Anything But Normal, Sailing the Endless Falls...

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Do they look like time or psionic genasi? If there is such a thing, of course)

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Nissa: [sblock]No, you personally know of no such creature.[/sblock]

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Ah, I see. So you were called here by your relatives then, the time elementals?" she asks with a smile, "Or were they the psionic elementals? Psionics are really quite neat, but I'm afraid I sometimes have trouble keeping it all straight."

 

[Bront]

Coron looks at Oobobooboo for a second. "I hope you don't mind me saying so, but you're the weirdest thing I've ever seen, and I've seen some weird stuff. Er... anyway. Pirates. Well, they weren't exactly pirates. Just a crew of a good ship who saw us as bad luck. We got passage legitimately, but when the captain figured out what we were she started yelling that we were parties to murder and caused the death of her beloved. And then we were shoved in a rowboat and dropped overboard. Last time we saw the Stormdancer she was under full sail back towards the Earth Wall, and we were drifting into the Crystal current. And now we're here. Does anyone have a blanket? We're freezing."

"Wait, you were on the Stormdancer?" Ekilu asks. "Fee may be heading towards my old tribal village. I told her where it was and that I sought to return there."

 

[Voidrazor]

The talking ooze stalk wilts a bit when Coron says there were no pirates. But upon reaching the Khora Aisa's side it braces the dingy against the elemental ship. Swinging the talking pseudopod over to the newcomer curled up on the bottom of the boat it says, "Hold still, I lift."

With that, Oobobooboo tries to pick her(?) up and lift her as close as it can to the ship's deck.

 

[Bront]

"Careful Oobob," Ekilu says, "They're not ready to come aboard yet."

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Nissa nods.*

"Yes, some of them aren't feeling well. We need to make sure it won't hurt her to move her like that or we could destabilise her condition."

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

"Ah, I see. So you were called here by your relatives then, the time elementals?" she asks with a smile, "Or were they the psionic elementals? Psionics are really quite neat, but I'm afraid I sometimes have trouble keeping it all straight."

Coron looks vaguely pleased, and one of the other women spears him with a glance. "I told you they'd figure it out Roma," he says to her. "Yes, but not that they've be when! Tema nearly died," she shoots back. "Too late to place blame," he points out.

"Wait, you were on the Stormdancer?" Ekilu asks. "Fee may be heading towards my old tribal village. I told her where it was and that I sought to return there."

"Captain's name was Fee. Nice girl, if a little hysterical.

"We were looking for you, we knew who you were. Chronotrypsis is saying you're all dead to the rest of the members of the kingdom, even as he sends out bounty hunters. He claims he sabotaged your ship and that you were all burned to death by a rogue fire elemental he let loose on it. He doesn't want the rest of the Kingdom to have someone to ralley around. We were supposed to come and cart your bodies away and scatter your things so no one would be able to raise you. And then you went and escaped, so we became a liability."

"One hundred generations of service we gave those smug sebets for our chance at greatness and they said we didn't arrive in time!" Roma snarls, slamming one fist into the other. Coron nods, far calmer than her, but with anger clear in his face.

"We're time elemental get, way far back. We're tempest twins, though that doesn't mean anything to you. We can leap ahead in time as much as we like, but we can only got back in time a few seconds. Enough to help yourself out of a sticky situation, but not enough to warn yourself of something like this. And we can't travel through space really, only time. When Chronotrypsis betrayed us, we didn't know it was coming. And we could leap ahead in time to get out of his immediate reach, but that meant he could still leave guards for us at that exact same place and get us when we joined the time-stream. He thought we'd go way far ahead, he didn't expect us to only go a half-day. The guards weren't prepared, we fought our way out, and then got to the Stormdancer and pretended we were just simple humans that had petitioned and were told to come back later when the 'little troubles' the kingdom was haven't weren't so bad. About three days later Pretik got in a brawl with one of the sailors and starting jumping back to help himself. Captain Fee saw that, figured him for time-elemental blood and threw us off the ship," Coron explains, his eyes hard and fists curled.

Anna comes up from below decks with Tulie and throws down blankets to the newcomers. Roma spares them a glance of pure gratitude and tries to warm up the shivering Tema.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Nissa nods.*

"The time elementals are pure logic and inevitability and lack any hint of compassion," she says, with a sad look in her eyes, "That doesn't mean they are evil, but it does mean that inefficiencies and inconveniences are removed without regard for the people it might hurt. Blood relations matter little to them--only results. I may not be your flesh and blood, but I don't want anyone to have to suffer. The time elementals must be shown that the spirit of love and friendship will allow people like us to overcome pure emotionless logic and fate. As their relatives, you could be a strong force for good in denying their authority and decrying the means of their methods. Won't you help us?"

*Nissa smiles sublimely, hoping that they have made some new friends this day.*

(OOC: Sense Motive just to make sure they aren't in the mood for making up with Chrono by killing us or something. Hopefully that 44 Diplomacy from before has already melted their hearts to this point though )

 

[Erekose13]

Vaukriel ferries the passengers as required, but will let Nissa do the talking. He will help when he can (aid another).