Continental turtle shift - catch-all

[oceantier]

All preparations over the last few weeks culminate into one day. Maps have been made and studied, plans set. The turtle has been awash in workers, both kedan and Foreigner alike, building off technological plans and testing magical means, the shell practically humming with the activity of its occupants.

Now everyone is in their places: The scouts in the waters in front by wing and by ship, keeping wary eyes on the horizon ahead, the movers and those who plan to help steer at the far rear of the shell edge. The two groups are separated by miles, but messengers between the two will do their best to convey and coordinate information.

In spite of the tension in the air, the atmosphere remains determinedly cheerful – hopeful that this will be the solution. Hopefully within a double handful of days, the idea of a sinking turtle will fade like the remnants of a nightmare.





((ooc: This is a catch-all for the grand turtle move! Please post to either the first thread to play something within the first five days before the fog hits, or to the second . . . where things start to go less than smoothly. Please read the relevant ooc post for details))

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Lapis Lazuli

[oceantier]

Lapis has never had a steady stomach for grand resistance maneuvers, not that she can recall. She fights to ignore the whispers that haunt the edges of her waking thoughts: This won’t work, it will make things worse somehow, only disaster will result. The whispers have only increased as she’s tested the limits of her own power and found that they aren’t what they should be – what they always have been. She’s not able to give nearly as much as she’s promised – a discovery that nearly makes her rule out her role entirely.

She clings to the idea that there are too many people involved now to stop. Kedan and Foreigners have been mobilized; to try to stop would be like tossing herself in the way of an oncoming boulder, and to even try would be to sentence herself to the crush of its path. She tries to focus on the one thing that’s driven her to date: To stand and be trapped by an inevitable fate is an impossibility. Even if the very worst should happen, at least it will be a fate made by choice.

She can be found in the first few days in two ways:

1. Taking her shift. Even if she's not as powerful as she should have been, Lapis raises great waves that surge through the water. Her control is excellent; the water does exactly what she demands of it, even though at times she's manipulating waves several stories high.

2. Just outside of the circle of tents fires when off her shift, watching the children play (if they're awake themselves) with a half-absent, almost dreamy expression.