Deja vu all over again. That was at least somewhat comforting. He'd been right: making memories now was important. One of his new memories was that scouting ahead was important.
We gather information as we can, place it in the right spots. An accented voice. Here, and gone.
He found a mechanism that looked promising, and tested it on one of the gliders. A few minutes of winding up and the thing sailed riderless into the void.
Right, then.
He moved to another, wound it up, and with a sense of foreboding settled himself into the glider. He very nearly bailed again out of dread before he was shot instantly and breathtakingly into the sky. It was terrifying and strangely exhilarating.
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Character name: Amity Character appearance: A thin and stretched-looking thing that trembles gently and has the taut, nervous energy of a caged animal pacing. His yellow heart seems hungry, and he wears a blue pendant around his neck. Link to Heart Logx Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equippedSorrow and Rage
For a long few seconds this came the closest anything had to making him feel as though he was, again, a weightless shapeless formless thoughtless thing curled up in the void before awareness. But the sensation was fleeting as the whispering voices set in.
He listened.
"You'll wanna bank sharp around the next curve," one of them said authoritatively, and the thought that he was, once again, being delivered from nothing into taking orders galled him, and he refused.
This ended up being a mistake, as the need to abruptly correct himself mid-turn caused him to spiral in a terrifying way until he managed to yank himself out of the plunge.
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Character name: Amity Character appearance: A thin and stretched-looking thing that trembles gently and has the taut, nervous energy of a caged animal pacing. His yellow heart seems hungry, and he wears a blue pendant around his neck. Link to Heart Logx Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equippedSorrow and Rage
"Told you so," whispered a voice, but it didn't actually sound like the same one to Amity's ears. Like hearing a dozen conversations at once.
"There's a pretty treacherous arch in the fog just ahead," offered another conversationally. "You're going to slam right into it."
So maybe self-preservation was once again outweighing stubbornness. He tipped the glider down, and the shadow of a close-by ceiling flickered over the glider. He thought he heard, although maybe it was his imagination, the scrape of some piece of the machinery on something overhead.
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Character name: Amity Character appearance: A thin and stretched-looking thing that trembles gently and has the taut, nervous energy of a caged animal pacing. His yellow heart seems hungry, and he wears a blue pendant around his neck. Link to Heart Logx Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equippedSorrow and Rage
"One more," said yet another voice. Maybe it's all the same person, but many voices. He didn't know. He just knew that he trusted them, now, as much as he trusted anyone. Which was to say not very much.
He sailed down under the next with more clearance, and then the world opened up in front of him. Or not the world. The space outside the world. This was what he wanted.
The gleam of the shrines beckoned, and Amity thought that maybe, maybe, he could just keep sailing out. Or maybe he could let go, and fall.
But a sudden buffet of wind had him clenching his fists and he realized that the instinct to hold himself together was getting stronger right along with his memories.
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Character name: Amity Character appearance: A thin and stretched-looking thing that trembles gently and has the taut, nervous energy of a caged animal pacing. His yellow heart seems hungry, and he wears a blue pendant around his neck. Link to Heart Logx Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equippedSorrow and Rage
He swung wildly to one side, and abruptly what had seemed like, finally, a peaceful adventure was turning rapidly into a terrifying one.
Nothing ever went smoothly.
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Character name: Amity Character appearance: A thin and stretched-looking thing that trembles gently and has the taut, nervous energy of a caged animal pacing. His yellow heart seems hungry, and he wears a blue pendant around his neck. Link to Heart Logx Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equippedSorrow and Rage
And moments before he'd been thinking of just letting go?
Ha! Treacherous body would force him to protect it even if he didn't really want to.
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Character name: Amity Character appearance: A thin and stretched-looking thing that trembles gently and has the taut, nervous energy of a caged animal pacing. His yellow heart seems hungry, and he wears a blue pendant around his neck. Link to Heart Logx Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equippedSorrow and Rage
A moment of stillness, a false sense of security, and then an abrupt, turbulent updraft.
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Character name: Amity Character appearance: A thin and stretched-looking thing that trembles gently and has the taut, nervous energy of a caged animal pacing. His yellow heart seems hungry, and he wears a blue pendant around his neck. Link to Heart Logx Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equippedSorrow and Rage
With sudden anger, he banked the glider hard to one side. Maybe if he could just land on one of the lesser islands he could work up the nerve to take a dive off, although he suspected that he'd just re-form again, somewhere else, more frustrated than he was before.
Instead of that, though, a gust of wind caught him mid-turn and launched him ungracefully but directly toward the Shrine, where he fell to the earth with a painful thump.
Well. Whatever.
He paused among the totems, and he turned his back on the beckoning glow of the blessings to look out over the sea of fog. He stood for a long time, tired, before reluctantly ending his journey.
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Character name: Amity Character appearance: A thin and stretched-looking thing that trembles gently and has the taut, nervous energy of a caged animal pacing. His yellow heart seems hungry, and he wears a blue pendant around his neck. Link to Heart Logx Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equippedSorrow and Rage
Igny was back once more. She had enjoyed the flight before, but now she came back with purpose. She needed the blessings.
This time she knew what she was doing. The crank sat in front of her, and she began cranking. Except this time, she did too much and it didn't respond to her. Oops.
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Character name: Igny Character appearance: A very small shadow that appears to have small, four petaled flowers coming out of it. A somber blue heart in the center of her chest. A bright red spiral on her forehead. Link to Heart Loghere Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equipped: Sorrow and Rage
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Igny took a deep breath. She just needed to calm down. The excitement and nervousness was getting to her. She could do this, really. She'd done it before.
With a shudder, the plane came to life, and she was in the air, gasping at the feeling of flight once more.
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Character name: Igny Character appearance: A very small shadow that appears to have small, four petaled flowers coming out of it. A somber blue heart in the center of her chest. A bright red spiral on her forehead. Link to Heart Loghere Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equipped: Sorrow and Rage
The voice came once more. Igny knew of their whiles though. She attempted to keep the plane as level as possible. Any lost of altitude was her own fault.
[ Altitude Lost: 6 ]
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Character name: Igny Character appearance: A very small shadow that appears to have small, four petaled flowers coming out of it. A somber blue heart in the center of her chest. A bright red spiral on her forehead. Link to Heart Loghere Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equipped: Sorrow and Rage
Igny was relieved. This flight was going much more safely this time now that she was ignoring the voices.
So easy, that she found herself dipping a little in the air for the thrill of it. What, she liked fun!
[ Altitude Lost: 26 ]
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Character name: Igny Character appearance: A very small shadow that appears to have small, four petaled flowers coming out of it. A somber blue heart in the center of her chest. A bright red spiral on her forehead. Link to Heart Loghere Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equipped: Sorrow and Rage
It was so sudden that Igny found herself following the advice without meaning to. It was just reaction. Unfortunately, leaning left crashed her into another ship, crashing her even lower. "Shoot shoot shoot!"
[ Altitude Lost: 74 ]
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Character name: Igny Character appearance: A very small shadow that appears to have small, four petaled flowers coming out of it. A somber blue heart in the center of her chest. A bright red spiral on her forehead. Link to Heart Loghere Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equipped: Sorrow and Rage
When the storm came, Igny kept a level head. It was okay. She could navigate this. Igny felt a new sense of confidence she hadn't possessed before. Was it the goddesses doing, or her own skill?
The clouds rolled, but Igny was calm. She piloted with ease and landed on the tiny islet below. The blessing was hers to claim.
[ 10-6-2 ] [ 8-7-3 ] [ 9-4-5 ]
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Character name: Igny Character appearance: A very small shadow that appears to have small, four petaled flowers coming out of it. A somber blue heart in the center of her chest. A bright red spiral on her forehead. Link to Heart Loghere Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equipped: Sorrow and Rage
The totems were calling to her again. She could feel it. She grabbed one of the gliders and jumped off.
Maybe she was overconfident. Acerola jumped off at the last moment and none too soon, because the glider dropped like a rock. Acerola let out the breath she had been holding. That was close.
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Character name: Acerola Character appearance: Grey humanoid figure with yellow core and a black tag around her neck. Vague shape of feline ears on top of her head as well as a tail behind. Link to Heart Log[x] Current HP 50/50 Current weapon equippedDespair's Razor (2d10 - 6)
