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[sythyry]

In Which Vae is a Monster [24 Lage 2461]

This time there were only about twenty imposing people at the Halflight Gate, including Seeks-Balance and Rhedwy and Paarhan but not Kaim-Su. I gather the situation is considered to be safer. Dunno why they think that.

Like last time, Vae wasn't waiting, but her spell was, and she showed up in a burst of hideous ostentation. In Orren form. Wearing a shifting whorl of largely-opaque, largely-opalescent radience which would have looked very attractive on anyOrren I didn't know was a monster.

Me:Something that I very much hope was cheerful.

Vae:"Hiio, Sythyry! How are you doing today?"

Me:"Oh, not so terribly as all that. And yourself?" I might be in a state of mind where explaining my perversions and moping to leadsmiths somehow seems appropriate. I am not so far gone that explaining them to monsters is. Especially not a monster responsible for a good share of the moping.

Vae:"There's a gladness on me for seeing you, that's one thing of it! Little enough company do I get of an ordinary day."

Me:"That sounds a bit lonely, to be sure."

Vae:"That it is, truly. It's Umtangeia or Mretheia I'll pop off to, as often as anything, just so there's someone to talk with." I knew nothing of these places.

Me:"I know nothing of those places!"

Never, ever say that to a nendrai. Really. Never.

She stretched her tail and touched the space near us, and a terrible blossom of straight claws and curved claws closed around us and opened with us in mid-air. In a big huge hurry I spread my wings to catch myself in my fall, but I need not have done: the world-branch below us could not have been closer than some hundreds of miles. And there were three fans of world-branches above us. Vae, herself, wasn't bothering with aeronautics.

Vae:"They're quite nice places! We'll be there in two more hops."

The clawed and clawed blossom of her teleport grabbed us again, and tossed us some ridiculous distance further down.

Comments

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

One thing struck me about all of this. It seems that what you are doing might be considered as _adventuring_ ... like it or not, Sythyry, you now have joined the ranks of adventurers! Don't despair, from what I've heard, the 7+12 favor adventurers by helping them learn new skills and abilities quickly. Perhaps now should be a time to start trying to gain some skills that you think might be useful? It sounds like you need every advantage you can get!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

It is hard to express how comforting I find that.

Obviously, the skill I need at the moment is Profanity.

[alonewiththemoon]

aieee! be safe, sythyry!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

If this were a dramatic narrative, rather than a diary, I would not remind you at this point that I am sitting in my own comfortable fireplace in Quelldrie House, burning logs pulled over my head, writing in my journal book.

Which doesn't mean I'm safe. It just means I survived another encounter with Vaisessasilmin.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

So there's someone to talk to - hmm. I wonder if she's taking you to branches populated by monsters like herself. After all, nendrai are thinking beings even if they're not considered Primes - they might have societies of some kind.

Vae seems to be talking with something of a Welsh lilt!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Not monsters like herself. She doesn't get along with other nendrai very well, I gather.

[She is, more or less.]

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Oooooh! Exploring new and interesting parts of the World Tree, at the side of Vae... without having to go through the Verticals. I envy you!

Congratulations on becoming an arbonaut!

[Note to Bard: I did -NOT- expect this twist in the story.]

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

[OOC - me neither.]

[alonewiththemoon]

there could be plenty of unsafeness in the interim between the teleporting and the burning logs--but yes, I should remember that clearly you have survived thus far :-)

[nekomavin.livejournal.com]

I think this episode conclusively proves that there is no such thing as an innocent question. It had never occurred to me before that such a thing as an insanely dangerous question might exist.

On the plus side, once you stop panicking, the view should be lovely...

[redbird]

I think I vastly amused someone over the weekend who observed me experimenting with how quietly I could repeat obscenities (of the simple sort, nothing complex or interesting) to myself in response to a difficulty. (It's much better now, before anyone worries.)

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

Great Ghu... that's 3600 of our miles down, approximately (assuming she can do 3 levels down at a time). Call it 12 levels or so down. Thats thinly populated (by Primes anyway) frontier. Very interesting...

Be glad you don't have to walk or fly back. Even at the multiples of ten or hundred miles an hour that we can travel, that's a looooong trip.

Question: Does your journal follow you, so you can post during your travels, or do we have to wait until you've made it back safely to your room before we hear about things?

Loxley

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I can certainly carry the thing around, but I do not. Especially to visit Vae. I am back in my comfortable fireplace with burning logs heaped over my head, never fear.

Well, not for another three days at least.

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

I can give you some pointers on that one...

[ubiquity.livejournal.com]

I might be in a state of mind where explaining my perversions and moping to leadsmiths somehow seems appropriate. I am not so far gone that explaining them to monsters is.

Am I the only one who noticed the irony here? (:

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

um ... never mind

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Neat!

I wish I had a nendrai.

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

I see the Plong is working for you.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Sythyry would be happy to give you one!

[niss-the-ai.livejournal.com]

[OOC] It's a sign of good writing when your own characters surprise you. It means they've been developed enough that you're not forcing the plot along, but letting them do what they'd want to do if they were real.

[mmsword.livejournal.com]

Well, atleast we're monsters that would have a very hard time coming to visit you Sythyry.

[vernononfm.livejournal.com]

I know I'd like to have zir job, but, alas, I doubt that the duke would let me do it instead. :( And, there's also the matter that I'm not even in vicinity. *pouts* I bet that if Sythyry wasn't so (justifiably) fearing for zir life, zie would realize what an exciting time this is.

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

Remember the definition of adventure... "somebody else having a really bad day."