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RE: [Quest] Shivering Leaves - Thothaga - Nov 13 2018
Others had come. They must have been drawn to the cries. Thothaga watched them from burrow woven by the Divine's roots. An eagle, one who reminded her of Glory, was the first to arrive, she was the one who called the others. Then, a hoofed creature appeared, one who looked vaguely like Giggle. He reached out to the tree and spoke to its past.
Thothaga crawled out from her hiding place and crawled towards Serek, when the glint of a beetle's shell caught her eye.
Thothaga backed up then turned around, finding herself face to face with the newcomers.
@Dragon @Naja @Serek @Ceicei @Sizzle @Hera
RE: [Quest] Shivering Leaves - Serek - Nov 15 2018
Serek flinched and cried out softly at the images and emotions and feelings that poured from the tree. He stepped back, tears collecting in the corner of his eyes and his ears twitched mournfully. As others came forward, he turned, his ears drooping with sorrow at what he had seen.
Mellow, now, uncaring now for whatever revenge he had planned, he gave Septiezal a small nod.
And as the giant spider came, he forgot everything and his mouth dropped open with awe.
RE: [Quest] Shivering Leaves - Dragon - Nov 30 2018
Dragon listened closely, and looked to Serek with new appraisal in his eyes.
He hadn't known where the young one had been, but clearly Serek had been training very hard to be able to speak to trees!
"You can speak to the tree?" he bellowed, and his tone was fascinated, and full of approval. "This is good! This is impressive magic! It will help us! You have done well!" Every sentence was a bellowed exclamation, and after a moment, when he fell silent, it was only to think about what to bellow next.
After all, he had to come up with some sort of plan. He was a leader--of sorts--and he had to come up with some sort of way to help the... tree. Even though, from everything he could recall, it was an evil tree. He remembered it attacking them before--attacking his brother Ghanyarah. But if it was asking for help, perhaps it would give them something in return! Plus, when it was screaming, it was rather annoying. And all because of beetles?! Hah!
Well, they could just burn the whole thing down; that'd stop the mess. But it was better, he thought, to come to terms with the... tree.
Whatever.
He pushed the thought aside, for a moment, and concentrated on his magic. Imagery flickered up, heat-sense superimposed, for a moment, on his regular vision. He could see not the strong, red heartbeat of mammals or even reptiles, but he could see the faint glow of thousands of tiny creatures scuttling about beneath the bark.
Serek was right--and the situation was rather dire.
"I can see them," he told the others, craning his head back to look at the infestation where it ran almost to the tree's crown. "Do --hello, spider--do any of you have magic that can be used to drive them out, or draw them out, without harming the tree? Trick them, or lure them; sicken them, eat them, I do not care. Perhaps the thing will stop trying to kill us, as it has done before, if we aid it." He did not, however, sound particularly hopeful about this last.
RE: [Quest] Shivering Leaves - Game Master Dark - Nov 30 2018
Clearly, being bitten bothered it, despite the spider's fangs not particularly piercing it; perhaps it felt itself under attack.
Other than this, it did little; the beetles continued to scuttle to and fro, driven into a frenzy by the sudden shifting of their home, their own movements audible still as the soft scratching of thousands of feet and carapaces against the inside of the bark.
@Septiezal @Thothaga @Serek @Naja @Hera @Sizzle @Dragon
RE: [Quest] Shivering Leaves - Thothaga - Dec 05 2018
Thothaga screeched and jumped as the root smacked her abdomen. She spun around and hissed at the tree, rubbing her sore rump with her back legs. The quartz on her back lit up, bright blue with magicka, as she sent her frustrated thoughts straight to the Divine.
She turned back to Serek and huffed.
She then turn to the giant lizard who greeted her.
RE: [Quest] Shivering Leaves - Septiezal - Dec 05 2018
Septiezal stared at Serek, surprised to here those words come out his mouth. Forgive me? But I--
Suddenly a commotion grabbed his attention. A giant spider, one bigger (and bluer) than any cave spider he had ever seen chased after the beetles. To his awe, the tree came alive as root lifted and whacked the spider for touching its bark. Septiezal's jaw dropped and he looked around for any one who had just cased a plant spell, but them came to realize the tree did that on its own.
It's alive??
That explains the screaming, but it left Septiezal with an uncomfortable feeling. How alive was it? Did it watch him draw those embarrassing pictures in the mud with his new claws that one time he came here? He hoped not. Don't tell the others! He silently pleaded with the tree.
There was more pressing matter at hand however, this tree would not stop screaming unless they got rid of the beetles, without hurting. Septiezal pondered too, tapping his talon on his snout. Then and idea came to him. He knew a spell that could probably help.
@Serek @Dragon @Naja @Sizzle @Hera
RE: [Quest] Shivering Leaves - Dragon - Dec 06 2018
The alligator glanced at Septiezal in some surprise. Now that was a good idea, and one he might not have ever thought of.
"This is a good idea, brother. I am proud of you both!" This, apparently, meant Serek and Septiezal both. Truly, to Dragon's mind, his Children of Rot were performing admirably. To the spider he gave a slightly more wary glance; he'd had bad interactions with the cave spiders of Cetus in the past. This one was talking, but still, he remembered their bites--the scarring and near-defeat he'd had at their hands as a tiny hatchling.
Never mind it, now; he crawled up alongside the tree, closing his eyes and concentrating on his magicka.
The alligator's command of fire was generally strong, and it answered to him now, to his satisfaction: his hide lit like glowing coals, smoldering, the stench of burning flesh malodorous in the air as smoke billowed from him. It poured up, black and thick, some escaping into the sky and some pluming into the damaged tree's hollows where he pressed his thick body against the trunk.
"Aid how you each can. Kill them, if they come out!"
@Serek @Naja @Hera
RE: [Quest] Shivering Leaves - Serek - Dec 06 2018
Unsure of what to do, Serek stepped back as those that were better with magic stepped forward. He started pacing impatiently, knowing that he couldn't do anything to get the beetles out. He couldn't squeeze under there and he had no fire magic to smoke them out. But...he had an idea. If he couldn't smoke them out or force them out, maybe he could help by baiting them out?
It wasn't much but he summoned a few of those strange magic bananas. Not as many as he wanted but it was something. He placed them around the roots of the trees. If Dragon's magic got them to come out, maybe they would go towards the bananas, make them easier to take out...
RE: [Quest] Shivering Leaves - Game Master Dark - Dec 06 2018
Others, though--in droves--simply fell lifeless from the bark, not dead but knocked quite unconscious by the smoke. Hundreds--thousands, perhaps--falling with myriad quiet clinks and thwacks into a pile of rainbow-glittering, leg-jutting carapaces at the tree's base.
The forest itself seemed to sigh with relief, a fresh breeze blowing softly around the Gembound present--but it wasn't over yet.
The bugs still needed to be disposed of, lest they awaken and reinfest the Divine.
@Thothaga @Septiezal
RE: [Quest] Shivering Leaves - Septiezal - Dec 07 2018
Septiezal slithered on the other side of the tree to summon this smoke, his long, cylinder body could slink places Dragon's could not. Perhaps he could get the stranglers, and add to his brother's thick, black cloud.
The serpent's scales charred black much like Dragon's, visible, on patches of orange. Strong, thick smoke billowed from this body as he slithered around the trunk and roots. Any beetle that crossed his path, he snapped at, or clawed. Despite adding more smoke, there was only so much Septiezal could do in actually killing them.
He saw Serek make bananas from magic alone. They seemed to draw in more beetles. Septiezal, lifted his head gave him a snakey smile.