From the Egg to the Stars (A Dragon Quest)

[X] Shake your head and try to regain your focus.

Through force of will you try to control your stumbling about in the upper reaches of the tree. Hunkering down on the branch you're on, you close your eyes and attempt to focus…

Introspection-Test – Difficulty 6 (5 +1 (Disoriented)) Rolled: 8,2,10 Rerolled: 6, 3 Successes! Good Success! Disoriented Trait Removed!

And feel your disorientation begin to fade as you keep your magical senses slammed closed, reducing the level of input you have slamming into your mind. Slowly, your body becomes less wobbly and you feel your panic dissipate.

Slowly, you feel your claws retract, your feet becoming steadier as you open your eyes and look around. The branch you're on is close to the top of the tree, and you stand close to the trunk. This high up, the leaves are thick and full around you, hiding the sky above, the flowers which grow in bunches around you are in a rainbow of colours, jewels residing within the centre of each flower.

Carefully still, you approach one of the flowers, a brilliant crimson bud with a ruby nestled within it. Opening your magical senses slightly, you give it the smallest of glances, and find it filled with scorching flame mana which glows like a miniature sun in your perception, bright and beautiful.

Following the trail of mana back through the branch, you find yourself looking at the trunk of the Jeweltree once more. Carefully this time, you watch the jewel at the centre of the tree, trying to make sense of the mana flowing through it.

Int-Test – Difficulty 3 (5 -1 (Time spent) -1 (Starting small this time) -1 (Dreamwalker) +1 (Still a lot of magic)) Rolled: 1,10, Rerolled: 3, 2(-1) Successes, 1 Success (A/N: Yeah I have no idea how you managed this either)

You don't know how long you spend looking at it, but you feel your awareness sharpening, focusing, the streams of magic separating out, becoming clearer as you feel yourself slip into a dream.

It is not, however, like any of the dreams you've had before. You do not drop into the darkness this time, do not travel into the mind of another. Instead, the tree around you becomes… exaggerated. The jewel-flowers glow and move until you find yourself standing on a branch of light amidst a nebula of colours, swirling gently through the air.

There is something further down the branch, something looking towards you as you stand in what is most definitely their domain. But you are unsure of how to proceed.

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[] Advance
[] Abscond

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Sorry for the short update, but the next one will likely be longer.