IC Contact - Lost Carnival

[scientificist]

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[soft_focus]

[Immediately, she shakes her head.] We probably can't leave until we save everyone, [she explains.] ...But, the Ringmaster made the Carnival it's own place again. You have to go to a portal to get out into the Athenaeum.


[The word sounds utterly ridiculous with child inflection, but she carries on.] Umm...if she wanted to drown someone...or if she needed water...

Then, maybe the others need things too? Maybe she had to find a story place that had water already, so she could use it?

[scientificist]

[Herbert wheezes out something that's half laugh, half grimace.]

Shadows and fire? I'd rather avoid fire for the time being...

[soft_focus]

[Reira just looks at Herbert a moment, before nodding.] ...Yeah, that makes sense.

[Except, when he says Shadows, the girl finds herself stuck on that word. Thinking about how it had gone dark, how everyone had gotten lost and-]

....How come the shadows could be made by the faeries, but not water?

[Because they Did make the water, Reira.]

[scientificist]

Well, the shadows were obviously a magical creation, they spread through the entire library. The pond was...natural. You couldn't see it, of course, but there were water grasses, weeds. Only in one location.

[There seems to be a clear definition to Herbert: one of the things was like. A location. The other things were individual spells created for the occasion.]

[soft_focus]

...Oh.

[She pauses, but eventually has to question it a bit more.] ...I guess book places and shadows wouldn't be the same as field spells...

[Fact: both of those things would be possible 'appearances' from such things, in her world. The point to it being she finds it easy to lump the two together.]

Was the 'Elysium' place something different too, then? [It wasn't as though she could see it after all.]

[scientificist]

I've...been informed the crows are something the fae operating it commonly uses. It was a shadowy library room surrounded by crows.

[He goes back to frowning again, looking vaguely down.]

He did have a chair. Possibly it was a Scene after all--it's too late to test now, or do anything about it but...yeeees, that is a sign I will have to look out for--I was preoccupied, of course, I couldn't have been expected to notice at the time.

[soft_focus]

Crows? [Noted. So she nods.]

...There probably won't be a lot of time to test a book scene, if one appears, but... ...even without a scene, book things could still appear.

I saw little things come out, sometimes. ...So maybe, if something bad happens, we can still use book magic to get away at least...

[scientificist]

Are the smaller things tangible? [It's not even occurring to him that he's keeping a little kid up past her bedtime. She has him considering things now.] Are they real enough to affect a faery?

[soft_focus]

Yeah, everything from the books is 'real' here, [She notes. And hey, who cares about bedtimes when it's 'war time', really.]

I don't know if it would affect faeries but... [She tilts her head.] ...even if you couldn't hit the faerie, you could still do something to confuse them, right? Like making a big flash bang, or a dust cloud....

[scientificist]

Yeeees, that could well work--we may be onto something, Reira. I'll have to inform whoever decides to go after the, kidnapped individuals.

[soft_focus]

[Well. That's just the burst of pride Reira needed to feel IMPORTANT. She beams quite widely, nodding.] Mnh- Yeah..!

[A pause.] ...I definitely can't go though.

...people keep trying to tell me to ask if I can leave the Carnival, they wouldn't want me to go and help fight...

[Which on the one hand, she feels like she could totally help in this place. But on the other, Fine, Fair, SHE SUPPOSES-]