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Yay, sane people that we can be friends with!

...I hope.

plz no crazy xenophobia

Alivaril said:
Meanwhile, your friends don't seem to share your confusion or concern and are happily poking their faces into every crevice and hole they can find.
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Alivaril said:
Even with the massive drain from the portal, you still have more than enough mana to summon your friends. They may be weak, but they can still make a difference over a large period of time. Just off the top of your head? Stone elementals could slowly fashion stable hand-and-footholds out of the tower's walls and water elementals could provide you with a reliable source of fresh water. If you can manage to communicate what you want to them, water and dirt elementals might even be able to help you recognize what plants are and aren't safe to eat. Of course, all that assumes you aren't rescued soon.

Rough course plotted, you crouch down and grab the closest fallen rock. Imagining one of the stone elementals from your village, you impose its image over the provided element and mentally push.
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I guess our friends are incorporeal most of the time, and it costs us mana to manifest them?
 
[1] Magic
[2] Crown
[3] Match
[4] Studying
[5] Headband

[X] SynchronizedWritersBlock
 
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[x] Openly walk out and down the path they're carving back the way they came
-[x] Thank the man for giving you directions

Even if we do ask where we are, there's only one direction they can reasonably send us.

[3] Headband
[2] Match
[5] Studying
[4] Crown
[1] Magic
 
[X] Call out to them and say hello.
-[X] You're more than a little bit lost.
-[X] Ask how far away the closest settlement is.

[2] Headband
[5] Crown
[1] Match
[4] Magic
[3] Studying
 
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Vebyast said:
I guess our friends are incorporeal most of the time, and it costs us mana to manifest them?
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Not quite. Elementals don't have permanent bodies of their own; instead, they mold them out of their associated element and simply possess that. When you summon them, you're pulling them out of whatever body they're occupying at that time and providing them with what they need to make a new one.

As far as you can tell, many of them actually enjoy being summoned.
 
[X] Call out to them and say hello.
-[X] You're more than a little bit lost.
-[X] Ask how far away the closest settlement is.

I think saying we're lost is fine, but mentioning the Academy seems a little silly. I'd take the first half of that sentence if it's allowed.

[1] Headband
[2] Match
 
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I'd take the first half of that sentence if it's allowed.
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Yep.


Torgamous said:
@Alivaril do the fairy tales featuring portals tend to be more "portal to China" or "portal to Narnia"?
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Point A from somewhere on your world to point B from somewhere on your world. Of course, there can sometimes be an awful lot of overlap between them and a completely different planet; foreign lands, y'know? Other times, they're just a blatantly convenient excuse for when the story-teller or writer didn't give the heroes enough time to travel.
 
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[X] Call out to them and say hello.
-[] You're more than a little bit lost.
-[X] Ask how far away the closest settlement is.

[1] Match
 
Ah, a comedy duo. Amazing. Let's talk to them!

[X] Call out to them and say hello.
-[X] You're more than a little bit lost. Would they happen to know the way to Alistore's state academy?
--[X] For the record, you blame the gaping hole in reality which brought you here. Yes, you're sure you're not dead.
---[X] You're not treasure, either.

[1] Headband
[5] Crown
[2] Match
[3] Magic
[4] Studying

I'm indifferent to Studying and Magic, but I really, really don't want Crown.
 
[X] Call out to them and say hello.
-[X] Ask how far away the closest settlement is.

[3] Headband
[4] Crown
[1] Match
[2] Magic
[5] Studying
 
[X] Call out to them and say hello.
-[x] No, you're not treasure.
-[x] What you are is slightly extremely lost. No, you don't know how.
-[X] Ask how far away the closest settlement is.
 
[1] Match
[2] Headband
[3] Magic

It's a pity, that I do not have more time to find some potrait images (I do remember some really nice ones). But it's 1:30 AM here, and with having to wake out at 6:00...
 
[X] Call out to them and say hello.
-[X] You're more than a little bit lost.
-[X] Ask how far away the closest settlement is.
-[X] You have some dirt elemental friends who might be able to help. They're not very smart, but you might be able to train them to retrieve underground objects? Or something like that.
[3] Headband
[4] Crown
[1] Match
[2] Magic
[5] Studying

See, the camp worried me, but these guys seem reasonably trustworthy. A woman and a man, and if they're worried about legality, I think they're probably decent. I mean, still dangerous, but I think they're a better option than the wilderness.
 
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[1] Magic
[2] Headband
[3] Match
[4] Studying
[5] Crown

[x] Call out to them and say hello.
-[x] You're more than a little bit lost.
-[x] Ask how far away the closest settlement is.
 
[X] Call out to them and say hello.
-[x] You're more than a little bit lost.
-[X] Ask how far away the closest settlement is.

[3] Headband
[4] Crown
[1] Match
[2] Magic
[5] Studying
 
[X] Call out to them and say hello.
-[X] You're more than a little bit lost. Would they happen to know the way to Alistore's state academy?
-[X] Ask how far away the closest settlement is.
-[X] They mentioned a magic detector. Can you look at it? You haven't heard of portable versions before, assuming one of them isn't a Scout.
-[X] You have some dirt elemental friends who might be able to help. They're not very smart, but you might be able to train them to retrieve underground objects? Or something like that.

Bit naive to reveal so much about herself through these kinds of questions, but she seems like that kind of person. Besides, from what little we've seen of these two, it should be okay to be a little naive around them.

[1] Crown
[3] Headband
[5] Match
[4] Magic
[2] Studying

You know what, on second thought, screw it. I'm fine with Melia looking younger than her age. I do wish there was a portrait that fit better with her name, though.
 
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[X] Call out to them and say hello.
-[x] You're more than a little bit lost.
-[X] Ask how far away the closest settlement is.

[1] Crown
[2] Studying
[3] Magic
[4] Headband
[5] Match
 
[X] Call out to them and say hello.
-[X] You're more than a little bit lost. Would they happen to know the way to Alistore's state academy?
-[X] Ask how far away the closest settlement is.
-[X] They mentioned a magic detector. Can you look at it? You haven't heard of portable versions before, assuming one of them isn't a Scout.
-[X] You have some dirt elemental friends who might be able to help. They're not very smart, but you might be able to train them to retrieve underground objects? Or something like that.
[4] Headband
[5] Crown
[1] Match
[3] Magic
[2] Studying
 
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