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Arikat Kal'amm has had a very stressful morning. His mother revealed that she was going to sacrifice him to Virgloth in exchange for passage to her home dimension, then she was murdered by a roving band of Krann'gol raiders, and they tried to take him as a slave, but he fell into a portal... All in all, it's just been a really rotten day.
Anyway, he just fell into a portal. He's fallen onto some kind of... plant life? Tiny green leaves sticking out of the ground. (The ground is really soft. Kind of disturbing. Leaves also soft. He didn't even break anything.)
"Fucking hells," he says, mostly for form's sake.
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sonofsnow
sonofsnow
Ari shakes his head. "This is a weird dimension."
A thought occurs. "Hey, how come you didn't know about magic even though you can do telekinesis?"
A thought occurs. "Hey, how come you didn't know about magic even though you can do telekinesis?"
missnicegirl
"I can do telekinesis. I can't do portals or translation spells, and I've never heard of anyone who can. I've never even heard of anyone else who can do telekinesis."
sonofsnow
"Weeeeeird. Magic's s'posed to be all over the place or not there at all. Wanna try learning the translation pearl spell?"
sonofsnow
Ari dashes out to acquire a rock, then dashes back in. He conscientiously wipes off the majority of the dirt, then begins shaping it into a sphere and bleaching it to a pearly white.
missnicegirl
Matilda watches with intense curiosity. She would love to know how all this works.
sonofsnow
Once the stone is approximately pearlescent, Ari hands it over.
"Okay, so what you need to do here, you- okay. Take the stone and focus your energy into it, then say- wait. I need to lift my translation for a bit, it has to be said in Krullan."
He concentrates for a moment, making throat noises, then spits his own pearl into the palm of his hand and says some things that are probably words. Very guttural words.
He pops the stone back into his mouth. "Did you catch that?"
"Okay, so what you need to do here, you- okay. Take the stone and focus your energy into it, then say- wait. I need to lift my translation for a bit, it has to be said in Krullan."
He concentrates for a moment, making throat noises, then spits his own pearl into the palm of his hand and says some things that are probably words. Very guttural words.
He pops the stone back into his mouth. "Did you catch that?"
missnicegirl
"I think so, but what do you mean by focusing my energy into the stone?"
sonofsnow
"Um. You know the feeling of telekinesis? Like that, but... instead of doing anything with it, just focusing. Like pretending to push up against an invisible wall."
missnicegirl
"I'm not at all sure that the telekinesis I do is anything like any telekinesis you've ever heard of," says Matilda.
sonofsnow
"...Fair, I guess. Well, try to just... focus on the stone? However you can? And recite the incantation. I can tell if it worked, if I focus."
missnicegirl
"Hmm," she says. "All right."
She focuses on the stone, attempting, as instructed, to put energy into it.
It begins to glow brightly. Matilda squints at it. "Yours didn't do that," she says.
She focuses on the stone, attempting, as instructed, to put energy into it.
It begins to glow brightly. Matilda squints at it. "Yours didn't do that," she says.
sonofsnow
"No," Ari agrees. "No, it did not."
He squints at it. "It... It's definitely magic. It's not the translation spell, it's not even primed like it would be if you'd said the incantation... it..."
He shakes his head. "Try the incantation?"
missnicegirl
"Hm."
She contemplates the desired end result, gazing thoughtfully at the stone. To turn it into a thing-that-does-translation—
The glow cuts out.
"...What did I do now?" she wonders.
She contemplates the desired end result, gazing thoughtfully at the stone. To turn it into a thing-that-does-translation—
The glow cuts out.
"...What did I do now?" she wonders.
sonofsnow
"Well, no."
He peers at the stone again. "It... It's like mine. The effect, at least. But it's- weird. Not like a proper pearl of tongues at all. Try putting it in your mouth?"
He peers at the stone again. "It... It's like mine. The effect, at least. But it's- weird. Not like a proper pearl of tongues at all. Try putting it in your mouth?"
missnicegirl
"Well, if it's weird then maybe I don't have to put it in my mouth. Can you undo your translation again and try saying something?"
sonofsnow
He shrugs and hocks up his pearl again. "My mother recently attempted to murder me," he says in apparent English. "Like, this morning recently. It sucked. But I met a cute girl, so whatever."