A horrified look covers over Jarrah, who slowly touches his face. What... what happened?
The duck quivers, while trembling.
"...they told me it would be simple. Now these children are dead..."It turns its head and looks you over, its catlike eye glaring.
"Are you even alive?""How do I know someone else isn't animating your body?"Name: Jarrah
Trinket: A Pale green rock. It looks as if someone started to carve it into the shape of an acorn, but never finished.
Wing Color/Style: Pale green luna moth wings.
Hair Color/Style: Pale green
Outfit: Tunic and pants made of furry mouse leather
Fairy Alignment: Surprises
Natural Element: Viridium
Trance - Can suppress a creature's higher thoughts, while amplifying others
Deep Magic - Can speak to animals and inanimate objects in the mortal realm
Immortality - Can grant immunity to ageing and disease
Regeneration - Can speed healing (but not directly alter flesh)
Metabolism - Can vastly increase or decrease a creature's strength and speed (x2)
-----Connection Lost-----
Name: Artem
Trinket: A piece of firey-red nevermelt ice.
Wing Color/Style: Feathered red and purple wings
Hair Color/Style: Red, with a long haired mohawk that falls to the side of his head
Outfit: A vest made of the same feathers as his wings, with a metallic pauldron on his left shoulder. Purple skintight pants.
Fairy Alignment: Laughter
Natural Element: Epimethium
Dazzle - Can emit a disorienting burst of light
Ignite - Can ignite a small fire
Electricity - Can emit a small electric shock that causes pain
Featherweight - Can rob an object of most of its weight through contact
The Four Winds - Can bring rain, fog, snow, or hail
Hermia scouts out the hole upon wings of crow. She tries to pay attention to any astral signs that indicate someone might intercept the spoon.
While hovering close to the edge, you hear a trickle from the lip of the crater. You can't see astral signs while hovering over the tunnel, because the tunnel is pitch-black and extends down too far to see the moon at its resting place (or maybe the moon simply curved in its path?).
Moving up to observe the source of the trickle, you find that the entire forest glimmers with a layer of water, through which you see the stars of the Other Sky.
Name: Hermia.
Trinket: A silver spoon.
Wing Color/Style: The wings of a crow.
Hair Color/Style: Black as night, long with flow, strong bangs. Complements silver eyes.
Outfit: Tight leather pants, some masculine leather boots, a deep red wool sweater with good volume and a silver necklace. She wears black gloves.
Fairy Alignment: Confusion
Natural Element: Lykathium
Night's Gaze - Can reduce the temperature of substances
Blindness - Can negate a creature's senses
Illusion - Can replace a single thought or object at a time in someone's mind
Shadow Hands - Can project limbs out of darkness within a short range
Astral Knowledge - Can lift the veil of the future (divination)
Hildegard slowly floats over to the human, carefully holding her stone.
"You have a nice cave. Can I stay with you?"
"Oh! It isn't mine. Nothing here belonged to me, in fact I didn't bring any of this."She steps barefoot across the fields, passing you by, and sets her watering can down next to the rock wall.
"I'm not sure who did..."A flock of yellow butterflies lands in the field, settling on flowers. The visual aspect of the field doesn't change much--a sea of yellow is a sea of yellow.
Name: Hildegard
Trinket: A small lump of sandstone.
Wing Color/Style: Brown, speckled owl's wings.
Hair Color/Style: Long beige hair tied in a flowing ponytail.
Outfit: Practical work outfit in shades of tan, with trousers, a long-sleeved shirt, and a jacket over it.
Fairy Alignment: Wonder
Natural Element: Cthonium
Soulsteel - Can coat objects in a thin layer of iron
Earthblight - Can inflict a slow, petrifying disease on living objects
Crystalize - Can cause minerals and rocks to reorganize themselves
Tremors - Can create a minor earthquake, cause an avalanche, or trigger a rockslide
Earthsoul - Can animate puppets out of sand or pebbles
((Oh, sorry, I only just remembered I signed up for this.))
"Oh! Uh!" Yuktuk exclaims as she stirs in her resting place. Being born was so weird!
"Er! Yes! Hello? Hello!" she continues, ruffling throughout wherever it is she's wound up in.
Struggle and find my way through this foreboding jungle of cloth and dust.
((No problemo, threads get buried a lot))
"Huh?" the girl responds. She must have heard you!.
An purple gown, meant for a toddler, bursts through the ancient robes at the back of the closet, followed by an arm and a teenaged girl dressed like a noble, wearing a long white padded jacket over yellow skirt and a white
kepi that looks like it was borrowed from a military officer.
Looking distraught, she doesn't even notice you right away.
"When did you have a secret tunnel?" she asked the adult, tailing behind her, whose uniform resembles a butler's, more than anything: silk slacks and an open blazer over grey, with a gold ten-pointed star hanging from his collar at about stomach level.
"Secret tunnel? I was never informed of this..."
Name: Yuktuk
Trinket: a ball of blue lint grown fat over weeks upon weeks of neglect.
Wing Color/Style: white, stringy and plantlike, like somebody's stuck two flexible dandelion parachutes into her back.
Hair Color/Style: blue and uncannily reminiscent of a troll doll's plumage
Outfit: an oversized, loosely woven silvery dress, no shoes, a black sooty bead on a string around her neck
Fairy Alignment: Excitement
Natural Element: Aurium
Electricity - Can emit a small electric shock that causes pain
Featherweight - Can rob an object of most of its weight through contact
Codex of Knowledge - Can answer questions about the sciences
Transmutation - Can transform substances into inert metals
Atom Clock - Can halt time for short periods
Lilith not to sure of the situation tilted her head sideways and gazed at the brown journal through the mirror "That mister seems to be looking for something and that book might hold something?" Having stared long enough she tested if Lilith could enter the mirror and then tried wrap the brown journal with wire and animate it so she could drag it closer to study upon.
While the man in the mirror searches his side of the room, you float on over and grab the book. The man's puppet counterpart looks at you, but it doesn't make a facial expression.
You don't have wires, but you do find string in a drawer, along with feather pens, different colors of ink, various dyes and oils, and a piece of black glass with a handle and a magic glyph on the top side.
Wrapping the handbook up in string, you find that you can make it hop around without putting much tension on the strings; but once it's in your hands, you realize that it's pretty easy to carry even though it's two-thirds as tall as you are.
Opening it, you find pages upon pages of rambling; you idly brush through, finding many words you don't understand, until you decide to look back to a page you've already read. Then, you realize that the book was writing itself as you went along, and that the page from before is now different, with a completely different diagram too.
The only thing that doesn't change is the first page.
23rd of the Month of Bloodstone -- Today marks the dawn of a new era as they have let me into the gates. My warmachines proved to be more than a match for their simple formations, though I was worried that once the element of surprise was lost, that they would adapt their tactics. Fortunately it was not so! For these glorified villagers are too poor to afford a shield for every man; their officers do not realize that war is more than battles.
They are a far cry from the Hegemony, to put it mildly. Only time will tell if I can build them up in time--they will not offer much resistance in their current state.
Name: Lilth
Trinket: Violet and silvery matching pair of ribbons for wearing.
Wing Color/Style: Two pairs of violet silvery, flower like.
Hair Color/Style: Violet and silver flowing hair, in a celtic braid.
Outfit: A elegant black dress with matching heels, red twin flowing ribbon traveling length of her dress to her arms.
Fairy Alignment: Suprise
Natural Element: Enkorium
Trance - Can suppress a creature's higher thoughts, while amplifying others
Deep Magic - Can speak to animals and inanimate objects
Mindreader (basic) - Can sense emotions from a distance
Animation - Can control inanimate objects that are wrapped in wire
Shapeshift - Can take the form of a similarly-sized animal, and grant the same power to a human.
"Why are you here? How did I get here? Where do I come from? Where did you come from?" Without waiting for a response, Bors attempts to clamber onto the bed, tugging on the human's arm. "" Can you help me learn? Are you alright?" Motioning to the elemental to wire more objects, Bors takes a page from his wing, and holds up a page to the fairys' face. "What is this? I can read it, but what does it mean?".
Leaving the construct connected to you by a wire, you let it put together an identical cousin, using up the last of your wire and shards. You find your ability to control them strained; for the time being, you will only be able to command your constructs as if they were one entity, with all of them either standing idle or performing the same task/movement.
Alis watches you dart place-to-place, mouth ajar as she strains herself to justify your actions. She swats your giant notebook page out of her face, and sighs. But Siocled, having lost interest in your construct, proffers an answer to your existential quandary.
"I think you're missing context,""After all, you're making the large assumption that there's something to understand in the first place.""Siocled, that's the most enlightened thing I've ever heard from you.""I don't mean to bother you little ones," said the doctor, crouching down to bed height where all the fairies are, "But where did you get the Ruler's journal?"
Alis grins.
"I brought it so we could look for an answer. Your people did come to this dimension to escape him, correct?""Oooh! Do you mean he could have planned for this all along?" Siocled seems excited.
"my point exactly!" Alis says with a proud smile.
"There's no telling how nefarious he is! That is why I beg to disagree on your earlier point. It's always a good idea to look for meanings. You just have to look to the root cause of it all."The doctor stands and dusts his knee off to a shine.
"...I don't think that's the case," he dreared.
The patient jostled the bed. "Dad... Is he here?" she croaked.
Name: Bors
Trinket: A grey leather journal, the last three pages blank, save for a large winestain.
Wing Color/Style: Bor's wings seem more mechanical, made up of a combination of paper and wire.
Hair Color/Style: Black, with streaks of grey and white.
Outfit: A dark grey leather cloak.
Fairy Alignment: Curiosity
Natural Element: Enkorium
Trance - Can suppress a creature's higher thoughts, while amplifying others
Deep Magic - Can speak to animals and inanimate objects
Codex of Knowledge - Can answer questions about the sciences
Transmutation - Can transform substances into inert metals
Animation - Can control inanimate objects that are wrapped in wire
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Topic: False Illusion - Step Past the Mirror - IC (Read 15287 times)