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Linya and Bella are working on wishes, in between light chat about runecasting and their personal lives. It is radiantly obvious to people paying attention that Bella wants to kiss her and Linya is married, although neither statement is made.
Ivans are playing cards.
Mileses, including Solvei, are debating the wisdom of borrowing another strategy game from Bar; Mark, a voice of caution, does not know what will happen if all of them (Solvei, Mial, Miles, Milo, Stalas) all start screaming at each other in twenty directions.
And -
greatestgift
"Well, similarly to the Wall of Flesh, he can be re-summoned after I defeat him in any particular island. It's just a little more complicated to get from 'I want to fight the Moon Lord' to actually being chased by an enormous green tentacle-faced man with no legs."
greatestgift
"It's been about two years since the first time I fought him, I've been all over my island and pestered my soulless person-things for advice, I've checked other islands that have seen the Moon Lord, and I can't find a way to summon the next strong monster. So if there is one, it's uncharacteristically well-hidden."
onceandforall
"This sounds more videogamey every time you say something about the place. I should show you a video game of some kind but all that's coming into my head is Pokémon and it's not that much like Pokémon in particular."
greatestgift
"If that's everybody who wants a round of candies right this minute, I could go outside and show interested parties what the Celestial Staff does," says Sable.
greatestgift
She tidies the lined-up candies off the table and back into her pouches.
"Who's coming?"
"Who's coming?"
first-and-final
"Count me out," says Milan. "I almost want to get home before I can be tempted any harder."
"I want to see the source of the terrible noise!" says Milo.
"I admit I'm interested too," says Ashras.
"I want to see the source of the terrible noise!" says Milo.
"I admit I'm interested too," says Ashras.
thisvorlunatic
"I definitely need to see this," says Miles.
"I'm curious," says Stalas.
"Why not," says Mial.
"I'm curious," says Stalas.
"Why not," says Mial.
unmarred
Mark and Inlaith don't say anything, but they stand with the group of interested Mileses. (So does Solvei, and so does Elarron.)
abeance
"Sort of professionally curious, but while dragons are often bigger than houses I'm also not usually fighting to the death..."
onceandforall
"Milan, before you go, you should at least take Bar's free drink. I promise she inexplicably conjures them out of nowhere and she is herself the least scientific being of all time."
first-and-final
"I feel like something must have gone wrong somewhere with my explanations if you're advertising it that way, but if you're sure it isn't dangerous, I might try it..."
greatestgift
To the backyard!
"Okay," says Sable to the assembled spectators. "I'm pretty sure that this won't hurt any of you even if you catch a stray something-or-other, but I'm not positive and would not like to put it to the test, so please stand where you are and don't come any closer to me. Also, this is going to be really loud."
She spreads her wings and takes off and flies some distance away from the crowd, then expands her Celestial Staff in all its ornate multicoloured glory and waits a moment in case anyone is having second thoughts and would like to go back inside.
"Okay," says Sable to the assembled spectators. "I'm pretty sure that this won't hurt any of you even if you catch a stray something-or-other, but I'm not positive and would not like to put it to the test, so please stand where you are and don't come any closer to me. Also, this is going to be really loud."
She spreads her wings and takes off and flies some distance away from the crowd, then expands her Celestial Staff in all its ornate multicoloured glory and waits a moment in case anyone is having second thoughts and would like to go back inside.
greatestgift
Neither do any Mileses or their siblings.
Sable raises the staff and points it out over the lake, angled upward, and:
A huge glowing purple-violet sphere roars out of the tip of the staff and crackles through the air. It's something like a cloud and something like a flame and it makes an incredible noise. Very shortly afterward, it is followed by an arcing shower of small, blazingly bright orange-yellow darts or spears that pass through it on their way to the lake. The stream of spears continues uninterrupted as the purple thing makes its slow parabolic journey. The first bunch of spears hit the grassy shore and explode violently, in tiny bursts of roaring yellow-white flame and crackling greenish-white lightning; then the cloud-bomb finally hits, and explodes much more violently, releasing dozens of pale blue orbs that streak outward in every direction. The spear-stream finally cuts off at the source; the blue orbs fly through the air in seemingly random patterns, then dissolve into thin air a few seconds later as the last spears strike the ground.
The grass is completely undamaged.
Sable raises the staff and points it out over the lake, angled upward, and:
A huge glowing purple-violet sphere roars out of the tip of the staff and crackles through the air. It's something like a cloud and something like a flame and it makes an incredible noise. Very shortly afterward, it is followed by an arcing shower of small, blazingly bright orange-yellow darts or spears that pass through it on their way to the lake. The stream of spears continues uninterrupted as the purple thing makes its slow parabolic journey. The first bunch of spears hit the grassy shore and explode violently, in tiny bursts of roaring yellow-white flame and crackling greenish-white lightning; then the cloud-bomb finally hits, and explodes much more violently, releasing dozens of pale blue orbs that streak outward in every direction. The spear-stream finally cuts off at the source; the blue orbs fly through the air in seemingly random patterns, then dissolve into thin air a few seconds later as the last spears strike the ground.
The grass is completely undamaged.
thisvorlunatic
"I want to annihilate despair monsters with that and I don't even have despair monsters," says Miles.
"I want to annihilate darkspawn with that," says Stalas.
"I don't want to annihilate anything in particular with it but I am very happy that I got to see it," says Mial.
"I want to annihilate darkspawn with that," says Stalas.
"I don't want to annihilate anything in particular with it but I am very happy that I got to see it," says Mial.