Amber + Action

[braavado]

| characters | Everyone!

| date/time | 3/26, afternoon

| location | second floor

| rating | PG?

| summary | mingling, solving the riddle, and possibly collecting the "artifacts"


[Some time around noon, Korra's nervous, orange-toned face appears in the amber slices.]

So, everyone's heard about the riddle by now, right? We've had some time to think about it now, and I just thought it might be easier if we all meet up in one place to toss around some possible answers.

[It's been a while since she's addressed a crowd like this. And even if she can't technically see them, she knows they can see her. Korra wets her lips nervously, then seems to fight back her uncertainty with determination.]

Most of us are strangers to each other, but we should try to work together, look out for each other, at least until we figure out how to get back home. It'll...make our stay here more bearable.

Oh, and if anyone got injuries from those ant soldiers or anything else, I can have a look at them.

(ooc: this is a discussion post, so feel free to jump in anywhere!)

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That diamond part

[survivorsyndrome]

Even at his best, Kaoru wasn't really a team player, and if there was any way he could sort of secretly sort of help and not actually getting clocked by someone while doing it, he would absolutely go for it.

In this case, after the snow began to fall, he'd go outside to collect a small pile of it. If he was wrong, whatever. He'd come back for the damp basket later, so stop judging him Professor Layton.

He'd better be right, though. It was cold out here, goddammit.

[braavado]

Eventually Korra joined him outside, her new puzzle-solving friends having come to the same conclusion as him. This time, she wore a dark green parka over her usual shirt, though she didn't bother pulling the hood up. As she stepped outside, Korra tilted her head back and watched the snow fall for a moment. Then she caught sight of Kaoru and shoved back that pang of homesickness she'd felt just now.

"Hey," Korra said, moving toward him. "Looks like you figured out the first part, too."

[survivorsyndrome]

"It wasn't hard," said Kaoru. Zzzt. Compliment Shield.

But in any case, it was too late to back out of this now. He had to sit here and wait for the snow to pile up a little more, and it was best if he left it to do so away from the heat of his body. So instead he drew his mantle up around him and took out his knife and the nice rock he'd found.

He sat on the ground and drew the blade against the rock in long, even strokes.

[braavado]

Korra's gaze wandered between Kaoru and the basket thoughtfully. She had thought he would take the snow back as soon as he had some, but it looked as if he was waiting for something.

"You're waiting for more snow before you take it up to the mirror?" Korra asked. Uneasily, she thought of the many-legged creature she had seen beyond the web at the top of the third floor.

[survivorsyndrome]

"It's warmer over there. If the snow melts, I'll have to make another trip." Besides, the riddle never specified he had to bring exactly one snowflake or whatever. More was probably better.

[braavado]

There was a moment of hesitation before Korra fiddled with her parka and said, "I could...keep the snow from melting when you offer it to the offer."

Water was her element; manipulating the temperatures and states like this was something she was learned early on in her training.

[survivorsyndrome]

Another weirdo with weird powers, what else was new. He tested his knife against a finger. It drew a tiny bead of blood at the tip of his index finger. Satisfied, he put it away.

"I don't need help." And anyway, as far as he was concerned, as long as some flakes made it to the altar or whatever, he'd have fulfilled the conditions. No one said they needed to be frozen in aeternum.