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theianmods ([personal profile] theianmods) wrote in [community profile] theianlogs2017-09-01 12:00 am

Welcome to Theia!

Who: Your mysterious caretakers and you
When: September 1st
Where: The Town Square
What: The welcome wagon has arrived!
Warnings: Minor gore, death




It's a white envelope that finds its way under every door, through every nook and cranny a day or two after your arrival. With the peculiar, bloodstained fingerprints lovingly applied as though they were a signature scrawled into its thin paper body, it doggedly persists--it will find you--until you open it and read the letter written ever so meticulously in fine script. It's a cordial invitation to a party hosted in your honor in the town square today. You should hurry, hurry, hurry! You wouldn't want to be late and keep your generous hosts waiting... or so says that oddly compelling feeling pressing into the back of your head. You make your way to the square, the urgent tugging feeling growing stronger the closer you get, and when you turn the corner to get a glimpse of the festivities, you find it's... not quite what you had been expecting.

The square is small, and looks rather out of general use. The fountain in the center is dusty and crumbling, and if there was ever any water in it it's long gone now. Most of the cobbled stones are broken and loose in the road. There are two long tables stocked with refreshments along either side of the walkway to the fountain, and what appears to be a small stage of some sort right in front of it, holding a large, ornate chair and a third table. The most unsettling thing, however, is the rest of the décor.

The theme is death, or so it would appear. Beside the food table to your left sits a bespectacled man wearing a scarf, but was the scarf always red, or is it only stained so because his head is hanging onto his neck by a thread? Against his lap rests a beautifully crafted cello, which appears to be missing its G-string... Oh. There it is--it's still stuck in the gashed man's neck. The poor bastard has been garrotted with the strings of his cello! Talk about hoisted by your own petard. Where his head lolls against the table, you may notice that behind those glasses, his eyes are missing.

Near the fountain is a large, wrought-iron statue of an archer, where... well, he's made his first kill, apparently. The body of a young girl with long dark hair is speared neatly through the chest by the archer's arrow, her little feet a good half a yard off the ground, now sticky with her blood. If you step closer to peer into the fountain, you'll find another body, this one a man with short dark hair, his face twisted into a mask of desperation and his gloved hands around his own throat as though he were gasping for air. Oddly, his lower jaw appears to be missing. Did he drown? There is no water in the fountain...

In the ornate chair on the platform is the body of another man, this one with his head completely removed from his shoulders. Oh... there it is, in his lap, his hands carefully arranged in his wild black hair. Wait, it seems there are too many hands, though! A second body dangles from a large tree that looms over the square, the rope frayed and dirty where it is wrapped around another man's neck, a strangely peaceful smile on his face, blue though it is. His hands rest atop the first man's, as though making certain the severed head remains still.

On the table in front of the chair rests a chest, its lid wide open and a glittering bounty inside.



If you peer inside, you will see a collection of eggs! Scaly, cool to the touch, and about the size of a football, they come in several colors. There is a note pinned to the inside of the trunk's lid--


Do you take an egg, as the note suggests? Dare you? (Dare you not?)

That pressing feeling in the back of your head has left you now, now that you are here to be welcomed to the city, now that you are here in the presence of your caretakers, but it is difficult to take comfort in the relief from the compulsion when surrounded by so much destruction. Who has done this to the faithful sentinels of the city? Who has killed the Watcher, the Interloper, the Guardian, the Nightingale, and the Keeper? Why have they been left here, at your welcoming home party?

Before you can turn to ask your neighbor, before you can wonder any further, a sound breaks the silence--a terrible, wet crunching noise like a sheet of ice breaking under your feet. You turn over your shoulder to see that it isn't anything so simple as ice. In the middle of the square is one final body, a body that wasn't there but a moment ago. She is small, thin, with dark hair and eerily pale eyes wide in terror. You know this girl, she met you on the elevator, expressed pleasure that you had been found (had you been lost?), and welcomed you home. Where did she come from? It's as though she simply... fell out of the sky! The Dreamer now dreams forever.

As you turn to survey the carnage all around you, a pleasant chiming sound seems to fill the air. It would seem that your mirror has a message for you! Upon inspection, you will find a new icon on the main viewscreen.


If you touch the icon, it will take you to a new application. Welcome to the Task Board! Here you will find a multitude of errands you can run for... whoever is running the city, now. Boy, what a way to announce things are under new management!

Welcome back to Theia, wayward children. Please enjoy the refreshments--watch out for the Nightingale's eyes, they may have fallen into the punch--get reacquainted with your friends and neighbors, and do take good care of those eggs. Or else...
stormwinds: <user name="loyallion"> (03)

[personal profile] stormwinds 2017-09-10 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
A Dragon. [ There's a thought. A wild, entertaining, and incredibly dangerous thought, but a thought. Llane appreciates the girl, recognizing at once the timid, nervous tone to her voice. He drops his gaze from his egg to the girl, slowly, and offers what he hopes is a small, pleasant smile. Even if she has perhaps the strangest looking bird he's seen in his life. ]

If it's a dragon, we'd best bet it aids us, instead of burning us to a crisp. [ She looks so very young. This isn't a place for civilians like her, and his smile turns into a thin line. ]

Have you taken one?
champions_legend: (Airhead)

[personal profile] champions_legend 2017-09-11 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Baby dragons can't breathe fire, and i-if you raise them right, they're loyal creatures.

[She has a dragon. Two, if you count the charizard, but it's not really a dragon.

She digs out her own egg at the question, holding the grapefruit sized thing up. It gleams red.
] Do you think they're something else?
stormwinds: <user name="loyallion"> (13)

[personal profile] stormwinds 2017-09-11 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
I'm unsure. My first thought-- [ he holds up his own. ] --gryphons. They vary too much for me to be correct.

Tell me. What do more do you know of dragons, dragon-seer?
champions_legend: (This world is not what I expected...)

[personal profile] champions_legend 2017-09-11 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Gryphons? W-what are those?

[Because that's the most pressing question.]
stormwinds: <user name="loyallion"> (10)

[personal profile] stormwinds 2017-09-11 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Grpyons?

[ Settle in, Fumiko. Llane doesn't realize it, but he's using the same tone he's used on Varian, when telling him tales of adventure and bravery just before bed, or if he's feeling down. ]

Great big winged creatures, half-bird half-beast. The forequarters, they're of an eagle, including beak and feathers, and the hindquarters are a great lion. The Dwarves of my land are very close with them and ride them into battle, and some have been shared for my kingdom's aerie, among others. One day, they will be as common to ride as horses, I should think.

[ And, after a pause: ]

You have horses?
champions_legend: (HAPPY HAPPY)

[personal profile] champions_legend 2017-09-11 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
[It's alright; she feels like she's a kid again, listening to her dad's tales of the sea, or to Koga's tales of ninja and shinobi of old.

He's lucky she knows what eagles are, though her vision of them are braviary, pidgeot, or staraptor. It's the same with lions; Manectric and luxray. Absol and persian at a stretch. Solgaleo, too. Too bad she doesn't know about Kalos, yet; they have fire lions. But, details.
] Wow... Y-Your kingdom's very lucky to have some.

[She wants one, but far be it from her to voice a thought she's barely aware of having.

Horses though? She pretty much lights up with a grin.
] I do; I have one, his name's Ponpon. W-Would you like to see him?

[Do you want to see a fire unicorn?]
stormwinds: <user name="loyallion"> (08)

[personal profile] stormwinds 2017-09-12 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
We are. We're even luckier that I've not yet to trod all over some strange dwarvish custom I don't know of and lose the gryphons entirely. [ There's a hint of levity in his voice, and maybe--just maybe, if she's fast enough to catch it--he winks. ]

Lucky, to arrive with a horse. I'd be honoured.
champions_legend: ([ponpon] Battle times are now)

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[personal profile] champions_legend 2017-09-13 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
I-I'm certain they'll be forgiving i-if you do.

[She's not fast enough to catch the wink. But it doesn't matter because as soon as he says he wants to see her horse, she pulls one of the strange pokeballs on her belt -a premireball - and.

Yes, that is a fire unicorn appearing a bit away in a flash of multicoloured light. The stallion stands easily 5'7 at the withers, has a sort of draft horse - a Friesian, to be exact- look to it, and is that some feathering mixed with the flames by the hooves?
] This is Ponpon. I've had him for a few years now.

[A grinning Fumiko is, naturally, tiny next to the rapidash.]
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stormwinds: <user name="loyallion"> (12)

[personal profile] stormwinds 2017-09-19 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's heard of these, once--fairy tales Felsteeds, fire mares that those who use corrupted magic have. Terrible, awesome creatures, with flames for manes and a whinnie that could break glass.

This is no such creature--no such fiend would be this docile, if radiant and beautiful still, and Llane is certain it is not a felsteed simply because there is no way in his mind someone like this shy quiet girl with the smile that reminds him of his daughter is some sort of ill-begotten mage.

Plus, it's name is Ponpon. Llane choses his next words very, very carefully, his surprise--and delight--hidden, treating this as if she is a dwarf from Ironforge, showing off their latest invention. He's impressed, but also a King.

He does smile, though. He's unable to help that, or the look of wonder etched across regal features. ]


I have never seen anything like this, he-- [ A beat, cutting himself off. ]

Are you not hot? Near his flames.