Day 285 [open]

[fireburn]

Who: Azula & anyone
Open: Open
When: Day 285
Where: Northern Bastion
What: Azula arrives in Bastion.
Format: bracket-action but happy to match
Warnings: n/a for now.

[Azula was angry. Whether or she actually believed that her world had been destroyed, blah blah blah was a different question entirely. It all sounded crazy (this whole world sounded crazy - maybe it was all just one giant hallucination and that's a terrifying thought), but more importantly she had better things to do. If this was some kind of spirit-world shenanigan, she wanted no part in it. She had been in the middle of something important, damn it.

Which is why, naturally, she gets herself quickly and fairly easily from the Skyway to Bastion. If anyone was capable of figuring it out, it was her. And when she's on a mission to get to the bottom of something, that drive can move mountains.

When she questions the person who told her about this "calamity" she doesn't get answers she wants and sets a tree on fire in retribution, but the action is...oddly taxing? And for the first time in her career she actually feels like it's difficult to firebend which angers her more, RIP patches of grass.

Since all of that is clearly getting her nowhere she proceeds to go question anyone who is around in the most tactful and personable way possible:]

You there! Tell me what is going on here immediately.

Comments

[twinked_witch]

[Megaera chuckles as she feels the bit of her will take effect on Azula ever-so-slightly.]

Pieces of crystal you might have found along the Skyway - that's what's beyond the Bastion. Remnants of affected worlds and such. The shards help power the Bastion, basically.

And what can't be right?

[fireburn]

It can't be right that our powers can be that affected.

[but it explains the tired feeling she'd gotten from just setting that stupid tree on fire.]

[twinked_witch]

... Sadly, it can be. Trust me - I get three spells per day with my arcane training, and that's it.

[fireburn]

What kinds of spells do you have?

[twinked_witch]

A wide array. I can memorize around twenty spells from a book that has just over a hundred - it's just that of those I memorized, I can use each of those only once a day, and only three of those total.

Illusions, evocations - fireballs, gusts of wind, the like - a little pseudohealing spell... There's a fair array, really.

[Megaera goes out of her way to NOT mention Enchantments - magic to mess with the minds of others... Gee I wonder why?]

[fireburn]

It doesn't bother you to have it so limited?

[twinked_witch]

It's very limiting, but when I'm here, it's pretty safe and I'm fine. So I just can't head out to the Skyway for too long, that's all.

[fireburn]

That's awfully complacent of you. Don't you wonder how something could have so much power over you? To change you?

[twinked_witch]

It's not me that's changed, but the environment around me. My magic comes from the power of the planes - the Etherial and Astral. Around here, both are weaker, so I can only pull enough power for a few casts a day without a workaround.

Plus, I've got a little more freedom here than I did back home. That's gotta be good for something, right?

[fireburn]

Your world must be pretty sad, if this seems like freedom.

[twinked_witch]

I'm not going to go into the full story behind that.

[fireburn]

I didn't ask for it.

[although she is starting to wonder why she's still being so almost friendly.]

[twinked_witch]

The important part, as far as I'm concerned, is that this situation might suck, but you've gotta make the best of it that you can, by any means you can.

Certainly, that's what we've been trying to do.

[fireburn]

I guess that's a start.

[twinked_witch]

If you plan to explore the Skyway in hopes of finding your home, you'll need... A lot of things, really. But safe bases are a big one. And this is the safest one there is.

[fireburn]

That's what it seems like, yes.

[twinked_witch]

More than that, though... If your world is gone, this is the best place to start picking up and starting anew.

[fireburn]

If my world is gone, yes.

[twinked_witch]

Steel thine heart, and perhaps even the darkest of circumstances may bring ye the opportunity you desire.

Words from my old teacher. Though he was, admittedly, rather insane.

[fireburn]

And yet, wise words. We may all find our homes still to be in tact.

[twinked_witch]

... Sadly, I can verify with certainty my own world's gone. And with it, another world in turn...

[Megaera doesn't look happy to admit that.]

[fireburn]

[that definitely peaks her interest]

You can?

[twinked_witch]

Woke up amongst its remains. Statues of the few people I cared for.

The Calamity's scale is... Terrifying.

[fireburn]

I'm sorry that you had to see that.

[thats definitely the magic talking, not azula]

[twinked_witch]

If you mean to head out... Well, be prepared for a lot of monsters. And having to fight without powers. All you'll have is your physical strength and ability.