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lurkingkobold ([personal profile] lurkingkobold) wrote in [community profile] glowfic2015-10-14 05:23 pm

One Curious Kobold

It's winter, and all is well with the tribe. Their new magic, an ability to make portals from one place to another, which was found by one of their members during the early-summer trip to meet with the other tribes in the area, let them both build up a decadent food stockpile and move to a much deeper part of the cave system without the worry of being unable to find their way back out. No-one has had to go hungry, and even the fiercest ice storm doesn't reach them; they are as content as kobolds can be.

Well, aside from their new mage, that is. She's bored, and curious. Making portals to known places is straightforward enough, with the magic she found, but that's far from the limit of what it can do... so one day, she slips away, portals off to a different cave system - one can't be too careful, after all - and experiments.

Temperature roughly the same... gravity roughly the same... air the same, not into stone or underwater or in a volcano or on top of a mountain... but, instead of patterning it after a place she knows, what happens if she only specifies those things, and lets the innate patterns of the spot she's casting on do the rest? Particularly this one part, which seems to specify the world...

She finishes the spell, and hesitates for just a moment before activating it.
spinnaker: (h ~ third wheel)

[personal profile] spinnaker 2015-10-30 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Jayce gets up and does a little dance step and takes a bow.
spinnaker: (d ~ brightly colored)

[personal profile] spinnaker 2015-10-30 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Thanks!" says Jayce.
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[personal profile] calescent 2015-10-30 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Kobolds dance, especially in large groups that don't hang out together most of the time," Kiri reports. "And yes, Jayce sort of is like a chief, given what kobold chiefs do. Except for deciding where we live, he doesn't do that."
calescent: (h ~ certainty)

[personal profile] calescent 2015-10-30 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, let's not put anyone in mortal danger just to see if Jayce dancing with kobolds would make them happy to interact with humans."
spinnaker: (g ~ after mother)

[personal profile] spinnaker 2015-10-30 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
"You could take them."
calescent: (g ~ imagination)

[personal profile] calescent 2015-10-30 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
"I do not want to take them. I would much rather just have productive and educational interactions with this adventurous one."
calescent: (f ~ clarity)

[personal profile] calescent 2015-10-30 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Jayce means that if we went and visited other kobolds and they decided to try to hurt us I could stop them. But I could also just not go near kobolds who might want to try to hurt us in the first place, which is much smarter."
calescent: (j ~ synthesis)

[personal profile] calescent 2015-10-30 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Jayce, the problem is not that kobolds would attack us, it's that the kobolds would stampede all over each other fleeing and then instead of reconvening later they'd still be hiding, possibly in places that are more defensible than fertile."
spinnaker: (k ~ synthesize)

[personal profile] spinnaker 2015-10-30 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh. Poor kobolds."
liakoura: (g ~ little curlicues)

[personal profile] liakoura 2015-10-30 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
"We don't look scary, do we? I mean, you can't tell by looking that Kiri's prime."
liakoura: (d ~ flexibility)

[personal profile] liakoura 2015-10-30 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Nah, kobolds are little. Well, you're little, maybe you're a midget kobold."
calescent: (f ~ clarity)

[personal profile] calescent 2015-10-30 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
"She's not a midget kobold. I'm actually quite curious if a magic-seeing person could tell by looking when someone was prime."
calescent: (f ~ clarity)

[personal profile] calescent 2015-10-30 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, I hope it works out. ...There's kobold tribe politics about sharing magic around but she can probably bring me a spell I want," Kiri explains to her brothers.
liakoura: (h ~ let's hear it)

[personal profile] liakoura 2015-10-30 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
"How do you even have politics when only one of you knows how to talk?"
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[personal profile] spinnaker 2015-10-30 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
"...dancing...? Dancing politics."
calescent: (f ~ clarity)

[personal profile] calescent 2015-10-30 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Body language," says Kiri, "is the phrase you're looking for - I understand that kobolds manage to have politics without talking, but yeah, we don't have any examples of that and it seems like it would be frustrating to manage even simple things that way. Even our examples of non-strangers who interact a lot, like the three of us, involve talking except when it involves mind-reading. ...Occasionally a human is born who can't hear, and then they can't learn Welchin. If they live in a big enough city or their parents know enough, they might be able to learn a sign language, with gestures for words -" Kiri knows a couple gestures, which she illustrates. "But if their parents don't know why their child hasn't learned Welchin, and there are other reasons a kid might not talk for a few years, then they won't be able to learn sign language to talk to their kid, and this is actually really bad for a human mind, not to have any language at all. Sometimes people come to me with complicated mind problems, in case I can fix them - so I've seen that - but I couldn't fix it, although I could tell them why there was a problem and that they had to learn a sign langauge."
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