We made it to the space dock--and to my cousin--relatively unscathed, which is, you know, an accomplishment where we're concerned. Unfortunately (or perhaps what will prove to be fortunately)...we acquired more than family and fire retardant.
How we managed to double our crew in under five minutes, I will never understand.
But then, having more people on board wasn't exactly the highlight--even if that novelty involves a fully grown man wearing pink kitty covered boxers.
(No, not cats. Kitties. Specifically)
Acquired items were acquired, but there was also an oozing, centaur monster thing to contend with before we left. I have no idea what it was, but that thing had a mouth for a stomach, which is both sick and wrong and, quite frankly, begs the question:
Where does the food go?
Of course, considering that one of it's...his...whatever's, companions was a mage powerful enough to give me painful Nimbus-jeevies from across the dock, I somehow get the feeling that this concern it not necessarily a valid one. My bet's on Abyssal creature. Just sayin'.
...
I need to stop reading engineering magazines right before updating my blog. It makes my sentences all pretentious-y.
I'm going to go and do something brainless. Something that doesn't involve the question of where eaten objects go. Because...yeah.
Wait, wait, chore wheel! There's more people now, so I can make a better chore wheel! Yessssssssss.
New crew members?
Prepare yourself for acquiring a good work ethic.
---Voice-to-Text Personal Log Terminated---
Nemo: I'm not sure how we did it either...and abyssal creatures? Powerful mages? Great...at least we got out of there when we did.
ReplyDeleteHobson: You're welcome with assistance for acquiring the fire extinguishers. And...chore wheel? A good work ethic? Sounds like a plan.
Veneer: Ah, right, you guys don't feel that kind of stuff! Yeah, Ariadne told me that that ginger guy was a mage, so I figured it was probably his Nimbus that go me and Zund. It was...creepy. Like there were needles crawling inside my skin.
ReplyDeleteAnd Hobson: how enforceable do think this is going to be? :T
Nemo: That's weird...
DeleteHobson: You doubt my ability to enforce a chore wheel? |-(
Veneer: No, no, of course not! o.o" I was just, uhm, you know, concerned with bloodshed. Ahahah. :'D
ReplyDeleteHobson: I can be clean about it. That's what gloves and mops are for.
DeleteVeneer: ...OwO
ReplyDeleteWait... what's an abyssal creature?
ReplyDeleteVeneer: Right. Okay, so and Abyssal creature is a mage thing, and it sorta has to do with how mages use magic. Magic is the bending of reality, in a way: when you cast a spell, you're basically calling a higher reality (the Supernal Realm) down to a lower reality (the Fallen World, the one we live in); in order to do this, however, that higher reality, or magic, has to cross a wide expanse of nothingness, otherwise known as the Abyss. The only problem is, that nothingness isn't necessarily empty: monstrous creatures live there, and they can sometimes cross the gap into our world if, when a mage casts a spell, they cause a Paradox--which is essentially reality's way of bitchslapping the Awakened. Thus, Abyssal creatures. :D
ReplyDelete...that's the short of it, at least.
I don't think he's an abyssal creature, then. Unless it's possible to /become/ and abyssal creature, I know my sire didn't know any.
DeleteVeneer: Well, I really don't know a whole lot about them in regards to the 'becoming' aspect... ^^"
ReplyDeleteNot that you know of, though? I'm really trying to narrow my possibilities down, not get more, and I didn't even know they existed until now...
DeleteTo Veneer: Love the mention of the boxers.
DeleteTo Vanessa: What do you think it was? And we can rule out some type of Host - I would have felt it.
Vanessa: I don't even know what a Host is. I'm not sure at this point, there are a lot of options.
DeleteOh. A host is a thing possessed by a spirit.
DeleteVeneer: Sorry...? o.o
ReplyDelete