First Flight
Drakkius
A new start
And the victor is obviously Ainsel.
You vaguely recall a fairytale of a boy and a fae who refused to give each other proper names, each going by Ainsel, in a kind of Odysseus "Nobody" style thing. You suppose it's fitting enough, and it's not like you can't change it later if it wears on you, after all.
Settled on Ainsel, you're surprised to find that as soon as you settle on it, your menu updates to reflect it, despite you not saying a thing, but you quickly shake it off, pondering what to do next. It's not like you can sit in this glade forever... well, maybe you could, you don't feel like you have to eat or anything, but it would be extremely boring.
You decide to test your new abilities, giving off a little giggle despite the surreal situation as you float into the air of your own power, a bit giddy at the realization that you can actually fly!
After swooping around and doing a few loops, you decide to see how high you can go, your excited mind giving itself the excuse that you can survey your surroundings if you go above the tree-line. Rising through the canopy, you startle a few birds as you rise past their branches, causing them to fly off, as you finally break through into direct sunlight.
As you float a certain level above the forest, you feel yourself start to struggle the higher up you go. Not enough to be alarming, and you don't think it has anything to do with the forest itself, but it's more that the higher you go, the more energy it takes, or the more difficult it is... kind of hard to tell which. Either way, you're plenty high enough for a good vantage point, as you look around from several hundred feet up. Minus the slight feeling of vertigo, it's a great view, and you quickly take note of where you were.
It looks like the pond you woke up in is pretty near the middle of the forest, which seems to have a giant tree rising from it dead center, in one of the greatest shows of cliché worldbuilding you've seen yet.
Off to the... east, you would guess, if the sun works the same way here as it does at home, you see a small town, a few specks of people hustling about, their pace frantic.
And to the west, on the other side of the forest, you see rising smoke, not a forest fire, but many more specks, some larger than others, what you would guess is hundreds of them, as you suddenly realize you're looking at what's probably an army encampment, a few of them breaking away, notably skirting around the forest towards the direction of the town.
Other than those notable things, it's largely open fields and patches of further out forests and farmland around you, as well as some winding roads from the town, heading northeast and southeast.
Now the question is what to do, if you're going to investigate, or something else?
[] Investigate the army
[] Check out the group that broke away from the army
[] Investigate the nearby town
[] Head to the Grand Sacred Mother Deku Tree or whatever
[] Write-in
And if you do investigate or move in close, are you going to try to be stealthy, or apparent?
[] Stealthy
[] Open
Vote close on the 5th, noon.
You vaguely recall a fairytale of a boy and a fae who refused to give each other proper names, each going by Ainsel, in a kind of Odysseus "Nobody" style thing. You suppose it's fitting enough, and it's not like you can't change it later if it wears on you, after all.
Settled on Ainsel, you're surprised to find that as soon as you settle on it, your menu updates to reflect it, despite you not saying a thing, but you quickly shake it off, pondering what to do next. It's not like you can sit in this glade forever... well, maybe you could, you don't feel like you have to eat or anything, but it would be extremely boring.
You decide to test your new abilities, giving off a little giggle despite the surreal situation as you float into the air of your own power, a bit giddy at the realization that you can actually fly!
After swooping around and doing a few loops, you decide to see how high you can go, your excited mind giving itself the excuse that you can survey your surroundings if you go above the tree-line. Rising through the canopy, you startle a few birds as you rise past their branches, causing them to fly off, as you finally break through into direct sunlight.
As you float a certain level above the forest, you feel yourself start to struggle the higher up you go. Not enough to be alarming, and you don't think it has anything to do with the forest itself, but it's more that the higher you go, the more energy it takes, or the more difficult it is... kind of hard to tell which. Either way, you're plenty high enough for a good vantage point, as you look around from several hundred feet up. Minus the slight feeling of vertigo, it's a great view, and you quickly take note of where you were.
It looks like the pond you woke up in is pretty near the middle of the forest, which seems to have a giant tree rising from it dead center, in one of the greatest shows of cliché worldbuilding you've seen yet.
Off to the... east, you would guess, if the sun works the same way here as it does at home, you see a small town, a few specks of people hustling about, their pace frantic.
And to the west, on the other side of the forest, you see rising smoke, not a forest fire, but many more specks, some larger than others, what you would guess is hundreds of them, as you suddenly realize you're looking at what's probably an army encampment, a few of them breaking away, notably skirting around the forest towards the direction of the town.
Other than those notable things, it's largely open fields and patches of further out forests and farmland around you, as well as some winding roads from the town, heading northeast and southeast.
Now the question is what to do, if you're going to investigate, or something else?
[] Investigate the army
[] Check out the group that broke away from the army
[] Investigate the nearby town
[] Head to the Grand Sacred Mother Deku Tree or whatever
[] Write-in
And if you do investigate or move in close, are you going to try to be stealthy, or apparent?
[] Stealthy
[] Open
Vote close on the 5th, noon.
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