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Characters: Mindelan (of_mindelan ) and Cloud (iattractmushi ), with guest appearance by NPCs Compass and Magellan.
Date/Time: Backdated to about the first, midafternoon.
Location: The Twilit Hyrule Wilderness
Rating: PG-13 for violence against monsters?
Summary: (Twilit Keese - heard here, looking something like this - attack. Mindelan needs help.)
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Mindelan had found, going out into the Wilderness with Compass as her temporary partner, that the change didn't happen right away. It had taken almost a minute, reeling unbalanced under the glowing sky, before it had happened.
Compass was a large horned owl with a complicated pattern of cream and dark gray feathers. She'd cheerfully supposed that she was a Spot-Bellied Eagle-Owl, though one with some stiff head-plumage that suggested unkempt hair, a pattern like a pair of pale crescents on her forehead, and eyes the same shade of green that they'd been when she was human.
Min was a sparrow.
A larger-than-normal sparrow, Compass had assured her, one that she thought might be a Saxaul Sparrow, though it was hard to tell, considering that her color scheme was as dark-gray-and-cream as that of anyone else here. She didn't have as much head plumage, a white shape like an X crossed her face, and her eyes were still hazel, she'd been told.
It was a little unsettling. They'd both shrank, but Mindelan had shrunk rather more. She'd gone from being more than a foot taller than Compass to being something that could be bitten in half, easily. Others, from what she'd seen - mostly other Adventurers this soon after the Wilderness had changed - had mostly stayed a similar size.
But there was a job to do, and Mindelan was still one of the comparatively few Adventurers who could make a reasonably accurate map from memory, though she privately suspected that dimensions would be skewed today, since she was seeing this place as a bird that was six inches from beak to tailtip.
Of course this meant flying, which was one of the things she least wanted to do in all the world. Mindelan could have asked someone to carry her, but the very thought was embarrassing. If she stayed low, barely higher than the long grass, and didn't look down or think about it, she could do it. If she'd had teeth, though, she would have gritted them.
She and Compass had set off, Compass talking animatedly about the symbolism of being these two birds, once taking a tangent to wonder how they could speak and soon concluding that they weren't actually using any human language, Mindelan working to contain fear, and they'd been too distracted to see the batlike things until it was too late.
They both flew in very different ways, so Compass had decided to try and lose them in straight-line flight, while Min dodged through trees. Some of the things - she wasn't sure why she thought of them as bats. Bats didn't usually have dragon tails, three foot wingspans, and no faces - went after her, making that rising chime sound that Compass had thought might be echolocation.
If Mindelan was human, she was sure she could have taken them. If she'd brought Jump - she hadn't brought him, turning into things couldn't be good for dogs - he could have taken them. Probably.
Compass would probably be fine. She was a huge owl, with a hooked beak and four curved talons on each foot. Min couldn't worry about that now. She muttered an oath and shot into the underbrush. Didn't these things know when to give up?
Date/Time: Backdated to about the first, midafternoon.
Location: The Twilit Hyrule Wilderness
Rating: PG-13 for violence against monsters?
Summary: (Twilit Keese - heard here, looking something like this - attack. Mindelan needs help.)
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Mindelan had found, going out into the Wilderness with Compass as her temporary partner, that the change didn't happen right away. It had taken almost a minute, reeling unbalanced under the glowing sky, before it had happened.
Compass was a large horned owl with a complicated pattern of cream and dark gray feathers. She'd cheerfully supposed that she was a Spot-Bellied Eagle-Owl, though one with some stiff head-plumage that suggested unkempt hair, a pattern like a pair of pale crescents on her forehead, and eyes the same shade of green that they'd been when she was human.
Min was a sparrow.
A larger-than-normal sparrow, Compass had assured her, one that she thought might be a Saxaul Sparrow, though it was hard to tell, considering that her color scheme was as dark-gray-and-cream as that of anyone else here. She didn't have as much head plumage, a white shape like an X crossed her face, and her eyes were still hazel, she'd been told.
It was a little unsettling. They'd both shrank, but Mindelan had shrunk rather more. She'd gone from being more than a foot taller than Compass to being something that could be bitten in half, easily. Others, from what she'd seen - mostly other Adventurers this soon after the Wilderness had changed - had mostly stayed a similar size.
But there was a job to do, and Mindelan was still one of the comparatively few Adventurers who could make a reasonably accurate map from memory, though she privately suspected that dimensions would be skewed today, since she was seeing this place as a bird that was six inches from beak to tailtip.
Of course this meant flying, which was one of the things she least wanted to do in all the world. Mindelan could have asked someone to carry her, but the very thought was embarrassing. If she stayed low, barely higher than the long grass, and didn't look down or think about it, she could do it. If she'd had teeth, though, she would have gritted them.
She and Compass had set off, Compass talking animatedly about the symbolism of being these two birds, once taking a tangent to wonder how they could speak and soon concluding that they weren't actually using any human language, Mindelan working to contain fear, and they'd been too distracted to see the batlike things until it was too late.
They both flew in very different ways, so Compass had decided to try and lose them in straight-line flight, while Min dodged through trees. Some of the things - she wasn't sure why she thought of them as bats. Bats didn't usually have dragon tails, three foot wingspans, and no faces - went after her, making that rising chime sound that Compass had thought might be echolocation.
If Mindelan was human, she was sure she could have taken them. If she'd brought Jump - she hadn't brought him, turning into things couldn't be good for dogs - he could have taken them. Probably.
Compass would probably be fine. She was a huge owl, with a hooked beak and four curved talons on each foot. Min couldn't worry about that now. She muttered an oath and shot into the underbrush. Didn't these things know when to give up?