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

[alphatar]

"You think the person who opened the bottle has something to do with him?" All she understood from Milyn had been someone started it all by doing that, but having a tie to Malicant hadn’t crossed Korra’s mind. She was too focused on stopping it from destroying Keeliai. Pooling the chain into her palm, Korra stuffed the watch into her pocket.

[bindsthedead]

"Even if opening the bottle was accidental, do you really think the corruption is unrelated to our enemy's residence in Death? We know it has a great deal of influence there," In which case clearing out the corruption might involve a confrontation with the Enemy- something Sabriel did not look forward to. She still hadn't translated that spell.

[alphatar]

Actually having Malicant be here hadn't crossed Korra's mind at all, and Sabriel made perfect sense when paired with closely Kithika was tied to Death. Not that she was fully prepared for such an encounter to begin with, but having a head's up better than nothing.

"I haven't felt anything like when he posted to the network." That raw surge of fear that came from hearing that wasn't something Korra was going to forget. Ever. And she's glad that Sabriel's been on Tu Vishan long enough to remember that.

[bindsthedead]

"Perhaps he isn't here then- or perhaps he's concealing his presence. If he were always that easy to sense, he wouldn't have been able to cause nearly as much damage," Sabriel pointed out. She hoped Korra was right, for all the good it did. If Malicant was here, she suspected most of the people who came to stop the corruption would either die or become corrupted themselves.

[alphatar]

Korra took a bite out of a pear shaped fruit and chewed slowly as she took in Sabriel’s observations. It was something Korra thought of too often and now she was regretting it, not what she was expecting when she sat down at the pond in the temple.

But it was important, especially now that they had to stop the corruption or never return home.

"You think he did this so we would all be in one place?" Now she wondered if this was all an elaborate trap and they’re going to end up facing Malicant.

[bindsthedead]

"Possibly. We know he killed the last group of Foreigners that were summoned, though he seems the sort that would be more interested in picking us off one by one- though it's stupid to try and predict him," People had tried, and people who were probably better than Sabriel at trying to predict spirits of malice and chaos.

[alphatar]

"At least we have our powers this time." Those missions Evandau sent them on during the decay wasn't something Korra was prepared to do without her bending, but she did it anyway. "We'll just have to roll with whatever comes our way." It was what she was used to doing anyway.

"I think we're safe in here though."

[bindsthedead]

"Hopefully," Sabriel said, "Although even with whatever powers they had, the last group of foreigners all died."

It was pessimistic, she knew, but with her sense of death constantly pressing on her, it was hard not to think of how things could go wrong.

[alphatar]

"You can’t rely on the past for everything." It came out so clearly that Korra actually surprised herself. Witnessing that she would lose contact with her past lives and knowing how that affected her left Korra with an appreciation to still have them now; but it also gave her a kind of strength to know that the connection wasn’t what made her the Avatar.

Her spirit alone was enough when she wasn’t anything else besides ‘just Korra’.

"Powers aren’t the only thing we’re going to win with." Optimism wasn’t ingrained in Korra, it was something she had to give herself when things took a turn for the worse. She was dead set on eliminating Malicant to save Konryu, and by proxy, all of the foreigner’s homes too. "We can do this."