Glimmer, glitter, shine...

[thecanopycrew]

| characters | Everyone!

| date/time | March 15, all day

| location | First Floor

| rating | Currently G

| summary | A flash of light, and a new adventure.


LIGHT

Warmth, love and kindness.
The Life Stream glimmers and glitters with joy, swirls of shimmering dust dancing around the ray of life.
It was time for new ones to test their wings.


One by one, new adventurers now arrive in the Tree. As one gain wings and rises to the second floor, another light brings in the next person. Soon, a steady stream of people from all kinds of worlds, times and realities come to join the others. Whether confused, angry, excited or scared, your arrival is welcomed with nothing but joy as the fireflies and glow worms descend to greet their new friends.

The Tree offers no explanation and no reason, but the truth is undeniable.

As you will soon realize, it isn't easy to be tiny.

Comments

[alley_kit]

"I guess I could," Kit said thoughtfully. "I'd have to find something to make a collar, though. I used the only long piece of string I had to make this." She indicated the crude necklace she'd fashioned to hold her gem fragment.

"Uh-huh," she said. "There's lots of different kinds. Like the Wood Forgers, who used special paper made from the trees in the Forest of Magi Oar to work their magic. They could turn the paper into weapons or creatures to help them fight, and even bring drawings on it to life, like when their leader, Zigg, drew a bottle, and used it to trap some tree spirits who were attacking us. Though... it turned out that the Wood Forgers were really the bad guys; they'd been cutting down a lot of the forest's magical trees and destroying whole sections of it for their paper mill. The spirits and Viragor were just trying to protect it."

"Clerics, like my friend Cheetara, use other kinds of magic, though," she said. "They can tap into the magic energy of the world around them and use it to help them fight or sense things. Plus it helps them live longer than most regular cats. The most obvious way they use it, though, is to let them move super-fast. I mean, Cheetara's fast even without magic, but with magic, she's really fast. Way faster even than the Thundertank!"

"And I can do a little magic of my own," Kit said. "It's not as cool as Cheetara's speed, or being able to move earth and metal, but I could show you, if you wanted."

[betterthanwu]

"Maybe a piece of leaf, or something," she suggests. The lack of real supplies here is frustrating. No textiles, no metal, no medicines, just what they brought with them.

Kuvira lets all this wash over her. It's all kinds of references and things she doesn't get. A problem with talking to children, she knows. You have to wait them out, and try to piece things together on your own time. "I see," she says. "Can you tell me what it is first?"

[alley_kit]

"Maybe," Kit said. "Or maybe a plant stem would work better?" She considered it for a moment, then shrugged. "I'll find something."

Kit nodded to the woman's request, pulling her flupe out of one of her belt pouches. "I can put people into a trance when I play my flupe," Kit said. "Animals too. I can put animals to sleep with it too, but I dunno if that works on people; I've never tried. Either way, it only lasts as long as I'm playing. They wake up a few seconds after I stop, and don't remember anything happened."

"It doesn't hurt them or control them or anything," Kit assured her. "They just kind of... sway to the music and maybe look kind of silly. It's not too useful on its own, but it makes a really good distraction."