spellbinders | [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 She'll also give you a letter, which may give you more questions than answers since the information is a wee out of date.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

Ha! I wouldn't mind a cow or sheep. Even a donkey. But you should get some better fish, at least! I've eaten sooo many sharks since I got here. Especially when they just fall out of the sky.

[The dead fish rain was an all-you-can-eat buffet, from Geir's perspective.]

[ . . . ]

A whole shark? Alone? All at once?

Y...es...? Why not?

[sharks are tasty, man]

HOW BIG IS YOUR STOMACH??

Really big! But c'mon, even if you can't eat a whole shark, you can share a shark, right?

[He's taking a bit of a moment to process this...]

You're that big black lizard I keep seeing around, aren't you.

[there's an overtone of dryness to Geir's response; he's finding out that he doesn't really like being called a lizard.]

I dunno, what do you think?

[Give him a break, he's never even HEARD of a dragon before.]

Takin' that as a yes. Didn't know you were one of us; I thought you were some kinda big sea monster at first.

So what kinda magic do you have? Can you breathe lasers?

I am a big sea monster! I'm a dragon. And no, what's a laser? If you mean what I could do before I came here, I just fly and bite things. And I can make people do what I want.

S'that was a dragon is? Alright, I gotcha. And a laser's a big, burning beam of light; as long as we're taking note you might wanna write that down.

[But Geir's mention of mind control had Red's reply come out nearly bubbling over with hostility and pain, as though the topic dredges up something truly horrible within the canine's mind.]

Like what.

[Geir recoils from the tone of Red's mind, thoroughly surprised by the reaction. he reviews what he said, but he can't put the offhand comment about mind control together with Red's hostile reaction; it doesn't seem any more or less threatening than the rest of his powers to him.]

Uhhh, what are you asking? I don't get it.

[Red might have picked up on the surprise, but that indignation barely subsides. His own feelings of disgust and outrage throbbing between sorrow and anger. Wavering between that apparent loathsome hatred for mind control and... just as strongly, what almost seems like revulsion at himself. Clenched like a set of hands around someone's neck.

Even so, he manages to keep it at a simmer.]

I'm askin' what it is you make people do.

...Uh. Mostly, go to sleep?

[that's. uh. a lot of emotions. Geir's surprise has shifted, wavering now between curiosity and a distinct sense that whatever Red is upset about, it's nothing to do with him, and his challenge is now in navigating a stranger's inexplicable freakout. what isn't present is the faintest suggestion that Geir feels he's done anything wrong.]

I told one of the Uvi to stop bothering us, but I guess it didn't work.

[And, in fact, the simple, comparatively benign answer does well enough in allowing that fire of anger to fizzle out. Whatever he was bracing himself to hear, whatever he was expecting to aggravate his sore spot never came. Red almost felt dizzied by his own emotional whiplash.]

...that ain't so bad, I guess.

[Maybe he shouldn't'a gotten so worked up.]

Worth a shot. We should'a been so lucky that 'hey, cut it out' could send 'em back home. You'd think seeing somethin' your size would'a made them think twice regardless, right?

[Geir guesses that's over with? he does indulge in another moment of curiosity about what in the world set Red off so badly, but he concludes that it's not his business, honestly. maybe he'll ask later, but he's too tired and unnerved by the sudden change in the conversation right now. he reflects wryly that normally he'd be much more unwilling to let interesting tidbits like that go, but not right now, whe he's rattled and tired and still hurting from the last battle.]

That's what I thought. I tried to make it think I was so powerful, they wouldn't dare come back and tangle with me again! I guess I should be insulted it didn't believe me.

[as sly plans go, it was pretty impulsive and not very sly. he should probably try harder.]

[He'll be fine. Really. Just give him a minute to recover- he's got some real baggage on mind control, and even with what grasp he has on telepathy he's trying his hardest not to let some of those memories clog up the signal.]

Could just be that they're courageous. Or a little stupid.

So whadja do when he didn't run away? Teach it a lesson?

...I just put it back in the water. I thought maybe it might tell its friends.

[a deep sigh on the other end of the line. it was a long shot, but Geir wishes that it had worked.]

I don't think having one more or less of them around made a difference in the end. I guess that's what we have to think about next, though-- getting them to stay away for real.

[Well, Red could admit that plan was worth a shot. If only so many things could be solved with a few choice words.]

And that's a tall order. We even know how long the Palai have been puttin' up with this? Years? Decades?

We could ask.

[Geir's voice takes on a more thoughtful tone.]

We probably should. If we're going to act as a group, we're going to have to decide some things about what to do soon.

[WORLD ONE | SEPTEMBER INTRO LOG]

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I'm assuming he's kind of hard to miss

SAFE ASSUMPTION

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