destinystrings | Into the Dragon's Lair

⊙ The Gift of Forever

Who: Open to everyone who wants to go (along with the rescue teams who do not know they are rescuing right now)
Where: The Overworld
Summary: A Call to another world turns into an unexpected reunion and rescue
Warnings: Dragon Warriors
EVENT INFO: Read about it here if you're a newcomer!

The Dragon Quest

It happens in a moment. At first you're sleeping, out in town or tending to a job when you feel something yanking at you, forcefully pulling you out of this moment in time and right into another. For the rest of Hinoto-Ri it will be a simple blink of time. You were there in a minute; the next you are gone, leaving behind no trace.

For you, however, you see colors swirl as you feel the drop of hundreds of meters downwards somewhere you can't quite remember...but feels familiar.

Then it's all gone.

You awaken inside a city that is obviously inspired or could in fact be Egyptian in nature (if you've heard of that style, anyway). Merchants move about in tents and the town's warriors scramble at your arrival, pointing khopesh at you, shouting to get up and explain yourselves.

It is only when they realize you somehow speak their language that they manage to calm down. While still hesitant at some of you and your looks, the town's sultan seems oddly calm about your intrusion, especially when you explain you don't come from this world.

"Then thy mission here is clear. We have met such an individual hence a few weeks ago. However he is long gone from our place, off to search for a way to...contact you, I believe." For some reason, the man's speech was riddled with medieval speech patterns despite looking more Egyptian than anything else. "Please enjoy what we have to offer tonight, warriors. The sandstorm is nigh impenetrable, and there are dark energies to it barring passage. Tomorrow thou art free to continue onward, should fair weather greet thee. There are many monsters that haunt the town outside, but their pockets are filled with the golds which make our currency, if thou wish to trade with our merchants."

OOC Info:

(Your characters are currently in a town called Isis, found in the middle of a desert. Currently the sandstorm outside is making it impossible to leave the town for more than a short while away, so you may take this first day to look around, or kill the nearby monsters. Just make sure not to step too far into the sandstorm or you may be lost forever.

The map is here. Isis has the following establishments:
> A Bar which serves ancient Egyptian cuisine. Food is cheap, you should get enough money just by either looking around town for coins buried in the sand (it tends to happen a lot around here) or go fight a few monsters outside.
> Two stores, once which sells bladed weapons, and one which sells simple loin-cloth armor. You will need to defeat some monsters to be able to purchase them however.
> An underground gambling ring (as in it is located underground, part A on that map) where you can watch monsters fight each other and bet based on results. You may earn a lot more money...or lose it all.
> A priestess who gives out fortunes. (You are only allowed to have 1 character per player have their fortune read.)

Feel free to start your own threads anywhere in the city or the land outside! Simply post a new comment below the ones we have posted ourselves, stating if your post is open or closed to certain people.

For now, mingle and have fun. The plot part of this log will start later on.)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Zio still needs to learn that, actually.

He picks up on the little detail of only monsters, and his expression goes dark, not to mention a bit panicked. So all they have available for food in this world must come from the monsters found wandering around?]

So we'd have to eat monsters for food--!? ["if we're stuck here for long enough!?" is what he wants to finish saying, but flames start coming out of his mouth from his own thoughts making him lose his calm. He immediately clasps his mouth shut to prevent any stray flames from setting things on fire. He gives a questioning look at Phantom Girl; he definitely didn't want to stay that long!]

[what]

Um.

[Long, pregnant pause.]

I just want to clarify before we go any further in this conversation to make sure you know that you just almost spat fire at me. Just so you know that was a thing.

[Zioryle responds quietly with a nod at first, keeping a hand over his mouth. He tries to look apologetic, but his embarrassment shows more.]

...S...Sorry.

...Just making sure.

[Phantom Girl will give a slight shrug after a few more moments of staring.]

You have a name, or should I start calling you Fire Lad? I go by Phantom Girl, by the way.

[He was okay with nicknames, but "Fire Lad" was probably going to be embarrassing for him every time they run into each other in the future. He clears his throat, making sure no flames would come out any time soon, before speaking up again.]

...It's Zioryle.

...Zio is what they call electric powers here, isn't it?

[Irony of some sort.]

So was that a 'gosh I'm so hungry the thought of eating monsters really fires me up' or a 'augh I'll only eat monsters if they're charboiled beyond recognition'?

[He returns with a confused look. He hasn't familiarized himself with the powers these "persona" things hold yet. But regardless, he'd hear part of his name every time someone yells out that spell. Talk about awkward, especially when most common nicknames he'd get would be exactly that name.]

...Talk about awkward... [He mutters, more to himself than anything else, before responding to what Phantom Girl says later.]

The latter, kind of. Even if presentation is nice, I don't know if I can try it...

I think before we start contemplating the pros and cons of monster fricasee, we might want to see about fulfilling whatever mission we're here to do and going back as soon as we can.

I've heard about this, although it's my first time, too. There's something in Hinoto-Ri that sends people through worlds.

A mission? [He had forgotten about hearing something like that just before arriving in this place.]

...We get this mission-thing when we get a chance to go to other worlds?

I guess there's a reason we get sent places. ...Probably. Hopefully. It's happened a few days.

[Phantom Girl hefts a shrug and takes another sip of Mysterious Blue.]

They always go back in the end.

Hopefully... [Zio gives a small frown at that.]

So we get returned to Hinoto-Ri after a while?

[He wasn't sure if he'd like to be stuck in a place until whatever they need to do is accomplished.]

Whenever we finish whatever it is we're supposed to do here. That's how these kinds of things are meant to go.

I'm thinking we should probably head out tomorrow to try and do some more recon. We don't know enough yet...

Hm... It'd be nice if they would tell us in clear details what we're supposed to do before we're sent into another world... It'd make things so much easier than just wandering around...

[He gives a small sigh. He's still on his toes to keep his flames from coming out, but some of the steam comes out from the stress he's feeling. From another person's point of view, he might be looking like some smoker exhaling the smoke.]

((Sorry for the tardiness here! Feel free to ignore if you'd prefer not to continue with this.))

Maybe they think that's half of the fun. ...I mean, whoever brought us to Hinoto-Ri in the first place didn't seem big on explaining anything either, so it's not like this is unprecedented.

[Phantom Girl stares curiously as the steam begins to come out of his mouth, though she's polite enough not to ask. ...Wait no she's not.]

So... are you just really bad at controlling the whole fire-breathing thing?

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