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The Mods of LifeAftr ([personal profile] lifeaftr_mods) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr2019-10-04 02:56 pm

[NASTRANDIR] - STEADY HEARTBEATS LEAD ME

Who: Everyone!
What: A new friend makes themself available for questions, propositions, discussions...and answers
When: October 4th, and throughout the rest of the month
Where: Nastrandir
Warnings: Nothing of note!

For the second time in as many months, the waters about Ensō rise, though not nearly as much as they did in the month prior.

This time, the water's intent does not appear to be outright submersion, but rather seeking - small strands of water separate from the larger pools and wind their way across the island's surface until they've found what it is they seek. Namely, you. Someone to talk to.

Throughout the day, each islander is certain to spot the water behaving in this strange manner at least once, snaking its way towards them before curving and splitting into much more recognizable forms on the dirt below them.

It's forming words.

You seek many things. So do I. You can answer some of what I seek. I can answer some of what you question.

Beside the mana pool of Nastrandir. All are welcome.

Waiting for you in the once shallow recesses of the swamps, the great water dragon that battled alongside others in defense of Nastrandir is...smaller, having shed some of its bulk to make conversing more simple. Move as close as you'd like - or stay as far away as you're able. They don't mind. The Water's patience is unending, and this conversation will begin with you.

No matter how long it might take.

For the more cautious of characters, the Water will remain passive regardless of how long one needs to stake them out, only retaliating against attempts to attack them. Otherwise, the great creature remains in the water, looking only to those who step close to the waterline, and failing to do more until indicated that such actions are desired of it.

So speak up, friend, and let your intent be known. For there's much to discuss - and for you, only mortal amounts of time to do so.

This NPC will be available to interact with for the remainder of the month; characters do not have to approach them on the precise day to have a discussion!
semistableman: (☔ so sad to everyone)

[personal profile] semistableman 2019-12-14 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[He frowns, trying to come up with more questions.]

Fire also can be the start of something new, though. After a forest fire, the forest starts to recover. Slowly, but it happens. Did something happen to the dragon, to make it attack so randomly?

I guess you might not know the answers, sorry.
thankgods: (water.)

[personal profile] thankgods 2020-01-24 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
It was a mockery. An insult.

[A soft hiss uncoils from the waters, as though the dragon is snapping their jaws discontentedly, but the irritation is not diverted toward Bucky - rather, toward the vague direction of where the beast's corpse now reclines.]

I am Water. Things are reflected in me. And so this was a reflection. A distortion picked in my image.

Warm flesh sated its hunger for many years. When that became in short supply, again it slept. So it is warm flesh that awakened it.
semistableman: (✪ maybe you're a sinner)

[personal profile] semistableman 2020-02-15 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[He twists his head to look in its direction, not able to see the corpse, but he knows very well that it's there just the same.]

Does that mean that it was... our arrival that awoke it?
thankgods: (water.)

[personal profile] thankgods 2020-02-15 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. It was drawing close to its resting place that roused it.

Perhaps an inevitability.
semistableman: (★ i am so homesick now for)

[personal profile] semistableman 2020-02-19 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like it might've been. There's a lot of us here.

I guess... that does explain a lot. You wake up something that wasn't to destroy, you're going to get attacked.
thankgods: (water.)

[personal profile] thankgods 2020-02-19 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Precisely.

Not the fault of a wandering and exploring people such as yourselves; a consequence of the manner of world that you inhabit.