"It wouldn't be any trouble. If you'd rather not, I suppose we will see you tomorrow then."
The girl calls the dog off of Vare.
"Thank you Mr.Vare and other person."
The girl says.
Ephebe smiled. "The cafeteria staff would disagree with you about it not being any trouble. Enjoy your dinner. I'll see you tomorrow."
"close your eyes and chose one randomly?"
"Sounds good," she says, pulling out a cloth and tying it behind her head to cover her eyes. "Alright, here we go."
you wind up outside the forest, at the beginning again.
"maybe go in and then try to leave?"
"Worth a shot."
you wind up outside the forest, at the beginning again. Again.
Aananda staggered out of the bathroom. "Sorry about keeping you waiting Dennis. Apparently enhiladas are off the menu for the duration. Anyways, you were asking me about a camera?"
"Oh, wait...hang on a sec....Vai called while I was throwing up. I need to make sure it's not an emergency."
She pressed a button on her headband. "Vai? Is everything alright?"
"Wait...watch my shadow? maybe that's the key."
the sign still says-
N ^
E->
<-w
V S
Then-
"NSSSWWE"
"follow your shadow, if that doesnt work the opposite direction of it"
"Sure, that would be nice... give me a second though." Vai takes to her dragon shape with a quickness that is breathtaking. The reason should be immediately clear - no clothes, and scales that could easily be washed.
"I was just kidding anyway." she says as he paws the ground nerviously. "I'll get the scan down. We have nanites that could pick it apart bit by bit if we needed to. Sometimes magic assists with tech, or tech with magic. They go together more often than not. We'll identify it, don't you worry about it."
Without much fanfare or flash, Tryko'Sam grins and there is a tropical storm falling down on Vai now, covering her completely and making for a fairly quick clean up.
Apparently not too concerned with the rain run off, since the sewers were right there, Tryko'Sam chuckles though.
"Well, the three of us make for a decent team-- maybe we can practice responding to issues in the future, get a few more folks involved, keep at it? Probably wouldn't hurt too much to have that work out, right?"
Looking over at Rena, then back again, "That's assuming people are interested... but, let's try to keep things on the quiet side for now. No point in bursting out too soon... or whatever the expression is."
Another grin, and a bit of time, the rains stop since it's not falling down from the middle of no where anymore.
"Crazy magic shit... heh."
She begins to follow her shadow.
"This is beginning to annoy me."
"I did, Kitty, I did." :)
"Give me a moment to think."
"how about we go north, then south three times, then west twice then east? like the sign?"
"Well, we've tried everything but blowing up the forest, let's do it."
when you go north, you find yourself in virtually the exact same surroundings, but the sign isn't there. Perception checks.
"ok that is definitely plan B, or would it be plan F by now"
"Don't know, but let's keep with it."
Hay, this looks just like before... But all of the shadows are facing north? the sun... you cant see the sun. this isn't right...
"wait, look at your shadow, and the others, they uh changed, they were facing that way" he points where east was "but now it's that way" he points in the direction it is currently pointing
"That's it, watch you shadow."
"i think we should go this way" he goes where on a tradtionally oriented map would be east
Carl see that his two travailing companions have entered the air lock and come out onto the flight deck.
"Right, I had the computer work out that flight plan you gav me lad, its says its ready"
A red light is winking on the control panel in front of Carl, like the rest of the ship its hulking, big and looks you could hit it with a hammer and not brake the light.
"So strap ya self down, I'm going to jump us from in the hanger, yerr yerr I know its bad, but looking at them fighter craft outside the space dock I ant even going to try and fight my way out, not we one wee mini-laser. hold on a and kiss ya ...."
his words are lost as the ship pushes open a worm whole directly in front of its self with a artificial gravity well. Every one in the hanger have to grab onto what ever they can not to be pulled in, Lucky it was a small hanger and the hanger craw all seem to know what was going on, getting to safety fast. Then with a feeling of being pulled through a straw 100s of light years long the ship popped into the whole and with a boom it classed behind it. The ship ported the Living occupants into cryo-sleep and the ship moved.
Some time later outside a single sun system the ship popped back out into Normal space. Lights winked on and the Cryp-Chambers opened.
Carl feel on the floor, still there the disembody-ed voice of the ship said.
"We have arrived are our destination, also you are not dead"
Carl grumbled but pulled himself up, he walked over to the vid-screen.
"Well lad where here, what next?"
"Lead on."
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Arthur's suit immediately wraps around him as he tenses for the jump, when the jump ends the helmet opens up "ugg I hate warped space, FTL drives, throw acceleration all to whack, and organic bodies are just not made for that, reinforced or not" he removes the restraints holding him in place and shakes himself off he turns to carl "I suppose we contact the planet, make sure they don't shoot this thing out of the sky, that would kinda suck"
you walk into another clearing. This one looks slightly different. Your shadows face what would normally be "south"
She heads to the south.
"Ya right there lad, messes with me guts sum-ert cronic it dos, but it dos the job, and we may not need to contact the planet, there is a bloody big warship* off our port, some 2000km and shes coming in fast. I'm sending radio and other saying, we're civilian"
Carl flicks a switch,
"Right lets hope they don't shot us out the void"
Carl gets into his pilot saint, and props hit short leg on the flight deck, wile looking at a screen that comes on showing the ship* saying into a mik.
"This is civilian scout craft 'The Hammer-shaft', from the Dwarf-en mining Clan, Promethium, don't shoot where here a viziting not a waring"
*The Harbinger
"Oh I think there's more than a chance for us to be counted among the best. After all, what other band can match our performers? We have the vivaciously vibrant Vai, the gracefully gorgeous Ginni and of course the Mistress of Mellifluois Music, Melody" Ace says with a big grin.
Phaezeriel turns slightly towards the High Seeress, ::I am not much of a hunter, but I agree that we do need some way to flush her out. If we can keep her from using dimensional abilities, then we are much more likely to achieve some kind of resolution. Many of my kind and their servants can use teleportation or plane shifting magic innately. If we could request some kind of nanite tracking device from the tech department here, then once her dimensional abilities are inhibited, it will be much easier to track her regardless of her shape. I do not know what her goals are, so I do not know how to flush her out. However, Ace, the student who was helping us to speak with the corpse of the tailor, has said that tonight he will do some divination, and I will guide him to asking how we can flush her out.::
"Fly-Free? Huh? I've heard about your band, you were great. You and Fain." Dom pauses once Mel makes her way over. "I think we heard about your performances on the road actually. Word of good music travels fairly well, especially when you listen for it." He glances to the stage before continuing. "Why don't you give us a taste of what you used to play?"
Ephebe smiled. "The cafeteria staff would disagree with you about it not being any trouble. Enjoy your dinner. I'll see you tomorrow.""It wouldn't be any trouble. If you'd rather not, I suppose we will see you tomorrow then."
The girl calls the dog off of Vare.
"Thank you Mr.Vare and other person."
The girl says.
"Not a problem little one. I will see you at the school." Vare said with a smile from where he had been standing quietly since introducing the Headmistress.
Once they are back in the hovercar, Vare muses aloud with his hand on his chin, once again thoughtful. "That girl must have a startling imagination. She would have a particular talent for conjuration magic."
Carl looks on as the ship gets closer.
"Well, they ant shot us yet, that's a good sign, you any good at talking high-fa-looting, I kind of get on the wrong side, unformed types"
Carl leans back and taps winking light that then gos off.
"Some kind of defiance field out there, mean one by the looks of it"
he looks at Arthur then offers him the Mik