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Princess-Champions of Hyperborea

Argh! Kazelia rattles her chains, but they just rattle in response and then pull her arm tight to the wall with an uncomfortable clinking. She'd never been in the Puzzle-Box before. The penalties of being such a well-behaved daughter most of her life, never needing such things from Oberon unlike some of her sisters meant she didn't know the best escape from it now. She could figure it out, given time, but listening to Shiva's suffering was already unbearable and she regretted picking Kyouko back up when she could have left her hidden and safe from the Garthim.

She wasn't gagged though, nor cursed or silenced. And so she sang out her defiance. Because she knew this wouldn't last. She knew her father was only stalling the inevitable. She knew that no chains and chills could last.

"Come and find me! Father,
come and find me!
You think your chains can hold and
these walls can stand firm
but the sun is rising and all storms break
No Riders at your banner's call
No well-wishers for your wedding day
Nothing left for your hands to hold but
cold steel all alone
You think that you can stop us
but the sun is rising soon
and all storms break
So come and find me! Father,
come and find me!"

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Eska was always the most vexing sister, even when she was unconscious in the Labazaar, somehow she managed to be the most vexing one. Kazelia urges Shiva higher and swooped in to pick up Kyouko. Cassian would be controlling the Garthim, Oberon wouldn't stay for that himself, he'd done his work already. Where would he be though? He'd have to be able to see, at least big picture to give commands. He wouldn't want to make himself vulnerable either. Hmm, where where where? She wishes she had Adila's eyes, but she settles for flying Shiva up high and casting her vision with magic, bouncing her sight from branch to branch and looking around each one. Where was he?

[Look Closely: 5+1=6.
Is something hidden or out of place? If so, what looks suspicious?
Time to find out the hard waaaaaay]

Chuubo's GMD: Love and Shattered Alchemy

Rinley Quest Tracking

week 1

My Hider

-Storytelling! 1 quest xp scene 1
-Adventure get xp scene 1
-Emotion xp scene 1
-Slice of Life action. scene 2
-Something to deal with scene 2
-Up to date scene 2
-Storytime! scene 2
-Emotion scene 2
-Slice of life scene 1
-Something to deal with scene 1

Week 2
-Storytime scene 1
-

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Mila Quest Tracking

Week 1
-Under siege, at least a little, scene 1
-Suspicious, scene 1
-Emotion XP scene 1
-suspicious scene 2
-Under siege, scene 2
-Emotion scene 2
-Suffer corruption scene 2
-Sickness scene 2
-Shared reaction scene 1
-Calling scene 1

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Jasper Quest Tracking

Week 1
-Sunny disposition (literally) scene 1
-Nameless feeling of loss (for the Miracle) scene 1
-Mortal Life theory proposing scene 1
-Emotion XP scene 1
-Miracle scene 2
-Mortal Life scene 2
-Emotion scene 2
-Sunny scene 2
-Shared Reaction scene 1
-Calling scene 1
-Shared Reaction scene 2
-Trust scene 2

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Dulcinea Quest Tracking

Week 1

My Hider

-Science! 1 quest XP, scene 1
-Emotion XP scene 1
-Outside stirs XP scene 1
-Emotion xp scene 2
-Science! scene 2
-Outside stirs scene 2
-Bonus emotion scene 2
-Science, Faith, Sorcery scene 1
-Shared Reaction scene 2
-In over your head scene 1
-Calling scene 2

Week 2
-Science, faith, sorcery! scene 1
-In over your head 2nd point, scene 1
-Science chibi quest scene 1
-Hidden library scene 1
-3 XP responsibilty for Outside Stirs

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Summary of character XP, Issue, and Token Tracking

Action XP Pool
9

Dulcinea
3 science quest xp
3 emotion xp
5 outside stirs
1 hidden library

Issues: 2 In Over Your Head (blue), 1 Calling (Purple)

Jasper
2 sun quest xp
2 mortal life
2 miracle
2 emotion

Issues: 1 Calling (purple), 1 Trust (Black)

Mila
2 under siege quest xp
2 art shop and garden
2 emotion

Issues: 1 Sickness (green), 1 Calling (purple)

Rinley
3 storytelling quest xp
1 adventure get
1 up to date
2 emotion

Issues: 2 Something to Deal with (silver)

Chuubo's GMD: Love and Shattered Alchemy

Welcome to Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine The Glassmaker's Dragon! This is a setting exploring the lives of a few rather miraculous young people. It's a pastoral setting in which we'll be telling a story in vignettes checking in with them once or twice a week. There may be some crazy things that happen, but mostly it's a game about slice of life in a weird but calm world and the stories that these characters make for themselves.

It's set in Fortitude, primarily, which is a big fishing village with shops, craftspeople, and magical shrine families, perched on Big Lake, just at the edge of the Outside (of reality? who knows?).

Everyone will be posting their characters separately, but I'm also going to be using a few OOC posts to track some of the Chuubo's Mechanics over time to help everyone out.

Chuubo's GMD: Love and Shattered Alchemy

Let me start by telling you a story. No, not the one about the glass-crafting. A different story, sort of. Two stories, actually, both about love.

Long ago, there was a craftswoman and she fell in love with a savant. You wouldn't think they'd have much in common, one so much in the act of making things to change the physical world, the other constantly buried in a book and thinking of high-minded ideas with her head soaring in the clouds. But they did fall in love. Maybe they're still in love. Some things happened though and one of them retreated to hide while the other one broke herself all up into pieces and forgot all about what she used to be. I think there's more to their story still to tell, but right now it's shattered and scattered about. I think that one of those pieces is here with us in Town, myself. Maybe several of them.

At the same time, and also much more recently, the Sun fell in love with the Bleak. The Headmistress of the Bleak Academy, most specifically. She hailed, some say, from a far and sunless land. The Sun, whose name was Jade, knew that falling in love with someone from a sunless land was a terrifically bad idea and that probably it wouldn't be good for either of them. She did it anyway though because sometimes love is like that, and sometimes the sun is like that, and sometimes people are like that. It turned out though that one day the Headmistress rode up on a flying chariot of darkest night and she fired an arrow into the Sun's heart and the Sun died. This was very troublesome for a short while because not having a sun makes it hard to do a lot of things, like take walks in the sunshine, grow flowers, or do roof repairs. The Sun had a daughter though, and some things happened, we're not really sure what, but some things, and now there's a new Sun. Her name is Jasper. Mostly this is working out pretty well, but there's a lot of questions about how this story ends and some people might feel pretty bad about Jade getting shot by her lover.

*****
Those are far away things though. Maybe the kind of things that someone might mull just after lunch on a warm day weekend in late spring. The kind of day where it's too warm with the sun overhead for the birds to sing and too still for the clouds to be in any rush to go anywhere. Where everything is quiet save a bit of rustling grass and a distant cricket and you might be forgiven for thinking that time has decided to take its own siesta for a little while and let this go on forever. It's that sort of day.

So, some questions to our fine residents of Fortitude.
Jasper: What are you up to on such a fine afternoon? Who are you with?
Rinley: Why can't you just lie down and take a nap right now?
Dulcinea: How are you keeping cool in this weather?
Miramie: Are you relaxing or do you have an errand to run?

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Kazelia blushes and tries very hard not to giggle when Kyouko's tail wraps around her. It is an extremely bushy tail, possibly the bushiest tail, though she'd not want to start a Konkon civil war over the topic. She blushes even harder at the idea of a proposal. Oh gosh, could she?! Would she?! Was she ready?! Was it even fair to consider such a relationship? And to be all trussed up in front of Ourania to boot. She wasn't going to be the only one wearing the ropes in this relationship! But then, would it be uncouth to include magically tying up her own bride during the Konkon wedding ceremony? So many questions! She was almost ready to answer when she saw the figure atop the mountain, and her voice sank to a deep "oh no" instead as she slammed the wheel as far to port as she could manage.

"Everyone this is your first-mate" she called from the wheel, using the ship's magic and her own to broadcast across the entire interior and deck. "Brace for impact!"

*****

Kazelia was already off the ship by the time Oberon's bolt struck it. As soon as she'd set the wheel, she had leaped into the air and onto Shiva's back. It had been too long and she was not leaving her pegasus behind again. She'd pulled Kyouko up with her, but alas Shiva couldn't hold onto everyone. Even as the ship was struck by the black bolt, Shiva flew ahead and Kazelia set her girlfriend down on the stone branches, perched against the wall out of sight from the clifftop in case Oberon came to inspect his handiwork. Kazelia looked back out to see if there was anything she could do. Adila had shot out of the ship like a bolt, it looked like with Hornet. She scanned for Alina and Rita, Shiva might be fast enough to catch them if they were falling.