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[Xanmyral]

"Ah, you want to go that way? To somewhere else? Lead the way then my good man, I shall stay in step!" Morton shuffled the straps of the backpack on his shoulders again, getting them comfortable before following Kevin. "So, what are we to do when we get to where we're going? Part of the task, sightseeing, or something else entirely?" He didn't quite get what Kevin was trying to say beyond 'somewhere.'

[Tomcost]

Sigmund, filled with impatience, opened the cage and tried to catch the stone.

[If he succeeds, he will ask if there is any way to discharge the stone withot many risks, and then, walk some feet away from the people and try to levitate a little bit]

[miauw62]

Kevin did another one of his famous skeletal half-shrugs and just heads home.

[Harry Baldman]

On the deck of a certain ship...

Morton considers his current state of hygiene and, upon finding it to be rather sordid, shrugs and consults his fine jester companion for valuable input on this whole situation.

"So then, grand Jester, where to next? Another ship, or perhaps follow that strange fellow to see if we can find his captain? Something else?"

He raises one finger for another ship, two fingers for following tiny people in their fascinating secret lives and three fingers for going somewhere else. Kevin, ever the original one, raises three fingers and points homeward.

"Ah, you want to go that way? To somewhere else? Lead the way then, my good man, I shall stay in step!"

Morton shuffles the straps of the backpack on his shoulders again, getting them comfortable before following Kevin. Though it's more of a mental comfort than anything, really.

"So, what are we to do when we get to where we're going? Part of the task, sightseeing, or something else entirely?"

Kevin, in a mysterious mood, vaguely half-shrugs and leads Morton back home. Well, he supposes it might be back home. Hard to tell, what with it looking like a stone-and-steel egg with a lowered steel gangplank.


At the home of the Eight Old People...

Sigmund figures that all this caution nonsense just isn't for him. He opens the box! At that exact moment, he hears a subdued whisper in his mind. There is a sense of calm about it, but it's the sort of calm you see in a person right after their blood runs cold and right before they violently rip your throat out.

~Are you... one of them?~

"Doesn't look like it's trying to escape! Nice!"

Sigmund remains quiet and looks into the box, seeing a stone within it. Easy pickings. He snatches it up quickly!

Just then, he his mind reels from a frenzied shriek, a panicked scream of a cornered intelligence. His hand seizes up, grasping the stone tightly and refusing to let go!

~UNHAND ME! ACK! I WILL NOT BE CAPTURED AND MISUSED! TOO MUCH IS AT STAKE!~

[Tomcost]

Holding the stone with all his forces, Sigmund asked the mages:

Why didn't you tell me that the stone was sentient? And how do I subdue it?

[Harry Baldman]

Next to the home of the Eight Old People...

Sigmund, surprised at this turn of events, asks the mages for some explanation.

"Why didn't you tell me that the stone was sentient? And how do I subdue it?"

"That's odd. I distinctly recall telling you a minute ago that they could become such. I suppose you weren't listening, were you? People never do. And then they perish horribly. Such a pity."

Damn you, short attention span! Damn you and all of your easily-forgotten kin!

"And you subdue it with willpower and nothing but. Simple as that."

Sigmund hears a certain pitch and tone alteration of the stone's voice in his head. To be exact, it seems to have transitioned to even more nonsensical noises that resemble squawking to an unhealthy degree. Moreover, the squawking seems to be breaking down Sigmund's mental resistance!

[Tomcost]

((I feel utterly stupid for not paying attention to the sentience part. Anyway))

Sigmund got terribly angry with the stone and tried to subdue it by willpower and aggravate it if it fails.

[Xantalos]

Hey! Keep your mind-tentacles off that guy!

Niklas grabs into the stone and adds his mental power to Sigmund's! He tries to bend the stone to his will!

[Xanmyral]

[Crazy idea for you two: Imbed the stone into a steel wolf, have wolf with sentience that can potentially follow complex orders, be a real pet, and fly.]

"Oh dear, isn't that where our home once stood? What happened to it? It looks nothing like it did before, where did this even come from?" Morton pondered in confusion. "Did our new Masters do this? How? What was wrong with the old house, it was quaint!" Morton ho'ed and hum'ed about the new house, before sighing, seeing as there was nothing he could do about it. "Well, we're here now. Shall we check up on the masters? I don't see why though, we haven't chartered a ship yet, although we did get a price for that one."

[Xantalos]

((O.O
First step - dominate stone.))

[Xanmyral]

[Don't see why the mages can't do it. Just create the wolf around the stone, slave the wolf to the stone so it has control over the body. It should be able to levitate just as usual, except the stone now has a wolf body instead of a stone body.

Good thing about it is that you can have a sapient thing that is made of metal and can fly.

Only problem is that you have a sapient thing that can fly and is made of metal.]

[Xantalos]

[Don't see why the mages can't do it. Just create the wolf around the stone, slave the wolf to the stone so it has control over the body. It should be able to levitate just as usual, except the stone now has a wolf body instead of a stone body.

Good thing about it is that you can have a sapient thing that is made of metal and can fly.

Only problem is that you have a sapient thing that can fly and is made of metal.]

(...We could just do it with me.)

[Xanmyral]

[I suppose if that is possible, then yes that is also possible. Problem is though is that the stone is innately telepathic, so it can convey its thoughts, while your not. They'd need to extract your intelligence and place it in the wolf, which I'd mark as dangerous and possibly beyond their limitations.

With the stone, its more like redirecting/forwarding a call from one phone to another, while with yours it would be swapping SIN cards, which I'd wager is more difficult. Certainly possible though.]

[Spinal_Taper]

Grab a shield, or anything vaguely that size, then keep him down from above by pushing it against his head.
"Hey, I just did something super cool, so can we stop now?"

[Innsmothe]

Scott will happily and dutiful y wash Gary until he has some resemblance to his normal healthy self.