Shattered Planes Archives (Seasons 4 & 5)
Insanus Galaxy => Duppin => Topic started by: Nisorin on May 19, 2010, 02:59:31 PM
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With the Tempora moored a safe distance outside the planet's atmosphere, a small ball-like flare ignited in a clearing a short ways off from the settlement, the flare opening up into a portal a few minutes later. Through the portal, the two children Rev and Gen stand with Alex in front of them. "Duppin is a very strange planet, try not to step off of the walkways for too long." He says, smiling at them as he walks through to the arrival point.
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The two children followed Alex out, not ready for what they saw next. Staring strangely at the pudding-made planet, the two stopped abruptly and just stared speechless, for what felt like hours, but really, only a few minutes. Finally, they broke the silence.
"I haven't seen anything like that before," Gen said.
"Yeah, what is it?" Rev asked.
The two then knelt down and poked the pudding. Quickly drawing their hands away from the strange substance, they knelt over farther to get an even better look, and ended up falling in and sinking under the surface.
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An aura enveloped them and pulled them to the surface as Ace Thunders appeared on Duppin. In his hands was a katana made of Ur-steel formed from a meteor. Ace was clad in black robes with golden symbols on them.
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The 'pudding' underneath their feet solidifies and rises, pushing them out of the pudding and back onto the platform, which Ace completely neglected to do. "Watch step. Slippy sometime." A gruff, almost feral voice calls out from the other side of the walkway. "You no swim in Duppin pudding, little ones. You try, you drown." He adds, walking over to the two. He pulls the pudding off of them, holding it in two separate, magically-floating orbs.
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Since by falling in, they would obviously have gotten a taste of the pudding, the two sat on the walkway, wide-eyed and grinning. Monitoring the pudding being pulled off of them, they reached out to take some, playing with it in their hands, pulling it a part, and finally letting it drop. When they had gotten enough of the chocolate brown substance, they looked at who had arrived.
"Let's do that again!" Gen exclaimed.
"But what was it?" Rev asked.
"It left a weird sensation in the mouth," Gen added.
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"That taste. This be Duppin Pudding. Food. You not have pudding before?" Iroku asks, handing them the remainders of the blobs.
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Well now that everything was fine Ace Thunders approached Irrelai and whispered to her in Relorian "May I speak with you privately away from these two?" He didn't wish to offend Rev and Gen with what he was about to say. He knew that they disliked Maxima as he had read Maxima's mind and they had broken their deal with Aria for some odd reason even though Maxima had at that time possessed Aria's soul, and now it was a necklace that Ace Thunders wore.
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"Pudding? Food? Taste? What's that?" The questions came from both Rev, and Gen at once, and could be seen as pure ecstatic curiosity. As incarnations, they had never experienced eating or taste, and it was a new sensation for the both of them. However, by the expressions, the two now held, it could easily be seen, they enjoyed the taste of pudding.
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The man's eyes widen, and he shakes his head. "I call Irrelai, she better at this." He says, tapping his toe against the ground. "Pudding food, eat. Need eat to live. Pudding good food, if not eat too much. Eat too much, get fat. Fat bad, fat slow and weaker than muscle." He adds, glancing over to Ace. "Who you? Why here?"
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Ace Thunders pondered the question that Iroku was asking him and then decided how best to answer. Well now it was time for him to answer the question of Iroku and so he said to Iroku "My name is Ace Thunders. My friends would like to live here on Duppin if that is okay with you. "
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The kids looked at Iroku, completely ignorant of Ace, and occupied to the point, where their reason for being there was long forgotten.
"What do you mean eat?" Rev asked.
"And why would you need it to live?" Gen followed.
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A large bunch of vines snakes out from the pudding, coalescing atop the walkway and forming the shape of Irrelai, quickly reforming into her actual body. "That pudding that went into your mouths was swallowed, brought into your body so your body can take it apart and turn it into energy to use in maintaining itself. Sages don't have to eat very often, due to their magic, but we Relorians are different. We must eat more often than humans do, though we can use our magic to sustain us for a while." She answers, smiling at the children as Iroku walks over to Ace, staring him straight in the eyes as an ethereal head rises from his own, the face that of an elderly tribal chieftain.
"No ask me. Ask Duppin." He says, looking the man over as if sizing him up. "If you no can ask, you no live here."
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Putting his hand on the planet's surface he asked the planet "Do you mind if I bring the Warrior Humans and Tideans here?" He was asking through his magic so that Rev and Gen could not discern at the moment what he was up to.
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Sadly the planet didn't respond, well not in the all flashy way some might expect it would. Instead the burst of magic that Ace had used woke up something, woke up something big.. A pudding wyrm. It's hibernation interrupted by Ace's magic it was angry, bursting from the ground it just began to eat, eat, and oh did I mention eat?
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Quickly utilizing a combination of hardening and illusion spells, Iroku, Irrelai and the other Shamai in the settlement erected thick, dense walls the wyrm couldn't chew through around their village, Koraiten pulling the two kids into the dome before closing it shut, leaving Ace outside to deal with the problem he'd created. Once inside, the mages immediately set about further hardening the dome walls, compressing them into a sort of pudding-made metal reinforced with various shamanic wards to physically push against incoming threats, such as the wyrm. While not strong enough to outright repel it like a magnet, the wards' combined effects are potent enough to decrease the amount of momentum, and thus impact force, the wyrm can bring to bear on it.
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Ace held out his hand and a portal opened in front of the Pudding Wyrm putting an obstacle in front of it that would take it into the Dimensional Sea. Having no time for this insanity Ace was dealing with it as best he could.
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Both Rev and Gen hadn't even given a glance at Ace, for as long as they'd been there. And whatever he was doing now, didn't interest them enough to even question it. For all they cared, he may as well have not even been there. Before they could respond to Irrelai, however, they had felt a rumbling. Then, next thing they knew, they had been pulled into a dome made of what the man had described as food. It was all very frightening, but were they scared? Not in the least.
Utilizing their magic, and gift of truth. The children, each placed a hand on the wall of the dome, and looked through it, to see what was happening outside. With the view of the Wyrm, now in their sights, the two gasped. But not a gasp of fear, a gasp of hardly contained excitement.
"Is this part of 'eating?' Rev asked.
"Yes, does your 'food,' always fight back?" Gen commented after. The two of them, looking back at Irrelai and Iroku.
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As the portal appeared the Wyrm quickly retracted back into the ground, but the rumbling didn't cease, coming back up right under Ace with it's massive maw all the way open.
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"Sometimes. We don't just eat pudding after all. There's different plants and animals that we can eat. And as you can see out there, there are things that can eat us as well. It is the cycle of nature. The dead feed the smallest of beings, who provide nutrients for plants to grow. Plants are then eaten by animals, who are then eaten by other animals. It's one big web that sustains itself." Irrelai explains, smiling at her new 'students.'
"Irrelai, they not fawn. They no need teacher now." Iroku replies, smiling almost longingly at her before turning his attention back to the Wyrm.
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Reacting to the giant creature raising it's maw up under him Ace promptly teleported out of the way and loosed a barrage of fireballs conjured by Essence directly for the head of the creature namely aiming for his eyes. If this creature could fight blind then Ace would be in big trouble. He also made 5 jagged crystal spears go flying at the creature to impale it.
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In response to the words of Iroku, the two incarnations glanced over. "If we defeat that thing, you'll teach us more. Right?" Not waiting to receive an answer, the two lifted their hands from the wall of the dome. Raising their hands out, both Rev, and Gen held them out to each other, standing at attention, just a few inches apart from one another. Then in unison, they both pointed to the ground. Amber energy glowing around Rev, and cyan, around Gen.
As the two energies met, they began to wrap around one another, forming a two-fold cord of both cyan and amber. The cord then began to shape itself and grown in size, taking up most of the dome, but not affecting the Relorians, in fact, it seemed to just go through everything. When it had finally finished growing, its form could be clearly seen. There in front of everything, was a Wyrm, like the one from outside. Only it was made completely out of Genesis and Revelation magic, and glowed with the colored combination of amber and cyan.
This new Wyrm, then went right through the dome. Once it was out of it, it became solid, and burrowed underneath the ground, in attack of the other Wyrm, but not before taking the liberty of smacking the floating Ace with its tail. The tail made of Genesis and Revelation magic. Poor Ace.
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Ace however managed to evade the tail of the pudding wyrm made out of Revelation and Genesis Magic and landed on the solid part of the pudding forming a dome of his own made out of crystal.
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The two shamans place a hand on the childrens' shoulders, smiling warmly at them as they shake their heads. "Don't kill it. Everything needs to eat. Predators eat their prey, unless the prey can outfight, outrun, or outsmart the hunter." Irrelai says, gently pulling Rev away from the wall as Iroku pulls Gen.
"That life of hunter, of hunted. That nature. Not anyone place to change but in emergency only, like me save Irrelai, or Irrelai save me. Like family we be." Iroku adds, crouching down to Gen's eye level.
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(3 day rule, goodbye Wyrm.)
By the time Ace had dodged, the other Wyrm was Magic Wyrm chow, in a manner of speaking. The Wyrm of Revelation and Genesis magic, wrapped its self upon the pudding Wyrm, and began to swallow it whole, almost like a boa constrictor. However, by the time the other Wyrm was gone, Rev and Gen, were being lectured on the lessons of life...
"You mean we shouldn't kill it?" Gen spoke up, as she looked at Rev, and Rev did the same. They could tell by the connection to their magic, that it was almost too late for the Wyrm. But these people seemed to not want it dead. Of everything they had so far learned, this was something new to them. Should they stop it, or let it die? Didn't most people, kill dangerous things?
"But the information from that Archive place, showed things like that as dangerous." Rev said.
"And that they should be stopped." Added Gen.
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Looking at the beast Ace thought it was dead. Reaching out to the land once more he asked for permission for the Warrior Humans and Tideans that still existed to live on this world if they so desired.
"Do the warrior humans have your permission to live here?" he asked the land.
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Irrelai holds up a finger to Ace, indicating that she needs a moment while she looks at Rev and Gen. "That wyrm was only seeking food for it, and possibly its family. While there's no reason not to defend yourself, you shouldn't kill the beast when you can repel it instead." She answers, smiling almost motherly at the kids.
Iroku, his hand still on Gen's shoulder, shakes his head as he points to the Wyrm. "Let go home. Have family to feed."
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The children tilted their heads, in a way that showed them thinking. Finally they both nodded. "Alright." With that, the two, each waved a hand; the wyrm made of magic, dispersing in an explosion of vibrant cyan and amber. But with no harm to the swallowed Pudding Wyrm, who decided, at that time, to get away from there. It was used to being the biggest and baddest creature on Duppin, it had no want for these strange people and their effects. So, back into the pudding it burrowed.
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Standing there calmly Ace waited for Irrelai to finish what she was doing with the two incarnations as he received a mental communication from Dominic Vasquez telling him that his plan had began to succeed.
Smirking Ace focused.
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Iroku smiles as he leads the two kids away, bringing them to his home as he offers them both a steaming, strong-smelling drink. "Careful, hot. So why you come here? Few visit Iroku and Irrelai."
Irrelai, on the other hand, stays behind to deal with Ace. "You're lucky. You should be Wyrm food right now."
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"I should be?" asked Ace. He knew deep within his heart that the Wyrm wouldn't have succeeded eat eating him as he would have fought it off with his Relorian Magic and his powers of Essence which he would put to use in order to protect those he cared about. "Aetis Aros Acoros!" The glyphs on his staff glowed with energy. "Now it is time to do what I had been trying other." Reaching out to the land with magic he asked permission for the Warrior Humans and the Tideans to come.
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At the mention to the reason they were there, the kids quickly look shocked, as to how fast they had forgotten. Not meaning to, they had been side tracked from their original objective. There was just too much about the universe, to learn. And still, they had more questions. Like the planet they were on, the liquid that was in front of them....
Looking down at it, they both studied it, before deciding to ask after.
"We learned some stuff from this old old guy in a big ship." Gen said.
"Lots, and lots, and lost of stuff." Rev added in exaggeration. "One of it, being a large metal planet."
Gen nodded. "So we asked the one named Alex, and he said to ask you."
"Do you know anything about it?" Rev asked.
"And can you take us?" Gen added.
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"Lots of planet-size metal things in universe, but metal-made planet? Me know one. City of Suvian, in Kalak galaxy. Far, but Jade and Kerion bring you. You friendly, me like you. Sure they like you, once meet you." He says, pouring himself his own tea in a bone cup and taking a sip. "Try tea, is good. Make meself."
Irrelai laughs at the man, seeing him again trying to use his magic to force the connection. "You've obviously never spoken with nature before. Stop trying to force it. Close your eyes, get comfortable, and listen instead of talk."
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Closing his eyes Ace got comfortable and listened rather than trying to force the land.
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"We met Jade!" Gen piped up.
"She was on that planet we gave away," Rev added.
"And she argued with that old old guy," Gen said.
Both glanced at the cups again, surveying them. Neither of them knew what tea was. And they had just learned about eating. Was this 'food,' as well? The two glanced up and watched Iroku, studying how he did it, before they tried. When finally they thought they had it. Both picked up the cups. Disaster ensued. Gen ended up trying to eat the cup, while taking a drink, thinking that was how it was done, she bit the glass. And Rev, spat it out at the first drink, quickly learning the effects of 'heat.' Either way, both cups ended up on the floor in the end; broken.
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He chuckles and starts picking up the glass. "This to hold tea. No eat cup. Cup hold drink. Drink drink. Pour drink in mouth, swallow drink. Maybe wait till drink cool." He says, throwing the glass shards into a nearby woven basket before grabbing more bone cups. "These no break easy."
Irrelai smiles as she watches Ace, small tendrils of pudding rising up between the boards of hardened pudding around him. "Now speak, and be polite. Do not command, but request."
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"May the Warrior Humans and Tideans live here?" asked Ace Thunders politely.
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They carefully watched the cups, this time being wary. After a few minutes, and no speaking. Finally the two tried again. Both lifting the cups and doing as he said. Shock filled their wide eyes, which, since they were basically mirrors, meant their eyes glowed with both their respective colors of amber and cyan. And before a person could blink, both cups were drained. "More please." They said in unison, placing the cups down.
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He chuckles and pours them both some more. "Most think Iroku tea too strong. You like?" He asks, standing up to get some food for them, before they leave for the City of the Suvian.
The tendrils wrap around Ace loosely, the tips all resting on various pressure-points as vines start untangling themselves from the pudding-wood-work.
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Ace Thunders focused and asked politely through magic his request to the land namely that the Warrior Humans and Tideans be allowed to lodge on Duppin. "May the Warrior Humans live here?"
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"Yes" Gen repied.
"Indeed," Rev answered."
"Indeed Yes." The both of them chimed, as they drained their cups.
Then, taking the chance, with Iroku not looking. The two used magic to levitate the pot over to them, and pouring the remaining into the cups. After levitating the pot back, the two drained the rest of it, and jumped up, out of their seats. Both sparking with amber and cyan energy, in small slight ways.
"So, City of Suvian!"
"Can you take us?" Rev said, as Gen followed.
"The Jade person looked busy." She added.
"And we want to go now!" Rev exclaimed.
"Please, please, please, please, please!" Both, together, begged.
As they continued begging, the magic sparked, more, as if reacting to their wants and pleas.
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Giving them a strange look, Iroku laughs and takes a sip of a second pot. "Oops, gave zippy tea. Irrelai no like that. Jade will. Take you to see Jade, Koraiten go first, warn her." He says, smiling as he crouches down and his armor gradually grows to cover every inch of skin.
The tendrils vibrate slightly, and the wind seems to speak to the young newcomer. "For how long?"
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Both looked at the pot almost hungrily. "Is there more?!" Rev asked.
"And can we take it with us?!" Added Gen.
Both then preceded to wal- run over to Iroku.
"And can we go now?!!!" They both begged, once again.
"We'll teleport!" Gen exclaimed.
"And they can catch up!" Rev added.
"LETS GO!" The two shouted, holding hands, as they casted a mass teleportation spell to the location within their minds.
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Thinking on the voice of the land Ace mentally calculated that the Warrior Humans and Tideans would soon be able so they would be prepared. "5 months. " he said politely waiting for the land to reply.
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Irrelai shakes her head at the man's words, sighing as she ponders them. One month maybe, but certainly not five! She muses, watching as the tendrils shudder as well.
You may stay for one month.
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Communicating with the land Ace merely agreed and then held out his hand concentrating deeply and a large portal opened up dropping 20 Warrior Human scientists out who immediately went to work.
Ace said to them "We only have 1 month to finish what we began so we better work fast. " At that more workers came out of the portal and with various machines in their hands and began to assemble them in a seemingly random order that the Relorians would not recognize. "Hurry up. We don't have all day. " said Ace.