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2021-11-07, 08:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
This place is just as it sounds. It's Outside!
Want a change of scenery? Go Outside.
Always wanted to visit the beach? Come Outside.
Looking to have a climatic fight on clifftops? Attempt Outside.
Secret meetings being held where there's no cameras? Try Outside.
Want an ambush without nasty base defenses? Yep! Outside.
Any and all are welcome in the wild expanses beyond the reach of civilization. Who's going to keep you out? That's right, no one. You're already out!
Here lie vast expanses, dense forests, towering mountains, dizzying canyons, treacherous dungeons, encroaching jungles, roaring waterfalls, endless wastes, blistering deserts, mossy cliffs, illusionary oases, eldritch moors, flowering bosques, infested hills, cyclopean ruins, weed-tangled gardens, crumbling glaciers, peaceful glades, bubbling tar pits, rumbling volcanoes, teetering hoodoos, honeycombed caverns, dripping grottos, inland seas, grassy knolls, overgrown battlefields, creepy boneyards, guano-covered caves, and so much more!
The sky is truly the limit, and sometimes not even that. If you can imagine it, it's here, and something super cool is probably happening there.
And most importantly, enjoy Outside. That's what this is all about.
Rules and Guidelines
SpoilerThere is very little you can't do Outside. However, like always, please follow the forum rules and general rules of conduct. Respect that a scene may be private or that a plot shouldn't be interrupted. When in doubt, ask someone involved in the OoC thread or by PM.
There are many areas Outside, and people can be in multiple places outside. In order to keep areas Outside separated so there's no confusion, consider bolding your outside location at the start of each of your posts, like so:
[An Epic Cliffside Battle]
The creepy eyed squirrel looks on at the raging battle with contempt! Contempt that only a squirrel with particularly creepy eyes can muster.[The Beach!]
The menacing craps are not only menacing today, but frustrated. Their every attempt to menace the non-existent duck has met with failure. Some might ask why the crabs are trying to menace nothing, but those people would get viciously pinched.
Archive
SpoilerOutside 50: Meeting nature halfway
Outside 49: I don’t remember what it looks like either
Outside 48: Hotter than Inside
Outside 47: [Insert seasonal phrase that will be outdated when this thread ends]
Outside 46
Outside 45
Outside 44: Baby it's cold outside
Outside 43: Where the sun hurts your eyes and burns your skin
Outside 42
Outside 41: Inside Outside, outside Inside
Outside 40: It's all downhill from here
Outside XXXIX
Outside XXXVIII
Outside XXXVII
Outside XXXVI
Outside XXXV
Outside XXXIV
Outside XXXIII
Outside XXXII
Outside XXXI
Outside XXX
Outside XXIX
Outside XXVIII
Outside XXVII
Outside XXVI
Outside XXV
Outside XXIV
Outside XXIII
Outside XXII
Outside XXI
Outside XX
Outside XIX
Outside XVIII
Outside XVII
Outside XVI
Outside 15: There used to be a silly pun here, but it wouldn't fit
Outside XIV: More animals than you can shake a stick at. Yes the PCs.
Outside XIII: Spores of Corruption Dance in the Wind
Outside XII: We number things correctly.
Outside XI: Bugs are Eating the Landscape
Outside X: The Rotting Corpses are starting to Smell
Outside IX: There are Mosquitoes
Outside VIII: We cater birthday parties
Outside VII: Open longer than a 7-11
Outside VI: Now with Locations!
Outside V: More civilized than Inside
Outside IV: The Creepy Eyed Squirrel's Domain
Outside III: Beware the Non-Existant Duck
Outside II: Now with Menacing Crabs
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2021-11-07, 08:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[Wastelands Campsite]
It seems a viable plan. As the goblin pointed out, nobody's stirred since they arrived. The only positional advantage the vampires have is the bottleneck at the entrance to the cave. If the goblins get a substantial force in before attacking, the odds swing heavily in their favor.
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2021-11-07, 08:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[A Hunter must Hunt Kows]
Mimi hovers next to Anika and looks at the great beast with awe. "Are those kows?" She whispers, just barely loud enough for Anika to hear. The challenge she issued seems much more serious now. How could Anika actually fight such massive metal beasts?
[The Hegemony Flagship]
Magtork can't respond to Admiraltok's indignant rage, but one can imagine his uproarious delight. Instead the shuttle continues on its way down to the surface, not wildly spinning out of control, in case anyone was hoping there was a delayed effect.
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2021-11-08, 11:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[The Dread Gazebo]
Quest declined.
Fenris watches the orb roll across the floor without visible reaction.
"Did she shout at you, as well?" she inquires.
She's considering picking the thing up herself. Last time it had meant putting enslaved souls to rest, which isn't something she's terribly keen on allowing. The dead should be left to their rest. Or their heroic revelry if that's the end they earned. Or, ostensibly in her case, being stuck in the Hunting Grounds? It's questionable whether or not that's actually the fate that would await her. Given the sheer range of entities showing interest in her they would probably have to cast lots for who gets to keep her.
Or whatever it is that happens when the gods have an argument among themselves.
"What did she say?" Fenris asks further after walking over to the orb and scooping it up. It feels warm to the touch, just like the other one she found a few weeks ago. But on contact no intrusive yelling graces her mind.
Message apparently already delivered.Warning! Random Encounter™ detected!
The Eternal Game Nightmære Stuff
It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, just how awesome you look doing it.
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2021-11-08, 11:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
The Dread Gazebo
"Deep darkness, infested my temple, Mount Improbable, you will do this. Well, what if I don't want to do this? Maybe if it was so important she'd get herself a champion in ways that weren't hiding around in treasure chests and springing it on them against their will." G'nichi growls. Yeah he's definitely mad about something.
"I am sworn to my father Bahamut, who asks of me only that I do my best. Who are these gods to demand that I help them?"Spako Highclaws by Ceika.
[Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]
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2021-11-08, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
Ran does appear to be asleep, though a different sort than the other two kids. Visually, he seems less pale and obviously sickly, on the surface.
The more interesting problem sets in as soon as G'nichi does any sort of physical examination.
His clothes seem to be attached to his skin, about a inch in from the edges. Outwardly they look separate, given the edges can still move around, but the rest of the outfit itself seems to be a part of him. Not in a "it's stuck to him by adhesive" or "it's sewn on" sort of way, but actually a part of him.
The cloth very seamlessly transitions directly to skin.
And it is definitely cloth, G'nichi's claws could even separate out the fibers if he wanted, and it is actual skin there as well.
Somewhere behind him, Kawa has moved towards the temple entrance to look outside. She somehow completely failed to notice it earlier and is taking this opportunity to begin a feverish prayer to Lord Shinomo for deliverance from evil."Fear and creativity are conjoined twins."
Absentee Spirit
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2021-11-08, 01:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
ABAJ - Day 4
"Gix of bahamut..."
What the hell? Does this mean that Ran was the all imposter this time? It would...certainly explain things. He was certainly told that "everyone dies" was a possible future here. If that's the case he doesn't really have a leg to stand on in this conflict.
Of course, he could simply be a changeling of some kind. Which is strange but wouldn't suggest he's an eldritch being. No, he can't assume that Ran is the rival he was supposed to eliminate. If that was the case why would he keep up the charade by calling for Eiko? Would he not simply kill them? No, he'll stand by his first guess. Ran is certainly the second killer, but he's likely merely a shapeshifter and not Syncope's rival. If he were, G'nichi would certainly be already dead.
"Um. Kawa? Did you notice that his outfit is connected to his skin? Has anyone seen him bleed or anything like that?"Spako Highclaws by Ceika.
[Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]
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2021-11-08, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[The Dread Gazebo]
Fenris frowns slightly.
This is a problem she's had to deal with herself.
"In my experience the gods don't care a great deal for allegiances and pick whoever they want for their champions, whether the champion approves or not," she grouses. "I didn't exactly choose to be a champion of any of the gods, they just started dumping their problems in my lap and expecting me to resolve them."
She frowns down at the orb.
"I'll complete the task myself, if I have to. I won't abandon lost souls out of spite toward an intrusive deity."
Because, she reasons, that wouldn't be a particularly good thing to do.
Not a particularly valorous thing to do, either.
"However, I can't say I know where Mount Improbable is," Fenris admits.
What?
Would you expect her to have some sort of crazy magical quest sense that points the way to her objectives or something?Warning! Random Encounter™ detected!
The Eternal Game Nightmære Stuff
It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, just how awesome you look doing it.
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2021-11-08, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
The Dread Gazebo
G'nichi looks hard at Fenris before his spite crumbles over his do-good tendencies.
"Fine. I'll take you there. But I won't be happy about it." he grumbles.Spako Highclaws by Ceika.
[Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]
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2021-11-08, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[ABAJ - Day 4]
"It's what? Of course it...isn't?"
From over by the door, Kawa seems confused, like someone who has forgotten quite where they are. She looks away from the wall of pink outside, her expression tightening in some degree of mental effort.
"Lady Eiko kept a close eye on him, she would have noticed something like that."
Each word is pushed out with a degree of notable effort, the panicked expression in her eyes not quite reaching the almost placidly confused tone from her mouth.
Something is definitely not right with that.
On the floor, Ran lightly shivers before a muffled sound not unlike grinding mountains can be heard from outside and the temperature immediately around our scaly hero seems to plummet a good ten degrees.
G'nichi"Fear and creativity are conjoined twins."
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2021-11-08, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
ABAJ - Day 4
Okay, that settles it. G'nichi was clearly wrong. Kawa seems to be under some sort of mental effect. Which is exactly what he was told to watch out for.
This, of course, means that he has to find a way to deal with a situation he caused that he was told specifically to not cause. He reaches down to pick up Ran, as he isn't sure if he's allowed to hurt him. If Eiko was the second killer shouldn't the Banquet be over? Sure, there's an eldritch entity trying to kill them but the rules of the game were met. That means that Ran was free to summon the pink fog that hurt the teenagers, and G'nichi is free to wring his neck. But he doesn't know that. And he's fairly sure it wouldn't help.
"Kawa, stay inside. Don't go near the windows or doors. If that mist gets indoors we're finished, but I don't have a better-
what?" he whirls at the sound of the voice. Oh boy, now he's being haunted, too.Spako Highclaws by Ceika.
[Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]
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2021-11-08, 02:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[The Dread Gazebo]
"A hero doesn't have to be happy about doing heroics," Fenris points out. "That makes little difference to those they help. Now then! Which way to this Mount Improbable?"
Sounds like she's waiting for him to take the lead.
Also?
Once they're outside the guy with all the bug bites is mysteriously absent.
Hmm.
The water in the basin of the wayshrine isn't all bloody and gross anymore, either. Fenris could probably (maybe?) go home.
But she's not going to do that.
Not yet.
This place is interesting and worth exploring. And the wayshrine isn't going anywhere.
...she hopes.Warning! Random Encounter™ detected!
The Eternal Game Nightmære Stuff
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2021-11-08, 02:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
The Dread Gazebo
G'nichi leads Fenris outside and points her to a mountain off in the distance.
Mount Improbable is an improbable distance away.
Does that mean improbably close? Or improbably far?
They won't know until they set out, so with some reluctance G'nichi does so.Spako Highclaws by Ceika.
[Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]
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2021-11-08, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[ABAJ - Day 4]
G'nichi reaches down to collect Ran -
Don't
-and a wispy voice mutters into his ear with urgency. A faintly familiar voice.
Just a little bit, if G'nichi thinks really hard about it, it sounded like Mari.
Basement
The temperature starts creeping back up around him, though it remains rather cool.
Kawa is looking on with some measure of that confused concern, as G'nichi decides to start spinning around.
But she does step away from the door. And him.
"Lord Shinomo preserve us, bless us with a bounty of safety and security..."
And continues to pray away.Last edited by Chaotic Bob; 2021-11-08 at 02:26 PM.
"Fear and creativity are conjoined twins."
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2021-11-08, 02:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
ABAJ - Day 4
G'nichi stops what he's doing.
"Don't go to the basement, or don't, basement?" he asks the air simply.
Clearing up this kind of miscommunication quickly is absolutely vital when lives are on the line. He doesn't have time to worry about what's going on or who's contacting him.
He really wishes his mace would get back to him. G'nichi really hopes that he didn't somehow die from the fog.
"Kawa, does this place have a basement?"Last edited by Deathkeeper; 2021-11-08 at 02:35 PM.
Spako Highclaws by Ceika.
[Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]
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2021-11-08, 07:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[Wastelands Campsite]
"I reckon the time for sneaking is past, Frigate." An idea strikes Olvisin. "Can you carry some of us on your back and your arms? We'll go in first this way, then the rest will advance under your cover and swarm them. As goblins do best."My FFRP characters. Avatar by Ashen Lilies. Sigatars by Ashen Lilies, Gullara and Purple Eagle.
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2021-11-08, 08:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
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Do not meet their gaze.
Do not follow after."
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2021-11-09, 11:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[An Improbable Adventure]
In retrospect, finding Mount Improbable wouldn't have been very difficult. Mostly because of how conspicuous it is.
The mountain is upside down and floating in the sky, bound to the earth by chains of truly phenomenal size.
Fenris eyes it incredulously from afar off.
"Oh. That's..." she turns her head sideways to better peer at it from the 'correct' perspective. "I wouldn't normally expect to see something like that outside Oblivion. That's a flagrant violation of creational laws, isn't it? Mountains aren't meant to fly."
Mountains sink down into the earth instead since they're constructs of earth and seek their like. That's just basic elementalism.
This place is either going to drive Fenris insane or provide some very interesting avenues of study.
"You don't have to accompany me if you don't wish to," Fenris assures G'nichi. "It's clear that you don't want to be involved in the errands of a Daedric Prince; that's completely understandable."Warning! Random Encounter™ detected!
The Eternal Game Nightmære Stuff
It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, just how awesome you look doing it.
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2021-11-09, 11:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
An Improbable Adventure
G’nichi shakes his head.
”You don’t know the rules of this world. I can’t leave you to such a dangerous place alone. Besides, there still might be lost souls in need of aid.”
Even if the being asking for help on their behalf is a huge jerk.Spako Highclaws by Ceika.
[Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]
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2021-11-09, 05:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
Wastelands Campsite
"Aye, hop aboard. From what I recall, they not have many ranged weapons, an' no firearms. Still, I do be a large target, an' me cannon be loud despite its size. Ready?" Frigate gets down onto one knee, so some goblins can clamber up and find somewhere to hold on. His replacement stonework isn't as smooth as his prior metal armour, though there's still quite a few metal plates about- and his joints are probably quite risky for nimble goblin fingers.Terrowin Avatar by HappyTurtle. Much thanks!
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2021-11-10, 10:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[ABAJ - Day 4]
The response seems even quieter, in relation to the loss of cold around G'nichi, but it isn't gone.
Go now
That sounds like a confirmation of his latter option? Possibly?
On the ground, Ran's shivering seems to be transitioning to stillness once more and Kawa is over there trying to not look too concerned about it. Poorly.
"Oh, there...there's a root cellar accessible from the back room. The temple of our Lord is a natural place to store extra harvest...""Fear and creativity are conjoined twins."
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2021-11-10, 10:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
ABAJ - Day 4
G’nichi nods. He wishes the voice could be more clear but at this point he isn’t going to turn down any form of guidance.
He takes off immediately, heading for this cellar. It shouldn’t be difficult to find. He recalls already having some experience looking around that back room.Spako Highclaws by Ceika.
[Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]
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2021-11-10, 11:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[Wastelands Campsite]
When Frigate enters the cave, he's going to... well, not be accosted by that horrid itching. All of the goblins currently on him certainly will, though.
What Frigate might find more disconcerting is the supple crunkle under his foot, for three reasons.
First, the offending relic looked to be a piece of wickerwork, the kind that was used to confine the moroi to a single part of the cave last time he was here.
Second, that sound was loud enough to wake the dead.
And third, it didn't.
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2021-11-10, 11:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[ABAJ - Day 4]
G'nichi really shouldn't expect clarity from anything these days, given how his week has been going.
He should know better.
The backroom remains accessible from the door against the far end of the primary temple room, leading straight into rows of shelving containing various boxes full of all manner of things.
Previously, G'nichi had only just entered the room, before running into Lady Eiko and Ran under the box pile.
Now lacking such an obstacle, he is free to go further. Unless he wants to rummage through the boxes, however, there's nothing exciting that jumps out at him here. Lots of shelves, lots of boxes, a few visible vegetable-shaped decorations for some sort of festival in one corner, and a rather weighty-looking trapdoor on the floor between two of the furthest-back shelves. It isn't locked or barred, though someone does seem to have stacked some blankets on part of it at some point.
Outside, the sounds of grinding stone grow louder."Fear and creativity are conjoined twins."
Absentee Spirit
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2021-11-10, 11:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
ABAJ - Day 4
That sounds an awful lot like a time limit.
G'nichi tries to hurry. He throws aside the blankets and opens the trap door. At this point no matter what lies under it, he's heading down inside.
Unless what he sees is an impassable stone floor, of course.Spako Highclaws by Ceika.
[Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]
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2021-11-10, 12:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
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- The King's Grave
Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[An Improbable Adventure]
"Thus far most of my assumptions about the workings of creation seem to be accurate," Fenris insists. "Aside from-"
She glares at the mountain hovering in the distance.
Just hanging there.
Mocking her and all semblance of sense.
"-obvious outliers. I would imagine most rules are the same. All the standard alchemical laws, for example. If those didn't work then I'm not sure how objects would even interact with each other. Or the laws of optics. Or of physiology. Or the laws of magic."
You know.
Basic things.
She is, of course, walking toward the mountain as she speaks. While trying not to think too hard about it.Warning! Random Encounter™ detected!
The Eternal Game Nightmære Stuff
It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, just how awesome you look doing it.
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2021-11-10, 01:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
An Improbable Adventure
"Your laws of alchemy might work, yes. But so do the ones of my ancestors. And those of others. Many things are true here. You will have to deal with being confronted with things you don't understand and being able to adapt to them. Um, does your world have gunpowder?"
This is an important question, as G'nichi has been shot several times.Spako Highclaws by Ceika.
[Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]
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2021-11-10, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[ABAJ - Day 4]
It is not an impassable stone floor.
It is, instead, a very passable stone staircase leading to a very dark dirt landing with a thick wooden door.
Heading down the stairs and yanking the door open reveals a wall of rippling water, tinged with a bubblegum pink on the edges. The same sort of pink as the fog outside.
The image beyond it is distorted, but it looks like a flame-lit cave wall."Fear and creativity are conjoined twins."
Absentee Spirit
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2021-11-10, 03:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
ABAJ - Day 4
G'nichi only hesitates a moment to rub his bracelet. It protected him from freezing to death before and it kept him from falling ill from the fog earlier. He has to hope it will continue to protect him.
He's dead if he backs down anyway. He really wishes his mace were back though.
He takes a few prepatory breaths before he traverses thefog wallwater veil.Spako Highclaws by Ceika.
[Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]
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2021-11-10, 05:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
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Re: Outside 51: It's just a weather balloon
[Steelbite Canyon]
"Outside, I reckon. Get them out here an' I'll grab the thing." It's about the best plan they've got, by the sound of it. Atreyu puts a hand on the door and looks to Calm Reed. "When yer ready, I'll open it and duck round the side n' wait fer them to chase after ya."
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[Fort Aegis Resort]
"Um, y-y'know, I don't know exactly when they're due to start talking." Sylvess admits, awkwardly, scratching at his snout. "I don't know exactly how old I was when I started talking. They sometimes try to take after me and roar like a proper dragon, a-and it just comes out as a squeak. It's cute."Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, you'll be a mile away and you'll have their shoes.