The Candy Man Can

[whatamithinking]

'Hey, Emily, it's safe to take your imaginary fingers out of your mental ears.'

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[iamnotpolaris]

"I don't mind. And even if I did, we could probably find Edie's island or one of the," she waves a hand to indicate the dragon and demon," other ones."

[not_only]

"I wonder if there are other people on the other islands. We should try to find out," he says. "I haven't seen anyone else for as long as I've been here, but it seems like new people do sometimes show up, so..."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Well, Edie could sense you when first we showed up, and she can't sense anyone else we don't already know about, so if there are other people they're probably a ways off."

[not_only]

"How far away can she sense people...? I guess we haven't measured exactly how big the islands are, anyway. I know mine is exactly square as far as I can tell, and it seemed like yours was too, so they might all just be a bunch of squares lined up next to each other, that seems very Terraria... I wonder if there's an end to them or it's just squares forever."

[iamnotpolaris]

"...I don't know but I feel like I might find the answer disturbing either way."

[not_only]

He smiles, and opens up another storage chest to pack some more materials.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Need any help?"

[not_only]

"It would probably take longer to explain where everything is and what to get than for me to just get it myself... I might need some help carrying it all, though. I've never had to move this many stacks at once before." The bag he's been putting everything in is indeed looking a little full.

[iamnotpolaris]

"I can carry stuff. I can carry all of the stuff if I carry it with metal and magnetism."

[not_only]

"I don't think I'm going to need more than two bags... here's this one, anyway." He closes it and hands it to her. It's pretty heavy, but not outrageous.

[iamnotpolaris]

Edie has stronger legs, but Emily has better upper body strength. She doesn't have too much trouble with it.

[not_only]

Sivath smiles, and starts filling a second bag with architectural supplies and several stacks of shiny little stars.

[iamnotpolaris]

All pretty things.

[not_only]

He also rummages in a few storage chests full of miniature weapons and packs some of those, including a tiny golden harp and a thing that looks very much like it might be the Bee Gun.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Ooh, is that what I think it is?"

[not_only]

"That depends," says Sivath. "What do you think it is?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Is it the gun that shoots exploding bees."

[not_only]

"It is the gun that shoots exploding bees."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yay!"

[not_only]

"And there, I think that's everything for now," he says, adding a handful of stacks of dark wood into the second bag.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Alright then." More flying! Temporary disruption of telepathy by clouds.

[not_only]

Return to the house. Distribution of bag contents into storage chests.

Then Sivath takes his architectural drawings and his mining tools and goes to flatten out a foundation for the house.

[iamnotpolaris]

"...Which bag had the candy stuff in it?"

[not_only]

"Oh - here," he says, retrieving a stack of shiny stars. It is soon replaced by a stack of small blue candies, which he hands to her; the stack object refers to itself as 33 Mana Crystals. "Ten candies per person will give you all the mana you can get."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Okay, thanks." She separates out a candy and munches on it. It is fizzy and minty, and she is abruptly aware, in that way Terraria has, that she has twenty mana. "...I didn't know you could carbonate candy. Maybe you can't outside Terraria. It's interesting, anyway." And she wanders over to the others to give them mana candy.