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

[spideyfanone]

All for the best, though Kurt had to resist the urge to defend teleporting as a totally reasonable way to get around. People he took with him tended to complain that it was a pretty unpleasant experience, but it lasted less than a second. A little heat, pressure, and sulfur smell seemed to him to be a lot less trouble than fighting through this whole swamp.

However, traveling by webs was really cool, so that was a perfectly acceptable counterargument. "That's fair. Seems to be working for you."

[unobtainableredemption]

It was, wasn't it? Considering he hadn't shot a web in his life before Spider Island, the whole thing came completely natural to him. ...Was it because of the Parker inside of him, or the Other, or... or something else entirely?

Whatever the reason, it was something he found he didn't want to think about too deeply, and so he preoccupies himself by vaulting over a branch.

"I could say the same thing about you and your little teleportation trick."

[spideyfanone]

"All these short jumps add up, but yeah, it's doing the trick. And if I can find the end, here, I can always come back for people. I have a pretty good range as long as I know where I'm going." Though from here he had no idea how far the swamp would go on. With visibility like this they could be fifty feet from the end and not know, and given how obviously magical all this junk was...

[unobtainableredemption]

Kaine flipped over one branch that swooped down to attack him, only to quickly contort himself to slip between two branches trying to take advantage of the first branch's failure. This forest was getting old fast, and as far as Kaine was concerned, if he never had to go through it again, it was too soon. If this kid wanted to go back, that was his business, even if he was a sucker for even considering it.

"That's to say these damn trees won't move on you."

Kaine ducked under one last branch, and rather than land on yet another tree, he landed on something decidedly different. "What the...?" It was barely sticking out the swamp, but he could definitely make out a face. He landed on a statue. These better not be moving, because if this turned into that scene from Ghostbusters, Kaine decided he would be so done. He did not have time for that kind of bullshit.

[spideyfanone]

Kurt ported out a little further, hooking himself around a statue like a fuzzy gecko. "Aw, sweet, a save point. Or at least it's clear enough here..." He looked over his shoulder. "I better start going back for people." Because yes, he was an absolute sucker. Or hero, as the X-men liked to call it, even if this was more of a protracted inconvenience than an exciting rescue. Slightly annoying welts and wet feet for great justice?

[unobtainableredemption]

Nope, definitely a sucker. Everyone who entered this bottle did it of their own free will, and if they didn't know how to protect themselves they were an idiot for signing up in the first place. He had no sympathy for that. Especially not when he was tired and could feel the bruises forming on his skin from the trees he wasn't lucky enough to dodge.

Still...

"Just... be careful. You don't know what other surprises that damn swamp might have."