[IC] Kymme's Exalted Adventure, Season 1

[Hiding Dragon]

Howls go over to the sliver door and looks at it

[Kymme]

Howls

The silver door eight feet tall and four feet wide lies flush with the Observatory's inner wall. If it wasn't for the door's outline, it would be impossible to tell where the wall ended and the doorway began. Despite its obvious door-ness, the silver door is graced by neither handle nor knob.

[TwentyFold]

Kraguri stares at the rubble and walks foreward, attempting at the movement of some of the rubble, maybe gain a glimps at its old path.

Hey! Nothing over here but rubble, i am going to try moving some of it in order to gain some more information. Let me know if something happens on your end!

Kraguri looks back once before starting on the ruin.

[Kymme]

Kraguri

As Kraguri digs it becomes apparent that, despite his best efforts, there is no hallway to clear anymore. The entire chamber has fallen in on itself and become buried under layer upon layer of snow and ice. Even the floor is little more than pitted and rusted sheets of silvery metal, bent in on themselves from the weight of the ages.

[Hiding Dragon]

I think i found a door!
Howls trys to slide the door.

[Kymme]

The Eastern Hallway

When Howls' hand touches the door, he feels and sees a massive pulse of essence that nearly blinds him. He sees threads of essence twisting within the silvery metal, forming a glowing shape on the door's surface.

Then the door opens, retracting into the ceiling. All the hairs on Howls' many tails stand up as frigid air, untouched by the centuries, washes over him.

Beyond the opening, lit by the light of Howls' anima, is a small chamber. It is similar to the large chamber in the center of the Observatory, with a small podium in the center of the room. This podium is made of jade, near-black in color, and stands waist height.

[Hiding Dragon]

Howls goes to the podeium and touchs it

[TwentyFold]

Kraguri stops moving rubble and retreats into the main chamber, walking up to the Podium in the north side of the room, studying it.

[Kymme]

The Main Chamber

The podium appears to be crowned with an elaborate display of blue and black jade. The two colors intertwine in a knot-like image of two elemental dragons, one of water, and the other of air. The dragon of water glows in a strange purple-blackness, writhing like a living thing. The other does not move.

The Eastern Chamber

Howls finds the podium empty. As soon as he lays a hand on it, though, he hears a voice speaking softly in Old Realm.

<Essence readings detected.>
<Scanning.>
<Lunar Anima detected.>
<Initiating "welcome" protocol.>
<Closing exterior entrances.>
<Opening heat vents.>
<Activating flood-lights.>
<Hearthstone status: bereft.>
<Initiating geomancy scan.>
<Scanning.>
<Dragon-Line shift detected.>
<No Dragon-Lines nearby.>
<Switching to backup hearthstone reserves.>
<Backup reserves at 42%.>
<Welcome, Chosen of Luna, Steward of Creation.>

The Main Chamber

Several things occur over the course of the next few seconds. The doors behind Kraguri shut, blocking out the dull moan of the wind. Then, the temperature within the Observatory rises several dozen degrees, to a much more hospitable level. Then small silver lights, like stars, open in the high corners of the main chamber.

And then the air dragon begins to glow.

[TwentyFold]

HOWLS, WHAT DID YOU DO!

Kraguri draws his katana and watches for what happens next.

[Hiding Dragon]

Hmm Uh Protocol database open!
Kraguri! HELP I DON,T KNOW HEARTHSTONE SPEAK! howls yells
Howls try to pour some of his essence in to the stone

[Kymme]

The Eastern Chamber

There is silence for a few moments. Then the voice begins to speak again, emanating from all directions, as if the whole structure were speaking.

<Processing command.>
<Command not recognized.>
<Activating True-Intention Gleaning Technique.>
<Activate lift: y/n?>

[Hiding Dragon]

Uh YES
Howl lifts his headband from his eyes and opens his eyes.he try to not get blinded by the light his green eyes shines in the light so he able to see stuff in detail.

[Kymme]

The Eastern Chamber

<Your wish is my command, Steward of Creation.>
<Proceed to main console for further instructions.>

[Hiding Dragon]

Uh thing more info where is it....... OH it where that hound thing was!
Howl turns into fox form and runs on all four legs to get there quickly

[TwentyFold]

WHAT ARE YOU DOING BACK THERE?!

Kraguri looks around at the eastern door and waits for something to happen

And then of course Howls comes into the room like YOOOOOOOOOOOO, then i was like YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[Kymme]

The Main Chamber

Howls emerges from the eastern door in his vulpine spirit shape. His headband is up and his green eyes shine with an enticing radiance.

Spoiler: OOC

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Kraguri, make me a Will save. You may take 10 on this save, since by now you're fairly accustomed to Howls' weird eye problems.

[TwentyFold]

As Howls enters Kraguri looks at him with curiosity and a questioning upraised eyebrow.

[Hiding Dragon]

Howls goes over to the podieum and stands on his hind legs and puts his front paws on the other podium and looks at it .

[Kymme]

The Main Chamber

As Howls approaches the podium on the raised platform, the voice begins to speak again. This time, however, the voice seems to emanate from the two dragons.

<Greetings again, Chosen of Luna!>
<Welcome to the Auroral Belfry Of Boreas.>
<You are currently on the main floor.>
<If you would like to ascend, please invoke the Dragon of Air.>
<If you would like to descend, please invoke the Dragon of Water.>

Spoiler: Howls and Kraguri

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Both of you are aware that "invoking" is a process used in the summoning of elementals and demons, wherein one repeats the creature's name and titles multiple times.

[Hiding Dragon]

Air dragon Mela!Air dragon Mela! Air dragon Mela!.

[Kymme]

The Main Chamber

The raised platform that Howls At Shadows and Kraguri stand on rises two feet in a fraction of a second. Kraguri and Howls stagger from the sudden shift, but manage to regain their footing just as fast as they lost it.

<Command understood.>
<Opening ceiling hatch.>

A metallic snapping noise, like wires breaking under high tension, sounds from above the Exalted. A trapezoidal shaped hole opens in the high vaulted ceiling. The platform on which they stand begins to move vertically on a pillar of silver steel, rising a few feet every minute. Faint music plays; a short, repeating ballad.

[Hiding Dragon]

Air means up water means down but up and down to what?
Howls turns back to his human form

[TwentyFold]

Kraguri watches the proceedings with an air of expectation and worry.

-What the hell is going on with this place?-

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cannot use tools like color on my iPod so I'm going to use --

[Hiding Dragon]

I have no idea my friend only the fate spiders know.But I be wary there still that god and this still it domain I think.

[TwentyFold]

Lets hope it hibernates, or at the very least is out and about...

Kraguri raises his katana again and attempts to get a better look at the floor above before they fully arrive at it.

[Hiding Dragon]

Hm I wonder who built this....man I wish it GO FASTER if I built it it go as fast as light
Howls crosses his arms and taps his foot.his tails swish back inforth

[Kymme]

After a few minutes the platform has risen to the top of the main chamber. As soon as the platform enters the tunnel, more silver lights begin to glow, and another membrane of wires uncoils above the two Exalted's heads. They are now in a long shaft that extends nearly seventy feet before ending in another silver membrane. The music continues to play.

[Hiding Dragon]

Am I going to die here? on this crappy elevator maybe if I yell the dragon name a few times.... DRAGON OF WIND MELA! DRAGON OF WIND MELA!
DRAGON OF WIND MELA! DRAGON OF WIND MELA! DRAGON OF WIND MELA! DRAGON OF WIND MELA! DRAGON OF WIND MELA! DRAGON OF WIND MELA!
Howls stops and lay downs

[Kymme]

By the time Howls has finished shouting to the heavens, the elevator has risen to the top of the shaft. The final silver wall unravels, and the Exalted are lifted into the top floor of the observatory.

~The Summit of the Belfry~

The walls of this room are not true walls - they curl unto themselves and form a massive dome that reaches nearly thirty feet at its highest point. The dome is a blackish silver in color, much like the night sky, and wrought with tiny cracks. In places where the cracks meet tiny points of light are formed, like little stars. The whole dome reminds you of the night sky, save that it is devoid of any moon (or the peak of the Imperial Mountain on the southern edge). In fact, the entire chamber seems to be designed to give of the appearance of an unobstructed view of the night sky. The only other color is that grey-silver panels that make up its floor, which look not unlike the rolling dunes of snow that the pair crossed on their way.

The room would feel vast, if it was not taken up by a massive orichalcum-and-brass telescope: a goliath of First-Age design, with twisting wires and thousands of tiny glass and jade lenses of all colors and shapes, suspended like leaves in a forest of golden trees. The space where the device meets the floor is dominated by more rugged pieces of machinery. Cogs the size of wagon-wheels with thousands of razor-thin teeth. Argent support beams the width of tree trunks.

Seeming almost out of place in all the majesty is a small black leather cushion, held by a thin golden servo. Perched atop the cushion, legs folded in a lotus position, is a young boy with silver hair. A pair of goggles with blue-jade lenses sits on his forehead, keeping his shock of platinum hair at bay. Gleaming beneath the pale blue disks are the boy's eyes, the same silver color as the rest of the Observatory.

"<Greetings>," the boy speaks in the cheerful voice of the Observatory. "<My name is Twice-Wrought Boreas, the god of this tower.>"

"<How might I be of service?>"