the temple of beginnings.we're all a little mad here.
Needless to say, the Circle has been out of sorts as of late.
Fortunately, the weather has stabilized — residents will find that they are no longer plagued with snowstorms or heat waves. However, it appears that the flora and fauna have...come to life. Vines may wind around your feet and legs, entrapping you in a vice-like grip. They will eventually let go, but it seems like you need to speak nicely to them first. Bizarre, but it'll get the job done.
Mushrooms have also sprouted and now sing at you when you pass by — they aren’t particularly good singers either. Trees extend their branches to poke at you from behind, but when you turn around you’ll find that no one is there.
...And worst of all, the flowers seem to be especially privy to your thoughts; when you’re close, they’ll blab out whatever is on your mind at the moment and will only be silenced once they are picked. Best of luck surviving in this more, er, animated environment! Perhaps even plant-life can be reasoned with…? Or destroyed.
That’s always an option, isn’t it?
oh my god they were roommates.
It isn’t a proper welcome until you’ve picked out your room! In the hallways, you may find a table or two offering cookies and tea as you survey your newfound surroundings. They seem to be left by invisible people . . . weird? The Unseen Servants seem to be playing a bit more nicely from your arrival, and seem to be apologizing for their antics with sweets! (These cookies, neverfear, are not magically cursed. They are just normal cookies.)
These rooms are a bit magical, you see — should you decide to room with another person (or multiple people), you’ll find that the room itself will accommodate your needs and expand accordingly. They look the same for the most part, so some might say that it would be wise to make your decision based on what your neighbors are like.
Say hello or potentially someone else’s room by accident; it’s a bit of a Russian roulette.
Regardless, it seems that this is your new home in sense of the word. Make the most of it!
wildcard.
The Temple is a pretty big place! The Forest of the Fey stretches on endlessly, Lake Dona (and the resident Nessie) is free to explore, and there are plenty of creatures who are curiously inspecting the new arrivals.
The wyverns seem to be particularly precocious today, given the singing mushrooms, the psychic flowers, and the new people checking into new rooms! They are relatively harmless (as are most of the creatures in the Temple), but can be pretty annoying . . . especially if you have something resembling a snack in your hand.
At any rate, free to explore the rest of the Temple, the Forest, or the Lake at your leisure! Unless otherwise designated in the bestiary, everything is free to play/free to explore. :)
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acatalepsy_logs2019-02-05 06:59 pm
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As far as it seems so far, it seems like a lack of choice. We're being sent to worlds in danger of tipping their balance. A lot of us have mixed feelings over interfering like that...but, once we're there we can't just ignore what we see.
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[It's hard to tell whether he's talking in terms of story cliches or personal experience, though his tone still sounds a bit absent.] I guess it's clever, in kind of a rude way.
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She doesn’t look for anything. The magic takes whoever. We have all types here. We operate in mostly harmony. By staying out of each other’s way.
[Except he isn’t sure how long that will last. His experiences tell him one day he might have to bring his claws down on one of their own. He takes his fingers on the table.] We’ll see what the future holds.
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[At least having been scouted for something makes it sound at least marginally more important to be here, instead of just being here because someone's magic happened to grab you the wrong way.]
I guess I should ask if there's anyone I should be avoiding, then.
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The most dangerous thing to us and to other worlds are rifts in the fabric of space and time. These rifts put pressure on the world around them.
The longer a rift is open the stronger it's pressure and the more danger the world is under. Too long and it will open wider and consume that world....and anything living in it. It's an end.
A bad one. [He drops his hands like the finality of death.] The only way we're going to be able to deal with them and closing them is with everyone's help.
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By the end of it, he's rubbing the back of his head as if this all sounds like a lot of trouble.] So is that where the witch is sending us...? Planets where that's starting to get strong? That sounds like a pretty important mission to be trusting to random people who weren't even asked to be here...
[Granted, Ren is lazy, but that doesn't mean he's so lazy he'll just sit by and let something like that happen. Still, it doesn't seem like the best way to choose your world-saving squad to him.]
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[It's just a theory. They know so little it sets his teeth on edge and leaves him staring into the middle distance when he thinks about it.]
We don't have enough information to confirm or deny it. It's best to keep an eye out for any possible intel we can put together. So far we know 'darkness seeps into the worlds' and every world is at a turning point, capable of tipping one way or the other.
Chances are we'll annoy the other party enough they'll come to try to shut us up. [That's how it happens sometimes. Kick open enough doors and the one trying to do harm will come at the ones wrecking their plans.]
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He curls a few fingers against his chin somewhat thoughtfully.] Mmm, that sounds like the kind of unimaginative thing people like that would do...
[Ren doesn't exactly sound too fussed by the prospect of coming face to face with whoever's trying to enhance all this void business.] Still, I know the point is probably that we're there to tip a world over into a good outcome, but wouldn't a random group being thrown in just tip it over in any direction quicker...?