driftfleet | 03 - though shadows fall

Who: Asteffiel
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Tourist
When: June 9th

Guess who hadn't noticed the planet had a hold on him? The plantman!

Guess who just figured out that his fascination with it wasn't just because they finally got to another planet.

Asteffiel's use of video is probably not good for anyone's stomach. He's shaking (like a leaf, hahahaha-), and appears to be hiding under a table, given that it's not night time, and he's glowing. It just has the side effect of making his eyes appear particularly bright off-white, which doesn't help his nervous rambling at the video. Which he managed to turn on after he started talking...

"-t just me, or was it others? I don't want it to be just me, I don't I don't! If something could talk to me, does that mean that other things could talk to me? I was fine against Mor... Mord... More Dead Moths, but is it because I am not home? Am I too far from Mother? Mother I am sorry I made bad friends, I don't want More Dead Moths to get me like Lilac!" Is more or less the gist of his rambling into the device. There are repeats, but it's pretty clear that he's rather terrified of something being able to mess with his head.

So he's hiding in one of the medical bay cabinets.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Well, we are leaving it and I promise it will not get in anymore. I can make sure it won't. Will you come out and let me do that? Then we can go and get a treat from the kitchen, hmmm?

_{[ He coaxed gently, as he might his young "niece" when thunderstorms
raged outside. ]}

... If you keep the planet out, will everything else that shouldn't be in stay out too?

[ It's working. Asteffiel is slowly inching out of his cupboard. ]

Yes. I can help you make it so that nothing you don't want gets in, promise. I have something special like that too.

_{[ He taps his own forehead. ]}

[ Asteffiel scoots out of the cupboard. ]

Mother used to do that for us...

[ Which is why he's super worried about it now. Guess where Mother isn't? ]

Well, I can't stand in for your mother, but I can do my best to help. Let's relax a bit more first though. How about we get some juice and a snack in the kitchen?

_{[ That had always cheered his "niece" up or any of the smaller
children in the Tayledras Vale. ]}

[ Asteffiel nods, and finally uncurls from his frightened hunch in the cupboard. Some of his clothing looks a little off from his usual - he'd bruised it in his scramble to hide, perhaps. But he doesn't seem bothered. ]

The stiff vegetable sticks are not bad.

_{[ Ah, he knew what he meant. Some of the food was quite off to Vanyel
still, but he was making peace with that and enjoying quite a bit of it.
]}

All right, juice and sticks, and while you're eating when can protect you from any more unwanted voices in your head.

Okay!

[ Asteffiel will cheerfully lead the way toward the kitchen. Time to poke the machine until it feeds him. ]

_{[ Vanyel followed, letting Asteffiel figure out his snack for himself
as he got himself water and juice for the plant man. Mentally he was
running through the spells to aid in mental protection. He could teach
Asteffiel to shield himself, but it would take time, and depending on their
next destination, there might not be enough. ]}

Feeling better?

Food is good.

[ He's back to silly peppy plant. ]

_{[ Good. He liked Asteffiel happy. He was like Colette, this sweet and
innocent thing and he hated to see that ruined. ]}

I'll take that as a yes. Now, you're going to have to sit still for me for a bit so I can lay the charm on you, all right?

[ About that... ]

... Okay? Is this not a charm like a necklace then?

[ He's asking but he's also sitting still. ~~Like a tree.~~ ]

No, not quite. I have to place it on you. I don't have anything to work the charm on, unfortunately. So I have to modify it a bit with something that stays with you. It won't hurt though.

... would it stick to an earring?

[ Because his clothing grows and comes off, but he's always got his mismatched earrings on. A red stone in the left ear, a blue one in the right. Or, well, held with a tendril-like plant growth to his ear. ]

Oh, well, yes that might work actually. But you would always have to wear it. Taking it off will mean you will lack its protection though.

I do not usually take them off, so.. [ Asteffiel nods, thinking on it for a bit. He doesn't really take them off anyway, so it's just which one?

... The Coral one is important. Maybe not that one. But then again, the coral one is important because... ... because...

... Someone else has the other coral one, is that it? He thinks so. Maybe it will help that other person if he lets Vanyel put the charm on the coral one? Yes. Clearly.

So he fiddles with that earring, and passes over a silvery metal and red-stone earring. ]

_{[ Vanyel took the earring, admiring the stone of it. It was quite
beautiful, and wondered where Asteffiel had gotten it. If he never took it
off, it must be important, so he would need to be careful laying the charm.
To much magic could weaken the stone, break it if he hurried or laid a
piece wrong. ]}

All right, give me a moment, this might take some time.

_{[ He cupped the stone and closed his eyes, feeling his magic and
beginning to lay the charm into the stone. ]}

[ A little piece of coral.

Asteffiel watches Vanyel, then carefully settles his head on his hands to watch.

... He can't see what's going on, but he's watching. ]

_{[ It takes Vanyel some time, but finally he lets out a deep sigh and
smiles, handing over the earring. ]}

There we are. It should keep anyone or anything getting within your mind. I will need to re-set the spell in about a year or so, but I'll check it again in a few months just in case.

Okay!

[ Asteffiel does take a moment to inspect his earring, but he can't figure out that anything weird had been done with it by sight or touch. So he just holds it back up to the base of his leafy ear, and a little tendril curls around it again. ]

... It needs to be re-set because it is using itself up, keeping things out?

Using itself up, but eventually any magic will drain from an object or a place. I am not to sure how the stone took the magic either. It might roll off quicker as compared to other stones. It is the nature of natural things. So I will check it in a few months and replenish it if necessary.

03 - though shadows fall

Re: action;

action;

Re: action;

action;

Re: action;

action;

Re: action;

action;

Re: action;

action;

Re: action;

action;

Re: action;

action;

Re: action;

action;

Re: action;

action;

Re: action;

action;

Re: action;