Tyranny, meet anarchy

[aestrix]

The city of Eantasyl is fortunate in its placement, and is considered old for even an elven city. The streets are some kind of shimmery stone, the buildings neatly arranged and well maintained. It's pleasant, and generally considered a nice place for the rich to retire. There's a noticeable lack of greenery and foliage on the streets themselves - the place is kept very dense, and it's can be guessed that its citizens thought they had enough foliage already. It sits at the base of one of the very first world trees. One could be forgiven for missing the city for the tree - it's several thousand feet tall, and its branches bring shade to more than half of Eantasyl. They do not need gardens. They have enough to spare, up in the sky.

(The leaves are a pain to rake.)

Despite many of its flaws (and there are many) the Sunrise Empire isn't actually a horrible place to live. This place especially. Just steer clear of the government, keep your head down, don't join any rebellions, and don't break any laws, and you'll be fine. Probably. Unless there are dangerous criminals running around, causing trouble.

But that hardly ever happens. The Ministry has it all under control.

Comments

[aestrix]

"Yeah, golden one protect my goddess-damned soul, I have no idea what the fuck this is. Besides a lot of crazy."

[poll_the_stars]

"Ugh. Agreed. A lot of crazy, and no morals at all."

[itstandsforjinx]

Burn burn burn yawn burn burn.

... Okay, she needs something more specialized for this. Anyone using the transmuter? No? Let's spend a few minutes repurposing it to be a penetrating disintegration beam.

[findsthishilarious]

Immediately after she finishes with that...

Xom grants you a gift!
_Something appears at your feet!
_e - a curved ivory wand

[itstandsforjinx]

Jinx picks up the inexplicable wand.

..."Huh."

[poll_the_stars]

Inavet glances up, confused.

"Where did that come from?" she wonders.

[findsthishilarious]

"Boo!"
Suddenly there are butterflies everywhere. They're quite distracting.

[poll_the_stars]

...

"Hi, Xom," sighs Inavet.

[itstandsforjinx]

"ACK!"

Jinx startles, and waves her minigun wildly at the obstructing cloud of butterflies. Fortunately, she's not so jumpy as to actually shear the room in half.

[poll_the_stars]

Good.

"He'll go with you when you leave, right?"

[itstandsforjinx]

Jinx spreads her hands. "Don't ask me, Xom does what Xom does."

[poll_the_stars]

Inavet is starting to get a headache.

"Okay. Well. If you could convince him to follow you out of Facet, I'd be grateful. I've been... kicking my government's ass for several hundred years, and it's right where I want it, and I have a ton of, sweet magic powers now. I kind of want to be the one to take it out, you know? No godly interference."

Lie. Lie lie lie lie. Aisilian's already helped her. She just doesn't want Xom's interference.

[itstandsforjinx]

"I'll ask Xom, but no promises. Heck, asking him might make him more likely to stick around."

[poll_the_stars]

Ugh. Of course it would.

"I understand. I just think he wouldn't have very much fun with me. As you saw, I don't really have entertaining reactions to things."

[itstandsforjinx]

Jinx shrugs. "Alright."

Back to floor disintegration.

[poll_the_stars]

She'll take it. She thinks. Unless Xom decides to stick around. Then she'll be unhappy.

... Inavet looks at Kuvair.

"I'm just going to hazard a guess that you're going to teach her arcany."

[aestrix]

"Yep," he says, looking up from the catatonic man.

[poll_the_stars]

Hell.

She does not want Jinx to have arcany.

... But her alternative is attempting to kill her, and Kuvair. She likely could, but the prospect makes her nervous.

"Okay. Can you not spread it around further?" she requests. "It's no fun if everyone knows your tricks."

[itstandsforjinx]

Jinx rolls her eyes. "Yeah, sure, fine."

[poll_the_stars]

"Thanks."

[itstandsforjinx]

Zap zap zap the floor.

Okay, this is getting really boring.

"Hey Kuvair. This part seems boring, and Ina doesn't want us on her turf. Wanna go explore a new universe? I'm pretty sure miss awesome terrorist can take this from here without our help."

She looks over at Inavet. "Incidentally, you're welcome to join my gang anytime." Her eyes flicker with Mania.

[aestrix]

"Ooo, new universe! Yeah sure, sounds fun."

[poll_the_stars]

... Inavet sees Jinx's eyes flicker with rainbows.

She frowns.

She... Doesn't actually think Jinx did that on purpose.

"Jinx," she says carefully, not sounding angry or upset, "are you aware that you just tried to mind control me?"

[itstandsforjinx]

Jinx frowns. "Wait, what?"

[poll_the_stars]

"Your eyes flickered with rainbows there. Means Esthfora protected me from some sort of mental thing I wouldn't have wanted."