EVENT | LANDFALL | VALISHAERA

[ironwood]

Characters: ALL!
Date: JULY 13-26
Location: Valishaera
Situation: Tu Vishan has made landfall on Siaxhi, to explore the Dreaming Watch City of Valishaera.
Warnings/Rating: Please indicate content warnings in subject headers as applicable.

As Tu Vishan draws near, the heavy jungle visible even from miles out quickly identifies the landmass as Siaxhi, one of the westernmost continents in Konryu and one that has been largely untouched insofar as the kedan themselves have gone. There is a natural inlet along the southeast shore on the continent and Tu Vishan makes for that, though he fills nearly all of it.



OOC INFORMATION
Landfall Questions | Approved Item Requests | Pocket Dreaming Signups

CITY OF VALISHAERA
Exploring the Coast | The Arybar | A Ruined City

WITHIN THE TEMPLE
The Monks' Domain | The Labs & Library | Gathering Rooms & Garden | The Pocket Dreaming Realms

LANDFALL MISSIONS
Dreamscape | Night's Wood | Inan | OOC Organization

Comments

[ironwood]

Veldyzh herself is smoking on a long pipe, the scent of the pale smoke emanating from its bowl spicy, like cardamom. "That it is," she replied, smiling at Hellboy serenely. "You know, I think it's good that you people have come. There are young ones here who've never seen any but our people before. This will be quite a learning experience for them."

[histruename]

The smoke curling through the air smells like the heady, warmly-spiced cigarettes they like to smoke in Indonesia, and the memory is enough to make his mouth water, suddenly dissatisfied with his own crappy hand-rolled cigs.

He'll remember to try to grab some of that before he heads back to the mainland if he can.

"You guys are pretty isolated out here," he says, squinting up at the sky blazing with stars. That's the best thing about being away from civilization. Sometimes you forget just how small you really are. "How long's it been since the last guys came through?"

[ironwood]

The Arybar matriarch will be glad to give him some, if he asks. She has quite a stash of the stuff and this is the season where it's plentiful anyway.

"Around thirty years," Veldyzh answered with hardly a moment's thought; either this had already come up or she just had a good memory... possibly both. "A big ship came, bigger than any I've seen. Odd folk. They stayed a few months in the bay."

[histruename]

"Odder than us?" He asks wryly. "I find that hard to believe."

Half their population flies around in spandex. They're in pretty strange company if you ask him.

[ironwood]

"Very much so," Veldyzh laughed lightly. "You'd think they'd never seen a growing plant or drop of clear water in their lives, with how they acted!"

[histruename]

"Yeah, I guess that is pretty odd. There's a hell of a lot of desert out there, though. I'm guessing they probably came from somewhere out there."

He takes another slow drag from his cigarette, smoke curling from his mouth and nose as he talks. "I've been off the turtle a good handful of times, but this is only the second time it hasn't been a goddamn desert."

[ironwood]

"I've never seen a desert," Veldyzh said thoughtfully. "I spent many years being a treewalker, but that was when I was younger." She gestured over her shoulder with her pipe, at the vast jungle. "That's when you go searching for new things, in there. The whole continent is like this, you know. But treewalking is a young Arybar's job, not one for me. But oh, some of the things you would find."

[histruename]

"I wouldn't mind going out there to have a look myself."

Even at night, the jungle is huge and ominous, massive trees echoing with the sound of nightbirds. Animals moving through the underbrush. The glow of eyes catching the light pouring from hut windows.

All of it is alive, unexplored, and makes his sense of wanderlust itch. But knowing that he can't risk venturing too far from the turtle kind of pisses him off.

"Though I doubt the people on the turtle would let me go out that far," he rumbles. "They like to keep us on a pretty tight leash."

The leash being the lanterns, and the notion that he'd probably die out there if he went too far.

[ironwood]

Veldyzh looks curious at the remark about the tight leash, glancing in the direction of Tu Vishan in the distance as though trying to see an actual tether between it and the red male. "Why would they want to do that?"

[histruename]

"Don't think it's really about what they want," he admits. It's easy to get bitter about the Foreigners' situation. Start blaming people like Evandau and the late Emperor. But that part of everything--the lanterns, Tu Vishan's magic keeping them alive--that's probably not entirely their fault. It's just a crappy consequence of people messing around with things that they shouldn't be messing with.

Hellboy takes a slow drag from his cigarette, then exhales with a sigh.

"Most of us aren't from this world. We were brought here by magic, and the people responsible have our souls tied up in lanterns back in the city. Stray too far for too long and bad things tend to happen."

Overall, he could be a lot more pissed about the situation than he is. But all of this is far from the weirdest thing he's had to put up with, and he's had some time to get used to it. At this point, they're just facts.

[ironwood]

"I heard a rumor once that no one's actually from this world," the Arybar woman speculated. "Isn't it true of the kedan? Another odd people, if you ask me. Maybe the world was empty and someone decided to fill it."

[histruename]

"Yeah. Maybe."

Now they're getting a little too philosophical for his taste, so he changes the subject.

"You seem to know a lot about what goes on around here. Do you know anything about what happened to all those monks that used to live in the abandoned city? The people I've asked haven't been all that eager to talk about it."