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Post by GrayGriffin on Feb 7, 2017 3:51:27 GMT
Ryota nods at that. Apparently whatever form Norris has taken is better at smelling things? He'll accept that for now. Furthermore, Ghost seems to have a plan, and he nods, a bit reluctantly. "That sounds good. If that doesn't turn up anything, we can try exploring the water around here next." He pauses. "Um...can you carry me?" He still doesn't really want Norris to do it, since he's not sure she's given up on eating him...
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Post by nickya on Feb 7, 2017 4:02:10 GMT
Ghost gave a determined nod at Ryota's acknowledgement, the look in her eyes seeming to agree with him there. So, all that meant was left was for the lot of them to head out! She turned around, got ready to head off, when... Ryota reminded Ghost about his little problem. 'Ooooh, right... He's literally a fish out of water...' She thought with a sigh, turning herself around so she could regard her teammates.
"Uhh... Hmm, you know what... give me a moment," She said with a thoughtful note to her voice, before she quickly started glancing around. She could probably make due without a vine, but she'd need a good bustle of leaves on a branch to make this work. Flying up, she quickly got to work trying to find the materials she needed.
Her plan - if she could pull it off - was to create some kind of sled to carry him around. Sure, it'd be a pretty crappy sled, but it'd be a lot better than nothing. Hopefully Mrs. Norris could carry their friend around after that. God knows she wasn't winning any Olympic Games in the near future with how weak her arms were. Thankfully, she thought as her form sparked just a little bit in anticipation of her plan, she had another way to break the branch than just brute force.
... Or it could create a forest fire, either or. Luckily they were in a clearing and could wait the blaze out underground in Mrs. Norris's den if that happened.
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Post by lichlord on Feb 7, 2017 4:42:28 GMT
Given enough time working on the wood of a tree, you can precision cut what you need. On a still-living tree, it's harder for the electricity in your body to light anything aflame not dry. You aren't as powerful as a lightning bolt, afterall. You ate one, but you wouldn't hazard that you 'are' one.
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Post by nickya on Feb 7, 2017 5:15:28 GMT
Although Ghost wanted to get a move on sooner rather than later, she wasn't really willing to let Ryota travel ala their silver beetle companion. He'd already gone through a trek being flailed around like a fish out of water, she didn't want him to experience it again on the aron's back.
The whole process took a fair bit of time, but after using a few brute force thunder shocks to knock down a slender enough tree, she improvised a rather clever use of her lightning by channeling it through her arms, allowing her to segment out of the fallen trunk. Next, she went about creating a dip around the tip of the log's curve to create a nice set of treads, slowly cutting it in half (so she could actually push it onto its new treads) and a nice little bowl in the center for for Ryota to rest in. Burn a couple of holes in the front to loop some vines through, and the fish had a nice sled!
"Norris, you mind coming over here for a moment?" She asked, feeling quite accomplished with herself as she moved to tie the vines around her form in a harness. "Sorry, but I'm not exactly strong enough to carry our friend around. Do you think you can pull this without much of a problem?" She asked, hopefully. She seemed sturdily built enough...
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Post by cathheart on Feb 7, 2017 6:48:53 GMT
Ghost wizard? Makin things from woodens, very impressive truthbetold. Makin Norris a gift! Smells funny though, gotta give it a good rub about n fix it right up!
*Norris noses around the object, crawls over it, and headbutts it a few times before crawling into it*
*Norris pulls the sled around the clearing a few times without breaking a sweat, whereupon she approaches Ghost*
"Yup."
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Post by GrayGriffin on Feb 7, 2017 8:36:34 GMT
Ryota watches Ghost's process with some fascination. Dang, she's good at that. She's designed that sled quite well, for both function and comfort, and he appreciates that.
"Thank you!" he calls to her. He tries his best to smile at Norris too. "Thank you as well."
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Post by nickya on Feb 7, 2017 8:45:32 GMT
"Think nothing of it, it was good practice all things considered," She said, grinning before she helped him up into his mount. He'd have to do a little bit of bouncing himself, but Ghost was at least able to give Ryota a bit of extra air on the jump-up.
With everyone set, the rotom gave everyone one last lookover before turning and started making her way off into the trees, going at a steady pace so her teammates could keep up.
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Post by GrayGriffin on Feb 7, 2017 9:23:31 GMT
Ryota leaps quite gracefully into the sled, bouncing in place a bit to get settled. "Alright, let's go!" he calls.
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Post by lichlord on Feb 7, 2017 18:24:43 GMT
You guys and your new vehicle take off further into the forest. About an hour and a half passes for you guys, and there isn't much happening until you hear... is that music? You can't quite make it out yet from here.
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Post by GrayGriffin on Feb 8, 2017 0:52:39 GMT
Ryota tilts his head to the side. "Hey! Do you guys hear that?" Maybe there are some other people here!
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Post by nickya on Feb 8, 2017 2:22:02 GMT
Ghost tilted her head, a soft humm escaping her lips. "Yeah, sounds like there's someone nearby. Hopefully they're more friendly than the last few natives we've met," She said, floating towards the sound at her casual pace towards the sound of that voice.
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Post by lichlord on Feb 8, 2017 4:02:53 GMT
As you get closer you find the music gets stronger at this rock face jutted up from the ground. A cave seems to have been dug into the surface, and a single exclamation mark is placed above the entrance. Curious. As for the music, well... Have fun getting this out of your head.
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Post by GrayGriffin on Feb 8, 2017 17:10:47 GMT
"That looks like a good sign!" exclaims Ryota. "Someone had to draw that symbol, right? Maybe it means a concert hall or something like that!" He won't comment on the quality of the music-everyone likes something different, after all.
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Post by cathheart on Feb 8, 2017 21:44:34 GMT
Norris like the high-pitched bouncenoise so much! Must investigate!
*Norris' ears perk up and her body strains at her harness as she tries to get a better sniff of the noisy rocks*
Looks like a comfy hole... might be 'nother folks' hole.
Hmmmmmm
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Post by nickya on Feb 9, 2017 3:37:22 GMT
As Ghost got closer the tune started to get clearer and - as it turned out - she was wrong! It wasn't a voice in the slightest. It was some kind of strange, almost digital sounding tone echoing out of a cave... A cave with a giant exclamation mark over its top. In the middle of an island filled with feral monsters who eat each other. Out in the middle of nowhere.
'... Maybe this is all an hallucination. I mean, LSD still works on me right? ... I swear, if Jacker hacked into Nakamura just to mess with my brain-jar I'm giving him a firm talking to after this is over,' she thought, but eventually just sighed and glanced back at her teammates. Her suspension of disbelief for the situation stayed pretty high at first, but after Bowser just vanished on them and this... non sequitur was stumbled across, it was crumbling a bit.
At the same time though, Ryota definitely seemed like a real person so she could muscle through it. "Yeah, let's check it out. If they have music, they're probably a good deal more civilized than those hunters from earlier," she finally said before boldly heading towards the cave ahead of the other two.
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Post by lichlord on Feb 9, 2017 7:07:49 GMT
You reach the inside of the small cave and find... a shop? Wut. There are multiple strange items on the table, and below them is... well you'd assume it's a price but it's literally just chiseled dollar signs. On the first item is just 1 sign, then 2 on the next, and so on.
Before you get a chance to really take a look at them, a figure pounces from behind the counter.
"hOI!!!! i'm tEMMIE! thIs is tEM ShoP!!!!"
The figure is a pink blob with a face. An adorable yet comical kitty face. It's body seems to almost vibrate, like the creature is just EXCITED to exist in any shape or form.
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Post by GrayGriffin on Feb 9, 2017 7:27:01 GMT
Ryota stares, trying to figure out how it's speaking in reversed capital letters.
"Um...none of us have money," he says. "Wait, is there money on this island?" Or is this creature just imitating something else it has seen before?
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Post by nickya on Feb 10, 2017 1:50:41 GMT
The rotom just floated there, staring awkwardly at the little pink blob as it rippled and shook in front of her. The strange tint to its voice, the seemingly elastic nature it portrayed via its texture, and... well, just this whole situation in general! This had to be a dream, honestly it couldn't be anything else!
'Alright Betha, cool it... Just remember your reality checks,' she thought finally before pulling up her hands and pressing them against each other. No, they didn't seem to go through one another. That checked out. Next she glanced at the sled and memorized as much of it as she could, closed her eyes, and opened them to reinspect the sled. Yup, that checked out. Finally she walked over to the cave wall and smacked her head lightly against it. She winced. Oh yes, that definitely stung...
"Greetings! We were wondering what you had for sale, and if you'd be willing to make accept trades seeing as we're rather short on money at the moment." She said in a cordial voice after floating back to the pink blob, grinning with a scratch mark on the top of her head as if nothing had happened. All the while she was thinking '@#$% this place,' with a pleasant grin on her face.
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Post by lichlord on Feb 10, 2017 6:58:06 GMT
'Temmie' seems like she's about to answer when she sees Ryota, and seems to jiggle with excitement. "oHHH! you iS soooOOO CuTE! tEM bE you!" There's a bit of light as the pink blob takes the form of Ryota! Although... very different. Replacing the face (including the incredibly wide jaw somehow, wtf) is the same kitty face you saw before. "tEM iS nOw tEM sHeRk! yAAAAAy! (Dies of cute)" Temmie flops around a bit in her new form before finally answering the question in her waaaaay too excited tone. First, and mostly, she has what she is calling 'Tem Flakes' which look like overly large breakfast ceral flakes. She claims they heal a bit. Interesting. (Tem Flakes are fluffed Candy Bars ) Other than that there's a strange powder in a bag, and even looking at it makes your eyes squint to look at it from the powder in the air around it. (Bright Powder!) "uMMMM iF you doN'T hAve $$$ fOR tEM fLAKE... can you JUst hANG wIF tEM? tEM misS OTHer tEM aFTER tEM fell iN hol." Temmie looks a bit sad. "aND bAG thiNG you cAN haZ iF you HELp tEM oN a AdVenTUR!"
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Post by GrayGriffin on Feb 10, 2017 7:36:22 GMT
"Are you okay, Ghost?" asks Ryota. Her expression is making him worry just the tiniest bit. He gets even more worried when this "Tem" somehow manages to shapeshift into him...sort of.
"My eyes don't look like that...do they?" he whispers to Ghost. Still, apparently he's pretty impressive-looking. And very vividly-colored. He wonders vaguely if he's apparently poisonous.
"What kind of adventure?" he asks Temmie.
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