Lords Of Creation (Beta)

[Philote]

Po motions with his hand and the Fireflies travel deeper into the woods, moving like a river of lights under the cover of the branches. Groups of three to four Fireflies carry lightweight wooden shelters to where the creatures make their home.

"Ri has made it to the shore" Po says, passing on the information to his allies "I'm watching events unfold through their eyes."

[Zaleramancer]

Across the band of salty water lay the island.

The vastness of the pains was broken only by the occasional tree, and a single town of the brutish Durk. Fireflies dart through grass and over walls, peering and poking. Seeing.

They see the weapons of the Durks- keenly efficient looking axes, crafted with care. The Durks themselves, six foot tall walking walls of muscle. As this was a tiny coastal village, no more than thirty or forty of them lived within the walls. Many were armed with their axes and armored in mail of many tiny chains.

As a firefly darted past the statue, it is blow by a sudden draft... a sudden stinky draft.

Close examination reveals the huge statue to be nothing less than a she-giant. Huge and lumbering, surrounded by choice boulders and clothed in the many, many skins of animals she killed.

Muttering in apparent sleep, she shifted in place.

In the village, a lone shrine to Colath leaned cavernous in the earth. Or, it wished it leaned cavernously. More of a hole in the ground than a true cave, it held a small altar covered with pieces of raw ore and shiny rocks.

(You'll have to tell me if you want anything in particular.)

[Philote]

"I've located their shrine. As well, it appears the tall statue we see in the distance is a living creature. It slumbers while the others work." Po speaks as new knowledge jumps into his mind, transferring from the minds of his Fireflies to his avatar to himself.

(I'll tell you if there is anything specific I want to look for . Right now I'm just having them stealth around to be prepared for later.)

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

In between little status reports, Mar climbed up to the very tippy top of her tree. She had her home. She had the means to steal faith from the god of caves. Now, she needed a weapon with which to defend herself, in the event that everything went awry. Or, everything went according to plan. Either/or, she didn't know quite which yet.

So, all skinny grace, she crawled along the highest branches, looking for a suitable piece to begin. She found it on the underside of a branch. An acorn at least twice the size of it's brothers. Given time and care, it could grow into a great tree. But that was not this ones destiny. Or maybe it was. Either/or.

She plucked it.

(1)

[Celadon's Penultimate]

(8 motes +1 after two days' wait= 9)

Dash looks up at Mar, at the top of her tree, her eyes wide and curious.

She cracks a goofy grin, "Whatcha doin'?"

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Tel roars out, "Can we hear what's being said? I wanna know what they talk about if anything!"

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"Buildins somethings horrifying, to be delivered to cavesie god if needs be." she replied, carefully shining the acorns surface to a mirror sheen. She smiled to see herself and Dash reflected in it. "Always is healthy, backsup plans. Always they pay to haves. Coulds you blowsie on this?" she said, holding the acorn out toward her. "For lucksie, ands to make it happy?"

(2)

[Philote]

"I can hear what my avatar hears, but I do not share this sense with the other Fireflies as I do with sight" Po responds

"Nothing of note has reached my ears yet. I am in the midst of dealing with the giant"

Far across the water, in the town on the opposite shore, the Fireflies are being orchestrated by Po's avatar. The two Fireflies sent to accompany Ri and the Avatar possession themselves near the head of the slumbering giant at the center of the town. The lights of the two Fireflies twinkles into existence for a brief moment as the two stab forward with swords of light at the creature's eyelids. Not waiting to determine the success of their attempt to blind the creature, the two Fireflies quickly fly behind the creatures head, extinguishing their light, and move off to rejoin with Ri and the avatar.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Dash clapped her hands together again, her childlike wonder turning into impish mischief, "Oh, heck yeah! That I can do!"

And so she hovered up to where Mar held up the acorn, leaned in...and blew. And blew again. And blew once more. For good luck. Or at least, for good luck on their side. Whatever might happen to that cave god and his goons? Who could say?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"Heheeee, Thanksie!" Mar said, a jolt of divine energy driving through her and into the acorn in her hand. She watched with wonder as the breath of the dance goddess almost congealed into a mist, being absorbed into the skin of the acorn, leaving the exterior slightly damp. This she shined off.

(-4, 1 remaining)

She regarded the whole acorn, turning it over and over in her hand. "Needs mores Mar thinks. Somethings elsesie. Hmmm. Gots base. Gots a taste. Needsie now...... yes. Yes!"

She flipped back into her tree, merging and vanishing into Eternal Autumn.

(3)

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

"You're attacking first?" Tel roars out loud enough to make birds fly away from the trees in fear. "That should have been me! Attack my Armor Crustaceans!"

Tel shucks a large spiral of divine power where his Armor Crustaceans were to teleport them into the village to attack (Miracle, Motes Left: 2)

[Zaleramancer]

The She-Giant roared, rocking backwards and covering her eyes.

Durks swarmed out of houses, glancing around and looking at the giant nervously.

Which was when giant, angry crustaceans began falling from the sky.

With traditional Durkish grasp of reality, they reacted by glancing at the unfolding anarchy and going for their axes.

Roiling chaos infolded the village. The She-Giant was rolling around and blindly swatting her club about, hitting as many Durks as Crustaceans. Durks and their armored foes hacked at one another, or rolled around in an attempt to harm each other.

However, it was obvious the Durks were loosing, slowly but steadily. The Crustaceans were better armored and defeat was only a matter of time.  

[Philote]

Po turns his head towards Tel as signs of battle suddenly fill his vision. He does not speak out against Tel's rash action, but instead raises his hand and points it towards a tree. A dot of light flies out of the branches above as a Firefly moves off to follow Po's directions.

Moments later, the same Firefly lands on the shoulder of Mar, whispering into her ear news of the recent events.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Mar emerges from eternal Autumn, seething. "Yous dids whats!?" she shouts at Tel, before looking into the distance and seeing the raging battle taking place in the Durk village. Her face goes through several unique shade of anger and disbelief, before she puts her head in her hands and starts muttering to herself very quickly, occasionally lifting her head to look at the battle again or fiddle with her fingers.

Finally, she looks up with a mask of almost clinical calm. "Rights," she says. "No choice now: gots to killsie 'em alls. Herds 'em this ways, ripsie gods. Makes sures none slipsie through you net."

(4)

[Philote]

"Tel, my Fireflies will watch the area. Tell your crabs to hunt in the direction of the lights and they will be led to their prey" Po explains.

To Mar he says "The giant has been incapacitated and the smaller race is being hunted down, the only part left is the Shrine of the Cave Spirit."

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Tel grumbles shortly, then roars out an order to his Armor Crustaceans, "Go chase down the survivors and kill them! The lights will lead you!"

His orders reverberate across the village as the Armor Crustaceans begin to move towards the lights to finish off the Durks.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"Carts it away. Carts away everythings. Don'ts burn its, smokesie attracts attention. Carries everthings to places its wont's be found. Mar will bes along after, to tidesie up."

(5)

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

As the Armor Crustaceans get rid of the fleeing Durks, they begin to come back as their job of chasing down the mortals winds up and begin attacking the giant.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

"And speaking of carting away, I think it's about time my Veelas got to come out and pull their own weight, to help us all." Dash looks up the tree at Mar, "Hope my girls haven't wandered off too far in your Eternal Autumn."

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Keth remained his usual stoic self through out the altercation. He simply stood aside to let the others do as they pleased until the requested his aid.

A small Scuttle Stone crept along the ground around him as if guarding him. Keth regarded it with something akin to affection, or at least at close to affection as his limited range of facial features allowed.