New Trick for Creator Girl - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
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Date
21/7/476
Log
A moderate crowd gathers. Tis unusual for a Creator to put out the call for gathering, and not one easily denied, even if it comes from a mere cub of them. Said child stands just under the great Creator vessel, perched on a cube of Creator Steel as if to emphasize her position as she waits for everyone to arrive.
Having heard the call from Juliana, Ictus wanders up to the ship and peers up at the girl, he may look a little different from when he last met her as he waves friendily a bit, "Hello Juliana." he smiles.
Mazurek is one of those to respond to the call. The huge draco-iguana had been taking a swim on the beach when the call sounded, which has his dark hide gleaming in the light.
Ryusho had.come along because he had heard all about this stuff, but, to see it after his return from being gone so long is..literally a shock to him, as he seems in a daze just from sight alone in supprise, even towering over most others he still was in shock from the fact that the -idea- of creators being able to actually -be- on this planet..not just ...elsewhere and all was just an idea, a concept, not a reality when he had left on that mission so many months ago, and still finding stuff so straonge to him, for this to be real was...mind blowing to say the least as he stands there, probably not far from Ictus or Mazurek.....
Arimia slips through the crowd, making her way toward the front of it, her cloak pulled about her. She stops once she has a clear view and watches the young Creator. She keeps her distance, however, content to wait near the crowd, in the event that she needs to slip away. As she waits she fishes about in her pockets and pulls out a thin white cylinder, raising it to her muzzle and using a small bit of fire magic to light the tip. Some sort of smoke.
Leian wanders slowly into the area, tail swaying softly behind her. Her ears perked atop her head curiously as she gets near, looking to the child and blinking slightly, her features softening a bit " A child! Awe..." she coos slightly, smiling to her, and looking to the others about her
She is not shy to return the wave towards any that call her name, which has her waving a lot as her name has become something of common knowledge through the city since her arrival. "I'm glad you could all make it," she says. She does not appear to put any effort into speaking, but the dangling metal card at her chest echoes her words loudly, making it easy to understand even over the crowd, "That spirit, Shaila, she taught me a secret, and it was a very hard one. I had to do a lot of research to figure it out." she says, tapping her chin lightly, "But I did, and I want to show."
The Iguana-dragon has been very much out of the loop for quite a while now, for he has this look of one who does not comprehend anything that is being said by the child. Having been hibernating underwater for quite some time, he has missed critical events that he just might have wanted to experience.
Ictus blinks at Mazurek and chuckles a bit, "Hello Mazurek, how have you been?" he now has yellow patterns in his fur and three tails instead of two, he looks to Ryu and blinks at his daze with a tilts of his head, "You ok Ryusho?" he chuckles at Leian and nods at that, "Probably knows more than all of us put together though." he looks to Juliana and nods at that, "I see, what did she say?"
Arimia tugs the hood of her cloak further about her head to try and hide the scowl that twists her features at the mention of the spirit, though she doesn't say anything. She simply keeps her odd eyes on the child, watching and waiting.
Leian tilts her head a bit at the mention of Shaila and her ears perk a bit again " Shaila?" she softly flicks her tail a bit as if the name had sparked something of an interest " Oh, do tell!" she looks to Ictus and blinks a moment " She does? Thats amazing!" she says gleefully " And she is so adorable as well!"
the same could of been said for the large dragon as he blinks and glances down to Ictus, "...This is real right?" he asks then he blinks, ".....am I alright? I was lost in the desert for -months- ...A lot of what I have delt with is far from what most would call -alright- and my current mindset is probably far from 'alright' too, and.........this -is- real right?" he says again simply, "This was barely a -idea- if I remember right before I had my mission I got lost on." he says as he is trying to wrap his mind around it.
"The spirits have their own way of doing things, and at first," admits the Creator, "It made my head hurt something awful trying to figure through it, but I think I understand it." She extends a hand out, "They have more space than we do," she says as if that should make some sort of sense, "Imagine if you were..." she trails off, perhaps noticing the crowd is starting to look fairly baffled. "Let me show instead of saying." She brings back those hands, then thrusts her right hand off to the side, where it seems to just vanish into the air, cut cleanly a little past the shoulder, though it clearly is not painful to her. A shriek comes up in the crowd that parts way, revealing the Creator child's hand hovering there where it has snatched someone's scarf off their neck. It vanishes, pulled back to the child who holds it up triumphantly.
Ictus chuckles at Leian and nods before he looks to Ryu with concern, "I see, yes. This is real and it was a shock to me as well when they arrived." he shrugs though. Then Juliana speaks up and he nods at that, "Wouldn't surprise me..." he blinks at that arm though and stares at the scarf, "How...?" he looks confused a bit and shakes his head, "Impressive..."
Arimia tilts her head as she watches, though grows distracted by the scream, turning quickly with one hand disappearing under her cloak. Once she sees what is going on she turns back to the child, eyes narrowed slightly, before she steps forward. "Is it a device you have created that does this? Or do you do it without such aid? An' if the latter, can you teach it? It could prove quite useful to some. If dangerous if the students were not chosen with care."
Ryusho stands there, looking to ictus then...when that happened he just kinda..stares dumbfounded, as if something just stopped working in his brain, as he stares, without blinking for several seconds before he blinks finally once, then twice, before he hears ictus say Impressive before he sits there, and...stares at Ictus, then back to the kid before he rubs his eyes, "..By the creators.......now I wonder if I'm still in the desert, and have finally gone mad....." he mumbles softly to himself as he looks around and rubs his eyes several times before he flat out -slaps- himself for a moment to make sure...
Mazurek shakes his head slowly, looking from Ictus to Ryusho and then back, "I am afraid I have no clue what this is about. Who is this creature in front of us, and how has this airship been able to defy the natural laws and not topple over from its weight? I am as lost as Ryu here in this regard." He is about to say more when the scream interrupts him, causing him to twirl about in a defensive crouch that includes the spreading of his wings. His carelessness just might end up knocking quite a number of folk over. He spies the hand and the scarf and is struck speechless, but remains staring away from the child afterward thanks to just not knowing what just happened.
Leian jumps in surprise from the scream, looking around a moment, and spots the floating hand in shock " Wha..." she says startled, then looks to the child once it dissapears, and blinks seeing the scarf with her " What just happened?"
The child hops down from the box, approaching the crowd to offer the scarf back, though few are willing to touch the thing that was so recently the focus of such an outlandish act, "I'm not sure. We could try? I will ask your king to speak with mom and dad and pick out a few that I'll try to teach. I should warn, it's pretty hard..." Hard for a Creator, that's encouraging.
Ictus looks to Mazurek and shakes his head with a small laugh, 'Mazurek... She is a creator, you've seen their statues before haven't you?" he smiles though and looks back to the child, "Oh? I'm with Ari in that it'd be fun to try... I admit I'm not much of a mathemagician though." he shrugs a bit, "But if it was hard for you..." he trails off a bit
Arimia moves her shoulders in a small shrug and, if allowed, reaches out to take the scarf and look it over. "Few things worthwhile are easy, child. Don' mean they ain't worth learnin' to do." She gives a small shake of her head and continues. "An' don' jus' look to the king. There are other places you can ask without that won' be as bi... That won' involve botherin' the royalty. The academy, the Freesword Guild. Others. Smart kid like you can figure it out, along with your parents. Far better than most of us here, I'm sure."
Mazurek nods slowly to Ictus after he recovers from his surprise, folding his wings once again, "I..have seen some, but not anything like THIS." He does not part for her, but then again he probably doesn't need to since she could walk right under him without trouble given his size, "How is she talking to us, anyway? She's barely moving her mouth."
Leian shakes her head slightly " A.. Creator?.. I know little of such from where I come from..
Leian shakes her head slightly " A.. Creator?.. I know little of such from where I come from.." she looks about slightly " Tell me more about them perhaps?" she tilts her head, tail twitching behind her " Are they all adorable like this one?"
Ryusho slowly shifts, glancing to the creator, then to Ictus, then..shifting a bit, "I...but.." he stands there a moment, "But......Then What...But.." ...he slowly rubs his eyes, and opens his mouth but then ..rather then saying anything he closes it, as he takes a long deep breath, "Creators help me I either have completely gone insane...and am realising I am stuck in my own mind, or I am just....." he sits there for a moment, "...confused beyond any thought that I have." he says finalyl with no clue how to say what he was feeling...but it is mostly mumbled to himself as he rubs his head..as this has already given him just a bit of a headache.....
The Creator surrenders the scarf to Arimia, "Of course, uh..." She hops back a step, half skipping towards her cube and looking thoughtful, "The ones with the nice jewelry," she says, pointing at a few soul pendants dangling from necks, "Learn the fastest, right?"
Ictus nods to Mazurek and motions to the device around Juliana's neck, "Through that, err... Device is how she is speaking." he looks to Ryu and gives a pinxh, "We are real, you are not in the desert still." he blinks at the child and nods at that, "Yeah, we do." he looks surprised though, "You don't know what these are?" he fingers his pendant a little.
Mazurek turns his gaze to the box that the girl has around her neck, finally NOW noticing the thing, "Is that some sort of translating device or can she understand us easily enough as well?" He rubs his head a little, "Someone is going to have to fill me in on events. I haven't been out of my hibernation for very long, heck I just finished taking a bath." His pendant is definitely out in the open, being bare-chested and all.
Arimia lets out a soft laugh and gives a small shake of her head. She turns the scarf this way and that before handing it back. "After a fashion we do. We... Learn the knowledge stored in the gems here better." She taps one of the gems in her pendant. "If it's not a knowledge in the gem... We learn it at about the same rate as anyone else, I suppose. We're jus' more accustomed to learnin'." She looks over at Ictus with a flat expression before saying, "Of course not, kit. There haven't been any Creators about from the time of the Shatterin' until now. So they'd have to ask an' study to learn about it. An' I'm sure they've had their attentions focused elsewhere. No doubt lots of folk makin' demands of them. No matter how politely phrased."
Leian rubs her head slightly as she watches on curiously, biting her lower lip in a bit of a nervous manner as she holds her pendant softly against her chest, tail swaying slowly behind her, back and forth as she keeps her eyes on the child.
Ryusho himself had his twin pendant rather visible, with the two gems socketed in it, though they have not been removed or swapped in quite a long time, it has been cleaned up and worked on quite a bit, to make it look quite nice, after all the weathering it had suffered while he had been lost in the desert for so many months
"The doctor said it was a," the Creator lifts her hands, making air quotes, "Local Curiosity. She sounded keen about it but didn't tell me much else." She squints at them, "Those gems are like memory devices?" she says, the translation coming through quite roughly as an unequivalent term is slammed into and worked around by clever Creator Technology, "I never heard of that before. Uh, well... let's try?" she pats her thighs as one might summon a favored pet, "Come on, let's get two of you and we'll try it."
Mazurek raises his brow slightly with the motions given by the girl. He recognizes it even if he shouldn't. Curiosity gets the better of him and he heads over to the girl, his long strides making it a short trek to begin with, "I..guess I'll be one of your lab rats, or whatever."
Arimia reaches up to pluck the smoke from her muzzle and uses another small bit of fire mathmagic to incinerate it, letting the ashes fall to the ground. She pushes her hood back and moves toward the child. "Here's hopin' I don' end up gettin' cut in half by tryin' this," she mutters wryly. She then says, a bit louder, "I... Suppose they are? They store the knowledge an' skills of the one who imprints the gem. Be it a merchant or an archer."
Ryusho mrphs softly, as he looks over, and..slowly he takes a deep breath, "..I almost want to...say I will try just..to help me..figure out if this is..more if a real thing but....it seems you already have....your two joiners....though I don't know if my mind could deal with it well enough if I tried..now that I think of it.
Ictus shrugs at Mazurek and shakes his head, "It does other things as well, I'm told anyway..." he looks nods to Arimia and shrugs, "True, though... I figured the others had told them about it..." he looks to Juliana and blinks at that as he processes the words, "Yeah you could say that." he thinks a bit but Arimia and Mazurek speak up first so he shrugs and steps back
Leian grips softly at the middle of her own arm, crossing her other arm over her chest " What about what you mentioned about Shaila?" she tilts her head a bit " What was it she spoke of? Was it this? Or is there more?"
She begins to speak, and the device has quite some difficulty translating the esoteric things she is saying. The words are foreign, and the device fumbles terribly trying to come up with close equivalents, but it all sounds like nonsense. The girl frowns at this, then pulls up the card, tapping at it a few times before taking a slow breath, reconsidering her tact perhaps. "Oh," she says towards Leian, "She is the one that taught me the trick, or at least pointed me in the right direction."
Mazurek finishes his approach to the girl while she is having trouble with her device. He towers over her two or even three times over, or more depending on how tall she is. This is lessened a bit before too long, settling into a crouch only to have a seat right on the ground. It helps some, but not completely.
Ictus hmms? at Leian and smiles as Juliana explains, though he tilts his head in confusion at the mass of esoteric words and shakes his head, "Hmm, wonder what she said?" he looks over at Ryu and Leian curiously
Ryusho looks over, as..he was really wanting to of volentiered, as it kinda shows, but he keeps quiet, the main reason though is he wanted to get a closer look and make sure this was real though he then makes a weird face, "I almost want to say...in some part of my brain that -made sense- ...and yet I don't have a clue why..."
Arimia frowns as she listens to the child, banded tail flicking behind her. She shakes her head slightly, crossing her arms. "Don' think this is the best way to teach us. Way I see it there's three options, though two are really the same reversed. First would be talk to the Blackbacks. They can explain the soul gems better than I, by far. An' then you could try to put the knowledge on a gem. Not sure how that works, exactly. I'm not a scholar on the subject of gems. Second would be to learn our language an' teach us that way. Somethin' that would probably be easy enough for you, with that little device around your neck. Third is that in reverse. Teach some of us your language. I can make some suggestions as to who if need be. Though I'm sure the Academy is full of those would would jump at the chance."
Leian looks up to Ictus' inquisitive sound and tilts her head at him slightly " What?.. I.. wasn't sure. Never hurts to be sure. Especially with those questioning if she was.. Real I guess?" she tilts her head towards Ryusho as if to point him out
Juliana shakes her head, "Not that easy. We already speak almost the same language, even if your accent is hilariously thick. Just knowing the words won't do it. You don't know enough... stuff. Imagine trying... to teach someone..." she looks around slowly, and back at the city, "Blacksmithing, but they didn't know what copper or iron was, or even what metal was good for or that things get soft when you heat them up. You start giving a speech about how to properly warm up the furnace and how to hammer things right and they're just staring at you like you're talking crazy." She notices a huge being standing in front of her, and looks back at him, up and down, "You're adorable," she decides, "And big. Adorably big." Creator approved.
Arimia reaches up to lightly tug at one of the hoops in her left ear and says, "I'm sure we don' think we got an accent. Most of us anyway. But I get your meanin'. So you'd have to teach us the stuff we need to learn before we can learn the rest. Which, I imagine, would take quite a long time. There's still the option of tryin' to impart the knowledge by way of a soul gem. I don' know if it's at all possible. Like I said. You'd have to speak to the Blackbacks about that. They ain't... Ah... They should be able to help figure if it's possible or not. As well as answer any questions you have 'bout our... 'local curiosoity.'" She glances over at Mazurek before turning her gaze back to Juliana and saying, "I don' see it."
Ictus nods to Ari and then chuckles at Leian, "Yeah, but you can't be sure about this..." he ponders that and nods, "Well, we should get you to a soul gem smith then... They might be able to help?" he looks back to Ari as she speaks and shrugs, "Neither do I do be honest."
Ryusho mrphs a bit, "At least he is adorably big." he says softly after a moment, glancing over at how Juliana was 'admiring' mazurek, as he shifts, though he thinks a bit, ..though he understood what she ment, he..feels that would be an odd way to describe it though since he is a blacksmith himself, but...thinking about it, it would make sence....kinda, you would have to start from an even more basic idea, "You would need ot start...by explaining what the hard stuff is, or explain even more basic..You would .need to start with the absolute...most simple parts...to begin to get a grasp, and..work upwards slowly...helping them slowly peice things together..in a way to make it very easy to understand..." he says softly, though loud enough to be heard
Mazurek smiles down to the child, managing to do it without showing too much teeth. If the child knows her animals she would be able to pick out his Iguana features right away since they're not hiding in the slightest. Being called adorable brings about a blush to his already dark features, "Umm. Thank you, little one. You're adorable as well. And I have knowledge of the Craft, as I needed to if I wanted to make myself the best things possible." He pats his lap, "Would you..like to have a seat, or am I asking too much?"
Leian sways her tail lightly behind her, seeming unsure of what more to say, as she listens to the conversations around her carefully and curiously, tail swaying more behind her. Rubbing idly at her left ear as she watches the scene before her unfolding
Juliana blinks at him, "Ohmygosh," comes her voice, untranslated, "You're like a big scaly UNKNOWN!" she squeals, thoroughly amused and grinning ear to ear, "Oh, uh, probably shouldn't though. Mom and dad will get nervous. Uh, I'll ask about the orb thing and see what they say, but no promises. Hey, did you guys read the mail?" she says, tone implying she's changed topics quite abruptly. "Everyone, I mean _everyone_ is talking about this planet, and you all. You're all over."
Ryusho can't help but blink and cant his head a bit about this comment about the mail considering well.....no he has not since he has only just returned unless..it is a mail..thing he doesn't know about.
Arimia tilts her head slightly and looks at the child. With her height she's probably closer to eye level standing than Mazurek is even when seated. "Most of us have not read it personally. But most have heard, I'm sure. An', I believe, most would rather we were not. Promise is ours. It was given us, an' findin' that we may lose it to some unknown group of Creators who may try to run us off, or worse, is... Unsettlin'."
Ictus blinks at Juliana and tilts his head, "Mail... Oh, I remember hearing something about messages being recieved... But I didn't read them myself." he frowns a bit as he looks to Arimia and stares as she voices his own thoughts, "Indeed..."
Mazurek is taken aback by her outburst, not certain at all if she is genuine in her apparent excitement or if it is something else. It takes a moment, though, for him to understand the rest of her meaning, but he has to add, "A big..scaly...what? Your translator thingy didn't translate whatever it was you wanted to say. As for mail, we don't know when they arrive from you guys until the Machine Priests gather everyone to activate those ancient machines and read whatever it is that may be there. It was quite a surprise when we found a very old message regarding when you were to first arrive here."
"It's a holiday thing," she says as if that should explain it, "And gosh, hope not. You are all such nice people. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen," she frowns, "Which is why I've been posted all about how great you are on my favorite UNKNOWN, er, bulletin board. So others can see it. They think you're pretty great too."
Ryusho glances to Ictus, "It sounds like we..so to speak, are...popular with others who we do not even know?" he say ssoftly, "Thats..an interesting thing to think of..."
Mazurek shakes his head, finally shifting to actually lay on his side on the ground..and maybe finally be eye level with her, "Just how many are we talking about here, and just how is it that you are in contact with them all? I mean, with your ship here just..being here, there's no sign of it having....well....moved since it got there. How is it not falling over, anyway?" Back to that question again. This time spoken right to the child and not the Kitsune.
Ictus nods to Mazurek and hmms, "I think I know what had happened..." he looks to Ryusho and nods at that, "Yeah, it is." he looks a little perplexed at the bulletin board but shrugs at Maz, "I would have told you had I known myself."
Arimia gives a small shake of her head. "Perhaps that'll be helpful." She doesn't sound like she thinks it would, however. She sighs and says, "I hope things are sorted to the point where we can keep Promise, child. But, as some here can tell you, I'm sure, I've not the best opinion of folk, Creator or no, an' I think things will not end neatly or even politely in such regards."
Leian rubs her head softly " Cant say I.. Noticed anything about any letters.. I know nothing about what your talking about.. What is this really about?" she tilts her head, looking quite perplexed and confused about what was being talked about
She looks back at it, "What, that thing, it's just using UNKNOWN." she says like everyone should know and is taught at an early age, which may be true, if you're a Creator. "And we're still on the, uh." She catches herself, "We have a big.... net, a web. We can send words and pictures and stuff even from star to star. It's not as fast as me and you talking, but pretty close!" She looks at Leian then, "Is that you Woof?" she asks, misidentifying entirely. Damn, all the canines look so similar, "You mean how many read my post. Not that many, maybe a few hundred thousand?"
Arimia rub at the side of her muzzle and mutters, "A few hundred thousand?" She shakes her head slightly then sighs. "That's certainly more than a few."
Mazurek clears his throat, almost choking, "A..few..." He coughs a little, "A few hundred thousand...is considered not many?" He slumps a little and ends up focusing on a bit of math that has him transforming into his much smaller, seven foot self. He loses all draconic influence and becomes a full-fledge iguana. His shorts remain the only thing he wears, and he has at least made a pair that easily shift along with him without trouble or there'd definitely be a lot of blushing involved.
Ryusho blinks as he looks at 'woof' as he quirks his brow then, looks to the creator kid as he sits there, "Wait...so..." he stands there a moment, "IT is like..a giant..net, web.." He thinks, "It is like a bunch of lines, from one place to another...that you can share pictures and..words on." He thinks, "..Ooh.." he says softly, "...I think I understand." he says softly, "It is like lines, that all connect ..a bunch of .." he thinks "Like strings, if everyone here was holding a string, that coudl somehow ..the other end of the strings they held was held by everyone else...and then you could like..move...paintings...pictures, and messages..writings back and forth to eachother on it." he says after a moment, "...but it is really fast....and.....goes a long ways." he says softly...as he seems to be strugglign to figure out how to phrase it, but he -does- seem to get the idea...
Ictus blinks at that and nods in cunfusion, "Okay..." he blinks at that and looks around, "Who? Wulf? No, she's not here. Sorry." he blinks at that and chuckles, 'A few hundred thousand may not be impressive to you..." he looks to Armia and shrugs, "The first text says we were created to tame worlds, and that we have done that many times over does it not?" he looks to Ryu and chuckles
Juliana shakes her head, "I don't know about that," she admits, "But yea, the board isn't all that big. Real popular people are seen by hundreds of billions every time they put up a picture or some words." Her words have slowed as she becomes more careful how she phrases matter of high technology, "Anyway. There are a lot of guys that want to put their money together and buy your planet before someone else does."
Ryusho suddenly stops for a moment and looks at her, "...Excuse me? ..To -Buy- Our planet? our -home-?" he says, ...as in he almost sounds like he ..could actually be offended by such an idea....
Leian tilts her head slightly in confusion " Buy the planet? For what?.. And why?... What about us?"
Arimia sighs and rubs at her muzzle again. "An' why can't we keep our own damn planet?" She raises a hand, giving it a small shake to try and forestall any attempt at answering. "Ah well. We'll figure somethin' out. An' if we don' an' they try to take our planet away from us, there'll be blood. Mostly all of it ours, I'm sure, but still."
Ictus blinks at that and sighs, "Well, if it must be owned... Can we make the money ourselves?" he looks curious before he sighs at Arimia and gives her a flat look, "Indeed..."
And all the faces fall. She waves a hand, "Not like that, come on. We love you guys," she assures, "If they get it, they'll just sit on the deed and let you guys do what you've been doing. You're perfect right the way you are. But if we don't do it, what happens when some big... jerk... comes along with 'big ideas' and grabs it up? I mean, someone has to own it, and I don't think you have any money? And I'm not talking those coins."
Mazurek snorts, now in his normal and very unintimidating form, "The planet is not for sale, little one." He reaches out and brushes one of her arms with the back of a hand, where she will be able to feel the characteristic roughness of his scaled hide, "We have been here for hundreds of years, and while we do not have the knowledge you or your people do, there will be resistance to the extreme."
Ryusho Sits there, "We are not property." He says softly, himself, "A sword, a shield, armor, clothes..Thats all items, those can be owned..." he says softly with a slight shake of his head, ".....I'm not for sale..." he then just kinda says to himself...
Arimia tilts her head, one hand moving under her cloak and says, "No. We haven't any of your money, I think. Is there a way we could get some? I am sure there is something in our land of value that we could trade off. Question is if it is valuable enough. Or perhaps there are... Other methods."
Ictus looks to the others and shakes his head, "I think they want to buy it for us, is what she is saying." he looks at Arimia and ponders, 'Yeah, that's true."
Leian looks to Ictus and nods a moment " Thats... Kind of what it does sound like, doesn't it?" she tilts her head curiously, tail swaying behind her a bit as she contemplates " Like to protect us from those who might... Do something?"
She bounces back as she's nudged. As if by magic, or cleverly hidden cameras, two other Creators emerge from the vessel, moving rapidly to collect their child even as she tries to dance away from them, clearly not wanting to abandon the conversation just yet, "Exactly. We buy it for you, so you don't get bothered. I told you, they absolutely adore you guys. They hang on every word I tell them. They're going crazy with jealousy that they can't be here instead and meet you all."
Ryusho blinks a bit, "But...How can they buy our planet if we are not selling it, when...we own our planet..." he means we as a whole..confused dragon....
Arimia flicks her ears and mutters distractedly to Ryusho, "The point is, despite what was promised us, we don' own it. Else this wouldn't be occurin'." She speaks up louder then, "So why not arrange such, an' charge? Get an area set up, an'... Made safe, where they can meet us. Paid tours, as it were. Probably wouldn't be profitable enough by itself, but... First thing that... Second thing that came to mind."
Mazurek had only brushed, not nudged, but that was beyond the point, considering what happened immediately afterward. He jerks to his feet and finds himself staring once again, this time at the more..adult Creators who have appeared. His surprise is such that he actually transforms again, defensive instincts kicking in, "Who are these two that have come?" Perhaps it is a mistake, but he quickly moves to place himself between the girl and them.
Ictus waves to the parents friendily and nods to Arimia, "Indeed, it seems so." he blinks at Mazurek as he gets in the way and sighs as he pulls him away, "Mazurek! They are Juliana's parents! Leave them be."
Leian looks up at the newly arrivaled parents of the child, tilting her head slightly as curiousity sweeps her " So.. How many of you all are there, anyway? And what plans might these others have, if any are known, to do with us?"
The parents hardly react well when the aggressor moves to hide their child. One draws something that looks something like a Creator Scorcher, if one didn't have five hundred years of wear and tear on it. Juliana squeals when she sees it, "Don't hurt scaly UNKNOWN!" she urges as she dashes forward, running right between the dragon's legs to get to her parents with all due haste. The mother wraps her up in her arms and begins lecturing her and looking grateful to have her back as the father slowly lowers the device, uncertain.
Ryusho had instinctively began to reach for his weapon himself, "HE was trying to protect her from them since he didn't know who they were, Lower the ewapon!" he says without thinking, "HE only had her safety in mind, and didn't know you were her parrents!" he calls out ..actually..not being agressive, but..basically saying 'what the hell lower the weapon he was tyring to do a -good thign-
Ictus grumbles at Mazurek and shakes his head with a scowl, "Mazurek... I know you just woke up but seriously? That was reckless and stupid." he growls a bit before he bows to the parent units in apology, "My deepest apologies, he meant no harm. Ryusho is right... He was only trying to protect Juliana."
Mazurek has no knowledge whatsoever with Creator Tech, having been oblivious to too much in his absence from civilization and all. The outburst from the girl tells him that he was about to have something happen to him...but it doesn't really click as to what. he calls out in confusion as well as curiosity, "Don't hurt me? Just what is that thing supposed to do? And what the blazes is she even calling me?" He glances to Ictus and then back to the Creators, bowing to them, "Mazurek is what I am called here. I have a protective instinct that sometimes gets me into trouble, even if it threatens my life."
Arimia sighs and rubs the side of her muzzle again. She looks at Ictus and says, "And you lot say I'm hot headed. Right." She shakes her head slightly and reaches up to pull her hood about her head again. "Don' even think things through. If there were those among the Creators who wished the child harm they would have had plent of time before ever getting here. The only threats to the young one are from those of Promise. They are right to watch over their young."
Leian sighs and shakes her head softly, ears flat upon them a bit " This is suddenly getting far out of hand.. Please stop fighting before someone gets hurt.. Or an accident happens.. Especially with children around!"
The father holsters his curious little device, "Sorry, you just startled us something fierce. Little rascal can't resist causing trouble, sorry if she's been any bother to you. It's been a long day," he says in his best 'Disengaging parent' voice, "And it's time we tucked her in."
"But I'm not even tired!" Juliana complains, but to no avail, for even the Creators are powerless before their parents.
Ictus looks to Mazurek and sighs, "If it's anything like Mirana's... Creator Scorcher... It fires light that can eat through metal." probably not the best description but oh well. He looks to Arimia and laughs a little, "You are, what Mazurek did was just foolish." he nods though and sighs, "And yes, there are threats here... But not from us. I hope..." he looks to Leian and nods at that
Mazurek draws a hand back to rub the back of his head, "I'm one of those who attack only when provoked or startled. I have an adopted son who loves to get into trouble. Fortunately he's got tutors to keep him out of trouble when he is with them." Did he just say something mutually exclusive?
Arimia lifts a hand in a wave as the child is carted off and turns away. She fishes in her cloak and pulls out another of her smokes, lighting it the same as the first. "I am not hot headed, kit. I've just no time to waste on being polite an' playin' word games." She takes a drag from her smoke then exhales slowly. "An' there's less danger from my side of the town than there could be. I've seen to that. If they wish to go for the Creators... Well, it's a complicated form of suicide, but it's their choice. But children are off limits. I have made those who are so inclined painfully aware of that."
Ryusho Mrphs softly as the kid is indeed carted off as he rubs his head, and then sighs a bit, glancing around, as he thinks, "I suppose I need to head back and..start working at trying to figure otu what I have and all still, so I can start.trying to get back into running my own forge again, Or at least get so I can understand how to do this myself once more.."
Leian approaches the creators, wagging her tail softly as she tilts her head at them " You have such a lovely daughter.. And your such wonderous parents." she murrs softly " Tell me more about yourselves?"
The mother makes polite sounds, but is quite focused on carting Juliana off, which she does, both gone back into the vessel which closes up behind them as if it has never opened to start. The father is left behind, but with his wife and child safely squirreled away, he seems more relaxed, "Stephen," he introduces himself, "We're not usually so on edge, but alien world, only child. You understand, I hope?"
Mazurek nods, "We understand all too readily, what with the threats we've faced for many years with the Shadow Creatures and the War-like nations. Alien world to you, but home to us. You have the ability to see everything while we still have not yet seen everything of our home." At least, he hasn't ever seen a complete map. Not that he's looked for one, anyway. He adds, "I've not seen my mate since I woke today, which makes me wonder if he's hibernating as well."
Ictus blinks at Ari and nods at that, "Very well..." he hmms? and nods at that, "That's good, though I am not entirely convinced that is true." he shrugs though and nods to Ryi, "Alright, I'll see if I can explain some things to you later." he chuckles at Leian and blinks at that, "I have no children of my own... But I can see why you are so protective." he looks to Mazurek and nods at that, "Indeed."
Leian nods as her ears fall on her head " I know how that can be, Sir.. Like an unfamiliar village.. Or cavern.. Or woods.. One is cautious about their family being in such, not knowing how dangerous it could be."
