07.03x: Refuge of Dreams
Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 1:18 am
((This probably happened on the morning of the first day of the seventh year, before the Jousting Field. Probably.))
Somewhere, far from Amber, a vast* marble game-board floats in the center (to the extent one can measure such things) of a starry void. The board is broken, shattered into three large pieces and innumerable smaller fragments; it depicts cities and towns, forests and oceans, set up with pieces denoting kings and peasants, wizards and warriors; races of all sorts** scattered across a realm of magic. Every now and then one might notice a piece moving on its own - a peasant traveling one village over to get married, or a wizard blipping out of existence in one place to appear again a few feet away.
A single figure isn't scaled down to be part of the game; the man looks at first glance to be a gold-skinned elf, but subtle details (like clawed fingers and toes) show that that's not quite right. Eldritch energies coil around his arms, wrapping into the edge of the marble slab, and he strains as if to lift something impossibly heavy.
"Of course it would jam up now," he mutters, "right when I need the time to react."
Then two things happen at once:
The energies the man was working with release with a snap, flinging him out and away from the game board.
And three people - Rasanam, Lyra, and Alys - appear in a shower of rainbow sparks.
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* Roughly football field sized, with individial "game pieces" no more than an inch or two tall - and most are just flat discs with a picture on them.
** Think D&D. There are drow and dragons, gnomes and girallon; all the standard things one might expect.
Somewhere, far from Amber, a vast* marble game-board floats in the center (to the extent one can measure such things) of a starry void. The board is broken, shattered into three large pieces and innumerable smaller fragments; it depicts cities and towns, forests and oceans, set up with pieces denoting kings and peasants, wizards and warriors; races of all sorts** scattered across a realm of magic. Every now and then one might notice a piece moving on its own - a peasant traveling one village over to get married, or a wizard blipping out of existence in one place to appear again a few feet away.
A single figure isn't scaled down to be part of the game; the man looks at first glance to be a gold-skinned elf, but subtle details (like clawed fingers and toes) show that that's not quite right. Eldritch energies coil around his arms, wrapping into the edge of the marble slab, and he strains as if to lift something impossibly heavy.
"Of course it would jam up now," he mutters, "right when I need the time to react."
Then two things happen at once:
The energies the man was working with release with a snap, flinging him out and away from the game board.
And three people - Rasanam, Lyra, and Alys - appear in a shower of rainbow sparks.
_____
* Roughly football field sized, with individial "game pieces" no more than an inch or two tall - and most are just flat discs with a picture on them.
** Think D&D. There are drow and dragons, gnomes and girallon; all the standard things one might expect.