That wasn't supposed to happen

[whatamithinking]

The parameters are recalibrated, the dial is spun, and a new universe is selected.
It won't be home--they haven't collected anywhere near enough coordinate data to think they can find home yet--but it will be another step closer.
And who knows, it might be interesting.
Edie steps through the portal first.

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[iamnotpolaris]

Shred. Shred. Shred.
"I wouldn't be this casual doing this to even animals with minds, in case you were wondering."

[not_only]

"I wasn't really wondering that, no. Okay, we have five more Souls of Flight."

After this there is something of a dry spell. Well, dry of wyverns. The supply of harpies seems inexhaustible.

[iamnotpolaris]

Maybe if they kill enough harpies a wyvern will respawn instead.

[not_only]

Eventually this does happen!

"Ten Souls of Flight from that one," Sivath reports after scavenging its remains. Then they are attacked by harpies again.

[iamnotpolaris]

Eventually Emily is going to explain video games to Sivath and that he's spent six years straight living one. But that time will not be now.

[not_only]

In the meantime, it takes them a while longer to accumulate forty Souls of Flight, and by that point it's only another minute's flight or so until they reach... a house.

It's very large, and made of dark purplish-blue stone that sparkles slightly in the sunlight, and sort of castle-like in an extremely square and symmetrical way.

"That's my latest house," says Sivath. "I think I have Butterfly Dust in there somewhere, and there are places where I can make wings out of these Souls of Flight."

He glides down and lands on a balcony and opens the door and goes inside.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Your latest house is gorgeous."
She lands on the balcony and follows him inside.

[not_only]

"Thank you! I'm proud of it."

The interior is even nicer. There are chandeliers. Nearly everything is made of that lovely stone.

In the room he leads her to, there are things not made of lovely stone - things that look like the table and desk he brought out to make armour, among others. He retrieves something from a storage chest and sits down at a crafting station, and shortly he has two pairs of miniaturized wings - the pink-and-purple Butterfly Wings and the blue-and-brown Harpy Wings.

"I have the rest of my dyes here, too, so if the colours aren't good they can be changed," he says.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Edie wants the bird wings. I want the butterfly wings."

[not_only]

"Okay." He hands her both pairs of wings. "Do either of you want to dye them?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"No, these are awesome."
Pause.
"Okay, no, Edie wants to know if you can dye only the brown part of the bird wings."

[not_only]

"Well... not quite, but - here," he says, and he goes to another storage chest and gets out several vials of dye and brings them to Emily.

Inexplicably, the liquid in some of the vials is multicoloured: one is split blue and black, another split blue and silver, another bears a gradient of several shades of blue, another bears a brighter version of the same gradient. The last two are just plain blue and brighter plain blue.

"These are all the kinds of blue I have. If you hold a dye and a pair of wings at the same time you should be able to sort of... see what the wings would look like with it on."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Ah, okay. They're fine as they are, but she thought they would look even better with gold instead of brown."

[not_only]

"Okay. I don't have a dye for that. I guess I could try to make one, but there's no guarantee it would look the way she wanted. I don't know of a way to dye just part of a thing; I don't think that's how Terraria dye works."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Sure. It matches her, anyway; her hair's brown and her eyes are blue."

[not_only]

He shrugs, and puts away the various blue dyes.

"Can you think of anything else we might want to get while I'm here? Oh, right, I wanted to get my extra heart candies." He goes to yet another storage chest.

[iamnotpolaris]

"I don't know what else you have. Some of this gorgeous rock if you've got any extra."

[not_only]

"I do have some extra granite. It's lovely, isn't it?"

He retrieves a miniature red heart-shaped thing.

"If you eat heart candies, you get healthier and harder to hurt and I think maybe you don't need to eat or sleep as much, but I'm not sure about that part. The most one person can usefully have is fifteen - any more than that doesn't have a permanent effect, it just heals you a little bit if you were injured right then - and I have sixteen of them right now. Do you and your sister want them?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Sure! And I think granite is another of those things like gold or palladium that works differently here than in other worlds, normal granite is nowhere near this pretty."

[not_only]

He hands her the red heart-shaped thing, which proclaims that it is 16 Life Crystals. Then he goes and gets some granite from another storage chest, and opens yet another storage chest to say, "This is where I keep all of my extra metal bars if you want to take some."

There are many many tiny bricks of metal in that chest.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Thanks!"
Emily will take some iron and somewhat lesser amounts of copper and tin and gold and silver and platinum.
"What's that one?"

[not_only]

"It calls itself Tungsten. I hadn't heard of it before I got here."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I've heard of it. You can make good alloys out of it, if it works like tungsten in other universes."

[not_only]

"Terraria doesn't really seem to do alloys."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Terraria also doesn't do lattices like the one I made out of the copper, I'd bet. We should test this, I should see if I can make bronze out of some of the copper and some of the tin."