lurkingkobold: (Kobold)
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From the outside, the cave is nearly invisible; what looks like a simple outcropping of rock hides the entry tunnel. Inside, the cave is barely more impressive - three chambers, only the largest tall enough for even a kobold to stand upright, and that littered with sand and loose stone in lieu of any more interesting rock formation.

It's obviously not a cave that sees habitation often, but it is inhabited now - off to one side of the main chamber, there's the cooling remnant of a cookfire, with the remains of a rabbit piled neatly to the side of it; leaning against a small boulder on the other side is a kobold, her feet propped up on a leather backpack obviously designed for a much larger creature, slowly sounding out words in a book by the blue light of a magic mirror.

Date: 29 May 2015 13:27 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (② conspirator)
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Why yes, that was 'language' in English, well done kobold. Leaf grins back.

"Sure," he says/types, "I can show you around if you want. My house is over there." It is the only house in view. It is big.

Date: 29 May 2015 13:57 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑦ negotiation)
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Leaf keeps up.

"Right now we're the only people near this house, but my mother and brother will probably be visiting today or tomorrow," he says/types.

Next to the house is a large and highly mysterious object. It looks big enough to fit several of Miles inside, and it has a pointy end and thin legs it perches on the ground with, and a curves-and-triangles sort of general structure. It does not appear to be either magical or alive.

Date: 29 May 2015 14:05 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑧ business)
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The mysterious thing is totally ordinary to him, and he doesn't spare it a second glance on the way into the house.

He demonstrates the switch just inside the front door that controls the lights in the front hall. It is, somehow, not magical.

Date: 29 May 2015 14:10 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (④ farmland)
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"That's a lightswitch," Leaf says helpfully.

Date: 29 May 2015 14:23 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (Default)
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Many things are in the house! It is full of objects - furniture, decorations, bookshelves. Leaf does not even bother naming or explaining most of the objects. Every room has one or more lightswitches with which to control its lighting.

Highlights include:

"Those are spellbooks." "Those are zorkmids."

"That's the room I sleep in." "Those are other rooms for people to sleep in."

"That's a comconsole. It's how I usually use the forum."

"That's the kitchen."

Date: 29 May 2015 15:08 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑦ negotiation)
From: [personal profile] thisvorlunatic
In which case, they can have lunch! Animals with bones do not feature, but Leaf pokes his not-mirror in a way that doesn't immediately result in a forum message, and asserts that he has thereby verified the presence of wild goats and pigs in the area.

(He eats strange human food for lunch - groats with maple syrup, to be specific.)

Date: 29 May 2015 15:40 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑨ obstacles)
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Of course he is.

"...Is there something weird about maple syrup?" he asks/types.

Date: 29 May 2015 15:56 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑪ theoretical)
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"Oh. There aren't any elves here," he says. "Near here there are a lot of maple forests where people make maple syrup. No one starts any wars over it."

Date: 29 May 2015 16:09 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑧ business)
From: [personal profile] thisvorlunatic
Well, it's understandable that she might not want to eat something people go to war over. Miles doesn't try to convince her otherwise.

Date: 29 May 2015 16:26 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑨ obstacles)
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Relevant facts about visiting family...

"My brother and I are twins; he looks just like me. He's very good at pretending to be me, but he usually doesn't do it. He's feeling much better since Mother rescued him, but he still gets upset easily. He does a lot of hiding in dark corners. Sometimes he'll only talk to people if he's hiding where they can't see him. And it's important not to go near him when he's sleeping - he wakes up very upset when people do that."
Edited Date: 29 May 2015 16:42 (UTC)

Date: 29 May 2015 17:15 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (④ farmland)
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Food. Miles does not feel the need to add any more things to his groats on top of the decadent and allegedly non-hazardous quantity of maple syrup already present.

Date: 29 May 2015 17:27 (UTC)
thisvorlunatic: (⑨ obstacles)
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"Not much of a plan. I'll probably spend the rest of the day making spellbooks with wish and reading the forum, unless something unexpected comes up."

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