DUNGEON LOG - TELOVIA MINES

[phantasmods]

The day dawns bright and early - the same as most every expedition. The only difference is that you'll need to take the teleportation pad to Lodestone as a starting point - the gliders and drones are already there. There's clouds on the horizon, though, so if you're going to take a glider and go, you'd better get going.

There's some new additions, though, to the usual group of androids seeing you off. Tau is checking over the drones ready to carry those who can't or won't use the gliders, and Muon is practicing opening and collapsing the wings of a glider with bright yellow sails. She grins at anyone who approaches, shooting them a thumbs up.

"Don't worry about getting lost or falling behind! As long as Tau's here, they'll keep us all together."

And with that bit of bright cheer, it's off towards the mountains you go...

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From the air, the remains of the mining town are almost impossible to tell from any other part of the forest. The trees - especially the old ones - are much thinner, and that's really the only sign of what's below.

But Muon's bright yellow glider, leading the way, dips down into the treeline before landing in an open space, and anyone who isn't paying enough attention to follow will feel their glider being herded in the same direction by Tau's power - control not outright taken, but more of a nudge, like, hey buddy it's this way. The group lands just beyond the border of the Fissure - a tiny stable spot in whatever's left of this world.

And a good thing, too, because landing in the Fissure itself could prove quite difficult...

Comments

[founderinglight]

I don't know, do you name your dogs 'Dog' and 'Canine' while you're at it?!

[Apparently... this... is what Izunia has strong enough feelings about to raise his voice?]

It's stupid, no one in your world has any sense of the poetic whatsoever!

[motherfucking_ghost]

Obviously individual dogs have names but dogs as a species are dogs! They're canines! They're canis lupus or something else Latin, and I know Latin is your original language, which is also fucking stupid, but Latin is poetic and also scientific, you fucking whore!

[founderinglight]

... Okay on the last point you have no room to talk, I have literally seen you do body shots off a complete stranger with my own eyes.

[But we are not getting derailed by this.]

Secondly species names are entirely different from individual names, that's the entire point of a noun, and thirdly, what the fuck is Latin.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I'm THROWING INSULTS are you SERIOUS right now! And I just explained what Latin is! It's your fucking language, it's the same language! Nos iustus diversis nominibus appellant!

I don't understand what your problem is! Dogs are dogs! The sun is a star and it has a name! It's a dead-ass language, it's poetic!

[founderinglight]

Why is it called that, that's stupid, that's among the stupidest things I've ever heard and I have a descendant named Regis.

[What the fuck Earth.]

And don't just call it my language, I'm natively bilingual, it's not my fault that Ardyn forgot an entire tongue so I'm the only one who speaks it anymore!

[Yes, that is absolutely in a completely different language than the rest, lucky that there's redundant translation effects in place in this conversation.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

IT'S CALLED THAT BECAUSE HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW, THE FUCKING ROMANS SPOKE IT! WHY IS THAT STUPID? WHY IS CALLING A LANGUAGE WHAT IT'S CALLED DUMB? YOUR FUCKING I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS BUT IT'S NOT LATINLUCIAN WHAT EVEN IS THAT, IS THAT FUCKING SPANISH? ARE YOU JUST SPEAKING SPANISH AT ME.

[founderinglight]

I don't know what Spanish is!

[motherfucking_ghost]

[INCOHERENT RAGE YELL!!!!!!! PUNCH A TREE! KICK SOME DIRT!]

[founderinglight]

For dawn's sake, it's called - well, Old Tenebraean, now, and it's been a dead language for about sixteen hundred years. The only other person here who speaks a word of it is Ravus and his accent is atrocious, as you might expect from someone who only ever learned it academically.

[motherfucking_ghost]

No, this conversation officially turned stupid about five minutes ago, and I'm done with it.

[founderinglight]

It's not my fault your planet is named dirt.

[motherfucking_ghost]

ARDYN IS NAMED ARDENT AND YOUR NAME ISN'T EVEN A THING NOCT IS NAMED FUCKING NIGHTLIGHT AND HIS DAD WAS KING KING, DON'T YOU TALK TO ME ABOUT STUPID NAMES USING YOUR OWN LANGUAGES!

[founderinglight]

I was not responsible for Regis and it's a corruption of Old Tenebraean 'izarra' which means 'of the stars,' thank you!

[Yes the rs in that are rrrrrrrrolled.]

Because we were born at sunset and Ardyn is named for the color of the sky and I'm named for the first stars that come after, it's actually not that difficult.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I didn't say it was difficult, I'm saying mocking the way shit's named is stupid and if Earth is stupid then you're stupid!

[founderinglight]

No, it's stupid, so there.

[Said with all the authority of someone who has been a little brother for two thousand years.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Stupid like you. [So there, nyeh!]

[founderinglight]

My name's prettier.

[Nailed it.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Three words, dickbag. Leonard Lucis Caelum.

[founderinglight]

'Izunia' is far prettier than 'Leonard' and we have the rest in common, now who's stupid?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Izunia is weird and awkward. At least Leonard's a name that actually exists.