Madhukar made her approach, and the light took shape: a glimmering crystal floating a foot or two above the ground. The wind seemed to avoid it - or was it pushing against the wind? Rather than be swept up by it, the stone stubbornly remained in place.

@Madhukar

Now this had to be a special rock. I mean look at it! It was blue this time! And floating, supported by nothing it seemed! The wind was avoiding it, too-- really avoiding it this time, not just obeying generic laws of physics or whatever. Who put it here? Why? ...How?

Madhukar would try to swat at the thing with her paws. She wanted to know what would happen.

((OOC: Navy said I could keep the critical success I got the first time this was posted. Thanks Navy & Kaimana ;u;))

Mighty as the swatting was, the crystal almost repelled it. Madhukar's paws were stopped dead in their tracks. They did not, however, meet anything solid or tangible; just were simply pushed away, like two positive poles of a magnet refusing to contact one another.

Odd.

(to confirm: Critical Success was witnessed!)
@Madhukar

Okaaaaaaay that wasn't normal rock behavior... definitely not. Madhukar backed up and decided to try something else. She opened her maw, concentrated on the floating rock (a pretty good target!) and tried to fire an electroball at it.

For science.

It wasn't the strongest it could've been. Honestly, Madhukar didn't want it to be. It was better to poke the bear instead of punching it right out the gate, right? All she wanted to see was how this wacky rock would react.

The electroball went on a smooth arc through the air, and seemed just about ready to strike the crystal when - ah... a rather anti-climatic repelling of bile. It was thrown away halfheartedly; it barely made it halfway back to Madhukar before plopping grossly on the ground. There wasn't so much as a smack or crackle of it making contact.

@Madhukar

This was a very weird stone.

Madhukar washed as her bile was plopped unceremoniously back down, as if it had been disdainfully discarded by some kind of pompous pedant. Madhukar made a sour face -- sour, but curious. Were these stones... everywhere? She wondered if she could find more. If she could find out why or how they got there. She had no idea how to answer the second question, but the first was easy; more searching.

The feline's side was buffeted by snow and wind as she went away from what she'd found. It was tumultuous without the security of such a strange object, but she could manage. The storm nearly took her legs out from underneath her or sent her onto her side a few times, but as long as she hunkered down, she was safe.

In the end, Madhukar's search yielded exactly what she was looking for. A gleaming stone - larger than the last one - was suspended five feet in the air and just as impervious to the raging storm. Its field of protection seemed larger, too; the cat could stand behind it comfortably and feel only a slight breeze.

@Madhukar

Ohoho, now wasn't this interesting? There were more! Who had sprinkled them here? Why did the just seem to repel... everything? If they even repelled touch, then how had anyone set them up? This one, larger, seemed to repel wind. It probably repelled everything else, too! Was there something it couldn't repel? Rain? Lightning? Not charged bile, but actual lightning.

Madhukar gulped the thought down. It was cold out here. It was tempting to see what the orbs could take, sure, but couldn't it... wait? She didn't have to try now.

No, this wasn't an attempt at distraction or diversion! Of course not!! Madhukar was really, really cold right now. Gosh darn snow. She'd come back!! Later!!!! When she wasn't freezing her little toesies off!

- exit - ;u;