The endless waste

[aestrix]

Once, this planet teemed with life. It doesn't do that, anymore. The ground is dry and cracked and occasionally broken up by charred remains of trees. There are no birds, no bugs, no living plants - nothing but an empty, endless waste.

With one exception.

But the world is so very big, and the exception so very small. If someone showed up away from it, they could be quite forgiven for thinking this world is completely dead.




with Sable (Kappa)

with Aisilian (Link)

with Grendyne (Rockeye)

with Temple (Curiousdiscoverer)

Comments

[greatestgift]

Well, that's blighted annoying, is what that is.

Sable decides to pick a direction, fly for an hour, and see if she spots anything alive with sight or groundsense. If not, well, she'll have to make do.

[meletiti_entelecheiai]

When someone shows up, they have other things on their minds.

The thing falling from the sky can't really be said to be a "house." It has no roof or porch, and the asymmetry of the single rounded curve of one corner looks entirely out of place. The single door is the sort of flimsy wooden construction that might be used between rooms, and it has only one window, on the opposite side from the door. Rather than a "house," it's more like someone pulled a single room out of a mansion and dropped it out of the sky.

That "someone" stands on the wrong side of the ceiling, watching a metal tube in his hand with a critical eye. Within the tube, a block - a suspiciously familiar block with a rounded corner - falls even relative to the tube itself, pulled downwards by a magnet in the base.

He clicks his heel, and a strange blurred blade springs from his right toe, a stiletto shaped more like an awl, round except for one missing quadrant. Stabbing it forward, someh◕w the blade catches on thin air, as if anchored on something more fundamental than mere reality. Rather than being torn off his shoe, his entire body all stops at once, without even a trace of shock, pulling him far above the room as it falls ahead of him in the instant before the blade retr◔cts and he falls again as if he had never stopped.

An instant before the house strikes the ground, he clicks a switch on the translucent tube - and with the reversal of the current, the block within comes to a gentle, floating halt.

Below him, the house ceases falling, and then gently settles to the ground. Following after is a single bullet, a flash of light that resolves into a glowing circle that catches the man as he lands in a crouch.

Dusting himself up and getting up, he sighs. Entirely too close, that was.

[characterquarry]

...That wasn't supposed to happen.

That was supposed to be a fast-transport spell, to get the entire 42nd Witch Wing to the southern edge of Karlsland in one hell of a hurry.

She assumes she's in enemy territory, Neuroi-blasted land, and ascends as quickly as possible.

[copycast]

Someone shows up and he is quite surprised with the desolation, because the magic was supposed to land him in better places.

More surprising is what he can sense through his Guardian Sight. He flies to the nearest weird phenomena.