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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2016-10-20 11:46 am

EVENT | LANDFALL | IOA ELANAG MINGLE LOG

Characters: ALL!
Date: October 20th - ongoing
Location: Ioa Elanag
Situation: Tu Vishan has come to a rest at the edge of a previously unexplored continent.
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.



The empty coastline and rocky beach they disembark to seems untouched, and fish school plentifully in the shallows without fear, something that the kedan are quick to take advantage of.

Once they move away from the shoreline, the landscape quickly turns to savannah scrubland, the arid sand a deep ochre colour. The grasses that grow there are thin and spindly, adapted to what appears to be a lack of water. Although the temperature is cool -- though not cold, despite the lateness of the month in a northern hemisphere -- it would be easy to extrapolate that it would be extremely dry and hot in the summer months.

Like the schools of fish, the wildlife here seem untroubled by the presence of newcomers, unless overtly threatening moves are made toward them. In addition to a host of different types of birds -- which all seem to be hunting each other, and openly cannibalistic -- there are a few types of species which become familiar sights to explorers.

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Some three miles inland, well within the range that Tu Vishan's protective aura extends to power the soul gems, a city stands quietly, surrounded by a massive wooden stockade. There are no roads or trails which lead to it, as if the city was simply dropped from the sky. This wall is hewn from logs larger than most have ever seen in their lives -- easily as big as the oldest redwoods or sequoias on earth, and many larger even than that.

They've all been cut precisely, ingeniously locked together so that no bindings or fillings have needed to be used to hold it together. Certainly, they're nothing like the scraggly, bent things seem to be growing in the area, which are only deemed trees by virtue of being marginally taller than bushes. The height of the wall is easily fifty feet, encompassing a square area of approximately a mile on each side, and there is one gate which is closed, but not locked, and is in impeccable shape.



LINKS
Local Wildlife Encounters | Exploring the Compound | Mysterious Discoverables | OOC Info Post


OOC
Please direct questions to the OOC post! For threading, you can either use the areas described under header, or create your own -- don't feel you have to be limited to threading only in the locations mentioned in the starters! Just don't forget to label your top-levels with specific locations, and remember that Tu Vishan's radius that powers the soul gems only extends ten miles inland.

ACTIVITY CHECK NOTE: Due to the late-month timing of this landfall, threads from this log can be counted toward either October or November AC. Just don't use the same comment thread for both months.
redlightgreenlight: (Hound narrowed)

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2016-10-30 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Of course, I wouldn't dream of trying to stand up against such an accomplished little gem.

And yet Valdis made no move to retreat.
peridiot: (Wait a sec // sways)

[personal profile] peridiot 2016-10-30 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
"S-so go on, then! Shoo!" She waved her arms at the giant wolf, so like Tektite, but so much bigger.
redlightgreenlight: (Hound Happy)

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2016-10-30 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Laughter. Light, clear and lovely laughter rang in Peridot's head.

I'm sorry, did you just tell me to 'shoo'?
peridiot: (What the what? // sways)

[personal profile] peridiot 2016-10-30 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Y-yeah! So what?"

Peridot scowled and hunched her shoulders, trying to look big and menacing.

It didn't work.
redlightgreenlight: (Hound narrowed)

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2016-10-30 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Her head dropped, lips curling back in a wolfish grin.

You are toeing a dangerous line, little one.
peridiot: (Eep. // sways)

[personal profile] peridiot 2016-10-30 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Well...at least Era 2 Peridots were built to be resilient. She could probably take a fair amount of punishment before being poofed.

She didn't want to test that today.

"So, how do I, how do I, how do I, ah...not do that?" she squeaked, dropping the bravado.
redlightgreenlight: (Hound Searching)

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2016-10-30 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
More laughter and Valdis' ears stood back up, her lips move to cover her teeth again.

For starters, you shouldn't sneak up on a sleeping Hound.

Her head lifted and tail lowered.

And I definitely wouldn't tell them to 'shoo'. Especially after sneaking up on them.
peridiot: (Wait a sec // sways)

[personal profile] peridiot 2016-10-30 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Peridot bit her lip. Yeah, she'd been putting her foot in it. At least she hadn't kicked the Hound. Yikes. But she's been angry lately, because it's easier than being sad.

"Yeah. Um. Sorry."
redlightgreenlight: (Hound Passive)

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2016-10-30 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
You are forgiven.

She sat, tail curling around her paws.

You've been on edge lately. Missing someone?
peridiot: (Technostumps // sways)

[personal profile] peridiot 2016-10-31 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Peridot looked at the ground.

"I wish Shay was here," she mumbled.
redlightgreenlight: (Hound Passive)

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2016-10-31 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
We've all lost people close to us.

She desperately didn't want to think about the ones she had lost though.

I'm sorry. I know it hurts.
peridiot: (HEY! // sways)

[personal profile] peridiot 2016-10-31 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"I hate it!" she shouted suddenly. "I didn't used to care and now I do and I hate it!"

She messed up her hair, which popped back into place immediately. "I was bad to him and he was my friend again and I didn't know what that meant until he was gone!"
redlightgreenlight: (Hound Passive)

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2016-10-31 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Being angry is understandable, but there's no need to shout. I can hear you.

She twitched an ear.

peridiot: (What the what? // sways)

[personal profile] peridiot 2016-11-02 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Peridot crossed her arms again, looking down. "I don't know what to do about it! It makes me so mad I could scream and I...and I..."

Peridot sat down hard in the dirt and put her face in her hands.
redlightgreenlight: (Hound Passive)

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2016-11-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
It was one of those situations where Valdis very much wanted to disengage and leave. Except this was one of those situations where leaving wasn't the right thing to do.

It's ok to cry

She lowered head and stepped closer to the small, green girl.
peridiot: (An infestation of Stevens // sways)

[personal profile] peridiot 2016-11-05 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know what crying is," Peridot says, quite obviously crying. Her shoulders are shaking and she's trying not to hiccup.
redlightgreenlight: (Hound Searching)

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2016-11-06 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Valdis laughed and took another step.

sadness is normal, Peridot