tushanshu_logs | EVENT | LANDFALL | KITHIKA

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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He left off squinting at the plaque and turned to Teddy. "Geeze, everybody knows that guy." His accent belonged to Brooklyn, not Bavaria, and he was skinny, scruffy, and only ready for high school if you were generous about it, but he had to admit that there were only so many blue goblins around. What got to him was that the other one seemed more than capable of normal human interaction and even appeared to have friends and junk. It was a problem for blaming the bulk of his own miserable weirdness on being blue and fuzzy. "Nope. Multiversal double. Waggoner, not Wagner, though also a Kurt. Hi."

Ah, that explained it. Now that he knew this Kurt wasn't the one he knew he was able to pick up on the subtle differences. Like the accent for one. But otherwise he just looked like a younger double of the older Kurt Teddy knew. "Yeah, hi. Sorry about the confusion. I didn't know there was two of you around. I'm Teddy."

"No problem. I'm getting used to it. I mean, I've met doubles of just about everyone on my team." Sometimes repeatedly. "It's weird until you get your head around it." He turned back to the sign to glare at it some more as if that would make him remember more Latin, which this didn't even quite seem to be, strictly speaking. "Okay, all I can think of right now is Lorem Ipsum..."

"I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I haven't run into any alternate versions of myself yet." He wouldn't be surprised when it finally happens though. Just another one of those job hazards you eventually have to deal with when you're a superhero. Doesn't mean he's looking forward to it...

He gives the sign another glance over despite knowing there's no way he can help. It all just looked like strange symbols to him. "Okay...is that supposed to mean something?"

"Super trippy," he agreed distractedly. "I... Wish I'd paid attention in Spanish." Then he might have a better idea of how to deal with this kind of word order nonsense. He also wondered a little why pseudo-Latin in a world that seemed to have an otherwise pretty eastern aesthetic, but that probably wasn't important. "It definitely says a thing. Like, object. And something about changing or switching, and that's good luck, somehow? Given all this stuff that's here..." Kurt looked over the bits and pieces of trinkets in the pond. "Take a penny, leave a penny?"

Teddy studied the trinkets laying at the bottom of the pond. Maybe it was a type of wishing well, in pond form. Those are supposed to bring people luck. But usually you didn't have to take anything from those. But if there was one thing Teddy knew, it's that this place doesn't go by the same rules as his own world did. "So if you leave something in the pond, you need to take something out in order to have good luck?"

After a moment's consideration he shrugged and stuck his hand into the water. He pulled out a small trinket, turned it around in his hand, before shoving it into his pocket. "Um...so I guess I should leave something similar behind." It seemed that something small and shiny would suffice. After a slight hesitation Teddy touched his ear and pulled out of his earrings out. He dropped it into the pond. "Well...let's hope that worked out. We could use all the luck we can get."

Kurt was a compulsive acquirer of small, shiny things, especially the kind that seemed useful. He pulled a couple of spare nuts and bolts from one pocket, but since that didn't seem very valuable, he picked up a mildly interesting rock rather than one of the nicer bits of jewelry. "Probably can't hurt. Though every other magic thing in this stupid dimension is definitely out to get us. At least this would be a kind of a goofy trap, so hopefully it's not one."

"I don't think it is. But that's more my gut instinct than anything." He shrugged and looked at the pond again. It certainly didn't seem malicious, but it certainly wouldn't be the first innocuous thing to try and kill them that day. "Nothing we can do now but wait and see."

Kurt doesn't ever trust his gut--not since the cupcakes and unicorns incident, anyway. "Yeah, after killer trees, this probably won't actually be what takes us out. ...If nothing else, I'd be embarrassed."

"Death by malicious trinkets found at the bottom of a pond? Yeah, that is definitely not what I want my gravestone to say." Teddy climbed to his feet and stretched. "I wonder if we have time for a nap before continuing on?"

"That... is not a question that occurred to me." He looked around quickly in case he'd missed the comfy bed section of the creepy swamp ruins. Sure, he's slept in some weird places. He spent years sleeping in a creepy glass tube of death. But it's just not a go-to impulse.

Teddy looked around too, not seeming concerned by the surroundings. Sure, it was creepy as hell, but that didn't make him feel any less tired. Maybe it would have been different if he was alone in here. "I don't know about you, but I want to rest before we end up having to fight anything else. Going on tired won't help us much in the long run."

He barely managed to avoid making a Dungeons and Dragons joke about sleeping so the wizards would get their spells back and just nodded. "I guess it's not a bad idea if you can actually do it." He suspected he was less creeped out than a lot of people, since it wasn't hard to see in this light and he'd been to weirder places. He was kind of impressed that anyone could decide to just take a nap under the circumstances.

"It's not exactly my first choice, but this is one of the less creepier rooms in this place." Scanning the room, he spotted a good corner to sit down and stretch out in. It wasn't as well lit as the rest of the room, but that would make it easier for Teddy to nod off. He leaned his back against the wall and shifted until he was comfortable. "You should get some rest too. Even if you can't sleep, you should find somewhere to relax for a little while."

Relaxing wasn't usually a good choice for him, but he could admit the point in the abstract. "It is kinda nice. Shiny, at least." If he was right about it being a wishing well of sorts, that was probably the most benign thing they had or would encounter in bottle world.

EVENT | LANDFALL | KITHIKA | BOTTLE

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