EVENT: ORIGIN'S ORIGINS

[fairwind]

Who: explorers!
When: Day 31, night
Where: The Jungle

[The sun has gone down when the heroes receive an unmarked message:

This Star has secrets you should know. If you want to find them, follow the light.

Should they look outside, they will in fact see a light -- a thin but bright pillar rising from the overgrown town out in the jungle.

It's still raining, still covered in frogs, but there's definitely something going on.

And in the direction of the beach, there's also a faint, bell-like ringing. But that's not what's calling you right now... is it?]

[PREMINGLE ★ NOTES ★ SESSIONS ★ AFTERMINGLE]

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PREMINGLE PART 2

[fairwind]

[The first one was p busy and Session 2 had a bad time, so here's a post-2, pre-3 intermission!]

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[wontforbidtherain]

[well, I better take care of this snake venom before the slowed poison spell wears off]

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[rottedwood]

[carefully shedding his passengers, once they can stop.

thiiiiis... sucks.]

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[desirestruth]

[She's exhausted and barely manages to change back but she's leaning on him while she looks for the others in a panic...]

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[rottedwood]

[he's... not counting heads this time. he knows they lost someone, but there wasn't-- anything he could do.

slides an arm around her shoulders to help support her.]

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[wontforbidtherain]

Thank you. Fewer of us would have made it without you.

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[desirestruth]

[half-dead jackal on a deertaur...

she didn't see what happened, but she smells the blood pretty potently, so she's scrambled off hazel and is trying to stand up, trying to find the others in a bit of a blind panic...

she can barely walk, she's so weakened, and she's definitely wobbly, but she's not outwardly injured, at least.]

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[unaffective]

[ why does this keep ]

- Naeva...

[ rushing to close the distance between them, gingerly making to check for injuries despite the actual lack thereof, just like, you know ]

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[desirestruth]

[She is cold as a corpse. Her fangs have elongated so much she lisps slightly when she talks. her heartbeat is barely there and she seems to be having to force herself to remember to breathe...]

I'm--I'm not hurt, the others were....

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[bowtiedbones]

[Isildur's ghost, shaped by the water clinging to his invisible hide and a few bloody streaks, comes tearing out of the Community Center, scrambling around the group to set them like a barrier between the flooding building and his two passengers.

Eliza stumbles down from his back and slumps shivering to the ground]

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[rottedwood]

[once he's ditched his passengers ANXIOUSLY... APPROACHING!!]

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[bowtiedbones]

[lifts her head to look at him. she's crying and not making any attempt to hide it.]

W-we couldn't... We had to—

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[newmodelblade]

[Well, he needs a moment to get his thoughts in something of a semblance of order, but he'll crouch down beside her, placing a hand upon her shoulder.]

Are you all right?

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[bowtiedbones]

[takes a few deep breaths, trying to get words around an answer...

shakes her head]

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[desirestruth]

[She doesn't say anything. She just wobbles over, and slumps to the ground in front of Eliza, and.

You're getting a hug.]

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[bowtiedbones]

[buries her face in Naeva's shoulder, clinging back tightly. she's bloody and crying and she's absolutely not letting go.]

Crow's— he's... There was a-?

[she has to say what happened, it feels important to tell someone at least, but she has to stop. get her breath. it feels like her throat is full of glass.]

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[wontforbidtherain]

More beyond the tigers and snakes?

I have more Sparks if we need them.

[more than what she needed to use to un-poison herself]

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[bowtiedbones]

[stares at her dully, taking a minute too long to process what she's saying. what do tigers have to do with anything? who needs sparks?]

...a plant. It was a plant.

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[newmodelblade]

[He also got grabbed on the dragon ghost express here, and pulled out at the end. He's badly injured and bleeding rather extensively, hand still clenched where he had had a sword before we presume the event ending made it dissolve back into blood.

He doesn't fall over when he gets off, because years of training have beaten into him that if you're conscious you better stay up and moving, but he does seem to just be standing there, trying to catch his breath figuratively and literally.]

[desirestruth]

Lucien!

[SHE'S ALARMED. She can barely walk but she's wobbling towards him at the greatest speed she can manage.

this would be comical if this situation weren't so dire.]

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[unaffective]

Ah - Sir -

[ raising a hand in hopes of catching his attention - there are so many here the situation's become a bit overwhelming on as little sleep as she's been getting, but this one she should at least make an attempt for, she's sure. ]

- at the very least... I'd like to see to the pain...

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[awakenerd]

[He looks over everyone who arrives but he already knows and it's an ache in his chest of failure and grief that makes it impossible to approach anyone. He's just, quietly confirming everyone's status while he struggles with it.]

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[desirestruth]

...Rean.

[She isn't quite crying--it's hard when you're exsanguinated--but she does look. Miserable.

Ah, this sucks...]

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[rottedwood]

[hazel seems... more tired than last round, for sure. he's coming over to pat Rean's shoulder.]

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[bowtiedbones]

[oh. oh it's crow's friend.]



[shoving herself shakily back to her feet. it's a process and she has to hold onto her dragon to manage it, but she stands.]