Terre Haute

[paradisamods]

[Today, our intrepid explorers have finally made it to Terre Haute. It’s mostly grassland, and on the outskirts small spotted lions, about the size of leopards prowl around. They seem to be more interested in the strange antelope running around than in any people, however. Towards the edge, lies a cliff face, looking out to sea, on occasion giant whales can be seen breaching the water.

Of the weird thing they came to look for, in the distance is a cylindrical shape, lying on its side. But between them and it is a strange village. One made up of excessively tall wooden huts, all of which have electric lights, turned on, though how they’re creating such power is a mystery, they are still very much inside the dead zone.

The residents of this off little village are wandering around, going about their buisess. The residents being a group of bemused looking giraffes. Perhaps you will even see some familiar non-giraffe faces milling about.

Welcome to Terre Haute]

[[GRASSLANDS AND CLIFFS | TOWN SQUARE | JUICE BAR | DANCE HALL | THE ESCALATOR | MIRROR CONTROL ROOM ]]

Comments

... open mouth, insert entire foot. would you like to assume that he said continent for my sake? ;;

[kindnessing]

Right... They're a prey species, so they'd do a lot of running. I don't know much more about them, though...

Whose Line Is It Anyways? moment lol XD

[peacockherald]

Well, neither do I, so it seems we are on equal footing again. They look similar to deer, though, so I think they might not be so different. 

[kindnessing]

[ ... Hmm. Not knowing about antelope or lions, but deer? ] Where are you from? Your world, I mean.

[peacockherald]

Hmm, I have come to understand it is considered a 'medieval' style world. We are land-locked, as it were, with plenty of forests and rivers and room enough for farms, with all four seasons in their turn.

[kindnessing]

[ Then a lack of knowledge about animals from other lands would be understandable! Ken nods, swinging his legs lightly. ]

I come from a what would be considered a later era, I think... Perhaps we're from the same world?

[peacockherald]

Perhaps, though I could not say. My world has magic. If yours does not, then I rather doubt it.

[kindnessing]

[ Ken shakes his head. ] Magic in a different way, I guess, but probably not the kind you're talking about. What do you call the place you're from? What's it like?

[peacockherald]

Well, I hail from the country from Valdemar, if that helps any. We're a small nation, but prosperous in our way. I suppose it must be like any other nation, though we are different from our Karsite neighbors. We allow free religion, and our women have much more freedom and less restriction than Karsite does.

Oh, and we have the Heralds, of course.

[kindnessing]

[ A world he's never heard of... ]

Those are some new names to me... What are heralds? Besides, um, the obvious, I suppose.

[peacockherald]

I am one. actually. We act in the name of the Crown to aide the people of our country, and Heralds always have Gifts. I have quite a few, in my case, but normally a Herald only has one. And they are always Chosen by the Companions, and are paired for life.

[kindnessing]

And Gifts would be a name for the kind of magic you have, right? What kinds of tasks do you carry out?

[peacockherald]

Yes, that's right.

Myself, I am in charge of the magical security of my country and I also advise my king. I do not go on circuit as often as I used to, but I do go and when I do it is usually to dispense justice among the small towns and to witness things.

[kindnessing]

It sounds like an important job... What about your, uh... Companion? What are they like?

[peacockherald]

Ah, she is called Yfandes and all Companions look like white horses. Except, they are smart and magical. Smarter than their Heralds, at times.

_{[ His mouth quirked fondly. ]}

[kindnessing]

[ :o ] Is she here?

[peacockherald]

_{[ He nodded and motioned. ]}

Outside. She cannot quite make it into establishments like these.

[kindnessing]

That's understandable. It must have been quite the journey to get here...

[peacockherald]

She is not a normal horse, either, so it was not so difficult. Only in that our magics linking us cannot be activated, and I admit that has been hard...

[kindnessing]

I'm sorry to hear that... How long has it been since the castle's changed? [ Ken is under the impression that this is a world change... ]

[peacockherald]

Changed...? No, we came from the Castle. We believe this place is located within the influence of the Dead Zone since no magics are working.

[kindnessing]

[ ... what. ] This... is very confusing, then.

[peacockherald]

What ever do you mean?

_{[ He frowns, not sure what the other means. ]}

Did you not ride out with us?

[kindnessing]

[ He slowly shakes his head. ] I've been here for a week... I thought the castle had just misplaced me.

[peacockherald]

_{[ His frown deepens. ]}

That... really is odd. This is not a world change. It's taken us days to ride out here.

[kindnessing]

"Out here"...? Where are we, exactly?