Staying In Sight

Jun. 24th, 2025 12:29 am
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[personal profile] supersmashbrother posting in [community profile] vivala
Who: Raph, Donnie
Where: Subterranean Farms - Donnie's Garden
When: Some time after the Maleficent Rescue Mission
What: How to check on your brudder while checking in on your brudder :(

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You Are Not Alone )
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[personal profile] spacetogrow posting in [community profile] vivalaethernet
[Post-dated to after the battle]

This is kind of a weird question, but... what do people normally dream about?

[Ilphyl ducks their head, realizing that it might be personal.]

Elves where I come from don't need to sleep. We can go into a meditation called reverie or trance, and it works the same to let us stop feeling tired. Sometimes, we might review memories, but for me... it's just like I can feel time pass, but it's not as clear as when I'm awake. I've only slept when I was sick or badly hurt, or when I was really young. Like a toddler.

[which... Ilphyl is not an old elf by their world's standard, and not even an adult by some communities' standards, but actual childhood was still decades ago]

But with the curse, I had to sleep in wild shape to get any rest, and I... well, I don't know what normal dreams are. And I was too afraid to ask while I was still cursed.

[Because they didn't want to think about how much was bleed through; unlike a normal polymorph spell, a druid kept their mind in wild shape, but one couldn't spend most of their time as a cat, or a raccoon without some changes in how one saw the world.]

So... what do people dream about?
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Who: Emery-Apollo, Tsuyukusa, Link, Kaitlyn, Natalia, a giant poisonous lizard, potentially some sailors.
What: Emery has hired some Corsairs to kill a monster that is poisoning the land in Hesaeth.
Where: Above an abandoned Hesaeth mine.
When: In between various missions to gather steel and powder.
OOC Info: Here.

As the Spring turns more solidly to Summer, Emery has been going about approaching various Corsairs with a job offer.

As a byproduct of ether experimentation, the Imperials have made a monster nicknamed “Python.” Python, Emery explained, is a large quadruped reptile which continually creates and secretes poison. Python not only poisons its prey, but it also contaminates water, soil, or any living thing it comes into contact with. What’s more, it’s an aggressive predator that continually seeks out food.

With their typical levels of responsibility, the Imperials decided to deal with it by dumping the monster onto Hesaeth. Python has found an abandoned mine to take shelter in, but regularly leaves to go hunting. It’s surviving on the small, hardy birds and mammals that make the desert its home, but it’s only a matter of time until it moves on. If it reaches a source of water, or any active mines, the situation could be disastrous.

Emery has magic that can purify the monster’s poison, but he’s not confident in his ability to take it out by himself. Thus he has gathered together a small assortment of skilled fighters under the promise of modest repayment.

To get to Python’s hideout requires an overnight trip by boat and then a hike of a few hours, and then it’s a battle against a wild enemy that cannot be touched with bare skin.

Godly Bonus Mission: Vs. Python

Jun. 21st, 2025 12:01 am
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[personal profile] fair_trouble posting in [community profile] vivalaooc
Setup:
Emery, the Mysterious Weirdo who’s been spotted around Elysium, Flotsam, and Asphodel, is recruiting powerful fighters to help him take down a monster created by Imperial experiments that was disposed of on Hesaeth.

The monster is a giant lizard nicknamed “Python” which continually leaks toxins from its skin and orifices. These toxins poison the land around it and quickly sicken anyone who breathes them in or absorbs them through their skin. It is mindlessly aggressive and will eat just about anything living it finds.

It has not been eating well on Hesaeth. This means it’s weaker than it otherwise could be, but also far more ornery and desperate.

To take this monster down, Emery is primarily in need of combatants, but any Corsairs who can provide transportation there and back again can also take part. Also useful would be anyone with purification abilities or resistance to poisons.

Technicalities:
To (hopefully) keep the boss battle moving at a brisk pace, I’m going to try and respond at least once a day. Participants are also free to skip over one another as long as they only post once a “round.” A round will consist of at least one post from participants plus a god post detailing what Emery and the Python are doing. So it might look like Person A posts, then Person B, then Emery. Or it might be Person B, Person C, and then Emery. Or just Person A, then Emery.

I’ll assume anyone who doesn’t manage to post for their character during a round is doing okay- neither seriously inflicting damage nor receiving any serious damage- so if you’re busy and wind up missing a round you won’t have to worry about it. You’ll just miss out on some notoriety.

Rewards:
Anyone who helps out will get a modest amount of money from Emery, and the satisfaction of knowing they did a good deed.

If that isn’t enough, participants are also free to take parts from the dead Python, such as teeth, skin, organs, etc. as long as they have a way of safely storing the toxic materials.

(Or they can make themselves seriously ill trying to take materials from Python’s body that they don’t have a safe way of handling, but they might get yelled at by Emery if he catches them and they will definitely wind up in the clinic.)

Sign Ups:
Comment below if interested! I’ll take up to four participants for the battle thread, and if anyone is interested I can also do other threads playing out your character’s recruitment. Might also do a socialization-centric thread for the trip to Hesaeth.

02 | Oh The Mundanity

Jun. 19th, 2025 09:57 am
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[personal profile] frost_and_shinies posting in [community profile] vivalaethernet
[The video feed is pointed at a ceiling, in a building in Elysium.]

Ah, the joy of it all. Bound to the winter to the point where my body temperature literally runs cold... At least, until a mundane cold strikes and my immune system has to kick in.

I'm, er, not even sure what to ask for right now. I'm nine-tenths certain what I'm dealing with is a common cold, but my immune system is doing what it's supposed to, which is heating my body up, which, given the whole 'Chosen of Winter' thing, is, uh. REALLY unpleasant. Not deadly, but imagine being under the Alaska sun with Arizona-level heat. That's what it feels like. I think I've drank a third of my body weight in water.

Anyone got an idea or two? Should I be asking for magical aid? Would that even work???

... Now I think about it, I never experienced this in the Dungeon. Did that place just not have mundane disease...?
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