Wings of Wonder: Comms

[voidtreckermods]

Talk to All

Talk to Team

Talk to Individual

For the third option, a list of passengers appears and names can be searched for by letter. Anyone who has been working to try and make communications happen on their own devices will find those linked in to this network- though it is still only possible to use voice. If they have headphones from the music room they can make it so they work like earpieces.

The comms are a bit crackly and can distorted especially if trying to talk over islands but they do work.

Comments

[averyusefultray]

I guess this makes me ground control.

[That's a new experience for her all things considered]/small>

Keep reporting in, there are a lot of new cariables out htere.

[jingyeets]

Down off the islands, to get an idea of how much time we have to catch anyone who falls.

( With the second voice joining in, he gets himself airborne, figuring he'll have to hear from one of his more senior clansmen soon, right? )

If something changes up here, tell me and I can pull back earlier. Otherwise I'm heading to the edge right now, between us and the Western Island.

[wewillwewill]

I will remain quiet so as not to interfere. The aether below is highly unstable and this environment is already hostile to us.

[Aether. Energy. Big ass red storms. However you want to put it.]

I would recommend you give yourself more of a margin of safety than you believe you can handle.

[averyusefultray]

[She'll always pad that estimate but they might not have the luxury]

You're more likely to notice an issue than we are. But if we get hostiles I'll warn you.

[jingyeets]

No, I mean the if I'm talking and it sounds off—Zewu-jun, if you're listening, or Hanguang-jun, any of you, if I start sounding less like myself, uh... order me back.

[averyusefultray]

It's not often that I tell someone to keep up the chatter in a situation like this.

But keep up the chatter.

[wewillwewill]

[A useful (to his mind) interjection happens!]

Pray keep speaking of what you see from your vantage. If aught is down there of worthy note, it is probably best to bear it in mind. Also, it would fulfill the requirement to continue speaking.

[eternalinquiry]

Understood Jingyi.
[ A familiar voice, and a strange request. He will do his best. ]
Is there anything you wish to discuss as you go?

[averyusefultray]

I'd say to tell us anything unusual, but we don't even have enough information to define that.

[jingyeets]

Nothing particular, Hanguang-jun!

( does he sound a bit happier.

... yes, he's had a lifetime of fanboying the one childhood hero known as Hanguang-jun, which is forever hilarious when you comparatively look at how much more like Wei-shizhang he tends to act. Regardless. )

Right, grasses extend out to the edges as expected. Heading straight down the edge, looking down at the red swirling mass way down there. These islands are thicker than you'd think, you know? I wonder if there are species of native creatures that burrow down on the underside...

[lanxichen]

We are here.

It would make sense that the islands are thick, they support quite a lot... but that is an interesting question. Be careful.

[eternalinquiry]

Stay alert for any of the birds that attacked in the south. The larger are obvious but the smaller ones cause the issues.

[jingyeets]

Thank you, Zewu-jun.

( he means it, thank you for being on SCA as well. )

The small ones to see if they're nesting down here? Wow, these islands really are... deep? Long? They go down a distance, but there's nothing besides rock to see anymore. I think it's curving away... yeah, I'm seeing an edge coming up.

[averyusefultray]

Thick enough to avoid having to worry about breaking through?

[It's a strange enough hazard to consider and it should keep him talking]

[jingyeets]

Unless you're a mountain sized mole, yeah. Looking back up, it seems the bottom is... okay, these islands aren't tiny, and the bottom of them's pretty deep, and craggy. Like what you see in caves? From the ceilings?

[eternalinquiry]

Stalactites come from the ceiling, Jingyi. Stalagmites rise from the floor.
[ This boy... ]
There is no adverse affect to you by being so low? And there is no sign of life, or a source to any red smoke?

[jingyeets]

Stalactites, that's the word. Stalagmites are the ones people stupidly try tying you to.

( Casual, offhand mention, wee. )

There's a drain if I try flying too fast, but I checked—falling feels odd, there's a sense of resistance by whatever lurks way down where the storm's broiling, but nothing's actively attacking. Have you looked down? There's a storm raging way down here, I'm nowhere near to touching it yet. None of the islands probably do most the time.

Time for an interjection

[wewillwewill]

I recommend not letting curiousity draw you closer to the storm below us. It is a well of powerful, chaotic aether. I can't determine what it would do, but I doubt it would be pleasant.

[Yes maybe it was obvious that Jingyi shouldn't touch the swirling storm below them but they just had an interesting exchange about cave features and Elidibus wasn't going to take chances.]

I can't even say for certain there is anything within or beyond. As far as its concerned, it would be as if this world were solely the islands and its sky.

[Including any other outflung islands, but those aren't really a focus to their mission right now.]

[jingyeets]

I'm looking to test limits, not to die.

( Because he sure as hell feels that storm as a Big Bad Ugly, and he does not want to fly down far enough to touch it. Which would take doing, as the islands are well clear of it, but he drops down slowly, testing how the feel of the world around him (the air, his energy) saps faster. Not a problem, he hasn't hit any halfway points, let alone those of no return, but he grimaces unseen to realise gravity only pulls them down to harm. )

I don't see anything but storm below. Looking upward, now I have an angle on several of the islands, and I'm seeing shapes flying up there--small ones to the South island, larger ones maybe? Definitely something that catches light up toward the Western island.

[lanxichen]

Yes, be careful, Jingyi.

Aside from what you see, are there any specific things you perceive? Is there resentment, or any spiritual energy, focused somewhere?

[ Xichen doesn't yet know about aether, but 'powerful and chaotic' sounds like some sort of energy, and Jingyi is the one who might be able to tell. If being in dragon form allows him to sense such, of course, and if he does not need to get too close to sense them. ]

[jingyeets]

I'm focussing, Zewu-jun...

( he makes a quiet noise of speculation. i'm assuming the sca's are great at cutting out wind noises, or else this is all sounding way more dramatic on his end. )

There're some hints of resentment in the islands, but not anything echoing too fully? Below it's not resentment so much as... Ugh, the closest I can think if chaotic. The energies here are harder to read.

[averyusefultray]

Can you tell if what you're sensing is sentient or more a force or nature?

[She is of course much less familiar with his abilities but has learned to trust other people's feelings]

[jingyeets]

More force of nature, from what I feel. If we're talking about the storm below?

[eternalinquiry]

It may just be a natural phenomenon of this world. If that is all you see it may be wise to return, I trust you to know your own limits.

[jingyeets]

It's not about, er, seeing into the storm, exactly... this is tiring, not quite to dangerous though. By now I figure if someone falls over, and spreads themselves out arms and legs to catch some air, for sure the first minute down they're retrievable. Now I'm seeing if we have another minute on top of that.