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Max heads home, writes up everything he remembers from the trip to the moon with Cam and Adana, and then when his girlfriend gets home, he presents it to her happily.
"Also," he adds, once she's been updated. "The portal hub in Pantheon got a ton of renovations, I think we're calling it the Belfry now. It's very cute."
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castmyown
ask_nicely
"Yeah. I can also stick him to the floor, or - actually sink him into it and turn it to steel around his feet. Let's see him get out of that."
from_scratch
"He's a critter like the Medallion alts, he might be able to shift out of something like that... for that matter I'll have to design the jewelry carefully."
ask_nicely
"Hm. Good point. Then - one of our first priorities should be getting his medallion away from him, so everything else we do works."
from_scratch
"I'll weigh him down and you evaporate the chain? If that doesn't work I'll encase it in Styrofoam or something. It's probably valuable, you don't want to wreck the medallion itself, but I think the chains are normal."
ask_nicely
"Yeah. Just enough to get it away from him, not - permanently destroy it or something."
from_scratch
"Right."
The Belfry approaches. Cam swoops in, only to find that the need for their services has been obviated.
"Is Phix okay?" he asks, as she's still sprawled unconscious halfway between where she was pinned and where Max is retching.
The Belfry approaches. Cam swoops in, only to find that the need for their services has been obviated.
"Is Phix okay?" he asks, as she's still sprawled unconscious halfway between where she was pinned and where Max is retching.
come_midnight
"She self-healed. I don't know why her magic didn't kick in while the dragon was pinning her. I'm charging to fix Max now, but I can drop it if you guys can handle it?"
ask_nicely
Adana swoops in beside her demon, looking at Max and Phix with concern.
"Maybe, depends on what happened. Keep charging, I'd say, and I can try and fix it first."
"Maybe, depends on what happened. Keep charging, I'd say, and I can try and fix it first."
castmyown
Max has, thankfully, upgraded from 'retching' to 'coughing.' How nice for him. But with this upgrade, he manages to retrieve his magic marker and helpfully write out, "INTERRUPTED CHANT." He touches his throat, and then goes back to coughing.
ask_nicely
"I. Am not sure what to do with that," admits Adana. "If it's a magical effect and not a physical one I don't think there's anything I can do. I can try anyway?"
come_midnight
"I don't know if my spell will help either. But I'll be done charging it in a minute. Interrupting chants is extremely unpleasant, good to know..."
royal_obligation
Rain doesn't look particularly inclined to start talking, but he does give Iobel occasional expressionless glances. He would like very much to whisk her away and probably freak out a little over his strong emotional reaction, but she needs to finish her spell first. So he will just be over here. Expressionless.
ask_nicely
"Yeah. Um. Okay, Max, do you want me to try and fix it, which could be risky considering I don't actually know what's wrong, or leave it alone and see what happens?"
castmyown
This one Max tries to respond to verbally, but when he opens his mouth no sound comes out. He briefly has a confused face, before his next coughing fit hits and that quickly goes away. When it subsides enough for him to write, he replies in magic marker, "LEAVE."
come_midnight
Presently Iobel's spell goes off. It's the most generic one she has - clear the airway, normalize temperature, stop bleeding, and calm swelling and inflammation. It treats symptoms, not causes, but since she doesn't have any spells purpose-built to undo the damage done by a swallowed incantation that will have to do.
from_scratch
Cam, meanwhile, weighs the dragon down - all limbs and tail and neck, with a nice fireproof shield between the dragon's immobilized head and the rest of the room. When he wakes up he won't be able to go anywhere.
castmyown
Katydid's spell does absolutely nothing to help. Max offers her a little sad smile. The coughs are getting less pronounced, but he still hasn't managed to use his vocal chords.
ask_nicely
Adana, with nothing else to do, removes the dragon's amulet and scoots it away to prevent any sort of shapeshifting shenanigans.
"Where should I put this?" she wonders.
"Where should I put this?" she wonders.
namesthesky
"I'll stash it in - we should have numbered the rooms. The first purpose-to-be-determined room on the left." Spring takes it and flies away to do that.
ask_nicely
"Right. Then - I guess we're just waiting for everyone to wake up or - recover from magic backlash."
royal_obligation
Rain would very dearly like to whisk his queen away now. They're not even needed anymore, the daeva are here and the dragon's apparently handled. They could probably stick around in case he wakes up and needs another knockout spell, or something, but - the daeva are here, and they are actually invincible. He and Katydid are not. He's not worried about himself so much, but her? After having a very strong emotional response at a lookalike of her being in danger? She needs to be some place safe right this instant.
Picking her up and taking her away is tempting, but not an option. She might protest, and he also doesn't want to draw any sort of attention from their alts about the state of their relationship. So just saying it out loud is out, too. He's pretty sure trying to get the message to her by intense staring is an effort doomed to failure from the start. Also creepy. Very, very creepy. Let's - not do that. New plan, try talking.
"... Is it," he says carefully, like there is no ulterior motive to the words and he just miraculously thought of this now, "completely safe for non-invincible people to be here?"
Picking her up and taking her away is tempting, but not an option. She might protest, and he also doesn't want to draw any sort of attention from their alts about the state of their relationship. So just saying it out loud is out, too. He's pretty sure trying to get the message to her by intense staring is an effort doomed to failure from the start. Also creepy. Very, very creepy. Let's - not do that. New plan, try talking.
"... Is it," he says carefully, like there is no ulterior motive to the words and he just miraculously thought of this now, "completely safe for non-invincible people to be here?"
from_scratch
"I mean, I made the weights very heavy, but if the dragon is magically strong or something I'm not even sure we want the critters here, Phix would just be hard to drag."
royal_obligation
"Then Iobel and I should not be here, we don't know how resurrection will interact with familiars or spirit animals, it might bring us back unmade."
He manages to keep his voice steady and even. Rain's kind of proud of himself for that. Looks like practice at court's good for something after all.
He manages to keep his voice steady and even. Rain's kind of proud of himself for that. Looks like practice at court's good for something after all.