Legends of Hawaiki 2: Where the Wild Things Are

[wolff96]

Wai's face falls as he puzzles out what the Hakaturi is saying.

Then he suddenly has an idea. "The bracers are very important to me. They were given by my grandmother to me. But perhaps you will be happy with something else, instead..." Moving slowly, careful not to startle the spirit, Wai reaches into his backpack and plucks out the sweet bits of sugary coconut that he had brought.

"Perhaps these will do instead," Wai says. "Here, watch." Wai takes one at random and puts it into his mouth, to prove they aren't poisonous. Then he holds the rest out in his hands, offering them to the Hakaturi. "Try one, they're very good."

 

[Seonaid]

Lani's eyes widen and she can't help but smile at the spirit creatures.

 

[Tonguez]

Wai's face falls as he puzzles out what the Hakaturi is saying.

Then he suddenly has an idea. "The bracers are very important to me. They were given by my grandmother to me. But perhaps you will be happy with something else, instead..." "

The sprite listen incomprehensibly as you explain the value of the bracers, unfortunately it has no understanding of sentiment and various voices amongst the assembled hakaturi pipe in with 'geta nava' - 'b'magranmada'.

The girl pouts petulantly and some of the other hakaturi also buzz and chirp and squeak their disapproval, that is until you offer the coconut.

The original bird-sprite has returned to center view the girl seeming to blend back into the ever shifting haze as if she had never even ben there.
Reaching out a thing hand it touches the coconut and draws forth its shadow.

The solid peice left in your hand feels somehow old and stale to your fingers whilst the gleaming shade of cocnut in the hakaturis hand is bright and perfect - the bird-sprite puts the morsel to its lips and a ripple is seen throughout the assemblage multiple mouths, beaks, mandibles and siphons seeming to taste the same taste....

 

[Seonaid]

Lani is intrigued, watching the interaction, but she is also becoming restless. I wonder when the others will return. And what will happen if they come upon us suddenly! She glances around slowly so as not to startle any of the creatures.

 

[wolff96]

Wai speaks rapidly but quietly to his friends, saying "Be ready. I've heard they like sweets, but if they don't like the coconut, this could be bad. But don't do anything threatening yet... just be ready."

Wai turns back to the nature spirits, trying unsuccessfully to gauge the reaction of these unknown spirits. With no point of reference and their shifting nature, it is impossible for him to guess what they might do next.

 

[Seonaid]

Lani smiles a little, to comply with Wai's request, but her body tenses almost imperceptibly. She makes no threatening moves toward her weapons.

 

[Tonguez]

Tatiki & Puna Tani
Init order Puna Tani (25), Vine (20), Tatiki (13), Nanakia (9)

The ancestor hero Tafaki, once a man now become and atua, liked to watch the world of mortals and today looking down from the heavens he saw where the afternoon sun shone down upon a clearing in the trees in the hills of Nukutere where a Nanakia had been snatched up by some monstrous plant and two tangata now sought to free the beast...

Tafaki grinned happy that he had found such an interesting show to entertain him...

Wai, Lani, Tu-Ru

In the gorge below a troupe of Hakaturi had surrounded three tangata. The Bird-sprite having tasted the coconut peice looked up at Wai and smiled, and handing the peice on it was passed amongst the many hands of the hakaturi each one seeming to enjoy the taste and texture, shape and smell of the shadowy peice.

"No magis" the bird-sprite said though it still smiled "no tresses?"

A few of the hakaturi point expectantly at Lani and her necklace (and anything similar worn by Wai or Tu-Ru)

 

[Seonaid]

Lani looks at the creatures pointing at her and then at Wai. "What are they saying?" she hisses as her hand goes to her neck self-consciously.

 

[wolff96]

Lani looks at the creatures pointing at her and then at Wai. "What are they saying?" she hisses as her hand goes to her neck self-consciously.

"Your guess is, unfortunately, as good as mine," Wai says with a sigh. "I can't quite make out that word -- it sounds like tresses, but the best I can come up with is that they like your shiny necklace."

With a glance at his bracers, Wai continues, "They wanted magic, but were satisfied with something sweet and unusual. I think they like your sparkly necklace, too."

"Got anything shiny or flashy that you don't mind parting with? I think I may have satisfied them with the coconut, but I'm not sure if they'll be happy without something else..."

"One way to find out." With a careful tug, Wai pulls loose a necklace that he put together from old shells and teeth collected at the edge of the ocean. Keeping the coconut bits extended in his left hand, he holds out the string of shiny pearls and bone-white teeth in the other hand and waits for a reaction from the spirits.

 

[wolff96]

[OOC: Sorry for the double post.]

Wai waits expectantly.