dreamcrystals | Special Announcement

Sender: Alastor
To: Everyone
Subject: Special Announcement

Hard to believe that at the end of this month, it will have been two years since this little dream world started pulling us all into it. Quite a marvel, isn't it? I certainly hadn't expected it to last this long!

Now I'd hoped to have a little surprise I'd had planned for Reverein finished by our two-year anniversary, but our rather rude guest a few months ago pushed back several plans!

Back in Hell, I was often-times referred to as "The Radio Demon" due to my powers over the radiowaves. I've been working with Miss Madhuri and her charming husband on perfecting a means of producing radios here in Reverein, but I ask you this: What fun is there in a radio with only one channel? None, that's what!

I've been working with some of the people at the Observatory to develop the technology for others to broadcast without having to rely solely on my powers, and we're ready to begin construction on a brand-new radio station specially designed for Reverein! One of the advantages to a world of magic and imagination: No need to make a radio tower look like hideous scaffolding! Absolutely delightful! Perhaps someday more towers will be built to connect us to Dragon Island or even places farther afield!

The project should be finished next month, so there's plenty of time to get your hands on a radio of your own to hear the inaugural broadcast!

Stay tuned!
~Alastor

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Little bat?... I'm pretty big compared to most bats. Unless you're talking about bat-boars. Or Rhinocer-bats?

The more I talk to people here the more it feels like where I came from didn't have any of this fancy technology! The fire nation was the first to really start inventing things like that.

[ Her arms lift up, hands out, palms up. Then they twist down with a sweep of her feet and a drop into a squat-like stance. The whole pillar drops, bringing them back to ground level with a heavy shifting of stone.

And then there's Toph with her smug little grin. ]

I can do metal too.

Never heard of those!

In any case, technology is typically only developed when a need develops for it. After all, if everyone can teleport at will, why bother taking the time to create the wheel? Some of the technology from my world might be because of a need that something in your world already solved.

[An ear flicks at that last part.]

Very curious! Can you shape it, too? The structure that's going to be built is more than just a solid block of metal, but your talents would be most helpful if you could do that!

[True, she's blind, but she clearly has some way of gauging what she's manipulating. How else would she be able to not just raise them up but lower them back to ground level without issues? In fact, her way might be much more precise by not relying solely on sight.]

Creatures from my world. Apparently you guys don't do the whole... multiple animals thing. It's all just "bears" and "wolfs". Weird.

[ Her brow raises, can she shape it? She snorts out a laugh. ]

Shaping is most of what I do. It's called bending, not making. As long as it's nearby I can do what I want with it, see?

[ As if on cue her bracelet unwraps from her wrist, hovering in the air between her hands and twisting shape, contorting and spiralling as if it was liquid. All before being shaped back into a bracelet. ]

Absolutely fascinating!

[He leans in close to watch, the tips of his ears brushing her chin as he does so.]

And this shaping -- excuse me, bending -- is how you made the rock pillar? You basically pushed the earth beneath our feet upwards and pushed it back down when you were finished?

[ She leans back just as much. Hey, not so close! ]

Something like that. Yeah. I'm pretty good at it. The best actually! I can use it to feel what's around me, so it's how I get around.

I would imagine that you would be far better than most at such an ability! Why, I can only imagine control like that over air would've made it impossible to escape you! You must've been unstoppable at Hide and Seek!

[His ears twitch with excitement.]

A moment if you will! I'd like to test something! Close your eyes!

[He doesn't even stop and consider that closing her eyes would do absolute nothing in this case, but it's clearly not an insult: He sounds like a kid who found an interesting new playmate. Besides, with an ability like Earthbending, she would've been able to manage much easier than the blind in his own world and time period.]

[He runs a few steps before leaping from spot to spot. Then he stops, instead "continuing" on using bursts of sound at various points.]

[Then he waits, grin wide with excitement. Had she been able to track him via sound and the earth alone?]

Consider them closed.

[ They are not, in fact, closed. It's all the same really, isn't it? She's not quite sure what he's trying to test. Moving around from place to place, prancing like a ballarina while she stands there, hands on her hips with a confused grin.

The funny thing is, she didn't face him directly when speaking to BEGIN with, so she doesn't even turn once he's done. ]

So... what were you trying to test? You just stood in a different spot.

[ Her foot twists, and the ground beneath him slides to bring the strange demon right back to standing in front of her, like a piece along a chess board. ]

I was trying to see if you were tracking purely by sound or the feel of motion on the ground. Which would certainly explain the bare feet.

[He grins.]

Given you weren't fooled by me projecting the sound of jumping to other places, you were using the Earth to judge where I'd gone, weren't you? Fascinating!

I use all my senses. Just some are more useful than others sometimes.

[ Her hand lifts with a sharp motion, and a lithe human-like figure made of stone forms from the ground. Vague, kindof like a doll. It doesn't have any real fixtures, just thin and about as tall as Alastor. Blurred out. ]

That's what you look like, to me.

Interesting. [Alastor runs his clawed fingers over the statue.] So this is how you perceive my ambient static?

Uh... Hold on.

[ Another shift in stance, her hands reach out, fingers splayed. ]

It's hard to really show you what 'blurry' feels like. Something like this?

[ A few nearby rocks float up as well, shaking in the air before cracking before Alastor's very eyes, her hands twist, then clench into fists, and each stone crumbles into thousands. She hasn't tried this yet, but making sand from stone is kindof like making stone from sand, huh?

The sand swirls in place, forming around the statues features to give it a vague, blurred effect, each grain shifting about in little movements, creating a sandy sort of 'haze' to the statue's already vague form. ]

Something like that.

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