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 Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:16 pm
Tekira turned and smiled at Janika. "Hi! See anything interesting?" she asked brightly. "We were thinking we might look around a bit."
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:55 am
((I'm taking a few liberties with the structure of Wraith's ship, because I'm bored. Hope ya don't mind when you get back, Bard. razz ))
Aer glanced around as Tekira and Janika talked. The ship seemed awfully dark inside. Who would want to hang out in a ship like this, anyway, as dark and gloomy as it was inside? He sighed and leaned bback against the wall, trying to think, but something small dug into his back for an instant, and then it snapped downward. As it went, there was a deafening CRACK that sounded vaguely familiar, and lights began to turn on all the way down the corridor. Soon the entire corridor was lit brightly.
"Well look at that," muttered Aer sarcastically to himself, "I really am a good magician." Just then though, a series of loud clangs began to sound off down the hall, which then began to escalate into a sustained, high-pitched squeal, as of metal against metal. It sunded, in fact, almost like something moving on a rail. Aer glanced down on a whim, and his eyes alighted upon metal bars about half a foot off the floor, attached to the wall, on either side of the hallway. As he looked down toward where the first clangs had come, he saw what looked like a tiny bulb beginning to grow. Of course, it wasnt growing, it was coming closer. And fast.
"Why is it always me that makes these mistakes?" Aer hissed. "Janika, Tekira, We've got to get out of this hallway!" But as he looked around, there didn't seem to be any hallways branching off. He cursed. "Bloody--! There, a door, come on!" It wasn't the door through which "Rhackam" had disappeared, but on the unfortunate side, he didn't know if that meant something worse awaited them behind it. Still, it had to be better than getting splattered across the front of a...... watever it was.
Aer tried the knob, which didn't open, then looked down the hallway. The bulb-thing had traversed half the distance of the long hallway, and seemed to be speeding up. Aer looked at the door, a little panicky now. There was a red button on it. Holding his breath, Aer pushed the red button, and the doorknob melted into the door as Aer watched. The door slid open sideways, into the wall, revealing another dark corridor beyond.
"This way!" he said urgently to Janika and Tekira.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:13 pm
Tekira took one look at the bulb, which was speeding up and getting very close, then grabbed Janika's arm and yanked her through the hallway.
She took hold of Aer's wrist with her free hand and pulled him through. Then she pulled the door closed.
"Do you think..." she panted. "It's alive? Maybe it knows...where we are."
Her thoughts turned on a different track. "Who in the name of Dessita would have something like that in their boat?"
((OOC: Dessita = most worshipped goddess of Tekira's home city.))
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:16 pm
Janika blinked. Then she shrugged. There was nothing to say. i mean, who could find something to say when they are trapped in a ship with no lights.
(there is no lights on right?)
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:39 pm
((OOC: I got the idea that it's just dim, not entirely black, but I'm not positive.))
Tekira finally took a look around and sighed in spite of herself. It was darker, which made it easier on her eyes. She'd been keeping the fact that they were beginning to ache from the light to herself, not wanting to be seen as a wimp.
"Do you know what that was?" she asked Aer, already pretty sure that Janika wouldn't.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:45 pm
Janika just sat down and started to play around with her dress. She tried to make pictures out of the wrinkles in the cloth but found this impossible.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:26 pm
((Yeah, I figured it was dim but not pitch black.))
Aer shook his head slowly, just as a loud WHOOSH sounded on the other door, as of something large passing very quickly. The door rattled a little with its passing, and then it was gone.
"I saw some magick threads in it... But none I could understand, and certainly none I could manipulate. I don't think it was alive, though..." He cautiously ran his hand over the door until he found another button. It was red, like the one of the other side. Aer saw a knob, but didn't try turning it. When he pressed the button, the knob melted into the door again and the door was whisked open. The hallway beyond was still lit, but the pod-thing was gone, and there was no noise.
"It was hollow, I think, from the way the magick threads were structured in it. I think," Aer said cautiously, "that... it's for transportation within the ship. Moving people around the ship quickly, you know." He shook his head. "But I'm not sure. I couldn't actually see inside it." He turned to look down the long hallway, looking with both his eyes and his soul, feeling for magick threads.
The threads ran everywhere, but he was looking for very simple threads, and he found them. As he touched them and pumped fire into them, they did exactly what he wanted--they turned on the lights all the way down the hallway, and this time there was no railway monster with which to contend. Aer grinned at Tekira and Janika. "Shall we do a little more exploring?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:30 pm
Janika stood up quickly. "Yeah!"
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:03 pm
Tekira smiled back at Aer. "Sure thing."
She frowned as she got up. "Is it just my imagination or does it seem kind of...slimy in here? On the floor?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:41 pm
Janika walked up to them and slipped on the floor. Her eyes went wide in terror as she fell to the ground. Janika stared at the ground. Banana peel? she wondered. It sure didn't feel like one.
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:07 pm
((Okay, I was able to sneek to the campus computer lab for a little while, I can make it on tomorow as well. Time to describe the ship. If any of you have played Skies of Arcadia, it looks a lot like the best ship in the game you fight the boss fight in. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, think of a scaled down metallic blue star destroyer. About the size of a small town, this thing is huge. Most of it's structure is composed byu several Hearrtes collected over centuries by the family that owns it. While the exterior of the ship remains pretty much constant, the interior of the ship is constantly altering and changing as the ship, which has become somewhat sentient itself, rearranges itself appropriatly for the task at hand. These Hearrtes give the ship a vast array of abilities, while amplifying those of one who can tap them. This ship has been passed down through thirty generations of men, each bearing the name Wraith. The current Wraith has been piloting the ship for forty years, and (lacking a proper heir) is searching for a succesor to recieve his inheritance. I'll do my best to control the ships functions.))
At the moment Janika hit the ground a monitor dropped from the celling and a friendlky face appeared on the screen. "My, my!" the built in speakers crackled to life. "You don't belong here! This is the waste disposal unit! If it be your desire, I can transport you to suitable liveing quarters that are somewhat cleaner and more sanitary. This is higly recomended because the tanks are to be flushed soon." A gondola decended from the celling and moved toward the group. "Please step on!" The ship sounded. "Drinks will be provided in your quaters by the Neutromatic Drink Synthesizer 2000."
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:19 pm
((...I hate you Tyler. I dunno why, I just do.
Actually, that's not true. I don't hate you. I love you. Not in that way, of course, but I do. I love you. But stop stealing my material. Especially when it isn't even mine, it's Douglas Adams's. scream ))
Aer blinked at the sudden plethora of magick threads that had appeared in the air around them all. He glanced back at Janika and Tekira.
"We'd better get in," he said resignedly. "I, for one, don't want to be flushed out of the ship."
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:13 pm
Janika got on the ship. "Where does the waste go?" she asked curiously. She didn't really like the idea of waste flushing out. If the waste flush out to outside the ship, wouldn't it ruin the land?
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:42 am
"Probably to the surface. Not like anyone lives there anyway." said Tekira tiredly. She'd thought she was more prepared to get up than she was.
She climbed onto the threads and looked at Aer. "I'm so confused." she said finally.
((OOC: I don't understand this thing about the ship at all, so I'm just going to go along with Ikken and Bard because they seem to know what they're talking about.))
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:22 am
(ha ha. Yeah.)
Janika turned to Tekira. "I am too." she said. Then she smiled. "But I'm enjoying myself! This is so exciting!"
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