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spellbinders2017-09-30 02:16 pm
rebells) wrote in spellbinders2017-09-30 02:16 pm
mapping party redux
Who: mapping party! (late signups for mapping party can go here)
Where: the near western side of the island
When: Day 85
Open/Closed: semi-open! feel free to mingle/run into mapping party at any of the locations. if you would like to be in mapping party, signups are above!
[So maybe you were invited along on this expedition by Jay or a friend. Maybe you heard a telepathic message a couple days ago looking for people with scouting and mapping skills and answered the call. Maybe you just happened to be in the area. Whatever the reason, there's a small group of people and dragons assembling on the beach near the huts, and Jay appears to be in the center of it, checking that everyone he's expecting is accounted for.
They'll be going by air to map the near western coastline and circling back around to camp, touching down every so often to look for landmarks and other potentially useful areas on the way. You're welcome to come along, if you can bargain yourself space on dragonback.]
Where: the near western side of the island
When: Day 85
Open/Closed: semi-open! feel free to mingle/run into mapping party at any of the locations. if you would like to be in mapping party, signups are above!
[So maybe you were invited along on this expedition by Jay or a friend. Maybe you heard a telepathic message a couple days ago looking for people with scouting and mapping skills and answered the call. Maybe you just happened to be in the area. Whatever the reason, there's a small group of people and dragons assembling on the beach near the huts, and Jay appears to be in the center of it, checking that everyone he's expecting is accounted for.
They'll be going by air to map the near western coastline and circling back around to camp, touching down every so often to look for landmarks and other potentially useful areas on the way. You're welcome to come along, if you can bargain yourself space on dragonback.]
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[He still isn't pleased about that but his voice doesn't give it away. The cave before him is deep but not as dark as it had appeared at the start. It's times like these he realizes just how much they relied on their armor sensors.]
This isn't as dark as it looked but, it is deep for a person my size.
[Shiro calls back for Geir's benefit as he feels his way along the cave wall. His fingers trail over a stone and he turns to face it. Putting his foot against the wall he digs into the edges with his robot hand. The leverage only helps a little. It slides in its hole but won't come the whole way out. Time to change.
He lets go and takes several steps back. A lion surges up, putting both feet on either side of the gem. The yellow glow of his eyes is a welcome relief. Well, at least that still works. Too bad he can't form a jawblade.]
Give me another minute and I'll bring it out. I haven't felt any kind of charge from it. But that could change once it leaves the wall.
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[Geir is deeply impressed by the appearance of Shiro's robot lion form, visible to his keen eyes and even more visible once the inside of the cave is more lit up. he does allocate enough mental presence to add a caveat, though.]
Be careful! You don't want to get shocked. Just having a rock isn't worth that.
[...at least, not just one rock...]
...I've never seen anything like that form before.
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[He leans forward and closes his jaws around the stone. He'd already done most of the work. It parts from the wall after a few tugs. Shiro drops down and walks slowly back out to present his prize.
It's inert. Or seems to be. His arm hadn't reacted and his magic hadn't gone haywire.]
...but it doesn't surprise me you've never seen a lion like the Black Lion. That I know of, only four other lions like this exist in my universe.
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[Geir waited eagerly while Shiro completed the extraction, and now he very carefully stretches his talons out to take the shining stone just with the tips. he brings the absurdly small thing up to his eyes to examine it carefully.]
...huh... after all that, it's just a pretty rock.
[he doesn't seem disappointed, though. pretty rocks are highly legit.]
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[But it brings up questions. Gems are forged deep underground. To have them pushed this close to the surface suggests this area is very old. He lays down just outside the entrance to the cave with a flick of his tail.]
There are only five lions because there was only so much material to build them. Anyway, this is definitely a cave I'd like to revisit later. I wonder how deep it goes?
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[Geir peers into the crack in the wall again, but he still can't see past the wall about thirty feet deep. unless there really is a turn back there past where he can see, that's all they get. he sighs in disappointment.]
Too bad. I would like more gems...
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[He glances over his shoulder at the cave. They might need to use gems for other things at a later date. He'll keep that to himself for now.]
Have you seen any other caves around here that you might want to investigate? I thought I saw a smaller hole further down the mountain.
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[play it cool, Geir. don't let on how much you want a pile of those shiny rocks. he considers Shiro's question about the caves, as well.]
None of the caves I've seen are big enough for me. It's a shame... I wanted to find something here that was. Especially when it keeps raining!
[Geir is a bit aggrieved about that, to be honest. he was really hoping to secure a place for him and his summoner to stay during the course of this trip... oh, well. there's always tomorrow; he and Vern can come back and work their way further north.]
I'll come with you to look at the hole if you'd like, though. Do you need a lift?
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[Shiro returns to his normal self and breathes out slowly on his way back onto his feet. The world has a strange surreal quality whenever he changes.]
Okay. I'm ready when you are. We can come back here for a few more gems before we leave this mountain.
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[everyone's been riding on his back, but it's a long climb up there just for one wing-assisted spring and glide. Geir extends his foreclaws for Shiro to climb into. it's an unusual chair, but it doesn't feel all that insecure to sit in once he's got his arm around one.]
You ready?
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Ready.
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[it really does feel vulnerable; of course, Shiro doesn't have any control of Geir when he flies on his back either, but it's much more possible to maintain the illusion up there. here it's just the wind, the cage of Geir's talons, and the ground falling away from underneath him as Geir leaps into the air.]
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I'll change back when we land. ..if the hole is big enough.
[He has questions about the air currents but, that can wait for a while.]
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Looks pretty small...
[five feet tall is a little small even for a full-grown human, but it's obviously much too small for a dragon. Geir finishes folding his wings and dropping down onto the soft ground on his hind legs first, before he sets Shiro down again.]
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[Shiro takes a glance around the area and changes back into a lion. He takes another glance around and prowls towards the cave opening. Even as a human he'd have had to duck down to get inside it.
As a lion, he wouldn't even get past the entrance. He's at least half a foot too tall.]
Can you think of any way to mark this spot? I think we'll have to return here with someone smaller.
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[Geir glances around curiously for something to use as a marker. what would humans even think to look at...?]
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...let's get some rocks. If we arrange them in a circle in an open space. They'll know it's been looked at recently.
[He backs away from the entrance and scans the area. There are some rocks of various sizes. He grabs the largest in his jaws and places it a little way away from the opening of the cave.]
Do you think it would serve as a good marker?
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[Geir wanders a bit closer to the mouth of the cave and sniffs at the rock that Shiro deposited curiously. it might have been set there by chance, of course... he wonders if his claws are strong enough on this strange, powerless world to make the offer he usually would.]
You want me to scratch a mark on it so people can see that you put it here on purpose?
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[He picks up another stone and sets it by the first. It's slow going but one by one the rocks are put down in a small ring. Shiro glances at the sky. He can't get the feeling of the wind and sense of open space out of his head.]
What...are the winds like here? Are they always the same or do they change?
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[Geir puts his chin down on the ground to watch Shiro complete his circle of stones. now that Shiro's brought it up, he wonders how the winds do sustain themselves on this strange little world. shouldn't the air be stagnant on this bizarre rock? there's nowhere for them to come from or go to... but for that matter, the rains don't make sense, either.]
I suppose they might ride in on the waves, in that little bit of ocean...
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[He isn’t a man of science but he knows about wind and gravity. No pilot worth their salt ignores either subject. He completes the circle and stares at the sky over their heads. If he only knew how to switch from land to sky. He’d ask to go see for himself.]
What do you see when you get to the dead air? Nothing?
[The waves could account for some of it. But not all of the winds. To be normal...]
This island gets more and more mysteries. Even the smallest planets I’ve been to haven’t been this confusing.
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[Geir isn't planning to go careening out into the stars to see more any time soon, at least not without some kind of tether to get back and some way to propel himself forward. he got lucky enough to be able to twitch himself back over solid ground the last time; he might not be so lucky again, and he doesn't trust Qri or Genette to rescue something as big as he is.]
It's not a world like we're used to, that's for sure. I don't even know if it is a world. It feels like a little piece tossed off of something bigger...
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It definitely doesn’t sound like a world. You might be right. The Qri could have broken this place of land off a world. Either way, to have no transition between space and the air. That suggests no atomosphere but that doesn’t make any sense! I can’t imagine the kind of power is would take to make that work.
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[Geir reaches over and picks up a larger stone to set in the middle of the circle once Shiro is done. they're going to have to do a lot more than mark off places they've visited to really understand what's happening -- and what happened -- here, he thinks.]
Either way, it's going to take a lot more exploring to see what's on this weird rock.
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[He returns to human shape and sets his hands on the rocks of the circle. This should do just fine. Next time he’d bring markers with him. The sort they used to use back at the Garrison.]
Let’s head back to the others. Let them know what we found.
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