THE PLANET MINGLE

[princessia]

Who: EVERYONE!
Broadcast: Maybe, if you want?!
Action: The Planet
When: From May 11th until the end of the month

[ Willing to venture away from the casinos and investigate the nearby green planet? Here's your chance, now that it's in range!

THIS IS A MINGLE. GET HERE. ]

[ Make your own prompts, explore the planet, spend a night there, piss it off by taking its plants, whatever! MAY STAR SYSTEM OOC POST for your reference on getting through the orbit, what's on the planet, etc.! ]

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[peacockherald]

<sub>[ Vanyel couldn't resist going down to the planet, exploring a whole new world. He felt it nearly a sin to pass up the opportunity, and there was something about the place that called to him. He couldn't say what, but something did, and that was reason enough to go down.

He'd worn his Heraldic boots over his new jeans, a hardier shirt and a jacket with a small pack of supplies, just in case. Stepping out he could feel the flow of magic, shivering as it seeped into his skin. The sound of something flapping drew his eyes upward and he let out a bark of amazement and laughter in a single sound. ]</sub>

Duke! How in the world did you-? That's astounding!

[radiantwingedone]

[ There's enough wind that Duke takes a moment to recognize voice and words. The amount of magic about isn't helping, really.

Or maybe it does. He notices where it seems to be sinking into something, and looks, and ah, its Vanyel.

There's no obvious movement on his part, but he returns to the ground - or, well, a point where his feet are still a half foot or so off from the grass. ]

It is easier, here. I wouldn't, but with this much around, the heights are within reach.

[peacockherald]

So you can feel it too then.

_{[ He had ever since they'd entered the atmosphere of the planet, been soaking it in without even thinking about it, like drawing from a node. ]}

It's all very... incredibly, isn't it? It feels like this entire planet is just one giant node.

[radiantwingedone]

It is... hard not to. It is-

[ He stops for a second, looking like he spotted something move and watches it. There's nothing really moving about, but .. Duke sees ambient magic. Perhaps that's where he was going with that sentence, but.. he lost it. Distracted.

Nodes? Duke vaguely remembers that nodes are like Krene to Vanyel - spots with a great deal of magic. ]

A safe spring of it, yes. It... likes to give... [ So very distracted, floating there. ]

[peacockherald]

_{[ He cocked his head, brows furrowing, realizing Duke was more distracted than normal in his speech. ]}

Perhaps you could come down here and speak with me? I shall get a sore neck having to look up!

_{[ Laughter laced his words, despite the little trickle of worry. ]}

[radiantwingedone]

.... Ah.

[ He had stopped around low branch level, hadn't he? Or had he gone up again, looking at something...

Either way, Duke floats back down to the ground, and flows over toward Vanyel, to comfortable speaking distance. And then he actually touches down. ]

It is... distracting. But nice.

[peacockherald]

It is a bit... overwhelming. I've never felt so much magic gathered in one place before. It feels as if the whole of this place is saturated in it. I could feel it before we even touched the earth.

_{[ He wiggled his fingers, like he was plucking strings, face flushed with delight. ]}

[radiantwingedone]

Disorienting, here. Home, if there was this much, it wasn't.... good, for anything to be in...

[ Excuse him as he gets absently fascinated by the way the magic stirs around Vanyel's air-string playing. ]

[peacockherald]

Yes, it could be damaging in my world too. It was why the Tayledras build their vales. They help heal an area that magic was twisted, return it to as it once was. Moondance told me that such pockets were left over from the Mage Wars, a time long before I was born.

_{[ He he had not been part of that healing process except for helping curb the spread of deadly magical creatures, but they had taught him of their mission and their history anyways. ]}

[radiantwingedone]

... Twisted.... [ Duke is unfamiliar with twisted magic until the magic itself gained sentience. ]

Aer - the ambient form of magic - was toxic in high levels. .... Toxic inaccurate - it would speed along growth straight to decay, in high enough concentrations. ..... so unnerving, if also...

[ It's strange, the part of him that had traveled and worked with aer says that he should be feeling sick, with so much about. He doesn't, he feels remarkably alive, if.. distracted. ]

[peacockherald]

The magic did not do that in my world. It produced strange beasts, and odd growths. The vales are meant to help heal the area, rid it of the monsters that should not be, and then... well, the Tayledras move on.

_{[ In any other land of science and technology, such a thing would have been deemed radiation. ]}

[radiantwingedone]

... A little similar - too much, not too warped, causes ... sick, monsters. More aggressive...

[ Remember, weird creatures were normal for his world.

... definitely more distracted now. ]

[peacockherald]

Duke, you're trailing off in your speech again.

_{[ It seemed a thing he should warn the other about. It could often become hard to understand him when he did, and he had to wonder what was causing to slip. ]}

[radiantwingedone]

...

[ He blinks, once or twice. Ah, right. ]

It keeps pulling ... my attention. Grabbing is a better word, grabbing my attention.

[ So much magic. ]

[peacockherald]

The magic, you mean?

_{[ He had always known Duke was sensitive, but he had never truly known HOW sensitive. It just never came up, given that Paradisa never felt like sharing its wealth of magic with them. ]}

[radiantwingedone]

Yes. I see it moving.

[ Another reason it never came up was because... Duke couldn't see there. ]

And it keeps trying to stay with me. [ Despite him more or less being magically "full" at the moment. He is capable of taking more, it just isn't something he does, usually. ]

[peacockherald]

Trying to stay with you? Follow, you mean? You think it is sentient, perhaps?

_{[ How odd. Vanyel could not see anything, though he did have magical sight, but perhaps because this magic was not what he was used to? It wasn't formed into what he was used to looking for. ]}

[radiantwingedone]

[ That could be it, Duke was used to looking at a very raw form of magic. ]

The.. personal held magic. [ Distracted by something, then frowning and trying to focus on Vanyel only. ]

I can hold more than I usually do. Feel like it is trying to fill as much as it can.

[ Absent shrug. Sentient? ]

Filling all it can - all the plants seem very... full of life. Life of own, more than usual? Unknown.

[peacockherald]

_{[ He didn't like the sound of that, though when he thought about it, yes, he could see what the other meant. It felt like the magic was pressing in on him, not quite squeezing, but a river looking for the easiest path to flow. ]}

What do you think it means? Do you think it dangerous?

[radiantwingedone]

It... [ Distracted.

Where - Ah. ]

Not acting quite.. that way. I might become.

[ He's looking out at the woods now. He wants to explore, even if there is the part that says "too much magic!" ]

[peacockherald]

Might become what, Duke?

_{[ Really, it was like trying to keep the attention of a puppy - only a very dangerous one, with quite a bit of magic at his disposal. He didn't miss the direction of Duke's gaze, felt his own yearning to explore further, see if there was a source to this magic pressing at him from every side. ]}

Should we look around, see what we might see?

[radiantwingedone]

Dangerous.

[ Echoing that dangerous puppy line of thought- ]

... Yes. Would you like to float with me?

[ It would help. If he expends some magic, the filling won't be pushing so much at where he would change from it. ]

[peacockherald]

_{[ Another blink, caught by surprise at the offer, but... honestly intrigued. He had never thought to bend his own magic to that, had not thought it was possible, though Duke clearly had no troubles. His excitement and curiosity won out and he nodded. ]}

Yes, yes I would love that. Is it very hard - to float?

[radiantwingedone]

... Harder to find the way to, than keep it up.

[ But he's strange with magic, so it might be just him. He lifts absently off the ground, staring vacantly down as if trying to find the words for what he just did. ]

It is... implying gravity is something else, as is.. buoyancy. Like how floating in sea water is easier than river...

[ He blinks over at him. ]

I could apply it to you, and you can try to learn how it works that way?

[peacockherald]

Oh... well, I suppose I could. I have never tried to use magic that way before, so I am unsure if my magic can bend that way...

_{[ The thought had never occurred to him, but then the idea of floating through air always seemed a thing reserved for the birds and legendary griffons. ]}