journey to the land of barriers

[rebells]

Who: Participants in BARRIER QUEST 2.0
Where: The outskirts of Aimintas, and the island above it
When: Day 50
Open/Closed: Semi-closed! Signups went here. Feel free to mingle in the first subheader, however!



[There's a small crowd gathering at the edge of the city today. You may have been asked here by Jay or someone else, or gotten a telepathic message--or maybe you just came out to see what all the fuss was about. Either way, if you listen in it soon becomes obvious that members of the coven are heading up to the island above to check it out, and maybe do something about that pesky barrier in the way, too.

There are a couple dragons among the crowd--although you may or may not be able to see one of them--and what looks like a small submarine. Jay is wandering among these, seemingly checking that everything is in order and everyone who's supposed to be there is.]

Comments

[probablynoteren]

[There are so many dragons for some reason?? And also what look like strange and engineless versions of submarines -- not that Lenka's ever seen one in person. Back home, they have enough to deal with aboveground without buying trouble underwater (or on it), too.

So he finds himself at a loss in deciding between... some sort of dragon (they can swim??) and a machine he only theoretically understands. And which probably only theoretically works on an alien planet like this one. He knows the outline of the plan -- none of the options are more or less certain than the others -- but in the end he ends up drifting towards a familiar face.]

Hey. [actually, he's not sure what the guy's name is, but more importantly] You... have a dragon.

[Is it just him or do they have way too many dragons in this coven.]

[p_mortem]

Yeah.

[ Because dragons are the best; what cooler aesthetic is there than riding up into the sky on the back of a dragon? It comes only second to being magicked up by refrigerator. ]

Others too, but a dragon is easier to ride on.

[probablynoteren]

Others? Other animals?

[Lenka blinks at him -- come to think of it, where did the dragon even come from, anyway. He would have noticed a honking big dragon with such gaudy coloring following the coven around at some point, even if it was something that wouldn't have appeared before they got to Aimintas.

That begs the question, though.]

... Are they in the beads??

[p_mortem]

Hm... A tiger, a bird... snake. Some aren't animals, though.

[ Minato leans back and looks up at the dragon towering above and behind him, and in a blink, it fades from existence, without touching, and without being turned into a bead. This isn't a power that Qri had given him, but one that he'd come here with but was sealed away on the island. Here, he can feel them, and he touches a hand to his chest, right over the heart, where they're felt the strongest. ]

They come from here... [ ...? Actually, it's more like the head, where his hand slides up to point to, stops half way, and then drops back down to his side. Somewhere between his heart and his mind, they're in there somewhere. ]

[probablynoteren]

So they come from inside you... somewhere.

[Lenka looks between Minato's indicated heart, his shoulder and throat, and then his head, looking increasingly confused -- but at least he knows that this isn't a coven-given power now. So... it's probably safer, if Minato has had it for longer than the past month or so, even if he has no idea what else he's trying to tell him about it.

Come to think of it, just how much is he carrying with all the beads and summoned animals(?)?! One could almost be jealous of the storage capacity. Anyway...]

--What else do you have?