Brier/"Cicatrix"
Distracted by the apple, Brier ignores Cicatrix completely. She didn't particularly care, as she was examining her fungi, and was about as mindful of Brier as he was of her.
He walks into the cooler, picks the apple up, and slices off a piece with a knife in the kitchen. The apple doesn't taste like anything special, but for some reason Brier had a growing desire to devour it. Within seconds, he's eaten the whole thing.
Brier feels an extreme surge of mana, feeling channels he closed to learn how to create technomancy opening up. The surge is powerful enough that his body explodes into a mist of mana, and the explosion was strong enough to shock Cicatrix. It doesn't take long for it to reform, but Brier is changed. His mana channels are open again, allowing him to learn magic once again. He has also been rendered in a much younger state than he blew up in. When he regains consciousness and realizes what happens, he thanks the ancestors that his beard is still in its previous state.
The two stand awkwardly, with little to say, then part ways after several minutes pass and go to sleep.
Veranus Tigerclaw
Veranus finishes her conversation with Hoz and Asa, leaving with a bad impression of Hoz. Beyond his clear apathy toward duty, his mismatched career focus, and his overall crass speech, he seemed to know a bit too much about everything to be just a grunt. Even Gram seemed a bit too knowledgeable.
Regardless, she returns to the room she was given, and falls asleep, muscles still sore.
Ba'gandi mini
During his conversation with Cyrano, Ba notices his white chain appear. It's transparent, and seems to lack the realness it possesses in the soul realm, but its accuracy seems the same. The chain leads through the gate.
Ba remembers Cyrano coming out of the gate, and gets permission to be taken through the next morning. Ba returns to Cyrano's Village, now named Erst, and spends the night there. In the middle of the night, a blizzard hits.
Cicatrix Greywood Greenflower
Cicatrix ignores Brier as he ignores her, and is then forced to raise an eyebrow when an explosion occurs and Brier steps out of a disturbance in mana with what feels like a different version of his body. Left speechless, Cicatrix quickly leaves to begin proper experimentation.
One of the fungi has taken on a coating effect, further corruption may even evolve it into something she could use.
The second shows signs of being parasitic, but offering some kind of natural weapon. There is little assurance of what it does, so Cicatrix considers it a "maybe" on the use list.
The final seems to simply be adapting to guard against corruption. She has little use for it, but there are practical uses that could be applied to it, most likely.
After putting the fungi in jars she secured from the kitchen before Brier's little explosion, Cicatrix goes to sleep.
Seiyas Stormclaw
Seiyas wanders about, and hears an explosion from some room across the workshop she was visiting. There were no tools, but the explosion was enough to make Seiyas determined to stay away from the freakish building. She leaves a note requesting some harvesting tools be made and delivered to the study, then leaves.
She eats dinner with her golems. They seemed different from the ones the book she found described. They all had personalities, and programming them wasn't nearly as difficult as it was supposedly going to be. Now if only she hadn't gotten that headache, she might have learned something for building better combat golems. Regardless, she somehow manages to get into the undersized bed she'll need replaced, and goes to sleep rather peacefully.
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Morning.
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Topic: Runners of Hyperion -- one spots open (Read 36085 times)