Mountain, meet Endbringer

[sturdycoldsteel]

The Fate who calls herself Mountain tried to convince some of her neighbors to allow the occasional mountain in their lands, for stability purposes.

"I meant no insult!" Dodge ball of lava. "I don't intend to interfere, you said no!" Dodge house-sized spear of ice. "I'm leaving peacefully, okay, so stop tearing up the tile!"

"You'll respawn at home. No permanent damage. You interrupted an important meeting, you need to learn a lesson about territory, mountain bitch." Dodge- no, fail to dodge a thrown tree, and then another ice ball. The next sphere of magma is what destroyed that form.




She wakes up, stripped of all her tools and enchantments and even clothes, and groans in pain.

Comments

[peterxy]

Legend looks worried. "Where?"

[sturdycoldsteel]

She holds up the glob of metal in her palm. It turns into a somewhat crude rendition of an unfamiliar animal. "Control."

[peterxy]

He relaxes and nods.

"Would you prefer to meet other people and be shown around, or do you want us to find you a mountain?" Alexandria asks.

[sturdycoldsteel]

Back to her own language. "I'd prefer to find a mountain and rest before doing much else. Fighting that monster was... Tiring."

[peterxy]

"Very well. How... quiet can you be when entering a mountain?" Discreet is not a word she knows.

[sturdycoldsteel]

"No louder than the flying thing. I will take care not to cause tremors."

[peterxy]

"I meant more as in..." She does a vague flashy gesture. "Visual and sounds and people see."

[sturdycoldsteel]

"You want me to hide?" She covers her sculpture. "Hide rock. Hide me? Why?"

[peterxy]

"Mountain nearby is public. Not allowed to alter or live in, need to convince the right people."

[sturdycoldsteel]

"Hm. Ocean public? No ocean people in this world. Can make mountain in ocean. Can hide in public mountain now, want own mountain later."

[peterxy]

She thinks about it and nods. "Will be far from people, though. But ocean here is very big."

[sturdycoldsteel]

"Good... Will that monster come back? I want to." She switches away from English. "Kill it for daring to try and destroy hundreds of tiles. Or try to kill it at least."

[peterxy]

"I am happy to hear that. Yes, it will come back, but will take time. At least 16 weeks, we think 24."

[sturdycoldsteel]

"I wish magic worked here. That would be plenty of time to redo my enchantments. I think Burning Blade could have hurt it, but I lost them all when I somehow came here."

[peterxy]

"Yes, that would be useful." Alexandria doesn't mention she has informed certain people of Celtana and her universe, and that these people are looking into ways of going to it and failing. That would not be useful.

They find a way to have her secretively burrow into one of the Catskill mountains to recuperate. Certain people continue machinating and trying to make plans with this new element at play.

[sturdycoldsteel]

She's entirely unaware of the various parties' machinations as she hollows out hallways and rooms, doing sufficient work deep in those mountains for it to count as 'hers', then sleeps for close to two full days.

[peterxy]

Machinations happen, and an appropriately distant spot underwater is picked out for when she reemerges. Alexandria has left an ear-crystal with Celtana and taught her how to use it, but warned that from within the mountain it would likely not work. They probably would have one that would after she woke up, though.

[sturdycoldsteel]

She presumably got instructions for turning the thing on. She keeps telling it 'hello?' every few seconds as she makes her way out of the mountain.

[peterxy]

Eventually Alexandria's voice can be heard. "Hello. Are you feeling better?"

[sturdycoldsteel]

"Yeah. Not at peak, that place isn't mine enough to charge me up all the way, but better."

[peterxy]

"Good. We have found a person who is good at languages that might help more than I can with translating books. Do you want to come here?"

[sturdycoldsteel]

"Yes." She closes her exit from the mountain behind her and starts flying, staying low at first because of the hiding thing. "I'm flying. Be there in one hour or two."

[peterxy]

"Good. Tell me when you have arrived."

[sturdycoldsteel]

She's not particularly stealthy once she starts seeing buildings and roads. A flying shiny gemstoned seven-foot suit of rock-armor is probably one of the more attention-getting capes.

[peterxy]

It is attention-getting! Especially because it is unusual and unheard of. But given that she is fast and the official channels are doing nothing to stop her most people don't panic (too much).

...someone starts following her. "Halt, villain!" they call.