That's it for now!

[oi_theoi]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 112, late morning and on
Where: Headed Northward
What: A bit of normalcy

[Having switched routes from the preset course that was previously taking everyone southwest, the HQ now drifts steadily northward on manual navigation.

If one sticks their heads out onto the balcony and looks back, they can see the shape of a great feathered beast, her blue, green, and red feathers gleaming along a strangely serpentine body as she glides down on wings that dwarf the HQ. A few blasts of wind and a deep rumbling sound buffet the building, vibrating it a bit as she lands in the distance, followed by a haze of red shapes that rise off her and spread out over the area that the HQ once occupied.

There may be a tense moment while one waits to see if any of those red spots in the distance change course to pursue, but after maybe about half an hour of watching it becomes clear that for the time being none of those particular lizagons are interested.

The HQ drifts on, the jungle moving by below like a sea of green. It seems for now the HQ can finally have some peace. What will you do with the rest of the day?]


((ooc: A MINGLE TO BRING US BACK TO NORMAL PLAY. The HQ will be traveling at about 20-25 mph and take at least 4 or 5 IC days to clear the jungle, so in that time everyone is free to go back to regular posting! We'll be doing a more thorough summary and announcement stuff later on to catch everyone up to where we're at. Thanks to everyone who participated!))

Comments

[tonewlengths]

[Leaning over the edge of the balcony, letting her hair trail after her in the wind. And trail. And trail...]

It really is... The rest of the world will be different, won't it? What do you think we'll see? There might be real grass, and flowers that don't try to eat us, or an ocean even, I've heard about these things called beaches that sound fabulous, or... Or it could be anything!

[soundsinsilence]

Elliot hasn't seen beaches either.I don't know if there are any anymore, if everything flooded . . . but it would be nice, to be near open water.

There might be mountains too. Deserts, plains . . . when there's a whole world, it could be anything. Even maybe something else the people that lived here left behind.

[tonewlengths]

You mean like towns?

[soundsinsilence]

Or cities . . . if they had technology like this, there could be entire metropolises out there. Maybe under water, but even so . . .

If the buildings were originally solar and battery powered, they could have had an entire infrastructure in the sky.

[tonewlengths]

In the sky...

This technology, you're right, it really is amazing, I'd never have believed anything like it could exist. And their buildings might be just as great, but... It would be nice if we could live closer to the ground for once.

[soundsinsilence]

It probably would have crashed by now, if the buildings here are any sign.

Ground . . . real ground, dry ground . . . that would be nice too. Somewhere where not all of the water reached.

[tonewlengths]

Somewhere with grass.

[soundsinsilence]

Unless there's grazing animals, it might be pretty long. Meadows that come up to your hip, full of grasses and wildflowers.

[tonewlengths]

They can grow that high?

[soundsinsilence]

I remember grass like that. Not in my own memories . . . there's not really much in the cities but asphalt and concrete. But in a world that was still more wild . . . mm. They'd get tall enough to brush against the bend in an orvi's legs.

[tonewlengths]

[Slowly moving closer, interested]

What's an orvi? Are they that tall?

[soundsinsilence]

They were birds. Really tall birds, with long legs and long necks, and short wings—too small to fly. But they could run. Their feet were a little like dragon's feet, hard and taloned, so they could go long distances over rough ground and still be okay.

They were big enough to carry a person, as long as the person wasn't too heavy. Messengers rode them a lot, and scouts.

[tonewlengths]

I wish I could have seen them.