds will be donated to the attached list of charities in the attached percentage amounts; to the creation and maintenance of the hyperlane AEI has begun to create in the Unknown Regions; and to my niece Mara on her accession to adulthood. 50% of the sale, with all interest pertaining thereunto, and 5% of AEI will go to Mara as well. An enumerated trust will oversee this, along with the free return of my share in Iron Crown Enterprises, and all assets pertaining thereunto, to the Fringe Confederation.
...The Holocrons of Marka Ragnos and Eshkar Niin, I leave to [member="Jared Ovmar"] as promised. In a world without gold, we might have been heroes.
...The Orb of Passage, an object bound to the will of the Force and to the flux of time, I leave to the grandmaster of the Order of the Selab ([member="Ilias Nytrau"]).
...The complete mapping data of the new hyperlane I was constructing, I leave to the High Council of the Fringe Confederation, and to my brother Jorus.
...Entropy, the sword meant to counter the pyrotechnic abilities of certain Jedi and Sith, I leave to my finest monster-hunter, [member="Seydon of Arda"].
...to [member="Masamune Tametomo"], I can offer nothing worthy of the gifts he gave me. I leave him my compass to do with as he pleases.
...to [member="Dissero"], I leave all of my personal archives, research notes, and prototypes.
***
...If you will forgive me one last game, each of the following clues leads to a location. Either the item in question or a way to find said item can be found there. A few items have two clues, which refer to different locations, each of which holds half the instructions for finding the item. This portion of my will is to be released to the public.
...The Lethewalker, my personal frigate, I leave to whoever can solve the following. A twisted visage, many lives owed to justice, a long fall and a dumb servant sacrificed.
...The Dark Forge of Aza’zoth, and the secret facility that holds it, on a hidden world rich in stygium, as well as the Deicide Oculus, I leave to whoever can solve the following two location clues. Here body-gnawers received overdue education at the hands of that which changes face. (This half found by Darth Arcanix.) Here the man of ideals and the man of lies touched a noble soul across the stars, and made him see what they would. (This half found by Viktor Romanov.)
...Jen’asha Station, my outpost on an inconceivable frontier, I leave to whoever can solve the following. A traitor father took refuge here, with theatre and candles. (Found by Darth Arcanix.)
...The complete uplift procedure used on the qo’saarai tuk’ata, I leave to whoever can solve the following. In well-cloaked shadow, the cyborg bowed to the scarred one, then captured the great one.
...The location of a hidden place of power. A haunted pool with twisted trees about, a sodden ghost its only light. (Found by Seydon of Arda.)
...My breeding stock of four hundred captured and cloned terentateks, I leave to whoever can solve the following two location clues.A molten statue, on a world burned to cleanse one man from the galaxy’s face. (Found by Danger Arceneau.) The place the oldest, strongest left the path -- weakness after millennia.
...One full Omega Protectorate pardon, I leave to whoever can solve the following. Without hands he drove evil from a whole earth into this water. (Found by Darth Vitium.)
...Second Skin, my alchemical, living powered armor, I leave to whoever can solve the following. He faced first contact with great stature and cleaving might, his prize a crystalline art. (Found by Viktor Romanov.)
...The Witchmaster Armor, admittedly mediocre against standard threats but practically immune to Force interference, disruptors and sonic weapons, I leave to whoever can solve the following. Metal and bows tear down the old and white at the moment of his strength, surrounded by his friends.
...My Sith Abattar, I leave to whoever can solve the following. Spikes through his temples and barbed wire on his hands, here lies a faithful husband.
...The full and translated Taurannik Codex, in the lore of the Knell of Muspilli, I leave to whoever can solve the following two location clues. Here shackles broke, a thousand voices defied the trespasser in vain, an elder died to validate audacity. One step away from freedom, he compensated for nothing, but annihilation was his fate.
...The last Lonesome Gun, capable of permanently killing even those who can transcend death, I leave to whoever can solve the following two location clues.Stands tall against a lethal sky, but brokenness lies inside. (Found by Aaralyn Rekali.) Father of thrones, slain by trickster's shattered love. (Found by Falcon Gyndar.)
IC/
I, Rave Merrill, being of sound mind and body, leave this as my last will and testament according to the laws of Dathomir and the Fringe Confederation. I do this in the fully knowledge that I will no longer be part of the equation, and that whoever reads this will likely be attempting to solve my disappearance; the vanishing of the vast majority of alchemical objects created by my companies; and the murder or memory-erasure of the vast majority of my staff alchemists. I intend to provide answers to those questions.
I am a clone. At the age of five, I was possessed by my clone donor, a Nightsister Elder named Sira Ves. My possession was enacted by a Dark Master named Serrena Myomar, who was looking for allies against her father. She and Ves failed, and I spent the majority of my youth in the dubious care of one Dark Master or another. I have tried to make the most of my life, become the best at what I do, prove my fitness to lead and contribute. Nevertheless, I knew the facts of life and a hundred methods of torture before my sixth birthday, and the memories I experienced -- the knowledge I gained -- altered the course of my life so profoundly that I am unable to speculate about what I could have become or experienced if I had lived a normal childhood and adolescence. I am fairly sure I would not have made the choices I made. I would not have helped create weapons of mass destruction; I would not have tested those weapons; I would not have been chief assistant to the man who attempted to destroy the Rhommamool system, killing hundreds of thousands. And I am fairly sure I would not have attempted to re-create the Golden Age of the Sith by training dozens of alchemists and filling the galaxy with thousands of items of alchemy.
Between my alchemical expertise, my emphasis on aperion, my training with the Aing-Tii, and my research into a rare artifact, I believe I will soon be able to find a solution to the chief question of my life. My closest enemies and allies will attest that I have demonstrated some power over time. When I feel I am ready, I will attempt to go back to the day I was possessed, and prevent it.
I do not expect that action, if successful, to change the timeline you are experiencing. In this timeline, I have lived and worked and invented and learned, and eventually I will have disappeared. What I hope to do is create another timeline entirely, one where a little girl named Rave never became a Nightsister or a Sith Lord, a timeline in which I have erased myself. By the time you read this, the version of me you knew has, perhaps, been erased back into the Force, or perhaps I will linger in the new timeline I plan to create. Suffice it to say, I will not be back, because I no longer exist.
***
...52% out of my 57% of Akure Executive Interstellar is to be sold on the open market, and the following clause is to be added to the AEI company bylaws: No shareholder is to own more than 5% of AEI. All proceeds will be donated to the attached list of charities in the attached percentage amounts; to the creation and maintenance of the hyperlane AEI has begun to create in the Unknown Regions; and to my niece Mara on her accession to adulthood. 50% of the sale, with all interest pertaining thereunto, and 5% of AEI will go to Mara as well. An enumerated trust will oversee this, along with the free return of my share in Iron Crown Enterprises, and all assets pertaining thereunto, to the Fringe Confederation.
...The Holocrons of Marka Ragnos and Eshkar Niin, I leave to [member="Jared Ovmar"] as promised. In a world without gold, we might have been heroes.
...The Orb of Passage, an object bound to the will of the Force and to the flux of time, I leave to the grandmaster of the Order of the Selab ([member="Ilias Nytrau"]).
...The complete mapping data of the new hyperlane I was constructing, I leave to the High Council of the Fringe Confederation, and to my brother Jorus.
...Entropy, the sword meant to counter the pyrotechnic abilities of certain Jedi and Sith, I leave to my finest monster-hunter, [member="Seydon of Arda"].
...to [member="Masamune Tametomo"], I can offer nothing worthy of the gifts he gave me. I leave him my compass to do with as he pleases.
...to [member="Dissero"], I leave all of my personal archives, research notes, and prototypes.
***
...If you will forgive me one last game, each of the following clues leads to a location. Either the item in question or a way to find said item can be found there. A few items have two clues, which refer to different locations, each of which holds half the instructions for finding the item. This portion of my will is to be released to the public.
...The Lethewalker, my personal frigate, I leave to whoever can solve the following. A twisted visage, many lives owed to justice, a long fall and a dumb servant sacrificed.
...The complete uplift procedure used on the qo’saarai tuk’ata, I leave to whoever can solve the following. In well-cloaked shadow, the cyborg bowed to the scarred one, then captured the great one.
...
...My breeding stock of four hundred captured and cloned terentateks, I leave to whoever can solve the following two location clues.
...The Witchmaster Armor, admittedly mediocre against standard threats but practically immune to Force interference, disruptors and sonic weapons, I leave to whoever can solve the following. Metal and bows tear down the old and white at the moment of his strength, surrounded by his friends.
...My Sith Abattar, I leave to whoever can solve the following. Spikes through his temples and barbed wire on his hands, here lies a faithful husband.
...The full and translated Taurannik Codex, in the lore of the Knell of Muspilli, I leave to whoever can solve the following two location clues. Here shackles broke, a thousand voices defied the trespasser in vain, an elder died to validate audacity. One step away from freedom, he compensated for nothing, but annihilation was his fate.
...The last Lonesome Gun, capable of permanently killing even those who can transcend death, I leave to whoever can solve the following two location clues.
