un: fox rain [voice]

[foxable]

Hey, um, everyone. So, I uh - I know we have a lot going on right now, but uh - we may have more? Going on? Soon? Though I really want to talk about the implications of body switching sorcery but that's not the point --

Anyway, so, uh, for those of you from Earth - and from a vaguely similar time line to ours - you might remember something called the French Revolution. Yeah? Where the upper class got in some deep shit and a lot of unrest went down and a lot of killing happened.

Anyway, um, so our charge - Tamaiu's niece, Eydis - she's uh, the belle of the ball. Basically. I can barely show my face at court anymore but she's got like a billion suitors, which is all great -- if you like that sort of attention -- but one of them gave her a pretty dire warning.

He told her to flee Taravast and go back home to Sa-Hareth - you know, place being run by our friendly neighbourhood undead guy with a bear for a pet, super safe place - because unrest is starting to 'mount in the streets' and the gentry are going to be a target.

I know this sounds like no big deal compared to literal undead invasions, but we do not want to ignore something like this. Not when we, thanks to our patronage, are not only gentry but foreign gentry. They may not be zombies but when people decide that enough is enough they can overthrow anything.

Anyway, um. Just. Uh. Food for thought.

Comments

[foxable]

. .. …

No. No, we are not likely to find a plane. That was sarcasm.

Though honestly who fucking knows, maybe hey have a dirigible hidden somewhere.

… Hmm, I wonder if I could enchant something into a dirigible….

[descendency]

If you do that, you can't be on the test flight.

[foxable]

What!! Why not!! What would be the point!

[descendency]

That you wouldn't be on it when it crashes.

[ INSERT BIG SHRUG EMOJI HERE. ]

[foxable]

Wow do you not have faith in my dirigible enchanting abilities? Just because I've never done anything on that scale before doesn't mean I can't!

[ He had posed it as a joke, originally, but, um, he's stubborn.... ]</small

[descendency]

You can do anything. That said, your first two to ten attempts tend to explode.

[foxable]

What, and you wouldn't catch me?

[descendency]

From the exploded remains of a dirigible? Huli.

[ Mingyu laughs. ]

I'm good, but even I'm not that good.

[foxable]

[ The grin is audible in his voice: ]

Consider it a worthy test of your abilities, then.

[descendency]

[ Mingyu laughs again, his joy carrying over into his next words as he speaks. ]

Absolutely not. I will cuff you to me before I let that happen, don't try me.

[foxable]

I'd sure like to see you try.

[ With all the smugness in the world. ]

[binghua]

[What are these words you speak, sir!!!]

...Is this also sarcasm?

[foxable]

Um - no. I mean a little yes, but - No? I don't think they have one, but it's, um, less unlikely than a plane.

Basically a dirigible is like, a really big baloon that can travel people through the sky for long distances. They, uh, there were a few disasters back home that meant that planes ended up way more useful and likely, but the tech required to make a dirigible is hypothetically more achievable in a place like this.

For planes we would need a lot more, um, stuff.

[binghua]

[Give him a moment, he's trying to make sense of this, really!]

A big balloon...that almost sounds like a lantern, of sorts. Though if it were to carry people, it really would have to be large. And with a lot of fire, I imagine.

[No wonder there were disasters back in Fox's home. But it could be possible here, even though none of that is Xingchen's expertise.]

It would be safer for most people to simply walk.

[foxable]

Sure, if by safer you mean us travelling through literally ghost infested canyons that want to try to eat us.

It's not more fire, technically, it just needs to be lighter than air. There are gases that are, it's just a matter of being able to manufacture them at that scale. Which is doable with magic - it's just a matter of splitting molecules down into their respective pieces after all.

Man, this really might actually be worth trying--

[ Good job, Xingcheng, he is completely distracted. ]

[binghua]

Safer does not mean safest, of course.

[Fox goes on and on, though, and, once again, loses Xingchen. But that's fine.]

I defer to you in this matter, then. You are clearly quite knowledgeable.

[foxable]

Uh - [ a flustered breath ] - um, thanks? That's nice of you.

Uh- Sorry. I really go, um, off on a tangent sometimes. What was I trying to say originally...

[binghua]

There is no need to apologize. We were speaking of Lady Eydis and how returning to Sa-Hareth can't possibly be a good idea for her.

[foxable]

Ah - right. Yeah.

Yeah, I think ultimately she's safest with us, but um, want to make sure we are safe too, you know what I mean?

"Safest" doesn't mean "safe".