Meet me at the Lighthouse

Paolo Chong [Citizen of Pelago Island] - 32,108G

[jake-out-the-humans]

[‽]  LOST || Jake & Paolo

[pelagopaolo-blog]

jake-out-the-humans:

[ ⚔ ] — “…Huh. So you’re from Leuda.” A Leudan human with magic? Unheard of. Either the kid wasn’t born there, or all his visits to Arcadia kick started something inside of him. For all his talk about being familiar with the town, he leaned more towards the former assumption. While he’s heard of it happening, Jake’s visited Arcadia countless of times, and never awoke to any sort of magical ability. He was part elf too, so wasn’t that supposed to be his ‘thing’?

Ah, whatever. Not important.

He raises a hand to rub at the stiff muscles in his neck. “Looks like we’ll be heading to the same place, then. Come on, kid.” 

And with that, Jake walks off into the town, not bothering to wait for the boy to follow him. If he wanted to, then he would. If he didn’t, that was just as well. Since he knew the place, any chances of him getting into danger were significantly decreased.

Paolo’s brows raised high in surprise. “Oh, you’re from Leuda? I thought you were from here!” Paolo exclaimed, then following behind him as he strode off to the docks.

At least he had some company for the trip home now, unlike other times he’d come over on the ferry.

[pelagopaolo-blog]

Minigames - 4/29/17

Paolo was a busy, busy bee today. He started out his afternoon by going to Arcadia and scouring around the forest for ingredients for his next potions, he found Mint, Chamomile, Very Berry, Toadstool, Fugue Mushroom and Raspberry, Sea Urchin, Strong Vine, Black Rock and Honeycomb (sold items in bold, received 1,260g), before setting off to the Sorcery Emporium and buying three Blue Magic Flowers (1,200g @gildedfrostlily).

After he finished getting his ingredients, he set to work, making a Second Chance Potion and a Tol Potion. And both succeeded, granting Paolo 100 EXP, making him that much closer to level 11 (50 EXP to level 11)

Once Paolo was finished with his potion-making, Paolo set the Tol Potion aside with the rest of his potions and brought the Second-chance potion (just in case) and hopped on a boat to the Forest Haven so he could try to tame another Fairy! Bearing the last attempt in mind, he’s vastly more careful, slowing time down so he does not get surprised by his surroundings like he did last time, which resulted in the accidentally killed fairy. Carefully he moves through the forest and when he’s close enough, time goes back to it’s regularly flowing state.

Even though time wasn’t still in the next few moments, it felt like it, as the fairy had just stared at Paolo’s Monster Glove for the longest time, before accepting him.

(Paolo received 100 EXP and went to level 11! 250 EXP to level 12)

  [MP - 29--->31    ATK - 8-->    DEF - 15-->    M.ATK - 29-->30    M.DEF - 19--->    SPD 43--->44]

[pelagopaolo-blog]

Birdy Buddy - Open

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pandora-the-sorcera:

By now, Pandora had explored most of Arcadia. Soon she wished to be able to see Leuda also. Apparently, you have to pay to travel between islands. How ridiculous. It appears that she would have to wait until Raguna decides to visit Leuda.

While Raguna did his mundane farm work, Pandora opted for a walk. Perhaps she could find something new. Anything was better than staying at the farm, doing nothing.

Eventually, the arch-sorceress found herself at the docks. They were on the other side of the island so she was quite tired. Looking for a nice spot to sit down, Pandora noticed a young mortal sitting alone at the docks. She had a fondness for children, despite hating being mistaken for one. This plus her boredom and loneliness compelled her towards the child.

“No need,” she says, at the child’s reaction, before sitting down next to where he was formerly sitting. “Where are your parents child?” Parents these days were more stern about their children’s freedom. Pandora, herself, rarely left her home as a child.

When the lady (he assumed she must be older if she called him ‘child’) was sat down on the docks beside him, he sat back down again in his spot. She didn’t look all that much older than him but looks were always deceiving, of course.

She asked where his parents were and he paused for quite some time. Truthfully, he forgot he even had parents, most of the time, given how infrequently he saw his dad and never saw his mom again after she left him with Ayame. “I don’t know where my mom is, but my dad lives a little bit inland from here.”

He looked back up to the sky again for any sign of Guinevere’s silhouette after he’d answered. He didn’t mean to be so abrupt, but he was distracted.

[pelagopaolo-blog]

A Familiar Face - Paolo & Andrea

@clocks-and-docks

Going to Arcadia was one of Paolo’s favorite pastimes. It was slightly harder again now that his beloved bird was out of his custody, but he still managed a trip every so often.

He wandered off of the pier when the boat had dropped him off and he started making his way down the beach--Arcadia’s sand didn’t hold nearly as much treasures in Leuda due to being a detached island that merely floated, but he did manage to find a surprise every now and then.

The surprise wasn’t in the soil, but further along the beach when he raised his eyes and saw a familiar person down the beach. He didn’t know the woman’s name, but he remembered talking to her before, while under the affect of the first potion he had tested.

“Hey!” he shouted out to the woman.

[jake-out-the-humans]

[‽]  LOST || Jake & Paolo

[pelagopaolo-blog]

jake-out-the-humans:

[ ⚔ ] — He shrugs off the boy’s gratitude. It wasn’t like Jake had gone into the forest with the explicit intent to find and help this kid out. It just… happened. “I don’t need thanks. I just happened to find ya. If you wanna offer some gratitude, give it to the Goddess herself.” Something was responsible for leading Jake to him, after all. “Oh, an exit. Finally.”

He announces this once he sees the forest’s edge, the light of the sun peeking through the trees. Just a few more steps and they would be back in Arcadia proper. “You know where to go after this, don’tcha, kid? Don’t need any escorts home or anything like that, do ya?”

Jake wasn’t one to readily offer help to others, but this was a child, and he wouldn’t leave a kid to fend for himself, useful magic or no. It was his duty as a guild member, too.

Paolo’s smile withered ever so slightly when the elf simply brushed off his thanks, if only because Paolo was taught when growing up that if you’re nicer to people, they’ll be nicer to you. He nodded his head, though, there was reason to be thankful for the Goddess’ guidance.

“Yeah, I know where to go from here, I’m just going to the docks to go home,” Paolo said, blinking a little bit at the change in light. “I know the town pretty well, but I guess I’ve forgotten what the forest’s layout was like. I haven’t explored a lot of it in a while.” He said, looking back toward the way they came from.

[scatteringstarsx-blog]

Apprenticeship || Paolo & Wizard

[pelagopaolo-blog]

scatteringstarsx:

@pelagopaolo

For some reason, today, time felt weird.  It was a strange feeling, one that Gale had only ever experienced a couple times in his life.  It just felt like someone had disturbed the flow of time.  Gale wasn’t sure why it bothered him so much.  On an island full of magic users, there was bound to be a time mage somewhere in there.  It was just so unexpected.

Though, the thing that bothered him most was that most time mages could use their powers without anyone really noticing.  The fact that he could feel this person use their powers concerned him.  He wasn’t sure what he could do about it, but that didn’t stop his curiosity as he scryed with his crystal ball to see who exactly was making time feel weird.  The smoke cleared from the crystal ball, revealing a meadow and a boy that couldn’t have been any older than 12, foraging for things.

It didn’t take long to find him.  By the time the Wizard had found the meadow the boy had been foraging in, the boy was still where the crystal ball said he would be.  He walked up to the boy, hoping not to scare him.

“Excuse me.  Are you by chance a time mage?”

Everything was quiet and still in the area as Paolo took the opportunity for once to use his powers for something that didn’t involve grave danger and a little bit of practice that he would be able to benefit from.

He set a small stopwatch for himself and would enact the spell that stopped time in the general area--and then would run around as fast as he could within the area, gathering various materials within the field. He had taken to doing this as practice a lot lately, because he wanted to be able to have a quicker reaction time for whenever danger did happen to strike. He was making fairly decent time until all of a sudden a man had spoken up,startling him immensely and making him lose the focus he had on his magic, making gravity start back up again with time. “O-oh, uhm--” Paolo had looked up at the man. “Yes, I am,” he said, basket held firmly in his fists.

[pelagopaolo-blog]

 Perhaps going to the Forest Haven to tame something was a bit of a rash decision--he had read so much about fairies, though, that he wanted to see one up close. He had known that fairies were in the Forest Haven but he’d never seen  one before, possibly because their delicate features were too bright along with the sun to be noticed.

So Paolo went a little closer to night-time when the soft moonlight was out--and the sight was spectacular. Dozens upon dozens of fairies all flitting around, looking like strange fireflies against the night sky. Guinevere kept ever the close watch in case something went wrong and like clockwork--

Paolo had gotten a little to close to one fairy that it had bopped him on the nose and in retaliation, he tried to swipe it away a little too roughly, knocking the fairy out of it’s perch on the low hanging branch of a tree in such a matter that the fairy’s light had gone out.

“Oh--” Paolo had started, kneeling close to where the fairy had landed on the ground. “Oh no, oh no, oh no,” Paolo had mumbled over and over. “I-i didn’t mean for this to happen,” Paolo said, tears dropping from his eyes almost immediately with regret. Guinevere nuzzled up to him in an attempt to soothe the young boy to no avail. After some time, the boy and bird flew back to his home.

Paolo received Fairy Dust and 100 EXP! (150 away from level 11)

[pelagopaolo-blog]

Birdy Buddy - Open

Normally, kids his age tended to get tired of their pets pretty quickly, but Paolo, ever the naturalist, harbored a deep love of the animals he took care of in the bottom of his heart.

Plato was his first so the connection was slightly deeper, but one couldn’t deny the connection between boy and bird. About a month back Paolo got in trouble as Guinevere had made a nest for herself at the top of the apartment building--something the landlord didn’t take kindly to. “I’ll not be having any monster birds born on this premises, get that thing out of here,” The landlord had yelled at him, leaving him in tears.

So at the ripe age of 11 years old, Paolo was already like an empty nester (literally, in this sense) as he waited for his beloved bird to return from her home in the Forest Haven, kicking his legs as he waited for her on the docks in Arcadia.

He wondered if the bird had adapted well to her old habitat despite the massive size difference, or if someone else had tried to tame her because she seemed to be unattached. He had hoped that she was adapting well, but all the same he missed having her around, but it was clear to him that a bird as big as her needed the space to fly without harming those around here.

As Paolo was deep in thought, someone had approached the docks, startling him somewhat. “I’m sorry, I can move!” he said, scrambling up to his feet.

[a-gentle-perfumer-blog]

Failing Fauna || Open

[pelagopaolo-blog]

a-gentle-perfumer:

That was the only problem with living in the city- The flowers were never the best, not as good as the country side. It wasn’t so noticeable, but they absorbed the scent of the City. So they weren’t the best for perfume, not for selling anyway. How on earth did his Aunt even manage.

He sighed and stood up, pulling his hand away from the frail fauna. “Ah- excuse me.. You wouldn’t know anywhere better for picking flowers would you?” He asked a passing stranger, hoping they’d know the area better than him. Part of him wished he’d gone out exploring more in his youth, maybe all of this would have been easier.

It was a rather nice day outside, so he decided to take a little detour out of the city after classes to do a little exploring. He was still within the borders of the city and was surprised to have been called upon by an older man who was by a small patch of flowers--and not thinking once that he was in any imminent danger--he gave him a bright smile and responded.

“Oh, yeah! I do! There’s better flowers when you get a bit further away from the coast!”

[jake-out-the-humans]

[‽]  LOST || Jake & Paolo

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jake-out-the-humans:

[ ⚔ ] — Of course Jake notices how quiet the kid gets, but he doesn’t comment on it. Maybe using such strong magic had tired him out – especially considering how young he was – and he was trying to conserve energy. Whatever the reason was, Jake wasn’t complaining. Obviously he wasn’t much of a conversationalist, and the longer this kid could keep up his magic, the better.

…It was really saving both of their asses right now. Like, really. If it wasn’t for this random kid and his magic, not only would Jake have gotten hurt, but this kid would have too. He wouldn’t have been able to make it back to Margaret in one piece, and seeing him so hurt would have no doubt made her cry. He never wanted to be the one to do that to her. And the kid… he probably had folks who cared about him, too. Probably would be devastated if anything happened to him. Once again, Jake would have failed to protect someone.

Hell, he already did. The reason they were fine and walking now certainly wasn’t because of Jake.

“Hey, kid.” Jake speaks up after a while, once he senses they’re near the edge of the forest. Finally. “Good work out there.”

That’s all he was gonna get. Jake was never one for ‘thanks’.

Paolo had still remained quiet as they walked through the forest, looking in different directions every once in a while in search for any movement starting up again--everything was still all around and he was grateful that his magic hadn’t sputtered out.

Suddenly the elf that as accompanying him had spoken up, startling him a bit as he was deep in concentration. “Oh--” Paolo uttered, giving a weak smile. “Thank you--and thanks for finding me.”

[pelagopaolo-blog]

Stronger | Paolo and Melody

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bathlovingwitch:

[★] — “Alright, no problem!” She grins, giving the now teenaged boy a thumbs up. “Hmmm… I don’t really have an extra room for you to sleep in, unless you want one of our rooms? The couch is also an option.”

The pinkette taps her foot against the ground, something she tended to do when she was thinking. “As for your change of clothes, well– we don’t exactly have any clothes a guy could wear…” And why would they? It’s not like she ever had a reason to get guy’s clothes, or have anything like them in her home. “Maybe we could buy you some clothes that actually fit…?”

“I’d be fine with the couch, honestly,” Paolo said. If he knew anything about himself (or... his older self? He guessed?), it was that he wasn’t picky about where he would sleep, if he was tired. Or even how long he would sleep. He ended up sleeping for a full 10 hours the first time he was under the effects of the aging potion.

His head tilted a little bit when Melody mentioned a change of clothes. Oh right... that was needed.  Paolo found it strange, but this was the second time that a girl wanted to take him clothes shopping--the first time it was totally necessary since his clothes were too small, but now that he had clothes he didn’t really think he needed more clothes. “Hmm, I’m not sure about that,” Paolo said. “We could go, but I’d rather buy it myself,” Paolo said. He needed to make that much clear, because he didn’t want Melody to spend money on him.

[pelagopaolo-blog]

Stronger | Paolo and Melody

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bathlovingwitch:

[★] — “Mhm!” She hums affirmatively, nodding her head. “It’ll be awesome.”

Melody raises a brow. “Oh…? I didn’t know your papa lived here.” If that was the case, then why didn’t Paolo spend more time with him? Well… maybe he did, and she just didn’t know about it. Oh– but he said something about not being allowed to see him too, didn’t he…? Melody was curious, but she didn’t want to pry. Especially when it seemed like something Paolo didn’t really want to talk about.

Instead, she shrugs it off– both figuratively and metaphorically. “Well… anyways, I don’t think you should stay in the inns alone, either. Just doesn’t seem safe enough for a kid.” Even if he may not have looked like one at the moment…

Paolo shook his head. “No, I don’t think they’re safe if I’m going to be alone,” he said. Paolo may have looked just old enough to live on his own, but that didn’t change how he felt inside. Not at all. He still felt very much like the scared little kid he was.

“I’d really appreciate it,” Paolo said.

[jake-out-the-humans]

[‽]  LOST || Jake & Paolo

[pelagopaolo-blog]

jake-out-the-humans:

[ ⚔ ] — “Huh.” He says, glancing around that the deadly still forest. The boy’s words brings the half-elf back to attention, and he scoffs. “Don’t have to tell me twice. Let’s go.”

With nothing else to rely on but his instinct, Jake heads into the direction he feels is right, using his sword to make marks in the trunks of the trees they passed, as a way of marking their trail. 

As they walked in silence, Jake couldn’t help but think back to the boy’s magic. It wasn’t as if magic was something Jake hated. As a non-human, he had the ability to use it himself, which was what he did when communicating with spirits. But living on Leuda for so long… he had grown unused to seeing it in his everyday life, so this had come as a bit of a surprise. And judging by the effect of the spell, the kid had a lot of damn power. Way more than Jake did, at least.

It was… annoying to think about.

It was probably the lack of any other highly angered aura in the area with time stopped, but Paolo was starting was starting to get the feeling that Paolo’s presence was really not welcome, even by the half-elf that was accompanying him.

Paolo tried not to get too down by this realization--Paolo’s magic was already really unpredictable, even when emotions weren’t a factor. But now, he was feeling so insecure. Maybe if he just... stopped talking, then he wouldn’t be so irritated with Paolo.

He tried to will his magic to work just a little bit longer, so he and the half-elf could just get out safely.

[pelagopaolo-blog]

The Mystery of the Behemoth Blackbird|Open to Multiple

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jake-out-the-humans:

[ ⚔ ] — Jake looks at the boy skeptically before glancing up at the huge bird. The thing looked like a huge magnet for trouble, and he wanted nothing to do with it, honestly. “Well, maybe you should work all those kinks before bringing it… er, her, into town. The city isn’t exactly the place for huge monster birds.”

Unless it was Arcadia. They seemed to love parading their monsters around over there. 

“You like to go to Arcadia, right. That’d be a much better place to take her on walk.”

Paolo tilted his head a little bit in thought. “Uh... it is more spacious in Arcadia, yeah.”

He pat the wing of his large feathery friend as he looked at her. “I can’t go there all the time, though. I wish I could, but I can’t, because I have to go to school here.”

[pelagopaolo-blog]

Activity Check! (1/7/17)

[+3,000G] Automatic allowance for children and teen characters under 18.

Old Balance: 29,108g

New Balance: 32,108g

[arigatosmiles]

All in the Family

[pelagopaolo-blog]

arigatosmiles:

For once, Soseki was at a loss for words. He opened his mouth, gaped for a moment, then closed it. How was he supposed to take this information? How had he not known? Part of him was still in disbelief. Perhaps there was really just a mix up going on here. 

“I’m, ah, my name’s Soseki.” He smiled and took a seat in one of the chairs meant for patients. “I think there might’ve been a bit of a mix up. They put me in here. Do you mind if I wait with you until the doctor gets back?” The best course of action was probably to just let things play out. When the doctor got back, they could sort it all out then. 

“H-hello, Soseki...” Paolo said. He was probably breaking the first rule about stranger safety by talking to this man, but he didn’t really feel too threatened by the man’s presence. Only... somewhat confused.

“I don’t mind, it’s probably better that someone waited with me,” Paolo said. There was something about the man that seemed so... familiar, in a way.

[jake-out-the-humans]

[‽]  LOST || Jake & Paolo

[pelagopaolo-blog]

jake-out-the-humans:

[ ⚔ ] — The leaves were only inches away from him and the kid when the fact that there was no way of getting out of this suddenly dawns on him. He braces himself for the attack, ready to take the brunt of it for the kid behind him, when suddenly, Jake feels a large spike of magical energy flare out behind him, and they…

…stop?

Jake’s eyes widen when the razor leaves freeze in midair, only centimeters away from his face. He takes a sweeping glance at their surroundings and realize that the monsters have frozen in their tracks, too. Not only them, but… everything around them seemed to have stopped moving. The insects, the trees, the wind… it all felt lifeless, and hollow.

The half-elf then glances down at the boy to see if the same had happened to him, but finds himself less surprised to see that the kid was still moving, with his hands raised defensively in front of him. That sudden spike of magic had come from right behind Jake, after all… it must have been this brat’s doing. 

Releasing a breath he didn’t realize he was holding in, Jake turns away from the boy and hacks off the vine that was restraining his wrist, watching as it falls limply to the ground. Silently, he steps forward to dispatch the frozen monsters before whatever magic that was keeping them in place ran out, and once that was done, he returns to the child.

“Kid.” He says sternly, gesturing to the still space around them. “What the hell is this?”

Paolo’s heart was thumping loudly in his ears--and it only seemed to be amplified in the dead quiet. It was not until a few moments had passed that Paolo realized that his magic had worked and another couple seconds before he realized that Jake was speaking to him.

“O-oh, it was magic--” Paolo said through his panting. “Time magic...”

“We don’t have too much time, now--we should get as far away from here as we can.”