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etrayamemes2025-01-02 03:19 pm
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TDM 006
 ⏵ arrival ⏴ Arrival is absolutely not normal this month. Instead of a hospital bed, you wake in a tunnel with a large group of other people. These are the residents. A woman’s voice in an earpiece hurriedly clues you in with an apology. I apologize; I had not planned to introduce you this way, but we are low on time. Please proceed down the hallway. For everyone else, coming in is much the same. The instruction goes out to head to designated areas immediately, where companion bots will escort the residents of Etraya down into the depths, the area beneath where much the same is explained.  ⏵ disrobing ⏴ The tunnel eventually opens directly into the foreroom of an expansive library, painted in marvelous hues and patterns with skylights far above. There are wizards milling about, bearded and holding tomes, quietly chatting amongst themselves. The reception area of the library has tall ceilings with equally tall doors Before you get too caught up in the scenery, a voice directs you forward. A gentleman, hunched and bespeckled craws out. "Make a line! Make a line, everyone! You cannot enter the library dressed as you are... Come forward and give me your name." The receptionist asks your given name and then hands over a box from underneath his counter. You can give him any name you want, he doesn’t seem to mind. It is tied with a tagged ribbon- labeling it accordingly. “The _____ robe of _______.”
As you read what the contents of the box may be, they form inside- Looking and behaving as your character expects them to. After all, magic is all in the wielder’s mind. Don your robes and enter the library.  ⏵ unfamiliar familiars ⏴ For those without a familiar (like one hatched from an egg not too long ago) you may borrow one from the library counter. They all have strengths and weaknesses, but they will all assist in the very important mission. As you roam the library, they will make little indications that you are closer or further from finding a piece of the pearl.
 ⏵ the task at hand ⏴ With robes donned and creature in hand, you must now complete your mission. Find the pieces of the shattered pearl. As you enter the library, you may notice that it’s all very dim. There’s oil lamps around the place that may be moved with you to assist in your journey if your robes do not already emit light. Break off and search the library. There is a directory at the front to point guests to all the different sections.
Each section looks enough like the last, though the books within have immense power. Pick up the wrong book, and you might conjure a dragon or a historical figure! You must persist and avoid making too much noise or breaking too many things. Or else the Librarian, a tall mass of knotted fabric will confiscate your robe and usher you back outside. Your name will be struck from the list, and you must pick a new one to re-enter the library to continue the search. You can try to fight back against him- he may be set alight with the lamp. But should you be starting fires in here? Any thread with 15 comments between you and another may be submitted to find a piece of the pearl. There are 20 pieces altogether, and we will determine if the mission was successful by March 28th. A post will go live on the OOC comm for this! This mission occurs out of time, similar to how the spaceship had. Meaning, those currently in game can experience these events any time between now, and March 14th. Please direct all questions to our mod queries comment! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Well, they're near a bookshelf now, so Gorgug goes over and grabs a book. It seems simple enough, a book on history, and so when he turns back around with the book in hand, he closes his eyes for a second--
and when he opens it, the book is glowing with light--a fairly bright light to boot (or book?) that submerges the book itself into a white glow. Gorgug comes over, holding it out... kinda squinting as he thinks: ]
Should've picked something with a beam.
[ Like a torch. ]
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That's so cool!!!!!!!!
[Ace flicks his fingers and the fire is gone, and he's looking at the glowing book in awe.]
Can you do this with anything?
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Yeah, I guess. Maybe not with water-- but I've never tried.
[ So, who knows? ]
But I can't make a fire easy-- you know, that's way useful, if you want to stay warm. It's not really a warm light.
[ It might feel nice, but nothing else. ]
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If you can make water glow that would be really fun to drink!
[He laughs, and then nods.]
I get what you mean. Your power allows you to see light the way though! And even if it's not warm, it's useful!
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[ Sort of repeating himself, but that's the way he is. ]
Have you always been able to be fire? [ He looks at him, and nodding to himself- ] You don't look like a wizard.
[ He's gotta be something else! ]
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[Ace shakes his head, smiling.]
I got my powers from a fruit back home, I think I was 18 then.
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[ What else would you do with a fruit?! ]
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<[He laughs.]
Made me turn into fire pretty much immediately, and that sucked!
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[ They just have magical fruit around? Is that normal? ]
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[Ace laughs, and nods, time for some story time!]
In my world there's these fruits that rarely appear called Devil Fruits, and each and every single one of them has a power. Now, when someone eats one of those fruits, they gain one power, and eating another won't do anything. Only one power per person! [He clears his throat.] Also, when that one power fruit's eaten, no one else can get the same power. So technically, I'm the only fire user alive!
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How does that work? No one else has ever turned into a living torch before you? Not even in the past?
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Dunno about it before, but since I found the fruit, and ate it, no one else can become a living torch as you put it.
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But fire's a good draw. You could've got something really useless. Like-- like maybe poisonous spit. Poisonous sweat.
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Yeah well, there are some weird powers, but it's how you use them that matters. My brother has rubber powers, for example, his whole body is rubber!
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Really? ... Can he bleed?
[ Is it just really difficult to make him bleed--? Gorgug has never thought about this before. Surprisingly. ]
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[Ace laughs, because really.]
But he can also stretch to ridiculous levels.