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letterstosestrilles · 6 years

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Dear Tyko,

Doesn't Alma keep you busy enough at work? I'm pretty sure I proofread school papers from you that were significantly less exhaustively researched and cited. Are you thinking of going back to school to be a professor or something? (Fine, fine, thank you, I appreciated the links and the encouragement. Adventuring isn't always good for the psyche, nor is it a lifestyle particularly conducive to sitting down and having regular appointments, even long-distance, with therapists. I know I'm doing a lot better than I think I am, most days, and that I shouldn't hate myself for making the best decision I could under the circumstances.)

Things have been much quieter since I last wrote you. Mostly, we've been visiting all our friends around the settlement: Alorven, Niko, Ren and Seb, Loraine and the children, everyone at the science center (but mostly Eheba, who I've spent some private time with as well). Maliah seems steadier, after being as upset as I was after the hydra, and Squirt is enjoying the woods and the occasional company of Gwynne, Ren and Seb's dog.

(Cloudleaper is also enjoying Gwynne's company. Possibly more than anyone else's, though it's impossible to tell.)

With Alorven, we cleared brush, and were glad to have something useful to do that didn't involve us having to kill anything. She also introduced us to a very friendly bobcat, which was a nice reminder that not all the wildlife on this planet is out to kill me. With Niko, we talked about weaving, and a very little about how she's settling into life on this plane. Maliah showed Ren and Seb her bow, since they're fond of the legends of Perrick, and they were suitably impressed. The children are pleased to show off everything they've been learning, from Loren with some magical lighters (one of which she kindly gave to Maliah) to Jesson with a portrait of Squirt made out of yarn (also, come to that, kindly given to Maliah. I thought she might cry at that one).

At the science station, I've helped tune up a bit of tech and Maliah has been involved in their cartography efforts, and it's nice to make myself useful. On top of that, we're getting to hear about all the experiments everyone is up to, just all the study that goes into looking at a frontier planet and just what's on it.

In between everything else, we finally decided that our little team ought to have a name. It started for the silliest of reasons: I decided to look myself up online, to see if we've been making any news for some of our more public efforts, mostly on Honione and Rugira Prime. However, I didn't know any newspapers from either planet and didn't quite know what terms of search to use, so I had to give that up, and I admitted to Maliah and Cloudleaper that it might be easier to keep abreast of that kind of thing if we named ourselves.

It was much harder than it ought to have been—aren't bards supposed to be able to come up with the perfect thing to say? But Cloudleaper said something about chaos that sounded rather negative, and then Maliah said holding onto the Chaos idea wasn't bad. Cloudleaper suggested Electro-Magnetic Pulse, for Elyn Maliah Pika, and when I pointed out that she's not Pika and we wanted her included, said she could pretend to be her, which broke my heart a little bit, not that she'd have patience for it if I said so. I suggested Electro-Magnetic Chaos, to marry the ideas, and Maliah suggested the Chaos Machine, and after some debate, we decided on the former, because it can be easily shortened just to our initials.

(And also, I have to admit, because Maliah realized those initials could also stand for the Emergency Mom Collective or Commission and we do have a habit of rescuing children when we can.)

So we are officially Electro-Magnetic Chaos! It feels a little silly, having such a mouthful for a name, but it's memorable, and should be fairly easy to search for, if I do as I should and start keeping better track of what kind of word is out there about us. We'll register the name somewhere, though I don't think we're in a hurry to, and it's maybe a little belated, but maybe having Cloudleaper join the team has inspired us, even if she's every bit as opaque and maddening as Pika.

Tomorrow will be our last day before we get on the Seles Emsel to go back up to Mir and start figuring out what we can about these smugglers (how do you even track smugglers without a ship of your own? I think our best bet is to find a ship leaving Mir with a likely high-value target and offer ourselves as security, with some explanations, but maybe Athan will have other ideas for us). We're planning to have all our friends from the settlement come to the inn for a lunch, which Maliah refuses to call a party, and I'm looking forward to just having the time to relax and chat and tell stories and maybe have a little jam session with Maliah and Ren and anyone else who sings or plays an instrument.

I'm sure I'll be treated to another rendition of Perrick's ballad, but I definitely don't mind. Especially since I'll get to take my harp out again!

Love,

Elyn

#in character #in character: letter #letter to: tyko #episode 48 #location: nosirion 1 #person: maliah #person: cloudleaper #person: alorven #person: eheba #person: mehrnikorsa(niko)#people: devon and loren #people: others on nosirion 1 #seeing the sights #downtime #looking ahead

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janethepegasus · 6 years

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Waking Up To a New World (BMD Red/Blue Rescue Team Fanfic)

A Fanfic relating to @pika-ace ‘s Broadway Mystery Dungeon AU, starring my buddy Yara ( @yara-chan-the-autistic-artist )

......Ow......where....am i? I....honestly don't know.......the last thing i recall......there were colors.....and a voice asked me some questions......and then......bam, here i am. I.......don't know where i am or what happened but......what i do know is that......my body hurts. More than usual, really, my whole body just aches and it just makes me wanna curl into a ball to resist it.......but my head....feels light....and i don't know why.

.....I feel a breeze flowing through my hair.......and i could hear the sound of the trees swaying......am i outside? I don't remember going out.........hold on.....i hear someone coming.......i think they stopped......are they right next to me.....? I....i think i can hear their voice......

".......Hello? Manquer? Are you okay?"

I could feel them trying to shake me awake.

"Hey, wake up! Se lever! Se lever!"

I slowly open my eyes and i see trees around me and a clear blue sky above me, with a few clouds passing by. My body still aches, ow, but i can at least look around, that's when that same voice talks to me.

"Oh, thank god you're okay!"

I look on my right and see an adult man, wearing old fashioned fancy clothes, standing near me. He looks so relieved to see me awake, maybe he thought i was.....dead? I hope not....

He walks over to me and bends down on his knees to look at me, "I was worried about you, since you were passed out on the ground...." he said, "But oh Seigneur, you made me panic!"

I noticed he sometimes speaks in french, which i don't really mind, as long as he doesn't talk fully in that language.

"Can you get up?" He asked me.

I tried to, but my body aches so much that it hurts just doing so. I lifted myself up as best as i can, but it just keeps making it worse, so a flopped back down on the ground.

"Ow...." I said, trying to relieve the pain, "I....don't think so...."

Suddenly, i felt his arms scoop under me and i was lifted up in his arms, it felt kinda embarrassing just being in this position.....

"Don't worry, i know how to take care of that ache of yours!" He said.

He carried me through these woods, even though i could barely move, i can still look around. The nature here is so pretty, the leafs on the trees looked fresh and green, the wind felt lake-warm, and i could hear the songs of the birds. So peaceful around here......

"Oh ho ho, la petite fille likes the scenery huh?" he said.

I nodded, "I....really do!"

Eventually he places me down on the side of a small pond, just as peaceful as the nature around me. He looks around, as if he was looking for something, but i don't know what. But then he stops and stares at something, i was a bit curious of what he's doing so i asked, "What....are you doing?"

He didn't really look at me but he responded anyways, "I know one thing that cures any ache!"

All of the sudden, he leaps out towards the water, why is he even doing that?! Especially in that fancy suit of his! But then....he just....floated in the air. Not exactly float but SOMETHING was supporting him, cause i could see ripples forming in the water from where i was, so he's at least doing something! He walked across the water with this....strange pack of wind keeping him off the surface, and then he stopped in the middle of the pond. He looks up, looking like he's preparing to do something, and then he JUMPS! Higher than any person i'd seen! I think? It must because of that wind supporting him! I think? I'm still not sure what he's exactly doing.

He yanks some leafs from a tree and comes back down with grace. He walks towards the shore and kneels over me, with leafs in hand.

"Leafs.....?"

"Healing Leafs fille! They relieve muscle pain when used." He said, "I should know, i used them before a long time ago!"

He holds them up and searches around my body, "Now, where does it hurt most?"

"Umm...." I wasn't really sure since it hurts everywhere, so i'm not really sure where the source is. So i guess i have to answer honestly, "....Everywhere....?"

His eyes widened a bit, "Oh mon mon mon.....don't worry, this natural medicine would heal you!"

He puts the leafs on my stomach (I hope these leafs heal my immune system cause it's SOOO weak! Ugh....) and places his hands on them. He closes his eyes and then all of the sudden, the leafs started to glow and this strange stream of yellowish green light flows through my body. And slowly, but surely, my body started to feel better, the aches were calming down, so those leafs do WONDERS for people with any kind of ache! But....for some odd reason.....i could hear a faint whisper from him. He wasn't moving his lips and yet i could hear him say something.....am i just imagining things?

After a while, the light fades and my whole body feels better. Finally i'm able to get up on my feet! Which i did.

"Well now, those Healing Leafs did wonders for you, huh fille?" he said.

"Heh heh.....yeah, it really did." I said, nervously, "Um....thank you for doing that for me...."

He gets up and bows to me, "You're welcome madame!" he lends out his hand and lifts me up from the ground, finally i can stand up.

"Soooo....do you remember how you fainted back there?" he asked me.

"Um....no, not really." I said, "In fact....i don't really remember anything before now...."

He looked like he panicked a bit, "Y-You don't remember anything, Mademoiselle?!"

"Well, kinda?" I tried the best i can to think back before now, "I know a few things, but not many."

"Like what?"

"My.....name?" I said.

He calmed down a bit, "Your name? What is your name madame?"

"Um.....Yara....?"

He softly smiles at me, "Yara? What a pleasant name!"

I lightly blush, "Umm.....thanks..." I look at him, "And yours? I gotta know the name of the guy who healed me!"

"Well....." He puffed out his chest and tried to look majestic, "I am Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette!" He goes back to being normal and clears his throat, "Or....you can just call me Lafayette...."

"Wow....your full name is quite a mouthful...."

He puts his hand on the back of his head, "I know! That's why many of my comrades simply call me Lafayette. The reason why i have that long name.....is a long story....."

I shrugged, doesn't matter which name he prefers to, as long as i know his name, i'm good. That's when i noticed Lafayette observing me, and then he said, "Pardon me madame, but......by any chance you're related to....hmm....some kind of Celestial Families?"

I was confused by his statement, "Umm.....i don't think so....? Why?"

He points towards the pond, "Look into the water and see for yourself!"

I walk towards the water and looked at the surface, and......i almost jumped at the sight of me.....i...didn't really look like.....me, like REAL me. Even though i don't remember my life before now, i DO know that i didn't had a galaxy in my hair! And my clothes? They look.....pretty. I can admit, i do look cool in this tuxedo-ish suit, and the little cape i have. I kinda look like a galaxy super hero! (*giggle*)

"What's the matter Yara?" I looked at Lafayette, he probably saw my first reaction, "You look like you never saw your face before!"

I look at him, and i think.....well, he's curious about my little freak out soo.....i guess i'll have to cut it clean to him.

"Well.....i-"

Suddenly, there was an explosion which shook the ground. I was shocked and scared at the sudden shock wave.

"Que se passe-t-il?!" Lafayette shouted.

And then....the small earthquake stops. I'm sure the both of us have no idea what just happened, or why it happened.

"That was.....weird...."

Then all of the sudden, i hear a bunch of footsteps running towards us. Just as when i turned my head to the possible source, a bunch of kids who looked like they're newspaper boys from 1899 come running towards us and surround us.

"Woah, what the?! Where did they come from?!" I said, in a panic.

"Umm....What do you want les enfants?" He said.

"Our buddy! Jack! He gone missin!" said one of the newspaper boys

"He got lost in one of those creepy dungeons poppin about!"

I was confused, dungeon? What dungeon? Aren't those like in kingdoms or something? But then i look at Lafayette and he looked panicked, as if he knew what that dungeon was.

He bends down and looks at them, "Do you know where the dungeon is?"

"That way!" All of them shouted as they all pointed in the same direction, that same direction where they came from, so i guess it's not that far.

I had so many questions in my head, but a part of me is telling me that those will have to wait. There's someone in trouble! And i need to help them!

Lafayette looked like he was about to leave on his own until i grabbed his sleeve and said, "I'm coming too!"

"What? No madame! Dungeons are dangerous!" said Lafayette, in a protective tone.

"So? You can protect me! Plus, i want to help their friend too!" i said, boldly.

Lafayette stares at me and then he sighs, "Fine. But stay close to me, okay Yara?"

I nodded and stayed close, we run off together towards the direction, while i can hear those newspaper boys cheering us on. I still don't know how i got here, or why i got here. Hell, i don't even know why i look like this! But regardless, i put myself into this mess for whatever reason, and whatever happens to me then, i'll face it face on and take it like an adventure!

#Broadway Mystery Dungeon AU #yara #lafayette #hamilton #Newsies #fanfic

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blastoisemonster · 3 years

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I’ve always greatly talked about Pokèmon World quoting and mentioning its articles in many previous posts. when it came out, this publication soon jumped at peak popularity as, at the time, it was the most precise and informed Pokèmon themed magazine ever published in Italy. Yet, I could have never imagined how tortuous its printing history had become after a while.

After I stopped buying Pokèmon World, the magazine went on as it was for a couple of years before changing its name to Pokèmon Mania. Yet, such reincarnation was shortlived (it was rumored that staff’s chief, Francesca “Franny” Noto, got into personal problems) and Playpress soon decided to stop its publication. The staff GamesVillage for new publication contracts, and the pamphlet returned on shelves as Pokèmon Mag, but got out of printing after a truly shortlived session, lasting only two issues (the third one was exclusively distribuited online as a .PDF file via their Facebook account, linked above).

Nowadays, looks like the staff (which, surprisingly, is still composed by the same four guys that managed the original Pokèmon World!) has made its final return on paper with the new Pika Mania, which will be released in newspaper kiosks in a few days (more precisely, on my birthday :3c). I hope this "sequel” will be here to stay, and of course, I wish the staff many lucky issue releases: even though I’ve never known them in person, their magazine has followed me through many years, keeping me up to date with my favourite franchise and transmitting me a special passion for informative journalism. It almost feels like these guys have become close friends for me.

I’ll surely buy a Pika Mania copy if I see it available, for old time’s sake and to see how much it has changed during these years. All in all, despite several problems, it’s always positive to see videogame magazines being published even after Internet has invaded our homes.

#Links

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feywildatheart · 6 years

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Nenîth,

Pika and I found ourselves with some time on our hands today, as Elyn found a jam session here on Veled Kerverion that she wanted to participate in and left us to our own devices, which was perhaps an error in judgment on her part.

Pika started the morning off by looking for a newspaper that might carry news of Rugira Prime, though she seemed disappointed by what she found. I didn’t suppose that I would find anyone on a space station able to tan my displacer beast hide, which hasn’t yet created a terrible mess in my pack, but honestly, it’s only a matter of time. And in any case, we weren’t expecting to remain on the station long enough to complete the tanning process, even if there were someone able to do it. I was able to find a very obliging tailor, however, who helped me clean the hide up some, and provided some more information about what I might expect to pay someone to make something out of it. Pika wandered off while she and I were doing that, and came back looking very pleased with herself, and announced quite cryptically that we’re going to have an early morning tomorrow. I can’t get a straight answer out of her about what she has planned, but if that grin on her face is anything to judge by, I suspect I’m right to be nervous.

Neither of us had much of an agenda for the day, beyond those two tasks, so we wandered the station some, and found an acolyte of Savras with a table set up and some cards and a sign advertising free readings.

Pika seemed dubious from the start, though honestly, when she’s in the company of someone who can inflict harm on people with nothing but a well-placed insult, not to mention a teleporting dog, I can’t understand why a little bit of fortune telling seems incredible to her.

She didn’t put up too strenuous a protest, though, so long as I didn’t encourage her to give it a try, so I sat down at the table and was introduced to Khimal, who offered me my choice of three-card spreads, either addressing a specific topic I might want insight on, or else reading on my past, present, and future. I don’t know that I have anything weighing on me heavily enough to bother asking about, and if I do I don’t know that I’m able to articulate it enough to even form a question, so I chose the latter, and Khimal shuffled the deck and had me choose three as I wished.

I laid down the Harp for my past, which Khimal said was associated with the universe, and sometimes with uncertainty but eventually leading to harmony, which certainly seems apt enough, at least the uncertainty party. I suppose only time will tell about the harmony. For my present, I drew the Crossed Blades, and Khimal said that was a card associated with conflict, confrontation, and hard choices. It was all I could do not to give a bit of a wild laugh at that, considering we’re all still sore and shaken from that fight with the necromancer. But, too, Khimal said the card isn’t necessarily reflective of bad circumstances, only one indicating that difficulty is present, which seems apt, too.

The card I drew for my future is the Bell, which is the one I’m least certain, but I suppose that fits, doesn’t it? The bell, apparently, indicates the passage of time, with a clarity of thought and intention. I don’t know if that’s what my future truly holds for me, but I hope it’s true. It’s sort of what I’m out here looking for, after all, isn’t it?

Pika contained herself until I’d finished with my reading and offered Khimal a few coins in exchange, and then she dragged me off, and we spent much of the morning wandering through Veled Kerverion while she tried to teach me to walk with poise, which frankly seems like a losing battle, but I’m willing to keep trying so long as she’s willing to keep having patience with me. I fear all I really succeeded in was making a fool of myself, but I did my best and tried to ignore the glances of those we passed, until we encountered a shop with a large sign out front looking for help of some sort, and my endurance failed me and I made a very blatant show of interest in learning more about the advertised job.

It was fairly obvious that Pika saw through me completely, and she didn’t exactly approve, but I must have done well enough to satisfy her because she indulged me (though she did comment that perhaps it would help me to listen better, which is honestly unfair, listening to something doesn’t make you good at it, I am listening to her, and I’m trying, but it’s not easy for me like it is for her! If it were easy for me, she wouldn’t need to be daisy-chaining me in the first place, would she?)

In any case, the poster led us to a Gnomish wizard named Saburkena who was looking for assistance in finding and retrieving some gems and rings of theirs that had gone missing. They had apparently set wards on their building to prevent theft, so they knew none of the missing items had left the building, and had thus determined that they must be inside the walls somewhere. They had potions of diminution that we could take, that would make us smaller even than a woodmouse, small enough to go inside the walls and travel through them as though they were roads and tunnels. In exchange, they promised a portion of whatever gems we recovered, and our choice of one ring from whatever ones we managed to return to them. Pika offered to simply punch the wall instead, but Saburkena seemed distressed by the prospect and asked her not to, lest they anger their landlord.

We drank our potions, and Squirt gamely let me feed him one as well, and after a very disorienting moment we found ourselves shrunk down so small that Saburkena, even though they were a gnome, towered over us like the tallest of the trees in the Feywild. They showed us a place in the wall where there was a crack we could slip through, and we ventured inside.

It took us some time of wandering heedlessly, unsure of where we ought to be headed to find what we needed, but eventually I found some rat tracks in a bit of dust on the ground. Squirt’s nose was more help than our eyes in the darkness inside the wizard’s wall, though there were enough smells coming at us from all directions that it did little to help us choose a direction.

Eventually we came across a pair of rats digging in the tunnel, and rather startled them I’m afraid. They seemed alarmed and wary by our appearance, and we were wary back, but when they didn’t immediately move to try to attack us, I cast speak with animals on myself and ventured to try diplomacy. I told them that I was sorry we had startled them and we didn’t mean to intrude, and we were only looking for some of our friend’s things that had gone missing.

The rat seemed distressed and insisted that they hadn’t taken anything from our kind, which I’m afraid took me a moment to register, but once I had realized what it said, I asked it if there were more people like us, more tiny people, and it said that there were, which threw me for quite a loop, let me tell you! I asked if it could take us to them and it agreed, but seemed somewhat bewildered by us, and treated us more or less how you might a lost and confused child who had to be led by the hand and watched after.

The rat wanted assurance that it wouldn’t be injured by the others, which seemed no less than fair, and I swore to it that we wouldn’t raise a hand to harm it, and that if anyone else did we would fight in its defense. It was perhaps a bit presumptuous to make that promise on Pika’s behalf, but the rat seemed reassured, in any case, and led us through the tunnels until we reached a series of palisades that had been crafted out of toothpicks, though at our size they seemed as big as tree branches. It said it had to leave us there, or risk injuring itself on the sharpened points of the palisades, but that it would wait for us on the far side to ensure we arrived safely — like we were wayward children indeed! It was endearing, to be honest, and I found myself quite fond of the rat by the time we parted ways.

We snuck through the palisades, trying to approach the doors on the other side without being noticed, and made it through the first set easily enough, but Pika got hung up on the second and lost her temper and punched it. It was pretty impressive how the pike just shattered at a single blow, but it was also very loud, and so much for our attempts to be stealthy. And— Well, Pika was so uncharacteristically graceless, and I was still a little stung from that comment about not listening, and so I made a point of standing tall and keeping my chin high and using every trick she’d taught me to stride through, just to show her. And, well, she wasn’t even mad at being needled at all! When I turned and looked back at her, I don’t think I’ve ever seen her look prouder, or more pleased.

After making it through the last of the palisades and to the doors, we found them barred from the inside, and could hear measured footsteps on the other side, like a guard pacing as he kept watch.

Pika, apparently deciding that since our cover was blown anyway, we might as well just announce ourselves, pounded her fist on the doors and declared that we were ambassadors from a foreign land. Pretty much all I could do was stand a step behind her with Squirt and try to look abassador-ish, but I don’t know how well I pulled that off.

Two guards came out of the doors to see what all our fuss was about and Pika got all courtly and charming with them, like she does sometimes, but then she went and told them that we’d come searching for stolen goods, and gave them a grin that was about as comforting as a beholder’s, and honestly, even I knew better than to do that. It was inevitable at that point that the guards grabbed their spears and made like they were going to attack us, and there was little else for me but to sigh and draw my bow.

It didn’t take more than a few arrows, and a few blows from Pika and a bite or two from Squirt, before we’d knocked out both of the guards, and somehow managed not to attract much attention in the process, either. Pika picked up one of them and threw him over her shoulder, and I struggled to heft the other one up onto Squirt’s back and then followed after her as she strode on inside, continuing our search for someone in charge we could speak to.

We found a pair of doors soon enough, one of them fairly ornate and decorated, the other plain but showing signs of frequent foot traffic. And we figured the ornate ones were probably the more likely to lead to an audience hall or some other seat of power, and so I gathered up every scrap of confidence and bluster that I had and threw the doors open and strode inside, ready to face whoever was on the other side and carry on Pika’s bluff about being ambassadors who had been most grievously welcomed, and nenîth, I felt amazing.

It was all wasted, of course, because we hadn’t found an audience hall at all, but instead a treasury, and while there were numerous gems that seemed likely to be the ones Saburkena had lost, there wasn’t a single soul in there to witness my display, except Squirt and Pika. They seemed appreciative, at least.

We briefly debated whether we should take possession of the gems then, or leave them for later and risk having to leave them behind should circumstances require that we make a quick escape. Pika pointed out, wisely, that our claims of ambassadorship might be made somewhat less credible if we were carting their unconscious guards along and we’d helped ourselves to their treasury, so we left the gems where they were and continued on to the other, plainer set of doors to try to find someone we could speak with.

Those doors led to what seemed to be a residential area, with homes and streets and a few people wandering through them, though no one seemed to take particular notice of us. We found another set of doors, plain like the first, and when I tried the handle and found them unlocked, I squared my shoulders and gathered myself up again and threw them open just like before. And this time, thankfully, there was someone on the other side to witness my entrance! His name turned out to be Kenneny, and he seems to be very new to the role of a guardsman, and I think he was suitably intimidated by my arrival, and I strode right on up to him and played the indignant emissary as I snapped that we were ambassadors come to speak to their leader and that we had been attacked and we were righteously offended at the treatment we had received, and oh, I was glorious. I think poor Kenneny’s knees actually trembled, though he mostly seemed bewildered rather than rushing to get someone with authority as he wondered where we would have even been ambassadors from. He did also beg us not to hurt him, which may have been more because Pika had her unconscious guard draped around her neck like a scarf than because of anything I’d said, but I was pleased with myself all the same.

I did feel sorry for the boy, though, who looked like he may have been standing his first watch ever and might have cried to find it going so wrong so suddenly, so I assured him that we’d only fought the guards because they’d drawn their weapons on us, and that we had no interest in hurting him or anyone else, and that we weren’t his problem and he should go find someone in charge to speak with us so he could get back to his post.

Pika had to pour on the charm to convince him, but eventually he took us inside and presented us to a lizardfolk named Haska, who seemed very reasonable in the face of Kenneny’s terror and the guard hanging around Pika’s neck. We explained the situation with Saburkena and Haska seemed contrite and concerned by the accusations of theft, and asked us if we could tell him what sorts of things had gone missing, but I was suspicious because he asked us that with one of Saburkena’s rings hanging right there over his head like some sort of wall decoration. Still, I couldn’t find any overt reason to act on my distrust, so I explained the situation further with Pika, and he seemed reasonable about it all and offered to speak with the people on our behalf and convince them to give up the gems and the rings, if we could persuade Saburkena to leave about whatever scraps of metal or cloth he had no need of, so that they could make use of them. That seemed an entirely reasonable request to me, and he’d also said that while the people of that homestead were naturally the size they were, that he was like us, except that he had somehow shrunk and then become stuck that way. I can’t imagine how such a thing would happen, but I figured if what the people there really needed was materials to work with and craft from, I could provide them with that easily enough, and I fished a gold coin out of my coin purse and offered it to him, and told him that the spell that had shrunk us to their size would only last for two hours and then we, and all our possessions, would return to full size, and so while the gift might seem paltry at the moment, in a few hours time it should give them a great deal to work with.

Haska took the coin and seemed to approve, and sent Kenneny off to summon the council to hear our offer. Once they’d come we explained everything again, though they seemed somewhat less immediately won over by the trade Haska had proposed. Pika offered a second gold coin out of her own purse to sweeten the deal, and I offered to make up for them losing the magical protections that the rings provided by negotiating a truce with the rats, since the one I’d spoken to earlier seemed to harbor no ill will towards these people at all, and seemed only scared and wary of them, and had thought us one of them and lost and confused and hadn’t harmed us but had escorted us ‘home’.

That, at last, they seemed to find worthy of the trade, and we all agreed to the deal. They gave us use of a cart as well, to load the gems into, and Haska and Kenneny accompanied us out with it, Kenneny as escort and Haska so that we could ask Saburkena if they knew of anything that might help him return to his original size.

We found the rats at their tunnel again and I explained the proposed truce to them, that if they were willing to keep their digging and scavenging to areas that hadn’t already been inhabited by the people, that the people would in turn leave them be and not attack them. They seemed interested but wary, which was entirely reasonable, I’d think, and asked for some sort of proof that the people meant it. I floundered a bit, because how can you prove something like that? But eventually I must have said the right thing, because my rat friend agreed to go pass our offer on to the other rats, and bring back their response.

While we were waiting for him to return, though, and I had a moment to let my thoughts wander back over my previous conversations with them, I all at once realized that when we’d first encountered the rats, I’d asked about the missing rings and gems, and the rat had assured me that they had taken nothing from our people. But it hadn’t occurred to me then that, because he thought Pika and I members of this community of tiny people in the walls, he wouldn’t have associated us with Saburkena, and his promises meant nothing, as far as having stolen from them went. So when he returned, I asked if perhaps any of his fellow rats had ever taken anything from ‘the big guy who lives beyond the walls’, and he seemed distressed by the suggestion and said that it had just been laying around, and they hadn’t known it belonged to somebody, and that it was keeping their nest warm and they needed it. I sympathized with him, and told him so, and he somewhat grudgingly said that if we spoke with Saburkena and they could describe it, and in doing so prove that the ring had been theirs in the first place, and if they could give them something else to keep their nest warm in exchange, then they would return the ring to them.

So off we went, out of the walls and into Saburkena’s house, and we gave them their gems and the rings we had recovered and introduced them to Haska and asked about the ring that the rats might have, and they described it to us and, after a moment of doing something off elsewhere in their shape, returned with a small enchanted item that radiated warmth, and said that the enchantment should last for a long while but that if it ever faded, the rats need only to poke their noses out and they would re-enchant it for them.

So we took that back into the tunnels to meet with the rats, and described the missing ring of warmth, and told them Saburkena’s offer, and the rats agreed to the trade and came out with the last missing ring, and so we carted that back out to Saburkena, who dispelled their potion and we found ourselves returned to our normal sizes, although Haska, I was disappointed to see, was not. Saburkena seems intent on working with him to identify the source of the problem and find a solution, though, so at least he seems to be in good hands.

And, true to his word, Saburkena gave us half of the gems that we’d recovered, and our choice of the three rings, which were the ring of warmth and also a ring of fire resistance and a ring of protection. Pika and I exchanged scarcely a glance before we both agreed as one on the ring of protection. I think either she or Elyn could benefit from it greatly, but Pika seems to want it for herself, so that she doesn’t have to place quite as much a demand on Elyn’s healing abilities, which I suppose is fair. I’m content to let them fight it out between them, if they want to, and am only glad that one of them will be at least a little bit better protected than they have been.

In any case, that was the end of it! And I find I am more than a little exhausted from having run around playing diplomat between three factions for a few hours, but I’m glad of it, too. We saw everyone satisfied, and several truces negotiated, and no one attacked anyone else except us with those guards, but honestly I blame that on Pika. I don’t know that the life of a diplomat is one for me, though, it was very stressful carrying the fates of all three of these groups on my shoulders, knowing it could all go terribly wrong if I said the wrong thing to the wrong person.

I’m going to go find Elyn now, and ask how her jam session was, and then I am going to go sleep so much, and hope that whatever tomorrow brings, it doesn’t involve me having to negotiate a thing. I’m much happier leaving all that to Elyn, and even to Pika, but it’s good to know that it’s something I’m capable of doing, when the need arises. I’m proud of myself, nenîth, and I think you would have been, too, if you could have seen me.

All my love,

Maliah

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From Maritime Aquarium: One of Connecticut’s top attractions gets alike sweeter on Sun., Jan. 29 back The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk offers sea turtles and amber turtles – additional a abundant acceptance accord – with the acknowledgment of The Amber Expo.

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About 40 bounded and bounded vendors – including top breadth chocolatiers – will ample the Aquarium galleries, alms samples and sales of their gourmet chocolates, broiled appurtenances and specialty foods. In addition, guests can accommodated “Willy Wonka’s” aboriginal Mike TeeVee and sit in on chargeless presentations by celebrity chefs Barret Beyer, Tony Albanese and Larry Rosenberg, as able-bodied as acclaimed clairvoyant The Amazing Kreskin.

To backpack it all in, the Aquarium will break accessible two hours best than accustomed – until 7 p.m.

The sweetest allotment of the day, however, is that acceptance on Jan. 29 costs beneath than a approved Aquarium ticket. For one day only, guests can adore afraid and gelato, timberline frogs and truffles, crabs and caramels – all at discounted prices, abnormally with beforehand online purchase.

Buy your tickets online – alike on the day of The Amber Expo – for the deliciously discounted prices of $15 for adults and $10 for accouchement 3-12. (Under 3, free.) Tickets purchased at the aperture will be $20 for adults and $15 for children. Paid acceptance on Jan. 29 is appropriate of Maritime Aquarium members: $13 for adults and $8 for children.

(Regular acceptance to The Maritime Aquarium is $22.95 for adults and $15.95 for children.)

“It’s a compound you can’t beat: booty all of the animals and exhibits of The Maritime Aquarium – at a abundant abatement – attenuated with corrupt chocolates and specialty foods, and topped with celebrity chefs and added chargeless benefit guests and activities,” said Dave Sigworth, the Aquarium’s publicist. “You ability acquisition some added amber appearance somewhere, but it won’t additionally action sharks, seals, sea turtles and added abyssal life. As we say every year, you’d accept to be biconcave in basics not to adore this appropriate day and this abundant deal.”

This year, for the aboriginal time, an off-peak acceptance for acceptance amid 5 & 7 p.m. is accessible for $10 per person; an alike greater discount.

News 12 Connecticut is media sponsor of the 2017 Amber Expo at The Maritime Aquarium.

Expo ambassador Marvin Baum said The Amber Expo is for bodies who are austere about amber and who adulation different specialty foods.

“Vendors at the Expo about action baby tasting-sized portions of their products,” Baum said. “Think of the amber tastings in the way you ability anticipate of a wine tasting at a winery: you get a baby sample to try and you generally get to allocution with the actuality who fabricated the product. If you like what you’ve tasted, you can acquirement that artefact for yourself or to accord as gifts.”

Expo/Aquarium visitors will acquisition not alone acceptable and gourmet chocolates, but additionally specialty offerings like chocolate-covered bacon, amber tarts, bonbon apples, fudge, chocolate-covered pretzels, amber vinaigrettes, and alike chocolate-infused Brussels sprouts and chocolate-scented candles.

For ready-to-eat treats, Aurora Gourmet will accept their amber fountains flowing, while Crazy Crepe Café will be authoritative adorable crepes and Pika’s Farm Table will serve accurate Belgian-style waffles biconcave in a best of white, aphotic or milk chocolate. Screme Gelato will beat a array of different flavors.

Non-chocolate aliment to be sampled and awash accommodate gourmet amazon sauces, hot sauces, empanadas, nut butters, jams, syrups, sodas, pickles, coffees, horseradish, honey, popcorn, cannolis, cakes, pies, tarts and more. You can alike accompany home specialty treats for your dog!

There will be no IMAX® cine presentations on Jan. 29, so the amphitheater can be acclimated for appropriate presentations, including chargeless 30-minute demonstrations by three celebrity chefs:

Plus, at noon, be afraid by The Amazing Kreskin. With a showman’s flair, a comedian’s wit and the capacities of a bona fide clairvoyant or thought-reader, The Amazing Kreskin dramatizes the different facets of the animal mind. For six decades, he has been wow-ing audiences and talk-show hosts – including Carson, Letterman, Stern and Fallon – with his cabalistic insights and answers.

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Seating of 310 for the chef demonstrations and The Amazing Kreskin will be on a first-come, first-seated basis. The chefs will be accessible throughout the day for pictures and autographs.

This year’s Amber Expo additionally celebrates accurate amber history by affable Paris Themmen, who played Mike TeeVee – the boy in the cowboy accouterments – adverse Gene Wilder in “Willy Wonka & the Amber Factory.” Themmen will assurance autographs and affectation for photographs throughout the day.

Here is added about anniversary appropriate guest:

• Tony Albanese – 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

NORWALK, CT – Tony Albanese, a pastry artist and above abettor to Buddy Valastro of “Cake Boss,” will beforehand chargeless demonstrations application amber during The Amber Expo on Sun., Jan. 29 at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. Get all the capacity about Amber Expo at https://ift.tt/1auVkFm.

Tony Albanese owns the custom ambrosia business, The Pastryarch, in Hackensack, NJ.

He rose to acclaim as abettor to Buddy Valastro in the aboriginal division of “Cake Boss” on TLC, and back has appeared on such Food Network shows as “Cake Wars” and “Cupcake Wars.”

Before belief pastry arts at the Institute of Comestible Education in New York City, he formed as an illustrator, which he says helps in his accepted assignment of artfully decorating hand-constructed cakes.

• The Amazing Kreskin – noon

NORWALK, CT – The Amazing Kreskin will … well, affect admirers associates during a appropriate appearance on Sun., Jan. 29 at apex during The Amber Expo at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. Alone 310 seats will be accessible on a first-come, first-served basis. Get beforehand tickets and all the capacity about the accident at https://ift.tt/1auVkFm.

For six decades, The Amazing Kreskin has dramatized the different facets of the animal apperception with a showman’s flair, a comedian’s wit and the capacities of a bona fide thought-reading mentalist. In the process, Kreskin’s actual name has become an basic allotment of pop ability with abundant television and radio appearances on iconic shows hosted by Johnny Carson, Regis Philbin, David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, Neil Cavuto, Howard Stern and others.

In the 1970s, Kreskin accent his own television alternation for bristles and a bisected seasons alleged “The Amazing Apple of Kreskin,” which can now be beheld on www.hulu.com.

Movie admirers may apperceive that, added recently, Kreskin served as the afflatus for Tom Hanks’ 2008 movie, “The Abundant Buck Howard,” in which the Kreskin appearance is played by the movie’s star, John Malkovich.

Kreskin has accustomed common acceptance for amazing predictions, generally ambidextrous with all-embracing diplomacy and sports. On “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” Kreskin predicted the 2012 U.S. presidential acclamation 18 months afore acclamation day. As appear on Fox television for the 2016 Super Bowl, Kreskin fabricated three predictions: the chief division of the game, the acceptable aggregation and their final score.

Kreskin’s new allocution and annotation appearance on iHeartRadio premiered aftermost February, and, in March of 2016, he appear his 20th book, “In Absolute Time,” featuring his above predictions for the abutting several hundred years.

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At 81 years of age, Kreskin shows no signs of slowing down. He continues to accomplish his allegorical alive shows in advanced of arranged audiences about the world, arena over 200 dates yearly.

• Larry Rosenberg – 1 & 5 p.m.

NORWALK, CT – Executive chef Larry Rosenberg will beforehand a chargeless affirmation application amber during The Amber Expo on Sun., Jan. 29 at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. Get all the capacity about Amber Expo at https://ift.tt/1auVkFm.

Executive Chef Larry Rosenberg began affable at a actual aboriginal age. Despite actuality self-taught, he has garnered civic accolades and appeared in above magazines, newspapers and television shows about the country, including “The Dr. Oz Show,” Discovery Channel’s “United States of Bacon” and “FYI Philly,” amid others.

Most exciting, he’ll accomplish his acceptance on Food Network afterwards this year.

Rosenberg has accomplished at the New York Restaurant Academy and is a appear columnist with titles including “The Aboriginal Bacon Cookbook,” “Cake Decorating Simplified” (Book of the Month Club), “Muffins & Cupcakes” and “The Berry Book.” He additionally was featured in Martha Stewart’s “The Wedding Book.”

Most recently, Rosenberg has fabricated a name for himself while benumbed a beachcomber of bacon’s new-found popularity. His 2010 conception of Bacon Bites, an all-encompassing band of aperitive chocolate-covered bacon products, combines candied and acrid tastes that consumers absolutely crave. He campaign with his partner, Kane Jeong, who entertains adolescent and old as “Smokey the Pig,” at assorted chocolate, bacon, and beer contest throughout the county.

• Barret Beyer – 2 & 4 p.m.

NORWALK, CT – Celebrity chef Barret Beyer (Fox TV’s “Hell’s Kitchen”) will present chargeless demonstrations application amber during The Amber Expo on Sun., Jan. 29 at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. Get all the capacity about Amber Expo at https://ift.tt/1auVkFm.

Chef Barret Beyer epitomizes new ancestry and change, alarming millions with his affable and actions.

While alive in New York City’s banking industry and bang era during the aughts, Beyer was arrested 10 times for accuse that ranged from affairs drugs to cabal to forgery, alike overdosing and alive up on activity abutment afterwards two canicule in 2006. For 10 years, from 1998 until 2008, he was in and out of jails. However, ancillary with the bearing of his babe in 2008, the absoluteness TV brilliant assuredly got sober. Beyer said, “I couldn’t do it anymore. I capital to be a ancestor she could attending up to.”

Leaving the worlds of accounts and abomination behind, the adulation of affable become the afflatus for his life’s abutting course. Consistently a home cook, Beyer abounding comestible academy in his built-in Long Island. Afore alike graduating, the aggressive New Yorker already had a job as a sous chef.

Beyer again fabricated it assimilate “Hell’s Kitchen” with the allegorical kitchen announcement Gordon Ramsey; his admired television experience. Although he didn’t win on the show, Beyer accomplished that alive in the kitchen is the assignment he loves. It’s that drive to accomplish and advantageous appetite that collection him to participate in “Cutthroat Kitchen,” addition on-camera affable competition. “I was the aboriginal one cut. It was for not putting the craven on a craven absolutist salad,” the chef says while action at his folly.

From his acquaintance on absoluteness TV, Beyer has become a consultant, aperture a aggregation of East Coast restaurants, accepting abounding accolades forth the way. Food & Beverage Magazine and Chef Works accept both alleged him “Chef of The Month.”

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With his new begin celebrity status, Beyer volunteers or works non-profits contest about the country.

• Paris Themmen (the aboriginal “Mike TeeVee”) – all day

Paris Themmen appeared as a adolescent amateur in three Broadway shows, two dozen commercials and assorted television shows, including “Star Trek Voyager,” but he will consistently be best accepted as “Mike TeeVee,” one of the bristles advantageous Golden Acceptance winners in the (1971) cult-classic blur “Willy Wonka & the Amber Factory” starring the backward Gene Wilder.

As an adult, Paris has had a array of careers in the travel, absolute estate, finance, imagineering and film-production industries.

An ardent traveler, Paris has backpacked through 59 countries on six continents. He lives with his wife, Nikki Grillos, in Los Angeles.

• The Eternal Frontier (Steampunk music) – all day

NORWALK, CT – The Eternal Frontier will accomplish Steampunk-themed songs, both aboriginal and cover, throughout the day on Sun., Jan. 29 during The Amber Expo at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. Get beforehand tickets and all the capacity about the accident at https://ift.tt/1auVkFm.

The Eternal Frontier – featuring Professor Adam Smasher and Baron Von Zipple – is a able Steampunk agreeable duo. Their complete is fun, adapted and steeped in Steampunk sensibilities. They will be assuming Steampunk-themed songs, both aboriginal and cover, for the action of one and all.

(But what is Steampunk? Wikipedia describes Steampunk as “a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and artful designs aggressive by 19th-century automated steam-powered machinery. … Steampunk conceivably best acutely appearance anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as bodies in the 19th aeon ability accept envisioned them.”

Kids can booty allotment in art activities at 11 a.m., apex and 1 & 2 p.m., and additionally be adapted by a face-painter amid 11 a.m. & 3 p.m. These are chargeless with admission.

Enjoy all the corrupt treats and appropriate guests while exploring The Maritime Aquarium, a not-for-profit alignment whose mission is to brainwash visitors about – and to actualize admiral for – Long Island Sound. The Aquarium accomplishes this by acceptance visitors to get abutting to added than 300 breed built-in to the Complete and its watershed, including sharks, seals, sea turtles, river otters, afraid and added animals. Except for “Jiggle A Jelly,” all exhibits will be accessible during The Amber Expo.

“Valentine’s Day will be actuality soon, so The Amber Expo is the absolute befalling to buy some sweets for your sweetie,” Sigworth said. “Plus, there are no NFL playoff amateur on the 29th, so there’s no acumen for anyone to break home. In fact, with no football to watch, The Amber Expo gives football admirers article to do!”

Parking is accessible in the Maritime Garage (across from the Aquarium’s capital entrance) and a abbreviate airing abroad in the city’s Webster Lot. Acquisition an accessible parking amplitude by application a smart-phone app alleged Parker that displays “real-time” parking availabilities in South Norwalk.

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A sketch relating to the BMC Miraculous Ladybug AU ( @pika-ace ) Back in their younger years, Jordan broke a Pac-Man arcade machine out of rage. This made it to local newspapers, which Mr.Tobias ( @brxstix ) finds out and asks the two boys who did it, Eric didn’t even hesitate to find the culprit.

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Dear Tyko,

Barely a day out from seeing you and here's a letter! You must be quaking in your boots that we've already found trouble. Don't worry, it's actually been quite a nice day, so I thought I'd write you about it while Maliah and I wait in a hotel lobby for Pika to find her way to us from wherever she's gone this time. (Even odds that she got so involved in a gossip magazine that she's been reading it for the past day or that she found someone to try to murder. Or sleep with, I suppose. Even odds split three ways, then.)

We arrived on Iriossis at mid-morning planet time to find a quiet spaceport. Pika laid eyes on a newspaper stand and immediately went in that direction with not a word to us. Neither Maliah nor I wanted to wait around while she learned what she could, since we'd only be standing around shuffling our feet, so we went to an information booth to learn about ships to Rugira Prime. Instead, we were told that it's a civil holiday and that we'd best try our luck the next day (today, now), and that there was a festival going on, so after a quick message to Pika, Maliah and Squirt and I went to the festival.

Almost the first thing I noticed was a part-elf woman playing an instrument I'd never seen before, something like a horn and a harp, both at once and neither at all, which she told us when I asked her is called a Velloren. She said it's Elvish, but it's not something I recognize from Sestrilles, so I think it must be from a different system. She was playing a ballad called the Song of the Spacefarer's Daughter, which I asked her to teach me later when I was asking for samples to put in my collection too. A traditional song with an interesting lyrical pattern, I think you'd like it. Anyway, her name was Tohiye, and we didn't linger just then, but I did promise to go back.

Maliah saw a sign for something called the Challenge of Champions, and after some debate we went over to it, since prizes and fun for everyone were promised. We were met by a man who explained that we would be met with five timed challenges that we would have to solve without magic or magical equipment—or Squirt, at which point I rather thought Maliah was going to stomp off, but she eventually decided she would do it, though she was reluctant to leave him (and of course she was, I don't think I've seen them apart for as long as they were in the hour and a half that followed).

The other issue was that the challenge was really meant for groups of three or four, not the two of us without Pika. The man in charge told us there were a few in the waiting room who'd come on their own and hoped to make up a party, so we went in there to put our gear in the lockers they had waiting and to recruit someone for our team. Maliah and I were both reluctant to part with our gear (well, she with her bow and boots but mostly, to her credit, Squirt—I was the one who took off my gloves and promptly felt naked without them. I spent very few waking hours without them these days, even when I don't have my armor on), but we did it, and went about sizing up the people in the waiting room.

There were two people waiting (well, four, but two of them were, I believe, mothers of some children who were going through the challenge ahead of us). The first we approached was a half-orc woman, who introduced herself when we approached as Kereza, a fighter. She seemed happy enough to be invited along with us, and that only left one man waiting, so while three would have been enough to do the challenges I couldn't in good conscience leave him alone in the waiting room, so we approached him as well—he was a half-elf man named Wylcey, and seemed rather nervous but pleased to be invited, introduced himself as a cleric.

Once the four of us had decided to be a team, we were lead through the challenges. Each had a proctor making sure we didn't cheat and use anything but the equipment they gave us, and we had fifteen minutes to do each one, to get points and, for the first four tests, a medallion.

The first test brought us to a moat (full of pirahnas, we were assured with a wink by the proctor) twenty feet wide, with a structure halfway across that was a bar up on two stilts, about ten feet high. We had to get from one side of it to the other, using two ropes (one of constriction and one of climbing), a pole, a helmet, and a dagger, though we didn't actually use that one. In the end, Kereza tied the helmet to one of the ropes and tossed it to the crossbar to wrap it around, which it did after a few tries. We said “constrict,” and it did, though it was sheer luck that that was the rope we chose, since using my magic to identify it would have been cheating.

From there, we simply swung across like it was a tire swing, taking great care not to touch the water, as the “pirahnas” would have “killed” us. It was perilous a time or two, but we all made it across with just a little while to spare, and advanced to the next challenge.

The next challenge was a pit (there was a dragon sleeping next at the bottom of it—well, there wasn't, but you know what I mean), twenty feet across, that had to be crossed without waking the dragon beneath. We were given a Ring of Levitation, a Silence scroll, rope, and another pole. After some debate, I put on the ring, grabbed one end of the rope and the pole, and Kereza sort of threw me across. The first time I didn't make it, so I had to be pulled back and thrown again, but I made it nicely that time, and slid the ring onto the rope to send it back to the other side. Everyone else, one by one, put on the ring, used the rope to guide them across, and sent the ring back across the rope, and we made it back with very little time to spare, but we made it back, and Maliah found our next medallion.

Our next proctor collected us and led us onward to another challenge, perhaps the one I found the most straightforward: there was a cliff, forty feet tall, with a rope hanging from the top that only dangled ten feet. We were given thirty feet of rope, a scroll with the Rope Trick spell, and a shield, though we didn't end up using that. Instead, I got on Kereza's shoulders and cast the scroll once we were lined up with the rope dangling above. Maliah climbed up to knot the ropes together, since she's the best at climbing and such, and then we all climbed up one by one. Kereza had a bit of trouble with it at first, but we still got up with a bit of time to spare and a pried a medallion loose from a stone up there.

The next test had me nervous for a while, I must admit. The proctor asked for a volunteer to be separated from the group, and I ended up volunteering, so the other three went off and I followed the proctor up to a room and out to a balcony, where I had an excellent view of Maliah, Wylcey, and Kereza being chained up and gagged on a ledge twenty feet below me, with water that of course according to the proctor was heavily dosed with acid. I was given a rat, a Speak With Animals scroll, a ring of keys (including one to the manacles), and a ball of twine.

I used the scroll to ask the rat if it would mind being tied to the twine and lowered down to my friends, which it didn't, so I lowered it and when it hit ground, Wylcey and I encouraged it to run up to his hand. He twisted around enough to protect the rat when a ring of keys came whizzing its way and did with the keys as we'd done with the ring earlier, wrapping it around and sending it down. Wylcey unlocked his own cuffs, took off his gag, and took care of everyone else as well, which left us with the issue of getting them back up.

After a moment, I had the idea of them locking the manacles together into a chain, which ended up working handily—they attached them and the keys to the end of the twine that was still down there, I dragged it up and locked the manacles to the balcony, and they came up one by one. First Maliah, then Wylcey and Kereza, both of whom had to be pulled up because of climbing troubles but who did well. Kereza brought the last medallion up with her, and we were brought to the last puzzle.

The last puzzle was a room with a locked door on the far side and a column in the middle. Each side had a slot big enough to hold one of the medallions and a riddle inscribed on it. Two of the riddles, I found easy enough to solve—one spoke of being pulled by a night pearl, and bowing and straightening, so I thought of the sea and the tides, and when the words were spoken aloud, one of the medallions activated and could be put in that slot.

The next riddle was the last to be solved—trees on its back, no feet but a hefty belly, and a bow. We heard that one but had no answer yet and moved on to the next, which said that when walked on alive, it wouldn't make a sound, and when walked on dead, it would mumble and mutter, so I thought of the sounds of dead leaves on the ground in autumn in the parks at home, and when I said “leaves” the next token lit up.

The last riddle mentioned teeth but no feet, and a place where only it could go. I thought of gears and got stuck and couldn't think of anything else, so it was Kereza and Maliah between them who came to the answer, which was a key. The last riddle stumped us all until Maliah, seemingly from nowhere, shouted “A ship!” and gave us the answer just in time to get the last medallion in place and make the column move down to expose a key. We got the door open with, I believe, very little time to spare, but we got through the whole challenge with full marks, which seemed to shock the people in charge a bit.

We were provided with very generous prizes—a healing potion, a scroll for Dispel Magic, a lovely golden bracelet for each of us, a copper chalice that Kereza took, and a lovely carved wooden sculpture of lotuses that I believe we'll be sending to Loren. Wylcey declined to take any of the prizes, claiming the bracelet was memento enough, so Maliah took the potion and I the scroll, and we greeted Squirt and put our gear back on before the four (well, five) of us went out for lunch.

Kereza said she'd lived on the planet her whole life (Wylcey moved for a job a few weeks ago, it seems), so we asked her just what the festival was for and found out that it's a civil holiday that arose from the days when data cycling and backup took more time, and the whole planet shut down its servers for maintenance at the same time, leading to Downtime Day even now when the whole process is much faster. We had a nice chat over lunch before letting them get back to their days and returning to our explorations.

We went back to find Tohiye, where I got some samples and then we had a lovely jam session with Maliah joining on her aedlira, a little hesitantly but very well nonetheless. Tohiye wanted to discuss some repertoire, and Maliah went off to explore, so I had a very delightful night that you probably don't want to know much more about while Maliah booked herself in a hotel.

(It's rather nice having the chance to relax in that way after a morning keyed up on adrenaline and a good jam session. I should look around for company more often after a battle, though of course the challenges weren't real battles so perhaps the situation isn't quite the same.)

As I went to find Maliah this morning, I found a stall selling necklaces, and there was a silver chain with lovely blue stones that made me think of Bizza and the cursed necklace and the fact that he'd been cheated out of a gift of jewelry, so I bought it for him. Adventuring is good for the pockets, and I'd happily spend it all on gifts for friends and family. I hope he'll like the necklace, and not find it an awkward present—he deserves good things, after that terrible mess with his ex-boyfriend.

Maliah was happy to see me when I got here to the hotel for breakfast, and we hadn't heard from Pika, so we're waiting here, debating whether we ought to explore or meet her at the spaceport or wait for her to find us. I think the decision will likely come to a head soon, so I ought to wrap up, but there is at least a bit left to say.

Mostly that—well, I know we don't say it in person, so much, but I'm so glad I visited you, and everyone else on Sestrilles. These last few months of adventuring have made such a difference to me and in me, and it was centering being home and seeing family, particularly seeing you, even if all we did was tease each other and talk electronics. And maybe now you can trust that I'll keep coming home? I know that when you get letters it tends to be about the dangers I'm facing, and I do a lot of complaining, but I swear to you, I'm well, and happier here than I would be if I weren't adventuring.

We didn't talk about you nearly enough, I feel—I know that I've been having quite a time of it, but that doesn't mean that I don't want to hear about what you're doing. I know I get the updates in your letters, but next time I'm back on Sestrilles, we'll get drunk just the two of us and you can moan about all the dates you've been on lately and how poorly they're going. (Unless they're not, but if you get a steady partner and don't tell me then you and I will be having a chat and it won't all be congratulations).

Write me soon, as a stopgap until that visit, and I'll tell you about Rugira Prime, if we can get there in good time, and about anything else that happens.

Love,

Elyn

#in character #in character: letter #letter to: tyko #episode 20 #location: iriossis #person: pika #person: maliah #person: tohiye #person: wylcey #person: kereza #seeing the sights #jam sessions #suspenseful situations #conquests

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