spellbinders | [WORLD ONE | SEPTEMBER INTRO LOG]

[WORLD ONE | SEPTEMBER INTRO LOG]

Who: The new coven members, old blood & Palai people
Where: In and around the city land of Aimintas
When: Day 61
Open/Closed: Open to All

The initial setting information found here should be utilized for threads here.

There's no official OOC account for the Palai people. You're free to roleplay their actions and reactions on your own, as in depth as you want -- asking questions, hand-waved interactions, becoming best friends. The new world is your oyster!

All characters are told briefly what their powers are by Genette -- no extemporaneous details. For instance, if your character has the ability to detect lies, they'll be told as such -- no warning about limitations, repurcussions or the like. They'll also be given a variant of this letter so they aren't totally ignorant of the situation -- though of course adapt this letter to the current setting and surroundings of the game.

This setting may be familiar to you -- maybe you caught a glimpse of it when you first visited. Maybe this is your first time experiencing this weird world and the panic is setting in. If you're totally lost, a tall human woman with a long scroll of paper will stop by to give you the run down. She'll also give you a letter, which may give you more questions than answers since the information is a wee out of date. (Maybe someone else can fill in some gaps for you).

What you may not know is that this world recently experienced something of a tragedy. You wouldn't be able to guess this based on the festive energy in the air. The main marketplace where you've shown up finished reconstruction last night, and after grief comes joy to the Palai -- those lizard creatures you see wandering around. They're now hosting a festival to celebrate their success and the lives of those both still present and those lost.

It's also a chance for them to host one of those big celebrations like they'd previously seen in human books. However, their resources are limited -- don't blame them if things are a little cut-and-paste!

Shrimp Scoop: Live prawns have been placed in a tank of water. Instead of paper scoops, players are handed small scraps of cloth which they may then dive into the six-foot tall tank to try and grab the prawns with -- no hands! And no magic or your prawn will be revoked. For extra incentive, sacks of golden coins have been tied to the prawns. These coins can be exchanged for goods and prizes, though what your character receives for their coin -- no matter how bland or wacky -- is up to your character.
Shrimp Shock: Dead shrimp have been placed in a wading pool. Your character and another character enter the pool while Elto shock the shrimp out of the water. With about 20 shrimp in the water, the character with the most shrimps caught out of the air wins an allotment of coins.
Whack-a-Shrimp: Eltos have powered six large, stuffed shrimp dolls (made with cloth), that will pop out of cut holes in a large game board. Hit the shrimp as many times as you can in 30 seconds, and your number will amount to the coins you receive.
Shrimp Fest: Is your character a big eater? Your character is given a plate of cooked jumbo prawns. If they can eat all 50 jumbo prawns in 30 seconds, they win 100 coins.

B ▢ What good is a festival if there's no face painting? Don't worry, you have more options than shrimp. Palai have an assortment of paints and are making colourful designs on both their kin and coven members -- your request may not look exactly as you want it to since they have bumpy hands and claws that get in the way.

This is all pretty juvenile, but fear not! For the mature sort and adults of Aimintas, there's a more quiet part set up that may cater to your older interests. A softer atmosphere, away from the excitement of things. If you want to wind down from the thrill of being magicked away to a new world, this is probably the best way for it.

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For the real adult experience, however, you may want to check out the large rolling cart that Palai are pushing around the marketplace, landing it in the fireworks area. This cart is filled with all of the eggs that were a product of their mating season, and this part of Aimintas is the warmest.

E ▢ For newbies and those who missed the egg train, your character can instead be Egg Parent for a Night. The Palai are holding their eggs to warm them for the evening, but (like most parents with new babies) they're certainly trying to show off their creations. Hold them, pass them around -- or maybe even act a fool and fend off a fiercely angry Palai parent.

Finally, the Palai are getting used to the standard familiar faces, so they aren't unaware that there are quite a few new faces in the mix. Based on how familiar your character is, they'll receive a nice little gift from the Palai. Older coven members will receive a scrolled parchment that lists them as honorary citizens of Aimintas and a handmade, harden clay sculpture of their likeness. It may not look a lot like them, but they tried.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

No! If I was dying, I wouldn't have the energy to talk to you, right?!

[Or to complain. Which this definitely is.

Souda flails his hands a little though he should probably lift his face soon enough. But here they're having such a nice conversation and the moment he looks, he's going to freak out. So laying prone it is.]

[the mystery voice, which definitely belongs to a normal person and not to an enormous dragon, has become somewhat more amused than bemused; he's teasing now.]

You could be giving your dying speech. These are some pretty lousy last words, though! And I don't see your grieving second in command and wife and grandkids anywhere. I guess you must be alive.

[Geir considers. the stranger seems pretty tired. it's been five days since the last time he used his Qri-granted powers, and while he was awfully wiped out for the first couple of days after overusing them, he thinks his aching bones could stand giving a tiny boost to one single human... so he concentrates. Souda might feel a very mild sensation of energy returning to him, like the barest hint of a second wind after a long day's work.]

--there. Is that better?

Edited 2017-09-07 14:39 (UTC)

...?!

[Whoa what was that?? Souda blinks into the ground and he shifts a little, as though testing something out. Oh. He feels all right.]

What'd you do--

[He's lifting up to look at his new mystery friend and--]

--ugyaaaaah!!

[SCREAMS AND FALLS OVER BACKWARD because that's a big dragon!!!]

[Geir has varied reactions to people being afraid of him depending on his mood and the situation, but in this case, when he's already leaning well into "this is funny," Souda's reaction is hilarious. his amusement breaks out into a true snicker.]

--that's not a good last dying word either! Probably more common, though.

[Wowwwww this dragon is laughing at him and, as you do when you're Souda, you get offended and that's totally stronger than the terror.]

There's no way I'd react any other way, oi! You think I was expectin' to look up and see a dragon?!

[his offense and spluttering are really charming somehow; Geir likes Souda already.]

I wasn't expecting to see a man eating mud either, so that makes two of us! Hey, hey, did you just get here? Welcome to Aimintas!

[oh man being on this side of the welcoming committee is great]

Edited 2017-09-07 15:30 (UTC)

I wasn't eating mud, [Souda hisses. He'll fight you, Geir. Or he will in his head. In real life there's no way. Except if Geir was maybe like beetle-sized. No, smaller, beetles can bite. Can they? Anyway.

muttermutter grumble] But yeah, I guess I just got here! [How one can make that sound so offended, it's a talent.]

[please fight him. even though the fight is imaginary, Geir's already been immeasurably cheered up from the contemplative and unusually subdued state in which he entered this party. there's something about Souda's huffy flustered attitude that reminds him of his summoner, Vern, when they first met-- Vern was much more self contained about it, though. Souda is just dramatic.]

Guess we're part of the same coven now, then. ♪ It's nice to meet you!

[he's accustomed enough to meeting people by now to know that he's playing by the script correctly; his attitude is almost daring Souda to break the unspoken social rules and react more to him being a dragon.]

[He's going to react!! This situation is just too weird! And he'll fight you. He wins, too. In his imagination. That he won't share because Geir could probably eat him if he felt like it.]

In the same-- I didn't agree to this, y'know!

[He didn't agree to this... this DRAGON.] I mean, how are you-- why are you a dragon? [good great ask the dragon why he's a dragon that makes sense, Souda]

Why are you a human? I just am. I heard that some people got the ability to transform into a dragon from Qri, but I'm a dragon all the time.

--call me Geir, by the way.

[Geir lowers his head to peer at Souda from first eye, then the other, birdlike. he's still amused, but he figures he's probably actively teased Souda enough. he does want to be genuinely helpful in addition to entertaining himself today.]

And don't worry about it! None of us agreed to anything. We all got summoned here suddenly, the same as you.

[Souda makes a face, as though he just realised how dumb that question was...]

...Souda. [He does actually give his name back, though he leans back at that eye peering at him from so close. BIG. Big dragon. Dragons are big anyway, but still, he's never met a dragon!]

Even you? They even bring dragons 'n stuff here?

Right?! I was surprised too. I'd expect me to be really hard to summon away from Midgard! For a bunch of reasons...

[Geir huffs to himself -- really, it's still annoying that Qri was able to do that when he thinks about it, even if he's not exactly upset to be here. he moves on after a moment, though.]

Anyway, you don't have to feel weird about it. You can be mad if you want, though. Qri's not exactly telling us how to get home if we want to. Or... talking to us. At all.

[Souda's thinking about how he's huge, that must've been a pain. He slowly rights himself from how he was still slumped backward, sitting cross-legged with his arms folding over his chest.]

I'm mad! I was madder earlier, but I'm still mad now. Ugh, we just finished gettin' everything sorted back where I'm from...

[He groans.]

But Qri never talks to us ever? Not even a bit? What the hell.

Nope. Brie and Genette are hard to find, too. Argh, it gets on my nerves!

[Qri is the most annoying element of Geir's existence here, honestly. how is he supposed to have respect for her power if she won't show her face? how is he supposed to decide if he wants to go along with her plans or not if he can't talk to her? what the heck is her plan even all about, with the weird energy she's losing? all questions he can't answer, and Geir hates questions he can't answer.

in fairness to the coven, though, Qri's absence doesn't come up much day-to-day. so he conscientiously adds that point.]

--everyone else is okay so far, though. Even the Palai.

[At this moment in time... Souda is completely sympathising with a dragon. No, but this dragon-- Geir is legit?! Geir totally gets what Souda is feeling somehow?! He nods fervently along as Geir talks, though rocks his body and drops his hands to his ankles when he mentions other coven members.]

The lizard people? They're...pretty friendly. [They even gave him stuff... everything is heckin weird but Souda's chugging along.]

Is everyone else in the coven really good? Nobody, like... you know, who's bad news? Crazy or wants to destroy everything or--?

[wants to destroy everything... oh dear. Geir considers the letter and spirit of Souda's question. he never really wanted to destroy everything, it was just the next thing to do... and Vern did want to destroy everything, but he and Vern are both taking a break from that right now, and neither of them have actually destroyed anything at all yet. probably that's not what Souda is trying to get at?

he answers honestly.]

I don't know. Everyone's been nice to me. If they're destroying everything anytime soon, no one's mentioned it.

...Well, if they're bein' nice, that's fine...

[Souda huffs and adds a vague explanation for why he asked:] Me'n my-- me'n the people I know just finished dealing with someone like that. So, you know, I ain't in a hurry to repeat it. I gotta get back, but I guess the timing could be worse for dragging me off somewhere new...

[But he still doesn't know what to do here at all. Where's Hinata when you need him?!]

Edited 2017-09-07 19:30 (UTC)

[Geir flattens the ridges alongside his face in sudden dismay. "dealing with?" what did they do with the potential everything-destroyer? does that mean that if he and Vern get back to starting Ragnarok, people are going to come along and try to deal with them? he... he guesses that isn't all that surprising, actually, it's just never occurred to him before. is this what happens when you get off the track of prophecies...]

What did you do to them? Um... the person who was destroying everything. Just wondering.

I mean, it's still dangerous here. The Uvi keep attacking. Some of the sharks try to bite you even if they can't get through your scales. We don't know what's going on with the barrier up past the water. Things are weird.

Huh? Do to-- well, I mean, we beat 'em? They weren't, er, real in the sense that it was an actual living person and... [THIS IS HARD TO EXPLAIN. Would a dragon even know what virtual reality is?!] Anyway, she lost 'cause we wouldn't do what she wanted and so she disappeared [ty usami] and we escaped! Or we were about to.

[Explaining this is hard when you don't know what the other party knows... He gives Geir a look, however.]

I don't got scales to protect me, so guess I'm just gonna stick where everyone is so I don't gotta deal with weird stuff here.

Edited 2017-09-07 20:01 (UTC)

[beat her? well... that's probably okay. Geir feels fairly confident in his ability to win in a fight. if that's all he has to worry about, he supposes he and Vern don't have to do anything differently. anyway, there's no way either he or his summoner will change their minds about Ragnarok when they're stuck far away from Midgard and there are so many new things to see! certainly not. he's almost sure.

in the meantime, Souda is smart to admit that he's a squishy, defenseless human. Geir approves of his honesty.]

It should be okay. We had a lot of people hide in the last attack. And now that they've got some of the barriers working, it'll be safer.

[he pauses for one last huff.]

I wish I knew how this was all getting the energy Qri needed, but...

[shrugs, a long shift of his spine and a twitch of the wings, and turns to look at Souda again.]

Have you looked around yet? This is a party, so it's the best that Aimintas'll probably look for a while.

[Souda glances toward the party in question, shrugging in a way that he hopes hides his nervousness. This talk of attacks and danger is naturally going to make him on edge! Safer now or not! He's not a fighter, he just wants to build and disassemble things even if (considering his own world) that's not realistic in the long run...]

Eh, not really... Showing up here suddenly didn't make me wanna party.

[But.] Did you find anything good?

Edited 2017-09-07 20:26 (UTC)

The fireworks look nice! I'll go watch them later. I just meant showing you where everything is, though. There's a house where a bunch of the coven stays, and Qri's weird caravan, and everything.

[he hesitates, looking out over the party too...]

If you're hungry, we could find something, but there's not that much except shrimp.

Oh-- I didn't know we had a house! Yeah! Show me, I was startin' to think I'd have to sleep outside!

[Souda demands in lieu of asking...

He bounds to his feet at once, dusting off his yellow jumpsuit with quick slaps of his hands against the fabric.]

[Geir doesn't seem to expect a please or thank you, because he stretches and stands without the slightest indication of pique. however, he does snap playfully above Souda's head -- a good good five or six feet away, clearly joking again rather than threatening.]

Ha! Not scared of me any more, are you.

[he's kind of smug about that, actually. it worked out. he turns to head through the city streets towards the coven house, glancing back over his shoulder to make sure Soudha is following.]

C'mon, it's this way. I can't take any shortcuts 'cause they're all too small.

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