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24 Navara 3479

Pixie & Wild Magic (Crystal Forest)

by Zinzyra Faer

Someday we will get through a night without... nonsense.
 
The Rest of the First Night
My trance was constantly interrupted by all kinds of activity. Some pixies and fairies approached our shelter during the night, which makes sense, because I am pretty sure it crackles with blue force energy, so it isn't exactly subtle. I think I heard the pixie introduce herself as Duana, but, again, I was trying to rest. There is some kind of inane friction between the purple pixies and the green fairies that I was not conscious enough to really sink my teeth into. (I think there was a fairy named Shup?) Other stupid shit that happened:
 

  • The fairy lied really badly about the pixies taking a wand from her.

  • Roscoe gave the cluster of fey-like creatures alcohol and it resulted in a fight of some kind.

  • Duraz ranted for a long time about the rules of watch. (Can't say I disagree.)

  • These fucking pixies and fairies seem to know people's names.

  • Fern then also talked with Duana and it sounded like they... had a tea party.


    • Morning of 25 Navara
    If none of that was enough, we then awoke to a force energy sphere shoving us out of the shelter. Well, most of us; it had Duraz inside. I think I've seen this spell cast before, to contain a minor necromancer. It did fade after about a minute, but in that time Blackthorne hit it with his rapier (funny to watch) and this enticed Seksgar to hit it (more problematic) and also Duraz tried to dig out of it (?). When the force magic dispersed, Duraz struck something beneath the ground and there was a sound of pain.
     
    From the ground emerged a large, phoenix-like bird surrounded by lightning. I've never seen a lightning-imbued creature before; it had the ability to arc lightning through multiple people, and I suspect if Fern hadn't blinded it to confuse it temporarily, we would have had a bad time of it. Thankfully we escaped.
     
    Noted Effects in the Forest
    This forest is unpredictable and I am not sure we are going to survive this trek. Today we observed additional wild magic effects:
     
  • Roscoe glowed for an hour or so, and anyone who looked directly at him was temporarily blinded.

  • All of our water just disappeared.

  • Duana (the pixie) told us that certain individuals that share magical properties with certain areas of the forest will trigger effects at random.

  • There is some weird fuckery going on with the mirror-like crystals. Seksgar and Blackthorne were convinced that they saw people (himself and Kumrag, Myri, respectively) in the crystals, and it was like the crystals wanted them to touch them. I spent a lot of time staring at the ground.

  • I felt that hair-raising feeling of being watched throughout much of the mirror-like crystals, and I am not sure if that is related to the above visions or something else. I hated it.

  • At the next night's watch, it sounded like Seksgar and Blackthorne might have been hearing voices? This is my conjecture based on their weird ass conversation during watch.

  • Weather here doesn't make a lot of sense. At the end of the day, it was both warm and cold? Everything is unpredictable.


    • Other Info
  • Duana seemed to want to help us, but also she really didn't sound like she knew what "path" meant.

  • Blackthorne sent Duana away, which is fine, because fey can be tricky, but his reasoning was that she reminded him of sirens that took advantage of his crew in the past.


    • Margin notes in Sylvan and a cypher, for Rue
  • Someone outside this weird group needs to know that Blackthorne has started trying to orchestrate group pee breaks, and he also wants me to find a hot spring to help us "bond over a nice bath." This man is insane.

  • Trying to make any of these people hold on to a piece of the plane is hilarious and frustrating. They might as well be blobs of jelly for all the help they are in keeping hold of things.

  • Okay... I'll admit that Blackthorne has been incredibly valuable so far with navigation and path finding. I will never tell him this, though. His ego would kill us all.

  • Roscoe keeps fishing for me to talk to him, and I think it's about you. What the hell is he fishing for? Did Myri tell him something I don't know about?

    • Continue reading...

    1. Travel to Tower of Galdur
      21 Navara 3479
    2. So It Begins (Crystal Forest)
      23 Navara 3479
    3. Pixie & Wild Magic (Crystal Forest)
      24 Navara 3479
    4. Memories & A New Acquaintance (Crystal Forest)
      25 Navara 3479
    5. 10 Days, 9 Creatures, 1 Cave (Crystal Forest)
      36 Navara 3479
    6. Fuck This Forest
      37 Navara 3479
    7. The Hazard that was 37 Navara
      38 Navara 3479
    8. Divination and Dreams
      Overnight, 1 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    9. Eventful Autumn Equinox
      2 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    10. △⋈⧂δ▽∅
      3 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    11. We Left, and Then We Didn't
      5 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    12. Into the Mist
      6 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    13. Into the Mist (Part II)
      6 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    14. Traveling in Terror Storms
      7 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    15. Spelunking
      8 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    16. [Untitled]
    17. Unexpected Planar Travel
      Probably 8 Gaiztoak
    18. We Walk Too Slowly
      Less Probably 8 Gaiztoak
    19. Gnomish Delights
      20 Gaiztoak
    20. Stairway from "Heaven"
      20 Gaiztoak
    21. ⁠—
    22. Attempted Abduction
    23. Musings on Dying
      22 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    24. 22 Gaiztoak
      22 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    25. Dinner and a Wedding
      27 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    26. Back into the World
      30 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    27. No Rest for the Weary
      30 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    28. No Rest for the Weary, Part II
      30 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    29. Haunted: Past and Present
      31-32 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    30. Zin's Emotional Journey Upon Being Confronted with Her Exes
      32 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    31. Through the Wall
      32 Gaiztoak 3479 PA
    32. Is Anything as It Seems?
      32 Gaiztoak 3479 PA

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