Kurku asks about her idea and after her response he says, "That could be dangerous, but it certainly would be fun. Fare well, friend."

As she's about to leave, VelAnna whispers something in Masa's ear. MK all smile as one and point at a door in the hallway. VelAnna says nothing, but takes Aflae by the hand and - if she lets her - leads her into the room. VelAnna says, "Hugs? Try this instead!"
and ...

Afterward VelAnna says, "Now you've got motivation to come back alive. I've never met my twin, but I know you. Don't die."

Once Aflae goes through the Portal, she exits in Auraluna. The faint thin trail of golden motes flows through Auraluna, not in a straight line, but in a convoluted path. She can see the path up to a point where it disappears into the back door of a restaurant.

OOC: I'd like to revamp your gear to fit into a new paradigm. I want to test out a few concepts, so I'll let you decide which you'd like to try.

I've discovered a system where you level up by increasing your die count instead of the number of dice, and I wondered what it would be like to have an item's effect increase the number of sides on a die instead of the number of dice. Since we have the Dice Roller, we can use any number of sides, so these items could increase it by +1 as many times as would be reasonable.

The second idea I had was to change items from +1d6 reroll etc to just act like NPCs with single (or multiple) cliches. That way they could take damage, be levelled up, get boosted etc.

Thirdly, because of the dice roller, they could all be rolled together as one, even if different dice were rolled at once.

It would be a little too complicated to introduce to ordinary players, but I feel confident you would be able to use it.

How do you feel about incorporating any or all of those ideas for Aflae? We can keep the original stats of your items saved (in your description) in case you wanted to go back. If it works well, I'll start rolling it out.

Up to you but I was happy with the equipment bonuses.

Well guessing that it goes in and don't come back out... Guesses she is ether in there, or there is another portal in the back.

The question here is to Bruce Wane this or not? ;p

NAhhhhh.....

Well she sucks at Imagus... but She's fairly good at Verimagus, so taking a step back outside she grabs her harptar and starts playing and while using Unimagus to warp any hing of her being there light/energies she gives off/ect around her (energy) and Verimagus to mess with the brains tendency to ignore things to ignore her and any sounds she makes so anything they may notice so the only way they might notice is if they notice there is a spot there brain is just ignoring (hard thing to actually do mind you).

Would roll but not sure how you want to do combining more than one magus, and the equipment bonus of the harp..... and she walks back... waiting for some one to head into the back, and follows them back. Not wanting to draw attention to herself by opening the door. The music is part of the magic but.... is worried doing anything that draws attenting to her might mess with peoples heads as there brains are told to look and ignore at the same time.

(ooc works like the idea of white noise... you deal with something enough you don't notice it.... you will letteraly not see/hear/smell/ect it because your brain cuts down on the amount of imput it is using.   Something FAR from human with a MASIVE brain power would get a hudge bonus resisting this... EI dragon/angel/ect as there brains can surely handle 100% of all there senses all the time....)

So she's mostly invisable and people that hear/see something don't know that they do because it don't reach there subconscious ignores it and it never goes to there conscious mind or long term memory.

OOC:
01:35, Today: Narrator, on behalf of Aflae, rolled 45,18 using 9d8,5d8 with rolls of 7,8,2,3,4,6,1,7,7,2,4,3,4,5.  spell.
Bunch of elements advanced. Used your harpitar for a bonus to the dice. It will increase its bonus as it levels up.

I was hoping to see if you would head straight for the shop, or follow the trail as a small test. If you had chosen one or the other, things would be affected. But since I didn't make that a clear choice and I couldn't tell which way you would have gone, I know that my wording wasn't clear. How could I have worded that so that you would have chosen one or the other without knowing for sure which way was the right way? I ask because I want to improve my communication skills.

IC:
While performing the spell, Aflae feels that she should follow the actual trail without taking a shortcut to the shop even though she can see it. As she does this, the trail itself alters a little, though the destination remains the same. By following the trail, she completely avoids even bumping into anyone. However, she does notice one person noticing her. A green skinned woman suddenly stops staring at Aflae when their eyes meet through the crowd, and she disappears into the crowd.

The trail leads to a walk-in freezer.

((So it goes into the restaurant and back out, or not? I'm confused now.))

Ever read The Princess and the Goblin? I haven't, but there's a thread the Princess has to follow no matter what to find safety. At one point, it disappears into a stone, but leaving the thread, no matter how hard following it is, is disastrous.

The trail has to be followed. This is one of those paths where the journey is as important as the destination.

The trail goes into the restaurant, and not out, but within the restaurant it leads to a walk-in freezer.

Oh I misunderstood your saying she could tell where the path lead to she would head to the restaurant.... but if the tail didn't stay in place when she did that and the glasses keep trying to lead her back to to the start of the tail she would have found that odd and gone back and followed the trail.

She would figure the tail is just the path the twin took... but if the glasses changed the trail when she moved off it then she would think otherwise and investigate.

in other words if the "thread" stayed attached to her instead of being stadic.
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Once Aflae started moving straight for the restaurant, the trail began to wiggle and swing about wildly. It still ended at the restaurant, but every step off of the trail caused the trail to move around randomly.

Once she began following the trail, she made her way to the restaurant without anyone other than that green-skinned lady even noticing her.

Once in the restaurant, the thread lead to the walk-freezer.

((I'm assuming she goes in))

Inside the freezer, there is a portable portal ring set up and open with cold air flowing in through a small Portal. Though small, it is just big enough for Aflae to fit in.

02:16, Today: Narrator, for the NPC green skinned lady, rolled 17 using 6d6 with rolls of 1,3,2,1,4,6.  hiding something.
02:14, Today: Narrator, on behalf of Aflae, rolled 18 using 6d6 with rolls of 2,2,3,6,4,1.  Verimagus test.

Aflae senses something is spying on her and following her.

Checks Veri/Unimagus what is on the other side of the portal... and if it's safe she hops right on through, and then looks for a place to hide and see if anyone will follow her through the portal and to see who is following her.

It's cold, but safe. She finds herself in a frozen forest on some random planet in Oner 0 ((deduced from the stars)).
19:43, Today: Narrator, for the NPC green skinned lady, rolled 22 using 6d6 with rolls of 2,6,5,1,2,6.
19:43, Today: Narrator, on behalf of Aflae, rolled 24 using 6d6 with rolls of 6,5,2,3,5,3.
The feeling that she's being watched remains with her the whole time, but now she feels as if the eyes are very close to her.

OOC: If I roll, I'll make a naked roll, but you have items that can make the roll much more likely to succeed by alot & therefore give more information.

No one else seems to be coming through the Portal.

Thought it might have been the green skinned woman... but guesses not. For now follows the trail and uses another Veri/Unimagus spell to try and see who is spying on her and where they are, guessing they are scrying on her. Doing her best not to be detected, trying not to mix up the music she's plying to much, to make it seam like she's just been stroling long playing music and at best not make it seam like the magic she's casting has changed...... she isn't very good at Imagus but she can try and mix that in too to hide that she is looking for who is looking for her. >.<

Best she can do though realy is using unimagus to bounce it around from several locations to the point that hopefully the only reason they can tell the magic is coming from her is just sercemstancial evidence that well..... it makes sense the person watching you looks back. >.>

Damnit she don't have the magic to do this well but she will try!!!!

OOC: Just realized I didn't RP that quite the way I should've. I'm retconning the following:

IC:
Actually Aflae realizes that her Magus skills didn't alert her to the feeling of being watched. It was pure instinct, as if the Magus added no help whatsoever.

There is an absence of Magus in a tiny spot on her right shoulder. If she weren't so paranoid and on alert, there's no way she'd notice it. Even if she notices it, it's so small it would be easy to think it was just an illusion. But the absence of Magus in the tiny spot about the size of a gnat disappears the moment she tries to focus on it.

OOC: It's the green-skinned woman's organic spy drone which nullifies Magus spells but is detectable by Magem aided means. She's not an antagonist, and she will soon reveal herself after observing Aflae for a little while.

IC:
In the sky, Aflae witnesses Gamma exploding like everyone else does.

The trail leads into a densely wooded area and the temperature slowly increases and the air thins out the deeper in she goes.

OOC: Would you feel comfortable RPing a meeting of Aflae and Azraille?

OOC I don't mind if you got a reason for it =p

Sighs, not particularly liking being spied on... particularly when doing something for that's special to her girlfriend. So she opens up her drone bay and sends out her own drones to catch the one spying on her.

Renaissance Scientist + whatever bonus the drones give.

If they catch it she examines it while saying. "Hello, sorry but I'm on private buisnuess for a friend, so fly along home or I'm braking your toy."

And if it's got a gearbox and or even any sense of intelligence... changes the end to "... so fly along back to your mumma before I take your chassis apart and leave you for them to find."

The trail to VelAnna's twin has become an orb, telling Aflae to remain where she is.

Between the drones and whatnot, Aflae sees a tiny green flying lizard/insect, which flies off at her request, and the green woman comes through the Portal. "Sorry, Aflae, but when I see someone using magus to hide themselves, I get suspicious. I've looked you up on the Comnet, so I trust you aren't up to no good. I've got the feeling I'm supposed to help you in some way. I'm a Dragon avatar. Are you aware of how you might need the help of the Dragons?"

Just then Aflae sees Gamma exploding and disappearing.
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"I kinda figured you might be a dragon in a humanoid form being there vast minds are kinda one of the weakness of the spell I was using, but a dragon avatar is a term i'm not aware of... are you some one mild linked with a dragon?" She shrugs. "Help? Well depends if any are willing to teach and how they feel about people trying to become a dragon.... but right now I'm trying to find some one."

OOC: What did Aflae think of Gamma exploding?

IC:
"A Dragon avatar is a secondary body, sometimes telepathically linked and sometimes not, that a Dragon uses to move among other species.

"We'd have no problem teaching you to become what you already are. Deep down, you are already a dragon. Not everyone with Dragon DNA is a Dragon, but you have enough of the right markers.

"This is how you can become a Dragon. Meditate while shunning all magus and magem, focusing on visualizing your DNA. Once you see it, look at the patterns and follow your instinct to search for the Dragon specific strands, and then zoom out to see the whole image that they create. Once you do that, you'll trigger a cocooning event where you'll be able to design your DNA to create any body you desire. Visualize the body (or bodies) you'll want and follow your instincts from there. You'll have as much body mass to work with as you go into your cocoon with, so I recommend preparing for that. Your first metamorphosis will take a few months, and you can't use magus during that time period. But when it's done, you'll be a full Dragon.

"One thing you should know. If any of your bodies are full-on Dragon, you'll have some magic-like abilities, but you won't be able to use Magus in that form & you'll be immune to direct Magus attacks. However, you'll be fully able to use Magem and you'll be fully susceptible to Magem."

"Already am a dragon?" she raised a brow. "Well That's new... though I was under the impression dragons where quite good at magum.... guess just not in there true-dragon body?" She sighs "I have to many things to do right now to do anything like that though.... I'm helping my girlfriend, there might be a way to end the war between magus and magem, I've been pulled into a war with dark spirits, and there is a really old necromancer out there with a scary amount of trapped souls" She thinks. "Maybe I should hire more adventuring parties." Thinks though that changes things... had planed on basically giving birth to herself to do it, but that would require finding some one good enough with magus to heal her... and getting much better with it herself..... still how she is suppose to increase her biomass when she's already missing a good chunk of her own biomass is going to be a mess. Her bodies main store of excess body mass was blown off..... just leaves...... u.u

ValAnna is going to make fun of her for this if she see her preparing for it. >.>
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The Dragon Avatar responds, "WOW! You've got a lot on your plate. As you know, Magus relies on the lack of direct observation. As you didn't know, Dragons use observation to manipulate our DNA, so as a side effect, Magus doesn't work on or for us unless our Dragonness is turned off. Do you mind if I keep in contact via my insect-drone? Also, what did you think of that exploding planet right there?"

The golden-thread trail unballs, and leads into the woods.

Walks and talks with her. "Shouldn't some one skilled enough with Verimagus be able to do both then? I would explain but... it's hard to. But one could observe with out observing in theory." Zen dragon? >.> She sighs at the mention of Gama "That was a fucking shit show if I ever saw one.... That whole mission fell the fuck apart, Lugosi keep running off doing what looting the place and doing god knows what, he was there inertly for himself or working for another company..... The planet teleporting made no sense and there was no reason for it to explode everywhere like that, and I have no idea what kinda affects that could h-" Something snaps in her head, why would the dragon be asking her what she thought about it, why was there so much talk about something bad happening sideways and with other people, why would anyone else what to teleport gama?

She stops walking and pumps Renaissance Scientist [8/8] to scan for any residual traces of gama or the magem eating life. Sending the drones out over there max range they can still assist eachother in scanning the same area.

If she finds anything..... there is a GRATE DEAL OF CUSSING..... SO MUCH CUSSING.

Also after she cusses up a storm, she excuses herself to meditate to ask herself why the hell the universe hasn't reset going into a virmagus trance.
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"Not exactly. If you use any form of Magus to manipulate your DNA, you won't be a true Dragon. You'll continue to be a human even if you look like a dragon. Being a Dragon is like being more real than a human in a sense. It's hard to explain, and until you experience it, you won't get it. But you simply can't use Magus to become a Dragon and still be able to use Magus afterward in a Dragon body. This avatar can use Magus, but if I choose to alter my DNA in this Avatar, I only have two choices - my primary Dragon body can swallow this avatar and act as its cocoon as I alter it within me, or I can go into the meditative state, abandon Magus, cocoon, and alter it there within itself. Once I did that, though, it would become my daughter and no longer be my avatar."

"Sorry to interrupt, but that was a design flaw in the planetary defence mechanism which was supposed to shield the planet by pinching it off from the Oner in its own little Oner bubble until the danger passed. They never foresaw that it would teleport into a different Oner entirely. We Dragons worked out what happened to it a few weeks after it disappeared."


Because she was there, they both saw it, and it was a freaking planet exploding everywhere which they both would deduce since they both had other selves in other places.


Oh yes, the Rulabs are everywhere. As a matter of fact, reports are starting to begin of people who require Magem to live, finding it more and more difficult to live.

quote:

SO MUCH CUSSING.

The avatar calmly watches Aflae, and the moment Aflae takes a breath, the avatar says, "I take it you've discovered the Rulabs. There are 2 main clans of Dragons, followers of Grankogn and of Phloosksi, Queen Sdrankhn's eldest daughters. I'm of the phototrophic Phloosksi clan. A few resets ago, the Grankogn clan approached us with a plan to destroy Balur by using Rulabs which were discovered when Gamma briefly appeared in Oner 0 before being kicked out by Balur itself. When Gamma exploded, I began seeing the Rulabs."


She thinks that maybe something is stopping it from being able to do that, and tries to figure out what, concluding that it might be related to what that Djin did to Patrus's attempts to use Balur to reach Rock All's world.

Oh yah... she cusses a lot.....

When she's done she just sorta ingores the dragon for now.... Holding up a hand while she gets comuncations open with Stella and various Anima reps.

To RnD "I'm having a sample of a creature called Rulab sent to you. It's contained... reverse engineer how it's contained and devise a method of storing Magem or quarantine people with a dependence on Magem to live in a Rulab free environment. I'll send you notes on everything we know about them."

To Ducky and medical RnD "We need a way to treat people who are dependant on magem so they can live with out it, and we need it fast. One that don't need magem."

To stella and Arbaelf "Ok I know I just sent you to work on the spirit war but I need your help on re-tooling the wardens, tree-ships, and comway-nexus superstructer... First get them to shut down as quickly as they can as they switch to no longer using magem.... even if the magem alge in there sap dies the trees should be fine, but they will lose various functions so they will have to adapt to using other methods. Warn all the spirits of the wardens what is happening and what they will have to deal with... send a software patch to the ships with emergancy prasidures should they lose magem functionality.... have all ships grow solar leaf sails now, but keep them folded around the ship as a procotion and warn there owners agenst interstellar travel if Rulab activity rises." She also makes sure stella works something out to shut down her work in her own personal star system.... just flat out shutting it down letting it go cold for now. (unless the magem in them cna be used to attack the rulab untill equlibrum is reached sorta thing.. .then that because thats better than just letting them eat it all up and growing =p)

To scrapland and magem farming "Concentrate on the collection and conversion to void shards, as soon as we have a viable means of storing it from RnD I want a stockpile of void shards"

She talks to ValAnnna too "Hun, you still busy? I need you to stop by that place we stayed at with the nice view and the ghost cat and look up some names for me..... and maybe make a trip to talk to some high up mages for me..... seam some one tried to end the magus / magem war with full magem genocide... regardless of how much that fucks everyone over."

Also has stella run calculations on how long it will be untill the end of the univurse and looks into Hiring an Unimagus mage cappable of creating stable portals and locking them down into a contract before anyone knows about this and starts sniping the best ones. I know there will be a LOT of CEO (5/5) rolls.... she will pump CEO two or three times for this though..... she will fight tooth and nail to get a good deal in getting a good solid stable contract with an Unimgagus mage.... besides they can teach her.....    (if she can get ValAnna to find the names cheed and sooth where talking about... she will start with the unimage from that list)

But she general stays there making contacts to try and get Anima set to deal with the aftermath... treating this as a compleat loss of all magem senario (EI ... preapare for the worst case senario, but hope for the best) She will let everyone (who's high up) know whats going on with as much details as they can trusting them only to let people know who they think it's reletive to know though... making sure they know this could cause wide spread panic if people knew exsactly what was going on.  They are to prepare for mass relief efforts, the loss of power to magem drives and portals, and the possable need to evacuate oner - 0 with out magem ships and portals.

This was a hudge fucking pain.

VelAnna comes back, "Holy FRAK! -" a string of profanities, "- dirtbags. Alright, I'm on it. I'll keep you updated. I'll expel my own Balur to keep me safe from danger. I can do that now. I've spent something like 100 years in a time-sped bubble to catch up on everything, and I'm really anxious to get back with you and have a private conversation, but that can wait."

The Dragon waits patiently as Aflae silently does these Communications. They come up on the sound of voices somewhere ahead on the path.

"Sorry, there is a lot to work out ... even more on my plate..." She sighs. "This is going cause so many problems for so many people........" She scans to see where the voices are coming from. "Maybe if we are lucky I can use this to negotiate a end to the magus/magem war in exchange for helping save Balur from who ever is trying to wipe it out.... if it's even possible to negotiate with it, wonder if there is a way to give something with out a soul a soul and emotions? Yah know new souls not... used souls or anything!!! Well not used souls!!! GAH! You know what I mean...."  shivers a little at that bit.  And yes she talks to much when she's in criss mode or thinking a lot. "AGH... I got chunks of magem in my brain and replacing vital organs, I need to finish this up before it becomes a problem."
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Rounding the corner, she spies a woman spying on Azraile and some old man ((Reuel)). Hearing Aflae and the Dragon avatar approach, the woman spins around startled, "Oh my!"

Aflae recognizes Annabelle ((the Sangwen half of VelAnna)) and the golden thread leads right to her, stopping in her.

Annabelle's Twin says, "Um... Do you know me? I've been having..." she blushes, "dreams... about you. Also, where is the dome ceiling? I came up the mountain to get a better look at a tree that I thought was on fire, and now I feel like I'm not even on Pskaena anymore!"

She waves. "Oh hey... I'm Aflae, your sister is looking for you... I'm sorta her girlfriend."