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fallen_star) wrote2012-04-22 03:46 pm
fallen_star) wrote2012-04-22 03:46 pm
01 -- Video/Commentlog
[Oh no, Keep! According to what you're seeing in your journal, an entire room has been set ablaze! That, or the journal is simply on fire. Neither of these options are very pleasant, but luckily Calcifer is smart enough not to eat any, apparently magical, books without first knowing what they do! So rest easy. No harm shall come to your precious literature just yet.
Like a spooky spirit, a disembodied voice chimes in with quite some sass to his tone.]
I have to say, I've heard of wizards trying to con people or trick them into some cruel contracts. But trying to tell us the entire universe was unmade? That's some thick wool you're trying to pull over everyone's eyes, Deior.
[A faint crackle, like burning wood, is present in this voice; now giving a tired yet accepting sigh.]
Still, the book is an okay gift. You must have been following Howl 'n I to know my name, so maybe you're just a fan. It looks like there are other people here, according to this thing. Can anyone hear this? How long has this kidnapping thing been going on?
[Anyone hanging around the third floor of the barracks might just turn a corner and see a ball of fire hovering straight towards them! Once Calcifer manages to make it out of his room, he'll be roaming the halls, pausing to stare at one of the torches or some of the furniture occasionally.]
Like a spooky spirit, a disembodied voice chimes in with quite some sass to his tone.]
I have to say, I've heard of wizards trying to con people or trick them into some cruel contracts. But trying to tell us the entire universe was unmade? That's some thick wool you're trying to pull over everyone's eyes, Deior.
[A faint crackle, like burning wood, is present in this voice; now giving a tired yet accepting sigh.]
Still, the book is an okay gift. You must have been following Howl 'n I to know my name, so maybe you're just a fan. It looks like there are other people here, according to this thing. Can anyone hear this? How long has this kidnapping thing been going on?
[Anyone hanging around the third floor of the barracks might just turn a corner and see a ball of fire hovering straight towards them! Once Calcifer manages to make it out of his room, he'll be roaming the halls, pausing to stare at one of the torches or some of the furniture occasionally.]
[Video]
As far as my inquiries have found, close to a year, if I'm not off.
... What.. er, are you? Fire contains too little energy, and, ah, needs constant fuel that is rather... stationary, to facilitate an energy-based being...
[Yet there was obviously an intelligence contained in that somewhere.]
[Video]
[Maybe these big things are workin' here, like guards or something.]
A whole year? Hasn't anyone tried to come lookin' for all these missing people? It can't be that easy to hide this place. And hey! I've got loads of energy, pal. I'm not just some run-of-the-mill fire, neither.
In case word hasn't gotten around yet, there's a new fire demon here and that's me!
[Video]
And no, apparently no one has. Which doesn't really lend strength so much to the original "explanation" we're given in the letter, as some circumstantial evidence that time here flows differently, so that we wouldn't be missed...
The fire is merely a representation, or expression of the energy you're made of, then?
... demon?
[The question isn't so much an expression of incredulity to the fact that Calcifer's claiming to be a demon, as confusion over the term itself.]
[Video]
[Someone still thinks this is a load of hooey.]
I guess it is. I don't really know much about your science business but yeah, demon. They don't have demons where you're from, or something? Makes sense, since we don't have any of you around Ingary.
[Video]
[Really, he can... somewhat... accept that magic exists, but... Well. He'd rather consider it as little as possible.]
As I'm unsure what a "demon" is, except for clearly not being an animal of any sort that fits into a conventional ecosystem, unless you come from an energy-based world, I can't say one way or another.
[But, eyeing the view he currently has of the ball of flame, he'd be inclined to say "no, we don't." But he's not going to unless he can be sure of what a demon is.]
[Video]
[It's not really something Calcifer has thought deeply about. He's mostly just accepted the title as something to take pride in.]
That's not all, though. Falling stars usually die, but I was lucky enough to have Howl catch me and give me his heart. You haven't happened to have seen him around, have you? Tall guy with bright hair. Probably being dragged around by his ear by a brown haired lady?
[Video]
[That... "explanation" leaves Jetfire quite... stunned at first. More... "magic", of course.]
Stars... are large collections of several different superheated gasses, and while I suppose an energy being could live in a star... A star itself... can't, er. Really fall.
[Attempting to apply science? Attempting to apply science. But he's more tiredly exasperated than stubborn about it, and rubs a hand over his lower faceplates. Apparently the Sunstorm situation was only the beginning of things that do not quite (or at all) make sense.]
Ah... no, I haven't. He might be here, and yet not made an entry, though.
[Even Sunstorm had made more sense - been more consistent - than all the various situations and people here at the Keep.]
[Video]
[How in the world does that even work?]
Well maybe where you're from that's what your stars are, but where I'm from, stars are living spirits! 'Least until they fall. Uh... Hm.
[The little ball of fire hovers a bit lower to the ground now, shrinking and turning a darker red. From the look on his face, he's deep in thought and trying to process all of this.]
Yeah maybe. He probably didn't even open his book. Ah well, I'm sure he'll show up eventually.
[Hopefully. Calcifer still isn't completely sure if what Jetfire is saying is true, but if somehow it is, then it's definitely going to take a little longer to get home.]
[Video]
[He still doesn't understand how the idea that stars would be living spirits (energy beings?) would work, but a different dimension... would be a different dimension.]
Hopefully, he will. It's never pleasant to end up somewhere unexpected all alone... The book is somewhat easy to miss, unless you're laid towards thoroughly exploring your surroundings, after all.
[Video]
[Calcifer can't wrap his head around the idea that stars wouldn't be alive somewhere.]
No, it's not pleasant at all. I should know. I don't think anyone's going to arrive here very pleased, to be honest.
[Video]
I'm sure I, or whoever else you might want to ask questions of, would be willing to answer them if you come up with some later. We do have... time... after all.
[Unfortunately.]
If they do, I assume the situation that they came from would either be quite exceptional, or particularly dismal, so that this would be the better choice.
[Video]
[If he's gonna be settling in, he'll need to know what to watch out for.]
[Video]
[The last question has Jetfire frowning in thought, before he slowly shakes his helm.]
None as I am aware, but that wouldn't necessarily mean there are none. There's been... circumstances and situations of death and killing, but we don't know who until after they've been... punished, for it.