hiya!

i'm Iacta, and i don't really belong here, that means nothing i do really matters! why would i not try to have fun with that, eh? ((oc rp blog for the western circle))

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

[thejuniperbloodmages-blog]

Juniper grimaced. "Unstable ingots are the worst things to have to get. You need a division sigil, and do some sort of weird ritual. Something like being at a patch of dirt on a full moon, and using it at the stroke of midnight. Then you need a diamond and iron ingot per unstable ingot." She took a breath. "But that's not why I'm worried. Unstable ingots are, well, unstable and can easily explode. Not only that, but when I say an ungodly amount, I mean hundreds of thousands of stone."

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta throws open a chest, searching through it. "Are we talking light-never-touched darK?" She pulls out a few bits of stone, and throws open another chest. "I need to go there." She frowns and lets it drop shut as she finds nothing else. "Other people have cobblestone, I could trade for that..."

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

[thejuniperbloodmages-blog]

"Well yeah, I'd say it gets pretty dark," Juniper replied. She shifted uneasily. "Some might say it gets /too/ dark. The shadows literally consume mortals who go in without light. It's a hell to get to though, you'd need unstable ingots and an ungodly amount of stone."

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta smiled, which just meant her rows of teeth extended a bit further. "That sounds.." The undisguised light blue bits of her skin, from her neck up began to glow ever so slightly. "That's amazing! I need... What's an unstable ingot? How do I get that?"

[anarchyandentropy]

"No," Simon replied, grimly, "no it really doesn’t." She wasn’t even trying to pretend she was being reasonable anymore, they noted, furrowing their brow and praying to the Others that she would find something more interesting to do than hang about here. They made a shooing gesture at her with their hands, apparently resorting to the most ridiculous idea they possibly could, at this point. Who knew with non-human entities. It may well have worked perfectly. "That is a blatant lie and we think you should leave."

Simon glared at Iacta, immediately irritated with her remark about their sorting system. “Hey, hey, no, our sorting system is perfectly fine, if you’ve done something to screw it up it’s your fault. It was completely organised. We’re really very good at that sort of thing.” That was a lie if ever there was one. Simon was nothing if not messy, and if Iacta had found the milk aside the cacti it really wasn’t all that surprising. It was just easier to throw everything together in there and hope it worked itself out. Not that she needed to know that, of course. They had a reputation to maintain.

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta giggled as Simon began shooing her, then angled her hand so they gave her a high five instead of the intended idea of 'get out of my house'. "Well, I think it's the truth." She said snarkly. "Instead of leaving, I think I should really give you this rock, after I get it out of my bag." Iacta made no motion to look in said bag, instead glancing back at the system.

There was no way she could of broken it, but if she played along with the clear lie, that would annoy them even more. "Oh, I broke it? I'm so sorry." She snickered. "Maybe I should stay around and fix it for you, would that help? And maaayybe you can teach me some of your organized ways, because I'm so bad at it. After all, I messed up an entire system in a few minutes." Iacta was having a lot of fun annoying this person, she didn't plan to stop any time soon.

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

[thejuniperbloodmages-blog]

"Well yeah, I'm alive," she answered. "I've survived much worse than that. Well, it /was/ while drunk, but yeah." She sat up. "How exactly does it get darker than a near pitch-black cave? Like in the deep dark maybe?"

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta shrugs. "I don't know, all I learned about was how to pilot a space-ship, and I was bad at that." She then tilts her head to the side at the mention of the Deep Dark. "What's that? Is it darker than here? Where is it?" The idea of a place more like home excited her.

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

[thejuniperbloodmages-blog]

Juniper was lying on the floor, giggling. “Well that was fun,” she chuckled. She had just slammed against the stone wall, probably waking up anything else that dared to try to sleep right now, probably not a good thing. She looked up at the now mask-less Iacta. Her green eyes reminded her of how her eyes used to be… “So why exactly do you use that mask anyway?” She asked.

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta chuckled again, sort of nudging Juniper with her foot. "Well, you're alive." She sounded sort of surprised, though the only change in her face was the widening of her mouth. "Anyway, I wear the mask because the light on this planet it too bright. I'm used to places darker than this cave."

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

[thejuniperbloodmages-blog]

Juniper rummaged through her bag. “I should’ve labelled these when i made them. It’s the blue one, but that could be swiftness,” she mumbled to herself. Once she finally, or thought she had the right potion, she drank it in one gulp and put out the torch. She saw the crystal offered by Iacta, and with some hesitation (she was sure it was some kind of practical joke) took it, and used it.

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta stepped out of the way as Juniper took the crystal, because it was just going to shoot her straight forward into the nearest wall. She then pulled off her mask, shaking her head to orient herself better to the darkness. She pulled the mask back on, then down so it hung around her neck. With that done, she turned back to Juniper, who had used the crystal. "Having fun with that?" She snickered, the dry and arid air in the cave feeling wonderful on her face.

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta nodded, running a hand through her hair. "Yeah, that would be preferred. I'll just wear the mask around my neck, so everything it still translated." She turns, opening a chest lid and pulling out a blood crystal. She's tried this trick before, but maybe it'll work again. "You know what this does?" She turns back around, holding out the crystal. "After you take the potion, you should try it. "

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

[thejuniperbloodmages-blog]

"I'm Juniper", she replied cautiously. She wasn't exactly sure what to make of this entire situation, seeing as this girl (she could see who she was talking to now) had almost killed her. But she did have a great sense of humour, she had to give them that. Juniper began picking up her stuff she had dropped all over the cave. "So what're you doing in this cave system?"

[astraltroglobite]

Giggling still, Iacta motioned behind her, the runes of a blood altar peeking out from the shadows that weren't lit up with the torch. "I live here. It's a bit brighter than I like, but it has food." She strolled over towards the altar. "Why are you down here, anyway. I'm pretty sure you said something, but my translator didn't pick up the words. Or at least, if you didn't say "Book twenty-four lions", it didn't pick them up right."

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

[thejuniperbloodmages-blog]

Juniper was speechless. After being scared half to death, she just sat there. She couldn't possibly figure out a reasonable reaction. Instead, she stared at the reader, and made a face as if to say 'Can you believe this?' "So I'm not going to be eaten?" she asked.

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta sits up, still laughing. She calmed down enough to talk clearly, though it was obvious she still found it hilarious. "Nah, you'd die too quickly, wouldn't get to enjoy my meal." She slid her mask back over her face, so she could light a torch on a nearby wall without going blind. "I'm Iacta, you?"

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

[thejuniperbloodmages-blog]

Juniper screamed. She shouldn't have been that scared, hell, she had pretty sharp teeth as well, but the unexpected terror of the moment was too much. She fell right back down, and began shuffling away. In the moment of her panic, she had dropped her bag and other things. There had to be something she could do. Anything. She wasn't about to just lie down and die, but she was virtually helpless. "S-stop!" She yelled in a last ditch effort to defend herself. "You can't eat me! I'm too stringy and disgusting! You'd probably have stomach aches for weeks! I'm really sorry for disturbing you but there's plenty of other people you can eat! Please?"

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta gave up hiding it, and fell over, laughing loudly. "Pathetic!" She wheezed out between laughs. "You guys are pathetic!" It had just taken a bit of darkness (or rather, a lot of darkness) and some teeth, and the girl was babbling about not eating her. Iacta prefered live food, and large things like humanoids took too long to eat, usually.

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

[thejuniperbloodmages-blog]

Juniper almost passed out. There was a cranky and probably hostile robot person right next to them. In a feeble attempt to defend herself, she fumbled around blindly in the dark looking for her lost weapon. While she thought she had finally reached it, her sword was kicked away. "Oh come on please don't kill me!" She begged. There was only one idea left. She might have a night vision potion in her bag...

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta giggled, but made sure it was quiet enough to not get picked up by the mask. Wouldn't want the girl to know that she wasn't REALLY going to be eaten. Iacta silently moved behind her, shifting her mask upwards so her strange mouth, full of fang-like teeth would be the first thing the girl saw when she twisted around.

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

[thejuniperbloodmages-blog]

Juniper was hopelessly lost. “Damn caves,” she mumbled to herself. “When I set out to find jewels, I had no idea they’d be so dark and…cavey…” She continued looking through the caves until she saw something. It might’ve been a glimmer, or maybe a flash. Whatever it was, it was something that wasn’t supposed to be in a cave. She seriously hoped that it wasn’t another spider, and drew her rapier as she carefully inched closer. Once she heard a sharp hiss followed by a robotic yell, she squealed, tripped back, and fell on her bum. “Ohmygodspleasedontkillmeimjustadumbgirltryingtofindjewels!” she begged.

[astraltroglobite]

As the intruder showed their face, Iacta calmed considerably. They did not seem like a immediate threat, but they did seem terrified. They spoke in a rapid-fire way, confusing her translator a bit, but the tone of the words were not lost on her. While she had a visitor, she might as well take advantage of it. She would scare the girl even more, humanoid reaction to danger was always funny.

Iacta picked up a nearby rock carefully, and aimed it at Juniper's head. She swung, and released. It flew right past her, and landed on the torch, snuffing it out and plunging already dark cave into complete darkness. Then, she crouched next to Juniper. "Hiya friend." she said, her tone too bubbly to be real. "You don't belong here."

[doublearrows]

reasons why i love the entertainment tine: part of our first rp consisted of stripping down to go to the lake to see if one blood crystal thing could shoot 4 people into the lake. it was great

fullsixe

[astraltroglobite]

This was fun! Kind of sad no one got hurt, but it was awesome!

[astraltroglobite]

Where No Light Has Touched

Iacta didn't sleep much. The whole "from another planet" thing made it so she had no idea when she was actually supposed to sleep. But when she did sleep, it was on the floor of her cave, her mask sloppily pulled off and at her side. And it was in this state, in a cave where no light usually touched, that she had a visitor.

The sound of a torch being placed was what woke her up. That was a good thing, because she had time to quickly pull on her mask before the light reached her. She shot to her feet, a loud hissing noise emitting from under her mask, before the translator whirred to life. "Whose there?" She called, the mechanical intonation of her voice making it no less angrier.

[astraltroglobite]

Time is confusing

[westerncirclestatic]

Terrance had a feeling they were going to regret this, but did their best to push it to the side.  The offer was made now, and they really did want to see if Iacta’s blood had any unique properties to it.  For better or for worse, the next experiment was set up- they doubted Iacta would let them get away with changing plans, from the way she nodded so eagerly.  

They nudged the corpse of the villager aside to make their way back up the stairs- the only early birds would be arriving soon- and they told as much to Iacta through their writing.  If she wanted to spend the rest of the time pestering someone else instead that would suit them just fine.

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta had no regrets. The hour of being pleasant and polite had paid off, and now they were going to have someone new to bug. She couldn't wait.

She followed Terrance up the stairs, but diverged into a room in the hall. "Well, see you then! I've got to set something up for my tine members, who aren't considerate enough to tell the alien what time meant." She waved, then shut the door, already unloading things from her bag to set up.

[anarchyandentropy]

"Unless that stone has any magical properties beyond being circular we think we’re okay, thanks," Simon said, having decided that the best way to deal with Iacta’s frankly bizarre train of thought was to just run with it. "Your payback can be leaving now." Not that they actually thought she would - no, the girl was far too persistent (and irritating) for that.

"Never." If it was anyone but Simon it might have seemed ridiculous, but in all honesty if they’d ever fallen over they couldn’t remember it. Wings, even if there was very little left of them, gave them a sort of inhumane balancing skill. That and the fact that if they really thought they were going to fall there were always some ways of getting around it. Blood magic had some strange uses, if you knew how to be inventive with it. "We’ve fallen before," Simon said, amused by some inside joke only they understood. "Just not recently. Sometimes we sleep on the floor too. We imagine our face touches the floor then."

[astraltroglobite]

"Well, I could leave now, but the rock seems like a better payment." Iacta knows she's pretty obvious about being here just to annoy them, but that doesn't mean she's going to stop. "It has the magical property of.... being really solid. It's almost unbreakable to Minecraftian hand, probably."

"Sleeping on the floor probably isn't comfortable." She looks around the cave, looking for something to remark on, something to ramble about for a bit. Her eyes land on the sorting system, then flick back to Simon. "Anyways, that system is pretty bad, I found the milk in a weird place. Near some cactus, I think."

[astraltroglobite]

Time is confusing

[astraltroglobite]

Okay, so the finding underground things was useless, apparent from Terrance’s complete ignorance of it. Iacta was a bit disappointed, but not too much. The blood seemed to be intriguing to them, and that’s what she had been relying on.

"I haven’t tried it on an altar yet, I have to get it from a place that’s awkward to draw blood from." She pushed her hair to her back, revealing the upper half of her neck. It looked strangely textured, like a frog or some similar creature, and was lightish blue. "I have to take it from the parts the disguiser didn’t get, which is just my neck and head. Getting blood from there is dangerous, probably." Iacta wasn’t quite sure what her blood would do but glow, because Tresoltytes never really had the need for defensive blood. The glowing was just to alert other Tresoltytes to a fight, so they could all get a piece of the action. But who knows, it could actually do something here.

[westerncirclestatic]

Hm… Glowing alien blood…. Was the possibility of experimenting with some actually worth sticking near enough to this alien that they could annoy them?? Possibly.  If the blood didn’t work on an altar then everything would essentially be for nothing, but the chance that it did something miraculous was a little too much for Terrance to pass up.  

‘Perhaps we can try an experiment sometime,’ they slowly wrote, well aware that they were signing themselves up for all the annoyance that came with this girl once again.  It was just ONE experiment though, and if she proved tolerable than perhaps they could gain an ally.  Who could say?  

‘Just one,’ they made sure to make clear.  

[astraltroglobite]

Iacta resisted the urge to jump up and down as her eyes scrawled over Terrance’s writing, going with just nodding very eagerly instead. Perhaps meant yes in all cases she’s heard it, so this was a success for her.

"A experiment would be fun, hopefully my blood will do something powerful." She couldn’t care less about powerful blood, she was happy with the synthetic stuff she had, but Terrance seemed to be the type of person that cared. "And just one, yeah, I got it. Only one."