EVENT | LANDFALL | KITHIKA | BOTTLE

[cherrywood]

Characters: ALL!
Date: February 12th - 28th
Location: Kithika, inside the bottle
Situation: The discovery of an artifact from the first war against Malicant reveals the land of Kithika within a dimension of the Death Plane... and just happens to be contained inside a bottle.
Warnings/Rating: Please indicate content warnings in subject headers as applicable.

OOC INFORMATION ♦ CITY OF KEELIAI ♦ INSIDE THE BOTTLE ♦ THE WORLD EATER
Arriving in Kithika is unpleasant for the most part. Transport through the glass vessel deposits you in the middle of a thick and murky swamp, with air so hot and humid it feels as though one is breathing through a wet towel. This is a place of perpetual night and there are no celestial bodies visible overhead through the twisted vines to break up the blackness, making the only light visible that which comes clumps of marsh fungus that emit a steady glow in a variety of muted colours: pale blue, whitish green, watery mauve. The only other light comes from those who can generate it themselves and that will reveal numerous broad-leaved trees, in some places standing too thick to move through. Below, knee-deep water laps in swirls at their legs, accompanied by the occasional slithery feel of something moving in the bracken against wet limbs, gone before it can be identified. A variety of strange noises from creatures of the swamp fill the air with buzzing and hoarse croaking, interrupted by the screech of mosquitoes the size of hummingbirds darting past and hungry for a meal.

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OOC NOTE: Characters will not be able to progress past the Temple and the Grounds for 48 IC hours after which point, the way to continue onward to find the dragon will be discovered. The second log will be posted on the 17th, to help spread out the tagging. Thank you!

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OOC INFORMATION
Landfall Questions | Approved Item Requests | Player Plot - Kryptonian Rampage OOC

CITY OF KEELIAI
Emperor's Orders: Miasma Explained | Marshaling the Forces | A City Under Siege | Halting the Scourge

INSIDE THE BOTTLE
Crossing the Swamp | Decayed Grounds | The Sullied Temple | Stone Idols | Item Discovery

THE WORLD EATER
Battling the Dragon | Soul's Poison | Kryptonian Rampage | The Guarded Pool | Weighing the Options | Aftermath

Comments

[backwordscompatible]

Oh.

Well. A little warning would've been nice. I thought I was being attacked again.

[You never knew, right?]

Hey, wait, if you can teleport, what are you still doing here? Couldn't you just...you know...port across the rest of the swamp to safe grounds?

[spideyfanone]

I have to know where I'm going, and I figured people might need a hand. I've been doing a series of short jumps. Don't have to get my feet wet this way.

[Which was important with fur in the equation.]

[backwordscompatible]

[She glanced down at her knee-high boots. They were (mostly) waterproof, but they didn't exactly shield her from the chill of the waters. And she'd left her cold charm back in her apartment, not wanting to risk losing it. It meant too much to her.]

Are you getting attacked too? Because every time I try to fly, I get all of five feet off the ground before they start attacking me.

[spideyfanone]

Oh yeah. Another reason I'm going pretty slow here. Lots of dodging.

[It was the kind of thing he was good at, but still a pain. As if to drive the point home, a branch came whipping for him and he avoided it by grabbing the branch he was perched on with his tail and dropping to dangle upside-down. Gravity was a little faster than porting sometimes.]

[backwordscompatible]

[Her own reaction was instinctive, lifting a hand and summoning a strong, sharp gust of wind with a single command: Dniw!]

[The summons sliced through the air--and the tree branch--with a single swipe, like an invisible blade. The offending branch fell to the ground, and the tree itself recoiled back from the sting of the attack.]

[spideyfanone]

[Kurt immediately put his hands over his ears again. He was learning. Oof, that was an awful noise. He stuck to hanging upside down for the time being, though he stayed aware of any new branches swinging for him. His general approach was evasion. Glass jaw and not a lot of damage he could put out on his own.]

That works, though...

[backwordscompatible]

[She chuckles softly at the reaction, looking faintly apologetic for the lack of warning.]

You okay?

[spideyfanone]

Yeah, fine. I mean, I wasn't using my eardrums for anything.

[He didn't look too upset. It was kind of fun to watch. Other people's powers were always interesting, and in this case worth a little bit of horrid tree-screaming.]

[backwordscompatible]

I suppose it could be worse. They could be scratching nails on a chalkboard. I had a teacher in school do that once--she made one of the girls in the front row cry.

[spideyfanone]

Oh, yuck, that--

[He was interrupted again by a whipping branch, this time dodged fairly easily, though he broke a twig in the process and had to skitter a bit to avoid the acidic sludge that resulted. Never mind the creepy whispers.]

THat really gets me. I think I pick up extra frequencies or something.

[He indicated the sharp points of his ears.]

[backwordscompatible]

[A second branch dove for Zee, which she oh-so-gracefully dodged by stumbling forward in the murky waters. Getting her pants wet in the process. Because this day wasn't awesome enough already.]

Super hearing?

I couldn't imagine having to deal with that. Right now, regular hearing is bad enough.

[spideyfanone]

Nah, I know people with real super hearing. It's not in the same league as my night vision. I just have... slightly weird hearing. Different external ear, little tweak to the physics of it.

[Cheerfully discussing physics was totally reasonable under the circumstances. Of course.]

[backwordscompatible]

[She also happened to know people with "real" super hearing. Namely, Superman, Superboy, Supergirl...you get the idea.]

I have no idea what that means, but I'm guessing you're hearing something I'm not right now, then?

[spideyfanone]

Maybe. Basically my ears are gonna ring for a week and it makes me cranky.

[backwordscompatible]

To be fair, I think the same thing goes for just about everyone here.

What exactly are you hearing right now? Besides the ringing.

[spideyfanone]

Kind of a whiny reverb. Kinda reminds me of these psychic bug monsters when they died. ...So that's gross.

[He never knew when one of his stories was going to get a weird reaction. Or, to be fair, a reasonable one, since they were weird stories, but the majority of the turtle people seemed to be weird.]

[backwordscompatible]

Psychic bug monsters...

[She only wished that was the weirdest thing she'd heard. Although it was pretty up there.]

I feel like I'm missing a huge part of this story.

[spideyfanone]

You would think? But no. Me and some of the rest of the team kinda missed most of that mission. By the time I got there everything was crazy cupcake-based illusions, and then everything got smashed.

[Considering the girl had some kind of powers and only seemed mildly startled by a blue guy, he didn't think this would be the weirdest thing she'd hear today, even. Maybe the cupcake part. That was still strange.]

[backwordscompatible]

...okay, I have to ask: why cupcakes?

[Magic? No big. Fuzzy blue elfs? Eh, he seemed friendly enough. But cupcakes? Now, you've just gone too far.]

[spideyfanone]

Also unicorns. I guess they only knew about humans from the internet or something, and were trying to lull us into a false sense of security.

[He'd just leave out the fact that it had kind of worked for a little while there.]

[backwordscompatible]

If there were any lingering doubts that the internet is a truly horrifying, terrible place, that would be it. That right there.

[spideyfanone]

I like unicorns. Just not when they turn into super-cockroaches with mind-beams.

[backwordscompatible]

[Kurt Wagner: Brony?]

I prefer my horses horn-free, thank you.

The lack of mind beams and cockroaches would be a plus, but then again, good luck finding a roach-free anything in certain parts of New York.

[At this point, with flying and long-distance teleporting out, Zatanna's resorted to the worst case scenario: trudging the swamp by foot. Once again, thankful her boots went up to near knee-length.]

[spideyfanone]

[His world was a utopia before it got destroyed. There were no bronies. He was, however, a total geek in other ways.]

I just like to think of them as added protein.

[backwordscompatible]

[But in a non-destroyed, non-utopian world...?]

Ew.

Once again, so happy to be a vegetarian right now.