ENDPLOT | ROLL THE BONES, PART 1

[ironwood]

Characters: ALL!
Date: Early/Mid November
Location: Under the shell
Situation: It's either Malicant or the Foreigners... and their worlds.
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.

The Foreigners had begun their counterattack by trying to possess the Great Turtle whom Malicant had taken, and although the movement had failed, some vital information had been uncovered. Under the shell lay Malicant's weakness, and inside the Dreaming was where he could be fought.

Any help from the kedan is uncommon. They're wary, watching, as a group beginning to lose sight of the community. Their family groups are more tightly-knit than ever, and any approach from the Foreigners is answered by suspicion at best and violence at worst. That makes daily life difficult, when the majority of the city refuses to have much to do with them. Why aren't you doing anything? they seem to say. What good are any of you? All you've done is make things worse. We'd be better if you'd never come.

The Foreigners are unwelcome in Keeliai. The cultists are becoming a majority. Now is the time.

There aren't many left of the Foreigners left, but inside the Dreaming the limitations of the waking world no longer exist. For every Foreigner and their worlds, their loved ones, this is the chance to make themselves safe for good. And all of them will be needed.

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LINKS
Beneath The Shell/Midnight Hotel | Malicant’s Tools/The Vilii Stone | OOC Plot Post

OOC
There are two main headers, one for preparation at the Hotel where Milyn and Eva will be available to speak with The second section where they will be able to search the caves beneath the Shell inside the Dreaming to find the Vilii Stone, and where the boon'd characters will be affected. If you are threading something that doesn't fit one of those categories, just add it to the bottom of the post. Questions go to the plotting post, please! Once the Stone has been acquired the second half of the plot will go live in the logs comm.

Comments

[solo_patria]

"You make a good point." Enjolras wrinkles his nose a little, laughing as he considers that. Sometimes trying to avoid things does make them seem worse. "What is it that people always say? Do not think about the elephants in the room, and then you end by thinking only of the elephant?" He shook his head a little. "Ah, sometimes that IS true."

Yes, yes, there is another venue, and it does seem safer. "If we are unprepared, well, we will figure out something that works." He allows, nodding at that. "No holds barred, and..." He blinked at the mental image.

"Ah...I suppose it is, at that." Did Sokka's world have something like that? He found it hard to tell, still, where he was joking and was not.

"Good enough. Getting it over with is likely for the best."

[theideaguy]

Everyone keeps referring to these imaginary animals. Sokka has more or less gotten used to it, but that doesn't mean he's going to just kowtow to them when he's making animal-related analogies. "Well, the moment I think of just an elephant will probably be the day that I think of them all the time," he muses, a little bit of humor in his voice. Maybe, accidentally, that will half-answer the other question Enjolras has. Of course, the answer was that Sokka was being humorous at the same time as he's making an actual reference to a real thing.

"Alright, well I'm as ready as I'll ever be. Time to get stuff injected into my body, I guess. Hey, if I don't see you out there, good luck, and try not to die on me. I'd still rather have someone to help me with Taraja at the end of the day."

[solo_patria]

Oh right. Like Wan and the idea of deer as opposed to catdeer. Enjolras pauses, smiling as that sinks in. But, yes, the point is clear, and he is grinning.

"I suppose you would not know elephants then. I've just remembered that. But if I said not to think of one, you would probably still wonder what it is, so there is that point, I suppose." He winks a little, finding that humor there.

"Good then. And the same, though perhaps we might try to find each other. It would seem to be a bad idea if I could not help getting you back to her as well. You are good for her." He added, smiling.

"I think she's learned to be less...I was rather too serious as a boy, and think I might have been accidentally raising her in the same sort of way my parents did with me. My father was very good to me, always, but I think...we did not laugh so much, or step outside of very many tightly defined standards of behavior. It made me rather solitary later on, and things were...harder when I met new people. You've taught Taraja there is room for laughter and creative thought, and ingenuity in the tight places." And, to a degree, he's taught Enjolras the same.

"She'll need us both if we can manage to make it happen. So, please keep yourself alive as well. Provided," he adds, winking, "That these needles do not do us in just now."

[theideaguy]

Ah yes, Enjolras knew about the hybridized animals. That saved a lot of complicated explanation, and for once Sokka is happy that he doesn't have to go through, yet again, with the oddity of the animals of every other world.

"Those are the gifts my swordmaster Piandao told me I had when I learned from him the way of the sword," Sokka explains. "Well, perhaps not as much laughter, but the other ones certainly." It was actually quite amazing how close he got to the list of things he had received praise on all those weeks ago. "But hey, I couldn't do any of that without your help. So good job on your part too." He points to him with a half-wink, coolly giving his co-parent a well-deserved compliment.

"But yeah... first, survive the needles. Then, survive the Creep Lord. At least we have our priorities down."

[solo_patria]

Yees. He's met one of them, anyway, which sort of helped with the whole wrapping his head around the idea of things as different from his reality. It does beg the question of what other animals in other worlds might be like, but that is for another time.

"That makes a good deal of sense." Enjolras nods, considering the idea of laughter carefully. Perhaps it was a bit of a word choice that needs to be expanded on. "Perhaps not so much laughter as an ability to see a positive in any situation. That is important, encouraging. And well, we do our best, at that, but thank you, truly. I am glad we've been in this together.

Something like that, at least." He adds, at the issue of priorities, there. "We should be able to have both done."