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

I can't stop laughing over these XD

[theideaguy]

"Mmmmyeeessssss," Sokka says, continuing with the voice along with the sarcasm. There's probably an undercurrent of appreciation for Mike, though any conscious awareness is buried under a mountain of annoyance. At least he can take and make jokes; that is one small plus over some.

"So... Mike," he says, "I don't know exactly how to say this, but... I'm guessing you're not exactly your ordinary pet... turtle, are you..." Just saying the word "turtle" without any other animal name with it rolls off of Sokka's tongue with awkward weirdness.

*Mad cackle*

[michaeljangelo]

Mike's browridges furrow for a second in genuine confusion at the question Sokka lobs at him. He...he doesn't really think that....oh he does.
OH! He does!

"Is there any particular reason why I wouldn't be an ordinary pet?"

[theideaguy]

Sokka gives him just this look of incredulity. "Well, for one thing, there's the fact that you're practically as tall as me. Granted, lion turtles are a bit bigger, but I don't think I'd be able to fit one inside my igloo." He leans forward, almost studying him a little further. "I suppose the talking back thing might also be a turn-off too."

Nonetheless, Sokka just shrugs and looks away for a moment. "This place really is all about turtles."

[michaeljangelo]

Mike holds his ground when faced with closer scrutiny. He might even preen a bit under the extra attention. Maybe...possibly.

"Just because you might not speak their language doesn't mean all animals don't talk, and how do you know that I'm not from a land of giants? Where I'm from the buildings can be a thousand feet tall."

[theideaguy]

Sokka just looks at Mikey with a rather annoyed look. "Look, I don't know what sort of world you come from, but that's beside the point. Practically no one here has been quite like you; hence, that's weird enough to be weird. That's all there is to it! Besides, how do you know that the world isn't much bigger because you're measuring things smaller."

[michaeljangelo]

Mike's smug smile of smug slowly flattens to a line as Sokka continues.
Then his brow ridges furrow as he considers what the other guy is saying.

"Science," he says eventually.
It's the only answer he's got at the moment.

[theideaguy]

What.

What?!

No.

Sokka raises his hands up before bringing them down with force; his eyes open wide as he looks at the turtle with minor contempt. "You just can't say 'Science!' as if that's the explanation for anything! It doesn't explain anything any more than you already have! Sure if you say, 'Oh, Sokka, well we were once ordinary turtles that got transformed by ethereal energy and became this giant monstrosities of turtles,' then that's okay! But not just 'Science'!"

He's going to give up on this soon. Clearly, he isn't being taken seriously. Not that he really should at this present moment.

[michaeljangelo]

Mike just blinks. Science is usually the answer Donatello gives him for things he doesn't understand. Though that's mostly due to the fact that the one word response is the only surefire way to make sure Mike's attention doesn't drift off during the explaining.

"It wasn't ethereal energy, it was science," he says with total sincerity.

[theideaguy]

The light bulb suddenly dawns on Sokka. "Oh so you were created with science? As in, you're not just ordinary five-foot, walking, talking, weapon-carrying turtles?"

[michaeljangelo]

"Well I mean, for a five-foot, walking talking weapon carrying turtle I'm pretty ordinary."

Mike usually measures himself by what he can't do, rather than by what he can. It's his brothers/cousins that are the spectacular ones, he's just...Mike.
Unless they're talking about looks. In that case Mike will quickly proclaim himself to be the prettiest.

"But yeah...that's close enough for government work."

[theideaguy]

There Mikey goes, using words that are completely the opposite thing of what they mean. Ordinary and five-foot, walking, talking, weapon-carrying turtle do not belong in the same sentence, even if they were to be separated by half a dozen clauses. But for once, Sokka lets it go because, finally, it's like they might actually be getting somewhere... even if Sokka doesn't exactly understand the exact parlance Mikey is using.

"Well, okay, that explains... a little bit," Sokka replies, clearly starting to figure out. "A science experiment, huh? Well, I suppose there are worse things to happen if this is how you turned out. I'm just... glad you're on our side instead of the things we have to fight."

[michaeljangelo]

Mike's snout wrinkles at Sokka's use of the word "experiment," but a correction never comes. Suffice it to say Sokka is lucky that he tossed that word around in front of Mike, and not say...Raph. That could have gone poorly.

"Awww, thanks. You're not just saying that because I know where you live and how to get into your house without you noticing, are you?"

[theideaguy]

In this instance, Sokka is completely oblivious to Michaelangelo's nose wrinkle; hey, if the shoe fits, you have to wear it, and at least it seems to be close to the mark.

However, one retort deserves another, and now it's time for Sokka to look rather non-plussed. He shrewdly narrows his eyes at Mikey and points a finger at him. "Well... yes... but that's beside the point!" he calls out, perhaps a little too loudly. "I'm just saying that... your skills might actually come in handy when, you know, we're going up against a whole bunch of goons that need to be reminded that we're the winning side is all."

[michaeljangelo]

Beside the point or not, Mike can't help but chuckle at Sokka's expense. The guy just makes it too easy!

"That would be nice, because after all that's happened...I'm really kind of looking forward to letting off a little bit of steam at people who deserve it."

[theideaguy]

Well, at least that means that Mikey doesn't think that he is the one that deserves that special touch. Finally an iota of good news. "Well, for one, I'm glad you're going to get that chance. It's about time too after all of that heebie-jeebie stuff. Anyway, I guess I'll..." He pauses before his cocky smile fades to a bemused expression. "I guess I'll see you... out... there then."

[michaeljangelo]

There's an edge to that slow, ever-expanding smile of Mike's.

"Not if I'm doing my job right, you won't."

Ninja humor. It strikes hard and fades away without a trace.

[theideaguy]

Sokka pffts to that and just shakes his head. "Oh believe me, if I have any insight into you at all, you'll turn up at the end to brag about your exploits." Sokka flashes him a quick smile before heading off.