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

[nerdylilspidey]

"No no no." He waved a hand dismissively at the comment. "Minus the angry whispering acid-sap parts of the trees, I mean it. Lovely." Spidey even added a terrible English accent on 'lovely', just for emphasis. Or added obnoxiousness. One or the other.

He then looked over at the Beetle as the distance between them grew shorter, eyeing the fungus-torch in his hand with more than a little confusion. "And I was going to ask what your thoughts on our little adventure here have been so far, but now I feel like the stick of blue mildew is much more important."

[escarabajo]

"Minus acid sap and banshee trees, you have a whole bunch of mud and branches," he replies, an eyebrow raised. Emphatically obnoxious. Okay. "Uh huh. One of the great wonders of the natural world."

"Hey!" Jaime retorts. "It's a very practical mildew stick." Illustratively, he holds the stick further aloft, and a few branches shrink away from the light. "See? The trees hate it."

[nerdylilspidey]

That response just had Spidey shaking his head, as though disappointed. "Beetles these days. Just can't appreciate the great outdoors." Says the city kid from New York.

But then the very important blue mildew stick was given a function, and it turned out to actually really be important. If it weren't for the mask, Spidey would be raising his eyebrows so high they'd nearly hit his hairline. He'd also be letting out an impressed sort of whistle. "Does it keep from them making noise when we try to touch them?"

[escarabajo]

Now it's Beetle's turn to be unimpressed. "Honestly, dude?" His mouth twists, skeptical. "If it's been bleeding burning black goop onto you, you probably shouldn't keep trying to touch it."

The Scarab hasn't fully been able to analyze the tree-goo's contents-- some sort of blockage, which'd been commonplace these days, unfortunately-- but it knew enough to guess it wasn't anything good.

In the distance, the trees touched by everyone else are still shrieking away.

"...And even if it could, it wouldn't block everybody else touching them."

[nerdylilspidey]

Spidey held up his hands, as though surrendering. "Hey, I'm speaking for the rest of our intrepid adventurers who haven't given up on 'violence is the answer' yet."

He then turned to look out toward where those sounds were still entirely unbearable. It was amazing that there were people who either hadn't figured out that attacking the trees was bad, or were just determined to make it work.

"So since you're holding the Trees' Bane, I'm gonna suggest you take the lead here."

[escarabajo]

"There's more of this moss around here somehow. We can get you your own Anti-Tree Stick."

A pause. There'd be an awkward silence there if there weren't angry trees shrieking bloody murder.

"If I get eaten by a tree, I swear to God I'm giving it indigestion out of spite..."