Denika gets stranded on Scope
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"You can't be from Kelos, then. Or even Old Faron. If either side could cross the ocean in an hour that side would have won the war without breaking a sweat."

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"I'm not from across the ocean, yes. I'm from over the sky."

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"Another planet? Another sun?"

"I've heard of ideas like that. The stars are suns."

"No, that's absurd. I don't believe it."

"Well, why not?"

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In response, she sends her telepresence robot out to play them a timelapse video of her approach of the planet, starting from the edge of their solar system where their sun is indistinguishable from other stars.

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"Woah."

"...Yeah that would be hard to fake."

"People talk about reaching for the stars, but to actually do it?"

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"The place I started used a long time to learn how. We can teach you, if you want. Once I know more words."

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"Just don't tell Old Faron and Kelos. They'll use it to blow each other up. Again."

"Yeah... Kelos really fucked everything up. They killed a lot of Ejer for no good reason, you know? Even here in White Forest, and it wasn't as bad here as elsewhere."

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"Mmm. We'll talk to them before we teach them anything, then, and say that they should not do that."

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"I'm sure that will completely solve the issue forever with no chance of anyone involved lying or changing their minds." The grey wolf-girl rolls her eyes.

"No, no, you have to write it down first and have a bunch of people who're full of themselves sign it. Then it's a treaty. That'll fix it!" A cat-boy mirrors her.

"Ugh!" The brown-furred one waves in frustration. 

Grey continues, "I mean, the whole Pyre Principle is a treaty that's held up for a good long while, they do seem to keep to it when there's regular reminders why it's a good idea..."

"Oh, but then when this system encountered something that didn't mesh nicely into the existing rules there was a whole lot of murder."

"I mean, the old tribal wars weren't exactly great. I'm pretty glad they're not a thing anymore."

"Because Kelos exterminated everyone who burnt magic in warfare."

The brown-haired one stands up and starts pacing. "Blood, I don't want to talk about this depressing stuff. Why aren't we talking about flying?!? I should have gone for the hawk build!"

"I mean, you can still change it."

"For a few pounds of gold and a few months in bed, sure, not like I have that spare."

"Also," the catboy says, "I hear flying is utterly exhausting unless you specialize hard and practice with it a lot both red and green."

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"Do you want to see more pictures from me flying? Or come in and I can fly with you, but you still only see pictures."

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"Yes!" "No!" "YES!" "Yes!"

"Look, guys," says 'no', "I don't think, uh, we should be going on adventures with weird ship-people until we know more. There's taking a leap of faith and then there's literally jumping off a cliff-"

"She's nice though!"

"And made of amazing metal with super strong, what's the word, engines!"

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"I'll be here other days, too. You can come in and see bigger pictures?"

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