[ dextera, against all reasonable odds, is still trying to hide his own aion identity in godsblood. he knows it can’t possibly be much longer before they’re all exposed, considering one of their own was made public before this and now vaeka has a target on her head… but he’s still being cautious in the city he’s made his home. what this practically means is that he’s using an assortment of the traps and other small devices he’s made to try to put soldiers and aions alike out of commission in advance of vaeka’s scheduled execution.
he can’t let it come to pass. that, he refuses to entertain.
he doesn’t set off any explosions in the city, afraid of harming the regular citizens; instead, the traps he uses are a bit more localized and a lot more quiet than a bomb would be. it doesn’t necessarily make them less incapacitating, though—while he settles for milder effects for the human guards that might get in the way of the pleroma, he reserves the less pleasant options for those he knows and recognizes as the enemy.
this means hallucinogens primarily, a burst of mushroom spores taken from the lohkimareen forest for this particular purpose. or… maybe he gets his powders mixed up and you just end up leaking tears and sweat. it’s not exactly effective, but it is embarrassing, isn’t it?
either way, the creator isn’t far from his creation; those who want to find the source of the little metal object that just diffused spores everywhere won’t have to look hard for dextera cautiously lurking around a corner. ]
IB. self-sabotage
[ just because dextera is good at making things doesn’t necessarily mean he’s good at using them.
inevitably, there are times that a kenoma passes by or over one of his traps without triggering it, and dextera follows soon after to check it out. he doesn’t think about how badly this will go for him when he starts to press his fingers into the ‘button’ mechanism of the trap—which means his face is greeted with a full-on dose of his own medicine. ]
—!!
[ so much for being stealthy; dextera coughs up a storm, more surprised than suffocating. it’s only a matter of time before his own work catches up with him. ]
II. wildcard
( for everything else! i’ll also be posting closed starters as needed, and/or we can plot something specific or you can give a twist to one of these prompts to personalize it or whatever. i’ll also be happy to do any aftermath threads here as well, i just didn’t want to make a prompt that was “come bother him!” even though that’s the situation he’ll largely be in. his plotting comment is here, but i’m also in the game discord and on plurk at pavaal if you want to hash something out! )
dextera • pleroma (lover)
[ dextera, against all reasonable odds, is still trying to hide his own aion identity in godsblood. he knows it can’t possibly be much longer before they’re all exposed, considering one of their own was made public before this and now vaeka has a target on her head… but he’s still being cautious in the city he’s made his home. what this practically means is that he’s using an assortment of the traps and other small devices he’s made to try to put soldiers and aions alike out of commission in advance of vaeka’s scheduled execution.
he can’t let it come to pass. that, he refuses to entertain.
he doesn’t set off any explosions in the city, afraid of harming the regular citizens; instead, the traps he uses are a bit more localized and a lot more quiet than a bomb would be. it doesn’t necessarily make them less incapacitating, though—while he settles for milder effects for the human guards that might get in the way of the pleroma, he reserves the less pleasant options for those he knows and recognizes as the enemy.
this means hallucinogens primarily, a burst of mushroom spores taken from the lohkimareen forest for this particular purpose. or… maybe he gets his powders mixed up and you just end up leaking tears and sweat. it’s not exactly effective, but it is embarrassing, isn’t it?
either way, the creator isn’t far from his creation; those who want to find the source of the little metal object that just diffused spores everywhere won’t have to look hard for dextera cautiously lurking around a corner. ]
[ just because dextera is good at making things doesn’t necessarily mean he’s good at using them.
inevitably, there are times that a kenoma passes by or over one of his traps without triggering it, and dextera follows soon after to check it out. he doesn’t think about how badly this will go for him when he starts to press his fingers into the ‘button’ mechanism of the trap—which means his face is greeted with a full-on dose of his own medicine. ]
—!!
[ so much for being stealthy; dextera coughs up a storm, more surprised than suffocating. it’s only a matter of time before his own work catches up with him. ]
( for everything else! i’ll also be posting closed starters as needed, and/or we can plot something specific or you can give a twist to one of these prompts to personalize it or whatever. i’ll also be happy to do any aftermath threads here as well, i just didn’t want to make a prompt that was “come bother him!” even though that’s the situation he’ll largely be in. his plotting comment is here, but i’m also in the game discord and on plurk at