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[Devastator]

Quickly check his breathing and see if he's still alive, if he seems hurt we should try to find someone and alert them.

He'll probably be fine! Fly away to freedom now

He'll probably be fine! Fly away to freedom now

Before we flee, let’s check any cabinets for food!

Examine mysterious appliances.

You fly down and sit on his mouth.  Your feathers are undisturbed by any breath.

He IS dead.  You just killed someone.

You fly away wildly, spinning around the room a few times.  The cabinets remain unlooted, the lack of hands and generally being tiny bar your way.  The appliances are the usual ones, induction stove, microwave oven, thermal oven, bread maker, blender.. all the nice stuff.  No ration rehydrator.

After about two laps you spin into the next room, and the next hallway, and the hallway after that.  You have free run of most of the interior, save for a few bedrooms and bathrooms.  This is a nice house, full of all sorts of furnishings, including some live plants.  There's a holo projector room, a holo-comms room, a game room with a Satraac table, a big fancy office, a small indoor pool, and it's on three levels running down from the park on the top level.  There's a main exit, but it is closed at this time.

And a million places to hide, should you so wish.  There are a couple more people in here, ones you've seen before, but after the body is found the hue and cry makes everyone too excited to pay attention to the innocent small bird.

[A_Curious_Cat]

Hide near the exit.  Then, when it opens, fly to freedom!!!

[Crystalizedmire]

Try to say "Help! I just someone die!"

[Funk]

Hide near the exit.  Then, when it opens, fly to freedom!!!

+1

[ZBridges]

Are there any interesting/relevant papers in the office?

[King Zultan]

Panic and flop around because we're a murderer now!

[Devastator]

Panic and flop around because we're a murderer now!

This fits you right in with everyone else who are also panicking and running about.  When they're not charging into rooms and locking the doors.

Are there any interesting/relevant papers in the office?

There aren't papers.  There's a computer console, a data pad, and a voice comms device.  You can probably use a data pad (they're all touchscreens), but carrying one around is not happening.

Hide near the exit.  Then, when it opens, fly to freedom!!!

It opens, not from the outside, but from the inside, as one of the people here flees the place.  You bolt outside, into a small lobby with elevators and a couple other hallways leading to other locked doors.  And an elevated aircar hangar that's open to the outside.  You fly out to the hangar, where there are a dozen flying vehicles parked out there, out under the open sky.

..This building is a really, really tall spire, with the ground unclear in the haze below.  There are several dozen other spires close at hand, as tall or taller than this one.  Down below there are many towers of smaller buildings, with other aircar hangers sticking out.  And there is a ton of flying traffic, with seemingly endless cars going this way and that, along with heavier vehicles plowing through the mess like whales scattering a school of fish.  This high there isn't much traffic, but below it's a real maze.

Try to say "Help! I just someone die!"

For some reason trying to talk is exhausting.

..You're also starting to feel tired.  It's been a big day.  Gotta find somewhere to hole up.

Stay up very high, at the top of these huge spires

Somewhere further down, closer to the traffic, on the smaller buildings

Deep down, well away from here, but above the haze.

Down into the haze.  There's got to be ground somewhere, doesn't there have to be?

[Imp]

Look for an opening to fly into and hide within, resting there safer from the elements and predators that could exist.

[FiveBalesOfHay]

Fly into the haze. Nothing bad has ever happened in the haze.

[Devastator]

You spiral downwards and downwards, keeping close to the spire to remain safe from the endless flow of vehicles.  The haze doesn't come closer.  As you descent, it reveals more buildings and more buildings until eventually seeing the ground come into view.. a barren gray mass.  Maybe this city doesn't have any clean dirt anywhere, and it's just endless gray buildings at the bottom.

It's also certainly a little choking down here in the dirty air.  Not crippling, but you can feel your feathers getting dirtier.

Nevertheless, you find an area in the grimy bit of town, and find a good pocket between two signs under some kind of restaurant.  Good food smells, and plenty of space.  You shuffle yourself in, tuck your head into your fluff, and fall asleep.

As you sleep, you dream.

You are in a massive forest, full of fantasy colours.  The trees are pink, blue, and silver, over a grassy field of purple.  The leaves are stirred up by the wind.  A wind of magic.

As you fly past, you notice that you have magic yourself.  Strands of green and yellow.  As they come off of you, slowly, they form into a larger shape, that of an elderly fish-person.

The fish person talks to you, saying how he is the spirit of the crystal, and that he wants to help you guide your magic.  It seems those crystals are fragments of the universal spirit, and that their bearers are granted great gifts in the eternal flow of life, death, and magic.

This seems like a great dream.  You nod and agree with everything the fish-person tells you, particularly that about giving you awesome powers.  Although you can't actually tell the fish-thing that.  You can understand his speech, but he doesn't speak bird, so it just comes across as chirping, dream world or not.

The fish man eventually suggests giving you telepathy, as the universal magic can handle communication, and that it'll be ready in a couple of days.  Then you can talk about your role in the eternal magical conflict.

More fun magic dreams?  Sounds great.  You agree readily.

Day Two

You're woken up from your dream a moment later, by the noise of the city, to a drumming in the water pipe above your head.  You stand up and immediately bonk your head into it.  Confused, you stand up in your hidey hole, which seems much smaller than it did yesterday.  Apparently magic makes you bigger.  Maybe fish-face said something about that?  You thought it was only dream nonsense.  Welp.

Your stomach growls in the pre-dawn gloom, in the grimy lower-levels of the huge city.  You could use some seeds and nectar.  Or maybe some bugs.

[MidnightJaguar]

We should look for some unattended food, I bet we can steal some bread crumbs or whatever the equivalent of bagels are here.

[FiveBalesOfHay]

We should go look for a rat. They always have rats in cities. They're basically bugs but bigger, which is nice because we're also bigger.

[A_Curious_Cat]

We should look for some unattended food, I bet we can steal some bread crumbs or whatever the equivalent of bagels are here.

+1.  I’m not sure we’re big enough to take on a rat.

[ZBridges]

If possible, try finding a mirrored surface to see how our appearance has changed.

[IronyOwl]

We should look for some unattended food, I bet we can steal some bread crumbs or whatever the equivalent of bagels are here.

+1.  I’m not sure we’re big enough to take on a rat.

It would be fun to try regardless, but leftovers will probably be more abundant anyway. +1 to unattended food.